Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1921, Page 2

rg—™ ® GERMAN ROYAL ' ATKAISERIN'S BIER Funeral Services Held in Potsdam—Former Emperor b Greatly Depressed. By the Associated Press. POTSDAM, April 19.—Amid the Yolling of bells, which marked the solemn hour, funeral services for Au- gusta Victoria, former German em- press, were held today in this the Toyal residence suburb of Berlin. which had witnessed so many scenes | i i of splendor in the departed days of | Hohenzollern rule. Over the simple coffin in the mau leum, or antique temple. Pots- dam palace grounds, where the serv- ices were held, had been raised the familiar yellow standard of the ex- empress, and at its foot stood the four sons of the former roval couple who were free to attend the services. Lacking was the presence of the hus band, the former emperor. and of the eldest son ef the family, former Crown Prince Frederick William, exiles in Holland. «Generals at Bier. led by the clergy and officers of the ex-empress’ own regiments. the fu- neral cortage left Wild Park. the Potsdam railway station, near which the body had been guarded overnight by faithful mourners after its arrival by special train from Doorn. the ex- emperor's present home in Holland. and proceeded shortly before 10 o'clock for the mausoleum in the pal- #ce grounds. a mile and one-half di: tant. Four black-plumel steeds from the former roval stables drew the fun- eral car, which was preceded by the former chamberlains of the court, bearing the royal insignia. Gen ~von Loewenfeld and von Lyncker and former Minister of State von Delbrueck and_ Breitenbach. Knights ©f the Black Eagle. held the corners ot the purple robe which covered the fareral car “*hen came tha Hrhenzollern princes ad princesses and other members of COMBINING MONEY STRIKES INDUSTRY IS LAUCK CHARGE (Continued from First Page.) its right to bargain collectively on a scale co-extensive with the organi- zation of the employers.” Taking up first the lay-off charges, the report presented by Mr. Lauck said that railroad shop lay-offs, in- complete, in the past nine months Wwere more than 103,000, A letter from Raton. N. M., of March 11 last, charged that on the Santa Fe, in January, after six machinists had been laid off. the remaining m chinists were worked overtime 1,216 llo!ll's in that month. Examples of what the report called “the lay-off poli were instanced from Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Nash- ville, Oswego, N. Y.; Horton, Kan.; Du Bois, Pa. and Ottumwa, lowa. A report from Oswego charged that “in March, 1919, the shop here was full of steel flat cars (that was under government control) and the foreman only had about twenty-four men cut- ting them down. The rest of the men were walking about doing nothing at all and drawing their pay. but there was no lay-off then. The government | was paying for it. and not the New | York Central. Now we have all kinds of work and we are laid oft.” Tore Oft “Bad Order” Tags. It was charged that in January, ati Winston-Salem a foreman on the Nor- folk and Western was caught pulling | tags off “bad order ars, while at Bluefleld, on the same line, foremen were alleged to have orders not to have defective equipment repaired. An Eckman, W. Va. letter from a railroad worker read: “There are pulled out of here every day cars with no brakes at all” The report carried a charging the Baltimore Railroad Company with car mechanics, while “cars are de- liberately run with cracked plate cracked wheels, broken truck frames, and twelve other specific kinds of breaks. "By far the most illuminating fact, said the report, “in any attempt to estimate what ' lies back of these railroad layoffs, is that practically all of the jarger systems have been statement and Ohio laying off *be former German royal family in equipages of state, these followed by | members of the ex-emperors court erd distinguished army officers, among whom were Gens. von Hinden- burg, Ludendorff, von Mackenzen anyd ven Kluck. Citizens Take In Visitors. More than half of Potsdam's eivilian population extended the hos pitality of their homes to the thou- sands of visitors who were unable to procure public lodgings. Prominent members of the nobility, generals of the army. ministers of the old regime and other distinguished persons gratefully accepted sleeping quarters in _private residences. The rush for piaces along the line of the funerul procession began early. Fifteen hundred security police flanked the avenue leading from Wildpark station to the palace srounds. and their presence obliged hundreds who were unable to get & front row view to seek places on nearby fences and tree tope. The civic organizations in attend- arce were assigned to places along Victoria avenue and the privte drive- way. which led into the palace park. Willlam Suffers From Depression. By the Associated Press. DOORN, Holland, April 18.—The former German emperor suffered ail through the night from severe nerv- ous depression, and to _this was due his absence from the Maarn station this morning when the funeral train departed with the body of his wife, Augusta Victoria. It had been his firm intention to be present at the moment of departure, but it was found impossible for him to go. In the course of the morning he re- gained his composure in a measure and attended a special service held before Princess Victoria Luise and her husband, the Duke of Brunswick, and Prince Oscar. left for the cere- mony at Potsdam, Germany. At the moment of leave taking Wil- helm aimost collapsed again, and Princess Luise wept freely, wherels the former crown prince, Frederick William, though nervous, endeavored 10 _hide his emotion. Simultaneoysly with the funeral | services at Potsdam, the former em- peror and crown prince and all the others at Doern castle will pray to- gether in the chapel of the castie. MUNICIPAL COURT REFERS CASE TO RENT COMMISSION (Continued from First Page.) now under way which will be com- pleted, regardiess of the rent decl- sion,” Mr. Rust pointed out, “but