Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1921, Page 13

U_ 3. UNPREPARED , FORWORLD COURT Failure to Reply to League Invitation Due Only to Present Situation. MAY ACCEPT IN FUTURE Must Be Submitted to Senate to Be Ratified as It Is in Na- ture of Protocol. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The United States government is not intentionally ignoring communications from the league of nations, and has not failed to note the invitation to this gov- ernment- to become a member of the world court of international justice cre- ated by the league. This attitude was made known today at_the Department of State to offset published stories giving the impression that the United States was somehow offending the league of nations by re- fusing to deal with its letters and com- munications. In the first place, the permanent secretary of the league has been sending out printed circulars to the various governments of the world and it was but natural that one of the government bureaus filed the circulars Wwithout regarding them in the same light as formal communications. Cannot Deal With League. What the secretary of the league of nations hasn tly taken into con- sideration is that while all communica- tions are duly received and filed, Secre- tary Hughes is powerless to deal with the league because of the expressed de- sident of the United States that America stay out of the league and the evident concurrence of the Senate in that viewpoint. Ambassador Harvey went a step rurther in his speech in London by saving the *United States wouldn’t even deal directly or indirectly with any committee or creature of the league of nations, and that's why both the White House and Department of State would be embarrassed in deal- ing with the world court, for it would mean a repudiation of Ambassador Harvey’s expression of American for- eign policy. Thus far_the executive branch of \the United States government has not acted on the invitation to become a member of the world court. That in- vitation must be submitted to the Sen- ate to be ratified, as it is in the nature of a protocol. State Department of- ficials decline to say whether it will be_sent to the Senat Inasmuch as the Versailles treaty hasn’t been ratified, and no substitute policy has as ygt been made public, and since President Harding and Sen- ator Lodge have said _in their speeches the league was “dead.” it is difficult to accept any tation from the league to join any of the inter- national instrumentalities created by t Elihu_Root took part in framing the world court and has been asked to help name judges for the court, but the government here officially has no connection even with that feature of the thing, as it considers Mr. Root's relationship to the world court sim- ply & personal affair. May Accept Jurisdiction. After the court is once established, however, it will be possible for n. tions which are not members of the league of nations to pecome identified with the world court, accepting its Jjurisdiction for as much or as little as is considered desirable by the indi- vidual natxon‘. + 5 - While it .is Jtrue that the world court was crefi@® by the league of nations and that the method of pro- viding judges depends upon the coun- cil of the league, the court when once established will operate as an inde- pendent judicial body, having no re- Jationship whatsoever to interna- tional politics. 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Herbert Reverie, “Extase”. ...Ganne Valse Espagnola, “Santiago.” Corbin Grand Selection, “Songs of Scot- andr. .St il Lampe “The Star Spangled Banner.” 15,000 PRISONERS TAKEN BY GREEKS King Constantine Goes to Command in Attack: * on Turks. By the Associated Press. SMYRNA, July 21.—Reports recelved here of the battlo around Kutaia say that more than 15,000 Turkish prison- ers were' taken by the victorious Greck forces, as well as 168 guns and 2,000 camels. The Greek soldiers| charged wearing the picture of King Constantine on their caps. 1 The Greco-Armenian population of | Smyrna celcbrated the victory with groat enthusiasm. Wounded men to! the number of 530 have been trans- ported to Lascaris. King Constantine left for the front tonight. He was accompanied by Gen. Dousmanio and other staff of- ficers and will command the attack on Eski-§ LONDON, July 21.