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Studied by Johnson;
Fight Looms
By H. O. THOMRSON
United Press Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 8.-
Proposed regulation of prices in
the Nation’s 1,500,000 retail
stores commanded attention of
recovery officials as the soft coal
code was made ready for Pres-
ident Roosevelt’s signature to-
day.
The master code for retail
trades has been awaiting action
. by Administrator Hugh S. John-
son for several days. With the
coal compact completed save for
the formality of White House ap-
proval, General Johnson and his
aides expected to awing into a
thoro study of the retail propo-
Chief Issue facing General
Johnson is whether he shall ap-
prove the present provision for-
bidding stores to sell goods at
less than invoice prices plus a
certain percentage. The percent-
ages vary from 7 to 10 for vari-
ous types of stores.
Small Stores Aided
Deputy Administrator A. D.
Whiteside has recommended thst
General Johnson approve the
price control provision, but the
consumers’ Advisory Board op-
poses it.
Mr. Whiteside contends price
control is necessary to stop ruth-
less competition, especially
against email merchants.
Recovery officiate re garded
completion of the long-disputed
coal code aa perhapa their great-
eat single achievement. They
hoped it would bring peace and
at least a degree of prosperity to
an Industry which has been de-
moralized for years by fierce
competition and bloody labor
wars.
Nearly 400,000 miners now em-
ployed will receive generally
higher wages. The increase range
up to 40 and 50 per cent in some
fields. Miners are given unre-
stricted right to organise end to
live where they choose. They are
assured that they will receive
their wages in actual cash, in-
stead of being given receipts for
rent of company houses or bills
at company stores.
‘Friendly’ N. R. A. Aid
General Johnson instructed N.
R. A. compliance boards thruout
the country that “friendly aid
rather than the iron fist” should
be their guiding policy in deal-
ing with employers who fail to
live up to the Presidential re-
employment agreements. The
boards are being set up to han-
dle complaints against employers.
The administration warned
that “if an employer wilfully per-
sists In non-compliance with the
agreement after being fully In-
formed of his obligations, he is
no longer entitled to the Blue
Eagle and the Federal Govern-
ment will take it away from
him.”
It will not be up to the local
boards to pull down any Blue
Eagles. Complaints of violations
will be reported to district
boards and then to Washington
for whatever action may be nec-
essary.
LOCKS IN HIS CUSTOMER
- FALL RIVER, Mass., Sept. 18.
George Talbot, druggist, put on
his hat and coat, looked around
his store to make sure no one
else was there, locked the door
and went off to the annual drug-
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gists’ clambake. 1
At the bake a policeman tapped
him on the shoulder and told him
someone was locked in the store.
Diago Ferreira, the “prisoner,"
was in a telephone booth when
Talbot closed shop.
IT STILL IS WHISKY HILL
SALEM, Ore.—Prohibition may
be voted in and out again, but
Whisky Hill remains the same
forever. A recent attempt to
change the name of Whisky Hill
school, near here, to eomething
more generally pleasing and less
suggestive wae voted down at a
special election. • The vote was
12 to 10.
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Harry Merfeld
So He Yanks Down His Lawyer’s Shingle
TAVERN NOISE VERY OLD
Says Religion Is Basis
. Of Future Human
Assistance
Rabbi Proves Scholar,
Psychologist, Liberal
Philosopher
LEADSTOPLEA
FOR U. S. FUNDS
State Superintendents Ask
$60,000,000 Grant To
Save Systems
By DAVID HALL
Harry A. Merfeld—Attorney-
at-Law.
In 1906 a 21-year-old law grad-
uate framed his University of
Maryland diploma and hung out
a shingle on Baltimore's streets.
Harry Merfeld found out things
about the criminal law practice,
he says, that made him certain he
could never be a good lawyer.
After eight months, down came
the shingle and the framed di-
ploma. Harry Merfeld set out to
find himself. And he did.
Today, in Fort Worth, he’s
known as Rabbi Harry A. Merfeld
of Temple Beth-El, Broadway and
Galveston Avenue. He's a civic
and social service leader. He is
a director of the Fort Worth Com-
munity Chest. He is building com-
mittee chairman for the Little
Theater.
Human Interest Rises
Harry Merfeld’s eight-month
experience in criminal law prac-
tice was a long time ago, and is
of comparatively small significance
except for one feature. He discov-
ered during that time that his
greatest interest was in human
problems, not legal problems. The
desire to do social service rather
than self-service led him out of
Baltimore law office and into the
church.
