Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1922, Page 1

| WEATHER. Fair cloud; today: 43: lowest, 32.9. Full report on page $. tomorrow little change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at 10 p.m. last night: Highest, i | No. 926.—No. 28,727. SENATE BATTLE SEEN OVER BORAH PROPOSAL | FOR ECONOMIC PARLEY.! o Capper Assures His Support of Move. . G. O. P. LEADERS FROWN ON PLAN Democrats Promise Hearty Backing of Measure. A battle royal over the Borah pro- ! nosal for an international conference P10 solve the economic probiems of Eu- i Tope and the world looms in the Sen- bate. ‘The proposal. contained in an amend- ment to the Navy appropriation bill, «ered by Senator Borah of Idaho, its roponents insist. will be adopted. otwithstanding opposition which has cropped up against it in administra- tion quarters and among some of the | old “irreconcilables.” who stood shoulder to shoulder with Senator Borah in his fight against the Ver- sailles treaty Deveiopments Porah proposal night were: ¥ r Promises Support. 1. Declaration of support for the nroposed economi conference by Senator Capper of Kansas, republican, head of the farm bloc of the Senate. 2. Assertion of opposition to the plan by Senator Watson of Indiana, following a conference with the Pres- ideni. Senator Watson declared res- «rvation musti be adopted before he would consider supporting it. 7. A break in the ranks of the “ir- reconcillables,” with Senator Hiram .lohngon of California. republican, issu- ing a statement denouncing the Borah plan as in line with the policy of Woodrow Wilson. 4. Indications that the democrats will rally to the support of the plan. 3. A declaration by Senator Borah that the time has come when camou- flage should be laid aside, and that he people should realize that the administration is already “in Europe” through the participation of its repre- sentatives at meetings of the repara- tions commission, and at the Lau- sanne conference. and through the re- tention in Germany of American troops. the last in regard to whicn stood out Senator Capper, in a brief discus-| <ion of the proposed economic con- terence in Washington, sounded the sentiment that is back of the desire 1o settle economic conditions in Eu-! rope—the desire for a Europe that will be able to buy the surplus prod- :cts of the United States, both farm and manufacturing. He said: of Markets. “I am strong for it. Our people are in urgent necd of markets abroad and they want Europe's economic problems settled quickly so that Europe's buying power soon will be restored. 1 see nothing in Senator Borah's proposal that would tie us to entangling Ku- ropean alliances or to the league of Points to Need Entered as second-class matter post office Washington. D. C. \ENTHUSIASM i i i { i While no official expression of opinion is to be had from members of the administration as to Senator Borah's proposal for an international economic conference, to be called by the President of the United States. there 1s in high administration circles {a noticeable lack of enthusiasm for the project. Men 1ot the President express inability to see assurances of good results from such a gathering. and they are able to see where a great deal of harm | might be done. There is a disposition to regard an international conference of the kind suggested as very much in the nature of an international poker game. | While poker may be the great Ameri can indoor sport. tie trouble with the game proposed is that Uncle Sam, figuratively speaking, would be put- ting in real monéy with only 1. 0. U.'s | in prospect in exchange for any chips he might have left at the game's end. {The European nations, of course, would welcome a chance to play what they haven't got against what Uncle ! here in understanding why the United pate in play of that sort. Eurepe Urges Comference. Almost constant suggestions from Europe for an international eco- nomic conference have had frequent echoes on this side of the Atlantic, I but American support of the proposal, it is believed here, results more from generous impulse than from aotual understanding of what would be in- ONE ARREST MADE, !Relatives and Friends lden- tify Bodies as Those of Mob Victims. [ By the Associated Press. BASTROP, La., December 23.