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WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1939. *** * B—1
Church Rites
To Celebrate
Thanksgiving
25 States Join the
Capital in Early
Observance
Washington will join 25 States to
morrow in observing Thanksgiving
Day a week earlier than usual, but in
the old-fashioned way, with special
services of gratitude and praise in
many of the churches, turkey feasts
and other time-hallowed features.
Three of the 25 States—Mississippi,
Texas and Colorado—will hold dou
ble-header Thanksgivings, celebrat
ing the holiday for the second time
on the traditional last Thursday,
November 30, when 23 other States
will observe the occasion in dis
regard of President Roosevelt's proc
lamation*
Railroads and airlines reported a
large number of reservations from
District residents leaving town over
the holiday. Motorists are expected
to clog the highways tonight and
tomorrow.
Government departments and
virtually all stores will be closed.
Pupils of the public schools and
most private schools will be off from
tonight until Monday morning.
Football fans may see Maryland
play Syracuse at 10:30 a m. at College
Park or Western and Eastern High
Schools meeting the championship
playoff of the public high schools at
10 o'clock in Central Stadium.
The telegraph companies are pre
pared for a big business in Thanks
giving greetings—both tomorrow and
a week from tomorrow. Special
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Needy to Be Remembered.
Welfare organizations and mis
sions will remember the destitute.
The family department of the Sal
vation Army will distribute food to
families on its list, and the organi
zation's Men's Social Service Center
will serve homeless men a Thanks
giving dinner.
"All hungry men” will find food
and a welcome at the Central Union
Mission, 613 C street N.W., beginning
at noon. Old-time songs will be
sung. At 2:30 p.m. baskets of food
will be distributed to those holding
tickets. Other families on the mis
sion’s list will receive similar bas
kets through various churches.
From noon until 2 p.m. a Thanks
giving dinner will be served the
homeless at the Gospel Mission. 214
John Marshall place N.W. Tire mis
sion also will deliver baskets to 150
needy families.
The Relief Mission of the Volun
teers of America. 471 Pennsylvania
avenue N.W.. will serve dinners to
those without means to bny them
from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Families
Will be served at individual tables so
far as possible. Hot meals will be
sent to families kept home by sick
ness. The Volunteers also will serve
a special dinner at the Girls' Club
and Hospice. 1525 Sixteenth street
N.W., to “white collar” girls in
temporary need.
Church Services.
The Washington Cathedral will
hold communion services at 7:30 and
9:30 a.m. tomorrow- and a main serv
ice at 11 a.m. at which Bishop James
E. Freeman will preach and a festi
val of music will be heard. Evening
prayer service wdll be held at 4 p.m.
At St. John's Church. Sixteenth
and H streets N.W.. the Rev. Dr.
Oliver J. Hart, rector, will preach
at a morning prayer service at 11
a.m. A choir of men and boys di
rected by Arthur Howes, organist
and choirmaster, will sing “Prayer
of Thanksgiving," by Netherlands.
Holy communion will be celebrated
at 8 a.m.
I. lie I\CV. VUgn AVJ.. VUOUJ , pciouvji
of River Road United Presbyterian
Church, will preach at 10 a.m. on
•'Forget Not!” Those attending are
asked to bring canned goods for the
destitute.
Thanksgiving services will be held
at the Eldbrooke Methodist Church
at 10:30 a.m. The minister, the Rev.
Dr. Walter M. Michael, will preach
on “The Sacrifices of Thanksgiving.”
The vested choir, directed by Clara
Young Brown, will give a special
program. Gifts for the Methodist
Home will be received.
Other Services.
The annual Thanksgiving service
at Sherwood Presbyterian Church
will take place at 10 a.m., with the
sermon by the minister, the Rev.
Thomas Law Coyle. The choir will
be directed by Roy K. Easter.
A union Thanksgiving service will
be held at Columbia Heights Chris
tian Church, 1435 Park road N.W.,
at 11 a.m. The Rev. Dr. Robin
Gould of the Francis Asbury Meth
odist Church, will preach on "Home
land and Harvest” and a program
of appropriate music will be given.
