Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1921, Page 1

WEATHER. | Fair and continued warm tonight and tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today:_ High 91, at 2 p.m. tod: lowest, 70, at 5:30 a.m. / today. © Full report on page 8. 1 Closing New Yo;k Stocks, Page 16. * No. 28211 as second-ctass matter post office Washington, D. C. FOCHT PROMISES PLAYGROUND FOR - EVERY D.C. CHLD Chairman of House District Committee to Introduce Bill in Congress at Once. ! PERMITS TAKING OVER OF ANY VACANT LOTS| _ | i Credits Col. Livingston With New Idea—Puts Plan Before Commissioners. “Plenty of playgrounds for the ‘chil- dren in every section of the city is the | purpose behind a bill which Chairman | Focht of the House Distrfct commit- tee says he will introduce either to-| to the District of Columbia, are likely lo‘ { follow as one of the means of reducing! day or tomorrow. { “We cannot tear down big hrick;: buildings so as to get playgrounds | suitable tax reduction, according to! nt them adjoin- | Chairman Fordney of the House ways| exactly where we w ing school properties,” said Mr. Focht, | “and to meet this situation my bill| will provide for taking over any va- cant lot in any part of the city that| the District authorities desire to use for a playground. i ' “No matter who is owner of the property. I propose that we take it over under act of Congre use of the children until such time as the owner of the property can prome to us a bona fide intention of for the | BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN. Dnflng Robbery Passenger + Coaches in France. CHAGNY, France, July 25.—Three cf rst class passenger Paris-Mar- i seille express train near here early today. The bandits shot dead one {man who refused to raise his hands |and wounded another. After securing a_quanity of booty the bandits puiled the signal cord land jumped off as the train was slowing down a mile outside of Chagny, making their\. escape be- fore the train crew became alarmed. ECONOMY T0 ER0P FEDERAL WORKERS Further Reductions in Gov- ernment Personnel Will - Be Made. Reductions in the number of govern ment employes, especially those assigne expenses with the view to bringing about and means committee, with the President today. According to Mr. Fordney, there were 85.000 persons on the government's pay sroll in Washington alone on March 2i, |1ast, compared "to less than 35,000 at | the outbreak of the war. This indicated [to him that there is much room for | slashing in the name of economy. Pre-War Level Impossible. | “Of course, T do not believe that the | number of federal employes in the Na. | tional Capital can be reduced to the pre- vel.” Mr. Fordney stated, “but we who conferred building upon that lot.” R Esenpative Focht said that he Gan make substantial reductions in the has written to the District authorities force without crippling the goveern- asking them to draft a bill along these lines so that it will adequately cover any properties they desire o : Eovernment is maintaining a use for playgrounds. St tai 5 “ He gives credit for the suggestion ne continued, Swhose mersiess to Col. Colin H. Livingston. s Information furnished representa- | g, Mo €4pily dispensed with just as tive Focht shows that Washinston is| growing out of governmental con- | lagging behind in providing Dlay- | trol. can be adjusted. There are also ground facilitics for its boys and girlS. | the millions upon millions of public In Boston, where the playground idea | mon quandered in the name of originatedin the United States, thereare three time: 2 y-operated play- grounds as hington, it is said, although its population is but slight- .1y more than half again as large. In other Massachusetts cities the play-|cially bright for a still lighter bur- ground idea w 1 out | den "to be borne by the American Many other cities of equal or larg- | people.” | er population than Washington show | Tax Law Passage. rapid growth in playdounds. it iS| Chairman Fordney intimated that stated. i the passage of the tax legislation Playgrounds in Other Cities, | through the House would not con- which has a pop- about equal to that of the there are twice as many operated playgrounds. In :lation District, municipally Minneapolis, Des Moines. with a population one- | fourth of this city, has eighteen playgrounds to compare wifh Wash- ington’s twenty-five. Harrisburg, Pa., whose population is one-sixth of that f this city, has the same number. cramento, Calif. with 75,000 i has just as many public nds as the National Capital. Mrs. e Root Rhodes, supervisor of playgrounds. said this afternoon that she had not been informed of the bill which_ I ' ntative Focht pro- poses to introduce in the interest of providing playgrounds for Washing- ton children. She expressed opinion that the quickest and most satisfac- tory Way » meet the playgrounds situation would be to authorize the immediate opening up of the sixty odd school playgrounds and the setting aside of shace in certain parts for recreational activities. Mrs. Rhodes conferred with Com- missioner Oyster today regarding the playgrounds situation, and is studying the problems with a view to making recommendations for comprehensive