—A former Morehouse parish deputy. T. J. Burnett of Spyker, La., was arrest- i ed late to day by the order of Attorney i General A. V. Coco and placed in the ! parish jail here, charged with murder in conmection with the death of two men who, the authorities charge, were the victims of white-robed and mask- ed men who didnaped five on the Bastrop-Mer Rouge road last August. Machine guns were mounted on the jail this afternoon. Those arrested will face the open in the confidence | Sam possesses, but there is difficulty | | States should be expected to partici- | * OF LAKE MURDERS IS LACKING OVER CONFERENCE IDEAi §High Officials Fail to See Assurances of Helpfulness in an “Inter- national Poker Game.” volved. In the first place. European agitation for such a conference &l- | ways has in mind that the’debts owed thiv country by Europe, as well !as the reparations owed by Germany to the allies, would constitute & part of the stake for which the game would be played. If the debts owed America were not to go into the pot, Europe would have little, if any, de- sire to play. Now., not only are the American ! people unwilling that the money owed this country by Europe should be dumped into a common pool along with reparations claims, but as the law stands today it would be impos- H sible to make these debts the sub- | ject of negotiations at an in‘erna- { tional conference. All the American delegates to such a conference would be able to say on the subject of debts would be: “We are forbidden by Con- gress to cancel any part of the indebt- edness: we are forbidden to accept an interest rate lower than 41 per cent. and we are forbidden to extend the time of payment bevond twenty- five vears.” These Facts Already Know: 1t is regarded as little less than ab- surd that an international conference should be convened for the purpose of ! telling European nations these facts, which they already know And when the \facts had been told, there no longer { would be any excuse for further Ameri- | can participation in the conference. 1t Senator Borah and his colleagues who favor the cal¥ng of such a con- |ference will first amend the law creat- |~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) Ski ’s Wit Skipper’s Wife &2 ‘Breaks Tradition 4‘ C 3 & . To Sail With Him By the Associnted Press. NEW YORK, December —The written and unwritten laws of the sea were broken when Mre. Soiveg Bull, wife of Capt. Bull of the Norwegian-American Line steamer | | Bergensfjord arrived here today ! on the same ship with her hus- | band. She insisted that she cross the ocean in that ship so she could be with him Christmas. Mrs. Bull said she first tried to get the directors of the line to per- mit her:to ride on the bridge with her captain, but they refused. They told her of the laws which re- quired a captain to keep his wife ashore so he could give all his at- tention to the ship. ‘Then she purchased passage in a first cabin. Again the directors told her of the laws and objected. * But she insisted she had the right to sail on any ship she desired, and finally they agreed. According to passengers the two acted like mere acquaintances in- stead of husband and wife on the trip over. Mrs, Bull sat at the captain’s table at every meal, but hearings ordered today by the attor- nations and I am sure our people will support it." Taking the stand that the proposed ~conomic conference would inevitably ney general to begin in the parish oourthouse on January 5, under guard of state troops. she was treated by the skipper just as formally as he treated other- passengers. Mrs. Bull did lead to the involution of the United States in European affairs and that the United States should look first to ita own interests, Senator Johnson voiced his strong opposition to the Rorah plan. Must Cousider Debts. “An economic parley of necess must consider not only present con- ditions in Europe, but the debts due 10 us, and, of course, the reparations due from Germany. Were we to in- vite the interested nations to discuss these subjects in order to arrive at understandings and agreements, with 1 mental reservation to take no part n the ultimate solution. we would he guilty of a species of bad faith, of which America has never been guilty and which Americans never can tolerate. “If we bring the nations of the earth here to Washington for such a conference, we'll dump into America's iap the economic ills of Europe and the reparations muddle. 