Churches joining in this service in
clude All Souls’ Unitarian, Cleve
land Park Congregational, Colum
bia Heights Christian, Francis As
bury Methodist, the Chapel of the
Latter Day Saints, the Mount Pleas
ant Congregational and the Uni
versalist National Memorial.
Grace Lutheran Church will hold
a community service at 10:30 a.m.
The pastor, the Rev. Dr. Gerhard
E. Lenski, will preach on “How to
Be Thankful.” Dr. Paul Minne
man, recently returned from Lon
don, will read the President’s proc
lamation. The choir will give
Thanksgiving anthems, with Marian
Ranberg at the organ.
a# Hamlin*.
Hamline Methodist Church, Six
teenth and Allison streets N.W., will
hold special services at 10:30 o’clock
tomorrow morning. The sermon will
be preached by the Rev. H. W,
Burgan.
The anuual Thanksgiving service
at the Non-Sectarian Tabernacle,
6440 Piney Branch road N.W., will be
held at 8 o’clock tomorrow night
with Judson A. Rudd, president oi
the William Jennings Bryan Uni
versity at Dayton, Tenn., delivering
the* holiday message.
Canon William Bradner of Wash
ington Cathedral will give the ad
dress at holiday services at 11 a.m
tomorrow in the Transfiguration
Episcopal Church, 1415 Gallatin
street N.W.
Two services will be held tomorrow
at the Church of St. Stephen and
the Incarnation—holy communion
fta M'
at 8 am. and holy communion and
a sermon at 10 am. The rector, the
Rev. Paul D. Wilbur, will preach.
Goodwill Industries will entertain
its employes at a Thanksgiving din
ner at 1 pm. at headquarters of the
organization, 1218 New Hampshire
avenue N.W.
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Philharmonic Members Arrive
Early to See Capital Sights
John Barbirolli, conductor of the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra, pictured on his arrival at Union Station this morning.
With him is his wife, making her first visit to Washington.
—Star Staff Photo.
The New York Philharmonic
Symphony Orchestra, one of the
most cosmopolitan groups of artists
in the world, arrived at Union Sta
tion five hours ahead of schedule
this morning for a sight-seeing tour
of the city which for many of the
103 musicians represents all the lib
erty and freedom lost to them in
their home lands.
It was a cold and dreary scene
that greeted the orchestra's special
train, but shivering reporters got the
impression that nothing short of a
blizzard would keep the players from
seeing the sights before their concert
tonight in Constitution Hall—third
stop on the orchestra's first extensive
tour in 10 years.
John Barbirolli, the brilliant young
English conductor who succeeded
the great Toscanini as leader of the
Philharmonic, spent the time on the
ride from Baltimore giving his wife
a lesson in American history.
Ml
Anxious to See Sights.
“This is her first visit here, so we
had to prepare her for the tour." he
said as he stepped off the train. He
added he was just as anxious to see
the sights himself—his only previous
visit being a luncheon engagement
with President Roosevelt about 18
months ago.
“I didn't see any one but the
i President then,” he explained.
The orchestra came to Washing
ton ahead of time, because the mu
sicians rebelled against losing a day
sight-seeing. They prevailed on Tour
Director Bruno Zirato to leave Bal
timore early this morning instead
of this afternoon.
Mr. Barbirolli said the tour,
which calls for visits to 14 cities in
as many days, was arranged be
cause of the keen interest in the
Sunday afternoon broadcasts.
Two Women in Party.
Reporters thought they had met
the wrong train when it became ap
parent that practically all the pas
sengers were wearing what appeared
to be mourning clothes—black,
broad-brimmed hats and black
overcoats. They concluded that's
merely the vogue among symphony
musicians this season or that the
players are following Mr. Barbirolli's
taste in clothes as they follow the
swing of his baton. £
■ fifteen ocuntries once were home
4c members of the orchestra. How
ever, all but two members are
American citizens and these (Mr.
