Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1922, Page 2

TRAINS WILL RUN, SAY RAIL OFFICIALS Threatened Strike of 1,000,- 000 Over Wage Cut Scout- ed as Causing Tie-Up. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 28.—The ultimatum sent by B. M. Jewell, head of the rall- way employes'- department of -the American Federation of Labor, to T. De Witt Cuyler, chalrman of the As- soclation of Railway Executives, that the 400,000 shopmen of the nation’s railroads would go on strike unless the decisions of the Railroad Labor Board were ignored and present wages maintaimed, today was met with silence by rallway managers. There was little indication that the railroads would seriously consider Jewell's demands to hold back the sixty-million-dollar wage cut and re- store abolished rules governing work- ing conditions in the shops. Rail union officials continued their conferences today on plans for the threatened walkout next month as they hastened toward completion of the canvass of the strike vote, which is said to have been overwheimingly in favor of a suspension in protest against the wage cuts and rules laid down under edicts from the labor board. Maintenance of way employes, clerks, signalmen and other classes whose wages were slashed in recent orders would, in following the shop- men out on a strike, take more than 1.000,000 employes out of the rail- road service. In spite of this, rail cials have asserted that the roads could continue to operate to a certain extent with train service employes and telegraphers remaining on SHIP AFIRE AT SEA; RESCUE STEAMER (IN _ VAIN SEARCH IN FOG By the Associated Press. p LOS ANGELES, Calif., June '28.— A ship is burning off Ventura,, Calif,, sccording to a radio mes- Bage for help picked up at 12:30 o'clock this morning at the sub- .marine base at Los Angeles har- bor. “The ‘submarine base later re- ceived a me: er Humboldt stating she w the viciiity and was crulsing back’ and forth in a heavy fog trying tc locate the burning vessel, VENTURA, Calf, June 28.—A red glow was noticed off this city late last night, but the fog was 50 thick it was impossible to deter- mine the cause. It has not been visible since midnight. T4TH ST EXTENSION FOUND NECESSARY Highway Commission, After Hearing, Reported Favorably. Recognition of the fact that the growth of the city toward the north- west necessitates a street opening between Cieorgia avenue and 16th street, in the vicinity of the Walter Reed Hospital grounds, which now block traffic streams between these highways, is contained in a letter of Maj. Gen. Lansing H. Beach, chief of engineers of the army and a member of the highway commission REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT E. EVANS of Nebraska jonal Photo.) ONE ISSUE LEFT OVER TACNA-ARICA Alternative to Plebiscite Still Remains to Be lIouse Members Named on J?int Céndre_-bi&ma‘f Committee to Investifintel — % BEPHEIIN:‘A’I‘IVE GUY U. HARDY MANY IRISH FALL; BATTLE RAGING IN HEART OF DUBLIN (Continued from First Page.) charge of Gen. Ennis, the officer com- manding the eastern division. Cittzens Watch Fighting. Business proceeded almost as usual in Dublin while the fighting was go- ' Fiscal Relations Between the District and Federal Governments. REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM ‘WRIGHT of Georgia. ASKS PROPER CARE OFPUBL PARKS Col. Sherrill Scores the Care- less Disposal of Refuse by c. i PROBERS NAMED Speaker Gillett ‘Appoints Evans, Hardy and Wright to Represent House. Speaker Gillett has appointed Rep- Tesentative Robert E. Evans of Ne- braska, Guy Hardy of Colorado and William C.- Wright of Georgia to rep- resent the House on a joint investi- gating committee to inquire into the fiscal relations between the federal and District governments and to de- termipe whether the federal Treas- ury owes the District $5,000,000. Rep- resentatives Evans and Hardy are re- publicans and Representative Wright is_a democrat. ~ Inquiry Probably in August. The appointment of the joint in- vestigating committee is authorized in the District appropriation bill for the fiscal year starting July 1 next. New tax regulations for the District, which contemplate putting the Dis trict on a cash-pdyment basis, will pe greatly influenced by the decision ©of these Investigators regarding the surplus of $5,000,000 claimed by the District. It is'not thought, however, | that this investigation will be made before August. Representative Evans i{s a member of the subcommittee on District ex- penditures of the House appropria- tions committee, and sérved as a conferee until he and Chafrman Davis of the subcommittee were re- placed owing to their absence from the city, by Chairman Madden and Represefitative Cramton of Michigan in ‘the final conference on the new fiscal provision. He is a lawyer, was county attorney and district judge, ISCAL RELATIOS | SCULPTOR AND FRIEND ARRESTED SMUGGLING STATUE OUT OF LOUVRE By the Associated Press. PARIS; June 28.