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Constitutional
Issue Raised
in Spending
Mirth Voiced in House
Over $5,000,000
Fair Fund Veto.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
SOMETIMES there's a ripple of
laughter in the House of Repre
sentatives and it doesn’t get
mentioned in the official pro
ceedings. And often the laughter is
not at all justified.
Thus there were members who
laughed when
they heard the
clerk read a veto
message from
President Roose
velt's refusing to
sign a bill appro
priating $5,000,
000 for Federal
participation i n
the New York
World's Fair on
the ground that
It was unconsti
tutional
Instead of be
ing a subject for
banter, the fact
David Lawrence.
that Mr. Roosevelt sends a message to
Congress upholding the constitutional
precedents is a cause for approbation.
It is a sign that the campaign which
has been waged for the last two years
against the executive branch of the
Government because it has held too
lightly the basic precedents of con
stitutional law is at last having some
effect.
Not long ago, it was said by sup
porters of the President on Capitol
Hill that the attack on the Supreme
Court was having a salutary effect on
the justices’ opinions, but not until
the message on the New York World's
Fair was disclosed could it also be
contended that the eontroveersy over
constitutionalism had made a deep
impression at the White House, too.
Acted on Cumming's Advice.
The legal points involved were not
disclosed in any detail, though the
President said the members could have
s copy of the Attorney General's opin
ion for the asking. There was enough
in the message, however, to reveal that
Mr. Roosevelt was by no means con
eerned so much about the wording of
this particular measure as he is about
the powers of Congress In general.
The President signed a bill almost
Identical with that of the New York
fair when he approved the Texas Cen
tennial bill. In that case, however,
the delegation of power to administer
the affairs of the Federal commission
which takes care of Government's
official representation in a fair was to
an individual known as a commissioner
general and he was appointed by the
President.
The commission itself was composed
Jn the Texas case of cabinet officers
end it had practically unlimited au
thority to spend the public funds as it
pleased. The Texas folks are reported
to have really needed only about
$1,500,000 and they got $3,000,000.
The New York delegation in Congress
asked for $5,000,000 and they will get
about $3,000,000.
Aside, however, from the sums ap
propriated, the interesting thing is
that in the Texas case the Congress
merely delegated its powers to a com
mission to be appointed by the Presi
dent and only cabinet officers were to
serve on the commission. In the Ne5w
York case, on the other hand, Con
press decided to delegate the spending
to a commission composed of seven
members, only three of whom were
cabinet officers and four of whom
were members of Congress.
Spending Discretion With Executive.
According to the New Deal concept
of constitutionalism, the members of
Congress are not to be trusted to sit on
commissions which have plenary
power to spend money. Indeed, under
the rules nowadays even the Congress
Isn’t permitted, so to speak, to pre
scribe how its funds shall be expended,
end the bulk of appropriations in the
last four years have been discretionary
with the executive branch of the Gov
ernment.
The Attorney General’s opinion
quoted by the President states that
the method of spending the funds
stipulated in the bill ‘ amount to an
unconstitutional invasion of the prov
ince of the Executive.”
This is not altogether new. It will
be recalled that, President Wilson
vetoed the first budget bill early in
1921 because it contained a clause
Whereby Congress delegated certain
powers to the controller general, who
was to be in effect appointed by Con
press.
Later on. with some slight changes,
the measure became law under the
Harding administration, but the point
always has been discussed as of doubt
ful constitutionality.
May Be Arming for Battle.