Barbirolli and Josef Schuster, solo
cellist) have their first papers.
There are only two women trav
eling with the orchestra—Mrs. Bar
birolli. the former Eleanor Rothwrell,
who was an oboe player in the
conductor's Covent Garden and
Scottish Symphony Orchestras, and
Miss Dorle Jarmel. press repre
sentative of the Philharmonic-Sym
phony.
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Thanksgiving Date Confusion
Enmeshes Roosevelt Family
Some of Children to Observe Tomorrow,
Some November 30 and Others Both Days
About half the country will ob
serve Thanksgiving Day tomorrow,
but the confusion which followed
President Roosevelt’s decision to ad
vance the customary date has ex
tended right into his own family.
The President and Mrs. Roose
velt will have their turkey dinner
tomorrow night at the Warm
Springs, Ga„ foundation for infan
tile paralysis patients. Some of their
children, however, will observe both
tomorrow’s holiday and the one pro
claimed by Governors in some States
for November 30.
James Roosevelt, the President’s
eldest son, will celebrate in New
York tomorrow and then go to
Massachusetts, which has selected
the traditional last Thursday in
November. Mr. and Mrs. John
Roosevelt also will have their turkey
at Nahant, Mass., on the “second
Thanksgiving."
The Governor of Texas proclaimed
both Thursdays as a holiday, so Mr.
and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt will have
two dinners at their ranch near
Port Worth, Tex. Mr. and Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, jr., will have
turkey tomorrow at their cottage in
Charlottesville. Va., but next week
they will have guests for Thanksgiv
ing recess of the University of Vir
ginia
Date Often Changed.
The President's daughter, Mrs.
John Boettiger of Seattle, will follow
her father’s example and observe
only the “first Thanksgiving.”
Provincetown has claimed to be
the scene of Massachusetts settlers’
first Thanksgiving, but popular tra
dition assigns the origin of the ob
servat ce to the Pilgrims’ Harvest
Festival in Plymouth in 1621, after
the crops were gathered, according
to a bulletin from the National Geo
graphic Society.
The game of shifting the date for
the observance has been a favorite
pastime of Presidents, it seems, ac
cording to the Geographic Society.
Here's what the records show, from
the first President on down:
President Washington: Despite
Jefferson's warning that church and
state should be separate according to
the country’s new Constitution,
Washington in 1789 proclaimed that
the last Thursday of November
should be a day of general thanks
giving. However, after the first
proclamation, President Washington
allowed a lapse of five years. The
next time he proclaimed a day of
thanksgiving and prayer, he set the
date for February 19.
John Adams: Chose May 9, in
1798, for a day of thanksgiving and
then selected a day in April the fol
lowing year.
James Madison: Had a field day
in shifting the observance date. In
1812, he recommended the third
Thursday in August; in 1813, he set
aside the second Thursday in Sep
temDer and in 1814 he designated
January 12 as a Thanksgiving Day.
Jackson Set No Date.
Andrew Jackson: Issued no proc
lamation for observance of the holi
day, refraining for the sake of sepa
ration of church and State.
Zachary Taylor: Left the matter
up to the judgement of State gov
ernors.
Abraham Lincoln: Finally teth
ered the Nation’s roving Thanks
giving Day to the fourth Thursday
in November. However, he pro
claimed a preliminary August
T1 anksgiving in 1863, the year when
he finally established the November
tradition.
Andrew Jackson: Coming to the
White House after Lincoln’s death,
he delayed Thanksgiving until the
first Thursday of December, 1865.
Ulysses S. Grant: In the first year
of his presidency, he appointed No
vember 18, but for the rest of his
term followed the Lincoln tradi
tion.
To Discuss Child Raising
Dr. Martin L. Reymert, director
of the laboratory fbr child research
at Mooseheart, 111., will discuss prob
lems in raising children, at 8:30
pm. Friday, at a meeting of the
local chapter of the Women of the
Moose at Moose Hall, 1414 I
street N.W.
