Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Showers today; tomorrow falr and colder: strong west winds. south, Temperature for twent ended at 10 p.m. last night: 71.2; lowest, 37.1. Full report on page 19. shifting to two hours Highest, No. PRESIDENT COMES 941.—No. 28,832. - HOMETODAY AFTER _ Rescued by Tug S-WEEK VACATION Party Arrives at Noon After Invigorating Health Trip in South. AUGUSTA SPEECH SEEN HINT AT FOREIGN POLICY Mrs. Harding Greatly .Improved After Illness—Both Given Great Ovation. TA, Ga., April 7.—His vaca- tion ended, President Harding tonight turned his face toward Washington and his mind toward the cares of nroblems of state. The departure of the presidential party from Augusta tonight brought 10 a close a vacation of five weeks for the cheif executive, four weeks of which were spent in Florida and one A that ir gusta. Now it is over it be said that perhaps no President 1 recent years has been able to ob- tain the rest and freedom from care as has Mr. Harding in the period since M 5 wh ¢ left Washington. That this aimost entire separation from official duties has benefited Mr. Harding is plainly scen Mnreover.i Mrs. Harding. whose convalescence| from her illness of last fall, although | steady, was slow while she remained In Washington during the winter, has | regained much of her former strength. This return by Mrs. Harding to health in the opinion of members of the tion party, been quite as much | of aMonic to the President as the days tin the sunshine of Florida and Geors he presidential p 1n Washington shortly after noon to- morrow and Mr. Harding will relurnz to his desk in the executive offices | Monday morning. South Behind President. roturning to Washington Mr. ing, it was said by members of party, - carries h him a rgthened feeling that people of | south, although largely of a dif- 1t political faith, are united with as President. It was evidenced 'd declared at the dinner given last 3t in his honor by the leading citizens of Augusta and this section of Georgla and indicated by the ov: tion he and Mrs. Harding received late today during an automobile ride through the downtown scction of Augusta. The ride downtown was planned a review of the school chiliren of the city and they were e by the thousands, but for every there was an elder, all lining reets and waving and applaud- as the President and Mrs. Hard- ing drove by The reception was said to have been greatly appreciated by the chief ex- ecutive and Mrs. Harding, adding strength, in the President's opinion, to tho declaration made in his address here last night that “not a vestige of the misunderstanding of the civil war was left in the United States.” Mentlons Foreign Relations. Several persons close to the Prest- dent saw today in his last night's address what answer he might make 1f he chose to reply to the motice served in New York last night by for- mer Assoclate Justice Clarke of the United States Supreme Court that the league of nations would be forced ! into the 1924 elections. This, it was indicated, was embodied in the fol- lowing portion of Mr, Harding's ad- dress 'Our first concern, my countrymen, of domestic affairs in this repub- lic. You need not worry about our relationship with the rest of the world. 1 tell vou with pride and confidence that they were never bet- ter at any time in the history of America than they are today. We are surely not so involved in old world fairs as some of our fricnds would have us think., * * * This would be the verdict of Europe—that the republic of the United States is the w i Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. |Honeymooners | On Wrong Crait By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 7.—Bent on a honeymoon trip to Bermuda, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Rosina of Boston hurried to a North River pler to- day for their boat, the Fort St. George. In their haste they board- ed an Italian boat lying on the op- posite side of the pler. The Fort St. George backed into the river and started to mea be- | fore the mistake was discovered. | The bride's eyes were moist. The L groom got busy, informed the skipper of the Italian ship of their | | | | | plight and asked his advice. Immediately the Fort St. George was communicated with by wire- less and the couple was taken aboard a- fast tug which caught the Fort St. George a mile down the harbor. “Bride and groom clambered aboard as the passengers cheered. JUDGE PICKS THREE 0 RULE KU KLUX Simmons, Evans and Mar- shall of Municipal Court Named as Commission. 