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WEATHER. ‘Rain tonight and tomorro change in temperature, Temperature for twenty-four hours, ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 53, at 2 p.m. today: lowest, 32, at 6:30 a.m. Full report on page 7. W ; not much Closing New York Stocks, Page 28. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, No. 28,040. D. C. @The b WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Staf, Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all pews divpatch credited to it or no* otherwise credited in this All rights dispatches | | paper and aiso the local news publisho Veret of publication of spicial herein are also reserved. . Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 95,057 WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, D. C, EBRUARY 4, 1921 —-THIRTY-TWO PAGES. TWO CENTS. U.S.TOCALL WORLD CONFERENCE SOON - ON DISARMAMENT] Announcement of Purpose Made by House Naval Committee Head. COULD REDUCE NAVIES BY HALF, SAYS SIMS Rear Admiral Gives Opinion That Nations Would Welcome Amer- ica’s Proposed Invitation. An international conference to dis- cuss disarmament will be called by the United States, Chairman Butler of the House naval committee said today, when the committee met to hear the views of prominent naval officers on the subject. Chairman Butler did not say when the call would be issued, but from his line of questioning of witnesses it was assumed he thought the call would be issued soon after the inauguration of President-elect Harding. Mr. Butler recently conferred with AIr. Harding at Marion, Ohio. Admiral Sims Called. Rear Admiral William S. time commander of America’s over- seas naval forces, was the first wit- ness examined by the committee. With Germany’s power crushed, Ad- miral Sims said. all nations could re- duce their naval armaments by half with safety. He added that he be- | lieved the nations would welcome a call for a disarmament conference. Congress must determine national policies before naval officers can formulate naval plans, the admiral said, adding that until he knew what those policies were he would not say whether the United States could af- ford to have a Navy second to any other. 1f the Navy were maintained purely for defensive purposes, Admiral Sims said, the United States would be safe with a Navy half as large as that of any possible enemy thousands of miles away. If. however, the United States intended to rely on its Navy for carrying out broad international pol- icies, he said, its sea power should be equal to that of any other nation. Appearing with Admiral Sims were Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, re- tired, and Admiral R. E. Coontz, chief of naval operations; Rear Admirals A. T. Long, Henry T. Mayo. W. I. Rogers, Charles J. Badger and R. H. Jackson and Maj. Gen. John A. Le- jeune, commandant of the Marine Corps, all of the Navy general board. Would Not Al on Navy. Admiral Sims said he ‘agreed with Gen. Pershing that war with Great Britain was “inconceivable,” but added that he would yot abandon the Navy entirely under any conditions, even if there were no enemy in sight. “You can't tell what will come out of Europe,” he said. “Nobody is to_take his hand off his gun.” Specifically. Admiral Sims advil the committee not to stop work on 1916 building program, particulaply the battle cruisers. He added that American submarines were inferfor.to foreign-built craft, and that Americz was “extraordinarily” behind in dvia- tion development, which should be corrected, with stress on building swift airplane carriers for the Navy. The officer suggested that two of the scout cruisers under construction be altered | for this purpose. Admiral Sims said he did not know whether aircraft had displaced battle- ships, as aircraft advocates have held, because he was not sure that the air- Plane could do what was claimed for . If they prove as powerful as 1 be- lieve they will,” he added, urging de- velopment of the air service, “I would eventually abandon major ships.” —_— CURB SPEEDING ON BRIDGE Damage to Structure Necessitates | Strict Law—40 Arrests Made. Upon complaint of Maj. Ridley, su- perintendent of the public buiidings ' and grounds, the United States police have been notified to arrest all vio- Jators of the speed law over the High- | way bridge. Heavy trucks and street cars, Maj. Ridley states, exceeding the | maximum twelve miles per hour speed’| limit are causing great damege to the | surface of the bridge and draw. ! In co-operation with Maj. Ridley's orders during the last three days forty arrests have been made, of which number thirty-nine have for- feited $5 collateral at No. 4 police precinct. George S. Ezgleston, truck driver, for the Public Health Service Hospital, was the first offender to ap- pear in_court. Upon his appearance | before Judge Hardison today he was convicted and placed upon probation, notification being made to the mili- tary authoritics at the hospital. H. T. Miskell and H. L. Marcey, United States police. huve stationed themselves at different points on the | bridge and time each machine by a stop watch. = MAIL ROBBERY FOILED. Federal Officials and Deputies Cap- ture Alleged Bandit. DAYTON, Ohio. February 4-1—‘0;Iedt in an alleged attempt to steal two ' registered mail pouches from a mail | truck at Troy, this morning, Leo Bau- | man, thirty-five, was held under § - 600 “bond when arraigned before | United States Commissioner Lentz of | Dayton, three hours later, on a charge of stealing a mail pouch. i Acting upon a tip that a robbery | was to be staged, federal officials, | with deputy sheriffs, stationed ther selves in a store near the post office | and watched the bandit attack Leon- | ard Hodge, the mail wagon um»n[ bind him to a post and place the two pouches in a waiting automobile, | Firing through a window of the! store and rushing out the door, depu ties surprised and surrounded Bau- man. One bullet struck the wind- shield of his car, but he escaped in- Jury. 1 —_— GEDDES TO ADJUST DEBT. Lord Chalmers’ Here Was Merely to Aid Him. LONDON. February 4.