Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1922, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair and cooler tonight; fair and continued cool. Temperature for twenty-four hours tomorrow ended at 2 p.m. today : Highest, 71 at 1:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 54 at 3:30 a.m. today. Fuil report on page 23. New York Stock Market Closed Today . h e & 4 “From Press to Home Within the Hour” _The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast ben WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 91,255 No. 98,655, Entered as see “NO. =0y Oedede post office Washington, ond-class matter D. C. HIP AFIRE AT SEA DWERS LIFEBOATS FOR 300 ON BOARD City of Honolulu, Owned by U. S., Two Days Off Pa- cific Coast. VESSEL GETTING S. 0. S. RUSHES TO RESCUE Second Call for Help Says “Very| Bad Fire Raging,” and Asks Immediate Aid. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., October 12—Fire sweeping the steamer City of Honolulu was beyond con- trol at 10:10 a.m. today and the ship was being abandoned by the captain, chief engineer, first officer and radio operator, the laxt four aboard the vessel, a radio dispatch received here today said. The Inst message from the ship sald: Captain and gang leaving ship. Good-bye to you all.” LOS ANGELES, Calif., October 12.— With some three hundred passengers aboard, the Los Angeles Steamship Company’s new steamer City Honolulu was reported by wireless today afire two days off shore from this port on the return trip of 1ts first vovage between Los Angeies and Honoluiu The C of Honolulu is a Shipping Board vessel of 17.500 tons and was allocated to the local com 101 six months’ trial for ser this city and the dHawaian It left September 23" with more than s, mostly tourists, and it is believed a large number of these were returning on the vessch The position of the City of Honolulu S o'clock thls morning was given at Latitude 31.07 north and longitude 131.40 west. according to the last radio advices known here to have been received from the vessel W were picked up by the Federal Com pany beach station at San Francisco. Three vessels are known to be near the City of Honolulu, the transport Thomas and the steamers Enterprise and the City of Los Angeles. LOWERING LIFEBOATS. Burning Ship Sends Out Second Call for Help. BAN FRANCISCO, Calif., October 12. —Lifeboats were being lowered at 8:47 o'clock this morning by the passenger steamer, the City of Hono- lulu_which was afire in the Pacific ocean according to a wireless message received today. The message as received here was addressed to the steamer Enterprise, which was in latitude 32,17 north and longitude 13612 west. The message said the Honolulu “was lowering boats now,” and asked the Enterprise 1f_she was coming.” Twelve minutes before the Honolulu sent word that she was lowering boats she put out her second S. O. S. call. This message repeated the pre- vious position of the burning steamer as latitude 31.07 north and longitude 131.40 west. In addition to the S. O. S. call the Honolulu said a “very bad fire was| raging ' on the vessel and immediate assistance was asked. The Matson Navigation Company, owner of the steamer Enterprise, which is bound from Hawaii to the mainland, said thgt their vessel was rushing to the assistance of the burn- ing liner and should reach her be- tween noon and 1 o'clock. At 9 o'clock the Federal Telegraph Company received a wireless message saying that passengers were leaving the ship. A message relayed to the Matson offices at the same time by the lulu’s position as “1,406 miles east of Honolulu.” WOOLD FORB POLTCS INHIH STATE OFFES Churches of the world must demand for chief magistrates and ministers of state of the nations the same free- dom from political control now en- Joyed in some measure by judges, Dr. Charles S. Mactarland, general secre- tary, said in a report today to the administrative committee of the Fed- | eral Council of Churches. Dr. Macfarland, who has just returned from a tour of Europe, sald there is a growing feeling among the people of all countries that the “present confusion In worid politics is in a large measure due to the fact that men in power are seeking first to maintain their own ad- ministrations: second, to uphold their respective parties, and third, after tak- ing care of the other two, to do what they can for thelr country. “It is clear,” continued the report, that the church throughout the world must_find_her voice and utterance de- manding freedom for chief magistrates and ministers of states, such as we now have in some measure for judges of courts, so that the dead hand of par- | tisan and personal politics shall be for- ever cut off from the body politic.” WOMAN ATTACKED WATCHES NEGRO DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR RALEIGH, N. C, October 12.