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this idea, by introduction in the
congress, has Immediately pro-
voked a fine mess of cat calls
and a shower of brickbats at the
poor dog. But, after all. why
this?
Pensions and aids are being
granted upon every hand-and
more and more is asked. There
may be reasons why congress
sional pensions should not be
granted, but are there not good
reasons why they should be
granted other and in fact all
pensions might be better substi-
tuted for by economic rules and
results which would make PEN
sions unnecessary. But we have
not arrived at that point as yet.
The granting of governmental
sops and aids and benefits has
been growing for some while.
The army and navy and practi-
cally all of the branches of the
governmental service have their
pension provisions. Almost all
of the larger private CONNER
cial and business interests have
their very proper pension poll
cies and practices. Consider the
railroads and the telephone COM
panies and others.
Why should we assume that
members of the congress must
be exempted from this form of
consideration?
Most OF the members of the
congress are attorneys or jour-
nalists. Unlike business men
whose personal interests may,
in their absence. be looked after
by others, the professional men
leave everything behind when
they 60 to congress. After a
term or two in Washington
their practices" have disappear
ed, vanished upon the altar of
public service. They have moth
ing to return to.
And there 10 another angle.
Realizing the truth of what has
here been indicated. at present
the average congressman likely
as not thinks first of all of be-
ing returned to congress at the
conclusion of his brief two year
term and he is likely to play
his cards that way. He believes
that he has 10 or face hardships
for him and his.
Suppose instead that he feels
free to fight for the right, for
the common people. and for the
nation. regardless Of his per-
sonal fortune. Is not that worth
while?
The idea Of pensioning con-
gressmen is not without its
merits or its elements of simple
justice. Why explode over 1t?
Should we assume that con-
gressmen, after a term or two
in office. will be so fixed"
financially, that they will have
no need for a pension upon re-
tirement. What sort of a putrid
idea Is that
ROBERT S. DOUBLEDAY.
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vs. EFTFEa@ eyhE2sRsF
Building Homes Roosevelt Family Trait
Theodore Started II: Fronklin Carried On
Colomitous Tomorrow Didn't Come
A Word About Ladder CLIMBING

As THE administration Of
n President Franklin u. Roose-
welt was the first TO seriously
consider adequate housing and
slum elimination as a national
problem. IL il interesting to note
that Theodore Roosevelt was the
promoter of one of the first
slum clearance movements in
the United States. II started
when Theodore Roosevelt was
police commissioner of New York.
The story begins with the
coming to America of Jacob
Riis in 1869. Young Riis, econo-
mist and reformer. became a
police reporter on the New York
Sun. and in that capacity be-
came acquainted with the police
commissioner. Besides putting
in a regular shift as reporter.
Riis spent great deal of time
prowling around the slums and
tenement districts, obtaining
evidence that some of the best
citizens were collecting rent
for unspeakable novels in which
dwelt ragged, hungry and uncar-
I'd for humanity.
He found sixteen persons
crowded into rooms design
cd for not 70 exceed four.
In one great tenement
square he found 500 babies
and not 4 single bathroom.
Through his writing and lee
turing, Riis, the immigrant, be-
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came notable citizen and warm
friend Of the police commission
ct. Theodore Roosevelt Both
we're intensely interested in the
housing problem and spent
many hours discussing the de-
plorable conditions in New York.
Riis was very much discour-
aged because the owners of the
tenements were persons of in
fluence who were able to escape
prosecution for violation of the
meagre housing laws of that
time.
Roosevelt, with charac-
teristic energy finally tack
led the problem himself.
Under the guidance of Riis
and with q camera and an
iron frying pan to hold the
flashlight powder, Roosevelt
went through the tenements
night after night.
With great number of photo
graphs, some of them disclosing
unspeakable conditions, Roose-
Welt. with the assistance of Riis.
kept hammering away until the
state of New York was shamed
into action. Early in the nine
ties the legislature passed laws
that brought greatly improved
living conditions for the poor.
Forty years after Theodore
Roosevelt and his newspaper
friend went about the slums with
flashlight and camera, another
Roosevelt became president Of
the United States. One of his
first recommendation was for
ways and means to clean out the
modern slums and assist worthy
persons to build homes. The re-
suit was the Federal Housing
Authority, the effect of which
was to start a building boom
that brought business to the
sawmill operators, dealers in
building supplies and materials
of all kinds, architects and con-
tractors, and provided labor for
thousands of building mechanics.
Next came the Stun clearance
projects and low cost houses and
apartments for families of lin
tied incomes, movement in
which Tacoma is about to share.
According to the records there
was a great deal of weeping and
wailing and crashing of teeth
by property owners who were
affected by the slum clearance
projects initiated by Theodore
Roosevelt and Jacob Riis. Such
proposal was the entering
wedge for a system that would
destroy individual initiative and
break down the American way
of life.
Forty years later the same
calamity was predicted. but the
tomorrow that was going to
bring about the breakdown of
constitutional government didn't
come. Instead, helping provide
decent homes for unfortunate
persons created business. re-
stored the self respect of thou
sands, and gave a new meaning
to the American brand of de-
mocracy.
The rung of a ladder aCas
neUer meant to rest upon,
but only to hold a mans
foot long enough to enable
him to PIT the other higher.
Thomas Huxley.
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billions who will hunger other
wise and furnish the machinery
and materials for rebuilding
shattered homes. factories and
utilities He warns against our
duplicating the tariff Matter
horns which all nations erected
after World War /. He would
have US scatter our vast store
Of steriIized gold with q reck-
less hand and impose heavy
taxes to pay the fun costs II
necessary.
The v. P. proposes. specifically
the large-scale export Of such
New Deal reforms as the food
stamp plan. school ehildren's
lunches, international subsidies
for agriculture. labor, and in
dustry. He breaches material
ism as well as humsnitarisnism-
Only by pouring out our treas
ure. he maintains. can we fash
ion a decent universe upon the
ruins o. the old
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MRS. ROOSEVELT
IDEA MAY WIN

