Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1923, Page 16

16 SOVIETS ASSAILED IN FEDERATIONIST A.F.L. Organ Disputes Claims of Progress and Blames State for Famine. A panorama-portrait of Russia, controlled by an army of “police spies, hangmen and the relative hand- ful that form the communist party,” is painted for readers of the American Federationist by William English Walling in the forthcoming issue of that publication, official organ of the American Federation of Labor. The conclusions drawn in the articles are based on a report of Russian eco- nomic conditions prepared by the league of nations. The people of Russia, according to Walling, are now in that state of poverty bordering on harism. Shipment of in now being ex ported from Russia by soviet authori tics constitute only "another of the long series of deeds helping along the death by starvation of millions of Russian soviet subjects, according to the artic Drought One Factor. Though drought, which brought erop failure, and foreign and civil wars have a Share of responsibility for the misery forced upon Russia’s population, Mr. W summary continues. the les found soviet polic of confiscation and denial oi to individuals be the great cause of DProgr impoverishment that {s now countered. The bolshevist authorities, “at last trying to return to the point they started from or at least making a Dbluff_at it,” were represented to be meeting the situation with statements and_“paper policies” to which Mr. Walling denics the “slightest practical effec Disputes Soviet Claim. Tiven the soviet claim of credit for having siven R n land holdings to the peasants, Mr. Walling declares, was challenged by the league's report, since before the revolutionary era, peasants owned 158,000,000 dessiatines of cultivated land, while today they possess 224,000,000 A complete breakdown of railroads, and a gradual ation of the use of machinery in agriculture and dustry, he concludes in summarizing the report, have been the outstanding eftect of the soviet regime. Changes in Stations of Army and Navy Officers Of Interest to Capital Army. 1 H. Schulz, Corps of E gineers, at tle, Wash., has bee ordered to Honolulu, Hawaii, for duty. Lieut. Col. Walter S. G . caval at Forth Leavenworth, Kan.; Col Frank Parker, infantry, at Fort Leavenworth; Lieut orge T Bowman, ewport, R. I; Lieut. Col. J h A. Baer, cavalry and Col. Ewing E. Booth, cavalry, at t Leavenworth, have been for a at the Col. Edwa Army of the Department, has been to the Panama Canal Zone for duty Chaplains Edw. Sam Houston. Jones, a . Trett, at Fort thaniel A. _have , for Charle assi at _the Army Fast on barracks. Gordon, Phillppine Scouts, has been placed on the re- tired list as a major, on account of disability incident to the service. Navy, Lieut. Commander Charles T. Black- burn has been transferred from the . Patoka to the receiving ship York Commander Warren A. Shaw of the U. S. S. Prometheus has been transterred to the U. Vestal, Commander H. H. 0, Corps, at_the Naval Hos- York city, has been or- tleship Delaware. Marsh, Supply Lieut. Medical pital, New dered to the Lieut. Ver, L. Corps, at the na powder factory, Indian Head. Md.. has been assigned to duty in the Department of Agri- culture Harry A. Miller, Supply pply Corps School of Navy _Department, has to duty at the navy vard, New York, and Ensign Theodore Runyon,” at the same school, has been assigned to duty at the powder factory, Indian Head, Md. gt seas amny Even if a man fights but one duel he has a second. JUST RECEIVED GENUINE RUSSIAN CAVIAR IN ALL SIZES GLASS AND TINS Established 1875. MAGRUDER’S Fine Groceries Conn. Ave. and K St. I AR The Right Way HENRY CLAY said he would rather be right than be Presi- dent. Wallis things to-eat are “right goo and the price is also “right.” Drop in right now for a get-acquaint- ed meal or light bite. W allis’ 12th and G Streets N.W. IBIRDS OF ANCIENT NILE TO BE SHOWN Same Species as Those of Tutankh- amen’s Time Pictured by Swed- ish Naturalist. Birds of the Nile valley, such as were familiar to Tutankhamen three thousand years ago, will be shown in motion pictures by Bengt Berg, Swed- ish traveler and naturalist, at a lec- ture at 4:30 o'clock tomorrow after- noon at the National Museum, 10th and B streets, under auspieces of the Audubon Society. Dr. Berg arrived here today. This is his first trip to America. He is here as the official representative of Sweden to study the motion picture industry of America with a view to developing the use of eductional films in_Sweden. s a Bird of Passage in Africa,” is the title of the film to be shown tomorrow, to which showing the public is invited. The reels were shown last week for the first time in America at the American Museum of National History in v he scenes are of . storks and other migratory s, in flocks of thousand een on their sojourn on the White Nile in Africa, associat- ing with the picturesque native birds of the Nile, and the great crocodile Dr. Berg, who i3 prominent Etrope as writer and