Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1922, Page 2

v 2 FRIENDSHIP HOUSE APPEALS FORHELP Plans Extensive Entertain- ment for Children of Neighborheod. TELLS OF WAYS TO AID New Memberships, Ranging From $1 to $25 Yearly, Will Be Appreciated. Friendship House, twenty years the social rettlement and day home in Southeast Wash- ington. and which has established it- self as a necevsary part of the neighborhood. has outgrown its quar- ters, is cramped and handicapped and finds its equipment inadequate to meet the community's growing de- mands. Friendship House this year, as usual, will provide a Very merry Christmas for the tots in the neigh- horhod of 326 Virginia avenue south- cast, where the home is located. but 3t is the aim of the management to have a “sane” Christmas Ways of Keeping Howar. Some ways of carrying Christmas cheer through 1 ut ¥riegdship Tiouse follows: Coutribute for club equipment, including _eighteen small siged chai $54; cight folding tables. $30: phemograph records, $2 and ‘wo cords of wood for fireplace, $36. “Playground material: Large express wagon, $15: sand pile. §20; seesaw. 340; slide, $100; games, $50: pool ta- ble. $45; toy-making material, $30; blocks, $15; andirons, $15; foot ball $6: basket ball. §8; horizontal bar, $25 “Material and labor for repairing of house and grounds: Painting cutside house. §i5: repairing fence and alk in back yard, $100; papering ~several rooms, $30. Help Pay Mortgage. “Help to pay off mortgase: About 22.000 1= still ewed and £20 will puy & monthly note without the interest. “Gymnasium fund: A gymnasium i one of the great uncared for needs of the southeast. The boys and girls of the mettiment want it so much that they have themselves raised a 5500 to start the fund, according t Miss Lydia H. Burklin, headworker. New memberships will Christmas_cheer to the home. are four types, sustaining. ¥ tributing. $10; associate. ¥5, qual, §1. Checks should be made pay Bble to Friendship House Association. To date the following contribu- #ons have been received toward the foregoing necessities: For painting “Hhouse, §15; for purchasing house, §2 for gvmnasium fund, $10: bathroom equipment for day nursery, $20: pl ground equipment. $50. general mi cellaneous fund, $15, and new mem- bers, 310. Maintains Day Heme. The work of Friendship House has fBgen to maintain a day home, to con- gnet social and educational clubs and elasses, to plan summer outings and sight-seeing trips for young and cld, to provide quarters for a public li- prary station and a meeting place for Sirl and Boy Scouts, to act as a borhood employment agency and jene: information bureau. K e work nas heen indorsed by the “eparities indorsement committee and Abe association is a member of the *Washington Council ~of Social <Agencies. Henry P. Blair is presi- “dent; Mrs. John R. Cox. secretary; Mre. Kirk Holmes, financial secre- Jary, and Miss Burklin, head resident. ‘BIG ISLAND PARK - L WITH RORDPOINT " IN BRIDGE PLANS (Continued from First Page.) easy approaches to the amphi- ,l,l:el?;r from the propoeed memorial arch on the Military road. * Highway to Other Cities. . ©f the two greater encircling roads, the north one will run to Fairfax. Manassas and other northern Virgin- 48 cities. This road, it is contemplat- ed. will become part of the Lee high- way. The south road will run to Alex- andria, Richmond and cities of the South. The rondpoint will be given ade- ‘quate memorial treatment. Col. Sher- rill said today, but this feature will e developed later. The rondpoint will Be in nature exactly similar to the Tandpoint of which the Lincoln Me- morial is the center, but it will be wmaller, so as not to dwarf that mag- pificent conception. ‘One of the main ideas in placing the rondpoint on Columbia Isiand is 4n order that the memorial bridge may be symmetrical in respect to the river. To attain this objective it will be necessary to dredge the river at this point, cutting away some of the island, so that there may be about the same distance between the rondpoint and the water as between neigh the Lincoln Memorial and the 'l!er.i The channel at this place also must Be dredged. Col. Sherrill stated, be- eruse of the danger of floods. The congestion caused by the piers would cause floodings if the river is not made deeper at this point. ° The park plans will be carrfed for- ward simultancously with the bridge plans, and~their completion will give ihe people of the National Capital another beautiful play space. This land is ownéd by the District. Stone Arches and Draw. Detajled treatment of the bridge talls for stone arches, with a draw at the center span, but all these mat- ters will be worked out later by an | definitely decided, but it is probable | masks. architect to be selected by competi- tion. The proposed Arlingtom Memorial bridge, for which the site was se- Jected yesterday by the bridge com- mission, headed by President Har- ing, In co-operation with the Na onal Commission of Fine Arts, is to be sixty-four feet in_width, as stated. 