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now. Here in Washinzton it | is regarded as a coterie of | Carmi Thompson and Eimer Dover, friends. well established. It “has ar. | or his friend, and the preference of rived." How about the rest of the| national committee, John T country—how s the personnel re-|Adams of Jowa. the present \“,.I garded away from this self-centered | chatrman | community? There will be a revival of that | The reports which come in declare | Perennial subject, repre entatiyn of that the administration has “taken” |the southern states in national con- well, elsewhere. Only fricndly and |véntions, There have been many | favorable comment is heard, and even | revivals of this ever-present topic. : from democratic sources come inti- | Which flamed for a bricf time mations of a willingness to give the | guttered out like a dying candle. | new crowd a fair show to make good. [ Some of the more pessimistic poli- | President Hurding's personality and | ticians predict that such will be the that of his associates in the admin- jultimate result of this efort. while | istration had much to do with this! < say that the subject ought to gratifying state of mind on the par alt with, once for all, to stop! . of the public, it is thought B o current flood of eritic ! ' habitues of public and politi ife | follows every national con- of the National Capital say that the n. It is true there was | LY new President is a ad hander’” and after the last convention, but friend-maker of the first water. ~“. fecling is groving :l:ux‘\;:: ::::I is a certainty that he h denied ‘,”n‘.- | t in -n' the f‘n ate i self less to the public than several} st be settle Presidents who have preceded him. * * * % 2 ® | One objection urged to doing any-! ing now is the certainty that ac- President Harding's manifost and |5 onal committee would | intensely sincere manner PICASUS{, T 40000 in renewed efforts in people who come in contact with him. e and is the first attribute of his per- | CONETESS 1o Femrict SCRTCEROHCT | EDITORIAL PAGE NATIONAL PROBLEMS SPECIAL ARTICLES ' EDITORIAL SECTION he Sundwy Stat Society News | WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1921. Part 2—16 Pages O. K. PUT ON HARDING| BY PUBLIC OPINION Judgment at Efn?dr of Ten Weeks Is That His Administration Has “Taken™ Well With people. 1 into BY N. 0. MESSENGER. live-wire brand of practicality HE Harding administration has Politi Tt is thought the seloction been in office some ten weeks | Will be made, upon intimation from President Harding, among his friends, gonality which attracts attention and stands out in the high light. 1 Hates, - a wonderfully good ‘mixer” withou nt canvasses as well as eun: the sacrifice of the dignity of 5!m\\'n> ind x\o.»::mn \x: 1'.“&:; a € g with his subjec fice—and that a fine art. ng with Ll g e way just mow. Man) There is no question that the Ameri- can people are jealous of the dignity of e ns are in favor ouras- republic. of the presidential office. Possibly it {ing the expansion of the “era of good | is @ reflection from ages azo ng” made manifest by the in- chical [ crease of republican votes in the cestors’ veneration for the mo office, of whatever race they come, modified to’suit the citizens of & re- public. . i “The first gentleman of Europe the affectionate, yet respectful. term applied to the King of a cousinly na- tion overseas. and the “Arst E€R-lominous quiet among the democ | tleman of America” can Well Deifactions since the last meeting of the! applied. and is applied, to the chief| commitice when the threatened row | magistrate of the United Statesfiaq deferred. but the factionists have | Whomsoever he may be at the UM |peen husy beneath thesurface muan- Newspaper men have had occasion 10y, e Sy ok e come closer and more frequentl¥ iflinaviaple battle contact with President Harding than! A qeiermined group i some others of those who have held} corimittee ‘are intent upon ousting the office before him, and it can safely | cpuirman George White, and if this| be said that not a mother’s son of e eue it them can truthfully point to a les- e % sening of proper reserve observable| et oiAups etk in President Harding as result of hisi oty oroc rank and cordial mingling with thej e oo oreaential public. ) (Coprright, 1€ Vice President Coolidge has helped to create the friendly feeling enter-) KOREA ASKS RECOGN‘T'ON: southern states at the last election. EE In d ratic national other flare-up over the national com- mittee chairmanship expected lalong in June. There an circles an-, was is has been tie aligning | | i the national be done su would contest among ot of possible candidates i should in nomination 1in| ton Star.) * * k¥ . by The Washin talned here for the new administra-! tion. His is somewhat a differents ;‘;;"Appeax to U. S. Baced on Historic from that of the big, middie : ; ?:-l:::gr Mr. Harding. He is more| Right and Treaty of 1882. of the canny New Englander, but he| Recognition United States of | has agreeably disappointed some | the indepegdence of K is the subject who may have fancied from their | of an appeal just submitt visualization of this thin-lipped. cau-' tary of State by Soon Hyun. “represen- tious gentieman that he was cold. He! tutive in the United St of the pres and Mrs. Coolidge have been fairly!dent and prov 1 [govetnmenit overwhelmed with soeial attention.! Kore The plea is which they have reciprocated by "X-!