Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1942, Page 8

A8 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 25, 1942. Veto of Pensions For Congress Asked By Senator Capper i Kansan Tells President He Favors Other Parts Of Retirement Bill , Senator Capper, Republican, of Kansas last night asked President Roosevelt to veto the liberalized civil gervice retirement bill because of | the provision allowing members of | Congress ‘o go on the retirement roll without makiug any back pay- ments into the fund. In taking this unusual course, the Kansan went on record against pen- sions for members of Congress, but made it clear he had no objection to the remainder of the bill, designed to give civil service employes gen- erally more liberal optional retire- ment opportunities. | The Senator said he did not want | pension and would never ask for ne, but understood that, as the bill | pow stands, he could receive a pen- sion for the rest of his life on pay- | ment of $1.39, or 5 per cent of his galary for one day. Byrd Amendment Rejected. Before the bill ‘passed, Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia tried without success to have it amended to require elected officials, in ob- taining the option to enter the re- tirement system, to deposit-in the fund back payments for at least| five years. His amendment was| beaten. As the bill passed, members of Congress were given the remainder | &f this calendar year to exercise the | eption of entering the system and | pay the 5 per cent salary contribu- tion only between the time they | enter the system and retire. The $139 payment is based on the as- sumption a Senator or Representa- tive who has reached the required age (62) and served for at least five years, waited until the last day of the year to join and then retired immediately. Senator’s Letter. Senator Capper’s letter to the President yesterday follows: “Dear Mr. President: “I am taking the liberty of mak- {ng what may seem to be an unusual request. I am asking that you re- furn to Congress, without your ap- proval, a bill on which I am re- eorded in the Senate as having cast an affirmative vote. “I refer to H. R. 3487, an act to further amend the civil service. In section 3 of this bill there is a pro- vision for pensions for members of Congress, which I believe is con- trary to public policy, and should not become law. “I never for one minute believed, nor do I now believe, that members of the Congress of the United States should be entitled to pensions upon | retirement from office, no matter under what language the pension is | provided. “I was unavoidably absent during | most of the debate on the bill and | did not understand that that pro-‘ vision was in the bill when I cast| my vote for it on final roll call! I took it for granted that the measure #imply made necessary changes to improve the provisions of the Civil Service Act. And as one who has| consistently supported civil service legislation, I cast my vote for it. | Opposes Pensions for Congress. “I was surprised {o discover, after the bill passed both branches of Congress that apparently I, myself, if T chose to retire, could receive a | pension for the rest of my life upon | payment of $1.39, or 5 per cent of | my pay for one day. I understand | it is the opinion of the Civil Service Commission that that would be the effect of the language of the act. “Now, I don’t want a pension and | will never ask for a pension. I do not believe members of Congress | should receive pensions or retire- | ment pay from the Government | for their services in Congress. “Accordingly, I am respectfully | requesting that you return H. R. 8487 to Congress without your ap- roval, with the recommendation hat all reference to pensions or annuities or retirement pay for members of Congress be stricken from the bill if it is to be returned to you for your approval. I think the legislation is desirable if the language relating to members of | Congress is removed from the bill.” | Chairman Ramspeck of the House | Civil Service Committee said that | 10 of the 531 members could retire | at the end of their present term next December and receive an an- nual sum of $3,000. Some 31 others, be said, could reecive as much as $2,000, and the majority of others eligible less than $1,800. The measure would increase from | 81 to 5 per cent the premium de- ductions of Federal jobholders and | would make 70 the uniform retire- ment age for civilian employes. They could, however, retire volun- | tarily on pension at 62 after 15 years of service and at 60 after 20 years. Sugar (Continued From First Page.) low each person a little more than | four pounds. Ration books were not | issued during the World War I, but | grocers sold only to regular cus- tomers. In his warning to hoarders, Mr. Henderson said “consumers who are in possession of abnormally large | stocks of sugar” will not be allowed | “to gain an advantage by their sup- posed foresight.” He did not am- | plify his meaning, but O. P. A. offi- eials pointed to it as one