—Joanny Durand sculptor, -and M. Le Roux, joul nalist, were arrested today by a guardian of the Louvre while try- ing ‘to smuggle out of the famous art gallery a statue made by Durand and surreptitiously placed in the Lobvre on June 23. The . statue, inténded for the humorists’ salon and representing M. Du Paquit, so-called mayor of the “free commune of Montmar- tre,” attired in a battered stove- plpe hat and frogk coat, stood for four days with #ts smile directed at the famous Venus de . Milo, whie visitors wondered. s he intended joke of getting a modern caricature statue into the Louvre and - .then out again threateried to 6 a serlous turn with the arrest of the men, but the director of the gallery. de- clded it was preferable to take the incident in fun, and asked that the artist and his friend be released. CLOSING OF PLAZA HOTELS LOOMING IN CONTROVERSY (Continued from First Page ) more strict discipline which It has been necessary to enforce during the past year. Investigation, he pointed out, had shown conclusively that the majority of the guests were perfectly satisfied with the hotels and the service, and also adds that he had found that many of those -who had signed the petition had done so under niisap- prehension, and had informed the department that it was one of many “with which they had been annoyed. Warns of Outcome. | mandate for Pale VATIGAN PROTESTS JEWISH PALESTINE: Obiecté to . Preponderant Position Under British Mandate. By the Associated Press. % GENEVA, June 28.—The holy see readily agrees that the Jews in Pal- estine must have equal civil rights with other nationalities, but it can- not consent to the Jews enjoying a privileged, preponderant position over the other nationalities and faiths or to the rights of Christians being in- sufficiently safeguarded, the Vatican declared in a letter to the league of nations. The letter, which is signed by Car- dinal Gasparri, papal secretary of state, deals with the proposed Fritish ine, which it says seems to establish’'the absolute eco- nomic, “administrative and political preponderance of the Jewish element to the detriment of other nationali- ties. The draft of the mandate, it declares, is not in conformity with article XXII of the treaty of Ver- sailles, which governs that class of mandates. Concerning the protection of the rights of Christians, the letter says the Vatican cannot consent to the interests of the Catholics being re- ferred to a_commission, as proposed :1“ article XIV of the proposed man- ate. —_— 1200 TAKE K. K. K. OATH | BEFORE 1,000 KLANSMEN the i . The citizens congregated in and president of the Nebraska State Parade Preceding Initiation Halts job. None of the “big four brother.|0f the District, to Representative Settled c:‘-fi:a':. aen b ey :nd‘“ ue Pleasure Seekers. Bar Assoclation. This Is his second| Then he warns of the possible out- = ; hoods is affected by the wage reduc- |Focht regarding the extension of . Eatherg! term in Congress. He took a leading | come, if complaints are continued, in| at Church and Presents Min- tions due July 1, and there is belleved to be little likelihood of the train- men joining a walkout. One road is said to have 100 engines repaired and tuned in its roundhouses ready to meet a strike emergency. Two-Thirds Vote Needed. The 2.500-word telegram addressed to Cuyler threw no light on the actual strike vote beyond saying i was an “overwhelming majority." Ballots were still coming in, it was said. as they were not returnable un- til June 30." A two-thirds majority is required by the unfon by-laws to call a strike Although the actual call for the walkout was made dependent on the railway executives’ reply to President Jewell's ultimatum, little expectation X d in railroad circles that executives would agree to such sweeping demands as those made by the unions. Declaring that the railroads have acted on a common program to reduce wages and obtain other advantages to | the carriers, President Jewell's mes- sage pointed out “one benefit which may c to the carriérs and’ their | ployes and the general pubilc, from the fact that there are national spokesmen of the conflicting Interests Wwho might be able to halt a nation- de withdrawal of men from em- ployment in the railway service If the | raiiw executives sincerely desired | to avoid this consequence of their | previous course of action.” or this reason.” the telegram said, ‘in behalf of and by the authority of the executive council of the railway employment department, I am inform- ing you and, through you, informing 14th street. It was in June, 1921, that the high- way commission met to settle points of controversy between the War De- partment and District government officials as to the advisability of ex- tending 14th street. Secretary of War Weeks and Maj. Gen. Beach were the two members of the high- way commission present, the third being the Secretary of the Interior, who was not able to attend. Favor Street Extension. Seventy-two pages of stenographic