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Evening star., 1935-12-05
Ad Workers Face Possibility
Of Becoming Applicants
Slash of Is Per Cent in Salaries BIo,C
to Small Army of Those Who Haze
GiUen Their Best for Needy.

their life work. Now look at 'em!"
Mac stepped to the door of the
stuffy little room and pointed to the
array of humanity. Almost 100 pairs
of eyes looked searchingly in the
eyes of the speaker, the chairman
pleading for protest to be sent to
President Roosevelt, the District Com
missioners. Harry Hopkins. head of
Federal relief, and Elwood Street, Dis
trict welfare director.
Eyes That See Things.
Look at those eyes?" Mac said.
They've seen things-sights that
would break your heart!"
There were eyes Of young girls, just
out of college; white girls and colored
girls. Eyes of elderly men and mid
dle-aged women. Eyes of strapping
young men, hard, cold, clear eyes
eyes of frail young fellows who looked
as if they wanted to go home to their
mothers.
But fear of losing their Jobs is not
their only fear" Mac explained They
are afraid, too. Of breaking the sad
news to families on relief. Imagine
walking into a hovel and telling hve
starving people that you are cutting
down on their allowance.
He went into another room and
pointed to a map of the District
See that map on the wall?" he
said. There you have the Nations
Capital And though you wouldn't
believe it, there are 10000 relief cases
here. Four to case, that means 40,-
900 persons just one jump ahead Of
the sheriff.
Now. take a pencil and block out
a nice little portion of the city within
sight of the Capitol dome. Draw a
line up North Capitol street. Turn
eft on w street. Draw 1t down
Twelfth street to Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. Go right over to the Capitol.
In that area you have 60 PEI cent of
the cases on relief. A pretty picture?
Il wish I could loan you my eyes
and let them show you what they've
seen. Or any of these case workers.
Get their slant on 1t. They're only
human"
What Is their slant?" he was asked.
Workers and Their Woes.
That's a fair question" he re-
turned. Relief workers-case work
ers you call 'em-are a funny lot
They get paid $500 annually. Some
Of the senior case workers get 81 300
and the juniors get sl,620. But the
actual Investigators, who look on the
pot when it's empty-they get $500.
They have gone through primary
grades, prep school and at least two
years of college to get their jobs. This
is the Civil Service requirements. They
start out as humanitarians. They are
going to study human nature in the
raw"
Mac fears he is going on the relief
rolls himself. He has wife and two
childyen to support on $500 o year.
and rents, food and clothing are pretty
high these days.
What's the use?" Mac flung over
his shoulder and emptied the ashes
from his old dudeen, knocking the
pipe against the iron fence that sur
rounds the Community House.
He pulled his coat collar around his
ears and walked away whistling under
the stars that cleaned so cold and
far away.
Evening star., 1935-12-05
SLIDING GAS RATE
RESULTS CHARTED
Effect Is Calculated for UtiI-
tiles Body Before Rul.
ing Is Given.