— Mclver Burnett, negro convicted of an attack on a white woman, was put to death in the electric chair at state prison here today in the presence of his victim. Bur- nett, who had stoutly maintained his innocence during the trial, was heard to mumble something as the Jailers strapped him in the chair. “What is he saying?” asked the ‘woman. “Tell them I'm guilty,” replied the negro, without lifting his eyes. It took three shocks of one min- ute each before physicians were satisfled that the man was dead. ‘Ten women in all witnessed the execution and one of them fainted. The woman Wwho had accused Bur- nett was accompanied by her hus- band and mother-in-law. ch | steamer Enterprise gave the Hono- | troit today. | Dyed Soon Afteri | Jersey Double | Murder. | Rector’s Wife A gain | in Limelight of | Probe. By the Associated Press. SOMERVILLE, N. J., October 12, —Rayn-ond nelder this after- mnoon repudiated the alleged con- fession 'n which he acrused Clit- ford Hayes, nineteen, of the mur- | éer of Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mra. Eleanor Rinehardt Millx. Hayes waw released a few mo- | ments later in custody of Eix couns NEW BRUNSWICK, N. I. October | 12—Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, widow | of the Rev Edward Wheeler Hall, was | brought back into the limelight by in- | FRANCE CANT PAY FOR FOUR YEARS” i 1 | Needs Money to Reconstruct | Devastated Regions, Says Newspaper. SEEKS DEBT SOLUTION | SR x “Highest Authority” Quoted as; Endeavoring to Find New Scheme. | | By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 12—France will be unable to meet any part of her debts ;’for the next four years, as all avail- | able receipts for that period must be devoted to recon- struction of the A devastated re- N - : glons, _according to the Paris Her- ald, which quotes “one of the high- est authorities of the French minis- try of finance.” The government, adds the news- paper, is doing its utmost to find a new formula for the settlement of POINCARE. the European debts and repara- tions tangle, and will probably sub- mit a scheme drawn up by M. Poin care when the Interallied financial! congress meets at Brussels. This plan calls for a revision of the total of Germany's indebtedness on a { basis of actual reparations only, the {charges for penstons, war allowances and the like being wiped from the siate. This would reduce the French claim by nearly 25 per cent. No Ratification Soon. Discussion of ratification of the Washington naval treaties 1s far down on the schedule of business of parliament, which opens tomorrow. The treaties will bedealt with, how- ever, In so far as reports from the naval committee on them will be made to the chamber of deputies. The government's program is so heavily laden with questions that were deemed of more urgent im- portance, such as the financial situ- ation and the current foreign ques- tion, that open discussion on the ‘Washington treatles in parliament is| almost certain to be postponed until 1923, | The government - expects to vote the budget in time to forward the document to the Senate, before De: cember 1. It has been decided that discussion on the naval treaties can { wait untll next year, and unless some ardent supporter of the Washington agreements, perhaps former Premier Briand_himself, forces their discus- sion while the budget is before the | Senate in December, thdy will be held over until next year. No pressure is being brought to bear upon the government from any quarter to advance the consideration of the Washington pacts. Examination Completed. Deputy Georges Mandel, who was chief secretary to former Premier Clemenceau, has been appointed one of the two reporters on the treatles. Under French parllamentary usage he makes a study of them and has just completed his examination. Deputy Lacour de Granmaison, the second reporter, who has been as- signed the task of examining the! various phases relating to poisonous i gases and the freedom of the seas to neutrals, has not yet finished his work. He expects, however, to be ready to submit his report to the naval committee before November 1. Deputy Mandel's report, which is devoted to a discussion on' the points relating to capital ships and minor craft, is understood to advise against ratificatlon. Several amendments are suggested in the report, among ! which is one for replacing the lost French dreadnaught France, and there are some reservations as te French sea power. FOUR PLANES TO RACES. Machines Carry Bolling Field Men to Witness Pulitzer Derby. Four airplanes, two of them Navy Martin bombers, left Bolling Field shortly before noon today for Self- ridge, Mich. The bombers carried Capts. Davis, Boyrne and Archibald of the Marine Corps and the other two—Dehavilands, carried Majs. Refn- burg and Walton and Col. Lahm and