naturalist, and regarded as an authority on the study and photography of birds, has just returned from the Nile region, where he obtained the pictures to be show rom this city he will go to Chicago and later to California HADYN STRING QUARTET MAKES GOOD IMPRESSION Favored by ideal weather a crowd that tested the capacity of the Cen- tral High School auditorium attended the twenty-third‘free community con- cert of the Washington Community Music Association last night. The outstanding feature was Hadyn String Quartet, a new m; organization, composed of the follo © Joset Kaspa Herma witz, Preston Shelley and vich. Dora and Isanc Minovich, pianist and violinist, were well re- cetved. Madge Kanode, contralto, ap-1 peared for the first time on a com- munity concert program. She was accompanied at the piano by Leon C. ley. William B. Spangenberg, cor- from the Army My C ool, rendered “The Palms,” assisted at the | piano by Helen Burkhart. Charles V. | Banner also made his initial mier | ance at the Sunday night concerts as cader of the Washington Community | htslr.\ twenty-fourth free community t will be given at Cent | 0ol Thurs y night at 8:15 when the a iation will pre lege of ) the direction of C. tiani, with Marguerita Carter, violin- ist, and George Harold Miller, bari- ’ tone, as assistin olo! S, | e TABLETS TO BE PLACED. Memorials to Be Dedicated to Two Medical Corps Men. Bronze tablets will be placed in the Naval Medical School building city to commemorate the services P stant Surgeons Kane s M -\mhlvr tingu d n\u)\t|VY~1 of the a Me Corps, who died in the per- formance of perilous duty 1 CHURCH ENDOWS VISITING NURSE FOR ENTIRE YEAR St. John's Episcopal Congregation Desponds to Easter Call for Assistance to Society. The Instructive announces the another nurse for a y > members of th r, agreed to pay supported by @ n, " Al Umibarian Church h past. It s the cared for January 1, a member of the board nf‘.h THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1923. MUTT AND J EFF Jeff Though! This Out All by Himself. ICEE, WHAT'S TRE \DER oF THe Skus? YOU'RG I8N LonDoOR — NoT (ceLanD! LOOKS T Me& LikE {EEE'S GETTING A BIT BALMY IN HeLvo, MUTT oLd DEAR! managers having endowed one of the nurses for twelve months. S0 been marked by edan motor he superintendent of the nursing [nrg:u.(zumn nnounces that February the gift of was almost as busy a month with the nursing staff as was January, and more burdensome than the corre- sponding month last year by 100 pa- | tients and 700 visits. Patients ad- risi | mitted during the month numbered Visiting S0-1599; nursing vieits made totaled SRdoRencntiial e The total number of patients |the F g Gonona Although it is | nalist , Who h as an Bas stated, including considerable a nurse’s sal-| pnoymonis Tihe esun ‘”{‘ul“ s officially | an unseasonable a twelve months. to be | Souls’ | assumed the e for some Is England Going Dry? From the Kansas City Times. Barker, R. A parliamentary measure designed | Expe nsibili ‘ second | to make England dry is said to have Tris'vens | JOUENALISTIC SORORITY |2, INITIATES 10 STUDENTS\ Banquet Follows Ceremony Which |son, Ardis Smith. Nel Is Conducted by Society Con- ] nected With G. W. U. Ten candidates were initiated into mma Eta Zeti forority of George Washing- | iversity, aturday banquet nd Mrs. Willia and Mrs. essary 15 31400 2 Ln De Witt C. Daniel ts of honor at the banquet “'The students initiated were Marian I'M As STUPID AS A Forl LAST AIGHT X WAS CAUGHT 1N THAT DENSE LonDON E0GL IT WAS So THiclkc I COULDN'T eveN SGE MY NoSE- French Smith, L a honorary jour- | at its first initiation | which was follow- at the Madriilon 1 Allen Wilbur, Chace were the | Marie | formed last April by Mary A. Brown, | Janeiro V. Elizabeth and seniors are |ship. Meritorious school are taken From the Birmingham Age-Herald. Croissant | asked a young bride. dealer.” “We' {on the coast y Geraldine Barlow, Loulse | Lois Gates Gorman, (Copyright, 1923, by H. C. Fischer, Trade Mark rez. U. 8. Pat. off.) —By BUD FISHER. AND N CROSSING A STRGET Y + STEPPED (NT AN cPeN — FMANHOLE! FROM Now on SAFETY FIRST 1S MY MoTTR! Randolph, _Sarah | lected by a committee represent Weyl, Mildred | TWO-DAY CONFERENCE et o e oL oo L IS BROUGHT TO CLOSE " e S et S i ting executive e | pointed until their suc chosen, are: W. M. Corse, N Council, chairman Research Counc ollins, geo Torne Dea, Frances Celeste nd Myrtie Y ilgus 4 mma’ Eta Zeta The ¢ roity w roline E. Peter- SV & Umbeck und | Makers and Users of Sclentific Ap-| Research Only juniors | Moor, cligible to member- paratus Seek to Establish Better Understanding. work on_ some publication and scholarship into consideration before > rs and users of sclentific paratus Saturday concluded | day conference called by the National | is pledged Vigorous Vitamines. rch Council to bring about a| - understanding between the two | Whitf prospective member “Have you any fresh vitamines?” nd standardiza- e among topics speakers. 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