Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1921, Page 17

U15. TRADING WITH . tracts With Americans in Novorossisk. tion of L. C. A. K. Martens, Their Ambassador Here. BY Oable to The Star and Ch Copyright, 1 CONSTANTINOPLE, February bolsheviki about to be concluded Tiflis has been suddenly by a change of polic: tons of general vorossisk in exchange ‘terials, on condition sion be given of import and privileges worthe to the American c The deal was r ‘when secret orde cow forbidding than $25.000. This c Moscow decision, reported in vious dispatch, to abandon Georgi a center of trade and diplomatic T lations with the west. Xom for raw Xpo! ation. me from Mo: s for Another order cam at the same time further hampe American business men in their forts to zain Russian trade, namel a refusal to permit American chants to enter soviet Rus: the exception of Novorossis A party of Amerl eommercial plans. headquarters of the operative Socleties. They pared to sign large contracts, but no ‘misk. Competition With Britixh Stopped. the Americal 1 exploitatio petition wit far advanced wer: plans for t commert of soviet lussia in ¢ the English. These temporarily blocked the Russian policy result of the unvyie ‘the western powers, as instanced by the 4n the Krassin negot England demanded, in addition t ,-eommercial guarantces, certain no Yitical guarantees, not only regardin official Russian propaganda in th English colonies, which were readi Eranted, but also virjual recognitio of English primacy in Persia an Afghanistan. She also sought to bin {Lenin to promi \eign propaganda through the {internationale. This Lenin promise without losing his positio |88 world leader of movement. Meanwhile The change | pears to be th. tions. the with_the western capitalists posed by a strong faction within th ) Russian communist party which @gainst all compromise. The i group is headed by Trotsky, Buchari and Zinoviev. #ions from being made. countries, especial manufacturing nations like Englan LANSBURGH & BROTHER SIVETBLOCAED Moscow Forbids Large Con- MERCHANTS KEPT OUT Bolsheviki Retaliate for Deporta- cago Daily News. 1. 24— ¢ An American business deal with the interrupted n Moscow. The deal was for the shipment of 5000 merchandise to No- ma- that a conces- rt ¢ millions a year for signature more | e- Moscow’ - ¥, was in retaliation for the deportation of their representative in the United States, Ludwig C. A. K. Martens. Th is seriously obstructs certain American = ~cans had obtained permission to go to Moscow and Kharkov, which is the Ukrainian Co- were pre- W sbusiness is possible only in Novoros- It is not generally understood how n n h plans now are n = ng attitude of hiefly England, emporary halt o z e ¥ n d a e to cease general for- third cannot n the communist Lenin- { Tehitcherin-Krassin faction, the mem- | bers of which favor a compromise is op- e n These men have ap- ¥ parently prevented further conces- The Russians consider that western | commercial and | d and the United States, will find it ad- vantageous to accept the present Rus- e—_— e —————— Kramer Uses Hoe To Ruin First Still He Has Ever Seen GREENVILLE, S. C., February 24—Johm F. Kramer, federal prohbition commisxioner, was “the man with the hoe” in this county yesterday, personally breaking up a twenty-five gal- lon moonshine still, near Green- ville with the implement used to atir the “mash.” The copper condenner wan preserved for Mr. Kramer as a souvenir of his ral dry chief, visiting from Washington, accompanied state officers into the “dark .cor- " of the county on a hunt for They found one in a ravine, but the moonshiners had fled, the job of busting up the apparatux was turned | over to Mr. Kramer. “A most interesting experi- ence” he said, adding that he had not before known what a still looked like. BIGGER AGRICULTURE BILL IS PASSED BY THE SENATE Smoot Attacks Duplication of Work Among the De- partments. The agricultural appropriation bill, which was passed by the Senate lat vesterday and now must be threshed conference, carries about §$41.- or §9,000.000 more than the present law and $6,000.000 more than the House bill. ator Smoot of Utah at sfull al items Senate bill. m going to a cked un- lowed in 1 the next Seere- tary of Agriculture. as soon he takes office, to go through this bill and take out of it all appropriations that allow work to be duplicat two and sometimes more departmen of the government,” Smoot. “They ought to be cut out before an- other estimate comes to Congress. This must stop; Congri s got to show the departments of this government that two and three of them cannot ask public money to be spent for doing the same kind of work, over and over again, ultaneousl “One trouble is that different bureaus are enabled to go before different con- gressional committees and duplicate the appropriations in different bills I hope the senator from Utah won't