Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1922, Page 1

o= WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperdture tonight slightly below freesing; slowly rising temperature tomorrow. Temperature for twenty- Nfour hours ended at 2 p.m. today: | Highest, 45, at 2:30 p.m.. yesterda: | lowest, 32, at 6 a.m. today. | "Full report on page 7. . Closing Ney York S_tm:lu, Page 23 Entered @s second-lass matter . post office Washington, D, C. U.S.NOTETOALLIES fisicie Fon'ar wiso No. 28451. ASKING FOR MR. WILSON; | DIDN'T KNOW HARDING WASHINGTON, UNLIMITED TREATY" ' WITH, SUNDAY MORNING®EDITION D. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH . power SETS FORTH FIRNLY, WARCLAIMDEMAND jdentic Notes Delivered in Capitals Explains Stand in Plain Language. BRITAIN IS DETERMINED TO KEEP OUR FRIENDSHIP Japan and Belgium Also Informed of Status—American -Atti- tude ,Forcible. - By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 22.—The note regarding payment of the costs of ®he army of occupation in Ger- ‘many, addressed to the Iuropean allies, reached the American em- b here yesterday and will be -presented to the allies this after- noon. The note sets forth the American attitude in clear and forcible terms. BRITAIN RECOGNIZES RIGHT. ZLord Curzon Will Not Allow Fric- tion to Arise. BY EDWARD PRICE BELL. Br Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1922 LONDON. March stated without res be n n_now retary Curzon recognizes unqual- ifiedly the right in equity of the United State: payment for its troops of occupati s regards the legal situation ari rom the non- rat on of the United S s of the" treat illes, Lord Curzon, as a_matter of form, will consult the the government. authorities e subject of legal rights and Lord Curzon will not allow n to arise with the Amer- cun governm He holds that not Jaw, but justice must govern in the matt There is no doubt that Prime Min- legal ad But no ni jeter Lloyd George will take a similar position,” and that “the cabinet will concur. Chancellor Horne declared ! in ihe commons last night with rer-! ercnce to Britain's debt to the United States that he would raise o condi- tions whatever affecting thé payment by Britain of both interest and prin- cipal. SUBMITTED TO CAPITALS. Japan and Belgium Also to Be In- formed of U. S. Stand. _Ba the Associated Press. Notes identical with that received Paris from the American govern- ment for presentation to allied rep- resentatives there were being submit- ted today by American diplomatic of- ficials to_the governments of Great Britain, Belgium, Frangge dialy- Japa 7 This statement was made today at the State Department and disclosed for the first time that Japan and Bel- Eium, in addition to the other three were to be informed as to the American position with respect to the demanded payment of American Rhineland occupation cost: Unoffi- cially it had been learned several days ago that the notes were to he sent to in Great Britain, France and Ttal Seate Department officials said the text of the American note probably would he made public here tonight. Troops at Allied Request. The attitude of the American gov. ernment has been one of positive b lief that such costs would be paid in full out of reparations received from ermany. It has been d by of- American | iisters of the allied powers were in 13 and4e, With the opening o® the conference Peter A. Speicis of Philadelphi called at the White House today and wanted to see President Wil- son. e refused to say what he wanted from Mr. Wilson, but said | he would tell that to him per- sonally. Asked if President Harding would do. Speicis replied: "I don't know him,” and, being furnished with VOTE DUE FRIDAY | | had Tived in amerion el vears | Bitter Attack Today on Four-Power Pact. MINISTERS IN PARIS TAKE UP NEAR EAST Drafting of Plan for Armistice Between Greeks and Turks First Step. DEBATE AT END; ISAYS IT BINDS U. S. TO AID LOKDON AND TOKIO PLANS !Claims of Secret Understanding Dropped After Denials From Highest Authorities. flood of prepared specches for against the four-power Pacific treaty was loosed in the Senate to- day as the period of unlimited debate ume to an end under the unanimons snsent agreement which will bring a cation vote Friday. A jund | SEVRES PACT UNDER FIRE| one-hour lumit on individual All the Allies Agreeable to Re- {specchies was effective at 3 pm. to-y H and several senators who had vision in Favor of Turk- ish Interests. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 22.