Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Cloudy and colder, followed by rain Iate tonight or tomorrow. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, today. Full report on page Highest, 70, at 65, at 6 a.m. Closing New York Stocks, Page 23 [ No. 28458, PRESIDENT DECIDES T0 PUSH CHANGES INTDEPARTMENTS Resolves to Wait No Longer for Three Cabinet Mem- i bers to Agree. PART OF REORGANIZING PLAN READY FOR ACTION Expected to Be Submitted to Full Joint Committee Next ‘Week. Submission to the full joint com- mittee on the reorganization of the administrative branch of the govern- ment of that portion of the reor- ganization plan agreed upon by Presi- dent Harding and the cabinet was said today to be in prospect in the near future, possibly within the next week. Agreement has been reached by the President and members of his cabi- net on-the reorganization plans for ] seven of the government departments. The plans which formed the basis for the agreement were worked out and submitted by Walter F. Brown, chair- man of the joint committee. After study by the full committee it is ex- Ppected that the reorganization plans will be embodied in legislation for consideration by Congress. Will Wait No Longer. This means that President Harding has resoived to wait no longer for the reaching of an entirely amicable @greement among the members of his | cabinet regarding the varfous depart- | mental changes proposed in the Brown plan. This was learned today at the White House following the conference late yesterday afternoon between the President and Mr. Brown, at which tnwwrum features of the| plan oroughly discussed. It js understood the President made it very plain that he is anxious to bring the reorganization plan before Congress as soon as it is possible, rather than walt for the three mem- bers of his cabinet who are at odds over changes affecting their depart-| ments o iron out their differences | and come to some agreement. He be- | lieved it would - be advisable to go ahead with that part of -the plan dealing with the other séven depart- ments. = Agreement Not In Sight. The plan for the reorganization of the Department ST Agriculture/ the Interior Department and the Depart- ment of Commerce contains certain ‘so-called drastic changes, it is eald,| affecting especially the first-named; department, and it is considered like- 1y by those high in official circles that the heads of the departments in ques- tion will take some little time before reaching an agreement. Therefore the President sees no reason why the program should be delayed longer be- | cause of that situation, and for that reason will endeavor to proceed with the remainder, which is practically three-guarters of the entire program. He will, within the next few days, place his_stamp of approval on this portion of the plan and return it to the joint congressional commission with “instructions to proceed in pre- paring it in the proper form for ulti- mate presentation to Congress for the necessary legislation. i Procedure in Doubt. 1t has not been determined whether or not the reorganization plan will be placed before Congress in the form of one bill or whether it will be placed | in piecemeal fashion—one bill at a} time. This matter will be settled Jater. In the meantime the reorgani- gation commission will hold hearings regarding the various provisions of the plan. It Is understood that the commission will hear each depart- ment separately and that these hear- ings will be thorough. Of that part of the report to be con- sidered first. the most important fea- tures proposed are, briefly, the con- solidation of the Army and Navy into one department, to be known as the Department of National Defense; the transfer of the enforcement section of the prohibition office from the Treasury Department to the Depart- ment of Justice and the control and distribution of alcoholic liquors from the Treasury Department to the pub- lic health seérvice; the creation of one central department of investigation, which will have jurisdiction over all the various governmental investigat- ing agencies, such as the secret serv- ice, \postal inspectors and Depart- ment_of Justice agents, and which will_be placed under the supervision of the Attorney General. —_— METHODIST CONFERENCE "OPENS IN BALTIMORE Bishop' McDowell Presides Gathering of 250 Ministers. Session Organizes. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., March 29.