Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1921, Page 18

' INSTITUTE SHARES . MALL OWNERSHIP - Oldest Inhabitants Told I Smithsoniah Has Title F- to Nineteen Acres. | Who owns the Mall? I you asked the average Wash- ingtonian that question it is more than likely he would promptly re- . Dly, “The United States government.” . But that answer is only partly cor- rect, according to John Clagett Proc- tor of the Association of Oldest,In- habitants of the District of Columbia. Mr. Proctor surprised some of his fellow members of that organization at the meeting in Union engine house last night, when he told them that the Smithsonian Institution owns that part of the Mall lying etween Sth and 12th streets, consisting of about nineteen acres. Onee Inclosed With Fence. “No doubt the regents (of ‘the ithsonian Institution) ceuld, it hey so desired, inclose their nin teen acres with a six-foot, White- washed fence, as they really did in 1547, said Mr. Proctor. He added, however, that records show the fence did not iong remain. Mr. Proctor explained that the Smithsonian Institution acquired pos- Session of part of the Mall under the act of Congress of August 10, 1846, establishing the institution. That act authorized the regents to select a site for the building, said selection to be approved by the President and_the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, Navy and the commissioner of pat- ents. The speaker told his associates when and-how the grounds were con- verted from an unimproved commons 10 a beautiful park. Pays Tribute to Capt. Brooks. Dr. William_Tindall paid tribute to Capt. Newton M. Brooks, a member of the association, whose death was an- nounced at the last meeting. Among the instances showing the, sterling qualities of Capt. Brooks, he men- tioned that at the battle of Gettys- burg, Brooks was sent with his com- pany, to dislodge some sharpshooters from a barn. When he entered the barn with his first sergeant it was empty and he told his sergeant to climb up & ladder and see if any one was concealed above. The sergeant hesitdted, which suggested to Capt. Brooks that he ought to take the responsibility himself. He thereupon went up the ladder at the risk of beng snot by any ene who might be above acd found there a wounded Confederate soldier; whom he had re- moved to the hospital just in time to save his life, as the barn was shortly afterward set on fire and completel 95!!!’0)’9\.[ Dr. Tindall also inquired whether any of the members of the association remembered when the name of Ta. lor's Lane road was changed to Co- lumbia road. He said that before 1860 the road leading northeasterly from | the .junction of Florida avenue and Connecticut avenue was named Tay- lor's Lane road from Florida avenue | to 14th street Holmead road from | 14th to 7Tth street and Rock Creek | Church road thence to the Soldiers® Home. I Read Letter From J. B. McCarthy. ! A letter was read to the association from John B. McCarthy, corresponding secretary, who is traveling in the middle west. He related an interest- | ing account of a visit he paid to a meeting of the pioneer settlers of Towa. Joseph Keefer called attention to a story published in The Star several days ago urging Maryland to im- b < Voile Waists Lace trimmed; long Sizes up to 46. $2.00 Value $1.19 . Silk Petticoats Sk Jersey — light and dark colors. Very $3.00 Grade - $1.98 Laesie Sweaters All wool—with vestse and col- Flesh color; cut and full. “\ THE .EVENING STAR, 'WASHINGTON, D.'C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER § 191 . BUREAU HEAD WOULD PREVENT | 70-YEAR-OLD SCHOOL. BAND CONCERT. Franklin Square ‘tonight at 7:30 o'clock, by the United CUSTODIAN WILL FIGHT ORDERED RETIREMENT DIABOLICAL PRACTICE OF TURKS TO WIPE OUT CHRISTIANS FOUND Sv mu values. Make selection while tionally low priees now States Marine. "Band, Taylor Branson, second leader. March, “Washington,” 'Plerson d’Espagne’ -Mezzacapo ‘Waltz, “Beautiful Blue Danube,” Strauss Suite, “American”......Thurban (a) March, “The Tiger's Tajl.” (b) Serenade,, “When Malindy Sings.” (c)lSke(cl’l, “The Watermelon ete.” Fete. “The Star Spangled Banner™ BLAMES UNION MINERS FOR WEST VIRGINIA FIGHT Frank R. Weller Tells Rotarians Attacks Were Planned Months in Advance. Declaring that the recent attacks in the West Virginia coal regions were started by organized union miners, and had _been carefully planned for several months before- hand, Frank R. Weller, civil engineer, who has just returned from the dis- turbed area, addressed the members of the Rotary Club at its weekly meeting at the New Willard Hotel yesterday afternoon. i “Failure of the attempt to cap- ture Logan and the immediate sec- tion