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‘v NOTENOUGHPLACES| *° FORNEW MEMBERS Senate Assignment Commit- tee Places 14 Republicar/ls, Subject to Rule Change. ‘The assignment of republican sena- tops to the standing committees of the Sanate, as they will be reported to the republican senatorial conference when Qe new Congress meets, has been a Buge task. Twelve new republican senators had to be given committees— an unusually large number—and in addition to this, the Senate rules as amended reduced the number of com- mittees from over seventy to thirty four and reduced the size of the indi- vidual committees. In some instances it was necessary to take older repub- lican senators from important com- mittees. There were not enough places to go round. The committee on committees is proposing to increase the size of the major committees from fifteen—as provided in the new rule—to sixteen, and the assignments made contem plate such a change. If this chang i8 not accepted. a dozen senators wiil be disappointed in important assign- ments made. Assignments Made. The assignments sgranted the four- teen new senators follo Bursum, New Mexico—Civil service, education and labor, military affairs and pensions. Cameron, Arizona—District of Co- lumbia, Indian affairs, irrigation and reclamation and military affairs. Ernst, Kentucky—Claims, judiciary, Ppatents, privileges and elections, and revision of the law. Harreld, Oklahoma—Claims, Indian affairs, post offices and post roads and public buildings and grounds. Ladd, North Dakota—Agriculture and forestry. Indian affairs, public lands and surveys and territories and insular possessions. McKinley, Illinois — Appropriations, interoceanic canals, manufactures and public buildings and grounds. Nicholson, Colorado—Civil service, manufactures, mines and mining and naval affairs. Norbeck. South Dakota—Agriculture and forestry, banking and currency, mines and mining and public lands and surveys. Oddie, Nevada—Audit and control the contingent expenses-of the Senate, expenditures in the executive depart- meats, irrigation and reclamation and post offices and post roads. Shortridge, California — Education and labor, irrigation and reclamation, judiciary and privileges and clec- tions. Stanfleld, Oregon — Civil service, claims, post offices and post roads and public lands and surveys. ‘Weller, Maryland — Banking and currency, commerce, District of Co- lumbia, manufactures and pensions. Lodge Heads Foreign Affairs. Senator Lodge, republican leader, remains d@s chairman of the foreign relations committee, and has only two other assignments, naval affairs and the new committee on expendi- tures in the execuytive departments. All the other senators have assign- ments to four committees, except five who have been assigned to five com- mittees. But Senator Lodge is chair- ! man of the republican conference. and ex-officio chairman of the steering committee. The new committee on expenditures in the executive departments is head- ed by Senator McCormick of Illinois. His colleague, Senator McKinley, who takes the place of Senator Sherman, has been given a place on the appro- priations committee, the most impor- tant assignment given any of the new senators. WOMAN DIES SUDDENLY. 3 e Passes Away as She Enters Stranger’s Home to Rest. An unidentified young Wrolored woman_visited the home of Louise Alexander, 2461 P street, about 7:30 o'clock last night, said she was' and asked that she be permitted to enter and rest herself She died a few minutes after entering the house. Her death is thought to have re- sulted from an attack of acute in- digestion. Her body is at the morgue. - SPECIAL NOTICES: P{;lks that become prominent an’ don’t take a good photer- graph are certainly up against it. What’s become o’ th’ woman that used t’ say, “If I wuz a man I'd smoke”? Copsright National Newspaper Service. TOPLEADINNOCENT INPEONAGE ILING Williams Will Make Sweeping Denial That He Ordered Negroes Drowned. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga, April 2—John S. Williams, who is to go on trial Tues- jday in Covington, Ga., charged with the murder of one of eleven of his negro farm hands, he is alleged to have had killed to hide peonage con- ditions, will enter a plea of not guilty and will make a sweeping denial of the charges madé by Clyde Manning, negro farm boss. it was announced here late yesterday by Green F. John- { son, counsel for Williams. Manning. according to officials, de- clared he and Charley Chisholm killed the negroes and he later killed Chis- holm, on orders of Williams, and it was reported in Covington yesterday that authorities expected they might | find two more bodies. Sheriff W. F.