Evening star., 1933-05-08

I at Montpelier and Mr.. Welles has an
equally sumptuous place at Oxon Hill.
As far as the free State Of Maryland
is concerned, both these eminent Demo-
Gratis are carpet-baggers. Long is q
Missourian and Welles halls from aris-
tocratic Long Island. Former Repre-
sentative and Mrs. John Philip Hill of
Maryland have an ancestral interest
in both Montpelier and Oxon Hill. The
former estate once belonged to Mrs
Hills grandfather, and Oxon Hill in
earlier times was the property Of Mr.
Hills people.
President Roosevelt's views on the ne
! cessity of controlled production are
| predicated on typical case recently
brought to White House attention. In
town of small size the sole industry
is the manufacture of q common arti-
Gle Of wearing apparel For years the
factory. with its staff of 400 OK 500
work people, has been the economic
backbone of the community. With de-
preston, its business dwindled to al
most nothing. Though the company
has always enjoyed the friendliess re-
lations with its employees, there came
time, about year ago. when the
| factory bad to 60 en- a drastic part
time shift. reduce wages and progress
siveiy impoverish the whole town
Early this year the company proposed
to its workers a plan whereby, on q
considerably diminished wage scale, il
would be possible to employ all OF them
because such an arrangement would en-.
| able the factory to capture the entire
| market, by underSelling Of competitors
! for the garment in question. This even
tually happened. Relative prosperity
suddenly returned to the company and
the community. but the situation proved
ruinous for numerous other factories
and communities interested in the same
product. 1t is the Roosevelt view that
methods must be evolved for preventing
such cut-throat" conditions In Ameri-
can industry.
DR.. Hans Luther, the new German
Ambassador. in an address to the Ger
man colony of Washington the other
day, indicated that the old Hohenzollern
pre-war longings for more room in the
sun have been revived. He said that
the German Americans who were his
guests would understand the father
lands needs If they'd stop to think
that 65, ,000,0 Germans, or half the
population Of the United States, are
| tOooy SOAlHCl4SQ W ChC Oub dU tAlSt-
ence, cramped into a territory smaller
than the State of Texas. Ambassador
Luther declared that his peoples re-
sentiment Of these unnatural barriers
to their economic development is among
| the basic causes of current unrest In
the land of Hitler.
| * \
Washington international authorities
learn with keenest interest that the
managerial heads of the Associated
Press and the Scripps- Howard News
papers. respectively, Kent Cooper and
Roy w. Howard. arc shortly proceeding
to the Far East ,on trips of inspection.
While their stated purpose is, to sur
vey the agencies which both organi-
cations maintain on the other side
Of the world, the real object of their
trips is believed to concern the ex-
plosive possibilities in the Oriental
situation during the months or years
just lying ahead. Former Governor and
Senator Henry ]. Allen Of Kansas.
Wichita editor, told the Society of
American Newspaper Editors in WASH
ington the other day that he is about
to pack his bags for Russia and Japan
in order to be on top of 1.-The biggest
story that will break In the world in
/ the next two years."
| (Copyrisht. 1933)