Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1936, Page 19

INDUSTRY COUNGIL PLANS BIG SESSION THURSDAY, FRIDAY Permanent Advisory Body to U. S., Trade, Labor Is Projected. PROPOSALS EXPECTED FROM 9 COMMITTEES Group to Be Appointed to Draft Specific Legislative Plans for Congress. Pointing itself to become a perma- nent advisory body to government, industry and labor on the common interests of these three, the Council for Industrial Progress is completing preparations for its biggest session, scheduled here for Thursday and Friday. ‘While prominent spokesmen for the three groups most interested are sched- uled to appear at the Thursday morn- 1ng session, and all those in attendance are to be given opportunities to voice their views that afternoon, the real progress of the meeting is expected on the second day when nine committees submit their proposals for co-ordina- tion of legislation in many fields of industry. Committee to Plan Program. To make the findings of these com- Mittees and the Council as a whole really effective, the last order of busi- ness will be appointment of a commit- tee empowered to formulate a specific legislative program for submission to Congress. In addition, this committee and other representatives of the coun- cil will be directed to stand by to con- fer with congressional committees, if asked, on any legislation pertaining to industry and labor. Seven of the committees made ini- tial reports at the council's meeting last March, but two new groups will deal with such important issues as unemployment and taxation. From all ©of them are expected to result concrete proposals for legislation or industrial policy. The seven committees continuing their work of last Spring are those on national industrial policy; maximum work” week, general wage and child labor; fair trade practices; internal and external competition affecting American standards; anti-trust laws eand the Federal Trade Commission act; financial aid to small enterprises, and Government competition with pri- vate enterprise. Berry to Speak. Scheduled to address the Thursday morning session are Maj. George L. Berry, Federsl co-ordinator for indus- trial co-operation; Senator Wheeler of Montana, chairman of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce; Representative Rayburn of Texas, chairman of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce; John Dickinson, Assistant Attorney General, and a representative of the Federal Trade Commission. Secretary of Labor Perkins also has been invited Co address this meeting. - Previous to the open [scuuion of the afternoon session tdere will be brief addresses by John G. Paine, chairman of the management group of the council, and William Green, chairman of the labor group. ‘While various sectors of industry still are withholding their official blessing from the council, the auto- mobile and oil industries already having notified Berry they would not be represented, there has been a marked increase in interest. For in- stance, neither the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States nor the National Association of Manufacturers s sending official representatives, but each is said to have advised members ¢o attend as individuals. Similarly, the conflicting factions of labor, the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Indus- trial Organization, each will be repre- sented and the council bears the spe- cific indorsement of William Green, resident of the A. F. of L., and John . Lewis, chairman of the C. I. O. and president of the United Mine Work- ers. Many unions of each group are represented in the membership of the eouncil. Brought together in the council ses- #lons, it is considered likely that rep- Tesentatives of the labor factions may enter into some preliminary discus- #ion of their internal differences. With @ Federation Peace Committee already standing, co-operation in the forth- coming conferences may lead to new pegotiations within the labor move- ment. Factions Urged to Unite. Calling all factions to merge their differences “into a great, American unanimity of purpose,” Maj. Berry yesterday asked the council and those who attend its sessions to devote themselves to “a great human cru- sade to end unemployment and raise the American standard of living.” Among the national industrial groups which have indicated their in- tention to be represented at the meet- ings, Berry announced, are the fol- Jowing: National Lumber Manufac- turers’ Association, Associated Gen- eral Contractors, American Road Builders’ Association, Construction League of the United States, American Institute of Architects, American Ar- bitration Association, National Asso- ciation of Ice Indusiry, United States Potters’ Association, National Boot and Shoe Manufacturers’ Association, National Coat and Suit Industrial Re- covery Board, National Retail Coal Merchants’ Association, National Paper Trade Association, Hart, Schaff- ner & Marx; Schenley Distillers, Na- tional Association of Marble Dealers and Natlonal Association of Furniture Manufacturers. BAND CONCERT. The following concert by the Army By the Marine Band in the Marine 1 st 3 pm. tomorrow. Capt. Branson, leader; William P. Santelmann, second leader, conduct- ing. g " |in establishing this country’s first { Juvenile Court in Denver—and the | MARY SAWYER. BY PHILIP H. LOVE. A Washington woman entered the latest “Mary Had a Little Lamb” controversy today with the assertion —backed by what she considers in- | disputable evidence—that W. P. A. re- searchers are “all wrong” in their claim that the famous nursery rhyme was written by Mrs. Sarah Josepha | Hale of Newport, N. H. ! Authorship of the immortal jingle has been in dispute many times dur- ing the last century or more, but the most recent controversy began No- vember 27, when W. P. A. workers de- clared it was written by Mrs. Hale in 1830, “out of her own experience.” For many years, however, the most generally accepted version of the origin of the rhyme has been that it was dashed off by John Roulstone, jr., a 12-year-old Sterling, Mass., school boy, as a result of an “embarrassing mo- ment” in the life of a schoolmate. 1913 Book Cited as Evidence. But this version “isnt sitegether right” either, according to Mrs. Mar- garet Sutton Snead, 2401 Calvert street, a member of the information staff of the Soecial Security Board. As evidence, Mrs. Snead produced a book published privately in 1913 by Mrs. Letitia White Owen, who claimed to have interviewed relatives and friends of Mrs. Mary Sawyer Tyler, generally regarded as the “inspiration” of the jingle. “I met Mrs. Owen while living in Mount Hope, W. Va.,” said Mrs. Snead. “She was a noted social worker—in fact, had helped Judge Ben Lindsay State superintendent of schools had | engaged her to deliver a series of lec- tures. She was my house guest from May, 1913, until the following October, and during that time she not only told me the true story of ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb,” but gave me an auto- graphed copy of her book when it was published.” Guide Soon to Be Published. The W. P. A. version, to be pub- lished soon in the New Hampshire Guide, a Federal writers’ project, has it that Mrs. Hale—who later became editor of Lady's Magazine, co-founder of Godey's Lady's Book, co-organizer of Vassar College and a leading pro- moter of Thanksgiving as a national holiday—published the jingle nearly 50 years before Mrs. Tyler first claimed to have been its inspiration. “If the W. P. A. is right,” said Mrs. Snead, “a lot of pretty smart people have been fooled—including Henry Ford, who, .n the Spring of 1927, bought what was left of the little red school house, to which Mary’s lamb followed her, and moved it to his Wayside Inn estate at Sud- bury, Mass.” Mrs. Snead’s version of the “Mary Had a Little Lamb” story, based on data in Mrs. Owen's book—which, in- cidentally, is declared “accurate and correct in every particular” in a sworn statement by Mary’s niece, Miss Anna A. Sawyer—plus statements made to her by the author, follows: On a cold morning in March, 1814, twin lambs were born on the farm of Mary's father, Thomas Sawyer. Rejected by its mother, one of the lambs would have frozen to death if Mary, then about 8, hadn't taken it into the house. Mary fed the lamb with a nursing bottle until it was old enough to feed itself. By that time, the lamb had become so fond of Mary that it followed her wherever she went. One day the lamb followed Mary and her brother Nat to achool Reaching the school ahead of the teacher, Miss Polly Kimball, the youngsters took the lamb inside, and placed it between them on their seat. Soon after the teacher arrived, Mary was called to the front of the room to recite. Youth Visiting Schoel. lamb followed South Magnetic Pole. Bir Edgeworth David, Welsh ex- plorer, was the discoverer of the South magnetic pole. [ & hening WITH SUNDAY MORMING EDITION Star WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1936. D. C. Woman Corrects W. P. A. On Origin of Mary and Lamb it . MRS. MARGARET S. SNEAD, ~—Star Staff Photo. BOMLING ALEY LO0TEDF 230 Yeggs Knock Off Dial to Safe and Flee With Cash. Safecrackers escaped with $2,500, mostly in bills, after breaking into the Lucky Strike Bowling Alleys, Four- teenth street and Riggs place, over the week end, police were informed today. Knocking off the dial to the safe, the yeggs left behind a hatchet and a “punch” used to facilitate the rob- bery, J. W. Wood, manager