Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1921, Page 2

2 SCHOOL CONTRACT ANARD DEFENDED Commissioners- Answer Rule . Obtained by Contracter ' George Hyman. The District Commissioners today filed in the Supreme Court of the DI trict of Columbia an answer to the rule issued agsinst them last Thurs- day by Justice Hoehling to show cause why they should not be en- joined from awarding the conmtract for the Eastern High School to any other contracter than the plaintiff, Gearge Hyman. They claum that they exercised their discretion and judg- ment in_awarding the contract to George ne, whom they consid- ered the lowest responsible bidder and who would periorm the contract to the best interests of the public. The court is asked tv dismiss the in- Junction proceedings. Charge Lack of Experience. | Through Corporation Ceunsel Stephens the Commissioners point out t the difference in the bids is not $15.500 as_allexed by former Com- missioner W. Gwynn Gardiner for the plaintiff, but is oniv $9,700. The municipal architect and the assistant cngineer commissioner both reported adversely on the Hyman bid, and recommended the acceptance of the Wyne offer, the court is told. Wyne is thoroughly equipped, the court is advised, by experience, or- ganization and mechanical apparatus and agreed to complete the contrad t i ve months. The experience the Commissioners assert, in construction work has been confined ! l WAINWRIGHT AWARDED "MEDAL, WHILE DAWES SAVES U. S. $25,000,000 Assistant Secretary Wainwright of the War Department was awar to- day the decoration of commander of the Legion of Honor of France by Gen. Buat, chief of the general stait of the French army. The coveted rib- bon and medal was pinned on & war worn _blouse, already covered with two rows of decorations, for dis- tinguished service of its wearer with the 27th or New York Division, under command _of Maj. Gen. O'Ryan in ‘The secretary served with him- this division as inspector genes Director of the Budget Dawes, arrived too late to witness the pres. entation. He explained that the de- lay had been caused by work on the budget and a fe minutes resulted in a saving of §25,000,000 to the coun- try, which he had lopped from some estimates. ARBUCKLE'S TRIAL DRAWS HUGE CROWD Comedian Faces Manslaugh- ter Charge Resulting Fram Virginia Rappe’s Death. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 14.— Roscoe C. Arbuckle, motior picture comedian, went to trial today on a charge of manslaughter growing out of the death of Miss Virginia Rappe, largely (v underground construction 2nd he hus exceeded the time limits in one-third of his contracts. On the substructure for the Bastern High School he obtained an extension of forty-five days, the court is told, when the exercise of reazonable fore- thought would have finished the work on time. The claim is made that he has “had no experience whatever in_ the construction of buildings for work of the character and size involved in this cas - _ Spent Momey at Own Risk. The partnership proposed between Hyman and James L. Parsons, jr., the answer states, violated one.of the rules of the bidding, which forbade any bidder to be interested in more than one bid. If Hyman expended money on the supposition that he was to be awarded the eontract, the Com- missioners say. -he did so at his own as he knew that only the Com- Sioners could award the contract ‘and no one of them had advised him that his bid would be accepted. Justice Hoehling certified the mat- ter to Justice Bailey, who will hear it tomorrow EINSTEIN THEORY MAY BE TESTED New Apparatus Is Expected to Determine Speed of Light More Finely. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 14.—Experi- ments perfected recently and by means of which it is hoped to test the aecuracy of the Einstein theery were described in & paper prepared by Prof. Albert A. Michelson of the University of Chicago, to be read to- day before the National Academy of Sciences. The apparatus developed by Prof. Michelson comsists of a mechaniam for the more accurate measuregypit. of the velocity of light, vmw" ae says, he hopes to have perfected by next summer, so that the exact speed may be measured within two miles per second. As to the Einstein theory, he said he did not know of any definite facts developed this summer at the Mouat Wilson Observatory in California which either proved or disproved it. His experiments are mot yet com- pleted. Weuld Aid Measurements. “The practical results obtained, shouid the experiments prove suc- cessful, would be the use of it as & substitute for the elaborate trigo- nometrical surveys, such as deter- mining the distance between two mountains from 50 to 100 miles apart” he said. “That sort of prob- lem, when it must be obtained with- in a few inches, is very difficult and mathematically complicated under present conditions. If we knew the velocity of light absolutely such measurements would be a simple | matter. It might also be of aid | y officers, especlally the | llery, in the preparation of | firing data. TURKS MAKE PROTEST. CONSTANTINOPLE, October 22.— The subiime porte has issued a pro- test against the establishment of Greek civil administration in Smyrna and against the disappearance of the last vestige of Turkish authority. Thousands of Turkish government | employes, the protest says, have Mni discharged and the Greeks have sup- pressed the Turkish educational in- stitutions and introduced Greek as the official language in Anatolia. This action, the document asserts, is a flagrant violation of the international regulations, as the status of Smyrna has not yet been defined or the Sevres treaty ratified. 