testimony were taken. The net re- sults were contained - letters to legislators from the Secretary of War, the Army and Chairman Cuno H. Rudolph of the Board of District Commission- ets. The highway commission placed itselt on record in these records as emphatically recommending the ex- tension of the street An extract from the letter of Sec- retary of War Weeks to Senator L. H. Ball,” chairman of the District com- mlttee, says, in part: “In view of the important bearing that the provisions in H. R. 5824 and H. R. 5579 would have on the future development of the District of Co- lumbia, as well as on the Reed Hospital, a public hearing was held on the subject, at which all parties interested were afforded an opportunity to_express their views. The Highway Commission, after very careful consideration of the cases, arrived at the opinion that 14th street should not be closed through Walter Reed Hospital grounds, but should be preserved for future needs of the District. with such grades, fef of engincers of the| Walter | the | By the Associated Press. The Chilean-Peruvian dispute over Tacna-Arica has been narrowed today to a single issue, but at the same time had developed another unexpected de- lay to straighten out a misconstruc- tion of the compromise plan suggested by Secretary Hughes. The sole point remaining in the way of an agreement related to the method of settlement to be adopted in case the arbitration already agreed upon in principle should result in a decision the disputed province. the Chileans it was held hould in that event { settle the question of Tacna-Arican soverelgnty by direct negotiation. Such a procedure, they insisted, ac- corded with the correct interpretation of Mr. Hughes' compromise formula and with the customs and principles of international law. Among the Peruvians opinion ap- ipeared to incline toward a second ar- bitration in place of direct negotia- tions, although a final decision as to the position of the Peruvian govern- ¢ was awaited from Lima, The nderstanding of the delega- tion was that such a plan was em- braced i the Huglics formula, but after another conference with the ‘Secretary erday a long cablegram was sent to Lima restating the proposition and LEsk\nl for advice. As accepted “in prin by Chile i plan is understood to make no refer- | ence to'a second arbitration, but Peru's | similar acceptance is said to have been | By Chile and Peru against the holding of ‘a plebiscite in | that | the compromise | by a reservation upon the| bridge over the Liffey to watch the progress of the fighting, but there was little to see. The position of the building made a direct attack difficult. 'The tramways along the quays and on the heights on the op- posite side of the river from the Four Courts suspended service, but every- where else traffic was proceeding. Even the shops in close proximity to the Four Courts were open. The irregulars of the Four Courts were husbanding their ammunition. The replies to the firing during this forenoon were confined for the most part to sharpshooting by men con- cealed along the route. The premises in North Great Georges street occupled by the com- munist party and the 1. W. W. as headquarters, was fortifiod after the government attack on the four courts had begun, and government troops were fired upon from the newly forti- fled building. RUSH AID TO DUBLIN. for Battle Scene. B the Associated Press. BELFAST, June 28.—Six lorry loads of free state military, fully armed, left Mullingar, fifty miles northwest of Dublin, early today, to reinforce the regular troops in Dublin. Five of the soldiers refused to go, according to a message received here, declaring they would not shoot brother Irishmen. iformal statement over the signature Free State Troops Leave Mullingar | !tables, Calling on the public to exercise 80od sense In disposing of refuse in Rock Creek &nd other federal parks, Just as they would be careful not to litter their own homes, Col. C. O. Sherrill, officer in charge of public bulldings and grounds, today issued a of Maj..W. P. Baker, parks sanitary inspector, explaining efforts of offi- cials to guard the health and comfort of persons using the parks. Substance of Statement. The statement points out that: “The officer in charged hoped and anticipated that more people would use Rock Creek Park this year than formerly, and throughout the winter hundreds of rustic benches and tables were constructed from logs hauled out of the woods to meet this need. At an early date it was seen that more people came into the park than for- merly and also that they appeared to be less heedful of the rights of others. 