It may be that Mr. Roosevelt is
getting ready to have a battle on
this very principle when he proposes
to do away with the office of controller
general in the legislation whereby a
reorganization of the executive de
partments of the Government is to
be effected. Anyway, there was no
reason for levity in the House when
it turns out that Mr. Roosevelt is
endeavoring to obey the Constitution
as he understands it. So far as Con
gress is concerned, it may well won
der why it can delegate to an official
the right to spend $3,000,000 as he
pleases and it cannot delegate the
spending to anybody appointed by an
executive commission of seven, of
•whom members of Congress happen to
be in the majority.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Roosevelt
might even at this late day have raised
the whole question of why members
of Congress should ever sit on execu
tive commissions of any kind. For
there is a clause in the Constitution
Which says:
"No Senator or Representative shall,
during the time for which he was
elected, be appointed to any civil
office under the authority of the
United States, which shall have been
created * * * during such time.”
Literal obedience to this might have
cut off members of Congress from
various travel junkets in the past and
this probably would be going too far
m a precedent in view of the ap
proaching Summer months.
CCopyrlgtit, 193? J
40 SHOT IN BATTLE
Xorean Police Clash With Bandits
Raiding Border Town.
SEOUL, Korea, May 22 (/P).—More
than 4C persons were killed or wounded
late last night in a battle between
police and bandits, armed with ma
chine guns, who raided the border
town of Hotaili and kidnaped 20 vil
lager*. The bandits fled into the in
t/»rir*r
News Behind the News
Administration Renounces the New Farm Program
as Its Baby—O’Neal Willing to Claim It, However.
BY PAUL MALLON.
THE administration seems to be positively bored with the new agricul
tural program. President Roosevelt says it is not administration
legislation and he does not know whether he is for it Agriculture
Secretary Wallace yawned the other day that it was not his baby
and, in fact, he did not like its tariff reduction proposal. House Farm
Chairman Jones is being quoted as murmuring drowsily that the hearings
may last a long, long time because
it is not an administration bill and
must be looked into carefully.
Farm politicos are telling newsmen
to point out rtearly in their stories
that it is not an administration
bill.
^2SSi5S>t\
S\
These four negatives may not
make an affirmative, but they cer
tainly make a very interesting situ
ation. The most noticeable result
has been to make every one in
Congress and elsewhere a little sleepy. Some say it is just Spring fever,
but there is other evidence that it may be just plain old-fashioned political
fever.
In fact, all observers able to keep their eyes open in the face
of these soporific \nfuences agree the bill contains everything the
administration wants, from the soil conservation benefit payments
to Pharaoh Wallace's ever-normal granary.
In other words, it isn't an administration bill, but it Is.
* * * *
Pare, tage of the child is being claimed by capable Edward A. O'Neal,
president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. As a proud father,
he will say the Agriculture Department knew nothing about it.
If pressed, however, Mr. O'Neal will also add that, of course,
his two legal drafters did not have all the necessary statistics and
information at hand for their work. They naturally wanted the best
dope, and wondered where they could get it. After deep thought,
they happened to think of—you guessed it—the Department of
Agriculture.
Now Mr. Wallace is not the kind of man who would deny help to his
best friend, Mr. O'Neal, especially in distress. In his big-hearted way, he
agreed not only to send Mr. O’Neal statistics and information, but his own
general legal counsel, not to draft the bill—oh, no—but merely to hand Mr.
O'Neal a statistic now and then. Of course, some inaccurate newsman
here will probably be so inaccurate as to speculate that Mr O’Neal could
get a better statistic from one of Mr. Wallace's statisticians than from his
lawyer, but every one knows how patient Mr. Wallace has always been
with newspaper inaccuracies.
There appear to be many reasons why this is not an administration
bill, even though Mr. Wallace's lawyer helped to write it. In the first, place,
the anti-administration sentiment sweeping Congress will not be directed
against the bill, if the farmers espouse it as their own. Congressmen gen
erally are ready to give the farmers what they want, even when it happens
to be what Mr. Wallace has been saying in speeches throughout the land
that they should have.
Furthermore, the hill is very drastic in scope, possibly leaning
to the unconstitutional side of the A. A. A. decision by the Supreme
Court. For one thing, it repeats the Supreme Court phrase about,
"the flow of commerce” in the Wagner decision so frequently as
to indicate the author himself had his doubts. He might well have,
because the bill is obviously designed to control production strongly
and effectively in spite of the A. A. A. decision. It carries no State
set-up such as the court suggested was necessary to constitutionalize
production control.
