Evening Star Newspaper, March 14, 1922, Page 2

- 2*,... ECONOMY / - UPAT ANNAPOLIS! Fifteen Bills Introduced in Legislature by Montgomery County Delegation. Special Correspoadence of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 13—Fif- tcen bills were introduced house of delegates here tonight by the Montgomery county delegation to redeem the campaign pledges for more eflicient and cheaper govern- £ ment made to the eitizens of the |rights bi This_legisiation was | the country last fall. WOMEN'S FEDERATION RAPS EQUAL RIGHTS BILL Baltimore Republican Organization Says Interests of Women and Children Are Safeguarded. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, March 14.—Believing that the equal rights for women bill now_before the legislature is unnec- essary because of the fact that the iInterests of women in the industries and those of children are already safeguarded. the Federation of Re- publican Women of this city has sent @ letter to Galen L. Tait, chairman of the state central eommittee, ad- in the|ViSing him that the federation is an educational and not a legislative body, and that it is opposed to the measure. The state chajrman recently wrote to the federation, asking the support the organization for the equal 1. giving as his reason that Maryiand law contains some | prepared by a large group of men |@rchaic provisions which rum counter actively wdentificd with the organiza- tion of the democratic_party in the county. which’ group includes the democratic members of the board of county commissioners and the other county officials. This legislation has been thoroughly considered by Senator Jones and the _delegation. Boyer, the only republican of the delegation, has given .his approval to the program as introduced; which he states, in his opinion, is con- structive and for the best interests of the people of the county. Will Reduee Tax Rate. The county commissioners, after considering tre proposed legislation 2nd reviewing the necessities of the coming county levy, have announced through Dr. Benjamin C. Perry, pres- ident of the board, and Berry E. Clark, clerk to the board, that the board of commissioners will be able to make a reduction in the county tax rate for the year 1922. The majority of the members of the county school board when they appeared before the legislative delegation at Annapolis last week in support of the bond issue required for sctool needs and, together with County Superintendent of Education Broome, assured Sen- ator Jones and the members of the delegation that the school budget which the board of education is pre- paring to submit to the county com- Imissioners, would also allow an ad- ditional reduction in the tax rate for the county this year. Nucleus of County Police Force, Two of the proposed bils direct the county commissioners to appoint not less than three county-wide consta- bies who are to form the nucleus of the Montgomery county police force. This force will be financed by the creation of a “police fund,” which fund will not be raised by direct taxation, and for that reason will not increase the county tax rate. The county commissioners are further au- thorized to appoint additional con- stables to create an adequate county police force, provided the “police fund” is sufficient to equip and main- tain such additional members. These two bills will give Montgomery county tMe adequate uniformred and organized police-force that was prom- ed the voters in the last county campaign. The present need for such a police force exists principally for the protection of the thickly settled suburban areas adjacent to the city of Washington. Increases Jurisdiction. Another bill provides for increas- ing the jurisdiction of the police Jjustice at Rockville. In the proposed act, the criminal cases previously heard by justices of the peace throughout the county will be re- turned for trial before the Rockville . volice court. The bill provides that the police justice at Rockville shall be a lawyer, and throws numerous safeguards around the business ad- ministration of the propdsed police court. The justices of the peace throughout the county Tetain their concurrent jurisdiction with the police court in civil cases, and still are authorized to issue papers in criminal cases, receive collateral, ete,, but all such papers are return- able before the police court at Rock- ville, which now has only concurrent: jurisdiction wIth the various justices of the peace throughout the county, and now is trying appeoximately 1,100 cases per year, which fact alone would seem io justify the need of a lawyer as police justice. Requests Bond Issue for Schools. The county board of education ap- peared before the Montgomery dele- gation at Annapolis last week and requested a county bond issue of $60,- 000 for the following purposes: To complete the construction of the Dickerson, Gaithersburg and Pooles- ville schools, and to erect a high school at Sandy Spring, and to ac- cept the old Brookeville Academy site of Brookeville and erect a new county school thereon, to pay off the mort- gage of $5,000 on the Sandy Spring school property, to pay off the mort- gage of $8,000 on the Woodside school property, and 2o purchase a new site and erect a modern grade school at Takoma Park, Md. The school board also requested the cre- ation of a $5,000 fund to aid the rural schools. This fund will allow the county school board to offer the trustees and patrcns of the rural schools a similar amount for the improvement of their building to any amount that trustees and patrons themselves may raise. The school board called attention to the fact that Mont- gomery county possesses eight of the eleven standard rural schools in Maryland, and tho creation of this fund will materially aid Montgomery county to maintain its place as the county whose school system leads the twenty-three counties of Mary- * land in standard rural schools. Crentes New