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. WEATHER. Rain and cclder today and tonight; probably followed by clearing tomor- Tow. Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at 10 p.m. last night—Highest, 55; lowest, 45. Full report on page 7. No. 924.—No. 28,713. Entered as second-class matter post_office Washington. D. C. he Saunday Star. WASHINGTON, D. )] Jay “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 as the papers are printed. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1922.—102 PAGES. FIVE CENTS ENGLAND PROPOSES DEBT CANCELING T0 WIN OVER FRENCH Law Indicates Question Will Be Reopened if Repara- tions Is Settled. BALFOUR NOTE HELD NO LONGER EXISTING Britain Wants Moratorium to Per- mit German Recovery—Specu- lation as to United States. By the Associated Press, LONDON, December 9.—The clouds that overhung the parliament conference last night have been partly dispelled by today’s proceedings. The four premiers, Bonar Law, Poincare, Theunis and Mus- | solini, held two meetings lasting five hours. There was nothing approaching an agreement, nor had any agreement heen expected from one day’s delibera- tions. The chlef result was something more nearly approaching an understand- ing in the positions of the two princi- pal nations, Great Britain and France, than had existed at any time during the past few weeks. Poincare Offers Acceptance. M. Poincare offered in behalf France acceptance of a two-year mora- torfum for Germany, provided satisfac- tory guarantees were forthe these guarantees embraced measures fo economio control, of the Rhineland in- dustries and partial occupation of the Rubr district with a division of soldlers to collect customs on the coal output. M. Poincare did not consider that this program would be regarded as military action against Germany. Premler Bonar Law caused a sensa- tion when, in the course of his reply to M. Polncaire, he gave clear indica- tion that the British government & would be quite willing to consider the | question of cancellation of the French debt, provided such a step was made possible by a reparations settlement satisfactory to Great Britain. Declaration Encourages France. Mr. Bonar Law had previously inti- | mated that America’s insistence on the payment of the British debt had made it very difficult for England to discuss remission of the French wai debt. The British prime minister's decla- rations at the afternoon jmeeting greatly encouraged Premier Poincaire, who ‘was extremely pessimistic early in the day over the outcome of the conversations. ‘While the premiers are far from an accord as yet, it was sald by the French delegation this evening that Mr. Bonar Law's pronouncement on the debts had made an agreement much more likely. Premier Bonar Law began by say- ing that the Balfour note no longer existed for the British government. Prepared to Consider Debts. “I am prepared to reconsider the question of cancellation of debts,” he went on, “if such cancellation would insure a settlement satis’actory to the British government.” 3L Poincaire, although reserving his formal reply to the new sugges- tlon until tomorrow, expressed deep pleasure at the British attitude. The British prime minister briefly outlined the kind of settlement he desfred—a moratorium sufficient for Germany to re-establish her finances and credit and stabilize the mark, no military actlon of any character by the French and a reduction of the indemnity to and 40,000.000.000 gold marks. Expected to Swing Poincare. This statement Is expected to have the effect of making M. Poincare more conefliatory and less inclined to talk about military measures, although he | himselt belicves that military meas- ures would not prove very effective: | Another new element which may help the conference is an agreement de- ! became | veloped tonight when it known that Karl Bergmann, German reparations chiet, had arrived In Lon- don with Chancellor Cuno’s new scheme for a settlement. Herr Bergmann communicated the plan to Mr. Bonar Law today, who, in turn, will present it to the other premiers at 11 o'clock tomorrow | morning. He will submit the plan at | Germany's request, and Great Britain has In no sense approved the sug- gestions. Certain changes have been made in the plan as announced by the Ger- man press several days ago and it is! reported that the idea of an external , loan has been dropped for a scheme of allied