“hu'r-t tary and unquestionable historic pressions of @ generous apprecialion i rignr” of Korea and the treaty of 1582 of the kindliness accorded them. |petween that and ‘the ‘United States. | | i * ¥ X * | | | Declaring that the United States had | | | the | i | ites based on country All the members of the Cabinet are well liked in public and private life. They have helped to create that feel- ing that the new administration has establighed itself in popular esteem. But'what has done a great deal to that end has been the way the whole administration, beginning with the President, has buckled down to hard work and acomplished results. It is one of the hardest working adminis- trations Washington has ever The heads of departments get down to their desks, some of them by %:30 bound itself under the treaty to exert its good services in Korea's behalf in case another power dealt “unjustly or op: * with her, the communication requested that the American government issue a proclamation recognizing Korean independence and “immediately re direct diplomatic and commer lations” with her. ALASKA CENSUS FIGURES. The white popt pressive seen lation of Alaska de- and all of them by 9 o'clock. That|ereaged 23.4 per cemt between 1910 | habit has resulted in a shaking upj.nd . the census bureau an- of dry bones in the departments, Set-!pounced yesterday. Of a total popula- ting a good if possibly painful i tion of 51,589 recorded last r, whites example to minor officials. The|iou 583, compared with 36,400 | clerks, of course, are required to be o 10 | on their jobs not later than the stroke| ndians in on the basis of of 9. It is easy 1o el access to|the 1520 numbered 26,421; public officials under this administra- Japanese, tion, if the caller can show the lo — legitimate ¥ of departments semblance of having nes with the heads Right now there is a great deal of . political patropags Susiness to ue| Educator May Be Picked discussed, along with the appropriate For Post in Far East! public affairs, and the visiting poli- | i tician 1s having his innings l * K K | The Congress is admitted to be| i making splendid progress in achiev- i ing iegisiative results. The mass of business which the House has trans- © acted has been notable, especially for an extra session of Congress and considering the great number of new men in that body. Naturally, the old-timers, by virtue of their ex perience and length of service, have set the pace, but the newcomers have Cabinet Jobs May Be Cut to Eight In Reorganization of Departments BY WILL P. KENNEDY. HERE has been drafted for submission to the Jolnt conzressional committee on mizatlon of the federal sexvice a scheme of reorsanization which 1t 1s be- Heved will have the support of President Hard- ing. Bricfly, it provides for a concentration of the federal activities into cisht government de- partments instead of ten, s at present, or ex- pansion into a larser number, as is proposed In several Lills now pending In Consvess. It fs revolutionary and deastic in that it would aboi- ish the exisiinz departments of Labor and Asriculture as class lesislation. It conslder that no execttive function shonld be exercised by any hoard er commission other than under Some zovernment department ok Kk At least fwn of the major propesals in this plan of reorzanization have already been advo- cated by President Harding uniting the War and Navy Departments into one department of natfonal defense, and establis new de- par U of public welfare, bills for which have already been introduced in both the Honse and Senate. The proposed abolition of the Departments of Agriculture and Lahor, as such, is belfeved to in line with the President’s repeatedly expressed opposition to strictly class tion. of the interesting features is that it would preatly magnify the office of secretary to the President, now heid by Georze B. Chris- tian, and would give him cabinet rank. The idea ix to create an office immediately under an to the President, whose function it to co-ordinate the overlapping activie ties of all the federal departments, also to ad- minister the national budcet. Thix as: to the President conld also act in the e of an executive officer for the President—func- tions now performed he secretary and the resident—thus r inz the chief executiv much routine work and det leaving his mind and time free for lurge questions of policy. 