5 Abe Martin Says: Albert Bentley. abscondin’ cashier o’ th’ Alfalfa Bank, first attracted public notice by keep- in’ company with a girl that wuz not half good enough for him. Prob’ly our school teachers don’t git anything like what they earn, but they couldn’t look any peachier on $75000 a month. (Copyright Natiosai Newspaper Bervies.) motion picture actress, September 9. Scores of witnesses on both sides awaited the call to the stand. Spectators Arrive Early. The crowds began to surge early through the narrow corridors on the third floor of the Hall of Justice, where the trial court is Jocated. Despite the fact that the admissions were limited to approximately 300, which included more than a score of newspaper men, hundreds picked points of vantage to glimpse the principals in the big legal drama 23 they went into the courtroom. For more than a week, the contend- ing sides have had their decks strip. ped for action, and the eagerness which they collected all possible evi- depce indicates a hard and bitter contest. The trial was to have start- ed last Monday, but a loeal election and_Armistice day 80 broke up the week that a postpenement until to- day was granted. Liquer Charge Alse Pending. In the two months that have elaps- ed since the commission of the alleg. ed ertminal act by Arbuckle the defendant has been in prison for several days, has had a preliminary hearing on a charge of murder, which was reduced to the manslaughter charge on which he went to_trial te- day, and has been made the defendant in’a federal action charging the pos- session of liquor illegally. The fed- eral charge remains to be tried, and will presumably awalt the action in the state court. —_— TEXT OF ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT AT CORNER STONE RITE (Continued from First Page.) n freedom; that those wh shall be cared for by his estate; and that they all “are to be - teught to read and write, and are to be brought up to some useful occupation.’ Next follow devises of funds to aid education of poor or orphaned childrea and for the endowment of @ “university in a oentral part of: mw:s States.” Another spe- + cifie ‘bequest ‘goes to Liberty Hall now Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Va. A list of debtors are forgiven their debta To each of five nephews he guve one of his swords with “an injunction net to unsheath them for the purpose of rhedding blood except it be for self-defemse or in defense of their couniry and its rights, and in the latter ease to keep them unsheathed and prefer falling with them in their hands to the relinguishment thereof.” There is_no selection of words wherewith more eloquently to ex- press the full duty and obligatio of a good citizen to his country Let ue be thankful that the spirit of that injunction has been borne in upon the nation he founded and animates it even to this day. Last Word of a Chriatian. As a charter of good citizenship and patriotic purpeses this last will and testament has been an inspiration many times to me. I commend its thoughtful reading to whoever would emulate his ex- ample. Indeed. as we are gathered here, representatives of a grateful and reverent nation, to signalize the consummation of one more public beneficence Inspired by him, 1 can think of nothing more ap- propriate than to urge the study of the farewell address and the last will and testament, as comple- ments of each other. Neither of them can be fully appreciated with- out the other. he farewell ad- dress was the final adjuration of the soldier, the statesman, the founder. The will and testament was the last word of the Christian citizen, the loving husband, the de- voted kinsman—and the provident man of business. Studied together, they afford & complete key to the exalted character of one whom all mankind hae learned to revere. ‘Beyond that, ] am prone to believe they contain a chart by which the captains and fbilotl of a world in distress, seeking harbora, from battering storms and g, un- known deeps. miyht well lay the course of civilization itmelf. Within a brief century and & half the American people, under Wash- ington's inspiration. have created a great nation, added to the do- minion of liberty and of oppor- tunity, avd. we may hope, afforded 2 helpful example to the world. It has not been accomplished with- out heavy sacrifices. At fearful cost we had to wipe out an am- biguity In the Constitution and re-establish unijon where disnmion threatened. In a conflict well ::fh a8 wide as the world we were 1- ed to draw the sword for humanity and the relief of oppression. \'e:i recently we have paused to spe tribute to those whe sacrificed in that struggle for civilization's preservation. We cannot too often or too earmestly repeat that trib- ute: and we consecrate this insti- tytion as a memorial and a shrine, in reminder to all the future of the servioes and sacrifices of our heroes of the wprld war. SIX MEXICAN BANDITS KILLED IN SKIRMISH Two Captured and Executed by Federal Troops in the San Antonio Canyen. SAN DIEGO, Caiif., November 14— be give need § 8ix members of a party of forty Mexi- cans are dead as a result of a akir- with a party of federal troops in n Antonfo canyon, six miles south of Tijuana, Lower California. yester- day. In the skirmush four of the in- vading party captured by the executed. were killed. Two were federals and later report of the skirmish was 0. BIGRESTLOSE OPINION IN LONDON With Japan, It Would Share Heaviest Sacrifices Under Hughes’ Plan. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 14.—The Amer- icam proposals for drastic limita- tion of naval armament have been Teceived with expressions of much fa- vor in British offical circles. While the cabinet will mot offcially discuss the proposals until the British experts have reported after examining them, it Is stated that the Individual members ©f the cabinet whole-heartedly support {the broad principles contained In the address of Secretary of State Hughes Washingten Saturday. The n s generally expressed that such a plain statement of policy, made at the outset of the conmference, will materially aselst in the rchieve- ment of & definite, all-round reduction . It is recognized that many points {n the proposals must oc- casion discuesion, and the Britih naval cxperts are already examining the prop- osition. The cabinet will conaider the subject as s00n as the experts maks ir port. Ratification of any decision veached will be asked of the partia- iment, which was prorogued last week until January 30, subject to an earlier summoning if political exigencies should demand it. The American plan for a ten-year maval holiday and the serapping of all but a limited number of warships call: for much less sacrifice om the part of Great Britain than by the United {States and Japan, in the view of the naval correspondent of the Dally Mail. The proposed sacrifice, he says, “would be a heavy one for Japam and the United States, but comparatively tfifling for Great Britain, as the latter has not vet incurred amy great outlay on the four new ships just or- dered. * ® * The American scheme involves no injury to Sritish interests, for in plain fact the British navy to- day s third in post-war ships and ocean-going submarines, the two factors which will probably count for the most in future naval warfare. * * The real question 18 whether Japan will be centent to accept comditions which place her navy in & position of permanent inferiority.’ Already Serapping Ships. Other_cerrespondents peint out that Qieat Britain has already taken the lead in the reductiom of naval arma. ments, her progressive scrapping of warships since the armistice having amounted up to last April to more than 500 vessels, of which 300 were destroyers. Statistics are printed to show that neither Japan nor the United States has gone very far in this direction. Most of the naval writers are obvi- ously taking time to digest the pro- posals outlined by Secretary Hughes and thus far little expert opinion, as distinct from editorial views, has been published here. All_other news !s subordinated to atches in this newspaper: The drasti proposals for naval urally hold firet place, but the speeches of President Harding and Mr. Hughes are also fully reported, while other dispatches describe th eftect produced in America and th attitude of the various delegates to- ward the American propossls. Seoffs at Promouncement. The Herald, the labor organ. scoffs at President Harding’s pronounce- ment on peace, which it says recalls President Wilson. The newspapers say that if the causes of friction between the na- tions are removed and the great pow- ers cease seeking new concessions in all corners of the globe, disarmament will happen automatically, but that all talk about disarmament is im pudent and dangerous until those things are done. The Dally Chronicle, remarking that Becretary Hughes has added a rider to the usual concept that policy governs 2rmaments, mamely, that armaments aleo affect palicy, ,contends the political fires ‘are extinguished ne reduction in armaments, however, in- genuous and sincere, can hope to en- dure. Plan Mnst Be Weighed. The Times treats the propoeal with sympathetic admiration, but em| tbl:“l‘i will have t0o be carefully con- fashioned diplomacy,” says the Times, “it tmmediately captured the im: tion of the people of the United States. We that in many res it will less forcibly to the peoples of Europe. “Like all schemes for carrying out nations whose seeurity and e concerns. It demands very heavy #a, es from all. but all will cheer- fully submit thereto if submission plain- ly promotes the in view. Puts Life ia Conferenece, The Morning Post says: ‘“‘We would say at once that acceptamce by Eag- land of such = propoeal must in all good faith depend upon the measure of greement eventually sttained by the We cannet doubt !l':l {2t the opening of the conference in that until | C2] LABOR MEN IN PULPITS. Preach in Boston on Religious Ideals in Industrial Relations, BOSTON, November 14.—Labor leaders mounted pulpits in nearly a score of churches in and near Boston Yestcrday to on ideals in industrial relations. Through the agency of the Central Labor Unlon and the Greater Boston Fed- eration of Churches, spoke in Congregational, Baptist, ethodist and Universal edifices and & synagogue. Enlargement of “the church to watch over side of life among the urged generally. Fred former president of the Painters’ and Decorators' Unlon, speaking in the First Baptist Church at Watertown, attributed many of labor's troubles to the modern lack of the personal {touch of the employer in his busine: TEN BURN T0 DEATH INTENEMENT BLAZE !Five Bodies Found Huddled Near Doorway in Building in New York. By the Amsocluted Press. NEW YORK, November 14.