development in her estimates for the playgrounds department during the next fiscal year. Mrs. Rhodes has pointed out that seventy-two school playgrounds have Rabitants pla on them some type of play equipment. | Few of- the school playgrounds are large, and few are cquipped to a great extent. However, she is of the opinion they would make admirable play centers where children can go 10 play in their immediate neighbor- | hoods. One reason why all the public school playgrounds have not been thrown open to the children during the summer is due to the lack of funds with which to pay a corps of leaders. Money appropriation for the municipal playgrounds has been suf- ficient only to maintain them. Funds appropriated for the school play- ground maintenance have only been sufficient to keep a few of them open during the session of the summer or vacation schools, and then for only half a day. Representative Focht's letter to the Commissioners had not been received this afternoon. DEFEAT OF TURKS - MAY FORGE PEACE, Greeks Pursue Enemy Fol- lowing Decisive Victory at Eski-Shehr. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, July 25 (Greek Officlal gency).—The Greeks in Asia Minor ave been following up energetically the victory they gained over the Tyrkish nationalists in the fighting brought on by~ the attempt of the Kemalites to recapture the key-point of Eski-Shehr, on the Bagdad rall- way, according to official advices from the fighting front received here. The Greeks captured forty guns and took a great number of prisoners, the announcement states. Within a short time affer the close of the battle and the definite repulse of the Turkish ef- fort the Greeks had advanced more than twenty-five miles to the east of . Eski-Shehr, and were continuing their pursuit of the enemy toward the interior. The official statement issued by staff in Asia Minor on July 22, giving the result of the battle for Eski- Shehr, says: “The great battle for Eski-Shehr ended in a Greek victory, and the pur- suit of the fleeing enemy is con- tinuing more than forty-five kilo- meters eagg of that town. Secret or- ders found upon captured Turkish officers seemed to indicate that the enemy had concentrated his entire forces to recapture Eski-Shehr. “The remainder of the Turkish troops were forced to retreat toward ‘ Sivri-Hissar. Forty guns were cap- tured and numerous prisoners made. |1919 incomes here highest per figure #Z4Sontinued on Page 2, Column 8.) -\ 7 the | mental machinery or reducing effici- ency.” | the Shipping Board. which will be re- | duced. There will be less money {spent for the Navy and Army, and th the prospects of a world-wide the chances ate espe- v | disarmament, ! sume more than a month’s time. in- cluding the days devoted to hearings on_the proposed measure. [ This was encouraging news to the President. who has made it known that he is anxious to have tax re- vision without delay. Fordney that while he was not at- tempting to interfere with legislative matters, he was desirous of Secing things speeded up. He was assured by Mr. Fordney that hearings on this l legislation will be started tomorrow | and will continue for the balante of | the week. | _—— EXPECT PRESIDENT {Major May Be Named to Map | Water Conservation Plans. | Maj. M. C. Tyler, District engineer {officer, may be delegated by Presi- dent Harding to work out a plan for water saving by the various govern- | ment departments in the District. | Secretary to the President. George B. Christian, jr., has given consider- | able study to the water situation and recently summoned Maj. Gen. Lansing H. Beach, chief of engineers of the Army, to the White House for a con- ference on the subject. Gen. Beach, |it is_understood, has recommended that Maj. Tyler be given authority to handle the matter. Conservation in Foree. ‘Water conservation measures al- { ready have been instituted by several departments and, in the event of Ma, Tyler being selected to direct a gen- eral conservation program. his first ! duty will be to co-ordinate the efforts inow being made to prevent waste. | The State, War and Navy and Agri- | culture department are nbw saving | between them nearly a million and a halt gallons of water daily as a re- sult of having shut down their sepa- rate power plants. The bureau of | engraving and printing and the gov- | ernment printing office have insti- tuted investigation looking-toward a ossible saving of several million gal- on gallons more daily. Consumption Drops. District government officials say these preliminary efforts are reflected in the.July water consumption fig- In June. the highest single consumption was 73,76/ the lowest, 62,507,92 month the maximum _ consumption figure so far stands at 70,808,090 gal- lons: the minimum, 60.149,040. The estimated safe capacity of the conduit is $5,000,000 gallons daily. It is_believed if ‘economy measures can be made effective for keeping consumption below this figure,” the i present conduit will be able to meet | the demands made upon it until the inew conduit authorized by Congress | is built. Today’s News | in Paragraphs | Chairman Focht of House District com- |~ mittee proposes plan for playgrounds | for every child in city. Page 1 De Valera and his cabinet take up Brit- ish proposals. . Page 1 | President may name Maj. Tyler to draw I up water conservation plans. Page 1 | Committee to hear complaints of engrav- | ing bureau discharges.. Page 1 | Injunction halts seizure of ships by || government. Page 1 | President back at desk after delighttul | week end outing. Page 3 | Prevention rather than cure new goal in ! " training physicians, says Rockefeller Foundation head. Page 4 | Government redoubles vigilance to get f: o smugglers off coast. . Page 4 Woods-Forbes mission to Philippines nears end of trip. Page 4 Maj. L. A. Fischer, U. S. sclentist, dies. Page 7 Karl Krietsch killed and Pilot Stew- art hurt in airplane fall. - Page 12 show, asked men held up and robbed the | He told Mr.