1t will have four lanes, each ten feet wide, for trafiic, and there will be no street cars on the bridge. Two 12%-foot sidewalks will be pro- wided, “The Connecticut Avenue bridge has & width of fifty-two feet. The Georgetown bridge, not completed, has & width of sixty-six feet, but will carry two street car lines. The Man. ttan bridge at New York is but rty-five feet wide, with no: side- ‘walks ; “'The engineering design of the bridge ‘will be in churge of . C. O. Sher- »4l], superintendent of public build- s and grounds. The engineering tyres will be in charge of John L. e. George F. Clark is headin; 3@ survey work. The architectural eatment will be by some eminént architect, to be selected later. éCCUSED ASSAILANT HELD = $yMax Brown, colored, recently iden- éflfi by Mrs. Florence Wilson as the #an who assaulted her on the might af December 8, was held for action of mnnd jury today, bail being r Brown by Judge Matt xo'n recommendation of Assista: istriot Attorney Given. _ Mrs. Wilson again identified the inan as the guilty person. Noted Sculptor Claimed by Death for more than; l x i LOT FLANNERY. LOT FLANNERY, &6, ! Man Who Chiseled Famous Lincoln Statue at Court- house Succumbs. Lot Flannery, sculptor of the Lin- coln statue that has graced the front of the courthouse for many years, jand one of Washington's oldest iresidents, died at 5 o'clock this morn- jins at 20 Upton street northwest. was attributed as the cause of his death. = Actively engaged in his work until a few years ago. Mr. Flannery main- {tained an active interest In the de- {velopment of an art that had brought nim prominence. His illness had ilasted nearly a year during the latter part of this time his health had been gradually failing. Mr. Flannery was born eighty-six i came to this country as a young man, settling in Washington. Almost im- mediately he began on his life's worl for which he had already shown much early talent. - With the exception of A few years spemt in New Orleans, St. Lou Flannery lived his life in this city. Abroad Early fn Civil War. In the early part of the civil war Mr. Flannery was abroad. Ncar the end of the war he returned to Wash- ington and. once more took! up active work. Mr. Flannery's first great work was the Lincoln statue. It was erected in front of the old court- lhouse. very near the spot where it {now stands. The statue was erected jabout a year following the assassin |tion of President Lincoln, when bit- er feeling still r. i |fer feeling an high in many {_Another Ercat work of the a iwas the marble bust of Gen. John A. i Logan, that was for a time' on ex. hibition in the Senate of the United tes Capitol. The whereabouts of gmis statute at present is a mystery. {A copy from ft, however, was made by Simmions. also a sculptor, which was ueed in producing the Logan istatue that,now adoyns Iowa Circle. { The statue of Grief, in Congres- sional cemetery, is also the work of Mr. Flannery. This statue was erect- jed by the government in memory of !the victims of the arsenal explosion jduring the civil war. A bust of Ben- {jamin Franklin, considered one of the {Tinest likenesses to day, finds it place n the government printing office, work of Mr. Flanners. - & e other i Fis other work included busts { prominent meg. o Handled Stone Wogk. In 1915 Mr. Flannery :icam i executor of the estate of M. C. Flan- nery, which included a business of mopumental and stone work. He took an active part in this business until his health began to fail. Mr. Flan- nery’s lifework has been the object of much praise from his cotempora- ries. He was often called “an indi- ’vidull all himself” and was a man who shunned publicity, often avoiding {peopie for this reason. He never join- jed any clubs or associations, but was merely comtent in the carrying out of his own work. All his life, with the exception of the last years, he enjoyed remarkable health, possessing great energy and vigor. Funeral arrangements have not been { {that the services {at St i will be conduscted Thomas' Catholic Church Thurs- ay niorning at 9 o'clock, followed by interment in Mount Olivet cemetery. i _Surviving him are two nephews. M. {N. Flannery of this city and W. C. lannery of Baltimore, and four nieces, | Misses Kate, Jennie, Madge and Lil- lian Flannery. all of this city. i Persenaily Knew Lineoln. The fact that Lot Flannery knew Abraham Lincoln well and probably talked frequently with him, and that the now famous statue which has been restored to its original position lin front of the District courthouse is {the only statue of Lincoln made from !life by one who knew him, was em- | phasized in two speeches in the House {on April 5 and April 26 last by Rep- resentative Edward J. King of Iili- nois. ] Representative King referred to the Lincoln statue done by Lot Flannery as “artistic* and “true to life.” “It must be remembered,” said Mr. King, “that the artist himself reaided in Washington all the time that Lin- coln was President and like other citisens was famillar with Lincoin's face and form, doubt Flannery had often conversed ‘with the President.” As showing that he Flannery statue was an “excellent” likeness, Representative King pointed out that Crosby E. Noyes testified that the Fiannery statue was selected from a number of models of Lincoln sub- mitted to the committee on awa: cause of its “excellent likeness. Tells Human Interest Story. Representative King included in his tribute a human interest story of why Flannery placed this figure of Lincoln on ssuch a high pedestal in front of the courthouse. He said that somewhat over & year a reporter visited the old artist in his shack not far from the Capitod for the purpose - < SCULPTOR, IS DEAD, NEW TREATY DRAFT READY FOR TURKS (Continued from Fhist Page.) were unsuccessful, as ft was pointed out by Lord Curzon that this would violate the principle that interna- ‘weters ‘began three miles from | tional |1ana. Lord Curgon again domiriated the conference. His declaration as pres! which