—The foreign min- {prepared long addresses jostied one janother in bidding for recognition in the eleventh-hour crush of “canned oratory.” - | Senators La Follette, republican, of Wisconsin, and Walsh, democrat, of Massachusetts, were the headliners 2 ; today for the treaty opponents, while the first action would be drafting of | " \\\o other side the right of way @ plgn for an armistice between |, given to Senator Pomerene, demo- Greeee and the Turkish nationalists. ..t Ohio, a foreign relations com- This would be presented forthwith | o’ = nl S0 one of-the lead- to l!lP belligerents in an_effort to! < of the element of his party favor- iting to get in with speeches for nd #gainst the pact, leaders were to | doubtful whether a vote would be consider revision of the treaty of |le¢ached today on any of the pending Sevres in favor of the eTurne, | an |Teservations or ameadments. the allies are agreeable to a revision, | La Fellette Assalls Pact. but the French are represented as| The four-power arrangement was favoring rather more drastic changes | assailed by Senator La Follette as a than the' others; scheme of Great Britain and Japan Represcntatives of to secure co-operation and protection atantinople of the United States “in their future Paris today to confér on the near eastern situation. It was expected jwi French for Drastic Change. The foreign ministers also are both the Con- nd Angora (Ngtionalist) governments in Turkey afe e : 5 Fere to Y aetoming | sehemes of exploitation and im- this_respect chanzer, perialism.” He declared it was nd_ his have been here since Monday night, and the Marquis Curzon, British for- cign secretary, left for this city yes- | terday with a number of experts. Cutzon Sees Poineare. viewed by both British and Japanese statesmen as merely an extension of the Anglo-Japanese alliance which it abrogates, and that in actual practice it would result in binding the United States to support the policies of o ; i ndon and Tokio against such out- Lord Curzon had a talk with Pre- | (ghdo0 SR8 T 0 BE0 NS ssia and mier Poincare today and later the|Germany. French premier, the Italian foreign | Ill do not hkn;w." ‘a;xid Senator La o Sit | Follette, “whether the Brhish gov- minister and the British foreign sec- |, nmcnt would contend, it this pro- retary met, unattended by aides, for posed treaty went into effect, that its an informal exchange of views on dominions should each have a sep- the: near east before beginning dis- ?ll'fl(r vote under the treaty, as they e ave unde ’ i cussion of the different questions at e oguac of nations DA issue. all events we do know that the Anglo-Japanese policy of aggressie: and imperialism which made th British empire and the Japanese em- pire close allies in the past will cause | them to stand as & unit in opposition to the policies of any power in the Pacific ocean which dares to insist that the rights of weaker people there shall be recognized and pro- tected. Whether they outvote us six to one or two to one is not material. Notes Power of “Adjustment.” proper the British point of view of! the whole situation will be present- ed by Lord Curzon. while Signor Schanger and M. Poincare will fol- | Jow with brief declarations of the attitudes of their respective govern- ments. After this the ministers will begin work on specific subjects. It! is expected three or four days will be | required to complete the discussions under the agenda. ANGORA NOT CONFIDENT. “When such a controversy arises the signers of this ‘contract are to be convened. When so convened, the controversy is to be referred to them constituted as a board or body, and | it is to be referred not merely for consideration, not merely to be ex- amined into and reported upon, but Nationalists Little Disposed to Pin i Hopes on Conference. BY CONSTANT] BROW By vaole to The Star and Chicago Daily News. | SECRETARY DAVIS URGED FOR SENATE Friends Implol.'e Him to Run for Seat to Be Vacated by Crow. Another factor in the tangled po- litical situation in Pennsylvania ap- peared today. when it was learned from an ofiicial quarter that Secre- tary of Labor Davis is being strongly urged to run for the United States Senate in the May primaries. Professing the belief that the Labor Secretary would make a strong fight for the senatorship, left vacant by announcement that Senator William E. Crow. the incumbent, will not run in the primaries, a number of influential politicians and friends of Mr. Davis called on him at his home, in the Wardman Park Hotel, last night and made urgent representa- tions. that he offer himself as a can- ‘didate for the §eat in the Senate to succeed Senator Crow. Withholds Co Secretary Davis would not comment on the matter today. His home is in Pittsburgh, and he has a number of wealthy and influential friends and political - associgtes in the: western and central part of the stale. The Labor Secretary is understood to have a large following in and about the mining districts near Sharon, Pa. [Friends of the Secretary pointed out that although he might be willing to run for the Senate, there are several pressing matters of na tional scope resting on his shoulders as Secretary of Labor. Among these are the impending coal strike, which, : today ¥ Copyright, 1922, CONSTANTINOPLE, March —In- cials here, and the view is expected 1o be found in the note just dis it is to be so 3¢ 5 - referred for ‘adjust- | {T€ ;U0 obability, will be called April atched, that American troops were sent into Germany at the express re- quest of the allied government: that, under the terms of the armistice, to which America was signatory, costs incurred by those troops were to be paid on an equal footing with bills contracted by the allied governments for similar services; that the Ameri- can troops were sent in without thought of obtaining any privilege for the United States, and conge- quently the obligation for reimburse- ment of their maintepance is a solemn moral and legal duty. * Secured by Agreement The rights of the United States. it Rlso has been set forth informally, were secured also by agreement of the allies that the treaty of Ver- sailles, providing for payment of costs of all armies of occupation in Germany, should apply equally to the Tnited States, although this country was not a signatory to that treaty. It has been pointed out, alsc that the separate treaty of peace between the United States and Germany, reserv- ing to America all the rights accru- ing to_the allies under the treaty of Versailles, had met with expression of approval from the allied govern- ments. ‘The United States consequently is expected to rest its case for payment of troops in the Rhineland upon the ermistice, the treaty of Versailles gnd the separate treaties with Germany. WOULD HAVE NAVY 10,000 BELOW DENBY ESTIMATE House Committee Agrees on Bill Fixing © Maximum Enlisted = Strength at 80,000. | ment. formation received today from An-j uch an agreement as this enter- | gora indicates that the nationalists:ed into between individuals would be 1; immigration legislation, including a proposal for registration of all aliens, and the Labor Secretary’s have little confidence in the Paris conference. Since last Wednesday there has been a constant exchange of tel grams between London, Constant - nople and Angora,'and as the imme- diate result the Turkish generals’ all left the front for the general head- quarters at Sivri-Hissar, where a con- terence was held. At its conclusion Ismet Pasha, the commander in_chief, accompanied by Mouh-Eddine Pasha, departed for the southern army zone near Kutaia. while Keazim Pasha left for the front at Eskishehr. The information from Angora also indicates that the Turkish offensive will begin soon, as they are apparently convinced that the Greek army, the morale of which has suffered heavily, Scheme for establishment of a bureau |of atliletics, within the government machinery. These pending matters, it | held binding in any jurisdiction as an arbitration agréement. "Our distinguished _Secretary of State recently declined in behalf of this country to send representatives to the Genoa economic conference be- cause it ‘is not primarily an economic conference, and political _questions will, he fears, be discussed, and be- | cause he believes that we should not | participate in the conference with the i present rulers of Russia. The Genoa conference is to be purely a meeting for discussion. Yet the same Secre- tary of State and the same adminis- tration propose to tie us up with an obligation from which we cannot es- cape to go into conference with the two most imperialistic nations on the X There are at present several fac- face of the globe, no matter what v conduct they are guilty of, no mat- | tors waging battle for political con- trol of the state, no two of whom balance in favor of a refusal by the Secretary to run for th@ senatorship. In Need of Real Le; To offset these considerations, how- ever, politicians pointed out that the re- publican machine in Pennsylvanja is at | present without a leader, since the death { of Senator Penrose. The latter, it was patent, chinery within the State in his own hands, and made it a practice not to train lieutenants to follow his leader- | Was pointed out today, may turn the: had the reins of political ma- | cannot resist a vigorous attack. Once the Turks have won a victory they feel that they will be able easily to overcome the Greeks. SENATORS TO LEAVE CITY.! Going toMuscle Shoals Despite Re- qubest to Remain. Members of the Senate agriculture committee, after considering the r@- quest of Senate leaders that senators not absent themselves from sessions during consideration of the arms con- ference treaties, decided today to fol- low the previously reached plan to The House naval committee agreed Coday to report a bill fixing the maxi- mom authorized enlisted strength of tae Navy at 80,000 plus 6,000 appren- tices, or 10,000 less than the number Secretary Denby declared was needed to operate the treaty fleet. The bill also provides that not more than 200 members of each graduating class at the Naval Academy shall be commissioned this_year, in 1923 and 1924. There are 541.members of the girst class at the Academy to be gradne #ted in June. W. J. BURNS RETURNS. 