Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1922, Page 1

“ © WEATHER. Snow or rain probably tonight and !i tomorrow: no change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours | ended at 2 p.m. toda - i am. today. ¥ Full report on page 7. dighest, 40, at 5 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 33, at 7:35 Entered as post_offica No. 28,700. s2cond-class inatter Washington, D. C. ENGLAND BACKS U. S. “OPEN DOOR” POLICY AT TURKISH PARLEY San Remo Agreement for Divi- » sion of Oil District Held Null and Void. POSITION OF GOVERNMENT - ANNOUNCED BY LORD CURZON| Turk Delegates Distribute Copies of Demands Insisting on Complete. Independence of Country. Fy the Associated Press. PARIS, November 27—Preparation of a separate treaty be- tween Turkey and the United States is under consideration at Lausapne, says a dispatch to the Temps. The correspondent sug- gests that this perhaps was the subject of yesterday’s long conver= sation between Richard Washburn Child and Ismet Pasha. 2 the_ Associated Press. LAUSANNE, November 27. .ary, today authorized an off Lord Curzon, the British foreign secre- 1 statement to the press that England supports the American “open-door” policy in Turkey, and regards the %1 Remo agreement for division vonid, Turk Demands Distributed. Turkish delegates to the near rast couference today prepared the way for Turkey's fisht for aban- nment of the special extrater- vitorial privileges enjoved for- cigners. by distributing copies the famous “national -pact.” convention adopted by the Turkish rational asembiy embodies the Ot- roman demands at lausanne. Article VI of this pact insists that Turkey's complete indcpendence is cessary for the country’s national development and that every jurisdi- cal and financial restriction imposed from without will be opposed. The Lausanne conference is prov- nz a good second to Versailles in he large number of petitions re- ved from peoples and races de- manding recognition and independ- ence. Free Macedonia Asked. A committee of the secret revolu- tionary organization of Macedonia s come forward to insist upon a frec Macedonia under protection of he lcague of nations or some man- datery power. The petitioners in pointing out that the country now reece, Jugoslavia and Bulgaria al- ege that mistreatment by ‘‘torture and assination” has arisen from the treds that exist between the gov- The latter include Bulgarians, Furks, Greeks, Albanians, Wallachians .ind Hungarians. The arrival of the advance guard of stans headed by M. Rakowsky, ident of the Ukraine republic, has ivep new zest to the conference de- liberations. Upon his arrival last night M. Rakowsky said that the Russigns _ stood “cleanly ~ behind Turkéy in all she may ask for in pen or neutral waterw: which means so much to southern Russia. Admiral Bristol Arrives. Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol ar- rived at Lausanne last night to par- ticipate with the other members of the American delegation in the near castern conference. Ile was ac- -ompanied by several aides and sec- retaries and Julian Gillespie, com- mercial attache of the embassy at <’onstantinople. i Immediately Admiral Bristol went into conference with Ambassador <hild and Minister Grew. The Mosul oil fields are a part of Turkey proper and when the time -omes to make oil concessions to for- cigners in that rich district Ameri- ns will get the first chance, Dr. ‘tiza Nur Bey, one of the Turkish plenipotentiaries at the conference, here, declared to the correspondent today. Ottoman for 1,100 Years. “We are reading a great deal these da; about secret agreements cutside the conference concerning Mosul, all of which proceeds fromthe thneory "hat Mosul fs British,” ‘he Turk qclegate said. “The contra Mosul has been ruled by t we intend to assert v Deim o sovereignty over Mo the frontier gquestion is dis onference. 5 3 R itish troops occupied this terri- ‘ory after the armistice, not before, ind it is not a part of Mcsopotamia. Americans Favored. «We need American capital in Tur- e e refer to deal with Ameri- cans, because they work their con- ageions on a strictly business basis Without seeking to advance the inter- "l of their governments by mix{ng Politics and following a policy of conomic penetration’ harmful to the Furkish stat [T et Americans keep their hands off internal Turkish politics and they Wi favored by us.” y ;:{zget\':r was distressed over what hie termed American inability to un- derstand the honorable and corstruc- tive aims of the new treaty. ‘We are trying to modernize Tur- he said, “and we want Ameri- « assistance. We believe in your disinterestedness.” ADRIANOPLE MADE DRY. Turks Ban All Liquor, Upon Tri- umphal Entry. Ty the Associated Press. ADRIANOPLE, November 27.