Evening Star Newspaper, September 29, 1922, Page 5

CAMPAGN STAGE SETIN WIGHGAN Political Battle Promises In- . terest Equal to That of 1918. DEMOCRATS HOPEFUL Popularity of Former Gov. Ferris Depended On to Beat Townsend. DETROITy September 2! ventiong but of the w dates designated and issues drawn, . tha Stage had been set today for the ?beginning of a political campaign that promises to equal in interest that of 1918, which was enlivened by the Ford-Newberry senatorial race. Both major parties were squared away for the battle when the demo- crats closed their biennial convention at Bay City yesterday. Against the confidence of the re- publicans. inspired by party suecess ¥ . Alex J. Groes beck. ceking re-election. the democratic determination to wage militant_campaign for the election Woodbridge N. Ferris. former gov- rnor, to the Senate and to place in office the democratic state candidates. More Promise Than Since 1873. Democratic leaders declare there is more promise of success in the sena- torial race in November than since 1873, when tbeir party last elected a senator from Michigan. Senator Townsend plans to launch an in- tensive campalgn within the nest few days. while Mr. Ferris, who was unopposed in the primary for the 4democratic nomination. already has completed several speaking tours. Republican heads declare thelr party will stand squarely behind the sen- ator, notwithstandihg the fact he had rather a close race in the primary. In the interest of solidarity all fac- tions were said to have buried the Latchet at the recent Muskegon con- vention. Depend on Popularity. The democrats on the other hand believe Mr. Ferris’ popularity as gov- ernor will materially aid him in the coming election. To strengthen his campaign the convention vesterday rejected a proposal to indorse the Heury Ford presidential boom, be- lieving such a move might detract from the interest in the senatorial race. Mr. Ford, it was indicated. may be indorsed at the spring convention. His friends yesterday contented them- selves with commending his recent “industrial strike” against coal prices. As in_191S when the democrais in- dorsed Mr. Ford, an independent. as their senatorial candidate. they went out of the party yesterday to indorse O. B. Fuller, the’ republican_ auditor general, for another term. The reso- lution naming Mr. Fuller declared he ‘was “reluctantly renominated” by the republicans @t their state convention. Miss Jessie C. Porter of Marshall ‘was nominated for secretary of state. FORD INDORSEMENT FAILS. Convention: Committee Decides Ac- #ion Would Be Premature. By the Associated Press. BAY CITY, Mich., September 29.—A movement to indorse Henry Ford as a presidential candidate in 1924 failed At the democratic state convention here today, when the resolutions com- mittee decided such action would be “premature and too far'in advance of the election.” The —proposal spon- sored by the delegation from Adrian, whioch included S. W. Raymand, a brother-in-law of the Detroit manu- facturer, precipitated a fight in the resolutions committee.” Those opposing the movement held that indorsement of Mr. Ford would make the presidential issue the pre- dominating feature of the coming campaign in Michigan and detract from the strength of Woodbridge N. Ferris, the party's nominee for sena- tadg Supporters of the resolution argued that Henry Ford was the real instigator of what they termed “the Newberry issue.” The convention refused to nominate & candidate for auditor general, In- dorsing the incumbent, O. B. Fuller, republican, who is seeking re-elec- tion. Mrs. Jessie C. Porter of Mar- shall, was nominated fgr secretary ot rtate. Other nomina!YDns were: O. F. Barnes, Lansing, for state treas- urer; Thomas J. Cavanaugh, Paw aw, for attorney general, and Michael Doyle, Menominee, to fill a Yyacancy on the state supreme court bench. Mr. Ford came in for mention in the Teport of the resolutions committee, when it commended his stand on the €oal problem. The platform assailed the new tariff law as “having been enacted at the dictation of special jn- terests and profiteers”: condemned the government's handling of the ©oal and railroad strike situations; assailed the seating of Senator New- berry and accused the national ad- ministration of violating campaign pledges. Indorsement of the great lakes-St. Lawrence waterway project ‘was included in the platform. RATIFY MARYLAND CHOICES. G. 0.'P. Convention Warmly Com- mends National Administration. BALTIMORE, ‘September 29.