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at 2 pm. today: Highest, Full report on page 4. | | | WEATHER. Fair tonight, with frost; tomorrow fair, with rising temperatare. perature for twenty-four hours erded Tem- 54 at noon today: lowest, 39 at 6 a.m. today. ¢ Foening Star Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24 No. 28,840, post Entered as second-class matter office Washington, De §7, 10000000 G0LD AGAINOFFEREDBY BERUNTO ALLIES Utmost and Last Proffer, Germany Will Make, Von Rosenberg Asserts. HOLDS BATTLE IN RUHR | IS OF RIGHT AND WRONG | i i Approves Hughes Suggestion That Reparations Be Referred to Body of Experts. BY G Wireless to News. EORGE WIT The Star and_Chicago -Daily { Capyright, 1923, BERLIN, April 16.—Today in the rochstag, Foreign ecretary Von | Rosenberg reiterated Germany's offer ©f last December to pay 30.000.000.000 1 marks (£7,140,000.000) in repara- to the allied powers. “That is most and the last offer Ger-! many will make,” he declared. His! speech was received with great ap- plause except by the soclalists. Doubts as to the honesty of Ger- many’s, or rather the Cuno cabine! oft-repeated good will in the Ruhr | question have raised recently in| many quarters. The government's| failure to come out with a new and | definite reparations program instead | of clinging to the old one has often been censured Py RIGHT AND WRONG ISSUE. Minister Declares Hughes Proposal Would Solve Tangle. P tae Associated Press. BERLIN, April 16.—Foreign ter von Rosenberg, addressing (hei rcichstag this afternoon, declared the | Lattle now in progress on the bank of the Rhine in the Ruhr was| not one for coal or wocd, but a fight ! which would determine whether the; ideas of right and peace would pro-| gress or lose ground. | The foreign minister voiced proval of the suggestion of Secre State Hughes that the reparations | problem be referred to a body of | authoritative expert and he also| indorsed the conclusions on this sub- | ject recorded in the resolution adopt- | ed by the International Chamber of | at its recent congress in | | i i | Minis- \’ and Commerce Rome. Attempt Nog Futile. In view of the economic devastation wrought by the invasion of the Rubr | and what he characterized as France's | avowed purpose to paralyze German | onomic productiveness, any attempt at present to appraise Germany's ca- pacity for payment or establivh the precise amount would be wholly fu- tile, the foreign minister declared. The German government, said the foreign minister, had tried in various | to get the reparation guestion cut of the “quagmire” in which this problem, together with all Europe, was threatened with becoming stuck fast. It had also tried to help put an end to the daily increasing tension and economic chaos under which Iu- | rope was suffering. Germany's ef- forts in these directions, he said,, were designed to facilitate the release of all possible forces for reconstruc- tion. in which pro s U.erman)‘l wished to co-operate. sk for perts. Referring to Secretary Hughes' pro- | posal at New Haven in December. | Baron von Rosenberg reiterated the| statements he recently made before | the foreign relations committee of | the reichstag. | tn the German government's opin- | fon, he said, an international commis- | sion of experts such as Mr. Hughes | yad suggested should determine, first, ! what Germany has done so far on| reparations: second, what could and | should Germany do regarding them in the future, and, third, in what way could she do what was expected of her in the future. Germany and the entente. he added, would be rep- | vesented on such a commission with | equal rights. | Would Seek Big Loan. | If the problem were handled in this | o1 nilar way, he repeated, many would be ready to seek the highest loan possible in the inter- national finance market. and the pro- ceeds of this loan would be available immediately as a cash installment to be turned over to the allies ¥rance. Premier Poincare’s speech yester- y at Dunkirk. the foreign minister | eclared, was “a preachment of might | which rendered poor service toward the needed attainment of interna- tional understanding and reconcilia- In conclusion the foreign minister declared the German government | would not sacrifice or jeopardize j Germany’s future merely for the pur- | pose of overcoming or eliminating | present complications. a s Ger- or to | papers st German Populace Cheers at Drills Of Reactionaries BY GEORGE WITTE. By Wireless to The Star hud Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1023 BERLIN, April 16i—Everywhere in Germany the reactionaries and monarchis e banding together, holding parades and drilling as- siduously. Today's morning pa- vers concain dispatches from many parts of the country