—The Baitimore annual conference of the! Methodist Episcopal Church opened at 9 o'clock this morning at Grace Church with about 250 ministers in attendance. The meeting was called to order by Bishop Willlam F. Mc- Dowell, who then preceded to the organization of the conference. Rev. Dr. J. R. Wade, corresponding secretary of the committee on con- servation and advance, and Rev. Dr. Luther A. Lovejoy of Chicago, secre- tary of the stewardship division of the cammittee on conservation and advance, gave reports. Memorial_service started at 10:30 o'clock, which completed the morn- ing program. The conference will not meet again until 9 d'clock to- morrow morning. This afternoon and tonight, will be devoted to reports of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society end home field work. A preliminary session was held last night, with an Epworth ‘League an- niversary. Rev. Dr. Dan Brummitt, editor of the Epworth Herald, ad- dresed the gathering, speaking on the need of fixed ideas. Ralph E. Clark, the new president of the Epworth League, and other of- ficers were installed, as follo Vin- ton O. Baker, vice presiden:; E. C. Toothman, second vice president; Miss Anna_McLain, third vice president; Mrs. Walter M. Michael, fourth vice resident; Miss Mary Farley, Junior ie-suo superintendent; Miss Mary d R. Walter at Compton, secretgry, an atiins, treasurer, jJohn F. Derney of Tennessee, chair- Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. 850,000 UNION MEN AFFECTED BY LOCKOUT _ORDERED IN ENGLAND By the Assoclated Press. 3 LONDON. March 29.—The, En- glneer Employers': Federation to- day posted notices locking out the members of forty-seven unions in addition to the Amalgamated En- gineers' Union. The lockout is to take effect in one week, and will affect 600,000 additional men. The grand total of the workers affected is 850,000. The engineering union this mern- ing declded to ask the mediators to endeavor to resume informal nego- tiations with the engineering em- ployers, In connection with the ship- yard strike, all the workers in the Teeside Middlésbrough yards went out today, and with the exception of a few apprentices and general laborers all the yawmis were idle. Similar conditions prevail in the yards at Barrw, on the Tyne at Jarrow .and at Sunderland. thus accentuating the unprecedented _depression in the industry that has ‘been prevailing. VICTORY MEMORIAL! BUILDING PERMIT SOONTOBEISSUED Authority to Proceed With Construction Granted by Officials. Permit ta praceed with construc- tion of the George Washington Vic- tory Memerial on its site at 6th and B streets will be issued within a few days, Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill, lnl charge of public buildings and grounds, announced today. Authority for procedure in the project has been given through opin- ions of Attorney General Daugherty and Acting Judge “Advocate General Hull of the Army, who held that the George Washington Memorial Asso- ciation, under the law, could proceed with construction. The decisions set- tled a controversy over the time limit | set by Congress for having work be- gun two years after the closing of | the world” war. They declared that | the war officially ended in 1921, and | gave permission to the assocition to extend the time to 1923 for raising funds apd beginning construction. Col. Sherrill announced he was in- forming_the Tennessee branch of the | George Washington Victory Memorial Association, that the official authority for construction had been received, and that the $100,000 which had been voted for an issue of bonds in that state would be acceptable now. Mrs. man of the work in that state, had writtef offering the proceeds from the sale of bonds; which would begin, she said, as soon as the project was clear and the time ripe for accept- ance of funds for actual building. Several other states’ associations already have plans for raising funds, it is understood, and the announce- ment of the decisions of the Attorney General and judge advocate general, it Is believed, will greatly stimuiate activity. Mrs, Henry F. Dimock of this city, president of the national associa- tion. this morning expressed extreme gratification that developments have been entirely favorable, and said im- portant announcements concerning the ~ $8.000,000 memorial campaign might be expected soon. ENVOY GIVEN ORDERS. New Ambassador t> Germany Visits White House. Alanson B. Houghton, the newly ap- pointed American ambassador to Ger- many, received final instructions from President Harding today prior to leav- ing later in the day for New York, where he expects to sail Saturday on the Olympic to take up his new duties. Mr. Houghton said he would first go to London, where he expects to see Ambassador” Harvey, and then (o Paris. where he will call on Ambassa- dor Herrick, after which he will pro- ceed to Berlin, where he expects to arrive about April 18 or 20. Mr. Houghton did not disclose any of the final instructions given him by the President. He intimated, however, that one of his first duties would be the conducting of the negotiations concerning the creation of a commis- sion to determine the claims between Germany and the United States. BURN WAY INTO BANK. ICKESBURG, Pa., March 29.