is due to the fact -that the miners, who deal directly\ with the| operators and are well pleased with conditions, lined up with the oper- ators, merchants and other business and professional men in resisting the invaders,” Mr. Waller said. “Afraid that the town of Logan would be burned and sacked, their women And children were sent away.” Frank Shipe, chairman of the pro- gfam committee, presided at yester- day’s meeting, and after several songs by the entire assembly. the Ro- tarians were entertained by Horace Golden, “the wonderman,” appearing this week at Keith's Theater. Included among the guests was James Roth of Lima, Reru, who de- lighted his fellow Rotarians by an- nouncing the formation of a Rotary Club at Lima. Mr. Roth said the organization was in a flourishing condition. During the afternoon, James Lewis, recently returned from ,Paris, ren- dered several vocal seléctions, and won much applause. PROBE BIG AUTO FIRM. Authorities Charge Misuse of Mails and Blue Sky Law Violation. CHICAGO, September 3.—Allaged mis- use of the United States mails and ¥io- lations of the state blue-sky laws by the n_ Motors_Corporation, a concern capitalized at $1,000,000, are being in- vestigated by federal and state authori- ties, it became known today. ‘The corporation’s product, advertised as_“America’s most elegant motor car,” was manufactured here, although it is .claimed only thirteen cars were ever turned out of the plant. New York of- fices of the concern have been closed, it was reported today. — prove the road from Clinton to Mar- shall Hall, to make that resort acces- sible by automobile. He urged his fel- low members to do everything possi- ble to obtain that improvement. Robert Johnson, 2318 I street, and James W. Lawrenson, 1115 Clifton street, were admitted fo membership. Vice President Henry L. Bryan pre- sided and J. Eliot Wright, recording secretary, read the minutes of the last meeting. The Skirt Prunella-stripe Cloth Skirts, in Black and White, Navy and Tan combinations; handsome Box-plait'models. A most ex- 736-738 Seventh St—Economy Corner Corner H St. Special Selling for Two Days We have settled right down to fall bdsi- ness now—and are ready with the first of the big specials we have planned—which will add much to the prestige Sigmund’s already enjoys with those who know. Silkand Cloth Dresses - bellished with embroidery and button and ribbon trimming. Tricotines ‘and Crepe de Chines—every one worth $14.15—$19.75 - - Summer Prices on P!_ushes and Furs A very small deposit will reserve any of these remarkable gouuannefitlryflnm-’ RATHER: THAN DETECT, CRIME W. J. Burns, Chief of Justice Department]| Investigators, Outlines Big Idea Behind His Reorganization Program. Prevention of crime, rather than de- tection of the criminal after he has committed the crime, is the big idea Behind the reorganization of the bu- reau of investigation of the Depart- ment of Justice, which has been started by Willlam J. Burns, who has just taken charge of this bureau. Protection of the people in their constitutional rights, so that they will not be arrested indiscriminately by people flashing police badges and without authority of law and kept in- communicado, is another hope of Mr. Burns. As one of the agencies he proposes to set up for the protection of the people generally, 5o as to assure crim- inals being brought promptly to jus- tice, Mr. Burns is having established here in Washington the most complete “roguep’ gallery” in the entire world. Ban on Gossip Gang. First of all, Mr. Burns intends to make the working force of his bureau in Washington function- efficiently, and to this end has warned his co- workers that their “gossip gang” is to be broken up. Any employe caught “gossiping and backbiting’ must seek another job, he warns. - Already he has discharged thirty- :five or forty employes in conformity with the administration’s plan for re- ducing the pay roll.’ Almost every man who has thus 10st his job has been exerting his utmost influence to retain it. This has given Mr. Burns an opportunity to express his admin- istrative policy. “I have never been in politics. I have no friends to re- ward or enemies to punish.” He said that if he allowed himself to be in- fluenced there could be no reduction in the bureau, no weeding out in the program of economy and efficiency. “T have always been a great be- liever in prevention” explained Mr. Burns, “Perhaps -that is why I have been rather unpopular with the gen- eral run of detectives,” he commented. | with a smile. “It is always much more important to prevent crimes than it is to catch the criminals. In pre- venting crimes you are preventing men and women from becoming crim- linals. - | “It