had the ring of an ulti- matum. that ofly one more session should be devotad to the straits, saem- ®d te be directed more agminst the Russians than the Turks. | L Tchitcherin deferded at length | the "Russian counter project for the | Tosulation af the Dardanelles. the Sex of Marmora and the Bosporus, but | the allies informed the Russians that | thetr counter project was not accept- iable, as it meant the closing of the straits. They teld the Turks they were 10 make one or two more |concessions, but said every question {raised in the Turkish counter project | nad been amply gome over by the | experts. Jamet Fears Interference. Ismet Pasha, Tor Turkey, volced the {fear that the proposcd -commission for_control of the straits would in- terfere in the internal affairs of his |country. He sajd Turkey had made jenormous concessions in the condi- |of the zones about the siraits, and he jthought the counter guarantees offer- led by the allies were insufficlent. He declarcd every nation signing {or ssubscribing to the settlement of ithe- straits regime should solemnly {bind itself to commit no act of ag- gression in the region of the straits, {tiras respecting the neutrality of Tur- key and of the waterways held to be international. Would Exclude Greece. Ismet caused eensution among the clegatcs by insisting that Greeoe ould have no seat on the interna- 11ional commission of control. because {Greece was not a great powcr. | Ex- Venigelos declared im- ¥ reply that if Greece Wwas not a great power the statistics showed that she wt0od second among the world nations in_her amount of commerce with the Black sea, and. therefore, that Greece could not be ignored. | Delegate Spalaikovitch saved the atmosphere from becomiug more remarking: \ “This giscussion over the straits re- minds me of Pencloje’'s tapestry: is never fmished. Are we to be here forever?” cursion into msthology. remarking that M. Spalaikovitch wak quite right |ana declaring the meeting udjourncd il tomorrow afternoon. M. Tchitcherin explaineq during the session that he wanted Germany rep- resented on the international com- | mission because she had large com- mercial interests {n the Black sea. e FREEZING OF RUTS __(Continued from Wirst Page.) dumped there. This only a tem- vorary cxpedient, for socn a8 the | traflic gets into’ it the roadbed will i be in as badgrondition as before. §{_Just around the corner on Jenifer: | street the Iatter is in a bad condition, und a building operation now is going o {100 per cent built up. Fessenden street, west of Wisconsin avenue, has an earth roadbed, making hard tra: eling in freezing weather and dan- gerous and slippery in wet weather.. Yuma Sireet in Bad Shape. Yuma street. Alton place, 35th and 3%h streets. between the former two, are in a bad condition, and 38th street is dangerous. Deep ruts have been cut Iby trafic hauling materials to a new weather it” will be almost impossible out much effort. Certainly they will inot be able to take automobiles there an appropristion available now for pav- ing Yuma street between {3%th _streets, hi {the District highway of used 38th “ana according to fMcials, will be just as soom as the weather is favorable for grading and paving. Even when paved this street will be lke an island, for everywhere in the vicinity ithe streets are and in order to Iget from it to the hard-sirfaced Wis- consin avenue it will be necessary to go through mire. . Wisconsin Avemue Rough. Wisconsin avenue from the District line to Massachusetts avenue, while ing & hard surface, is very rough and full of holes. Repairing it by filling up the holes is ineffective, and it should have a new roadbed and isurface. Tis is one of the matn ar- terfes, carrying the traffic from the {Reckville pike to Massachusetts ave- i nue and into the city. South of Wisconsin avenue, from a {point opposite the Industrial Home {8chool, this thoroughfare bas a road- ibed of Belgian blocks 1aid many years | 2g0. now rough and uneven, and dan- { gerous for travel, the condftion being aggravated by the bad condition of she railroad tracks. {".Near the intersection of 35th street jbroken asphalt is met, and traffic seems 1o avold this thoroughfare as much as possible, due undoubtedly to the dangerous condition of the roadway. KLAN WIZARD HERE. ‘Atrlvu ‘With National Attorney and Chief Investigator. Dr. H. W. Evans, imperial wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, ar- -Tived here yesterday from Atlanta, together with Paul Etheridge, nation- {al attorney for the klan, and F. L. Savage, chief of the department of in- vestigation of the secret organization. Dr. Evans stated today that he had hed a long talk with Gov. Henry Al- len of Kansas, who is waging war upon the invisible empire, and said that the latter was not against the | principles of the klan, but was op- iposed to #s secrecy and the use of i i —_— A Crystal Gpring, Miss., corpora- tion which employs many girls in its factory is buliding a serles of model cottages for their occupancy. The cottages will »be offered free of charge, it is stated, a housekeeper and janitor gervice being furnished by the company. ——eeee of obtaining a story about the cels brated statue. “He found Flannery lying on a cot,” said Representative King. “He was very old, weary and faint, even then. “The reporter, 88 he told me, asked ry why he chose to place the j statue on such & high pedestal. Slow- 1. nd painfully the sculptor raised elf upon his elbow and with dif- Arriving early, I witnessed the President and his party come in and enter the upper. right-hand box amid the cheers of the audience. A nuniber of times I ob- served the President’s face as he sat on the side of the box nearest the audience. Witnesned the Assasstnation, 1 5uddénly. While engaged with th ines o em.mrmnmn,{. ing the stage and in the middle of ti second scene_of the third act, a shot rang out. I lqoked at the i- dent’s box, His head hag fallen for- wasd. He had been hit. “‘Instantly the figure of 3 man prang from the box upon the stage escaped across it. ‘T 1ived through ‘the days and nights of gloom following the as- sassination. As to every one else, it Was a pe lamentation. And when it fell to me to carve and erect this statue T resolved and did place it-so high that no assassin’s hand could ever agaia steike him down.'