—The Ickesburg State Bank here was robbed last night of an undetermined amount of liberty bonds and other negotiable securities by burglars, who obtained entrance through a hole burned in the door. Bank officials said entrance was not gained to the vault, in which the cash was kept. | COAR STRIKE SURE | UNLESS A MIRACLE SHOULD INTERVENE Anthracite Conferees Gird Themselves to Battle Over 19 Demands. UNAFRAID OF THREAT OF IMPORTED SUPPLY Miners’ Official Declares Shipments of British Bityminous Could Be But Drop in Bucket. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 29. — Casting aside as a “remote” possibility the prospect of settling their difficulties in time to avert the genera? strikes set for three davs hence, members of the anthracite subcommittee on wage contract negotiations today girded themselves for a long, hard struggle over the miners’ nineteen demands. “Nothing but a miracle —the im- mediate acceptance of each and every one of our demands—can avert the strike now,” said Thomas Kennedy, district president of the United Mine Workers. £ _ “Under the present circumstances, it is probable that the suspension will go into effect April 1, according to the miners' program,” said S. D. Warriner, vice president of the Le- high Coal and Navigation Company. Although sanguine of the ultimate success of the negotiations now in progress, the six other members of the anthracite subcommittee, com- posed of union chiefs and mine operators, were convinced that the mines would be evacuated Saturday. With discussion of the miners' de- mand for a 20 per cent increase scheduled to begin today, after two weeks devoted to general surveys of | economic and labor conditions in the mines of Pennsylvania, union chiefs and mine operators began to drift into the city to be at the scene of developments. “* Will Act as Advisers. Among the latter were a dozen of the men who signed the suspension agreement at Shamokin last January. With the operators came C. F. Huber, president of the Lehigh and ‘Wilkes- barre Coal Company, and_ John Humphrey, president of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company. They will-act as unpflicial advisers to the commit- tee of eight while the most important of the wage demands are under dis- cussion. Phillip Murray, vice president of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, scouts the report that importa- tion of British-mined soft coal will lessen the danger of a bituminous coal shortage and thereby hurt the cause of the miners in the forthcom- ing_strike. “We are fiot afrail of the British coal” he said. “It has been im- ported before without seriously af- fecting the mining industry or the market in Afnerica. “Any attempt on the part of the United States Shipping Board to im- port foreign coal probably would have the sympathy of the public and thereby create sentiment against the strike. But the actual effect toward prevention of a shortage or exten- sion of the available supply would be negligible. “Compared with the weekly pro- duction of the American mines and the weekly consumption by Amerjcan industries, all the coal that could be brought from England would not amount fo a drop in the bucket.” Insistent Upon Check-Oft. As the svage negotiations proceed the miners are becoming more and more determined that the next con- tract shall contain an inviolable pro- vision for installation of the check- off system in all anthracite mines. One member of the committee of eight last night declared that unless such provision was made all negotia- tions toward termination of the im- pending strike would amount to nothing. While Mr. Murray of the .United Mine Workers declined to say how far the anthracite men were prepared to push their demand for the check- off, Mr. Kennedy of district No. 7 de- clared that “as conditions are in the mining industry, it has become one of the most vital points at issue.” Mr. Warriner of the operators dis- cussed the question of the miners’ demands for the check-off with the statement “that it has come up in every wage conference in the last twenty years.” “We do not attach any more significance on this occa- sion than we have in the past,” he said. ‘The miners assert that the check- off already is applied by the opera- tors in the collection of rents, light, water and fuel assessments by sub- tracting the amounts from the work- ers' pay envelope. They seek to have this system extended to the collection of dues, asserting that it already is common practice in the bituminous fields, and has been declared legal by the United States Supreme Court. ANTI-CIGARETTE LEAGUE GIVES UP TRYING TO CURE WOMEN OF HABIT Special Dispatch to The Star. f CHICAGO, March 29.