is my intention to make this bureau of investigation not only the | greatest detective agency ‘m the world, but a very distinct agency in the far more important work of purg- ing the world from crime. If we make the prompt . detection of the criminal sure and gerain. so that he will always face the fact that arrest e quick 1 i and punishment ar d_sure, he will Hesitate a long time before; committing a crime. Internatignal Rogues® Gallery. “First, we are building up here a great international rogues' gallery, Where the photographs, finger prints ‘and Bertillon measurements of every criminal will be kept. This rogues { sallery will be open to all officers in charge of law enforcement—to catch a crook or to trace a missing person. “Next we will encourage the clos- est co-operation between thel federa bureau and all police officers through- out the country, from the chiefs of po- lice in the great cities to the sheriffs and constables in_communities, all over the country. They will all have a part in the great drive by the mobi- lized forces of law and order to pre- venq crime as well as to detect crime and bring the criminals to justice. “Thus, we feel ‘that it will be pos- sible to reduce to a minimum the chances of the escape of any criminal. This certainty of being caught up 00000000000 00¢ 000000000000 000000000000000000000000 te- . Novelty $4.98 3000000000000 00000000000 ' | with will automatically set the crim- inals to looking for other work, be- cause they will no longer be able to ‘get away with it.” “Another feature that must be stressed,” sald Mr. Burns, that we are organizing this bureau in such a way as to give the greatest possible protection to all the people. We will stop all this indiscriminate arrest of people without authority of law,” he insisted. ‘‘There’ll be ¥o more of this rashing of badges, keeping people in- communicado, denying them the right to know why they are held and from consulting with friends. No person will be divested of his or her consti- tutional rights, while at the same time vigor in going after the criminal will not be lessened.” FRUIT VENDERS FINED FOR STREET LOITERING Judge Calls Them Unfair to Mer- « chants—Pushcart Men Deny Charge. Nine fruit venders were brought into Police Court yesterday, charged with violations of ‘the police regula- tions, and_were fined from $6 to $20 by Judge McMahon, Last week Judge Hardison imposed fines of $2 and $3 on fruit venders brought before him. Judge McMahon declared that the fruit venders were constantly violat- ing the law by loitering upon the Streets when not making sales, which was unfair to the merchants who had shops on the street and paid taxes for their ownership. The men fined were: John Car- ranza, Steve Bogarodes, Lewis Costo- cous, " Nick Glazos, Crist Monjuris, George Cokus, Mike Mantes! Peter Manss and John Stuettelas. H. T. Waalen represented the defendants. Salvatore Scalco, president and gen- eral manager of the National Fruit Company, 921 Louigiana avenue, to- day made the following statement re- garding the campaign against the pushcart venders: \ “Yesterday in Police Court Judge McMahon made statements that the police have been very lenient toward fruit venders. Judge McMahon ap- parently is not familiar with what the police have done. The police officers have been enforcing the regulation to the fullest extent. If some of the city officials would have to push carts for a living they would realize their mis- take. Some of the police officers are arresting _fruit venders while they are moving. We are going to fight the next case to the last ditch and not let one man decide. Twelve jurors must give the next decision.” A committee has been named to de- fend the cases. NEW YORK, September 8.— Stephen A. Graves is three-score and ten years old, but he is so firmly imbued with" the “back-to- Methuselah” idea that he is threat- ening to go to court to keep from being laid on the shelf. Graves, a public school custodian- engineer, served notice on the board of education yesterday -that he re- fused to recognize the board's right to retire him under a rule providing for pensioning of em- ployes at seventy. He sald te planned to keep on showing up at his post until & court decided he had to quit. “There is no complaint of my inability to perform the duties of custodian-engineer,” he writes, “and there has been no charge of ne- glect of duty. I am advised that my civil and contitutional rights have been violated by this. action, and I decline to enter into any re- tirement or pension plan.” The board has called on the cor- poration counsel for advice. Mem- bers expressed the belief Graves was being backed by twenty-six other septuagenarians