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became a director in this super Or
ganiZation.
Mr.. Wilson was born in New York
June IA, 1873, the son of Samuel Pey-
ton and Margaret (Chaddock) Wilson.
He went West as young man and
entered the University of Oregon. Be-
fore his goth birthday anniversary he
married Frances Mary EdmonSton OF
Portland Greg, in January. 1893. They
had two children, Alice Irene Wilson
and Holt Chaddock Wilson, both Of
whom now live in New York City.
In April, 1910, he took a second
wife, Caroline Anna Deike of Berkeley,
Calf, who died March % of this
year after taking Mr.. Wilson West
on a trip for his health. She con-
tracted pneumonia en- route back to
Washington from the West Coast.
Built Plant in Indiana.
/ In 1923 Mr.. Wilson bought the San
Joaquin Light & Power Corp, and in
1924 he built a large hydroelectric
plant on the Tippecanoe River in
Indiana.
Two years after he sold out to the
North American Co. in 1925, he
came to Washington and bought the
Washington Rapid Transit Co. from
Leon Arnold.
AS a representative Of the North
American Co. he initiated the merger
movement which ended unsuccess-
fully. Although he failed to win ap-
proval for his own plan he was
active in the negotiation which led
to the final approval by Congress
of the combination of the two street
car companies year ago.
Wilson let it be known when he
bought the Sixteenth street bus line
at a price reported to be in excess
of S500,000 that it was his intention
to use that company as weapon to
force the merger Acting in behalf of
the North American Co., he began
Evening star., 1934-11-23

buying up stock in the Washington
Railway & Electric Co., which owned
100 per cent of the stock of the Poto-
mac Electric Power Co.
Acquired WRECO Interest.
Later the North American did ac-
quire a controlling interest in the
WRECO, and the holding company
now owns virtually all the stock OF
the new Capital Transit Co.
Funeral services will be held at the
home Monday morning. Survivors in
clude the son and daughter, a sister
Mrs. A. J. jenkins of Seattle, and two
Sisters-in- Miss Margaret Deike
and Mrs H. w. Hughes.
Mr. Wilson was a member of the
Society of American Military Engi-
neers. the Washington Board Of Trade
and the Metropolitan, Army and Navy
Chevy Chase, Congressional Country
Burning Tree and Army, Navy ano
Marine Corps Country Clubs in Wash
ington and the Belle Haven Country
Club in Alexandria.
He was an Episcopalian and Re-
publican.
Evening star., 1934-11-23
|BANKSQUEST|ONED
ION MONEY POLICY
Fletcher Mails Queries on
Central Bank and Other
Legislative Issues.
BY the Associated Press.

~ tiC AoscSiascA Aceos
Information on every phase of
banking and monetary legislation
has been sought by Chairman
Fletcher of the Senate Banking Com
mittee in q QUESTIONABLE submitted
to leading bankers and economists.
Fletcher, who Is conducting the
survey on his own initiative and not
on the authority of his committee,
made the QUESTIONABLE public today
He emphasized he was not commit
ting himself to any legislation. but
merely was seeking information in
view Of demands from various quar-
ters for legislation Of one kind or an
other.
Three Divisions in Study.
The questions, divided into three
subdivisions headed money" "redis-
count bank" and banking" included
the following in brief:
Whether the power over the issu-
ance Of currency should be vested in
a non-political authority representing
both Government and private busi-
ness such as the Federal Reserve Sys-
tenn, in the Secretary Of the Treasury,
in a non-political privately owned but
Government chartered central bank,
or In a Government owned and op-
Grated bank.
Whether currency should be re-
deemable in gold, silver, both, or q
combination of both, in coin, bullion
or bullion for export only.
i II a fixed ratio to gold should be
re-established, and If not, how it
should be changed from time to time,
and If the currency is to be irredeem-
able, how 1t should be managed.
Merger Of Systems Questioned.
Whether there should be a Gov
ernment owned and operated bank
ing system, and, If not, whether there
should be changes in the private bank
ing system such as a uniflcation OF
the 40 different systems, by merging
into one system, by compulsory MEM
bership in the Federal Reserve Sys-
tenn, by making the laws of all States
conform, or by requiring all COM
mercial banks to take out Federal
charters.
Whether there should be branch
banking and, II so, whether it should
be Nationwide, Statewide or re-
gional.
Whether there should be insurance
Of deposits and, if so, under what kind
Of plan.
Evening star., 1934-11-23
EXPERTS DISAGREE
ON BELT OF TREES
Fight on Drought Region
Project Forecast at
Foresters' Meeting.
By the Associated Press.

