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G_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1937. ___——_____—_T_———_____L__——___‘__fi Text of McCarl Statement W. . QUINTER, 5, LOAN OFFICER, DIES President of District Asso- ciation Succumbs to Long lliness. William S. Quinter, 59, president of the District Building and Loan Asso- ciation, died today after a long illness at his home, 3930 Connecticut avenue. Mr. Quinter, a lifelong resident of Washington, was & past presi- dent of the Dis- trict Building and Loan League, and at the time of his death was secre- tary of that or- ganization. He also was a past president of the Washington Kiwanis Club, having served in 1927. He was prominent in many Masonic organizations, being past master of Federal Lodge, No. 1, F. A. A. M.; past high priest of La- fayette Chapter, No. 5, Royal Arch Masons; past commander of Washing- ton Commandery, No. 1, Knights Tem- plar, and a past potentate of Almas Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Quinter; two stepchil- dren, Mrs. Warren W. Grimes and F. Willson Camp; his mother, Mrs. Clara E. Quinter; two sisters, Mrs. Lester V. Branch of Los Angeles and Miss Har- riet Quinter, Washington, and two brothers, Frederick W. Quinter and George Quinter, this city. His father was the late Joseph R. Quinter. Funeral services will be held at 11 am. Friday in All Souls’ Memorial Episcopal Church. Rev. Dr. H. H. D. Sterrett, rector, will officiate. Burial | will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. ——— Manchukuo Aids Japan. Manchukuo will contribute almost $6,000,000 to Japan's national defense | fund in the fiscal year 1937-8. Reorganization W. S. Quinter (Continued From E‘lrstfiPageA) Senate suggested yesterday that a joint committee of the two houses be created and empowered to make a final draft of the legislation and re- port back to their respective bodies. | Robinson agreed that the actual work of consolidation is executive in character and that the authority to put the various suggested steps into | effect should be vested in the Presi- dent. “Any effort to impose the work on | Congress will result in confusion, nu- | merous conflicts of opinion and in ‘The statement issued today by for- mer Controller General McCarl con- cerning President Roosevelt’s reorgani- zation program follows: Some of the changes suggested by the President’s committee are vastly more far-reaching than appears on the surface, and at least one goes to the very foundation of our plan of self-government. For instance, its proposal to emas- culate our independent accounting system so brings into question the au- thority of the Congress to effectively safeguard and prescribe the uses of public moneys as to go far beyond any matter of reorganizing existing agen- cies. It appears in effect a proposal to revamp the respective jurisdictions of two of the three co-ordinate branches of Government—with loss by the Congress of means whereby to dis- charge its constitutional responsibili- ties to the country. Power Vested in Congress. ‘The independence of our account- ing system is based upon the au- thority and responsibility of the Con- gress to safeguard and to prescribe the uses of the public moneys. Such authority is essentially in the people's forum in any self-governing society— and is constitutionally vested in the Congress of the United" States. It | would be little more than an idle gesture for the Congress to stipulate or limit by law the uses to which a particular appropriation might law- fully be employed and be without means of exacting observance of such law by the spending agencies. The present law provides that means by | imposing a duty upon the General Ac- | counting Office, an agency independent of the spending branch, to see to it that such laws are observed. If the independent accounting system should be emasculated as proposed, the Con- gress wotld be without such means | and would be impotent in these vital | matters. Then, too, when economy in Gov- ernment is so utterly essential, due to our public debt condition, any wisdom in striking down our one money-saving agency, is difficult to see. Former Controller General Fears President Has Been Misled in Reorganization Plan—Doubts Congress Will Give Up Power. But even if these vital matters were not involved, the proposal to give the Treasury Department such a strangle hold on all other departments and activities of Government would seem woefully to unbalance the machinery of the executive branch. The fact that the proposal is cam- ouflaged by an attack upon the ad- ministration of the independent ac- counting system during the first 15 years of its existence must not be permitted to divert attention from the real vital issue involved. Such attack appears to have been neces- sary, as 50 bold a proposal could hardly have been advanced behind a lesser smoke-screen. Fortunately the misleading and inaccurate state- ments appearing in the committee’s report as basis for its recommenda- tion are all susceptible of correction by public records. Even if during those 15 years we were prevented from being 100 per cent perfect in exacting law observe ance in the uses of public moneys— and even if tender toes were neces- sarily trod upon in the effort—such considerations afford no reason what- soever why so fine a system and one s0 essential to the success of our plan of self-government