—Negotia- | tions relative to an adjustment of, Great Britain's debt to the United States are in the hands of Sir Auck-| land Geddes, British ambassador in Washington, and the proposed trip tc America of Lord Chalmers, perma. nent secretary of the treasury, was merely to facilitate the conversations. This was the explanation glven here yesterday for the postponement of lord Chalmers' visit to the United States during the absence of Ambas- sador Geddea | chiet i i tion is given by the experts as fo {lows: French, 47.45: Belgian, 4690 British, 97.85; American. 159.65 i The cost, similarly expressed, of maintaining _ private soldiers far WAR DEPARTMENT’S CIVILIAN EMPLOYES NOW FACE OUSTER Strict retrenchment is the order of the day at the War Department. In addition to previous measures of economy in the Quartermaster Corps and other departments of the Army, an order was issued today directing that no civilian employes shall be hired hereafter by any branch or agency of the War De- partment or the Army. “unless it can be shown to the Secretary of ‘War that the work involved should not or cannot be performed by the commissioned officers now author- ized by law." It is added that “if, through lack of training. the officers already commissioned cannot perform the duties demanded of them. immedi- ate steps will be taken by the re- sponsible officers to see that they are properly trained.” Chiefs of all branches are in- structed to report the names, clas sifications and r: of pay of all technical and professional experts drawing $1,800 or more a year. em- ployed in the District of Columbia or “outside, and s why their services cannot be dispensed with. The reports called for do not in- clude personnel engaged on river and harbor work or in connection with inland and coastwise water- ways activities. The adjutant gen- eral will submit a similar report Wwith reference to that class of per- sonnel engaged in the work of edu- cation and recreation. THREATENGREAT RAILROAD STRIKE Union Leaders Say Men Will Walk Out if Labor Board Permits Wage Changes. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 4.—Interna- tional and national officers of the rail- road labor unions today were sum- moned to Chicago to consider labor's side in the controversy before the railroad labor board over the em- ployers’ proposal to abrogate the na- tional agreements. William Schoenberg of Chicago, or- ganizer for the machinists’ union, told the Federated Trades Council of Mil- waukee that a general railroad strike | will take place within a week if the railroad labor board permits railroad executives to abrogate wage con- tracts. Predicts Nation-Wide Strike. Copies of a statement isued in De- troit by S. J. Pegg. international sec- retary treasurer of the maintenance | of way employes and railway shop laborers, announced that 370,000 mem- bers of the organization would stage a country-wide walk-out without the formality of a strike vote the mo- ment wages are cut or the national wage agreements are broken. “The men will not work for less money,” Pegg sald, “irrespective: of the wishes of union officials or what they might say. Thousands of them, embittered over wage conditions, are now to leave their work railway labor board went into tive session after the comple- tionBf another portion of the hearing on’ wage agreements late yesterday | and announced it would hear B. M. | Jewell, representing the railroad unions, next Monday. Statements in rebuttal by the employers are to fol- Tow, the board decided. and an im- medlate decision is expected. ! Ways to assist in the financial re- habilitation of the railroads were dis- cussed at a meeting of shippers and bankers here vesterday. Some of the proposals considered were speeding up of congressional action, 8o that railroads can get the money due them | since the days of government control; readjustment of wages and tariffs and abrogation of the national agreements in part, at least. CENSOR TO EXPURGATE MR. DAWES’ TESTIMONY Strict censorship will be exercised over the testimony of Charles G. Dawes before a congressional war in- vestigating committee: this week. All hells,” “damns” and stronger utter- nees. including even the . frequent hell Maria’s” used by Gen. Pershing’s former supply chief to express his feelings adequately will be knocked out of the permanent record. was agreed on by both parties before the argument started, so Mr. Dawes, as he asked to be ealled, let ‘er go, rezardless. IN DISTRESS. MIGRATE. All of London’s East End Seems to Be Headed for U. S. LONDON, February 4.