Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1937, Page 4

A—4 #x VANDENBERG IS JOBLESS FIRURES ONDAY, APRIL 19, 1937 POLLARD UNCHANGED cecec) (PEN TOMORROW Program of the D. A. R. TODAY, TOMORROW, 8:30 p.m. . 9:30 am. 5 ited States | Organ recital, 9 until 9:30, Mrs c?{:fi{: ‘;fild’ é‘:}:x?;cr‘? Capt. James Shera Montgomery, Mus, Taylor Branson, leader. Bac., organist, Metropolitan Me- INITN (STORES €O AV For a delicious hot breakfast. that hits the spot and stays with you, nothing takes the place of buckwheat cakes. They're easy to rake— LS. RESETTLEMENT PLANS T0 BE CUT The condition of former Gov. John Garland Pollard of Virgnia remains critical and unchanged, members of his family said today. you need only water and morial - Methodist Episcopal In bad health for several months, 3 A Declares Number of Unem- | [ A%aoy, coil Orace Sdams Bast, |- church, Washington, D ©: | |Farm Tenancy Needs Con- | the former Governor, now cnairman |39 Washingtonians Among ASCO PREPARED trumpeter. member Livingstone Manor id din P ] of the Veterans' Board of Appeals, 300 Schedul dt Atend ] ima Entrance march, United States | Chapter, District of Columbla. sidered in Preference t0 |iast week became critically 11l at his cheduled to Atten B k h t - ployed Overestimated tange Pmare oo Assemby cal, Winired Kerrp,prin- e : ey : uckwhea by 5,000,000. r::}ntnx;ce o(fithe lpmsfli‘dent gen- afl‘!‘:ne’"‘;‘;‘:‘%‘n' oniY Building Projects. [ —— Meeting. 4500 TABLE el an national officers, es- o By the Assoclated Press. corted by the pages with State Entrance of the president gen- | | p 4 CKGROUND— Blossoms A total of 39 youngaters out of ap- reg 8¢ SYRUP Senator Vandenbers, Republican, | | fags. eral and national officers, es- Great proportion of American proximately 300 scheduled to partici- || 20-0z. pkg. N 1s 12¢ of Michigan asserted yesterday that Forty-sixth Continental Con- corted by the pages with State farming enterprise in recent years pate in the forty-second annual con- the number of jobless “is perhaps gress called to order by the presi- flags. being overestimated by as much as Congress called to order, the presi- has been reduced to condition of tenancy, in which those who work (Continued Prom First Page.) vention of Children of the American dent general. Revolution opening here tomorrow Vandenberg estimated in a state- ment that only 2,975,000 persons are now out of jobs, adding that his cal- culations “would seem to indicate vastly less unemployment than is con- stantly asserted by the Labor Depart- ment.” His analysis was promptly chal- lenged by Dr. Isador Lubin, labor statistics commissioner, who asserted the Labor Department “has never made any estimate whatever of un- Pledge of allegiance to the flag, | The pledge of allegiance to the flag, Mrs. Martin L. 8igmon, national the assemblage. chairman, Correczt Use of the | The National Anthem, the assem- Flag Committee. blage, Constance Albright Snow, leader; member Gen. Mordecal National Anthem, the assemblage. Gist Chapter, Maryland. Grace Adams East, leader. Reading of the minutes, the re- The American’s Creed, William cording secretary general. Tyler Page (author). Report of the Committee on Cre- dentials, Miss Page Schwarz- Greetings, the Hon. Ronald Lind- say, Ambassador of Great Brit- | Announcement of Resolutions The crowning glory to any “hot cakes” . . 8,000,000.” dent general. land gain bare livelihood, with |ber of cars was 10,000 less than the | moring are Washingtonians. Amarica’s Finest Sweet Cream He urged “an accurate, authentic,| | Invocation, Right Rev. James E. | seripture and prayer, the chaplain property owners skimming other |previous Sunday. An hours time was| One of the two national color eurrent census of the unemployed.” Freeman, D. D. general. benefits. required to tour the area. bearers for the gathering will be ctn c At President’s request, special Along the Baltimore-Washington | Albert Hosmer Bowker of Potomac committee recently made erhaus- |boulevard, officers reported only half | Society here. The District color tive study of whole problem, but |the traffic of last Sunday. The influx | bearer will be Mary Elizabeth Robey; House committee has been split |Of Visitors yesterday was attributed |Joan Marie Thomas of ‘Washington violently on terms of legislation. partly to the D. A. R. Congress and | will be one of the two flower pages Greatest need, perhaps, is some |Tallroad excursions. for the White House reception to- means of guidance and supervision At times, police reported, there were | morrow afternoon and two of the four for farmers who do not possess busi- | MOre out-of-town cars than from the | flower pages to greet Mrs. Willaim ness skill to handle own financial | District rolling along Pennsylvanis | Becker, national president general of entanglements, avenue. the D. A. R, tonight are from the 50,000 Throng Zoo. District. They are Sally and Addams DERRYDALE CREAMERY BUTTER ;, 38c, Last 3 Sale Days Enjoy the marvelous