'akes Ur Work of Price Fixing Investigation. Progress on .the preparation of price_fixing investigation results at the Department of Justice was re- - Col. Nutt said that he was disap- pointe@ because the proposed E:‘l’g hauls fell flat, as the prohibition agents expected to get dozens of i cages In their raids instead of only 2 instances. No information was forth- coming at the colonel's headquarters as to whether the informants were known’to the prohibition forces. While the large stocks of liquor got away, the prohibition. agents claim to know who owned i, and who brought it/ to Miami from caches in the Bahama Islands. This evi- sented to the federal grand T ABrL grand jury here dence, it is understood, will be pre-|Newspaper ter what people or lands they may ravish in the meantime.” ey apparently have been able to get to- Does Not Preveat Alliance. “If the.Anglo-Japanese alliance is any menace to fhe United States that menace will not be removed by our| ratification of this four-power treaty. On the contragy, it will be aggravated. After noting the apprehension with which our distinguished representa- tives who negotiated this treaty view- led the Anglo-Japanese alliance, I turned once more to the four-power pact they offer us as our sole means of salvation from the peril of this threatening alliance, and I found to my astonishment not a line or a word in it o prevent the renewal of the alliance between the Japanese empire | leave Washington Saturday night for |2nd the British empire whenever they | o 3isit tn company with House mem- | choose to renew it. At any moment bers to the Musele Shoals projects in | after we have ratified this treaty the Alabama, (Continued on Page 2, Column 7)) COL. NUTT BLAMES TIPS FOR FOILING OF $200,000 LIQUOR HAUL IN MIAMI By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., March Intoxi- cating liquors valued by prohibition agents belonging to the squadron working here under the ‘direction of Col. L. G. Nutt, of Washington, at from $200,000 to $300,000 got away from the raiders here Monday as & result of places being tipped off in advance, according to’ a statément made today by Col. Nutt. This liquor had ‘been spotted and checked by under-cover men who had been gathering evidence for a fortnighg before the raids, Col. Nutt said. gether. ) J¢ the Secretary’of Labor decides to run in the state primary in May for a Seat in the Senate, his running mate will be the incumbent of the seat miade vacant by the death of Senator Penrose. Senator Pepper, who was appointed by Gov. Sproul to fill the vacancy, will also run in the May primaries. The White House, it was under- stood, had not been apprised today of the urgent recommendation that Secretary Davis run for the Senate. | The attitude of the White House, therefore, could not be learned. Today’s News In Brief Favorable report to House on District bills ordered. Page 1 Unlimited debate on treaty ends; Sen- ate to/vote Friday. Page 1 Farmers driven from homes on Ulster border. J Page 1 Representative McFadden _discusses protective tariff and direct taxation in address to lumbermen. Page 2 Steering committee named to map housing inquiry. ¢ - Page 2 President Harding has been invited to attend the ceremony of unveiling memorial to Rear Admiral Peary April 6. Page 2 Soldlers not keen to leave Germany, they say on return home.. Page 3 Girl witness testifies Tex Rickard asked. her “not to tell on him.” 2 2 Page 3 on eve of prosperity, -ade meeting is told. - Page 3 Incidents of Lincoln’s life here told to Columbia Historical Soclety. Page & publishers and typo- graphical union, in negotiations for new wage agreement, strike “snag.” ‘Washingtos Board of Tr “Owners of the liquor and boot- sumed with the return of William J.|leggers had been completely tipped Burns, director of the bureau of in-|Off, with the result that when our Twenty-two men arrested in Miami = Page 11 last Monday in raids made by the|Kalorama citizens say smoke law is ‘ a few quarts, or a pint or so in some lprohnfltln agents were-to be given | evaded. Page 13 vestigation, from Florida vesterday.|men arrived there was not a drop of | preliminary hearings this mornin, o f B, e ay. | B B temsive stocks o be found” | before the United -States “commia: | ComMSsioners nree salary Ingreases gecently received by the Department |said the Nutt statement.” “The people | sioner. They were yesterday held On, 5 : 8! of Justice, Attorney General Daugh- |around these places frankly told our under bonds of $200 each. New citizens' association is formed at rty said, and it might be some time |men that they had been tipped off in Col. l‘xt: last evening received from | Glen Echo. Page 17 ‘ntil the final report could be made. [advance that raids were to be made | Prohibition Commissioner Roy A.