—The astablishment of absolute prohibition was the first act of the Turks upon their entry into this city last Friday. The measure. promulgated soon after the arrival of Gen. Tahir Bey, “he new governor, _impressed the population rather disagreeably. but, inasmuch as it had been anticipated, ail liquor had disappeared from the| <hops and restaurants shortly be- ore the Kemalists came. The grand dinner in honor of the -estoration of Turkish sovereignty was a horoughly dry affair. _One hundred and ifty covers were set. The Various dishes wwere labeled with patriotic names— or example there was ‘“refugee’” oup, ‘“national pact” meat and ~Turkish sovereignty dessert.” is divided among| of the Mosul oil district as nul] and TIERNANS REUNITED = SEEKTOEND SIS [Try to Have Divorce Actions i Dismissed—Remain Silent - I on Step. |SCORE. EVEN, SAYS WIFE Professer Declares “Intellectual In- toxication” Brought About | Second Marriage. ‘ By the Associated Pres: | SOUTH BEND, N { Dismissal of court actions now pending, ;was sought today by John P. Tiernan, former law professor of the University Pd H s 3 g g 8 9 5 | rning states and the governed peo-;of Notre Dame, following his return | to his wife, Mrs. Augusta Tiernan, at jtheir home here yesterday. With the {suits dismissed, it was said, the couple iwith the three children, including the infant son whose paternity had been jcharged to Harry Poulin, South Bend haberdasher, by Mrs. Tiernan, would ihide away in New York and begin life anew. Prof. and Mrs. Tiernan left their home {early today and were eaid to be closeted with /attorneys in an effort to obtain the dismissal of the two suits pending | the appeal from the decision of the city court in the paternity case and suit for divorce which was reopened by the re- voking of the decree granted Mr. Tier- nan jast week. . ‘Warned to Be Silen: ‘While heretofore both Mr. and Mrs. Tiernan had courted publicity in carry- ing on their cases in court, today they wer: ilent and it was sald a high court offical had warned them to make no further statements for publication. Prof. Tiernan, in a statement here last night, said he and Mrs. Tiernar i had agreed to “patch up their di | ferences.” He also sald he hi |agreed to recognize “Baby Billy, i over whose paternity the recent Po {lin-Tlernan case arose, as his own. { . Mr. Tiernan, in a statement, saia his Crown Point. Ind., marriage Sat- !urday was the resuit of mental “in- h | toxication.” Family Is Reunited. Prof. Tiernan came to South Bend vesterday. He went immediately to the Tiernan home, and after a con- ference with his first wife issued a formal statement that the family had been reunited and that the paternity charge against Poulin would be dropped. By an Indiana statute he said the Second marriage is automatically in- validated. The vacating of the di- vorce decree restored the domestic relationship that existed prior to its granting. “My mental state is entirely re- sponsible for the Crown Point mar- riage,” said Prof. Tiernan at his ]home. “It is impossible to conceive of the state of mind I was in. The long trial, the divorce and all sent me off on a mental tangent, an in- i tellectual intoxication, and the Crown Point affair was the result.” Score Even, Says Mrs. Tiernan. At the Tiernan household bqth Prof. Tfernan and Mrs. Augusta ‘Tiernan declared that this reconciliation was the last chapter in the domestic re- lations between them. Mrs. Tiernan said the score had been evened be- tween her and the professor. Her self-confessed escapade with Harry Poulin, and his second marriage to the Jowa widow. whom Tlernan said was wealthy, putting them both on the same moral piane. “It's a victory for us all, but a greater victory for baby Billy,” Tier- nan said. i Mrs. Augusta Tiernan did not re- ceive the professor with open arms when he came home in the morning. Her attitude, she sald. was of a long lost love, and she said if her hus- {band entertained any love for Mrs. i Blanche Brimmer Tiernan of Hansell, Jowa, he could go to her. “Far be it from me to- stop them if they love each other.” she declared. Last Chapter, Declares Tierman. Prof. Tiernan said he and Mrs. Brimmer had come to an amicable agreement over the situation. “Be. fore 1 left Chicago Blanche under- r @ Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1922_THIRTY-TWO PAGES. HITCHCOCK RENEWS ATTACK ON TIGER