Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1921, Page 1

) \ WEATHER. Unséttled, with local thundershow- ers this afternoon or tonight; tomor- row partly claudy and not.quite so warm. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p. M, 30 p.m. yesterday; . today. Full report “ Closiig New York Stocks, Page 23. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington,” D. C. No. 28,179. PITIFUL MACHINERY * GIVEN FOR BUDGET, DAWES COMPLAINT * “Might as Well 3e Handed Toothpick,” Head of New Bureau Declares. .WILL ASK ASSISTANTS’ TO SERVE WITHOUT PAY Appoints Business Associate as Aid—Also Requests Detail of Two Army Officers, ©harles G. Dawes of Chicago, chosen by President Harding to head the new xovernment budget system, annotnced after a conference with the President ¢ today that he would call on a number ©of experienced business men to serve n the budget bureau without pay be- cause he considered the staff provided - By Congress wholly inadequate. Mr. Dawes said he would ask that fwo Army officers who distinguished themselves for organization work in the American expeditionary force be detailed to the bureau. and had asked is business associate in Chicago, Wil- iam T. Abbott, to serve temporarily acting assistant director. ”Mr. Dgwes deciared in a statement that if the budget system was to be a success reliance must be placed on “something els; ;:h‘ln the pitiful ma- chinery provided by law. “()ney rl"nlghl as well be handed a toothpick,” added the statement, “with which to tunnel Pikes Peak.” Two Officers Requested. The two Army afficers are Brig. Gen. George Van Horn Moseley, for- mer assistant chief of staff in Gen. Pershing's headquarters in France, and Col. Henry Smither, former as- sistant chief of staff in the service of upply. Both were associates with Mr. Dawes in France during the war. Mr. Dawes' statement said, in part: “We all know the desperate condi- tion of the business of the country at present—industrial, agricultural and commercial—and that it is staggering under a tremendous burden of taxa- tion from which it must be relieved if it is to properly revive. “Congress has passed the budget Jaw in order to give the President machinery with which to secure the information necessary for him to i direct the reform of government business administration and save taxes. Appropriation Allowed. “Let us see what Congress has done to give the director of the budget the machinery to attempt this colossal task. He is given an ap- propriation of $225,000 for expenses and employes and an assistant in each department inted by _the cabinet head. But 5 appropriation, besidés the assistant director of the budget. he can .em- ploy for this stupendous work: only four men of his own selection at not over $6,000 each. For the rest of his force, he is compelled his chances on men to be certified to him by the Civil Service Commission. “One might as well be handed a toothpick with which to tunnel Pikes Peak. “It is evident that if this, the great- est business crisis which our govern- ment has ever confronted, is to be properly met. chief reliance will hayve 10 be placed upon something else than the pitiful machinery provided by law with which to exercige the wide pow- ers extended to the budget bureau. Appeals to Patriotism. “I am therefore accepting the posi- tion of director of the budget only with the idea that the patriotism of the bureau chiefs and the country as a whole can be so aroused in this emergency that it will be met as was the emergency of war four yearsago. Unless the bureau chiefs of the de- partments and the leading business men of the country respond to the call of the President as they did four years ago the situation is hopeless so far as any material relief for two Years is concerned from this source. “My plan is this: I propose to or- ganize my office, so. far as I can go under the law, as quickly as possible, aftgr selecting thé only four men upon whose qualifications for service the law presumes me capable of pass- ing. - The first of these will be my business ' associate, William T. Ab- bott, who as acting assisting director will for a few months aid me.in the organization of the work pending the seleetion of a permanent assist- ant director. Besides, I shall ask the War Department for the detail of two great co-ordinators—Gen. Geosge Van Horn Moseley, assistant chief of staff, G4, G. H. Q.. A. E. F., and Col. Henry Smither, assistant chief of staff, G-4, . 