— “Women may smoke themselves to death, as far as the Anti-Cigarette League is concerned. It is interested only in keeping boys from smok- ing.” i In these words Frank M. Fair- field, president of ‘the board of directors of the International Anti- Cigarette League, disclaimed re- sponsibility for initiating agita- tion, either in New York or else- where, against women smoking in public places. “What the adult does is none of our concern,” he added. “The flapper who blows rings through her gold and ebony cigarette holder; the mother who rocks.the cradle with one hand and flicks the ashes from her cigarette with the other, these are beyond: our jurisdiction.. We deplore their ac- tions because of the influence on the youth of our generation, but we know better than to try to legislate_morals into them. But for the boys still at the impres- sionable age we feel there is hope and we direet our efforts to save them from the downward course chosen by their mothers and ‘elder sisters.” However, the erroneous report that Gotham had permanently clapped the lid down on women smoking in_public has stirred up agitation against such practices that already had a good start here. ‘Many of the hert-hotels and res- | teurants in the city 10°bid ‘Dublic smoking by women. Others mere- 1y tolerate it. Alderman John H. Lyle today announced his purpose to intro- duce an ordinance making it un- lawful “for any female person to smoke any cigarette or other form of tobacco, in. any street, park, store. restaurant or theater under penalty of a fine or.not less than $5 nor more than $100 for each offense.” Chief of Police Fitsmorris de- clined to become a “killjoy” for the fair sex. o “Let them smoke if they enjoy it.” he said. “So long as the ladies do noét cdrry gung in their hand- bags, I will not kick about their cigarettes.” It _should not be assumed from Mr. Fairfield’s announced position, however, that the Anti-Cigarette League is reconéiled to women smoking in public. Mrs. Alice Hyatt Mathers, general secretary, Dpointed out today that the league recently appealed to Will Hays, new chief of movies, suggesting that all films picturing women as smoking be censofed as having an evil influence on youth. Mr. Hays promised to give the appeal “due consideration.” S Mrs. Mathers said the league also is appealing to women to re- frain from smoking because of the effect it would have.on their off- spring. “Smoking makes for nervous, sleepless women,” she said. “They in turn will produce more nervous, sleepless children. If women are impervious to that argument, why try to reach them through any. other sort of appeal?” < Lo teoprrignt, 10023 WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1922 —THIRTY 'PAGES. SEEK SUBSTITUTE _FOR IONES RIDER House Conferees on District Bill Suggest Three Compromises. Suggestions of a compromise for the Jones rider to the District ap- propriation changing the existing fiscal relations of the District and the federal government were being ad- vanced by House members of the conference committee today, while the conference occupied itself with the Senate amendments increasing va- rious ftems of appropriation carried in the bill. No formal statement of the com- promise proposals was made public, but it is understood that they em- brace: 1. Elimination of the Jones rider proposal that the surplus of District revenues,-amounting to several mil- lions of dollars, shall be expended as District revenues for the District. 2. Elimination of the proposal that the first $2,000 of improvements on any Iot shall be exempt from taxa- tion. 3. An increase in the proposed $1. rate of taxation on real estate and tangible personal property. 1t extremely doubtful, however. it was said, that the Senate conferees would agree to any such proposals. The position of the Senate conferees. it is understood, has been that if the House members could suggest any amendments to tke Jones rider “im- proving” it, then they might agree to the amendments, but such pro- posals as those now advanced are not | regarded as “improving” the rider. In consequence, it appeared today that the conference might be dead- locked for a considerable time over the matter of the District's fiscal re- lations. The Jones rider eliminates the 60-40 plan of appropriating for the District, as carried in the. House bill, and substi- tutes an indeterminate plan, whereby the revenues of the District are to be used up first, to meet the expenses of the District, and the federal government is to make up any balance needed to complete tae appropriations. It makes provision for using the surplus revenues of the District. for the District; fixes the tax rate at $1.76 and exempts the first $2,000 of improvements on real es- tate from taxation. The gonferees had with them today the Enfineer Commissioner, Col. Keller, and_obtained from him information re- garding various projects for which the Senate inserted provision in the Dis- trica. bill. TURKS FLOUTING ALLIED PROPOSALS By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 29.