Office. Another act authorises the appoint- ment of & superintendent of school roperty 'or Montgomery , county, Wit an annual salary of §2.600. Un- der the present system the county superintendent is the only full-time school official, and it is physically impossible for one person to discharge the executive educational duties and also supervise “construction, repair and maintenance of school proper- ties. In addition to responsibility for the 102 existing schoolhouses of the coun- 1y school system, the superintendent of school property is given jurisdic- tion over the conetruction of new school buildings, the location and purchase of new school sites and the sanitary_conditions of all school prop- erty. He also has charge of the transportation system to bring pupils to the consolidated schools of the county. ) Law Fixes Salaries. Another law fixes th® salary of each member of the board of county com- missioners at $1.200 & year. Under ex- isting law members are authorized to draw per diem pay for service on the board of commissioners, as members of the board of health and again ss |commissioners to issue bonds not fo ex- | positions held by the rebels. pair | made many captures in the vicinity members of the board of assessment, and have further been awarded, for the past several years, traveling ex- penses. The salary fixed in this act is’a net reduction of moré than $350 for each commissioner. In addition to reducing salaries of the county com- missioners, the bills introduced to- night increase their duties by making them -directly responsible” for the county police force, and by repealing the act creating the board of the county almshouse and putting the coumty commissioners in direct charge of that institution. Disposal of Dog Taxes. Another act directs that dog taxes|tion upon their he paid to the clerk of the police court | ties et to the privileges granted by the nine- wlem:‘ amendment. n its reply the federation points out that it believes the WDnlel’; em- ployed in the industries are perfectly satisfled with the guarantees which the law has already provided. The letter concludes by saying that opposition to the equal rights bill is Bfowing all the time, and the federa- tion feels confident that it will be de- feated when it is put to a vote. VINE CHIEFS PUSH | PLANSFORPARLEY Discuss New Wage Agree- ment With Hard Coal Op- erators Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 14.—Further conferences of officers of the United Mine Workers of the anthracite field and a general meeting of the scale committee were held today, in prepa- ration for the conference with the coal operators here tomorrow to dis- :uss & new wage agreement for the ard coal miners. Final action on procedure for the joint meeting will be taken .after the arrival of Presi dent John L. Lewis and Vice Pres dent Phillip Murray of the interna- tional organization, who will partici- pate and lead negotiations between the anthracite miners and operators. The nineteen demands of the miners formulated at a convention at Sha- mokin, Pa. in January will be laid before the operators tomorrow, and & general-explanation of each demand will be made .by the. spokesmen for the union. The miners have informa- tion that the operators desire to give their side of the controversy and may make public a statement. Operators have declared that the price of an- thracite coal is too high, and that the mine workers shall share in any re- duction in price of the fuel to the con- sumer. No Defiaite Program Yet. Beyond presenting the demands miners have wot formulated any defi- nite plans so far as known. except that there will be a suspension of mining in the anthracite ficlds on April 1 if no satisfactory agreement has been reached at that time. There is no foundation for reports of arbi- tration boards or government com- missions to investigate coal prices and mining conditions, miners said today. It is too early to talk of those thinge, one leader said, as ne- | gotiations have not been opened and | the miners do not know how far the | operators will workers In drafting a new agree- ment. An investigation of coal prices h'i' often been spoken of among union men and was mentioned tp the Shamokin convention, averse to anyv investigation, provided they had representation among the | investigators, but no one hax for an inquiry. Sianked FORMULATE WORKING SCALE. Directors to Submit Same to Op- | erators’ Association. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va, March 14. —Directors of the Kanawha Coal Operators’ Association were in session here today formulating a working scale for the Kanawaa bituminous coal field, | which they will submit to the member- ship for ratification on Thursday. 3 action follows the refusal of the union leaders to attend a wage conference, ‘with the check-off and closed shop elimi- nated, proposed by the association. ‘William Petry, vice president of dis. triet No. 17, United Mine Workers, has called & meeting of the executive com- mittee for Friday, at waich policies to be presented to the district convention : March 21 will be outlined. OPERATORS SPURN PARLEY. Decline to Attend Wage Conference in Baltimore on March 27. By the Associated Press. v MORGANTOWN, W. Va.. Mareh 14. —Seventy-five coal companies, form- ing the Monongahela Coal Operators’ Association, today announced they would mnot join the Northern West Virginia Coal Association in its meet- ing with the United Mine Workers of [ance are now at Fordsburg and District No. 17 at Baltimore March to agree on a working scale. “'The Monongahela association re- cently agreed upon a scale providing | rebel commandos. for & 30 per cent reduction in mining rates, which it will undertake to put into effect April 1. 