| Persons of Jasper county, where the | Williams farm is located. declared he had no evidence to justify beHef that any more bodies would be found. Sheriff Persons and other Jasper county authorities are continuing their investigation in preparation for the meeting April 11 of the Jasper county grand jury, while Newton county authorities are making ready for trial of Williams, who already has been indicted in that county, | charged with the murder of three ne- groes he is alleged to have brought there and had drowned. _Possibilily that counsel for Wil- liams would challenge the jurisdic- tion of Newton county on the ground that the negroes found in the river separating the two counties might have been killed in Jasper county was indicated today. Gov. Dorsey_indicated last night that Graham Wright, assistant statel attorney general, would be the only| Jawyer the state would send to aid the prosecution of Williams, and it became known the governor has opened megotiations with William Howard, an Augusta, Ga., attorney, to look after the interests of Manning, who was indicted with- Williams, but who will be one of the principal wit- nesses for the prosecution. The gov- ernor was said to feel that the negro's position was a peculiar one and that an attorney should be appointed to look after his case. t The nickel wealth of New Caledonia is surpassed only by that of Canada. SPECIAL NOTICES. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A SPE- cial meeting of the stockhoiders of the Wrenn Adding Machine Company will be held at the office of the y, at Room 605, Westory Duildisg. ‘on Monday, the 25th day of April, A.D, 1921, at the bour of 3 p.m., for the pur- considering and voting upon the tion to increase the capital stock of said Wrean_ Adding Machine Company from $60.000 to $100.000. and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come Before such meeting Dated 11, 1921 PETER M. DORSC] J. BARRETT CARTER, L. A. WALTERS. of Wrenn Adding Machine Company. ‘COAT OF LIVE OAK ASBESTOS ROOF [ENT is equal in thickness to more coats of roof paint. Only coating with a brush that will stop leaks in I apply same and guarantee roof for rs. Product also sold in_bulk. MADISON CLARK. 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Main 477, apse 1324 | WANTED_ADDRESS OF ANY PARTY WHO witnessed the aceident to 16th st. bus at 16th and V sts. n.w. March 9, about $:45 p.m. Address Box 28-F, Star office. JULITS D. SCHEER _HAS terest in the store at 427 . PAL ed and repaired: 1o obligation is compl, unti] satisfaction i assured. 1336 Fajrmont st. THE ANNUAL MBETING OF THE STOCK- Tolders of the Great Falls Power Company, for the election of directors and the transaction | of much other business as may properly come before said meeting, will be held at the office of C. C. Carlin, 107 North Fairfax st.. Alex. sndria. Va. on THURSDAY. April 7. 921, ‘st 12o'clock noon. ___8. R. BOWEN, Secretary. PIANOS FOR RENT—UPRIGHT AND GRAND | pianos for rent at reasonable prices; rent ap- plied on purchase price by agreement. HUGO VORCH. 1110 G. 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LONDON, April 2.—Six British coal mines, left to the mercy of inrushing ‘waters by the strike of miners and pumpmen, have already been flooded, and some are said to be in such con- dition that they may be permanently wrecked. Four of these mines are in South Staffordshire, one in the Forest of Dean, county of Gloucester, and" one in Flintshire, northeastern Wales. Several of the o:der pits in the Lan- cashire district and in the Rhondda valley, Wales, are in imminent dan- ger, and in most of the other coal districts of- the island, clerks and volunteers are manning the pumps. Scores of telegraphic appeals reached the government yesterday, asking that sailors be sent to help fight against the floods of water pouring into the mines. Vavious coal dealers’ associations are publishing appeals in newspapers, calling upon volunteers with engineering experience to give assistance. ently The government appar- s taking a grave view of the and is laying plans to deal with emergencies. Curtail Train Service. Restrictions ow train service will be- gin next Wedaesday, and a cut_of 20 per cent will be made cffective before the end of next week if the coal strike continues. Race meetings scheduled at Warwick, a mining cen- ter. next Monday and Tuesday have been canceled at the government's re- quest. Another step taken has been to reduce coal consumption for indus- trial purposes 50 per cent, while do- mestic users of coal will be permitted to purchase only small amounts. Some of the illuminated signs in London #1- ready have been voluntarily extin- guished, and it is expected that or- ders will soon be issued prohibiting all such signs. The government also is planning to impose restrictions on shop and street lighting, and the pub- lic has been asked to economize in the use of gas, electricity and gasoline. Another effect of the embargo on the exports of coab has been an in- crease for the demand of tonnage to carry American coal to British bun- kering stations. A number of ships received orders last night to prepare to distribute supplies of yeast for the nation's bread. should the railroads be shut down. These supplies would be landed at variqus ports along the coast. 