—The latest news from Angora indicates a strong majority against acceptance of the al- lies’ proposals for a near eastern set- tlement, says a Constantinople dis- patch to the-Evening News today. The main objection of the Turkish nationalists is to the award of Adri- anople and the Gallopoli peninsula to the Greeks. . It is belleved, asserts the dispatch, that the entire settlement scheme will probably be wrecked on this point. French Endanger Plan. Thé results of the near east con: terence in Paris were declared by British government officials today to be seriously endangered by what the British officials term French encour- agement to the Turks to refuse the recommendations of the foreign min- isters for a settlement of the difficul- ties between Turkey and Greece. British officials declare the Turks are being led to believe that the Paris recommendations were merely 2 basis for mediation, and that addi- tional concessions might be obtained, whereas the British view is that the last word concerning peace in the near east has been spoken, and that the belligerents must accept. the Paris terms if Franco-British rela- tions are not to be further strained. British leaders who have just .re- turned from Paris comment freely re- garding the French attitude through- out the conference, their disregard of the fate of the Christian minori- ‘ties and their open hoktility to the Armenians. The English delegates to the Paris conference say they have no assur- ence that the Greeks: will accept the recommendations, - but there is nothing to be gained by further in- citement of the Turks toward renewal! of ~Tostilitiea in Asia Minor this soring eni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION NEW STATISTICS | PRESIDENT HOPES SHIP BILL WILL ESCAPE JAM! President Harding has told senators and representatives that he is deeply interested in the passage of the mer- chant marine bill now pending in both houses of Congress. It is the Presi- dent’s hope that should a log-jam in legislation occur as the session of Congress draws along especial care ishall be taken that this bill shall not |be caught in the crush and fail to make the passage. Joint meetings of the House and Senate committees having jurisdic- ition of this bill will be commenced early in April to hold hearings with the object of saving time and expe- diting action upon it. The expecta- tion of those favorable to the meas- ure is that the advocates and oppo- nents of it will not divide along party lines. There is democratic sup- port for the bill and on the ‘other hand there is opposition among re- publicans to it. Some portions of the south favor it {and other sections of the middle west may oppose it. Sentiment has| changed materially in recent years, it is declared, due to the growing de- mand for increased waterway facili- s, which question, it is contended by the friends of the merchant ma- {rine bill, is identified with the subject jof ocean carriage of freights as well |as inland transportation. 1 H ' METHODSURGED {Roger Babson- Advocates! Sweeping Changes to Curb Government Waste. With a view to evolving a plan bringing about a mobilization of the collection, preparation hnd distribu- tion of statstics in the government by placing this work under one cen- tral head directly ,responsible to the President, Roger W. Babson, statis- ticlan of Boston, in co-operation with Clarence N. Stone, has prepared a re- port, which was presented to the President today. This plan is designed to supplement the work of the joint congressional commission engaged in planning a reorganization of the government de- partments by bringing about a more efficient grouping of departments and the elimination of overlapping of de- partmental authority. By the adop- tion of the proposed plan its com- pilers contend that the statistical work of the government could be more efficiently handled and that it would then be possible for the gov- ernment more intelligently and satis- factorily to furnish information to business men and newspapers through- out the country. By creating one head to handle the statistical work the pres ent necessity of consulting several de partments for certain statistical infor- mation would be removed. New. Methods Needed. It is pointed out that as a whole the statistical work of the govern- ment compares favorably with that of other countries, but that does not make it a complete success. To be entirely useful, to the government and to the general public, it is con- tended that more co-operation among (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Today’s News in Brief. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all mews dispatches eredited to it or mot otherwise credited in this per and also the local news published berein. Al rights of publication of special dispatches Yesterday’s * herein are also reserved. Net Circulation, 94,536- CENTS. TWO MAY GET EXPERT INBUSINESS WORLD President Asked to Select Personnel Man for U. S. Civil Service Board. President Harding is being urged to select a real personnel expert from one of the larger business corpora- tions of the country to fill the vacant chair in the Civil Service Commission. Such appointment would set a prec- edent for the commission, it is point- ed out, as no man has ever held the position of civil service commissioner who was trained in the essentially modern science of personnel manage- ment, based upon the latest develop- ment of phychology and character study. 