—The dis- tressing conditions in central Europe, reflected here in unemployment, are among the contributory causes of the flood of emigrants from England to America. The foreign elements of the population predominate in the appli- cations for vises, until, as the con- sular officlals describe the situation, all of London's East End seems to be seeking permission to proceed to America. Three thousand persons have em- barked from the port of London alone in the past six weeks, and hundreds are waiting vises, the delay being due to the enforcement of the American regulations requiring investigation of the applicants. Fear of American legislation strict- ly limiting immigration, coupled with increased activity of the steamship agents for passengers, owing to the shipping surplus. is given as the cause of the present rush to America, which is demanding all the attention of the consuls. —_— U. S. TROOPS COST MOST. German Expense in Maintaining Army of Occupation Shown. PARIS, February 3.—Each Ameri- can officer and private in the Rhine- land costs Germany several times the sum spent in maintaining a British a French or a Belgian soldier In the army of occupation, it is brought out figures tabulated by the Brusseis onference of experts. submitted to port a_recommendation to the al s that they economize in their ex penditures on Germany's account, as an aid to that country. 2 The daily cost in francs of main- aining otficers of the army of oceup: 1 | Proposed Visit ! ts French, 12.37; Belgian, 13.17; British, ) 31.60; American, 59.30. PATENT CHIEF NAMED. President Wilson today sent to the | of fulfiliment.” That | AMERICAN PROTEST ONINDEMNITY PLAN BEING CONSIDEREC State Department Loath to| Act Because of Early Ad- ministration Change. ‘CAVEAT’ WOULD PROVOKE' INQUIRY AS TO POSITION | U. S. Memoranda Already I‘iledI With Allies Show Proposals Are | Regarded as “Preposterous.” BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The United States government considering whether or mnot it shall file a legal protest against the repara- tion settlement proposed by the al- lies to Germany. Behind the indecision of the State Department in the matter—for it a fact that officials are in a quandary as to what should be done—is the best illustration that has yet come to the surface of the embarrassments that accrue from a change of admin- istration in the United States without some measure of co-operation—even unoflicial—between the incoming and the outgoing administrations. The customary way to protect and safeguard American rights in any transaction in which a government may be unprepared to argue a case is to file a “caveat,” or legal warning, which is in the nature of a notice to all concerned that exception is taken to the negotiations, and that views on the question will be filed separately and at a later date. Europe Likely to Inquire. The trouble about filing such a “caveat,” however, in the present case, is that American officials fear that Eu- rope will promptly ask for America Pposition on reparation and State Depas ment officials are unwilling to say any- thing that might be a handicap to Presi- dent Harding after March 4. “It may be that President Hardin will approve the reparation settlemen said one official. “We don’t know an thing about the views of the next ad- ministration or its desires.” On the other hand, the Wilson ad- ministration has made clear its position again and again in memoranda filed with the allied powers, and there is no doubt row in the minds of the European states- men that the present administration con- siders the proposals just made to the allies as “preposterous” and “impossible is No American at Meeting. Another interesting angle to the ques- tion is the fact that European govern- ments asked the United States to send an ambassador to attend unofficially the council in Paris at which the repara- tion settlement was agreed upon. Presi- dent Wilson declined to permit an American representative to sit in the council because America had not rati- fied the very treaty under which it was proposed to coilect reparation. “We can’t eat our cake and have it, too,” continued a high official of the department today. “We cannot ask for rights under a treaty which we have not even ratified.’” One fortunate thing, however, in the situation, s the prospect that Germany will decline to accept the settlement and that the whole matter may be under dis- cussion when the new administration comes into power. The speech in the French parliament of -Andre , Tardieu, formerly French high commissioner to the United States, in which he took the Briand ministry to task for hastening a settlement before President Harding could take the oath of office in Wash- ington, is looked upon here as the be- ginning of a better understanding in Europe that without American co-opera- tion the entire reparation settlement may fall to the ground. Credit Here Needed. For, unless the moral support of the United States government is back of the settlement, our officials believe it will be impossible for the allies to use reparation bonds in their finan- cial transactions with the United States, either as a basis of credit in foreign trade or as collateral in the support of foreign loans past or fu- ture. The more the terms of the repara- tion proposals are studied the more officials here are beginning to feel that the entire proposal will collapse unless radically modified. In the| meantime. however, opinion is divided as to whether the United States ought | to file a legal exception to the allied proposal 80 as to form the basis for an effective protest later on in the event that the 12 per cent export tax shall operate to the disadvantage of American trade and industry. (Copyright, 1921.) CONSIDER COUNTER PLAN. Brussels Conference Likely to Fol- low London Meeting. By the Assoclated Press, LONDON, February 4.