The planets all move around the
sun in the same direction and al
most in the same plane.
Traffic Record
The traffic record for 24-hour
period ending 8 am. today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 26.
Motorists injured, 4.
Motorists arrested, 328.
Pedestrians injured, 3.
Pedestrians arrested for viola
tion of pedestrian control regu
lations, 5.
A
First Building
Industry Pad
Signed by C. 1.0.
Contract Designed
To End Jurisdictional
Disputes
Signing of the first C. I. O. con
tract in the building industry in
Washington was announced today,
marking the formal entry of the
Congress of Industrial Organiza
tions into an organizing field here
previously held exclusively by the
American Federation of Labor.
A. D. Lewis, chairman of the
United Construction Workers Or
ganizing Committee, a C. I. O. af
filiate, announced the signing of
the contract. It is with Construc
tion Industry Employers, Inc., an
association of local builders and
contractors, and is the first contract
in the country the C. I. O. has signed
with such an association. Previous
industrial contracts have been
signed with individual companies.
The association, recently formed,
has headquarters at 1101 Vermont
avenue N.W. It is composed, it was
announced, of 30 to 40 contractors
covering all types of work.
The number of workers covered
was said to run into the thousands,
the axact number depending, it was
explained, on the amount of work
under way here.
Aim to End Disputes.
“Elimination of jurisdictional dis
putes and other abuses associated
with the craft union form of or
ganization is,” the announcement
said, "the cardinal objective of the
contract. All workers on the job of
any contractor no matter what type
of work they may do shall belong
to the same union.”
The contract provides grievance
macmnery 10 seiue mspuces wun
and stoppage of work. Selection of
an umpire is provided to decide
cases that are not settled by direct
negotiation.
The contract calls for an eight
hour day and the five-day week,
w'ith time and a half for overtime
and double time on holidays and
Sundays.
Wage Scale Included.
A standard wage scale based on
$9 a day for journeymen is embodied
in the contract. It was explained
that this wage represents a com
promise between the non-union
scale, which ranges up from $6 a
day, and the prevailing union wage
for work on Government buildings,
which is $12 a day. It was said
that 90 per cent of the private build
ing work here is done by non-union
lpbor.
The contract runs until March 1,
1940. It may be continued there
after from year to year unless a
30-day notice is given by either
party desiring a change.
Safety standards to protect work
ers are provided and also a check
off for union dues. An apprentice
system is included in the contract
as a means of training younger
workers under union conditions, it
was said.
“Important Results” Seen.
Officials declined to comment spe
cifically on what effect it will have
in the ranks of organized labor here,
but forecast "some important results.”
The contract was signed by Mr.
Lewis, Thomas P. McTigue, chair
man of the District of Columbia
Construction Workers’ District Con
ference, and officers of Local Union,
No. 30, representing the U. C. W.
O. C., and by Richard W. Frey,
president of R. W. Frey, Inc., and
chairman of an employers’ Negoti
ating Committee.
Mr. Lewis and Mr. Frey made this
Joint statement:
“The District of Columbia is to
be congratulated on being one of
the first cities of the Nation to
adopt the modem industrialized
form of organization in the build
ing industry. Industrial unionism
offers the only effective answer to
ancient craft union abuses with
which the industry confronted for
OV
The United Construction Workers’
Organizing Committee was formed
last August for the purpose of or
ganizing the workers in the con
struction industry. Besides Mr.
Lewis its members include Philip
Murray, chairman of the Steel
Workers’ Organizing Committee and
vice president of the United Mine
Workers; James B. Carey, president
of the United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers and secretary of
the C. I. O.; R. J. Thomas, presi
dent of the United Automobile
Workers of America, and Sherman
H. Dalrymple, president of the
United Rubber Workers of America.
Two Men and Auto
Required to Win Fight
William Marshall, 47, colored, of
442 Grace’s court S.W., was holding
his own in a fight at Eighth and F
streets S.W. last night—until the
opposition recruited an automobile
to lay Marshall low.