1 wireless stations were and constables were being enrolled everywhere last night. Three-Week Supply in London. The chairman of the London coal committee geclares London has a sup- ply for about three weeks. but=if the present summer-like weather con- tinues it will last five or six weeks. There were no reports yesterday or last night regarding disturbances anywhere, dispatches stating that the miners were enjoying a holiday. The universa] cessation of work by the coal miners*has taken effect with remarkable quietude, and under cir- cumstances in strong contrast with all recent labor disputes, whether on the part of the railwaymen, the miners or in industries. The course of these previous disputes was char- acterized by active conferencés and negotiations\between the parties con- cerned and thinisters or other mem- bers of the government, all of whom displayed anxiety to find a path of settlement. On this occasion there has been nothing of the kind since Thursday's meeting of the board of trade. Neith- er side has made the least approach toward negotiations. This is ex- plained partly, as far as the govern- ment is concerned, by the fact that dustry is considered to relieve the ministers of the responsibility of in- tervening in the dispute. The gov- ernment holds that it is a matter to be settled between the miners and the mine owners. X BRITISH CABINET GIVEN SHAKE-UP Many Changes Made, In- cluding Selection of Lord Talbot as Irish Governor. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 1—Field Marshal Viscount French of Ypres will be suc- ceeded as lord lieutenant and governor general of Ireland by Lord Edmund Talbot, who has held the post of joint parliamentary secretary for the treas- ury. Sir Robert S. Horne, president of the board of trade, has been appointed chan- cellor oY the exchequer in succession to J. Austen Chamberlain. Stanley Bald- win, parliamentary seccretary to the treasury, will become the new president of the board of trade. Due to Home Rule Act. The appointment of Lord Edmund was due to the necessity under the home rule act of appointing a civillan viceroy. These changes necessitated a consider- able reconstruction of the ministry. Among the changes and new appoint ments are: Dr. Christopher Addison, the min- igter of health, s made minister with- out portfolio. Capt. Frederick Guest, aid-de-camp to Field Marshal French, becomes aid secretary. Sir Alfred Mond, first commissioner vorks, becomes minister of health. count Peel, undersecretary for war, becomes chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Barl of Crawford, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, becomes first The Rt Hon. Frederick G. Kella- - d of the overseas trade de. becomes postmaster gen- Charles A. McCurdy, food controller, becomes joint parliamentary secre- tary to the treasury. Maj. Sir Philip Lloyd-Graeme, par- liamentary secretary to the board of trade, becomes director of ovesseas trade. There are also changes in the minor posts Albert H. 1llingworth, who held the post of postmaster general, is retir- ing, on account of il health. —_— ADVENTISTS PLAN DRIVE AGAINST DISEASE SPREAD A nation-wide effort to prevent di- sease was ingugurated by the Sev- enth Day Adventist Medical Depart- ment at its session of the general conference yesterday at the Wash- ington Sanitarium, Takoma Park. L. A. Hansen, secretary of the medical department, said that home nurses’ classes have already been es- tablished at some of these medical institutions, and that at the Wash- ington Sanitarium, a class of sixty was graduated a few days ago. A recommendation was passed urg- ing all ministers and other church workers in the denomination to take the home nurses' training course, in order to speak from experience when they lecture on the subject of car- ing for the sick. Mr. Hansen said the medical side of the gospel should be made as prominent as the spiritual 88 persons are often won to Chris- through successful treatment bodiea. 'WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY, "PRIL-Z, Have You Done Your Share? Are you one of the 4,290 persons.who hawe responded to the appeal of the Associated Charities and the Citi- zens’ Relief Association for more members and more money? Nine thousand dollars is still needed to enable these family welfare agencies to continue their work. They need your help. Will you give it by sending a contribution to Howard S. Reeside, 923 H street northwest? What’'s Wrong With Your Work? BY WILLIAM MAXWELL, (VICE PRESIDENT. THOMAS A. EDISON, Inc.) (For the past twelve months an interest- ing series of experiments has been con- ducted at the Bdison plant, at Orange, N. I, with 188 young men and soung women milaried _employes as the subjects. The object of these tests was to discover and amalyze the underlying causes which pre- vent many workers of the so-called “‘white collar class” from getting out of the busi- ness rut. Mr. Maxwell, who devised and personally conducted these experiments, has found that the trouble was with the work- ers themselves. In this series of articles he not only points out the defects which chain the feet of mapy salaried employcs to the lower rungs of Mhe ladder. but tells how these fetters can be cast off.) 5. Are You a “Dice Bog?”’ I know a business executive who prides himself on his ability as a guesser. He frankly admits to his intimates that a great deal of his success in life is due to his daring in making snap decisions based on sheer guesswork. to hit the mark,” he concedes, een if 1 guess right only 40 per cent of the time I figure that I am scoring a higher average than most business men get.” 5 There are a good many “guessers’ in the business world, although prob- ably only a fow of them are as frank as this friend of mine in disclosing | their methods of arriving at decisions. The majority of this type_pret_er to say that they “act on intuition.” In my opinion tHat means pretty much the same thing; for in the course of more than a quarter of a-century’s experience in business I have never as yet come across a man who really possessed “intuitive judgment.” I am st.ongly inclined to think that “there is no such animal.” As I once heard Thomas A. Edison remark, “Intuition is often another name for mental laziness.” Spap judgment, it can safely be said, is a bad thing in business. We might just as well reach our de- cisiong by throwing e as by-ran- dom guessing. The average of suc- cess in either case would be about the same. Perhaps, if anythingathe odds would be in favor of the (_Hce method. At all events, the salaried employe who substitutes rough guesswork for logical thinking and planning is of no more use to his—or her—em- ployer than a dice box would be. One Form of Guessing. There is, however, one form of guessing which_is not only advan- tageous to the business worker. byt which is more or less essential his success. It is called logical con- jecture, and it is based on the faculty of analysis, which we have already didcussed, and the logic of mental processes. which it is my purpose to deal with in this article. Lack of logic—the experiments we have been making at our plant for the past twelve months have con- vinced us—is one of the principal handicaps which prevent the salaried employes from getting out of the rut. All of us reason logically at times. Our problem is to acquire the faculty 2nd habit of reasoing logically at all times. The kind of logic with which we are concerned is not the brand that ab- struse philosophers use. We need not measure the quality of our logic by the maxims set down in college text Books. The logic that is needed in business is a mental compass which gives proper direction to human rea- | soning. Faulty logic to the salaried employe is as dangerous as is a faulty compass to a mariner. To be logical does not mean that we must be ponderous and slow. On COLLEGE GRADUA ADVOCATED BY MRS. VAN WINKLE Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, April 2.—College grad- uates for policemen and policewomen were advocated by Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, head of the women's police bureau of Washington, at a luncheon given in her honor here by the Mary- 1and branch of the farmer-labor party. “The chief of police in Berkley, Callt,” Mrs. Van Winkle sald, “is a college man and professor of crimi- nology at the University of California. In most cities you can earn more on the police force than as a teacher. And why shouldn’t the policeman who stands on the corner be the highest type of man?" yfl:s. Van Winkle advised women at the luncheon, among whom were a number of social workers, to “go to it” in their efforts to elevate the police force. “A city,” she said, “is no better than its police department. Yow can have churches on every corner, but if you have a rotten police department bur- rowing from underneath, ehurches LABOR LEADERS ESTABLISH COLLEGE DEDICATED TO “ACADEMIC FREEDOM”> By the Associated Prexs KATONAH, N. Y., April 2—Organi- zation of the first “resident work- ers'” college in America was an- nounced after @ two-day of labor leaders and labor at thpe Brookwood School; the con- fereés declaring the new school's aim to be “the liberal education of -the laboring ‘people,” in a way that can- not be obtained in our colleges and universities. 4 “It was decided to unite with the American labor union movement a force of education that will serve American labor with trained, respon- sible, liberally educated men and women from the ranks of the work- ers,” the statement added. ~“The new college is not intended to act as a propagandist institution. “The college Will co-operate closely with national ang international labor groups, and also with local schools and colleges that send to it working men and women who show promise as to need further education, in order best to serve the labor movement, and, through it, society. “In this it challenges in a friendly manner the prevalling system of higher education in the United States, which is dominated by men who bene- fit by speclal privilege. “For more than a generation the American colleges and universities have taken the color of the minds and interests of these men until today it is practically impossible to obtain in them any teaching on industrial movement. that is unbiased and that will serve the needs of a sincere, con- scientious: laboring class. These are ’ corjference | ucators the contrary if we habituate ourgelves to logical processes of thought we are likely ta develop a moteworthy speed