telling of nationalistic demonstrations toler- ated by the republican authorities and in some Instarces participated in by the reichwehr. In Stettin several regiments of the regular army were reviewed by Prince Eitel Friedrich, the brmer kaiser's second son, and by ien. Von Mackenzen. In Leipzig the bands of the reichweht played the old imperial marches at a reunion of members of “his majesty’s imperial navy Though Leipzig is in “Germany's first soviet republic,” as Saxony i’s called, the police did not inter- ere. In Munich Hittlcrs “gray shirts,” after their weekly drill paraded 12,000 strong through the street: Most of the men wore equipped with rifies, side arms and steel helmets. Mounted police headed the parade, which was cheered by the populace. LAW'S FRIENDS SEE PLOT 0 OUST HIM London Press Hotly Dehatesi Necessity of Prime Min- ister’s Resigning. By the Associated Pre LONDON, April 16.—The supporters of Prime Minister Law among the morning newspapers are indignant at what they call the “conspiracy to weaken the ministry launched in the Sunday press, which reported that he was about sign because of ill health "he Morning Post, the leading con- rvative paper., sserts with the greatest emphasis that there is noth- ing in the condition of Bonar Law's health to compel his retirement. The Post and the other papers which share its views attribute the “conspiracy” to Lord Birkenhead and other conservatives who refused to participate in the government. They also implicate David Lloyd George and his supporters, whom they say, desire the restoration of the coall- tion. Elsewhere there is equally firm sup- port for Sunday’'s rumors. One writ- stanch er, referring to last evening's official | denial of the eports, says: “It may be true that Bonar Law has no intention of resigning, but it must be equally true that he has no inten- tion of not resigning.” Most noteworthy among the ne confirming Sunday’. reports is the Daily Telegraph, which usually expresses moderate conservative views although it was a strong supporter of Lloyd George. This newspaper's par- liamentary expert says there are solid grounds for the rumor and asserts that if Bonar Law had thought free to do so he would have retired before now. The premier, the writer adds, has now come to the conclusion, with profound regret, that he cannot hope to prolong indefinitely his incumbency in his present post. Stay in Sense of Duty. The Telegraph, however, pany with other s that the prime minister's high e of duty will induce him to con- until plans for the fu- in com- some, j ture can be made. “The prime minister has no inten- tions whatever of resigning,” said a statement issued last night from No. 10 Downing street, the official resi- dence of Andrew Bonar Law. This constituted the government' reply to statements in severab of th Sunday morning newspapers. Thi official denial, however, it is generall agreed in political circles, does not affect the situation as indicated in these dispatches last week that Bonar 1 his_health. Undoubtedly the prime minister has | no intention of relinquishing hold it his health will stand up under the continuous heavy strain _of office. When he assumed the prmeiership, Bonar Law frankly said his retention of the post would depend entirely on his health and official denial such as that_issued today, it is believed, will not_influence public opinion, which has been -almost universal since last week’s happenings in parliament, that if the government is to survive be greatly strengthened, and that unless the premler's physical condition rapidly improves he cannot wield the necessary driving power to carry on the administration in the face of the capable and alert opposi- tion. Three Months' Grace. The premier still has three monthe before him in which he may recon- struct his ministry without the neces- sity of new ministers having to run the gantlet by elections, and this is an important factor, considering the general dissatisfaction caused by the government's complete inertia in connection with the Ruhr trouble and home problems like unemploy- ment, housing and the labor disputes. “Women’s Mode of Living to Be Changed by King Tut Styles” special Dispateh 1o The § SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 16.