participation in German in- dustry. America Before Conference. America was prominently before the conference today, despite the fact | that none of the customary official observers was present. America's position regarding the allied debts was discussed at some length by the premiers, who apparently agreed that | any settlement of this question for at least several years would probably have to be made with the United States out of it. There continues to be much com- ment over the presence here of the American ambassadors, Houghton and Fletcher, and United States Senator McCormick. Ambassador Fletcher left tonight for Brussels, but Mr. Hough- ton and Senator McCormick are re- maining. It was said in well in- formed British quarters tonight that Great Britain wanted to Invite the United States to the meeting, but M. Poincare opposed this, wishing to limit the discussione to the four al- lied powers. Allied observers are still won 7 (Continued on Page 7, Columa 2.) X between 30,000,000,000 | MAXIMILIAN HARD! | Germany's Koremost Pubtic | Special Cable Dispatch to The Star. | BERLIN, December 9.—On the grave of Lincoln you, Citizen Georges ! Clemenceau, made a vow to endeavor | to follow the example the great Abra- {ham set for all future statesmen. ! He who answers you here does not belong to those who deny your hon- | est intentiond or believe your will i determined by hatred and tigerlike ! destructive fury. I always have ad- imired your hard-as-steel energy and {intrepia deflance, unlured by the will-| o'-the-wisp of passing popularity, and who in his country’s darkest hour proved himself its strongest personali- Always have I admired the man i who in 1871, In the national assembly !at Bordeaux. protested against Ger- many's annexation of Alsace-Lor- raine, and, as the only survivor of gathering, brought the lost back forty-elght years that provinces {later, winning the right to the in-- e ‘RUSSIADISPLEASED, WARNS TURKEY NOT (TOYIELD TO ALLIES | Tchitcherin Tries to Dis- i credit Ismet by Appeal to His Countrymen. By the Associated Press, { LAU E. December 9. —Proof that ! bolshevik Russia is highly dissatis- [field with Turkey . because | Pasha has abandoned the Russians on !the question of the Dardanelles was found today when M. Tchitcherin, the | soviet foreign minister, issued an urgent invitation to the Turkish jour- | nalists and, in the course of a long | speech, warned them of the dangers of placing their trust in the allied nations. M. Tchitcherdn did not want to say anything in the way of criticism of the Turkish plenipotentiaries, thought the Turkish people at home | should know of the trend of things | at Lausanne. He had a distinct im- | pression, he said, that war between ! Turkey and the powers was still go- ing on. Usually wars were fought on | the battlefield, but at Lausanne the ! green table and the goal was to sepa- rate Turkey from Russia. Afterward | the great powers would defeat Tur- ! key and Russia separately. H Says France Abandoned Turkey. | Tchitcherin charged that France i had .abandoned Turkey in favor of | England and the consideration prob- | ably was some concession on the | reparations problem from England. “But it remains to be seen” he continued, “how far France and England wlll agree when the Brus- sels confference Is held.” He rejoiced that Turkey and Rus- sia had finally come together, be- cause they were vitally important to each other; their interests were the | same. “The Independence and strength of | Turkey is security for Russia,” he added, “and Turkey cannot be strong {and independent unless the straits {are closed.” . Sees Loas of Constantinople. | The bolshevik leader declared that |to allow foreign warships to pass | through the straits would mean the handing over of Constantinople to the natlon with the strongest navy. Naval units would seize Constantinople, then attack Russia. Therefore, if Constantinople was in danger, Russia ‘Blsfl ‘was in terror. { Turning his attention to England, Tchitcherin told the Turkish cor- | respondents that Great Britain had iher eye on northern Persia. The way i to northern Persia was through the | Caucasus—the way to the Caucasus was through the Dardanelles.. He asserted that the Russian program at Lausanne was based on a com- munity of interests between the Rus- {sian and Turkish peoples and he {hoped that the end of the confer- ence would find the two countries | nearer