stop at the Agricultural Department,” Chajrman Wadsworth of the military affairs committee interrupted. “We find the War two or three different bi Larger items added by the Senate to the agricultural bill included $150,000 extra for wood utiliza experiments at Madison, Wis.; §100,000 for weather bureau forecasts for aviation, $114,000 for road materials investigations and $100,000 for investigations of foreign markets for farm products sian terms. Russia is now going ahead alone, and is continually bettering herself slightly, but it is believed that England and the United States, which manufacture in the mass and make their profit by exports, must eventually seek the Russian market. The bolshevists believe the present industrial depression in these coun- tries will be permanent so long as foreign commercial relations are ab- normal. Thus, the duel becomes a game of waiting, but waiting_is Russia’s strong point. It is the best thing she does, while the United States and e | Engiand, which need a rapid turn- latter | over for prosperity, will, it is assert- ed, suffer more. Industrial depression in' the west also favors bolshevist propaganda. Finallyathe interrugtion in the trade relations gives an op- portunity to soviet Russia to retaliate for the deportation of Martens by refusing permission to American busi- ness men to enter Russia. American business men in Tiflis are much concerned over the new attitude of soviet Russia. over. our advice. Less Than lepartment getting money in | Year’s Price. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21 1921 IMAY TENDER HELP 10 REORGANIZERS Employes’ Union Branch Will- ing to Assist Government Department Work. Services of the scientific-technical branch of Federal Employes’ Union, No. 2, probably will be offered the organization of the government de- partments, at a meeting of the sec- tion tonight at 1423 New York ave- nue. This action, confidently expected. will line up with the reorganizers what is regarded as the most power- ful organization of its kind in the world, the scientific-technical {branch of the union constitutes the largest organized body of govern- | ment scientists, it is claimed. Selentific and Technical Workers. Members of the branch comprise ientific and technical workers in | the departments here that pur- i sue such studies. These scientists and technologists have at their fin- Zer tips data and details of govern- | ment functioning that probably will I be of much use to the reorgan veral members of the branch ha made particular study of the func. tioning of the branches of the zov- ernment, and are regarded as being in particularly strategic positions to aid x}\v joint committee on reorganiza- tion. Reclassifi ion legislation a affect seientists and technologis will be under discussion tomorrow tnight. While an abnormal “turn- | ov of personncl has oceurred in me of the scientific bureaus, owing low salaries paid, it is believed today the situation in this re- to | that spect is slightly more normal. Separate Consideration Sought. What bearing this may have upon the whole question of reclassification will be considered at the meeting to- morrow night, along with the some- vhat related question of reorganiza- tion. There will be an endeavor, how- ever, to keep these two considerations of reorganization and reclassification Separate. = Members of the exeuctive commit- tee of the branch will be elected at the meeting, which is to be presided over by Dr.'J. Franklin Meyer of the bureau of standards, who is president of the section. CENSORSHIP DELEGATES WILL GO UNINSTRUCTED Rhode Island Avenue Citizens As- sociation Leaves Question Open | to Hearing. Uninstructed delegates will be sent to represent the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens' Association at the motion picture censorship meeting called by the District Commissioners for Feb- ruary 28, the association decided at a meeting last night at the Sherwood Presbyterian Church. Ira B. Nutter, Dr. C. W. Cuthbert- son and Henry L. Hunter were named jas delegates to represent the associa- | tion at the meeting. The association went on record as favoring installation of mail hoxes on _the porch or door of each home. The association indorsed a resolu- tion asking the engineer department of the District to construct a road distant from the portable buildings jat the Langdon-Woodridge School to obviate danger to the lives of the children. Annual r2ports of chairmen of com- mittees were read. The next meeting will be the annual meeting of the as- sociation and officers will be el “Put Yourself in Hahn’s Shoes” Over 1,500 Men can arrive at a Better “Understanding” in this Sale for Saturday of Real Shoes $5:95 REAL Shoes because they’re made of Real Lea- ther all the way through. REAL ular men liable, good-looking and dependable. This sale is drawing the crowds because the values are present and accounted for—full measure and running Just think of Genuire Cordovans in latest models and Tan “Brogues”—just what men are wanting for Spring wear. Many other styles, too, at this price. Come Early—that’s Men's Spring’ Brog‘ue Oxfords Fully a Third Last $6.95 414 9% St. 1014-16 Pa. Avé Tt &K 233PaAve.SE joint congressional committee on re-| Tan Norwe- gian Calf and in Brown Cordovan GERMAN BOND VALUE GOVERNS PROSPECT OF BELGIAN DEAL Jongress Unlikely to Decide at Once as to Reparation Paper as Means of Canceling War Loans. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Congress will not act at this time on President Wilson's message sub- { mitting the proposal that the United States consider the acceptance of a chance to get back on her feet, and that if the allies persist in the policy of draining Germany of her capital and levying an export tax, for in- stance, that will interfere serious with German trade opportunities, th | : allies may as well abandon any hope German reparation bonds in exchange | that America will believe the German for Belgium's debt to America of |Feparation bonds are worth the paper | $171,780,000. Nor does the executive | ©% Which they are written. i expect any action until America is Both Parties Hold Same View. | convinced that the German repara-| There is substantially no difference | tion bonds are worth something. of opinion on this question between | _ This brings up the entire question |republicans and democrats here. It as to whether the recent decision of |is an economic and not a partisan the allied premiers to saddle Ger-|question. many with an enormous debt is w President Wilson promised to sub- mit the matter to Congress when he was in Paris. He could not refuse to do so without being discourteous to Belgium. But Mr. Wilson's own mes- sage to Congress contains significant phrases, which indicate that he does jand whether America will accept German reparation bonds as payme! for anything in the future. Precedent is Important. The United States discreetly re- frained from participating in the allied council at which the reparation settlement was agreed upon, and has even hesitated to express approval or disapproval afterward, lest the pres- ent udministration be drawn into a discussion of reparation questions which might be embarrassing to the Harding administration. On _the other hand, the presentation to Con- gress of the proposal that German rep- “A recommendation at this time that suitable legislative action should be taken is somewhat premature, but in view of the approaching termina- tion of my administration 1 have aration bonds be used in exchange for | PTOUEht the matter to your attention, { Belgium's war indebtedness to the|hoDing that suitable action may be | United States involves a precedent of | taken at the appropriate time.” considerable importance. . The last phrase, “at the appropriate | Ir Ame accepts German bonds |time.” means when Germany and the as a payment for even so small ajallics reac debt, relatively speaking, as $171,- | iSSuance of reparation bonds that will 780,000, would it be consistent for the | Satisfy the public opinion of the Ui United States to refuse to accept ed lalnu: German reparation bonds as payment | _ Wilson's message to Congress for the entire allied war debt? |18 a hint to the allies that even though X question which members | the United States may never enter of Congress are asking, The British and French point out that they would | settlement must be along economic be even more generous than the United | lines that inspire confidence in. the States, for England and France stand | ultimate ability of Germany to pay ready to accept German reparation|those bonds. Otherwise, the United bonds amounting to £174,000,000, or | States will continue to look to the about $800,000,000, which is the com- bined debt of Belgium to France and Britain. “If the British and French think the German reparation bonds will be worth $500,000,000, why can't the United States,” it is argued, “accept their judg- ment? allies for payment. (Copyright.) NAVY PROGRAM CALLED BAR TO DISARMAMENT Senator King Files Minority Report on Borah Resolution Advo- cating Six Ships. Pursuance by the United States of its present naval building program will offer “great if not insuperable obstacles” to the consummation of an international agreement for disarma- ment, Senator King, democrat, Utah, declared in a minority report filed yesterday on the Borah resolution {directing the Senate naval committee to report on the advisability of sus- pending naval construction for a weriod of six months. Taking issue with the majority ommittee report, which opposed any suspension of building, Senator King declared the majority apparently held Would Relleve Alllen. The answer given here is that Eng land and France would fare much bet ter in the end, even if German repara- tion