who have been forcibly retired under a pen- fl(:n plan authorized by the legis- ure. DAVID MILNE EXPIRES. Thirty-Nine Years in Bureau. of Engraving—87 Years of Age. David Milne, former employe of the |b||relu of engraving and printing for thirty-nine years, died yesterday at his home, 915 U street. He was sixty- seven years old and had been retired since last January. Mr. Milne was born .in London sixty-seven years ago and came to this city in 1882. He entered the em- ploy of the bureau, where he became an engraver of currency, being a plate Dfl};ller by trade. e was a member of Hope Lod No. 20, F. A. A. M.; the Masonic Vgte: erans’ Association and Plate Printers’ Local, No. 2. Funeral services will be held Saturday, followed by interment in Glenwood cemetery. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Annie Milne; two sons, Walter F. and David W. Milne, and two_daughters, Miss Annie E. Milne and Mrs. Louise Dampler, all of this city. —_— BURIED AT ARLINGTON. Capt. Leon E. Briggs Was With 77th Division. The body of Capt. Leon E. Brii l killed in action h‘: the Argonne gg est, September 28, 1918, while com- manding Company E of the 305th Infantry, was interred in Arlington this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Capt. Briggs was a native of Mis- souri, graduated with the degree of | civil engineer from the university of that state, and just prior to entering the service was city engineer of ‘Webb City, Mo. League of Nations Commission Discovers Widespread Plot to Assimilate 170,000 Orphans—Otber Intrigues Found. BY PAUL SOOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1921. GENEVA, Switzerland, September 8.—The extraordinary story,of how the Turks have endeavored to wipe out the last vestiges of Christianity in Asia Minor, not only by massacres but also by placing Christian women in harems and dispersing Christian orphans among Moslem homes, where they are being reared as Mohamme- dans, is told in the report of the league of nations commission on Ar- menian deportations, which will be submitted to the league assembly for discussion, It should be recalled that before the war the entire Young Turk move- ment rested on the ideas of pan-Is- lamism. By fair means and foul Ta- laat Pasha, Enver Pasha and Djemal Pasha and other Turkish leaders were determined to assimilate the subject races of Turkey because they believed that the Turkish state would thereby be greatly strengthened. Those who resisted assimilation ran the risk of massacre or deportation. Barrier to Mohammedanism. The Young Turks were particularly desirous of obliterating Armenian people because this Christian nation was isolated in the Mohemmedan world and formed a barrier between the Turks and their Moslem kinsmen of the Caucasus and central Asia. The Turks were undoubtedly dreaming at that time of founding a great Moslem empire which should reach from the Mediterranean to the | tion, gates of India. This is thestrue explanation of the fury exhibited by the sultan’s follow- ers in their massacres and persecu- tion of the Armenians during the world war. About 800,000 were mere- ly deported. Women were placed in harems, bringing up Turkish children. Under the patronage of Talaat and Enver a special organization was formed for distributing Christian or- phans in Turkish homes, where they would be reared as Moslems. 170,000 Orphans Deported. . It is to the difficult work of inquiry | regarding these children that the league's commission has been devot- ing its efforts. The report from Miss E. Cushman and Dr. W. H. Kennedy estimates the number of orphans de- ported at about 170,000. Of these over | 90,000 have been reclaimed in various’ parts of the former Turkish empire, notably in Cyprus, Armenia and Ana. tolia. There are still about 79,000 un- reclaimed. Of these about 12.000 are concealed in the region of Constanti- nople and 67,000 in the territory now held by the Turkish nationajists. The work of assimilation begun by the Turks seems to have been pur- sued with diabolical skill. Not only are the children provided with false birth certificates and documents falsely atfesting their Turkish origin, but they have been taught always to say that they are Moslems and have been told that horrible things will ‘happen to them if they fall into Chris- tian hands. Children Misled. Boys are retained by blows and gifts; girls by presents of beads and cheap jewelry and sometimes by threats that they will be sent into evil life if ever they betray their Armenian origin. It is usually only by chance that the original identity of these chifdren is discovered. Miss Cushman cites the instance of & twelve-year-old boy who was brougnt with a number of others