1 One assistant would bhe of * %k ok kK ion of the public welfare de- the lines laid down the President's per- ced to muke a spe- such a department. s outlined in onal physielan, whom he as +1 study of the needs for The Commerce Department the new scheme, coinci the plan recently suggzested by Secretary Hoover. It wjll also be noted that it carries out the 4deas of those who have heen advocating a de- partment of public in a more logical way by orzanizine the engineers of the country for both peace and war. It recognizes the vital importance of mobilizing the engineers in peace on useful work, and makes them available at the outbreak of war without chanze of directing head, personnel or organization At the same time it meets the views of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States as expressed in a refere vote against the creation of a sep of public works It carries out the main idea fathered by William F. Willouzhby, director of the federal works dum a rate department research council, in his recommendations to the reorganization committee that the regrouping of the government agencies should be along unifunctional line An especially gratifying fact is that the new ieme has developed from the first attempt from within the federal service to reorganize in the interests of economy and efficienc The board of surveys and maps hus for two years been working toward the possible ganization and consolidation of the fifteen map- of the zovernment. It was dis- cussed by Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, officer public buildings and grounds, who sirman of the co-ordination committee of d, ut a meeting Jast week. The scheme the necessary reorganiza- of the entire federal service to make pos- the lozical and eficient reorganization of the map-drawing agencies, The joint congressional committeas on reor- est reor- B 5 and with less friction through eliminating class feeling engendered by class distinction and class legislation. * * ¥ % Lieut. Col. Sherrill In outlining his plan argued that te secure an efficlent and workable reorganization of the federal departments we must free ourselves entirely from all existing accidental conditions and strike for a sound. logical arrangement in accordance with well recognized government functions to be admin- istercd. The executive branch of the federal zovernment should be organized into such num- ber of departments as can be readlly co-ordl- nated by a single head—the President. This consolldation requires that these departments be not more than twelve in number and as few as eight, if at all possible. ch of the departments should be desig- nated to exccute one great governmental func- tion and it= allied activitles. These great go ernmental functions axe: (1) national defense, relations with other sovereignties and states, (3) fiscal affalrs, (4) commerctal affairs, (3) national resources, (6) public welfare, (7) iministration of justice, (R) post office de- partment. * ok ok ¥ The exccutive functions of the government, of every character. should be placed in one of the above-mentioned departments, and there should be no Independent executive agencles re- porting directly to the President, except such as It mizht be necessary to place under the ofice of the assistant to the President. This arrangement would free the President from the necessity of directing a multiplicity of executive commissions, boards, ete., which by thelr or- sanization are poorly adapted to perform execu- tive functions, It should be clearly understood that the de- partments should be organized to execute cer- tain governmental functions, rather than to execute dutles relating to certain special classes of the people. Some of the present departments are or- ganized quite closely in accordance with this principle and would require a relatively small number of changes to render them harmonious with this proposed plan. This applies particu- larly to the State Department, the Treasury De- partrent, the Post Office Department, whose functions are now in general well defined by the names of these departments. * ok Kk ok Probably the most illogical organization of all at the present time is that of the War and Navy departments, due to the fact that each of these execute a portion of the primary gov- ernmental function of national defense. Since national defense is one clear and distinct activ- ity, aithough including many agencies for Its effective execution, it is most illogical, 1tMs con- tended, to divide this duty between two or more departments. An enemy cannot be partly beaten on sea, partly on land, and partly in the air as independent operations. He must be beaten by oné powerful effort, with every resource of the nation concentrated to that end under a single directing head. If there are to be a separate Navy and Army, the argument runs, then there must be a separate air force—with three cabi- net members reporting to the President on a single problem. With the national defense department as- sumed—especially since President Harding has 80 emphatically declared for it—there results at once a great simplification and economy in all the auxiliaries of the fighting force. There will be one ordnance bureau instead of two, one engineering and constructing agency instead of two or more, as at present; one medical de- partment instead of two, one legal department and one type of law enforcement instead of two, and one general supply bureau instead of two. * k k ¥ One of the great advantages of a national defense department is the consolidation under this department of all primary federal engineer- ing and construction activities, engaged during peace in useful and constructive work, which is largely suspended at the outbreak of war. These units are thus available at once, to be thrown into the war's activities with no change of directing head or organization. Notable among the classes of work that are ployed