— T'oor old King Tut! Already held re- sponsible for some of the most out- landish feminine fashions of recent years for enforcement of a curse that | brought death in its wake. even | though his mummy is not yet out of | jts tomb; and for a revolutionary | movement in Egypt he is now to be! the medium of a feminine insurrec- tion. His influence is to extend to all that women do as well at to thelr | frills and furbelows. Listen to Ralph Vandeman McGoffin, Ph. D, LL. D, A. B., president of the | Archaeological Institute of America «nd Instructor in classical archeology in Johns Hopkins University in Balti- | more, now in California for a short | Jum He says—and he ought to | graceful—ot know what he is talking about—that the swelling. vogue for all that was popular in the time of the anclent Pharaoh is to increase until it has changed the entire trend of present- day feminine thought. “‘Women of the period of King Tut,” he said, “as archeological discoveries already have disclosed. garbed them- selves in the most beautiful colorings that the world has ever known. “Not alone were they the most beau- tiful, but at the time extremely sim- ple. ' These women were slender and the mode now so ad- miredi—and they didn't wear corsets or high heels; nelther did they use lipsticks, rouge or cosmetics to pro- duce their rose-petal complexions. | Likewise, although they did not go in for woman's suffrage, equal rights and public office, they were cultured to a degree that leaves something for us to attain in this twentieth century. They had the most alluring perfumes, ic_that the best artists of tod ontinued on Page 2, Column Bonar | to re- | newspapers, | aw’'s retention of office depends on | it} WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION every cit; tion is delive “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers block and the regular edi- ered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 91,443 Sunday’s Circulation, 98,716 WASHINGTON, UPSHUR ST. SCHOOL BAN IS SUSTAINED Citizens Win Prolonged Right Against Using Tract for Tubercular Pupils. DISTRICT COURTS UPHELD Supreme Court Denies Commission- ers’ Plea for Appeal or Review of Case. The citizens today won their pro- longed fight against the authority of the Commissioners in selecting the so-called Upshur tract as a site for the proposed school for tubercular children, when the United States Su- | preme Court not only denled the | Commissioners’ request for an ap- peal, but turned down the request ifor a writ of certiorari. The re- | fusal of the latter writ meant that ! the court would not even review the | | proceedings in the lower courts. The effect of the high court’s action i today was to sustain both the Dis- | trict Supreme Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which had decided against the Commis- sioners’ authority to select the tract without specific direction from Con- | gress. Two Courses Open. The action of the United State: Supreme Court In turning down the Commissioners’ application to review the Injunction proceedings in the | tubercular school case means that the | city heads must either erect the | building on some District-owned property other than the Upshur street tract or wait until Congress takes further action. { The opinion of the Supreme Court { today brings the court action to an end ‘with the injunction granted by | the District Supreme Court, restrain- ing the Commissioners from putting | the school on the Upshur street tract |in effect. A DIl was introduced in Congress at the last session which, if enacted, would have granted the Commission- ers specific authority to place the | school on the Upshur street land. It was impossible, however, to obtain action before adjournment. | " Tt is not known at this time ! whether the Commissioners will en- | deavor to have the bill enacted at {the new session in December or whether they will now seek another site i School Fund Available. | The anpropriation of $140,000 for which is to replace the Hamilton School for near Bladensburg road, has been avallable since the defti- {clency act of 1921 was passed. The municipal architect's office has com- pleted the plans and specifications and is in a position to call for bids from contractors as soon as a site | can be found. | It was pointed out by the Commis | sioners today that Congrtss did not {appropriate any funds to buy lands | this school, | antiquated Tuberculars, building had to be located on property already owned by the city. Commissioner Oyster recalled today that there Is a_possible site on Grant road near the Fort Reno section, but | enough for the purpose, If the Commissioners should con- clude to hold up the building in an ef- fort to get new legislation at the next fon for a site, indications are that {1t would be another year before the { school couid be built, | It is probable that in view of the action of the United States Supreme Court the Commissioners will take {up the question at a board meeting within a few days and decide on their future course of actlon. The injunction restraining the | Commissioners from building the school on the Upshur street tract was obtained by a group of property own- ers in that vicinity, who went to the District Supreme Court