1 1 Br the Associated Pross. ATLANTA, Ga.. April week of legal bickerings between { supporters of William Joseph Sim- mons, emperor. and H. W. Evans, imeprial wizard, the affairs of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan today were placed in the hands of a com- mission of three men, to be admin- istered by them pending further orders from the court. Superior Judge E.. D. Thomas announcing his decision named Mr. Simmons, Mr. Evans and J. M. George, marshal of the muni- cipal court, as the committee to carry on the operations of the Klan. Sheriff James I. Lowry, who has After a orders for the past four days, is relieved when he reccives the re- ceipt of the commission for headquarters klan, . records and other properties. Drop Larceny Charges. the action omas’ court, T. J. cetigator for the Klan, and N. N. Furney, cashier for the order, placed on trial in Municipal L 4 of larceny after trust. Both were fsmissed for lack of sufficient evi- dence. McKinnon was slleged to have removed checks for approximately $10;000 belonging to the Klan, while Furney was charged with removing $100,000 of the organization's money, in Judge vpon the original petition of the Sim-~ mons facticn for a temporary injume- tion directed against H. W. Evains of the Klan, restraining them Lrom interfering with Col. Simmons ak em- peror and tmperial wizard of the or- der he founded. This case is expected to reach a hearing within the next ten days, attorneys stated todmy. Other Actions to Come. There is also pending a patition for a receivership for the Ku Klux Klan, filed by attorneys for Jarry Ter- rell and others of what ‘is known as the “insurgent faction,® hearing on which has been set for April 14. Judge Thomas' final ruling was the secqnd he made today on the case. The original order he made dissolved the temporary restraining order, ex- cept in that Dr. Evans was restrained from interfering with Col, Simmons as emperor of the Klan. It means that the imperial palace, or national headquarters, were restored to Dr, Evans, and his adherents were jubl- lant. It was issued by Judge Thomas after he had declined to entertain an amendment to the original peti- tion by counsel for the emperor making the ’Ku Klux Klan as a cor- poration a plaintiff in the litigation. Just as the judge was preparing to wign his order, J. V. Poole, as coun- sel for Col. Sinmmons, offered an- other amendment to the original pe- | tition, proposing to make the Ku{ Klux Klan a defendant in the case. | Over the strenuous objection of Paul Etheridge, imperial klonsel of the Klan, representing the Evans faction, the court accepted the amendment and announced his order placing the affairs of the Klan in'the hands of a three-man commission. Commianion Under Bond. fairs of the organization until is_decided who is actually the legal just nation in the world and Justice is the most that is asked by iprovided that the commission would | God Almighty, imperfal wizard, the court's order (Continued on Page 2, Column 3, Plane Engine Runs 573 Hours, Equal to 2V, Completion of a record-breaking test of a mew airplane engine was announced last night by the Navy Department. For 573 hours the machine, known as a “Wright Model E-4" ran with- out a stop, with the throttle wide oven, and data acoumulated during the run indicated * a saving of 90 Dper cent in the operating cost of afr- craft englnes of this type” An in- dication of the remarkable endurance of the new engfne will be glven, en- ineers said, by comparison with. the tvpes used in the world war, when 100 hours was considered a long run. 60,000-Mile Spin. During the test the engine would have covered, at the usual cruising speed maintained by the Navy at sea, a distance of approximately 60,000 e or twice and a half times World Girdings around the world at the equator, in the period of a little more than three weeks, according to Rear Admiral Willlam A. Moffett, chief of the bu- reau of aeronautics. To give a further popular picture of the performance of the Wright B-4, Admiral Moffett compared its record to that of the average better grade, high-powered automobile, which, he sald, traveled usually around 6,500 miles annually. At the rate theoretically flown by the new engine it could have carried the auto- mobile for approximately nine years at 100 miles an hour. “The improvement is the result of intensive work for more than a year in the engineering section of the bureau of aeronautics,” Admiral Mo- fett sald, adding that a new standard .