— With the im- portant railway junction point of Eshi-Shehr in their hands, the Greeks are conducting a rapid pursuit of the Turkish nationalists dislodged from that city and other points along the front in Asia Minor, it is announced | in a dispatch from the Greek foreign :Jmmu" at Athens, received here to- ay. Eski-Shehr, it is officially an- nounced, was occupied by the Greeks at 8 p.m. Tuesday, after a severe struggle. King Constantine, whose departure for the front was an- nounced from Smyrna yesterday. has taken up his headquarters at Ushak with the general staff. Upon entering Eski-Shehr Gen. | Polymenakos issued a proclamation i announcing that justice, liberty and | equality, without “distinction of race or religion, woull reign in all the regions occupied by the Greeks. MAY RETAIN HOSTESSES. Corps area commanders have been authorized to retain Army hostesses at posts, for whom no War Depart- | ment funds are available, provided their salaries and expenses can be met by contributions from local sources. i | Germany and the Versailles treaty provisions the executive branch of the government may submit to the Senate a protocol covering member- ship in a world court. But there, too, it cannot be said that any decision has been reached, for one element in the republican party, including Pres-)ciarted next Thursday and continue ident Harding and Senator Lodge, and the irreconcilables, has announced that the league was dead. while an- other group considers the league alive. In the midst of that doubt on this side of the Atlantic the secretary of the league=of nations will have to be patient and not be offended if he doesn't get acceptances to the invita- tions being sent to our government to participate in various international conferences being conducted by the league. (Copyright, 1921.) PANESECAPTAL AND LABOR CLAGH Inflame Workers to Form 'Federation. ARSENAL MEN MAY STRIKE Sugar Plant Dismisses 1,000 and as Many Rubber Men Out. By the Associated Press. . TOKIO, July 19.—A tense situation appears to Be developing between labor, on the one hand, and the gov- ernment and capital on the other. The dispatch of troops to Kobe be- cause of the situation created by the dock yard strike there has inflamed the workers, many of whom at a secret meeéting in Toklo adopted a preliminary plan to organize Japanese labor into’a vast federation, similar to the American Federation of Labor, in deflance of Japanese law, which does not recognize labor unions. It also was decided to inaugurate a strike of 200,000 workers in Tokio unless shorter hours and more wages are granted. Arsenal Men Take Part. The employes in the government arsenals are taking a leading part in the agitation, being incensed by the refusal of the minister of war o re- ceive a delegation of the men bearing | resolutions containing the demands of the employes and asserting the readi- ness of the men to sacrifice every- thing, if necessary to obtain assurance of future relief. The arsenal workers are endeavoring | to start a general strike involving ten arsenals. Kobe Sugar Plants Close. One thousand employes of the For- mosa Sugar Company in Kobe have been dismissed and the plants of the company closed, says a dispatch from that city today. and 1,000 workers in the Dunlop rubber factory have gone on strike. The leaders of the opposition parties are protesting against the dispatch of troops to Kobe. ECONOMY HOPES FADE. Senator Penrose Sees Little Chance | . of Cutting Expenditures. Hope of reducing governmental ex- | penditures and taxes is growing less | among the republican leaders in Con- | gress, according- to Senator Penrose | of Pennsylvania, chairman of the | finance committee. He asserted that the “scandalous” financial situation revealed regarding the Shipping Board an dother government com- mitments, including the Sweet bill | passed yesterday by the Senate, could not but result in less hope for econ- omy. “When Congress met there were hopes of economy and of reducing government expenditures,” said Sen- ator Penrose, “but I do not look now for any radical changes in the tax system.” Coincident with Senator Penrose's statement, Chairman Fordney of the House ways and means committee an- nounced that open hearings on the proposed revision of taxes would be four days. Mr. Fordney added that he expected to be able to report a tax bill within two weeks after the close of the heprings and press for its immediate passage by the House. Chairman_ Penrose sajd he thought it possible in tax revision to remove some of the bothersome excise taxes and also the levy on tramsportation. _— According to Scottish custom, the gift of a bunch of heather to a High- land lassie is equal to an offer of marriage. STAR, WASHINGTON COMMUNITY PROGRAM. Sing and Band Concert to Be Held July 29. A community sing ang band concert will be held in the stadium of Cen- tral High School Friday, July 29, at 8 p.m. under the auspices of the community center department of the public schools. It also s planned to have several vaudeville acts, for outdoor performances, to add to the entertainment. The Navy Yard Band, under the direction of Charles Benter, will give the concert and also will accompany the singing, which will be led by Robert