Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1921, Page 13

PERSHING TAKES UP . PLANS FOR PARADE Will Name Members of Staff Soon—Waomen Actual Committee Members. Gen. John J. Pershing, who spent the holidays at Rosslyn, L. I, re- turned to this city this morning and entered actively on the work of ar- ranging for the military and civic parade, which will be one of the leading events .of the coming in- auguration of the next President. One THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 19T . BETHMANN HOLLWEG, FORMER GERMAN CHANCELLOR, IS DEAD Originator of “Scrap of Paper” Was Forced " From Office in War Period by 3 Militarist Leaders. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, January 2—Dr. Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, former Ger- man imperial chancellor, died last night, after a brief illness, on his es- tate at Hohenfinow, near Berlin. Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg was ap- parently in good health until Wed- DE VALERA VIEWED ~ ASPEACE FAGTOR High Irish Official Declares Britain Has No Intention of Arresting Him. BY WILLIAM H. BRAYDEN. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921. DUBLIN, Ireland, January 3.—A high official in the Irish executive de- partment says that there is no inten- tion of arresting Eamon de Valera, whose whereabouts is still asmystery. of his first acts as grand marshal of the parade will be the appointment of the members of his staff and the orzanization of his entire working fore. Chief of these appointments are the chief of staff and the adjutant general of the grand marshal, upon whom will devolve the execution of all orders relating to the parade, including the escort of the incoming Pres dent to the White House and then, with the outgoing President, to the Capitol, and the subsequent review of the in- augural parade from the grandstand in front of the White House. Brig. Gen. Fox Conner of Gen. Pershing’s personal staff. probably will be his chief of staff in arranging the parade. Tn Charge of Correspondence. Until the regular organization is perfected Maj. John G. Quekemeyer. United States Cavalry, personal aid io Gen. Pershing, is in charge of all the correspondence that has been re- ceived at the War Department, per- taining to the arrangements for the parade, and will turn it over to Gen. Pershing’s inaugural staff as soon as it is constituted. Some definite reports are expected from committee chairmen when the of- ficers and members of the inaugural seneral committee hold their second - weekly meeting tomorrow afternoon, at 4 o'clock, in the red room of the Wil- lard Hotel. Preliminary verbal reports already made by some of the various chairmen. indicate that _excellent progress is being made, and that the arrangements for the inauguration of President-elect Harding are being rapidly whipped into concrete form. . Wemen Actual Members. To Temave any misunderstanding on the part of the public regarding the status of women who have been ap- pointed to the general inaugural, com- mittee, the officers of the committee ’ne:ny He spent Christmas as usual with his family, but contracted a cold | which developed into acute pneu- monia. His condition became steadily worse and his private physician was summoned from Berlin, but the former chancellor had already become unconscious and rever regained con- sciousness, dying late Saturday night. His wife died in 1914 and he lost his eldest son in the war. survived by a daughter, Countess Zech, wife of the secretacy of the Prussian legation at Munich, and a son, Felix, a stu- dent at Berlin. On the last of his frequent visits to Berlin, in mid-November, Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg was seen walk- ing in Unter den Linden, but the once stalwart figure was no longer up- right; few pedestrians recognized in the stooped figure and care-worn face the former imperial chancellor. Von. Bethmann Hollweg recently concluded the revision of thc final proofs of the second volume of his war diary which is announccd for early publicatinn. He will be buried Wednesday at Hohenfinow. “Scrap of Paper” Incident. Among the latest prominent activi- ties of Dr. von Bethmann Holweg in international affairs and German na- tional life, was his testimony in 1919 as a witness before national assembly committees _investigating responsi- bility for the war. His testimony brought out-that he had originally opposed thé submarine warfare and had issued warnings not to under-| pp THEOBALD Vv estimate America’s strength in thel HOLLWEG: conflict. One of