| no teamwork among them. one is doing and advocating what he | Citizens Decide to Withdraw been custodian under previous court | the | Judge | McKinnon, chief | { approval. ©. Hatchcock’s court on charges ! It now remains for the court to ack | he Sunday Star “From city block The Star’s carrier delivered to Washi as the papers are printed. Press to Home Within the Hour” P system covers every e regular edition is homes as fast WASHINGTGN, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1923.—NINETY-EIGHT PAGES. PARTY NTY Y TOE. 0P SUGESS Senator Jones Declares Ad- ministrative and Legislative Co-Operation Vital. | | | No Need for “Blocks,” He Says, If Republicans in Congress Stick Together. | Party unity in the Senate and co- | operation between the administration and Congress must be had if the repiblican party is to be continued as an instrument of government, Se ator Jones of Washingtoa, chairm. {of the commerce committee, declared {in a statement issued last night. Free and frequent conferences among the senators, and between senators and the executive officials, Senator Jones sald, would go far to tron out difficulties and differences that arise. conference is called, it has been the practice for only thirty of the senators to attend, when there should be nearly twice that ! number. He chided the progressiv {because, in many instances, they re- | main away from party wonferences, and advice is needed. Teamwork Lacking. “It Las been said” Senator Jones { declared, “that the republican party |is 'gum shoeing.’ statement of the situation. Repub- |lican senators may be gum shoeing. |1 think some of them are. There is Each | thinks his comstituents want. The | main argumemt now made for or against a proposal is that the people {are for it or are against it. That should be the last argument urged. “I llke %o please my constituents. Tt is easy to w [to favor what they favor, to see {things ds they see them. This may jget vorés for a time, but it is not statesmianship, it is not the best polities and it will not bring lasting The people do not want | us primarily to seek to find out what 7€ | thoy ithink of a proposition. - They ex- | ecty us to study it, look iInto it care. fully and decide what 1s the Best thing to do, and then do it. Upon & great public question or principle the uggregate judgment of the people fs apt to be right, but upon particular legislative acts or the terms of legls |lation we ought to reach a better conclusion than they, if we have igiven the subject the study we | shoula. Need Combined Wisdom. as imperial wizard, and other officers | | “The republican party is in control. The problems to be worked out are the most difficult that have confront- ed the nation since its birth. They are fiot to be solved by any one man. | They need, yes, they demand, the | combined wisdom and couticil of all. the party in control must present their solution and face th of the minority which will seek all partisan advantagé out of them. These questions should be handled by the party and the party organiza- tion. The people expect it. They look to the party for success or fallure. Individuals may gain some temporary advantage by actign outside of the (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) ZAYAS BROKE FAITH, CROWDER CHARGES Cuban President Finding It Difficult to Get New Cabinet. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, April 7—The names of the members of the new eabinet to take the place of the cabinet which recigned a few days ago at the re- quest of President Zayas have not i It is stated that| yet been given out. the president has failed to attract some of the men he hoped would become cabinet ministers. A local Spanish paper publishes an article today stating that Enoch H. Crowder, the American ambas- sodor, has sent a note to the palace embodying his views on the political situation. Acocording to the paper there was an agreement between the president and Gen. Crowder at the time the secretaries wers appointed that they would be subject to re- moval only when the circumstances |that led to their appointment had been altered. President Zayas maintains the ciroumstances have been altered, while Ambassador Crowder's conten- | tion 18 reported to be that they have not, and, according to the newspaper, he says clearly and concisely that the agreement between the head of the Cuban government and the represent- atives of the United States has been broken. Gen. Crowder, the paper - declares, points out it is not a question of in- dividuals, but of principle; that a formal agreement had been entered into that these officials should not be removed until another agreement had been made. The paper states that President Zayas lald his case before Secretary