in reaching our decisions. We will have all of the advantages of snap judgment with none of the dis- advantages that come from being “a human dice box.” Logical conjecture. aided by itag- ination, is one of the most valuable forms in which logic can be employed in business. In plain words, it con- sists largely of the ability to put yourself in the other fellow's place and, after considering what motives might reasonably be ascribed to him, decide what thought ought logically to predominate in his mind. Such a thought may be a thing to avoid as one would avoid a pestilence, or it may be something to encourage and expand. In either case it is obvious that you are more likely to adopt the proper course in_dealing with your man if you know “what is in the back of his head.” Examples of logical conjecture in business could be given almost with- out end. Assume, for instance, that you are employed in the sales depart- ment of a company which deals with retail marchants. A bulletin has been sent out by you to several hundred of these dealers, but you have acci- tdentally failed to include certain _in- closures which were necessary to a Iproper understanding of the bullgtin. | Obviously. in such a case, the bulle- jtin will not be fully understood, and jthis means that it may be misunder- stood. How should you go about the job of rectifying the blunder? How would it do to send out another bulletin with a set of inclosures, and say nothing about the previous abor- tive mailing of the bulletin? No; be- cause a dealer who had read the first bulletin without the aid of the in- ?nurfls and thus received a mistaken onception of the proposition con- tained therein might rely on such conception, and, thinking it unneces- sary to read the bulletin again, toss the second copy into his waste basket without noticing the attached inclos- ures. Logical Conjecture. By logical conjecture you will sdon arrive at the conclusiof that the proper course to pursue is to send a ieiter of explanation ‘to each dealer concerned, together with a duplicate of the bulletin and a set of the inclo- sures that were previously omitted. In order to develop the capacity to conjecture logically you must, of course, first acquire a logical mind Can this be acquired, or is it an in- born quality? Our tests have con- vinced us that it is largely a matter of training. A good way to develop the logic of mental processes is to begin with the mistakes that crop up in your work. This applies to errors of judgment as well as to thosd which result from inaccuracy. If you get into the habit of reasoning over your mistakes for the purposeof conceiving every pos- sible consequence that may arise from them, and with the object of taking the proper steps to minimize those consequences, you will soon di cover yourself applying similar logi cal processes of thought to all of your work. You will still be a “guesser.” but instead of doing your work by the | dice-box kind of guesswork, which is wholly destructive in its results, you will have the habit of logical conjecturing, which is highly con- structive and a short cut to promo- tion. TES FOR POLICE will be waging a losing fight. The trouble is that good people are lazy. They” are so smug. They think the| world is good enough for them. But| |if they don’t clean up dark spots, the | | whole city will suffer from the cancer.” | She urged women not to “permit yourselves to have bad dance halls,” {and strongly urged supervised danc- ing. About the movies, she said, she would not offer advice as to whether they should be exhibited Sundays, but “if “they are open,” she added. “let them stay open, but have good films.” As concrete proof of the good that is being done by policewomen in Washington, Mrs. Van Winkle said that out of 120 vagrant girls picked up. 113 had become self-supporting and had been re-established in their former place in society. And the woman, she said, who did most of this work was President Harding's sister, Mrs. Carolyn Votaw, who had been a missionary for ten years in India, but found that there was no place in which she had been able to do a greater amount of good than as a member of the police de- partment. 1 { [ i the needs the New Brookwood dedicated to fulfill. The new college is dedicated tp the principle of “academic freedorh, of democratic control by students and faculty and of co-operative living.” The statement did not give any details of the plan under which the school is to be operated. It was sign- ed for the conference by John Fitz- patrick, president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor; Rose Schneider- i n. nresident of the Women’s Trade : Union ‘League, and a number of other is at INSTAN POSTUM as the meal-time drink,is better for health than coffee. “Theres a Reasan” HOWARD PLAYERS IVE WEIRD PLAY Awe - Inspiring Dramati Treatise Shown at Be- lasco Theater. A weird and aweinspiring dramatic treatise on the progress of fear and its accompanying hallucinations was presented to an audience far less in numbers than it merited, at the Be- lasco Theater, when the Howard Players presented Eugene O'Neiil's “Emperor