Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1922, Page 15

EDITORIAL PAGE I 57 NATIONAL PROBLEMS . SPECIAL ARTICLES . EDITORIAL SECTION The Sunday Star. Part 2—16 Pages FARM BLOC MAY SPLIT OVER CREDIT MEASURE More Radical Elements Al;e Not Satisfied With Provisions of the Lenroot- Anderson Bill. GOLLD LINCOLN. tthe right of way in the Senate. The all hands, from the |banking and currency committee ex- President down the line, {PECtS to report out a farm credit bill . demunding that additional | Within a week or ten days. farm credits legislation be Norrin Bill Too Radicai. enacted for the benefit of the "'_"cl"' Already the Senate agriculture can farmer. diffirences of "F"‘l"“ committee has reported to the Senate anong the propenents of this ‘"“’h‘; the bill offered by Senator Norris to tion have assumed proportions t Br create a government $100,000.000 cor- threaten a real row on the ,“°°‘;”'I‘ poration to deal in farm products— the Scnate; when f"'_d “””:""’“ [ to buy and sell, and in a measure to are taken up for c<:v»" eras °:“h‘;:; act as a gigantic middleman between :«‘u‘l“d::-‘rr-;l“::;::‘ 'm:'( ""‘“:"“’e S'“’“Ime farmer and the consumer. This BY G. 1TH by is a radical move. however, that will bauking and currency 00""m1“" not receive the support of a ma- within the next week or ten ‘:-‘I" of |40ty of the Senate. In fact, al- the "r"'“"::‘“w’hom,lhough Senator :Norris has a motion | pending to take up his bill and dis-; »r Norbeck of ! T O e | Place the shipping bill, it will not. in} One group of farin credits legislation, are to be found Sena sth Dakota, republican. and Sen- ! ! X 7 {an TR s = ator Simmons of North Carolina, mw:’;"';:‘":_‘;;;e"‘{‘f-‘1“"’1:‘!: i n;‘ democrat, insists that the Lenroot- 1 > g { the ad.iPresent is being used merely as al {weapon to continue the filibuster] {against the shipping bill. { Just what form the proposed farmn credits bill will take is still a matter of conjecture. A considerable num: ber of farm credits bills have been introduced in both the Senate and Anderson bill, onsored by ministration, is not adequate to meet the nceds of the farmer for so-called “intermediate credits,” credits that| run from nine months to two or three| or four years. Furthermore, there is a charge made in some quarters that a i sts de t propose to T have what thew want, jthe House. The bill introduced in the but intend te keep control of the situ- | Senate by Senator Lenroot of Wis- ation under legislation now proposed. | COnsin. republican. and Representa- Jtive Anderson of Minnesota in the Suxpicious of the Draft. | House, regarded as the administra It has even been suggested by crit-ition bill, is the product of the joint ics of the Lenroot-Anderson bill that | congressional committee which for it wa- drafted cither by farmers Who {many months conducted an inquiry knew too little of financial matters.iinto agricultural conditions, and of or by bankers who knew too much, |which Senator Lenroot headed the and who “put it over” on the farm-jiSenate membership and Mr. Ander- ing. ' (S5 son the House. ! There have been threats on the part of some of the senators to “talk Other Credit Bills Pe out in meeting.” and to accuse In addition to this bill, before the Senate banking and cur- rency committee the farm credit bills supporters of the Lenroot-An- »n bill of trying to fool the farm- der: inte helieving that something wWas | introduced by Senator orbeck of bein: done tor them. unless the meas- ! South Dakota, republican; Senator ure is considerably amended 1 Capper of Kansas, republican, and | While these difference of opinion are pronounced, it is not belleved that they will be so irreconcilable as 19| eyrrency committee. which has just ! prevent farm credits legislation al{pegun hearings on the farm credit | the present sesslon of Congress. The |jegislation. has before it, in addition Senator Simmons of Nojth Carolina. democrat. The House banking and iLeaders in Congress Are Working Hard WASHINGTON. D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1922. PROPOSED TO BUILD UP A REAL NAVAL RESERVE ] SSlOIl[ . Training of Civilians Urged as a Nec sary Adjunct to the Regular Naval Establishment. To Avert Necessity of an Extra Se few weeks ago do not seem to be flourishing like the proverbial green bay tree. Appar- ently the future does not hold out much promise for their growth in membership or increase in power. As a third party menace in the nation at large they are not regarded seriously at this time-by either of the two old parties. In Congress there are evidences that dem- ocrats are fighting shy of the progressive i blocs and there is disposition among repub- | licans to close their ranks about their own | will be Claude Kitchin, in fact the titular democratic leader; Judge Crisp of Georgia, Clarence Cannon, formerly parliamentary expert to Speaker Champ Clark and now coming to the House from the Clark district in Missouri; Wingo of Arkansas and Henry Rainey of Illinois. * kK