Hughes and that the Secretary re- has been set up both in regard to|ferred the matter back to the Amer- operating cost and to dependability. ¢ ican ambassador. {MUGRE PARLEYS URGED; He sald that when a republican | twenty-five or! when, as a matter of fact, their aid | FEDERATION QuITS | ™ePa This Isn't a right | nt what they want, | Many of them are not political, but | criticism | | 1 L NEW SCHOOL DY Delegates—Half-Fare School Tickets Are Urged. i After two hours of spirited debate, |the Federation of Citizens' Assocla- ‘lxons voted at its meeting in the Dis- | trict Building last night to withdraw !its delegates from the newly formed ! District Public School Association. | Other action by the federation in- |cluded a decision to ask the Chesa- peake and Potomaé telephone com= ! pany to consider a reduction in fits rétes—for limited residence and busi- ness lines; a petition, filed with the Pablic Utllities Commission, asking that half-fare tickets for school chil- dren be sold by the street car com- panfes, The delegates also decided to ask the commission to make a | study of car service during the rush | hours, to determine whether it is now | adequate. | School Row Recalled. When Snowden Ashford, chairman of the committee on education, pre- sented the report recommending that the federation withdraw its delegates from the new school organization, he precipitated a lively discussion, with delegates arguing strenuously for and against the report On the final vote, however, the re- | nort was carried, 24 to 11. A motion viously made to lay the report upon the tabls was defeated, 23 to 18. Mr. Ashford’s report carried with it an invitation to the central school organization to send representatives to the federation. .The preamble re- cited that one of the outstanding fac- tors in the present school situation is the lack of agrecment between the Commissioners and the board of edu- cation as to their respective duties in operating the school system. Plea tor Delegates. In conclusion, follows: “We are convinced that there is no other organization or association in the District better constituted to ex- press public opinion than the Federa- (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) FORMER OFFICIALS’ the report read as By the Associated Press CLEVELAND, April T.—Charges that “jealousy” of her success.as leader of a Girl Scout troop led to her removal on false accusations against her character were contained in a $100,000 suit for damages filed against four prominent ‘Clevelana women today by Miss Dorothy Clay- ton of Cleveland. The defendants #amed as members | of the Cleveland Girl Scouts’ Council, include Mrs. Newton D. Baker, wife of the former Secretary of War, and Mrs. Benedict Crowell, wife of the former assistant secretary of war, neither of whom would discuss the suit. It alleges false and malicious slander. 1923 March— 1922 1923 j . 1922 { WIVES ARE SUED| Increase {Mutt a EW AY’S STAR 2 Pages. General News—Local, National, Foregn. Civillan Army—Page 18. Aviation Activities—Page 20. Schools and Colleges—Page. 24. New Ideas In D. C. Schools—Page 24. Army and Navy News—Page 25. Financial News—Pages 31 and 32. cl:‘s-lfiad Advertisements—Pages Radio News and Gossip—Page 41. PART TWO0—16 Pages. Editorials and Editorial Features. ‘Washington and Other Soclety. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 12. Reviews of New Books—Page 13. D. A. R. Activitles—Page 33. Girls and Thelr Affalrs—Page 14. Arts and Artists—P; 14. In the Community Centers—Page 14. Boys and Girls' Own Page—Page 15. Around the City—Page 16. PART THREE—12 Pages. AI:[I;;CM.H!D—YMC!IN and the Photo- Music In Washington—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 to 10. Fraternities—Page 11. Serial, “The House of Mohun"—Page 11. News for Veterans—Page 11. PART FOUR—4 Pages. Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—$ Pages. Magazine Section—Features and Fiction. ROTOGRAVURE—12 Pages. World Events in Plctures. COMIC SECTION—4 Pages. Jeff: Reg'lar Fellers; Betty; Mrs 32 to Mr. a FUNDS T0 BE ASKED FOR WATER FRONT Improvement Along Channel Sought by Commissioners in Their Estimates. An appropriation to begin improve- ment of the Washington channel wa- ter front will be included In the next book of estimates of the Commission- ers, now in course of preparation, ac- cording to reports at the District building. . It also Las been learned that the Commissioners probably will not seek funds next year for the proposed sys- tem of high-pressure water mains in the business section for fire-fighting purposes. Although the water department has