Evening star. [volume], January 16, 1940, Page A-9, Image 9

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Ban on Employment
At 45 or Over Hit
As Short-Sighted
Session on Old-Ago
Problems Told Age Group
Has Productive Assets
. An industry which bars employ
ment of persons over 45 years of
age sacrifices its own interest and
does a "grave injustice” to those
disqualified, Merrill Vincent, direc
tor of the Hearings Branch, Wage
and Hour Division of the Depart
ment of Labor, told an institute on
old-age problems yesterday.
Speaking at the afternoon session
of the conference, sponsored by the
Health and Family Welfare Com
mittees, Council of Social Agencies,
Mr. Vincent said that it is not un
common to find employment rules
barring persons over 45. Such a
rule in many instances "operates to
deny employment to men and wom
en in the prime of their productive
ability,” he said.
"Their skill has been perfected
by experience, their judgment
ripened, and when they have had
Incomes sufficient to afford a healthy
standard of living, their physical
resources are frequently equal tc
the demands made upon them in
their earlier years,” the speaker de
clared
Cites "Inalienable Right.”
Discussing the Nation’s responsi
bility in caring for the aged, he said:
“We tolerated too long the social
philosophy that if the rich man’s
table is filled high with the luxuries
of life, enough crumbs will roll off
to keep Lazarus alive. We must now
replace the tolerance of charity with
the Inalienable right to live dignified
and happy lives.”
Sigmund Feinblatt, director of the
Hebrew Home for the Aged and In
firm in Baltimore, enumerated three
points on which programs of care
for the aged should be based. They
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1. Keeping the aged person in his
own community as long as possible.
2. Institutionalizing only those
aged infirm, and chronics requiring
routine medical and nursing care.
3. Meeting the needs of each on
an individual basis.
Lists Three Handicaps.
C. Earle Lamson, director of the
District Employment Center, said
that of those his organization serves,
a large proportion are over 40. This
group is handicapped in three ways,
he said, listing general unemploy
ment, re-employment policies and
their own fear of the future.
Speakers at the luncheon session
were P. K. Whelpton, consultant of
population research, Central Sta
tistical Board, Bureau of the Budget,
who discussed “Population Trends,"
and George St. John Perrott, chief
of the Division of Public Health
Methods, United States Public
Health Service, who talk on "Public
Health Aspects of an Ageing Popu
lation.”
The morning session heard pa
pers by Miss Miriam Birdseye, nu
tritionist, extension service of the
Department of Agriculture: Miss
Beatrice Mullin, director of the so
cial service department, Georgetown
University Hospital: Dr. Winfred
Overholser, superintendent, St. Eliz
abeth's Hospital, and Miss Amy R.
Cowan, supervisor of the Bright
wood Center, Instructive Visiting
Nurse Society, whose paper was read
by Miss Marie Wallace, director of
the Georgetown Center, In her ab
sence.
The Institute was held at the
Y. W. C. A.
Meeting to Discuss
Sharecroppers' Plight
Pressing Issues facing agricul
tural labor and sharecroppers will
be discussed at an open meeting
at 8 o’clock tonight at Pierce Hall,
Sixteenth and Harvard streets N.W.,
Gardner Jackson, sponsor of the
Washington Committee to Aid Ag
ricultural Workers, announced to
day. The committee is sponsoring
the meeting.
The Rev. Owen H. Whitfield, or
ganizer of the United Cannery, Ag
ricultural, Packing and Allied Work
ers of America, will discuss the
sharecroppers’ plight. Two field
workers, Josie Hart of Alabama and
Mollie Robinson of Texas, will speak.
Miss Merrill to Speak
Miss Margaret Bell Merrill, head
resident of the Barney Neighbor
hood House, will give a report of
the group’s activities at a meeting
of the Southwest Citizens’ Associa
tion at 8 pm. tomorrow in Jeffer
son Junior High School, Sixth and
D streets S.W.
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Milk Plot Defendants
Face Arraignment
In 1938 Case
Summoned to Court
Today in Chicago;
Early Trial Sought
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Br the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—Fifty-seven
Individuals and corporations, under
indictment since November 1, 1938,
for conspiracy to restrain trade in
the milk Industry, were summoned
to court today to make their pleas.
Daniel L. Britt, a special assist
ant to the Attorney General, an
nounced that after the arraignment
he would ask Federal Judge Charles
E. Woodward to set an early trial
date.
The case already has made one
trip to the United States Supreme
Court.
Last July 13 Judge Woodward
dismissed the charges under a rul
ing that Congress had removed the
marketing of farm products from
the Jurisdiction of the Sherman
Anti-Trust Act and had placed It
under control of the Secretary of
Agriculture. »
On December 4 the United States
Supreme Court unanimously decided
the District Court had erred, and
remanded the case for trial.
Mr. Britt explained the charges
were misdemeanors, carrying maxi
mum penalties of a year's imprison
ment and a $5,000 fine on convic
tion. /
There are three counts In the In
dictment and they apply, he said,
against each one of the defendants,
charging them with conspiring to
restrain trade In the huge Chicago
milk shed, conspiring to fix prices
to the fanner and conspiring to fix
prices to the consumer.
A fourth count dealing with an
alleged distribution conspiracy was
dismissed by Judge Woodward and
was not appealable.
Seven Named to Board
To Foster Marksmanship
The War Department, yesterday
named seven new members of the
National Board for Promotion of
Rifle Practice and announced the
board will hold its next meeting
here on February 1.
New members are MaJ. Gen. Gil
atm D. Light, Ohio National Guard;
Lt. CoL Guy H. Drewry, Ordnance
Department; Lt. OoL Merritt A.
Edson, Marine Corps; Lt. CoL L.
W. T. Waller, Jr, Marine Corps
Reserves; Capt. Henry 8. See, En
gineer Corps Reserves; Lt. Clyde H.
Brown, Infantry Reserves, and
Judge Hilliard Comstock, Seat*
Rosa, Calif., a director of the N*>
tional Rifle Association. . 4
The board administers funds vp-‘
propria ted by Congress to the Wat
Department for conducting the naa
tional rifle matches and promotion
of projects to Improve man arms
marksmanship.
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