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rg * WEDDING OF DUKE | STARTS GAY SEASON London Happier and Bright- er Than Ever Before Since Start of War. BRIDE PLEASES PEOPLE Nation Hopes Prince Will Follow MEXICAN PAYMENT TO BRITAIN DELAYED Convention Planned to Submit Outstanding Claims for Arbitration. By the Associated Press. LONDON, ~April 28.—The proposed sottlement of the outstanding claims be- tween Great Britain and Mexico is be- ing held up, according to British circles by the attitude of the Mexican govern ment, which has raised a number of objections. The Times yesterday announced that a convention was being negotiated to submit_the claims between exico and Great Britain to arbitration, and added that it was not unreasonablé to suppose this would lead to consideration of rec- ognition of the Obregon government. in Selecting British Mate. | BY A. G. GARDINER, Britain's Grentest Liberal Editor. By Cable to The Sta- LONDON, April war has London was this last week tains in Trafalgar Square, dry for nearly ten years, resumed playing. | The primary occasion, of course, was the marriage of the Duke of York, caused great rejoicing not alone this king's sons to wed a of his ewn 25.—Not since the been so gay as it Even the foun- which has because was of the married chiefly the fivst it he girl conntry One resuit of the war has been the arowth of a real prejudice among the British people royal mar- | riagas with foreigner: The King’ tamily apparently shares this view, as both his son and daughter now have marricd British subjects. Wales Still Free. The marriage of the Duke of York has revived speculation in regard to the Prince of Wal who acted as his brother's best man Thursday, but who himself remains unattached. The heir to the throne is now approaching thirty and public interest in his fu ture is a matter of discussion ever where, This in no way reflects]| concern for the succession to the hrone, as the abundance of the king's | children amply secures the direct continuity of the line. but the identity of the future queen is a natural sub- Ject for speculation More than once it has heen expected announcement would be made and the identity of the prospective bride has been hinted at, but to all outward appearances the prince still 1= fancy fre The question of wheth- er Bis bride will be of British or foreign extraction is the subject of{ much interest, but the present state of the publi nd would make it certain that ce of an English- woman would be the more popular. 01d Tradition Fades. tradition that royalty wed rovalty belongs to the Even before the war it wa losing | popularity. It was regarded as a| denial of the natural instinets and a | menace to the quality of the stock. There also is a much graver consider- @tion in that such a plan tends to} e the monarchy from the peo- ple and make the court subject tol nnknown foreign influences. For two centuries the affiliations of the Brit- sh roval family have been almost ex- clusivelv German. If that fact had made for world peace, the practice | might have been justified, but events | have shown that such relationships Ao not affect natural current when a breach comes royalty is placed | n impossible and cruel position. | “This especially was so in the late | war. when the royal family was: placed in a very painful predicament. | The highest tribute that can be paid them is that they came through the | ordeal with public affection and con- fidence unimpaired, but the experience created a widespread feeling that the interests of both the country #nd the monarchy it is important to associate the royal family with the prople of the nation and not with forcign royaltics Gay Socfal Season. The Duke of York's wedding gave note to the London socfal season. which now is expected to be one of the greatest brilllancy since 1914. It is anticipated that the United States will play a more than usually promi- nent part this. Tt estinrated 200.000 visitors will cross the Atlantic this summer. None of these will at- tract more attention than will your wolf amateurs who now are on the very eve of their contest with the ritish amateurs. English sportsmen are becoming mildly concerned over the loss of their” laurels in the field of sport where they once reigned supreme. In vachting, boxing. tennis, polo. golf, “ven in cricket we are now playing second fiddle. It would seem to have | heen our funetion to have taught the world to heat us at our own games. Even in so English a game as foot bhall France is becoming a real chal- lenger of our supremacy We await the result of the golf games with interest, and. if beaten. we shall accept defeat in that spirit of sportsmanship which the captain of the American team has been good | enough to credit us with. Behind these gayeties lurk the s ster shadows thrown across our life | from the continent, but of these norh-| ing profitable can be said today. We ! watch, wait and hope. (Copsright, 1028, FOCH STIRS FRENCH BY WEARING TOP HAT Marshal Follows Ancient Custom as Academician—Joffre Also Conventional. i n | must | past The divo and ! | l ( i , April 28.