flavor, rich aroma and superior quality of our famous “heat-flo”’ roasted coffees. See how economical they are. waelder, chairman. employment.” “If Senator Vandenberg’s calcula- tions were correct,” he said, *4,000,000 more people would be at work in the United States than there were em- ployed at the peak of the 1929 boom.” Census to Be Considered. The question of unemployment fig- ures also had the attention of some House members. The House Census Committee was asked to meet tomor- row to oonsider legislation for the first Nation-wide census of unem- ployed. Chairman Mahon of a subcommit- tee considering the bill said he be- lieved it would not be approved. Mahon said that recently there was agitation for such a census, but “now there is no interest on the part of the Works Progress Administration, there is no clamor from the Census Bureau, there is no O. K. from the Budget Bureau and there is no re- quest from the administration.” Downtown, Secretary Perkins mean- while made public figures which she said showed private placements by the employment service reached the highest level during March for the past 33 months and the second highest. in the history of the service. In that month, she said, 193,622 private placements were made, an increase of | 225 per cent over the preceding month. Senator Vandenberg conceded that his estimate “would represent the greatest number of persons employed in our history,” but said it would mean an increase of only 2,167,000 over the 1929 maximum. Disagree on Jobs. Lubin explained that the depart- ment made no effort to calculate the number of jobless, but that it esti- mated 33,500,000 persons were hold- ing jobs in February. Vandenberg put the figure at 38,145,000. “I do not for a moment question the method of estimate employed in the Lubin memorandum.” Vanden- berg said, but suggested that the dif- ferences between their calculations “clearly demonstrate our vital need” for an unemployment census. “We need to know precisely who is unemployed, where they are, why they are unemployed and whether it is their involuntary or habitual status,” he said. “Then we can make rational plans to deal with our responsibility.” Vandenberg said that more than 26,000,000 employed persons had reg- istered with the Social Security Board and that “What I consider to be re- liable estimates” showed 12,145,000 more unregistered workers, making a total of 38,145,000. From census reports he calculated that there were 41,120,000 employable persons not engaged in agriculture, 80 that the total of non-agricultural unemployed would be 2,975,000. Lubin replied that “a considerable number" registered with the Social Se- curity Board “were not actually in tmploymem" "D.A.R. (Continued From First Page.) the American Revolution feel should be this year's national defense policy of the society and of the United Btates. Mrs. Vinton Earl Sisson will call to order the national defense meet- ing, of whioh she is chairman, at 2 pm. in the ball room of the May- flower Hotel. After the singing of America the committee will hear ad- dresses from these men: Robert M. Calland, Ohio State Uni- versity, “Young America Speaks.” Dr. Thomas Healy, dean of the Bchool of Forelgn Service, George- town University, “National Defense and Peace.” Theodore G. Holcombe of the Im- ain; the Hon. M. Georges Bon~ net, Ambassador of France; Mel- vin C. Hazen, president, Board of Commissioners, District of Co-~ lumbia; Mrs. C. A, Swann Sin- clair, national president, National Society Children of the American Revolution; Messmore Kendall, president general, National So- clety Sons of the American Revo- lution. Music, Mario Chamiee, tenor, Met- ropolitan Opera Co.; Harvey Brown, accompanist. “Dido’s Lament”____.______ Purcell Air from Milton's “Comus,” Dr. Arne “Mother o' Mine"____.._____ ‘Tours “Song of the Open”______. La Forge Address, “Living for the Ages,” Mrs. William A. Becker, president gen- eral, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Address, “Youth,” Harry A. Moore, United States Senator from New Jersey; member Advisory Com- mittee, N. 8. D. A. R. Presentation to the Congress of the winners of the D. A. R. good citizenship pilgrimage and the awarding of the medals. Music, Mario Chamlee, tenor, Met- ropolitan Opera Co.; Harvey Brown, accompanist. “Homing” --Del Riego “Don’t Cear: Carpenter “A Dream”. Bartlett “Dawn” Address, “The Peace Policy of Our Government,” Sumner Wells, As- sistant Secretary of State. The retiring of the colors. Exit march, the United States Ma- rine Band Orchestra. Hall services, Mrs. Alvin Valentine Lane, honorary vice president general, | and Mrs. Julian McCurry, of Athens, | Ga., chairman of the Real Daughters | Committee, made brief addresses. Tonight's full program will bring before the congress a speech from ing the keynote of the convention, “Youth.” Another speaker will be Sumner Welles, As- dress on “The Peace Policy of Our Government” will climax the meet- ing and be followed