in times of peace. The Army and Navy would have their normal quota of engineer (troop) units to which the undersecretary of englneering would assign commissioned pegson- nel for short tours of service, say two years out of every elght, as {s now done by the chief of engineers of the Army to the varlous en- Rineer regiments. * * % ¥ Only br this conselidation of land. water and air forces can a loglcal and economic con- centration of the varfous enginecring activitles be effected, it Is claimed. This 1s not a scheme to milltarize the government by exalting the national defense department, because all the undersecretaries can be clvilfans. It is unim- portant whether these varfous engineering agencles are composed of civillan rather than military or naval personnel. On account of the general opposition to the extension of commis- sloned military personnel into these ensineer- ing activities, it would be quite feasible to pro- vide personnel for the various engineering corps along the same line, as i3 now done for the United States coast and geodetic survey, which has A permanently commissioned force of civillan employes having the pay and emolu- ments and refative grades of naval officers, on the outbreak of war passing at once under the control of the Secretary of the Navy as naval officer: . If a nucleus of personnel for the different engineering corps were commissioned as en- zineers of the natlonal defense department, as 1s the case in the present Corps of Englneers, there would be many advantages to the service in the matter of tenure of office and the readily applied rules by which inefficient men can now be eliminated from the service in the Corps of Engineers of the Army. Tt is generally recognized that any govern- mental organization for engineering work must have some kind of a permanent status for a nucleus of its personnel, and whether this per- sonnel Is given a commissioned status similar to that of the present officers of the corps or one similar to that of the present coast and geodetlc survey is of no fmportance whatever. The essential consideration is that this person- nel shall be in times of peace engaged on use- ful constructive work, with an organization which .on the outbreak of war can at once be- come available to the secretary of national @e- fense for any engineering and construction work required in the prosecution of the war. * ok ok ok As to the Departments of Agriculture and Labor, these are declared to be clearly illogical - and designed for particular classes of citizens rather than for particular functions of govern- ment executed for all classes of citizens. These departments are indicated for incorporation in the Interfor Department and the public welfare department, respectively. The Interior Depart- ment under the proposed plan would have the great function of administering and developing the national resources, of which by far the greatest, is the produce from the earth’s soil (agriculture), also mineral resources (coal, iron and oil), the public domain (including the na- tional parks and Indian reservations and their resources). The department of public weifare would take over all questions of industrial relations, of which the greatest is the relation between labor, capital and management; health, insurance, per- sonnel (civil service), education (vocational, zeneral, motherhood). 1In other words, this d partment of public welfare would be respon- stble for man’s individual personal welfare from his birth to his death. * X K ok The Department of Commerce would handle all matters relating directly to commerce, ex- cept that investigations of commercial ques- tions in foreign countries, as well as of other investigations in foreign countries, should be handled by the State Department as the agent of the other interested departments. The State Department would, in this way, handle all ques- tions of agricultural investigations in foreign countries, as well as be charged with the pro- curement of all classes of intelligence on for- eign action affecting the Army, Navy or other interested departments. ganization has thus early in its work dis that all the way through tion until the plan he now enjoy It officials and varlous ganizations who think along empha of must get rid of the preconceived notion that loss of potential power in war. because things are as they are they must con- pos tinue the same way—this with especial refer- cuted in peace by the various engineering corps ence to the Departments of Labor and Agricul- of the national defense department, and in war ture as they now exist. It is at the same time they would be administered without a change pointed out that the interests of organized labor of personnel or change and of the farmers can be just as well protected under the proposed scheme of reorganization, the federal service every official recognizes the need for reorganiza- under consideration affects him or threatens to disturb some little authority ed that such people or or- those better pet used to the thought that every one not incidental overed are: The roads, sources. lines had to any single are of the greatest use to the public at large, public buildings, harbor work aids to navigation, mapping and