1t was common to find coffee, jelly and greasy wastes spilled about on the benches and grounds about them. On a rm day, it is merely a question of a few hours before such a place is a seething mass of unsight- 1y and insanitary fermentation, with files and wasps swarming atove, bac- terla and maggots brecding within and rodents furthering the scatter- ing of food remnants about. A spe- cial squadron to clean up was organ- ized, but it was unable to adequately deal with the situation. One has oni part in putting through legislation g1ving the District a new conduit for a safe and adequate water supply. Hardy Is Publisher. Representative Hardy is an editor and publisher of several daily and weekly newspapers. He taught school in Illinois and Florida. He was presi- dent of the National Editorial Associ- ation in 1918-19. He is president and treasurer of a building loan assocl- ation. For several years he has been president of the chamber of com- merce in his home town, Canon City, Colo. He was appointed postmaster of Canon City by President McKinley. This is his second term in Congress. Representative Wright is a lawyer. He was for two years chairman of the state democratic executive com- mittee. He came to Congress to fill out the unexpired term of the late Judge Adamson. This is his third term in Congress. Square Deal for District. . Representative Wright, the minor- ity member, has always been interest- ed in the National Capital even before he came to Congress. He believes that it is the duty of Congress to fol- low out the wishes of people of the entire country tc make this city the most beautiful in the world. sympathetic in every way toward the beautification of the city and making it a model to be admired by visitors, who come here not only from every $tate in the Union, but from other na- ions While entering upon his duties con- cerned with the investigation of the| fiscal relations between the federal and District governments with an He is| the following language: “If the government hotels are to be run on a strictly commercial basis, as is intimated that they should be, the first necessity must be a radical prices and the salaries paid, as you know, are not arbitrarily set by the general manager. She has, 1 am in- formed, when consulted upon matters of price fixing, shown a sympathy for the low-salaried government workers. This has been reflected in the monthly rate, which does not take into con- sideration the enormous cost of co: struction paid by the United States and for which there is no provision for interest or amortization. “If it is desired that the Govern- ment Hotels be run on a commereial basis, the government should be re- imbursed for all expenditures and interest charges, together with taxes, which would be required from s com- mercial corporation. If the guests unanimously request it, the secretary will be glad to consider such a change, with the necessary revision of the scale of prices. Should Have Co-Operation. “It is quite clear to my mind that it the hotels were placed upon a true com- {mercial basis, there would be no tolera- {tion of the constant stirring up of trou- ble by factious elements among the guests. The Commercial Hotel estab- lishes a standard of service, and if it is unsatisfactory, the alternative re- mains for the guest to seek housing else- where. The management of the govern- ment hotels is operating them at the owest possible cost and with the most efficient service pgssible. It should have increase in the prices charged. These ! ister With $50. One thousand klansmen, represent |ing the District of Columbia and five erick, Md., last night and staged a large naturalization ceremony at Brunswick, Md., where 200 candidates, according to the kian oath “forsook the world of selfishness and became clitizens of the invisible empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Kian'® Ac- count of the proceedings.was made public today by Kleagle John W. Self. second in command of the local or- ganization, whose headquarters are 801 Munsey building. Local klansmen left at all hours during the day and joined members of the Virginia, Maryland, Pennsyl- vania, West Virginia and Delaware klans® shortly before 8 o'clock near the Stone Jug bridge leading into Frederick. There the machines formed a line, some 200 in number, averaging five men to a car, and at the given word started into Frederick. The machines were led by a huge fiery cross and {two American flags. At various in- tervals along the line other crosses and flags interposed. As the weird procession entered the town a large crowd had gathered on the sidewalks flanking the line of march The procession continued straight through the town, passing out on the Harpers Ferry road, then turning left a short distance ahead on the Brunswick road. Just outside of Brunswick, the klansmen stopped 3 p ! : g 11 Methodist church, when eventually opened. that traffic | qualified * to refer to one's own table wastes a | “entirely open mind,” R ve|the co-operation Jof the guests rather |aiound & emall h the Jesponsible heads of the various | will prove of as little inconvenience |question of procedure i cise MO |They were promptly arrested. few hours after being cast into the | Wrght says he bellever that 1t 1o | than ve nampered by Hi-considered and | WBSTe L A eI