—Ten ives were lost and more than a score of people injured in a fire of unknown origin which partially destroyed a five-story tenement house on West 17th street before dawn today. The bullding was occupled by fiftecn fami- lles, mostly Armenians and Greek jOnly a few of the dead, two of whom were children, have been ldentified. Nine werc burned, and the tenth died in a fall from a ledge where he had clung until exhausted. Five bodles, all unidentified, were found huddled together near a door- way on the fifth floor of the build- ing, and firemen later found three more bodics, none of which was iden- tified, Two men and one woman were meriofisly injured, while thirty others were treated for abrasions snd shock. The building, & five-story tenement, was occupled by fifteen families. In- vestigation showed the fire had orig- fnated in the basement and roared up through a to the second floor, where It “mushroomed,” spreading through the four upper stories of the bullding. Many of the people who lived In the tenement groped their way to win- dows, where they clung to ledges and screamed for help. Fost office em- ployes from a substation across the street saved many before the firemen reached the scen workers was Bowie Race Entries First race, claiming; two-year-old fillies; six furlongs—Carmeneita, 11, Miss Colin, 11 Jacqu- . 103; *High C. 104; Jewell V. D. 8wift Grass, 109; Margaret Whi' 106; *Quick Run, 113; Chewink, 11 iGeace Foster. 109; Chaste Star, | *Bountiful. 110. Also eligible, 'Lady Zeus, 103; Little Ammie, 112; Fox Glove, 101; Margaret C., 103; Fair Vir- ginia, 106 Chateaugay, 109, Second race, the Capitol City purse; ar-olds: six and one-half fur- cki 104; Champlain, 106; Hephaistos (b)Allfair, 105; (a)Tangerine, Yankee Star, 104; Timbrel, (b)Fannie Bean, 101; Opperman, Doughnut, 10¢; Volvanic, 100. (2)Wilson and Butler entry. (b)Bean and Harding entry. Third race, the Oridle purse: three- iyear-olds and -up; six and a half fu |longs—Penrose,” 110; Quecrsek. 10 Knight of the Heather. 105; Squaw . 101; Arrah -Go Oh,. 105; Clean Gone, 10 Irish Kise, 108; (2)Hildup, 105; Arrow of Gold, 102; Devastation, 101. eligible—Star Court, 104; (a)Oriole, 103; Labar, 104. - (a)Ross entry. Fourth race, Prince George handi- 10 Bedgefield, Ban, 10 Bastille, 105 pn:y Elm, 108; Dresden, 102; * Super, and up; mile and a sixteenth—Bribed Voter, Ettahe. 110; Events, 109; *Who Cares, F. Mc!\flhofi. 101; Fiser, 113 (= g Crack Swain, 107 nth race, cl pward; mile and a guarte 109; ‘Lord Herbert, 110; *Bar Coy, 104; 105; Bo Dog, 107; O'Dawn, 106 (a)*Fas- ; *Star Court, 98. ming; three-year- 109; Hem k. *Devil *Apprentice allowance claimed. Weather raining, traek muddy. - Yes, Doc, Continue. 'of |can mak the proj pitfalis, but a bald one that can possibly We may 8ce the failure of a grandiose eonception, but Mr. has struek @ high note. Who shall say that it cannot be sustained? Held Magniteent Jdesl is full of is the onl ring results. Telk ., it u magnificent ideal that it will awaken greater enthusixsm wnong those who passionately long for the world to set its feet well set upon the true Ppath of peace. “The conference opened with @ no- ble and dramatic stroke on the part of President Hurding and Secreiary Hughes. It is not the habit of Amer- jca to do thim by halves, and on this eccasion e United States has astonished and Impressed ‘world Dy her andacity and by the grand sweep of her pro) The Dai ews st epairing world has way of salvatiol n. Peace Path Reopeancd. missed at Ver- s, revealed once again at Washington, broad amd raight. Secretary Hughes' challenge js direct and cannot be avoided. It is for the peoples to see (I it is not avoided. Britain, at any rate, must meet it fair and square. “<Phere 18 much more to be done at Washington In the elimination of dif- ferences in the Pacific, but in the torefront the keynote and test of the mations’ bona fide stands this scheme for the arrest of competitive naval armsment. ‘The Westminster Gagette that the proposal is magnificent, and says that it will certainly be received with no less enthusiasm ail over the world than it was received in the com- ference. s “It may be called drastic, ambitious and far-reaching,” it “but ambi- tious sehemes are oftsn the easiest to accomplish.” ADMITTED TO MANILA BAR. MANILA, P. L, October 10 (by mail). —One hundred and fifty-six more law- yers, including three women, wers au- thorised recently by the supreme to enter practice in the Philip- Ost of 880 that a de- shown the is just my specialty. I've treated a patient for over twenty years who has exactly the same ailment. religious| union_ heads fleld of the the material J. Kneeland, q gll Dry Maon, stview, 101; Also mile and & sixteenth— Mock Orange, 940 Slip- 04. Fifth rece, claiming; three-year-olds | *Wood- antalus, | il THE EVENING' STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, NOV BREAKS OCEAN RECORD. Southern Criss Saves 11 Hours in Run From Rio De Janeiro. NEW YORK. November 14.