Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1922, Page 1

by WEATHER. Member of the Associated Press Fair and not guite so cold tonight, with lowest temperature near frees- ing; tomorrow fair, with rapidly ris- ing temperature. Temperature for 24 hours ended at The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all mews d'spatebes credited -to it or not otherwise credited in this paper aud also the local news publiched heretn. Al rights of publication of pecial 2 p.m. today: Highest, 46, at 2 pin. I today: lowest, 27, at 6 am. Full report on page 7. today. __a osing Ne\_v York Stocks, P_age 24 » No. 28.452. ODGE MARSHALS. FORGES IN SENATE T0ADOPT TREATY Only 11th-Hour Switch Can Upset Calculations on Four- Power Pact. 65-28 VOTE EXPECTED IN BALLOTS TOMORROW Brandegee Reservation, Regarded Unhurtful, Only One Likely to Be Accepted. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. oUn the eve of a final vote in the Senate on the four-power FPacific treaty, absolute confidence in the ratification of the pact was expressed today by Senator Lodge, chairman of the foreign relations committee. All the votes have been carefully counted and listed. Only an eleventh- hour switch can upset the calcula- tions of the leaders. And no such change of front is expected. Expected to Stand 65 to 28. When the vote is cast tomorrow on the resolution of ratification, the sup- porters of the treaty say, it will probably stand 65 to 25. Senator Jones of New Mexico, democrat, op- ponent of the treaty, is paired with Senator Crow of Pennsylvania and Senator Fernald of Maine. (Ratifica- tion requires a two-thirds vote, which accounts for the pairing of an op- ponent with two supporters.) It was intimated today that possibly the vote in favor of the treaty might be even stronger than these figures show: that one or more of the democrats now counted upon to vote against the pact would, in the end, support it. Assured of Votes. Counting the entire membership of the Senate, the suppogters of the treaty affirm that they are assured of the backing of fifty-six republican sen- ‘ators and eleven democratic senators. | They hope. as has been said, for one or two more democratic votes. Four republicans only are arrayed against the treaty. Today, under the unanimous con- sent agreement, the senators were limited to speeches of not more than an hour's length—this limitation be- gan at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. When the Senate convenes ai noon tomorrow, the voting on the treaty, any amendments and reservations which may be pending, will begin without further debate und will con- tinue until the treaty is disposed of. One Amendnient Pending. One amendment, offered by Benator Robinson of Arkansas, was pending today when the Senate met, and also two reservations by the same senator, and reservations proposed by Sena- tors Johnson of California, Pomerene of Ohio and Walsh of Massachusetts. The Robinson amendment was the pending question In the Senate. It would add at the end of article I of treaty the following: ‘Each of the high contracting par- | refrain from entering into or being a party to any secret treaty, agreement or understanding with any other power or powers during the life of this treaty.” The defeat of the amendment is assured, it was said. Concentrate on Reservation. The opponents of the treaty today were concentrating their efforts to obtain a sufficient number of votes for the Robinson reservation, which provides that outside nations with whom controversies may arise shall be invited to a conference with the| representatives of the four powers. It was said by leading democrat today that the drive had been so suc- cessful that anly two or three more votes were needed te affect the de- sired result. Democratic senators ' Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. & U. S. AGENTS SEIZE MAN LOADED WITH DIAMONDS WORTH OVER $85,000 By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 23.—Dia- monds, whose wholesale value Was estimated‘between $85,000 and $110,000, were’ seized today by customs officials. Francisco Cha- mie, forty years old, a rubber dealer of Para, Brasil, alleged to have lllegally imported the gems, was arrested while trying to dis- Pose of them in a West 23d street Jewelry shop. Chamie arrived here March 8 on the steamship Pocone from Rio de Juneiro. He had since been un- der surveillanc il e by customs When arrested, he is sald to have had in his possession elgnt envelopes, a knotted handkerchief and a hatband fitted with pockets, containing hundreds of diumonds, Twenty-five of the stones ranged in size from two to twelve karats, eight of the stones welghing more than elght karats. Most of the gems were unset, but fifteen were set in platinum rings of elaborate designs. PASSAGE OF BONUS MEASURE INHOUSE TODAY IS ASSURED Suspension of Rules Voted as Members Enter on Final Debate. Passage of the four-billion-dollar soldlers’ bonus bill by the House be- fore adjournment was made certain today with the adoption of a gegolu- tion providing for consideration of the measure under a suspension of the rules. The vote on the resolution was 221 to 121 and was without a roll call. Previously the House had adopted A motion for the previous question by a roll call vote of 276 to 126. As the rolf call proceeded there was more than the usual hubbub on the floor and those in the crowded gal- leries, strangers to congressional customs, looked down In surprise as the members milled about, talking and laughing, while the clerk read the 435 names on the list. Those who voted were forced to| shout at the top of their voices in order to have their vote heard at the clerk's desk. Party Lines Broken. There was a breaking of party lines on the vote for the suspension resolution. Many of the democrats| who voted In the negative on this} motion were counted upon to support the bonus bitl on the final vote, and leaders were confident that more than the two-thirds majority required under the rules would be obtained. ICHILDREN GUARDED [by those who have made surveys of the WASHINGTON AGAINST CRINES BYPLAYGRDUADS Less Juvenile Delinquency | Prevails in Sections With | Adequate Play Sites. THEALTHY MIND AND BODY | | 'Dangernm Influence of Street “Gangs” Prevalent Where Youths Are Denied Proper Facilities. Juvenile delinquency prevails in higher percentages in those sections of the Dis- jtrict without playgrounds than in those | parts of the city waere the kiddies have | wide and sufficient recreation spaces and | some one to supervise and direct them | In wholesome play to occupy their active | bodies and minds, figures compiled by | the children’s bureau show. 1t Iy a noticeable fact In the figures gathered playgrounds situation here that the per- centage of juvenile delinquency de- creases in proportion to the increase in tae number of playgrounds in the vari- ous police precincts. Blame for this juvenile delinquency is not placed wholly op the lack of play- grounds in certain sections, however, as | home environment has much to do with | it. But the figures seem to point to the fact that the utter lack of or inadequacy of playground space is » large contrib- uting cause to the increases in child crimes. However, if these kiddies in the bullt-up_sections could have some play | Space waere, for the greater part of the | day. their exercise and play would be dgirected in a wholesome manner, the | point of view of life they would receive under the instructors would largely counteract that which they find In their bomes, Danger in “Gangs.” Young District of Columbia is no different from the rest of young America. His little body and brain are active and alert. He is just flow- ing over with action, and if there are no playgrounds where the outburst- ing of this energy can be directed he gathers with the “gangs” on the curb- stones, in the stieets and, worse, up in the alleys, where rascality is hatched. * While the outlying sections now have fair playground facilities, there is the ever-present possibility that | some of these privileges may be with- drawn at any time. A large number of these playground spaces are lent by private individuals, und may be withdrawn at any time unless provis- lon is made soon for their purchase for child recreation: - Other play- grounds are on large open spaces ad- joining schoolyards. - These may be taken away by necessity due to the erection of new buildings on the plots Chairman Fordney of the ways and means committee was at once recog- nized by Speaker Gillett for & motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, whereupon the House launched into four hours of discussion. Some members were given onlv one minute, others two minutes, others three, but by unanimous consent .all had leave to extend thelr remark# in the Con-, gressional Record during the next ten days. 3 Protest “Gag Rule.” A sharp fight against what they characterized as “gag rule” was launched in the House by democratic leaders immediately the majority presented its program for passage of the folir-billion-dollar soldiers’ bonus bill before adjournment under a sus- pension of the rules. When Chairman Campbell of the rules committee submitted a resolu- tion to make this suspension, Repre- sentatlve Garrett of Tennessee, the democratic leader, made a point of order, declaring that it was “the| avowed and sole purpose” of re- publican leaders to put the bill through In such fashion as to prevent the offering of a motion to recommit, and asserting that this was in viola- who intend to vote for ratification of the treaty have been appealed to to support the Robinson reservation. If a sufficient number of them can be pushed into line, it is the plan to inform Senator Lodge that unless the Robinson reservation is accepted the treaty will be rejected. So far, however, even the supporters of this movement admit that they have