As a matter of fact, certain astounded committeemen were unable
to ascertain for several days what the complicated omnibus really does
contain, and they are not sure yet.
Now. if Congress will just temain drowsy, the bill may be worked
around into a position where it can be shoved through the last minute
of the session, when every one is anxious to gel, home.
Consequently, you must not let your mind become so inaccurate as to
believe this is an administration bill or that it will be passed this
session. Catch?
Another sim-’ar inaccuracy which has been going around is that
Air. Roosevelt would send a power
message to Congress. The White
House announced the other day
that the President had no such
idea in mind. It was said he in
tended to send a national resources
conservation message to Congress,
another on hours and wages, etc.
This was broadcast generally.
However, just as a tip, if you
will look into the national resources
conservation message, you will find
me lost power message. Aside from containing some minor points about
soil conservation, it was written to conlain major points about a survey
looking toward establishment of eight other T. V. A.’s around the country.
In the end. therefore, it may develop that this inaccuracy is on the
White House for railing a power message a national resource message
Mr. Roosevelt's unofficial Attorney General. Tom Corcoran, appeared
behind the Senate scenes the other day to take charge of compromise
negotiations.
(Copyright, 1037.)
FARE DIFFERENCE
S1IRS PR01ES1
Takoma Park Citizens Also
Complain of Sunday Bus
Service.
Complaints of bus service serving
the Takoma Park area on Sundays
and holidays and transportation rates
will be called to the attention of the
District Public Utilities Commission
I by the Takoma Park Citizens’ Asso
1 ciation as the result of action taken
: last night at a meeting in the Takoma
Park Public Library.
Dr. Chester C. Waters, chairman of
the group's Public Utilities Commit
tee, stated that patrons of the Ta
koma ’'express’’ bus line are charged
a 10-cent fare for a scheduled run of
: 33 minutes from Laurel and Carroll
i avenues to Thirteenth and E streets,
whereas the charge is 7% cents on
\ the street car line via Georgia avenue
j from Fourth and Cedar streets to Sev
enth street and Pennsylvania avenue.
A resolution introduced and adopted
set forth that “the 2‘4-cent differen
tial in fare, with no advantage in
running time, appears to constitute
unreasonable discrimination against
those who have purchased homes in
! the easterly section of Takoma Park."
The resolution also “directed the com
mission to ascertain the grounds, if
any. on which the Public Utilities
Commission permits the Capital Tran
i sit Co. to charge 2 cents more for
j inferior service along one of two par
allel routes three or four blocks apart.”
The lack of Sunday and holiday
I service was brought to the attention
of the meeting by Mrs. Samuel Han
i delsman. who stated that the only
j bus service was via the “shuttle" bus
on Kennedy street.
ADDITIONAL LIQUOR
sums PROTESTED
Glover Park Citizens to Op
pose Another Permit
in Neighborhood.
Opposition to more liquor stores in
the Glover Park district was voiced
by the Glover Park Citizens’ Associa
tion, meeting in the Industrial Home
School last night.
Aroused by an application for a
license at Wisconsin avenue and Hall
street, members of the organization
signed a petition opposing it, ap
pointed a committee to appear before
the Alocoholic Beverage Control Board
and passed a resolution against any
more liquor stores in the vicinity.
A traffic light at the corner of
Wisconsin avenue and Calvert street
was advocated.
The meeting was the last until next
September.
DISPLAY CLUB MEETS
Support Given to Get 1938 Con
vention Here.
The National Capital Display Club
has won the assistance of New York
manufacturers of display materials in
its efforts to secure the 1938 conven
tion of the International Association
of Display Men for Washington.