0. S, A. E. F. ‘Will invite Business Men. “On or before August 1 I shall ask the President to invite a number of leading American business. men to come to Washington, to serve without ‘compensation, in an advisory capacity tc the budget bureau. “As soon as possible, pending the organization of my office and before August 1, I will call together en- masse all the bureau chiefs of the departments and their assistants in Washington and explain my purposes. They and they alone, being in_ inti- mate and close contact with curreant governmentab business and each fully cognizant of the situation in his own bureau, must form the chfef basis of the hope of the President, of Congress, and of our people, for the accomplish- ment of this work by December 1. Called before the representatives of the budget bureau who, if they re- | spond to this appeal, will include the best business minds of the nation, “ they must furnish the info: ion and. in many cases, the suggestions of the changes in methods to insure economy through co-ordination.” Francis J. Killkkenny of " Chicago, who will be Gen. Dawes' confl- dential assistant in handling the government's annual budget., is well known in the District, having lived here for more than fifteen years, during which time he was confldential secretary to three ssive control- lers of the currency. in mafiy local and and was the orginator of the *back to Ireland” movement ten years ago which was responsible for many per- sons of Irish birth or descent living here visiting Ireland on their vaca- tions, He is a native of Chicago and came to Washington in 1899 to be secre- tary to Charles G. Dawes, who was then controller of the currency. Fif- teen years later he retired from the government service and entered the investment and securities business.\He attained much success, but lLe laid aside his private interest wken the country entered the war and went to France as personal aid to Mr. Dawes, when he assumed caarge of the finances and supplies of tie A. E. F. on the other side. At the é¢bnclu- sion of the war he resumed his. pri- ‘vate business in Chicago, only to again lay it down to be associated in - ernment work -with his.old :u.fi today: ighest, lowest, 73, at t on page 9. Edison Instructed By Realm of the Spirit Says Noted Medium NEW YORK, Jume 23—The Edinon brain, which evolved n spirit—according Streckenreiter of “Thomas A. Edison in spirit medium of hig M Streckenreiter said toda he han mever p n in contral to bear meaxage.” MISQUOTED, SIS JELLS SECRETARY, EXPLAINING SPEECH Hands Mr. Denby Written Statement Replying to Charge of Critics. Rear Admiral Sfms handed today to Secretary Denby a written statement about his recent speech in London in which he was quoted as criticising Irish sympathizers in the United States and which resulted in his re- call from leave. The naval Secretary has the statement under consideration and meantime its text is withheld. Returning here yesterday from Lon- don, Admiral Sims reported to Mr. Denby at the Navy Department this morning and was directed in a writ- ten order to submit a statement. The officer reitérated that he had been misquoted in press dispatches report- ing his, address, and apparently he had a written explanation ready when he went to the department. He was with the Secretary only a minute or two, then going to the of- he spirit operations. In Best of Spirits. The Admiral appeared to be in the best of spirits and exchanged greet! ings with the newspaper men, al- though he refused tv comment on the case in any way, but Secretary the officer: “Admiral Sims has denied the ac- curacy of the statements attributed to him. He stated that he was incor- memorandum setting forth statements and asking him to -inform me “in_writing wherein he was mis- quoted\ and to tell me, if he could, what he did say in that spesch. I asked him to give me an early reply. My memorandum was an official com- unication to Admiral Sims in the form of an order.” Specifie Proof Likely. that Mr. Denby would require Ad- | miral Sims to ‘show that he had been | substantially misquoted in published reports of his London speech, and tion of certain words. Admiral Sims was with Admiral Coontz only a short time and it was learned that their conference was not connected with the coniroversy as te Admiral | Sims’ London speeches. On his arrival at the Navy Depart- ment, Admiral Sims posed for news photographers, but smilingly refused to talk with, the group of newspaper- men. He again refused to discuss his case after leaving Admiral Coontz’s office. THREE POLES KILLED IN ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS Twenty-One Wounded in Clash Over Mistreatment in Brom- berg Factories. WARSAW, Jui 23.—Three Poles were killed and twenty-one wounded Eromberg, a town northeast of Posen, ! yesterday. Seven policemen were in- Jjured-during the disorder. the part of the Poles that their coun- trymen who have remained at work {in” German factories were being ill treated by Germans. Mayor Macias- zek, who was accused of pro-German- ism, was dragged from his office and roughly handi¢d by Polish laborers un- til he wasgrescued by the police. !U’MPS OFF MOVING TRAIN. Prisoner Escapes From Sheriff by Leaping Through Window. PHILADLPHIA, June 23.—Edward B. Stone, deputy sheriff of Burling- ton county, N. J. reported to the hiladelphia police today that while he was bringing two men, charged with stealing an automobile from Knoxville, Tenn., to New Jersey. one of them jumped ‘from & train window in the vicinity of Perryville, Md, last night. He is James Fletcher, Philadelphia. The conductor would not -stop the train and it is mot hurt in his leap. | 1PM. Saturdays Hereafter during the summer The Star will _ be issued on Saturdays at 1 o’clock. All "Advertising Church Announcements, etc., intended for Satur- day’s Star must be received at The Star office by 11/ o’clock Friday night. fice of Admiral Coontz, chief of naval| Denby said after his interview with rectly quoted. 