from a Turkish orphanage to the American eye hospital in Con- stantinople for treatment. He had a Turkish birth certificate and other papers denoting Turkish parentage; and stoutly declared that he was a Moslem and was overhesard revilin, Christians. One day, after he had been two months in the hospital, "he suddenly began to sing an old Armenian hymn. He said he had sung that hymn and spoken that language when little. He even remembered his Armenian name. In short, by the merest hazard he had rediscovered his identity. Some children have been so fright- ened by the bugaboo stories told them regarding Christians that after being reclaimed they have run back to their Turkish homes. Virtually every suspected case that comes to the notice of the commission has been substantiated on investiga- more difficult identification becomes. The work of reclamation is handi- capped by the fact that the investi- gators still lack legal authority to! make a thorough search in Turkish homes and orphanages. APACHE IS DISABLED. Reports Broken Crankshaft 25 Miles Off Cape Hatteras. NORFOLK., Va., September 8.—Dis- tress messages from the Clyde line pas- senger steamer Apache, disabled twenty- five miles north of Cape Hatteras, were picked up here yesterday and the coast | guard cutter Manning dispatched to the assistarice of the steamer. The Apache, bound from New York to Charleston, S. €., and Jacksonville, Fla., reported that she was practically help- less on account of a broken crank shaft. She i8 in no immediate danger so long | as the present favorable weather con- tinues. The Manning is expected to reach the Apache at daybreak and will tow her to Hampton roads for repairs. —_— Pennsylvania women plan to have a non-paitisan newspaper of theis own, to be published at Harrisburg. but the more time elanses cne | ORDER WAGE CUTS FOR NAVY YARDS Reductions Will Vary From 10 to 20 Per Cent—68,000 Are Affected. About 7,000 men employed at the ‘Washington navy yard are affected by new Navy wage schedules decreas- ing by 10 to 20 per cent the pay of about 68,000 civilian employes at navy yards and stations in the United States, The scheduies announced last night were preparcd by the departmental wage board of review, which has kad the subject under consideratio; for several weeks, apd have been o proved by Secretar: Lenby. Ta- ars ufforra for sBafm® werk L £n ravy yards and are effective for onc year, beginning September 35 nex Machinists, numbering about 800 the local yard, suffer a wage cut from 84 cents an hour to 73 cents an hou 204 plumbers, receivirg formerl cents an hour. hereafter will receiv 76 cents an hour. ln general wag of skilled labor at tae local yard are reduced an average of 13 per cent. Unskilled labor has been reduced from 48 cents to 41 cents an hour. The supervisory positiong, such as su- pervisors and foremen, have been re- duced one-third and in some offices one-half. Tess Than Raflroad Trades. According to the report of the depart- Me.cas wage buard of review, the re- vised schedule wil) be 4 cents an hour less than prevailing wages for raiiroas trades and 5 cents per hour higher 1ban those in shipbuilding trades. The bcar@ said the wages recommended are 45 pes cent higher than pre-war scales aund estimated the cost of living at 80 per cent higher than in 1913, A new plan for payment and classi- fication of mechanics provides for one general grade of the first class, specify- ing that upon emplovment men shall serve a probational period of six months prior to reaching the highest-pay classi- fication of their trade. Machinists will hold this first-grade rating during ef- ficient performance and will be subject to discharge upon failure to maintain the established sgandard. The board also recommended that %3 cents an hour be fixed as a_fair and just rate of pay .for the basic trades,” and that the present five-day week be temporarily continued “un- til the present general unemployment is relieved.” “The decrease in wages is due to three causes,” the report said: “(a) de- crease in living costs amounting to 16.7 per cent, according to Department !of Labor figures; (b) the general in- dustrial depression in the country, which may well be expected to be but a phase of the readjustment from war to pre-war conditions that is now at perhaps its most acute state; (c) | to the treatment by a certain number l-of employers of labor purely as a com- { modity to be obtained at the cheapest | possible rat Silk Makers of Van Raalte Underwear " Wash silk underwear in ‘Van Raalte is one of the leading manufacturers who have recentlymade & thorough investigation of the safe way to wash fine fabrics. 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