Stephen Vorhees. chairman of the
board of design for the 1939 New
York World’s Fair, and president of
the board, American Institute of
Architects, will address the local club
at its next meeting Wednesday, it
was announced.
CTHE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not
x necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in
The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its
readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s.
Companion Issue on Court
* " 7 '
Roosevelt May Be Able to Control Future Situations
That Arose in Humphrey Case.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT wants
to change the subject. He is
going to send a wage-and
hour bill to Congress. He is
going to make another speech about
public utilities—take the “economic
royalists" for another ride. He asks
Congress to act
on his plan to
reorganize the
executive depart
ment.
Anything but
his court plan.
About that he is
silent. Nor will
he talk about
whom he will
appoint to the
vacancy on the
court. The word
“court" he does
not like to hear.
Very well, let
us talk about the
Mark Sullivan.
plan to reorganize the executive
department. It has been overlooked
in the greater public interest in Mr.
Roosevelt's other plan, his plan to
reorganize the courts.
The two plans are related. If both
should be enacted, Mr. Roosevelt
would have—I quote a calm-minded
person, Walter Lippmann—"personal
power greater than was ever conceived
possible in the chief official of a con
stitutional state.”
The relation between the two plans
can be made clear by recalling an
action of Mr. Roosevelt which is little
known, but which, in the light of
other actions of his, seems to have
significance.
Humphrey •‘Fired.’*
Soon after Mr. Roosevelt took office.
In the busy, exultant early days of
the New Deal, Mr. Roceevelt dashed
off a letter to a member of the Fed
eral Trade Commission, William E.
Humphrey. Mr. Roosevelt wrote:
"Without any reflection at all upon
you personally or upon the service you
have rendered * * • I find it neces
sary to ask for your resignation. I
feel that the aims and purposes of
the administration with respect to
the work of the commission can be
carried out most effectively with per
sonnel of my own selection."
Commissioner Humphrey did not
resign. Mr. Roosevelt wrote again:
“You will, I know, realize that I do
not feel that your mind and my mind
go along together on either the poli
cies or the administering of the Fed
eral Trade Commission act, *nd
frankly I think it is better for the
people of this country that I should
have full confidence.”
Again Commissioner Humphrey did
not resign. Thereupon, October 7,
1933. Mr. Roosevelt wrote once more,
and finally:
"Effective as of this date, you are
hereby removed from the offire of
commissioner of the Federal Trade
Commission.”
Court Upholds Humphrey.
Commissioner Humphrey protested
the legality of his removal. He died
soon after. The executor of his
estate sued the Government for salary
between the time of Commissioner
Humphrey's removal and his death.
In due course the case came up to
the Supreme Court. The court de
cided unanimously that Mr. Roose
velt's removal of Humphrey had been
illegal and that Humphrey's heirs
were entitled to $3,043.06.
The court was careful to say that
its prohibition of summary removal
by the President did not apply to
ordinary officeholders. It did not
apply to postmasters, for example.
These Mr. Roosevelt can remove. He
ran remove any officeholder who is,
as Justice Sutherland put it. "merely
one of the units of the executive de
partment.”
The prohibition applied only to
what have come to be called the
quasi-judicial commissions, of which
the principal ones are the Federal
Trade Commission and the Interstate
Commerce Commission. These com
missions have been given by Congress
special functions, which are partly
judicial. To protect these functions.
Congress gave the bodies a special
standing. They were set up to be,
in the words of Justice Sutherland,
"independent of executive authority
* * * and free to exercise its judg
ment without leave or hindrance of
any other official or any department
[ of the Government.”
Given^Special Immunity.
To make "this protection effective,
Congress, on setting up the commis
sions, gave them a special immunity.
Congress gave them precisely the pro
tection they needed against precisely
the thing Mr. Roosevelt tried to do.