What the practical results Of adop-
ton Of the proposed sliding scale plan
for annual correction of gas rates
would be we're being calculated today
at the direction of the Public Utilities
Commission as a preliminary to its de-
cision in the case.
Experts of the Washington and
Georgetown Gas Light companies, at
the request Of the commission, are
casting up estimates Of what will be
the effects year from now if the slid.
ing scale is approved and what results
may be expected to flow from the prof.
fered immediate rate cut.
Commission members today de-
clined to commit themselves on
whether they would approve the plan
as it now stands. There have been in
dications the commission would be
ready to approve a sliding scale II a
plan meeting commission require
ments was submitted. The company
may be asked to make some changes
in details and terms.
Byars M. Bachman, chief account
ant of the commission, Is preparing
detailed analysis of the new rate
schedule which would replace the
present 8.5 per cent discount on all
bills and effect a further cut of $685.
600. The discount, effective since
1892, is figured to produce now an
annual rate cut totaling $546.000.
Commission to Get Findings.
Findings in these studies are expect.
ed to be laid before the commission
Monday, when the public hearing will
be resumed. The commission late yes
terday recessed the hearing until Mon
day after major items in the plan had
been reviewed.
Important new developments which
marked the close of yesterdays hear
ing included these points:
l. Calculations showing that the
companies will need increased business
to produce q basic net return of 6.5
per cent on an agreed rate base of
$2l, ,750, 900, as allowed under the pro-
posed new plan.
e. Company lawyers stated they
would be willing to have the commits.
ton keep open indefinitely the gas
rate case, which was halted for con-
sideration Of the sliding -scale plan.
instead Of closing and abandoatag
that case. Peoples Counsel william
A. Roberts said he would offer no OBJ
lection to that plan.
8. William NICK. Clayton. chairman
of the Public Utilities Committee of
the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tons. urged the commission to con-
slider the plan carefully, declaring that
a similar plan adopted In 1925 for the
Potomac Electric Power Co. was dis
tinctly o company proposition" In
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Anyway, two OF the sightseers
wound up on the Monument Grounds,
where they were picked up by a soft
hearted cab driver. He not only gave
them their first taxi ride, but had
them corraled at the Animal Rescue
League, where they we're fed and
lodged. This morning, however, they
we're turned over to the meaS dealer
to whom they were originally con-
signed.
While the two cab riders we're hav-
ing a look at the Monument the others
were rounded up by the truck driver,
Earl Bailey of Colesville, Md. and his
helper, Arthur Frazier. 1919 Central
avenue northeast with the assistance
of a couple Of policemen and a hand
full of MISUNDERSTANDING a boy
with a homemade lariat. One of the
animals got as far as Thirteenth and
N streets-a good miles from the
scene of the "stampede"-before be-
ing caught.
Evening star., 1935-12-05
RELIEF OFFICIALS
HELD POWERLESS
Cite Inability to Do Anything
About Lack of Funds
for Rents.

District relief officials declared to-
day they were helpless to do anything
about lack Of funds for payment Of
rent of relief clients as result of
the Is per cent slash ordered this
month in relief payments due to short
age of District funds.
The possibility relief families may
be evicted from rented quarters has
been considered, but neither Commits
sioner George E. Allen nor Welfare
Director Elwood Street see anything
the District can do.
Relief families now. as in the past.
are given cash budget allowances and
make their own arrangements for
housing Some guidance has been
given in the past in planning housing.
but the arrangements for renting have
been left between the families and the
landlords. -.f
Case Workers Protest.
There are some $500 to 5000 un-
employables included in the 5000 to
10 900 persons still on the District re-
lief list. All are taking a 25 per cent
cut In disbursements which Allen
found It was necessary to effect after
the Federal dole was ended last
month.
While this situation was being con-
sidered by officials they had before
them reports Of protests against the
25 per cent cut, voiced last night by
75 case workers in the District relief
administration, who held a meeting at
the Community Center Building, 1101
M street.
The order will leave many families
on the verge Of starvation, speakers
declared. The relief payment cut also
would mean failures in the payment
of rent, shifting 6 burden on the
landlords, the gathering was told.
Suffering to relief families would re-
suit, it was said, from heavy de-
crease to be ordered in the stan OF
case workers.
The principal speakers were Miss
Edna Kury, a case worker. and Ross
Pollock, president of the Federation
of Social Workers, q District Welfare
Department employe.
Allen Receives Telegram.
Commissioner Allen today received
a telegram from the group carrying
protest against the relief cut and the
slash in the size Of the relief stan.
II agree 100 per cent with what this
says, but I don't know what ! could
do about it," said Allen. The telegram
read;
I'VE, the undersigned. in mass meet
ing protest measures taken by District
of Columbia Commissioners to reduce
both relief budget and stan Is per
cent. Such drastic reduction in already
meager budgets will create an undue
amount of suffering among the needy.
STAFF reduction will result in decreased
efnciency and consequent increased
cost to the community. Therefore We
strongly urge immediate restoration Of
the budget to the relief population and
maintenance Of the existing staff"
Evening star., 1935-12-05
POLITICAL PARTIES
DECLARED AIDING
FASC|SM IN u. S.
New Labor Group Suggested
in Resolution Offered
United Mine Workers.
BOOST IN LIVING COSTS
CITED IN WAGE DEMAND
No Advance Indication Is Given
on Action to Be Taken on
800 Proposals.