It took him to Johns Hopkins,
then to the University of South
Carolina where he took an A. B.
and an M. A. All this was pre-
paratory. Harry Merfeld was
equipping himself for social serv-
ice.
He entered Hebrew Union Col-
Harry A. Merfeld.
lege at Cincinnati, and took a
Bachelor of Theology degree.
Sees Religious Basis
He entered the ministry with
his first charge at New Berne,
N. C. There he married, moved
to Raleigh, N. C., to Columbia,
S. C., finally to Greenville, Miss.
He came to Fort Worth 11 yeara
ago from Monroe, La.
Religion and social service are
definitely tied together in Harry
Merfeld’s philosophy.
“Social service,” he says, “is
the practical interpretation of re-
ligion. The religion of the future
le going to have social service as
its foundation.”
The rabbi says he has never
tried to develop a faculty for dis-
criminating between good and
bad. His belief is that there la
no point at which one begins and
the other ends.
Harry Merfeld, the man, is as
interesting as his history and his
philosophy.
He is a small, brown person
with gray eyes and black hair. He
is 4g years old. „
He sits behind a desk in the
Little Theater building, plays with
rubber bands, smokes the stub of
a black cigar and talks with oc-
casional violent hand gestures.
He is scholar, theologian, psy-
chologist and philosopher. Lib-
eral, energetic, human — those
words describe him.
He signs his name with a flour-
ish of purple ink.
He likes good drama and is in-
terested in public speaking from a
psychological viewpoint.
Recalls Boyhood
Time,. Literary Digest, Saturday
Evening Post end Harper’s are on
his reading table. He reads books
on social fields, but little fiction.
Rabbi Merfeld tells with a
smile of boyhood days when Bal-
timore playmates called him
“Ham” as a nickname. His initials
spell that word. He was an ama-
teur boxer and wrestler.
Thin year the social service
leader took his first vacation in
five years. He left no forwarding
address when he and Mrs. Mer-
feld left for the West Coast by
auto.
"No letters, no newspapers, no
worry—nothing but rest, and I
enjoyed it,” he declares.
His wife is Amy Haas Merfeld.
They have two sons, Harry Jr.,
20, and Charles, 10.
They live st 2005 Park Place.
Lone Star Gas Co. Faces
NEW STARS ASCEND
First Order to Cut Rates AS U, S. VETERANS DIE
Never Before Has State
Attempted to Force
Lower Prices
..(Editor’s Note: This is the first of
three articles analysing UM case in
which the Railroad Commission cut
Lone Star gate gas-rates from 40 to 32
cents per 1,000 cubic feet.)
Special to TIM Press.
AUSTIN, Sept. 18—For the
first time in its history in Texas,
the Lone Star Gas Co., is face to
face with an order of the Texas
Railroad Commission to lower its
rates on a state-wide scale—from
40 cents to 32 cents per 1,000
feet for the gas brought to gates
of cities.
This has never happened be-
fore, due to the vagaries of the
Texas laws on gas utilities. The
only rates which come within the
legal purview of the Commission
are those which the company's
transmission lines charge to its
own subsidiaries for bringing gas
from the fields, where it costs a
few cents at the well-head, to the
gates of cities and towns.
Once th* gas enters the city,
the law makes it the duty of city
councils by ordinance to regulate
ratee to the consumer.
Without direct reference to the
present Lone Star case, this is a
heavenly situation for a utility.
If cities sought to lower gas
rates, or to prevent their going
up, eity gas companies could
plead the high rates charged at
the gates, the justice of which
could not be dragged into a local
rate-case.
Fort Worth Fought Vainly
Fort Worth is a case in point,
The city sought vainly to go into
the actual costs of bringing gas
from the field to the city gates.
Judges ruled against it
The city's refusal to permit a
rate-raise was overturned by a
throe-judge federal court, result-
ing in the present rates of $1.25
for the first per 1,000 cubic feet
for domestic consumers, 67.5
cents for all above that. Mean-
while, the Railroad Commission,
hampered by lack of funds, could
not until the past two years dig
into these state-wide transmis-
sion chargee.
Style Requisite
By ALICIA HART
If you really intend to glorify
yourself this Fall, a etear com-
plexion should be your first aim.