[Savings bank on automatic plan in- Mr. Burns had no comment to make | Monday, and that there was no liquor Haynes in Washington a telegram stalled at Wallach School, in this law enforcement of the Volstead En his trip to Florida in the_ interest around those places. Careful searches conducted by the agents proved this to be absolutely correct.” congratulating him “on the great| city. Page 17 work that nas been commenced in | Divorce sxndicate bared in Miami wau the Florida coast lin Fork, Pageid gy ¢ { - ’ a 22, of the Associated Press Star. == Member ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the usp for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or mot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of speeial | | dispatches bereln are also reserved. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 94,889 1922—THIRTY PAGES. {CENTRALIZING ORDERED IN INTERIOR DEPARTMENT Bureau Chiefs to Send All Alaska Correspondence to Secretary i of Commission. Co-ordination and centralization of ithe administrative work of the Inte- rior Department in the bureaus charged with such work without tres- passing on technical matters is to be undertaken under orders sent out by Secretary Fall, he announ today. The first step in the work of cen- tralization. ary Fall said, would be instructions to all bureau chiefs having anything to do with admini. tration of lands or laws in Al send copies of correspondence to the secretary of the interdepartmental Alaskan commission. In this way, the Secretary said, the interdepartmental AMuskan commission will be advised of the -current status of al} mattgrs per- taining to Ala cretary F | 11 intimated that here- tofore bureaus not directly charged with matters under the administra- tion of the Interior Department have handled these matters. He added that in the work of centralization and co- ordination an effort swould be made to transmit all business to the techni- cqlly proper bureau. MAY PLACE BRITISH Winston Churchill -Hints at Way to Separate Warring Elements on Ulster Border. By the Associated Press i LONDON, March 22.—The British government may lave to consider whether it will be possible to draw a cordon of imperial troops between frontier, Winston Churchhill, the co- lonial secretary, stated in the house of commons today. LIVELY FIRING ON BORDER. Snipers Make "rugets of Con- stables and Farmers. | Bs the Associated Press. s BELFAST, March 22.—Desultory {firing continugd all day yesterday frory the Free State side of the border, along the frontier of Counties Tyrone and Mortaghan, between Aughnacloy and Caledon, mostly from snipers lo- cated in houses inside the boundary line, according to, reports from the border received here today. The Ulster border commissioners visited last evening the locality where the sniping <activities were in prog- ress and heard the shooting going on during a visit to Ballagh bridge, which divides the two counties, while Capt. Thompson and Head Constable Hall of the Caledon platoon, recon- noitering near the border, became tar- gets for the snipers on the other side. Specials Block Roads. There has been marked activity by the Ulster special constables in the Derry district since yesterday. Along the Derry-Donegal border they have blocked a number of by- roads, in some cases digging trenches across them. The specials are using shovels, crowbars and wheelbarrows commandeered from the Derry corpo- ration's street cleaning department. A force of Ulster specials has been moved from Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, to within a few hungred yeards of Clones, in the Free State, where there is a strong garrison of the Irish republican army. Five mo- bile platoons of specials from Omagh, Dungannon, Cookstown, Strabane and Killeter were concentrated last eve- ning in the Tyrone hills, from Pome- roy to the Sperrin mountains, and searched the countryside. The Cooks- town platoon found a number _of \rifles and made five arrests. Bullets Drive Out Farmers. Reports ‘from. the Ballagh bridge reglon dgclare that uniformed Irish repuklican army members were 7:; served moving between the occup | Houses and were presumed to be Te- lieving the @niping oum:-u. Two families in the danger zone moved thelr entire effects to a safer place in the Tyrone county interior in consequence of their farmhouses be- ing riddled by bullets. Similarly, an. other farmer was forced to seek shelter with friends in the Caledon district. | LINEBETWEEN TRISH iplained that Chairman Oliver.of the | REPORT ORDERED | OND.C. MEASURES, | ‘Favorahle Action Taken by ! Committee—14th Street i Extension Plan Gains. ( The House District committee to- day ordercd a faworable report on several important District measures isposed of several other ques- \tions in which the District