the most famous utterancesjci]l decided to ignore his request. He during the war was that CONCErDINg ' wag often mentioned as among those as regarded the He has not come by government con- nivance, and officials .deny having any knowledge of his place of entry. They even doubt his arrival. Apart from the law, which makes the advocacy of a republic treason and a elony, his arrest could be technically regulation of order act, which provides that anybody ever convicted may be deported at will. But there is some expectation that hi influence will be exercised for peace, and that his information of the posi. tion in America may be less satisfac tory than was hoped. If this is so, he may induce his colleagues to reconsid- er their uncompromising position. Ecclestastical Views. Ecclesiastical circles are particular- ly anxious to terminate the present chaos, and de Valera is expected to get in touch with them. A leading Sinn Feiner told me today that de Valera was the only man who could swing all the Sinn Feiners, except the extremists, toward a settlement, and that even he could not do so unless there was some advance on the premier’s offers. The government would prove ac- commodating on details, and has made the way easy for the negotia- tors to visit the imprisoned Sinn Fein leaders, but its condition refusing separaton from England and nsist- ing on an Ulster parliament are un- changeable. In Belfast preparations have al- ready been made for establishing a parliament and the chief _office- holders are freely named. Col. Sir J. Craig, or H. Pollock, now presi- dent of the chamber of commerce in Belfast, is most- likely to be premier, and some eminent lawyers of the Irish bar are leaving Dublin to take up judicial office in Ulster. The Bel- fast parliament will have powers as great as John E. Redmond accepted for the whole of Ireland, and_finan- jcially Ulster will be better off than FORD FORCE ASKS {U. S. SERVICE BRANCH CALLED “DICTIONARY OF ACTIVITIES™ FOR USE OF PLANT WHILESHUTDOWN DETROIT, Mich., January 3.—A petition, requesting the use of the Ford Motor Company plant- here for the manufacture of cars for employes, was being circulated among employes today for signa- ture. The request proposes that the company turn over the plant to the workers during the period of the shutdown announced last week. Employes, the petition states, will agree to pay for all raw materials, and to return the plant in as good condition as it is at present. The petition is being circulated by men who called themselves a “commit- tee of Ford workers.” 4 Officials at the plant said they had not heard of the request. All departments of the Highland Park plant were closed today, it was said at the plant. ——eeeeeee elements of the Sinn Fein. It hopes by the dissension'in the republican party to put an end to the campaign of ambushes and general disorder now existing in Ireland. It hopes that the influence of de Valera, Griffith and MacNeill ‘'will soon outweigh that of bitter-enders like Michael Collins. The arrest of Griffith and MacNeill by the military has never ceased to be a cause of lamentation in Downing street. Undoubtedly a debarkation of de Valera in_ lIreland would seriously embarr: the British government. The cabinet ministers would much prefer to see him land on the con tinent. There he might be left in peace, and later might even be per- mitted to preside over a peace meet- ing of the dail eireann (Irish parl ment). MIDLETON BURNING STIRS. | Seven Homes Destroyed as Result of Ambush of Police. By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 3—Public opinion received a shock when the details of the burning of the Irish town of Midleton on Saturday were made public yesterday. This shock was particularly felt in quarters where it had been supposed that martial law in southwestern Ireland would put an_end to such reprisals. Nowhere is there outspoken ap- proval if the punishment meted out to the Irish village by Maj. Gen. Sir Ed- ward Strickland, and there evidently is some reluctance to indorse this method of keeping order. Furniture Is Burned. In official statements it is declared ‘{ to function. a “scrap of paper, ‘Wh ight t by the allies for P ] - treaty guaranteeing the neutrality of) W12 might be tried by southern’ Ireland, which refuses ex political offenses in connection With | actly the same terms. thiztiscyenigdwelling S iniaidle oo wish it to be known that the women, ; were destroyed as a result of an am- s named,.are actual members of the seneral committee and are nbt mem- bers of a ‘women's group