Lieut. T. P. Smith. ‘The aviators will make the 460-mile journey to witness the Pulitzer trophy races, which started near De- ! ' 3 3 o3 vestigators of the murder of her hus-| — WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, OdTOBER 12, 1922—FORTY-TWO PAGES. ‘MRS. HALL’S COAT TO BE TESTED FOR BLOODSTAINS MRS. EDWARD W. HALL. band and Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills today, when detectives visited her home and took away a scarf and fawn-colored coat which she had dyed 33 Are Rescued ByU.S .Submarine As Storm Rages An unusual exploit of the sea was recorded today in two cryptic messages recefved by government departments, reporting that the submarine N-2 had rescued and landed safely the crew of thirty- e stranded on the tank Steamer Swift Star, when she went aground off Block Isiand. No details of the submarine’s pe- culiar adventure were contained in either of the messages, one of which came to the Treasury De- partment from the coast guard station at Wakefleld, R. I, at the same time that the other was be- ing copied at the Navy Depart- ment by radio from the mine sweeper Chewink. Previous re- ports had indicated, however, that the heavy sea made it impracti- cable for a larger vessel to ap- the Swift Star for rescue MILLER'S RECORD Empire State Governorship Fight Hammer-and- Tongs Affair. IS AN UNUSUAL PARALLEL Voters Must Choose Between Two Popular Double-Fisted Fighters. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Staff Correspondent of The Star. NEW YORK, October 12.—At the rate the political campaign in this state is getting up steam, they wiil have to set a deck hand on the safety valve before it gets into midstream. The two candidates for governor are going at each other hammer and tongs and first thing you know they will be calling each other a hard name and branching out from that. It all startéd when Elihu Root, at the Tepublican state convention, gave Gov. Miller a boost on his rceord as governor which fairly lauded him to the skles. It would have been thought that New York never had a real governor before. It made Alfred E. Smith, the democratic candidate, sick, and he said that when his time came he proposed to pull out some of the peacock feathers and strip off the yellow jacket with which his op- ponent had been invested. He had been governor himself just before Gov. Miller and thought he had been a good one. Wades Into G. O. P. Record, The time came last night for Mr. Smith to start the undertaking and he went at it with a vim. Before an audience of some 2,000 ‘whooping democrats at Yonkers he waded Into the republican Tecord in a way that showed his old-time form as a two- fisted fighting man was stili unim- paired by two years' aloofness from the political arena. He declared that the much-vaunted economies of the Miller administra- tion are a delusion and a snare, based upon expert juggling of figures and twisted bookkeeping. He asserted that the Miller campaign is a smoke screen to hide the real shortcomings of the Miller administration, and a! burning delinquency, in bringing to destruction the efforts of a bi-partisan organization to present a plan of real reform In state government. Then he proceeded to analyze the economlies claimed by the Miller sup- porters and sought to show that they were specious claims that could not stand up under_the dissecting knife. Well, people in Washington who read the news of Congress know how it is themselves, They have many times and oft seen the majority leader in the House, whether republican or democrat, at the close of a session, present the table of appropriations and figure out one result, while the minority leader, with the very same figures, would produce an exactly op- posite recapitulation and conclusion, And yet it Is said that figures don't e. Attitude of Newspapers. One notable feature of the campaign at this stage is the way the news- papers are treating the opposing can- didates. The meétropolitan press ‘without exception is giving the can- didates an “even break” on the re- ports of their speeches and claims. It is put¢ing a terrible responsibility on the man in the street and the voter at i on 5y S e g N oo, GREEKS 10 ACCEPT MUDANIA - TERMS AND QUIT THRACE French Officially Informed Athens Will Not Oppose Protocol. RUSSIANS DISSATISFIED AT PARLEY EXCLUSION Tchitcherin Regrets Failure of Efforts to Establish Closer U. S. Relations. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 12.—Greece has de- cided to sign the Mudania armistice convention and evacuate Thrace, ac- cording to the conditions stipulated in that document, the French foreign office was officlally informed today. RUSSIANS ARE DISPLEASED. Expect Equal Voice in Near East Decision. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1922. MOSCOW, October 12.