pro- spective builders of rentai property are likely to manifest hegitancy in starting new projects.” Louis Hirsch. owner of the building at 919 F street northwest, around| which the whole decision revolved, is | precluded from obtaining possession | of his property, occupied by Julius! Block. under the Ball act. unless he | desires the premises for his own o cupane: During the controversy, however, he was forced to buy the building at 912 F street, in which he is now Tocated, so that he is confront- | ed with the ailternative of staying| where he is or filing a petition for possession for personal occupancy With the rent commission. Position of Mr. Hirsh. Mr. Hirsh's story of the controversy over the buildiig occupied by Block | follows: “In August, 1919, the building I nnw! occupy at 912 F street northwest was zold over my head without the slight- est intimation on my part that ‘was for sale. ‘The new owners would <consider me as a tena @nd _eventually sued Judgment for possession “To prevent being forced business 1 purchased the 319 F strect northwe ‘which expired December 21 “The former agent for tha g 18 willing tes that i tenant attempted to renew his jease | during the previous January, but was | informed the builaing was for s @nd on that account 1 would ! rot be renewed; also urged his tenant to buy ft “Before that lease fied the tenant posse required. and throuzh my attorneys | offered him $5.000 to vacate. This ! refused and $10.000 demanded 1y suit for possewion followed sultingg in the finil dinjal ester- ¥ of my right to possession later Mr. Hirsh was allowed® to purchase the building he occupies | and thus remain in possession | WOULD EXTEND RENT LaW. Chairman Ball of the Scnate District committee said today that he proposed | to offer during the present session of Congress a resolution extending the: life of the Ball rent act, declared ton- | stitutional by the Unifed States Su- preme Court yesterday. Under the terms of the law it expires Uctober £2, 1921, two years after it was ap- proved by the Pr dent Senator Ball does not believe that the housing =ituation will hav. changed materially in the District next October, and he does believe that the same emergency which made the, passage of the rent act necessary will| be found to exist and to make neces- sary a continuance of the operation of the rent act When Senator Ball offers a joint resolution extending the life of the Tent act and the rent commission it will be referred to the District com- mittee, of which he is chairman, and he will have the matter presented. There are other members of the Dis- trict_committee and other senators. not members of that committce who it} } not or purch, nd then | T obtained of ! at of out property lease 1919, huild- | he expired 1 on would ti- be { Tables of figures were presented giv- | | was iuntil recently president of this com- { produc contracting with outside concerns for repair of hundreds of locomotives and thousands of freight cars which would normally be repaired in their own shops and yards.” Outside Repair Jobs. A list of alleged outside repair jobs | included: Union Pacific, repairs with Pacific Car and Foundry Company; Great Northern, with Seims-Strembel Car Repairing Company; Louisville and Nashville, with American Car and Foundry = Company, Jeffersonville, Ind.; Michigan Central, with Illinois Car Manufacturing Company, at Hammond. Ind.; New York Central with A. C. and F. Co.. at Detroi tyan Car Company, Hegewisch, 11l American Car and Foundry Compan, Depew, Y.. and Merchants' Dis- patch and ,Transfer Company, East Rochester. N. Y. Mr. Lauck here named companies repairing cars for railroads, which he said had been hiring car repair me- chanics whom the railroads laid off. | He gave names of some of the work- men and dates of their transfers. The report charged that the roads' | new policy is to subcontract in order | to remove from government control many of their men. Numerous repair | companies. many of them said to be new concerns. were named as taking over railroad repairs. These in- cluded: | Hornell Repair and_ Construction | Company, Hornell, N. Y., Erie work; Buffalo Steel Car Corporation, work for eight railroads, including the Pennsylvania and the Wabash; Mani- towoc Shipbuilding Company, several small shipyards, Burnham Car Repair Company, work of the Indiana Har- bor Belt Line Strembel Com- capitalized at $600,000, at St. : Empire Car Company, at Kan- kakee, 111, and Phoenix Transit Com- pany, whose president, the report de- clared. “was the son of President F. D. Underwood of the Erie railroad. The report said that this company | received the Erie's harbor work. Took Over All Clerks. The report charged that the R. B. Owens Construction Company. main- taining tracks between Hornell, N. Y. and Jersey City, “took over an office force. which consisted of all the offi- cers and clerks the Erie had on the same work. They added 15 per cent to the payrolls as overhead expense, and G. B. Owens is reported to have cleaned up $12,000 a month for a period of one year. When there ap- peared to be probability of an in vestigation the contract was abol- ished. Figures were presented Which, Mr. Lauck said. showed that the total excess cost of equipment repairs made under contract by outside con- cerns has been sufficient to have paid all the shop employes laid off throughout the country for full-time work. It was charged that the av erage price charged by Baldwin Lo- comotive Works was approximately four times the cost of similar work done ip railroad shops. This was for a specific list of repair jobs done apparently in 1920. The report here, however, estimated that If all the locomotive repair work in the coun- try were done by outside concerns | the cost of the railroads would be | about doubled It gave the present national locomotive repair bill as a little more than $500,000,000. It charged that many large repair con cerns added 90 to 125 per cent to| the lahor costs for overhead. - The concerns adding the high overhead were alleged to