™ N THE EVENING STAR, WASHI {tions regarding the demilitarization | Lord Curgon selzed upon this ex- | ‘BLOCKS STREETS| __ {revenue officers. for people to reach their homes with- | 1 i years ago, in Limerick, Ireland. Heif they have them. However. there i8] l 1 used in a good many cases worth m’:i | ! NGTO. D. 'C; TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1922, NEW SOUTHEAST BRANCH LIBRARY PROVING POPULAR WITH CHILDREN OF | 1 | AT MAD PURSLT OF BODTES CARS Citizens Oppose Wild Chases Through Crowded Streets, Which Endanger All. RISK HELD UNWARRANTED A M. A and A. A. A Seoretaries Declare Chance of Injury to Innocent Too Great. | The practice of chasing bootleg ears through the city at forty and fifty miles an hour is being condemn- ted by many citizens of Washington, who are daily cndangered by the wild driving of bootleggers and police and They think that the “game is not worth the candle”; that the chase after a few gallons of liquor is not worth the endangering of their lives and the damaging .of their property 3 The climax in this series of wild Ipursuits was meached on Saturday. n there which ‘will make the street | when an empl ve of the Agricultural | Department. proceeding in & slow and {orderly manner, was smashed into by ja revenue officcr’s car. His machine was badly damuged and he was taken {to the hospital. That the bootleggers {were captured later on in the day is {small comfort to him. {" Raymound Beck, secretary of the { American Motorists’ Association, and | who has been identified with mo ing almost since its inception, an W. Hites. secretary of the American i Automobile Association and editor of {the American Motorist. have both d C. i and a half and building operation there, and In Wet: made statemedts regarding this pra j tice, which i kept up will result in the killing and maiming of many citizens of this community. “This business of Tunning through the crowded sections of the city at high speed to capture perhaps a few { sallons of liquor should be stopped.” i said Mr. Beck today. “The police an revenue departments should be able 1o weigh matters in their proper bal- lance to find out whether it is worth Often Chase Fails. one wants to see the bootlegger go free, but is the drastic method apprehension of a liguor runner? involves not only the violation of the Jaw by the pursuing car, but is nocent persons and damage to cars of citizens who are in no way impli- cated. % “In many cases the bootlegger is not caught at all. aithough he and the police and revenue officers often leave a trail of disaster behind them. The sole result of the wild chase is a gallon or so of liquor in a deserted or smashed-up car. * Bootlegging Serious Offense. “Of course, bootlegging is a serious offense, but it is not as serious as murder and many others. If bank robbers, murderers or criminals of this kind were trying to escape the means might justify the ends. But certainly in the case of a bootlegger there should not be & wholesals en- dangering of life to apprehend him. 1t is almost the same as driving at fifty miles an hour after a man who has parked more than the required thirty minutes in the downtown sec- tion of the city.” “Even if the police hl:pen to catch the bootieggers and the car, they have pot touched the heart of the industry. Liquor runners are in the employ of thosa higher ul the ‘mere apprehension of on agents is certainly not worth the life of a pedestrian or a smashed-up car of an immocent motorist. It is just a ‘flash-in-the-pan’ sensational method on the part of the police and Tevenue officers and does not in any was Justify itself. Trges Strea Horns. It the police persist in this prac- tice of endangering lives by their reckless pursuits they should, at least, have their cars equipped with siren horns, such as the fire depart Tent and ambufances use, to gi some sort of warning to pedestrians and motorists that they are again in their wild pursuit of a liquor runner. The msan on the t will then have some chance for his life; at present has_hardly any. r. Hites v{u equally emphatic in he practice. he = 1 1! cin § ‘!"fi“;: pol‘ant.lll ‘murder for police or any one else to drive through the streets, crowded at this season of the year with Christmas sho'ppera. chas- ing after llqub‘:‘ runll;ler!, l:ah.!ee:.vlvtere 3 ave been e Stleggers have been captured with their car in the back of it, and the hen the officers’ dut I have heard y 13 n:l r.ltl}t se chases is a few gal- of 'most of the: et aa iquor, & smash ;?