—Fore{gn Min- ister Tchitcherin said in an interview today that the declsion of the allles to let Russia attend one of the two con- ferences concerning the near east set- tiement was unsatisfactory. He could see no reason for two conferences when one ought to be sufficient to deal with the whole issue. “Russia.” he continued, “objects to a settlement being made in the near st without her presence. We think our government has now sufficiently proved its stability, permanence and solidarity to entitle it to be Invited to participate with the other powers on ‘eqaul terms for the consideration of thi international problem, in which our interests are supremely concerned. Morcover, we are con- vinced that Russia is sufficiently strong to make any settlement ne- gotiated without her concurrence of little value.” Regrets U. 8. Is Out. Russia’s foreign minister expressed keen regret at the failure of the re- cent efforts to establish closer rela- tions with the United States. “The request that an American technical commission be allowed to examine the resources and conditions in Russta was made in such a way that it conveyed an implication of our inferiority. Russia Is not Egypt and cannot be dealt with in the same w ‘The demand for access to all docu- ments and Insistence upqen the right to visit any part of Russia the com- misslon might desire to see was not in accordance with our status. We have no objection to a commission seeing whatever it wishes to see, or to visi any district it desires to visit, provid- ed ft comes, not with a suggestion of Interfority on our part. but as from equal to equal. It was because of this that we made our request in order that there might be no misunder- standing on this point.” No Real Difficulty. The correspondent asked M. Tchit- cherin what he would do to promote closer relations with the = United States, suggesting that the seizure of the Natlonal City Bank funds in the early months of the revolution, and the consequent failure to make a set- tlement. might have accentuated the difficulties. “I do not believe that the question between ourselves and the National | City Bank i the real difficulty.” was the reply. “That ls quite capable of adjustment and would be adjusted in any general settlement between the two_nations. The cause goes deeper. Many Americans believe still that we are brigands and anarchists unfit to assoclate with other nations. They get their views from persons who have not seen Russia in several years or who judge everything from the years of revolutionary upheaval.” Polnts to Other Nations. “And many others,” the writer added, “believe that Russia is still respoonsible for much of the revolu- tionary activity maintained in the United States.” “When people tell me this" M. Tchitcherin replied, “I point to the example of other countries. England | after the world war had great revo- lutionary activity for which Russia was held responsible by many per- sons there. Today with Russian trade missions established in London the revolutionary activity is much dimin- ished. The Bame is true,of Germany, where Russia has an embassy. In Italy, where the revoolutionary party was formerly active, it has lost much of its power, although a Russian mission is working there. In France, where Russia {8 not represented, there is, nevertheless, much unrest. VICTORY FOR RUSSIA. Failure of Trade Pact With British Moscow Reprisal. By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1922, BERLIN, October 12.—Maxim Lit- vinov, Russian vice commissar for trade and foreign affairs, summed up the views of the soviet government on the near eastern situation in a statement which he made to the writer today. “Kemal Pasha’s victory in the near east is a greater victory for soviet Russia than for Turkey,” “For one thing, the treaty of Sevres was completely upset by it, proving that in the long run such treaties are nothing but ‘scraps of paper,’ a term ‘which, in my opinion, will also be ap- plied eventually to the pact of Ver- sailles. But above all, we believe and hope that the debacle of the British policy in the near east will mean the downfall of Prime Minister Lloyd George, thereby making easier the adoption of a new attitude toward so- viet Russia. If it had not been for the treaty between Moscow and the Angora Republic Kemal Pasha would never have been successful. “We regard the British_ prime (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) _— SEVERE QUAKE IN PERU. Shock Does Considerable Damage. Telegraph Wires Down. By the Associated Press. LIMA, Peru, October 12.