Marshall became involved in a
battle on the corner with Leroy
Anderson, 34, 627 H street S.W. and
William E. Dodson, 49, colored, of
440 Grace’s court. Both Anderson
and Dodson had received knife
wounds when some one pushed Mar
shall out into the street.
He stumbled into the path of an
automobile and was rendered hors
de combat. All three were treated
at Casualty Hospital, and Marshall
was later charged with two cases of
assault with a deadly weapon.
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SIGNS FIRST C. I. O. BUILDING INDUSTRY PACT HERE—The first contract between a C. I. O.
building industry union and an association of contractors was signed here today. It is also
Washington’s first C. I. O. contract in the building industry. Participating in ceremonies were
(left to right): Thomas P. McTigue, chairman of the D. C. Construction Workers; Richard W. Frey,*
chairman of Contractors’ Negotiating Committee; Edmund J. Grady, organizer for the Construc
tion Industry Employers, and A. D. Lewis, chairman of the United Construction Workers’ Organ
ization Committee. —Star Staff Photo.
D. C. Zoning Board
To Hear Appeal
On Gas Station
Northwest Citizens'
Council Protests
Earlier Decision
The Board of Zoning Assessments
was scheduled to decide this after
noon whether to grant a rehearing
of the bitterly-contested case in
which it had granted permission to
the Blue Bell Realty Co. to estab
lish a gasoline station on the west
side of Connecticut avenue near
Idaho avenue N.W.. a development
protested by officials of the North
west Citizens' Council. Threats of
an appeal to court have been heard
should the board refuse a rehearing:
1 The board was scheduled to act
on this case at the conclusion of
today's public hearing on 14 other
requests for variances or exceptions
from zoning regulations on cither
properties. One of these was ex
pected to create a sharp contro
versy, this being the request of the
Convent of Good Shepherd for per
mission to erect a two-story addi
tion to its property at Thirty-sixth
and R streets N.W. for use as a
laundry. Residents of the area ap
peared at the hearing to register
protest on the ground that the en
larged laundry' service would be in
the nature of a commercial opera
tion.
Claim Right to Rehearing.
The board today received a com
munication from H. L. Colman,
president of the Northwest Citizens'
Council, claiming the right to a re
hearing on the grounds of new evi
dence in the form of a statement
by Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, director of
the Bureau of Standards, that the
bureau was opposed to establish
ment of a gas station.
The hearing on the Blue Bell ap
plication was held September 20.
The communication received by the
board today showed that Dr. Briggs
had written on September 29 to the
Federal Works Agency stating, in
reply to a letter from that agency
on September 26, which referred to
a letter from the president of the
Forest Hills Citizens’ Association,
that 'the bureau has entered a verbal
protest against the project with the
Board of Zoning Adjustments.”
Officials of the Adjustment Board
declared today that no member of
the board had received the verbal
protest from Dr. Briggs.
Wrote to Works Agency.
In his own letter to the board, Mr.
Colman stated:
“Prior to the hearing the Bureau
of Standards through its director,
Lyman J. Briggs, verbally protested
to the board against the issuance of
the license in question. Several per
sons interested in the matter were
told there was nothing in the record
showing a protest from this source.
Dr. Briggs was informed of this and
wrote a letter to the Federal Works
agency, a copy of which is inclosed.
“If the decision was rendered
without taking the protest of the
Bureau of Standards into considera
tion, then evidence of a most mate
rial nature has been excluded. The
ground of the Bureau of Standards
is practically contiguous to the site
in qufttion and I believe I can say
without contradiction that no mat
ter what improvements are erected
on the proposed site they will affect
the property of the Bureau of
Standards. They are certainly a
party in interest and if their oppo
sition is not in the record they
should be afforded the opportunity
to be heard together with several
others who, for extenuating circum
stances, could not appear at the first
hearing.”
Appeal Is Argued.