or women's ivision, . which impression has been made upon a number.of persons. These women are to work as citi- zens and not as women, and great |fesults are anticipated by the officers |from. their participation. It is ex- plained - that this confusion regard- |ing the women's status may have been d@e to the fact that their names were printed separately from those of the man members of the commit- tee, and also from the fact that one of their ‘sex was named vice chair- man of the finance committee “to have charge of raising subscriptions among the women of Washington.” Thomas P. Littlepage has been ap- pointed chairman. of the committee ‘on_terminal facilities.. THe task of caring for the thousands of visitors necessitated- the creation of this ad- ! ditional committee. 100,000 Visitors Expected. With the expectation of more than 100,000 visitors in Washington dur- ing inauguration week, Thomas J. Donovan, president of the Central Citizens’ Association, calls attention fo the necessity for a united and systematic effort to locate rooms and other conveniences for the inaugural crowd. “Every citizens’ association in the District should make a survey of its neighborhood and ascertain, if pos- sible. what people will be prepared to_house visitors,” My..Donovan said, “The hotels and rooming houses will ybe unable to accommodate ail of the visitors, and it is, therefore, meces- sary for the citizens to be alert to the occasion. This action should, however, be taken early if Washing- ton is to be properly prepared when the great moment arrives.” “BOOKLOVERS” TO MEET. Discussion of “Friendly Bookshelf” Is Scheduled for Tonight. “The Friendly Bookshelf” is the sub- ct announced for the usual Monday évening *booklovers’ hour” scheduled ! for $ o'clock tonight at main headquar- ters of the Y. W. C. A. of the District. Miss Alice Hutchins Drake. conductor of the class, will be the speaker. This event ushers in the usual week's activi- tles of the association, other items of which are: Carrent events class at the E street branch, 614 E street northwest, Thurs. day at 7 p.m., with Maj. Robert Henry | as speaker: current events class at main neadquarters, 1333 F street northwest, ¥riday evening at 7 o’clock, John Paul - Earnest speaker; vespers at 4:30 p.m. at headquarters, George De Lalaj speaker, and informal open house at 5 p.m. at 14 * E street. “Know what you buyl”. There are several good sew machines on the market. One of them excels all the others. It is most favorably known all over this country— The Standard Sew Machine If you are in earnest about owning the one best machine, do nos swerve from the Standard. - The Only Sew Machine Having the Chain and Lock Stitch Combined. Time Payments at Cash Prices {ceeded in the office by Dr. George | | jdorff, largely because of his “scrap of | tate near Eberswalde, twenty-seven Belgium. Y This treaty was so characterized by von Bethmann Hollweg during an in- terview which the then chancellor had with Sir Edward Goschen, the British ambassador to Germany. Speaking| with great irritation. the chancellor expressed his inability to understand fi,"é.'nfiil.';‘;‘igfi.’c'&“;fienfiéxum'f = |deBlance of socialism, and he rejected “I found the chancellor very much any move to make himself and the agitated,” said Sir Edward afterward, ,other German ministers responsible j writing of the interview. “His excel-.to the reichstag. In the early stages lency at once began a harangue which of the war, however, he became {1asted about twenty minutes. He said :known as a moderate:- i the step taken by his majesty's govern-| Late in 1919 reports from Geneva iment was terrible to a degree. Just;said he was credited in diplomatic for a word—neutrality’—a word which ; circles there as being at the bottom of in war time had so often been disre-'a monarchist movement in favor of garded—just for a ‘scrap of paper— both_the Hohenzollerns and = Haps- Great Britain was going to make war burgs, the nucleus of which was said on a kindred nation, which desired to be forming in Switzerland. On nothing more than to be friends with several occasions during his tenure of Boew foffice Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg Sir Edward replied, in_effect, that'threw out peace feelers, particularly he understood the chancellor’s inabil- in 1916, when he invited the allies to ity to comprehend the British action, enter negotiations. All of his over- but that Great Britain attached im- tures contained only the vaguest in- portance to the “scrap of paper,” be-|dications regarding the German