—A violent earthquake of one minute's duration occurred yesterday over a wide area in southern Peru, causing consider- he said. | able property damage at Arequipa and numerous small villages, it is an- nounced in cable advices from Are- quipa today. - ‘The southern railway suffered dam- age to its Mollendo section, between Arequipa and the coast. ‘The telegraph wires south from Lima are-down. el NS S D R \ BETWEEN FILIBUSTERS AND VETOESfl ) HAD AN AWFUL THE ALIBL * Y= | SHIP LIQUOR ORDER HELD UP BY COURT U. S.. Enjoined From Enforc- ing Daugherty Ruling by Federal Judge. FURTHER HEARING OCT. 17 Vessel Companies)Win Initial Vie- tory in Fight on Dry Ban. By tho Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, October 12.—Federal Judge Learned Hand today granted a temporary restraining order pro- hibiting H. C. Stuart, acting collec- tor of the port; Ralph A. Day, fed- eral prohibition director for New York, and John G. Appleby, chief 20me prohibition officer, from putting into effect the federal order to seize ships and liquor umder the Daugh- erty prohibition order. ‘The order was granted on applica- tion of the International Mercantile Marine Corporation, acting fer the American lines included in that cor- poration. It specifically affects the steamers Finland and St. Paul. The order will be in force, Judge Hand said, until a hearing scheduled for October 17. PREPARES RUM WARNING. Secretary Mellon to Notify Ship’ Owners of Penalty. Notices to foreign and American ship owners acquainting them with Attorney General Daugherty’s opinion barring liquor from ships and tentative instruc- | tions to customs officers for enforce- ment of thé rulings are in preparation by Secretary Mellon and may be nn-l nounced before tonight. Foreign ship owners will be notified through the State Department's diplo- matic and consular representatives abroad, who are fo be instructed to give Mr. Daugherts’'s opinion the widest possible publicity. Notice to American ship owners will be sent out direct by Secretary Mellon. The Treasury Secretary's instructions to customs officers and prohibition agents will be of a tentative character, but he hoped to have formal regula- tions prepared within a week. Question of Seisure. In enforcement of the prohibition against foreign ships within the three- mile 1imit, Mr. Mellon was represent- | ed as taking the view that no gen- eral policy of selzure of offending |Embassies Not Embarrassed By Dry Ruling Foreign missions in this city will not be seriously embarrassed by the enforcement of the new liquor policy of the United States in line with the Attorney General's opinion. Whatever wet goods are desired for the personal use of the ambassa- dors and ministers and their offictal it is stated, may be brought city, Baltimore. Annapolis or ‘ork, on warships flying the flag of their respective countries and transported from the dock to bassy or iegation in this city by motor cars displaying the national coat of arms. It 1s reported that an arrangement of that kind has been ruggr: the diplomatic corps by officials this government through the State Department. PLAN SAFETY DRIVE 10 GUT ACCIDENTS Chamber of Commerce Men! Confer With Commission- ers on Proposal. Prospects for a safety-first drive in Washington became brighter to- day when William F. Ham and A. E Seymour visited the District build- ing as representatives of the Cham: ber of Commerce and indorsed the | proposition. They conferred with Commissigne Rudoirh and Oyster, offering to co operate in making a success of any movement started to make the streets | of the District safer both for the pedestrian and the motorist. Mr. Seymour 6ald he suggested to Commissioner Ovster that if a mno- accident week is decided upon that it start on November 13. Chamber Would Act. He sald that President Albert Schul- teis of the chamber has had in mind tor several weeks a revival of the street-safety movement. The chai ber has a meeting of its fuil me: bership slated for the evening of No- vember 14. 1f the Commissioners designate that as Spfety week., he saud, the chamber will make safety first the keynote of its gathering. Mr. Ham is chairman of the public safety committee of the chamber and has called a meeting of his assoclates for 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Would Limit Accidents. As president of the Rallway and Electric Company, Mr. Ham said that organization would | give a full measure of support to a campalgn to reduce accidents. “I do not believe that the mere de- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) (Continued on Page 2, Column THE FRANK G. CARPENTER discovers A NEW EUROPE AMERICA’S GREATEST TRAVEL WRITER will tell what he has found in weekly letters to be published in the Magazine of SUNDAY STAR Frank G. Carpenter has written the most notable articles of the year on conditions in the countries of Europe. As the representative of The Sunday Star, Mr. Carpenter is getting close to ‘the land and the people, sparing neither effort nor expense to obtain the rock-bottom truth about conditions abroad. You will enjoy reading the latest CARPENTER