Mrs. Roosevelt has thrown her
powerful influence behind the
movement to supplant the Selec-
tive Service System with a Man
Power Mobilization Board which
will handle CONSUMPTION Of work.
ers. Her intervention may move
her husband TO decide the back
stage controversy In favor OF
the labor and social welfare
clique.
In defending her several
brushes with draft supervisors,
the First Lady expressed the
fear that they are too willing TO
put a round peg in a square
hole" This has been the under
lying contention of the McNutt-
Perkins-Hillman group in its
quiet attempt to sidetrack the
Hershey organization. Although
It lost out with respect to the
February 18th call, the MEM
bers are still scheming to super
wise the ALLEGATION of the classes
falling within the age limits
1919 and 44-65.
II the president signs the ten
tative executive order now on
his desk, persons summoned for
military duty will have TO work
wherever Washington decides
they can make the greatest con-
tribution to the war effort
The original plan TO set up
seven man council dominated by
New Dealers may be modified.
F.D.R. apparently favors sin
gle administrator and an sd-
visory commission. Sidney Hill
man has been mentioned as pos
sible head of the agency. which
will enjoy a life-and-death power
over the nations labor and in
dustry.
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TTrIIT An Inside Picture OF Finon.
Ll0A j ciol and Political America
By RAY TUCKER

WASHINGTON-Our army experts lean toward pes
smsm in their confidential comments the winter fight
ing Russia They do not share the popular belief that
Hitler has been wounded fatally badly cut up.
British military liason left Washington by Church
i'll concur in our GHQ's attitude.
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PULSE OF
THE PU BLIC
CLOGS ARE BARBARIC
FOR FOOTWEAR

Editor, The Times: I have be-
fore me a slip of paper on which
Is printed an item about women
factory workers of Great Bril-
tain taking to wearing clogs
to save shoe leather as they
used to wear them in Lam
csshire. You ommited to de-
scribe the clogs in full detail.
Besides the leather tops and
wooden soles as described, we
also wore an iron protector
around the edge of the sole as
well as the heel; otherwise they
would have worn out too quickly.
We used to pay five shillings
or approximately SIPS for
girls or woman's clogs, all COM
plete, with iron protectors.
About every three months they
called for repairing of irons.
That would cost between II to
IS cents. They saved shoe leath-
er all right. but you sure paid
plenty with broken arches, corns
and callouses, and I don't mean
maybe.
Those were the days of under
paid labor with a capital L."
We stood and worked on hard
stone floors 10 hours a day,
women and girls as well as men
and boys. II you didn't keep
your wages at a certain average,
it was just too bad. No wonder
feet broke down. We worked
piece work and not so much per
day. Labor has made great
strides since then but there is
still much to be Strengthened
out.
God speed the day when we
shall have justice in all respects.
Our daughter in California has
the pair of clogs used to wear,
otherwise ! would show them.
They are quite a novelty. Clogs
are one of the most barbaric
articles of wear one could place
on his feet, no glamour about
them. MRS. E. WILSON.
42l4 No. Huson st.
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ToDAY's COMMON ERROR