1 gave him a written those It was indicated at the department would not be content with repudia- | during anti-German demonstrations at | ‘The trouble arose out of feeling on | known here whether Fletcher was | SOVIETISM IN NAVY NIPPED IN THE BUD BY THE SECRETARY Mr. Denby Relieves Captain Who Let Crew Discuss Discipline With, Him. . BELIEVED TO HAVE HAD APPROVAL OF DANIELS Committee of Sailors Meant to Help Morale, But Believed Bad Precedent, Secretary Denby has taken action, on recommendation of Admiral H. B. Wilson, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fieet, to nip in the bud any tendency toward sovietism in the Navy. Capt. Clark D. Stearns of the battleship Michigan has been relieved for having permitted his crew to dis- cuss with him disciplinary measures vested only in the ship’s commanding officer. Capt. Stearns issued the order which brought about his detachment with the approval of former Secretary Dan- ifls, 1t is understood, but Secretary Denby is said to hold that, while in- tended to improve the morale of the ¢nlisted personnel, approval by the department of the course would es- tablish a precedent that might injure scipline even to the point of letting “squiet rule” in the Navy. r. Denby said today that the main- | tenance of discipline was vested by | statute solely in the commanding offi- cer of a ship, and that it was con- trary to traditions and the estab- lished custom of all naval services to give the crews disciplinary author- ity, direct or advisory, to-any extent. The Secretary denied, however, ru- mors that another battleship captain had been relieved for allowing his crew to vote on what navy yard should be the home port of the vessel. Such a vote had been taken on a dreadnaught, he sald, and the Navy Department disapproved the idea, but no acyPn had been taken., Sallors on Committee. The order issued on the Michigan provided for a “ship morale commit- tee” to consist of four petty officers and ten other enlisted men. Among other duties assumed by it was in- vestigation and a report to the cap- tain on disciplinary cases. Another | duty was transmission to the captain from the crew of suggestion, tending to inerease the efficiency of the ship or the naval service. YANKEE IS AEAD INBRTSH EOLF By the Associated Press. ST. ANDREWS, Seotland, June 23. —Early scores for the second round of the Britixh open golf tourmey, with the first round figures, were turned in an follows: Duncan, 74—75, 149; Herd, 75—74, 149; Massey, 74—75, 149; Kirkwood, |76—74, 150; Melhorn, 77—75, 152; Hagen, 74—79, 153; Kerrigan, 7480, 154; Vardem, 77—77, 134; Mitehell, 78—79, 157; McLean, 76—73, 149; Hackney, 77—76, 153; Ray, 76—72, 148; Kinch, 75—77, 150. ST. ANDREWS, June 23.—Jock Hutchisqn of Chicago. playme - re- markablé golf. led the field at the end of the first round of the British | opening golf championship tourna- | ment here today, turning in a score | of 72. Hutchinson played a particularly strong game on the outward journey ig this_round, creating a sensation | by doir'g the 139-yard eighth hole in one, and taking “only two for the 273 yard ninth. His score to the turn was 34. Hutchison used a machie from the tee on the eighth hole, | holing out amidst great applause. He was pressed closely, however, !by H. C. Kinch of Woodcote Park, { England, who turned in a 73. 3 Cards of American Players. | First’ round scores of other Amer- {icans were: 2 | “Frea_ McLeod, Washington, 78: Dr.! Los Angeles, 75; ’l‘om[ Kerrigan, Siwanoy, 74; William Mel-; horn, Shreveport, 77; Walter Hagen, | Detroit, 74; J. Burgess, Asheville, N. | C., 79; George McLean, Grassy Sprain, { Paul Hunter, N. Y., 76; Charles Hoffner, Philadel- phia,75;” Robert T. (Bobby) Jones, Atlinta, 78; Emmet French, Youngs-| town, 79; Clarence Hackney, Atlantic| City, 11; Jim Barnes, Pelham Club, | New York, 74. i J. Douglas Edgar, Atlanta, §2. Other leading scorers: ~ George Duncan, British open cham pion, 74. ‘Alexander Herd, British open champion, 75. Toseph H. Kirkwood, Australian open champlon, 76. * Arnaud Massey, champion, 74. Jack_White, Sunningdale, 76, ‘Abe Mitchell, North Foreland, 78. | Harry Vardon, South Herts, 7. P. Allis Cline, 75. J. B. Battley, London, 81’ W. R. Bourne, 78. A. G. Havers, West Lancashire, 76. Edward Ray, Oxhey, 76. g A. J. Miles, Merton Park, 765. ‘W. Pursey, East Devon, 74. George Braid, unattached, 7. { 3. H. Taylor, Mid-Surrey, 80. Playing 36 Holes Today. * Two rounds of thirty-six holes each are being played today and two t morrow, the player having the lowest | medal score for the seventy-two holes | being the winner of this classic. The turf on the greens was fresh, as a re- sult of vesterday's rain, when play started. Eighty-five golfers are com= peting, fourteen being Americans. REVOLUTION, IS WEAPON, SAY REDS AT MOSCOW By the Associated Press. RIGA, Letvia, June 23.