atti- cause it bore her signature, as well [tude on a peace settlement, and they as that of Germany. were rejected. It was following the “Our troops have occupied Luxem- |failure of his peace efforts in Decem- bourg and perhaps have also found it | ber, 1916, that he indorsed unlimited necessary to enter Belgian territory.” | Submarine warfare. _ he said on August 4, 1914. “That is Son of Law Expert. contrary to international law. We| pr yon Bethmann-Hollweg was know, however. that France Wa$ born in 1856, the son of Matthias A. ready’ to invade Belgium. France|von Bethmann Hollweg, professor of could wait; we could not, as F‘rlnca‘clvll law at Bonn, and a grandson of could invade our lower Rfine flank,}a member of the Jewish banking fam- which would prove fatal. ily of von Bethmann of Frankfort. “So we were forced to disregard the |[He was educated at the Pforta gymna- protests of the Luxembourg and Bel- |Sium and at the Universities of Stras- gium governments. We shall try to [DUrg. Leipziz and Berlin. Entering the make good the injustice we have com-{ Prussian administrative service in mitted as soon as our military goal|1582. he rose to the position of presi- Has Bebiteacholl™ ¢ ident of the province of Brandenburg o 5 g in 1899. In 1905 he was appointed Term as Chancellor. Prussian minister of the interior, and Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg was|two vears later became imperial sec- chancellor of Germany from July 14, |retary of the interior and vice presi- 1909, to July 14, 1917. He was suc- dent of the Prussian ministry of state, {of which the chancellor was presi- dent. He succeeded Prince von Bue- low when he became imperial chan- the origin of the war. Opposition to Democracy. His national activities before 1914 were marked by his strong opposition 0 democratization of Germamy. At imes he was sharply outspoken in his Michaelis. an appointee of the former kaiser. It was said that von Beth- cellor in 1909. mann Hollweg was forced out of office | " pollowing his retirement from office through the efforts of the militarists, | Dy, von Bethmann Hollweg took up headed by Hindenburg and Luden- |his residence at Hohenfinow, the es- paper” statement and his admission ! miles north of Berlin, where his death that the German invasion of Belgium [occurred. was unjust. The former chancellor had on several ions issued state- ments blaming the militarists for the war, these appearing in 1916 and 1917, while in the two years previous he had frequently declared that Eng- land alone was responsible. Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg received prominent attention throughout the world in June, 1919, when he formally asked the allied and associated pPow- ers to place him on trial instead of the former kaiser. The supreme coun- ASKFOR_MGE‘I; Horlick’s ‘The Original ”Malted Milk Our Annual January Clean-Up Sale! . A Slashing in Price on Suitings and Overcoatings Made to VALUES to $45 Measure '$29‘50 This annual event takes on even VALUES to $60 ?eater importance than ever be- o 30175 re. Greater savings are possible VALUES to $80 $ 43 75 Absolutely Nothing = Reéserved— Newcorn & Green 1002 F St. N.W. our entire stocks are offered at Established 1898 | Tintinma and Sohatitmeas these unustal low prices—and in every instance profit or cost has not been considered. Many of the woolens embraced would cost more today in the wholesale markets. Take advantage of this reduction ~—first choice is best! Expeet Object Lesson. Government authorities express confidence that the object lesson of Belfast managing her own affairs without interference from Westmin- ster will tempt the rest of the coun- try, which, if peace is restored, would be improved. Difficulty will arise from the Ulster minority, which re- sents severance from the rest of Ire- land, and the city of Londonderry fs regarded as a danger spot. - The extension of ambushes and shootings has renewed consideration of the application of martial law to the whole of Ireland. This would be welcomed in many quarters as fixing the sole responsibility cn the military and checking the exces2s of the “black and tans,” who are now inadequately controlled. The Sinn Fein would take it as an admission of the real b: of the British power. De Valera's arrival would modify the situation and might improve. For that reason a pronouncement reveal- ing his attiture is eagerly awaited. Depends on De Valera. By Cable to The Star and Chica, Copyrights sgpr, o Iy News. LONDON, January 3. —1f Eamon de Valera has really landed in Ireland there are