residents| ‘are deeply concerned. | One of these is with reference to :l‘he extension of 14th street through {the Walter Reed Hospital grounds. | Representative Zihlman of Maryland, {who is favorable to this legislation, because many of his constituents live in territory which would be opened up | by this new approach to the National [L\mllal. reported that favorable ac- tion probably will be taken on this ‘measun by the House military affairs | committee as soon as the Muscle Shoals problem has heen cleared away. < This question was brought up by Charles C. Lancaster. who urged that the District committee seek to have this measure taken from the juris- { diction of the military affairs com- {mittec. Representative Zihlman ex- subcommittee and, in fact, the entire cammittee, with the lof Chairman Kahn, are favorabie to { this legislation, the bill now before {them representing a compromise { which Is satisfactory to the War De- |partment and to all interests con- jcerned. \ Denies Need of New Site. | In repty to a proposal by Repre- | sentative Keller of Minnesota, that if _ TWO CENTS. 110,00 . KIDDIES ID. C. BILL CONFERENCE . |- DELAYED BY ILLNESS OF MINORITY MEMBER ingle exception | | {REICHSBANK . AUTONOMY | {der the control of the allied commit- Conference on the $3.536,164, add- ed by the Senate to the District appropriation bill as it passed the House which Chairman Davis of the House committee in charge of this bill hoped to arrange for to- day, has had to be postponed until the last of the week, owing to the illness of Represeptative Ben | Johnson of Kentucky, the demo- | cratic conferee for the House. i Chairman Davis also explained today that Representative Ivans, the other republican conferec, 15 still engaged in drafting the State and Justice departments’ appro- | priation bill. He said he would make another attempt on Friday to arrange a conference: CONDITIONS FIXED FOR MORATORIUM Allied Commission Announces _Reforms That Germany Must Carry Out. Further Pledges May Be Resorted | to if Stipulations Are Ignored. Dy the Associated Press. H PARIS, March The conditions under which the reparations commis- sion will grant Germany a partial moratorium were announced today. | They include perfect autonomy ior the Reichsbank and new legislation to prevent evasion of German capital, the legislation 1o be ready for appli- cation upon a fixed date. H A number of reforms in German financial methods are stipulated. These must go into effect at fixed dates, beginning May 31. New re-| sources for repirations money must be found and the funds collected un- tee on guarantees, which will pass upon their effectivencss and probable yield. If they are found insuffidlent, the reparations commission will con- sider-a number of other measures, in- cluding a domestic or foreign loan, and eventually a levy upon capital in | German, stipuated that if reparation in kind to the value of payments 1.450,000,000 gold marks yearly are not entirely delivered the balance may be required in cash. If the German government fails to apply the reforms upon which the partial moratorium is conditioned the allies may resort to the terms of the annex to the treaty of Versailles au- thorizing them to take further pledges as a graduate for reparations payments. HOUSE TO MEET EARLY TO TACKLE BONUS BILL | Measure to Have Right of Way; Under Suspension of Rules. | Time Divided Up. ! A resolution making tomorrow a special suspension day in the House. so as to consider the soldiers’ bonus ! bill under a suspension of the rules was approved today by the rules com- mittee without a formal record vote. | Chairman Campbell of the rules! committee, said the House would meet {ana L i i = | this street is to be opened It would |2t 11 @m.. an hour earlier than usual ! be better to sell the present Walter | @nd that there would be an hour's de- the warring elements on the Ulster, i Reed Hospital site and establish a { real military hospital and medical ! center elsewhere. Representative Zihl- man told the committee that the bill, as now drafted, does not provide for the streets near the places where the | injured soldiers are now cared for, and that there is plenty of room to the south for a medical center and no real necessity for developing the Walter Reed, property west from 14th to_16th street. The House District committee au- thorized Chairman Focht to confer with the military affairs_committee regarding the prospects of early and favorable action, or. if necessary, to arrange for reference of the bill to the House District committee, Optometry Regulation. Former Representative James T. Lloyd, who Some years ago was a member of the House District com- mittee, appeared as attorney for the local association of optometrists and urged the passage of a bill which would regulate the practice of optom- etry in the District. M. A. Leese said that