7 — e $1.800. With the aid of the permit Tecord for new construction, one county assessor will be able to assess all the |and Sunday was the center of the each | pattle area. resumed its normal ap- new construction in the county year. The objection of the present sys- tem is that by reason of the great num- ber of local assessors the assessments | Feuter's throughout the county are not uniform. It is expected that a more uniform and | shopping crowds and the fashionable 14 ent will result. | tearcoms and stores were all doing |as June, 1814, active system of assessme Another bill will Iimit total salary of not more than $3,000, all to be from fees, and requires any balance earned by the sheriff's office be turned into the county “police fund.” jInc.: BRIMISH CLOSE IN Capture Brakpan and Benoni €0 along with the | Mine | Porkers, 1t was " sarvoutlon. Mine | Africa, March 14—Government forces ‘This | eleven o'clock OF 1917 WAR REVENUE ACT Relief From ‘Pastal Burdens’ | Sought by American Pub- lishers’ Conference. Rellef from excessive burdens im- Pposed by postal sections of the war Tevenue act of .1917 was asked of Congress ‘today by the American Publishers’ Conference, an affiliation of daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, farm and business papers, religious and technical publieations More than 20,000 newspaper pub- lishers and owners are dfliliated in the conference, which is a non-par- tisan organization. The publishers insist that the pres- ent postal rates on second-class mat- ter were intended as a war emer- gency measure and the failure to re- peal or modify these provisions s highly discriminatory and manifestly unjust to.the reading public. Substanee of Program Adopted. The program adopted at a two-day session here calls for the elimina- tion of the last two increases in rates on second-class mail, which amounts to about vne-half of the in- crease authorized under the war revenue act. For the first time in the history of the publishing indus- try, all branches recognized the mu- ity of interests and agreed to co- operate in appealing to Congress for relief. At the meeting the publishers pointed out that practically all other sections of the war revenue act have been wiped out or substantially modi- fied. The claim was advanced that the retention of the excessive postal charges force smaller publications to suspend and made it necessary for national periodicals to restrict their circulation. Attention of Congress was called to the fact that daily and weeKly newspapers and national periodicals are essentially an asset to education, through the dissemination of public information. Organization Is Effected. “An orgapization was effected, to be known as the American Publishers' Conference, with headquarters~ in Washington. A. C. Pearson of New York. representing the National Pub- lishers' Asebciation, was unanimously clected permanent chairman, with S. E. Thomason of Chicago, representing the American Newspaper Publishers’ Asesoclation, as vice chairman. Other vice chairmen are: John Sundine of Moline, Ill., representing the Inland Daily " Press Association; John C. Brindlecom of Newton. Mass., repre- senting the National Editorial Asso- ciation; Charles F. Jenkins of Phila- delphia, Agricultural Publishers’ As- sociation: B. H. Anthony of New Bed- ford, New England Daily Newspaper Arsociation: A. O. Backert of Cleve- land, Association Business Papers, nc.; Uray Woodward, Owensboro, Ky. Southern Newspaper Associa- tion. and Robert B. Armstrong. of Washington, D. C., treasurer. 1 | DN RAND REBELS H From Revolutionary Strikers. By the Associated Press. JOHANNESBURG. Tnion of South have captured Brakpan, entering the town yesterday afternoon. Brakpan is & coal mining center, twenty two miles east of Johannes- burg and has been a revolutionary stronghold. A Cape Town dispatch last night stated that Maj. Gen. Van Deventer was marching on Brakpan after having captured Benoni. Bombardment Is Threatened. The commandos at Fordsburg, five miles west of this place, have been ( notified by the government that they must evacuate their positions by this morning, failing which they will be subjected to bom- bardment. Advices from the western district yesterday afternoon showed the gov- ernment_ forces were sweeping in | from both sides upon the commandos | fighting at Maraisburg, the advance government forces having reached the ridges overlooking the town. It was believed the lull in the fight- ing meant that Premier Smuts was trylng to obtain the unconditional surrender of the strike commandos so as to avoid the loss of life which | would be entailed in overwhelming i them with his forces. Raflway Line Dynamited. LONDON, March 14—Government forces are closing in on the revolu-| tionaries from the east and west, ac- | cording to late advices from South | Africa. The main centers of resist- | ] i Jeppestown, where the government forces are opposed by heavily armed A dispatch says the main railway ! line was dynamited near the Trans- vaal border, and a locomotive was de- railed, but there were mo casualties. Johannesburg, which on Saturday | | yesterday, according correspondent there. were filled with the to The | usual | i pearance streets the sheriff to a | business. Duteh Aid Troops. The corraspondent declares the In the past, there has been no limitation | Dutch burghers have materially as- upon the sheriffs galary. This bill is | sisted the British forces in their suc- introduced with the hearty approval the present sheriff, Alvey A. Moxley. Another “act authorizes the county ceed 360,000 to resurface and rej county constructed stone roads to extent of the expenditure of $3,000 mile, provided the state roads commis- sion accepts that particular mile part of the state highway sy: it | tenance. This expenditure by the county undoubtedly- result In better main- tenancé and general road service, Dboth to local and through, traffic, and | byt will not raise the county tax rate. It ‘has been decided that the county commissioners have ample authority under existing law to maintain the county road system, the only limita- eficlency and activi- 1a2¢ | of Nenoni and Dunswart. ““ 2| police deuchmanlt numbhe;infi stem, | after two days’ siege, both t which, of course, includes state main. |ars and the Durban Light Infantry will | yvance was mad of | cosses against the revolutionaries, be- ing especially effective in outflanking They In this operation. which relieved a 183 men | e burgh- inguished themselves. Their ad- et e under what the cor- respondent describes as a perfect ar- tillery barrage, and their losses were one officer - killed and ° two wounded. Slsughter Is Deplored. CAPE TOWN, Union of South Africa, March 13.