Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1921, Page 3

BECLARE PENSIONS ARE INADEQUATE Retired U. S. Employes Want Congress to Make Big In- creases in Annuities. Inadequacy of the annuities to re- tired government workers is being stressed by the Association of ‘Retired Government Employes, formed recent- 1¥ to acquaint Congress and the coun- try with the conditions. The association is backing a bill recently introduced into Congress ‘which would _increase the annuities néw granted by the civil service re- tirement law from 60 to 100 per cent, depending upon the present rate of compensation. Declare Increases Are Needed. Such increases are believed needed owing to the cost of living and the comparatively small amounts granted the retired employes of the govern- ment in the original law. The present annuities range from as low as $300 to $720 a year, and are declared to be_entirely inadequate. The association, which meets regu- larly every Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at 1423 New York avenue, open to government empl Iy in the ranks. as well as to those Who have been retired. Jacob W. Starr is president of the Association of Retired Government Employes; H. A. Cobaugh, vice pre: dent; Robert Armour, secretary George Simmons, treasurer. President Starr's Plea. “We find much distress caused by the inadequate annuities paid, espe- cially to the lower classes, while alll are much less than the amount paid those retired from other branches of the service” President Starr said. He pointed to the millions of dol- lare sent from America to help dis- tressed peoples abroad, and then in- stanced the annuities paid retired gov- ernment workers. 8 “See what the government has done for the relief of those in foreign land in whom it has no interest save a hu- nitarian one,” declared Mr. Starr. “What will it do for its own servants GROANS GREET GOMPERS AT NEW YORK MEETING Dabor Leader Quiets Audience and Then Raps Capitalists and Injunctions. B the Associated Press. EW YORK, May 19.—If the capi- talists of this country make futile the present rational movements of labor unions, they will have to com. bat another kind of movement, Sai uel Gompers, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, declared before a union mass meeting here. That, he said, is a prophecy, not a threat. and did not detail the move- ment he implied. The meeting was the first of a series to be held throughout the country in protest against the growing use of | the writ of injunction against union: Mr. Gompers denounced the injunc- tion as the tool of a capitalist class, The open shop movement, he asser ed. is the first on the part of capital- ists against the producing masses in the post-war campaign to reduce U. S. NAVY'S STUPENDOUS TASK ACCOMPLISHED DURING WAR Daniels Sums .Up Vast Achi‘evements in Building and Training to Send Great Forces Abroad. BY JOSEPHUS DANIELS, Former Secretary of the Navy. ARTICLE 35. Let me tell you a few of the big things the Navy did in the world war, some of which you may not realize. Even in peace times the Navy's operations extend over a considerable portion of the globe, with fleets in the Atlantic, the Pacific and the far east. During the war our ships operated the entire Navy and Marine Corps before the war. But that was not nearly all we were preparing to do, and would have done, if the war had continued into 1919, as was expected. Many thousands of men were in training to man the new destroyers and other vi s we were building and the hundreds the Ship- ping Board had under construction. Our war building program included a thousand vessels, of all types. from battleships to submarine cha. ers. We contracted for 275 destro; The buijders were brea from Archangel and the White sea. [ Ing all records in’ construction: o in northern Russin, to the Adriatic| PUmBer had neen completed ond b and the Mediterrancan: in the North | \pe®Service hefore the armistics, B sea. in English and Irish waters, all along the coast of France, Spain and Portugal, in Italian waters. in the Azores; patrolled our own coasts and the western Atlantic, the Gulf of Mex- ico and the Caribbean sea. the South American coast, guarded the Panama canal, and maintained a vast fleet of rgo transports and con- Is carrying troops, muni- supplies from America to production when they would be turned out by the score.” The Shipping Board was building cargo ship rapidly that the total number of sels already assigned to the naval overseas transportation service was 490, which would bring that fleet up to a fotal of 3,800.000 deadweizht tons. And we would have been called upon to man hundreds more had the war continued another year. 600,000 Men in Navy. The ¢ had grown, by the time of the armistice, to a force of over 600.