el am Ry tems In the United States | or annovance to the hospital as Pleblxcite s 5 Trains on the Midlend Great West- | kitchen garbage pail to get an idea of £ and also the Pullman Company, most of | which are represented in the Associa- tien of railwa executives, that un- less an immediate arrangement can be made a sanction of withdrawel from employment on July 1, 1922, as voted by ‘the employes, will be una- voidable.” The three points on which | the executives are asked to meet the employes' demands are identical with the three questions on which the | unions arg now completing their | strike ballot. Three Questions Invelved. { The first ballot covers the $60,000,000 | wage cut ordered by the board, ef fective July 1. The second ballot in volves seven rules regarding over- time and physical _examinations, fought principally because thcy wiped out time-and-one-half pay for overtime and Sunday work. The third strike que. of numerous roads in farming out certain work, declared to be in order to avoid all the rulings on wages and working conditions by the Fed- eral Labor Board. It was learned that the general| committee of the federated shop | crafts would continue meetings to- morrow, with the drafting of a strike program the subject of discussions. Blame for the entire strike situation | was placed squarely on the shoulders of the railway executives by Mr Jewell's telegram. The telegram reviewed rail events since the passage of the transportu- tion act, and dwelt strongly on the refusal of the executives to establish | Dboards of labor adjustment, provided for in the act, to settle local or re- glonal disputes. The message also condemned the | executives for their stand on national | agreements. Wage reductions by the Railroad Labor Board were likewise condemned, the dispute coming be- | fore the board, the telegram said, be- cause “no real attempt” was made to negotia wage agreemen but merely “upon the refusal of the em- ployes to sign on the dotted line." WILL STRIKE WITH OTHERS. By the Associated Pres DETROIT, June 28.—Approximately 85.000 votes had been tabulated oot night in the strike referendum con- ducted by the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employves and Rallway Shop Labore according to information forthcoming -from the general headquarters of the organ- ization here, where the count is in progress, and it was announced the situation is unchanged, the members generally favoring a walkout in pro- test against an impending wage re- duction, provided other unions join- ed in. A spokesman for the union reiter- ated it now seeraed assured that ap- favenue and 16th street—av | Dahlia _stre possihle. Maj. Gen. Beach wrote a letter along similar lines to Representative Focht, chairman of the House District com- mittee, in which he declared in part: Seek Traffic Growth. “The commission is of the opigion that 14th street should not be closed through the Walter Reed Hospital grounds as, if that were done, it would leave only two highways—Georgia ilable for north and south bound traffic, which is almost certain with the growth of the city to amount to a greater volume than could be or should be handled by those two streets.” Gen. Beach then recommended that the bills existent be united in one b: and inclosed a draft of a bill combining | the features of the others regarding the closing of other streets in the ho: ipltal grounds and for the retention {of 14th street His letter was dated August 1, 1921. ommmissioner Rudolph's Senator Bell in the matter, August 26, 1921, said in part: “Because of 'conflicting views ex- ressed by the War Department and v the Commissioners as to the advis- ability of closing 1th street through the Walter Reed Hospital grounds, the matter was referred to the highway commission This commission held a hearing June 23, 1921. and recently in a report recommended adversely as to the closing of l4th street letter to dated through the hospital reservation, the | Secretary of War, a member of that commission, concurring in this view. Favored by War Department. Senate bill 2411 embodies legisla- tion which Is essential both to development of the Walter Reed Ho: pital and of the highway plan in that part of the District of Colum- bia. This bill meets the views of the highway commission and of the Commissioners of the District of Co- lumbia, and, it is understood. is fa- vored by the War Department. Senate bill 2411 provides for the closing of all public streets and alleys, except 14th street, in the area bounded by 16th street and the west, Alaska avenue on the northwest, Fern street on the north, Georgia avenue on the east and Aspen street, as plotted on the of ~i=! survey map on the south. Streets provided to be closed are 15th street, 13th street, t, Dogwood . street and Elder street. — GIVES D. C. JURISDICTION IN BOAT SLAYING CASE U. S. Commissioner in Alexandrid Refuses Bail Bond for Waters, public | the 1 {HOUSE ADOPTS NAVY BILL i |$269,000,000 Appropriation for | 1923—=Senate “Scrapping’ Starts. | The conference report on the 1923 {naval bill was adopted by the House ilate vesterday. The House accepts i Senate increases, which put the total lappropriation around $289,000,000. {Some minor amendments were adopt- led and the report went back to the {Senate for final action before being {sent to the Presiden | Work on the Navy “scrapping” bill | passed recently by the House to carry {arms conference was begun by a Sen- ate naval subcommittee headed by iSenator Poindexter. republican, Wash- |Ington. & i Action on the biil, be pressed, as the naval treaty has not yet been ratified by all the other | signatory powers. JUVENILE JOBS FEWER. Baltimore Statistics Show Change in Conditions in Two Years. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, June 28.—School children find it difficult to obtain work during the summer vacation. Many jobs held by chilldren two years ago now are filled by adults, it was said at the office of the state board of labor and statistics. The greater number of girls ap- plying for postions go into clothing factories and the boys into tin fac- tories. They earn on an average of $6.33 a week. Two years ago chil- dren of the same age earned as much as $9 or $10 a week and in some instances $25 The permits are only given to those more than fourteen years of age and expire in the fall. Children wio de- cide later to hold permanent posi- tions are required to secure other permits. ‘Applicants this year are sald to be healthier on the average than those in former years, the better physical ¢ondition of the children being at- tributed largely to the health propa- ganda in the public school | | i P out the naval limitation treaty of the | ! was ern were not permitted to proceed southward beyond Mullingar. Pas- engers for Dublin were likewise stranded on trafns from the north on the Great Northern line and were not allowed to pass Dundalk. From Dub- lin, however, the trains seemed to be running as usual, but with few trav- elers. These few told thrilling stories lof the happenings in Dublin. Armed free state troops attempted today which had taken forcible possession ot a building recently purchased in; Limerick for the use of the mechanics’ institute. On the men failing to com- ply with the order to evacuate the place it was surrounded. but through the intervention of a priest and the officer commanding the executive forces sent to seize the building the garrison consented to withdraw. Dublin today was isolated from Bel- | (h,¢ #ll of us must abide by the city fast, so far as telephone communication concerned, Dundalk being the nearest place possible to reach by phone. It is understood that the pro- visional government in Dublin has oc- cupied the telephone exchange, replac- ing the girl operators with men. DENIES ARMS REPORTS. Churchill Says Little Ammunition Is Being Sent to Ireland. By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 28.—Winston Spencer ; Churchill, the colonial secretary, stated in the house of commons this after- noon that there was no reason to sup- pose that gun running from abroad was being carried on in Irish waters to any appreciable extent, or that any ships had landed cargoes of arms. He said one vessel, carrying ammunition, had been intercepted and its cargo confiscated, and that a second sus- pected vessel had been intercepted and found to be without arms. SAILS FOR U. S. SATURDAY. PARIS, June 28.—Jean V. Parmen- tier, head of the French financial mission, which will confer with the war debt commission in the United States relative to France's obliga- tions, has booked passage on the steamship La Savole, sailing from Havre Saturday |EARLY MORNING TENNIS ON WHITE HOUSE COURTS. " A FAVORITE PASTIME WITH PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR ~ ® |Medical Corps, carefully selected and to dislodge an armed party| | committance i cally the decomposition of food in warm weather. Exposed to flies, insects and the sun's warmth, all this goes on at a greater rate on the picnic tables and the ground about them. “The sanitation of the parks is un- der the immediate charge of a phy sician of the United States Army empldyed solely for this purpose. He has interest only in the health and comfort of those who visit the parks. This should serve to correct the im- pression of that good citizen who expressed his belief that officials con- nected with the parks lacked human interest and confined their attention to the trees and grass therein. Health Ordinance Cited. In regard to the statement that an adequate force should be ;rovided to clean up refuse, it might be recalled health ordinance for prokibiting the of any insanitary nuis- ance on our own property or in our own homes to such a degree as to menace the health of ourselves or the health of our neighbors, provid- ing arrest or prosecution of those who fail to comply. The most radi- inclined of us would not ask that such a law be ropealed. We are expected and