should be emascu- lated. It should be strengthened, not cruci- fled. Fears President Misled. The fact that our one great offense was that of trying too hard to keep the spending agencies within the law is a criticism that should be hearten- ing to that upstanding force that means the General Accounting Office. I fear the President has been misled by his advisers and doubt that the Congress will give much consideration to any proposal involving a giving up of means adequate to discharge of its constitutional responsibilities. the accounting system from domina- tion and control by the executive | branch—is the vital thing. It would be | a long step backward for the Con- gress to surrender its right to exact law observance in the uses of the pub- lic moneys. with some official in the executive de- partments over legality of expendi- Controller General McCarl tangled | The President wants to bring in the exempt positions by non-competitive | examination, provided certain safe- tures. “A most important check is the in- dependent audit of all expenditures by an official responsible to Congress, and this work has been very admir- | ably performed, in my judgment, by the office of controller general,” Byrd said. “The principle of an in- dependent audit has been recognized for many years by Congress. The controller general is appointed for a term of 15 years, and, as stated in the law, ‘is independent of the ex- ecutive departments.’ all probability failure,” he said. Interprets Recommendations. To draft the legislation, the Senate‘ “As I read the recommendations, leader continued, will not be difficult, | most of the effective power to prevent especially if the President’s Commit- tee on Reorganization, headed by Louis Brownlow, and the legislative counsel get together. Proposals Stun Capital. The sweeping nature of the changes proposed by the committee—and whole-heartedly indorsed by the Pres- ident—entailing the creation of two new departments and the split up of approximately 95 independent agen- cies in the 12 major divisions that thus would be created—was stunning illegal disbursements is taken from | the Controller General and conferred | upon the Secretary of the ’neasury.] who of necessity must be a political | appointee responsible to the Presi- | dent and removable at his pleasure. “The authority of the new omcerl known as the Auditor General is| limited to post audits In other words, to the auditing of funds after the money has been spent, and it follows that if then determined il- legal, the money cannot be recovered.” Byrd is willing to make some con- | in its effect over the Capital. Going far beyond anything ever be- fore proposed in the reorganization accounting and budgeting law, per- | comment of Representative Maverick | rearmament program for expanding on cessions, it was indicated, as he would g0 along on a proposal to amend the guards are set up to keep out the un- fit. To the contrary, there is senti- ment in both Senate and House in favor of competitive tests. Chairman Ramspeck of the House | Civil Service Committee, who als} | spoke last night at the employes’ | meeting, arranged by the American Federation of Government Employes, | repeated that he wanted competitive | tests, being unwilling to perpetuate present conditions. The radical change proposed for administering civil service, however, iwlll not go by unnoticed. The civil | service act was passed 54 years ago | next Saturday and in that time there has never been a basic change in the Now, the three-member board is made up of two nmajority and one minority party members. To supplant these with an administrator who would be selected by competitive ex- amination is designed to take away the political angle, but whether it would work out that way is some- thing else again. The proposal to set up concurrently volunteer board of seven to serve as | “watch dog” is already under scrutiny. “It looks too much like a * * * Chamber of Commerce idea,” was the schemes that have bobbed UP OVET | nisvino an appeal to the courts from | ©°f Texas. the years, the contemplated shifts were certain in many instances to stir bitter opposition both inside and out- side the Government. | Republican leadership in Senate and House made plans to caucus, once | the administration bill is lntroducod.{ in an attempt to unite opposition, and on some points, certainly, they will derive strength from the majority party. ‘Tomorrow morning the Senate Com- mittee on Reorganization, headed by Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia, will meet at 10:30 o'clock to receive the first report of the Brookings Insti- tution, which has been doing the fact- finding for this group. Byrd indicated the first item to be taken up is the money-lending agencies, which has been one of his particular targets since he started months ago to demand re- trenchment all along the Federal line. Byrd Is at Variance. | Byrd, who is prepared to demand outright abandonment of certain | functions, finds himself at variance | with the President on this point, and | also on the proposal to abolish the office of controller general throwing auditing duties under the Treasury and centering more on post-audit pro- cedure than on the pre-audit plan now in vogue. “My views have been frequently ex- pressed to the effect that we already have too many departments, boards and bureaus, and that there is ample