No amount of cosmetics will
hide the fact that your skin isn't
clear and you can't attain true
beauty if it is muddy or sallow.
Your health le reflected in your
complexion. Very often, getting
your body in good condition will
clear up your skin. If digestive
tracts do not function properly,
the chances are that your com- Freese and Nichole of Fort
plexion will be grayish or yellow-
ish.
It may be that you need to see
a reliable physician or it may be
that you aren't drinking enough
water or getting enough sleep and
exercise.
Try to get eight hours sleep
every night for a month and see
if your complexion doesn’t take
on a new clearness that it lacked
The 1931 Legislature altered
that. Spurred on by the pressure
from 230 communities many of
which were at war with Lone
Star, it provided funds for the
commission to investigate the jus-
tice of the rates Lone Star
charged itself for bringing gas
from the fields to city gates.
Commission Employes Engineirs
The commission went to
at once. It employed Ha
as consulting engineers,
studied the gas transmissi
tern to determine its real
Hearings began in For
CONSUMER PAYS
Gas consumers will psy
the total expense of the
Lone Star Gas Co.'s fight
against lower gate-rates for
gas.
"Regulatory "commission
expenses’’ are given for
1932 as $162,339. This item
is almost entirely expense it
incurred in fighting the
gate-rate case before the
railroad commission. Court
costs of appeals by the com-
pany will also be paid by con- ‘
Burners.
In its decision lowering
gate ratee, the commission
allowed “regulatory commis-
sion expenses" as operating
expenses—which means the
consumer pays them. How-
ever, they are to be amor-
fixed over 10 years, at the
rate of a little more than
$16,000 a year.
Expenses of the commis-
elon Itself are paid by tax-
payers thru an appropria-
tion by the legislature.
Two Who Served Over 40
Years Succumb in 36 Hours
rk
before.
Eat plenty of fresh fruit and
green vegetables and don’t eat be-
tween meals.
There are some new skin
clearing creams on the market,
too, and these can be used in con-
junction with your health rou-
tine.
They generally come in two
etrengths. The mild one is to be
used as a preventive for muddy
skin and the stronger one for a
discolored complexion. Apply the
cream after you have cleaned your
face at night and leave it on while
you sleep.
last November. The con
consulting engineers re
system worth about $
Lone Star’s engineer'
was worth more th
000.
In the decision A.
down, the commisgs,
fair rate-base for
mission propertigk.
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$46,000,000. It computed the
cut which it urged the company
pass on to consumers, would
lower transmission charges by
about $1,400,000.
It found that in the year 1931
the Lone Star made a return of
$4,143,356 upon these proper-
ties.
It found that 6 percent would
have been a minimum fair rate
of return for 1931, which would
have amounted on the rate-base
to $2,774,797.
Thus the company made "ex-
cess net earnings" of' $1,368,559
during the year, the Commission
said. It could have cut gate
ratee by more than eight cents,
according to one method of com-
putation, more than 10 cents by
another, and still made a fair re-
turn.
Test Accuracy of Findings
The commission computed what
the company would have made
at the reduced 32-cent rate for
six years, to test the accuracy
of Its findings. These six years
included the three good years
1927-29, and the three "lean”
years 1930-32.
Different methods of computa-
tion produced different figures,
but even the method most favor-
able to the 'company showed it
would have made more than six
percent during its worst year.
Average for the six yeara, com-
puted in four different ways was,
respectively: 8.6 percent, 8.7 per-
cent, 9.66 percent, and 10.8 per-
cent.
These figures were used in
part to show that the reduction
from 40 to 32 cents was not un-
fair to the company. The com-
pany differs, demands an “im-
partial” hearing in the courts,
probably in the federal courts.
Tomorrow, the commission's
opinion, including severe criticism
of Lone Star's methods of doing
business and some of its presen-
tations in the rate-case, will be
further analyzed.
Famous Laxative
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Big
shots in public life come and go
fairly rapidly. Six months ago
not one out of a thousand persons
could have told you who General
Johnson was. Most of them would
have said he was a senator from
California. And right now who
can recall the name of the cabinet
member who managed Herbert
Hoover's proconvention campaign
a year ago last Spring?
