Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1940, Page 9

“ Democracy Forced To Do 'Better Job," Fahey Declares ‘,fiome Loan Bank Board Lhairman Warns Against Complacency Warning those in government that “We must not be self-com- placent about our weaknesses and our shortcomings,” John H. Fahey, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, yesterday declared + that “if democracy is to meet the emergencies arising today it must do the job better.” Mr. Fahey told the closing lunch- eon session of the first annual in- stitute of the Society for Personnel Administration at the Raleigh Ho- « tel that in his opinion the personnel administrator either in private busi- ness or government was & “paragon of wide qualifications,” and one of the most important factors in the success of his organization. ‘The speaker charged that labor troubles and other similar difficul- ties besetting ‘large corporations during the last 10 years following “new and just laws” were due largely to the “neglect” of these corporations to work out scientific programs of persormel administra- tion, Must Improve Output. “If we are to maintain democ- racy,” he warned, “we must improve ‘our output. We must improve our product for the great mass of the people, who are our shareholders.” Speaking of personnel administras= tion in business, Charles P. McCor=~ .mick of Baltimore, president of Mc- . Cormick & Co., expressed “hope” ¢+ +for the future, confidence in the *capitalistic system,” but charged 4t should be imbued more with a hew spirit of *“unselfishness.” He explained in detail what he de- scribed as ‘“‘multiple management,” through use of a senior board of directors, a junior board, sales < board and factory board. He in- sisted “pride of ownership” was a spirit to be engendered throughout private industry for the benefit of 2ll and said he was “tolerant of the labor movement.” He recommended use of “rest periods” for both labor and office help and expressed con- fidence in young men and their future. Offjcers Are Elected. At the annual business meeting of the society following immediately after the luncheon, Oliver C. Short of the Department of Commerce was re-elected president. Milton Hall of Farm Credit Administration was elected vice president, and Henry Hubbard of the Council of Personnel Administration, who had been commended as chairman of the program for the institute, was elected secretary-treasurer. These members of the board were elected: Albert H. Aronson, Social Security * Board; Ismar Baruch, Civil Service ©ommission; Dick Carlson, Civil Aeronautics Authority; R. R. Zim- merman, Council of Personnel Ad- iministration. The Agdvisory Com- nittee was named as follows: Rob- ert D. Hubbard, Agriculture Depart- ‘ent; George A. Baumann, Fed- eral Housing Administration; Joseph Btonesifer, Maritime Commission; Manlio De Angelis, Civil Service Commission, and Miss Josephine Blades, Rural Electrification Admin- istration. The officers were elected on recommendation of the Nomin- ating Committee headed by W. C. Bowen of the Railroad Retirement Board. Round table dicussions of yester- day morning at various places throughout the hotel were reported to a general meeting by the round | table chairmen. Harry B. Mitchell, president of the Civil Service Com- mission, presided, and G. Lyle Bels- | ley, director of the Civil Service As- gembly of the United States and Canada, as ‘“commentator” on the reports, stressed the role of per- sonnel administration in manage- ment. Reports were made from the | + round tables by Stanley T. Orear of Railroad Retirement Board on clas- sification; H. L. Buckardt, Soil Con- servation Service, on employe train- ing; S. 8. Board, Agriculture De- partment on selection and place- ment; A. H. Aronson, Social Se- curity Board, on service ratings, and R. R. Zimmerman, Council of Per- “ sonnel Administration, on employe health and safety. Water Front Census Count to Be Made Using a Coast Guard boat, census enumerators will count Washing- | ton’s water front and river popula- tion tomorrow, Garnett Brown, cen- #sus area manager for the District, announced yesterday. The Police Department has estimated that be- tween 150 and 200 persons, both white and colored, make their homes along the Potomac River, between George- town and Anacostia. Some live in shacks along the shore, others in