—The renomination of United States Sena- tor Joseph I. France at the primary election September 11 was formally ratified by the republican state con- vention here yesterday. The platform warmly commended the national ad- ministration. On the question of pro- hibition, the platform says: “The republican_party recognizes the deep interest of the peopl> in the eighteenth amendment to the Consti- tution and the Volstead law. The po- sition of our candidates upon these questions has already been made clear by their records and statements. To_these records and statements we Tespectfully refer the voters.” RULED OFF TEXAS BALLOT. AUSTIN, Tex., September 29.—The name of George E. B. Peddy, repub- liean and independent democratic nominee for United States senator, not legally be placed on the offi- cial ballot for the November genera! ejection, the state attorney general's dspartment ruled yesterday. The opinion held that the republican party is required to nominate by primary election and a convention nomination is void. S . OPEN BIDS TUESDAY. ‘At a meeting next Tuesday at, the Capitol of the board of governors of the Congressional Country Club bids for the contracts for the erection of the $500.000 clubhouse for the club Wijl be formally opened. “‘The clubhouse is to be on a 405-acre act in Maryland, owned by the club, d it _is expected by the officers to the clubhouse ready for a for- mal opening next Memorial day. The firat eighteen-hole golf course has ‘been completed, and will be open for play in about two weeks, by which time, it is expected that the macadam “loop” around the club property will be completed, thus giving easy ao- cess to the club by two first-class highways—the Conduit road and the Chevy Chase road. Col, E. Lester Jones, chairman of the finance committes, reports that the financial affairs of the club are in -most gratifying shape, the mem- ‘bership still growing and the develop- ment.of the-club progressing rapidly. " BULDING RN THINKS FRELINGHUYSEN MAY BE BEATEN AT POLLS Secretary of Democratic Senatorial Committee Says G. 0. P. Nomina- tion Gladdens Opponents’ Hearts. In a statement issued last night Frank A. Hampton, secretary and treasurer of the democratic senatorial committee, said “the result of the re- publican senatorial primary in New Jersey has gladdened the hearts of those democrats who are most deep- 1y concerned with the increase of democratic strength in the United States Senate, for the reason that am issue is_now squarely presented to the peoplexof New Jersey as to whether they will clect as thelr s ator in Congress a progressive demo- crat. Gov. Lidwards, or a_reactionary. stand-pat, hi hound and hard-boiled iuh‘l guard publican, Sen- ator J relinghuys H “Tho: » aie closely D trend of political affairs in t temen dded, *v > note of the fact that ! Harding received for President in N . the total republican vote cast for both Frelinghuysen and Record in one of the hardest fought end most spirited and bitterest pi ‘maries in the history of the state ‘was much less than half the vote cast for Mr. Harding in 1920.” 100 000R0RD Maryland Counties Will Cele- brate Event With Monster Program. Special Dispatch to The Star, JPPER MARLBORO, Md., Septem- ber 29.—Thousands from the southern Maryland counties—Prince Georges, Charles, Calvert, St. Marys and Anne Arundel, Baltimore—and Washington are expected here tomorrow, for the cere- monies to mark the beginning of con- ;Etruc!lnn of the $1.000,000 Baltimore- jsouthern Maryland or Robert Crain highway. It will be the biggest day for southern Maryland in years, The program will open with a big parade starting from the local station {of the Pope's creek line of the Pennsyl- vania railroad at 10:45 o'clock. Order of March. The ‘order of the march will be as follows: John M. Bowle, chief marshal, on horseback, and woman aides. the gen- eral and the executive committee, Naval Academy band, Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, escorted by Company_F, 1st Maryland Regiment, National Guard, of Hyatts- ville: Admiral Wilson, superintendent of the United States Naval Academy, and escort; Mayor Broening of Balti- more_and 'escort. Mrs. Robert Crain and her five county escorts, John N. Mackall, chairman and chief caginesr | : of the state roads commission : Murray and Archbishop Curley. Rev Frances Edward McManus, Rabbi Mo ris A. Lazaron, Rev. Francis J. Lough- ran, Rev. Jesse