two courses open to the British authorities — they may arrest him as a prisoner or ostentatiously fail to notice him. A great deal de. pends upon de Valera himself. If he openly proclaims his presence he can hardly hope to avoid arrest, for, after all, in the eyes of the British law he remains a fugitive from justice who still has a part of his prison sentence to eerve. On the othér hand, if he quiet and works for the catlse of mon® leration, there is apparently no reason why he should be molested. Premier Lloyd George’s government is only too anxious to cultivate all the modefate ———— 210 Moderate —You can count on ge class work at moderate Geo. Plitt Co., tting Arst- cost.” 1325 14th St. Ph. M. 4224-5 THE MONEY you fly” you anything, ~ but money you SAVE in will. “stepping dollar or more. year you will have $I SECURITY W. A. H. Church President 13th and New in 1920 won’t bring Start this new year right by into Security” with an initial deposit of one Determine now that at the end of the definite amount on deposit here, drawing— 3% and Friendly Interest SAVINGS AND COMMERCIAL WASHINGTON'S LARGEST SAVINGS BANK Corner of 9th and G Streets UNDER UWITED STATES TREASURY SUPERVISION Mutual Fire - Insurance Company (66 Years Old)’ INSURANCE AT COST Calendars We have a limited number of business calen- dars for distribution. Too large to mail, you are invited to call and get one. : bush of police near that town last ‘Wednesday. Declaration is made that the authorities had decided that the people living in certain houses in the vicinity of the outrage must have known of the plot to ambush the police, and that after the inmates of the houses selected for destruc- tion had been warned to leave. the buildings were set on fire. The oc- cupants were permitted to remove their valuables but had to leave their furniture behind. While declining to question the act that it was a drastic measure, the London Times questions the adequacy of the explanation that the inhabi- tants of the burned dwellings were bound to have known of the ambush. “Official reprisal” the -newspaper continues, “may be a rough form of justice, but, despite the roughness, the element of justice should be al- ways beyond question.” “Reveals State of War."” The Daily Express, granting that the action was legal, aml presumably necessary, adds: “But it is horrible, as it reveals an absolute state of war in Ireland, and it is impossible to withhiold sympathy from Irishmen who find themselves between the ham- mer of Sinn_Fein murderers and the anvil of the British troops.” The radical press, on the other hand, is_horrified, the Daily News saying: “The reports will be read with amazement and despair. It is a savage outrage upon human decency, and the matter cannot be left where it is.” The Daily Herald, organ of labor, calls it “savage and diabolic violence,” and calls upon labor to stop “this war upon a natio 710 Ninch St. N.W. 3176 Mt. Pleagant St. i the 1921 00, $200, $300, or some BANK of burning the houses, on the ground |- ROBERT HOWE DIES Retention of Interdepartmental Board,z 'N HUI[I' |N ]APAN National Defense Council, Urged as ‘Englishman, Known to Thou- Part of Reorganization Plan. Continuation of the interdepart- mental board of the Council of Na- tional Defense is to be urged upon the congressional committee on reorgan- ization of the government service when the committee actively begins In the interdepartmental board the the federal service possesses a unique “dictionary of activitie is being found invalupble by the varlous bureaus of the government in the disposition of their own business. Tucked away in one of the tem- porary structures at the foot of 17th street, the interdepartmental board has kept strictly up to date the ac- count of the various activities on which all departments and their bu- reaus are embarked. Its work, it is said, constitutes the best argument against those zealous reformers who continually shout of the “duplication” in government effort and of the great necessity for its reform. While all in the government service, are willing to admit that the com mittee on reorganization is about to begin upon a good work, and that duplication of effort. to some extent, does exist, many efli tive officers of the government deplore the extent to which claims of general inefficiency have gone. Not Duplication, Is Claim. That many bureaus seem, at first other bureaus. is no less certain than that a second glance will show that the work is in no semse duplication. but only the necessary approach of some great problem from