But less conspicuous public ser-
vants, not sharing the brief spot-
light, work on for years regard-
less of political turnovers. Last
week two men who had served
more then 40 years in the govern-
ment died within 36 hours of each
other. George R. Wales, member
of the Civil Service Commission
and "Ike” Hoover, chief usher at
the White House, both went on
the government payroll in 1892
under Benjamin Harrison. They
served under 10 presidents—sev-
en Republicans and three Demo-
crats.
The government is full of such
men, hard workers, loyal to the
job in hand and so useful that
new administrations hesitate to
throw them out and risk the mis-
takes and grief that might come
from inexperienced new help.
By MAX STERN
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—
Schoolmen, alarmed over what
they call "education’s worst
crisis,” are preparing to ask the
next Congress for a special emer-
gency grant of upwards of $60,-
000,000.
Following a session of state su-
perintendents and commissioners
of education on Saturday four
committees were named and went
to work today. One of these, the
most important, waa a Committee
on Federal Relation to Educa-
tion, headed by Supt. Sidney B.
Hall of Virginia. This committee
will gather data to ahow the need
for an immediate grant to the
states.
Teachers Fewer
"The opinion is pretty general
that the government must extend
aid to free education in its crisis,”
said Supt. Charles A. Lee of Mis-
souri, named to head the educa-
tors. "My opmlion is that this ap-
propriation need not exceed $50,-
000,000 or $60,000,000.
"The crisis faced by the public
schools this Winter is the worst
in history. While the N. R. A.
has released from day labor an es-
timated 100,000 boys and girls of
school age the schools have been
pinched to such an extent that
there will be 780,000 fewer teach-
ers at their desks this Winter than
last. The 1,000,000 teachers on
the job will be forced to take an
average of 20 per cent reduction
in pay, and as high as 60 per cent
in some communities.”
South Worst Hit
Dr, Lee said that while New
England and the Far West were
not so badly hit, conditions in the
South are terrible. Whole coun-
ties there have shortened their
terms to three, four end five
months. The unpaid warrants of
teachers in American total $40,-
000,000. In the Midwest commu-
nities have put their high schools
on a tuition basis. One-half the
public school teachers will receive
less than $400 for their services
in the coming school year.
Some teachers in the Near-
South are getting $35 a month,
less than the day labor wage in
N. R. A. codea. The cause. Dr.
Lee said, is first, the depression,
and next, the antequated tax
systems of the counties that still
tax on the 100-year-old property
basis.”
SNAKE BIT BOY RESCUER
SILVERTON, Ore.—As Carl
Schuster, email Silverton boy,
played in the yard, he heard a
frightened cry of a bird in a
shrub. He plunged his hand in to
catch it, then hastily withdrew it
as a sharp pain struck his arm.
Dangling by its fangs from his
arm was a large snake.
Disturber "AL." Yeen
By United Press.
HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 18.-
Residents, disturbed by jass
bands and happy revelers in the
taverns which have sprung up
since beer was legalised in Con-
necticut, are no worse off than
their forefathers, who berated
such goings on 215 years ago.
An old record in the office of
Town Clerk John A. Gleason re-
veals that in those early years re-
velers sometimes created disord-
ers in taverns, to such an extent
that the town fathers ordered the
constables and grand jurymen to
suppress such disorders and bring
offenders to trial.
BURGLARS PUT
IN BUSY NIGHT
2 Groceries, 2 Garages,
Home and Barber Shop
Are Looted
Burglars broke into two gro-
cery stores, two garages, a barber
shop and a residence last night,
taking loot valued at about $100.
Thieves jerked pay telephones
from the walls of the Daggett
Service Station, 1601 South Main
Street, and Rutherford’s Garage,
2700 block Lipscomb Avenue.
They took 50 pennies from the
till of the latter place. Entrance
was gained by forcing open rear
doors. __.
Burglars broke the plate glass
window of N. B. Tankersley's gro-
cery store, 3539 East Lancaster
Avenue, and stole $20 worth of
cigars, cigarets and candy.
John Grant’s grocery, near the
Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Com-
pany refinery, was entered, but
nothing taken.
Tools were stolen by burglars
who broke into the Arlington
Heights Barber Shop, 4719 Camp
Bowie Boulevard. 0. L. Duke Is
proprietor of the place.
H. Rabinowitz, 425 Galveston
Avenue, was robbed of $41 while
he slept. The thief picked the
latch on a screen window. The
money was in Mr. Rabinowitz’s
trousers.
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