not enough votes to accomplish their purpose. ‘The Pomerene reservation provides that any adjustment of controversies arising between the four powers them- selves or with an outside power, and understanding_arrived at with an out- side power following conference, in order to be binding upon the United States shall be ratified and executed in accordance with the constitutional methods of the United States. Rescrvation by Walsh, The reservation offered by Senator Walsh of Massachusetts provides that “if the United States should grant to the Philippine Islands their independ- ence subsequent to the ratification of thé four-power treaty, the inde- pendent Philippine state shall be ad- mitted to all conferences called under the terms of the said treaty and enjoy the same rights and privileges as the original signatories.” Senator Johnson has presented the so-called original Brandegee reserva- tion of the rules of the House. There was a hot discussion on the point of order. By unanimous agreement the House had met an hour earlier today than usual. When Speaker Gillett's gavel fell there was a large attendance of members and the galleries were well filled, the spectators including many former service men. Speaker Gillett overruled Mr. Gar- rett’s point of order after a brief but sharp wrangle between leaders on the two sides. Representative Campbell sald the same point of order had been made two years ago and had been overruled at that time, the Speaker holding that the rules committee was within its rights when it reported a resolution for suspewsion of the rules for six days. Representative Pou of North Caro- lina, ranking democrat on the rules committee, opposing the suspension of the portables or additions neces- sary to take care of the rapidly in- creasing school population. This rapid increase in the school popula- tion in itself, it is pointed out, in- creases the needs for play spaces. Distribution of Delinquency. Studies made by the children's bu- reau of the Department of Labor of juvenile delinquency in a number of cities show that it is concentrated in the sections, where the poorest liv- ing conditions prevailed. In this re- spect Washidgton was no exception. Police precincts numbers two, four and six, which include the greater part of the downtown section of the city, had the highest percentages of delin- quency, being 3.3, 3.5 and 4.1, respec- tively. In general, the result of the inspections by experts shows that the sections having the poorest play fa- cllities_also had the greatest amount of delinquency. Precincts Nos. 2 and 6, which, to- gether with Precinct No. 4, show the greatest percentages of delinquendy, | have but two playgrounds for the 7.387 white children, of whom 180, or 24 per cent. were brought before the Juvenile Court in the year ending June 30, 1920, the last year for which figures are available. “Both of these playgrounds are in precinct No. 2. Precincts No. 2 and 6 have no play- grounds for 4,163 colored chiidren, of wrom 232, or 5.6 per cent, were before the court. Influence of Playgrounds. Precinct No. 3 has less delinquency than the adjoining precinct, No. 2, but covers a much larger area and has but two playgrounds, one of which is very small and has been open but a short time. In this precinct there are no playgrounds for colored chil- dren, of whom 2,803 live in the sec- tion, including 112, or 4 per cent, who were delinquent during the year studied. The same may be said of precinct No. 5, which has but two playgrounds for the white population and none for the colored children, in (Continued on Page 21, Column 6.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) GHOST MAKES NIGHT HIDEOUS FOR STAUNTON, VA., RESIDENTS The Antigonish ghost of Nova Sco- tia fame has its southern parallel in the ghost which is said to haunt 2 tion, which was discarded by the Con- necticut senator during the considera- tion of the treaty in committee fol- lowing a_discussion of the matter with the President. Still other reservations, it is expect- ed, will be offered for the considera- tion of the Senate before taw dAnal vote is taken Brandegee Reservation Pending. Ther= Is pending, of course, the for- eign relations committee reservation, drafted by Senator Brandeges and un derstood not to be regarded by the President as hurtful to the treaty. This rescrvation has been -attachad to the rerolution of ratification by the foreign relations committea and pro- vides that “the United States under- stands that under tie statement in the preamble or under the terms of this treaty, there is no commitmant to armed fcree, ne alliance, no cblization to juin 10 ary defense.” ‘This reservation, and this one alone, the leaders declare, will be adopted. Senator Owen of Oklahoma and Sen- ator Trammell of Florida, both dem- ocrats and counted in favor of the treaty, who have been away from ngton, are expected to be here £Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) mansion house on the outskirts of Staunton, Va., according to J. W. C'ol- lins, & Southern railway officlal, who now makes his home in Washington, but who was brought up on the farm where the ghost makes his nocturnal visitations. 