Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1922, Page 5

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By the Assoclated Press, BERLIN, January 3.—Commenting on telegraphic reports from Moscow that the sovlet intends to reconstruct its government with a number of non- party men in important positjons, the Vorwaerts, the majority socialist or- ®an, says today that numerous intel- lectuals of known patriotism but not sympathetic with the bolsheviki, have been taken into the administration in advisory capacities and that this un- ‘doubtedly has had a salutary effect on the political situation in Russia. Doubts Radical Change. The newspaper doubts that any very radical reconstruction of the governmént is probable in view of the frequent false annsuncements ema- nating from Moscow, but it suggests that the bolsheviki would be wise to name such men to carry out negotia- tions with foreign governments for credits which the soviet thus far has failed to secure. In this connection the Vossiche Zeit- ung points out that many Russian emigrants, now refugees in Germany. belong to the intellectual class and probably would return to Russia and become a force in the reconstruction of the homeland if the bolsheviki gave evidence of its intention to cease per- secution of this class and permit more freedom of thought. 300,000 Have Crossed Border. A semi-official statement issued to- day, says 300.000 Russians have cross- ed the German border since the war, notwithstanding the most stringent passport regulations. The newspapers assert that the intellectuals among these incoming across the border chose between death by inquisition or 8333 1Sth St. N.W. Phene Col. 1077 FROM Beginning Thursday Morning All Manhattan Shirts The twice-a-year Manhattan Shirt Clearance Sale begins at the P-B Store tomosrow morning at 8:30. Discounts range from 33% to 38% on every Manhattan Shirt in stock an.d include percales, madras (white, woven and printed) and silk mixtures. Full dress starvation, but that some of them long off and tuxedo shirts only are excepted. ‘As one of the principal distributors of Manhattan Shirts in the United States we offer stocks that are almost limit'less' in selection during this Sale, which is limited in time. .In the interest of your comfort we suggest that you choose early in order that you may choose wisely. Price Changes During Manhattan Sale . Queen Aids Campaign To Uplift Morals |- Of Modern Women By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1922. AMSTERDAM, Holland, Jan- uary 4—Certain Duteh men and women displeased with what they call the “unchaste and shocking” attire of modera women, have formed a_commit tee, the aim of whick is th moral elevation of women Holland, The committee is publishing & serles of stromgly worded ar- ticles in the me pers pro- testing against the “dissolute behav of mod: ‘women, who ost the discretion and fer ne timorousness of former timen.” Queen Wilhelmina, who al- ways setn an exampie of mod- esty in dress, has e herself as in_hearty sympathy with the work of the commit- tee. to return to their fatherland, knowing they are not wanted here. In the face of Germany's Inability to check this immigration, the hope is expressed in political quarters that the soviet gov- ernment will declare a political am- nesty. OFFER SWISS SCREEN VIEWS. Lantern slides illustrative of Swit- zerland in its many interesting ph: will be loaned to lecturers in Wai ington free of charge by the officl information bureau of Switzerland, 241 5th avenue, New York, it was announced today. A special lecture, describing “Schools and School Life in Switzerland,” written by a promi- nent Swiss writer, also is available, free of charge, together with slides covering this subject. The slides are both colored and plain. 366 AUTOS TAKEN IN YEAR. Thr~- hundred and sixty-six auto- mobiles were taken by joyriders and automobile thieves last year, and reports of the police automoblile squad show that fifty of them re- mained unrecovered at the close of the year. Many of them were re- covered at distant points, and mem- bers of the automobile squad re- x:rmzd them over the roads. $2.50 Manhattan Sh.irts are $3.00 Manhattan Shirts are $3.50 Manhattan Shirts are $4.00 Manhattan Shirts are now $1.65 now $1.95 now $2.35 now $2.65 $4.50 Manhattan Shirts are- $5.00 Manhattan Shirts are $6.00 Manhattan Shirts are $7.50 Manhattan Shirts are Reductions from 33% to 38% P-B Selections ~are 100% now $2.95 now $3.35 now $3.85 now $4.65 AUTHORITY UPHELD BY HIGHEST COURT Approval of Trade Commis- sion Action in So-Called Beechnut Case. Authority of the Federal Trade Commission to determine what are unfair trade practices was upheld by the United States Supreme Court yes- terday In the so-called Beechnut case, the court standing five to four. Three trade method cases previously decided by the Supreme Court which were brought under the Sherman anti- trust law, and not under the Federal Trade Commission act, as was the Beechnut case, settled, the court stated, “that in prosecutions under the Sherman act a trader is not gullty of violating its terms who simply re- fuses to sell to others, and he may withhold his goods from those who will not sell them at the prices which he fixes for their resale.” * “He may not go beyond the exercise of this right,” it added, “and by con- tract or combination, express or im- plied, unduly hinder or obstruct the tree and natural flow of commerce in the channels of interstate