—“Steps are being taken to draft counter pro- posals to ‘ne allied reparations de- mands as a result of a cabinet coun- cil held, at which it is reported the demands were discdssed,” according to a dispatch to the London Times from Berlin “Dr. Carl Bergmann, head of the German reparations com- mission, IS expected to remain in Ber- Iin until the work is completed, “The general View is that the Brus- sels conference must be postponed un- til after the London meeting. The government summoned the pre- | miers of the central states to a meet- ing tomorrow. “Agitation is going on for a national | coalition of all the political parties, from the extreme right to the major- ity socialists, in order to present a united front to the allies, but there fs opposition to this from the con- servatives and majority socialists. “The general public is depressed, sullen and defiant and anxiously look- ing toward the United States for in- tervention. FRENCH APPROVE PLAN. H Tardieu Says Debt Cannot Be Dis- counted Without U. S. Action. By the Associated Press, PARIS, February 3—The French | parifament, chamber and senate, gacn | fis seal of approval today fto® the sovernment’s declaration on the goo elons taken by the supreme courci at Paris respecting reparations, dis- | armament _and other questions. It Tecelved Premier Briand's deciara. tion with all outward and visible signs that promise a large majority in the vote of confidence which the Briand cabinet will seek tomorrow Andrew Tardieu. former high com- missioner 1o the United States, haq given notice of an interpellation This appeared to be taken most Serlt Scnate the nomination of Melvin H. Coulston of New ¥ork to be commis- sioner of patents, Coulston is now first assistant commissioner of patents. PRESIDENT MOVING INTO HIS NEW HOME Motor Vans Bring Furniture and Personal Effects From New Jersey. Three large motor vans loaded with furniture and personal effects from President Wilson's old home in New Jersey arrived in Washington today and are being unloaded this afternoon at President and Mrs. Wilson's newly acquired residence, 2340 § street northwest. The motor vans started from Tren- ton Wednesday. Wilmer Bolling, brother of Mrs. Wilson, and several White House attaches supervised the work of placing the furnishings in the President’s future home. Several additional loads of house- furnishings are yet to arrive here trom New Jersey, it was learned. The included oak and ma- chairs, tables, desks £ yrsonal effects. Massive|Desk Arrives. A massive roll-top oak desk, pre- sumably that used by the President when he was in public life in New Jersey, was one of the pieces of fur- niture carried into the house. Alarge box was marked “Manuscript of Mr. ‘Wilson's Books.” While the process of moving was under way, another group of work- men was engaged in completing a wide cement driveway to the west of the house. The formal transfer of the new home of President Wilson has been recorded with Recorder of Deeds Cos- tello. Frances L. Fairbanks executed a deed conveying ‘the property to Edith Bolling Wilson for a nominal consideration of $10. From the reve- hue stamps attached to the paper, the price is indicated at $150,000. The property has a_wide frontage on S street, between 23d and 24th streets. HARDING MAY ABANDON JOURNEY ON VICTORIA Houseboat, Unable to Shake Jinx, Loses More Time—Anchors 10 Miles From Palm Beach. PALM BEACH, Fla, February 4.— Unless President -elect Harding's houseboat, Victoria, can shake the jinx which has followed her since she jeft Miami Wednesday morning. her company probably will be transferred to a faster conveyance ashore in order to get them back to St. Augustine on schedule time. When she began her third safling this morning the Victoria had lost a full day because of troubles with mud reefs along her course in the Indian river During the night she was at anchor ten miles below Palm Beach, and much of the day the President-elect and his party had promised to spend ashore here play- ing golf and calling on friends. The houseboat cannot run at night, and it will require good luck and uninter- rupted sailing during the daylight hours of the next two days to get her back to St. Augustine by Sunday night, which is the time limit set by Mr, Harding on his vacation cruise. During his stop here the President- elect arranged to take lunch privately, and to keep away the crowds about the Palm Beach winter hotels. Today’s News in Paragraphs Hearing on strect car merger bill con- tinues. Page 1 Union leaders threaten great railrond strike if U. S. Labor Board permits abrogation of wWage contracts. Page 1 American protest on German repara- Tlon proposals being considered. Page 1 President Wilson begins moving into his new home. Page 1 City-wide campalgn planned to fight for more water. Page 