of the mest important statements in the ration- ing announcement. Action against | hoarders, they indicated, will be an | important part of the program. | ! Basic Needs to Be Filled. Although rationing is being under- taken “to insure that all customers sre treated equitably,” Price Ad- ministrator Henderson declared: “There will be enough sugar for each person next year to supply all basic dietary needs.” ‘While final details of the ration- ing plan are being completed, Mr. Henderson called on every citizen voluntarily to cut his sugar purchase one-third and asked that hoarders fmmediately start using their stocks. He held out some hope of increase in the allowances later in the year | but said the country could not dfford to assume it now. “It may be,” he explained, “that §s the year progresses our estimate if available supplies for United tates consumption can be revised dpward. But we cannot afford to s L Independent Agencie: New Schedule of U. S. Working Hours The new staggered schedule of official Agency. Executive Office of the President: The White House Office Bureau of the Budget. National Resources Planning Board.. Office of Government Reports....... Liaison Office for Personnel Management. Board of Economic Warfare. Co-ordinator of Information. Office of Emergency Manag duction Management ‘War Production Board.. Executive Departments: Agriculture—except Farm Credit. Farm Credit Administration._ Commerce Interior Justice . Labor Navy - Post Office State* ... Treasury—except as below_ Bureau of Customs ... Bureau of Engraving and Printing Bureau of Internal Revenue—except as below. 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If the | situation does improve the restric- | tions can be relaxed later.” In working out the final details %’* .baped to make, provision, “commercial ‘users who make and sell such products as candy in their homes and thus necessarily buy in larger quantities than housewives purchasing for normal. household, use. ot Equitable_Distribution. “T would also like to point out,” Mr. Henderson said, “that under the War Production Board sugar order now in process of revision | wholesalers will be asked to make | distributions to their customers on | the basis of their proportionate receipts in the past, thus making for equitable distribution as among refailers.” Mr. Henderson paid tribute to the past few weeks.” He said the public should understand that where | shortages-have occurred, it was nntf the fault of the retailer. The price administrator recalled that on December 13 a priorities | order limited the amount of sugar | that could be shipped to industrial | users and jobbers. “As a result,” he said, “the| amount of sugar that can get into | retail channels and on to the re- tailers’ shelves is now controlled. ‘We know that our supply of sugar will not be dissipated but rather will be available throughout the In the interim until formal ra- tioning is ordered, he said, retail- ers may be expected in many cases “to restrict the amount of sugar which can be purchased by any one Warns of Penalties. Retailers may not, however, re- quire consumers to buy a certain amount of other groceries to get the sugar. The Justice Depart- ment said yesterday that such prac- tices might lead to prosecution un- man said penalties up to $5,000 were possible. Mr. Henderson pointed out that over and above defense and allied consumption, sugar cane must be used to make molasses from which alcohol is derived for use by the Army and Navy especially in the manufacture of explosives. According to the price adminis- trator, the basic sugar facts are these: Sugar supplies last year were ap- proximately 7,989,000 short tons as compared with 5,300,000 short tons from the same sources in 1942. These sources include domestic pro- duction, the Philippines, Hawaii, Cuba, other foreign countries, and miscellaneous frozen stocks. In recent years sugar consump- tion of this country has ranged roughly between 6,500,000 and 7,- 500,000 tons annually. Of this amount some 35 per cent is used by industry and 65 per cent in homes, restaurants, hotels, etc. It is expected distribution of do- mestic beet sugar (as distinguished from cane sugar) will be less dur- ing the coming year. Cane will be up about 42,000 tons. flthppme imports have been cut off. Twenty-four-hour grinding of sugar in Hawaili will probably be curtailed because of blackouts and other war effects. Cuban Supply to Be Cut. Receipts from Cuba will be mate- rially reduced because of shipments to the Allies. 