on the ground that the site in question chased by Congress for the specific purpose of erecting the hospital for the tubercular and a junior school and could not be used for any other purposes. ‘The Commissioners contended jing on any land owned by the city in | view of the fact that Congress did | i not provide funds for a site. School authorities had no com ment to make today on the action | of the Supreme Court and indicated that they would adhere strictly to | their past policy of remaining aloof | from the controversy over the loca- {tion of the tubercular school, It was pointed out that the board education had decided to let the ap- propriation of $6,000 for the purchase lof equipment for the school lapse. and ask for a reappropriation of this amount when the site for the build- ing is ultimately selected. PRESIDENT T0 AID RED CROSS DRIVE serve as chairman of the Red Cross Memorial Commission to the sacri- {fices and services of women of the | United States during the world war, which is to start very shortly a cam- palgn to raise $350,000 to erect in Washington a memorial in the form of a model Red Cross chapter house. This was made known by Miss Ma- |bel T. Boardman, secretary of the jAmerican Red Cross, after a brief {conference with the President, during which time she explained to him that the resolution of Congress appropri- ating $150,000 for this memorial, a!- though passed by both houses of Congress, became lost dn the last- minute rush at the Capitol on the day of adjournment and failed to get to the President for signature. It, there- fore, {5 necessary to raise the entire amount ($350,000) immediately for the purpose by popular subscription. She said that it is likely that the quota of the District will be approx- | fmately $30,000. North of Present Building. ‘This memorial chapter will be con- [structed on the Red Cross property immediately north of the present ad- ministration building. It, however, 1+ will not be built of marble, as is the latter, but will be handsome and serv- iceable. Secretary of War Weeks will serve as vice chairman of this memorial sec- tlon, Secretary of the Treasury Mel- lon ‘will be treasurer and Gen. Per- shing and Rear Admiral Benson, re- tired, will be representatives, respec- tively, of the Army and Navy. John Barton Payne, president o fthe Amer< ican Red Cross, will represent that or- ganization and the executive chair- men of the House and Senate libra- ries committees will represent those bodies. for this school, which meant that the | i{he said this tract was hardly large | was_pur- | high | that | they had a right to erect the build-| of ! President Harding today agreed to D. C, WELCOME | | Delegates Fear Discussion of Reductions and Situation Grows Tense. BY CLAUDE 0. | By cable to The | News. | PIKE, cago 1923, April 16.—The Star and Copyright SANTIAGO, Chile, |fourth week of the pan-American conference opens with the important !issues still in nebulous state and with | every indication that the leaders are seeking to avoid meeting them squarely. Agreements have been reached in committee on some of the minor proposals on the agenda and have been approved at the ple- nary sessions, but these are considered {insignificant in comparison with the really em afraid to take up, | The subject of armaments is becom- | ing more delicate da The A. B. C. nations are beginning to show tem- i even | per, although open discussion has not | {yet been reached in_the committee. {The report of Dr. Huneeus of the |Chilean delegation is causing bitter {editorial comment in the leading Buenos Aires dailies. which ¢ Chile with bad faith in proposing the subject of a reduction of armaments and with entering a secret pact with Rrazil for the exclusion of Argentina {The Chilean newspapers insist that | the report lays the foundation for an !exhaustive discussion of the subject of armaments in the committee and also that Argentina is not prevented from stating its position Argentina Worrled. | Should the conference fail to come t0 an understanding and not make a real start toward a reduction of armaments Argentina, according to citizens of that country kere, will be forced to begin on a naval program | equal to that of Brazil to the neglect | of public works. | Economic conditions in the A., B., C. | nations would seem to make it neces- sary that all three should appros he subject earnestly, as the finances of each are nearing the cracking | yoint. Some of the delegates here watching from the side lines are wondering how long the game of Lluft will continue. Dr. Gondra, a Paraguayan delegate, offered an amendment to the Huneeus report, making more binding the sec- tions recommending that the nations agree to conferences and investiga- tions before hostilities break out. This amendment is believed by some t0 be based on the form of treaties William J. Bryan sought to conclude when he was Secretary of State. It is believed that the proposal will find | tavor among the South American na- | tions | ‘Wilson Popular. Should the United accept the amendment it will put the | republican party in the position of indorsing the acts of the Wilson ad- ministration, which at that time were the subject of republican ridicule. Because of his_advocacy of the league of nations Woodrow Wilson is | very popular among the South and Central American republics which are members of the league. {SARGENT PORTRAIT GIVEN of York to Lady Elizabeth. By the Associated Press. | LONDON, April 16.