R. Cavileer, Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association of Balti- more: E. Asbury Davis, president. es- corted by Snyder-Farmer Post, No. 3, American Legion, of Hyattsville; Balti- more Evening Sun Newsboys' B, Robert Crain, for whom the highw Bichop is named; the Southern Marvland So- | clety. R. Keith Compton, president, corted by the cadets of Charlotte Hall Military Academy ; the flve county sena- tors, two woman aides on horseback pre- ceding floats from each of the five southern ~Marylgmd counties—Prince Georges, Charles, Anne Arundel, St. Marys and Calvert—with an automo- bile . containing four matrons behind each float. The procession will move through the principal section of Marlboro and halt at .the site of the monument to be unvelled. Program of Exercises. The assemblage will be called to order by A. S. Goldsborough, and the Rev. McManus, rector of Trinity Episcopal pari Upper Marlboro, will give the invoc: tion. Judge Fillmore Beall, asso- clate justice of the seventh judicial circuit, will deliver the address of welcome, following which John N. Mackall, chairman and chief engineer of the state roads commission, will dedicate the monument. Mrs. Robert Crain will then unveil the monument, after which ad- dresses will be delivered by Gov. Ritchie, Mayor Broening and Robert Crain. Benediction will be pronounced by Rabbi Morris A. Lazaron. The parade will then reform, followed by the assemblage, wili move to the fair grounds, where old southern Maryland delicacies will be served. A band concert will be ren- dered during the luncheon. Afternoon Program. At 1 o'clock the afternoon cere- monies, which will be staged on the fair grounds, will begin with invoca- tion by the Rev. Francis J. Loughran, followed by introductory remarks by Hampton Magruder of Prince Georges county, who will preside. The ceremonial of the flags, expect. ed to prove one of the day’s most pic- turesque features, will follow. Thi: ceremonial is to symbolife the inces tion of a closer social and commercial relationship between Baltimore city and the southern Maryland counties. Gov. Ritchie, Mayor Broening and the state senators from Anne_Arundel, Prince Georges, Charles, St. Marys and Calvert counties will take part, with many southern Maryland women. ‘Will Represent Counties. Five young women will personify the counties. KEach is to carry a replica of the old colonial -military flag of her county. For escort each will have four matrons of honor and the county senator. The young wom- en will appear in costumes trimmed to harmonize with the colors of the flags they bear. The ceremonial will include an ex- change of flags between Baltimore city, represented by Mayor Broening, and the young women representing the counties, with Gov. Ritchie as the central figure in the group. Music accompanying these exercises will be by the Naval Academy Band. At the conclusion of the ceremonial special remarks will be made by E. Asbury Davis, president of the Me: chants and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion of Baltimore, and R. Keith Com ton, president of the Southern Mary- land Society. Senntor Smith to Speak. United States Senator E. D. Smith will deliver an address, which will be followed by benediction by the Rev. Jesse R. Cavileer. 8 ‘The afterncon program is scheduled to end.at 4:65 o'clock and at 5 o'clock a train will be at the fair grounds to carry those Baltimore folk home who desite to go. Music will be rendered by a band in the {ntermission between the close of the afternoon ceremonies and the be- ginning of the evening exercises at 7:30 o'clock. At that time there will be a band concert and community singing led by Prof. Thomas L. Gibson, head of the department of music in the schools of the state. Motion“pictures accompanied by an orchestra will conclude the day. CAPT. MUNLY RETURNS.. Completes Course in Medical In- struction in London. Capt. Willlam C. Munly, Medical Corps, who has just completed a course of instruction at the Fellow- ship of Medicine and Post Graduate Medical Association at London, has been ordered to the United States for duty at Mitchel Field, New. York, - rving | aud. | JUDGE 1. W. WILLETT | NEWG. A R. CHIEF President Harding’s Father Choice of/ Veterans for Surgeon General. COMMANDER EX-SAILOR Organization Sees Doom as Time Thins Ranks—Brothers Meet After Fifty-Three Y;m‘. the As: iated Press. ! DS MO| , lowa, Scp‘ember 29.