WORLD TRAVELS every Sunday in The Star. Iliustrated with original photographs by Mr. Carpeuter. P R S Beginning Next Sunday AGREENENT CUTS HARD-COAL PIE $9.25 May Be Maximum Ton Charge at Independent Mines. | |REDUCTIONS IMMEDIATE Fifth of Anthracite Output Af- i fected—Bigger Operators’ Quo- tation Is $8.35. {1, An agreement which is expected to result in fixing the maximum price of anthracite mined by *independ- ent” operators at $9.25 a ton at the mines has been reached between the Pennsylvania authorities and Fuel Distributor Spens, representing the federal government. The agreement, announced here to- day by W. D. B. Ainey, chairman of the Pennsylvania fuel commission, is H i | mediate reductions in the hard coal | iprices now charged by independent | operators controlling 20 per cent of the output, thus removing a price | discrepancy that has been the cause | {of complaint i all consuming terri- tories. Chairman Alney, with Mr. Spens, and with Eugene C. Felton, repre- | senting the fair practices committee n the anthracite industry, reached the agreement at conferences held last night and today. Restrict Hold-Out Operators. The largest part of the production of anthracite, an amount estimated by officfals at 70 per cent of the to- tal, comes from a group of large mines Which now are charging from $8 to $8.35 a ton, while some of the independent operators have been charging up above $12 a ton. The arrangement by which the price will be held down to $9.25 is described as an indirect one, but it is said to be robable that mine owners who re- use to L.de by the decision will have their operations restricted by use of the government's power to regulate transportation. “In view of the fact that a number of sc-called individual or independent operators have signified a willing- ness to set prices below the $9.25 maximum and also that this maxi- mum is a reduction from prices pr vicusly charged” Chairman Aine sald today, “the Pennsylvania fuel commission approved the recommen- dation. It is joined in this approval by the federal fuel distributor. States to Be Notified. “Notification will be sent to all state fuel authorities of the action of the ccmmission, with lists of aperators subscribing to prices of $9.25 and under. By direction of the fuel com- mission and the federal fuel distrib- utor, the fair practices committee (also representing the Pennsylvania | mediately to consider the remaining approximately 5 pér cent of the total production for the purpose of either recommending the prices which it s fair for them to charge or the ad- visability of discontinuance of such eostly production. The committee will be directed to conclude its findings and make its report on or before October 31. ing to _complaints by consumers has the cost of anthracite shipments. Many eastern cities have been sup- plied with anthracite shipments been sold for four or five different prices. Under the plans the differ- ence will be only about $1 a ton whether an order is supplied from the independent mines or from the larger producing units in the industry. POWER PLANT RENEWS MUSCLE SHOALS LEASE Renewal for another year of the lease under which the Alabama Power Company operates the government's electrical generating steam plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala, was announced today by Secretary Weeks. same terms as originally negotiated. a step which Secretary Weeks said .was necessary “to enable a number of cotton mills and other industries in southern states, including North and South Carolina, to continue operations, and which otherwise would have been compelled to close down or materially curtail production because of dis- turbed conditions In the coal trans- portstion industries and lack of de- veloped. hydro-electric power.” reganded by officials as assuring im- | fuel administration) will proceed im- | A large part of the difficulties lead- | been duc to impossibility of ascer- | taining in advance what would be! in | which the same quality of coal has| ‘The contract was renewed on the! TWO CENTS. STATUES OF BURK AND BRYCE,FRIENDS OF U. S., PRESENTED Notable Gathering at Exer- cises as Burke Memorial Is Unveiled. OFFICIALS AT BRYCE CEREMONY IN CAPITOL Speeches Tighthen Bonds Friendship Between America and Britain. of Before a distinguished assembly of American officials, foreign diplomats and prominent visitors from Great Britain, gathered in the small trlan- gular park on Massachusetts avenue at 1ith street, the heroic bronze statue of Edmund Burke, “Great Brit- ain’s most far-sighted and brilliant of statesmen,” the gift of the Sul- jgrave Institution to the people of the United States, was unveiled with im- pressive ceremonies at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Presented by Sir Charles. The striking and inspiring memorial was presented