0y the ASSoclateu frebs.
Foresters differed today on the wis
dom OF planting shelter belt Of trees,
100 miles wide, In the Midwest.
Some called the plan fantastically
impossible, but nevertheless the Forest
Service pressed survey upon which
recommendations will be made to
President Roosevelt for transmission to
Congress. The estimated cost Of the
project is $75 900 900.
The clashing viewpoints are expected
to lead to heated discussions at the
January meeting Of the Society of
American Foresters. H. H. Chapman,
president Of the society, thinks the
$75 900 900 should be spent on more
substantial and more promising prof.
ects." Others of the society say he is
wrong and that the shelter belt would
be a success.
The Forest Service will have 5,000,-
600 trees ready to begin the 100-mile
strip next Spring.
Walter Mulford of the University of
California, q former president Of the
foresters' society, has said the plant
ings had small chance Of success and
Evening star., 1934-11-23
BUDGET ESTIMATE
IS S2,5DO,0DQ,0DO
Ordinary U. S. Needs Given
by Buchanan-ReIief
Held Big Problem.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
An estimate that ordinary Govern
ment budgetary figures would aggre-
gate s2,50O, 100000 in the next fiscal
year-exclusive of undetermined relief
needs and public debt requirements
was drawn yesterday by Chairman
Buchanan of the House Appropria-
tions Committee.
AS for a possibility of balancing the
budget in the 1886 fiscal year, the
Texas Democrat said there was mot
a reasonable chance" unless relief ap-
preparations were curtailed. There
has been little indication that they
will be-
Buchanan, who is head of the group
that formulates all of the appropria-
ton bills, said four such measures
would be ready for congressional ac-
ton in January. Hearings will begin
about December 4, he said.
Supply Bills Estimates Waited.
In that connection, Buchanan made
known the Budget Bureau had not
completed its work of preparing esti-
mates and justifications for the nine
regular supply bills and that the ad-
ministration had yet to decide on how
much money it planned to ask OF
Congress for relief purposes. The mat
ter of relief he termed "the most Sc
rious problem that confronts the Gov
ernment and one which must be
solved"
Explaining that relief outlays will
be included in deficincy appropria-
ton bill, which may be larger than
all the other money bills combined,
Buchanan said:
Until the administration definitely
decides upon its relief program, we
cannot proceed. Appropriations fol
relief will come late, in my opinion
since the program may depend on
legislation on a specific line OF en-
ployment for the unemployed.
Saws Practice Must Stop.
"The hardest problem of the ad-
ministration is relief. The present
huge outlays cannot 60 on indefi-
tinue to make a definite charge
against those who earn to distribute
among those who do not earn.
THE outlay during a period OF
emergency is justified, but the period
must come to an end and retrench-
ment on outlays must come about
Some system to purge the relief rolls
of those who do not actually need
relief must be adopted I think there
are many more on the rolls than there
should be- Those on relief rolls who
are offered jobs and refuse to take
them should be removed Immediately
while much of the present out
lays through the r. F. c. and public
works loans will be returned to the
Treasury, that spent for relief is gone
and will never come back.
Continued recovery, however, will
increase revenues and lessen the need
for tax legislation, because expendi-
lures would decrease"
Evening star., 1934-11-23
HARLEY P. WILSON,,
UTILITY HEAD, DIES
AT ALEXANDRIA HOME

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Evening star., 1934-11-23
MRS. SWANSON SPEAKS
FOR NAVY RELIEF BALL
Tells of Society Distributing
100000 in Gifts and Loans
Last Year.

The Navy Relief Society. which will
hold its annual ball at the Willard
Hotel on Thanksgiving night, dis
tribu.ed over 100000, including loans
and outright gifts, mainly to depend
ents of enlisted men of the Navy
and Marine Corps, last year. Mrs.
Claude A. Swanson, wife of the Sec
retary Of the Navy, last evening told
a radio audience over Station WMAL.
She spoke at 6:l5 o'clock.
She recalled that the Navy Relief
Society originated with the Army and
Navy foot ball game in 1904, when
the managers offered $4,000 for the
relief Of needy widows and orphans
of officers and enlisted men of the
Navy and Marine Corps.
Evening star., 1934-11-23
Deaths Reported.