this bill is ap- proved by the Commissioners and by the medical board of the District. He said that the old peddler of spectacles has been driven out of every state in the Union, and that the only place he can now sell his wares is in the District. The fommittee registered its approval in principle of this legis- lation, and instructed a subcommittee consisting of Representatives Mills- paugh of Missouri, Underhill of Massachusetts and Woods of Virginia to draft a bill which the committee ‘will favorably report. Representative Zihlman presertted a favorable report from a subcommit- tee consisting of himself, thfierald of Ohio, and O'Brien of N. J., which pro- poses to do away with4lleged exorbi- | tant switching charges on freight cars between the Potomac yards and the (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) How miuch more fish are”sus- ceptible to certain chemicals than human beings has just been dem- onstrated by . the untimely death of most of the fish in the aquarium and breeding tanks of the United States bureau of fisheries. A minute quantity of chlorine, used recentiy “to purify the water for drinking purposes, while of not the slight- est possible effect on the human system, has proven the undoing alike of aristocratic trout and salmon and of plebeian catfish down at the bureau's building, | | bate on the resolution before bonus bill was reached. Only a majority vote would be neces tion of the resolu vides for four “hours Dbill. 3 i Chairman Fordney of®he ways and means committee will control two hours of the time of the debate on | the bill and Representative Garner of Texas, ranking democrat on that com- mittee, will control the other two hours. Representative Campbell said | Representative Fordney would place | one hour of his time at the disposal of Representative Treadway of | Massachusetts, who opposed tie bill. | Representative Garner said he would | allot one hour of his time to demo- cratic supporters of the bill. LADY ASTOR SOON HERE. Extensive Reception Planned for Peeress in New York. NEW YORK, March 22—Lady Astor, the Yomely Virginia girl who has been claiming headlines ever since she got intc the British parlia- ment, will arrive in New York April 19. This was the word received to- dey by Mary Garrett Hay, chairman of the New York City League of ‘Women Voters. It previously had been announced | that Lady Astor was coming to this( country to attend the pan-American ! conference of the National League for Women Voters, which opens_in Balti- more April 20, but Miss Hay made public for the first time plans for a meeting in town hall on the day she | steps ashore. A committee of promi- nent club and society women: will| meet Lady Astor at the pier and es- cort her to the hal the | ry for the adop- | n, which pro- debate on th bureau officials are genuinely mourning the demise of two four- foot sturgeons, who lived in the big central depressed pool and who had been carefully reared from babyhood. Some of the la- mented specimens had been there fifteen years. s At first the trouble was thought due to alum, ‘used in clarifying ‘water, although the erection of the filtration plant some years ago did away with the previous necessity for the burcau’s having its own filter. An investigation by a bu- reau official disclosed the fact that ENDANGER LIVES PLAYING ON STREET Inadequate Playgrounds of City Provide Accommoda- tions for Ongy 15,000. SMALL PORTION OF SITES ARE OWNED BY DISTRICT Desirable Locations Ciadually Growing Less as Business Prog- ress Makes Heavy Inroads. Strects. with their inerea hicular trafhc, furnish the only grounds for 110,000 young Ame within the District of Columbia. these highways they must get little exercise and wholesome their littie bodigs require on what DIy Keeping an strained 1o prevent the ves from becoming the victims of some rushing velicie. This city, The Star man found upos an examination of playground rec- crds, has only plavground facilities enough for 15,000 children, as agamst the child population of 125,000. And only a small portion of these grounds are owned by the District. There 15 the possibility always hanging over the playgrounds officials that hird of the space now loaned m: witiidrawn at any moment for com- mercial uses. o en Growing Less. During the past ound sites, which had becn loancd Ly the owners, were withdrawn to make way for the march of commer- cial progress. The little children whe had enjoyed their games on these lots were automatically thrown out of a play space and into the streets and its dangers. One of these was sought by the local playgrounds' officials, it was the Mades plavgrounds, at Xth streets mnortheast, and could have been purchased for $33,000, but the House refused to provide for it It has been sold by the owner now. This particular iot is located in 4 thickly settled section of the city. Another