—“The marshal is| wearing a top hat! Just look at Mar- | <hal Foch with a topper on!" was the irreverent, surprised but subdued murmur that ran through a large| crowd standing in front of the French Academy the other day awalting thej appearance of the academicians on their way to elect successors to the seats of ‘three of their fellow “im- mortals” who had died. Premier Poincare had just saun- tered by, his little derby hat set at a Jaunty angle. It was a great relief to him to dis- ird his top hat when he relinquished the presidency of the republic.” sald # well informed spectator as Poincare passed. Then came Anatole France with a ide-brimmed sombrero that the late Buffalo Bill might have envied, fol- lowed by Maurice Barres in a p reen fedora, Paul Bourget, wearing a owboy’s headgear, and Henri Berg- son, the philosopher, his brainy-ap- pearing head adorned with ‘a gray elt “The top hat is doomed!" was the vardict of the spectators after watch- inz a score more of the members of tha academy enter the institute, all wearing soft felt hats of various sizes. shapes and colors. Then, as the clock was about to strike, another top hat was seen approaching over the railing of the Pont des Artes. Rriskly crossing the institute square, a stout gentleman with a military hearing entered with military punc- ality just as the meeting was about be called to order. As he passed in. the crowd cheered. It was Mar- <hal Joffre, The top hats worn by the two mar- shals were as dissimilar in character as were the two men. Marshal Foch's was low-crowned and narrow-brim- while that of the hero of the Marne was high and wide. Both were cidedly out of style. Twenty years ago it would have heen heresy for.any academician to attend a plenary session of the acad- emy without wearing a top hat, | Americans. SEES GERMAN RUIN INRURRRESISTANCE Harden Declares Cuno Must Drop Condition of Speedy Liberation. BY MANIMILIAN HARDEN, Germany's Foremost Publicist. Bs Cabie to The Star. BERLIN, April 28 —Must one lieve that, as the name Louis royal and imperial France, and name of Lan conquered and ac- quired through marriage by the Hapsburgs, were potent of disaster, £0 the name William is fraught with worse than that for unfortunate Ger- many? Even people free from superstition are asking this question today. They are more than half in earnest at that. For the credit balance of Willlam Cuno, fifteenth imperfal chancellor. isn't ' comparably better after five months' of rule than was that of Willlam: of Hohenzollern, third Ger- man kaiser, in the closing days of the war. Despite all differences of rank the tasks of then and now are funda- mentally the same. Duty to Quit Boasting. It was the third kaiser's duty to lay aside boasting. the pose of a con- Qqueror, Interference with political ang economic affairs. and to reconcil, the Bismarck created empire to the world. The fifteenth = chanceller should steer toward the same po. 1f. without hesitating or seeking ap- plause, he would do what fs humanly possible to remove. or at least Ee lieve. the consequences of the war, the blame for which the world ascribes to_Berlin. he would do only his duty. The ship of Herr Cuno. who was & part of helm’s imperial gov- ernment. hasn't come a mile nearer this destination. On the contrary it sits on a =andbar just outside of the port of departure.” from which Lord Curzon trying to release it. : The voyage could not succeed becauss the whole navigation plan rested on a false hypothesis. His Commections Failed. Cuno hoped and relied on the magic power of “his connections,” espécially Since he had been: twice in the United States for brief visits and had, with the mighty assistance of Paul Warburg, closed a shipping deal with the late E. H. Harriman he seemed to regard himself an fin- extricably-rooted favorite on that continent. But even if hix “connec- tions” were as valuable ard time- tried as those of his protector, the Hamburg banker. Max Warburg. could he imagine himself able to ac- complish anything? Not even private business. Lvery well known man wmust daily assure some job hunter that no ex- be- for the i perienced industrialist or merchant is willing to engage