—George Harvey, the American ambassador to the {Court of St. James, has sent Lady | Blizabeth Bowes-Lytton as a wedding present a portrait of the Duke of York, her prospective husband, by John' Singer Sargent, the American artist, says the Dally Express. The duke is the first member of the royal family who ever sat for Sar- gent for a portrait, the newspaper adds. live issues which the delegalesi harge | States delegate Harvey Presents Painting of Duke| | MONDAY, APRIL DAUGHTER DELAYATANTAGD | | | i | i | I OF THE AMERIC. ARMS PACT CAUSES /55%ze Scores Vice Conditions At Annapolis )iapi to The Sta | APOLIS, Md., April 16.—Tn his charge to the local grand jur this morning Judge Robert Mo: said that gambling and violations of the liquor laws were flagrant and widespread in Annapolis and Anne Arundel county and that not an officer of the law, as far as he knows, had done one thing to suppres either. He said that milk ditions we Judge known man into liquor was peddled and that general con- deplorable. Moss said that that an _Annapoli had accidentally stumbled a_ gambling house while & game was going on and had nearly fallen down the steps getting away. Drinking “among men and failure of ities of the academy to furnish information by which those who sold intoxicants might be con- victel were also mentioned by Judge Mos: like it was police- | backward | the midship- | the author- BRITAIN PREPARES | TOPAY . S. DEBT. Hope to Settle Final Form of Bonds Soon, Says Chancellor. Bs the Associated Press. | April 16.—Chancellor of! the Exchequer Baldwin, referring in | his budget statement today to the American debt. said he hoped shortly | to settle the final form of the bonds to be given in replacement of the de- mand obligations. - Mr. Baldwin, making his budget! statement before a crowded chamber | in the house of commons today, said the past year's surplus of £101,000,000 had gone to reduction of the debt. | The financial year just closed had be- come steadily better as it proceeded, trade at home and abroad had proved, and unemployment diminished considerably. Cut Military Costs. Last year's surplus, the chancellor said, came about through the best of all possible causes, namely, the re- of expenditure, including | 000,000 for the nation's fighting -rvices and £55.500,000 for civil ex- penses. The are £47 im- had ordinary £421.000,000, estimates for 1923-4 compared with ,000,000 last vear. Mr. Baldwin said it was not intended to provide any margin for supplementary esti- mates. He estimated for the coming finan- cial year at £816,616,000. The total revenue for the new year on the basis of the existing taxation is estimated at £852.650,000, leaving a surplus of slightly more than £36,000,000 SIGN FINNISH AGREEMENT. Debt Funding Commission Author- izes Mellon to Approve Terms. The American debt funding com- mission today authorized Secretary Mellon to sign the war debt funding agreement with Finland. The agreement, already ratified by the parliament at Helsingsfors, has yet to be accepted by Congress. but members of the. commission expect no opposition from that quarter. No official announcement was made as to the date for the signing. No pay- ments on the ‘Finnish obligation, among the smallest due the United States, are required under the agreement until late autumn, but the suggestion that the arrangement be (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) An Old-Fashioned Love Story By Laura Jean Libbey “Jil-Bett” or “Stifling Conscience” Begihs in Today’s Star Exclusive and First Publication | dooms his plan 9 tanglements. [if they dinned “part. 16, 1923 _THIRTY-SIX PAGES. A¢§ o R I g ! N PRESIDENT THROWS DN GANTLET Ready to Fight G. 0. P. Lead- ers Opposing World Court. REVOLUTIO BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Harding has thrown down the gauntlet to republican leaders on the world court proposition. He is going through with it at all costs, even at the risk of embattied oppo-| sition within his party’'s ranks. Re-| publican spokesmen who foreshadow | a serious rift in