k Democratic politicians are congratulating themselves that they are to have as a mem- ber of the House in the next Congress the chairman of the democratic national commit- BY N. 0. MESSENGER. VHE leaders in the House and Senate are making sincere efforts to avert a legislative condition which would necessitate an extraordinary session of the new Congress. They are expediting appropriation bills in a way to leave reason- able time for the consideration of other measures scheduled for this session. It seems likely now that if an extra session is forced it will have to be done by a downright fili- buster, stalking in the open and recognized ! BY WILL P. KENNEDY. tretainer pay could have been paid to { EGISLATION to build up althem this sum would have been in- A naval reserve and a Marine|3uMcient for the other purpose Corps reserve—a peace-time|Which provided. The Navy Devar: i force of citizen sailors who | ment, therefore, has not, and does not will be ready and trained to go at|Propose to put them in a retainer pas once into service in a war emergency status until the last half of the fical —is being urged as an important step | Y82 Representative Kelley, speaking for | toward national preparedness. Today 25 such: tee, Judge Cordell Hull of Tennessee. This teadership. the United States naval reserve force, | the "&"" :”D"’P"l“"" committer. Congress is showing its good faith in en- 13 :classed as a political advantage not to be : s B B it st ot | onuigerabia dourcins 1o the Siadon deavor by cutting short the holiday recess. despised. It is expected t8 make for close Whoever started that report last fail - [C0 00 8 B tcn Y e o - |of this proposed action Tt believes team work between the party in Congress about President Harding possibly declining | rolled. A that the Navy Department shouldl In former years the Christmas adjournments would run from ten days to two weeks, dur- ing which intermission many senators and representatives would go home. This year the recess is from Saturday until Wednes- day. really a loss of but one business day. Tucsday: : No one can justly accuse Congress at this time of lack of industry. * X ¥ X renomination- in 1924 did not get very far with it. . : President Harding is declared by republi- can leaders to be as strong in the regard of i Now. the Navy Department is anx- | €Ontinue to withhold the restoration !lous for a real maval reserve to be|Of these reservists to a retuiner par | established. Congress wants it to be|tatus until there has been some |.!llblhhex}. The people of the coun- | le&!slation, Auchas s pippated 1y 2 i . ; try,. who pay the bills, are urging | “°Partment bill now pending. B ?a") i Congfess._and with cepublicans jthat it be established. More than Proposed Restrictions. outside, as he could wish to be. They pre- |190,000 young men, practically all of| 1n the frst place, it is believed 1ht dict that his patience, kindliness, courage 'whum have already had experience |there should be some limit fixed a~ i and far-sighted wisdom will be appreciated {and training. want to be enrolled in|the number of persons who might Lo in increasing ratio which will dissuade him such a service. enrolled and confirmed. There should from entertaining a thought of declining to | be some proportion established ax il between officers and men. There should be prescribed a minimum-size: training unit to be organized within a reusonable radius of a training rendezvous. and no unit should he | permitted to organize which. for lack of navigable streams or bodies of wa- ter, could mot have vessels assigned them for training, whether vessels bn avallable or not. A complete picture showing how widely these reservists are scattered. 2nd how top-heavy they are with of- ficers, and how remote some of ther: are from any body of water, was place: before the appropriations committee b Admifal Washington. For example. in the first district with stations at Boston Worcester, New Bedford and Spring- and the leaders at large and .to facilitate the formulation of constructive policiés in both legislation arid party management. Judge Hull, who has beer. ia Congress be- fore, is esteemed as one of the ablest men in the democratic party. It will be recalled that he was the author of the income tax law. which has successfully withstood attacks in the Supreme Court. He has demonstrated also that he is a politician of parts. When the new Congress does assemble. i however, the democrats in the House will It is quite evident that the democrats db be ;?rcpared to put up a strong battery of not proposeto “take the dust” of the repub- parliamentarians to harass the attenuated licans at any stage of the race in the next republican majorit The republicans, Congress. They will be in training for 1924, through the loss of some of their best talent toward which they are looking with great by death and defeat, will have to set some hope, feeling that the events of last Novem- of the younger men to “boning up” on