was the lot on Park road east of 14th street. Playgrounds ta- cilities were provided there for & number of years, but the privilege was withdrawn to permit the land to be used for a moving picture theater. The play equipment was removed some months ago, but the theater hus not yet been started. The Gallinger playground, F street between 21st and 22d streets north- t, also was closed! There is a pro- ision in the District appropriation bill, now in conference, for a $15,000 appropriation to be used in the pur- chase of ldnd to replace this play- year three play- |ground and to provide play space for the children of this section. $50,000 Asked for Groum: There is the hope that the confer- ees on the District bill will allow to stand the Senate amendment to the bill providing an appropriation of $30.000 for the purchase of land for a playground to take the place of the one at 14th street and Park road Continuous efforts have been made to impress Congress with the fact that unless adequate provision is made for the purchase of playgrounds now, the rapid growth of building in the city will forever remove the pos- sibility of providing space for whole- some play of the thousands of chil- dren For the most part, the playgrounds now provided for children of the National Capital are nothing more than schooi yards with a few pieces of equipment. The city is sadiy lacking in real playground spaces, where all forms of amuse- ment for groups of children can be conducted. Many of these so-called playgrounds are not open for the en- lire year. During the summer months, when vehicular traflic is at its heaviest, and_when the children should be kept off the streets in play spaces where supervised play can be provided for them, the schoolyard playgrounds are closed. Last summer, it was pointed out, the playgrounds department, through the volunteer help for supervision and the aid pro- vided by the contributions to the fund raised by The Star, it was possible to open and maintain twenty-five of these play spaces. Attendance Always Large. All of the playgrounds when open are used to their full capacity by the children of the neighborhood. Many of them come for many blocks every day, ®nd sometimes two or three times a day. in order to participate in the play provided. Attendance figures on the local playgrounds, the report of the result of the Department of Labor'8 survey of local playgrounds, show the need for more playground space, when they so-called the | are interpreted in relation to what a standar2 playground should offer 1o the child population of the district which it serves. Children, it points out, must have more than standing Toom to benefit from the kind of pro- gram which a system should adopt if it is to do satisfactory work. A good program should be made up of | activitics for every age of a child. ALL EGGS AND YOUNG FRY KILLED- | BY CHLORINE IN FISHERIES-TANKS and should consist of both quiet games and those that are demanded by the vitality of the young, that is, the active romping games and also group games such as base ball and basket ball, requiring a large amount of land for a few children, should be made possible. Desirable Playgrounds Limited. The report says that the areas given over to play in Washington are ex- tremely limited, and on this point the report continues: “If the standard playground is one which gives to children an all-round physical development and that stimu- lus which comes from various kinds of game reaction, then it is clear that the question of space per child has chlorine was being used, for the first time, it is stated, in the his- according to Dr. Hugh M. 'Smith, . fish commissioner. The use of the chlorine has Been temporarily mecessitated by the roily condition af the river at Great Falls, due to heavy rains and melting snows. All the eggs on the screens and all the young fry, which make ‘to%ol the city’s water supply. e aquarium is now practi- cally depleted of both valuable and common specimens. Bureau of fisheries officials expect that ‘with the changed conditions of settled spring weather, the use of chlorine will be discontinued and His house was immediately occupled! such an interesting’ exnibit for by snipers. | Jisitors, have been killed, it is rt. that -the snipers. jearned. So hgve 2l the 18 in . . Wo raiOUN uNpidy waaks, while i they will then start at once to re- stock the aquarium with as many varieties of fish and with as much ADeeG %8 DonRibis. ¢ everything to do with the needs and requirements of good playground work. Children so massed on a given number of square feet that they can- not swing. about are defrauded from the promise which a play space holds out. It is true that a eful selec- tion of equipment and expert super- vision will make possible the most advantageous use of a small area, but therc are limits to what equipment A 1-adership can do.” —_—