1 !y, 8. to call disarmament conference ‘soon after March 4. et o ext of papal ban on Y. M. C. A. and T ther bodles awaited. iand U. §. Shipping Board takes over great Hog Island shipyard at Philadelphia. Page 3 Mexican banks open. Other foreign news in brief. Puge 4 Poland and Rumanla are negotlating a Qefensive alllance against danger of bolshevism. Page 4 Twelve more_officers slain in Ireland; Uir Jumes Cralg made unionlst leader, Page 16 Commissioners order learing on cen- Sorship of motion plctures. Page 17 ously by the government, but was a moderate attack against the Briand cabinet, especially M. Loucheur. and (Continued on Fifteenth Page.y i Tarift bill agaln occuples attention of Senate floor. Page 18 U. S. fleets feted by Chile and Peru: naval aviator Killed. Page 23 44 Aay's] ! P CURB UPON LIQUOR FOR SICK, BUT WINE, THAT’S DIFFERENT The amount of hard liquor a sick man may acquire legally is def- initely fixed by statute, but the only limit to the amount of wine he may obtain is the “sound and honest” judgment of his physician, and. perhaps, the depth of his purse. Prohibition Commissioner Kra- mer in a formal announcement to: day lays down this rule: “Until further orders physicians may prescribe in thelr practice such quantities of wine as they, in the exercise of their sound and hon- est judgment, deem necessamy in the particular case, if they in good faith believe that the use of wine 4s a medicine by the person for | whom it is prescribed is necessary and will afford relief to him from some known ailment.” Mr. Kramer warned- that physi-- cians should use “extraordinary care” not to abuse “the right given and state directors were “guard this matter most carefully to the effect that the said privilege be not abused by any physicians.” HEARING ON CAR MERGER CONTINUES| Col. Kutz Does Not Believe Classes of Patrons Should Be Combined. The special subcommittee of five members of the House District com- mittee held its second executive con- | ference today in. an effort to agree upon the terms of a bill designed to force a merger of the two street rail- way systems in Washington. District Commissioner Kutz again was before the committee. While the meeting was executive, it is under- stood "that Col. Kutz opposed, as he did a vear ago, the rroposal in the Woods bill to relieve both street car companiss from the 4 per cent tax on gross incomos and substitute a fran- chise tax of 1 per ent. Col. Kutz is opposed also to the bill introduced by Representative Gould of New York at the direction of the House District committee as a preliminary to the merger bill and which would- allow the Washington Railway and_Electric Company and the Potomac Electric Power Company to consolidate. Col. Kutz's objection is that the consumers of electric pow- er should pay for that service inde- pendently of any cost of service to street car patrons. The reply of Rep- resentative Woods and other propo- nents of the consolidation is that the Public Utilities Commission would still have authority to regulate the cost of either service. Chairman Mapes expects to intro- duce tomorrow a minority report on the Gould bill. Representative Mapes received permission yesterday to make this minority report after questions had been asked by Repre- sentative Wingo of Arkansas, Rep- resentative Sisson of Mississippi and| Blanton of Texas, all democrats. The vote of the committee, which in- structed Representative Gould to draft the bill and submit it with a favorable report to the House, was 13 to 1, Chairman Mapes being alone in his opposition to this measure. ! A bill providing for the merger of the Washington Railway and Electric Company and the Potomac Electric Power Company has been introduced by Senator France of Maryland. It is identical with the bill favorably re- ported to the House. The bill has been referred to the Senate District committee. PAVEMENT MARKERS HELD Photographers Who Designated ‘Where Orders Were Taken Fined.. James S. Deiner, twenty-one years old, of Baltimore, and Jessie Zeazons, twenty-two years old, of Syracuse, N. Y., were brought to trial in Police Court to on a charge of defacing public property. They were arrested vesterday in| the southeast section of the city on) complaint of residents who appealed to the police for protection against possible “black hand” agencies. Testimony in court revealed the de- fendants were employed by 2 travel- ing photographer ‘to solicit photo- graphs. Deiner'’s mark was “2-X" and his companion’s “1-X.” ~ They . left these marks on the pavenient in front of houses in which orders were pro- cured for photographs, the photog- rapher following and taking the pic- tures. Judge Hardison released the pair on_ their personal bond, after fining each of them $10. 