belong to “the rail- road combine,” through interlocking di- rectors Charges New York Central. { The report alleged that the New York Central paid the Merchants' Dispatch and Transportation Com- pany of Rochester, N. Y. an average of $137 for repairs for labor per car, | which actually cost the Merchants’ | Company £61 a car in November, 1920. | ing alleged repair jobs car by car. This repair company, the report said, | “distinctly a_New York Central concern,” adding _that President Smith of the New York Central was pany when he resigned in favor of his | son In detailing the composition of the lleged banking combine in control | of the railroads, the report said that | the Vanderbilt directorships were not included. It said that among | the twelve banks the Guaranty Trust | Compan held the largest number »f railroad dirctorships with fifty, while the National City Bank had forty: eight. The report ments made hearing by covered again the stat earlier in the present B. M. Jewell. for the employes that twenty-five well known railroad men held 193 rail- road directorships in 1920. on ninety- nine class 1 roads. covering 82 per cent of the country’s steam trans- portation. Naming these men agan, the report said that a numb them “belong to the inner circle centering around the of Morgan and the National Bank.” City Raw Materials Divided. Basic raw materials were divided by the report into two clase agricultural products and mineral The effect of the fall of | Uhe agricultural class, the report werted. had been fo spread I among farmers and to afford un cuse for sharp reductions in wages, | and. finally. to cause a te Mmanufacturing depression Tt mineral raw materials had fallen, the report declared, Industry would have been stimulated. It declared that the “financial com- bine" controlled the production of mineral raw materials Steel, cement mporary | {two weeks ago he started the con- {there about noon the day {and individuals. THE EVENING STAR, 'WASHINGTON, _D._C, TUESDAY, declared that the roads “were in & terrible plight,” that they were “fac- ing a great emergency” and that un- less his road received aid within two or three months it would go into the hands of a receiver.. This concluded the eastern roads’ testimony and west- ern road witnesses were called. Ralph M. Shaw, counsel for the Chicago, Great Western, which re- cently proposed a 20 per cent reduc- tion for skilled labor and the placing of unskilled labor on a wage par with similar workers in other industries, declared that the roads now were forced to pay their unskilled employes 34 per cent higher wages than were paid in other industries. “If "A" is required to pa er wage than he can hire " to do the same work, then ceases to be a free man.” he said. “That is the posi- tion the roads now are in. He urged the board to consider the wages paid in other work and the cost of living in_making its decision. M. Jewell of the labor side then terrupted him. “What do you want to pay unskilled labor?” he asked. “Thirty to thirty-five Lour.” answered Mr. Shaw. “Well, assuming a man i nts an hour. id Mr. Jewell, vorking eight hours a day, twent six days, he would get $81.60 a month, Statistics show that food takes up 28.2 per cent of the wages of the head of a family of five. That would be $1.15 a day. Can you buy fifteen meals for that?" ¢ ‘B’ a high- in- cents an Lee Joins Questioning. W. G. Lee, another union leader, joined Mr. Jewell's questioning and asked Mr. Shaw why the roads didn't reduce the pay of their officials, “where they were free to act. A. O. Wharton, labor member o board, broke into ask Mr. Shaw fundamental reasons for asking wage reductions.” “Because the present wages no longer are justifiable and because the roads can't obey the transportation act which calls for eflicient and economical operation at present wages.” answered Mr. Shaw. H. A Sargent, counsel for the Chicago and Northwestern. was the next witness He said the roads asked for reduc- tions in unskilled labor first because the season as at hand when this force was at _its peak and because thou- sands of laborers were out of work. “I cannot find at any time in the past half century,” he continued, “an improper financial handling of the roads. and I challenge Mr. Jewell's contentions that the roads have been improperly or dishonestly managed.” He also cited financial statements of the roads showing that govern- ment operation of the lines had dou- bled the pay rolls. The United States Railroad Labor Board yesterday ordered the St. Louis Southwestern railroad to restore the positions and pay of section foremen and shop laborers who recently went on strike in protest against a reduc- tion in their wages to the status of July 20, 1920. SAYS PENNSY PAID HIGH. ; Cost of Repairing 200 Locomotives Higher Outside, Says Supt. PHILADELPHIA, April 19.—Testi- mony that the Pennsylvania railroad paid the Baldwin Locomotive Works an average of $25,734 to repair 200 locomo- tives, while the repair cost per locomo- tive in_the company's own shops was $9.453, was given yesterday at an Inter- | state Commerce (ommission hearing by i T. J. Wallis, general superintendent of motive power of the railroad. Mr. Wal- lis, however, declared that the pressu of business made it imperative that the locomotives be placed in service within two and one-half months, and explained that the raflroad could not have done the work without increasing its plants, which was impracticable. “Did you negotiate with any other contract shop to take the work?" ask- ed Frank P. Walsh, who appeared as counsel for the railway emplovis de- partment. American Federation of Labor, and various unions of railroad employes “I don't know of any other firm that could have taken the work,” was the answer. Practice of many railways, particu- larly the Pennsylvania. to have their locomotives and car repair work done in outside shops, “has bicome so inten- sive as to affect seriously a general | public interest,” declared Mr. Walsh, | in presenting a petition. He main-| tained the practice