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National Symphony
Campaign Called Off
After Union Demands
Increased Cost Could Not
Be Met, Directors Say;
Organization to Disband
Unable to agree to the Uhlon de
mands for a wage Increase on the
eve of the projected drive for funds,
the Board of Directors of the Na
tional Symphony Orchestra Associa
tion yesterday formally notified
friends and members that the board
has “regretfully decided to call off
the campaign” for funds for the
orchestra.
This means the collapse next
spring, music lovers said, of an or
ganization of the highest artistic
standards, one which has won in
creasing acclaim in Washington and
in the many cities where the orches
tra has given concerts under the
leadership of Dr. Hans Kindler.
“Owing to the breakdown of nego
tiations as well as the lateness of
the date,” the statement yesterday
said, “our board was unwilling to
ask its loyal friends and solicitors to
attempt to secure a sum considered
impossible by all of us. * • *
“All concerts scheduled for the
present season will be presented by
the orchestra, and all obligations of
the National Symphony Orchestra
will be completely filled.”
len or Buucmcni.
The statement said:
“Negotiations between our board
and the Musicians’ Protective Union
were begun November 1, 1939. and
ended In a deadlock January 22,
1940.
"The musicians requested a sea
son four weeks longer than the
present one and also $10 more per
week per man. A compromise on
two additional weeks was reached,
but a two weeks’ longer season at
this Increased rate of pay would
have increased our budget by $27,
000. necessitating the raising of
$130,000 if we were to meet their
requirements. Based on nine years'
experience and particularly last
year's campaign when every effort
was made to raise $111,000 but only
$105,000 was secured, our board
unanimously agreed that an at
tempt to raise the increased amount
this year would of a certainty fail.
In reaching this decision, careful
thought was given to the fact that
particularly this year many new
appeals both here and abroad would
make the task more difficult than
ever. The dates. February 5 to 15,
for the sustaining fund campaign
were determined upon after careful
study so as not to conflict with other
civic appeals which are known to
be coming directly after this period.
With some misgivings, we agreed to
attempt a campaign for $105,000
provided an agreement with the
union could be reached in time to
utilize the dates set, feeling that
this amount was the absolute maxi
mum we could hope to raise. This
increased our season by two weeks,
thus giving each member of the
orchestra $100 more income. This
offer was refused by the Musicians’
Protective Union on January 21,
1940, thus ending all hope of putting
on a campaign'on the date set.
"At that time the campaign
literature had not been printed, pub
licity had been held in abeyance,
and many opportunities to present
our cause before influential or
ganizations had been missed because
we were unable to state the amount
of the campaign goal.
"To determine the amount of the
goal it is necessary that the num
ber of musicians, the number of
services, the rate of pay, and all
other details be definitely agreed
upon with the Musicians' Protective
Union prior to the campaign. Failure
to reach this agreement in the past
has made it necessary to reduce sub
stantially the number of orchestra
players, thus lowering the artistic
standards of the orchestra and re
sulting in servious objections from
many contributors.”
To Play Through April.
Officials of the association said
the symphony woulfe continue to
play its scheduled concerts through
the middle of April, and then would
have to disband "unless some un
foreseen circumstance turns up in
the meantime.'
The orchestra is to play a con
cert in Constitution Hall this after
noon. Dr. Kindler is out of the
city and could not be reached for
a statement. Carlos Chavez, Mexi
can conductor and composer, will
conduct the orchestra today.
Trade Program Extension
0. K. by Committee Seen
The House Ways and Means
Committee concluded hearings yes
terday on the Trade Agreement
Act, and both Democrats and Re
publicans predicted it would recom
mend by mid-month that the reci
procal trade program be continued
without change.
Members told reporters there was
every prospect for a vote on a
Etrict party basis—15 Democrats to
10 Republicans—in favor of the
Hull scheme of tariff-making. The
only Democrat whose sentiments
appeared the least doubtful was
Representative Disney of Oklahoma
who presented an amendment yes
terday to exclude taxes from the
authority of the administration to
raise or lower tariff rates in making
trade agreements.
Though Mr. Disney declined to
predict the fate of his amendment,
Representative Knutson, Republi
can, of Minnesota, asserted that the
majority would "annoint the great
011 interest’ by adopting it.
The excise rate on imports of
limited quantities of oil was cut in
half in the Venezuelan agreement,
to which Mr. Disney, who repre
sents an oil-producing State, has
objected. The lumber tax also was
cut in the Canadian agreement.
Although conceding they have
slight chance of success in the com
mittee. Republican members plan
to offer, as their principal proposal,
an amendment to require Senate
ratification of future trade agree
ments.
Club to Give Play
The Dorothy Hancock Club of
Gordon Junior High School will
give a play in the school auditorium
at 10:45 am., February 16. The
club is sponsored by the Junior
American Citizens Committee of
District Daughters of the American
Revolution.
an outside income by breeding
hunting dogs.
Miss Donn's father is Dr. Frederick
Y. Donn, Washington physician,
whose farm in Southern Maryland
was the inspiration for his daugh
ter's decision to study farm manage
ment and agricultural economics
with the view of landing a Job in
the Department of Agriculture and
running a successful farm as a
sideline.
Clad in smart riding boots,
breeches and tweed coats, the two
girls can be found almost any day
hard at work in one of the barns in
the college’s new unit which was
completed only two months ago.