anybody for an lr“nnorllnt PoSt as a matter of favor. Naturally. still less could it be ex- pected that in international political affairs of the utmost importance America would depart a hair's breadth from the course laid down in Washington. Bl Disappointing. The bill for damages presented to Berlin—from the end of the Lusi- tania to the costs of the American Fshlne army-—brought disappointment. Every day since has brought others for America. Passive resistance and sabotage may drive the French to such cruelties as will bring protest. but these very acts are universally regarded as a direct outgrowth of the Franco-Belgian program, and, any- how, the heart of the world Is hard- ened to atrocities. It also is far from convinced that the German soul has altered. It doesn't grow excited over some three dozen killings. Prices are rising, wages go with them, the attempt to raise a dollar loan was a ridiculous failure, and Germany's floating debt has risen to sixty-five hundred billion paper marks at last officlal account—a sum now very greatly exceeded. Germany must negotiate with France unless complets ruin fs to come. She must drop the condition of speedy liberation of the Ruhr. But Cuno continues blind. Otherwise he would perceive that direct nego- tiations with Paris, and not via Lon- don, is the only method of salvation left for the betrayed German people. Such a method would insure the United States of Europe. But it would seem that these negotiations must be conducted by somebody who hasn’'t made the fearful mistakes of this new William. (Copyrigkt, 1023.) 'PRINCE OF WALES UNVEILS MEMORIAL By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, April 28.—In the pres- ence of the King and Queen of the Belgians, Cardinal Mercler, Field Marshal Haig and a great concourse of people. the Prince of Wales today unvelled the monument erected here by the British people in recognition of the assistance rendered by the Belgians during the war. In presenting to the king the me- morial, which depicts English and Belgian soldiers standing side by side with their folded arms, the prince said it was given by the British na- tion as a symbol of its deep, un- changing gratitude toward all those who succored Britain’s prisoners of war and soldiers in distress, He re- ferred to the strong bonds existing tween the two peoples and said the friendship of the past would stand as surely for the future. King Albert tonight is giving, a great state banquet in honor of Wales. FORM NEW CLUB HERE. A new chapter of the Confederate Southern Memorial Association in the District was formed Thursday after- noon at the home of Mrs. Frank Mor- rison. It i{s named {n honor of Mrs. Magnus Thompson, founder and firsi president of the District of Columbia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy. Mrs. Charles Hamilton Fred. honor- ary president and member of Stone- wall Jackson Chapter, No. 20, U. D. C. and candidate for the president of t! District of Columbia Division, U. D. C., was unanimously elected president of the new chapter. After the instal- lation of lcers Mr Wallace Streater read a paper on Gen. Joseph E. Johnson, who surrendered the rem- nant of the Confederate army. Mrs. Chester Smith, wife of Capt. Smith, U. 8. A, presided at the frappe bowl, assisted by Mrs. Nelson Page Webster. THE _SUNDAY: PLANS ST. PETER'S DENIED, Structure Will Be Built on Roman Hill. , e . EXPECTS SLOW GROWTH Would Not Mar Beauty of Grea Cathedral, Rev. Antipple Asserts. | | BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923, ROME. April 28.—"“Fantastic,” was the comment of the Rev. B. M. Antip- ple. president of the International Methodist College in Rome, when the correspondent asked today concerning the old story recently revived by the Paris Tribune. according to which American Methodlsts contemplate building an immense Protestant church “on the hill called Monte Mario. dominating St. Peter's, the seat lof world-wide Catholicism. { ., “We understand the beauty of § ! Peter's as much as does any one else, said Dr. Antipple. “We came here in lan ordinary business way by buving iproperty. ‘Our plans do not include the building of any monumental church. Such as they are, they huve been approved by the city authorities What we have here is simply an in- ternational secondary school “Italians want their country to be- come the international clearing house in the Mediterranean region. We hope to help them to make an Intel- lectual clearing house. Out of our 110 ‘boys more than half are Italian and the others represent six other countries. Most of them pay tuition but we also have a few scholarships which in the