surveying, engineering research and water re- Almost without exception these are actively prosecuted only in peace times, with the result that on the outbreak of war these organizations® are disintegrated, with a great d plan all of these activities would be exe- the battle front and in home areas in the same classes of work upon which they have been em- 1t is believed that the reorganization above described in general terms, and shown in exact detail in charts prepared for the joint commit- tee on reorganization, can be efected with a minimum interference with the bureaus and de- partments by incorporating the various activi- ties into their new departmental positions with- out change of personnel or organization until after the complete reorganization shall have been made and the new directing heads have had an opportunity to observe the functions un- der their controi and suggest modifications in organization or personnel as the necessity de- velops through practical experience The whole idea is consonant with President Harding's oft-repeated slogan, “More business in government and less government in busi- ness."” department, but river and Under the pro- of control as units at Engineering Council to Confine Efforts . to Obtaining a Public Works Department that upon the recommendat HE American Engineering Council of the Federated American Engineering So- vesterday i of its cieties announced committee on public affairs, it will not eoncern itself with the general reorganization activitics of the gov- ernment, but will confine itself to promoting @ nation-wide movement for the establishment of a national department of public works ktxpzl i L It was felt. the announcement said tn general legisiation s taken b that the 200000 American engineers, many of the new ones, especially who throush local and national so- h ropriation bilis arc up. The cietics in every s 2 muke up the when appropriation hilis ; . ! Federated Amerie . Engineering So- two bills thus far acted upon, th y murigys Enpineering So- Navy and Army, have run into th cieties, ©; e greatest ser hundreds of m:llions in fig the nation by confining their efforts enough to make some of the tyros to public matters closely related to X the engineering profession. This view, it. But, bie you, they seem never to turn a hair gasp, it might be thoy over a stupendously large item of appropriation. They soon get used to thinking in millions. * % % % Interest in national republican pol- itics will be stimulated for the hour when the republican national com- mittee meets here in June, probably the Sth A chairman is to be e ' lected to succeed Will H. Havs. who finds his time well occupted in put- ting humanity into the postal serv- ice, after having spent two very musv years and more putting a very . JACOB GOULD SC { Former president of Cornell Univer- aity, who in reported to be Preasident Harding's choice for minister to China. . Z it was said, was shared by Herbert Hoover, Who has just retired as presi- dent of the council, and by leading engineers representing the large na- tional engineering organizations. * K ok x The public affairs committee of the eouncil headed by J. Parke Channing of New Vork made an exhaustive in- auiry eanized engineering participation tn! into the desirability of or- the general revision of the executive | departments in Washington and made a report which caused the council to concentrate its efforts on the general plan of co-ordinating the immense ernment under a single head. The council, it was announced, will | take over the entire machinery of the | Nutional Public Works Department | Assaciation, organized in Chicago in 1919, to bring about the reorganiza- tion of the Department of the In- terior by the establishment of a na- tional department of public works. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah and Rep- resentative C. Frank Reavis of N braska, sponsors of the original pub- lic works legislation, are now leading in the movement for general govern- ment reorganization which, the engi- neers say, was largely inspired by tne activity for public works reform. * % k ¥ The organization and equipment ot the National Public Works Depart- ment Association has been taken over by the American Engineering Coun- cil, which, at a meeting to be held in St. Louis, on June 3, and which will be attended by engineers from many cities, will consider an elaborate plan for renewing the public works campaign in every state. The old public works state organizations will £0 In harm@ny with the American Engineering Council under the gen- eral directiow of L. W. Wallace, ex- public works functions of the gov-|sociation will join with committees ecutive secretary of the council, which recently opened national headquarters in Washington. The New York committee of the as- 5 | partment of a functional basis, in in other sections of the country under | which will be grouped together “de- the chairmanship of Adolph Lewisohn.