together. Secure in Fortifications. If the Turks Insisted on thelr right to fortity the straits and defend Con- stantinople, Russia would feel more | secure and_could take up with the (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) And now comes further proof that “nobody loves a fat man.” Army surgeons have declared a ban on obesity in the commissioned per- sonnel of that service. Recent surveys of physical records of officers in connec- tion with the elimination law showed that many defects, which ultimately in- capacitated individuals, might have been prevented had intelligent effort been made to remedy them in their early stages. It was found that the chief cause of physical inefficlency was overweight, and that in the vast majority of cases that condition was due to ignorance and neglect of the ordinary rules of health. While there are other ceused of o< s URGES ‘TIGER’ TO PROMOTE 'UNITED STATES OF EUROPE {German Editor Tells Clemenceau He Should Emulate Exan_lples of Wash- ington, Franklin and Lincoln. | Ismet | but ! { war was being waged around the| ARMY DOESN’T LOVE FAT MAN; OFFICERS ORDERED TO REDUCE scription on stone in every communc | | of his country: “Le Citoyen Georges Clemenceau, a bien merite de la patrie.” | The physical courage of an octo- | genarian in crossing the Atlanticand | going from town to town defending | France also is admirable. For my- self, T am sure the Senate's excep- tions do not justity'the German press trip a flasco that in terming your will redound to Germany Charges Delus advantage, | Because I consider you strong de- spite your age. I think it necessary to !declare before your hearers that you | are laboring under a disastrous and | dangercus delusion. The smile quiv- ering under your mustache indicates You would not have been surprisedat | an even more rude answer coming | But aren’t you re- | in your own country for | from Germany. proached Poland Elects | ' New President | In Hard Fight By the Associated Press, H WARSAW, December 9.—Gabriele rutowicz, minister of toreigs affairs. elected President of Poland by the national assembly today. Five ballots were needed before he se- cured the necessary majority. It was only In the fourth ballot | that Narutowicz forged ahead. In| the fifth he received 289 votes against | the 227 for Count Zamoyski, minister | to France, who headed the poll on | the third ballot with 228 votes. | I ar!,nowmz‘ who is a relative Qli ik-en. Pilsudski, the retiring president, | jrecelved an ovation from the crowds | which gathered about parliament | house when he left. There was a| jcounter demonstration for Count | Zamoyski, his adherents shouting that Zamoyski had obtained more Polish votes than Narutowicz. i It is rumored that the resignation of Narutowicz is possible. (CLAIMS GAS TAX WoULD EQUAL TAG REVERTIE| | Keller Declares 1-Cent Levy Would Give Large Annual Yield. | Plans Hearings. ! A 1-cent tax on gasoline and a $1 registration fee for tags would net| the District approximately the same ! amount of revenue now derived an- jnually from the horse-power charge jon automobiles, according to Engie neer Commissioner Keller. Commissioner Keller is now en- Zaged in working out the details of |a proposed bill to establish a gaso- {line tax in Washington as the means of bringing about reciprocity with Maryland. It Is understood that in preparing the gas tax bill the Commissioners have no thought of trying to raise, through such a tax, more revenune than is now_taken from motorists on the horse-power basis. Neither are the Commissioners definitely committed as to any of the details of the proposed legislation. It is Col. Keller's plan to make public | soon after Christmas the text of the bill now being prepared and invite a thorough study of it by all interested organizations and individuals. The Commissioners then will set a date on which the residents of the city will be invited to go to the Dis- trict building and voice thelr views on the proposition of a gas tax before any legislation is sent to Congress. The question of a gas tax on mo- torrists has been pending at the Dis- trict bullding since early in the year, when Maryland officlals came here and proposed it as a basis on which they would be willing to enter into a reciprrocal agreement with the Dis- |trict. The tax already is in effect in | Maryland. —_— LYNCH ARKANSAS NEGRO. | Probably Fatally Shot Deputy Sheriff When Resisting Arrest. MORRILTON, Ark., December 9.