“ = :;fluul. and no bootleggers. :: .:e'r:l as If these liquor cars &re nevl til there is a collision, that the men generally manage to ge away before the appearance of the jow ‘{8 all” thi ?lfih 'hgc? & m: infon it isn't. Police and reve- |m1ya nbpflcel'l should realize that thefr almost willful disregard of human_life in these pursuits is going to get them inte trouble. intact—that is, order, liquor in men surrendering w! of very few o “Theé police chn't expect motorists| |.ment within a reasonsbic period, | American am! o iles an ‘hour in the city htee! - th mvlnlato the law and en- ‘when they . {unless and uatil the reparations ques. fraught with potential injuries to in-{ 2 |from a debt to governments !Morgan Denies | R By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 19.—. "Morgan & Co. last night issued a state ment declaring they had notified the | erman amb “that it was impossible for us to.dls- cuss or consider a loan to Germany | | | tion was settled.” This statement was issued, it learned. to set at rest what were de- scribed as “high- Iy fantastical sto- was ! i i | bility of the flota- tion of an inter- national loan to German esti- mated as high as $1.500,000.000, ‘The statement follows: Calied on Morgan. “Dr. Otto Wis feldt, the German ambassaacr, called MORGAN. Saturday 10 make inquir possibility of our undertaking sist in floating a large, so-called in- ternational loan to Germany. In his reply Mr. Morgan adverted to the statement that he had made foilowing the sittings of the bankers' commi tee last June, and in effect told the ambasrador that our ition wag ex- actly the same as i€ was then. ‘He informed Dr. Wiedfeldt that, while we greatly desired to of service to the general situation. ne: ertheless bhad manifestly reached such a point that it was not possible for us to discuss or to con- {<ider a loan to Germany unless and LOAN TO GERMANY HANGS ON FRANCE ACCEPTING TERMS (Centinued from First Page.) { { l i ] 1 i ered. The American government has been hopeful that® France would re- vive the invitation to the bankers' committee and that at the same time diplomatic influence might be cau- tiously exerted to secure an agree- ment between the allies to forego enforcement of certain sections of the Versailles treaty. -The diplomatic parleys must pro- ceed concurrently with any efforts of the bankers to examine anew the in- tricate questions of credit involved in the flotation of a loan to help Ger- many. Last Word a Bid. The last word from the bankers' com- mittee was in itself a bid for another invitation. It read as follows: “The committee are deeply conscious of the immense assistance to the eco- ! nomic recovery of the whole world which would be afforded by gradual conversion of Germany's obligations into a debt to private investors, based, like other public debts, not upon external sanctions, but upon the general credit indeed, that the resumption of normal conditions between countries and ‘the stabilisation of exchanges are impos- sible without a definite settlement of reparation payments as of other ex- ternal public debts. Ready to Meet Again. “If, at any time, therefore, the repa- rations commission is able to repeat by unanimous decision the. invjtation which .now has been extended by the majority the committee will be glad to meet agaln and resume the in- quiry. ““They cannot conjecture whether the allied governments would be able'to accept the necessary conditions, but, if s0, they repeat that they are hope- ful that substantial loans could be raised. “Finally, the committee desired to point out that in the meantime, and even in the interval between ich renewed invitation and the conclu- sion of subsequent negotiations, Ger- many's financial position may oOb- viously be threatened with serious danger; protracted negotiations for a large long-term loan might mature too late, if not preceded by imme- diate help. But if the problem were and | considered anew in the improved cir- | Majes | Camstances suggested and with a real | oolior. iy be' oromnres prospect of uitimato settlement, the committee feel that the obstacles In | which at present conf~ nt an interim | gang dau; loan would probably u: i prove to be insuperable. Shorter-Termed Loan Possible. ' “With a real hope of .. definite set- it would be much easler to arrange a shorter-term secured loan suficient | ro¢; B i ! committee of banker: of the debtor country. They believe, | 5O e THAT VICINITY. His Firm | Will Make German Loan eparations Must Be Settled Before It| Even Will Be Considered, Banker Tells Weidfeldst. until the reparations was settled.” Denies Presenting Pl Official denial was made of rerorts question ssador to this country that the Morgan firm had presented | “a plan for the settlement of the reparations prob- lem to the Wash ington admi istration.”” While no official com- ment was made concerning Mr. Morgan’s visit to Secretary Hughes in Washington last week. it is understood the financfer merely fl gave the Secre- tary his views on conditions in Eu- rope, whence he recently returned after a six-month visit. Mr. Morgan was a member o an international committee of bank ers which met in London last June to discuss the question of financial as;xslalnca‘ to Germany. ocal international bankers are 8aid to believe that before any loan Is made by this courtry to Germany there must be not only a settlement of the reparations question, Lut a incere effort made by Germany to balance her budget, revise her bank n biiize her cur- which has been enormously . If these conditions are met a small loan of short duration may be made through iocal' bankers, but ::; possibility of such an undertal s said to be “very r 3 