Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1921, Page 17

< CANADIAN POLIGIES | INWORLD AFFAIRS, Parliament Will Decide Many { Vital Matters Next Month. DISCUSS GEDDES’ RECALL Canada’s Part in League, Japanese Question and Tariff Will Be Taken Up. Special Dispatch to The Star. OTTAWA, January 31.—The part which Canada will play in the league of nations will likely be discussed at the session of the Dominion parlia- ment at Ottawa, which opens next month. The recent covenant at Geneva for es- tablishment of an international court of justice is to be subscribed to by the zovernment, but it will be submitted to parliament for ratification. When this is done a group or commission will be constituted to nominate Cana- dian representatives on the proposed court, the election to be made by the council and mbly of the league. As the position calls for judicial quali- fications, C. J. Doherty, minister of justice. is prominently mentioned in connection with it when the ultimate nominations are made. There considerable speculation rezarding Sir Auckland Geddes' pres- ent visit to London. and his confer- ence at Paris with Lloyd George. In some quarters it is anticipated that Mr. Harding will be invited to assist in instituting an Anglo-American con- ference of the highest authoritative character, to make joint proposals for mutual governmental consideration. “The naval and general policy of Japan and the Anglo-Japanese alliance will,” says a London cable to the Mon_ treal Star, “be very much in the mind of this conference.” Informed by these proposals, British ministers will be prepared to put the whole case for consideration before the Canadian and other ministers at the imperial confer- ence next June. British naval and other policies will be guided by the impressions which that imperial con- ference makes upon the British minis- ters and the British parliament, leav- ing the ministers and the parliaments of Canada and the other dominions to act as they think best in their-own circumstances and way. The supreme political desire of the premier at the moment is to get world peace estab- lished and British finance reconstituted. Tariff Matters. If the fate of the Fordney bill is not definitely decided at Washington be- fore then, parliament will undoubtedly refer to it. Retaliation is being urged, but more with the idea of encouraging less buying in the states and more in Canada, so as to provide work for Canadian workmen, than with any real hope of materially lessening the ‘lnxmoun( this country spends across the ne. Senator G. D. Robertson, Canada’s minister of labor, this week threw out a hint respecting this matter, when dealing with the problem of unemployment. “It is obviously” he said, “the duty of Canadians to buy enough to keep things moving and to buy Canadian made goods. If each individual does his share in this, the unemployment “question will be speedily solved. “Canadian people must realize that they have much of the solution of the unemployment question in their own hands. From October 15 to December 31 last about 133,000 men were laid off in Canada by 4,700 employers. Eliminating Sundays from that time, it meant that every night 2,000 men went to their homes with no job to g0 to the next day. And this in face MOVE FOR WOMAN VOTE IN ANCIENT SAVAGE ISLAND AMSTERDAM, January 31— ‘Woman suffrage movements have reached the Dutch East Indies, the colonies whose history and ancient savagery were chiefly known to credulous Americans through the agency of circus sideshows, wherein the “Wild Man of Borneo™ and “The Terrible Dyaks, Fero- cious Head-Hunting ~Cannibals, drew many dimes while the crowds waited for the “big tent to open. Head hunting_and kindred sav- age pastimes still continue, to some extent, within the jungles of these Dutch’ islands, but, according to the Dutch press, most of the natives are rapidly adopting mod- ern theories. % In Java the upper class mative women, under leadership of Raden Adjeng Kartini, a woman of high birth, are reported to be making rapid strides toward emancipation, although the Mohammedan custom of polygamy still prevails. In all the “Kartini schools” the girls of the upper classes are being taught occidental theories of equality with the men. Dutch correspond- ents say the progress of the move- ment is necessarily slow, but ap- pears to be certain of ultimate success. INJURED GETTING OFF CAR. Mary Lee in Serious Condition From