boats or boathouses, and a few on islands in the river. Though the enumerators, when the census began in April, did theiwr best to cover the water front popula- tion, Mr. Brown believes that many * persons living on boats were over- ked. Since April he has had a punch that there have been addi- tions to Washington's water front _ golony. In a final drive to locate “missing” | secure from entomological invasion, | bassador of Poland. Poland is but | Excellency Count Jerzy Potocki Po- { have become subservient peoples. persons, census takers, probably this week, will check workers in all Fed- eral buildings, Mr. Brown also re- DECORATION DAY "y dor the holdiday week end—Photosraphic You'll need ‘v makin equivment list CAMERA w will help y —If you've lost faith in yours, e have one of the largest selec- tions in Washington from $1.00 FILM —for still and motion picture cameras. Bl color. ack and white or in FILTERS Dr. Prochnik, By BLAIR BOLLES. In a marble palace at whose foundations termites chew lives the | Minister of Czecho-Slovakia. There | is no Czecho-Slovakia, but the| Honorable Vladimir Hurban will| never admit it. The flag of that sleeping republic flies from a staff over his doorway on Massachusetts avenue. He is certain it will fly | once more in Prague. | In a larger marble palace, more ! on Sixteenth street, lives the Am- an area divided now between Ger- many and Russia. Yet for His land lives. A Polish nation there is not, but a Polish state of mind— yes. There is no free Denmark nor free Holland. The roster of inde- pendent European nations shortens. Belgium almost has disappeared down the German military maw, and the best of Norway today be- longs not to the Norwegians, but to Germans. Four soverign peoples But in Washington there are men who believe passionately that what the diplomacy and the belligerency of Hitler have accomplished up to now will be overturned. They be- | lieve, in short, that their nations will rise again. United in One Cause. | Here there are a Danish Minister, | a Dutch Minister, a Belgian Am- | bassador and a Norwegian Miniszen! They, with the Pole and the Czech, are men without countries, or men almost without countries. But they retain their titles. The State De- partment recognizes their official positions. They are men united by their interest in one cause and their enmity toward one man. Their cause is patriotism and their enemy is Hitler. The Dane is Henrik de Kauff- mann, Minister. The Dutchman is Dr. Alexander Loudon, Minister. The Belgian is Count Robert van der Straten-Ponthoz, Ambassador. . . check what you nee MOVIE CAMERA remembrance.” e Jour selection from “our array of 8 and 16 m/m types. PROJECTORS —If you intend to show ‘home movies” yowll like the new ‘Re- vere 8 m/m"” for black and white and color. DARK ROOM SUPPLIES < | ., THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., MAY 26, 1940 —PART ONE Count Straten-Ponthoz of Belgium. once of Austria. The Norwegian is Dr. Wilhelm de Morgenstierne, Minister. For them life goes on. Instead of & government or a nation, each represents a symbol—national free- dom—and a hope—national freedom ain. In the United States, however, are two from the diplomatic fraternity who represent little more than lost hope. Two Have Abandoned Diplomacy. Teaching at Georgetown Uni- versity is Dr. Edgar L. G. Prochnik, the first, last and only Minister of the defunct Austrian Republic to the United States. He resigned from diplomacy even though the United States has never yet recognized the putsch which made Austria a part of the Third Reich. % Teaching at the “University of Exiles” in New York is Dr. Don Fernando de los Rios, the Ambassa- dor of the pre-Franco Spanish Re- public. When Franco won the Span- ish civil war, and the United States recognized the general’s regime, Dr. de los Rios departed from the Em- bassy on Sixteenth street. Neither he nor Dr. Prochnik will return to their countries so long as the politics of the day are in effect. But neither is a diplomat. But the other six have things diplomatic to do. They consult at the State Department. Most of them have at least theoretical govern- ments to communicate with. The capital of symbolic Poland is Angers, France. The capital of symbolic Belgium is Le Havre, France. The capital of symbolic Holland is Lon- don. Where is the capital of Nor- way? Perhaps