Congress provided that. Members of
the commissions can only be removed
by the President “for inefficiency,
neglect of duty or malfeasance in
office.” They cannot be removed for
the reason Mr. Roosevelt gave for
removing Mr. Humphrey, merely be
cause Mr. Roosevelt wanted “personnel
of my own selection.”
The court's decision against Mr.
Roosevelt in the Humphrey ewe came
down on the same day as its decision
against him in the N. R. A. case,
May 27, 1935. (Both decisions were
unanimous.) Pour days later, Mr.
Roosevelt made his sensational hour
and-a-quarter criticism of the
Supreme Court to his newspaper
conference. Mr. Roosevelt dwelt only
ijr. William A. Hooker, chairman
of the Memorial and Historical Com
mittee, announced that wreaths would
be placed on the graves of Benjamin
F. Gilbert, founder of Takoma Park;
Wilmer G. Platt, former president of
the association, and Mr. and Mrs.
Angus Lamond, pioneer resideints and
organizers of the same body, on
May 31.
The association went on record
opposing daylight saving time and
also voted against the erection of a
slaughter house at Benning, D. C.
Mrs. Chester C. Waters was ap
pointed to represent the association
at a meeting to be held at the Ta
koma, Md., Public Library tomorrow
night, when the question of a welfare
and relief center for Takoma Park
will be discussed.
A vote of thanks will be extended
to Henry M. Gllligan, retiring mem
ber of the Board of Education, for
his long and faithful service to the
citizens of the National Capital.
Announcement was made that the
annual election of officers will take
place at the June meeting.
Wed at 15, Divorced at 17.
Married at 15, a 17-year-old wife
has received a separation decree at
Tottenham, England.
Adam A. Weschler & Son, Auctioneers.
FINE OIL PAINTINGS
the Collection of
J. VINCENT GOULD
By Public Auction
AT WESCHLER'S—915 E ST. N.W.
Monday, May 24, 1937
2 PM. and 8 PM.
Among the artists represented are: Corot, Inness, Daubigny, Harpignies,
Keith. Perrault, Blakelot, A. H. Wyant, Carlton, Wiggins, Van Wyck,
Bounglorno, William Hart and others of note.
SPECIAL EXHIBITION
SUNDAY, May 23rd, 9 AM. to 5 P.M.
MONDAY, May 24th, 9 AM. to 12 Noon
TERMS: CASH. CATALOGUE UPON REQUEST
on the N. R. A decision. He did
not mention the Humphrey decision.
But it would be human—and Mr.
Roosevelt is a very human person—if
he felt the court’s rebuff in the Hum
phrey case, so personal to himself,
even more than he felt its decision
against N. R. A. And if he determined
to do something about it, such deter
mination would reflect both his in
jured pride as a man and his belief
as head of state, that the quasi
judicial commissions ought to be
subordinate to the President.
This object would not be attained
by Mr. Roosevelt’s plan about the
Supreme Court, certainly not im
mediately. For he only asks power
to appoint six new justices, and these
would not be enough to reverse the
Humphrey decision—that decision was
concurred in by all nine of the justices.
, Two-Barrelled Gun. j
But apparently Mr. Roosevelt would
get the quasi-judicial commissions
with his other barrel. He would make
the commissions subordinate to the
President, at least partially, by his
plan for reorganization of the execu
tive departments. I say “apparently”
because the language of the plan
Is peculiar.
The plan for reorganization of the
executive department, as written by
the President's committee, speaks
harshly of the whole set-up of quasi
judicial commissions as they now
exist. The plan speaks of them as
' irresponsible agencies” and aa hav
ing ‘‘unco-ordinated powers." The
plan proposes that each of these com
missions, Instead of being independent
as now, shall be placed under a
cabinet Secretary. The plan goes on
with a suggestion so novel as to in
vite careful scrutiny. The plam pro
poses that each commission be “di
vided into an administrative section
and a Judicial section," that the ad
ministrative section be “directly re
sponsible to the Secretary and through
him to the President," and that the
judicial section be "wholly independ
ent," with the members “removable
only for cause."