Reminds Him That He Also Is Out of Office by z People’s Vote. HECKLER IS Colored Soldier in Galleries Arines| i to Put Question to Senator. ' Attack was renewed in the Senate today on the views of former Premier Clemenceau of France as expressed in | nis American speeches. | Semator Hitchcock of Nebraska, i ranking democrat on the foreign re- |1ations committee, striking back at! | the Tiger's reply to his recent speech, ! { called attention that Clemenccau had | {said that “I have been retired from, | office by the people.” “Let me sav.,” continued that sen-; “that M. Clemenceau also is ator, loul of office by the votes of the peo- former premier’'s denial that France; was using black troops in the German zone and as proof of his contention| that M. Clemenceau's reply was in| line with “his record for reckless| statements,” put into the Record “an | authoritative statement” showing that in October France had 23,000 black troops on the Rhine. i COLORED HECKLER PUT | OUT OF SENATE GALLERY | /! Lucius Jones, colored soldier from | Mount Alto Hospital, today attempted | to interrupt Senator Hitchcock during the course of his remarks in the Sen- ate criticizing the keeping of African | troops in Germany by the Frenth, and later was ejected from the Senate gal- ery. ¢ During the course of Senator Hitch- cock’s address, which was in reply to former Premier Clemenceau's state- ments, Jones rose in the Senate gll-l ple.” ! Senator Hitchcock challenged the {legy and said: “Mr. President, may I interrupt the senator to ask him a question?" He _was immedjatsly hushed down and Senator Hitchcock contirued and completed his address, in which he in- sisted that white German women had been maltreated by the colored sol- dlers of France. After Senator Hitchcock had con- {cluded. Senator Hefiin of Alabama {rose and Jemailed that the cclired | soldier be removad from the Senate | gallery. "Senator Heflin recalled that | during the suitraze fight white wGin- en had been removed fror: 1he gatlery for interrupting proceedings of the Senate, and he said there should be no discrimiration. Senator Curtis of Kansas suggest- ed that Jones had spoken in ignor- ance of the rules of the Senate. One of the Capitol police entered the gallery and took Jones out. Jones served in the Quartermaster Corps. Because of injuries to his feet, he has been at Mount Alto Hospital, where he has been obtafn- ing vocational training. He had & letter from President Harding thank- ing_him for some reed work. After he had left the gallery Jones said he had intended to ask Senator Hitch- cock about assaults upon colored women by white soldiers. —_— I HAYWO0OD’S COAL MINE I IN RUSSIA IS CLOSED By the Associated Press. . L] (GA, November 27.—One of .the caal mines in the Nadejidi region of..the Donets river basin, operated by the syndicate under William D. Haywood, has been closed, according to Economic Life. There are about sixty persons from America in the Nadejidi colony, ‘but they are not in want, 20 far as is known. Haywood's other colony, in the Kus- netzki district of the Urals, is reported to be in urgent need of assistance and the soviet authorities are considering means of giving aid. This colony in- cludes about 180 persons from the United States, many of whom are ill and without substantial food. The cold weather has set in and there is said much suffering. Kusnetzki colony is several hun- dred miles from the ‘nearest feeding atation of the American Rellef Ad: istration stood that all was over between us.”{;n aid from that ll..,“m_ %};’3 (Continued on Phge 3, Column 7J . wood himself is : ” ! Next comes the crisis of raw material. The war destroyed wl!houtx;tad'::::’"h”' SRonithefinayal icreating. For France, alone, from steel, 14,000,000 shells were mauufac-i s mans midshipmen drank 1 of 240 milliards of dollars to the process of waging war. ! crises followed fast, one upon the other—the salary crisis, both social Senator Quoted as, Saying People Now | Want Change. Democratic Govern- or Gives Text of [ Wire Message. Ir the Associated Press. PHO 2 . Ariz. November Robert La Follette, United States senx tor from Wisconsin, told kim in a long distance telephone conversation from Washington that the people had spoken twice to the majority parties, and if they had to speak again it| would be to welcome a third party, ' George W. P. Hunt, Governor of Ari- | zona, said here last nignt. He muy send a representative to the meeting | of progressive leaders called by Sena- | tor La Follette at Washington tor December 2, but will not attend, Mr. | Hunt satd. i Senator La Follette said he would just as soon ses both old parries! scrapped, according to Mr. Hun,| pointing out that radical or progres. sive candidates in elght states had ' ANNAPOLIS CADETS RAPPED BY DENBY i {Secretary Says They Dis-| graced Themselves by * Drinking at Game. ’ INWETY SEVEN | CHILDREN | IFICED BY, § | ACCIDENT IN ECONOMIC MATERIALISM By Georges Clemenceau. [Copyright. 