par- ber warrant it. liamentary tactics and strategy, lest the How do the republicans feel about the democratic group eat them up. prospects of 19242 Well, their sentiments With Nicholas Longworth of Ohio pros- can be summarized thus: Some of the most pective republican floor leader, and Finis J. prominent of them, and this is speaking by Garrett occupying that role for the minority, the card, feel that the setback of November some lively parliamentary skirmishing and 7 was, in a measure, “coming to them,” and fights to a finish are expected. These two that it is having and will continue to have the effect of “putting the party on its toes.” Learned Value ia War, The value of the naval reserve force was impressed on the Navy in 2 most practical way during the war. Th i 8reater part of the fleet which trans- ported soldlers to and from France Wwas manned by reserve officers and men. In the early part of the war * %k ¥ * The outlook is that President Harding will yet reap the long-delayed harvest of his cfforts in behalf of reduction of naval arma- ments. It is believed in diplomatic circles that all of the treaties framed by the Wash- {"-m:l;r- were put on these ships, but ington armament conference will be ratified |22 the War progressed they were in time, and probably at a time when the ;:IIS‘:",’,ZJ:":f.fi".':e"r'f.:f\'-':.‘fli:: credit will do him most good. |left to carry on the transport service. The President’s friends expect that his Soon after the war ended and the course in the impending European crisis will | Work of bringing the troops back had redound to his advantage when he has been completed various steps were worked out a definite policy for the United taken by the Navy Department which & z A disheartened these States to pursue. This policy is not to be a ! men who were gesture, it is said. but to be a practical meas- trained and performed the work of men will be well matched. Both young, 1 |resulars. and with high commenda- |field, Mass., and Portland. Me. it was “quick on their feet,” as the term goes; both induce to closer co-operation and to a ure of aid. tion. Various shifts by the Navy De- |shown that there are 536 officers and ctudious, well versed in parliamentary rales stronger battle formation. o jpartment in putting more and more (503 men. Springfield, Mass., was showr. Testrictions on these reserve officers to have seven officers and four mer The writer has not found a single re- publican leader who is not absolutely confi- dent that the party will win in the presiden- With the increasing disposition of the two old parties to settle back to normal party lines; with the discouragement of third and with experience in the practice, they will be on guard all the time to seck and retain party advantage. and men drove them disgustedly from the service. and not the fact that they did not get retainer pay, according Usually there were twice as many men as officers. For example, in Newark N. J., there were shown to be only nine The democrats are fortunate in retaining tial elections of 1924. party movements and with the almost equal- to those who have been in the naval |officers to sixty-seven men, while ir in the next House some of their brightest ki ly matched strength of the democratic and reserve and are familiar with condi- | Elizabeth City, N. C., there were thirty- tions. six officers to ten men: in Detroi parliamentary and political lights. Support- The insurgent blocs in the republican republican parties, the presidential campaign American farmer in the last two Years;; the Anderson bill, bills introduced - has assumed a );m.-inr’m nf‘l;‘embndou'! by Representative McFaddén of ing Mr. Garrett, if he is active floor leader, ranks which raised such-a menacing head a of 1924 promises to be a wonderful contest. Alms at Real Reserve. x"c:h' :;u';;ui"xecv:lnmt,\ 'dfl:' :&c::' tinportance in the political firmament. | pennsylvania, chairman of the com- The et e , 0. L, i To such an extent is this true ”‘a"m(uee, and Representative McSwain , | during conflazr‘aot?o:“o:"t’;:’:L.-.l::: ::E:::n..“:he‘:: ::;: x:om::lficiv:ssl:"\llh {' there are demands today all along the | o south Carolina, democrat. There y 5 ; ] 1 appropriation bill for the support of |men. and in Portland. Ore.. sixty-four line that “something be done for thel ;o '1oc “inerefore. of bills for the |Credit uniona™ organized for the pur- . |featured this case with headlines like | the Navy Department. where “retainer | officers to elghty-three mén, : farmer.” consideration of the respective com- |Pose of making loans to farmers. AK‘UP these: “How Foreigners Behave in|pay” items were omitted by the ap.