— | Installation of officers, elected vester- day, and the adoptipn of resolutions, was all that remained- for veterans of.the Grand Army of the Republic to do today before adjourning their fifty-sixth an- nual encampment. The resolutions committee worked im until late last night going through the many to have its digest resoiutions offered and expected prepared when the broke a_precedeat o X years standing. He is the firs veteran who served as a sailor dutin {the civil war to be chosen for this ex- alted position. “If we gobs will only be paticnt, we will come into our own yet,” commented a civil war sailor, who served with Ad- miral Farragut, following Commander Willett's election. + Dr. Harding Surgeon General. Among the other national officers elected was Dr. George T. Harding of Marion, Ohio, father of the President, as surgeon general. Other officers in- clude Rev. J. H. Eppler of Gary, Ind., chaplain-in-chief. The newly eiected chaplain is a victim of blindness as a result of injuries received in the civil war. Following the election of national officers came the selection of Milwau- kee as the fifty-seventh annual en- | campment city, the annual address of {the retiring commander-in-chief, Lewis S. Pilcher of Brooklyn, N. Y., and the heating of reports and memo- rials | President Checred to Echo. | President Harding's name was cheered by the veterans when his message expressing regret that pub- lic duty prevented his attending their reunion was read by Gen. Pilcher. “Please express my great interest and hope for the long life and happi- ness of every ome of your com- rades” the President had written to Gen. Pilcher. Senator H. O. Bursum of New Mex- ico, author of the increased pension bill before Congress, was-accorded a vote of thanks and an ovation of ap- plause when he predicted the passage of the measure by the House within ninety days. ) Alice Cary Risley of Columbia. Mo., was elected president of the Grand Nurses' Association at ) {business session held this afternoon Juliaette Smith of Fort Wayne, Ind., Was named conductor. Other Officers Named. | Mrs. Lola S. Elliott of Des Moinas {was elected national president of the H Daughters of Veterans, and Mrs. Pris- cilia L. Thayer. senior vice president. The newly elected president of the Woman's Relief Corps is Mrs. Marle L. Basham qf Des Moines. Sons of Veterans elected Col. Frank {Shellhouse of Indianapolis command- jer-in-chief. - Fred V. Bell of Massa- |chusetis was elected senior vice com- mander, and W. Bubb of Seattle, Wash., junior vice commander. 5 Eva J. French of Monterey, Calf., was elected president of the Ladies of the G. A. R. Commander Pilcher in a speech yes- terday replied in a measure to the attack upon Abraham Lincoin made | by confederate veterans in their meet- {ing in Richmond, Va.. last June. i Answers Slur on Lincoln. ““The recent venomous attack upon Lincoln’s character, made under cir- 3 nces which gave it wide pub- he said. “does not lessen the estimate of his worth. It only tends to awaken the slumbering ani- mosities and rudely disturb the feel- ing of peace apd good will between | Federal and Confederate which had begun to prevaii throughout the na- tion. ‘Good may come of it, however, if it -awakens all lovers of truth and the fatherland to scrutinize more closely the character bf the instruc- tions in the department of American history that is given in the public schools of the land.” \ Brothers Meet After 53 Years. In 1869 two brothers left their par- ents, eight other brothers and five ters and went out from a little m _in_Fountain county, . each to shift for himself. J. W. Miller was twenty-five and his brother, A. H., twenty-three, and both had fought through the civil war. Yesterday the two, together with a third brother, Joe, who was nineteen, when_they left home, met here at the G. A. R. National Encampment for the first time since that parting in In- diana fifty-three years ago. Joe lives here, but did not know his brothers were coming. A. H., now seventy-six years old, arrived Mon- day with a delegation from Parsons, Kan.. and the two got together. Then J. W., now seventy-eight, came in {from Portland, Oreg. A. H. didn't know him, but Joe spied him.,and let out a whoop heard for blocks. G. A. R. Looking for Successor. The Grand Army is looking over the ground for a successor. With the time rapidly approaching when no more veterans of the civil war will be alive to carry on its work, the question “of an heir