Alfred E. Taylor. 90. $3.50 Upton st.
George strobel, So. sibley Hospital.
Marietta Bauman. II. 30 Bryant st.
Mary Cassidy, 20. 214S o st.
John s. Pomeroy. IS, 913 F st. ne.
Jacob S. Upton. 81, -Gallinger Hospital
Ruby Rosenberg. 63, $500 Nebraska ave
Claudia K McCorkIe "a. 800 Upton st
Goldie Beavers. "a, Columbia Hospital.
William LagoneSse, go. st. Elizabeth's
Hospital
Harper Bush. 81. Gallinger Hospital.
Helena M. Ridgway, So, en- route Casualty
Hospital
Nellie L. KengA As. 1925 18th st.
Ethel C. Weakley. 36. GEORGETOWN Hos.
Arthur NJ. Cummings, 33. st. Elizabeth.
Hospital
Margaret Cooper. 3. Gallnger Hospital.
Jennie Ford, 76. 2433 K st.
Evening star., 1934-11-23
recorded grave misgivings" as to the

iCSoiueu grave mlSBlVlngS as 70 the
plan.
Chapman said trees could be grown
in the area by skilled selection of spe-
cies, care and disregard of cost, but
added, What pity that such a sum
be not spent for more substantial and
more promising conservation projects
applied to existing forests"
Other foresters will come to the
January meeting of the society, how
ever, to favor the program, arguing
that in Nebraska big reforestation
project has been under way for years
and that farmers have grown shelter
belts in thousands of places.
The American Tree Association was
said by officials not to have recorded
itself in any way on the shelter belt
project.
Evening star., 1934-11-23
Births Reported.

wiltred and Emma Hovarth. twins, bo.
Levin and md Frances Price. boy.
Selby and Ruth Prefitt, boy.
Robert and Jennette Brinker, boy.
William and Laura Abraham, boy.
Robert and Ruth Heflin, boy.
Jerome and Josephine Demoro, boy.
Bennie and Rose Bran. boy.
George and Wilmina Schoolmeester, boy
James and Mildred Getz. girl.
Reuben and Rose Baxter. girl.
Ralph and Lucille Ingram. girl.
Paul and Gladys Seidel. girl.
Frederick and Mary Koss, girl.
Raymond and Agnes Minnick, boy.
Saul and Ida Friedman. boy.
William and Gertrude ODonnell, boy.
Arthur and Viva Downer, boy.
Hubert and Jennie Hooks, boy.
Charles and Wilma Yates. boy.
Lukas and Victoria Petrini. boy.
Charles and Evelyn Glen, boy.
William and Rena Collins. girl.
John and Zoie Nelson. girl.
Joseph and Ethel Weiss, girl.
George and Mary Blackwell, girl.
Perceville and Mary Bobbitt. girl
jackson and Agnes Marshall, boy.
Joseph and Julia Bell. girl.
Po5ert and Julia Coran. girl.
Marshall and Mary Watson. girl.
David and Helen Madison, girl.
Herman and Jane. Darden. boy.
Vincent and Bernice Hill, girl.
Julius and Josie Bravard. boy.
Howard and Hearemeaine Beale. boy.
Walter and Josephine Smith. girl.
Leroy and Bertha Henry. girl.
Evening star., 1934-11-23
"Meanest Man" Reforms.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. P).-During
the annual Red Cross roll call a
found among the contributions. Re
Gently a bona fide $40 warrant was
sent to Red Cross headquarters, with
this note:
II couldn't sleep; please forgive
me"
Evening star., 1934-11-23
LAW SCHOOL AT G. w. u.
WILL HOLD RECEPTION

John Garland Pollard Will Be
Guest-Facu1ty and Student
Bar Sponsor Event.
The faculty and Student Bar Asso-
citation of the George Washington
University Law School will hold a
reception and dance for alumni and
students tomorrow evening in Stock
ton Hall on the campus.
Among the guests will be John Gar
land Pollard, former Governor of
Virginia and president of the George
Washington Law Alumni.
The committee on arrangements in
cludeS Prof. James F. Dawson, chair
man; Prof Walter C. Clephane, Miss
Helen Newman and Stanley W.
Bobskill.
Evening star., 1934-11-23
CLASS TO MEET
G. q. Law School Group of ga
to Hold Reunion.