of the bowling alleys, told police. It is be- lieved the robbery took place either late yesterday or last night, when the alleys were closed. Among other robberies reported was the hold-up early today of a Sanitary grocery at Twenty-sixth and K streets. Arriving a few minutes before the week end receipts were -collected, two colored bandits held up the grocery and escaped with $250. The manager of the store, Clifford McKenny, 1525 A street northeast, told police the men entered the estab- lishment just after he opened for husinesz. While one of the bandits watched | the door to bar customers from en- tering, the other, armed with an au- tomatic, forced McKenny to unlock the cash register and hand over the ‘money. —_— KEARNEY PLEADS FOR CLEMENCY Co-defendant in Nolan Case Says He Tried to Rectify “Mistake.” Prancis M. Kearney, co-defendant in the Nolan case, who testified for the Government, today went before Justice James M. Proctor in District Court and asked clemency. The jus- tice took thc matter under consider- ation. Kearney pleaded nolo contendere when he faced trial last week with William J. Nolan, local auto dealer, who was charged with bribery in con- nection with a sult for divorce by Mrs. Alice M. Nolan. Nolan was con- victed, Kearney admitted giving $50 and two tires to Charles Young, colored janitor, and his wife, Mattie, to keep them away from the divorce trial. NDIREGT 0B A FOUND PRIGPAL BENEF F P/ A. 21/, Times More Employ- ment Created in Industry Than in Building. ICKES HIGHLY PLEASED BY REPORT OF BUREAU 2 Years Spent by Labor Statistics Unit of 50 Experts to Track Down Ratio. BY NELSON M. SHEPARD. A long-time controversy over the ratio between indirect and direct em- ployment on the P. W. A.'s non-Fed- eral construction projects was ended today as the referee in the dispute, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, pre- sented its answer to Administrator Ickes. The verdict, which pleased Ickes mightily, was that the P. W. A. program creates two and a half times more work in private industries sup- plying building materials than it does in the building trades construct- ing its projects. Important use of the established ratio may be made when Congress convenes next month to make ap- propriations for work relief. It will play an important part, no doubt, in the arguments of those legislators | who are championing a permanent | Public Works program as a stabilizing need in industrial employment. Previous estimates on the relation- ship between labor in the production of materials and labor in the actual building of structures ranged from ltolto6tol. . From time to time the dispute had waged hotly between the staffs of Administrator Ickes and Works Prog- ress Administrator Hopkins, with | Ickes always claiming that the rather modest employment figures of the P. W. A. “on sites,” were reflected in shops “behand the lines” by a much greater scale of employment. Dispute Referred to Bureau. Two years ago the dispute was referred to the Bureau of Labor Sta- | tistics for a decision. Since then, 50 expert statisticians conducted a search for the correct figure that car- ried them through swamps and for- ests,- down into pits and mines, through the din of steel foundries and planing mills, and through more than a million dry-as-dust documents. Using cost accounting methods, these human blood hounds followed the trail of statistics for two full years under the direction of Herman B. Byer, head of the bureau’s division of construction and public employ- ment. - ‘With the ratio as their ulti- mate goal, the statisticians also made monthly reports on the progress ol the P. W. A. program and other special studies covering its effects on building trades employment and on industrial production. Three years of P. W. A.'s program are thus covered in the voluminous reports from its inception in June, 1933, to June, 1936. During these 36 months, P. W. A’s non-Federal projects alone created 289,000,000 man hours of site em- ployment. Materials ordered during the same period totaled $539,000,000. To fabricate these materials, 741,- 000,000 man hours of labor were re- quired in forests, mines, in mills, fac- tories and in transportation. These two figures—299,000,000 and 741,- 000,000 are the basis for the 2.5 to 1 ratio. Two Unknown Factors Found. Commenting on the report, Admin- istrator Ickes said: “When this ad- ministration undertook its recovery efforts it found that it was confronted with two unknown factors having to do with employment. Reliable cur- rent unemployment records were not available, and the all-important ratio of so-called indirect to direct em- ployment on construction was not known. “Realizing the value of obtaining this ratio, not