future will become com- petitive. “Our school is Protestant but non- sectarian. Ttalian Protestants and non-Catholic liberals have the right to obtain a modern education of the kind we offer if they want it. We hope to develop slowly. Our two bulldings will be increased by a gymnasium. an athletic fleid, a large technical school. a normal school and new dormitories, but for the present we are content with what we have here on the most beautifui and healthful spot in Rome.” The Methodist College inates a panorama which perhaps is unrivaled in the world. The collega employs seventeen instructors and has accommodations for 125 boys. 124 ALLEGED REDS - UNDER HEAVY BAIL | Pittsburgh Editor Held in $50,000—Lowest Bond Fixed at $1,000. Dy the Ansociated Press PITTSBURGH. Pa. April 2% Bail ranging from $1.000 to $30.000 each was fixed by county authorities today lin the case of twenty-four men, ar. rested during widespread raids in Allegheny county la While prosecuting officers were Boing over the question of bond, {hundreds of Pittsburgh residents re- jcelved through the mails cards an- nouncing that “Willlam Z Foster, first local appearance since the Michi- gan trial.” wouid speak here on May 2, under the auspices of the Labor Defense Council. The cards were con- tained in envelopes bearing the house address where Fred Merrick, social. ist editor and writer, was arrested last night. His bail was set at $30,000, the largest sum demanded in any of the cases Sixteen of the prisoners were taken on warrants charging sedition under a state la Eight others. arrested as_ suspects. were taken before an alderman today and held on similar charges. Valentine Kovac. who was arrested in his home at Swissvale, is wanted in Michigan, where, according to the authorities, ' he atiended the ‘“sand dune” convention from which grew the charges against Foster. District Attorney R. H. Gardner to- night had under consideration a re- quest for help from Mayor G. H. {Lysle of McKeesport, who said radi- cals planned to stage a big demon- istration in that city on Sunday. George Katsiolls of Chicago. who was | | ply domi- e radical t night | i | to have addressed the gathering, was in_the county Jjail. Department of Justice agents and county officials, translating literature confiscated during the ralds. said }they belleved they would have suf- ficient evidence ready for a prelimi- nary hearing in all the cases on Wed- nesday. [ THINKS RUHR SHOWS FUTILITY OF ARMIES Bpecial Disoatch to The Star. PHILADELPHIA, April 28.—'Ger- many's passive resistance to the French occupation of the Ruhr may show the world that armies are futile. {1t is one of the strange turns of fate that Germany, formerly one of the leading exponents of militarism, is now making the world's first great {experiment in peaceful resistance to armed invasion.” So says J. Henry Scattergood of this city, who has just returned from Europe, ‘where he ‘was sent by the American Friends' service committee to report on whether or not the Ruhr occupation made it necessary for the Quakers to again take supervision of the child-feeding work in Ger- many. While 'in Europe Mr. Scattergood spent considerable time investigating conditions in the Ruhr, talking with all classes from the workman to the great industrialist. He also conferred with Roland W. Boyden, American observer in Paris, and with Chan- The_reparations demanded of Ger- y France said Mr. Scatter- good. “equal 50 per cent of all the wealth now in Germany, and 43 per cent of Germany's total pre-war wealth. Germany has already paid according to the estimates of Mr. Boyden, about three and three-quarter billion dollars, or nearly four times as much the indemnity pald by France to Germany following the war of 1870-1871. France is demanding & fabulously large indemnity from Ger- many, and at the same time trying to prevent Germany's financial and commercial recovery by means of which alone she can create wealth with which to pay.” Mr. Scattergood sald that he did not find among the mass of the people in Germany or among the present government officials either an unwill- ingness to pay reparations or any de- sire for revenge or aggression against France. Germany wants a fair neu. tral decision on what the reparations ougt to be, and then wants to pay them in the shortest possible time in order to begin the work of permanent reconstruction. ‘Communism may be forced on Ger- many by the French reparations policy,” ‘said Mr. Scattergood. “If the allies scoop all the capital out of Germany in order to secure r tions, there will be no one control industry but the state, and that means communism,” STAR, WA