Of 1924 will hold its tenth annual
reunion tonight with dinner in the
Willard Hotel. The principal addresses
will be by Justice Daniel w. O'Dono-
ghue and Jesse c. Adkins of the Dis
trict Supreme Court.
Rev. Francis Lucey, S. j., regent
of the school, also will speak. Guests
of honor are to include Dr. Hugh J.
Fegan, dean of the law school, and
Evening star., 1934-11-23

Thomas ]. Hurney, registrar. John
]. Orlosky is chairman Of the COM
mittee in charge. The toastmaster
will be John A. Reilly, professor of
finance at Columbus University.
Evening star., 1934-11-23
Dance Planned to Honor C. W. and Oklahoma T. Teams

be
Charlotte Margaret Wells Virginia Smith Gladys
Evening star., 1934-11-23

One hundred sixty thousand men
are working on the Hwei River con-
servation project in China.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-27
THEIR OWN BUSINESS

XXTHILE all the shouting about clean
w movies is going on, it is interesting to
take a peek at the facts about moving picture
salaries, as revealed recently by an elaborate
NRA report.
This shows that, although the industry as
a whole suffered a loss of more than S190OO,-
600 last year, it paid to no fewer than ITO per-
sons salaries larger than the salary received by
the President of the United States-which is
$4,000 year.
One actor drew down $4,000 for his years
work-the peak of the lot. Another-whether
an actor or an actress is not stated-got $780,
$50 for the year.
Considering one thing along with another,
and comparing the social usefulness and in
tellectual ability of movie actor with Presi-
dent of the United States, all of this seems
more than passing odd. But Sol Rosenblatt,
the NRA division administrator, who made the
survey. points out that it all happens accord
ing to economic law.
No salary" he says, lis excessive if the
picture produced by the individual receiving
the salary meets with unusual public favor as
a result of unique direction or artistry"
% lueIe Is no sense IN geJJlng lnQlgnanJ
about this situation. movie actor, or prize
fighter. or blues singer, may get paid more
than the President of the nation-but the fault
lies with the economic system, and not with
the industry involved.
For there is, and there can be, only one
way of gauging a mans worth, as far as his
pay check is concerned. 1t depends solely on
how much he is worth to the stockholders in
hard cash.
This leads to some peculiar situations very
often. It gives to a Madame Curie only the
most modest Of rewards, and makes a Sir Basil
Zaharof one of the worlds richest men. 1t
makes millionaire out of a Jack Dempsey
and leaves a Jane Adams the income of a
good clerk. 1t enriches Charley Mitchell and
leaves a Senator Norris with nothing but a
competence.
But the fault is the fault Of the whole and
not OF the parts. 1t is silly to critcise the mu-
nitions industry. or the prize fighting racket,
or the banking business, for these things.
That's the kind of world We live in; what
man gets has no relation whatever to his use
fulness TO his fellow men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-27
INTENSIVE FARMING
DECLARED SOLUTION
BY q. C. A.

BY 2. C. A.
A major shift of population from
our cities to the land is inevitable.
Most of our idle persons on re-
lief are doomed to stay that way
since machinery will and ought to
replace all useless hand labor.
Federal subsistence homesteads, if
developed, on the plane Of depend
ence or seasonal industry, only as
sures our Rabbits cheap supply Of
labor.
Farmers in Indiana and else
where have developed their business
on a commercial scale, expecting to
compete with cheap western land on
a production basis. They have be-
come wholesale producers, whereas
the pioneers produced primarily for
their own use. The size Of Indiana
farms could be cut down very much
if intensive farming would replace
the corn hog wheat = oats clover
process.
Our farm population could be
quadrupled by reducing the size OF
farms and making the smaller tracts
fit the use needs Of the family on
the tract.
Every farm should, have fruit trees,
poultry, a few pigs, COWS for the milk
home supply, and a wide variety OF
garden produce concentrated on
smaller acreage.
Commercial farming has proven a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-27
Liberal Viewpoint
by DIR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