— Less Smith, negro, who shot and probably fatally wounded Deputy Sherift Gran Farish, when he at- tempted to arrest the negro this afternoon, was taken from jail and lynched here tonight. crease In hpdily weight, they are de- clared to be exceedingly rare among Army officers, and the bold statement 1is made that the individual who carries an exceesive amount of fat stands umllq of neglecting his physical condi- on. An officer of the Army, it is pointed out, owes efficient service to the govern- ment, and if he carelessly allows his health to deteriorate, he falls in the proper performance of his duty. ‘Welght should be reduced gradually, under the supervision of a megdical offi- cer if possible, and systematic and ap- propriate physical exercises are urged as necessary factors in any method of weight reduction that may be adopted {than possible under the rules of the 7 Rt‘rmt‘mue — FEATURES OF THE 4 s DECEMBER DINNER OF T ) 1 RN\ A\ HE GRIDIRON CLUB. 3-YEAR FIGHT LOS BY PLATE PRINTERS jHouse Votes for Power| Presses at Engraving and Printing Bureau. | i EMPLOYES | HITS 218 Zihlman Leads Futile Battle Against Change in Method of Making Money. Plate printers in the bureau of en- | graving and printing, after a thirty- H six-year fight against the effort tof introduce labor-saving machinery m\ Uncle Sam's big paper money plant. received a staggering blow when uml ‘House late yesterday in passing the | Treasury Department appropriation bill included an ameendment Which means the installation of power presses and the discharge of 21 plate printers. The House galleries were crowded with plate printers and their friends while the House engaged in a bme.—l and heated debate for four hours.| This ended in a record vote, 167 to| 85, in favor of an amendment by! Chairman Madden, after the original language in the bill had been strick- en out on a point of order by Repre- sentative Fred H. Zihlman of Mary- land, chalrman of the labor commit- tee, that the paragraph was not ger- mane, and was new legisiation on an appropriation bill, forbidden under the House rules. Bill Carries $115,000,000. After that was settlea the House, without a record vote, passed the Treasury appropriation bill, which carried approximately $115,000,000, of ‘which $9,000,000 is for prohibition en- forcement. The only material change made in the bill as reported from the committee was in elimingtion of a proposed undersecretary of the Treasury. Two votes were demanded by Rep- resentative Zihlman to settle the plate printers’ fight. In the committee of the whole house, where the matter was thrashed out more informally House {itself, the members voted 87 to 38 to accept the Madden amend- ment, which was virtually the same as the original language, except that it does not specifically provide for the installation of fifty-eight power presses to replace 196 hand presses, but accomplishes the same purpose by prescribing the method of print- ing, requiring power presses. Then when the measure was brought out of the committe of the whole and reported to the House, Representative Zihlman demanded a record vote. Has Other Champions. The fight led by Representative Zihiman was supported particularly by Representative Albert Johnson, chairman of the House printing com- mittes, who condemned the appro- priations committee for attempting to “usurp all authority” while this same legislation was pending before his own committee. Representative King of Ilinois also championed the plate printers, particularly from attacks by Representative Thomas L. {Contiducd gn(ln 2, Column §Q 2<% Husband Beater | Gets Jail Term For Her Cruelty! Special Dispatels to The Star. MANNINGTON, W. Va., December 9.—The unusual case of a woman being sent to jail for beating her husband has just been disposed of by Magistrate J. M. Barrack, at Mannington. i The defendant, Mrs. Katy Pec- cola of Downs, wife of Thomas Peccola, police say, had turned her husband outdoors barefooted and was threatening him with a gun when officers arrested her. She was required to give a peace bond of $100, but in default she was coms i i i i i i mitted to the county jail. [ . C. OFFICIALS GETTING | DATA FOR CONGRESS {mdleo of five i drive on Congress for appropriations | | Tequisite to carry out a school bet-;0n the stage and the pre; Figures on Estimates to Be Made Ready for Expected Hearing. i The District Commissioners