1If, officially, we sit down with the other nations who meet at our invitation and reach an understanding and agreement, we are in honor bound to carry out and execute that agreement, and the very ] Relatives View Bodies. not once go on the bridge. |CORNERED POLIGE W FIERCE FIGHT An inquest was conducted behind closed doors at Mer Rouge this after- noon over the bodies cast up by Lake Le Fourche yesterday after unidenti- fled dynamiters had made an effort to remove them from_their watery grave of four months. The findings at the inquest were not announced. Officials declared they were satisfled with the identification of the bodies as those of Daniels and Richards, the two men kidnaped by 2 mob last August. The bodies were viewed by dozens of relatives and friends during the day. New Orleans pathologists conducted an autopsy to determine how the men came to their death. They declared the examination revealed that the men had been flogged and some bones |broken before they died. They re- fused to reply to the question whether the men were killed before being bound and thrown Into the|noTtheast section of the city do four lake or whether they wste thrown Members of the ninth police precinct !into the lake alive and diea ofy©We their lives today. it > Shortly after 7 o'clock last night That the autopsy was considered of [ Officers L. H. Legg and W. D. Young | most vital importance in the prosecu- | ¥°r® patrolling their beats near the ftions of those who will be chargea|lonely commons at 19th and Gales with the murder was indicated by the | 8treets northeast, when they ran Seek to Free Captured Negroes. - Y To pure grit, ability to fight when | cornered and utter disregard. of threats broadcast by one of the most vicious gangs of colored men in the Seize Whole Gang as Four‘ instant we undertake to carry out an agreement to enforce reparations, ihat instant we abandon the tradi- tional policy of America. We be- come a part of the European scheme of things and we enter upom that course from which we have ®so re- cently escaped and which our people s0 overwhelmingly repudiated. “Will Invelve Pelities.” “We cannot officially with the na- tions of Europe enter into agreements for the solution of Europe's present ~conomic ills without being involved politically. It's true we have troops wn the- RBine. The administration vlaims they are there under the armistice. They ought to be brought home. It's equally true we have ob ervers in Europe. But having thes troope on the Rhine, even, as I think, (Continued on Page 6, Column 3.) ITALIAN AND HUNGARIAN FASCISTI PACT REPORTED Secret Military Convention De- { clared Drawn in Case of Jugoslavia War. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Decem- ber 23.—Official circles here are sur- prised over the discovery of an al- leged #ecret mulitary convention be- tween the Italian and Hungarian tascisti, lend military aid to each other-in th event of war with Jugoslavia. Hungarian been sanctioned by t! wrongfully under existing conditions, j and. Itallan governments, and to this and our observers in Europe, is a|is added a rumor that the Italian gov- astly different thing from begging Continucd en Fage 3, Column 3.) ernment is supplying waf material to the Hungarian fascisti- afoul of two colored men, William | Edward Harding of 2707 Good Hope road and another man, now at Cas- ualty Hospital, who refuses to give his pame, who, the police allege, were intoxicated. The men were. arrested, and on the way to the patrol box Harding, according to the police, struck Young a blow on the head, and & free- for-all fight started, which at one time looked bad for the policemen. = ~ Captors and captives were making the dust fly when aid for both reached the scene—Policeman G. E. Van Meter, V. H. Rosson, a revenue agent, an@ whereby the factions will|Fred Rose of 17th and Gales streets, for the former, Isabel Proctor, and Ralph Proctor, Henry Proctor and 1t is even reported that the pact has | Walter Linkins, all of 1634 Kraemer street northeast, for the.prisoners. ward For_ fully fifteen minutes:a “battle royal” ensued, the result'of which was one badly beaten colored man i Couduued ou Page b %oluma 8. - INLAUSANNE LULL i i {Big Four Trying to Find Solu- tion Outside -Confer- ence Halls. FIRM ON CAPITULATIONS i Turks Determined to Abolish Con- | sular Courts—U. S. and Allies’ i Attitnde Unchanged. i By the Associated Press. ¥ LAUSANNE, © Dgoember 23.