Man Il not liable 70 err. he Is
nkeiy 10. Man is liable 10 error.
Liable should not be followed by
an infinitive, but by a prepoS-
ton.
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CONGRESSMAN
ARE TOO GABBY

Coordinator Archibald Mac
Leish takes his task with grim
seriousness. He does not intend
To restrict his regimenting rod
to facts and figures" alone. He
thinks there is too much babbl-
ing and battling in official cir
eles for the nations welfare.
Although the topic is ticklish.
the congressional librarian be-
lieves that members Of the cab
met and congress should show
more discretion in their public
utterances. II is obviously quite
futile for him to try 10 harmon
ize statistics in the face Of inept
and discordant statements which
create public Misunderstanding.
Distinguished offenders since the
attack on Pearl Hsrbor are Sec
retaries Knox and Wickard.
Price Administrator Henderson.
and Senate Foreign Relations
Chairman Tom Connally. Mr..
MscLeish isn't too sure that he
Possesses the authority to check
these explosions. but he suspects
that Mr.. Roosevelt win hack
him. As one Of F.DRs most
~srnest ghost writers. the rela-
tionship between the poet and
president is = chummy and con-
fidential one.
The young man suffers from
no inferiority complex in oppos-
ing the big shots"
Recently ne supplied a few
examples Of Tia awkward out
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The treaty Of Ucciali In one
Of the most amazing documents
known to history because its
two texts. the Italian and the
Amharic, bore different inter-
pretations! II was signed in
1889 between Menelik II, king
of Ethiopia. and the Italians.
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who had just consolidated their
gains on the Red sea in what
was lated known as Eritrea.
Anxious to extend their power
inland. they worded the Italian
version of the treaty to mean
that Ethiopia pledged itself to
be virtual protectorate OF
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bursts which pain him. Some
body suggested that he should
discipline Jesse II. Jones, who
had given the mistaken impress
sion that synthetic rubber pro-
duction by late 1913 would fill
all military and civilian require
ments. II will have to drop in
and see Mr.. Jones" said Archie
quite simply and boldly.
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hough your sins Be scarlet they shall be white
- mew; though they Be red like crimson they shall be
- Woo1L-Isaiah 1:18.
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The fuehrer's schedule of OPP
erations. according to the Anglo
American observers, begged when
he failed to seize Leningrad, Mos
COW and Kharkov before bitterly
cold weather set in. His diesels
froze and his motorized units
stuck because he had not sup
piled them with lubricants that
could Withstand sub-zero tenn
peratures. In other respects
clothing. skies. planes with rum
ners-he had not prepared to
grapple with the elements. Stall
ms forces on the other hand
were fully fortified for just such
warfare. Red planes. tanks and
tractors were equipped with
proper fuels. Their uniforms
matched the Christmas color
scheme Of the battlefield.
Despite these handicaps, map
readings reveal that the Ger
mans are retreating slowly and
methodically. 1t is no route.
They are reported to be inflict-
ing heavier losses than they have
suffered. Meanwhile the reich 10
training millions Of new SOL
diers. turning out more modern
weapons, stocking food supplies.
In the spring the Nazis will
return 10 the attack on more
familiar terrain. They will re-
sumo the offensive from a line
deep inside the Soviet rather
than on the Polish border. This
prospect explains why every
message from the kremlin car
ries the postscript: Send US
planes. tanks, artillery"
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CONGRESSIONAL
PENSIONS

Editor, The Times: There has
recently come out into the open
a proposal for granting some
sort OF pension To the retiring
members Of the Congress Of the
United States.
Submission to the public Of
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Massachusetts Girl
Found in Woods After
Being Lost Five Days
Gould Not Find Way Out
Of 10,00oAere Forest;
Had No Food in Ordeal
b the Associated Press.