Charges that both the Democratic
and Republican parties are fostering
fascism in the United States were
made today in resolution adopted by
the Tri-State Convention of the
United Mine Workers of America at
the Willard Hotel.
The resolution was one of more than
800 on which the convention is ex-
I pected to take action before adjourn
ing Saturday. In laying the blame for
the spread of fascism in the United
States, the resolution charged both
parties have time and again, when
, either party was in power, passed anti
labor legislation, serving instead the
interests of finance and capital"
They charged there is a growing
danger of fascism in the United States
which is directly fostered by both
Democratic and Republican parties by
their use of new laws to gag labor.
Ask National Party.
The delegates, in voting the reso-
tuition, called on the international
organization to convene a separate
national convention to organize a
labor party 80 days before the 1886
primary elections. The resolution was
adopted and referred to the United
Mine Workers Of America.
Other resolutions scheduled to come
before the convention declare none
tary imitation and destruction of crops
and cattle" boosted the cost OF living
in This country and worked a hard
ship on anthracite coal miners.
There are 16 resolutions on the sub
ject brought to the convention by
delegates of various local unions in
support of demand for IS per cent
wage increase. This demand will be
made at a wage conference to be held
after the expiration of the five-year
agreement March 81. They said, in
practically identical language, that the
increase was necessary because OF
monetary imitation and destruction OF
crops and cattle, making the mine
workers salary insufficient for a
decent American standard OF living"
There was no advance indication
as to what action the convention will
take . -
~ Relations Strained.
The cordial cooperation between
the Roosevelt administration and the
national leadership of the United
Mine Workers on such things as pas
sage of the Guffey bituminous coal
control act was felt by many leaders
In the convention to have been struck
q severe blow in the tone Of these
resolutions. Considerable speculation
as to the resolutions political portent
was rife in the convention. The fact
that many of Pennsylvania's hard
coal miners live-and vote-in normal
Iy strong Republican districts also
came in for consideration.
Most Of the resolutions pending in
the convention deal with wages and
hours. However, the first motion put
before the body this morning was q
blow at the membership itself. By
vote of $50 to 359, the delegates con-
Cured in a resolution which will in
crease the dues from 81 to $1.25 a
man throughout the organization.
Heated discussion, during which roll
call was demanded. preceded passage
OF the resolution.
Evening star., 1935-12-05
MISS {. v. WHITE DIES

Miss Elizabeth v. White, "a, Gov
ernment employe, died yesterday In
her apartment at 184l Columbia road,
where she had lived with her mother,
AIRS. Cordelia White. She had been
nl since Saturday with pneumonia.
i Funeral services will be held at $50
pm tomorrow at the 8. II. Hines Co.
funeral home, 1901 Fourteenth street.
Evening star., 1935-12-05
DRYS CONTINUE
WEEKS CAMPA|
Speakers Defend SEARCH
and-Seizure" Provisions
of Guyer Bill.