—The menr ‘eastérn conferente has taken a Dbriet stmas recess until Tuesday Jaftevhoot. and ‘there is gemersrhope { among the delegates that the two-day. eapite will ald the conference lead- lers in finding paths of wisdom and} | progress. fi! | Christmas week has set the confer- | | ence back rather than forward: even | {the problem of the straits. which| ! geemed on the verge of a satisfac- | tory settlement, was placed in peril. | A new ultimatum from the Turks—that | iu they could not obtain their desires | on several points, especially with | reterence to a non-aggression pact in | favor of Turkey. they would not ac- | cept - international control for passige of warships—has prevented set- | tiement of the straits question. i l Four Seeking Solut i | The Lausanne big four—Curzon. { Barrere, Garroni and Ismet Pasha— are trying to find a solution outside the conference halls. The entente statesmen have said ta Turkey: “We | will give you your guarantee of non- | i i 1 aggression, but such a pack will obli- gate the powers to be Tesponsible that you will not be attacked; there- fore, give our international commis- | sion jurisdiction -not only over the l passage of ships through the straits, but also over the zones of demilitari- zation. Responsibility implies au- thority to prevent disaster.! But the Turks say that foreign su- pervision over Turkish zones would violate Turkey's sovereignty. Lord {Curson, who will eat his plum pud- ding at Lausanne, instead of in Lon- ! idon, may win Ismet Pasha over to a compromise during the . Christmas holidays. Other Great Dificulties. ~ There are other great cnn(erence]‘ difficulties — capitulations and cus- toms tariffs, and the latter may never I be settled at Lausanne. With respect to capitulations, which the Turks de- sire to be rid of, the allies aad the {United States are taking a firm atti- !tude. They lack confidence in the i Turkish judiciary and would be loath | i to have their citizens tried in purely | Turkish courts. The issue s sharp jand clear and a solution of this vital problem has not yet appeared. i The tariff question is Vital to the United States, which, like Turkey, de- sires to make a general Turko-Ameri- can treaty of commerce. The Turks seem unchangeably determined to abolish the foreign consular Courts, and assert that their judges, some of whom are graduates of American law schools, are unbiased and capable. | 11 KILLED, 90 HURT. | Trainload -of - Spanish Soldhni Dashes Down Hill Into Freight. | By the Associated Press. VALENCIA, Spain, December 23.— Eleven members of the Viscaya regi- ment were killed, including the com- mander, Col. Canabate, and more than ninety others injured when a military train out of control ran down a srade to a disastrous collision near Onteniente station, Valencia province, | ! on its way home from mansuvers when the train bear- ing it was stopped on an upgrade because the signals were against it. As. the train halted the brakes failédd to work and the train started back- It nhuka and dash in _sten on & ° the 4 ¥ HIS CHRISTMAS D SEEKNG PLEDGES e Greeting, JUYE YETTOCLOSE Urges Sacrifices For World Peace By the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 23.—Chancellor Cuno, in a Christmas greeting to the German nation. says there is hardly another people on earth that longs more for peace and justice, both in- ternal and ex- ternal, than Ger- many. He im- vlores Germany to end her quarrels, honor the pas believe in the fu- ture and be united in the face of . imminent _serious conditions, which “shall bring’ o concludes: “We shall ‘do.our utmest to spare the world a great disaster and achieve world peace. We are resolved to make heavy sacrifices in goods and tress ure-for the sake of Germany's libert equality of rights and peaceful col- laboration’ with other nations.” DEATH UNDER CAR FATEOF TALIN Unidentified Victim Struck Crossing Street—Colored Man May Die. An unidentified Italian, about fifty vears old, was atruck by a car of the Capital Traction Company on F street between 2d and 3d streets northeast late last night and died before he could be removed from bemeath the car. Death was due to hemorrhage of the brain and a fractured skull. He is believed to have been an,em- ploye of the District street cleaning’| department. He was crossing the street and apparently did not see the' car approaching. John H. Hanes, 1338 Wisconsin ave- | nue, motorman, told. the police he did | not see the man in time to prevent the accident. The body was taken to the Casualty Hospital, where it will be kept pending identification. In the man's pocket were found a metallic tag - inscribed “District street cleaning department,” a pocketbook and a pay envelope containing $3.52. Skull Broken by Auto. - - Clarence Jackson, colored, 1114 18th street northwest, is at Emergency Hospital suffering from a-.fractured skull 'sustained when he was étruck by an automobile in front of 1732 New. Hampshire avenue northwast last night. According to the police, Jackson was lying in the street when the wheels of a car driven by Wil- lfam S. Carr of 1476 Columbla. road, going south on New Hampshire a: nue, came into coritact with the body. From this it would