Minister de Morgen- stierne knows. He hears from his monarch, King Haakon, through the Norse Legation in London. The capital of Denmark is still. Copen- hagen, but it is a Copenhagen with a8 German master. Minister de Kauffmann is his own agent. So is Viadimir Hurban, who works un- ceasingly toward the resurrection of & Czech state. The Dane and the Dutchman Dr. F. R. Hillyard & Son Optometrists 5425 Georgia Avenue N.W. (at Kennedy St.) Phone TA. 8644 Our new location out of the high rent district enables us to pass on to you greater savings than ever before. This, of course, does not mean that our fine service has in any way been curtailed. Our many years of optometrical experience is your oughl with th test _scientific ces in o which is a guarantee of proper eve service. ‘'ernment than mere symbols of | the United States? Mr. Morgenstiem_e of Norway. mean a good deal more to this Gov- democracy and freedom and na- | tional integrity. Dr. Loudon may have no country to represent, but he is spokesman here for an em- pire—the empire which twice abuts on the American sphere of interest, in the Far East and in the Caribbean Sea. So does Dr. de Kauffmann repre- sent an empire. What of Green- land? The Danish Minister is the personification of a question that worries our own diplomats and mili- tary men. Shall Greenland, Danish possession, be made an outpost of The backgrounds of the exiles are varied. Dr. de Kauffmann is the most recent arrival in Washington, Dr, Prochnik the veteran. He came as Minister of the Austrian Feder- ated Republic in 1925, and he had been a Consul of the Austro-Hun- garian Empire in Minnesota before the United States went to war against the Central Powers 23 years ago. He was a career diplomat with service extending back to 1905. He was born in the East Indies in 1879. Ambassador van der Straten-Pon- thoz, who has a son at the Belgian front, was transferred to-Washing- ton January 18, 1935. Sixty-four years old, he was Belgian Minister to | Buenos Aires and Copenhagen. He was First Secretary of the Paris Em- bassy during the World War. Count Potocki, 51, has been the Polish Ambassador since May 29. 1936. Although he represents a na- tion which was advertised betore its fall as one of the European democra- cies, he himself is a testament to its 0000000000000000000000 N-E-E-D-L-E-C-R-A-F-T REWEAVING EYES EXAMINED ! Dr. Loudon of the Netherlands. Mr. Hurban of Czecho-Slovakia. Dr. De Los Rios, once of Spain. L J Mr. De Kauffmann of Denmark. true feudal nature, the holder of great lands and a devotee, when not in the United States, of the aris- tocratic principle of social relations among persons. For Polish inde- pendence he began to work when he was but 16. Minister de Morgenstierne, 52, is a career diplomat who first came to the United States in 1910 as attache at the Norwegian Legation. He was sent here as Minister June 8, 1934. Vladimir Hurban, 57, is a Slovak, a wild and determined fighter, who made the long, hard march with the Czech legion across Russia to Vladivostok in 1917. He arrived here as Minister December 30, 1936. Dr. Loudon, in his 50s, is a career diplomat with a beautiful American wife. He has been here since Dec- ember 22, 1938. Mr. de Kauffmann reached this country only last August, four days before the war began. He, too, is a career man, and his wife is the daughter of Rear Admiral William D. MacDougall, U. 8. N. retired, former commander of the May- flower, presidential yacht. What Does Future Hold? - One interesting aspect of these men’s sffange position is that in a general way they represent to most of us the cause of democracy. Yet the Belgian, the Dane, the Dutchman and the Norwegian all represent monarchies, which until not.nany years ago were considered the antithesis of democracy. What of their future? Suppose the setbacks for their countries turn out to be conquests? No matter how dark the outlook is, not a one countenances a hint that Holland or Norway or Denmark or Belgium or Czecho-Slovakia or | Poland will not rejoin the family of nations. ‘Will they join a club of nationless nationals? Hardly. In a way they all para- phrase the cry of Queen Mary I of England. “Graved on my heart you will find | Calais,” the Queen said when the French took that Straits of Dover | port from England in 1558. With her they can say: “Graved on my heart you