3 Unlike the Antigonish ghost, it is related that the Staunton visitor ap- pears In his ghostly form from time to time, frightening farm employes which the farm animals, dogs and horses, seem to fear the sight or sense the presence of the visitation, according to Mr. Collins. The ghost, according to local tales, is the spirit of & man named Menefee, who, many years ago, owned the mansion house and the 450 acres of fertile farm land around it. He be- came involved in debt, Staunton resi- dents say, and died repenting that his children would be left practically penniless. Since his death his ghost is sald to wander about his mortal home, apparently with no intent to terrify, but to satiafy himself that all is_well on his former domain. and making the night hideous for those who sleep in the mansion house. Spirit rappings, slamming of doors, firing of shots and digturbances among the farm animal in the dead of night, accompanied sometimes by a weird sound as of a high winter wind sweepidg around the house, while Teaves in the trees are lifeless, are some of the manifestations of the Staunton ghost. On several occa- sions farm hands have been confront- ed with a specter apparition which sud:cnly disappeared from human sight. Animals Also Frightened. One of the most pitiful. occur- rences in connection with the ap- pearance of the ghost is the way in The farm several years ‘Was pur- chased by a Cleveland man. who after- ward lost his fortune and sold the farm to an official of a middle western rail- Moans Heard in Night. Mr. Collins lived on the farm for many years. He said the ghost does not always appear at night, nor do his manifestations always make themselves apparent. Some nights, however, while the occupants are asleep, there will suddenly come a banging of doors, and & moaning as of a high wind about the corners of the house. At the same time, he _adds, down in the barn the horses will suddenly begin stamping, and on RESULT FROM EXERCISE |- | sizzling by August, the contests will ¢ Foening WITH SUHDA¥ MORNING EDITION D. C., THURSDAY, POLITICAL POT SOON T0START BOILING llinois Primaries to Open Campaign Predicted to Become Hot. Two weeks from next Tuesday the first of the nation-wide primary and convention methods of naming candi. dates for election to the House of; Representatives will be applied, Iili- nois starting the ball rolling. Then, through April, warming up in May | and June, getting hotter in July and proceed. The last primary or con- vention will be held not later than thirty days prior to election. Candi- dates for thirty-five senatorships are also to be chosen. Before midsummer much water will | Rhave gone over the political dam, and incumbents who contemplate renomi- nation will have had opportunity to make their records. The coal strike will efther have won or failed by midsummer, it is thought, and it effects upon politics can be gauged. The treaties growing out of the ‘Washington conference should be out of the way, the tariff bill approaching completion by the dog days and busi- ness revival either registering or fal- tering. Politicians do not seem to be very much interested in the bye-election in Maine this week as an index reliable at least of the tendency of the times. Both political camps by a line of special pleading, Wero able tg. draw comfort. or to profess to do Bo, out of the Maine result. Their conten- tlons would sound plausible, accord: ing to political conviction—one pays | his money and takes his choice. H Backward Political Spring. Political observers and writers who have essayed to “sound out” the po- litical sentiment of the country re- port nothing but a very fluid state of opinion, which is not yet crystallizing; it seems to be a backward political spring. Some of the old-timer politicians in Congress think this condition may continue for some time and that the fendency of political_thought may not take a decided drift until late in the summer. Even then, it is held, there is such an apparent state Of uncer- tuinty and restlessness that some striking event in the heat of the fall campaign might serve to entirely di- vert its course. Absence of old political line-ups and the undoubted existence of inde- pendent sentiment to a -marked de- gree cause the politicians more anx- foty than anything else. They fear that these conditions throw down the bars to most any kind of an unwel- come surprise at the polls in Novem- ber. Worried Over Differences. One source of Worry to the repub- lican political managers is the assert- od differences of opinion between the House and the President on several important questions. This, too, in spite of the expectation, it is sald, on the part of republicans in Congress