—In the house of assembly ng - the amount of money |today members of the labor party de- { the group? D. C. TUESDAY, MARCH 714, 192 Maj. Gen. Peter C. Harrin (left), prexent adjutant general, who will be transferred to the retired list, on his own application, September 1, and Col. Robert C. Davis, who will succeed to the office. WORLD ASSOCIATION DRAFT SUBMITTED ‘FOR SENATE ACTION (Centinued from First Puge.) naval treaty, and we can rest assured that the military party in Japan would not complain if all the treaties growing out of the Washington con- férence were rejected. that called the Washington confer- ence shall be the first to reject one of the treaties, then there need be no surprise if other treaties are re- lc-rctod by_other powers and the work o the Washington conference de- oyed. ‘So grave is this danger that if this treaty is rejected I believe President Harding, if he should receive in- formation that other treaties would be rejected by other powers, should consider the withdrawing of all the other treaties transmitted to the Sen- ate and inform the other parties to the treaties that further action upon them will be postponed until the next Congress convenes, so that the coun- try at the elevtions next November will have the opportunity, in the elec- tion of senators whose terms are ex- piring. to express itself upon this im- portant issue. In Doubt on Course. “whether the President would take this course, I do not know, but it he believed that rejection of the four-power treaty by the United States would result in the rejection of the limitation of armament treaty by other powers he would be abun- dantly justified. ¢ “If the treaty be rejected 1 predict that no democrat indorsing that action will be elected to the Senate in any northern state. If this treaty be rejected the republican majority next November will be equal to that which it had in November, 1920.” Agree to Vote Late Today. The first issue of the Senate fight over ratification of the four-power Pacific treaty will be decided today, when & vote is taken on the amend- ment proposed by Senator Robinson, democrat. of Arkansas. Unanimous consent for a vote on the amenament at 4 pm. was glven by the Senate late yesterday on the proposal of Senator Swanson, democrat, Virginia, after an all-day attack on the treaty in which Senators Johnson of Cal- ifornia and Borah of Idaho, both re- publicans, took the lead. As modified yesterday by Senator Robinson, his "amendment provides that the rights of nations, both in and out of the four-power group. are to be respected, and that non-signa- tory as well as signatory nations shall be invited to any conference held to consider controversies affect- {ing insular interests in the Pacific “or any far eastern questions.” Ad- ministration leaders said they were assured of sufficient votes to defeat the amendment, which until Senator Robinson’s speech yesterday, favor- ing its adoption In the interest, he #aid, of Russia, China and other non- signatory nations, had been touched on but little in the Senate debate. Borah Sees Danger in Pacifie. Establishment of a four-power group in the Pacific, Senator Borah declared yesterday, would court a recurrence of the same situation which developed in jEurope In 1914 through the conflicting {interests of the triple entente and the triple alliance. After the war {he said, a theory arose that a single nation had been respomsible for it, but for many years before authorities had agreed that the next great conflict un- doubtedly was approaching and would have its genesis in the rivalry of the entente and the alliance. “Whether this new group gives rise to a counter group or not,” continued Sen- ator Borah, “it nmevertheless is a group 2gainst the outside world. Where is the means to confer with any one outside Suppose Russia makes an attack, where is the provision in this treaty for a confereifce with her? “In its begimning the triple entente in Europe provided for nothing in the world except a conference. They sim- ply agreed to do what you say we here agree to do—in case of an attack to consult and decide what means shall be adopted. Prior to 1914 gentlemen stood up in parliament again and again and declared: ‘There is no alllance; there is no agreement to use force.’ As late Lord Grey declared in parliament that there was no obligation to go to war unlkess the parliament de- cided to do so. Explains Rensons for Fears. “Now you are creating a group’in the Pacific, consisting of four great pow- ers. You are leaving outside China with her 400,000,000 and Russia with her 180,000,000 peaple, making up one- fourth of the human race. What dp you think will happen? “If trouble comes, you can have your conference in the Pacific. will assume that Congress is free, that it is not bound to act. But when your representative comes back from the conference and says, 4s Lord Grey said to parliament: ‘You are free, but the representatives of your govern- ment and of the other governments have decided on force,’ what will the Congress do?" Senator Borah reading from the parliamentary debates on the measure which put Great Britain into the war, quoted Lord Grey to the effect that while the triple entente was not an alliance and while there was no treaty obligation to enter the war to If the nation | "because no other methods are pro- vided.” Senator Borah pictured the possi- bility of aggression on Japan by Rus- sia and China, in which case, be said, Secretary Hughes would be called to confer with Japan. “I agree that he (Secretary Hughes) might refuse to consider war and come home, aid Senator Borah, “but you will have to agree with me that he might agree to declare war. And if he does agree and says to you, as & senator, that your representatives under article 1I have agreed that the only way to meet the emergency is to send in our Army and Navy. would not he be in a tenfold stronger posi- tion than Lord Grey was in 19147" HELD IN'$1,000,000 OIL FRAUD CHARGE Promoter Arrested in New York Accused in Houston, Tex., Case. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 14—Seymour E. J. Cox, promoter of Houston, Tex., {charged with defrauding investors |out of $1,000,000 in worthless stocks, waived examination and removal pro- ceedings when arraigned in federal court today. He stated that his af- fairs in Texas were all right and that he was anxious to go back there and answer any complaints against him. Case Goes to Grand Jury. HOUSTON. Tex., March 14.—The case of Seymour J. Cox, Houston pro- imoter, arrested in New York last |night ‘and alleged to have defrauded investors out of $1,000,000 through the sale of worthless oil atocks, will be laid before the federal grand jury here, now in session, and he may come to trial at the present term of court, | local officers announced today. His bond has been fixed at $25.000. F. H. Black, postal inspector, said Cox is alleged to have used the mails to send out circulars, photographs and statements which were fraudu- lent in connection with the promotion of the General Oil Company, Cox realization companies and S. J. Cox Company. Supbject of Litigation. Cox and the General Ofl Company, which he promoted, have been the center of numerous court litigations. In the midst of an unbounded pros- perity and while Cox was in France entering his airplanes in the race for the James Gordon Bennett trophy, the General OfI Company was put into the hands of a receiver and Cox was enjoined from acting as presi- dent of the company. New trustees were appointed. At about the same time, creditors of the General Oil Company; a twen- ty-million-dollar stock company, filed bankraptcy proceedings against the company. ~ Judge J. C. Hutcheson found that the company was “not in- solvent.” and for a time the General Oil Company progressed under the re- ceiver. Recently Judge W. E. Monteith de- nied_a petition of certain Chicago creditors esking that the property of the General Oil Company be sold at auction. Judge Monteith held it would not be fair to the stockholders, many of whom appeared in court in oppo- sition to the petition. Just what plans would be taken to finance the company were not decided upon, but Judge Monteith held that some other than selling the property must be de- i cided upon at that time. e lFrench ‘Wine Growers Get Little -~ Hope for Business in U. S. PARIS, March 14.—The wine inter- s of France, who are observing ational Wine Week” and holding a seven-day conference here to consider ways and means of retrieving France's former supremacy in the wine industry, I had their hopes of restored markets in the United States dampened by re- ports on the subject made at today’s conference wesxion. They werc checred however, by advices declaring there were prospects of larger sales of their products in Canada. | Baron Dauthouard gave a_ pessimis- tic report with to the male of | wine in the United States. Prohibition was there to stay, at least for the present, he said, and the best that could be hoped for was some amend- ment of the existing law. An imme- diate reversal of the forces that had ‘been at work for seventy-one years to make the United States dry could not be expected, he declared. LENTEN SERVICES B. F. KEITH'S THEATER 12:30 to 1 o’dock MAY NEED TO JOIN REPARATIONS BODY (Continued from First Page.) Harding as “tying his hands™ but it has been accepted as the best that could be done with Congress under the cir- cumstances. Other Complications. Now, however, developments are coming to the surface which indicate that American rights cannot as well be safeguarded by unofficial ob- servers as by official representatives. There is, of course, at the moment no pronounced feeling in executive quar- ters in favor of or against official representation on the reparations commission, as there are complica- tions enough between the executive and legislative branches of the gov- ernment over the pending four-power treaty and other pacts. No one would seek to add to the situation in the Senate. But while Congress is debating po- litical phases of American participa- tion in foreign questions. the repara- tion commission is in the main an economic matter. If it should devel- op that American aloofness on eco- nomic questions costs the American taxpayers $241,000,000 that they might have had this year instead of in the indefinite future, the item is recognized as having political pos- sibilities in it. Former President Wilson asked for permission of the Senate to send a representative to the reparations commission to look after American rights, but was unsuccessful. Since that time no direct request has been made by the Harding administration, though the allies are on record as having on more than one occasion in- vited America to join in the repara- tions discussions as she is entitled to do under the terms of the armistice as well as subsequent treaties. Reports Not Taken Seriously. Officials here are not inclined to take seriously the press reports that Europe will ignore America's claim for $241,000,000. Europe will certainly not imagine for one minute that American public opinion will look with favor on closer co-operation with a Europe which begs an Ameri- can Army to stav on the Rhine for moral effect and advantages to it and then