by the retiring of the colors and the exit march. While the delegates waited excit- edly and impatiently for the big mo- ment of 8:30 p.m., Mrs. Charles S. Schermerhorn and her committee completed arrangements for the function of the congress, which will take place tomorrow night at the May- flower Hotel. Washington's young bachelors, at- taches of the diplomatic corps, officers of the Army, Navy and the Marine Corps as well as many midshipmen from the United States Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis and cadets from the United States Military Academy at the pages. Assisting Mrs. Schermerhorn will be Miss Dorothy Jenkins, Mrs. H. Fuller Stearns, Miss Martha Morris, Mrs. Jean Labat, Mrs. B. Harrison Lingo, Miss Jean Warfield, Miss Ra- mona Newman, Mrs. Jasper Beall, Mrs. Catherine Strong, Mrs. A. L. Slaughter and Mrs. Kathryn Warrne. Meanwhile, Mrs. Becker,' whose term as president general has another year to run, in announcing her post- congress plans, made it known that she, will leave almost immediately Committee. Report of standing rules, Mrs. Robert J. Johnston, chairman, Resolutions Committee. Report of the Committee on Pro- gram, Mrs. Geoffrey Creyke, chairman. Outline of plans of United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission, Sol Bloom, director general. Reports of national officers: The president general, Mrs. Willlam A. Becker; the chaplain general, Mrs. E. Thomas Boyd; the re- cording secretary general, Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge; the cor- responding secretary general, Mrs. Charles Blackwell Keesee; the organizing secretary general, Mrs. Willlam H. Pouch; the treasurer general, Mrs. Henry M. Robert, jr.; Finance Committee, Mrs. Robert J. Reed, chairman; Auditing Committee, Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge, chairman; the registrar general, Mrs. Lue Rey- nolds Spencer; the historian gen- eral, Mrs. Julian G. Goodhue; the librarian general, Mrs. Lu- ther Eugene Tomm; the curator general, Mrs. Robert J. Reed; the reporter general to the Smith- sonian Institution, Mrs. John Y. Richardson. Greetings, the honorary presidents general: Mrs. Magna, Mrs. Bros- seau, Mrs. Minor, Mrs. Hobart, Mrs. Cook, Mrs. Guernsey. Announcements. ‘The retiring of the colors. Exit march. Wreath Upon the N. S. D. A. R. Memorial. Immediately after the retiring of the colors the president general, accompanied by members of the former Memorial Committee and the daughters, will place a wreath upon the memorial. Afterncon reserved for meetings of State delegations and national committees, luncheons, receptions and dinners. which will include a stay in London during the time of the coronation of King George VI. ‘While in London Mrs. Becker will be the guest of the Walter Himes Page Moore of New Jersey, sound- | e e o | Von Steuben Chapter, and while in distinguished | sistant Secretary of State, whose ad- | pages’ ball, the most brilliant social | West Point, N. Y., will be guests of | Chapter, the D. A. R. chapter in England. Proceeding to Berlin, Mrs. Becker will visit there the Dorothea the German capital will take part in the dedication by the chapter of & tablet in honor of Baron von Steuben, Prussian patriot, who aided the cause of America during the Revolution. The dedication ceremonies will be held in the little city of Magdeburg outside Berlin, where the famous Ger- man artillery officer lived. The Mayor of Magdeburg officially will receive the tablet from Mrs. Becker, who will represent the National Society. In Paris, where Mrs. Becker will go from Berlin, the president general will | be entertained by the Benjamin Frank- lin and the Rochambeau Chapters. On Memorial day she will place a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of France and visit also the American cemetery to honor America’s World War dead. Mrs. Becker's next stop will be Rome, where she will be the official guest of the Rome Chapter of the D. A. R. This is the first trip in many years arranged by s president general of the society to visit the European chapters of the organization. A gay week filled with entertaining has been arranged by various groups of women here for the congress. To- night the Oregon D. A. R. delegation will have a supper at the Mayflower. Yesterday the North Dakota, New Mexico and Chicago chapters held dinners; the Michigan, California and Texas delegations held meetings and the Good Pilgrimage Committee held & By the Assoctated Press. The construction program of the Resettlement Administration is being curtailed sharply, officials said today, in an effort to fit the agency for whatever farm tenancy program Con- gress enacts. Becretary Wallace and subordinates in the agency, it was learned, have been culling a list of 150 projects sug- gested when Rexford G. Tugwell was administrator. The resettlement projects chosen for completion, to be announced soon, are expected to place emphasis on scattered farm units rather than on model rural and suburban communi- ties. Congress recently provided $79.