SHINGTON, D. C. |Lodge Sees World Co urt Free Senator Believes “Satisfactory Adjust- Methodist Says No Great| ment” of Issue Will Be Made—Hopes G. 0. P. Will Not Be Rent. Breaking his silence on the Presi- dent’s proposal that the United States adhere to the world court, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts last night, In a letter to Gov. Arthur M. Hyde of Missouri, satd: “When the subject of the league court has been fully discussed and considered I hope and believe that a satisfactory adjustment will be [ reached.” What the “satistactory adjustment” will contain, the republican leader and chairman of the foreign relation committee does not specity. He strongly fndicates, however, that the Senate will propose & number of reservations, in addition to those ad- vocated by Secretary Hughe: y Senator Lodge suggests that a world court formed indepéendently, having no connection with the league of nations, would have received “practically universal approval” not only in the Senate but among the people. Whether the Senate will en- deavor to substitute such a court proposal for that advanced by the President, however, Senator Lodge leaves to the imagination. Hopes for Harm The republican leader has included in his letter an earnest wish for the success of the republican party—for party harmony—and also for the re- election of President Harding. The letter was written in reply to a telegram received from Gov. Hyde, in which the governor said that 500,- 000 Missouri republicans wers look- ing to Mr. Lodge to kill oft the pro- posal that the United States enter the league court. Senator Lodge reiterated his oppo- sition to the league of nations, and called attention particularly to that part of the President's New York address in which the chief executive declared he would never consent to have the United States cnter the league. An inference. which may be drawn from Senator Lodge's letter, is that he does not like the idea of the United States going into the World Court as now constituted—though he does not say so directly. In fact. the letter of Senator Lodge declines to discuss the questions he raises In connection with what he calls “the league court.” He does not desire. he says. to be put in the posi- tion of speaking for, or of forecast- ing the action of the Senate. The text of his letter to Gov. Hyde follows: “i have received your telegram in which you say., 500,000 Missouri republicans are looking hopefully to you to prevent the disaster to nation and party of any membership in the league court. May we not depenu upon crisis’ Outlines His Views. “It_has always been the policy of the United States, and very emphat- jcally the policy of the republican perty. to promote in every way pos- sible the settlement of international differences by arbitration and through the medium of arbitral tribunais. We have advocated In the past the estab- lishment of a permanent court of arbitration. If it had been proposed to establish & permanent interna- tional court for the settlement of in- ternational disputes, selected, as is proposed in the league court, from the panel created by groups under the terms of The Hague convention; if it had been proposed to make the judges thus selected permanent and 1o be appointed by the nations sev- erally and independently and not by a majority of the council and as- sembly of the league, und with long terms and suficient salaries. in my Judgment, sach a court would have received practically universal ap- proval not only in the Senate of the United States but by the people of the United States. “In his speech in New York on Tues- day, April 24, the President said: I have no unseemly comment to offer on the league. If it is serving the old world helpfully, more power (o it. But it is not for us. The Senate has so declared, the executive has so declared, the people have so declared. Nothing could be more decisively stamped with finality.’ With this strong and complete statement, T be- lieve ‘that the great mass of the American people are in full accord 1 certainly am. Nothing would ever have induced me to have voted for the covenant of the league of nations which Mr. Wilson laid before the Sen- ate on July 10, 1919. But I voted twice in favor of the treaty with the reser- vations adopted by the Senate. As I have watched during the past three years the performances and futilities of the league of nations I have b come convinced that it was fortunate that the Senate rejected it and that it is best for the world, for the cause of world peace and for the American people that the United States should not- under any circumstances become a member