the G. O. P. if the| world court program is maintained have learned that such an ulzumonl] makes no appeal to Mr. Harding. He! is convinced the country can be won | for the.world court; insists it is con-| sistent republican doctrine, and will | espouse it to the bitter end, regard- | less of consequences. These statements can be made on unimpeachable authority. The Presi- dent is back from Florida in a fight- ing mood. In a very real sense he s trained physically and spiritually for a contest. He is described a: having arrived at the Grover Cleve- land temper under something of the provocation that impelled that demo- cratic President to stiffen his back- bone on critical occasion. The air of conflict Mr. Harding sniffs has whetted rather than diminished his determination to advocate American entry into the international tribunal He is not frightened in the slightest degree by the admonitions of repub- lican senators like “Jim” Watson | that the blood-relationship between | the court and the league of nations | The bogey about the | British empire’s power to outvote the | United States in the league assembly | is dismissed at the White House as an irrelevant scarecrow. The Presi- | dent has persuaded himself that, with | proper reservations, the United States | can join the court without the re- motest danger of contaminating en- He is confident the na- tion can be easily and clearly edu- cated on that point. President Is Firm. | Republican chieftains. including, it | is understood, even members of the cabinet, hoped to induce the Presi- dent to drop or sidetrack the world court by appealing to his well known sense of party loyalt They thought split” into the Harding ears long and loud enough his devotion to G. O. P. harmony would overcome his enthusiasm for the court. But split or no split, the President is going to swing “clean through.” His answer to the argu- ment that it is “bad politics” to force the court issue is that it would be difficult to find a better one. With “prosperity” at home and the court gesture in the direction of “interna- tional co-operation,” Mr. Harding feels that the G. O, P. in 1924 will have 0 winning issues, instead of one. He prefers that republican minds should willingly go along with this theory, but he will adhere to it whether they do or not. Those who have seen it at close range during the past day or two say the Harding Jaw is set on that score. They never found Mr. Harding more determined. Irreconcilable republicans are trying to “sabotage” the world court proposal by assailing it as a ‘“Hughes scheme” or a “Hoover scheme.” The idea back of those tactics is to make out that the President had the thing “put over’ on him, more or less against his will and better judgment. The exact con- trary happens to be the case. It was President Harding who submitted the proposal to Secretary Hughes, and not the other way about. Mr. Hughes gave it his immediate and cordial indorse- ment. Hoover Backs Plan. Secretary Hoover's speech at Des Moines last week, firing the administra- tion’s opening gun for the world court, was read and approved by President! Harding before delivery. Secretary | Hughes' elaboration of the scheme be- fore the International Law Society on April 27 is certain also to have con- crete White House approval. It is likely to cover different ground than Mr. Hoover traversed in Iowa. He will; be. talking to international lawyers, so in large part the forthcoming Hughes | exposition will be legalistic. But it may be expected to deal in hammer- and-tongs fashion with the cardinal ob- Jections which opponents have raised. The Secretary of State, for instance, brands as grotesque the notion that America might some day find _itself haled into the world court to adjudicate, at foreign behest, such things as her tariff and immigration laws. Mr. Hughes may discuss the world court in general terms this week in his D. A. R. ad- dress. If he ventilates views his friends all know him to hold, Secretary Hughes' public advocacy of the world _court idea will be found ) (Cont on Pa; umn PRESIDENT TWO CENT! WELCOMES D.A.R.; LAUDS CRUSADE OF TRUE AMERICANISM Harding’s Speech Ins At D.A .R.Session In Memorial Hall Daughters of the Revolution: It is a great pleasure to greet and join in the welcome which the nation’s capital gladly extends to the notable body of enlightened and patriotic women who gather annually to renew their pledges of highest national usefulness. I am sure that Washington re- joices In the presence and profits by its contact with an association wherein long ago you merged the finest aspirations for service, and submerged every consideration of sectiop, fzcifon, anclent division and merely selfish ambition. Tt has been the uniform object of the Daughters