to hitch their chariots.to the presiden- tial star and take advantage of the administration's prestige, which isad- mitted to be not below par. > There is the bonus blll, for instance, over which there is distinct cleavage of opinion between the House and the President, both sides at this time standing pat for their respective con tentions. There is the difference over the Army and Navy appropriations, the House proposing a program of re- duction which is deplored by the ex: ecutive on account of its drastic char- acter, and with respect to the Navy, its international effect. Democratic political managers are hopeful that out of these differences in the majority party will arise con- ditions which will inure to their ad- vantage, and that is about as far as they go. They are also praying that the efforts of President Harding and other national leaders of the party to Sompose the differences may prove futile. ‘The Azure Ring’ By ARTHUR B. REEVE Bogtns 1n Today's. Star. This is one of the Week End Fiction Series—each story. compilete jn three installments, the last appearing in day’s Star. Read the First Install- ment Today Satur- MARCH 23, MISSING MISS MIAMI SOUGHT BY AIRPLANES No Trace Found of Flying Boat Carrying Five From U. S. to Bimini, in Bahamas. By the Associated I'ress MIAMI. Fla., March 23.—Up to 9:30 {this morning no trace had been found of the fiying boat Miss Miami, which left here at noon yesterday for Bimini, an island in the Bahama group, and which was reported last tination. A gov Key W plane rnment plane sent out from st and a privately owned out from Palm Beach reached here this morning and report- ed as not having seen plane. which it was feared might have been forced down in the gulf stream. | These planes are being held here awaiting the return of another plane which left Miami at daybreak for Bi- minl. The steamship Lumina wirelessed as having seen a plane out at seat off Jupiter at 7 o'clock this morning, but it is not believed here it was the Miss Miami. ‘The Miss Miami carrfed five pas- engers, Mr. and Mrs. August Bulte and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. 8mith of Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Dixon of Memphis, Tenn. It was piloted'by Robert Moore. The wireless apparatus at Bimini is ut of commission. $200,000,000 TAX DEFICIT ESTIMATED Enormous Shortage Forecast in Revenues From Income and Profits. On the basis of reported collection of income and profits taxes of the March 15 installment a shortage of $200,000,- 000 in the estimated revenues from these sources for the calendar year 1922 was estimated today by tae Treasury. Original estimates of revenues from income and profits taxes for the calen- dar year, high officials said, were $1,- 740,000,000, while returns from the March installment now indicate the total for the year will be $1,540,000,000. Final receipts for March will not be in hand before the end of the month, of- jficials said, but reports received from collectors so far indicate that not more than $400,000,000 will be received, as compared with approximately $728,000,- 000 for the corresponding quarter last year. Estimates Made. Estimates for the March quarter of this year, officials continued, placed the total at $460,000,000, 50 that the falling Off in these receipts probably will mean a shortage of over $100,000,000, in revenues esti- mated in the budget for the fiscal year 1922. Estimates of tax collec- tions on June 15 were originally $315,000,000, officials explained, but with a more than $60,000,000 drop in the March collections, it was thought the decrease of the two Qquarters prior_to the end of the fiscal year Would be about $100,000,000. The shortage in tax collections on March 15, officials sald, was due en- tirely to the business depression during 1921, the year upon whiah the taxes arc due, as the new tax law did not become effective until the first of this year. The expected shortage of revenues, high officials asserted, would retard the Treasury's program for con- tinuing the reduction of the public debt, as appropriations made upon the basis of budget estimates would have to be met by further government bor- rowing to provide the funds. Secretary Mellon was understood to regard the drop in tax receipts as making it all the more difficult to take care of any proposed bonus legislation calling upon the Treasury for financing. % —_— SECRETARY NOT IN RACE. Mr. Davis “Not Considering” Offer- ing for Crow Senatorship. Commenting today on representa- tions made by several friends that he run for the United States Senate in the Pennsylvania state primaries in May, Secretary of Labor Davis said o Jonsidering” offering g'hnla'l‘t. u.u: candidate to sucoceed Senator Crow. The.latter has an- nounced he will lr:‘nt"‘b; a candidate in_ th aries 5 nscn:wr George Wharton Pepper, the junior senator from Pennsylvania, will run in the May primafies - > yore the missing | Star. dixpatehes ] herein are also reserved. | 1922 —THIRTY-SIX PAGES. 