of the league. “In the plan now before us the Per- manent Court of International Justice is not to be formed by the nations in- dependently, but is to be the court already elected by the council and assembly of the league of nations, and this fact. as is already obvious, will lead to much discussion, and it will have to be decided whether the Sen- ate will assent to accepting the court as proposed and chosen by the league. “The Secretary of State, in his let- ter accompanying the President's message recommending our partici- pation in the court, proposed certain conditions to be appended to the resolution to be passed by the Sen- ate in giving their advice and con- sent to the signature of the protocol on statute creating the international court. These conditions must include a declaration of the refusal of the United States to join the league of nations and, second, a deciaration that the United States shall have an equality of representation both in th council and in the assembly in voting for the election of the judge of the court. These two suggestions of the Secretary of State are vitally im- portant. Sees Reservatioms. “It will be the duty of the Senate. therefore, td frame conditions under the first two suggestions of the Sec- retary of State and it also may be assumed that the Senate may very possibly originate and propose other conditions. What the attitude of the Senate will be upon the question of joining a court elected by the coun- cil and assembly of the league of nations or upon oertain specitied con- ditions or reservations is at present necessarily unknown—that is, the decision of the Senate as to our par- ticipation in the league court or as to the form of the advice and consent to be given cannot in the nature of things be determined at this time. It so happens that I am chairman of the committes on foreign relations and, oocupying that position, I do not feel willing, nor do I think it would be becoming or suitable for me to attempt to anticipate or predict the action of the Senate when it has a opportunity to disouss the President's recommendation and request, which it has not yet had, because the Presi- dent’'s message only reached the Sen- ate four days before the adjournment of the last As always, I B S S e tl can and am_equally Gesirous that” Premdent | Harding should be renominated and re-eleot- you to serve us in the present; ed, and when the subject of the league court has been fully discus ed and considered I hope and belleve that & satisfactory adjustment wiil be reached. If I were now to discuss the questions which I have indicated a8 to the league court and as arising under the suggestions of the Secre- tary of State, what T sald might be oasily misconstrued and regarded as an effort to forestall or forecast the |action of the Senite. which I have | neither the right nor the authority 0 undertake.’ Letter Strategic. Senator Lodge's letter was regarded in some quarters last night as strategic the silence Into which many of the republican senators ap- pear to have fallen since the Presi- dent made his speech in New York. Five days have elapsed since the Presi- dent in vigorous fashion renewed his advocacy of the entry of the United States into the World Court. Since then Benator Borah of Idaho, and Senator La Follette of Wisconmin ued statement in unequivocal and two other republican senators, Mc- Nary of Oregon and Sterling of South Dakota. have just as emphatically declared themselves favorable. The statements from democratic senators have indicated they intend to support the President’s proposal with or with- out reservations. G. O. P, Leade: len But the republican senators “gen- erally _are withholding comment. Not unnaturally the question is ask. ed, If the republican senators ap- prove the President's proposal, why don’t they say s0? It is possible that some of them do not know whether they approve or not—it would be more correct to say they do not know whether they will ap- gro\'e or not. For it is eight months efore they will be called upon to take the stand. In the meantime it is expected that sentiment through- out the country will crystalize to & large extent upon the proposal, At present senators who are ing nothing” when the World is mentioned are pointing out that they do not know in what form the protocol providing for adherence is {to reach them-—with what reserva- tions or amendments. Just now the protocol is reposing in the files of the Senate foreign relations com- mittee, together with the reserva. tions proposed by Secretary Hugh What the foreign relations commit- tee is going to do with this protocol no one knows, Many Ways