opportunity to systematize the pres- ent Government by abolishing unnec- essary agencies and merging others into existing agencies,” the Virginia Senator sald in a statement late yes- terday after scanning the President’s reorganization plan. “Pull consideration also should be given to the fact that the two new departments proposed will have grouped within their set-up present emergency spending agencies such as | public works and rellef, and this is | in effect recognizing such activities as permanent Federal obligations. “A mere regrouping of agencies does not mean either simplification or economy. “The same bureau heads will have the same authority. What we need is a drastic overhauling of the Gov- ernment, the elimination of every useless agency and to co-ordinate a balanced and businesslike organiza- tion without expanding the present governmental structure.” Savings Not Estimated. Under the President’s plan no esti- mate of any saving was made, though an arbitrary figure of $30,- 000,000 annually was set up, based on the experience of States which have gone in for functional regroup- ing. This $30,000,000 represents 1 per cent of the $3,000,000,000, annual expenditure for overhead, which the sadministration contends is the sole source of savings. The other $4,000,- 000,000 yearly outlay by Government represents such so-called irreducible items as pensions and the like. Byrd said he would support a grant to the President.of power to re-group agencies within a framework “very carefully considered” by Congress. ‘The Virginia Senator’s attitude on the controller generalship is simply a reflection of that often in evidence in Congress in the past when former decisions of the controller general's | office. At present, redress is had through the Court of Claims and Con- gress. There was critical comment also from other Democratic sources. Senator Clark of Missouri said he was “‘opposed to establishing two new agencies, which means making per- | manent a lot of emergency agencies, and very much opposed to eliminating the controller general.” King Denounces Plan. King of Utah jolned with Austin, Vermont Republican, in rapping the plan as centralizing and concentrating “too much power in the Executive.” Bulkley of Ohio thought the sec- tion dealing with the Controller Gen- eral “will have to be studied.” To the contrary, whole-hearted | support came from Senator O’Ma- honey, Democrat of Wyoming, a Byrd committee member, who told a mass meeting of Governmant employes last night that the “tremendous growth of | Government” has flowed from the creation by Congress of the quasi- judicial agencies which were scorched by the President’s Committee. These are so centralizing Government. O’Mahoney said, that the choice now is presented of either intensifying this situation, “or returning to the |’ old, free democratic institutions . of this Government.” Five other Democrats—George, Georgla; Pittman, Nevada; Minton, Indiana; Radcliffe, Maryland, and Sheppard, Texas, lined up with the President, as did Johnson, Republican, of California. Senator Borah, Idaho Republican, sees “no savings in sight.” McNary Not “Impressed.” Senator McNary of Oregon, the Re- publican leader, said he “was not awfully impressed”; that the message struck him as “rather indefinite.” Sen- ator Vandenberg of Michigan, one of the Republican leaders, advocated cut- ting out some emergency agencies. “Consolidation isn’t enough. In our situation, we want relief from need- less bureaucracy rather than more bureaucracy in larger units.” It seems apparent that the opposi- tion will have a much better oppor- tunity to crystallize when the Byrd committee goes into action. According to the Virginia Senator, the President has told him that the senatorial group’s work would “supplement” the White House program. The one item in the presidential plan which is due to get the greatest measure of support is that dealing with the extension of civil service to cover all but policy-making posts. Members of the Senate and House, weary of job-hunters, will welcome & change, and employe organizations are jubilant. ‘The principal difficulty there will come in the methods to be employed. CaughtaCold? N To help end it quicker, rub throat and chest with PROVED BY 2 GEN ERATIONS A Comments from both Senate and House were generally favorable to the proposal to give the President six aides, who, in effect, would be liaison officers between White House and de- senatorial | Partments, and would in addition be | by the ambitious scope of the pro- charged with co-ordinating inter-de- partmental operations where they crossed each other. Conflicts Awaited. Meanwhile, observers are standing by awaiting the inevitable tugs-of- war when and if inter-agency shifts are started. Many are at loss to figure just where the line of demarcation will come when the time comes to split the judicial and administrative functions of some of the commissions. Independent agencies are long lived; derive solid support from those on the outside to whose needs they minister, and on the inside from the staffs. A wide-open field for conflict would be more than a probability in the cases of the more powerful units when it was proposed to subordinate them to some over-all establishment. Cabinet officers hlso are touchy on the question of give and take, although much of the potential trouble has been eliminated in the President's