But could the judicial sections be
“wholly independent” under such a
set-up? And who Is to draw the
careful line between the “administra
tive section" and the “judicial sec
tion?”
•Copyrittu.
EXECUTED AS SPY
Czech Put to Death as Hungarian
Agent.
PRAHA. Czechoslovakia. May 2T (/P).
—Sergt. Maj. Joseph Krejza, a Czech,
was executed by a firing squad at dawn
today as a Hungarian spy.
The execution, carrying out a death
sentence decreed February 22 by the
army division court, was the first for
betrayal of military secrets in the na
tion's history.
Krejza's wife was sentenced to four
months in prison for failure to report
her husband's offense
We, the People
Van Devanter Resignation Is First Blood for New
Dealers in Court Fight.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.
THE New Dealers have drawn first blood In the fight for the Roosevelt
reform bill. Mr. Justice Willis Van Devanter, one of the six over
age members of the Supreme Court, was slipped the black spot and
jumped overboard, announcing his retirement would be effective on
June 2, at the end of the present term of judicial gymnastics.
The men who are managing the battle for reform regard this as
“second down, 5 yards to go,” rather than a touchdown, to use Mr. Roose
velt’s favorite foot ball Illustration. More political New Dealers liken it to
the old Russian trick of throwing
first the robe and then the babies
to the pursuing wolves, or to the
frantic efforts to lighten ship in
the old days of piracy on the Span
ish Main. The New Deal "planned
It that way." They relied on the
pressure for reform to accomplish
two things en route: First, to
squeeze favorable five-to-four de
cisions out of the court, and out
they come like a ribbon of tooth
paste, and, second, to force a flock of resignations.
This second stage has now arrived. It adds fresh fun to the
New Deal game and encourages the administration to press ahead
for complete victor]/.
Both sides are now dug In so flrmly that nothing but victory will do.
The friends of judicial oligarchy are using the old “social game” commonly
known as the whisky-to-the-Indlans racket to win converts.
In the meantime, New Dealers are watching with interest the
organized banking effort to name the successor to Jim Landis as chairman
of the Securities and Exchange Commission. They are moving in on
Mr. Roosevelt from every direction, armed with bland smiles and great
strings of wampum, to convince him that Prof. William O. Douglas should
not be promoted to the chairmanship.
Prof. Douglas is Yale’s expert on corporation law and knows
what he is talking about. The bankers and brokers who want to
capture the New Deal’s attempt to protect the public from hot
finance, claim that Prof. Douglas is too hostile to Wall Street, that
he doesn’t lcn& the operators.
Wall Street’s candidate for the Landis job is none other than Mr.
fioya odium, head of Atlas, which
js one of the most Intricate and
interesting of what are called
‘investment trusts." Mr. Odium
contributed to the Democratic
campaign fund and to the Good
Neighbor League, via Dr. Stanley
High, during the late unpleasant
ness involving ex-Govemor Landon
of Karsas.
The obvious purpose of such t
an appointment would be to con
vert the Securities and Exchange Commission into another I. C. C. set-up.
In which the interests of the stock, market operators would be paramount
to the interests of the public.
So they are working on Mr. Roosevelt and working hard. If Mr.
Odium wins out over Prof. Douglas and takes over the S. E. C. for
Wall Street, the public will know that the administration has sold the
pass and that the stock Drokers will have the green light for another boom
and another crash. It is faintly possible that the price for such a sell-out
would be the early passage of the Roosevelt reform bill, but it is doubtful
that Wall Street can deliver its own Senators these days, so the friends
of the President are warning him not to sit in on any "friendly little
game ’ unless he is sure that the cards are not marked and that the
money is not counterfeit.