menaces “acu: ly the economic well beipg of larze| classes of railway emPloyes. and threatens to deprive these employea of certain fundamental industrial rights guaranteed to them by the the the for B.! £ The first picture of Secretary Weeks on the golf courxe. The Secretary has recently tnken up golf nx n necexsary exercise. The photograph was made on the Chevy Chase links. D. A. R. TO ACQUIRE YORKTOWN, VA, SITE (Continued from First P'age.) !tails of the marking of these his- | toric spots with appropriate mark- {ers. and of plans for continuing the | work ! The report on national ronds was read by Mrs. iam H. | Talbott. chairman. ~ She asked adl delegates to call on their congress- men to the end that quick passage | of the bill for a national old trails | Lighway may be had. She told the d that if they secured the passage of the bill at this session she would give the local chapters one year in helping them in their local work. Details of marking of the trail to date were given. Mrs. Talbott introduced a resolu- tion urging the passage at this ses- cion of the bill known as the D. A. R. old t bill. It was referred o ]lh resolutions committee. Desire of a national law to prevent desecration of the flag was expressed {Ly Miss Annie Wallace, chairman of IVhl\ ecommittee on correct use of the |flag. in her report. Need of correc- tion of a condition where desecration misdemeanor in one state is lawful in another -. is imperative. Not until then, she said, can a flag code be adopte Mrs. Williard T. Block, chairman of the committee on the liquidation and endowment fund. read her annual re- port. She expressed the hope that a ihandsome fund for the proposed new office Luilding annex of the Conti- nental Hall here would be reported at the next congress. Report of the committee of insig: nia was made by Mrs. Willlam C. Boyle, chairman. The repbrt of the { committee on reciprocity in the ab- old trails v for the museum and $50 for the recommended rel repair of manuscripts the curator general. The patriotic speech of the pres dent-general, whicn struck sucn chord of appro erday. will be printed and generally distributed throughout the country. The con- gress voted this tos on the recom- mendation of Mrs. J. L. Smith, ap- proved by the resoutions committee Without a dissenting vote the cor gress made know its opposition to the passage of the so-called Walsh bill or damming vellowstone lakesin Yellowstone Park for water power purposes. The resolution containing the recom- mendation also cxpressed the unalter able disapproval of any proposcd proj- cets in national parks which wouid destroy them s national monuments or prevent compicte conservation. Appeove Poppy Sale. Indorsement of ithe work of the American Legion to sell artificial pop- pies made by the French widows and orphans, was given by the congress, and every ¢ncouragement will given to their sale. Emphatic protest against ire reverence to “The Star Spanged Ba ner.. by peope leaving gatherings or donning wraps while it is being play- sl be transportation act of 1920.” VETERAN OF INDIAN WARS DISAPPEARS FROM HOME { { Francis Henry Watson Last Seen April 11—Fear He May Have Been Drowned. Francis Henry Watson, sixty-seven, years old, veteran of the Indian wars, is strangely missing from his home at 229 V street southeast. He left home the morning of April 11 between 6:30 and 7 o'clock to find employment with | a wrecking firm. He appeared at the firm's office, Virginia avenue and 6th street southwest, failed to get a po- sition and disappeared. Watson was married February 2 last, and lived with his bride at the home of the latter's mother, Mrw.| Sarah Bruckheiser, at the V street ad- dress. His left hand was shot off by an Indian, he told his bride, but he was able to do painting and carpenter work with his right hand. Only about struction of a home on the east bank of James Creek canal, near the home ot hix mother-in-law, and had made remarkable headway with the build- ing. Mrs. Watson, distressed over her husband's disappearance, started an investigation and also asked the po- lice to assist her. She went to Hat- field, Va.. where the missing man had friends, ‘and learned he had been he disap- peared. No further trace of him was founa. It was feared by his wife that he possibly had been drowned, and police of the harbor precinct were appealed to, but the wife was unable to suggest a place where the river should be dragged. Watson had told his bride he was @ native of this city, but that he had no relatives here. He was born in South Washington, he told her. The languages, i missing man speaks eleven! his wife and mother-in-| law told a Star reporter this morning. His last employment was as watch- man at a cement plant in South Wash- ington. TAG DAY FOR CHILDREN. Episcopal Home, in Anacostia, in Need of Funds. The Episcopal Home for Children, in Anacostia, will hold a tag day Satur- | urday to raise funds for the operation and maintenante of the institution. There are fifty boys and girls now quartered at the home. The institu- tion also maintains a summer home at Colonial Beach, Va. The tag duy has received the in- dorsement of Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding, | Bishop of Washington and president | of the board of directors of the home. “It gives me pleasure to commend to the people of the diocese this most worthy _and appealing charity,” he said. “To feed the children properly, to pay all running expenses of the home, we must depend, as in the pust, { i sence of the chairman. was not read, but was filed and will appear in the official report of the proceedings. The report of Mrs. Caroline 1. McW. Holt, chairman of the Philippine scholar- ship cndowment fund, was read by Mre. Kite. The report on_Real Daughters was read by Mrs. J. Morgan Smith, chair- man of the committee. A resolution indorsing the Sheppard-Towner ma ternity bill was introduced by Mary B. Prisby and referred to the resolu- tions committee. The congress is not in session this afternoon, the time being left vacant to