Continuing their weeks anti-liquor
campaign throughout the city, speak
ers for the United Dry Forces last
night stoutly defended the search
and-seizure" provisions Of the Guyer
bill. which would return prohibition
to the District. Five more rallies will
be held tonight.
At Union Methodist Episcopal
Church Rev. J. E. Fort will preside
and Miss Laura Lndley Of the Anti
Saloon League will speak.
DR.. W. S. Abernethy, pastor. will
preside at Calvary Baptist Church
where the speaker will be Deets Pick
EFT OF the Methodist Board of Tenn
perance, Prohibition and Public
Morals. .---- -
At Zion Baptist Church Rev. j. M
Ellison will preside and speakers will
be z. M. Bruan and John B. Ham,
mond.
Mount Rainier Christian Church
Mount Rainier, Md, will have for
its chairman Rev. r. L. Miller, and
j. Raymond Schmidt viii speak.
1t Hamline Methodist Episcopal
Church, Rev. H. W.. Burgan, the pastor
will speak. -.-'.--'
Rallies Tomorrow Might.
There will be two more rallies to-
morrow night. None Is scheduled for
Saturday night, but Sunday morning
many churches will take up the subject
from their pulpits. The drive will close
with a mass meeting at pm. Sunday
at National City Christian Church.
Search and seizure provisions of the
Guyer bill were defended by John B
Hammond, former chief of police Of
Des Moines, Iowa, at the rally In John
Wesley A. NJ. E. Church last night.
1.-THE greatest problem an oficer
has is in procuring evidence admissible
in court" said Hammond. The mos
practical way so far discovered Is by
searches. and seizures. It being the
most competent form of evidence and
the hardest for defending lawyers to
fight 1t, naturally, concentrates their
attacks on the legitimacy of the pro-
ceeding and hence their battle cry ii
unconstitutional
Representations are made by the
wet interests, that the search and
seizure provisions Of the Guyer bill are
in violation Of the fourth amendment
but the great Chief Justice Taft, writ
ing an opinion on that subject, held
that the fourth amendment only con-
demned unreasonable searches, not all
Searches That should have ended the
controversy, but 1t does not. The liquor
interests never obey the mandate of the
Constitution nor respect the court"
General Secretary Speaks.
Harry S. Warner, general secretary
of the intercollegiate Association fol
Study of the Alcohol Problem, speak
ing at Eldbrook Methodist Episcopal
Church, said:
"The liquor problem to today calls
for new educational approach that
deals with more facts, realities, causes
than has been given to it In recent
years. Our experience with national
prohibition, with repeal. with the
licensed saloons of the old days has
brought US q rich opportunity to gel
hold Of the underlying facts In the
drink problem Of modern civilization
The United States has become q lab
oratory of great scientific value to the
liquor struggle Of the world. II oul
recent shifts from wet TO dry ant
Evening star., 1935-12-05
DEADL|NENEAR|NG,
RESISTANCE FACED
IN PARK Ev|CT|ONS
"They Might Get Shot,"
Mountain Woman Warns
of Officers.
DEPUTIES RELUCTANT
TO ENFORCE ORDERS
Many Virginia Families Have No
Place to Go or Transporta.
tion Means.

Threats Of resistance were heard to-
day as the deadline for eviction OF
remaining families in the Shenandoah
National Park area neared.
Sheriffs charged with executing the
eviction writS by II o'clock tomorrow
appeared somewhat at loss them
selves as they faced the alternative
of moving families without new homes
from their dwellings or risking punish
ment for failing to carry out the court
orders.
Meanwhile. plans we're pushed to
begin work Immediately on the Shen-
andoah- Smoky Parkway, Ma
tional Park Service officials and rep
resentatives of the State of Virginia
having ironed out technical difficulties
which have delayed the project.
Center Of Interest.
Interest in the eviction centers in
Dark Hollow, a Madison County
mountain community. where nine
families are clinging to their homes.
hoping something will happen to pre-
vent Sheriff L. H. Lillard from ousting
them.
Typical of the attitude of the Hol-
low people was the answer Of one
mother who. when asked where they
were going, said:
"We amt going nowhere, and II
they try to make US, they might get
themselves shot"
1t was reported one mountaineer
had warned the officers not to come
to his place and others grinaly as
serted:
They won't set our little children
out
Rev. Gird Cave, q leader Of the
community who accepted the Govern
ment's offer Of a homestead. said he
feared there would be resistance.
See Their Mistakes.
THE people have nowhere to CO."
he explained. Il have told them they
can't fight the Government and now
when it is too late they see their mis-
take in failing to sign for home
steads."
some are living In the Dark Hollow
Church, while one family, confident
the Government will let them remain,
built a new home. All are determined
to stay as long as possible in the only
home most of them have ever known.
More sympathetic with the noun
taineers' plight than with the Govern
ment's determination TO gain full pos
session Of the park land, Madison
County officials are said to be carrying
out the eviction proceeding with the
utmost reluctance.
Have Food Stored.
In Page County, 1t was stated, some
of the mountain families have buried
apples, potatoes and other foodstuffs
in the ground for the Winter, and will
have no way to carry them to their
new home. Automobiles are an un-
known luxury among them.
Altogether, 20 families in four
counties are involved in the eviction
cases, inaugurated on November %.
w. C. Armstrong, attorney for the
State Conservation and Development
Commission, said he had not received
a report as to how many Of the fami-
lies had been removed.
Evening star., 1935-12-05

from dry. to wet brought nothing
else, the price was worth while.
"Daily reports Of the steady increase
In the use of drink, the change Of
customs. popularizing 1t rs never be-
fore, the addition Of new drinkers
among youth and women, the increase
Of auto accidents and drunken driving.
and the continuation of bootlegsing
are facts that cannot be ignored.
Evening star., 1935-12-05
ROBERTS URGESCITIZENS
TO TRANSIT MEETING
Evidence on Service to Be Planned
for Presentation to Public
Utilities Commission.