| Admiral Washington, totaling the In years gone by the farmer hasj ioiooo Entitled to Adequate Credit. - |Our Country,” “The Foreigner XNui-|propriations committee, and approved | rumber of naval rescrvists attached 1 been the subject of much admiring| 1y js no secret that the leaders of| The farmers, according to Senator | |‘nnce. “Forelgner Gets Dose of Ger-| by the House. to force passage of a |each statlon, told the committee that the conversation in legislative halls and |, 0 ¢.m ploc expected to have the)Simmons, are entitled to an adequate {man Justice,” “Impudent Foreigners)hill now pending before the legisla. |record shows 4,440 officers and 8.5 comparatively little real assistance | /o "5 00T 0Ty enroot-Anderson | credit system. The other industries | = | Driven Out of Germa Let More{ tive committes on naval aftilrs whioh|men, sayisg, ~of ooise, .::d many from national legislation, it isiyiy'wiin a whoop at the beginning [of the country have been provided {Examples Be Made." jwould provide for the creation, or-|of these men were lost when we trans. charged. But this is being changed| o \po presert session. But Senator | with an |dtqunl; s)l's!e‘m'—.'lhudfe;i:ral 3 Federal Government Powerless. Irlni:alion, administration and main. | ferred them to class 6, which was nori- " - 2 - 5 3 . . . R J H now WWhen the farm bloc In CongTess | 5immona, Senator Norbeck, and some | reserve system, he insists, and there | Wiitar From Munich Finds Rovyalists and| Te Esvarians prugenuy postponea| tenance of ‘a real peace-time navai |pavin, from the second. thira and fith speaks, it speaks with authority— hrew a monkey wrench into!!s no reason why the farmer should y et L £ =5 s 4 more than ever since the electionai] 2th0"% thEe 2 he | be discriminated against. The differ- B their drive against foreigners untilresorve. This bill was prepared by classes which were paying. —Conse- RN L this plan. They insisted that the after the last performance of the|the Navy Department. and a favorable | Quently they did not feel the sam- -~ last month, when in the great agri- cultural states of the middle west and west, senator after senator and rep- resentative after representative went down to defeat, largely because the farmers were up in arms ovér condi- tions existing there. Lenroot-Anderson bill was entirely inadequate. that while on the surface it gave the farmer credit facilitles that he needed, it really would fall far short of what was demanded. Provisions ef the Bill. The Lenroot-Anderson bill the federal farm loan act of July 1 i ¥armers Well Organize i This change in the political situ- | of agricultural America has; i come about simply as a matter, justice to the farmer. In the first place the farmers are belter orga- nized today than they ever were be- fore. In the second place their repre- sentatives in the Senate and House have organized. The farmers have made themselves felt at the polls in their vote of protest against condi- tions, and the farm bloc has made fiself felt by its votes in Congress on measures affecting the farmers. A complaint of the farmers ha; been that their interests In the past have been overlooked when it came to the enactment of tariff legisla- tion; that the benefits of the tariff pro- tection went to manufacturing and commercial Interests; that everything which the farmer had to buy, he ®wought in a protected market, while hea was forced to sell his own prod- ucts in an open market. The farm Weoe snade a drive for protective du- ties &n agricultural products when the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill was up for consideration. It got what it wanted in large part; in fact, it was granting additional powers to the fed- {twelve, located in as many posed by the Federal Farm Loan Board, company, savings istitution, co-opera- tive credit or marketing assoclation of agricultural producers organized under the lawa of any state or for any other federal land bank, with its indorsement, any note, draft, bill of exchange, de- benture or other obligation the proceeds of which have been advanced or used in the first instance for an agricultural purpose or for the raising. breeding or marketing of live stock. They would also be empowered to buy or sell debentures i{ssued by any other federal land banks, and to make loans or advances direct to any co-operative association organ- ized under the laws of any state and composed of persons engaged in pro- ducing and marketing staple agricul- tural products or live stock, if the notes «cidar that if it had not done no, the [or obligations representing such loans 5 ulations prescribed by the Secretary s ool “Walter” edge, mow -United States 5 ¢ Berlin is busy | T!