permit’ the meetings of state dele- gations and national committees. The president general and the tional officers will receive the mem- bers of the National Society tonight in Memorial Continental Hall. The pages will be entertained at a rceeption and dance ‘at Rauscher's arranged by Abigail Hartman Rice Chapter of this city. 3 British Ambassador Npeaks. World peace lies in the hands of | America, Sir Auckland C. Geddes, am- bassador from Great Britain to the ed, was ed by Mrs. E. P. Schoent- gen in olution which was referr- €d to the resolutions committee. Mrs. George Maynard Minor the report on the Pilgrim fountain and painting for seum in France. It was ac Preservation of Yorktown and its fortifications as a nationl mouument was urged in the report of Mrs, James T, Morris, chairman of the committee on historic sites. She said they now were being despoiled and the fortifica- tions razed. Quick action is needed from Congress and the P’resident, she said Mrs. Morris appealed to the mem- bers of the D. A. R. to put their full force behind the bill when it is in- troduced. Her recommendation was referred to the resolutions commit- tes Dr. Kate Waller Barrett, state re- gent for Virginia, voiced her approval of the report, and said the faflure to Sooner take ®ieps to preserve this site was # national shame. Mrs. James T. Morris, chairman of the committce on the preservation of historic spots, in her report gave de- PRESIDENT HARDING RECALLS DAYS OF “OLD read upon the contributions of the parishes Mrs. Charles L. Henry will be in churge of the tag day. ELKS ENTERTAIN POOR. and coal were specifically mentioned as among the mineral materials. The report charged that “the com- bine is holding up the prices of steel and other railway supplics with a view of accentuating the depression and then persuading the public that the railways cannot agree with the equipment companies over prices.” Roads Face Emergency. will give Senator Eall active support if he presents the resolution, B. A. Worthington, president of the Cincinnatl, Indianapolis and- Western,' Aged colored inmates of the poor farm at Blue Plains were entertained Sunday by members of Morning_Star Lodge, No. 40, B. P. O. E., and Forest Temple, No. 9, Daughters of Elks. Speeches were made commemorat- ing the fifty-sixth anniversary Satur- day of the emancipation of the slaves. These who assisted in the entertai: ment were Agnes Holmes Carroll, John H. Underwood, Arunah Saun- ders, Samuel E. Jones, Rev. Elijah Coleman, Mary O. Jackson and others, The President yexterday received a_ committee of twenty boys and girls who called to invite him to nitend the Daffodil Ball to be given at the Wil- lard Hotel, the prime object of which ix to raise funds for a swimming pool to be bullt in Com ity House. Johnny Wackerman, whose re- cent letter to the President regarding the pool drew an answer fn ‘which he indulged in fond memories of the “old swimming hole” back in ©Ohio, is here shown with' the President, S APRIL 19, 1921 E WARTAES A HEALTHY SWINGL S VA TORS® TILT TURNS | TO EINSTEIN’S THEORY Democrat Avers Relativity Is as Hard 1o Cope With as Repu Met blican Steam-Roller hods. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The National Capital has been treated to a surprise. It always as sumed that no matter what the sub- ject or what the occurrence either in the realm of politics or science sure- ly there was no limit to the compre- hensions of United States senators But none other than John Sharp Wil- liams, democratic senator from Mi; scnator from Penosylvania, have pub- licly confessed that they do not un- derstand the theory of relativity pro- pounded by Prof. Linstein. And what is even more shocking. they have gone §0 far as to suggest that they didn't over the heads of their democratic committecs Williams auence In the Senate. with his Says Mr. far-famed ello- jcan roll over ‘common plebeian minds. 1 understand how a great s like Isaac Newton could bring into th world a new IIl'()l mankind forever. understand how a political roller’ can control a democratic coun try of tolerably intelligent people. Mark you, I did not say intelligent people—I xaid tolerably’ people. I recogni men are not very intelligent at all, but 1 do not understand how tributes, tributes, without any moral manage to control imagines itself intellectual. I the last election, Bouquet Has Come, Back. Mr. Penrose replies thus: “The senator referred quently to have contributed to science. ve: €lo- Einstein’s theory of relativity.” definite man in this body is the sen- definite than himself. the senator from Pennsylvania under- stands Einstein. I do not belleve the senator from Con- necticut (Mr. Brandegee) would even contend that he understood Einstein, and from Massachusetts (Mr. Lodge) would direction.” Whereupon Mr. Penrose rejoins world who understand the book. thought. perhaps. the senator from Mirgissippi was one of them. I con- fess that 1 have nearly lost my mental the American Revolution last night. “The opportunity is there to seize.” he sald. “There is no nation in the whole world that would not welcome the seizure of that leadership by America now. The British ambassador concluded with this, statement after a scathing arraignment of the subtle forces which, he said, were working to drive wedges between those countries which fought side by side during the war, and by _their co-operation won it. Everywhere he went—in France, England and the States—he 8aid, he heard people say- ing that did more in the war than the other. § { Canada, This is quite right, he said, because if the people of a country were not proud of it they would have nothing to be proud of. But, he warned, the propagandists are seizing upon this feeling to work up a hatred between the countries. Flays Propagandists. “There is a danger in that for every country in the world,” he said. “There are men who didn't and who do mot like the result of the war. They know that there is only one way to have the result reversed, and that is by work- ing to loosen the joints