—The con- former French professional ference of the third internationale of |- Moscow opened in the soviet capital yesterday, according to a radio mes- sage througR the official service from Moscow under date of Wednes- day. The message l.lyll: “The copgress of the internationale opened today. Its aim is communism, its weapon revolution and its strong- | minister of labor, has submitted his hold proletarian Russia.” Mystery surrounds the actual: hap- | penings in the preliminary confer- ences and what gn.ppened in the five days between thé opening ceremenies the . internationale congress 'and + atade _of Friday, last and. yesterday,; L ralization to Member of the Assoclated Press The Associated Press is exciusively emtitled to the use for republication of all Bews @ispatches eredited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published ereim, Yesterday's All rights of publication of special sdispatches herein are also reserved. Net Circulation, 91,314 - TWO CENTS. m . el - |-~ SPEAKING OF SINKING “§ [BS.” JUSTIGE SUFFERS INCLOGGED COURT More Than Half on Bail Here |. Are Never Tried Because of Few Judges. More than half the persons indicted ip the District of Columbia who are able to give bail are never tried and escgpe punishment entirely because of the inadequate facilities for the trial of criminal cases in the District Supreme Court, due to the shortage in the number of justices. An exam- ination of the records of the local criminal courts and of the office of the‘ United Stites attorney disclosed this condition today. United States Attorney Laskey re- ported that about 1,500 cases are still pending for trial in his office, in about 100 ‘of Which he accused are in jail, leaving 1,400 at liberty on bond. Un- 1ess Congress comes to the aid of the court with additional justices, it is pointed out, dbous 700 of these ac- cused persons will’go unpunished. Mr. Laskey's office, through trials, pleas of guilty and molle prosscs, disposed of 1,500 cases during the past fiscal as compared with 1,182 cases vear, l’lSflshed in the fiscal year 1920. The grand jury reported 1,380 indictments during the year, 50 that little inroad was made in the accumulated busi- ness of the office, which has. been away behind for many years. The Tecords since 1300 show that less than 50 per chnt of the bail cases have ever been tried. Aftects Other Branches. This congestion is about equally marked in_the equity and circuit branches of the court, where delay amounting almost to denial of justice is made necessary by lack of justices. it is assepted. Morgan H. Beach, clerk of the court, pointed out the fact that there has been no increase in the number of justices of the court since 1879, when Washington had a population of only 177,624, while the Jatest census places -the figures at 437.5671. The population has nearly trebled and litigdtion has necessar- ily been on the increase in propor- tion. The increasing number of na- tional cases, raising novel propositions of law, in conuection with the vari- ous departments of the government and government agencies like the In- terstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the alien property custodian, he shows, i has retarded the work of the courts. 'When the court convened last Octo- ber It faced a calendar of law cases totaling 1,345, which by trials and sottlements out of court has been re- Quced 540, leaving a balance of 805 cases’ unheard. Since” that “calendar was prepared nearly 1,000 law cases ave been filed which will be ready for trial in- October. -making more than 1.800 the fall term. i Equity Courts Crowded. - Even a greater .increase of business ahd added congestion is shown in the equity courts. This calendar, June 30 last, showed only ninety-six cases unheard, but during the past year a total of 469 cases have been made ready for hearing. while only 192 have been eliminated by decrees and dlis- missals. This leaves 373 cases await- ing trail, to which will be added dur- ing July, enough to v Beach calls attention also to the number of motions, bothiin law end equity, which the justices have o hear and consider. During the past facal year 1,737 motions were heard in law cases and 960 in equity. The Juages also presided at 454 lunacy rings, hearlri orders. The also heard con- Gemnation cases to the number of eighty-three, in which 379 orde likely on the mew list for August and September bring the total up to 500! which required the signing were signed and ninety-nine petitions in AWILL NOT REOPEN CAZE. D. C. Court of Appeals Rules on Hospital Wage Motion. The District Court of Appeals today denied a motion for a rehearing of the case of the Children's Hospital against the minimum wage board, but stayed its mandate to afford an opportunity to couasel for the hos- pital to appeal to the United States Supreme Court. The court in a two- to-one opinion, June 6, upheld the constitutionality of the act fixing a minimum wage for women and minors. Should the appellants wish to enjoin the board from proceeding with the enforcement of the law pending action by the United States