1922.'United Statea. Great Britain, Cancda cnd Sou by Nocth Amcrican Newspaper Alliance and New York World (Pres Compary).” Al rights rcecrved. Unlicensed veproduction crpresely ‘prohibited. ] Amrrica, ublishing in part i I in full or i tPl"GOBE WILL BE ORDERED 1 Editor's Note: This is the second article of a series written exclusively for The Star and the sixty-eight other members of the North American Newspaper Alliance by Georges Clemenceau, the “Tiger of France,” “Father of Victory.” War Premier and one of the “Big Four” of the Peace Conference, who is now touring America. l i i | |Smement Says Midshipmen Will! i Be Prevented From Repeat- ing Alleged Offenses. | 1 { o4 | ‘ | OFE is sick. The world is sick. Fverywhere is economic dis- i equilibrium. Each one is complaining. Germany. in declaring a | “fresh and joyous” war, decided that this should bLe so. First comes the labor crisis. An immense decrease in working power: 9,000,000 of dead and 30080,000 of wounded. A crisis also of labor sup- pressed by the mobilization for war purposes of 70,000000 men. People are amazed at the universal trouble. Yet whenever was there so decisive a cause? The conduct of the Annapolis mid- i shipmen at the Army and Navy foot! { ball game, in Philadelphia, Saturday. | &as arraigned in a public statement | today by Secretary Denby of the Navy | Department, declaring that by drink- {ing heavily and otherwise miscon- | ducting themselves members of the corps had brought disgrace, not only tured. While less was being produced more was being consumed, il‘ld;hp:‘\-i ¢ 1 do not know.” said the Sec- | nothing went to replace in human activity what the battlefield absorbed. | Fetara’s statement. but he added that. Then there follows the crisis of. personal propert On the one hind,ipn;v‘ugh midshipmen had “failed to do the devastation of war—houses, factories. railways destroyed; on the|theirduty to their uniform and to = paih n their country to bring shame upon | other, the work neglected owing to the general mobilization. Whole-|all." B & sale stoppage or a steady slackening off diminished the productive capital | (Ji¢ anounced that an investigation S : ould be ordered. of each country at a time when all nations together consecrated a sum Denby's Statement. Secretary Denby's statement fol- { lows: | My attention has been called to | the misconduct of a number of mid- | shipmen from the Naval Academy on Saturday night last, after the Army- Navy game. I have no desire to! minimize in any way .the fact that| many of the midshipment did - dis- grace them: ves and bring disgrace upon the Naval Academy, for I know it to be true. 1 am shocked beyond | measure that such things could have octurred. The misconduct on that oc- | casion was, as far as 1 know, the| most flagrant that has ever been CRISIS IN COST OF LIVIN A crisis in the cost of living resulted from the three first crises. The law of supply and demand was now rudely ruptured, now hopclessly interfered with, by the exigencies of military manufacturing. Other and economic; the industrial crisis. the world still producing useless war material after the declaration of peace instead of concentrating on articles urgently needed in peace. The budgetary crisis came to a head everywhere in 1922, even among the richest in the land. Deficits on all sides—in France four milliards, i i nd reparations. In England, in the United |charged against the academy. 5 not counting pensions and repa g : “How many nfidshipmen drank heav- States—even in neutral countries like Holland—there has been an increase |ily I do not know. The whole regiment 5 £ £ B 3 i o i was in Philadelphia. Only a relatively in expenditure due pr.r}cnpall} to a formidable Agro\\th in public debts, el e o external no less than internal. Finally, there is the chaos of the ex-u;nd;d llh\.