Nearly an hour was consumed at
the outset of the hearing over an
appeal by the G. & C. Properties
Inc., for permisison to use alley lot*
at 3823-3825 Fourteenth street N.W
as a plfimbing and heating shop and
office. The appeal was made by
Gilbert N. Keller and was opposed
by Francis L. Newbeck and othei
residents.
Edgar Morris made a protest
against application by Frances R. C
Francavilla for permission to estah
lish an automobile service statior
at 4036 Georgia avenue N.W., on th<
ground that it would damage thi
values of neighboring properties
1
The board also heard arguments
over the appeal of Hanse Hamilton
for permission to extend an existing
gasoline service station to the
northwest corner of Connecticut
avenue and Fessenden street N.W.,
and an appeal by Louise H. Griffiths
for permission to establish a gaso
line service station at the south
east comer of Carroll and Maple
streets N.W.
Arts and Crafts
Training Center
Is Opened
So that the program of public
recreation in Washington may be
rounded out further, the recreation
section of the District Work Projects
Administration has opened a train
ing center where W. P. A. leaders,
versed in the arts and crafts, may
learn new techniques and how they
may be applied in their actual con
tacts with children and adults.
The center, located on the second
floor of Lincoln Temple Parish
I House, 1701 Eleventh street N.W.,
! opened yesterday with a general in-1
spection by recreation and W. P. A.
officials and leaders in social service
work.
For several months Herbert S.
Price, director of the District W.;
P. A. recreation project and moving
light in the establishment of the
training center, had worked with
the leaders under him to convert
the bare walls and floors of a suite
of rooms in the parish house into
an arts and crafts classroom.
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Ballou to Be Informed
Of Liquor License Pleas
Several members of the Board of
Education and Supt. Franlq W.
Ballou met today with the Alco
, holic Beverage Control Board to
; develop procedure by which school
: officials will be notified of appli
! cations for liquor licenses.
Hitherto applications have often
been made from locations in the
vicinity of school buildings and ac
tion taken without the knowledge of
school officers.
As a result of today’s confer
ence the A. B. C. Board agreed
to furnish Dr. Ballou’s office with
advance copies of applications
which are drawn up for newspa
per publication. The superintend
ent’s office will then determine if
any of the applicants are too near
public school buildings.
School Board members attending
the session included Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, president of the
board; Robert A. Maurier, vice pres
ident; Gratz E. Dunkum, Mrs. Velma
G. Williams. Col. West A. Ham
ilton and Mrs. E. Z. Watkins, sec
retary of the board. All three mem
bers of the A. B. C. Board under
Chairman Thomas E. Lodge were
also present.
Free Milk for Poor
Seen by Schulte if
Market Is 'Open'
Indiana Representative
Also Sees Retail Price
Drop if Bill Passes
Representative Schulte, Democrat,
of Indiana declared today that
Washington dairies could furnish
free milk to the poor if Congress en
acts his bill to open the local milk
market to producers outside the
so-called local milkshed.
He made the statement shortly
before he left his office to go to the
Department of Agriculture to ap
pear at a public hearing there in
opposition to a proposal of the
Maryland-Virginia Milk Producers’
Association for re-establishment of
Federal supervision over the local
milkshed.
Mr. Schulte's bill has a preferred
status on the House calendar and is
expected to be called up soon after
Congress convenes in January.
Sees 11-Cent Milk.
“If my bill is passed. Washington
will be flooded with superior milk
from Indiana, Wisconsin and other
States." he declared. “The increased
supply should force down the retail
price of milk to 12 or 11 cents a
quart, and at the same time provide
an ample surplus so that dairies
could give away milk to the poor in
stead of charging them for it.
"Dairies pay far less per gallon for
surplus milk than for the basic al
lotments.” he added. “The recent
milk investigation by a subcommit
tee of the House District Committee
showed the dairies are making a
good profit. It seems to me they
can afford to be philanthropic and
give away some of this surplus milk
to the poor who really need it.”