1 % A C'&WIER i ROME BAN GOVERS PROTESTANT WORK! Text of Pope’s Decree Relat- ing to Y. M. C. A., Baptists and Other Bodies Awaited. An official text of the papal ban on the Y. M. C. A, Baptists and other non-Catholic bodies, promulgated in| Rome in November, was awaited here today by the press bureau of the American hierarchy, which plans to, send translations to its service papers. So far as is known, no American QUAKE RECORDED BEING 2,200 MILES FROM W ASHINGTON | A severe earthquake shock which { began at 3:25 and iasted until 4:45 this morning was reported by | Fathier Francis A. Tondorf, direct- | or of the Georgetown seismoloxi- cal observatory. The disturbance w indi «d by the instruments a8 being 00 miles south of Wash- | ington and reached highest in- | tensity at 2:38. Father Tondorf said. The seismograph record indicated a dis even more severe | than recorded December 16 last said. The s sturbance lished Tondorf estimated that to- 'WANT IMMEDIATE ACTION ON $10,000,600 PROJECT s disturbance Americ provably was in SUNDRY CIVIL BILL CNEN TOSENATE Increase Over House Meas- | ure Includes $17,500,000 for Soldiers and Sailors. The sundry civil appropriation ‘ carrying a total of $410,221,107.91, was | reported to the Senate today by | Chairman Warren of the Senate al)»i propriations committee. This is au' increase of $28,437,415.50 over the| amount carried in the bill as passed| by the House The total increase allowed b Senate committee was $30,570, but the committee decreased Hou. the | 1050, | | !items by $2.133,095. | The largest item of increase was; $17.500.000 for additional hospital| facilities to care for the disabled sol- | diers and Another Senate amendment provides $496,000 to purchase a site for a na- tional archives building in Washing- ton. Amendment Stops Smoking. Smoking in buildings of the gov- ernment departments is . prohibited under’ another amendment proposed by the Senate committee. The lan guage of this amendment follow “Any person who shall smoke or | carry a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe | thi or any form of lighted tobacco, for smoking purposes in any building in the District of Columbia, which is owned, rented or leased by the govern of the United States, and used by executive department or inde ment, inciuding the respective field ! services of such department or es- tablishment, shall be guilty of a mis- demeanor.’and when convicted thereof prelate has received a copy of the decree, though a translation of it is|Shall be fined not more than $50. No-| published in the current issue of the | tices shall be posted ¢gnspicuously in | i Catholic News under date February It is issued in the name of the Sa- legend ‘Smoking prohibited under pen-| cred Congregation of the holy oftice ! and signed by Cardinal Merry Del Val, | once papal secretary of state. While apparently inspired by activities of the Y. M. C. A. in Rome, it is directed agaipst gthep organiza- tions as well, and’direbts’ $he bishops to give their attention to By organi- | zations promoting, under the pretext| of recreation and general education | facilitfes, religious indifferentism among young people. i the | Explains Criticism. Rev. John J. Burke, C. . general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Council. in a statement ex-| plaining the criticism of the Y. M. C. A. sald the pronouncement of the holy see came as no surprite to those who have been in touch with the character and effect of much of the Y. M. C. A. work in the countries of Europe. “The condemnation of the Y. M. C.| A. is not a condemnation of its wel- fare and humanitarian work,” he said. “It is a condemnation of its at- tempt to undermine Catholic faith by claiming to be non-sectarian or super- sectarian.” Though William Knowles Cooper, gen- eral secretary of the Y. M. C.A. in Washington, had heard indirectly of the | action of the Pope in placing a ban on | the association, it was not until today | that he saw the full text of the message | of Cardinal Merry Del Val. Denies Proselyting. “It would seem to me that the Pope has been misinformed as to the pur- poses and methods of the Young Men's Christian_Association, both in America and in European countries,” said Mr. Cooper, after he had read the article. “The Young Men's Christian Association has avoided proselyting. It is-in affilia- tion, of course, with the Protestant Church, but it has always had in its membership a very large proportion of young men of the Catholic faith, who will testify that they have received help from the association through its physi- cal, social and intellectual activities. “The association believes that in building the man's moral and intel- lectual character it established a back- ground for his religious life and the mat- ter of the choice of a church is always left to the independent judgment of the young man who comes under the in- fluence of the association.” | | | | | Drastic Feature of Decree. A drastic feature of the decree, ac- cording to the translation published i the Catholic News, is the suggestio that the prelates put under ban by an official act “all the daily organs, periodicals and other publications of these socities of which the pernicious character is manifest and which are profusely distributed with a sowing in the souls of Catholics the errors of rationalism and religious indifferentism.” The general indictment set forth in the document is that certain organi- zations “on the pretense of bringing light to young folk,” turn them away “from the teaching of the church es. tablished by God, the light of truth, and incite them to seek severally from their own consciences and with- in the narrow circuit of human reason the light which should guide them. Mention of Y: M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. is mentioned specifi. cally as follow: “Among these societies it will suf fice to mention that which, having given birth