bonds were accepted to the amount of $500,000,000, because the transfer from the allies of the entire indebtedness to the United States to the backs of the crmans would_relieve Great Britain and France of the greater part of their financial burdens today. ' ven such a course is not considered |outside the range of possibility, if the German reparation bonds can be made to pay. But America has stayed out of the league of nations and has thus far given no indication that she wants to participate in_the enforcement of the terms of the peace treaty of Versailles or in the collection of the war indemnity from Germany. Europe, of course, would like America. to accept German reparation bonds because it would make the United States see more clearly the necessity of making Germany pay and would bring America closer to European political affairs. On the other hand, American finan- ciers and the men who have been ad- h some agreement as to the, the league of nations, the reparation ! I { master M. O. ASSOCIATION BACKS, PISTOL-TOTING BAN North Capitol and Eckington| | Citizens Go on Record in Favor of Law. The North ';Prospet‘tors Stake | | 4 Gold Claim in Heart of Denver | = the city hall, the tion and a great part The two men, who looked like | typical old-time prospectors. | | appeared at a window in the and recorder's ofice and dumped | Capitol neton izens' Associatiof coting last | | the contemts of two canvas | C!(lzv"n.fi A ‘( iation, meeting laAsI | R R T eatnter" ! night in the Emery School, added its | “We dug these out of lots in indorsement to the campaign to!| | the heart of Denver,” they ex- check pistol toting in the District. | | Plained, “and einim the ore e = = | ies from w 'h they came William E. Wise. chairman of the | | by right of discovery. We want police and fire committee. told of | ore and our claims re- e Oris v ing made to obtain | the efforts now being made to llu\l e new legi. tion on the subject, and proper papers. introduced a resolution placing the i s DEBS LOSES PRIVILEGES { FOR GIVING AN INTERVIEW organization on record in favor of a more stringent law. The motion W adopted unanimously and discussion. Use of State Motor Tag: A. Bowman told his associates cl any local motor o are o " - 1 "Fesidents ho AT |Ban on Visitors and Mail Will hines 3 ar in the Dis- | Probably Be Lifted After a Week. trict by tags of | their hom Bowman oftered a Mr. which was adopted, urging mend: | Because of an interview which it ment to local laws requiring all per- | alleged Eugene V manent residents of the District to|eral penitentias Debs gavi at Atlant in the fed- in vic have a District tag. ilation of the prison rule iting Dr. Howard Fisher read a paper on | and mail privileg e been denied the the care and prevention of social d prisoner for a_time, according eases, in which he emphasized rson, chief of the division necessity for a law to regulate these | of prisons of the Department of Jus- maladies in the District. ) v | tic state in the Un now a law i Suspen of these privil making these d s reportable to | fraction of rules is not unusual, Mr the health authorities. | Dickerson declared, and in Debs will be lifted Debs is serving a ten-vear sentenc | for Violation of the esplonage laws, and “Know Your Own City.” thin a week. Lynn Yagel gave a brief talk on the it probabl subject, “Know Your Own City,” He . e the “members 1o make re. | President Wilson has twice refuséd to search amd find out what historic|commute his sen or grant a pardon batldings lor spots. ¢ Within the| When the attention of White House territory of the association, and re- | ofl < was called today to reports that 1 being held” incommu aid they had not known of it be wd that an investigation would be ord the stories connected with th places for future Washingtonian Following his talk, President M. Ely recalled that The S vears has been presenting histori facts about Washington to its readers through the Rambler. | A letter was ived from Post that during the fall the De, 1t of Justice felt that since Debs was a_candidate for President he should b allowed to make known the principles Dickerson said This confidence, he added, was at no time now lost in_waiting for persons time abused. to answer the bell. A. E. F. SOCIFTY MEETS. Members of Fifth Corps Held First Dinner Since Organization, of the Society of the 5th Corps, A. E. F.. held their first| dinner since organization Tuesday| night at the Metropolitan Club. In the absence of Licut. Col. Wilson B. Burtt. of the society, Maj. R. L. cd. Addresses were made The interview which caused the sus I pension of Debs' pri was given to an attorney who h; lled upon him on a pretext of busines ebs Denied Visitors. NTA, Ga., February 2 leton, counsel for Eugene who i§ serving a ten-year Local members senten s stated he had not been permitted to communicate with Debs since he gave out an interview criticisi