Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-11
R. P. ANDREWS GETS
HIS OWN PORTRAIT
Merchants and Manufacture
erS' Association Gives Him
Oil Painting.
SECRETARY GIVEN RAISE

The Merchants and Manufacturers
Association at it's annual meeting
last night at Rauscher's presented to
its former president, Ross p. An
drews, an oil portrait of himself
The association voted that the sal
airy of its secretary, Charles j. CO.
lumbus, be increased to $4,000 a year
A call for subscriptions to the well
come home fund produced about $500.
Annual reports of President NJ. A.
Leese and of the secretary were read.
Several recommendations were in
cluded in the reports, but action was
not taken because of the number of
speakers on the program. President
NJ. A. Leese presided.
Makes Presentation Speech.
Maurice d. Rosenberg. general
counsel of the association, made the
presentation speech accompanying the
gift to Mr.. Andrews. who replied with
thanks and expressed the desire that
the portrait be hung in the headquar-
tiers of the association.
Increase in salary for the secretary
was recommended by Mr.. Leese in his
report. Later District Commissioner
Louis P. Brownlow. who was one of
the speakers, lauded the work of the
secretary, pointing out particularly
his work in the influenza campaign.
IF I want anything done quickly
said Mr.. Brownlow, "I call on Charlie
Columbus and it is DONE"
Explanation of the minimum wage
scale was given by Jesse c. Adkins,
chairman of the minimum wage board
for the District. He urged the mem
bers to cooperate in every way to
make successful the law with regard
to establishing a living wage for
women and children in the District.
Robert E. H. Cowie, vice president
of the American Express Company,
told Of the difficulties experienced by
the express companies during the war.
He said that added to the abnormal
amount of freight in that period the
elements in the form of bad weather
greatly interfered with the rail-
road traffic last winter. Fortunately,
he said, such conditions have not pre-
vailed this winter.
He urged the necessity of the care
full wrapping and marking of express
articles. He declared that during the
war the prices of wood and nails ad-
vanced so high that shippers turned
to cartons In which to send out their
express articles. The results were
great loss to the express companies
and to the shippers. With regard to
unmarked packages, he said:
I'VE have had on an average of 49,
500 unmarked packages on our hands
in a month and have found it neces-
sary to obtain warehouses in which
to pack these express goods. Among
these there has been an average of
1.10G automobiles tires a MONTH
F. J. Heney Speaks on Food.
Francis J, Heney, who conducted the
federal trade commission meat packing
investigation. spoke on the dangers at
tending the concentration of food pro-
duction and distribution in the hands
of few. incidentally, he referred to one
Johnnie" Rockefeller and few little
butcher boys" as examples of monopo-
lies He said that he had no cure for
the abuses. but Just wished to start the
members of the association to thinking
about cause and effect.
Troubles of this Sort he added
come rather from lawmakers than law
breakers. They are due entirely to en-
vironment''
Mr.. Heney asserted that Congress
is not dishonest, but that the en-
vironment in which many of its MEM
bers bave lived has given them the
idea that everything belongs to a
few persons.
He said that he voiced the senti-
ments of Mr.. Armour. who said:
The company that cannot pay a
minimum wage is parasitic and
should be destroyed"
In closing, he urged the men to
bear in mind his talk. and study
cause and effect in economic condi-
tions lest greater dangers face the
country. He said that he was not
must be administered TO prevent
revolution.