to many others, is the most widespread (by reason especially of the important services which it rendered to a large number of un- happy people in the course of the ter- rible war) and disposes of the most considerable resources; we mean the society called the Young Men's Chris- tian Association and in abbreviation form the Y. M. C. A. “Non-Catholics of good faith give it their support inadvertently, consider- ing it an organization of advantage to all, or. at least, inoffensive to every one, and it is also supported by certain Catholics who are too confi- dent and are Ignorant of what it is in reality; for this society professes a sincere love of young folk, as if noth- ing was dearer to it than the promo- tion of their corporal and spiritual Interests; but at the same time it shakes their faith, since, by its own confession, it proposes to purify it and to impart a more perfect knowl- edge of real life by placing itself (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) A iew to| all such buildings Tontaining the alty of fine, logether with the text of this act For the Counci] of National Defense the committee adfed $75,000. to pay the salaries of a director, secretary, chief clerk and other assistants. 50-50 Plan Substituted. Tnder the items for the District of | Columbia, the language of the House ! {bill providing that the expenditures | shall be made 60 per cent out of the District and 40 per cent out of the federal Treasury is stritken out and the half-and-half plan is substituted. The Senate committee has provided $340,000 for the interdepartment so- al hygiene board. It also provided masonry approaches and terrace around the Lincoln Memorial. For the national advisory committee for aeronautics $200.000 has been in- serted in the bill. The committee is to carry on scientific research in the field of aeronautics, in the Langley memorial aeronautic laboratory. The item for the tariff commission is re- duced from $300,000 to $250.000. $10,000,000 for Muncle Shoals. The Senate committee inserted an item of §10,000,000 for continuing con- struction of the locks, dams, power houses, etc, for the government nitrate plant at Muscle shoals. The committee made some reduc- tions in the items for care and im- provements of parks in the District, cutting down the item for improve- ment, care and maintenance of vari- ous reservations from $35,000 to $30,- 000; for the care and improvement of East Potomac Park from §45,000 to $40,000. It inserted an item of $1.500 for the operation of the electric pump which operates the memorial fountain to Admiral Dupont in Dupont Circle. | For continuing the construction of ai reflecting pool in West Potomac Park the item is increased from $150,000 to $250,000, and the money is made immediately available. Provision is made for continuing the appropriation for the expenses of dedicating the Lincoln Memorial and making it available during the fiscal year 1922 Three thousand dollars is provided | for removal and reconstruction of a | part of a fence around the Botanic| Gurden on account of the completion | of the Grant Memorial. | The committee has provided $7.000 | | for necessary repairs to the Maltby uilding, occupied by the Federal | Board for Vocational Education. The committee has added $116.000 for ad- | ditions to the home economic build- ing at Howard University, including dining hall and Kkitchen, laundry, bakery, and all equipment necessary | for the building, and also to provide for heating apparatus. Senate Improvements Inxerted. The committee inserted a number of items for the Senate wing of the Capitol, and for the Senate office building, Including $35.000 for im- rovements and supplies for the Sen- te kitchen and restaurant; $5,000 for | continuing the work of restoring the Qecoration on the walls of the first- | floor corridors of the Senate wing:; | $4.000 for shelving and file boxes for the Senate document room, $50,000 for maintenance and supplies for the Senate office building, and $5.000 for furniture for the Senate office build- fthe Senate committee has provided in a legislative amendment that any magazine or_periodical now being | issued by a department or establish- | ment of the government may, in the | discretion of the head of the depart ment, be continued with the limita. | tion of available appropriation until | June 30, 1922, If it shall not have | been specifically authorized by Con- | gress before that date, such magazine | or _periodical shall be’ discontinued. The Congressional Record index ap- propriation, instead of being made in | a lump sum, is split up into salaries; the chief indexer, $3,000; the cata- ! loguer, $2500, and two. other cata- | loguers, $1,800 each. _—— MILITARY RING ALLEGED. MEXICO CITY, February 4.