Peoples Counsel william A. Roberts
today urged spokesmen for citizens
associations to meet with him at 8
pm, December II at the District
Building. Evidence will be planned
for offering at the public hearing De-
cember 16 before the Public Utilities
Commission on service rendered by
the Capital Transit Co.
Roberts has sent to citizens asso-
Citations QUESTIONABLE to be filled out
with specific statements Of complaints
about street Ger and bus service.
Evening star., 1935-12-05
PORTER ON PROBATION

Joseph Nelson, 22-year-old colored
porter at Union Station, was placed
pn probation today when arraigned
sn Police Court on a concealed weapon
charge that was brought after he ap-
peared at the first precinct last night
with q revolver and told police to
nalt their guns on the table.
Evening star., 1935-12-05


4 N but got themselves taken for
a ride In a taxicab besides.
The two we're among 10 yearlings
which took sudden notion to do bit
Of "rubbernecking" around the Capt.
tal-possibly as sort OF last fling"
before the inevitable transformation
into delectable veal outlets and chops.
Along with 80 similar animals the
two we're en- route to the slaughter
house of a Southwest meat whole
saler when their opportunity to see
the town presented itself. The tail
gate Of the truck in which the calves
were being hauled fell of and 10 of
them, including our two friends, fol-
lowed suit.
For while the vicinity Of CAPITOL
Hill looked as if it was badly in need
Of few first-class COW hands, what
with calves trotting all over the place
and mooing or braying. or whatever
1t Is that such critters do.
Evening star., 1935-12-05

A COUPLE Of sightseeing calves
~ not only took in the Wash
~ ington Monument last night.
but got themselves taken for
Evening star., 1935-04-07
virginia National Forest a
Benefit

MOUNTAIN LAKE, the newest ma
A'A tional forest development in Vir-
ginia. gives promise Of proving real
benefit to the State through sus-
tained yield of forest products and the
accompanying employment of hun
dreds Of families in the area.
The Mountain Lake unit lies on the
watersheds of the James River and Of
other important streams. notably the
New River. 1t includes large sections
lying between the George Washington
National Forest and the North Caro-
lima line in Bath, Allegheny, Bland,
Botetourt, Craig, Giles, Montgomery,
Pulaski, Roanoke. Rockbridge. Russell,
Smyth, Tazewell, Washington and
Wythe Counties.
In this large unit, comprising 1871
SIG acres, something like four-fifths
of which is classed as available for
purchase, the primary considerations
for establishing national forest unit
are watershed protection, erosion con-
troll and demonstration of forest man
agement. Many depleted stands OF
timber in this area are capable OF i'm
provement into good producing forests.
The permanence of large pulp plants
and other forest products industries
and wood working plants in this re-
gion is dependent upon the forests for
continuous supplies Of raw materials.
Stream-flow regulation by forest in
fiuence is important to local and
municipal water supplies, to naviga-
ton and to the utilization of water
power.
AS lands within the purchase unit
are acquired by the Government, at
least 3,445 families stand to benefit
by a share in the employment needed
for development and management OF
the forests. Several c. C. C.. camps
may also be employed in improvement
work.
The timber resources of the area
at present are considerable. 1t is esti-
mated that one-f1fth of the area bears
some timber of commercial size. About
half the area Is cut over or burned
of, but is restocking to trees. 1t is
estimated that $4,000 acres is failing
to restock and should be planted to
trees. Major species of timber of the
region are Appalachian hardwoods,
white and yellow pine and hemlock.
Forest Service officers say that de-
velopment of the proposed unit would
stimulate the practice of forestry by
farmers and small land owners by
providing examples of well-managed
stands and would also assure sustained
production of the raw materials needed
to insure permanent operation of wood
using industries within its zone of in
fiuence. This, in turn, would con-
tribute to the employment of farm
labor for Winter work in the woods
and community dwellers for work in
the fabricating plants.
This section of Virginia enjoys a
dourishins Summer tourist business.
and recreational opportunities Incl
dent to national forest development
will also result in large social values.