| partments whose functions are simi- Mr. Channing is vice chairman of the | lar, Whose interests are similar and committee, James T. Grady is secre- | Would require for their administra- tary and Caroline E. Klein, assistant | tion the same type of brains and secretary. The New York committee ability. Engineers claim that co- s made up of prominent engineers,! ordination of public works functions bankers, manufacturers and civic and [ Would mean a saving to the govern- woman leaders, among them T. Cole- | ment of at least §100,000,000 a year man du Pont, H. Hobart Porter,| from the start. Francis Blossom, Miss Mabel Choate,| The American Engineering Council John J. Pulleyn, A. Barton Hepburn, | announced the organization of a for- amuel McCune Lindsay, Alfred 15| €ign relations committee, with L. Marling, Charles Whiting Baker, Gano | B Stillwell of New York as chair- Dunn, Mrs. C. S. Guggenheimer and|Man. Discrimination against Ameri- Henry R. Towne. can patents in Kurope, the council Many leading Industries, univer- | 8nnounced, had ceased as a result of the passage of the Nolan treaty patent bill on March 3. The patents committee of the council had pre- viously reported that American in- ventors were at a great disadvan- tage in foreign countries because of the lack of proper legislation. * ok % ¥ The committee on public affairs of tie council has reported that a proper investigation of the great lakes St. Lawrence waterway project could not be undertaken at this time, but that when the’ report of the internationat commission was available the Amer- ican Engineering Councll might then consider the project. This commit- tee has reported to the council that the subjects covered by the Smith- ‘Towner bill did not come within the field of the council's activities. sities and technical organizations are represented in the national organiza- tion. Among the educators are Deanl George B. Pegram of Columbia, Profs. George F. Swain of Harvard, W. B. Gregory of Tulane, T. U. Taylor, Uni- versity of Texas; J. W. Votey, Unl- versity of Vermont; W. H. Kenerson of Brown, and C. E. Condra, Univer- sity of Nebraska, and Dean John H. Dorroh, University of Mississippi. * % ¥ % ‘The American Engineering Council's statement said that it was no longer a matter of dispute that the Depart- ment of the Interior, “the waste- basket of the government,” was archalc in organization. Engineers proposed & reorganization of this de- % [ i | | i | U. S. HAS BIG STAKE IN WAR SETTLEMENT BY G HE United out of the war, been widel, ed by men in this country sions. This i3 too altruistic considerable amount, however, when the facts of the case are invest tates wants no'h world the fnterests of the United § American citizens invoived in the The claims of the United $ and its citizens, under peace made negotiation, naturally would be carcd for through diplomatic exchan, in passing a congressional putting an end to the technical state war existing between the United St and Germany and the United Stat Austria it was feared that unle language of the resolution was ver war. by Mution e spe might wake up one morning to find that their claims against the central power: were vanished into thin air. So Senator Knox of Pent thor of the peace resolution, and other members of the forcien relations com- mittee undertook to insert in the reso lution the necessary language to tect al these interests, with the result that the peace resolution expanded in vivania, au- the original measure. * k k% Now, just what are these claims of the United States and American citi- zens against the enemy nations, and how are they to be safeguarded? In thie first place, the United States has maintained a considerable armed force on German soil since the sign- ing of the armistice in November, 1915, The theory has been that the forces were there to see that lived up to the arm: terms troops are still there, some 12.000 of them. Germany has got to feot the stice bill for the maintenance of th armed forces, the American govern- ment insists. It has been estipated by the Secretary of War that the bill will run from $240.600.600 to $270, 000,000, about a quarte doilars. In itself, this is a tidy little claim against the Germa % ox | In March of this year President| | Wilson transmitted to the Senate, in | | response to a resolution adopted by |<u.u that body, a report from the Sccre- tary of State in respect to alleged losses and claims against Germany filed with the Department of S by American citizens August, 1914, when the world war broke The total given in this report since vut was §2 231,465.21. But the claims tinally submitted against Germany, probably Will far exceed this figure. Nor does this sum include the claims of Amer- ican citizens against Austria for in- Jjuries done them during the war. The grand total given the State De- partment coveerd 1,233 claims and statements of loss or communications indicating intentions of filing cluims, This is approximately another quar- ter of a billion dollars, which will be demanded of Germany. * ok ok ok war it immediately scized all the enemy alien property it could lay its hands on, and, with few exceptions, day. In round figures, the alien prop- erty custodian has control of property valued at $750,000,000. This property is held. very naturally, to safeguard the interests of American citizens who Hive claims against the enemy nations, and to safeguard the inter- ests of the United States itself. So it appears that the American claimants have a pretty fair showing of getting their