Lawrence, organizing director of Washington music week. Mr. Law- rence will co mehere from New York especially for the occasion. A general admission of 10 cents will be charged. Part of the pro- ceeds will go toward defraying the deficit which still exists from the music week activities. WAR VETERAN BILL PASSED BY SENATE Sweet Measure Will Consoli- date Agencies Dealing With ex-Soldiers. The Sweet bill, to consolidate all government agencies dealing with the veterans of the world war and extend- ing additional benefits to disabled for- mer service men, was passed by the Senate yesterday afternoon. The bill now goes to conference with the House, the principal Senate amend- ment being a centralization of admin- istering soldier relief in a veterans' bureau, independent of any govern- ment department. The war risk insur- ance bureau, work of the Board for Vecational Training, which would be abolished, and bureaus of the public health service which administer to war veterans, would be under the new bureau. Passed in Three Hours. The bill was reported only yester- day, given exclusive right of way and passcd in less than three hours, with little debate and without a roll call. In_reporting the soldier bill from the finance committee Senator Smoot, republican, Utah, presented estimates that it would cost $402,725,000 the first year and require a deficiency appro- priation of $97,655,000. Increase due to Senate amendments to the House bill were placed at $11,500,000. Of the bill's proposed expenditures, $145,000,000 would provide for com- ponsation of former service men and $87.085,000 for medical and hospital care and for war risk insurance pay- “an _appropriation in excess of $120,000,000." The report said the government had received $300.000,000 in premiums and incurred a total lia- bility of $1.300.000,000, payable over twenty years. War Risk Policles. Information regarding war risk insurance policies was transmitted by Secretary Mellon to the Senate, answering a resolution by Sena- tor Walsh, democrat, Massachusetts. When the armistice was declared, Sec- retary Mecllon reported, 4,439,664 war risk_insurance policies ‘were in force, 3,836,835 of which lapsed by May 21, 1921 Reinstated policies since May 21 were placed at 219,496. A preliminary report scoring past administration of relief work was submitted during the debate by Chair- man Sutherland of the special com- mittee investigating soldier relief. “The committee is convinced” it said, “that unexplainable delays, con- fusicn, red tape. complications and intricate. slow - moving machinery have combined to increase the diffi- culties of the incapacitated ex-service men. “Hospitalization arrangements have been utterly inadequate, somctimes insanitary and unwholesome, always laden with red tape and lumbering methodicity.” Duplication, the committee found, had caused “great waste of ‘public funds,” and continuance of separate bureaus longer “would be absofutely unjustifiable.” Formal Opening Friday Evening, July 22 1026 Connecticut Avenue Flowers Will Be Given to the Ladies Sedan $3150 - Phone Main 1636 ~ i 4 Passenger Sport $2350 Roadster - - - - - $2195 60 Horse-Power 6 Cylinder Herschell Spillman Motor Wg want you toridein this car. Call us for a demonstration. No obligation onyour part Thaden Motor Sales Co. s Washington, D. C. FGAT ON BULDING BRIDGE APPROACH Span at Brentwood Station Useless Because of Controversy. A curious traffic situation exists at Brentwood, just over the District lne. When the District recently paved Rhode Island avenue to the Maryland line near Mount Rainier, the Mary- land authorities extended the con- crete roadway to the Washington boulevard at Cottage City. The ex- tension crossed the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at grade at Brentwood station. Many serious accidents have oc- curred at that point and it has be- come known as one of the most dan- gerous crossings in this vicinity. Fol- lowing persistent public demand for & remedy, the rallroad company sgreed to build a bridge over its tracks a short distance to the west of { the station, so that the Rhode Island | avenue extension might be carried over the tracks on a straight line, from high embankments on each side, thus doing away with the present loop to and across the track level. Bridge Is Completed. The bridge—a reinforced steel con- crete structure—is completed, the rallroad officlals say, but is useless for vehicular traffic at present, be- cause of the lack of suitable ap- proaches. Although the bridge crosses the railroad right of way, there is a deep gap about two or three feet wide at each end, making the bridge inaccessible to vehicles. To put it into commission it wHl be necessary for “the proper authorities” to fill in the gaps at the bridge ends and build