President Wilson three weeks only time I have se id_Castleton, s on Mon- day, when I met him accidentally in Merrill, Col. J. H. Ree Col. Tenney rt- | member of the lof the socialist party throush author- mailbox in the vestibule, or 1 interviews, Press representatives in the front door. If every household | who interviewed him, Mr. Dickerson con- | had a receptacle for m the letter | tinued, were reques to eliminate all aid, the postman wonuld save much |Seditious or inflammatory utteranc —sam- | 3 e in the Atlanta federal prison, | m PLAN STOCK SALE TOAID CLUBHOUSE {Federal Employes Seek Fund Through Distribution of Their Bank’s Stock. UNION NO. 2. SPONSOR Drive in Every Department Sug- 1\ gested—Union Will Hear Plan | Tomorrow Night. | A movement to obtain funds with {which to ¢ t proposed { federal employes' ¢ s by sell |ins stock in the formed | Departmental Ban b proposed |at a meeting of mimittee iof Federal Emplo Union, No. tomorrow night, is aiso pro; | to have the union's he jthe clubhouse. duuarters t, The plans as now worked out ¢ for a “drive every governmwnt | department and to sell K in the bank, which is v government workers ar tahtished for their use quuy : et and the other Woul the o e Modern. “drive,” it red Frderal . would b the city ciubhouse m me a new * Union, and give Plans contemplate the m Small Sums on Hand So far the umion has only ra i8everal hundred doliars toward the clubhouse fund, and the whole proy sition has, in fire ™ While a b nse, anging e union has watched | the Home Club of the Interior Depart- {ment grow in thriving organiza- tion, the union has been fo d to =it | by and merely cherish its own dreans {of « clubhouse of its own. | The amalgamation the p with that of the Departmental B: ot pject it is belie would tend to put tae { clubhouse proposition on a firm finun- al bas where it must 1 if the jhouse is ever to be re: is held. WILL SHOW TOTAL ASSETS {Building Association Council to Receive Report Tomorrow Night. it ‘o guests of honor, Maj. Gen.|a corridor of the prison. We shook i ; B e e O T N aieh- | Rands and embraced, but a guard| Figures showing the total assets in and Col. Henry Breckenridge, former|tried to prevent that. | building associations in the District assistant secretary of war. s hl{‘r;;fi“-‘éf‘*‘l“";)e:as{d ‘:‘;’“"athhfi‘”;n‘_:‘;;nl Columbia for 1920 are expected o086 v Gen. ; form g o g : Brett, Col. J. C. Castner, Col. F. S | ner for two weeks. of the Building As: ation Council Cocheu, Col. ted Dorey, Col. A. §. tomorrow might at § o'clock in the Fleming, Col. G. G. . Col. D, T. TWO WILLS ARE FILED. of the Oriental Building | { boardroom | | vising the United States government | the opinion that the “war taught no |Ross, Licut. Col. . W, Foreman, Lieut | The will of James Duckett. date _\,.s:fl‘.,,‘.,‘, 6th and F streets north- ever since the Paris conference In-|jesgon except tha _ | Col. George Spalding. Ma November 22 last, provides bequests | West. Sist that it is the allles, and not|guinary” struggios “are® storans Sond | chanan. Maj T. H. Emerson. M ach to his six children Delegates to the convention of the sermany, who must be regulated, for | that the moral forces in the worid are | M. Maddox. Maj. E. O. Murphy, M s remaining estate to his o}l mited Stutes engue of. Loosl Bubil- n the mad scramble to get money|too feeble to establish justice and |O'Bere, Maj. Rossiere and Maj. M. Mary Duckett. The widow is o States wus ot} ok out of Germany the allies thus far|usher in a reign of righteousness and | Scanlon. named as executrix. (A€ IERELORG | ARRATIL R, SR have adopted a policy of ‘Strangula-|peace.” Plans are being formulated for the lhe entire estate of Allen Kidd is|meets in New Orleans, La. April 29- tion which, from thejAmerican View-| The minority report advocated com- | publication of a history of the 5th|devised to his wife, Fannie Kidd, by |30, 1921, will he selected. Reports point, is bad business for the world,|pletion of five battleships and one|Corps. which will be authoritative and | the terms of his will, ated Janu | will be submitted by President C irrespective of whether it affects the|battle cruiser of the 1916 program | interesting not only to those who|32, 1921 She is d ed to pa bt s i e A Dol S value of German reparation bonds. and suspension of building on eleven | served with the organization, but tofcach to the two children. The wife Woodward and Treasurer John & America’s position as expressed|other major ships of the program. others interested in military affairs.!is also to act as executrix. Shugrue. here is that Germany must be given = = = Styles that reg- like—sturdy, re- All Colors - The District of Columbia Health Department Has Accorded Wise Bros. Special Milk The Highest Official Rating in the City Covering the Production, Sanitary Conditions on the Farms, Sanitary Conditions of Our Plant and the Purity of the Milk