will find my patria.” ESTABLISHED IN 1823 T CHICK "CLASSIC A NEW, DESIGN of DISTINGUISHED BEAUTY with all the Chickering tonal splendor that has made the grand the noblest of pianos. SEE THE NEW FEATURE.: ERING PRICED AT %675 IN MAHOGANY slightly more for welnut « the talk of the musical world. No projecting top when folded back and conserving space even beyond what the very small grands of yesterday could do. Officers Arrive as Man Blows Himself Up By the Associated Press. BOULDER, Colo., May 25—Two policemen who were summoned to a home where a miner and his wife were quarreling today arrived just as an explosion blew the miner to bits. Police Capt. Arthur F. Masters said | the miner, George Schmitz, 40, who had been sued for divorce, set off a pocketful of dynamite. The officers were injured critically, but Mrs. Schmitz was unhurt. Cuts Molar at 70 ARANSAS PASS, Tex., May 25 (#)~Through all these years 70- year-old George W. Dahman had his baby teeth. Then he lost one. Today, & mature molar, his first, was cut. * A9 Northern Baptists Ask Taylor Appoinfment Be Reconsidered Sense of Unity Among Churches Endangered, Resolution Says By the Associated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J,, May 25.— The Northern Baptist Convention, which embraces 7,400 churches, to- day asked President Roosevelt to “reconsider” the appointment of Myron C. Taylor to represent him at the Vatican. “The President’s action in ap- pointing a personal representative to the Vatican to further the cause of peace,” the 3,000 convention dele~ gates resolved, “has raised wide- spread question as to whether this would constitute a stepping stone to & more permanent diplomatic relationship.” The resolution said peace of the world was “the burning issue of to- day” and the growing sense of unity among churches was a vital factor in furtherance of peace, but that the Taylor appointment “endangered this sense of unity. * ¢ *” “We,” the measure added, “re- state our conviction that no priv- ileges should be given to one re- ligious body that are not accorded to all (and) we declare our irrev- ocable opposition to establishment of diplomatic relations with any re- ligious body whatsoever.” No delegate voted against the res- olution in its final form, although many had objected to its original form as presented by the Resolu- tions Committee. The original would have asked President Roosevelt to “terminate” Mr. Taylor's appoint= ment. That word was changed to “reconsider.” The delegates also asked passage of laws to prohibit “block booking” of motion pictures and asked the 1415,000 Northern Baptists to “use Christian discernment in their pa- tronage of moving pictures.” Pointing to “an alarming break- down and dissolution of the Ameri- can home,"” they asked Baptist min= isters to give careful counsel to young people contemplating mar- riage and to perform marriages for divorced persons only when they can “conscientiously do so on Chris- tian grounds.” They complained that liquor was “increasingly and subtly being sold in grocery, drug and dry goods stores” and roundly condemned “slot machines and punchboards.” Other resolutions protested “the ruthless invasion of helpless peo- ples by totalitarian powers,” and asked that all “conscientious ob- Jjectors” be given consideration by the United States Government in case of war. E. J. Millington of Cadillac, Mich., was elected president of the conven- tion to succeed Dr. Elmer A. Pridell of Berkeley, Calif. The Rev. L. M. Hale of Wichita, Kans., and the Rev. C. B. Morris of Cambridge, Mass., were elected first and second vice presidents; C. M. Gallup of New York as recording secretary and H. P. Hanson of Brooklyn as treasurer, The convention will end tomorrow. Coffee Pot Explo?on' Is Fatal to Two By the Associated Press. BAY SHORE, N. Y., May 25— Mrs. Henry Link, 29, hurried into the galley of her cabin cruiser to pre- pare the morning coffee today. Nearby, awaiting breakfast, sat her 76-year-old-grandfather, John A. Johnson. : The coffee pot exploded, fatally burning them both. Police said Mrs. Link had mis- taken gasoline from a nearby jug for water in preparing the brew. e L A O ||} American Radiator Co. |HEAT Hot-Water Heat | Y COMPLETELY INSTALLED IN 6 ROOMS Written Guarantee No Money Down UP TO 3 YEARS TO PAY F. H. A. 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