TINE TugweI pure food and drug bill seems to
Il have been one of the casualties OF the last
session Of congress But there already exist
resources and facilities Of the government TO
give much the same protection and safeguards
against fraud and poison as the Tugwen bill pro-
vded. I have reference to the research work
Of the bureau of standards, the food and drug
administration, the bureau Of mines, the depart
ment Of agriculture and the like.
These departments and bureaus gather the
relevant information which would protect us IN
our purchase and use of foods, drugs and most
commercial products. They could give out the
facts TO the public.
Honest and reputable producers Of reliable
commodities would be rewarded duly and ap-
prately for their integrity by the increased sales
over their irresponsible competitors.
The facts in this situation are analyzed IN an
amazing article by DR.. F. j. Schlink in the
Annals Of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science. He reveals a simply aston
ishing perversion Of the convention assumption
that our government is run in the interest of
the people Of the United States.
THE above mentioned official organizations
i have an elaborate equipment for research,
gather the information which would be price
less to the American public, and give it out
freely to manufacturers.
But they deny it almost entirely to the Amer
lean public which foots the bill that enables
this information to be gathered Inoeed, JheSe
federal bureaus refuse, except under very spe-
cial circumstances, to divulge their information
to state or municipal governments.
I some cases valuable information only is not
withheld; it is suppressed actually and delib-
erately. For example the bureau of standards
discovered that cold water paints are cheaper
and more satisfactory for painting plastered sur
faces than oil paints.
The oil paint industry, however, got busy and
the bureau suppressed the report SO thoroughly
that even the members of its own laboratory
staff were unable to obtain copies"
a MOTHER instance is one which may be put
L A up straight to the department of agricul-
ture. There has sprung up a process cheese in
dustry" which regrinds old and spoiled cheeses
and by certain subtle processes creates new,
adulterated, blended cheese.
The process cheese industry cuts into the
market for pure cheese and helps to swell the
excess Of unused cream and milk The depart
ment of agriculture could give out the desired
information to the public through three avenues
the bureau of dairy industry, the bureau of
home economics, or the food and drug admins
tration. 1t has not taken steps to do SO.
All of which raises the question cs to whose
government this is-the government of all the
voters and taxpayers or Of just business"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-27
ON SEA AND IN AIR

THE British cabinet IS reported to have
Il agreed on plan to double the size Of the
British air force in the near future so that the
country will have an air fleet capable Of han
cling that Of any nation within striking dis
lance.
1t is possible to see in this decision a re-
Election Of that ancient British policy which
for centuries has kept the British navy SUI
preme on the seas.
England is an island close to Europe. At
any time within the last 200 years, the ma
ton could have been crushed by any continent
tai power possessing a stronger fleet. The
British, realizing this. insisted that their navy
always be strong enough to cope with any
possible European foe.
Now the introduction of aerial warfare has
changed the picture. 1t would hardly be sur
prising if in the near future the old British
naval policy were extended to the field Of avi-
alton as well. The recent cabinet decision looks
like a step in that direction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-27

ment which will add another 27O0o XVIII
month to the citys domestic consumption.
IN few months the service of electricity
10 the housewives. and the families Of Tupelo
has been more than doubled.
Every one has profited
The IVA. supplying electricity, is getting
a maximum load on its lines. The heavier the
load. the cheaper the cost per unit Of trans
mission Of electricity. Busy electric wires pay.
The retail equipment dealers Of Tupelo, who
sold one major appliance to every third cleo
tricity user in the city between May 81 and
July Il. certainly aren't complaining. True.
their margin Of profit on each item was re-
duced, but the volume Of business has much
more than made up for the percentage losses.
And the citizens Of Tupelo are getting twice
as much service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-27
NOT ENOUGH NEW DEAL

DARTISAN critics are trying to pin blame on
the Roosevelt administration for the long
and bitter labor struggle on the Pacific coast
Too much New Deal, they are saying.
Now. by admission of both capital and labor
it appears there was not enough New Deal.
Both employers and maritime union leaders
are urging President Roosevelt to put into
effect the labor provisions Of the shipping code.
highly important instrument that failed
early this spring because Of foreign rate COM
pHcations
Had this code been in effect before May 8 it
is doubtful if the costly Pacific coast lockers
strike would have occurred. This. at least. Is
the opinion of Paul Scharrenberg, secretary Of
the California State Federation of Labor. The
employers feel that its imposition now Will tend
to prevent future struggles on the waterfront.
The shipping codes labor sections we're not
ideal. but they did provide for union recog-
milton and bargaining minimum wages, better
hours. and other obvious reforms. There were
provisions for national shipping labor board
and regional boards for hearing disputes. Had
there been such a meeting ground the work
ers need not have resorted to strikes.
Thus. it appears. the trouble on the Pacific
coast was not too much New Deal, but too
little
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-27
JUSTICE BY SURGERY

7 Asst March Chicago woman filed a suit
~ for divorce charging that the husband
she had married in January was cruel irri
table and generally cantakerous to such extent
that there was no living with him.
Shortly after The suit was filed, the hus-
band underwent a thyroid operation. And a
short time later his lawyer begged the court
to delay the trial. asserting that the operation
had so changed the husbands disposition that
a happy married life ought to be possible. The
court consented, and the wife returned to her
husband for two-week test period.
Now the divorce suit has been withdrawn.
The husband it seems had been mean and
ugly because or toxic thyroid condition. That
condition having been relieved by surgery, his
wife now finds that he is a pleasant and COM
panionable sort of chap-and she no longer
wants to divorce him.
How many other mean dispositions" one
wonders, might not be remedied by a little
timely medical attention?