—Break- ing the previous Pecord by nearly eleven hours, the American steamship, Southern Cross, arrived here yester- day from Rio de Janeiro. Her time for the trip was 11 days and 64 min- utes, The previous record of 11 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes was held by her sister, ship, the American Legion. One of the cabin passengers, Ed- ward Witte, formerly of Chicago, was removed to a hospital in a serious condition, suffering from a bullet wound in his mouth. He was found in his stateroom two daya out from Rio de Janeiro with a revolver in his hand, the ship's surgeon said. FAVORS THE DUAL PLAN FOR SCHOOLS Separate White and Colored Systems Should Continue, Supt. Ballou Says. Approval of the dual school system in Washington was given by $upt. Bal- lou in an addenda to the first section of hisannual report, which was made public today. The addition to the re- port set forth: ' n one section of his annual report the superintendent discusses some ‘needed developments and extensions of the school system.” Justification of every one of the developments or ex- tensions advocated is lg be found in the growth of the school system since organized. Omly Ome Exception. “With one exception, the proposals are for the further development and extension of/xisting practices. These practices have been established in Washington on sound administrative or educational practices to be found in well organized city school systems. Nothing entirely new is advocated. No innovadlons or eliminations are urged; only tensions, developments or | legalizations of what now exists are recommended at this tim for two separate and largely auton- .omous scheol systems, one for white and one for colored pupils. supervised and directed by the superintendent of schools. The superintendent believes this legal provision for the school system should be continued and noth- ing recommended in his annual report is intended to modify the present practice in this respe: Superintendent’s Obfect Stated. “Indeed, in the plans advocated for the development and extension of the school system every effort has been imade by the superintendent to recog- inize and to respect the sutonemy and :the needs of each division of the school system which finds common 1ground in the superintendent's office.” ANGLO-JAPAN PACT MUST BE SCRAPPED (Continued from First Page.) Mr. Hughes to be sprung on the con- ference, laying down certain princi- ples on the far esstern situation. Whether these will be laid on the table at an epen seesion or an agree- ment sought in committee iz yet to First, that all sifances’ shall be <8 abrogated. Second, that syhe;n ‘nf influem ithe far east shali be given up byZall ipower.s and the v_rindpl.,'f the “spen door” absolutely ascepted with a plédge for its maintenance. Third, that an international tribunal be conatituted where pending questions as well as other vexed interpretation of existing treaties may be egquably adjusted. Unless some such body is prov for, the conference here might'last for {months without achieving agreement, as the problem of China's reiations to the treaty powers is a complicated one, {and the most that can be hoped for in a gathering such as this is a binding agreemeat upen principles which can i be applied by the tribunal as each case ariees. ] The spirit of the moment is one of optimism; Hughes proposals by the whole world has stimulated the American delega- tion to proceed in the open on other | i has achieved a victory far beyond the expectations of Secretary Hughes himself, who is responeible for the policy of laying all cards face up. The conference is still in a pre- liminary stage: overeonfidence is still unwarranted. < But the outlook is brighter as this conference opens than i A; it was at Paris or The Hague or any other international conference in modern history. (Copyright, 1921.) Too Long to Wait. one year. Prospective Victim—I don’t lieve my wife would let me take it. 1908, when the present system was: “The present organic law provides: the reception given the| questions at issue. Open diplomacy | tl be- EMBER 14, 1921. PRESIDENT 1S EIVEN PLEDGE OF WOMEN Committee of Six Named at Mass Meeting Call at White House. President Harding received today the committee of six nationally promi- nent women, who brought to him a pledge of women representing forty- eight nations in support of his efforts to turn the mind of the world to the elimination of war and commending Secretary of State Hughes' program for a limitation of armament. These women were appointed at the mass meeting at the New Masonic Temple yesterday afternoon, when more than a thousand women from all parts of the world gathered to voice the sentiments of women in fa- vor of the conference on the limita- tion of ar: and at which the reso- lutions were adopted which were pre- sented to the President toda; Mra. Harriman He: Committee. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman of New York, who presided at yesterday's meeting, was chairman of the com- mittee. Others on _the committee were Mrs. Robert J. Burdett of Cali- : fornia, representing the Geperal Fed- jeration of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Mil- {ton 1. Higging of Massachusetts, of the National Parent-Teachers' Asso- Marian Parkhurst of nting_the National Woman Voters; Mrs. George T. Odell of the Women's In- ,ternationul Peace League, and Miss Emma Wold of this city, representing |the women's committee on world g jarmament, i, The resolutions expressed apprecia- tion of the service President Harding has rendered the world in calling the conference, and to the American dele- gates for the significant step they ave taken at the first session of the conference. The resolutions also { urged the reduction of existing mil- itary establishments and control of | chemical military science. In con- |clullnfln the resoiytions hnned lh'l'lwc record our bellef in the ity of adjusting Imernnlianfl‘*&lu by methods other than wa d we cail upon this conference to devise means to this end, so as to bring to the overburdened nations of the world the greatest possible assurance of permanent world peace Mrs. J. Borden Harriman opened the meeting, and following a brief welcome and introductory remarks, she led her audience In reciting the Lord’s Prayer. Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, one of the advisory delegates to the conference on the limitation of armaments, made note in the meeting. “We aZe now reassured—we know we have started on a new road,” she said. “At last | we have turned away from o | To my mind Saturday was one of the greatest days in our history. Advinory Delegates to Speak. Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird of M, chuselts, Mrs. Katherine Phillips £d- son of California and Mrs. Eleanor Franklin Egan of New York were the other advisory delegates Wwho spoke. Each expressed her pleasure at America's bold move at the open- ing session of the armament com- ference, and pledged their support L0 ' President Harding, Secretary Hughes, chairman of the American delegation, lund the American people. Among the foreign representatives at the meeting was Miss Kate Mani- com, representing more than 1,600,600 English women, principally members of the British Working Women's Union. Among other significant remarks she said that the women of the world, especially the young women, should rise up and say there shali be no more wars. Among others who spoke were: Mre. Harriet Taylor Upton of Ohio, vice chairman of the republiean exec- tional Women's Mme. Yaji Yajima, ¢ighty-year-old educator and woman feader of Japan; Miss Marfon Irwin, who has spent the greater part of her life in the orient: Mrs. Maud Wood Park, president of the League of Wo- men_ Voters. and Miss Julla Lathrop of this city. Messages Are Sent. ague; the organizations represented by them were made as follows: Ameri- can Asrociation of University Women, Mrs Glen L. Swiggett: General Fed- eration of Women's Clul Hafford; National League of Women | Voters, 'Miss Roberta Welford; N: jtional Women's Trade Union League, Miss Ethel M. Smith: Young Wom: én's Christian Association, Mrs. Ro- bert pee Business and Professional Women, Mise Mary Stewart; Women's com i { mittee for world disarmament, Miss Emma Wold: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Mrs. {George T. Odell; National Associ: tion of Colored Women, Mrs. Mary Church Terrill; Women’s Christian emperance Union, Miss Anne Gor- {don; Japanese Women's Christian Temperance Union, Mme. Vajima: Women's Auxiliary to International 8s0Ci; y Daughters of the American Mra. George Maynard { Peake; i Revolution, Minor; National Congress of Mothers, Mrs. Milton P. Higgins; Counci Jewish Women, Mra. Alexander Wolf. Can't Fool Him. ‘Hey there, don't you dare hdt car of yours near my horse. Don’t® worry, 1 knmow the city lrules are not to park near a plug.” rk BRITISH FENCING TEAM COMING TO AMERICA. Sented, | of the Dust. ditariem. | por bs, Mise Lida | Topics. Loew National Federation of il of Splits 100 Oysters in 3 Minutes, Enters World Record Claim NEW YORK, November 14— Old Bill Lowney, whore life kas been devoted to epening oys- ters, clairs that when he split 100 of them in 3 minmtes 3% seconds, not long ago, he es- tablished a world record. He has challenged any and all oys- terman to meet him in competi- | tiom with a barrel of bivalves amd a kaife. 014 Bill was born up Cape Cod way sixty-three years age, and he % the mames amd rec- ords of all the speedy oyster openers along the coast. He has twe leves—oysters and the handies he makes for his knives. | Hin hates are those who spofl the flavor of bivalves by dip- ping them in water and the un- edueated eaters who use sauees on them. AMUSEMENTS METROPOLITAN—“One Arabian ‘Night.” It is not exaggeration to say that “One Arabian Night” with Pola Negri in the role of a strolling dancer is one of the most remarkable photoplay: ever seen in Washington. Pola Ne- gri's fame, establikhed by her per- formances in “Pasefon” and “Gypsy Blood,” was sufficient to draw throngs to the Metropolitan yesterday after- noon and last night and those who came saw a production highly cred- | utes to the enjoyment of a photoplay —capable acting, intelligent pictyr zation of the locality supposed to be represented and plausibility in the de- velopment of the story, which con- ‘cerns the loves of the fayorite wife of thy Sheik at Bagdad and a strolling {dancer who is captured and conveyed th the harem of the sheik. There is also invelved the pathetic devotion of a hunchbaek for the capricious danc er. Numerous fubsidiary charac ters add much to the interest of the {narrative. Pola Negri has a role much lighter than her previous ones of Countess DuBarry and Carmen not such heavy demands are made upon her for dramatic intensity, but the part she is called upon to play is portrayed with that fidelity and discrimination for which that artist is notable. Passion- ate and alluring, she laughed at love until at last she succumbed herself. The street scenes of Bagdad were reproduced with a_faithfulness that was eonvincing. well drilled and comported taemselves with an unconsciousness of observa- tion that contributed greatly to the realism of the scenes. Much study and investigation must have been re- quired to reproduce the interior scenes | in Bagdad. Taken altogether, a very interesting chapter of life in the near east is detailed. ) *The' Pazne number of excellent views