prepared a tentative plan for the in- stallation of these mains, it s under- stood that fire insurance experts who have been comsulted ‘hold the view that the first consideration should be to obtaln more apparatus and equip- ment for the fire department, Attractive a seful, As to the water front, the engineer department has an elaborate scheme on paper for the treatment of the city side of Washington channel from the foot of 14th street to Wash ington barracks in such a way as to render it both attractive in ap- ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) Circulation and Advertising Go Hand in Hand. STAR'’S CIRCULATION Daily 95,492 93,388 2,104 Sunday 98,24 93,498 4,744 ADVERTISING 6913 Columns 6089 Columns | Increase E Columns The Star carefully censors all advertising, and so far as is possible bars all false and niisleading statements. LEAGUE ARTIST. 10,000 SHRINERS l | | | Vanguard to Help Make City’s Greatest Memorial Day. Program Revealed. More th: 000 members of the ine are expected to be Wash- {ington by day, to join in the exercises to be held at Arlington, Memorial | giving the National Capital its most | |1arsely attended memor: observ- ance. These forerunners of the great ses- sion of the Tmperial Council of the Shrine the first week in June will be {in Washington in time to attend the annual Memorial day services and form a totally unexpected feature on the general program. | The handling of these early guests {will offer a preliminary problem {which the local committee is confi- dent of handling successfully, help- ing make the greatest Memorial day observance ever held here. The tentative program for the meeting during the first week in {June was announced last night. Three hundred thousand to 500,000 IShriners are expected to attend. ! 1,200 Pullm to Be Us | Tre arrival of special trains will Legin on Saturday and continue until Monday night, when all the temples are expccted to be here. The rail- roads, under the advice of the Almas Temple transportaticn committee, have marshalled all their trafic ex- perts to hanule the vast crowds the railroads will have to car An parking space at Union statfon will be occupied by chartered Pullmans, some 700 in number, while the Shrine Pullman Park, at Alexandrla, will contain some 500 more. On Saturday it is expected that the Indlan exposition will open, under the auspices of Victor Evans, whose purpose is to have present 150 In- dlans, representing the various tribes, together with cowboys and cow- girla and other personages charac- teristic of the far west. There will be performances similar to those seen at Cheyenne and Albuquerque. An Indian village, showing the orig- inal Americans living their lives as they did in the wilderness, will be another feature. Sham battles with Indians, and many other allegorical representations of wild life will be shown. Opens on Temple Heights. ‘The formal entertainment will open on Sunday, June 3, when, at 2 o'clock, a2 band concert will be given on Tem- ple Heights, followed at 4 o'clock by an evensong. which will include an address by a speaker of national reputation. The visiting glee clubs will have arirved by that time and visiting bands will lead the 100,000 persons expected to occupy the helghts in sacred and pafriotio songs. Sunday evening, probably at the Ra- leigh Hotel, the Jesters’ banquet will be given at 7:30, attended by nobles and their wives who are members of that organization. The number. ex- Ppected 1s 650. On Monday, June 4, the imperial potentate and divan will visit the tomb of Washington. During the fore- noon the casavan from the Pacific coast will arrive, containing thou- sands of automobile parties, and at 3 p.m. the zero milestone in the Ellipse back of the White House will be dedicated by the President of the United States, assisted by the im- perial potentate and the Secretary of War. Following this event, the per- fect home erected by the Better Home Assoclation on the Ellipse will be dedicated with proper, exercises. Plan Huge Parade. Monday night at 7:30 there will be a frolic at the Washington Hotel, which is iIntended to be an official introduction and welcome on the part of the Almas Temple potentate and divan to the visiting Shrine offictals. On the same evening, also at 7. the Clty Club, the Recorders’ Associa- [umn 1) EXPECTED MAY 30 War on Narcotics Complicated by Row Over Titles A row over titles has compli- cated the recently declared war on narcotics. Yesterday officials of the Inter- national Anti-Narcotic League, which recently announced an al- Mance with the National Anti- Narcotic League