of the Revolution to preserve and promote those senti- ments of civic duty, of broadly national concern, of genuine pa- triotism, which constitute our rich- est inheritance from the fathers who laid the foundation of our na- tional estate. Our country will have done well when it is assured of the full en- listment of all the unselfish devo- tion of its womanhood in the su- preme duty of implanting senti- ments of real Americanism in the hearts of all our citizens. It is because your order has so long. 80 earnestly, so unswervingly led in enlisting womanhood for this splemlid service, that these year- ly conventions are recognized as occasions of refreshment to the spiritual welfare and reinforce- ment to the physical reserves on which dépend the national move- ment forward and upward. Yours is an unceasing, a self-perpetuat- ing crusade. You seek constantly to draw in new armies of recruits to the forces which uphold the banners of exalted nationalism and of ennobling citizenship. Your service to country finds its re- cruits in the youth of the on- coming generation; it gains in strength through the training and discipline of these; it seeks al- ways to expand and improve its ideals and aims, through its ef- forts to open a wider and a truer vision to those who iwill be the leaders of tomorrow. It is in this conception of your organization that, I think, we shall most justly appraise its usefulness to our country. You have made it vour especial endeavor to train the rising generation in the ways of righteous and useful citizen- ship. In your zeal for a better to- morrow you have wrought greatly for a better today. The Daughters of the Revolu- tion have preserved for us all a lesson in the desirability of for- bearance, patience and tolerance. In the beginnings of the nation there were twide divergences of judgment about institutions, meth- ods, directions, means and meas- ures. There were conflicts of sen- timent, section and fundamental social procedures. Passions were often inflamed, and jealousy often was threatened. These conflicts re- quired to be settled through mu- tual concessions, through generous recognition of inevitable and vet perfectly honest difference: Fortunately for our country's great experiment, there was a suf- ficient endowment of wisdom, moderation and selfiessness to make possible the adjustment of all the differences. The great project of government of the people, for the people, by the peo- ple was sent forth in the world because no group or faction or narrow interest assumed to be or to represent all the people. No group arrogated to itself all the political righteousness of the young republic. Because it has ever been the aim and object of your organiza- tion to keep this general atti- tude at the front among your policies, one is' prompted to note the striking coincidence between the complexities of those early days in our history and the prob- lems which the world confronts today. Never has mankind faced difficulties of such varied char- acter, or on so huge a scale, as now propound to it the riddle of the Sphinx. The very destiny of the race, the future of civiliza- tion, seem to depend on our find- ing answer, and on our sincere, generous, broad-minded accept- ance of that answer when it is found. Until the new paths are well revealed, we must hold se- cure those which we inherited. We shall not find an answer which piring Spectacle as 32d Congress ‘ Convenes. |MRS. MINOR MAKES STIRRING ADDRESS President General Urges Continued Fight Against Bolshevism. Declarin, the world difficulties n a larger scale and of a more varied nature than ever before President Harding, in an adaress be fore the National of the Daughters of the American Revolu | tion in Memorial Continental Hall, to day urged America to draw a lesso from the fortitude of the natlon's founders and follow their path until a newer, better one is discovered, The President congratulated the daughters upon the fact that their ideals are those of America's fore fathers. The very destiny of the race the future of civilization, he sais rest upon the answers we find to t ifmportant questions the nation faces today. America, the President assert ed, might draw a lesson from tr Daughters of the American Revolu tion, “Until new paths are revealed t us, let us hold secure to those whic we have inherited. The world of today easily might helpful lesson and cheering enco: ment from the founding fathers found a way to a union and cone ed effort World wonder. someti world envy, has attended the astou: ing development.” The Daughters of the American Revo {lution formally convened their thir ®econd congress in Memorial Continent Hall promptly at 10:30 o'clock th morning. Mere man—a salwart bu gler of the United States