this tiae. Y Temote, at . While Presid ent Harding’s -c reparations question under discu wion at recent meetings, local ban ers do_not believe that the admin- istration .will offer. its services as & referee on the reparations problem, in view of its definite refusal to con- sider_such* action at the request of the German government some time ago. The inquiry of Dr. Wiedfelt is believed to be the first direct pro- Dosal made to American bankers for ce T v assist Y the German govern- In his report to the international s, Mr. A asserted the American investor would be “interested in German obligations only if it were satisfactorily estab- lishe, “First. that suéh a loan sho at the reguest and would be for the b Scflclo:l; l‘hhe !allxi:d nations. . that through th. Becurity to be given by Germany ot the rehabilitation of its internal - nancial _situation Germany should clearly show a desire to meet its ob- ligations in the hope that by the fulfiliment of these obligations it would re-establish its credit as one of ihe commercial nations of the % FRENCH WELCOME MOVE. (By Cable to The Star and_On News. Copyrigts 19389 5" DM PARIS, December 19.—French pul lic opinion welcomes the evidences that the Washington governm disposed to" resume conver!:‘l‘lto!{: with America’s formerassociates, as it DeNer has belleved that a reparations coul Kimerican co-aperation. - °0 without All res; the correspondent has nsider present ci roj rcs“ 'lna!lzg.e: seem to ce: pitious than at any previous time a general settiement. The only sounded here is that, if a Sgneral wampromise is to succeed, sa us e made al not by France alone. S e French government 10 give privataly asserances B confirming the French minfmum oby ditions. France's minimum demand to- day seems to be 28.000,000,000 goid marks ($6,664.000.000), provided -the interallied war debts’ are canceled otherwise 28,000.000.000 marks in A 2nd B bonds ‘and 24,000,000,000 marks (85,712,000.000) in C bonds, the latter be held against Germany or can- §eled precisely as British and Amer: claims ay it Fran: Stz ga nce are held ne difficulty fs that 48 per c the raparations is held by other na. tions than France. Thus far none has exhibited willingness to surrender any part. Indeed, Mussolini seems disposed to increase Italy's demands. BALDWIN SEES KING. By the Associated Press. B DON, December 19.—Sta; Baldwin, chancellor of the l:haq':ll:l{ had a long audience with the king at Buckingham Palacs yesterday prior to sailing for New York abo e ‘The chan which relates to the Brit he United States, by his wife Frese ia no diminuth ere is no diminution of interest here in the possibility of America taking a more active part in Euro- n economic affairs and the coi cidence of Chancellor Baldwin and the dor, George Hi ., being In Washington at the same e, but the British press seems reluctantly realising that the P for mission, debt to t! vey, o tim danger lives on such & flimsy Pretext.{ to save German coredit from ool-|large hopes of American. participa- There ought to be some check put-on this practice at once or the toll of maimed and dead in the National Capital will reach alarming propor- tions; all from the disregard of hu- man life in a chase after liquor.” ‘With pistols and rifles spitting in- discriminately, and automobiles ca- reening wildly through the streets, ‘Washington citisens homeward bound after a day's hard work or down- town for Christmas shopping feel that their lives are being put into jeopardy without cause. That some less drastic measures should bde sdopted for the pursuit of these crim- iwals they feel is an fmportant item in their defly esistence.” s lapse during the period of negotia- tion. The committee need scarcely add that they would be gilad under these circumstances sistance in thelr to such a limited loan as wel with regard to larger and more lnworunt proble: i1l d,m-nnee invitation . to United States wholly as & for way, has been soun French government to be.done. Upon the answer bf Frahce today, six months ago, depends whether any progress can be made. Copyright; 1922.} m: Tee to renew. the the bankers? | tion in the reparations question and the possibility of a-loan to-Germany are little more than an imposing air castle bullt upon very slender foun- dations, and that epeculation has traveled very far in advance of the facts. ‘Those who have been largely re- sponsible for erecting this edifice out o] of the activities of Ambassador Child at - Laussnne, the meetings of the American ambassadors in London and, Instly, the announcement of Col. Har- vey's visit to the United States, are now_ e in declaring that the situation i really little changed and that the’ Amerfoan policy is not al- ~tered. - - =t 3 =2 WRECK ROAD’S BLAME. Held Open. to Censure for Death of 1, Injury of 61. Operating officials of the Pennsy November 7, at Cincinnatl, which re ulted in the death of an employe and the injury of sixty-one passe: gers and employes, the safety in- spectors of the Interstate Commerce Commission reported today. The wreck was caused, the inspec: tors declared, because a passengi locomotive was operated by Engine man Pyle at a rate of speed in excess ,Of that prescribed by his time table, and use the sirbrake on his en- gine wae in defective condition. INSURANGE CODE CHANGES PROPOSED | District Commissioners Send Bill to Congress Embody- ing Revision. | Complete revision of the insurance code of the District is proposed in a bill sent to the Senate and House Distric committees by the Commis- sioners yesterday. According to Burt A. Miller. super- intendent of insurance, the new code would result in a net increase of | $48,110 in revenue from insurance comn- | panies. 