- Surope. Guarding and German le raiders the Pacific. ar onerations ptendta from oue o | 15 TR’ Ratincs ° Becinnin Ty D e AL 2 with 4,376 officers and 2,667 me n Philippines, and the few \(':splx left Regular ared, and 13,000 re in the orient co-operated e Japanese and other allicd naval forces | from Manila to Viadivostok. Activities Belted the World. When we were pressing into service in the “war zone" all available anti-} including the The Marine Corp! to a total force of Recruiting and submarine craft, a flotilla of our small | mense personnel—the largest by many destroyers stationed at Cavite made ever po 4 by any a tremendous task, car- the voyage from the Philippines |N: ] c through the straits, the Indian ocean. |Fied out with a success that surprised the Red sea. through the Suez canal | ¢ven our allies. It well merited the and the Meditercasenn to Gibraltar, | tribute of Sir Eric Geddes, first lord A ere thes g e O o I con- | Of the British admiralty, who sai voy duty from that center of ocean| ~The dauntless determination which e o e iy Srar the |the United States has displayed in activities literally belted the |CT€ating a huge, trained body of sea- men out of landsmen is one of the most striking accomplishments of the war. Had it not been effectively done one would have thought it impos- sible.” a: globe. Before hostilities ended we had in service in European waters three hun- dred and seventy three vessels, in- cluding seventy destroyers, five gun- boats, five coast guard cutters. one hundred and twenty submarine chasers, twenty-seven armed yachts. twelve submarines, thirteen mine Sweepers, ten mine planters. eight battleships, three cruisers. sixteen four cross-channel transports, five vessels, carrying coal for the Army, eizhteen tenders and repair ships, and seven vessels of miscel- lancous types. In addition, there were thirty other vessels assigned to the European force then undergoing re- pairs or being prepared to go into commission. So that the total number assigned to the European forces was over four hundred. Big Force Engaged. Over 80,000 officers and men of the Navy were in service in Europe. Thirty thousand marines were sent overseas for service with the Army and 1,600 for naval duty ashore. That makes a total of over 112,000 officers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps that were in service in Europe. But that by no means covers all the service we performed for the allies and our own forces in Europe. The entire cruiser and transport Great Work at Camps. But only those who did it can know of the work required to build huge camps_like Great Lakes, near Chi cago; Hampton Roads and othe take raw recruits, most of whom had never seen the ocean, and in a few months train them as seamen, gun- ners, signalmen, aviators and for all the many duties of naval service. And, remember, this was all done not in years, but in eighteen months. The Navy manned and operated over {2,000 vessels—more than five times as many as were in naval servic previous to the war. The larger num- ber were troopships, cargo transports, patrol vessels and district craft. But the number of naval vessels and aux- iliaries in service at the armistice was 774, as compared with 342 April 6, 1917. Between January 1, 1917, and October 1, 1919, 645 vessels were built. Most of these were, of course, sub- marine chasers and mine sweepers, but the number included 3 battle- ships, 139 destroyers, 57 submarines and 52 Eagle patrol boats. Big Shipyards Bullt. To build these vessels new facilities had to be created—new shipyards, new plants to build engines and forg- ings and all the complicated machin- wages. The second move he described as that of tacking the characters of union leaders. Mr. Gompers was greeted with min- gled groans and applause when he rose to speak, but quieted the audi- ence when he said: “No greater contribution can be shown the enemies of labor than that there is dissension in our own ranks.” BILL FOR BEER SALES. Sale of 5 per cent beer and wine with a 14 per cent alcoholic content would be permitted in states where voters approved such liberalizing of prohibition enforcement if a bill in- troduced by Representative Ryan, re- publican. of New York. became a law, The measure provides for a popular referendum in each state:on petitiow of 15 per cent of qualified voters. SPECIAL NOTICES. force, with its eighty-three vessels manned by 3,000 officers and 41.000 men, and the naval overseas trans- portation service, with 378 vessels in operation manned by 4,692 officers and 29,175 men, were in transatiantic service, carrying troops and supplies to our armies and our allies. Practi- cally all the merchant ships and others which carried naval armed guards and Navy guns were carrying food, materials and other articles to allied countries. The Navy armed 384 merchant and cargo ships, and 30,000 of the Navy personnel were, at one time or another, engaged in this service. 