Mr. Schulte explained he did not
mean that the dairies should give
free milk to every applicant, but
only to those persons certified by
relief officials.
“Giving milk to the poor might
cost the dairies $100 a day." he said,
“but it would make rosy the cheeks
of a lot of kids here in Washington
whose faces are now as white as
paper."
Attends Frederick Hearing.
Mr. Schulte attended the second
of the series of hearings of the Ag
riculture Department on the pro
posed milk agreement yesterday in
Frederick, Md., and charged that,
from his observations, the meeting
was “stacked" by producers who are
opposed to his bill.
He said he believed the purpose
of the milk producers' association in
urging Federal control of Washing
ton's milk supply is to force inde
pendent producers to join the or
ganization and thereby give it "ab
solute control” over the supply as
well as prices.
'Needling'Turkeys With Water
To Add Weight Revealed
Housekeepers may be truly thank
ful tomorrow if plump Thanksgiv
ing turkeys don’t evaporate several
pounds in the oven, for, according
to Ruth Lamb of the Pood and
Drug Administration, who spoke be
fore the Women’s National Press
Club luncheon yesterday, it was
found certain poultry dealers in the
Middle West added weight to tur
keys, chickens and other fowl by
injecting water in the muscles with
a needle. The unsuspecting shop
per purchased a plump bird, cold
and stiff in the refrigerator little
realizing she was paying for several
pounds of water as well as meat.
Then, Miss Lamb pointed out, the
bird shrank rapidly as soon as the
ice-filled muscles began to thaw.
Apprehending such frauds per
petrated by unscrupulous food mer
chants. as well as dealers in drugs
and cosmetics, is part of the daily
routine of Miss Lamb’s department.
Lovely eyes must be protected, as
well as the housekeepers’ pocket
books, the administration repre
sentative pointed out, and various
types of eyelash dye and eye shadow
. creams made from injurious sub
a
stances have been removed from
markets since passage of the new
Food and Drug Act last summer,
she said.
The new act also will insure the
buyer of "quantity as well as qual
ity” in articles advertised with con
tents of stipulated amounts, she de
clared. In past years, false bottoms
in powder boxes and candy boxes
have often concealed the real
amount of contents, she said. In
some cases tooth paste and drug
cartons and bottles have likewise
been deceptive, she added.
Miss Lamb said IS national wom
en’s organizations, which worked
for the act, assisted in securing
final passage of the new law.
The speaker assisted in assembling
material for the “American Chamber
of Horrors” at the Agriculture De
partment and is the author of a
oook on it.
Bess Furman Armstrong presided
at the luncheon, held at the Wil
lard Hotel, In the absence of Ruby
Black, president. Guests Included
the Baroness de Bodisco, Dr. Hazel
Stiebling of the Bureau of Home
Economics and Mrs. George Gell
hom of St. Louis.
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Dairies Offer
Plan for Cent
Milk Cut
Price Paid Farmers
Would Be Slashed
In Spring
BACKGROUND—
The Agricultural Adjustment
Act of 1933 carried a plan for
federally supervised fixing of
prices to be paid producers of
farm commodities. In 1936 a
price-fixing agreement of this
sort went into effect in the
Washington area for dairy farm
ers, but the plan was shelved
when a District Court judge held
it unconstitutional. The Supreme
Court has since upheld its valid
ity, and now another agreement
is sought.
By BLAIR BOLLES.
The 11 dairies supplying milk to
Washington and Maryland suburbs
joined together today in sponsoring
a plan for lowering the retail price
of milk in the District 1 cent a
quart by May 1, 1940.
J. Edward Burroughs, jr., spokes
man for tfie dairies, predicted that
the reduction would increase fresh
milk consumption at the expense of
the large Washington market for
evaporated milk, which tripled be
tween 1920 and 1938.
Mr. Burroughs appeared in the
Agriculture Department auditorium
at the third day of the hearing on
the proposed milk marketing agree
mem ana oraer lor the Washington
area. The dairies granted that the
agreement and order—establishing
the Federal Government supervisor
of the District market—would be
beneficial.