®: foreinxers, though in pursuit of | payment of the reparations to the death. Y | order that Congress might have befors republicans would have had a hard | were secured by warehouss recelpts, s Tt bl a| The official bureau at Berlin is busy " - of the Navy, obligate. themselves to ; senator, rode with their colors an ith this propaganda. probably not |leSitimate business, have been driven|Only recently the newly clected min fve In the Navy in time of war or 't Just exactly what was proposed to be or shipping documents covering such | products or by mortgages on live stock. Cupital of $60,000,000. . Each federal land bank is to estab- lish & separate department to be known as the Tarm credits department, with a capital of $5,000,000, to be subscribed by the United States. This would give time putting through any tariff bill at ail. E Furt by Poor Credit. Another complaint of the farmers has been that he has.been unable to wbtain the credit mecessary properly to finance his operations. Because of this inability to obtain proper credit, the farmer has been squeezed |the twelve federal land banks a com- into selling his products for what he |bined capithl of $60,000,000 for their could get for them by men who real- | farm credits departments. ized the farmer's position and that| The federal land banks are authorized Lis had to sell. by the bill to issue and to sell bonds Several years ago, in 1916, there!secured by cash or notes or other such was enacted the so-called farm loan | obligations discounted or purchased or act, and the federal farm loan board |representing loans made in accordance set up. While through the op- | with the provisions of the bill already eration of this law, the farmers have | recited, but not in excess of Len times been benefited {n the matter of long- | the amount of the capital stock. In time credits, it has not done all that |other words, if the banks were able to- was hoped for. The farmers stiil|sell bonds to the fullest extent, they have difficulty in obtaining money on | would have out $600,000,000, which their personal security, backed by |would represent the fullest: extent of the crops which they expect to har- | their power to aid the farmers. vest. The Btmmons and Norbeck bills have The present drive for farm credits jthe same basic principle. They pro- is designed to remedy this situation. | pose that the assets of the War Finance JL seems clear that the administra- | Corporation be transferred to a central tion and republicans generally fear |agricultural credits corporation. In the that unless something is done with- |case of the Simmons bill this would be out much delay to help the farmers in | entirely separate and distinct from the this respect, the republican party is|federal farm loan aystem and the federal goiag to fare badly in the national|rescrve syztem. The Simmons bill- pro- clections in 1934. It is clear, also, |poses that the capital stock of this cor- that ence a farm credits bill that {s | poration shall be $500.000,000, to be at all satisfactory to the great ma-|pald by the United States. This new, jority of Senators i3 reported from |central corporgtion to'ald the farmers the Senate banking apd currendy|with credit would take over from the comum!ttes, §t will be taken up imme- | War Finance Corporation not only its dfately, thereby displacing the ad-|assets and liabilities, but also its work- migistiation’s pat measure, the ship|ing experience. The corporation would ald BID. It is admitted, of course, |engage in the business of redincounting thet the opposition e the m»::{ farm paper presented to It by state and bill Will materially add 14 having th | national banks, incorporaied live stock| Sarst awedit Bl t coriipanies “and “'aatiopa) g agricultural sken ‘up and siven i ence between the commercial and: martufacturing interests and the farm 1916. by adding & new title to that act.!shape for marketing. Sral land Dbanks, of which there are|or the supporters of farm credits districts. | jogiglation that the banking interests Cnder these additional powers the fed-| ;¢ the country will dominate the s eral Tand banks. under conditions im-!ier of farm credits, and when the armers need credit they will not be would discount for or purchase from | uie 1o get it. any national or state bank, trust COm- ]y ..o the system for the farmers sep- pany, rural credit corporation, incor-|g,5eq as far as possible from that porated live stock loan or farm credlt | opich pas to do with commercial and manufacturing interests. Senate and House Members Both ew Jersey, who helped to develop the great ocean-side playground for the nation at Atlantic City. has al- ways been a good sport.” He started in as a roller skater when a youn ster, and thought he wi ster in the days when that w. sport. Then he got deeply ‘Interested in bicycle racing, and was secretary of the Atlantic City ‘wheelmen when lots all over the ¢ountry astride an old, big front wheel ‘and small back wheel Columbia bicycle. Bacharach won considerable fame by his riding in a certain long-distance road race. Then, too, he was a good indoor base ‘ball player, pitching for the famous Morris Guards’ Military Assoeiation, the only existing ‘independent miil- tary organization States today. > ‘Representative Bacharach is most unassuming in talking about the days of his racing career.” He ‘well- re- members one automobile race. .That was in the early stages of the sport before great tracks and stadiums ere built,-when the rival cars speed over a straight-away on the hird sands of the seashore, as they do now at-Daytons. - This particular