| O APPONT TYLER upll:.nj / 5 - WASHINGTON, APPORTIONMENT - OF OFFICES LAW ;Unsound in Principle, Vicious | i in Practice; Hurtful to Na- tion and Capital in War and i Peace; Helpful to Nobody. ! Eaitorlal Correspondence of The Star. THEODORE W. NOYES. I The apportionment of offices law, which distributes the classified serv- ice offices like bandit spoils among the ‘states in proportion to their population strength, has during the !war and reconstruction periods dem- onstrated doubly its viciousnes when the human-service was being enlarged and developed /to high efficiency in order that we might surely and quickly bring vie- tory in the world struggle: and now, when the vastly expanded war-ser jice force is Dbeing reduced to the peace basis, Law a Fallure in War-Time. Heavy additional war-time labors at the capital called for more and more civillan . Americans to do this esgen- |tial work. What was the labor source of supply to meet thik ed demand? First, 1 source, the Americans near-, est at hand, the Americans already locally housed and acquainted with| local conditions and facilities, which | |enabled them to live here more| heaply. So far as additional war| workers in the classified service were | concerned, in what condition ~did | Uncle Sam as an employer find him- {self? Under a strict construction and | rigid* enforcement of the apportion- | ment of offices law the use of the loc: | Source of classified labor supply prohibited, since the District’s quota of the office spoils has long ago been exhausted. Under these circumstances the gov- ernment invited a multitude of un- trained workers from all over the| - United Stotes to come to Washington | to do this work. They came in un- necessarily large numbers, so that| there were not sufficient dwelling or suitable rooms to house the multi- tude. ! Law Necessarily Suspended. But Uncle Sam. finding himself crippled by this unwise, hurtful, un- businessiike law in the campaign for| efficiency in war preparedness, in | effect suspended the law in the wi | industries during the war emergency. Now, when the time has come to ireduce the classified service force to | the peace basis, attention is called to the fact that the District and the nearby states have more than their quota of the official “spoils.” and de-; | mand is made that the law which !crippled the government in building {up its war force and had to be dis- | regarded to secure efficiency should ! now be applied by the government| with a like crippling effect in reduce | |ing the war force to the point o {minfmum numbers and maximum effi- | ciency. -#ut the law is ns vicious in principle and hurtful in practice I-! | peace time as in war. If the Disirict had not sent its sons | to war like the states, but had kept them safely at home to monopolize |the movernment's civilian employ- | ments, there would be basis for ln suggestion that the cutting-down | process should begin with it and. ! Should continue until only its quota | remained. i soldiers to camp and to Europe than seven states, and in percentage of 1 I the total force who were volunteers it surpassed forty-three of the states. The District has more than its | | “quota” of the classified service be-; | cause in meeting the government | need for Americans to do this neces- |sary work its men and women have! been more available and by experience ; more efficient. > ] in Both War and Peace. | Law Viclol | As in building up the war foree the 1aw had to be dixregarded in order {that the government might be | | efliciently served and the war won, xo0 | in whaping the permanent peace | [forces, if eficiency ix to be the aim, the law must be similarly disregarded. As in the war, the most efiicient and | | the most available, irrespective of the | | state from which they hailed. had to| i be appointed in order that the govern- | ment might ‘be best served, so in the | discharges of peace time, the least | efficient should be first dropped, irre- spective of the section or state which claims them. This law bredfch than should either is more honored in the in the observance. It be construed out of| in- | terest of efliciency, under a genuine | merit system, be open to the most meritorious American applicants, ir- respective of their residence in a particular state or territory or the | | District of Columbia. Hurtful Both to Capital and Natlon. | Uncle Sam, while wisely suspending | the law in war for his own (the