apparent seems to be unanswered, and the comment of the retiring commander-in-chief, Lewis S. Pilcher, is: “It is in the hands_of the Almighty to decide upon whose shoulders this work shall de- scend.” PUSH WAR MEMORIAL. Military Service Legionaires Ask Aid of Other Organizations. At the September meeting of the Military Service Legion of the District of Columbia, last evening, the com- mittee on the proposed soldiers’ me- morial for the District of Columbia, of which Maj. F. S. Hodgson is chair- man, was instructed to proceed at once to have other patriotic, military and fraternal bodies tnll‘ne similar committees to co-operate. The American'Legion, Spanish War Veterans, Grand Army of the Re- public, Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade, Merchants’ association," Elks, Masons, Knights of Columbus and Odd Fellows are to be asked to join in the drive to have a suitable memorial erected in_ honor of the men and women, who served in the world war from the District. / The league also went on record as favoring a parade on Washington's birthday anniversary, February 22, similar to those held annually.up to about ten years ago. - PLANS WAR ON FRAUD. Plans_to increase the membership of the Better Business Bureau with the idea of more effectively combating the promoters of financial frauds in this city were made today at a meet- ing of the membership committee of the bureau. By this means the organization hg?e: to develop plans which will en- able the bureau to double its budget for this year and lend assistance both office staff and to the investi- satiorrol fraudulent- schemes, |PRESIDENT HOLDS et PO A BRI R B, (o Al EXPERTS’ REPORT IN BUREAU PROBE All papers in the bureau of en- graving investigation following the removal of former Director Wilmeth and his assistants are now in the hands of President Harding. ¥ Treasury officials recently -took the two separate reports, one made by the "l‘renury committee ap- pointed "for the purpose and the other by a group of Department of Justice accountants, and com- pared them. A resume 1s under- stood to have been made of these studies, and the whole matter laid on the President's desk a féw days ?lelfare Mrs. Harding was stricken Whether the President will ever mauke public. more than has al- ready been revealed, the details of the investigations is problematical. In official circles it was said to- day that the affair was entirely how in the hands of the President. Thé consensus of opinion seems to be that the subject is “dead.” FEARS REREVAL OF COAL STRKE to Make Permanent Peace Is Need. Peace has been restored to the coal Industry only temporarily, and the people must expect repeated strikes w"vh their consequent natjonal suf- fering unless some authoritative agency brings both the operator and the miger to a sensible understand- ing. in the opinion of United States Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, who plaved an im- portant part in the settlement of the latest anthracite strike. Senator Pepper, in an article ap- pearing in the current issue of the Natlon's Business, a magasine pub- *khed under the auspices of tha Chamber of Commerce of the United States. places considerable importance on the coal commission to be ap- pointed by President Harding. It is to blf the task of this commission to bring employer and employe in the mines to a satisfactory and perma. nent agreement. Business of the People. threatened famine,” writes Sen- ator Pepper, “leads to the discovery that the coal business is the business of the people. Instantly there is talk of government seizure, of compulsory arbitration, nationalization mines and such like. As soon, how- ever, as plenty replaces famine the citizen again buys his customary sup- Ply, curses at the price and proceeds to dismiss the entire subject from his mind. “Now that a settlement of the coal strike has been effected, we breathe 2 sigh of relief. But we shall have the same thing over again unless there is an intelligent and sustained public opinion respecting the tremen- dous industrial problems. “We have been witnessing, we shall continue to witness, a flerce contro- versy between two groups of ex- tremely able ~fellow citizens whose lack o® confidence in one another is as alarming as it is deep-seated. The operators think they have reason to distrust the unions. The unions are sure that history justifies thelr dis- trust of the operators. Faciag of the Facts. “Fairness requires