different angles, they say. 2 It is just this fact that is revealed in the great index of activities kept by the interdepartmental board of the Council of National Defense. Here an administrator may go when he wants to find out what some other bureau or what the government as a whole is doing in connection with any problem that arises. This index is revised every day, so that the very latest, as well as the oldest, studies are revealed to the searcher. This service is at the dis- posal of all the departments, and it is constantly being used. although work has not been much heralded. Thus, if any bureau wants to find out what the government is doing in the investigation of oil, application to the interdeparimental board may conducting one line of investigation, the Federal Trade Commission an other and the Department of Labor |another. All may be at work in the oil fields, but the respective investi- gators in no sense are duplicating the work of each other. * Difficulty in Comprehending. hardest things to make superficial investigators comprehend, that al- though two or more government agencies may at the same time be at ‘work upon a particular subject, in no sense is there any real duplication of effort involved. One set of investigators, in such a case as mentioned, may be looking {into the yields of oil, another group into the legal aspects involved in the business methods concerning the sale of the product and the third may be investigating labor conditions and wages. All are at work in the oil fields, but each government agency is after a certain set of facts. Generally the facts desired are secured much more expeditiously by this method of work than if some one bureau had tried to get all the facts from all the angles. | Another curious government finding, difficult to make some people compre- hend, is involved here. The reason for this is found in the ‘way private businesses are conducted, it is _declared. Jhen-an iavestigator- from a certain government bureau approaches the head of a great busi- ness concern to get certain facts he * which | glance, to be duplicating the work of show that the Interior Department is: This is declared to be one of the| finds the “come across. When an investigator is aftjer facts as to labor conditions, for Bistanc the president of the company $nvolved turns the investigator over th a cer- | tain_subordinate. who gives him the {information desired. Then ~¥hen an| investigator from another . bureaun comes wanting to know factds as to| | the daily yieid of oil. the president| directs some other subordipate to | give this information. Is Gathered Piecemea! Thus the informatio piecemeal, as it were. withou t arous- ing resentment. But if three investi- gators were suddenly to desee ud upon the company at once, demandiigg facts | as to all angles of the busineas, it ix probable that somewhat of art, uproar might ensue. ertain princ gles of psychology are involved that will be recognized by those who higve had any experience in the fine art, of “in- vestigating. Files of the interdepar tmental board show that although these may be many chemical laboratoriesy in the overnment departmen Wash- {ington, all are concerned with. differ- ent phases of chemistry — essy'ntially different. Tt is true that al{ work with test tube, beaker and chefmicals. but the methods of procedure §nd the results sought and obtained iare as diverse as the great science of} chem- istry itself. ' Work of chemists at the buneau of hemistry, Department of Ajgricul- ture, and at the bureau of stahidard Department’ of Commerce, {is a8 diverse as the names of the Mureaus are different in sound. Many fdniin- istrators, even in theory. sce ino ne cessity for bringing such ive work as food chemistry and ' physi- cal chemistry together in a p attempt to overcome “dpulicatio really does not “duplicate.” Point Shown by Illustratioh. An absurdity may serve to brihg the above point home. Suppose some imem- ber of Congress should arise in his place and solemnl: point outs that “there are 100,000 typewriting: ma- { chines scattered throughout thes gov- ernment departments.” i He might go on to say that a‘type- writer is a machine, and that all ftype- writers are essentially the sam3 and turn out the- same sort of twork. Wherefore, he might continue, under this hypothesis, there is a . vast amount of duplication going on #n the typewriting work of the goversment. He might then urge that a csentral bureau of typewriting should be estab- lished to prevent duplication of. work innd concentrate the typing cff the