Fall—Other Accident. Miss Mary Lee, nineteen years old, 4521 Canal road, is in a serious con- dition at Georgetown University Hos- pital, suffering from injuries received last night in alighting from a car at Clark station, Va. Anton Holman, fifty-two years old, 1816 S street, was knocked down by an automobile at 18th strect and New Hampshire avenue last night, and his scalp lacerated, His injury was dressed at Emergency Hospital. TEACHERS HEAR LECTURES Hundred and Fifteen Register at Junior High for Columbia Degree. One hundred and fifteen teachers are registered in the course of lec- tures on methods of teaching secon- dary schools which is being given at the M street Junior High School by, Dr. Romiett Stevens, assistant pro- fessor of education of Columbia Uni- versity, it is announced by Principal Lucy D. Slowe. Teachers taking the course are al- lowed two points credit at Columbia either toward the bachelor's or mas- ter's degree. The course will extend through May 21. — of the fact that during the last year Canadian purchases in the United States amounted to $500,000,000 in round figures. ‘The Canadian Dollar. “Senator McCumber contends that a duty of 40 cents on a bushel would mean an actual duty of only 13 cents, owing to the exchange situation. His calculation is based on a rate of ex- change much more adverse to Canada than the present rate. Certainly if Canagian farm products and live stock were shut out of the United States exchange would not be stabilized, but American business in- terests would regard such a state of affairs as a calamity for the export trade. Even the seasoned protection- ists of the eastern states see the folly of the Fordney bill, and it cannot be adopted by republican votes alone. Senator McCumber says that Canada will continue to buy in the cheapest market, and that the cheapest market will continue to be the United States, but he overlooked the fact that the policy he advocates will further lower the purchasing power of the Canadian dollar in_the United States, and that the Canadlan dollar will go elsewhere if it can go farther. _— Every Full Dress Worsted is offered for vour choice at this re- duction from regular prices—and the gar- ments will be made up in the Stein way—the highest standard of tai- loring. 20% Off—— Overcoats which we, as usual, have made up ready for wear are now subject to this 20% dis- count. They’re Stein garments—which is all the commendation nec- essary. J. M. Stein & Co. 523 Thirteenth Street Tailors to the Fastidious thereon. ¢ Through our various 2, Open Until 5:30 P.M. 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NORRIS, % v Allan E, Walker, Treasurer. L. L. Jenkins, Charles W. Warden, CHAS. A. DOUGLAS, Carter B. Keene, Bates Warren, Counsel. James L. Earrick, Wm. 8. Washbura, CONTINENTAL TRUST Co. Capital, $1,000,000.00 Corner Fourteenth & H Streets I T N N N A e . T 7 THE EVENING STAR, ISHIP CREW FACES SEA FRE HORRORS w114 Gansor Gontinse o Aid Gouners| FACE Explosion of Fuel 0il Tanks Smothers Flames on the Nettuno. By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., January 31.— The Italian steamer Nettuno, bound from Port Arthur, Tex., to Brindisi, Italy, was towed into port yesterday by the coast guard cutter Yamacraw, after being afire at sea. Capt. Bersini attributes the salva- tion of his ship to a miracle—the ex- plosion of her fuel oil tanks, which literally snuffed out the fire after it had raged unchecked for twenty hours. The blaze originated in the engine room from a bursting feed Dipe, when the Nettuno was four d: out from Port Arthur, from which cleared on January 21 with a cargo of gasoline and fuel oil. At that time she was off_the Florida coast, in the vicinity of Bermude. In a few moments the Nettuno was a seething inferno amidships, and Capt. Bersini stated that it did not seem possible for her to remain afloat but a short time. Capt. Bersini painted a vivid picture of the horror through which he and the ship's personnel lived during the twenty hours the fire raged un- checked in the ship wallowing help- lessly in heavy seas The crew fought with desperation to | keep the fire from the gasoline stored in the hold of the vessel. The fight, however, appeared hopeless, ac- cording to Capt. Bersini, and mo- mentarily he expected thé flames to reach the gasoline and blow the ship to atoms. Practically every lifeboat aboard the Nettuno had either been carried away or smashed by