1 i | AGREE ON §1,q00,000 FORLANDIND.C. Congress Conferees Want Present Buildings—Ship | Board May Get Millions. ernment should appropriate $1,500,- 000 for the purchase of seven plots of land on which there are now tem- porary buildings, and the leases on| which will expire before the end of | the present fiscal year, has been reached by the conferees on the ap- {propriation bill for independent es- | tablishments, according to a report which will be filed in the House to- day by Representative Will R. Wood of Indiana. | | i back to the House for a separate vote, but the House conferees will urge that It be approved, as a strictly business proposition on the ground that the government will save that much on rent gplone in three years by continuing to use the present bulldings. Other Points Settled. The conferees also agreed on four other points which had been in contro- versy. One of these was regarding the | general accounting office personnel. The House put all of these emplayes on statutory salary basis. The general ac- | counting office, with the support of tae { Senate, has been contending for a lump sum appropriation. A compromise was reached whereby most of the positions will be statutory, but a lump sum ap- propriation of §375,000, to be used prin- cipally for temporary employment of cheaper clerks, has been reached. A modification was also agreed to in regard to the $55,000,000 which may be collected by the Shipping Board, and which that organization wanted tie authority to spend. The agreement pro- vides that the Shipping Board ma: sperd $25,000,000 out of the $55,000,000 10 e coliected during the fiscal year Ten May Get Over $25,000. The conferees also agreed upon a! modification regarding the number of | employes to whom the Shipping, Board may pay salaries in excess of $25,000. The House recently set the maximum at six. The Senate raised this to thirteen and a compromise was reached on ten. The appropriation for: the United States tariff commission was also in controversy. As passed by the House the bill carried $300,000. The Senate raised this to $375,000 awd the conferees had compromised on $320,000. It is expedted that the House will| |lapprove the tentative agreements i reached by the House conferees. POLISH WOMEN ON JURIES. WARSAW, March 23.—The govern- ment has adopted a resolution giving | women equal rights with men sitting | on juries. American and English prec- edent was quoted in the debates on this question, the settlement of which makes Foland the first country of conti- | jing at a moderate speed ! night 'as not having reached Its des-| Unanimous agreement that the gov-| This item of $1.500,000 must come | FIVE SLEEPERS DERAILED;; NOBODY SERIOUSLY HURT Seaboard Air Line Train Hits Open | Switch—Cars Roll Over Into Ravine. | Striking an open switch near Al-| berta, Va., sixty miles south of Rich- mond, the Seaboard Air Line’s mid- | south special was derailed early to-! day, five sleepers leaving the track and turning over. DPassengers who reported the wreck on arriving here shortly before noon said no one was serfously injured. The train, which was bound north- ward from Columbia, S. C., and carried a number of passengers for New Y and toher northern points, switch was reached, Maj. maine, U. S. A., one of the said. The engine, tender and baggage car held to the rails, but all the sleepers except the rear one went into a shallow ravine along the tracks. l’assengers in the sleeper that stayed on the track as- sisted passengers from the overturned cars and all were brought to Washing ton on a later train, the Florida limited. SIXYEAR-TERMIDEA AGAININ LIMELIGHT President Harding Is Not| Averse to Change—Other Officials Differ. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. President Harding is not averse to the enactment of a constitutional amendment limiting the chief execu- | tive of the United States to a single | term of six years. Although Representative Wood of Indiana, republican, who has just in- troduced in Congress such a proposal for an amendment to the Constitu n, was said at the White House today to have refrained from discussing the suggestion with the President, it is a fact that Mr. Harding has recently expressed in informal discussions a deep interest in the question of what the presidential tenure should be. Mr. Harding is not particularly con- cerned whether the limitation affects his own tenure or not. He is said to have remarked on one occasion that it would be a source of much satisfac- tion to him If the question of re- election were disposed of definitely during his term of office. It is also true that some of Mr. Harding’s ad- visers have differed with him on the merits of a single presidential term and have urged that the present un- written custom of the American peo- le is, Hay of dealing with presidential suc- cession. Could Not Aftect Present Term. So far as