only for our own pur- poses but also for the benefit of in- dustrialists and economists, we asked the Department of Labor to make an independent, comprehensive study and that it report its findings. Where for- merly we were confronted with con- tradictory estimates, we now have a report which has removed one of the unknowns from our calculations.” ‘To obtain this ratio, Byer’s corps of statisticians carried the search into every part of the country, while 40,000 contractors and subcontractors hane- dling P. W. A. jobs swamped Wash- |Officials Condemned After | ington headquarters with monthly re- ports. Byer directed his search to the three principal factors in materials preparation—production, fabrication and transportation, Educational Film’s “Voice” - Must Please All Who Listen Raymond Evans is a cinematic edu- cator who believes in being tactful as well as informative. Evans is chief of the motion picture division of the Department of Agri- culture. cotton-explainer should have the soft accents of the Southerner, but he must leave his listener in the dark comes from the Arkansas Delta, the Georgia ocean front, Tidewater Virginia or the edge of Okeechobee. The reason for this, according to Evans, is that the picture has to be just as popular in Texas as in Ken- wants no b L e b £ 3 i B E o i Auto-Bus Crash Kills Two Men S, The demolished car of George H. Carter, which skidded and crashed into a Capital Transit Co. bus on Old Georgetown road yesterday, instantly killing Carter and Arthur Stewart, who was riding with him. INCEASED CTZENS| CLANOR FOR ROAD Two Are Killed on Old Georgetown Route. By a Stag Correspondent ot The Star. BETHESDA, Md, December 7.— Citizens of Montgomery County, in- censed over the bus-auto wreck in| which two motorists were killed here | yesterday, clamored anew today for | immediate improvement of narrow and treacherous Old Georgetown road. A plea was made to State and county ‘ officials & year ago by civic organiza- | tions for widening and resurfacing of the heavily-congested highway to safeguard against traffic mishaps, but the request was ignored by both groups. Aroused residents, condemning offi- cials for their failure to remedy haz- ardous conditions along the road, are to renew the fight following yester- day’s deaths, which occurred when an automobile skidded into the path of a Capital Transit Co. bus. Before C. of C. Tonight. The matter will be brought to the at- tention of the local Chamber of Com- merce when it meets in the County Building at 8 o’clock tonight, while it also is to be laid before the Montgom- ery County Civic Federation next Monday. The two bodies sponsored the improvement request. Civic leaders who supported the original plea for improvement of the thoroughfare between Wiscansin ave- nue and Halpine pointed out abolition of the Washington-Rockville electric railway and the substitution of busses warranted immediate widening of the already overburdened road. Claims Borne Out. Officials were told the width of the busses constituted a perpetual men- ace to other vehicular traffic usmg} the thoroughfare and steps should be | taken to widen the highway as a pre- cautionary measure. Their claims were borne out yes- terday when an automobile occupied by George H. Carter, 23, of Washing- ton, D. C., and Arthur Stewart, 38, of Bethesda, skidded on the rain-drench- ed surface and lunged broadside across the opposite traffic lane. An oncoming bus ploughed through their machine, killing them instantly and injuring the bus driver and one of his passengers. Among those who scored officials today for their laxity were S. Walter Bogley, vice president of the Bank of Bethesda, and Samuel E. Stone- braker, well-known civic leader, who were two of the road improvement proponents a year ago. Greatly Overloaded. “T sincerely believe something should be done immediately to remedy con- ditions along the road,” Bogley de- clared. “There is no question but what old Georgetown road has be- come equally important, as far as traf- fic is concerned, at Wisconsin avenue. “I am firmly convinced a traffic count taken on the road would dis- close that it is not only greatly ‘over- loaded,” but that the road is used by as many machines as Wisconsin ave- nue. It is truly one of the worst trafic hazards in Montgomery County.” “It is no surprise to me the ac- cident occurred,” Stonebraker stated. “We went to the State Roads Com- mission and the county commissioners a year ago and pointed out the dangers of allowing the road to continue in its narrow state. We told them it was but a question of time before fatalities would result.” Originally Wagon Trail. Stonebraker added that the inten- sive development of real estate along —Star Staff Photo. Charles