- all. Of this proportion I! s % : : : i think the great majority eenducted change, concrete expression of _lhe gcne::al world disorder, d\‘e in part | pemselves with propriety. but i to the influx of gold into certain countries and to the pauperization of others; in another case caused by the debt of one country to a second; failed of their duty to their uniform and to their country to bring shame in a large number of instances due to the insecurity of national and private property. upon all. Such an occurrence will never be repeated, for such steps as are nec- essary will be taken to make it im- possible in the future. “In this connectioh I wish to mak: it quite clear that the Naval Academy has heretofore set an example to the country of good conduct upun such occasions and will set that example in the future. I was <o proud of them at the game, which was one of the most thrilling I have ever seen, and where I saw absolutely no evidence of drinking among the midshipmen, CRISIS HITS ALL COUNTRIES. This many-sided etonomic crisis hits all countries, some in the form | of strikes, others in the rendering worthless of their money. It assails the mass and individuals. Finance ministers are obsessed by it and the man in the street cannot ignore it. That is why, very naturally, this particular feature in the general chaos has preoccupied us above al]:tllnal the later events of the evening others. Yet we have not stopped to ponder whethef .these material phe-fi :fl,";: ?,2 :;':19 ‘{,‘;’é‘i’.',‘r'é“r}i'.i‘g.‘iea‘},i‘-".','ui nomena are not profoundly related to*moral and political factors. People i '%:10‘:)“ )‘:u;llg m:‘nf ‘:l:n‘x_t ng at have preferred to study them by themselves and to find a direct remedy | the cadets celebrated ubon the. hod expressing itself in a materialistic conception of international life. ;2:;;::‘5:":&";1’;"ss::ifnsufi.‘llifi':'-"c:msd'y Mr. Maynard Keynes, who was for four months a collaborator of | then with what occarred afterwam " Mr. Lloyd George at the peace conference and who resigned when all or‘;i“e:-le;"‘ vestigatioa will at once was over in order to devote himself to a pamphlet aimed at those whose E servant he had been, was the prophet of this conception. 2 WEEKS DENIES RUMORS. His doctrine is familiar.” Economic factors dominate the worM. el e Under their auspices alone should the new frontiers have been traced. The peace was a bad one because it was a peace of nationalities. Iron and coal should rule far more than plebiscites. Need I recall the effect of this thésis, as manifested in Upper Silesia and elsewhere since 19202 All the revisioning and aon-application of the treaties of 1919 have been directly inspired by it. Even now the “brilliant” results accruing from the application of this theory, and in the economic field, no less than elsewhere, are not duly appreciated. The ill that it was iptended to cure remains and other ills, which might have been averted, have appeared to aggravate the situation. The syflem of Mr..Keynes ‘seems to be a negation of all the ideals which insplt.ed _anq_ formed the motor power of the allied and associated nations during their common waging of the war. . i 3 THE COLLAPSE OF SOLIDARITY. [ Secretary Weeks today declared 1that there was no truth whatever in the published report that he had been shocked by alleged open violations of the prohibition law by men and women at the Army-Navy foot ball game in Philadelphia, and that he had announced he would lay the mat- ter before the President at the cabi- net meeting tomorrow. He digl see the President this morn- ing.-he admitted, but it was merely to furnish some information the Presi- dent desired on another subject, “and,” he added. “the subject of pro- hibition was not even mentioned.” Referring_to the published r that Mr. Weeks told the proprietor of a hotel in Philadelphia that he would lay |%the breakdcwn of enforce- . ment of the law before the Pres! dent,” the Secretary of War said he had never said anything of the kind and moreover had no such thought. Beyond a general denial, Secretary Weeks said he did not desire to discuss the matter. LUMBER MAN KILLS SELF. - HEMPHILLS, Tex., November 27.— Hiram Knox, fifty-seven years old, a | l | _If economic interests demand that Germany shall emerge intact from the catastrophe unloosed by her crime, t.hen the. big criminal nations of history are forever assured impinity, since, in .the event of théir coup failing, the common interest demands that they.shall be rehabilitated in their former position.: Against this those.people who happen to be economically weak never will be able.to come to,the surface politically. is the-old doctrine of Buelow and von Jagow, “Woe to the feeble!” This theory has had some success because it was thought that it} would remedy the difficulties of the present. It was propaganded, vul- garized, developed by millions of men in the United States, in England, in the neutral countries and among the former ‘enemy peoples. "And, on the pretext of economic solidarity, the victors were invited to forego their. victory and to repudiate the peace they made. One curious point: 7 ,ggmn!nrmtwunpu i g terday morning by his wife shortly after she had heard a shot. A bullet had penetrated his head. :About & year ago Knox sold most of bi stimber holdings for $1,600,600. He retained his land holdings of nearly a million acres. Knox is survived by his molker, his wife and six children. 