of sympathy that the nations working side by side during the war made. Those men and Wwomen are, making every effort to destroy the bonds made by the war. They suggest to the people of one nation that the other did more. and that the other nation is trying to steal a march. They speak with the natural pride of the nation in which they are in. “The flattery that is being used to sever nations is the most deadly propaganda being used. Nations must be on watch for all such forms of propaganda. The propagandists play on national pride that every nation feels in the war.” The best way to combat this propa- ganda, he pointed out, is to give up talking about who did the most during the war and settle on the point that it was the allied co-operation that won ithe war, and by that co-operation overcame the greatest economic crisis in_the world. These propagandists, he said, have i nothing to lose, having lost all in the central powers, and their only hope of gaining anything is to start trouble. By innuendo they are seeking to fo- ment discord, and by the steady influ- ence of suggestion trying to ascribe to all acts of government officials the wrong meaning. 5 Corporations Attacked. | He took occasion tb attack generally big international corporations, which. | he said, are striving to bring discord {petweeni the' nations, because ‘under the old regimes of Europe they could carry out their operations better than they can under the new systems of | government. “These agencies wish to {see trouble: they want to see nations at lozgerheads,” he declared. “When the armistice was signed, he pointed out, “it didn’timean the end of the struggle, but merely changed to the form of propaganda which you now find. You can no more let the nations sever the ties which bound them to- gether now than you could during the { war. In the D. A. R., he pointed out, there is a strong organization in this coun- try for combating this propaganda. Ambassador Geddes said. and he urged the members scattered in centers throughout the country to take the newspaper headlines away from the propazandists and inculcate in the peo- ple the idea that the people of other { nations want the same thing that they [do to avoid the catastrophe of war. Mr. Coolldge Represents Persiden: Vice President Coolidge appeared as the representotive of President Hard- ing to welcome the delegates. He ex- { pressed the high ideal in which he holds the assoclation and its patriotic work, and reviewed the history of the early colonfes and the ride of Paul Revere, which today is being cele- brated in Massachusetts. Suggesting a change in the litany to meet present-day requirements, Am- bassador Jusserand of France, when 1 it ‘say: “From any kind of propa- sanda, good Lord deliver us.” He praised the work of the D. A. R. during the war, and said that by its work it saved to France many of its orphans and kept them from leading a camp life, This, he continued, means sissippi, and Boies Penrose, republican believe anybody else either inside or licans admit they are about to apply brethren in the matter of appointing | “I understand how a great intellect cientist principle that would con- But I do noti ‘steam | intelligent that 95 out of 100 a partisan | ANt steam roller without any spiritua) at- without any scientific at- tributes, without any’ intellectual at- excel- lency, merely the excellency in mem- bership in some so-calied party, could ! a country whicn say ‘imagines itself; because, judging by it has got a long way to go to know it is intelligent.” Newton and others who 1 know the Senate would patiently listen to him if he would explain his views on ator from Pennsylvania, but I did not know until this morning that he could discover anything more vague or in- I frankly con- fess that I do not understand Einstein. I frankly confess that I do not believe 1 frankly confess that I do not believe that even the senator make a very positive pretense in that “l1 own a volume of Einstein in the introduction of which it is stated that there are only twelve men in all the 1 United States, told the Daughters of' United their respective countries he arose 1o speak, said he would have | faculties | Einstein.” Einsteln Far Too Deej Not to be squelched. however, Sen in trying to understand WILLENDNEGLECT OF VIRGINISLANDS Capt. S. E. W. Kittelle, New Governor, to Bear Message . From Persident. Capt. Sumner E. W. Kittelle, United States Navy, on duty with the board of inspection and survey here for the e auclthen. last two years. sails tomorrow to as- | T Delleve it s the Earl of Derbyjsume his new duties as governor of Who once said that there were only |the Virgin Islands, Ca 2 s two men who ever understood the | el Anlle S apL il 4o | mear "eantern ‘question. that cone | of|CATEYINE with him from President | them was dead and that he himself |Harding a word of greeting and good was getting old and had pretty ne | forgotten it all. So far as Einstein is concerned, 1 did endeavor for a little while to understand Einstein. 1 do not believe the senator from Penn- ! sylvania ever even tries, but 1 frankly ,had the wisdom to confess that 1 did not understand stein. However. T do understand that there are certain |great fundamental. cardinal prin- lciples of fairness which exist in the !world, and I know the senator from outside of the Senate understood the Pennsyivania knows that. too.” thing either. This is how it hap-|_ 1t at this point that Senator pened: | Brandegee abrutly removes the discus- Scnator Williams is talking about |8ion from the domain of Einstein. and the “stenm rollems which the repub- | brings it back to the practical problem of iving the democgats six members on {important committees to the republicans’ | ten instead of =ix, and nine, which was he ratio before the republicans won such an overwhelming victory in the | last election. “T believe American people,” : in the intelligence of the s Mr. Brandegee, “the republican party will go out of e power some day. 1 remember cight | years ago. in 1912, when we came