national) benefit, has doubtless learn- ed from his war observation and ex- | perience -how wickedly discriminat- |ing, inequitable and injurious it is at all times to the unrepresented and helpless people ‘of the capital comi- munity. The consistent policy of Congress, as state and city legislature for the capital, has been to discourage local factories and industrial plants and. in effect, to prohibit all manufactur- ing industries except those of the government, like the government printing office, the bureau of en- graving and - printing and all the great government departments which | correspond to the industrial plants of other American cities, Having thus monopolized the most important |of the District'’s national-local in- dustries, the government, under the apportionment of offices law, in effect | prohibits the employment in these | industries of Washingtonians. Must Go Abroad to Get Work at Home It compels a showing .of residence | outside the District to get this em- ployment in the District. " It requires | the Washingtonian to exile himself | and secure residence gbroad in order to_get this kind of work at home. | In three ways 'this unjust law| blocks development of the capital | community from a camp. of transients | into a homogeneous American com- ‘munity, with civic loyalty and civic pride. First, it-deprives the youth of the city of local means of self-support. It punishes legal permanent residence here by this discriminating depriva- | tion. Violates the Merit System. Second, by violating the spirit and basic principle of the merit system ! as distinguished from the spoils system, it strikes at the main factor in the development of a_home-owning permanent population of the District. The spoils system treated the capital as a camp of transients where office spoils were enjoyed by the victors in pofitical war until they were them- selves defeated and driven out. The merit system took the offices from the category of spoils and, by sub- stituting stable tenure of office for the meritorious and efficient, made it possible for government workers to build or-buy and enjoy their own first | machinery } natiiral | of course, | FATHER SUPPORTS But the District sent more is exist I metiohe it should be repealed |, Noliy” There was no letter in the | National offices should, in the | package showing by ' what sort of| | entity. oening i D. C, | i | CAMPBELLS STORY Says Major Accused by Mrs. Bergdoll Got Money From Racehorse Man. ! William R. Campbell of Lexington, | Ky., father of Maj. Bruce R. Campbell, charged with accepting $5,000 from Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll to aid in obtaining freedom for Grover Bergdoll, told a House committee investigating Berg- doll’s escape today that. the major was telling the truth last week when he tes- tifled about a five-hundred-dollar invest- ment increasing To six thousand dollars. Maj. CampDell sald this accounted for a deposit to his account of $4,500 at about | Lexington, in 1915. Two years later, he added, Young gave him a package con- taining the I r amount. which was turned over to Maj. Campbell. Johnson's Mail Opened. Mr. Campbell was examined first by | his son. who had previously testified | {that the money was kept in his home during the war and placed last year with a Wall street house and lost in peculation. The father said he did! rot know what form of speculation i the $500 took in Mr. Young’s hands. He did not think the fund grew from race_track winnings. Before the hearing started Repre- sentative Johnson of Kentucky, a democratic member of the committee, presented but did not-read an anony- mous letter sent to him from Phila- delphia and which, he asserted, had been opened in transit. “It shows.” said Mr. Johnson, “that while somebody has been opening wail of the well known enemies of ! our country. they also are opeping mine when I am trying to get at the bottom of this case. Says He Specilated on Anything. “You mean to say that your son, with out being told for what purpose it | was to be used and without taking a receipt, gave Young $500 for specula- tion?” John H. Sherburne, committee counsel, asked. ‘ . “Yes,” the father replied. Did’ Young speculate on the ket?” “He speculated on anything. | “And you just took the $6,000 later ! without asking questions and gave it to_your son?" “1 did.” 2 Most _of the money was in $500 bills mar- trading the sum had grown, the wit- | ness declared. Telegram From Bank. While the committee was in ses- sion Maj. Campbell received a tele- gram from the Ford National Bnnkl at New York saying that in 1917 there was deposited with that bank $5.037 to the account of Laura Camp- DbeM, his wife. The telegram cor- roborated Maj. Campbell’s testimony last week to this effect. “YWhat sort of a deal was mine with Young?’ Maj. Campbell askegd his father. v “Friendship gambling,” Mr. Camp- bell replied, adding that in turning over the money the son told Young (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) e ‘homes at the capital, in the knowl-} edge that, broadly 'speaking, they would not be expelled from office except for some fault of their own. "The apportionment law is an illogi- cal and hurtful compromise between the merit system and the spoils sys- tem, carrying over ome of the most oftensive features of the spoils sys- tem into the merit system. If it was necessary to make this vicidus com- promise in order to establish the merit system in the beginning, it can hardly be necessary to retain it now when the merit system has been vindicated by its results and is firmly established in popwlar favor. Obstacle to D. C. Representation. Third, the law obstructs \national representation, that is, voting repre- sentation in Congress and the elec- toral college, for the people of th> District. By compelling claim of resi- dence in a state by those who are, in fact, permanent residents of the Dis- trict, in order to work here in thLe classified service it reduces apparently the voting strength of the capital constituency in 1ts appeal for national representation as a_distinct political It tends to foster the curse of alien mon-permanent - population upon the District. It aubstitutes the expensive, troublesome and precarious representation of a diminishing frac- tion of the community for the direct representation - of the whole com- munity. 3 Unless compelled by fear of losing employment under the operation of the apportionment law, few Washing- tonians now claiming residence in a state by compulsion would this fictitious dual residence, if the op- portunity were: given' them through constitutional amendment “o" vots di- rectly as District residents, for voting :nrm:lm:&fi‘-i.“.' Congress and the ector: fONDAY, JU ¢ OPPOSITION IN HOUSE TO CONTINUOUS SESSION Mondell Says Recess Would Be Mistake—Mann Fears Effect of Dog Days. Opposition to remaining in session con- tinuously until the revenue bill is ready for consideration devcloped today in the House among both republicans and democrats. Representative Mondeil, the republican leader, however, declared em- phatically it would be a mistake to take | an extended recess at this time. “If the House remains in session dur- ing the dog days, God help the countr: remarked Representative Mann, repub- lican, Ilinois, adding that now was the only safe time to take a recess. He advised against undue haste in the Star. LY 25, 1921—TWENTY PAGES. INJUNCTION HALTS ,Aftorneys Wilson and Colby Appear for U. S. Mail Company. Bythe Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 25.—A temporary injunction restraining the United States Shipping Board, the Emergency Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or mot otherwise credited In his All rights of publ dispatches nerein are alvo ieserved. on ot specinl ‘ paper and also the local news published hersin, Saturday’s Sunday’; MR. CHILD IN ROME. American Ambassador Arrives to Take Up Duties. ROME, July 25.—Richard Wash- burn Child, newly appointed Ameri- can ambassador to Italy, arrived here last evening, accompanied by his family and his secretary. . The party was met by Franklin M Gunther, counselor of the American Net Circulation, Net Circulation, 79,040 87,595 TWO CENTS. VALERA TAKES P BRITISH PROPOSAL the Grand Hotel, where they will re- | T TRy main while looking for a suitable | - - residence. |Countess Markievicz, Freed From Prison, Has Share AGENDR N PARLEY | Fom e s ON DISERMANENT IPORTANT PONT -~ 2t Secretary Hughes Eager to! Begin Draft of Program m{_f “a]' of Suggestions. BY DAVID LAWRENCE | republican Japan is ready to accept America’s| today. invitation to participate in the dis The cabinet, which began its ses- jarmament conference. 1In accepting | sions during the forenoon, met at the the invitation Japan does not bind! Mansion house. herself to discuss anything which she| Countess Markievicz, who wa¥ re- wishes to exclude from the scope of leased from Mount Joy prison Sung the conference, such as questions re- | day, sat with the cabinet and took lating to Shantung or Yap, or other part in the discussion over the pro- embassy, and went temporarily to | ;LLOYD GEORGE SILENT | ON SETTLEMENT TERMS in Premier to Make Statement ted Press. L July made The Irish peace Premier Lloyd by | Gieorge to Eamon de Valera in Lon- |don last week were taken up by the leader and his cabinet * SEITURE OF SHPS matters which Japan may consider to have been closed by the time the conference begins. America has not specified what sub- jects will be discussed except in a general way—disarmament and peace |in the far east. | These statements from officials of our ‘government who are in touch {With the negotiations describe the |status of the interchanges between Japan and the United States thus far, Asked Powers Informally. Our government originally asked all the powers informally if an invitation to a disarmamext conference would be acceptable. That is diplomacy's | way of avoiding a direct turndown. The informal inquiries resulted agreeable statements from all. the powers and formal Invitations were | promptly sent. Japan is just now {replying informally that an invita- | tion would be acceptdble. After that a formal invitation must be sent and iFleet Corporation and the United ! American lines from interfering with i la formal reply received. Japan nat- urally wanted to know what would be | discussed at the conference, and preparation and consideration of the |the operation of the ships seized Fri-{ America politely sald that was some- revenue bill, declaring that “the soone! we pass a tax bill the poorer it will be. Mr. Mann predicted the revenue bill would not be read a month or six weeks. Mr. Mondell said it would be in shape in two or three weeks.. i epresentative. er, . ‘Texas, ranking democrat” o e ways and the time of the alleged payment. 