Supreme Court, a bond will be gequired by the Court’ of Appeals in &n amount suf- i ficient to protect the employes of the i hospital whose interests are affected ! by the law. NN ONOUT NEARNG 91BMARK 172,000,000 Gallons Water | Consumed Here Yesterday. Police- to Regulate Use. l Alarmed by the enormous volume of water consumed in the District this llhe water department, today sought the co-operation of the police to pre- vent waste of water during the re- mainder of the summer. Yesterday's consumption, Mr. Gar- land stated, was close to 00,000 gallons, the highest figure since Au- gust, 1918, when the city's war popu- lation was at its peak. In that month a daily consumption of 75,000,000 gal- lons was reached. On Tuesday of this week approxi- mately 71,000,000 gallons were con- Sumed. The safe daily capacity of the con- duit hos been variously estimated at from 65.000,000 to 68,000,000 gallons, Mr. Garland pointed out. this extremely hot weather, when the consumbtion mounts to 72,000,000 gal- lons, the city is drawing heavily upon the reserve in the reservoirs. Following a conference with Mr. Garland this morning Maj. Gessford, [superintendent of police,” announced hat, beginning July 1. members of the police force will enforce strictly the regulation governing the use of water for sprinkling purposes. The rfegulation reads as follows: *The use of Potomac water for washing streets and sidewalks. except by the street cleaning department, is hereby prohibited during the months of July, August and September. “Water may be used on lawns be- tween the hours of 5 and § p.m. and for each and every such offense.” Winer to Let Grass Burn. Although the 1law allows the ing of lawns bétween the hours desig- nated, Maj. Gessford expressed the belief that it ‘Would be wiser for the families of “Washington to let the grass in front of théir homes burn'in the sun than. to run the risk of a water shortage, which might result I:mm fhe extravagant use of water on the lawns. . 2 The fact that Congress has taken | the Initial step toward increasing the supply does not relieve the people |from " thie Tesponsibility of - saving water in every way possible until the additlonal conduit is built, officials ot the water department deciared today. In July of last year a maximum daily consumption of 70,000,000 gai- lons was reached, showing that.yes- terday the city exceeded the highest daily consumption for last year.- District officials fear that some resi- dentsreceive too lightly the frequent orpus requiring 126-orders,|appeals of the water’department to ::b;-erl nms‘lo orders Ii bankruptcy | preserve the supply. in every way proceedings. (Appllcltlnnl for natu- | possible. 4 he number of 1,760 were also entertalned and acted ‘upon by the court during the past fiscal year. A considerabl of one of the jubtices is occupied with the consideration and signing of o:- ders in the Probate Court. Durlag the past year the orders in this branca of the court totaled 6,596 * Tllness and absence of judges of the Court of Appeals took one of the justices from the court for a period of practically four months dyring the past year. ITALIAN MINISTER OUT. Arturo Labriola Resigns the Labor x Portfolio. e portion of the tima( DROPS SIX TO SAFETY. West Virginian Saves All Except Two of Family From Flames. Special Dispatch to The Star. 2 CHARLESTON, W. Va, June 23— Herolc measures by W. C. Smith of Crescent road. saved his wife and five of his children when their house burned to the ground, but despite the father's efforts, two of the children, Ruby, aged five, and Lloyd, aged three, Were burned to death. Cut off from the stairway by flames, Smith dropped five of the children and his wife from a second story window in the rear of the house.- y were saved from serious injury, .as their| » l | week, J. S. Garland, superintendent 0(’{ Hence, in | | ater-| SHP BOARD HEAD APPOINTS COUNSEL Elmer Schlessinger, Chicago Attorney, Gets Important Post With Body. Chairman Lasker of the Shipping Board announced today that Elmer Schlessinger, member of a Chicago law firm, had been appointed general coun- sel for the Shipping Board. Edward M. Hyzer, the present coun- sel of the board. will be retained as an assistant to Mr. Schlessinger, it was announced® The organizing of the legal depart- ment of the board, which Chairman Lasker declared in & e fon, will be turned entirely over to Mr. Schlessinger, who already has mede a preliminary study of the sicustion. PR Leoking for Diector., ifman Lasker sald ne now is tflmlxnhu‘luenfl‘n to the problem of fin nsl man for director of opera- tions a will go to New York to- night to get the views of representa. tives of shipping interests there. plans for allotment of ships or adop- tion of a policy with regard to opera- tions will be made until the director is selected, he said. While he is in New York Mr. Lasker will fook into the matter of adopting a system of uccounting that will enable the board to keep a record of ship sailings, which now takes twenty months to check up, Mr. Lasker said, and added that he will also study plans that will make