the terrible buffeting | the tanker ssutained during the hours of the fire. The fact that the crew had no life- toats in which to leave the burning vessel added to the horror of the sit- uation. Praixes His Crew. Capt. Bersinj spoke in the highest terms of the behavior of his officers and ccrew, speaking feelingly of the heroic work of the chief engineers, Beteno and Crosa, as well as_of the heroism of Engineer Landi Joanna, who volunteered to go below at tha time the feed pipe burst to shut off the flow of oil and rescue two firemen trapped in the fireroom. Joanna was so severely burned that Capt. Bersini | stated he did not think the engineer could survive. His clothing was burned from his body and his fiesh in many places literally cooked. Joanna an dthe two firemen, Brancalaone and Losito, who were also badly burned, were ' transferred to the Belgian steamer Kremlin on January 26, the day after the fire aboard the Neftuno had been extinguished, and sent to Newport News. The Yamacraw, which had been ad- vised to look éut for the Nettuno, picked up the ship_on January 2§ and headed for Jacksonville. The Nettuno is owned by the Italian state railways, her home port being Palmerno, Italy. The Nettuno is a six-thousand-ton ship, 400 feet in length with a breadth of beam of sixty feet. For four days the crew of the Nettuno was without food or sleep. NORFOLK, Va., January 31.—Three members of ‘the crew of the Itali steamer Nettuno were landed at } port News yesterday by the Belgian steamship Kremlin ‘and rushed to a hospital for treatment of severe burns sustained when fire_broke out in the engine room of the Nettuno off the coast of Florida last Wednesday. One of the men, Landi Vioganni, third engineer of the Nettuno, is not ex- pected to live. A stirring tale of heroism on the high seas with Vioganni in the prin- cipal role was told today by members | of the crew of the Kremlin. % 7 NN 2 in the M, 727 Overcoats That / W 72 Select any coat and NN EISEMAN’S 605-607 7th St., Between F & G Sts. Your Unrestricted Choice of any Overcoat No Restrictions No Reservations All Colors—All Models— MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 192T. R |AUSTRIA, STARVATION CENTER, DOING LITTLE TO FEED PEOPLE Indefinitely—U. S. Spending Half Million Monthly to Aid Children. BY A. R. DECKER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dafly News. Copyright, 1921 VIENNA, Austria, January 31.—In the opinion of a growing number of impartial observers a considerable share of Austria's ills are due to her own shiftlessness and lack of effort. Each month the American relief ad- ministration spends half a million dollars in warding off starvation from Austrian children, and numerous other organizations through the Red Cross, through mothers’ help commit- tees and through state subsidies for bread give an enormous aid in food and clothing, because Vienna, as the starvation center, has excited the world’s sympath: Although conditions are improved the world cannot continue thus aid- ing Austria_indefinitely, unless some permanent means of betterment are found. The present methods are no more than sandwiches to a beggar. Austria must be placed in a position to help herself. Austria can produce fully 60 per cent of her needs in foodstuffs if she only would, and it has not yet been proved that manu- factures will not suflice for exchange to supply the remainder. Obstacle to Solution. Two years of near communism and wholly destructive government have proved an obstacle to any possibili of solving the Austrian problem. Dil gent search will not show any specific examples of Austria’s attempting_ to help herself. Little advantage has been taken of Vienna's unique posi- tion of commercial advantage through the trade routes developed before the war. The Danube still has the same channel and the Vienna banks, offices and hotels have not been ravaged by the war. The neighboring states have no funds with which to build competing railroads. For example, the Czechoslovak road from Prague to Pressburg is a one-track line, which is_inadequate for transport, and the Czechs are forced to use the Vienna route. Despite the severe re- strictions, Austria is still the biggest buyer from the Czechs and nearly all is_for re-export. Vienna should be a center for trade, art, music and conventions. The first convention will be a socialist one, at the end of February. In the course of the last three weeks 1.000.000,000 