3 The was placed i) with e man at{means committee, criticised republican ; leaders for keeping the House in ses- sion considering “little chicken feed stuft to kill time. Mr. Mondell said the House probably wouid take two-day week end re- cesses until the tax bill is ready. WORKERS TO HAVE LOST-JOB HEARING Mr. Mellon’s Committee Will Consider Cases in Bureau of Engraving-Printing. Charges of discrimination and un- fairness in recent discharges at the bureau of engraving and printing are to be aired before a committee ap- pointed by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon Thursday morning at 10 o'clock.” Controller of the Currency Crissinger is chairman of the commit- tee. About fiftegn complaints have been filed with ecretary Mellon by as many employes out of approximately 500 affected by the recent cut in per- sonnel, which was principally among the woman employes. Generally, the charges are that the complainants should have been kept on by reason of seniority. They charge also favoritism in that other emplbyes with a fewer number of years” service were kept, while they were forced out. The committee, in addition to Chairman Crissinger, consists of William T. Abbott, assistant director of the budget; G. Platt, chiet clerk and_ superintendent of the Treasury; F. R. Jacobs, office of the commissioner of public debt: Charles Stevenson, assistant chief of the di- vision of customs, and James E. Harper, chief of the division of ap- pointments. The last named is sec- retary of the committee. It had_been planned to hold the hearing ®oday, but when the ,com- plainants appeared they brought counsel with them, and the latter asked an extension until Thursday, in order to prepare the cases for their clients. —— " FIRE DESTROYS SHIP. British Schooner, Acadian Queen, Burns Off Bahamas. TURKS ISLAND, Bahama, July 24—The Acadian Queen, a British schooner of 491 gross tons, was de- stroyed by fire Saturday night. The crew was saved. The vessel was partly laden with salt. The cause of the fire is not known. The Acadian Queen sailed from Bermuda on.July 4 for this island and other ports. day from Steamship Company was issued here for the House for | 10day by Judge William P. Burr of the |state supreme court. | The temporary injunction will be iin effect until, Thursday. It was sued on: application of Bainbridge! Colby, formerly Secretary of {who is now practicing law with [row Wilson. Mr. |court with Delancey Nicoll, is counsel for the company. { junction Lasker, Board, and the six other members, as well as United States Marshal Mc- Cathy and officials of the United American lines, to which temporary joperation of the seized ships was as- isigned by the board on Saturday. Its effect for a few days at least will be to restore operation of the ships to ithe United States Mail Company as they were before the seizure. t Ship Likely to Sail ‘Wood- who also ‘The { Steamship Company asserted that Justice Byrr's order would permit the stcamer America to sail from here tomorrow under their client's management. - Meanwhile, word came from Ho- boken that the United American | lines was making its first attempt to | take physical possession of the { America_and George Washington. Capt. 0. W. Koester, vice president | of the United States Mali, in charge of construction work aboard the two vessels, notified E. A. Quarles, as- sistant to the president of the com- pany, that two men had been or- dered off the piers by guards em- ployed by the United American lines. The fight of the United States Mail Steamship Company to regain posses- sion of the vessels will be “carried to the floor of Congress, to republican :leaders and to the”cabinet,” declared Mr. Quarles. He said it was a_fight for the preservation of the United iStates flag on the high seas, adding that the government would be ap- prised of “the awful mistake made by the Shipping Board by playing into the hands of the enemy. into the Lands of the people trying to take {the American flag off the seas.” | Mr. Quarles asserted his company jhad been notified that the American Seamen's_Association would hold a meeting Wednesday night to protest iagainst the seizure. Their motto, he terized the Shipping Board's action as high handed, arbitrary and without license of law. The board must show cause to Justice Burr Thursday why the injunction should not be per- manent. —_— PRESIDENT IN FOURSOME. Barnes and McLeod to Take Part in Golf Game Today. President Harding will late this aft- ernoon go to the Columbia Country Club, where he will play an eighteen. hole foursome of golf with Jim Barnes of New York, winner of the open golf tournament Here last week; Fred McLeod of this city, who was second | in the tournament, and Robert Small, a newspaper man. 1 It has not been decided how the sides will be divided, but