- 000,000 for the agency, but spokesmen sald these funds would be used chiefly for loans and grants to drought victims in farm sreas. The tenacy bill approved by the House Agriculture Committee provides for expenditure of $420,000,000 in the next four years. Officials said little of this would go for construction other than farm homes and butldings for tenants. The measure would set aside $50,- 000,000 for each of the next four years as loans to tenants in acquiring farm lands; $75,000,000 for each of two years for the agency’s regular rural rehabilitation program, and $10,- 000.000 next year and $20,000,000 each of the following three years to con- tinue puschases of submarginal lands for retirement from cultivation. Chairman Jones of the Agriculture Committee assured the House Rules Committee today he would oppose any attempt to amend the bill to give the Government authority to purchase farms for resale to tenants. Jones appeared before the Rules Committee to request a rule per- mitting him to bring the tenancy measure up on the House tomorrow. The staff of the Resettlement Agency has been reduced from a peak of 19,000 workers two years ago to about 13,000. Officials said this would be cut to 12,000 on May 1. Dr. A. G. Black, chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, said se- curity should be the goal of farm leaders. “It is probable that the central thought of our agricultural policy will soon shift from the objective of provement,” he said. | the Zoo, park police estimated. A boy achieving relative economic improve- | ment to one of maintaining such im- | Upward of 50,000 spectators thronged prostrated by the heat was revived in the lion house and later sent home. Police failed to obtain his name. Folirteen Pennsylvania Railroad ex- cursion trains brought 1,000 passen- gers each into Union Station from New York to help set a railroad travel record. Approximately 1,700 came in from Philadelphia on Baltimore & Ohio excursion trains. The latter railroad, alternating with the Penn- sylvania, had its greatest number of New York excursionists the Sunday before. The Pennsylvania's general passen- ger agent, Alan B. Smith, said the crowds exceeded the previous record of Washington visitors in the road's history. This was in 1922, when 14,000 came from New York for the Holy Name Society Convention. Airline and bus officials also re- ported heavy traffic. Some busses were delayed by incoming traffic. No extra vehicles were added for the Sunday loed, but officials reported all regular busses filled. Even rooming house accommodations were exhausted by noon. Hotels turned away thousands, the Washing- ton Tourist Camp hundreds. Roy Miller of the Housing Bureau of the Board of Trade said the bureau remained open until 4:30 a.m. yester- day with four clerks, instead of only one as on the previous Sunday, on duty. He attributed a great part of the rush to the D. A. R. Congress. By noon the bureau was calling on other agencies for supplementary lists of rooming houses. Park and metropolitan police were stationed at all important traffic points in the area. Their days off and leaves were canceled in order to have every man available for duty. Among the visitors were thousands of students, including 100 from the | Philadelphia W. P. A. literacy and | citizenship classes and 27 high school students from Blakely, Ga., the latter in a bus they purchased with money they had saved since last Fall o Mrs. Harlan F. Stone to Speak. Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone, president | of the Travelers’ Aid Society, will be guest speaker at the weekly luncheon | of the Federal Community Chest| Forum at 12:30 p.m. in the Marring- | ton Hotel. | PEERLESS, WASHINGTON’S LIRGEST FURNITURE STORE - and How you want it! Stratton McAllister. Delegates from District societies are Nathan Weedy, Betty Earll, Gail Coss, Mary Louise Forbes, Ruth Wilt, Robert de Shaze, Olive J. Digges, Ed- ward Willlam Digges, Robert David- son, William Pennington, William Howard, Lee Nettleton, Gloria Riser, Willlam Linton, Adeline McAllister, Virginia Scott and Bowker. An alternate for each delegate also | will take part in the gathering. Among | the 17 young alternates is Varina Claire Richard, first to register lor\ the convention. Boys and girls already in Washing- ton for the convention attended morn- ing services yesterday at Christ Church, Alexandris, and the even- song service at the Washington Ca- thedral. During the remainder of the day, warm weather drew many to Potomac Park to view the Japanese cherry blossoms. ‘Today's preliminary program called for a meeting of the C. A. R. board of management in the board room at Memorial Continental Hall and luncheon and meeting of national officers, State directors and soclety presidents at the Roosevelt Hotel, headed by Mrs. C. A. Swann Sinclair, national president. 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