4 e “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every q Star. :unused calis delivered to as the papers are printed. city block and the regular edition 1s Washington homes as fast || Sunday’s * Third Party Threat Hurled By La Follette in Phone Talk GOV. HUNT. been victorious iIn the recent clections through close combination o org: ized farmers and union workers, that an analysis of the returns would show Mr. Hunt's election by such a combination. Mr. Hunt s: a (Contin ARGUMENT HEARD n- 10 CUT PHONE RATE Reduction of 50 Cents Per Month on Unlimited Service Asked. PROPOSE GENERAL SLASH Utilities Commission to Debate Whether All Services Sheuld Not Be Considered. Following a public hearing at the District building to the Ctilities Commission this afternoon took un- der advisement the question of whether the reduction in revenfe which the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company has asked for should be given entirely to unlimited subscribers or distributed among all telephone nsers, The company contended at the hear- ing that the unlimited rate on should be reduced from $3. per month, which will take $102 (60 a year from its earnings. MeK. Clayton, repr the Federation of Citizens' tions, declared that he had n tion of oppesing the Christmas gift to its unlimited suli- seriber: asked the commission to consider carefully whether or not the limited user wili be fairly tr. if the entire reduction goes to the unlimited class. 5 More Calis Asked. e Mr. Clayton made two requests on | behalf of those subscribers who pay $4 a month for fifty calls: First that the commission changc this basis to 600 calls per vear, so that might be carried for- wand from one month to another; secondly. if that is not granted. he asks that limited subscribers be al- lowed sixty calls per month. Engineer Commissioner Keller “ex- plained, following the hearing, the commission will consider fully whether the reduction should g0 entirely to unlimited subscribers or to other users. He stated. how- ever, that another public hearing would be held if the comm should decide 10 go into Mr. Clayton request for an increase in the num- ber of calls to be allowed limited subscribers. Counsel for the company rested i case without argument on the test mony of Walter B. Clarkson, general commercial superintendent. Charts Used in Argument. ‘With the aid of half a dozen large icharts, which were placed facing the commission in the rear of the board room, two of them hanging from side wall lamps and others in front of the romantic tapestry of a Venetian lady about to embark for a ride in a gon dola, W. B. Clarkson, general com mercial superintendent of the tele phone company outlined the reasons the individual line flat rate service from $66 per vear to $60 per vear. In presenting his case. he called at- tention to the fact that at present three classes of telephone service are in vogue here. The first is the un- limited service on an individual. line, at the present rate of $66 per vear or $5.50 per month. _This type is the (Continued on_Page 2. Column 8.) The Star’s Safety. Platform Stop Reckless Driving Stop Jay Walking More Police to Reg- ulate Traffic Save the Children Saturday’s Net Circulation, 87,852 | ¥ Circulation, 93,971 TWO CENTS. D.C. SAFETY WEEK BEGINS; THOUSANDS HEAR WARNING CRY {Capital Joins Movement to Cut Down Toll of Traf- : fic Accidents. “DON’T GET HURT; DON'T HURT ANY ONE,” SLOGAN :Commttee Urges District Citizens to Beat Record of ! Other Towns. De Get Hurt and— Don't Hurt Any Onc Else® ! That is the dual warning several j thousand of the National Capital's best citizens are carrying home to €very man, woman and child in the District of Columbia as the para- i{Tuount lesson Safety week has to teach. Not a single fatal accldent and a sharp cut in the number of minor accidents is the record this ci lias set out to establish for the weck jand every other metropolls tn th country is watching the result. Many of the nation’s larger eitie- {have already had a similar campaig: nd they want to sce