Maize, 19, of the 1600 block of Olive street north- east, and a companion, escaped possible death or serious injury last night when this car came to rest on the brink of a bridge over Beaver Dam Creek, on River road near Kenilworth. A guard wire which caught in the rear wheel is believed to have saved the car from a 25-foot plunge into the creek. Members of Ma: forced him to the turned and almost slid off the span. s family said he told them another car de of the road, where his machine over- —Star Staff Photo. MALLCOMPLETION NEAR, SAYS REPORT Long-Neglected Parks Also Rehabilitated, Federal Unit Declares. _ Noteworthy progress in carrying out the planned development of the Mall, the rehabilitation of long-neglected city parks and the completion of ad- ditional recreational centers for the youth of the National Capital were cited in the annuabreport of the Na- tional Park Service, made public today. While only a page and a half were devoted to the work of the office of National Capital Parks, under the di- rection of C. Marshall Finnan, the public importance of Washington's great park and recreational areas is indicated by the staggering estimate of 45,700,000 persons who visited and enjoyed them during the fiscal year ended June 30. That was the esti- mated “gate” attendance. Meanwhile, it was reported, the park area is steadily growing. The addi- tional acreage added during the year was 55.59. At the end of the year the National Capital Parks system comprised 692 reservations totaling 6,986.61 acres. Of these reservations, 690, totaling 5,604.11 acres were lo- cated within the District of Columbia, and two outside.reservations totaled 1,155.01 acres in Virignia and 227.49 acres in Maryland. The Mall development, in accord- | ance with the original plans of Maj. L’Enfant, the planner of the City of ‘Washington, is rapidly nearing com- . So also is the newly estab- lished Union Square at the west foot 1 Hill, work has been Fort Dupont and Fort Bunker Hill Parks in the outlying sections; the continuation of work on Theocore Bank Debits Increase. Greenville, 8. C, bank debits in 1938 are showing a marked increase over those for 1935. - 1 ¢ NEWU.S. BUILDING PROPOSAL LACKING Omission in Ickes’ Report Explained by Future Uncertainties. Conspicuous avoidance of any rec- ommendation for additional Federal office building in Washington to meet the needs of New Deal expansion was noted today in the annual report of Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who is charged with supervising the space- control program of the Government. The omission was all the more sig- nificant in view of the reported fact that during the fiscal year “197 leases were authorized and the rental of the Government in the District attained a peak of approximately 2,766,000 square feet of space in 123 buildings, at an annual rental of approximately $2,640.000.” Even this estimate is incomplete, officials explained later, since it omits the rented quarters in the McLean mansion on I street and space that was acquired for the Social Security Board, which is spreading out into Baltimore. Recommendations as to future steps to provide permanent housing for rapidly growing Government agencies are not being made at this time, space- control officials explained, because of the uncertainties of the future. The opening of the new Interior Depart- ment Building in a few months, it was reported, “will do much to relieve the crowded space conditions under which the Federal Government now is carrying on its activities.” ‘This building, the first erected by the New Deal, will have a gross floor area of 1,050,000 square feet and a net usable area of 700,000 square feet, and will accommodate approximately 5,000 persons. Its early occupancy, officials admitted, however, will hardly solve the problem of space as the Government would then still be renting approximately 2,000,000 square feet of offices in this city alone. While no new expenditures for con- struction are sighted, the Government has been spending $1,150,000 during the. fiscal year, it was reported, for physical improvements and repairs to Federal buildings, including elimina- tion of fire hazards. The National Park Service, under the law, is charged with the super- vision and operation of approximately 18,300,000 square feet of floor space, 16,000,000 of which are located in 47 Government owned buildings. “Society and General PAGE B—1 FOUR ARE KILLED IN SUNDAY TRAFFIC WITH OTHERS HURT Fifth Person Dies From In- juries Received in Pre- vious Accident. AUTOMOBILE CRASHES HEAD ON WITH BUS Narrow 01d Georgetown Road, at Oak Place, is Scene of Two Fatalities. Four persons were killed in traffic accidents in and near Washington yesterday and a fifth person died