6y tnc ASeoClhIcu FIcoS
BELCHERTOWN, Mass. June S.
Miss Constance Carpenter, Is, Of
Springfield, who had been missing
since Sunday afternoon, was found
today in dense woodland by Police
Chief Albert Markham.
An object Of a wide search In
10000 acres of thick forest since she
became lost Sunday, Miss Carpenter
was suffering from exposure and
numerous scratches about the body.
She was taken Immediately TO o
hospital.
The girl was visiting here Sunday
with her parents. She was last seen
crossing through q field. and when
she failed to return at dusk q search
was instituted.
Detective 1t. Maurice Nelligan,
who led State police, Boy Scouts and
members of conscientious OBJ
jectors' camp in the five-day search.
described the territory in which she
was lost as the thickest woodland
In Massachusetts,.
Authorities first took the girl TO
Springfield Hospital, IS miles away.
State police said they were told she
then would be returned to the
Northampton State Hospital.
Chief Markham and James Fletch-
er. another searcher, came upon the
girl as she was walking down Turkey
Hill Mountain, near Ludlow. She
told them she had had no food sincs
Sunday and that her only drink was
swamp water.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
81 Steel Plant Workers
In Cumberland Strike
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md, June S.
Sixty-seven employees of the Cum
berland Steel Co.. which holds de-
Tense contracts, were on strike to-
day.
They staged walkout yesterday.
claiming the company had violated
its contract with Allegany Local
No. 48S, International Association of
Machinists, by posting new rules Of
conduct and plant policy without
consulting the Shop Committee.
Company officials could not be
reached for comment.
J. E. Poulton of Washington.
grand lodge representative of the
international association who came
here at the unions request, talked
with company officials and the en-
ployes late yesterday attempting to
get the men back to work immedi-
ately.
He said as far as the associa-
ton was concerned, the strike was
unauthorized.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
100000 Lost
On Five Worships
Sunk in Pacific
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Although there is no way of know
ing definitely, the Navy estimates
at around $200, 900 the amount of
cash that went to the bottom Of the
Pacific on five United States war
ships sunk in enemy actions.
The money had been carried In
the ships safes for pay purposes.
The largest single probable loss,
Navy officials told the House Appro-
priations Committee during hearings
on a war supply bill, was s142 ,937
carried on the cruiser Houston.
There has been no report, they said,
as to the extent Of the cash lost
when the Houston went down.
Other losses reported included S407
on the Arizona, 1928 on the Oglala,
s65,70o on the. Utah. and an esti-
mated 1882 on the Oklahoma.
In addition. the naval station at
Guam had S56,666 in its latest cash
account and the men in charge of
it have been reported missing or
captured by the Japs.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Justice, Not Revenge,
Must Dictate Peace,
Lords Declare
u. S., Britoin, Russiu and
Chino Would Maintain
Order Under Proposals
BY HELEN KIRKPATRICK,
Foreign Correspondent OF The Star and


Foreign Correspondent Of The star and
Chicaso Daily News. a.,
LONDON. June 5.-Not revenge
but justice must dictate a peace
maintained by strongly-armed
United States, Great Britain, Russia
and China, is the view expressed by
most of the members of the House
Of Lords during two-day debate on
peace which ended yesterday.
Inspired by the recent speeches OF
American Vice President Wallace
Undersecretary OF State Welles and
Executive Director Milo Perkins OF
the Economic Defense Board, the
Lords debate revealed a striking
unanin1ity of view on the kind of
peace the British want to see. No
divergence OF opinion with the
American leaders emerged and the
government took occasion to deny
suggestions that efforts would have
to be made to play of Germany
against Russia in return to the
old balance-of-power system.
There is no doubt whatever that
the people OF this country over
whelmingly favor a world in which
the peaceable nations-the four
major nations-would maintain law
and order. Lord Brabazon (former
Minister Of Aircraft Production 1t.
Col. j. T. c. Moore -Brabazon) ad-
vocated an air monopoly for Britain,
Russia and the United States.
Disarmament Vital.
Germans disarmament also was
agreed to be vital, although means
OF 1nsuring this were only hinted at,
Yesterday the government Spokes-
man reiterated the determination
that this time Germany could not
be trusted, as she had been the last
time, to run peaceful democracy.
Lord Selbourne. speaking for the
government, made a startling sug.
gestion which would definitely limit
national sovereignty for Britain
According to his idea. the develop
ment OF a British Empire and COM
monwealth Of nations should provide
means for increasing. democratic
representation. An ideal solution
would be for each unit of the COM
monwealth to have a separate Par
Lament with an Imperial Federated
Parliament sitting in Capetown.
There would be separate Parliaments
for England, Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland, also, under his
plan. g.
Speaking at Oxford, Col. L. M. s.
Amcry, secretary Of state for India
proposed q world organization on
the lines of the British Common
wealth, with groups throughout the
world formed for defensive and eco
nomic purposes. Thus would the
small states be assured of security
and the greatest economic ad-
vantages.
Sir John Anderson. speaking In
London, stated that isolationism for
Britain was a thing of the past.
we will have to devote ourselves
more and more closely, in the later
stages of the war, to preparing for
that collaboration with other ma
tions, and other members of the
Evening star., 1942-06-05