Formal class work is only a mini
mum part of their program. More
likely you'll find them “docking”
lambs, trimming the feet of horses
and cattle or computing the rations
for a well-balanced cattle diet.
Miss Donn's classes include the
intricacies of money and banking,
farm business analysis, rural soci
ology and marketing, all deemed
necessary for the well-versed farm
erette of 1940. Miss Farrington has
been hard at work with livestock
management and sheep and swine
production.
But the girls do not limit their
campus activities to preparation for
their chosen occupations. Miss Far
rington belongs to Kappa Kappa
Gamma and Miss Donn is a member
of Alpha Xi Delta. Both are mem
bers of the Block and Bridle Club
and the Student Grange. Both have
taken prizes in livestock shows and
Miss Farrington was a member of
the university’s student judging
team which competed in the Inter
national Livestock Exposition in
Chicago.
Both girls are anxious to put their
knowledge to practice. Neither feels
she will miss living in the city.
“Most people wait until they get
older to retire to a farm, but I want
to get the Jump on them,” says Miss
Donn. “Of course, I’d like to live
near enough to town to see an oc
casional movie.”
13 Nabbed by F. B. I.
In 24-Hour Period
Thirteen was very unlucky in the
34 hours ending at noon yesterday,
according to the F. B. I.
That was the number of fugi
tives from Justice nabbed by the bu
reau over that period.
The crimes ranged from extor
tion to theft of Government prop
erty, and the arrests dotted the
country from coast to coast.
Study Group Doubts
Agency Procedure
Uniformity Possible
Preliminary Report
Sees Too Rigid Rules
Defeating Purpose
Doubt that uniform procedure can
be prescribed for all the adminis
trative agencies of the Government
was expressed last night in a pre
liminary report by the Attorney
General’s committee which has been
studying for a year the opreation of
the agencies, including commissions
and other bodies exercising quasi
judicial and quasi-legislative func
tions.
President Roosevelt directed the
study last February, in response to
a suggestion by former Attorney
General Cummings, and the com
mittee, headed by Dean Acheson,
one-time Undersecretary of the
Treasury, was named by the then
Attorney General, Frank Murphy, to
Investigate "need for procedural re
form In the field of administrative
law."
"The committee’s Inquires,” the
report said, "have made It apprehen
sive that a too-rigid prescription of
administrative procedures would, by
substituting artificial uniformity for
essential variety, abolish many pro
cedures which now fully satisfy the
convenience and protect the wel
fare of great numbers of citizens and
would defeat the substantive pur
poses of many congressional en
actments.
Hearings Planned in June.
"Yet, certain recurring issues seem
to arise, at least in limited areas.
There is reason to hope that these
issues can be resolved with a
measure of uniformity, and that
principles may be established for
the guidance of administrative ac
tion where it affects private rights.”
The committee expects Its studies
to be completed by May, and plans
then to hold an open hearing in
connection with bar and other legal
associations. If this hearing • can
be conducted in June, the findings
are to be ready In the fall.
The wide power exercised by these
agencies has been Increasingly un
der fire in recent months, while,
correspondingly, Supreme Court de
cisions have strengthened their po
sition. ,
U. 8. Chamber Orders Study.
Meanwhile, the United States
Chamber of Commerce announced
it had authorized a special commit
tee to study the operation of ad
ministrative law.
The chamber said the inquiry
would include the "rules, procedure,
findings, decisions and orders by
administrative agencies of the Fed
eral Government and the possibility
of their review by the courts.”
Commenting that such agencies
had "multlpled greatly and are
tending to be autonomous and re
sponsible to no one,” the chamber
asserted they had fostered "critical
controversy” through efforts to
"make law as well as apply it.”
M. E. Church South Lists
46,184 Member Increase
1) th« Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 3.—A
final statistical report of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South
•bowed today an Increase of 46,184
members for 1939.
Dr. Curtis B. Haley, statistician,
submitted the report listing 2,985,
381 lay and clerical members.
The union of the Methodist Epis
copal Church South. Methodist
Protestant and the Methodist Epis
copal Church will become effective
in April.
The largest Increase was reported
from the area including the Balti
more, North Carolina, Virginia and
West Virginia conferences, which
had 10,136 new members.
Two D. C. Girls at Maryland U.
Learn Farming 'the Hard Way'
Maryan Donn (left), is shown giving this puri-bred Angus
bull, junior herd sire, a haircut with the electrict clipper while
Edith Farrington steadies the animal. —Star Staff Photo.
By JOHN D. LEONARD.
They’re weary of Washington’s
worldly ways and want to return to
the soil.
It's their belief that women can
run a farm as well as a home—and
what’s more make it pay.
In other words, they're farmer
ettes of 1940, two city-bred students
at the University of Maryland's
agricultural college who are learn
ing the ropes of running a farm
through formalized education, the
“hard way” as they put it.
Years of hard manual work on
the livestock farms of the Univer
sity of Maryland have strengthened
rather than weakened the plans of
Edith Farrington. 24, a senior, and
Maryan Donn. 19, a junior.
The two girls, along with Hope
Swann from the rural community
of Helen, in St. Marys County. Md.,!
are the university's only co-eds
among scores of boys taking the full
agricultural course.
Miss Farrington is the daughter of
a Federal Power Commission attor
ney, Marvin Farrington, and is
studying animal husbandry. Some
day she plans to leave her parents’
home in Chevy Chase, Md., to op
erate a “real subsistence farm,” one
which she says will feed those who
live on it. She also plans to obtain
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