'Some of their im- portant sources in the -pest, includ- ing the Ukraine and Java, have been cut off, with the result that they must draw on from the Caribbean area. Furthermore, there will be a large amount of Cuban sugar required in 1942 for the man- ufacture of high-test molasses from which alcohol can be produced for naeds: Com g e ace fifie‘ equivalent of ‘i ‘than 1,300,000 tons of Cuban sugar was used for this purpose in 1941. This year there will be even greater de- mand for cane to be used in mak- o] for the of and for other Teeds. In addition’ there is @ néw demand for sugar from our Allies which must be met. Receipts from other foreign coun- tries will be reduced because of di- version of that sugar to Great Brit- ain and other Allies and due to the fact that high inventories were liquidated in 1941. Announcement that Government rationing of sugar to household consumers will begin within a “few weeks” follows a week of the great- est run on sugar since World War I days. Grocers are unable to give figures on the amounts sold with- |out taking an inventory, but Dis- rict retailers agree that they are swamped with orders, not all of which are being filled. Wickard’s Talk Recalled. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, in speaking on Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s weekly commercial pro- gram last Sunday night, called the sugar situation “critical.” Mr. Wickard pointed out that this country producers only about one- third of national requirements and depends on Cuba, the Philippines, Hawaii and Puerto Rico for most of the rest. Mr. Wickard did not specify a date when the country would have to start cutting down on its “usual consumption,” but the overall short- age came into effect the day ship- ments from the Philippines and Hawail were severed and the day the United States decided to share its supply with its allies. Grocers Here Limit Purchases. Many District grocers have lim- ited purchases to 2 pounds per per- son, but no check has been kept on whether a customer comes in once a day or once a week. Only a few have resorted to requiring cus- tomers to buy at least $1 worth of other food before they can get a pound of sugar. Under the rationing already in effect on jobbers, industrial users and wholesalers, all stocks in ex- cess of 60 days’' supply were frozen immediately, and no receiver may accept delivery of additional sugar from a refiner or importer if his stock on hand exceeds 30 days’ sup- ply. Further, no receiver can ac- cept delivery of more sugar in any one month than he received in the corresponding month of 1940. Officials said the order would pre- vent further increases in 500,000 tons of sugar built up as reserve supplies by jobbers, industrial users and wholesalers. Tire Boards May Assume Task of Rationing Sugar By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Jan. 2¢—John Hamm of Washington, deputy administra- tor of the Office of Price Adminis- Mr. Hamm made the asSertion fol- lowing a closed mesting of State tire rationing administrators and regional directors of the O. P. A. who assembled to discuss the, progress of the rationing program. They also discussed the forthcom- ing rationing of new automobiles. Mr. Hamm said the question of the sugar rationing program was put the State administrators, “I think they will be to take it over.” . I EE Wheat Crop Curb Vote Planned as Supply Exceeds War Needs Wickard May Order -Grower Referendum About May 15 BY the Associated Press. With ample wheat supplies in prospect, Secretary of Agriculture Wickard will issue an order soon, aides said yesterday, calling for a Nation-wide grower referendum about the middle of May on market- ing quotas designed to keep part of the 1942 crop off the market. Crop authorities said that despite the need for a record output of food this year to meet demands arising from the war, the United States faced a problem of “too much” wheat for the available markets. They said the country had a two-year supply #¢ the begin- ning of the current marketing sea- son. The quota system, which was applied to wheat for the first time last year, authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to impose a stiff penalty on farmers who sell, feed or in any way use more than their marketing quotas. Approval by two- thirds of the growers votirg is re- quired to make the quotas .perative. The penalty is fixed by law at half the Government’s loan rate on the grain, and last year was 49 cents a bushel. Officlals said it probably would be 5 or 6 cents higher this year, inasmuch as the loan rate is expected to be higher than the 1941 rate of 98 cents. Last year's marketing quotas and penalties aroused critic! among farmers, particularly in Ohio, In- diana and Pennsylvania, where con- siderable quantities of wheat were subject to the penalty. Officials said the department had received reports of organized opposition to quotas for this year’s crop. Present conditions of the winter wheat crop and prospective plant- ings of spring wheat point to a possible production of 800,000,000 bushels. While this would be about 150,000,000 less than the 1941 crop, officials had hoped to hold produc- tion to about 650,000,000 bushels. Indorsed for Postmaster CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Jan. 24 (A).—The Charlottesville Demo- cratic Committee has unanimously indorsed Randolph H. Perry, execu- tive secretary of the local Chamber of Commerce, for postmaster to suc- ceed John S. White. 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