However, to the dismay expressed
by many farmers in the hearing au
dience, a suggested far-reaching
amendment in the agreement as
suggested by the Maryland and Vir
ginia Milk Producers' Association,
representing the farmers supplying
80 per cent of the milk bought by
the dairies, the dairies proposed to
lower the retail price by a cut in
the price already proposed for the
farmers.
The association urged the price
$3.17 on milk to be used for fluid
consumption. Mr. Burroughs fig
ured that the actual fanner price
would be $3.51, considering the pre
mium payment required in the as
sociation's proposal. He said the
dairies would be willing to pay that
price until May 1, but that he
thought that it ought to be drop
ped to $2.71.
At the same time Mr. Burroughs
said the proposed especially low
■ price for milk designated for the
poor should be bought from the
farmers MTdy 1 at a minimum of
$2.25 instead of the association’s
$2.71. Mr. Burroughs said that he
thought low-price milk should be
distributed only to relief clients and
not to all families in the low-in
come group, as the co-operative as
sociations suggested.
With milk retailing in Washing
ton at its present price of 14 cents
a quart. Mr. Burroughs said, evapo
rated milk sales amount to 43.68 per
cent of all the milk sales in Wash
in<rtrm oo/inrHirwr fn n r-ninn
stores.
He elucidated:
"Evaporated milk in the stores is
sold at as low as 6‘2 cents for a
tall can. For every quart of fresh
milk sold by the stores, nearly a
quart of evaporated milk (fluid
equivalent basis) is sold from the
stores.
Wide Difference.
"This difference of 7h cents in
price in Washington between fresh
and evaporated milk is among the
widest in this country and prob
ably accounts for the high per
centage of evaporated milk sold in
the stores covered by this survey.
Mr. Burroughs spoke for these
dairies: Arlington County Dairy,
Chestnut Farms-Chevy Chase Dai
ry, Embassy Dairy. Inc.; Fairfax
Farm Dairy. Inc.; Harvey's Dairy,
Highland Farm Dairy. Holbrook
Farm Dairy. Model Farm Dairy,
Inc.; Richfield Dairy, Thompson's
Dairy and Wakefield.
The fact that the dairies did not
oppose the idea of a marketing
agreement and order indicated a
great change in their attitude as
displayed by their attitude in 1936
when Washington received the milk
marketing agreement and order
which still was declared unconstitu
tional in the District Court. Since
then the Supreme Court has upheld
the validity of this sort of price
fixing agreement, the dairies have
reconciled themselves to the fact
that they must learn how to operate
under it.
Two-Quart Bottle Used.
In New York and Chicago, which
are among the cities where such
agreements already are working, the
dairies have effected reduction in
retail prices at the same time they
paid high prices to the farmers.
The principal retail saving has
come through the introduction of
the 2-quart bottle. In New York
the 2-quart bottle of milk is sold for
3 cents less than 2 quarts of milk
cost the retail consumer before the
agreement went into effect.
Mr. Burrough s statement opened
a day of attack on the proposal as
introduced by the Maryland and
Virginia Association. Outright op
position was voiced by the Wash
ington Consumers’ League, which
argued that milk should be sold re
tail here for 12 cents a quart without
further benefits to farmers.
The proposed agreement sets the
basic class 1 price at $3.17 a hun
dredweight. There is a price of
$2.71 for milk which would be dis
tributed at low price to Washington
relief families, and a price of $2.71
for milk produced for sale in the
Maryland suburbs by farmers with
out a District Health Department
permit. Class 2 is milk for cream,
cottage cheese and uses not specified
in class 3 and class 1. The price is
$1.98 a hundredweight. Class 3 is
milk for ice cream, and its price is
hitched to the price of butter.
Whether the agreement is put in
force depends on whether Secretary
Wallace finds, on reading the rec
ord of the hearings, that the farm
ers need it and that it won’t injure
the Washington consumers.
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