3 Another feature of the bill is that it will give the superintendent of in- surance control over all surety com- panies doing business in the District. The bill also is designed, Mr. Biller #aid in & letter to the Commissioners, to place the licenss cost upom the rather than upon the Under existing law license fee is $50 a year and the B licitor's $5 a year. The proposed bill i will make the agent's fee $3 a year and the solicitor's $2. Tha bill aleo changes the rates of taxatien to be paid by insurance companies upon | their annual premjums. Mr. Miller prepared a statement for the Commisioners showing that under | existing law the estimated collections of his department for the calendar year 1923 would be 3242100, made wp as follows: Fees, $27,298, and taxes, $214.802. Estimated revenue for 1923, if the new law is enacted. would be 3$290.- 310, as follows: Licenses and filing fees, $59,310, and taxes, $240.000. The expenses of the insurance office under new salary list and other COsts would be only $25.200. This would [leave $265.110 of reven excess of office _expenses under the mew law ’Thil figurs s $48,110 greater than the net revenue of the revenue office ! Speaking of the reduction in agent's {license fee, Mr. Miller states that it jis “in accordance with the general practice of other states of the Union {and will be found to be of great ben- jefit to our local companies, many of | which are beginning to expand and | g0 into the states, having been great- 'ly handicapped heretofore by this ilarge difference in the fees. “The licenses of companies chapter ifoHows in the main the marine law. for it is worked out to meet the Te quirements of the District and to put the license cost wpon companies. and jmot_ upon the agents as formerly 3% Experts Are Consulted. . Mr. Miller has had the advice ai co-operation of some of the best in- formed insurance experts of the country in the preparation of the new Reterring to the new legisla- ince 1911, en only & few minor changes were mude, but a8 a matter of fact, the law | then needed to be completely revised and brought up to date. A number of attempts have been made to secure such legislatjon as would give the District a model code, and one bill iwas prepared by the American Bar ] Association. which has been pending iin Congress for years and is now be- fore the Senate District committee.” Mr. Miller made public a statement f H i | rom S. 8. Huebner, professor of surance at the University of Penn- { sylvania and advisor to the Shipping Eoard, indorsing the proposed code for the District and voicing the hope ;hat Congress soon will enact it into aw. ISCHOOLS ASK AID OF GIVIC BODIES Letters Aré Mailed Out by Citizens’ Committee of Five. Appeals to every civic body in the District to unite in the concerted indorsing the original school esti- mates for the next fiscal year, the Capper teachers’ salary bill and the compulsory school attendance and school censue bill were made today by the citizens’ school committee of five appointed by the board of edu- ication. 'This legislation, it was point- ed out, is now pending in Congress. Letters Are Semt Out. The appeal to the civic organiza tions to join in the school bettermen movement is contained in letters dressed to the officers of the various orgapizations, under the signature of Ira Nutter, a member of the commit- tee of five delegated by Chairman Henry H. Glassie to line up_the civic bodies in the campaign. The com- munications were sent out today from the ofice of Harry O. Hine, secretary of_the school board. ; Besides indorsing the school legis- lation outlined, the civic bodies also are called upon to demand that Con- gress appropriate funds which will bring to & realisation the committee’s (slogan: “A seat for every child, a full-time day for every day in the school year.” “Should Make Provisions.” Congress should make such pro- visions for the school system of the federal territory, the letter said, “as will place that territory in educa- tional facilities commensurate with its dignity and prestige as the seat of government.” Plans are being made now by the school committee of five to appear before the congressional appropria- tions committees to supplement the school oficials’ defense of the school budget with arguments showing the imperative need of relnserting in the school estimates the items deleted by the Cot oners and the bureau of the budget. MARYLAND “TAGS” READY. More Than 3,000 D. C. Autoists Apply for 1923 Registration. The 1928 Maryland ctate automo- bile license tags have ved in Washington and will make their first appearance tomorrow. At the Wash- ington office of the Ma te license bureau more than 3,00 plicants for registration have been received. Offict the bureau look t for the usual rush over the holidays. (Y | ! g DRY HOPES BRIGHT FOLLONING PAREY Haynes Is Encouraged Over Outlook for Better Enforcement. MORE MONEY IS URGED Ritchie Says Maryland Considers Volstead Law Infringememt on Rights. . General encouragement as to the prospects of mecting present prohi- bition enforcement preblems through closer-co-operation between the fed- eral and state authorities and a1 earnest appeal for reverence of the law was felt today by administratior offielals as a result of Preeident Harding’s conference on the subject with state governors. Among