possible an accurate in- ventory of the real worth of the Ship- ping Board's property, which, he said, President Harding had asked for spe- cifically. . | Wil Ask Legal Al In announcing his plans for or- ganizing the legal department Mr. Schlessinger said that he will call upon leading law firms of New York, Philadelphia and Boston to lend him men to help straighten out the sum of $300,000,000 worth of claims against the board. There is no complete record of the claims against the board, Mr. Schiessinger’ said- New claims are coming in daily and it is impossible for the present force to cope with the situation, There are 500 law suits against the | board in district courts of the United | States in various parts of the country, amounting to $50.000,000, being handled by assistant district attorneys ;v7h_ow draw salaries not exceeding ILABOR HITS COMMUNISTS. British Party Rejects Radical Pro- posal at Conference. 5 and 8 a.m.. An%; Eorsona vlollnu‘n‘ -B ?:KGH?ON. England, June 22.—The this regulation shail, on conviction |Bridish labor party, at its confe: thereof, be fined not less than $10 here today, rejected a proposal l;e!::f duced b)i l{ue l'l'dicfll wing to allow the communist party to affiliate w. labor party. Tiithe —_————— Today’s * News in Paragraphs Chicago attorney appointed chief coun- sel for Shipping Board. fl{’a‘e 1 More than half those indicted here able to give bond escape trial in clogged court. Page 1 ‘Water consumption nears 1918 with 72,000,000 gallons used y'e'x‘:::‘: e £ 1 Si 1] s Atimiral Sims tells Secretary Denby he i . was_misquoted in London lpeecl;‘.’ - % Page 1 Senator Norris: will introduce separats bill for Great Walls water wwe: project. X Page Diplomas awarded to ninety-th graduates of Western High Sehool - Page 2 Dinachdicntier® o0 cheges tor Mo IR T S SRR RS President gets petition, signed by @ & to call w’ e ference. nt con- 7 Four hundred given diplonias at Central \;High Sehool! Page 10 Better D. C. water supply now befor President as. Benate takos Aoml setios on Army appropriation bill. 7 a¢ it was ken by the waiting ms & ROME, June 22.—Arturo Labriola, ne:n? P :3 h&':‘bf' R ‘begl‘ '2: w- -!u to be asked to pflu:‘ resignagion to Premier Giolitti, and |first discove! laze and alarmed | Conferees agree on Navy appropria T Momale d'Tialla states 1i has|the occupants of the house. Bill contalning, T14,000,000 T Page 2 been accepted. .The, Epoca declares | *Smith was forced to leave two of the King:and' qireen ok 00 1 the premier will not appoini a new |children when he himself jumped U8 o a dmlufl_ ised for courage ln B oiivy-for vhss Mepartment upon T e o the "Aames: had been exs | Mri. rpriinhs L e 'fi *tor’ that departmént upon | found: : X : - i y epi hguished. _ 2 - ST quests“to charityi - - -+ - ~Page-ld r Aliesso, minister of industry.” Greeks to Let Allies Attempt to Settle Turkish Question By the Associated Press. ATHENS, Greece, June 22.—Indi- cations tonight pointed to accept- ance by’ Greece, in principle, at least, of the offer of Great Britain, France and Italy to mediate be- tween the Greeks and the Turkish nationalists in ar effort to forestall warfare in Asia Minor."" The offer of the allied powers ‘was the outcome of the conference of Saturday and Sunday last be- tween Premier Briand of France and Lord Curzon, the British for- elgn secretary, which resulted in the dispatch of a note to King Constantfe asking an immediate reply as to whether Greece was willing to permit the allies to settle the Turkish question. = PROFITEER PIRATE FLAYED IN SENATE AS SOLDIER LEECH Veterans More Worthy of Money Than Gougers, Mc- Cumber Declares. War-time “profiteering pirates” were flayed in the Senate today by Senator McCumber, republican, North Dakota, in an address advocating his bill for giving adjusted compensa- tion to former service men. The measure, reported favorably by the finance committee, would be an act not only of gratitude but of justice, he said. “Great as it seems to be when crystallized into dollars and cents,” said Senator , McCumber, “we are compelled to admit that it is much less than is actually due the soldier selected for military duty as com- pared with that which was received by his countrymen, who performed civil .duties only.” Explains Five-Fold Plan. Senator McCumber explained .the five-fold plan ‘of the bill, as indorsed by the American Legion, for a cash payment of $1 a day for domestic and $1.25 for foreign service, for twenty-year deferred payment and insurance certificates, for farm or home aid, for vocational g‘rdl\'fle!es and for land-settlement He estimated that 80 per cent of Yormer service men would exercise their option of the five plans by tak- img the twenty-year certificates, which, he said, would really give service men 40 per cent more than the cash options. If the other 20 per cent should take cash, Senator McCumber said, the bill would not entail an annual burden upon the government of more than two hun- dred million dollars until 1943. “Even though our action calls for an outlay we would gladly escape,” 8aid Senator McCumber, “and will