crowns (normally $200,000,000) was printed, this being _revealed after three weeks without a bank statement. _Economy has been _disregarded. Where before the war the state had only half a dozen automobilek or carriages, and the cabinet members paid half the cost, now each min- ister must have his own machine, and there are many ministers. Austria has more government empioyes than before ‘the Wwar, when the empire counted 60,000,000 people. This bu- reaucracy, with its inefficiency and obstructiveness, was built up by the socialists for the alleged purpose of carrying out socialistic policies, but really to give places to supporters and develop a political machine. The salaries and pensons of these para- sites complement the food requir: ments in causing an enormous deficit. pengiCotlons Great Cont. ensions for state employes use 13.000,000,000 crowns (Sflvgflfl"flcflfl‘flgfl] of the budget. Food purchases call for 7,000,000,000 crowns ($1,400,000,- 000), ‘but, if the exchange continucs bad, it will require 20,000,000,000 crowns ($4,000,000,000) to' meet the bill until the end of 1921. The one bright spot is that the aid to_the poor' fund has fallen from 215.000,000 crowns ($43,000,000) to 25,000,000 crowns ($5,000,000), and the unemploved ' fund = from 350,000,000 ($70,000,000) to 7,000,000 crowns ($1.400,000.) Conditions are grad- ually improving and even the Aus trians are resuming work, a fact due to export possibilities accompanying the low exchange. The railroads will need 4,000,000,000 crowns ($800,000,000) and the army | 1.000.000,000 crowns in part, because of the expense of bringing war pri: oners home, While the income in- creased to 20,000,000,000 crowns ($4,- 000.000.000) the total expenses were 33,000,000,000 crowns ($6.600,000,000), leaving a deficit of = 13,000,000,000 crowns ($2,600,000,000.) I understand that other obligations bring this def- icit to between 30,000,000,000 and 35.000.000.000 crowns ($6,000,000,000 and $7,000,000,000), most of which must be printed. No interior loan has been tried, but the success of such a loan would be. doubtful because the Austrians have no confidence in their own money and would not invest in the bonds of their own country. SOLDIER LYNCHERS | TRIAL TODAY Men Accused of Killing Miner Will Have Able Defense in Court. By the Associated Press. HAMILTON, Ala, January 31.— The trial of Sergt. Robert L. Lan- caster, one of nine members of Com- pany M, Alabama National Guard, Who were indicted in connection with the 1lynching of William Baird, a miner, on the morning of January 13, was set to begin here late today. Each of the ten men indicted will be given separate trials, the state's at- torney having decided asainst a group trial. 8 None of the guardsmen charged with the lynching is over twenty-two vears of age and_some of them are only eighteen. Some of them are overseas veter: Although all are in moderate circumstances and have no money, citizens of Tuscaloosa, their home town, have raised a fund and supplied able defen: and a stubborn fight in each case is indi- cated. On December during the time Company M was stationed at Townley, center of the coal mine strike zone, James Morris, one of the guardsmen, shot and killed John Northeutt, a miner, after the miner was said to {khave ‘attempted to kill the soldiers. {Morris sent another soldier to notify | his_commanding officer while he re- {mained with the body. When the |party sent from camp reached the |scene, Morris was dead, with a bul- let hole in his body. It was claimed he had been shot in the back. Baird. son-in-law of Northcutt, was sought and on Christmas night surrendered to the cheriff of Winston county and asked protection. Two days later Baird as taken to the Walker county jail at Jasper. It was from this jail that on the morning of January 13 he was taken by a band of disguised men, carried some distance out of town in an au- 22 tomobile and shot to death by the roadside. An investigation by the authorities was said to have devel- oped that Leslie West, a taxicab op- erator, supplied the cars to the lynch- ing party. Later, it was announced, CHURCH DEDICATES ST. JOAN STATUE SAVED FROM WAR NEW YORK, January 31.