required to collect gar- | bage and refuse from our own homes into proper receptacles and place these out of doors on collection days. The co-operation we are asking of the public using the parks is merely a continuation of the same rule that they have been practicing in their own homes for years: Throw your picnic wastes into the receptacles placed beside the tables. If you throw them on the ground they are trampled in, breeding flith, flies and disease. It is impossible to satis- | factorily clean soil polluted by table | refuse, regardless of the vigilance of ! the cleaning force employed. The children play on the ground about the picnic groves and it is their; health particularly that is hazarded. | Safeguarding the Springs. “Previously the springs in the park were often carelessly misused by | those who visited them. Some washed | their hands in the spring waters. others used the spring as refriger- ators for picnic milk bottles. melons | and meats. After a year's experi- mentation this particular problem has been solved by incasing the springs ibated should be settled in an entirely equi- only fair and just that the much-de- question of “fiscal relations table way once and for all, and not be discussed in the House frequently by those who have not informed themselves thoroughly regarding the | real situation. Representative Hardy was selected for a place on the joint committee because he has pever taken any stand in the least conspicuous in contro- versies affecting the District. Speaker | Gillett picked Representative Hardy because he wanted a man with some business experience, who was not al- ready labeled either as a great friend or as an antagonist to the District. Representative Hardy is going into the investigation from a business man’'s standpoint. He has no preju- dices against the District and has not been influenced in any argument be- fore the District or appropriation committees, because he has not been a member of either committee. It is his purpose to give the District abso- lutely a square deal. — with stone, so that no one may reach or in any way injure the pure water of the spring, yet each may obtain as much water as he desires. No storm of protest by those who have been de- prived of their natural refrigerators has been registered as yet. The sani tation of the parks and their picnic groves is essentially the same as the sanitation of Army camps. All are familiar . with the improvements in the health and the diminution in death and disease rates in the Army directly attributed to camp sanita. tion. Commonly in the parks one ta- ble is used by five or six different groups of people in one day. The im- portance then of maintaining a scru- pulous cleanliness of the surround- ings is apparent.” Maj. Baker, in his report to Col. Sherrill, calls attention to the fact that “one citizen is reported as say- ing that the officials lack a human in- | terest, and think more of the grounds and the trees than of those who use | the parks.” and another is quoted as saying, “Millions of dollars have been collected from the people that they might have open park spaces to use freely and that an adequate cleaning force should be maintained to clean up after their picnics.” Careless Littering of Grounds. In this connection Col. Sherrill to- day stated: *“No matter how many employes are engaged on the work of cleaning up the parks, nor how much money is spent on this work, it will still be im- possible to have them clean and at- tractive unless the people using them refrain from throwing garbage and litter around, because under any rea- sonably econcmical system of clean- fault finding. “You must appreciate that the con- tinued criticism of the hotel man- {agement and the fault-finding spirit exhibited in the petition submitted imperils the continuance of the whole Government Hotels project. There is a strong and constantly growing feeling that the government is not lat this time called upon to maintain for its employes the housing service found necessary during the war.” This sentiment is _constantly gaining {strength, and the spirit exhibited in {your petition is doing more than {anything else to foster it. It is clear that the continuance of this course will more than anything else, tend to bring the government hotei {enterprise to an end. It might be well for the guests of the hotels to consider this phase of the situation seriously in their attitude toward the management.’ of “Onward, Christian Soldiers” four klansmen entered the church. Walk- ing up the aisle to the pulpit, where the minister stood, gazing with as- tonishment, one of the robed men | presented him with an envelope con- {taining about %50 in monmey. Th I minister accepted the gift, and, a silently as they had entered, the fou: men withdrew. RUM-RUNNER IS SHOT. NEW YORK. June 28.