it is be- lieved that the President will have Barnes as his partner. —— et SECRETARY DAVIS. USES WELSH TO PREVENT MESSAGE = LEAKS. When is a-confidential telegram not a confidential telegram? This question has been puzzling Sec- retary of Labor Davis. Learning that some of his telegrams on V: rious governmental matters were leaking out, the Labor Secretary recently adopted a new method of thwarting the ambitions of those who read his confidential wires. To do this he adopted two meth- ods; both of them new to govern- » ment usage.and apparently.better than the old code method. The first and. probably the most ‘efficacious was that of sending the 5 message over the lines of the two big _telegraph companies, splitting it up into sections so that no sec- tion was complete without the other. This was done in the case of a recent coal controversy in Kentucky: The second method was by sending the telegram in Weish, the native language of the Labor Secretary. As president of the na- tional Welsh organization in the United States, Secretary Davis saw that his wires in Welsh went through without interference. The Secretary said he was forced to devise some such means of pro- tecting his confidential telegrams, as he had found news leaking out when wires were sent in the regu- Jdar{wave Counsel for the United States Mail | the United States Mail! thing all the powers, including Japan, | i would decide when once the invita: | tions were accepted all around. |, So. when Japan accepts America's \h}\ tation the real discussion will be- {gin as to what shall be included or |'excluded. The which “agenda,” is is- | the diplomatic term for program, will | vefore the confer- have to be, H will be the aim of the ence begins. State, | United States fo make this agenda as | forenoon. but there was no indica i broad as possible, 8o that every ques- | ship to the futur® peace of the far ast may be discussed. It will be | Japan's interest to avoid discussion is directed against A. B.|9f her rights in China as granted her| chairman of the Shipping v the Versailles pact and previous ! treaties with China. H Will Be Arranged by Cable. | Dispatches from London and other | apitals predicting that Japan would raise the question of immigration and demand a declaration in favor of | racial equality, as she did at the Paris {conference, are regarded here as in- spired by newspapers rather than the Japanese government, for officials say [the Japanese government hasn't {raised any such issue. Inasmuch as the agenda will be ar- ranged by cable ahead of time and {within the realm of secrt inter- changes the prospects are that by the {timé the program®is announced the iracial discrimination question will {have been disposed of so it will not {be an obstacle to the confercnce. It !will be far easier for Japanese public {opinion to understand the complete {omission of the racial equality issue than to have the great powers dis- cuss such a moot point and be forced to the expression of varying opinions, Japantse pride would rather not have question. The Japanese consider themselves racially the equal of any other race, and to petition for a declaration on the “subject might seem to be ex- pressing a doubt whether such a righ* of equality is actually possessed Japan gains more in the long run |by assuming that she is the equal | racially of any other nation and in- sisting upon rights of equality than | by raising the.subject in a world con |ference. Itswould be the same if the | United States or any other power pcti- | tioned a world conference to declare {that America was a sovereign state. Immigration to Be Avolded. The changes are that notwithstand- ing some efforts that are being made to becloud the disarmament confer- ence with extraneous questions before isaid, was “American ships for Amer- |it begins. the Japanese will confine l‘cu!l seamen.’ 3 4lheir attention to matters of com- Mr. Colby and Mr. Nicoll charac-1mercial opportunity in the far east and avoid immigration subjects, which can best be dealt with by direct ag: ment between the individual powers vitally interested. ‘The American government holds ition and as such hardly debatable. {Its economic and not political as- ipects are uppermost. The last im- | migration bill has revealed the de- sire of the American government to protect its workers fron. cheap labor of all'races, and that right of eco- nomic protection will never be sub- mitted to an international conference by the Harding administration. Now that Japan is ready to enter | the conference, the next step is the ‘agenda.” What questions will be on it? The success of the entire dis- |armament conference depends upon he skill with which the problems re submitted for discussion, the ex- act phraseology, used and the prin- i ciples enunciatel. Secretary Hughes |is eager to get at that part of the business, and s soon as Japan's ac- eptance is here within the next twerjty-four hours he will begin to drafl a program of suggestions. (Copyright, 1921.) i —_— KWANGS! EFFORTS FAIL. Canton Troops Force Collapse of Lu Yung Ting Campaign. CANTON, China, July 24—T%e war on - the province of Kwangtung which has been waged for several months by Kwangsi militarists un- der_the direction of Inspector Gen- eral Lu Yung Ting, the Kwangsi war lord, has virtuaily ended. Troops of the Canton government are on the point of occupying Nan- king, capital of the province of Kwangsi, and Gen. Lu Yung Ting is reported to have declared his in- tention of resigning the jnspector generalship under which he has been exercising authority on behalf of the Peking government. This is taken to mean the entire collaspe of the Kwangesi: military organization. 