—A statue of St. Joan of Arc, found only slightly scarred in a war- ruined French village, today graces an altar in a church in the Eim. hurst district, the first in this coun- try named in honor of the new saint. The relic was discovered in the ruins of the church at Ban-de- Laveline by Rev. Ward G. Meehan, who was chaplain of an American infantry regiment during the war. Elmhurst's church w named the day of Joan of Arc's tion, and Father Meehan its rector. Struck by dence, he sent to France statue. for It was erected at services held last night. $13,000 FOR RELIEF INIRELAND RAISED Total Subscriptions at Be- lasco Theater Mass Meeting. More than $15.000 subscribed by the audience at the Belasco Theater marked the initial mass meeting of the W ington branch of the A 4 tee for relief in Irel erndon. Directing their remarks for the most he had confessed his part in the af- fair, and implicated the soldiers. The arrest and indictment of the nine members of Company M followed. MISS WILSON T0 SPEAK. A meeting of the National Woman's Party convention will be addressed here February 17 by Miss Margaret Wilson, who will speak on the work of Community Ceniter organization. In accepting the invitation to address the convention, Miss Wilson declared that she was “very much.ints\restod in bringing to the attention of the women of the country the work 0}: the Community Center organization. ORCHESTRAL CONCERT. At the marine barracks, at 3 p.m. today, by the United States Marine Band Orchestra; Wil- liam H. Santelmann, leader: Suite, Opus 43... .Tschaikowsky (a) Introduction and fugue; (b) Divertissement, (¢) Andante, (d) Marche miniature, (e) Schprzo.] f) (}a\;o:!z.ns o 2 solo, “Variati L;llé?‘oco' .. Tschaikowsky Musi critz Mueller, Prelude to “Lohengrin”. Wagner | Overture, “Midsummer Night's Dream.” i | Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | “The Star Spangled Banner.” 722 i, 7 272777777777 House Sold Up to $65 X 727 W hand us just $19.75 < bankers that it is PLAN GIRLS’ SCHOLARSHIPS. New scholarships for deservin girls at George Washington Univer: sity who are unable to pay their way through college will be made possible by the proceeds from two benefit motion picture performances to be given at 2 and 4 o'clock Wed nesday afternoon at the Knicker. bocker Theater by the Columbi women of the university. T TRAIN DERAILED, 3 HURT. CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind 31—Three persons were sxigfii'x"y“"?f.’f jured when Big Four passenger train No. 43 was derailed three miles east of Crawfordsville early today. The engineer, fireman and a woman passenger Were® hurt. The entire train left the tracks, the engine plowing 200 feef into a_cornfield bew fore being stopped. The cause of the derailment has not been learned. ——a gl “eheme to prevent su ery is that of a certain million who is said to make a tiny b{g?n:;?fi check he writes as a sign to the genuine. ccessful for- $38383838888888383838302838288282828238383838383283888338328282828888888 $83232388383232328388888232323838282883838888323883 “~. Voliva Sends Two | Zion Deaconesses to Wicked Gotham ZION, IIL, January 31—uver- seer Glenn Voliva, who has bar- red wmoking among the men and low-necked waists and con- metics among the women, In this xettlement of Disciplen of the Christian Catholic Apostolic | Church of Zién, has announced that he sent two emissaries to “Christianize the wicked city of New York.” The emissaries are Deacon- esses Helen A. Bubmann and Belle Schellhorn. Voliva de- clared they were his star litera- ture women and that they would distribute pamphlets “from door to door and office t> office, covering all of the busi- nenn djntrict, the shipping circles and all stenmers bound for for- eign ports.” | _“When they get through,” he sald, “New York will not be wuch a wicked ecity.” Irec:-nll_\' in an_airplane. moved from every part of the world,” he_said. nator James A. Reed of Missouri gave a_ brief resume of the 700-vear fight the Irish people had made to preserve their national consciousness and_concluded his addr. by pro- testing against the deportation of Lord Mayor Donal O'Callaghan. Other Speakers Heard. after invocation had been pronounced John B. Creeden, president of orgetown University, Rev. Dr. uilday of the Catholic Uni- versity was introduced as the perma- nent chairman. Representative C of Michigan paid t Irish_had done for the rest of the world and Frank J. Hogan, basing his appeal from a humanitarian standpoint alone, made a stirring ap- peal for aid from those present. Judge C. W. Campbell of New York, cretary of the national relief com- rence J. McLeod bute to what the s mittee, ‘told briefly of the methods now being