plan, under which just about all is “take” Although the general lines of con- templated transfers are shown in the Brownlow report, the President does not intend to indicate his intentions ‘l: this direction until his program is W, there has been one mur- mur. Leaders of the National Grange said they favored continuing all “land- use” activities under the Agriculture Department, and whether the presi- dential plan would shift to the “Con- servation” (now Interior) Department more than 17,000,000 acres of national forest lands now administered by the Agriculture Department was a big question. Spain (Continued From First Page.) out of Madrid. The few remaining Americans were urged to evacuate, but 34 of them declined to leave at this time. Outside the capital, Fascists repulsed government counter-attacks with » SLLO Low fareslike these to all America Rovad Trip LEESBURG $1.30 GRAFTON %&m. £ 2.20 PARKERS| Greyhound Tetminal 1403 New York Avenue N.W. Phone National 8000 The system—the independence of | 2.50 CINCINNATI _ constant sweep of rifle fire after cut- ting the city’s vital link with her troops in the Guadarrama Mountain barrier to the northwest. The Escorial highroad was strewn with government dead. There still were Spanish naval in- cidents. Insurgent trawlers stopped and “investigated” a British steamer in the Straits of Gibraltar. Germany, delivering to Spanish Fascists a Span- ish government steamer seized as a marine “reprisal,” put the Socialist crew ashore on the Biscayan coast. Spanish Moroccan surveys seemed to show that fears of a German “incur- sion” were groundless. Spanish gov- ernment planes bombed the insurgent- held zone, nevertheless, killing several. 3¢ AMERICANS TO REMAIN. Decline to Join Evacuation Movement From Madrid. MADRID, January 13 (#).—Thirty- four Americans living in the United States Embassy at Madrid declined today to leave the Spanish capital despite urgent warnings from State Department officials. None had requested transportation to Valencia when the noon deadline arrived, although several said they might depart later. ‘The warning sounded by Eric C. ‘Wendelin, third secretary now at Val- encia, that the Embassy building might be closed, caused some concern among the refugees. Americans in the besieged capital |now total 102. Some are wives of Spanish husbands who have refused to leave their homes, while others are Puerto Ricans and Filipinos. Eight Are Newspaper Men. Eight of the 34 Americans living in the Embassy are newspaper corre- spondents. Evacuation of the Spanish civil population continued, meanwhile, at the rate of approximately 8,000 daily. The war office reported Socialist forces had driven back an insurgent column near Majadahonda, northwest of the capital. It acknowledged, however, that in- surgents who swept through that sec- tor last week to break government communications with El Escorial and the Guadarrama defense line still held control at Las Rozas, El Plantio and Aravaca. Aravaca is about five miles from Madrid proper on the vital highway. Valencia Is Bombarded. Brief reports from Valencia, now the seat of the Spanish government, said the insurgent cruiser Canarias bombarded the city early last night. (Later reports from Valencia said an insurgent ship or ships shelled the port, but were driven away by land batteries and goverffment air bombers after a heavy exchange of fire. (The insurgent cruisers Canarias and Espana were said to have shelled the port of Malaga, one of the few re- maining Socialist strongholds in the south, Monday. The whole city, it was said, was heavily damaged, in- cluding the British consulate and a building believed American-owned.) THREE KILLED IN RAID. | Loyalist Seaplane Bombs Rebel Port of Melilla, ! OUJDA, French Morocco, January 13 (#).—Three persons were killed and two wounded in an air raid by a Span- | ish government seaplane over the ' | insurgent port of Melilla, Spanish Morocco. | An Associated Press correspondent witnessed the bombing yesterday dur- ing a trip into the Spanish zone to investigate reported infiltration of German troops. No German regular soldiers were to be seen and the only evidence of for- eign activity was an Italian ship in the harbor of Melilla. ‘The cabinet turned from Spanish nono-intervention to home defense plans and called up for review Britain's a “formidable scale.” In the light of the still unsettled | European situation, Foreign Minister Anthony Eden disclosed the dimen- | sions of the militarization plan, be- | | fore the cabinet today, as rivaled only gram through which England is | determined to keep peace in Europe. While Britain’s own first lines of defense were held to the fore, French i suggestions to control arms and vol- unteers to Spain through strict su- pervision of ports of departure, ship- ping lanes and the Prench and Portu- guese borders were felt to have fallen on responsive ears. ‘The new French plan, said to have been submitted yesterday, was con- sidered to dovetail with the British proposal for immediate stoppage of volunteers to the Spanish civil war. | Eden told the Foreign Press Associa- tion last night the armament race was | “madness.” He warned Britain was | | not growing soft and described the nation as rearming on “a considera- | ble, indeed, a formidable, scale.” | The foreign minister indicated ap- | proval of the recently resurrected moves for Franco-German