en- force greater economy along other lines. let us not delay the fulfiliment of this, to my mind, sacred financial obligation, and then let a future Congress see to it that in any future war there shall be no distinction be- tween the patriotic duty of the sol- dier and that of the civilian, and that industrial slacking and profiteer- ing will be visited with as heavy a penalty as draft evasion or deser- tion.” Patriotic Duty Uppermost. “In time of war.” said Senator Mc- Cumber, “the mobilization of our in- dustries is not one whit less impor- tant than the mobilization of our armies. The duty to bring our fight- ing force up to the highest degree of perfection is mot one whit more im- rtant than the duty to bring our mobilized industries up to a like de- gree of perfection. It therefore fol- lows that in time of war the duty of every man employed to make shells, to make as good ones as he knows how to make and to make as many as he possibly can make in a day, is. before God and country, just as sacred and obligatory as the duty of the sol- dier to fire those shells and to fire them as accurately as he can. And theumani who makes those shells has no more right to say to his country in the throes of a desperate war, ‘I_will not make these shells unless you give me $10 a day,’ than the soldier would have to say, ‘I shall not fire those shells unless you pay me the equiva- lent of $10 per day.’ And the con- tractor who, taking advantage of the criminally foolish ‘cost-plus’ plan, and seeking to enrich himself by encouraging slacking an idleness and théreby delay- ing and enormously adding to the cont| of government war supplies, is jusk, as | much a criminal at heart as the general who surrenders his army to the ene- my for a financial compensatien. Charges Ineficiency. * “Carpenters received their $10 a day for week days and $20 a day for Sundays and holidays, so they all worked Sundays.and most of them laid off on Mondays to make the snap last longer. “Testimony shows that work in our shipyards was far below 50 per cent efficient, though the wages were in- | reased 300 per cent and more. ‘The blood of the patriotic soldier must have boiled with indignation to feel that while his government estimated his services ., ‘with all the risks and all the hips, it supinely submitted to it invited by its form of con- tract—tbe immense increase in the wages of civilians which we knew and the soldier knew must be mea: ured by a government bonded indebt- edness which he upon his return from conflict must help to satisfy. “The administration started out with the determination to satisfy the demands of both organized capital 2|and organized labor, whatever their demands might be, and leave the public to foot the bill, which it has done and will continue to do in ex- orbitant taxes and extortionate prices for many, many years to come. . *“This administrative policy might more aptly be described as playing both ends against the middle, the two ends being capital and labor and the middlé being the paying public. Profiteering Encouraged. . “Our war administration not\ only allowed but absolutely encouraged the most gcandalous profiteering on the part of both capital and labor. 3| It permitted excessivé profits on the part of capital and then levied heavy taxes against the profiteer, dividing the spoils on a sort of 50-50 basis. But, Mr. President, the public in the end paid both 50's, as all big taxes and all big profits must be paid by the ultimate consumers. After pay- ing these heavy taxes, capital, in sup- plying the government war needs, hich included nearly every product, Lne out of the few months of war with a rotundity many times bigger than when we went in. We have fifty millionaires in the country now where we had one before the war, and the millionaires in existence before the war are now-many times multimil- lonaires.” - training | including his | board and clothing. at about $3 per | — (Continu CITY HEADS MAKE PLEATO SAVEPLAN TOEXTEND 14 . - Commissioners Urge Im- provement Proposal Before Secretary Weeks. ADVOCATES OF EXTENSION OUTNUMBER OPPOSITION Surgeon Gereral Ireland Suggests New Scheme—Many Speakers Favor Improvement. The unusual spectacle of the Dis- trict Commissioners relinquishing their officlal seats in the boardroom of the Municipal building and taking po- sitions at the counselors' table, to urge a District improvement, was fur- nished today at the hearing on the proposal to extend 14th street through Walter Reed Hospital reservation. Secretary of War Weeks and Gen. Lansing H. Beach, chief of engineers of the United States Army, members of the highway commission, occupied the seats of the District heads, while Commissioners Rudolph,® Oyster and Kutz took the role of pleaders. Advocates of the extension out- numbered many times those who'op- posed the plan to. carry lith street through the hospital grounds. The board room was packed with representatives of business and civic interests of the District and"Mayland, while members of Congress, presi- dents of street railway companies, and financial institu- ct government