and the Anti- Narcotic . League, charged that Rexford L. Holm#, a Washington church worker, was wrongly using the name International Antl-Narcotic Society to mislead +hose he had invited to attend an anti-narcotic meeting here May 3. Replying to a letterhead of the National - Anti-Narcotic Confer- ence, Mr. Holmes sald he had used the name International Anti- Narcotics Society, “which is dif- ferent from the International Anti-Narcotic Society,” on the di- rect author! its officials tion of in Spoksne. Washington Thereupon. International Antt ue announced it would have anti-narcotic conference of own here fn August. SUGAR FLUCTUATES DESPITELL . DUTES i Tariff Commission’s Survey Showing Shifts to Be Given President Next Week. an its The tariff com 3 statement President | Harding's request for information on sugar price situation will indi cate by array of figures, it wis declared last night, that sugar prices |have fluctuated over many vears without regard to the import duties imposed by the various tariff laws. Members of the commission hope to have the reply in the hands of the | President next Wednesday. Whether the report will contain a definite statement covering asser- tions that current high prices are traceable directly to the present | tariff law was not revealed, but it appeared that a majority of the com- mission agreed that the figures to be submitted failed to connect the duties carried in the present law with the recent rapld increases in sugar values, Those figures, it was sald, covered monthly averages of prices as far back as the enactment of the Payne-Aldrich law. | the an Politics Enters In. Economists of the commission for several days have been over the data | gathered by staff experts and the | whole report to be sent to the Pres- | 1dent has been the subject of extend- | commission | ed discussion by the membership. Although it was denied that any controversy has arisen, the differences in views of the republi- can and democrdtic members were said to have cropped out continuous- 1y in discussion of what the commis- sion will have to say to Mr. Harding. | It there is no definite statement | | bility for present prices, it was indi- cated that a majority of the members belleved the figures contained in the preliminary statement would serve the same purpose. Others, however, were sald to hold entirely different views, and it seemed, therefore, that the President would be left to draw his own conclusions from the data which the commission has gathered for him. Plan Exhaustive Study. Meantime, the commission’s investi- gation into other phases of the ques- tion is going forward, although Chafrman Marvin predicted at the outset that the field investigation might require five or six months. This work includes a study of the accounts of more than 400 sugar mills scattered throughout the United States, Cuba, Hawali and Porto Rico. All records of the mills have to be examin t was said, the facis regarding productlon costs and to ascortain whether the present duties arc in proper relationship to production costs in the United States when compared with those else- where. SUES FOR MAINTENANCE. Suit for maintcnance has been flled in the District Supreme Court by Marga- ret E. Robinson against Willlam B. Robinson, an employe of the internal revenue bureau. January 6, 1920, and lived together un- Ul last July, when the wife says her hustand desérted her. Attorneys Stan- eliminating the tariff from responsi- | to determine | They were marrled | ® FIVE CENTS. SEEK NATIONWIE PLAN TO DEVELEP * CAPTALS BEAUTY National Civic Association | Starts Movement to Enlist Other Cities” Help. COMMITTEES TO OUTLINE MOST PRESSING NEEDS Expect Pressure Will Be Brought to Accomplish Results in Congress. Forecasting a broad program the orderly development of the physical beauty of Washington, plane were laid by the American Civie As- socfation at a meeting yesterday to draw up and distribute among ffty citles reports for the civic better ment of the Capital, in which au thorities known throughout this city will collaborate. Frederick A. De. lano was appointed chairman of the Wasliington committee and will se- lect members of the body who will irepresent the leading movements | toward civie betterment. Mr. Delano | will make a careful selection of his committee members, with selecting the best thought ning for the present ibeauty ot the city Reports on the development | beautification of Washingto by prominent local authorities be presented at a dinner confe to be held by the association Ap 21, and will be distributed to fifty committees in as many