co-opera- tion as a means to European peace, and definitely offered Britain's help [m Any program to bring the third | | Reich into economic and political harmony with France and England. YAWNING CONTINUES CHICAGO, Janusry 13 (#)—Mrs. Emily Paternoster, 23-year-old moth- er of three, yawned into her third week last night. Dr. C. M. Weinberg, her physician, said her condition was “pronouncedly | worse” and planned to continue arti- ficial fever treatments. He said her yawns were “stronger” than earlier in her fllness and occur- ring more frequently, the rate rising | to about six a minute. LIEUT. COL. CLARK DIES HERE AT 1 Executive Assistant to Chief of Manufacturing Service Is Stricken Suddenly. Lieut. Col. Walter L. Clark, 51, ex- ecutive assistant to the chief of manu- facturing. service, Office of Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, died today after being suddenly stricken at his home, 4400 Lowell street. Col. Clark had several details of service in Washington. He was at the Army War College from August to September, 1918. From July, 1925, to June, 1926, he was chairman of the War Department Commodity Com- mittee in liaison with the Office Assist~ ant Secretary of War and was chief of Statistics and War Plans Section, Manufacturing Service, Office Chief of Ordnance. From July 1, 1926, to June 30, 1929, he was chief of the Industrial War Plans Section, Manu- facturing Section, Office Chief of Ordnance. He was a student at the Army War College from September 3, 1929, to June 30, 1930. On July 1, 1935, he was assigned to the post he held at the time of his death. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lillian D. Clark, and daughter, Miss Ruth Clark of the Lowell street ad- dress; two sons, Walter L. Clark, jr., Akron, Ohio, and Alan D. Clark, a cadet at the United States Military Academy, and two sisters, Mrs. Ber- nice E. Carroll, Boston, and Mrs. P. A. Ryder, Wolcott, Vt. COMMITTEE .APPROVES R.F.C. EXTENSION BILL Jones, Going to Capitol to Help, Finds Glass Measure Sped Through Already. B: the Associated Press. The administration bill to extend the life of the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corp. to June 30, 1939, was approved today without a dissenting | vote by the Senate Banking Com- mittee. The first item of the administration program approved by a congressional | committee this session, the bill would | exntend the corporation and its affilli- | ated organizations with authority for the President to cancel the corpora- tions lending powers whenever he should find sufficient private credit to[ fll the gap. | Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the | corporation, went to the Capitol to be on hand if needed, but by the time he arrived the committece al- ready had acted. His friend, Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, was author of the bill. & " If You Are Troubled With | RHEUMATISM To relieve the tortures of rheumatic, arthritis and neu- ritis pains drink Mountain Valley Mineral Water, di- rect from fomous Hot | Springs, Arkansas. M.IdlyJ alkaline. Deeply satisfying. 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By the Assoclated Press. RICHMOND, January 13.—Dele- gates attending the seventh annual convention of Ruritan National re- turned home today with plans for an aggressive program in rural civic a & banquet concluding the convention last night, heard former Gov. E. Lee ‘Trinkle of Roanoke praise the organi- zation's program for “education and citizenship.” Gov. George C. Peery, introduced by State Senator M. G. Goode, wel- coming the delegates from Virginia and North Carolina at the banquet. Paul L. Everett of Holland, Va., was named president to succeed Grayson F. Holt of McKenney, Va. Other offi- cers elected were Marvin L. Gray, Wakefleld, Va., first vice president; W. P. McGuire, Petersburg, second vice president; L. T. Hall, Windso: secretary, and E. P. Simkins, Hanover, treasurer. HOUSING TOPIC TONIGHT Progress of the national housing program will be discussed at 10:15 o'clock tonight during the weekly Board of Trade broadcast over Sta~ tion WMAL. « Speakers will be Dr. John O'Grady of Cstholic University and Miss Helen Alfred, executive secretary of the Na- tlonal Housing Conference to be held here January 22-24. Savin'money is right down my alley —and BOND'S Half-Yearly SALE sure does the trick ! Price-cuts up 10 24% have been slapped on every overcoat and 2 trouser suit in the store. And Bond's Ten Payment Plan. makes it easy to cash-in on these bonnie savings now bu l9!5 2285 d overcoats $ buys 2 trouser suits o’coats up to $30 BON 1335 F St. N.W. it ! Thompson Returns Dorothy Thompson is back at her three-times-a-week post—‘On the Record.” Back from two months observing in Europe. *“On the Record”—first columnist-com- mentary on world affairs to be written by a woman—first appeared last March in The Evening Star. Readers of it were immediately aware that they were not reading a “Women’s column,” but a commentary by a rare and well-documented intelligence. One of her first commentaries was on the handling of the Hauptinann execution. It drew from one reader, speaking for thou- sands, these words: “‘Somehow this morn- ing I have a fierce pride for all women that one has had the courage to write as you have done,” It’s a feature no one should miss. Com- mon sense and wit abound. Read Dorothy Thompson in he Foening Sfaf