race was on the Atlantic City sands some twenty yesrs ago. Bacharach had a little French car, a de Dion Bouton, which he entered and got away to a good start. The ° Stanley steamers were then just getting started. They ‘were slower on ever, when Bacharach finished last in it until the next day when the néws- papers commented ‘that it was hard to tell whether Bacharach .was last in the race in which he was eniered or first in the next race. He has always been interested in motor racing, 'but he discontinued racing in automobiles and went to g specialty is small crujsers,- He had a nifty little boat burn up when he was on eparing for a race—that was in spirit as the officers and that would ac- count for the shortage of men. At the report onm it is expected soon after the first of the vear. i ‘Passion Play.” Since then it has {been in full blast and is going on Reactionaries Aiming Propaganda . m:r:::f ‘;: :;::': :‘,’:h ':h:.': :“:: at Amel'lca. levery day. The federal government| This legislation affects the status|time we disenrolled thers were some- e .rc:-'x loans, running from {1s powerle: It dare not even dis-jof some 130,000 voung men in all|thing like exceeding 130.000 men.™ comm g avow the impudent show of sover-|parts of the country. Roosevelt E. Ob 3 thirty to ninety days, but that the ! = — her must have loans that run from D elgnty made by one of its individual| Representative Patrick H. Kelley.| assistant Sccretars of the Nas e ek ot s loanE (AL 5 e BY W. STEPHEN BUSH. ]lnd file of the reactionaries are tug- [units. Berlin is afrald to assert the|republican, of Michigan, chairman of | Roosevelt explained wha! the Navy 1. e aie ) i e e | MUNICH, Bavaria. - |SIn€ at the leash and are but with|plain mandate of the Welmar con-ithe subcommittee on the naval bud-{partment fa freine o do: set fai | December 4, 1922, | difficulty restrained from open vio-|stitution. Nothing shows more clear-|get of the House appropriations| wour effort has been Lo separate (he HATEVER elements of |lence. They are the old soldiers and|lv the approaching dissolution of theicommittee, explained the situation to!geet reserve. which w: b i There ja s 148r of IS pRELOL oS leadership exist in Ger- | the Ereat mass of the German people | federal fabric that was built in 1871 his- colleagues. The meval reserve!reserve .na'dm",.m“:.:‘:;:‘:o.‘u‘:“:;v to whom the republic either means|&nd after the ruin of war propped -mii'owe is divided into two principal nothing or is an abomination. These |at Weimar. Bavaria will not secede,! groups or classes. First, there is men are yearning for the return of{8s her statesmen never tire of say-|the fleet -naval reserve, restricted their old masters. FEager :o obey,|In® but she will let the rest of Ger-|to Dersons formerly commissioned or they long fer the word of command,|Many secede from her. Germany has|enlisted in the naval service. includ- They are held im check by the lead- |10 Lincoln and not enough union sen-|ing midshipmen. There were in this ers with the command to. keep and|t!Mment to prevent the crumbling of | class on September 30. 1922, 381 offi- increase their stremgth, but to wait.|the Bismarckian structure, reared oncers and 6,859 men. The retainer pay A revision of the treaty will be. (he|foundations of fraud and forc: | and active service pay for these flest the class of civilian reserve. they be- ng mere ex-Navy men. who had fin ished thelr training. from the volunteer | reserve. which was composed entirels : of civillans and which was an active training organization. The fleet reserve | is not. “Whatever experience it has had is of the past: it is not experience that is acquired day by day. The civillan naval ‘ reserve is the organization componed of every day men of the community like myself, who have gone in there and who are trained day by day and vear by year. He is a real clvilian and we find that in the largest percentag: of the cases that he has not been " part of the regular establishment fn the “We have these two very diverss functions which we heretofore grouped together. We have in the Navy Depari- ment this year separated what 1 shail call the civilian voluntecr naval reserve from the fleet reserve. We have The other, or second, principal class’ : of the naval reserve force consists of,::‘::f“ .::_::":"m:',':::":m': Lot citizens who. by enrolling under reg- | up;ropriations in the department many today are openly or secretly enlisted in the cause of reaction and the restoration of the anclent military system. They are back of the clever and systematic agitation to gain some measure of sympathy in the non-German world. Their propaganda is aimed, above all, at the great republic across the water. A glance xt the German press of the day leaves no doubt om the, subject. The burden of their chorus of alternating hope and despair is the appeal to the United States. The South German Monthly, the publica- tion that launched the recent cam- paign to show German innocence