Evening star., 1933-08-17
LOCAL Mr.. A. CHIEFS
WEIGH EXPANDING
Blue EAGLE DRIVE
Decide This Afternoon on
Widening Activities to
Nearby Counties.
LITTLEPAGE FAVORING
EXTENDING CAMPAIGN
Work Of Enrolling Housewives
Progressing Rapidly, Reports
Here Indicate Today.

ginia territory embraced in the So
called metropolitan area of the Ma
tlona! Capital will be included in the
jurisdiction of the Presidents Emer-
gency Re-employment Campaign Com
mittee for the District of Columbia.
Thomas p Littlepage, the general"
OF the District Of Columbia campaign
organization, said today that the De
partment OF Commerce had asked him
whether his group would take the
entire metropolitan area under its
wing" Mr.. Littlepage said he is with
holding his answer until the meeting
of the Educational and Publicity Com
mltteeS with the higher officers of the
local organization this afternoon.
During the discussion of the advisa-
bility of spreading out the local Cam
paign Committees working territory to
Maryland ana Virginia, the officers will
consider the plans of the two States.
If it is found that both Maryland and
Virginia have active organizations and
concrete plans to conduct the N. R. A.
campaign in their territory adjacent
to the District of Columbia, it is pos
sible the Washington group will decide
to conflne its activities solely to the
District If, on the other hand. the
oSotC OCAAttOAS W lI4OIN Va
less laxly covered, the District organ
ization may undertake it.
Favors Expanding Drive.
Discussing the metropolitan area
situation before the meeting was con-
vened, Mr.. Littlepage said that it is
highly important to the District OF
Columbia that the campaign is pushed
vigorously in the neighboring commmi-
ties
IF a man has a business right on
the District line" Mr.. Littlepage eH-
planned, "and he doesn't stick to his
Blue Eagle agreement, that means u
fair competition to his District of Co
lumbia neighbors, who are obliged to
function under the n. r. A. agree
nents."
Besides the question of campaign O
ganization jurisdiction, the meeting th-s
afternoon will undertake to produ
plans by which the various subcorlm =
tees of the District of Columbia ca
paign organization can function e
ciently. Among other things. q p
gram by which field workers are u
make daily reports Of their progres
was to be evolved.
At 10 am tomorrow the Hotel Can
vassing Committee of the women's Or
ganiZation will meet under its chair
man. Mrs. Harry K. Daugherty, at
local N. r. A. headquarters in the
Board of Trade Offices in The Star
Building. Plans will be laid at that
meeting for visits to every hostelry in
the District to get the proprietors to
sign up the blanket code. 1t was eX-
planned on behalf of this group today
that many hotels" have not yet come
under the code. The hotel code sub
mitted by that industry has not yet
been approved, but hostelries can and
some have undertaken to sign the
blanket code.
Enrolling Housewives.
Meanwhile, random reports that leak
ed through the red-tape- bound women'S S
organization indicated that the work of
enrolling Washington housewives as
Blue Eagle consumers is progressing.
Newspaper men were experiencing diff
hculty in getting definite information
on this phase of the activity when it
developed that woman leaders of the
work hesitated to make the data they
possessed available, referring reporters
back and forth among their member
ship.
Further plans for the National Re-
covery day" celebration August 29 will
be laid at meetings in the Shoreham
Building late this afternoon. A unique
feature of the celebration will be the
illumination of the Washington water
front from the War College to George
town. Water front property owners
and occupants, and owners of water
craft in local waters were expected to
meet at S o'clock to hear proposals and
to plan cooperation in the spectacle.
More and more Washington business
and industrial organizations are enter
ing their names on the list of parade
participants for that day. Many floats,
together with representative units from
the Army, Navy and Marine Corps and
the service bands. will have place in
the recovery parade.
Frame Business Code.
While organization and celebration
plans go forward, the real business Of
paramount. The automobile rnainten-
ance garages sent representatives to a
meeting late yesterday at the Merch-
ants and Manufacturers headquarters
where they framed a code of fair prac-
tices for their industry. This code
will be submitted to the National Re-
covery Administration for approval
after it has been formally adopted by
the garagemen at a second meeting
Monday night George Kneipp was
elected chairman of tbe maintenance
garage group.
The automobile laundrymen also met
tentatively at the Merchant and Manu-
facturers' headquarters. They will meet
again Friday, and they have urged all
automobile washing businesses to be
represented, to begin framing their code
of fair practices.
Ice cream manufacturers and furni-
ture dealers likewise will undertake to
get their codes ready for the N. r. A.
in short order. Representatives in each
group have met for this purpose. The
retail coal merchants will hold their
code discussion meeting Tuesday and
the restaurant operators will meet
Wednesday.
q. S. Workers Vote Support.
As a collective body of consumers, the
Federal Employees last night pledged its
whole hearted support" of the Ma
tional Recovery Administration and use
by its membership of N. r. A. con-
sumers cards.
The resolution, adopted at meeting
held at the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co.'S offices, called on each
affiliated local to procure cards pledg-
ing themselves to buy only from those
interests which have joined the N. r.
A. movement under its authorized
agreements.
The National Recovery Administra-
ton, it pointed out, needs not only the
cooperation of capital and labor, but
also that of the consumer to bring
back prosperity. Government employees,
it added, are able to render that CO.
operation through their federation.