appéear that Jack- knocked down by, another The injured -man’s condition vruj,f' said’ to be serious late last night. - Ships Exchange Letters on Sea- By Use of Radioju. "wrrvusa mones. “taa sunior | Inauguration of ait ‘‘acean let- ter service” aboard Shipping Board by radio to a ship bound in’ the opposite diredtion, Anid mailed’ by the recelving sblp' tipon arrival in port, was announced yesterday by board officicals. . The messages are Timited to a maximum of one hun- ‘dred ‘words,” T S 1D OPPORTUNTIES With $7,338.46 Received, Associated Charities Hopes to Obtain $5,717.54. {MANY HAVE RESPONDED [ ——— EVnying Gifts Typify How Christ- { mas Spirit Hes Touched Hearts of Donors to Unfortunates. | Up 10 1ast night a total of bad been Teceived for the Christmas Opportunities. leaving $5.717.54 still ~~The seversl amountsx iq ired to close the remaining ten op- jportunities are as follows: No. 1. i re- $212; No. 2, $588.50: No. 4. $411: No. 16, 865 2 . S, 19, $624. Ne. 11. 3350.50: No. 12 $421.50. and No.'13. $355.50. There is $160 available which, ac- ' iwording to the donor. is to be dis tributed between the two opportuni- the close of the appeal. Ofice Open Tomorrow. The office of the Associated Chari- ties at 923 H street northwest will | be open on Christmas morning up to noon to receive contributions for the | opportanities, and any mail that may ibring gifts for the remaining ten | families to be cared for. | nestly hoped that many who have not | { vet responded will write a check to- ! | day #nd mail it so that it may be re- i ceived at. the office tomorrow morn- | ing. An effort will be made to report ! the total receipts up to-the last min- ute before going to press Monday | afternoon. i ntributions may be sent to the Associated Charities, Jobu Joy Edson. 923 H. ‘street northwest, or will be | ities which are the farthest behind at | i 1t is ear- as the papers “From Press go Home Within the Hour” _ The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington g homes as fast are printed. French Peasants | Gaze in Awe at ‘Star of Mystery’ By the Associated Press. ANGERS, France. December 2! iThe superstiticus peasants in this dis- trict, whq are preparing to celebrate Christmas. ‘are quystified by a huge bright light which has appeared in the heavens for the past two day. and are asking. “Is this a new star of Bethlehem?" The light hus a varying appearance, now like a luminous star, and again like a small crescent of the moon. {The official meteorological services are puzzled and thus far have been {unable to explain its prolonged pres- !ence. though attributing it to a meteor swarm. The light was first seen Thursday morning, gleaming feebly eighteen degrees above the horizon. On Friday it was higher up and more pro- nounced. moving at an angular rapidity of one-twenty-fifth of one , degree. i The whole countryside watches for its daily reappearance and is wonder- ing what special significance attaches § 10 the light. YULETIDE SPRIT PERVADES CTY ON EVE OF CHRISTIAS iStreets Thronged With Late ! Shoppers—Holiday Program Will Start Today. { = P | stores that remained open. hurrying from place to place amid a general ! gayety that reminded of nothing so much as inauguration. Last-minute scenes were enacted at {Center market. along Pennsylvania iavenue, street. 7th and 9th streets ‘and any place else where any one had anything to sell that looked at all ilike a Christmas present. T'nien station and the Washington city’ post office both presented the appearance of duman beehives. the holiday traffic in both human beings and parcel post heing at high tide last night. While scores of p.reons entered and came out of the terminal, mail trains continued to arrive with their loads of parcels. The latter were swiftly borne into the post office and sorted to trucks, all ready for deli today. Postmaster Chance and hix assist- ants stayed on the sceme until a late hour last night, while bhundreds of men on the post office night shift la- ! bored through the wee small hours to' make sure that all the people of the Natfonal Capital would get every parcel that it is humanly possible to deliver. Parcel post will be delivered jall day today. and all day tomorrow. ! while there will be one delivery of letter mail tomorrow. Walter Reed Hospital and other in- stitutions are making every prepara- tion for the greatest Yuletide festivi- ties in their existence. i | President Sends Greeting~. Look at this Christmas dinner : menu to be handed the Walter Reed | patients at the main mess tomorrow: | Boulllon. celery hearts, olives. mixed sweet