of They are anxious to Speeders From Jersey Desciples of Hurry-Up. Representative Isaac ‘Bacharach of algnai to strike. Only’ rday one of the ‘leaders!reservists is appropriated for under. of the dominent party in the Bavarian | “Pay of the Navy.” For the current Drive Agaiast Foretgaers. landtag declared in open session: “I|fiscal year, ending June 30 mext, the In the meantime the so-called * slements are being enter- |the people shall acclaim a new rule|while for the vear beginning July 1 tained with a drive against foreigners. {and when ‘throughout the land we|next the appropriation bill now be- Together with appeals to humanity]|shall again hear the cry, ‘Long live |fore the Senate proposes $5,700,000. -:«:d international comity, etc. one|the king”” No more flagrant vio-|This is exclusive of any sum required Teads news about the seisures of for- |lation of the law for the protection |for training pay or expenses incident all guitt in provoking the War, 6DaNIY | eigners who are charged with enter.|of the republic could be {magined,|te such training. Al of the offcers boasts of its excellent connections|i,g Germany with an imperfect pass.|but as Bavaria has practically adopt- |and 1,615 of the men in this class on its German-American friends.” The|ineir pam, th ¢ rns the federal statutes no prose-|take training as a condition prece- headquarters of this “pity poor Ger- | giten Evary‘::hnu hx.h- ::'-“rorh: cation will ever be heard of. Theldent to the payment of retainer pay many” crusade are in royalist Teac- | permit of residence have been screwed | Words were uttered to defy the fed- | tionary Bavaria, but the strain is{yp 5 the top notch, calling forth pro-|eral power, but the challenge will] taken up by other German Press bu- | tests both from the Italian and Brit- |not be accepted. reaus as well. | 18n governments. Against Paying Reparations. Geverament Lends Ald. In @ome sections, notably in Bava-| The German reacflonaries will resist S - {hope the day is close at hand when {appropriation amounts to $5,689,233, : , n New York and elsewhere among port, or who were late in registering |ed the doctrine of nullification Ind!sflnom r 30, 1922, are required to some speed- real Subject to War Call. done with the civillan naval reserve and could judge it as a unit.” out completely and a strict wateh is|ister-president of Bavaria attacked the kept or the Bavarian border againstiefforts of the federal government to every stranger who might dare ‘to|Pay ‘the damages fixed at Versailles. enter. The vises issued by German|He ended his specch with this very sig- consuis in foreign countries are not|nificant statement: “If Germany had recognised by the Bavarian govern-|been a loose agglomeration of states ment, which demands an application |instead of a closely united body with in writing for the privilege of enter-[® Strong central government, the allles ing. - could not have imposed such preposter- ous damages, and if they had imposed 2 Asmeyed by Rowdies. them it would have been quite impos- The rowdy elements, coddled by the | 8/ble to collect them.” 1If the rea royalist leaders against the day of{'ionaries fail in their efforts to revise outting leose from the republic, are | the treaty of Versallles their next step employed in the congenial task of{Will be to declare Bavaria an inde- bullying the passengers on every rail. | Pendent state, to gather all the mili- road going inte or coming out of Ba- | taristic elements around the Bavarian varia. An American traveler and his|aPital and dare the entente to do its wife, who, going from Munich to|™Oorst- This will force the entire Euro- Frankfurt, were routed out of bed by |Péan situation into a new phase and the notorious Bavarian border police | ™il! make possible the rise of a new at Neu-Offingen. near the lime be- thoroughly militant Germany, |tween Wuertembers and Bavaria, Whose.one great policy will be revenge. acwn: Badie the | CONtLY Pald a large fine for the privil- To ‘have the aympathy of America in many is breaking Versaiilen | #8° Of punching one of these ruans [S"Sh &8 hetsling or Syee IS apposs burden of the treaty of ::l “::"lln the jaw. This man, it appeared, |'® Pa7® it Is well worth the best efforts e Ao o v, ayoas | D24 taken.no little intersst in the|f M® R behind the scheme. of s :::m" e i e dmm“‘u' "‘“ agitation to have France withdraw + ber colored troops from the Ine. He are n:: seeking to arouse fOTeign; .. ooged himself as tmn’:::v-eon: sympathy. Aspirants Not Eligible. verted after his experience. “It is” Await Revisien of Treaty. he eald, “no more humiliating for| All seven candidates for the post- The league of German officers, ihe | Germans to submit to the rule of the [mastership of Norman, Okla., where royalists of Bavaria, the agrarians of | ygrocoans than it 1sfor the English- [the state university is located, failed the east and the hundreds of secret|man and American to suffer theinso- {to meet the minimum requirements military and