how near the National Capital comes to their own marks for the week. So, aside fror the big object of Safety week, ther: S a4 Sporting element—to beat Pitrs burgh and Baltimore—which shouli interest every public spirited eitiz of Washington, : Warning for Al No person, roung or old, is exempt from the warning—don’t get hurt and aon’t hurt any one else. While the v Tun a greater risk of himself injured than any one s quite probable that the “jax might dar: in front of a and cause him to run into some one else in his efforts to dodge the “booh” who did not look. Under existing traffic conditions in on driving an automobile is rough. o don’t make it any motorist | harder. »se who are leading the afety Week campaign. Pleas by the re for the Washington Safety Council to help give this city “safe and sau traflic laws and a police departaient large enough to enforce {them to the letter continue to pour o Safety Week headquarters aund wsRaper offices, Complaint has been registered inst the practice of hackers “drift- ing” constantly around the New W lard Uetel. Since the police drove them from their dangerous stand in [the middle of Pennsylvania avenue these hackers have started the habit of running slowly around the- block wccupied Ly the Willard, congesting e one of the most congested the city. The law which them to turn to the right re- |=ardless of the direction traffic is in even mo | moving makes it possible for them to “drift” constantly, most of them |paying little heed 1o the rights of | pedestrians or other motorists. “It ms to me that there are jenough taxicab companies in Wash- ington to handle this city’s business.” one business man declared. “There is no need for these hackers, who men- {ace life and limb in their rush to jearn fifty cents or a dollar every {ime a person comes out of the Wil- flard.” Contributions Needed. While Washington has welcomed wiih open arms the incorporation of the Washington Safety Council. which is pledged to make this a safe and | sane city to live in, few persons have shown.a disposition to contribute a few dollars to its support. At least 1$15.000 is needed the first vear. Com- i plaint is made Ly those heading the council that business men. who will | begefit most from the activities of the slowest 10 re- “They're all shout- | av s jfor a clieck,” on_the council. At noon tomorrow Safety week ac- j tivities will be centered upon Keith's | Theater. where a big meeting is to be heid. A special moving picture, ‘taken in Washington. demonstrating the causes of accidents here, will be shown and addresses will be delivered by prominent men. chief among whom will be Commissioner Cuno H Rudolph. The meeting is for the ial benefit of the public, which is invited to attend will be no charge for admi Safety week was official rate yesterday afternoon with a serv- !ice that left a deep and lasting im- ! pression upon the hearts and, cou- i science of the 1,000 and more persons i who saw it. It was the dedication”of why his company desired to reduce : { the memorial in front of the Munic- {ipal building to ninety-seven children | who lost their lives through acci- dents in Washington last year. Soul stirring music was cffored by the United States Marine Band and vested church choirs; appealing ad- dresses were delivered by noted ! speakers, inciuding Commissioner ! Rudolph, but everything palel to in- ! significance when ninety-seven little igirls and boys, each dressed in im- imaculate white, marched solemnly out of the Municipal building and placed a_pitiful little wreath upon the-base {of the memorial—one for -=achstot 1 slain here by accident (m 192: An Affecting Sceme. As the last wreath was placed care- fully in position, Wilson Leverton, dressed in the uniform of a Boy Scout, sounded taps—the soldier's farewell to | his dead comrade. Wilson was & mas- ter of the bugle yesterday and many in the audience wept as the last faint note echoed down Pennsylvania ave- nue. It brought home to the crowd better than any words what an appal- ling thing it is to slay ninety-seven ! children in a single year. ® One of the features of the memoria! service was that the entire program | was conceived und directed by women. + Mrs. William H. Herron was chairman | of the committee in charge. Miss Bess | Davis Schreiner, assisted by the Misses ! Nina Norman, therine Cable, Kath- arin Gault, Anne Moak, Florence ‘Thompson, lon Chace and Julia Lyeth, directed those who participated in the pageant. In the work of plan- ning and starting the memorial, Marle loure Korrest was oue of the leaders. . )