Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1921, Page 20

THd 9 PLAN TO PUT THROUGH WOULD S BONDS 32 IN'LOANS TO NEEDY 2exmem s lature Meets. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, December 19.—Fol- lowing the statement of Representa- tive Andrew J. Volstead, author of the prohibition enforcement act, yes- DECLARES FAMINE CONDITIONS AWFUL Maj. Carroll Says Relief to Volga Area Is Almost Be- MacNider, Legion Command- . er, Has Plan for Veterans’ Pool to Aid Disabled. | {erier, shee rasyieng, w1 ve-) yond Charitable Aid. NASHVILLE, Tenn., December 19.— | MeNting on_the fact that the state | By the Assoclated Press. , had 8o far refused to pass any “dry” Hanford MacNider, commander of the | enforcement mensureA"lemier-y of {l’la - ‘American Legion, in a statement ls- | Anti-Saloon League here immediately sued here concerning veteran com-|3iafied 0 wWork to see that the pre- Pensation legislation, sald: While the league has not outlined “It should not be forgotten that the g;g:t"%'l},’l gficl_yrfihlrfillon enforoe;. R > sponsor a passage of the legion’s adjusted com- | ho " nooting of the legislature in pensation bill will do more directly |January, there is a growing belief for tho men broken by the war than | that the league, by urging a measure anything that could be planned. oSl entrame v T “We submit this plan: That those of | try to atone for the lateness of Mary- us who do not need, who do not feel |land in joining the commonwealths |are on the Volga today. In other that we deserve this stepping stone | which have state prohibition enforce- | countries under-nourishment was the up to the economic level of those who | ment laws. rincipal cause of distress, but here stayed at home; that those who want| Some of the state politiclans, it is | it is starvation pure and simple. Our to give our due to the cause of the|said, are for extreme prohibition en- | estimate is that there are 12,000,000 gisablet:ipacltous aflotments wnder | forsement= . /1% o0 au SR i requiring assistance. this act into a great rotating legion ust how Gov. Ritchie stands on Jund. to bo loaned through legion |the question of an enforcement act| o ore ** Heed Ohildren Altve. - mervice officers of each state depart-|no one seems to know and the gov- ur most ganguine hope is to be ment at low rates }:wlthoutbaecurny. :'lrnor is not m.ymg‘ :.nym{nz‘.l Still [ able to keep 1,000,000 children alive that our buddies who are broken in | there are rumors that while he Was|through this winter. For thousands ‘ll\::ltlr;mflaga';a“kigsgare of themselves | at first opposed to 31.0 h’."'.?fifl"‘:'ee'i: there is absolutely na hope, and the any state “dry” la _— LONDON, November 30.—Maj. Philip H. Carroll, Moscow director of the American Relief Administration, who has just arrived in London, told the newspaper men here that relief of the famine in the Volga provinces was almost beyond the capacity of chari- table aid. “Ever since June, 1919, I have been engaged upon relief work in Central Europe,” he said, “but nowhere have conditions been as shocking as they that as long as prohibition is now a | 2888regate amount of suffering will be part of the Constitution, overy state [ Something appalling. NEGRO KILLS PoL'cEMAN should do its part in seeing that its ‘Though we even have to feed chil- e * | provisions are carried out, and it dp"in ln.ih:h Btreet: otf M%uc‘ovlv lgfl = would not be much of & surprise if | Petrogr: e greatest need is in the LONG BRANCH, N. J., December 19. | b made such a. Cocommendation. in | villages, where the faflure of the —Ernest Williams. a negro, shot and | 1is message to the legislatura. crops is most acutely felt. It is not killed Patrolman Herman A. Emmons | On the other hand, the “drys’ do |an exaggerated fiction—would that it here, reloaded his revolver and|not expect any help from the gov-|were'—that peasants are living on fired fifty shots at pursuers before|ernor in getting their bill through, | roots and bread made from a mixture being captured. He is believed to|put are confident that he will sign | of reeds and oily clay. I myself have have been crazed from shell shock |the bill if it is passed. They have | handled this so-called bread and wit- ; during the war. The shooting of |been carefully counting on both|nessed the terrible intestinal trou- Patrolman Emmons was without | houses, and express confldence that |bles resulting from the consumption warning and occurred in the business | they will control enough votes to | o district of the city. get a state enforcement bill passed. f it “The soviet government is working Special Prices Suggestions for Men black embroidered. Real Buckskin, natural gray. 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Chesney, manager of the Pittsfleld (Mass.) works of the Gen- eral Electric Company, has been awarded the Hdison medal for 1921 for his work in developing commer- cial apparatus for transmitting high electrical currents, it was announced today by the Edison medal committee of the American Institute of Electri- cal Engineers. ‘The Pittsfield works in the past few years have developed commercial ap- paratus for service up to 220,000 volts, and recently demonstrated apparatus for transmission of a ocurrent of 1,000,000 volts. The Edison medal, founded by asso- clates and friends of Thomas A. Edi- son, is awarded annually for “meri- torious achievement in_ electrical science, electrical engineering or the allied arts.” very well indeed to relieve the dis- tress. They have carried out 60 per cent of their seed-sowing but at the most this cannot more than one-sixth summer yleld. Doom Frankly Admitted. “One of the most tragic things I have ever seen was the spectacle of those peasants, many of whom are facing starvation this winter, sowing their next year's grain. They ad- mitted quite frankly that they would not live to see it harvested. “The soviet stopped the dangerous movement of massed refugees to the cities by sending food from Moscow and the report that we have suffered from soviet pilfering {s arrant non- sense. The pilfering has been negli- ‘tibl‘& Death is the decree pemalty or it."” Major Carroll is returning to Mos- cow at once. “The Volga is begin- ning to freeze,” he said, “and no time can possibly be lost in getting food into the more remote provinces be- fore the waterways are closed. There is a hard winter before us,” he con- cluded. rogram, ring in of the average ~ Tomorrow The Day -~ The ]l The Shopping Center—11th and G Sts. Est. 1877—A. Lisner, Prop. Upstairs News on Next Page. 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