5 in | to| the powers publicity discuss such a | that immigration is a domestic ques- | | posed peace terms. The countess, [ Who was sentenced last December {to two years' imprisonment at hard {labor on the charge of having con- i spired to organize a seditious society, |is an elected member of the southern { Irish_parliament and minister of la- {bor in the republican cabinet | Publixhed Terms “Inaccur: l LONDON., July -The statement :\A’ilh arnl to the Irish pea negotiations which it was hoped Mr. 1 Lloyd George, the prime minister, | would make in the house of commons !today was not forthcoming, the premier =aying in re v to questions position to that he hoped to be i make a statement shortiy “I shall make an_announcement as soon as it is possible to make it without endangering the successful | issue of the negotiation said Mr. Lloyd George, “but 1 warn the mem- | bers they must not accept accounts [in the public press as to the terms, because all those 1 have seen are | inaccurate.” Awnaits Sinn Fein Action. The premier's inability to make a | Statement today as to the terms was {due to the fact that Eamonn de ~Valera and his colleagues were still | considering them, and have mot |indicated the Sinn Fein's attitude toward the proposals. Reports from Dublin today stated | that the Yepublican leader and his cabinct were in consultation this jtion as to their progress in the con- olby appeared in|tion which has a practical relation-: sideration of the peace offer. | i READY TO FREE PRISONERS. |Britain Will Make Possible Full | Attendance of Dail Eireann. LONDON, July 25.—If Mr. De Valera decides to summon the Dail Iireann a | full attendance will be possible, as the British government - wiil release the members of that body who are still in prison, in accordance with the request of the republican leader, already says the Daily Mail. It is unde 1that those detained number bet thirty and forty, while about ninety at liberty. |~ The qu | Ireland h | to the M 'as not feasible for the present. It is | proposed, however. the paper adds, soon in s been mooted, but, according ail, the government regards this ion of general amnesty {to remove the strictions on t Ireland in order to cy American visitors to go there as before ! the war. Ireland is officially stated to be more | peaceful and frecr of crime than for | many years. ! ULSTER IS OPTIMISTIC. | Believes Lloyd George Guarantees | Were Given to Premier Craig. | By the Associated Press. | BELFAST, Ireland, July 24—The be- |licf appears general in Belfast that | Eamon de Valera, the Irish republican leader, will not accept the terms of the British government for a settle- ment of the Irish question, which fall far short of the republican ideal. It may be,assumed that -the out- standing feature of the governmental |offer is fiscal control, which implies | dominionism for Ireland outside the | six northern counties, and, unless spe- i cial provision is made to the contrary, (it is believed likely to prove the { strongest lever for forcing Ulster to {join with the southern parliament. | The prospects, so far as actions may be judged. are not disconcerting to the northern cabinet. Sir James Craig, | the Ulster premier, has left for Scot- {land with his wife and daughter to | join his sons, who now are on holiday | there, and John Miller Andrews, Ul- ster minister of labor. who is also president of the Ulster Unionist Labor Associaiton, did not attend the month- {1y meeting’ of that body last night. Althoug not officially stated. it is | generally believed here that the Ul- ster government has received the | most positive guarantees from the | British prime minister, Mr. Liloyd | George. —_— | CONFIDENCE PLEASES.’" Vot of Italian Deputies Passes All Expectations. ROME,*July 24.—The victory of the government in the chamber of depu- ties Saturday, when it received a vete of confidence by a majoritx of 166g0n its declaration of policy, pass- ed 111 expectations. The vote gives the administration, according to parliamentary circles; the power to continue its announced policy of suppressing the fratricidal ! struggle betwean the extreme nation- {alists and communists, now rampant in certain parts of the country. TAKE OFF PASSENGERS. Fire Scare on Steamer Maryland Causes Quick Action. NORFOLK, Va. July 25.—Passen- gers aboard the N. Y., P. and N, steamer Maryland, which plies bet- ween Lape Charls Old Point and Norfolk, were put ashore at Old Point yesterday when smoke rose in large volumes from the hold. It was some time before it was discovered that a piece of waste was smoldering and that the dense smoke was caused | from the oil and water in the bilges. The passengers were taken aboard again and the steafmer continued hes ;