of the cere- ews iew presents a ‘the unknown soldier. The pictures of Friday's parade are clear and ade- . quate and the scenes at Arlington are trayed satisfactorily. The beauties and glories of the Yel- lowstone Park are pictured in colors and the scenic attractions of that _[axeat park are presented in & manner | the A mud: superior to the ordinary uncol- ored protographic representations us- ually seen. COLUMBIA—“Ladies Must Live.” “Ladles Must Li the photoplay shown at Loew's Columbia last night, and the feature there for the week, is @ George Loane Tucker production. T a headea. by Betty Compt son, sippcried by Mahlon Hamilton, oy Cleo Madisos, Marcia PXe with_that M The Play A 3 womanhood that Pey/sts in “livi even though by unconve tional meth- ods. With these a contrax! i¢ made with a young girl who liven on the bounty of a rich brother-ig-law but finally marries an adventurous and penniless aviator because she reaily loves him. * The heroine is an entirely good irl, but youth has its misconception as to the exact meaning of happiness. Her idea is that a rich marriage will sdz- isfy every longing of her heart, but the love that laughs at plans inter- venes in the person of a penniless young aviator, and that, it would seem. would 'settle the situation, which it does eventually, but there are wonlYer experiences of life in which the two sail through clouds and sunshine, with many raw of deq | Brief messages to the meeting from | glimpses at the life called society, be- fore they reach the hangar of hap- { piness “for tw The program also includes a Mutt jand Jeff animated cartoon Town new features and or- | chestral music. PALACE—“Morals.” “Morals,”" the photoplay at the Pal- ace Theater this week, in which May McAvoy is featured, is excellent en- terzainment. Not only is Miss McAvcy }a very pretty littte miss. but she dis- Plays real talent in her acting. Her | ehief support is William P. Carleton. | “Miss McAvoy appears in the role of |2 beauty in a Turkish harem. She | was adopted by the head of the harem, ho raised her to believe that she houid be married at the age of sev- ;enteen vears. s have been made {to bestow her in marriage on an old {man. She has fallen in love with a! | young Englishman, however, who did ihis courting over the garden wall. She guccessfully escapes and goes to England with him tc get married, but he fs killed in an automobile accident. eton, as Sir Marcus Ordeyne, high in English society, is strolling in a park and by chance occupies the same bench with the girl. “She ap- peals to him for aid. Out-of pity, he takes her to his home and places her in the care of his housekeeper. Many complications arise which cause em- barrassment to the Englithman as a result of the innocence and unsophi: tication of the girl. Their acquaint- ance leade to love, although the man, twice the age the girl, is en- deavoring to fight it off. Buster Keaton, pictured in “The High Sign,” affords amusement. The news pictures show the funeral cor- tege and burial of the unknown sol- dier at Arjington. KNICKERBOCKER—“One Arabian Night.” ‘The chief aitraction yesterday and teday at Kuickerbocker is First National's release of Er) itsch's masterplece, “One Arabian istarring Pola Negri in the role of a iwild desert dancing girl. A review of it will be found in connection with the Metropolitan Theater, where this spectacie was also presented for the first time in Washinngton yesterday. Pollard in a clever travesty tion “ Loca- picture making, - tion,” supplied the comedy hit. The Pathe News, “Topics of the Day” and an interesting orchestral program, fea- turing selections from Bizet's * en,” were other features of the bill, CRANDALL'S—“The Idle Class,” Ete. Crandall’s Theater this weck is offering Washington & genuinely good interesting comedy bill— Charley Chaplin in “The Idle Class” and. Will Rogers In his latest triumph, “A Poor Relation.” These 1wo comedies were shown to capacity houses in Washington week before last, and, judging from the audiences yesterday and last night, their second exhibition will likely prove as popular as their first In “The ldle Class” Charlie Chaplin i8 in @ dual role, 2 vagabond, in Tnlen il 1 e shows his rare qualities as a come- dian and an actor of te; He is ably supported by Breamer and Sidney Ainsworth. ;l ‘h:‘l:kpll,. “Out ", the tord production, visualizing his many itable In_every feature that contrib-| The crowds were |, Night," | are many otl funny incidents. “A Poor Relation” Will Rogers T parts. Bylvia | m: REDCRUSSPRASED BY WORLD LEADERS Remarkable Tributes Paid at Roll Call Mass Meeting. Chief Justice Presides. From far-off corners of the world yesterday came words of praise for the Americas Red Cross. Representa- tives of Kuropean apnd Asiatic coun- {tries, addressing the Red Cross roil call mass meeting at the Shubert- Garrick Theater yesterday, over which Chief Justice William Howard Taft presided, expressed both appre- eiation and gratitude for the work of the organization during the days of the world war. Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, president of the Japanese house of peers and head ofs the delegation from Japan to the conference for limitation of arma- ment, said the Red Cross represented the peaceful and comstructive mission of humanity. Rear Admiral Chatfield Speaks. Rear Admiral Sir AMred Chatfield, Daval adviser of the British delega- tion, said that the present “is surely |2 time when international co-opera- jtion is dominant in every one's mind. 2nd with international co-operatfon we must include the international co- operation of the Red Cross societies.” Admiral Tsai Ting-Kan, superior adviser of the Chinese delegation, ad- Vvised the arms limitation conference to take an example from the work of the Red Cross in its humanitarian and unselfish principles, concert by the Marine Band {opened the meeting. Chier: Just jTaft recounted vast present opera- tions of the = L i organizatio o work for disatied o 2 ot yeti ster relicf, first saving A & and Junior Red “It ie the means by which the gen- erosity of the American people and their interest in each other can be interpreted into useful, effective actlon,” said the Chief Justice., “That is what the Red Cross i . ;et-h- Great Destre. en. Buat, chief of staff of th {French army, told the audience that i shal Petain, ¢ of Frenc | Maraka in, commander of French for this i s?orzl{ before the latter left ountry to attend the con- erence, had expressed a desire to visit America, not in uniform, but |8 civilian. “He said. howev lclared Gen. Buat. “that on one day. 1apd on one only, would he put on the uniform of a marshal of France, and 180°10 the headquarters of the Ameri- ‘clp Red Cross to proclaim to all the {gratitude of France. It 182id. and that he does {die before accomplishing an address which struck & dominant monies attending the recent arfival of | Count Commander David Constan- 1tini, delegate to the conference, read a message from Gen. Diaz, comman ing general of the Italian army, ar 1Felician Cattier. technical adyiser of |the Belglan delegation, read a mes- {sage from Gea. Jacques. i Dr. J. C. A. Everwtjn, minister fro therlands and dele confbrence, declarcd tha {regards the Red Cross }is ever aligned on th rosx fighting against the enemies of |mankind in “the shape of disaster { pestilence. suffering and catastroph. FARMERS RECENE 100 LOW A PRICE Witnesses Tell House Com- mittee Milk Profits Un- fairly Divided. Testhnony by witnesses and opin- lions expressed by members of the subcommittee of the House District committee inquiring into the milk situation in Warhingtoo today was thay the farmers are not getting a fair profit for the milk delivered in Washington, and that the distributors are geiting too large & return for their services. Representative Kunz of lliinois asked some gquestions temding to bring out whether there was collu- sion between the producers an@ the distributors to keep up the price to the consumers. This was not shown to be so. Dr. J. E. Gamble, professor of dairy husbandry et the Marvland Agricultural Coilegk. and Dr. A. F. Woods, egecutive officer of the state bureau of agriculture of Maryland gave experf testimony before the committee. Representative Beck of Wiscons: who is himself a doryman, said. “the distributors must not be permitted to exact a lion's share.” Represenuta Sproul of lilinois asked a1 the dircot question, “You think the producers getting enough for whe milk in ¥the District?” and Mr. Beck replied that that was s Urges 42 Cents Per Gallo Representative Kunz asied hin You think the farmer ought to get about 42 cents a gallon forhis milk>" and Representative Beck replied that the farmers should get from 40 to 45 cents a gallon. Testimony given be- fore the committee shows that the farmers are now receiving 32 cents a igallon while the distribalors are get- {ting 28 cents a gallon. Representative Hammer of North Carolina told the committee tuday that the producers when given the opportunity will testify that the 7.6% gallons of milk which they are al- leged to have dumped into the sewers on the day the milk war started in Washington was skimmed milk and therefore not a great economic loss as has been charged by attorneys representing the distributors. ‘The distributors were reprseented today by Atxomeyshm. E. O'Brien, . Valter New Yo and { Charles W. Darr. s Representative Millspaugh of Mie- isouri made a statement ia which he £2id the committee was going far afield in this investigation. ~What we are here to determine is whetber the consumers are being gipped by the producers or distributors or both. xn:d ;rhe(her a suberculin temt needed or not,” said Representati Mitlspaugh. i Censpiracy Charged. Dr. Gamble, in reply to questions. said that the spread to the distribu- tore, which is the difference in price paid by the eonsumers and that paid to the producers, has increafed in Washington to 28 cents, while it has decreased in Baltimore to 22 cents. ‘This was in reply to a question from Chairman Lampbert whether it was not true that any reduction in price to the consumer %as come out of the price paid to the producers. Representative Hammer emphasized that in Baltimore where the consum- er is now paying less tban in Wash- ington, all parties were indicted for conspiracy 10 get &n unreasonable profit, while in Washington where the consumer pays more nothing has been done but an attempt to break up the producers’ organization, which, testimony sbows, has been receiving lan side of the Red Fl | Carlin, ¢ |only about the actual cost ef pro- Qucing milk, \ paintings of early frontier life, is shown this week at the Criterion ter. The story goes back to our when Intrepid frontiers the trall of eivilisation e way safe for those who the building of the west. reproduction of many of Remington’s paintings, brln{.l_ to life th 1s! work of the great art! Oftier Amussments, Pagos § aad 16 and made th followed in “The picture,