pickles. roast turke; | dressing, giblet gravy. cranberry | sauce, mashed potatoes, buttered peas, | caulifiower au gratin, Waldorf salad’' Downtown streets took on carnival , |appearance last night. when “elev- ‘enth-hour” shoppers besieged the FIVE CENTS. DISCARD FORGED SCHOOL ECONOMY, * PLEA TO CONGRESS !Citizens’ Committee Urges Progressive Program on Subcommittee. '“CONDITIONS STUNT --COMING GENERATION” Brief Argues Strenuously for Ad- vance Purchase of Sites for Expansion. brief. containing reinserting in A cumprehensive a vigorous plea for the school budget for the ncat fiscal vear the items knifed by the Com- missioners and the bureau of the bud- get. was submitted to the House sub- committee on appropriations yester- day afternoon by the citizens’ schod committee of five. The House con mittee recently flatly denied thg school body an oral hearinz. hut promised 1o give most careful and sympathetic consideration to its writ- ten argument. In calling the committee’s attention to the necessity of curing the cvily that exist in the school system. the brief takes cognizance of the “forced economy” under which the govern- ment is cperationg. but argucs thiy auestion should not be considered in the present contigency. =0 serious ha it become. Conge: In Comdemned. Portables. congested and pari-time classce in the elementary schools and “twilight sessions” in the hizh ! schools. due to the double =hiffs, were vigorously condemned in tha brief. Such eondition=. it declured. are stunting the whole intellectual iand moral life of the rising genera- tion The portables were described as “tie i fruitful parent of colds. grippe and influenza.”" conditions “‘which would hardly be tolerated in the most re- mote. ward and impoverished gistrict lLefore the davs of science. The part time classes were branded as robbers of «ducation. and the congested class “a drain upon the physical and in tellectual resources of pupils and teacher.” Urgen Purchase of Sites. The brief argues strenuousiy for the purchase in advance of requ ments of school sites. pointing ont ‘that such procedure will cffect a great saving to taxpavers and the government itself. It was signed by Henry H. Glassie, chairman: Dr. Mil- ton Fairchild, Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, Ira B. Nutter and U. J. Daniels. a committee appointed to represent the vic bodies of the District in a con- certed campaign for betterment ot . public educational conditions. Brief in Full. In full the brief follows: The question which we want the subcommittee to ask itself is thix: What will the appropriations in the budget do toward removing the exist- ing school shortage? Whether such a shortage exists i a question of fact. And the fact is indisputable. We are not concerned primarily with the origin of the shortage or with the question who. if anvbody, is respons- ible for it. That it exists, all men are agreed. 1t is not an isolated phe- nomenon. There has existed also a | general housing shortage, the evil jce cream. cakes, mince pie. cheese | consequences of which Congress has and crackers, assorted fruits, mixed in statutes iwhich go to the very verge of its | constitutional powers. The school is a greater evil receiyed at the office of The Star. The workers of the Associated Char- jties in their desire to see the Four-] teen . Christmas Opportunities fully : candies, raisins. nuts and coffee. President Harding's Christmas subscribed have not overlooked other | greeting to the patients will be con- | housing shortage In fact, | veved at the dinner. Writing to Miss | And it is even more acute. The gen- equally meritorfous families. they.have been busy acting as almon- ers for numerous clubs and groups i of people who have wanted to extend fcnrmmu cheer. Many of the gifts | have taken the form of useful pres- ents, supplying families with things which would ordinarily be regarded as necessities, but which look like absolute luxuries to those who have accustomed themselves to go without. Sends Cash and Toys. A business man, well known among his friends for his generous giving, ! although he aiways wishes his name _| withheld, has sent $125 to be used for prattica), useful presents. He. has niot, however: forgotten ‘the kiddies, for besides the money have come three huge boxes of toys, balls and bats, for the boys, dolls for the girls: besides games, mouth organs, accor- dions, dishes and other things that make glad the heart of children. Other - useful presents have been sent by various groups, and others have rendered valuable volunteer service in preparing the gifts for