money back eventually, or a it. The vast amount of the enemy alien property seized by the United States is located right here in this country, and it still has a high value for the most part, irre- large part of New York Crowd Hostile To British Labor Leader JOHN H. THOMAS, Head of British railway union, who 1y arrived in thisx country. A When recently the Sena foreign re lations committee tackled the prof of making peace by congressional reso- | lution it found the most rious stum- bling Llock was properly to safeguard wrear | But | cific the United States and its citizens | size until it was out of all proportion to | of a billion ! When the United States entered the | it continues to hold this property to-| M;sta_](en Idea A-T}x;t This VCountry Has Nothing to Ask of Former Enemy powers. | speetive of the and situation that exist Austria KR % rmany Getting back for a moment to the €t of losses filed by Ameri- citizens aganst Germany. the Department has shown that the i s due to submarine warf in uding loss of life. por injuries, 03 of hulls, cargoes, peronal effects and war risk hsurane a s, 254,058 69, Losses suffered by Ameri- can citizens dus to military requ tions of and 10 property. in- cluding that in territory, ftotaled §10.200,2 Losses sutervd by American citizens due to personal sions, to 0000 L by American ens due to sequestra- tion mage to property in « including 1ES, use, sale iquidation and forc loans, totaled Miscollaneous losses were given at $2.539.420, These figures do not include the claims actually filed, however, which amounted to $41.1 21, of which by far the large sustalned | fare, t amount was for submarin. w through including marines, raiders and mines * ok x ox due sul pro- | | The & Department presented a i detailed statement of alleg and claims arising from lc In the so-calied “pre-war” p pr | war when the sidered—these United Stat losses and elal s s con- 15 total- ed § 1y because of ‘Iu.\: of life when the Lusitania was Iaubm.u"n\,d. The losses ud claims | for loss of life during the period thut !the United States was in the war | totated 205,346 i For personal injuries, ther hus en demanded 0f Ge The tatemiem of s and clams of private owners 18 from the sinking Vesscls | was given as $50411064.105, of wiuca perivd the Utiled Siates was i e war American privatel 1 cargon i aid, OF Lhe Valde UL Hearsy ooy i W, Were rej u st Tuug arme wartare. o1 tacse Cargors, 1L appears insuica, | American care . he sev- CHY AETICun usuialice LU have been reporied. TRuiuded 1n tus wWele L S8 patd by e bu- Ul War rise insurdfice, wiich | veua | | were given as more dian 34, | ¥ % * * { Cait- U Siaies ald WS ClUZens have a very il to coscct from e enemy wouns &5 an CULETOWLA Of the war. | wuside of the actual money claim- | .4 vy the United States, there are | viner interests yet involved—whica are 10 be safeguarded, not the least of which is the intercst of the Uniteu it uppears, therefore, that i { tw States in the lsland of Yap, cuv: center in the Pacitic. _————— {PRESIDEN. 10 ADDRESS WMEETING BY [ELEPHUN_ Cotton Men in New York « i Hear Speech By Amplifiers. President Harding has aceepted vitation to open the convention . | cotton men to be held in New Yo | May 30 by speaking to the assembly |by means -of the telephone. His message will be made audible over the convention hall by means of am- plitiers. The invitation was extended |by former Senator Hoke Smith Georgia. Delegates to the nterna- iuunal cotton convention to be heid |in London this summer will be the | special guests of the cotton men at 1lhe New York convention. | Plans being formed for situation known to the dent by W. L. Clayton of Houston, Tex chairman of the committe cotton exporters and southern bank- ers appointed recently in Atlanta to work out with the War Finance Cor- poration plans for assisting the financing of cotton exports President Harding has been invited to attend the progress pageant to be given by the city of Chicago mnext month. The invitation was extended by Representative Madden, but the President said he could not at this time give a definite answer. the reliet lof the cotton in the south | were made Presi- A commencement address will be Gelivered at Pennsylvania Military College, Chester, Pa. by George B. Christian, jr. secretary to the Pres ldent, June 15, when he will receive a | degree of master of arts, while Gen. Pershing will receive that of doctor of military science. Mr. Christian is a graduate of the institution, RAIL RATE COMPLAINT. Charges of Discrimination Made Before Interstate Commission. The Memphis freight bureau filed 4 petition yeste with the Interstate Commerce Commission charging that the present rates maintained by the railroads, especially by the Missou: Pacific, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and the St. Louis and South- western on cotton into, through and out of Memphis are unreasonably high and discriminatory against Memphis and in favor of cfties in Ar- ansas. The rates, the petition says, particularly favors Earle, Forrest City, Newport, Jonesboro, Little Rock, New York crowd hooted him and de- nounced him ax a traitor to the eause of organized labor. Pine Bluff, Brinkley and Blytheville, Arkansas, against Memphis. !