—An alleged rum smuggler, Ggorge Hollander, was fatally wounded®by federal customs agents in a running pistol battle b tween motor boats in Gravesend bay early today. He died later in a hos- pital. The rumrunning craft, which contained one occupant besides Hol- lander, was captured and twenty-five cases of liquor seized. ! i ALMOST Character, But Waiting the ' Touch of Your Personality FINISHED nearby states, paraded through Fred- proximately 400,000- ballots would be cast, which would be virtually a 100 per cent vote from the brotherhood's ing, the park would still, for a large ! portion of each day, be littered up| during the rounds of the cleaning: Price Complete, $12,950 Pending Trial members, togsther with a vote of ap ALEXANDRIA, June 28 (Spe- force. It is simpler, much cheaper | About the same one pays for a row house, still with proximately 150,000 1 < ! G { and much more satisfactory for those : 7 ) Ron-union "workers In ‘the mainta! | cial—Following _the taking of H this detached home there is about five thousand square using the parks to refrain from litter- ing them In the first place, as 2n ob- ligation every one owes to' those who follow in the same place. “The experience of last Sunday in- dicates, however,” the letter goes on, | ‘that practically no one wilfully vio- lates the regulations against throw- ing litter around and are willing to co-operaté with the efforts of the police, when it is called to their at- tention. The extent of this litter care- | lessly thrown down is indicated by the fact that on last Sunday morning the cleaning force In Rock Creek Park hauled away seventeen truck loads of litter and garbage thrown | down by those using the park the! preceding Saturday. afternoon. i testimony yesterday afternoon be- i fore United States Commissioner Willlam P. Woolls in the case of W. Aldred Waters of Alex- andria, who is held in connection with the fatal stabbing of Louls B. MeCormack of Washington, on the steamer Charles Macalester, June 14, Commissioner Woolls announced that the case was one for the District au- thorities to handle. 2 He refused bail bond for Waters and had the latter recommitted to jail pending the arrival of Judge D. Lawrence Groner in Alexandria. Judge Gromer will arrive here July 3, it was stated, at which time the question issuing commitment papers transferring Waters to the District of Columbia jail will be pre- sented. Attorney Edmund Burke, represent- ing Waters, requested Commissioner Woolls to announce a ball bond, and the commissioner announced that he would not decide this question until the arrival of the judge. Among the witnesses who testified nance crafts who also are participat- ing the referendum. While the votes counted here were principally from surrounding dis- tricts, today's check, it was said, was over a wide area, leading union of- ficials- to believe that the sentiment of the organization is virtually un- divided in favoring a strike, if the movement has the support of other unions which also are fared with wag cuts ordered by the United States Rallroad Labor Board. BUREKE WOULD RESCIND. feet of land—breathing, living space—without going off ¥ your own property. When we say complete we mean everything that word conveys. ..Nothing for you to do but move in. We Now Have 130 Satisfied Purchasers of Homes Valued Up to $18,500 in This Home Community. See for Yourself. TRAIN DITCHED, 2 HURT. Go Direct to 14th and Jefferson Sts. N.W. : Chicago Flyer’s Wreck May Prove \‘ THE SHANNON AND LUCHS L e ~ INTOWN SUBURB i n 14th Street Terrace Representative Burke, republican, of Pennsylvania, a member of the Order of Railroad Conductors of the Baltimore and Ohlo system, introduced in the House yesterday. a joint reso- lution. which” would ~authorize the Ralilroad Labor Board to rescind its decision reducing wa, of rallroad employes effective July 1. s resolution emboides a declara- tion that “the decision of the board savors so much of one-sided justice|yesterday afternoon was Mrs. Elsie / and has caused such dissatisfaction | Hardbower of Alexandria, who proved and discontent that a strike seems|a strong witness for the defense. both imminent and fnevitable.” It also| At the time of the stabbing a man asserted that “the standard of Uv-|unknown to her made A lunge at persons may die and many were said to be injured as a result of the wreck- ing of the Chicago Flyer, a Rock Is- 1and trein running from Chicago. The train went over into the ditch: forty- ing cannot be maintained upon a minimum wage proposed by the board ©f 23 cents an hoyr or $1.84 a day.” ‘Wages pro} s‘:l“w“l‘; n?c%‘tmlum o:nu ¢ ul 500, ‘workers, &‘3 resolution asserted that ths m“ fixed by the board would Wwhich wouid be rep “s Chinese standard of who McCormack, and she said Waters was standing beside the lunch counter on the steamer. Concluding her testi- mony, she declared tha ters was not_the man who made the lunge at McCormack., ded Jonn ¥ Balley: Durser o U el ohn F. ey, . oy 188 er on the |- engineer and firamen were probably. fatally injured. : e five miles east of here at Alvo. { i | | \ i Il Use 14th St. Car—Finest Service in Washington