(Copyrignt. 19.37.>
MRS. LESINSKI, WIFE
OF LEGISLATOR, DIES
Detroit Representative's Wife,
39, Became 111 Here in
January.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, May 22.—Mrs. Barbara
Lesinski. 39, wife of John Lesinski,
Democratic Representative in Con
gress from the sixteenth Michigan
district, died Thursday. She had been
ill for a year. Three children survive.
Mrs. Lesinski became ill in Janu
ary, when she entered Georgetown
Hospital here. After a six-week stay
there she went to Detroit. Funeral
, services will be held Monday.
AL CAPONE’S BROTHER
IS SERIOUSLY INJURED
Near Death From Skull Fracture
Suffered in Automobile
Accident.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. May 22 —Matthew Ca
pone, 29, younger brother of Al. Amer
ica's first "Public Enemy No. 1,” was
near death in a hospital yesterday from
a skull fracture suffered in an automo
bile accident in suburban Cicero.
Police said Capone lost control of
his car last night when a rear tire
blew.
Al Capone is serving a 10-year sen
tence in Alcatraz Island Penitentiary
for violation of the income tax laws.
An American
You Should
Know
Mary Anderson Rose
From Immigrant to
Labor Official.
BY DELIA PYNCHOX.
ABOUT 40 years ago a young
Swedish immigrant landed at
Ellis Island. This was Mary
Anderson, who now directs
the Women's Bureau, Department of
Labor, and has done so for 17 years
Mary Anderson.
during the ad
ministrations of
five Presidents.
Mary Anderson
knows whereof
she speaks, for
she has always
worked, and
worked mights'
hard. Starting at
domestic service
in Ludington,
Mich., she worked
by da”, studied
by night. Con
tinuing hc‘r
career at Weft
Pullman, 111,, she
was a shoe factory operator for 18
years daytimes, attending labor,
welfare, educational meetings nights.
She became president of “Local 94."
a shoe union; director of the National
Boot and. Shoe Workers’ Union, an
organizer of the National Tradfe
Union League, Chicago She traveled.
She talked fluently and well in her
adopted tongue. She had vision,
understanding, simplicity, courage.
Labor needed her. She has not failed
them.
Won War Committee Place.
In 1918 Samuel Gompers organized
a Women's Labor Committee to help
boost the war program. Ladies of
pulchritude, but little labor experi
ence, were put on the committee.
Lillian Russell was one of them.
Mary Anderson and others protested.
They were elected 10 serve. This
brought Miss Anderson to Washington
first as assistant director of the tem
porary Women in Industry Service,
which Congress in 1920 made the
j Women's Bureau, a permanent part
I of the Labor Department. Mary
Anderson, gray-haired. blue-eyed,
calm, understanding, is pointing a less
arduous way of life and work than
she has enjoyed.
Many governmental agencies are
small cities. With around 60 loyal co
workers, Miss Anderson makes r. hes
I in labor achievement. Her inc. ,,al
! inheritance is about 11.000.000 women,
whose welfare, wages, opportunities,
working conditions, are near and
dear to her.
Understands Woman Workers.
She has been through the mill. She
understands woman workers' prob
lems. "All women should train for
some kind of a job." Miss Anderson
says. "They may need it some day."
Most of the 11.000.000 women in
industry wnrk because they must.
Four million are both wage earners
and homemakers. Uniformly they
receive from 25 to 50 per cent less
for similar jobs than men. "Women
originally appeared in industry be
| cause they were willing to take less
than men." Corrective work lies in
new minimum State wage laws, Miss
Anderson says.
KM LITE ROCKME’S RECORD
HOLDS ITS HEAD
HIGH
—made its “forward pass” to favor and
scored its touchdown in demand by having
the famous “Rockne co-ordination” back
of the teamwork done by its ingredients.
Malt (the choicest sprouted barley) is
coached to cook its essence into the bubbly
juices of the hardy hops. Then Senate puts
its teasy-taste right between the goal posts
with a master-play of aging.
CHR. HEURICH BREWING CO.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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