and a} score of their subordinates are pre- paring themselves with facts and figures for the call which they ex- pect to receive before the end of this week to appear before the District subcommittee of the House appro- priations committee in support of the District estimates for next year, Ahe city fathers and their depart- ment heads are satisfied they will be able to present to the members of Congress convincing proof of the ne- cessity for every item recommended by the bureau of the budget. In fact, the District heads feel that considerably more than the $25,- 043,973 allowed the city by the budget bureau could be spent on absolutely necessary work. No Fault With Budget. But in discussing the estimates they do not find fault with the officers of the budget bureau. On the other hand, they have expressed gratifica- tion over the fact that those officials raised by approximately $2,000,000 the 1imit which they at first specified was all the District could expect. What the official spokesmen for the taxpayers of Washington do want to impress upon the appropriating com- mittee is that the $25,043,973 approved by the budget bureau should not be further Feduced. They want Congress to realize that the budget as sent forward repre- sents a flgure arrived at by the budget officials after a most thorough study of every item submitted to them by the Commissioners. TAKES ORDERS FOR RUM AFTER RAID ON DIVE Dry Agent Obtains Names of Per- sons Seeking Christmas Liquor. SAN FRANCISCO, December 9.— After raiding an alleged fllicit liquor purveying establishment today, a pro- hibition agent sat at its telephone for two hours .and received orders for Christmas dellveries, he said, The would-be customers mnot know- ing they were giving their orders for | “SEATPERCHLD N SEADOL SLOGAN Adopted by Citizens in Prep- aration for Fund Drive on Congress. WORK STARTS WITH Vim Chairman Glassie Speaks for Pro- gram on Basis of Necessities. “A seat for every child of school age in the District for full time throughout the school year.” This will be the slogan used by the representative citizens’ school com- in the forthcoming terment program which will restore the Washington public educational system to “normaley.” It was adopt- ed by the committee at its inmitial office of its chairman, Henry H. Glassie, in the Union Trust building. Tke citizens’ committee of five was! appointed by Dr. Abram Simon, presi- dent of the board of education, at the nstruction of the joint conference between representatives of more than 100 civic bodits and the school board, for the purpose of formu- lating a definite school improvergent program and directing the concerted | movement of the civic organizations to bring it into realization. Besides Mr. Glassie, it is composed of Dr. Mil- ton Fairchild, head of the Character Tweet of ‘Ghost’ Scares Seamen; By the Associated Press. HOBOKEN, N. J., December 9.— A wierd piping coming from a coal bunker on the transatlantic liner America shocked Otto Schmidt, a coal passer, to death, so his fellow stokers insisted when the liner ar- rived from Bremen today. The ship's doctor, however, said it was heart disease. In any event the stokers were full of the story of the haunted ship. They said the “tweet, tweet” kept coming from the bunkers and they all got 8o frightened they ap- pealed to the captain for action. He inyestigated, and as a result a stowaway, who had aspirations to play the piccolo in the opera orchestras here was brought to the deck. His ambition was so great, he said, he could not resist the temptation to practice. He's going ba NOTABLES GUESTS OF GRIDIRON CLUB ) | 1 ! | | i 1 {Issues of Day Burlesqued i and Guests Are Properly “Roasted” at Banquet. ‘LAME DUCKS’ ARE JOSHED Various Solutions Offered for Lead- ing Issues of Day as Feast Progresses. i | With song and Jest, merry quibs at { public men and nationa! affairs. the i Gridiron Club held its annual dinner {at the new Willard last night. It {was a distinguished company that ! sat around the flower-bedecked tables !in the large baliroom. charming in lits reconstruction and renovation. There were present the President ot {the United States, members of the Supreme Court. the Speaker of the | House, ambassadors of foreign na- | tions, senators and representativesin | Congress, as well as many men nota- I ple in professional, industrial and | financial life here and in other citie When the guests