insists that the United States has no right to expense money specifically provided for by the armistice and the sections of the Ver- sailles treaty accepted when Ames- ica made peace with Germany. To some extent the embarrassment oft the allies in having a meeting on the question of German payments and being unable because of America's absence to do anything but generally reserve American rights for future discussion is felt here as unavoid- able. America is not trying to accuse the allies of attempting “to put some- thing over,” but merely hastened to put in the claim for $241,000.00 be- cause of a possibility that American silence might be misconstrued as in- l | YALE ALUMNI TO DINE. President Angell and Chief Justice Taft to Speak. President Angell of Yale University and Chief Justice Taft of the United States Supreme Court wiil speak at a Banquet to be held at 8 o'clock to- night at the Racquet Club by the Yalo Alumni Association of Wash- n. o dent Charles C. Glover, ir., of the local club, will preside. A’ lurge gathering of Yale men living in. this city 18 expected, and it is likely that Yale men from Baltimore and’other nearby cities will be in attendance. EXPECT REVOCATION F LIBRARY RULING! School Board to Take Up Pro- tests of Citizens Against Indiscriminate Use. Revocation of the resolution provid- ing for the indiscriminate use of the proposed public school branch librarfes, demanded by more than & dozen civic organizations and clubs, will be consid- ered by the board of education at a meeting tomorrow afternoon In the Franklin School. The board also is ex- pected to take action on a resolution of the Piney Branch Citizens' Associa- tion demanding that the use of Muz- zey's American History in the high schools be prohibited. The question of rescinding the library resolution will be brought before the board by the various civic bodies which have gone on record as opposed to the ‘use of the branch libraries by the white d colored races. Due to the wide- spread opposition to the resolution, school officials confidentially predicted today that the board probably will re- voke it. Action on the Muzzey's History ques- tion has been deferred by the board pending the receipt of a report from Supt. Ballou. The report of Dr. Bal- lou has been completed, and will be submitted to the board tomorrow. The superintendent, however, refused to reveal the contents of the report. but intimated strongly that it would de- fend the use of the text book in the high schools. Dr. Ballou said he could answer the criticisms of the Piney Branch Citi- zens' Association by showing that all of the alleged unpatriotic quotations cited by the organization were con- tained in the original edition of the book, the use of which was discon- tinued about ten years ago. The Muz- zev’s History now in use, he said, is a revised edition. ONLY WOMAN IN HOUSE lGOES HOME TO FIND WOMEN SET AGAINST HER (Centinued from First Page ) they want me again they will elect o. “It is true that 1 was the head of ian anti-suffrage movement and I was lunpopular with the suffragists. Bu Innd work as I do? Why do they not get political positions such as mine? { Why do they not come into the House of Representatives? ‘Why did I vote against the Shep. rd-Towner bill? Because I believe. with President Hardinz. that ‘the one outstanding danger of today is the tendency to turn to Washington for the things which are the tasks or the duties of the forty-eight common. wealths which constitute the nation. Just Call “Robertson.” “] was elected tg Congress as & representative of the people, not as a woman. Wken they call the roll in the House of Representatives they do mot use the prefix ‘Mister, but merely call a man's last name. The iother representatives were very much pleased when I insisted I should be no different; that I should not be called_‘Mies,; but just plain ‘Rober- son’ Why shouid I claim as a woman any preference and cause confusion by being specially distinguished as such?” Miss Alice is particularly defiant of the club woman, not only of her own state, but of the nation. She believes that they represent but a small pro- portion of the “real womanhood and lrgal mothcrhood” of Amersi 1n op- posing the “maternity bill” she de- ]{clared that if the pitiless light of pub- {licity were turned upon the methods iwhich brought it to enactment. even its most ardent proponents would de- = why do not these women come out ! PRESIDENT FISHES OFF PALM BEACH Morning on Ocean to Be Fol- lowed by Golf—Will At- tend Receptipn. B the Associated Press. PALM BEACH, March 14.—President Harding arrived at 10 o'clock this morning aboard the McLean house- boat, and boarded a fishing smack for a short fishing trip. The houseboat was anchored in Lake Wortna, and none of the party came azaore. this morning. The President's plan calls for a golf game in the afternoon and he expected to board a spezial trat 8oon thereafter and return to Augustine. Arrangements nave al- ready been made for the special train equipment to take the President back to St. Augustine. The private car will be brought down from St. Augustine and made ready for the President and Mrs. Harding. Officials of the American Legion in Florida, gathering here for the legion's state convention coincident with his arrival, sent Mr. Harding a convention badge and their regrets that he would be unable to address them. Mr. Harding announced before leaving Warhington that he woula be in Florida for rest and would have to decline all invitations to make ad- dresses or take part in public func- tions A large quantity of mail and tels- grams had been sent ahead here for the Prosident The ideal weather conditions which the President has met with ia Florida continued today. ST. ANGUSTINE, Fla., March 14.