Marine Corps—called the 2.500 delegates and alternates, representing every state in‘the Union. to order a moment be- fore Mrs. George Maynard Minor, the president and decla sion n | inaugural exercises all else society’s creed as enunciated annual address, today faces Society entered convention general red the in state in ses the tense of but the of true Americanism Ly Mrs. Minor in her was momentarily for- gotten. Politics, the coming selection of a new president general, personal jambition—all were laid aside when the incumbent president general call- ed upon the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution as a body to stamp out radical ~societies ‘“‘masqueradinz as peace and freedom organizations.” “Out-and-out patriotism for t preservation of American ideals” was the duty, Mrs. Minor charged upon the delegates. She delivered her ad dress in an atmosphere fairly ov flowing with the spirit of America Grouped before her were the blood descendents of the valfant men and |women who, more than a_centurs ago, founded this nation. Swin, slowly from the stained glass ceil ing above hung suspended a huge colonial flag: around it were grouped the flags of the states. excitement Assembly Sounded. Only a few minutes earlier ever person in the room had stood at at- tention. right hand to salute, whil “The American Creed.” and “The Sa- lute to the Flag” were recited. Im- maculate in his blue, red and gold uni- form, the marine bugler had sounded assembly. Red, white and blue hy- drangeas nodded from the ferned fringes of the rostrum, upon which sat the national officers and high city and government officials. It was in this atmosphere that the pre: dent-general called upon the repr sentatives of American womanhood to go out and fight the creed of bol- shevism which, she declared. is seek- ing to crush true Americanism “Oh. you women, gathered here today from all the states, representative of hundreds of chapters throughout our broad land, if I could only make you realize all that it means now to be a Daughter of the American Revolution: It means, in its deepest sense, a self- dedication w home, country and God. Yours is the heritage which means America and all that America stands for, and yours is the cbligation to per- petuate and defend it “It has been well written that those who have 1o reverance for their ances- tors will have wothing worthy to transmit to their descendants. It is true that we are a society that lool backward, but it is Into a living past that we gaze. No past that is worth anything can ever be called dead. Is not the past which gave us our homes and built up our country worth some- thing? We look backward only that we may go forward with greater hope and courage. Liberals Sneer at Past. “It is the fashion to sneer at the past, to make it the butt of superficial jokes and radical denunciations. But the fluttering leaves of a tree might just as well give themselves alrs of superiority and deny the roots. Where would they be were the ax laid to the roots and the tree cut down? “That is what many Americans, (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Schwab Warns (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) of Inflation In U. S. Business Expansion By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 16.—"Indications are that we are entering into a period of business expansion, and utmost caution must be exercised to prevent this from developing into a secondary inflation, which would be disastrous, Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, de- clared in a statement today. “Business is plentiful and industry is active throughout the country,” he added, “and we have every reason to feel happy over the situation. ‘Our_job right now is to keep an even keel and to steer a straight course. Business is on a firm founda- tion, but it must be kept there. Eco- nomic conditions abroad are not as promising as I would have them, but /T am not at all discouraged over the | outlook, and I think progress is be- | ing made and will be made for the re- mainder of the year. | . “I have always found the steel in- {dustry is a pretty accurate indicator of industrial conditions. Bethlehem plants are all working almost to ca- pacity and I am sure the same condi- tions apply to most other steel mills, Il( is rather a good sign that a good part of this steel is going into new construction work and railroad equip- ment. This indicates business leaders |are looking forward in an effort to | meet demands that will be made on them for increased productions and increased transportation. | "“1f there is one word of advice 1 | would give. it would be that we pro- ceed carefully and place our confi- dence in the integrity and good judi ment of American business men.”