220,000 Officers and Men. Thus, a total of 834 vessels and ap- proximately 220,000 officers and men of the United States Navy and Marine Corps were engaged either in actual European service or in transatlantic service to and from Europe. That is almost three times y as were in ery to propel and operate vessels. Early in the war we contracted for every destroyer the yards could build. Then. in October, 1917, we began enlarging old plants and bullding new ones, to produce 150 more destroyers. By that time we had contracted for 270 of these swift and capable vessels, the greatest enemy of the submarines. At Squantum, Mass., we bullt the largest destroyer plant in the world, and In six months after ground was broken in that swampy location I witnessed the laying of the keels of five de- stroyers there in one day. Before the war, from twenty months to two years were required to complete a de- Stroyer. We turned out some of them during the war in_a fraction of that : 4 - 2 Estate Salesman THE ANNUAL ELECTION FOR DIRECTORS the Metropolix Ruilding Association will be held at their office. 201 Pa. a - Wednesday. June 1. bet_ the hours of 2 and 8 p.m. CHAS. WORTHINGTON, | NOTICE OF THE DISSOLUTION OF THE CO- | PARTNERSHIP OF H & BIKGE. i Notice is hereby given of the dissolntion of the ~opartnership heretofore existing between | Hernan E. Gasch and Harry C. Birge. under | the fina name of Gaseh & Birge, for the con- duct of the general real estate and insurance business in_premises 1326 Xew York avenne | Borthwest, Washington, D. C. | Mr. Gasch will confinve to conduet in his own name a general real estate and insurance business in the above premises, 1326 New York avenue. All claims against the copartnership should be presented to Mr. Gaseh at the above prem- and all amounts due the copa 1d be paid to Mr. Gasch. 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Navy yards and plants were enlarged and turned out an enormous amount of repair and conversion wor s well as building ships of all typ The number of navy yard employes w more than doubled, running to nearly 000, The Navy built up an aviation force of more than 45000, of whom 19.000 ed in Furope, where we had one aviation units, including v-seven bases and stations, in operation, on the coasts of Irance. England, Ireland, Ttaly and in the Azores. An aerial patrol of the United States Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to the gulf was main- tained. The Navy built and operated its own aircraft factory at Phila- At the end of hostilities our aviation equipment included 1,865 boats. 212 land planes. fifteen dirigibles. 205 Kkite balloons and ten free balloons. We had sent to Europe 370 aircraft before the armistice. Took 911,000 to Europe. The Navy transported to Kurope in naval transports 911,000 American troops and brought back from Europe some 1,700,000, Of the 79,880 American _troops sent to Europe 1.720,360—8 per cent—sailed un- der escort of United States naval vessels. The Navy built, transported and operated with the American and French armies six naval railway batteries of fourteen-inch guns, the most powerful artillery used by the allies on the western front, and the largest guns that up to that time, had ever been placed on mobile mounts The Navy supplied 5,352 guns to 1,868 ves: of which guns 2502 were of three-inch caliber or larger. in addition it furnished 326 guns of various calibers to the allles. The Navy organized and operated agent. be any strangers brought promptly and equitably. 1406 H Street [ clotl’:es. straint. Next to Keith's Manhattan Shirts D s D O B D S P S D P D DR DRSS ST e the most extensive radio system in existence, maintaining communica. tion with Europe to the east and Asia to the west, and extending north and south from Panama to Alaska. High-powered stations were built at Annapolis, San Diego, Pearl Harbor, Hawail and Cavite. P. L, and the Navy erected in France powerful _wireless station world. The naval communication service handled in a single year, by wire and radio, 71.347.860 words. Great Lakes World Beater. The Navy carried out a shore-con- struction program involving over $346,000,000, including the building of a score of training camps. with the largest naval training station in the world at Great Lakes, 1, with a capacity of 50.000 men: ficet operat- ing base at Hampton roads, Va.; a vast projectile and armor plate plant at Charleston, W. the largest of mine-loading stations’ at Yorktown; ¢ docks at Norfolk. Phil harbor and other points; mense machine shops and storage warchouses, and the erection in Washington of the larzest of concrete office structures. having a floor space of forty-one the Navy appropr o 54,324, of which returned to the Treasur: 1St sum was _ex- pended with such economy. the Navy securing materi fuel and suppl at so much lower prices than gener- ally prevailed. that there has been no charge whatever of graft or wastefulness. organi; ion of the Navy De- the fleet, put into ef- so efficient that it cet all war re- quirements, basic chanze whatever was found necessary duri the entire war perfod. These o only a few standing things that w Navy. The record speaks it is a record of wi of the out- « done by our | for_itself— ch every ns- | including the | ¢ any “‘Mr. Business Man’ HERE IS AN OP- PORTUNITY TO GET located in the most promising downtown lo- cation. 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