—DMore than fifty members of an alleged “military ring” have been arrested in this city as a result of the discovery of forgeries and the alteration of im- portant documents in the war de- pendent establishment of the govern- | $363.000 for additional work on thel CTY-WIDE FIGHT FOR MORE WATER NOWPROPOSED |Citizens’ Associations Asked to Urge Passage of Leg- islation. | Iso Will Push Resolution for Gov- ernment to Pay for Its . Own Supply. ns for a city-wide campaign to > upon Congress immediate action for sig the s water supj [ ner [ will be considered Mond at a special meeting of the water supply committee of the @oard of Trade. Francis R. Weller, irman of the committee, said today it is intended to organize a campaign which will be in- augurated with the assembling of the new Congress and waged without let-up until favorable action is had. Water is the pressing need of the hour,” said Mr. Weller, “because the present overtaxed condition of the con- duit constitutes a 1cal menace to the lives and property of Waushingtonians We believe Conzress will act speediiy when the facts are presented to it.” As chairman of the public utilities group of the City Ciub, Mr. Weller ai- ready has addressed a communication to every citizens’ association of Washing- ton urging that it adopt resolutions re- questing the eartiest action possible by Congress to reiieve the water suppiy i situation, and also passage of the Zibi- jman joint resolution requiring the fed- | eral government to pay tor the water it | uses.” The latter measure is designed to prevent the waste by government de- | partments of filtered water, which is said to approximate 5,000,000 gallons daily. | All Organtsations to Join Forces. | It'is expected that by the time the | extra session of Congress convenes {every citizens’ association in Wash- | ington, as well as a majority of the | business and civic organizations, will | have adopted resolutions in line with e request of the City Club. | With this as a starter, the Board ! of Trade probably will call a mass | meeting of citizens at which a me- | morial to Congress urging immedi- i e action on the plan presented by i Maj. Tyler of the Corps of Engineers | of the Army for increasing the water a cost of approximately will be presented for { supply at $10.000,000 adoption. it is considered practically impos- sible to get any action in Congress on the water situation during the closing days of the present seasion, but Mr. Weller is convinced the mat< ter can be pressed for cousideration soon after March 4. y Representative Zilllman said today he would immediately reintroduce, after the assembling of the new Con- gress. his resolution to require the federal departments to pay or the. water they consume. He said the present waste of filtered water for condensation purposes is almost criminal In view of the dire neces- sity of conserving every gallom of the available supply. PERKINS TAKES CHARGE OF DRY FORCES IN D. C. TEx-Army Captain Has Had Ex- perience in Enforcement in Baltimore and in Ohio. | Boyd W. Perkins. a former captain | of infantry in the 29th Division, to- day took charge of the local office of the federal prohibition agent for this district, which includes Ohio, Mary- land, West Virginia and the Distriet of Columbia. He succeeds S, D. Ed- wards, who will go from here to Bal- timore. Mr. Perkins, whose home is in Bal- timore, has been active in prohibition enforcement in that city and in Ohio, . under the direction of Thomas §. Stone, supervising agent for the Maryland-Ohio district. A warrant for the arrest of Allen Colbert was signed by United States Commissioner Hitt today, at the in- stance of local enforcement officers, who entered the Colbert home at § Blagden alley last night. where they allege they found a large number of counterfeit internal revenue stamps and a quantity of spurious labels. They also said they found a quantity of alcohol and coloring matter. Col- bert was not at home at the time the raid was made. Federal prohibition agents through- out the country have been asked by Commissioner Kramer to send in an estimate of the amount of whisky out of bond in their respective districts. This will include that held by whole- sale liquor dealers, who may not with- draw any more from bond, accordi to the opinion of Attorney General Palmer, and the stock held by whole~ sale and retail druggists. e BANKS FEAR ROBBERS. Armed Guards Watch Funds of Rich Winter Visitors. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., February 4. —Banks of St. Petersburg now carry- ing a heavy cash surplus due to the thousands of winter Visitors here, to- day placed night and day shifts of armed guards on duty as a result of the Largo bank robbery, which fol- lowed closely the express company hold up at Tampa last week. Sheriff Lindsey is still without trace of the bandits who early Thursday morning robbed the Largo bank and express office of $25,550. 1Ira Mooney, the youth locked in a bank vault by the robbers, is being held on sus- picion, but will be released this after- noon if no new developments occur. —_— FUTURE PROSPERITY SEEN Harding of Reserve Board Speaks to Chicago Bankers, CHICAGO, February 4.—Discussing the difficulties of expanding America’s foreign trade, W. P. G. Harding, gov- ernor of the Federal Reserve Board, in an address to Chicago bankers, referred to the allied reparatibns made u Germany on the 12 pef cent share of all_exports. ““The foreign trade situation is badiy muddled,” he said, “and vet we sit idly by and raise no hand to-prevent the im- position of further restrictions, “Business is rapidly adjusting itself to new levels and while there is much un- ° employment just now, that condition is omy temporary. There is ahead of us a time of real, solid prosperity, partment. At least 10,000 departmental accounts have been falsified, says the Excelsior. as we did not have in the boom daye that are gone.”