about a hundred feet of con- crete_roadway straight across from the ‘Rhode Island avenue extension. The railroad officials say that they have finished their work and that it is not for them to build, the short stretch of road to the bridge, their idea being that that should be done by the state or county authorities. ‘Wil Provide Direct Route. When put in service, the new cut- off will provide a direct route from the center and northern sections of this city, by way of Rhode Island avenue, to the Washington boule- vard to Baltimore, and relieve traffic congestion on the Bladensburg road and the South Dakota avenue route. It is predicted that interested peo- ple will see that the situation fis remedied in a short time. Mt is said that the approaches to the bridge can be completed in a day or two without much expense. DOGS BITE TWO GIRLS. Sarah Riley, three years old, 4807 41st street, while playing with a dog belonging to Willlam N. Rapp. a neighbor, yesterday morning, pinched the animal's tail. The dog bit her nose. T. F. Riley, father of the child, re- ported the-incident to the Tenleytown police. The child’s ‘wound was treat- ed and the dog was turned over to the bureau of animal industry, Depart- ment of Agriculture. Health de- partment officials are conducting an investigation with a view to deter- mining the dog’s condition. Helen M. Lewlis. nineteen years old. 34 O street, was bitten on her right hand by n dog vesterday afternoon. She was taken to Freedmen's Hospital and police of the second precinct are investigating the incident. COL. CROSBY-IS RETIRED. Col. William D. Crosby, Medical Corps, stationed at Jefferson barracks, Mo., has been placed on the retired list of the Army on account of age. He is a native of Massachusetts, but was appointed to the medical depart- ment of the Army in December, 1883, from New York. He has heid the rank of colonel since December, 1912, H i i | i | LEGION HEADS TO MEET. D. C. Executives to Act on “Clean- Up” Campaign. The executive committee of the Dis- trict of Columbia branch of the Ameri- can Legion is to hold a special meet- {ing tonight at the headquarters, 1423 New York avenue, when action will be taken on a letter from National Com- mander Emery referring to a “clean- up” campaign to be started by Col. Forbes, director of the bureau of war risk insurance. The purpose of the “clean up” is to have all pending claims before the government department disposed of as soon as possible. In this connection Commander Emery conferred with Col. Forbes yesterday. —_— LAWN PARTY IS HELD. FAIRMONT HEIGHTS, july 21— The Wilson street improvement com- mittee of Fairmont Heights held a lawn party Tuesday night on the estate of Silence to raise money for public benefit. The officers of the committee are: Henderson 1. Brooks, chairman; Eugene Silence, vice chair- man; H. Goodridge, secretary; Walter Earley, assistant secretary, and R. A. Tilghman, treasurer. A. D. Washington spoke on the subject of good roads. HERRICK’S SEARCH FOR PARIS HOME SHOWS NEED OF U. S. EMBASSY By the Associated Press, PARIS, July 21.—Myron T. Her- rick, the American ambassador, is Mkey to find himself homele after October 1, unless he has the good fortune in the meantime to find a house such as he needs. His son searched a long time before the ambassador arrived, but found only the small Villa rches, ten miles from the embassy, which is just large enough to hold Mr. Her- rick's family with no rcom for guests. Meanwhile Ambassador Herrick, who is forced to make ceremonial calls on his colleagues in the dip- lomatic corps, has been obiged to receive, when they returned the courtesy, in his office at the chan- cellery. When he unexpectedly was met by Premier Briand at the sta- tion on his arrival Mr. Herrick was much embarrassed on being asked by M. Briand, where he could take him. The ambassador could only be asked to be driven to the apart- ment of one of the attaches of the embassy. Mr. Herrick has a number of per- sons searching for quarters ade- quate for proper representation of the United States, but the lodging crisis makes it difficult, if net bra- possible, to find just wnat 13 quired. Thus far Mr. Herrick his called on the Italian and Jai ambassadors and the Beiglan nv ister, al'of whom received him in the magnificent homes belnging to their countries. Their return cails were paid in his workroom at the chancellery. DROWNS WHILE SWIMMING. Albert E. Smith, colored, sixteen yeurs old, Wilcox court, was drowned yesterday afternoon while swimming in the river near Boundary channel. Richard Goundie, 622 Massachusetts avenue, recovered the body before the arrival of the harbor police. Coroner Nevitt gave a certificate of accidental death. PLAY SITE ORDERED. 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