ofticials participated in the proceedings. Surgeon Gen. Ireland of the Army was the principal objector to the ex- tension plan. But three persons in the large assembly addressed the com- mission in support of the stand taken by Gen. Ireland. Others Favor Extension. Those who advanced arguments for the extension of the street concluded, in_addition to the District Commis- sioners, Representative Zihlman of Maryland, Charles C. Glover. former president of tha Riggs National Bank; William P. Richards, assessor for the District: Blair Lee. former member {of the Senate from Maryland and j others. J. Bond Smith. corporation counsel for the town of Takoma. Park. Md.. | introduced the Maryland representa. |tives who spoke in advocacy of the | extension plan. There were a score |or more persons waiting to present imilar views when the hearing was | terminated at 1 o'clock on account of an engagement which necessitated the Secretary of War leaving the room. {Mr. Smith told the commission he i stood ready to present a vast amount {of testimony if it should decide to-cati { another hearing. Other Plans Proposed. | Among the principal suggestions |advanced at the hearing were the | plan of Surg. Gen. Ireland to c | 14th street south of the hospital ré-. i servation and under 16th street into | the park, and the proposal of Asses- {sor Richards that part of the hospital ireservation lying between 14th and {16th streets, be abandoned. Mr. | Richards said the hospital could ac- { quire what additional ground it needs |8outh of the sreservation, leaving the way clear for extension of 14th street. | Mr. Glover told the commission that | practically alf of the land that would be required for extending 14th street { has been dedicated, and that it would i be unfortunate to deprive the city of { this needed improvement when it is | within the grasp of the people. When the hearing was opened by | Secretary Weeks, communications both | for and against the proposal to extend | 14th street were read by the recorder {of the commission. These included a | statement from the Takoma Park Citi- zens' Association that it favored the | proposal. Surgeon General Hearg. Surgeon General Ireland, the first | speaker,e presented the protest of the | medical” department of the Army {against the proposed extension of 14th | street through the hospital reserva- ition. The protest was based upon four major considerations. The first of these was that a quiet zone is ab- | solutely essential to the hospital. The | second argument advanced was that a car line through the reservation would subject the sick and disabled soldiers to additional dangers. Gen. Ireland’s third point against | the extension plan was that it would | interfere with the development of a | park in_the reservation for the beme- Ifit of the patients, while his fourth | contention “was that if a car line should go through the grounds it | would necessitate the building of a station the reservation which would be used by the public. Gen. Ireland said that Walter Reéd | Hospital is the largest general hos- {pital maintained by the Army and {that it will be in a position after |July 1 to accommodate a maximum of 170 patients. In preference to extending 14th street through the re: ervation, he urged the carrying of the highway south of the reserva- |tion into Rock Creek Park. He stated he had been assured by | transportation experts that the prob- ilem of establishing an additional transportation artery between Wash- | ington and the suburban sections north of the hospital could be solved without the necessity of going through the hospital grounds. Viewn Are Divided. The views of Gen. Ireland were in- {dorsed by Representative Rogers of | Massachusetts, who spoke next. Mr. Rogers said that he considered the | 14th street extension plan to involve | a redl menace to the welfare, safety land comfort of the men in Walter | Reed Hospital. He pictured streams | of automobiles using the road and & | constant clang of trolley cars as making for noise . and confusion i which would be detrimental to tbe patients. | “This is a proposal to establish a ! 2one of action,” said Representative | Rogers, who added that if 14th street !is extended on a depressed grade, it would be less objectionable as jeo- pardizing the safety of the patients, but still would be accompanied by noise and fumes from gasoline cars. Opponents at Hearing. Opponents of the extensiog project also had a representative at today's hearing in Charles A. McKenney, who said that he-owned property both in the District nad in Maryland which is lccated south and morth of the hospi- tal grounds. He advocated solution of the problem through proposed divert- ing of 14th street immediately south of the reservation to Rock Creek Park aid thence to the section morth of Walter Reed Hospital by way of venue. He thought the line 30 diverted, should pass under 16t street into Rock Creek Park. 2 D. N. Shoemaker of Takoma Park; sald there are many residents in_ that section who are opposed to the extens Sion of 14th street in socordance with the highw plans if any pra