ohauvinistic organisa-|jence of the thugs on the Bavarian|for eligibility for the office. tions, forbldden by law, but flourish- | porder.” This is the finding of the Civil ing freely in and around Munich, are{ A young English -woman was only | Service Commission. which conduct- unanimously agreed that 1o -blow |lagt week fined $4.000 marks and de- |ed the eximinations. ‘The post office shall be struck for the restoration of |ported . from Germany decause: -she [at Norman is a first-class office. the monarchy and militarism, until{told one of these low-drowed officials| Both candidates for the postmas- some af the cheeki and restrictions of | just what she thought of him. She [tership of Watonga, Okla. on the the treaty hava beew removed. - had been -kept in prison: for-seven |other hand, passed’ examinations, and weeks. an application for bail having | there is no state institutien of learn refused ' AlL ihg mewspspers. ing there, either, £ during the existence of a national emergency. There were in this class on September 30, 1922, 4,059 officers and 7,136 men, and-of these approxi- mately 1,600 of the officers and 3,500 of the men had gqdalified by perform- ing the requisite amount of active service to entitle them to confirma- tion in their rank or rating and hence to retainer pay. Because of insufficient funds, how- ever, the Navy Department disevrolled the entire membership of this ciass of reservists on September 30, 192!, and permitted their enroliment in the Volun- teer Naval Reserve, to which no retainer pay is attached. This action on the part of the Navy Department, of course, ¢id not extend to other reservists gi- ready in the Volunteer Naval Reverv The reservists in this class find them- selves in this same situation toda: They get training pay and active service pay, as do all members of the Volun- teer Naval Reserve who train and per- form active service, but the men who tave qualified and who have been con- firmed are in no better situation as re- gards financial benefits taan those mem- bers who have not yet ‘qualified either through lack of interest, incen‘ive or opportunity Sum Net Suficient. For the current fiscal year. ending July 1, an appropriation of $2,000,000 ‘was provided for the ret. iner pay, *rain- ing pay -and certain allowances and other expense for this group of reserv- ists. 'as well as for the training pay of these members of the fleet naval re- serve not exempted from training re- quirement; It seems, however, that if the men qualified for retainer pay, had been restored at the beginning fully appreciating the fact that they, too, are in this way helping to carry into effect the first plank In the pla form of the reactionarie: it is & well considered part of this program to mccentuate and to exaggerate Ger- man misery. No observer .on. the spot will ever be impressed with the; tearsome tales. Indeed, the actual evidence points quite the other way, but these stories are gotten up for consumption abroad, and are intended for the eye of = nation well known for its irrepressible sympathy for the under dog. 9 Even while the rest ot the civilized world shrunk from any contact with Germany millions of dollars were spent for German charities by Amerl- cans. The great begging campaign of Germany, now in full progress, i3 a well considered part of the program to make America beliéve that Ger- by the way. won gold pianos and city building Apportionment of Fands. The proposed appropriation for the ilian volunteer reserve. as distinct from the fleet naval reserve, which draws its pay from another fund showed a total of $5,994,000. Of this $4.047,687 was for personal serviee divided as follows: Retainer pay Tpp| officers. $1,646.343; retainer pay ffl men, $1.075,391. a total of $2,725,704: training pay for officers, $542.621, and for men $296,052. or a total training pay (cruise), $838,673: active duty pay for officers, $178,627, and for men (shipkeepers), $304,653. i Untfl the whole subject can “he studied by the legislative comniitfse on naval affairs the appropriations committee went on record as feelfiix that it would be better for this secon® group—the clvillan volunteer réséive —1t0 be continued in the volinteer class without retainer pay. Chairifin Kelley pointed out that the appropri- ation available this year is not suf- cient to take care of all who are eligible, or who, before the end of the year, could establish eligibility for retainer pay. ‘The cdmmittee felt the same way about the appropriation for $3,994.000 proposed in the budget for 1924, which was estimated to be sufficient to provide retainer pay for * 2,000 officers and 6.600 men. (That is the number the Navy Department arbitrarily will keep within in order to keep expenses down. 1f :more qualified or desired to quality, they would be required to remain in a ‘non-pay status and. discrimination would thus continue to prevail, me. in _the United o, get-away. - How- race he didn’t think much. about motor boats. her. the