time feature cannot be equitably ap-
piled in the postal service" because
of the varying time schedules and
asked fo ran amendment to the
overtime bill to pay $500 bonus or
a percentage increase. He said that
as the bill stands, it would benefit
only about per cent of the postal
employees.
.~ In answer to a. question he said
$120 bonus such as was paid orig
inally in the World War-it later
was increased to 3240-was mot
adequate"
The hearing was recessed today
until Tuesday.
Evening star., 1942-06-05
Demands
Held Menace 10
Overtime Pay Plan
Representative Monusco
Warns Federal Workers
Of House Opposition
Continued From First Page)

Ing agencies. Mr.. Haggerty said the
bonus is still inadequate to Offset
the increase in the cost of living"
I'VE wish to emphasize most
strongly the living-cost problems of
the family, for the men for whom
we speak are almost without excep-
ton heads of families in which
there is only one wage Garner" he
said.
Mr.. Haggerty said Government
Printing once workers receive the
same scale now that they did in
1926, except that the wage that Is
paid for 40 hours formerly covered
A. Recent salary increases Of $400
to $1,000 year for supervisory en-
ployes are the only changes in the
printing scale since 1926, he added.
He urged that the bonus plan be
incorporated in the overtime bill.
Eleanor Nelson, secretary treas
urer of the c. I. o. Federal Workers,
said the C. I. o. stood for an adjust
ment in pay in conformity with the
rise in the cost of living She urged
passage of the overtime bill, pend
ing measure to raise the pay of Gus
todial workers and general pay
bill to conform to living costs.
4 Wage Adjustment Asked.
Chairman Ramspeck said that If
wages were tied to living costs, they
would have to come down after the
war when costs drop. He also asked
If the witness knew that "the cost
Sof living is below what 1t was when
these wages were fixed" The wit
mess said no, but explained the union
sfelt that the adjustment should be
made to conform to the advance in
costs since 1899.
In behalf of the 600 members of
the Elementary Classroom Teachers
sAssociation. an independent group,
Mrs. Joseph A. Roney Endorsed the
bonus. She said the present salary
scale of s1,400-S2,200 was adopted
in 1924.
George Curran, representing the
International Federation of Archi-
tects, Engineers, Chemists and
Technicians, asked the committee
to remove the $500 ceiling" in
the overtime bill, declaring approx
mately 10 per cent Of the fedora
ton members would be deprived Of
overtime pay by it..
Mr.. Manasco asked If the witness
believed the cost Of the various
wage proposals that had been ad-
vanced might not cause the War
Department, where many men,
bers of the federation are en-
ployed, simply to have the men as
signed there when they are drafted,
and give them regular Army pay.
$500 Bonus Asked.
Mr.. Curran said he was mot pre-
pared to speak for the War De-
partment," and that that is a ques-
ton that I'VE will have to meet
when we come to it,"
John J. Barrett, president of the
United National Association of Post
Once Clerks, said that "the over-
Evening star., 1942-06-05

British Commonwealth. which is
foreshadowed in the Atlantic
Charter" he declared.
The lords were startled to hear
Lord Lang, retired Archbishop of
Canterbury, denounce the old sys-
tenn Of scramble for markets" He
had been regarded as a model of
sanity acquiescence in the old
order of social and international
life" to use the words of the e'Laborite
Daily Herald.
I'VE seem to be moving forward"
is the Daily Herald's conclusion.
Copyright, 1912, Chicago Daily News, 1nc.)