officiaily by Sir Charles Cheers Wakefield, baronet, former Lord Mayor of London, in behalf of the Sulgrave Institution, which is composed of high-minded men of { Great Britain, Canada and the United | States, bent on forwarding close | friendship between the three English- speaking countries. The statue was unveded by Sir Charles’ daughter, Miss Freda Wakefield. following which it was accepted in the name of the American people by Secreiary of War John W. Weeks. Bronze Unvelled in Capltol. | These ceremonies were preceded | this morning at 11 o'clock by the dedication and presentation of a bronze bust in the Capitol in mem- ory of Viscount James Bryce, who won the hearts of all Americans by his sympathetic understanding and courageous friendship during his many vears as British ambassador in Wash- ington. In presenting the memorial to Ed- mund Burke, the Irish-born states- man, who with his fiery eloquence, | prophetic foresight and zeal, so finely | Gefended the cause of America just before the revoiutionary war, ~ Sir Charles Wakefield paid a beautiful tribute to his great idealism and the big part it played in history. Place for Leadership. “Surely the world craves for mag- nanimous leadership, for wider vision and truer charity,” sald Sir Charles. *“We believe that the spirit thst in- spired Burke must prevail today If the wounds of suffering nations are to be bound up and the waste places of the earth be redeemed. We belleve that that is the destined mission of the American and British peoples, and it is our fervent hope that our visit and our efforts in the promo- tion of friendship and understanding may help to promote this ideal. “Great and sublime unities between | English-speaking countries.” he con- | tinued, “transcend and obliterate old | aivisions and bitter memories. And that is why we are here today with | this statue of Edmund Burke for your acceptance, to add to the monuments of this impressive and magnificent | Capital city of the United States. We hope and believe that you will like to | be reminded of the great Englishman who championed your cause, and whose eloquence and generosity of outlook have colored political thought 1ana theories of governance down to {our own times.” Extols Burke's Memory. In opening his address, Sir Charles said: “We are assembled today to do honor to the memory of Edmund Burke, one of the greatest of English parliamenta- rians. Of particular interest to us to-~ day by reason of his heroic and de- termined political campaign in defense of the rights of the American colonists, {he was in everything he undertook per- haps the wisest and most far-seeing of our English statesmen. His speeches in opposing George III's ~ stupid and un-English American policy have become classics in political literature: Their wealth of eloguence and Sagacity | of Judgment, in spite of the passionate | sincerity, which inspired them, did not avail with the ignorant and dishonest assembly to which they were addressed. Words Sank Deeply. “It is impossible, after a lapse of a century and a half, to say what | \would have been the effect upon world history had Burke's eloquence pre- vailed. What is certain is that his utterances sank deeply.into the hearts {and minds of wiser Englishmen of succeeding generations and laid the foundations of the more generous and intelligent policy which has brought linto being the free commonwealths | und dominions of the British Empire of today. “The bitterness of the American revolutionary war has long since passed away. No Englishman who has studied the period would attempt ! Yo defend the foulish king who mis- {took force for strength and ob- | stiracy for wisdom. That we were unfortunate in the character of our ruling men at a critical period in our history is probably the truth of the matter. But for us the dark page in jour history is illumined by the cour- {age of Burke. | Welcomea hington's EMgY. “We in England have recently | welcomed the effigy of Washington, in Trafalgar Square, amongst other mighty heroes of our race, and also in the {crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, where it stands near the dust of Nelson and | Wellington. We have, in, our Sulgrave { movements, rediscovered and readorned i Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral British | home of the Washington family. We | remember that of the American col- onists who threw off the yoke of George 101 over 91 per cent came of English, Scotch, Welsh or Irish stock. We re- member that all your Presidents, save three, have similarly sprung from Brit- ‘ish family roots; that the basis of your {1aw is the common law of England, and {that @ thousand affinities of blood, | political temper and outlook, and relig- Meal and inspiration, pronounce us_in every truth to be akin. “It is_my t_priv [T on Page 2, e