entered the bsn- { quet hall they passed a line of pick- {ets, attired in the black garb of the {Italian fascisti, bearing banners and i carrying some pointed questions tc | the chief executive. After the diners { were greeted in song by the Gridiron | Quartet, the room darkemed for a | moment, and President Hornaday of {the Gridiron Club had made a gra- ! cious speech of welcome, the lights { flashed on and the merriment pro- | ceeded. | Hardly were they seated when & i crash and howls heralded the appear- ance of a disheveled man, who look- lea as if he had received rough treat- I ment. “Its my own fault” he wail- {ed; “I had the temerity to ask Presi- : dent Harding if he had changed his { mind on the bonus question.” i The Fun Begins. The spectacle of a glowing gridiron sence of a group of red-clad Mephistopheles, be- | tokened that something of a gruel- jing nature was imminent. Their !leader announced that a “real grid- { mecting yesterday afternoon in the | iron stunt was going to be put on; | that the club had departed in recent i years from good old-fashioned feast- ing.” They said they were “the after- imath of the late election—the elec- ! tion that raised the devil; he sent us here.” They wanted to start in by roasting President Harding for “the way he | has been buildozing Congress” but | never puts the chief executive of the nation on the gridiron. a dialogue between two of the “red devils.” Education Association; Mrs. Giles| “How about the British ambassador, Scott Rafter, president of the Dis-[then?” trict Congress of Mothers and| “Who, George Harvey Parent-Teacher Associations, and Dr.| “Oh, dear, no; you wouldn't need us (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) (Continued on Page 11, Column 2.) MINISTERIAL ELOQUENCE AGAIN TO CLASH IN RADIO SERMONS Another ministerial combat for supremacy of the air is destined to disturb the ether waves above ‘Washington again tonight at 8 o'clock, when stations WDM and ‘WJH broadcast simultaneously on the same wave length the sermons of Rev. Charles Wood at the Church of the Covenant and Rev. Earle Wilfley at the Vermont Avenue Christian Church, respec- tively. Both of these clergymen rose to heights of eloquence last Sunday night and ran amuck above the clouds because the broadcast- ing stations were transmitting on a 360-meter wave length. Radio listeners-in believed that some arrangement would be made between the two broadcasting sta- tions to send on different wave lengths and thus preclude any future interference in the air when the services are in progress. Both stations, however, announced em- phatically last night that they would broadcast the services to- night on a wave length of 360 meters. Only radio “fans” whose head sets rang last Sunday night with a weird conglomeration of sounds have a conception of how the ether waves will twist tonight when Drs. Wood and Wilfley take shelr respective pulpita . 1 ks Those in charge of station WDM, | operated by Thomas J. Wililams, Inc. intimated that they would not take the lead to have an adjust- ment made in the wave lengths for the Sunday services at the two churches, pointing out that this station had been broadcasting for nearly two years the services of the Church of the Covenant, and that station WJH, operated by ‘White & Boyer Company, has “butted in” This question, they said, is one for the radio public to solve. The initial radio battle between the two clergymen last Sunday night—the first of its kind on record—started when WDM at the Church of the Covenant went into action and found the air “busy.” Dr. Wilfley, at the Vermont Avenue Christian Church, had pre- viously set the ether waves into oscilliation through WJH. Throughout the early hours of the night the battle raged. Sacred music and scriptural readings rang simultaneously into the head phones of the listeners-in, at times forming strange and unharmon- jous sounds. When the services at each church concluded and the microphones closed the radio fans ..adjudged the contest a.draw. One Falling Dead AT ANNUAL FEAST were admonished sternly by the pre- | siding officer that the Gridiron Club | Then ensued | U.S. AGRICULTURA DEPARTMENT WILL . BE REORGANIZED | States Relations Service and | Publications Division to ; Be Abolished. HOME ECONOMICS BUREAU IS FEATURE OF NEW PLAN Various Branches to Be Put Under i i | | i j Directors Accountable | to Secretary. ! z BY WILL