trade.” Beechnut Case Reviewed. In the Beechnut case.the court stated that “the facts found show that the Beechnut system goes far beyond the simple refusal to sell £00ds to persons who will not sell at stated prices. which In the Colgate case was held to be within the legal right of the producer.” The Sherman act was not involved except as “a declaration of public policy to be con- sidered in determining what are un- fair methods of competition, which the Federal Trade Commission is em- powered to condemn and suppress.” Analyzing the Federal Trade Com- mission act, the court asserted that Congress deemed it better to leave the subject of what constitutes un- fair methods of competition de- nounced by the act without specific definition, each case to be determined upon its own facts by the commission, subject to review by the courts, The methqgs and plan of the Beech- nut Company in its trade policy were described at length by the court, which asserted that the concern re- fused to sell its products to prac- tically all jobbers, wholesalers. and retailers who did not sell at prices it suggests, or who resell to other Jobbers, wholesalers and retallers who have failed to resell at prices suggested by it. Further, that it re- fused to seil to practlcaily all mail order houses engaged in interstate cothmerce, because they frequently sell at cut prices. and had refused to sell to practically all jobbers, wholesalers and retallers who sell its products to mail order houses. Other Refusals to Sell. The court also said it had refused to sell te practically all so-called price cutters, and maintained a large force of specialty salesmen or drum- mers who refused to fill their orders through jobbers and wholesalers who sell at prices less than suggested re- sale prices or who sell to others who do so. Reference was also made by the court to the various lists main- tained by the company of dealers, with key numbers to enable it to identify ‘the distributors from whom jobbers and retailers purchase, en- abling its representatives to identify price cutters, as well as those from whom they obtained their supplies, the company refusing to sell to the dealers from whom the retailers who cut prices obtained the supplies. Card records, the court asserted, also were maintained with the names of thou- sands of jobbing, wholesale and re- tail distributors, using to indicate the various classes of trade the words “Undesirable price cutters.” “Do not gell,” or “D. N. S.” the abbreviation for “do not sell,” or expressions of like character. The majority suggested a form of order which the Federal Trade Com- mision should have used in forbidding the continuance by the company of its practice. Justice Holmes Dissents. Justice Holmes, in dissennting, said: “The ground on which the respond- ent is held guilty is that its conduct has a dangerous tendency unduly to hinder competition or to create mo- nopoly. It is enough to say that this 1 cannot understand. So far as the Sherman act is concerned, I had sup- posed that its policy was aimed agalnst attempts to create a monopoly in the doers of the condemned act or to hinder competition with them. Of course, there can be nothing of that sort here. “The respondent already has the monopoly of its own goods with the full assent of the law and no one can compete with it with regard to those goods, which are the only ones con- cerned. It seems obvious that the respondent is not creating a monopoly in them for any one else, although 1 see nothing to hinder its doing so by conveying them all to one single vender. “The worst that can be said, so far as I see, is that it hinders competition among those who purchase from -it. But it seems to me that the founda- tion of the policy of the law to keep competition open is that the subject- matter of the competition could be open to all, but for the hindrance complained of. I cannot see what that policy has to do with the subject- matter that comes from a single hand that is admitted to be free to shut as closely as it will. Sees No Wrong Done. “And to come back to the words of the statute, I cannot see how it is unfair competition to say to those to whom the respondent sells and to the world, You can have my goods only 71 the terms that I propose, P —— @H@@@M New FBBitt F at Fourteenth In this Special |, -, Tabled'Hote Dinner We are catering - to - every taste—that you may en j oy every course soup to coffee. = Prepared, too, with the best ekill of the New Ebbitt cuisine. + A Dinner that's dif- ferent—and served in nnb environmen = t . that whets the appetite. Gx;.;‘]’: music — mean- w] you. sip your coffee and puff your ‘Havana. $1.75 per plate.’ e sifs T in deal the respondent’s will. I see no wrong in so doing and if I did I not think it a wrong within the pos- sible scope of the word unfalr. Many unfair suits under the Sherman to whom the respondent’s conduct 18 unfair T do not understand.” Justices McKenna and Brandels ap- proved ered by McReynolds summarized his dissent by asserting that the court proposed to make unlawful something would have been lawful had the com- pany been able to keep in its memory the names of unsatisfactory cus- tomers st in I I | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON,'D. O, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY %, 1922, with the existence of any competition TO PRESENT VIEWPOINTS. French and German Stana on Arms Cut to Be Explained. 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