government. But he would be forget- ting the great fact that although all the girls—and men—involved u:ie ma- chines called typewriters, the work they do is so essentially interwoven with the warp and woof of theilr own bureau’s life that it cannot be sep- arated either in theory or fact. This is easy enough to comprehend in the above reductio ad absurdurn, but not so easy to grasp possibly il the case of chemical laboratories. Yet the principles involved are essentially the same. = The interdepartmental board, “it is believed, constitutes as good a clear- ing house of information, or “c.tntral information bureau,” as the gowern- | ment service needs, and it ist the hope of administrators that the <on- gressional committee on reorgagiza- tion will give careful attention tb its work. official wiling to is sfathered $75,000 UNEXPLAINED FIRE. GEORGETOWN, Del, January Fire of undetermined origin “ear] ¥esterday destroyed the principal business section of Georgetown, caus. ing a loss estimated at between $¥5,- 000 and $85,000. L. Pierce Boteler Secretary York Ave. N.W. sands of Tourists. Expires Very Suddenly. CALLED “HUMAN CLOTK” Started for Home Thirty-Rive Years Ago, But Hotel Luncs Won His Eeart. BY JUNIU'S B. WOOD. Br Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News Copyright. 1921 YOKOHAMA. January Rober: Howie, a wealthy old English bachelor portly and gray bearded, whose figur: dozing in a chair behind a little gl topped table in the sun lounge of Grand Hotel herc. has been familiar to thousunds of visitors to the orient, dicd suddenly yesterday After accumulating a moderate for tune in Canton. Mr. Howie startad home ward to England thirty-five years ago He stopped for lunch at the Grand Hotel and never left the place afte:- wards. His friends were able to set their watches by his movements, xo regular were his habits, Having brcakfasted in his room, he appeared in the sun lounge at % o'clock in the morning, dropped into his favorit. chair, smoked a pipe and dozed uniil noon. He ate his Juncheon and at 2 p.um wilked to the Yokohama United Club and stayed there awhile At 4 o'cloch he returned to the hotel, inquired of Manager Wilmarth the number of guest~ in the house and the number expected to leave or arrive at night. Then h jdozed in the lounge room until dinner after which he listened to a crony read the ng per aloud, scolded the bellboys impartially and left the room at 9 o'clock. He was a stockholder in the hotel and had many other investments. After hix daily visit 1o the club on New Year day he returned to the hotel. As he entered he dropped just inside the door and wax carried to his room, where he died. PRICE REDUCTIONS NOTED Drop of 8% Per Cent, Unemploy- ment Increased, in December. Price reductions ave ing 8 er cent“and an Increase of Gacmplos. ment marked the month of December. according to the report of the Fed- eral Reserve Board for that period, the most marked reductions being in agricultural products, textiles, leather and iron and steel products, whil coal. gasoline, paper. brick and ce- ment were not appreciably affected. _In the Richmond district, which includes Washington, business in wholesale and manufacturing lines was reported inactive. Building op- erations were at a winimum during the month and unemployment was prevalent, but there were indications that conditions would improve after the holidays. Building permits de- creased 54.6 per cent below the No- vember figure. Tobacco growers in the Richmond district have in most cases sold their poorer grades of tobacco, but a holding the best of the crop in the hope of better prices. Discussing conditions in the coun- try at large, the board’s statement said reduced business activity had cut operations in many lines from 40 to 75 per cent of normal and brought accompanying _unemploy- ment, while there had been many wage cuts, some as much as 25 per cent. Banking power was well maiu- tained, however, with normal credit accommodstions extended to ld§iti- mate business, and the reserve ratio growing stronger. With liquidation of loans at the member banks begin- ning the board forsees better con ns. “ “You-wort haveto bargam-hant if you plan to make lingeric and houschold things of Fruit of .the Loom. It is easy to sew on, giwes long - service, and launders welli For over scventy yeats it has been the same high-quality muslin, always sold at a reasonable price. Muslin Women find it economical to buy it by the bolt because & cuts to greater advantage. There tsless waste. 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