P. KEN\EDY. { The Department of Agriculture is {to be reorganiz |that the three 1 {tific, regulatory d—from with of work. and exten n—can be headed up under separate diree tors accountable dire |retary. I¥ 10 the S | This means doing away with tw. | ImPortant services, as they now exist rvice and 1l s—by rea work. A new bureau €conomics will be create:, ntifically trained and ex- ! —the { division | cating [ of hom iwith & s | perie: K I H the t ever mad to organize the Department « which to sery : peonle throughout 1, than any other brane {of the fed Tvice. It carries th j recommendazion of the budger reau and is'now being cons the House appropriations ter, which wiil undoubtedly report favor- ably upon it. claims Department “Just Grew.” As this reorganization requires . no {increased appropriation, but, on the CONtrary, promises a decided saving With increased efficiency, members the appropriations committes Because it is 50 obviously good busi- i ness and esse: etficient and | economic ation, there is €VETY reason to believe that Congress will authorize the proposed reorgan:. ! zation.” The Department of Agriculiure, fike Topey, “just grew.” something after the manner of an icicle. More than other branch of the federai service, it carries on functions and administers appropriations not u- thorized Ly substantive law. Year after vear some new work has been legislated for, most often asx riders ©n appropriation measures, and just thrown at the Department of Agri- :culture. This is the first real effort ever made to thoroughly organize that department In view of the fact that Secrctary Hoover reorganized the Department of Commerce as he saw fit, and th. Secretary Wallace is now reorganiz- ing the Department of Agriculture, while both Secretary Heover and Secretary Wallace have so strenu- ously opposed certain pre al m Walter F. Brown's tentative pro- ! gram of reorgarnizing the entire ministrative branch of the gover: ment—which has resulted in a dead- lock that prevents Pi ing from sending his recommend tions on reorganization to Con- gress—the situation becomes more in- teresting. The consolidation of the bureau of markets and the bureau of crop es- timates on Ju resulted in a saving of 3 ¥ $30.0 through the reduction of the person- nel engaged on administrative work, Secretary Wallace points out in his annual report. A similar solida- tion of administrative services was effected on July 1. 1 when the bu reau of markets and crop estimates { was further merged with the office of farm management and farm eco- nomics to-form the new bLureau of agricultural economics, in which the economic work of the department { now centralized. “It is estimated Secretary Wallace say “that an additional $30.000 was saved in over- head expenditures by this consolida- {tlon. In addition, the consolidation {has made possible the co-ordination {of the work of various technical 4 | visions of the three former bureaus, thereby eliminating duplication and overlapping throughout the cconomic units.” What this actually did was to take three bureaus and offices doing closc- |1y related work. so close that there ! was much overlapping, and combined them so that all work could be co- ! ordinated efliciently. The Bureau of Markets, the Bureau of Crop Est | mates and the office of far manage- ment, all doing economic work were | merged into the one Bureau of Ag cultural Economics. Offices Combined. In the states relations service, by | the consolidaton of the two Washing- | ton offices engaged in directing the { work of agricultural extension, sal- | aries aggregating approximately $20, 1000 have been saved. and as the r | sult of centralizing and rearranging { the clerical work in the administr: | tive offices of the same bureau sal- | aries of clerks to the amount of $5.- { 000 have been saved. The states r lations service is in effect a bureau of the department with several sub- offices. There were two offices in the {bureau that dealt with extension | work—one was handling fifteen states south of the Mason and Dixon line and one was handling thirty-three !nuu north and west. There were | five divisions under the northern of- fice and six under the southern office, not simlar but all doing the same kind of work—administering exten- !sion work in co-operation with the { extension services of the state agri- ! cultural colleges. northern_and_southern_offi.cy " (Coutinucd on Fage 2, Columa 2.) _