Mr. Harding is concerned. eoven if a constitutional amendment were passed by two-thirds of both ‘hnule! of Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states before the elections of 1924, it could mnot af- fect the length of his present term. There would be no bar, either, against Mr. Harding's re-election for a term of six vears, beginning in March, 1925, but those who know Mr. Harding best say that if a federal amendment providing for a single six-year term were to be added to the Constitu- by it and would decline to be a candi- date for renomination. There are diverse views in the term. Attorney General Daugherty is said to be one of those wWho think the present system is all right Others, however, believe that the de- sire for re-election gets into the minds of American Fresidents, and frequently makes them less positive in their decisions during the first term. Some argue, too, thut u Presi- dent who takes a firm attitude is frequently threatened with political reprisals if he is a ‘candiuate tor re-election, whereas if there were a single term he would be inclined to act more independently and fear- lessly. Lacks Effective Support. Few federal amendments are adopt- ed unless there is behind them active organization. The merits or dgmerits of the present scheme have not been agitating the public very much, and no particular organization has been clamoting for a change in presi- dential tenure. The last formal action taken by a national body was that which the national convention of the democratic party took at Baltimore in 1912, more or less at the behest of William Jen- nings Bryan. Woodrow _Wilson never felt himself bound by that plank, but his viewpoint was that it ‘was none of his business but the af- fair of the democratic party, and if the party decided to change its mind at a future convention It could do so0. History showed that the demo- crats unanimously - reversed them- selves by nominating Mr. Wilson four {le." later at the St. Louis conven- on. = Just after the election of 1912 the nental Europe to legalize woman jurors. BY JANE COMPTON. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK. March 23.—The wom- en have two weeks more in which to| complete their case against “Civic Virtue”—the $60,000 MacMonnies stat- ue proposed for City Hall Park, in which Virtue is represented by the male of the species standing with his foot on the neck of a woman—"‘Temp- tation.” Mayor Hylan's hearing Wednesday was tempestuous, but the women claim it way a cloud no bigger than & man’s hand compared to the storm that will-brfak a fortnight hence. During this fortnight the Women are to muster. all their forces, and with national support from all parts of the country they are confident they can force a change of design in “Civic Virtue,”, which -will show man and woman standing side by side, equal in virtue—or equ in temptation, whichever way you care to put it | One little woman, King Black of the National Woman's Party, has come ut in favor of the statue as it is. But some suspect her praise’ to -be qf the back-hand va- riety. . Going into Greek mythology for some .of -her arguments. Mrs. (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) WOMEN HISS WOMEN, MEN SMILE, AND °CIVIC VIRTUE’ BATTLE RAGES Black says that Medusa fell because “she made a god of a man.” She adds that Adam must have been a bit of a “nincompoop,” and that it was “lucky woman was created,from a bone in a man’s side, instead of in his head.” “Man today is casting woman into the gutter, same as usual” she avows, and therefore the MacMonnies group will be nothing out of the ordinary. One of the great issues growing out of the “Civic Virtue” dispute has to do with the moot question as to whether the feminine figures of the group are merely women or mermalids. Talk Turns to Fish. This phase of the question naturally has turned the discusson to fish. Mrs. Black says she wants the statue erected to signify that women must not allow men to ‘make “poor fish” of them any longer. Mrs. 1da Osborne of the Twenty- first Assembly District Association shudders at the effect the statue may have upon the future race. “As for l\u:)‘ that the women are not women, but only mermalds,” she adds, “I never heard that a fish was mythology,” Boole, state head and national vice president of the W. C. T. U, *“and civic virtue is not a myth, so why at. tempt to lug in mermaifs? In th! statue the man is represented as a EYutmhy's Net Cifcuflfion, 94, after all, the most satisfactory | tion, he would consider himself bound | administration circle as to the singic| | will dectde upon the. distributi 838 TWO CENTS. DAUGHERTY SAYS NO STRIKE VIOLENCE WILL BEALLOWED ‘Believes in Right of Miners to Quit, But Bans Interfer- ence With Workers. DEFINITE STATEMENT WHEN WALKOUT COMES Attorney General Says Federal Ac- tion to Be Drastic Unless Barred by Court. Warning that the federal govern- ment would tolerate no use of vio- lence