— President Harding and Mrs. Harding have deviated from their announced intention of joining in no public er- tertainment during their vacation in Florida and will be honor guests at a public reception at the Ponce de Leon Hotel here, Wednesday nigiat, it was announced today. Fifteen hundred in- vitations were being sent out today TREASURY VIEWS EXPECTED TODAY AT BONUS HEARING (Continued from First Page. bers of the House—Representative Treadway of Massachusetts, a repub- lican member of the ways and means committee, and Representa- tive Hawes, democrat, Missouri— Loth of whom expressed opposition to the bonus bill. and the announce- ment by Representative Frear of Wisconsin, z republican member of the ways and means committee, that he had written Secretary Mellon “re- lying” to the latter of the Treasur: Read” to' Mr. Fordney in which Mr. Mellon declared the bill, if enacted, ould involve a “dangerous abuse of government credit.” & Mr. Treadway declared it was “ap- parent that an effort to pass a bonus bill at this time is futile unless | financed by a sales tax.” The people. ihe contended. want less rather than ! more taxation. ! "1t was hoped some satisfactory plan could be found for properly financing payments of a soldiers’ bonus “‘withou: { embarrassment to the federal Treasury. Mr. Treadway's statement began. “The communication received from Secretary Mellon shows that the new suggestion is as unsatisfactory,as previous ones. {No one can contradict the sound logic {of his argument even though some of the statistical information may not be {borne cut.” Makes Letter Publle. Mr. Frear made public his letter to Secretary Mellon. In it he predicted that the revised bill “will be reported {with little opposition and will pass the {House 5 to 1,” and subsequently would {be approved by the Senate. Adoption of {a sales tax, he contended. would “even- tually shift $1,000.000,000 or more in income taxes now paid by the wealth of the country over the shoulders of the consumers ‘of the land.” “You have objected before the com mittee,” Mr. Frear told the Secretary, “to any inheritance or gift iaxes or the re-enactment of the excess profits tax. You have suggested taxes to which we finally tentatively agreed, only to be in- formed that the President, whom ¥You frequently see, would veto & bill if ‘ac- companied by such taxes.” MIXED JURY LOCKED UP. Six Men and Six Women Deliberate Through Two Nights. TRENTON, N. J.. March 14.—For the second time within a week a jury i difference to what happened to the {mand that further time be given to|composed gf six men and six women German fund. Many other questfons of an eco- nomic”character will be decided by the reparations commission, questions of tariffs affecting American indus- tries. and while officials will make no prediction as to whether Congress will be asked for the necessary per- mission to join the commission, the truth is that a political issue may develop out of it all if the opposition party can prove that American aloof- ness cost the United States money. Watching Developments. For the moment the government is biding its time and watching develop- ments, but it would not be surpris- ing to see a request made of Con- gress for permission to act more effi- ciently in the preservation of Ameri- can economic rights in Europe. Having demonstrated already through the instructions given Am- bassador Harvey and Ambassador Herrick at the meetings of the su- preme council and the council of am- bassadors that the Harding policy of aloofness from political entangle- ments can be maintained even while speaking the American viewpoint on broad _questions of especial interest 10! the United States, there's a feeling that Congress will not offer as much objection to joining the reparations commission today as it might have last autumn, when the Berlin was first submitted to the Senate. {(Copyright, 1922.) | SUGGEST DEBT BOARD ACT. Treasury Officials Talk of Method of Procedure in Collection. In case the War Depaitment does not succeed in obtaiging funds from Germany for support of the American army of oocupation, the newly created allied debt-funding commis- sion may conduct negotiations to that end, it was e as the bellef of Treasury officials yesterday. In discussing the matter, it was %;m;n of mm“’?‘m" the jul iy Tumetion. but if. it became ‘matter of ng payment of the debt the nmew commission, of which Mellon is ‘would hear from the great majority of wom- |"I| who know nothing of the proposed {Tegistation. and who, if they knew the {facts, would speak in no uncertain terms against it. Miss Alice has other troubles than |the woman opposition. Her stand against any cash feature in the sol- | @ler bonus has brougnt forth denun- {ciation by the various veterans' or- { ganizations. She found this out very {soon after her return to Oklahoma. {Her needed rest was quickly forgot- {ten. She appeared and presented rea- !sons for her stand before the Musko- gee posts of the American Legion and The Veterans of Forelgn Wars. I Opposition Unorsanized. The opposition to Miss Robertson which has developed over these two iquestions is not well organized. It is an undercurrent based upon al- leged disregard of the wishes of the “folks at home.”” Miss Alice is not {half so worried about the attitude of the woman voters as she is of the ex-service men—"her boys.” The at- titude of these ex-service men réveals a condition typical of politics. Throughout the war Miss Alice worked day and night distributing comforts to the homesick soldiers | who passed through Muskogee on troop trains. The war over. the re- turning warriors found a haven of rest and delight at Sawakla, her country home. One or two even chose to wed their waiting sweet- heart in the Sawakla library. When the Muskogee post of the American Legion was organized, it met for months in the cafeteria operated by Miss Robertson downtown. As a pl.flln§“.;hol1 before leaving for ‘Washington, Alice said: “You will observe that in every com- munity in m{, district, where the League of Women Voters has a chapter, the president of the local