conducted to distribute the funds in Ireland. A message from Rev. Henry Allen Tupper, pastor of the First Baptist Church, was read, expressing his re- gret at being unable to be present. —_— At Calcutta, a_couple was married The wedding partly ascended 6,000 feet, and, the en- gine being shut off, a clergyman read the wedding service as the machine cir- cled gently to the earth. THE WONDER SHOPS 14th and New York Ave. 2 Stores in ‘Washington 621 FINAL CLEARANCE REGARDLESS OF COST We have disregarded cost and forgotten profit, and bropose to give such values at such prices that those who have waited for “THIS FINAL REDUCTION” will indeed make a wonderful saving. 1,400 ; UITS ax0o OVERCOATS VALUES UP TO $45 9475 Some With 2 Pairs Pants Both Stores Open Saturday Nights Until 10 O’Clock LATINMERCHANTS ASSAIL . 3. POLICY In Danger of Losing Foreign Trade Opportunities, Argen-. | tine Leaders Say. : DISPUTE OVER EXCHANGE $40,000,000 in Merchandise In- volved in Quarrel Over Advanc- ing Rates and Falling Prices. By the Associated Press. BUF AIRES, January 30.-—Ads vancing exchange rates and decreas- ing pri during the past few months ve resulted in a dispute over ‘the ment of between $40,000,000 and 5.000,000 for American merchandise which is either tied up in the Argen- tine customhous or is on its way to this port. This statement was made by Horas ‘io B. Varela, a prominent commers cial lawyer, who last night addressed the second annual banquet of the United States Chamber of Commeree. Senor Varela said no general meak: ur ch as government intervention or collective loans could cure the sit- uation. He declared the solution was to be found only in private ugrees ments bet 1 the partios c g ik to ch as possible. the “unfavors part to the distress and sufferiny _which [able amosphere” created by questions they said prevailed in Ireland, the|able practices by a small number of speakers stressed the necessity of im- [North American expofters. He mediate aid for the people of the island. |Serted it could not be denied th Senator Walsh's Plea. certain instances the facts were Prefacing his appeal for funds by out- “'.’,,f,’,"‘,‘,r‘w"_““! L ET - lining_the need and_cause of Trish re- | xorth Aimeican firng, "ohien a ome lief, Senator David I. Walsh of Massa- | gori'y SUerican Brms. which devols chusetts gave statistics to show that [P during the war in sending to Ar- within the past two vears twelve towns | KGMlina “improved agents” who were Fad been wiped out entirely: 105 citics | SiLhout standing was condemned by and villages more or less devastat e oG R L W S 250,000,000 confiscated; 20,000 taken conception that business coutd thrown out of employment, and *“more | ¢ 8Tanged and a correct understand= than 200,000 people cast on the mercy |iIS Of commerce in this country ob- of the world. And for what? Simply |tained in a few weeks. i because these poor and humble people The danger of the United States were led to believe that at last the day | 10Sing its advantageous position in had come awhen tyranny was to be re. | foreign trade through the lack of an international policy was dwelt upon by Jorge Mitre, director of lLa Nacion, in a letter read at the bame quet. ‘Senor Mitre's letter declared: “The members of your chamber know the United States never had a better opportunity to obtain com- mercial leadership. Americans have in their favor an almost unanimous :sire _to see the high principle of g | pan-Americanism put into ~practice The meeting was opened by John !in commercial relations, as without B. Densmore, acting chairman, and |these relations political intercourse loses much of its foras and meaning in the life of nations. It would real- |1y be regrettable that, with such an excellent outlook, a motive of mis- understood selfishness should cause the United States to give up the advantageous position it has con- quered and again hold aloof. disap- pointing our hopes and hazardin its future on the international stag: MORE SLEEPING SICKNESS London Reports Fifty-Five Cases in Past Four Weeks. LONDON, January 31.—Fifty-five cases of sleeping sickness have beea reported during the past four weeks in this city. This is a large increase. only twenty-three being reported in the previous period of four weeks Sgriavin Five states in the November election chose women for state superintendents of public instruction. $ Penn. Ave. m&xmmnmmmmzmmmzmzzzzzxxxxzzm::::zzzzxmmmzzzzzmnmzmmzzmzzzzzz A