of injuries suffered when struck by an automobile more than two weeks ago. Three of the fatalities occurred in Washington, bringing the city's 1936 traffic death toll to 88. The automo= bile deaths at this time last year nume« bered 107. List of Dead. The dead were: George H. Carter, 23, of 14 Fowlers Hill Arthur Stewart, 38, of 1900 Old Georgetown road, Bethesda, Md. Frank Reider, 23, of 932 K street. George Ward, 70, of West Swanzey, M. H, who was visiting his nephew, | E. E. Holbrook, 18 Evarts street northe east. Dr. Oliver L. Fassig, 76, retired me= | teorologist, who | lived at the Cos- mos Club. Several others were injured seri- | ously as a steady | rain made driving hazardous. | Carter and Stewart were killed when Car- ter's car crashed head-on into a Capital Transit Co. bus a mile north of Bethesda shortly before noon. | The accident occurred on the nar- row Old Georgetown road. between | Sonoma road and Oak place. The Bethesda Chamber of Commerce and the Montgomery County Civic Ped« eration a year ago strongly urged widening and resurfacing of the | thoroughfare, The bus, driven by Samuel B. Strickler, 54, of 4509 Highland avenue, Bethesda, was going south on Old Georgetown road when the automobtle, driven by Carter, skidded into its { path. Edward Usada, 18, also of Be- | thesda, a passenger in the bus, told Montgomery County police the car apparently skidded when the driver applied the brakes. Carter's machine was demolished. The men were pronounced dead by Dr. Sidney Cousins, 3921 Ingomar street. Strickler received brush burns and bruises, and Usada cuts about the face and legs. The injured were treated at Georgetown Hospital. Carter is survived by his wife, Mrs. Catherine Carter; two children, George Henry, jr., and Catherine; his father, Milton, and a brother, Oscar, both of whom live at the Old George- town road address. Surviving Stewe art is his father, Henry: a brother, Charles, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Shifflett. Reider was killed yvesterday in an accident on Van Buren sereet at Blair road. He was riding in a car oper- ated by Roscoe J. Wolf, 21, also of 1932 K street, which collided with a machine driven by Bernard K. Tolson, | 51, of 6911 Sixth street. | Thrown From Auto. The crash caused Wolf's car to spin around, and Reider was thrown throught the door to the street, police said. A coroner’s jury was to con= duct an inquest into the death today. Struck at North Capitol and U streets Saturday night, Ward, a re- tired woodworker, died in Garfleld Hospital yesterday of a punctured lung and a fractured skull. He was knocked down by a machine operated by Joseph N. Benner, 39. of 738 Quincy street. PFriends said Ward and his wife had stopped at his nephew's home here en route to Miami. Dr. Fassig, who retired from the Weather Bureau about four years ago, died in Emergency Hospital last night of internal injuries received November 20 when a car driven by George H. Horton, 55; of 1301 Fifteenth street, struck him. Horton was released in custody of an attorney, pending a coroner’s ine quest to be held tomorrow. Eight persons were injured, one seriously, in a head-on collision be- tween two cars on the Baltimore highway near Riverdale, Md. The most seriously injured was Lila Walsh, 32, of Elmhurst, N. Y., who is in Casualty Hospital. Physicians said she may have received a frac- tured skull. The other victims also were treated at Casualty. A 15-year-old girl was hurt when & car, reported stolen here, crashed into a tree on the Rockville pike near Garrett Park, Md. She is Frances Snouffer, 1300 block of Wisconsin avenue. The girl suffered a broken nose and was treated by a private physician. Montgomery County police said the driver was Harold Henson, 15, of the 1600 block of P street. In addition to the Snouffer girl, police said, Ernest Tupton, 14, of the 1800 block of Mint- wood place; George Huffman, 17, of the 1100 block of Fourth street south- west, and Helen Whitman, 14, of the 1500 block of Thi ty-third street were riding with Henson. Knocked down by an automobile while walking across the Richmond highway south of Alexandria early yesterday, Miss Adeline Nickert, 34, of Fairfax County was critically in- Jured. Admitted to the Alexandria Hos- pital in an unconscious condition, she is being treated for brain concussion, possible internal injuries and a frac- tured leg. Capt. Haywood Durrer of the Fair- fax police said the woman was hit by an automobile being operated for Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcombe of Quan= tico by William R. Lindley, his chauf- feur, as she started to walk across the highway toward her home nearby affer getting off a bus. No charge was placed against Lindley. . i George H. Carter.