to prevent coal production dul ing the threatened coal strike was sued toda, by Attorney Genera Daugherty. Mr. Daugherty declared he was making no threats, as he believed a nian or a set of men have the right to strike in an orderly manner, but that they did not have the right to Inter- fere with those who took their places. The Attorney General did not dis- close the government's plans in the event of a walkout, but it was under- stood that he conferred yesterday with President Harding and Secretary Davis upon the possibility of a public appeal by the President to avert the strike. Mr. Daugherty said he did not be- ve the government would have to ait until there was an actual coal ortage before it could take action. His theory, he explained, was that since fuel was an indespensable part of transportation, the government had e same power to act in the case of | any ‘interference with coal production that it would in the event of any inter- ruption in the nation’s transportation system. The Attorney General, without elab- jorating on this statement, then pro ceeded to say that action by the EOvV- ernment in connection with a coal strike would be a little farther step than had been taken by any other coun- try, a little more drastic and a little more specific, but his mind was set upon it and only a court could block it. He added it was probable that at one minute past midnight on March the Justice Department would have something to say on the situation. HOUSE BILL ASKS PROBE. Bland Introduces Measure for Full Investigation. Investigation of conditions in the coal mining industries by a special commission to be appointed by the President is called for in a bill in- troduced today by Representative ! Bland, republican, Indiana. three members, would be instructed to make inquiry particularly into wages, hours of employment and working conditions of miiners, and into the causes of the “present industrial dis- pute” between the operators and miners. The investigation would embrace both the anthracite and bituminous | fields. { MAKE 11TH-HOUR EFFORT. i Little Chance to Prevent Strike Seen—Gompers’ Aid Pledged. By the Associuted I'ress. NEW YORK, March 23—In an eleventh-hour attempt to halt prep rations for a nation-wide strike the coal industry, | | in the arbitration committee of anthracite miners and operators met behind locked doors today at the Union League Club. The committee was composed of eight men, four miners and four op- | erators. With them sat two non- voting neutrals, a chairman and a secretary. John L. Lewis. president of the international organization of United Mine Workers, headed the miners’ delegation. The spokesman for the operators was S. D. War- riner of the Lehigh Coal and Navi- gation Company. Upon the conference will depend whether the 200,000 anthracite workers shall proceed with their 400,000 brethren in the bituminous fields and prepare to drop their tools April 1. while their nineteen wage demands are given consideration. The miners' representatives enter the meeting with little expectation of reaching: an agreement to avert the strike. “Of course, Mr. Lewis. Agreement Is Possible. “Iit would be possible for us to conclude an agreement within forty minutes. Such a thing might happen. But I recall that similar wage arbi- trations In previous years have taken from four weeks to several months. “There is no reasonable doubt but that the general strike will be called April 1, as scheduled.” Representatives of the operators de- clined to make any predictions as to the outcome. They continued to main- tain strict secrecy concerning the program of wage reduction which they will offer as the basis for a new contract, as opposed to the wage de- mands of the miners. Delegates chosen yesterday to at- tend the meeting of the’national gen- eral policies committee at Cleveland are preparing to leave for that city tonight. They, with nearly 200 delegates from bituminous unions, on of the 10,000 men who will be left in the mines to protect properly while the strike is in progress. Questions of financing the strike also will be declded at Cleveland and plans laid for distribution of strike benefits in case the cessation of activities continues until it works hardships on the families of the miners. | i | we have hope,” said $2,000,000 in Chest. Plans will be devised for the assess- yment of strike dues in local dis- tricts, to swell the $2,000,000 “ches! which union leaders estimate is al- ready available. Mr. Lewis announced today that the United Mine Wworkers were still ready and willing to meet with the mine owners in any move to decide upon e scale. His organization fect accord with attempts inistration at Washington operators to change absolutely rnf:‘x_-ln‘ to pe. of the adm to “urge the their policy of deal with the union4” he sai Coal_distributors & New York to- Continued on Paga 10, Column 1 “Continued on Page "f lumn fad The commission, which would have