Jones” yesterday afternoon. It is the first pretentious dramatic production presented by the Howard University students. Not more than 200 persons were in the house, although thesame play is being presented to capacity audiences at the Princess Theater, in New York, after a winter-long stay. The performance was well received, liberal applause following each scene and three curtain calls being tendered to George Williams in the star role at the close. Alston Burleigh, playing Harry Smithers, virtually the only other spoken part in the production, pre- sented the cockney accent and beach- comber degeneracy with a keen per- ception of the possibilities of his role. Scenes From the Play. The initial scene portrayed the “palace” of the emperor, where an ex-Pullman porter and murderer reign- ed by inspiring fear in natives. It showed him filled with self-confidence and eased the audience into the pres- | entation. ‘When the curtain went up on the 3econd scene, wonderful scenery, de- signed by Cleon Throckmorton, pro- vided the background for an African fire dance. Not a word was spoken during the darkened dance. The rhythm and grace of Ottie Graham in expressing primitive emotions was probably one of the most interesting | side issues of the drama. This_paved the way for the gen- uine drama. The remaining scenes were various spots of a terror- stricken night's flight in the forest by the abdicating emperor. ‘Jefl,” the crapshooting negro he had mur- dered in @ gambling game, confronts the disorganized mental faculties of Jones with awe-inspiring silence, passing the dice. In the grip of fright, Jones fires one of his six precious bullets. Progressing through various portions of the jungle, the flight and its inci- dental surroundings lead him through the stages of fear cumulative in ef- fect. until the mind runs through to fright, terror, baffled awe, and panic finally reaches to despair. Each is accompanied by hallucinations, which conjure up scenes from the personal and heriditary past of the fugitive. Chaingang Shown. The chain gang in which he had been a convict, the slave block at which probably hjg immediate prede- cessors. had been’sold, the slave ship in which more remote ancestors had been conveyed to the country, the Kongo witch doctor performing in his Cleared space before the crocodile god arising from the river, all show the short stages of regression in the tugitive. The emperor lives the existence of his predecessors in that night and expends every one of his bullets in frightening off the phan- toms, or ha'nts,” as he calls them. The trackiwg down of the fugitive and his déath close the play. The directing staff includes Montgomery Gregory, director; Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, whose services have been a very material contribu- tion -to the production as advisory di rector; Cleon Throckmorton, techni cal director; Beatrice Lewis, musical airector; Sue Gossin, costume director, and Alain Lock, professor of dramatic composition. The department of dramatic_art of Howard University sponsored the production. BENSON DENIES VESSELS ARE IN BAD CONDITION Prof. Head of Shipping Board Says He Sent Captain to Report on Tied-Up Ships. Chairman Benson and other officials of the Shipping Board last night de- nied charges made by J. N. Patton, former New York port captain of the board, that government vessels laid up at Pralls Island, New York, were in a “deplorable condition.” Commenting on Patton’s statement that no investigation of conditions at the island has been made by the board, notwithstanding official re- ports, Chairman Benson said he had sent Capt. Paul Foley, director of operations, to inspect the ships there and he had reported “conditions were very good.” Capt. Foley is a former naval officer and a responsible board official, the chairman said. More than $1,250,000 a year has been saved the government through the tie-up of thirty-eight ships at Pralls Island, the captain said, and the ships '\re as safely laid up tKere as could be expected under the circumstances. Only about $2.500 damage has been sustained by the vessels since their tie-up and that was due to failure of their caretakers to carry out orders, he added. Pralls Island was selected as a place to tie-up Shiping Board vessels withdrawn from service last Novem- ber, Capt. Foley explained, because it furnished safe, secure, sheltered and accessible anchorage. The ships were received in all sorts of condition, de- pending upon the efficiency of their operators, he said, and were laid up in groups of seven with a crew of thirty men in charge of each group. ™ Wonderful BOSS & TAX ON ANTHRACITE BY KEYSTONE STATE MAY INCREASE PRICE Special Dispatch to The Star. PHILADELPHIA, April 2—The proposed of a tax of 21 per cent of th& value of every long ton of anthracite mined in Pennsylvania is calculated to raise millions of dollars for this commonwealth at the expense of the consumers of coal throughout the eastern states. A bill providing for the tax has Just been introduced at Harrisburg and is said"to have the backing of the state administration. A very large proportion of the seventy millons of tons of anthra- cite mined each year in Pennsyl- vania fs shipped out of the state. 