us to face the facts—not squint at some of them. One fact is that, wherever multitudes of workers are employed by relative- 1y few employers, the union is both necessary and desirable. Attempts to crush unionism are both foolish and wicked. Another fact is that in the long run the emplove cannot he more prosperous than his employer. A union which shuts its eves to the actual conditions prevailing in the in- dustry and attempts an adjustment based upon an industrial fiction is a union that is grievously misled. Everything depends upon the per- sonnel of the coal commission to be appointed by the President. Senator Pepper continues. While its mem- bers must be thorough business men. he says. far more important will be their “ability to identify themselves with the 'best interests of both parties. “They must keep steadfastly i mind the ideal of an abundant life for the mine worker as well as a fair profit margin to the producer and a reasonable price to the consumer,” the writer declared. If the commission sets out with consciousness of the fact that the operator is endeavoring to keep down 1abor costs while the laborer b ever trying to open the emplover's purse wider, Senator Pepper believes it will meet with success. It must, however. focus public_attentio h ies likell{ to lead to rum\:‘re‘.m oversiss _“ may even be necessary - vide by law that in.case a'xt'r?kfr?n an essential industry lasts more than a specified time,” he concluded, “tne issue shall be submitted to the people at a special election.” P. 0. DEPARTMENT NOTES RESULTS OF RAIL STRIKE 1,269 Mail Trains, Representing 112,540 Mileage, Necessarily An- nulled During Labor Crisis. Statistics compiled by the Post Of- fice Department at the close of one of the worst transportation strikes in the country show that during the period of this labor upheaval 1,269 mail trains were annulled by the railroads, representing a mileage of 112.540. = The records also reveal the fact that the Post Office Department em- ployes throughout the United States established a remarkable showing in the dispatching and transporta- tion of the mails, notwithstanding the unprecedented _ difficulties con- fronted. Transferring mail pouches to other trains, re-routing mail and apartment cars, substituting automo- bile trucks for railroads and other emergency measures were adopted, so that a serious congestion of the mails at any point was prevented for any length of time. Except for slight in- terruptions at isolated points and a slowing up in the operation of the postal system in certain sections, reg- ular delivery of the mails continued as if no serious strike was in exist- ence. By switching railway post office cars to other trains or rerouting them on other lines and by transferring closed pouches from annulled trains to trains in operation the service was very satisfactorily maintained, Assistant Postmaster General Hender- son reports. In other extreme cases it was found necessary to substitute motor trucks to carry the mails, and in these emergencies automobiles were immediately placed in commis- sion. Indlcnuvt of the patriotic spirit of the Ame people, scores of offers from every of the country were received by Postmaster General Work volunteering the immediate .use of airplanes, motor trucks and other ve- hicles of transportation to the Paost Office Department to keep the mails going. ORDERED TO NEW YORK. Lieut. Commander George A. Riker, Naval Medical Corps, at the naval re- cruiting. station, thl-ei%.hubmu- signed fo duty at the Naval Hospital, New._York citye ¥ ,! for a hat, but what ROM TH VENUE T Time to select your Fall Hat Six Different Shapes; Six Different Shades More and more The Bond Street is being recognized as being the finest hat value in town. styled, in fine felts, and silk lined, it possesses all of the distinguishing touches of hats marked at $6 and $7. 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One-quarter silk lined. $35 to $65 Knitted Topcoats, of oxford gray $25 and heathers. One-quarter silk lined. 2 Topcoats of English covert cloth, in light and dark shades. One-quarter silk lined. $45 Hockanum Mills Fabric Topcoats of black, oxford and cambridge gray. Fully silk lined. $45 Parker.-Bridget Presents ‘School Suits for Sonny $9.75 to $27.50 Sturdy suits, carefully made for red-blooded boys who are not careful with their suits—and pre- sented by a department that has had thirty years’ experience in out- fitting young America.