1 The American Telephone and Tele- graph Company and the Ford fac- tories are mentioned as two of the big firms Which possess such experts, from among whom a choice might be made. The salary of $5,000 a year as {civil service commissioner would not attract any of .these men, it is be- lieved, but the honor might. President’s Attitude. The administration feels that now is the time to straighten out the knotted personnel problem of the government. President Harding's de- sire to unravel the personnel atfairs of the government was aitested sev- eral months ago, it was pointed -cut today, when he issued an executive order authorizing the appointment of a federal personnel board. Failure of one bureau 10 appoint a represent- ative has resulted in failure of the board to organize to date. ‘With _reclassification _legislation still to be acted upon, and with re- organization of the governm:nt Ce- partments still pending. it is realized by officials that the personnel problem is pressing. Methods of action and handling of the great mass of lower paid em- ployes need perfecting, it is held, to the degree that essential ji ice may be done all employes, thus removing the feeeling of discrimination which is sald to prevail in certain quarters. Business in Government. “More business in government” is the aim of the administration. It is pointed out that big businesses, such as mentioned, have found it neces- sary to standardize and “humanize” their work of employment. And by the application of the golden rule forward-looking business men have realized, it is pointed out, that the real profits, both in money and serv- ice, come to those who apply common sense to business. The basis of every business, they say, is its men. “Men make and men sell, and, there- fore, the first thought should be given to the makers and the sell- ers, rather than to the fabrication and the selling.” . _— MT. ETNA BREAKS LOOSE. Streams of Lava From All Sides Pursue Fleeing Natives. LONDON, March 25.—Mount Etna is in violent eruption, says a Central News dispatch from Rome, quoting advces from Palermo. Streams of lava are flowing from all sides of the crater, and the inhabitants of the villdges on the mountainside have fled from their homes. « Several earthquakes have occurred Coal strike sure unlesg a m‘"lfl; 9] |in Palermo and Messina provinces in | tervenes.. Roger Babson advocates Eweeping changes in securing of government statistics. Page 1 Navy to turn Alaskan mines over-to Interior Department. Page.2 Rall strikers and sympathizers under fire at Hagerstown. . Page 2 Maryland senate kills Hall anti-race rack betting bill. Page 2 Delegates in London seek to end hor- rors in Ireland. e awken assault suspect caught. fits description. Page 3 Muzzey's history upheld by citizens. Page 3 Citizens denounce one-man cars. Page 10, 5 lans no let up in prosecution of “afy awaviolators. Page 11 Asks law to. make Canada bone dry. Pags 15 l Tex Rickard joyous on being acquit-' ted. Page 17 Milukoft escapes assassin’s bullets. z 5 Page 17 Housipg probe divided into seven pblp,;l. Page 17 Attorney General sees ineficiency in civil service. : Page 17 leaders for Y. W. L. A, cam- Te: ! n to meet tonizhi, Page 0 - the last few days. SCIENCE TO TRY INJUNCTION AGAINST TUBERCULAR SCHOOL IS MADE PERMANENT Justice Balley of the District Supreme Court today made per- manent the temporary injunction recently granted members of ths Piney Branch Citizens’ Association against the District Commissioners to prevent the buliding of a school for tubercular pupils on the Upshur street tract. Through Corporation Counsel Stephens and Assistant Corporation Counsel Wil- liams the Commissioners noted an appeal to the Court of Appeals. Attorneys Darr, Whiteford & Darr, representing Charles E. Hunt and other residents in the vicinity of the proposed school, entcred into a stipulation with the counsel for the Commissioners that there is no further point of law to be raised on a final hearing of the merits of the controversy, and it ‘was agreed that a final injunction should issue at once in order to expedite the hearing of an appeal. The Commissioners have asked Congress to designate the Upshur street tract as a location for the school, but the bill is meeting with opposition from the citizens of Piney Branch and the vicinity. WASHINGTON NEEDS NEW PLAYGROUNDS, EDUCATORS AFFIRM Deplorable Lack Impressed on Congress by Men From All Over Country. Playgrounds are a real necessity as an adfunct to an efficient educational system such as the National Capital should have, educators from all parts of the country have informed Con- gress. Any consideration given.to an improvement of the local school sys- tem, they pointed out, must take into account the physical development of the little children, #nd it must be continued thrgughout the school period. These educators came to Washing- ton recently to festify before the Joint congressional committee consid- ering the