chapter, vested with full authority in the appointment of committees, j8 & democrat.” Miss Rob;nson yas elected to Con. gress in 1920 by the narrow margin of 200 votes. She defeated W. W. Hast- ings, democrat, who is sure to oppose her at the polis in November. Repub- lican leaders in eastern Oklahoma say Mise Alice virtually will be unopposed in the primary. party spokesmen declare her record as representative is a proud and praiseworthy one. The ing cam] in Okla- ter ond, and the central homa s sure to be a will be were forced to carry its deliberations through the night. when a panel yes- terday in a $35.000 damage suit 'a(nlnxl the Public Service Rallroad Company was locked up by Judge Frank Lloyd of Mercer court. Three of the women jurors wers also on the jury that.was locked up for the night on March 8 and whose deliberations over an assault charge ended in a disagreement. FOCHT HAS OPPOSITION. Judge Qgeu to Fight for Party Nomination in Congress Race. Special Dispatch to The Star. SUNBURY. Pa., March 14.—Repre- sentative Ben K. Focht, whose home is at Lewisburg and who represents the “shoe string” district, comprising Franklin. Fulton, Huntingdon, Juni- ata, Mifflin, Perry, Snyder and Union counties, it is said will face the hard- est contest of his career. The district is strongly republican. Fulton is the only demoeratic county in the string, and the majority is {relatively small, but Focht will have opposition within his own party. Friends of Associate Judge Edward M. Beerp of Mount Unlon, Hunting- idon county, are laying plans to have ihim capture the nomination from | Focht. BIG LIQUOR RAID BEGINS. Hundred Armed Deputies Leave Jacksonville on Intensive Search. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 14— More than one hundred armed depu- ties, volunteers from the American Legion and representative citizens, left here at daylight today on what was belleved to be the most intensive search for-liquor ever attempted in this county. The raiderg proposed to comb every nook and nny of Duval county within a radius of twenty miles west of Jacksonville for moonshine stills and caches of bootleg liquor. Jack- sonville's supply of moonshine largely originates in the territory the search- ers were to traverse, and prohibition officers, although they have seized scores of stills in that section during the last two years, have been unable i | i aid on France, there was a moral obligation, mm to take action. in the same manner that the hunting | avaflable to maintain the 1,500 miles = e e eiying Un he en Speaker Tomorrow to break up the industry. ecause France, plored the “ghastly slaughter” on the licenses are now paid to the clerk of the circuit court. This will eliminate the necessity of the payment of 25 per cent of these fees to local “col- lectors, as at present, and the balance raised from this source—after charges for domestic enimals killed by dogs in the county—will be &p- ‘The only pro- of county road system. in sddition to |Rand in connection with the mining poped road leglaiation, thé resurfacing bond issue, is to su- |strike, and demanded that the gov- thorize the county commissioners to | ernment negotiste immediately for purchase not more than ohe-half an Paying | acre of ground in each of the com- i missioners’ districts for storage of road machinery. This act also re- plied to the “police fund” for the]quijres the clerk of the county com- maintenance of the county police. missioners to keep an inventory of Another bill requires, a building { such machinery. permit costing $1 for construction costing more than $300. This is in- tended to provide a record of new construction for assessment purposes. The fees derived from these permits will go into the county “police fund.” the cessation of hostilities to prevent further loss of life. ‘Government spokesmen denied the assertions of labor members that the strike movement had only assumed a revolutionary character when the gov- ernment began to employ force. tente, had her navy in the Mediter- ranean and her coast to_the navy. Senator Borah asked whethér, in the associations of five years, the United States' moral obligations probably would be any less. He said that parliament had not been free to debate the war measure and that Mr. Balfour had cut off dis- <cussion. 2 Calls Treaty am Alliance. Senator Borah emphasized that there was no provision in the treaty for conference between the United States and B4 sny &ttack one of the treaty. "It cannot be any other tham an alliance Tor war.” said Senator Boreh, m‘ IE"!I' Such negotiations by the commis- sion for fumding American demands if the payment is deferred would be carried on by the tommission with BANDITS GET $6,000. the ailied reparations commission, it|Four Shot Following Waylaying of was satd. Treasury officials declared there Bank Runner. ILADELPHIA, March 14—Rob- ‘was no possibility of German propert; seized as alien by the United suu{ PH] during the war being used nst | ert McGirr, a bank runner, was held the claim of the United States for | up and robbed of $13,500 as he left support of the army of occupation, as| the Southwestern National Bank, at the goods seised here wers the proj of individual German clti izens, as the bill for the army of occupation should go to the German government. | two policemen and two bandits were It was indicats however, that the seized jperty here might be used | purs: more than :P & “lever” in ol payment —e. “KEEP T0 THE LEFT.” London Gradually Extending Traf- fic Rule to Pedestrians. N; March 14'—The “keep®to tmg"" em, which in London's traffic has been & source of bewilder- ment to many a confirmed “keep to the right” American, is being intro- duced gradually among pedestrians. At_the recent annual meeting of the Safety-first Council, it was an- nounced ‘that the rule had been adopted by many local councils, and the hope was expressed that it would bé followed in cantral Londanm. ..