Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1937, Page 28

ADVOCATES BUYING T IN COOPERATIVES A. A. A. Consumer’s Counsel Stresses Need of Standard for Products. The co-operative buying movement eould be for the consumer what the truth in securities act is for the in- vestor, Donald Montgomery, consum- ers’ counsel of the A. A. A, said todsy. The volume of co-operative Young Washington EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. PROBATION INCREASE HELD CRIME WEAPON Cleveland Probation Officer, Widow of Judge, Says System Stands Test. By the Associatea Press. CLEVELAND, January 7.—For 30 years Mrs. Antoinette Callaghan has shared the problems of Clevelanders in trouble. Today, believing she has served longer as a probation officer than any other woman in America, she declared increased probation work would help to bring a solution to the problem of prison congestion. . Her husband was Judge Thomas E. Callaghan, Ohio's first Juveile Court jurist, who died in 1904. Mrs. Callaghan foresees a court system under which every person cone victed of & crime will receive the study of a probation officer before sentence is passed. That, she said, will decrease crime, “which is as it should be.” “Probation was criticized as coddling at first, but it has proven itself,” she asserted. “By proper probation work in Police Court we can prevent the breaking up of a home. By keeping the home together we reduce delin- quency snd keep the children out of Juvenile Court.” China Builds Railways. For the first time in years China will engage foreign experts to assist in railway construction. YHURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1637, LABOR ACT VIOLATIONS LAID TO FRUIT CONCERN Board Charges Dismissal of Man ‘Who Joined Longshoremen's Association. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 7.—The Na- tional Labor Relations Board an- nounced last night it had issued & complaint against the United Fruit Co. on charges of violating the labor relations act. Specifically the company, whose home office is in Boston, was accused of discharging Dick Schuidt, & banans handler, because he joined the Inter- national Longshoremen's Association and of coercing employes to join the Cargo Handlers' Association. The company, said the complaint, had “dominated” the elections and other affairs of that association. It ‘was announced & hearing would be held on January 18. Miles Never Traveled. OKLAHOMA CITY (#).—A special session of the State Legislature ed- journed at 1:07 a.m. one day this week. At noon the following day the Legislature returned to open its regu- lar session. In the interim, virtually all the legislators went nowhere, except to bed in local hotels and homes. One of the first offical acts of the State Senate in regular session was to vote mileage for “trips” back home between assemblies. SWIM for HEALTH ADULTS, 40c CHILDREN, 25¢ Includes Towel and Locker INSTRUCTION 6 Lessons, $5.00 Individual Instruction LILLIAN CANNON English Channel Swimmer AMBASSADOR SWIMMING POOL buying in this country last year has been estimated at $500,000,000, and President Roosevelt last Fall sent a commission abroad to investigate the co-operatives in Denmark, possibly foreshadowing Federal aid of tha movement. “Consumers’ expenditures for l.n- vestment securities and for specula- tion are protected in meticulous degree and at considerable expense,” Mont- gomery wrote in the most recent issue of the Consumers’ Guide, A. A. A. magazine. “Yet fully two-thirds of our population have little money to invest. Savings which they might, but probably do not, spend for securi- ties amount to less than 3 per cent of what they spend on the necessities of living. “Perhaps a natural sympathy arises for the person who is robbed of his lifetime savings by the stock swindler, & sympathy which is not felt for those whose savings never materialize, be- cause as they spend their money day after day for food, for clothing and for household necessities, their possible savings are whittled away to minute fractions.” Standards Suggested. Montgomery emphasized the need of standards conveying some mean- ing to the purchaser, goods classified according to their relative worth “so that hidden values and hidden de- fects can be evaluated by experts for buyers ®who are not experts.” “The initial drive of consumers is for information about quality,” Mont- gomery said. “First, what character- istics determine the usefulness of & commodity? Consumers know that the streamlining of the vacuum cleaner and the dashboard gadgets of the automobile do not give these things their value, but they do not know in what terms the real useful- ness, economy and money's worth of vacuum cleaners for automobiles can be described. “For answers to these questions, they want standards established. They want to know how the commodity of- fered for sale measures up according to these standards. They want grade labeling of all commodities for which standards and grades can be devel- oped!” Anticipates Objections. ‘The Montgomery report attempted to anticipate the objections of private business to the co-operative buying movement by arguing that elimina- tion of going private concerns would not necessarily put the displaced busi- ness men among the ranks of the une employed. “If the growth of co-operation speeds up that turnover (of business con- cerns),” Montgomery wrote, “it might also be expected to provide an alter- native opportunity of employment to those who fail to make the grade on their own.” ° FRIENDSHIP ASKS RED RIDER REPEAL Citizens’ Group Opposes Against Gas Tax Raise and Auto- January Sales teeming with values like this! Brocade Satin Slips or Gowns With Your Monogram Included | Jieen, 1214-1220 F STREET All the elements necessary for an athletic career are shown by John Cooper, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. 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