back ihere and we were out and you were in, and the pulchritudinous senator from North Carolina, Mr. Overman, who now refreshes the galleries with his sena torial beauty, met me at the door here and aseured me that the democrat party was In power for the next fAfdy vears, and wanted to know what 1 being a corpse and buried, in walking around here and pretending to be alive. Would Follow Marshall “Times change and men change with ithem. We may go out, of course, but 11f we do, we will do it as your honored i Vice President did, with a smile on his {face and with a brave heart. When- ever the public gets tired of the repub. [lican party. of course, they will put them out. They have an awfully poor alternative, of course. Generally, those intermissions are very few and far be- tween. Nevertheless, the ululations and bleatings and squeals we have heard for the last week from our dem- ocratic friends about this very fair program we have adopted are about to subside. ““The tumult and the shouting dies, l i Mr. Williams answers: The captains and the kings depart, 1 have long contended that thef s;3 " the steamroller is about to wittiest, the vaguest and the most in- start’ Whereupon the Senate hears a clos- ing oration by Senator Williams, who points out that he has heard of the steam roller before, in the days o Aldrich, when Dolilver was the insur. gent, and in the days of Joe Cannon’s speakership in the House of Repre- sentatives. “About all that Senator Brandegee has proven,” remarked Mr. Williams, “is that the senator from North Caro- lina, Mr. Overman, made about the same mistake that he is making now, asserting that when a party got into power it stayed in power forever, and all it had to do was to be selfish and take all the power it could.” Thus is the Senate returning to nor- maley with its conversation about Newton and Einstein, steam rollers and insurgency and moot questions as to the relative intelligence of the electorate. (Copyright, 1921.) _— more to France than all the gold it could collect in reparation. Ambassador Presents Gifts. On behalf of the French govern- ! ment, he presented to the society two Sevres vases and a copy of Houdon's bust of Washington, and told briefly the history of the original. France, he said, considers Ameri- can independence one of her glories, and has dedicated a_special room in the palace at Versailles to Washing- on. “When you see this bust. think of the France that loves you. Re- member, when you look at it, grateful { France.” Mrs. Minor, president general, in accepting the gifts, thanked the am- bassador and through him the French government for the high honor be- siowed on the society, and said they jwould bear “eternal witness of the | friondship the two countries have for one another, and will be cherished for all time as the friendship that has bound the two countries from the days of Lafayette. Musical Program. Lieut. Jean J. Labat, French arm, 1 8ang “The Battle Hymn of the Repul lio” in English and the “Marseillaise | in_French. Reports of national officers were presented at the afternoon session. Mrs. Minor. president general, re- viewed the work of her office during the year, and showed that she had traveled ‘much in its interest. The society has shown large growth since she has been its chief executive. The report of Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter, _treasurer general, showed the finances of the soclety to be in a healthy state. Other reports were made by Mrs. John Francis Yawger, recording secretary general: Mrs. A. Marshall Elliott. corresponding e retary general; Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger. organizing secretary gen- eral; Mrs. Emma T. Strider, the reg- istrar general; Mrs. George W White, finance committee: Miss Jenn Winslow Coltrane, auditing commit- tee. and also her report as historian jgeneral: Miss Lillian M. Wilson, re- porter general to the Smithsonian In. stitution. and Mrs. Frank Dexter Il. lison, librarian general. ¥ D. A. R. NOTES. Ambassador Geddes caused much merriment last night in prefacing his address with Mrs. President Gen. eral, national officers and ladies of the “D. A. R.-lings.” The committee on the present congress was announced vesterday as follows: Mrs. Henry B. Joy. chairman, Michigan: Mrs. Cas. sius C, Cottle, Ca'l:{xrornkm; Mre, B, B gene Chubback, Illinols: Mrs, Frank D. Ellison, Massachusetts; Mrs. Har- old R. Howell, Towa; Mrs Edward L. Harris, Ohio: Mrs. John Trigg Moss, Missouri: Miss Alice Louise McDuf- fee. Michigan: Mrs. Robert J. John- ston, lowa: Mrs. Samuel E. Perkins, Indiana; Mrs. James Lorry Smith, Texas; Mrs. William N. Reynolds, North' Carolina; Mrs. Andrew Fuller resolutions for Fox, Mississippi: Mrs. George T smallwood. District of Columbia: Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, District of Columbia, and Mrs. Frank W. Bahn- sen, Towa. | Enthusiastic applause greeted rendition of “The Magic Flu‘l:s' (Mozart), by Mrs. Tryphosa Bates Batchelor. soloist at last night's ses- Ision of the continental congress of |the D. A. R. Mrs. Batchelor, as en- cores, sang the “Great Air' from the | opera “Lucia,” and “The Last Rose of Summer.” 