large citles with the request that these com- mittees work with the central body in Washington toward the ideal of a “Capital of the nation—made and fostered by the nation.” Committees to Ald. a and The committees fn the fift will be urged to co-operate wi members of Congr: giv formation of-the plans Ame can Civvic Association for the d velopment of Washington, and in this way it is anticipated the best thought of the nation will be brought into play. But the reports of the men and women in Washington as to tiie needs of this city will form only the groundwork for. the entire me The collaborating committees in fifty | cities wi1 be urged to make sug- | gestions and recommend them to ths central committee. Reports will be submitted at | meeting April 21 from such pror #2uthorities as Dr. John M Gries, ¢ |ot the aivision on buildng housing of the Department of Com- merce, who will make a survey of the | housing situation of this city; Fred | G. Coldren, chairman of the com tee on parks of the Washingto Board of Trade, who will report on park development; Mrs. Susie Root | Rhodes, director of playgrounds, on recreation needs of Washington. Re | ports will also be received from Col | C. 0. Sherrill, officer in charge of pub- | lic buildings and grounds, on admin | istration of the federal parks Washington; from Maj. F. S. Bessor acting Engineer Commissioner of | Washington, on the trafiic situation and its future, with particular regard to future regulations, and Charles Moore, chairman of the Com | mission on Fine Arts, on the inter correlation of the work of the com mission with the work of the Ameri {can Civic Assocfation. Dr. F. W | Ballou, superintendent of schools, will be asked to submit a report on the location and plans of future school bulldings of the city in order to as- | certain how near they approach the | best thought in_ school architecture and planning, and Col. Charles Keller | Engineer Commissioner, now on leave, is to be asked to write a letter out lining in a general and at the same time, a specific manner, his views on | the development of Washington Miss Harlean James, secretary o the American Civic Association, will leave Washington May 1 for a swing over the country, traveling through the fifty cities whose co-operation | will be asked in the campaign to ad. | vertise Washington, “Capital of the nation—made and fostered by the nation. “Miss James will talk with civic leaders in the citfes visited, an | plain the plan in detail. In the | time, however, chalrmen of mittees are being appointed in the cities whose co-operation will ba | asked. and six have already signifiec their intention of accepting the post As_in the case of the members of | the Washington committee, care is | being taken to select the best minds th and |on city planning and development i | other cities for the furtherance of th. | Washington plan. None of the m ley D. Willis and R. B. Dickey appear for the wife. Is Washington growing wetter or drier? Figures issued yesterday at pro- hibtiion headquarters for the Dis- trict of Columbia for the year 1922 answer “drier,” while figures issued but a day or &0 ago by Maj. Sulli- van, superintendent of police, show arrests for drunkenness on a steep increase. Are the bootleggers running & race with the authorities? Is the wet and dry situation in this-city, which al- ready has become a national scandal, getting better or worse? Both sides to. the argument seem to be represented by figures, from the office of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, where it seems that the ef- fotciveness of prohibition has more than doubled within a year; and from the superintendent of poltoe where it seempe - that s many’ drunks: wers ¢ asked to accept the chairminship other cities has refused, Miss James announced. W ashington Drier, Haynes Says! Much W etter, Insist the Police! jailed in nine months of this fisoal year as were arrested during the en tire previous fiscal year. Injected into the wet evidence musi Dbe considered the storm which Mrs Miles Poindexter, wife of the new minister to Peru, has stirred up out on the Pacific coast by her extremely personal letters about the “goings on” of high society in this eity. The protestants want to'know what 18 to be done about the rivers of rum which the Pacifio coast believes to be flooding Washington, and the thirsty throats of certaln august solons and other personages in the federal pay, Haynes Slaps Ofielals. That was also a rather bsgve speech Prohibition Commiastoner Haynes made In New York last week. admitting that it was the attitude of mtinu jumn