1t is naturally assumed the tax will be passed along to the ulti- mate consumer, and this means that the north Atiantic as well as a number of middle western states would be taxed heavily to help support Pennsylvania institutions. This leads to the fear here that the proposed legislation would re- sult in retaliatory measures by other states and create a condition almost akin to the tariff barriers of the European states. LEAGUE COVENANT CHANGES IN VIEW Commission on Amendments to Meet in Geneva Next Wednesday. By the Associated Press.- GENEVA, April ‘The league of nations commission on amendments to the league’s covenant will meet here on Wednesday next to organize and prepare for the work of considering | the changes in the covenant that have been proposed. The meeting will be a preliminary one, no specific change being considered. The commission will adjourn after having discussed the jurisdictional ! questions bearing on its work, ané will meet 2gain after having been put in possession of ail the suggestions for amendments that have been made in _any quarter. Z The meeting of the amendments commission will be followed by ses- sions of the league commissions on disarmament—and blockade on dates not yet fixed. BID FOR U. S. TO JOIN LEAGUE. Paris Editor Suggests Covenant Amendments to Solve Differences. | By cabie to The star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921. PARIS, France, April 2.—After a conference with various statesmen and diplomats, Phillippe Millet puts forth, in an editorial in the political weekly, L’Europe Nouvelle, the idea | that all the existing differences be- tween the United Statés and the al- lied nations can be solved, first, by making some general amendments to the covenant of the league of nations, and. second, by adding to the cove- nant a supplementary article exactly defining the relations of the United States to the league, in accordance with the American wishes. This, it is contended. would enable the United States to ratify the treaty of Versailles and give its moral sup- port to the cause of peace and re- construction throughout the world, without involving the Aiperican gov- t ernment in any responsibility for the execution of the treaty. Reject President’s Suggestion. President Harding’s wish to disas- sociate the machinery for executing the treaty from the league of nations, as outlined in recent dispatches by David Lawrence from Washington, is rogarded as unacceptable in both France and Great Britain. Both these nations consider that the league's ad- ministration of affairs in the Saar basin and elsewhere has been satis- factory, and they are opposed to changing it. Moreover, the changes proposed could not be effected with- out Germany’s consent, and a request 'for this consent would lead to an in- ternational debate which France is i particularly anxious to avoid. “Rather than begin a revision of the HEATING By Hot-Water, Steam or Vapor- Preasure Systems IS OUR SPECIALTY We are ready with the mate. rial end expert workmen to instell 2 new t or remodel your present ome without lelay. CALL ON USs Big'ggs Heating Co. 917 H St. NW. 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Three- inch deck armor is the limit of thick- ness which can be pierced by gravity bombs. he said, but it is not known whether actual piercing of armor is necessary, since bombs may do sufe ficient damage otherwise. He compared types of missiles and explosives used in warfare. He sald ghat shells carried 212 per cent of ex- Dlosive, relative to their weight; tor- pedbes carry per cent of their | weight and aircraft bombs contain more than 50 per cent of their weight. The air service, he said, is planning to attack ships first with gas bombs and then with 300-pound high explosive bombs, following this with 1,100-pound high explosive bombs. The 1,100-pound bombs are expected to have a serious effect on a ship if they drop within sixty feet of it, and the service plans to make tests of this on one of the surrendered German battle- ships. The general described some re- cent American developments in air- planes and bombs, stating that the United States was making very rapid advances and that all-American equip- ment of excellent performance had been developed, making this country inde- pendent of foreign sources. In con- cluding, he stated, in reply to a ques- tion, that the battleship was not yet obsolete, but that it might be super- seded by aircraft within twenty or thirty years. —— e treaty of Versailles,” M. Millet in- sists, “France would undoubtedly pre- fer to forego American ratification.” Thegmerit of M. Millet’s idea of add- ing an extra article to the covenant defining the position of the United States with reference to the league seems to be that it answers the same purpose as the Harding propo: without entailing the same complica- tions. Real Estate Salesman Wanted Industrious and com- petent man who is fa- miliar with Washington can make good with this office. 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