Christmas delivery. The Sunday school of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian I Chureh has given furniture to a home ‘where the parents are.dead and the grandmother is trying to keep the children together, also two quarts of wilk a-day to another family for at ileast @ month. The government workers in L-M building are furnish- ing beddfng and household linen to one family and $65 to be distributed among ten old ladies and one old man. A girls" club at Western High School { department of Foundry M. E. Church i+ -giving clothing, toys, money and milk to fourteen children between the ages of nine and twelve. The pupils of the Chevy Chase School are giving | money and clothing through the As- [sociated Charities. The Business Woman's Councll has given 'cash to |ve spent by a family for its own ‘Christmas dinner. Troop 70 of the Boy ‘Scotits: 1s giving an all-the-year- ‘reund Christmiss by centridbuting $2. T (Coni ~on v, L2 Wales of the institution. the Presi- dent said: % “I will appreciate it if you will con- i\'ey to the patients in the hospital m: holiday greetings for the year 1922, I hope the season may be marked by i every opportunity of happiness and satisfaction which may come to them and by multiplied testimonies of the | continuing gratitude of the nation | {they have served so well.” | Christmas carols will be sung in i the wards this morning and through- iout the day there will be a round of 'activities, with open house at the Y. C. A.eand Knights of Columbus There wijl be a midnight mass ' i i huts. | at the latter place { Christmas day will see entertain- | i ments at the various huts, including the Red Cross House. The festivities will be continued more or less all fweek. Trinity Community Plans. . Activities at Trinity Cominunity | House are to be increased in volume {and intensity during the Christm holidays. On Christmas morning at 11 o'clock 500 of the community chil- |dren are to be the guests of Harry | Crandall and Mrs. Harriet Locker at i Crandall's Theater, where a program Iof moyies, eats and presents will be | the order of the day. i Perhaps one of the most interesting | of the activities will ocour on Christ- (Continued on Page 2, Column Z.) —e |GREEKS. DENY. COUNTER | 'REVOLUTION IN -ATHENS i to Constantinist Sym- i pathizers. legation denied reports today that Athens is on the verge of a counter revolution, attributing them to “an anti-patriotic attempt by a handful of Constantinists to le?l'fllll the revolu- tion abroad.’ The legation said there is complete calm throughout the kingdom.~ H LONDON, December 25.—The Greek { recognized regulatory i eral housing shortage was due main- {1y to diversion of economic resources ito the pressing necessities of war. !Th: school housing shortage began further back. It is the result of a i slow, gradual and long accumulation. But it has been intensified by condi- | tions during and following the war. | For practical purposes, therefore. it | 1= unnecessary to go back bevond the r period. ! close of the Shortage in November, 1920. On November 1, 1920, there was an accumulated shortage of 183 class- rooms. Thiz may be termed a sheer shortage: that is, an absolute inca- ! pacity to respond to u constant de- mand under prevailing conditions. { The increised enrollment for the year {1921-22 brought this shortage up to 207. To meet it there were opened in 11920-21 and 1921-22 a total of 48 new { classrooms. The school year 1921 therefore, ended with an accumulated | shortage of 159 classrooms. The in- creuse in enrollment for 1922-23 hi | created an immediate demand for 2i jmore classrooms. Thus at the be: { ginning of 1922-23 there would have been an actual shortage of 184 class- rooms as against the shortage of, 1 classrooms in 1920. In other words, the situation would have been left uu- ! changed. In the meantime Congress had acted. The deficiency approp: tion of 1921 made provision for ap 'nm}m-t.ly fifty-two classrooms, which :pave now become avavilable. But }crediting these, there still remains a : met sheer shortage of 132 classrooms Having started under so heavy s i7 1y h: ver by bl ilapqm of New U; g Are hw’im"‘m" supply has never been able to catch up wiith the constantly ac- } celerating demand. : ort 130 Classrooms. !” So far the figures relate to what { may be termed an absolute shortage— ! sheer incapacity to meet a growing demand. But it must be remembered that 150 classrooms in grades one and two are worked in double shift. That is, one teacher conducts a class in the mornings, & second conducts am- (Contnucd on Page 14, Column %) *