the fourteen state execu- tives who discussed the subject i formally with the President and ad- ministration officials directly inter- ested at a Wbite House luncheon confer-nce yesterday there appearcd to be an almost unanimous opinion that the way to improvement in th enforcement’ situation I laxation of the present atute, but rathe, § ecution of i1s termy. More ee fines and prison sentences for vinlu tions, it was said 1o have been held hould assist prohibition officials in helr work, while more careful se- lection of prohibition personnel and ucation of the public to the neces- sity n_fl law-reverence were among other “informal” suggestions made. : Haymes Is Encourage N a statement after the conf Prohibition Commissioner Haynes saiyi i :rl:;'r.lnnuncu‘lhe reports of the were of “ ERyaTAD) an “encouraging Indications today were that ancther conference of governors might be called early in the new year for . ’l::lrz thorough discussion of the sub- According to some of those who attended, there wus mo suggestion raie~d during the three-hour confer- enc: which indicatéd belief that the situation might be helped by loosen- ing the present strisgent enforce- ment statute. To the contrary, it was 3aid, the prevalent opinfon scemed to have been that imposition of more severe fines and prison terms on con viotion of violation would assist the enforcement officials in their worl. Other suggestione. all of which werr declared later 1o have been “entirel infor included a more carcfu selection of prohibition personn. larger appropriations for the federa. bureau and education of the general public to the necessity of law-rey erence. More Money Is Urged. Gov. Allgn of Kansas said last nigh: the confefence had indicated arly ‘lhlt all the governors present whose istates have enforcement laws were iin entire sympathy with rigid ¢ iforcement. Gov. Cox of Massachu- setts—one of the two states Iying ide this classificatio s quo d as of the opinion that “more money d more honorable men” were ne:- essary. Since the law wag on the statute books, Mr. Cox held, it must be_enforced. The majerity of the people of Mary - and—the other state without specin laws—believe that Volstead act Is impossible of enforce- ment in the state, according to Gov. Ritchie. ~ “Our people in the main regard it 188 an unnecessary and drastic federal jinfringement of their state and per- {sonal rights,” he declared, in a stat. ment jesued after the conference. and which was described as setting forth the views he had expressed to Presi- dent Harding. _ 1 DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL HALTS RENNIE HEARING ‘Witnesses Summoned Following Raid of Club Under Dry Law Crowd Courtroom. ] When the case of William Rennir { said to be the proprietor of ‘The Littlc {Club, raided Saturday night by t. {police and prohibition enforceme officers, and who was arrested on charge of conducting & disorder house and the additional -charge of violating the national prohibition law was called in the United States branch of Police Court yesterday, before Judge Robert E. Mattingly, the court- room was crowded with more than fifty of the seventy-four witnesses taken in the raid, summoned to the court to appear against the defend- ant. Rennie was arraigned on the charge of disorderly house and pleaded not guilty and, demanding a trial by jury, the case went over without a date for trial being set. | Tne bond of $500 taken at the time {of the wrrest was continued. The charge of violating the national pro- | nibition law was not called up and will not be on the arraignment list for several days. Assistant District i ;Atlorn.! Frank J. Kelly said Mr. Ren- te i ponsible persons with whom | campaign for school improvements by | nie is on a $600 bond in that case. —_— SETS HER LEGS AFIRE. Colored Bride in Hospital After Quarrel, Says Police Report. I Suffering _from _painfully burned legs, Mrs. Ethel Finney, colored, a bride of two months, is confined to {her home t She scorched her {legs yesterday by pouring kerosene on them gnd lighting it with a match lnvuu;nlon by Detective Bagby King of headquarters following a message that & woman had burned herself at that address resulted in | nis report that the cause of the self- scorching was a dispute with her hus- band because she had gone to dances. —_— BOY’S DEATH ACCIDENT. Coroner’'s Jury Clears Driver in 7th Street Mishap. Accidental death was the verdict returne! by & coroner's jury yester- ternoon in the case of six-year- oa E‘lml.n Gritz of 1335 7th street, Who was fatally injured when struck by an automobile operated by Dr. W. A. Tolson, colored, of 904 3d street. ‘Testimony Introduced at the inquest showed thut Dr. Tolson was driving Up 7th strect at a speed far below the | o <imum allowed. and that the boy i dashed out in front.of the automobile from between two parked machines ut the curb in front of 1321 Tth strect. The jury expressed the opinion that the accident was unavoidable. HOUSEBREAKERS GET BAIL Cady and Clifton Enter Motfon for New Trial. ‘William Cady and Roland Clifton were convicted late yesterday of housebreaking by & jury in Criminal Division 1. The men broke into a garage in the rear of 1615 R street northwest, Oc- tober 21 last, about 7 o'clock in the ‘morning. Nothing was taken from the garage, according to the evidence. Justice Stafford permitted the men to remain at liberty on bail of $2,500 each, pending a motion for a new trial. Assistant District Attorney Emerson conducted the prosecution.