school situation, and eash one, at some length, told tne con- gressmen of the absolute necessity of providing adequate playground space for each sehool building. Intensive study periods with no opportunity for well directed play does not gi\‘fiy th: children a fair chance to 80 out into the world when thelr schooling is completed. They pointed out that their bodies should be developed. These witnesses before the commit- tee asserted in emphatic terms that in the consideration of the purchase of additional ground for more and larger schols here much atten- tion must be given to the allotment of a large space of ground adjoining ‘l::::,dhulldll;g {{Belf in order that the ren of all grades w LS P! & ould have a ay 18 necessary for young and old, it was pointed out, but Khé‘ chil- dren need' it more than the grown people. However, the latter, it was asserted, insist on their play, too, when they g0 away on vacations to various resorts in order to get rest and amusement away from their daily tasks. This, they said, was but meet. ing a natural demand found even stronger in the young people than in the grown-ups. Funds Toe Limited. Appropriations for playground pur- poses in the National Capital have been, in the past, too limited, accord- ing to the experts who have made a study of the local playground situa- tion. For the fiscal year of 1922 it was but $180,620, divided as follows: Department of playgrounds, $141,220; school playgrounds, $9,400; office of public buildings and grounds, $30,000. Commenting on this comparatively small appropriation, the report of the experts said that if Washington is to reach her goal of providing en- larged recreational facilities to meet the needs of her children the money expended will have to be greatly in- creased. A recreational program for the children of tke District might well be planned to cover a period of five years. The study of the facilities now available, the possibilities of in- creasing their usefulness and the needs of the different sections which cannot be met by existing facilities [ indicates that such a program, if it | {15 to be at o'l adequate, must include additional appropriations. The experts recommended an in- crease for the next fiscal year of at least $203,950. This recommendation does not include another one of an appropriation of $1,000,000 to be dis- tributed over a five-year period for the purchase and equipment of new playgrounds, or an appropriation of $25.000 for the provision of a bathing beach for the colored. ’ Use of Appropriations. Recommendations for the expenditure of the. increase of $203,950 include the following: For grading, surfacing and draining grounds, and repairs, $25,000; for building of five fleld houses, $50,000; for six additional swimming pools, in connection with existing facilities—two of which would be for colored, $100,- 000; “for lighting playgrounds, $3,000; for increased salaries, as follows: Su- pervisor, from $2,500 to $3.000; director of girls' activities, from $1,200 to 1,800; director of boys' activities, from 1300 f 31.800: plaveround directors, twenty-five on yearly basis of $1,400, to- |ta1 $35.000, instead of twenty-two for (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) KNIFE TO SAVE REMAINING TWIN, IF JOSEPFA DIES By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 23.—Death still “ lurked in the shadows of the hos- pital room today where lie Josepfa and Rosa Blazek, the twins who ‘were joined at birth and have beeh called “the Siamese twins.” They continued in virtually an uncon- scious state, Josepfa entirely ob- livious of her surroundings and Rosd in a comatose condition. The long-considered operation to separate the sisters is entirely contingent on the death of one. waich, physicians have sald, would mean the death of the other. Should Josepfa die of the yellow jaundice which has stri both, Rosa might- bly live two or three days, but death would be certain without an operation, Dr. Bepjamin Bregkstone said. . ok il The mere separation-of flesh and ‘bone would be easy, according to the physicians, but the effect of the operation upon the mental and nervousg systems has been consid- ered highly problematical. Each of the sisters has individual desperately ill. ocommunicated to Rosa. Until last night the temperature and puise of the twins had been virtuall identical. But last night Josepfa's temperature mounted to 99 and her pulse to 100, while Rosa’s tem- perature and pulge remained about normal at 98 and 85, respectively. An_ attorney has been at the twins’ bedside, ready to write their wills should they e conscious. Rosa’s twelve-year-old son Frantz and the mother’s brother Frank remain constantly at the bedside. SENATE RATIFIES NAVY TREATY BY LANDSLIDE VOTE By Ballot of 74 to 1 U. S. Completes Step to Cut Armament. BORAH AND JOHNSON VOTE WITH MAJORITY Senator France Declares Opposition. Only Two Agreements Remain. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The naval limitation treaty, the first great practical step attempted by the nations for the limitation of arma- ments, was ratified by the Senate this afternoon by a vote of 74 to 1. The Senate met today under an agreement to vote on this pact mot later than 3 o'clock. It is the plan of Senator Lodge, the republican leader, to seek a vote also this aft- ernoon on the treaty banning the use of submarines as commerce de- stroyers and of poison gas in war. THis treaty is also expected tobe ratified overwhelmingly. With these treaties out of the way, there will remain for Senate consideration and action only two other pacts emanat- ing from the Washington conference, the two Chinese treaties. Every effort will be made to dispose of them by the end of this week. Borah Favors Treaty. Senator Borah of Idaho and Senator Johnson of California, both of whom opposed the four-power Pacific treaty recently ratified, cast their votes for the naval treaty. Senator France of Maryiand, repui- lican, on the other hand, cast the oniy vote in opposition. Borah Supports Treaty. Senator Borah of Idaho, republican. who a year before the Washingtdn conference strongly advocated an in- ternational conference for the reduc- tion of naval armaments, took the floor today in support of the maval treaty. While giving full praise to the naval treaty, the Idaho senator declared that it should be considered only a beginning of the movement for disarmament. “I am gratified,” said Senator Borah, “that this treaty is here and that I have an oppottunity to vote for it 1 arise to suggest, however, that it ought to be considered as the begin- ning, and only the beginning, of the work for disarmament. “I have no doubt that this treaty represents all that could be obtained from the Washington conference. But 1 should regard it as a disaster, rather than a benefit, if this treaty should be looked upon as all there Is to do in the way of disarmament, even naval disarmament, in the next ten years. It ‘is important that we uti- lize this occasion for considering what there is yet to do. The senator from Alabama, Mr. Underwood, said yesterday that this treaty marks a beginning of a new _era in civilization It may well do 5o0. Yet it accomplishes little compared with what remains to be done. We cannot praise the treaty too much as a beginning.” Should Go Ahead. Referring to past controversies as to the originator of the idea of the Washington conference on disarma- ment, Senator Borah said “There has béen much discussion about this question. Public opinion is the real author of the disarmament fconference. The delegates to the Washington conference could not have accomplished anything if public opin- fon had not been behind them. Publie opinion is the force that must keep alive the disarmament movement.” Senator Borah said that the world would not reach much benefit from the present treaty unless it should {go ahead in _the movement for dis- |armament. If interest in disarma- ment should be sterilized by the rati- fication of this treaty it would be a misfortune, he said. -He called at- teation to the fact that, even with the treaty in effect, the navies of the world could be greater than ever ex- isted before. He called attention also to the fact that the great instru- ments of modern sea warfare, the sub- marine, the destroyer. etc., are left untouched by the treaty. “Japan,” said Senator Borah, “has all the navy left under this treaty that she needs to dominate the east- ern Pacific” Still Have Far to Gé. Senator Borak sald that the differ- ence in the various budgets for naval expenditures, due to the treaty, would appear almost insignificant. However, he sald; it has been estimated that the treaty would save the United States nearly $200,000,000 and that & similar saving. it was hoped, would be made in the naval expenditures of other nations. When this saving is com- pared to the whole budgets for arma- ment, it merely serves to show how far “we still have to go.” Senator Borah said that he had been opposed to including the subject of land disarmament in the Washington conference, owing to the situation in Europe. He believed that it would ba impossible to accomplish anything with this subject, and the result of the Washington conference has show- ed his belief well founded. “But that is no reason why the movement for reduction of ~land armament should not continue,” said Senator Borah, “until the matter of land armament may be dealt with in a practical way. At present there is no limitation whatever on land arm i me’l?a latest information obtainable, id, indicated that neither France ::r Jg.pln have reduced their land armies. TUrges: Strict Economy. Senator Borah urged the support. ers of the four-power Pacific treaty in the Senate to back up their faith in that pact when the Army and Navy appropriation bills come up for con- sideration by voting to curtail ex- penditures for war purposes. e called attention to, recent statementa (Tontinued on Page 2, Column 6.2