'Mrs. George Maynard Minor, nationai president, introduced Mrs. Batchelor as a Daughter of the | Revolution. who had won royal recog- nition in the courts of England, Bel- gium and Italy through her singing. She is the only American, it was pointed out. to be honored with the Order of Mercy by King George of| England, in recognition of her sing- ing during the war to service men and for charities. She wore a jewel pre- sented after a recital before the court cheer to the inhabitants of the i lands. who were all but forgotten dur- ing the first two years they were placed under the American flag. Presi- dent Harding told Cgpt. Kittelle he was particularly intere to it that the Virgin Is! come to appreciate ted in seeing anders should the benefits of American institutions, and in his mes- {saze to the regular ‘session of Con- BT next December will ask that the recommendations of the Kenyon Joint o ngressional mmission which Visited the islands a year or so ago be given every consideration The appointment of Capt. Kittelle as governor of the islands was made by President Harding on recom- mendation of the retary of the avy. Mr. Denby. and it marks « new i Policy in dealing with the naval gov lernorships. Capt. Kittelle is the ;;«m-)r officer of the N in his grade. and it is the purpose of Secre- tary Denby to s t in the future men of mature experience and good judgment to preside over the desti- nid fo the peoples of our island pos- sessions where navai control is being exercised in the absence of any other fixed form of government. Capt. Kit- telle has an excellent reputation for | handling men. The ship commanded by him during the war period, the Georgia, made the Navy record for training seamen for transfer to oth- er vessels. Capt. Kittelle also com- manded two trans-Atlantic troop ex. peditions at a time when encmy sub- marine activities in the Atlantic were at their height Forgotten | uring the War. The Virgin Islands had the mis- fortune to come into American pos- session just a few days before war was declared by the United States against Germany. In the whirl of events that followed the peoples of what had been the Danish West In- dies were forgotten by Congress and by the people of this country in general. The Navy. sorely pressed for officers for war duties, neverthe- less assumed a sort of guardianship over the islands and a naval governor was appointed. The governor re ceived about as much attention as the inhabitants, however, and little thought of any Sort was given to the new possessions and the new Amer- jcan citizens until one day an odd- Jooking fellow wearing a faded brown ! derby drifted into the offices of Sen- {ator Kenyon on Capitol Hill and told ia heart-gripping story of the tre- mendous disappointment of the peo- ple that in two years of American sovereignty there had been absolutely no moral help extended and very lit- hysical. O P Gemains true that about all t.at has beer done for the islands has {been in the way of sanitary improve- ments. These were very necessary, of course. and will be of enormous bene- fit in the future. ; It is now four years since the islands came into American posses sion and Danish money still is in general use. The American dollar fn this American colony hus sold a’ a premium of as high #s 23 per cent Investigation by Commission. The story told by the man in thes little brown derby caused Senator Kenyon to take up in Congress the neglect of the islands. He said there was plenty of excuse for this neglect during the period of the war, but no excuse for a continuance of it i peace time. As a result of his ef- forts a joint congressional commis- sion was authorized to procee_d t the isiands and study conditions there. They found. besides other things, that the people still are liv- ing under a Danish code of laws. The commission has recommended an American systen of currency and an A\merican code of laws. based upon American principles and ideals. and the undertaking of extensive educi- tional work. The commission de- nounced the eystem of taxation in the islands as unj ineflicient_and archaic. The mail acilities have teen almost nil. With President Harding's permis- sion and hearty approval. Capt. teclle hae taken up with several cab- inet officers matters affecting the ands and he will work out as many improvements 25 are possible under purcly executive authority. 1. WATCHES ARMY ORDERS OF JAPAN Subjects in Foreign Countries Ordered Home for Mili- tary Training. Application for the first time of the { conscription laws of Japan calling for universal military training. to Jap-j anese residents of the Philippine Islands and the East Indian and South Sea islands. is the subject of careful consideration by administration of- ficials. Not only have all Japanese officers stationed in the various Pacific islands South of the equator and in the East Indian islands been ordered to return to Japan for military training, but likewise “all Japanese between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-seven Without previous service have been ordered to return for military train- ing to Japan.” As applied to the Philippine Islands, the order was re- ported to have been issued March 3 S0 far as is known it has not bwa applicd either to Hawaii or to con- tinental United States. Not Regarded as Unusual. i Officials here who have examine! the reports attach no unusual signifi- cance to them, but state that they are to be regarded only as indicating a general inclination of Japan since the War of adopting more rigorous meth- ods to place herself in the state of military and naval defense. The Japanese law. it was stated, never has exempted a subject from military service by reason of residence in a foreign country, but hitherto considerable laxity has been exercised in the application of the law to Japu- nese residents some distance frony Japan. For some years, however, Jai incse residents in China and the ls- jand of Saghalin have been obliged to return for training. It is thought that on account of a reduction of some 15,000 in the class called to the army last December as compared with its preceding year, means of meeting this discrepancy by a more general application of the con- fcription laws have been judged ad- Visable with the customary readjust- ment of the army in April of each year. e e e TOPICS FOR PREMIERS. LONDON, April 18.—It was an- !of Spain. Correct wearing of the society’s In signia was urged by Mrs. William C Bayle, chairman of the insignia com- mittee. “Did you ever see men wear- ing their insignia to hold their neck- ties and collars?” she questioned. “You did not,” she said. nounced in the house of commens today that at the proposed meeting here in June of the prime ministérs of the dominion a comprehensive policy of empire land settlement and of directed emigration would be dis. cussed. It was added that all the governments ‘co-operating ‘ward such a pol