te Kill. There is an old saying that there are more ways of killing a cat than choking it to death with cream. There are more w s of killing a treaty—or protocol—than voting on the proposi- tion. ee the fate of the well known Versailles treaty and league of na- tions covenant. As happened in the case of the Ver- sailles treaty, it is possible to vote uUp SO many reservations or amend- ments, that the world court protocol might be unrecognizable to its spon- sors. Then, too. it might get lost in the foreign relations committee. Treaties have been known to rest there for years. A third contingency | engroased in domestic issues that the world court ght of. This last happen, ‘however, with of the demoerats Third Party Talk. In the last few days there has heen a recrudesence of third party talk. But the progressives umong the re- publican senato: while admitting this fact, are not putting out any statements in favor of a third part; The organization of a new party would have to be accomplished, they say. through the voters and not by any group in Washington. But, they ¥. if a third party did get into the fleld, it undoubtediy would have a& one ‘of its fundamental policies the non-entanglement of the United States in European affairs. Furthermore, it would pledge itself to deal in a pro- gressive manner with the problems of transportation: coal, oil, sugar sup- plies. etc., which have weighed heavily upon the people in recent months. Brookhart Silent. Senator Brookhart of Jowa. one of the progressive bloc, was in Wash- ington yesterday on his way to Europe. where ha will study particu- larly the co-operative associations. He ‘said he did not wish to discuss the proposed entry into the world court until his return trom Europe. Representative Israel M. Foster of Ohlo last night issued a statement upporting the entrance of the United States into the proposed peace court plan. He claimed the experiences of Europe during the past two vears clearly demonstrated two things “First. that the league of nations would not function in the interest of the United States, and second. that it is the plain duty of the United States to approve and engage in the proposed peace court plan. The en- | tering of one_does not involve us in the other. For twenty years we have favored this very peace court plan.” proposal might not the be lost likely to consent —_— SHRINE FOR SHERIDAN FAILS IN HARRISONBURG “Crow and His Knapsack™ Story Recalled in Storm of Pro- test in Valley. Special Dispatch to The Star. HARRISONBURG. Va. April 28— This little city—right in the heart of the famous Shenandoah valley— will not be the site of & memorial to Gen. Phillp Sheridan. noted “Yankee” leader. The plan has been aband- oned, it was learned here last night, 28 a result of the vigorous protests on the part of the residents who waived the right to the questionable distinction for Harrisonburg. Stoneleigh Inn, on the eastern out- skirts of the city, was to have been designated as the “Sheridan shrine,” because the noted general made that old mansion his headquarters while supervising the destruction of mil- lions of dollars worth of property in Rockingham county, as a part of his celebrated raid through the Shenan- doah valley, making good his boast that conditions would be such that crow flying over would have to carry its own knapsack. A storm of protest, unparalleled in the valley, broke loose immediately upon the announcement of the plan to perpetuate the memory of Gen. Sheridan. Letters by the hundreds ‘were sent by those who suffered, di- rectly or indirectly, from the raid, protesting against the memorial. BROKERAGE HEAD SENTENCED T0 JAIL NEW YORK, April 28.—Alexander P. Crossman, head of the defunct Wall street brokerage firm of 8. M. Livingston & Co., and a director of #ix similar concerns which have fail- ed since 1916, with losses to cus- tomers of more than $3,000,000, today 'was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for two to three years for bucketing. Cro! through counsel, moved for a certificate of reasonable doubt and was réleased in $7,500 bafl pending an appeal. [is that the Senate might become so | of this country | APRIL 295 1923—PART 1 PRESIDENT DENIES BANKERS IMPELLED WORLD COURT VIEW (Continued from First Page.) never a word has been said about it during the interview. Favors Suppress| You know there is a fine bit of ethics sometimes in the omission of news as well as the publication of it. T think that there are often times when the news ought to be sup pressed. There certainly are times when news of {international impor- tance can not be given to the public. Let me say this in conclusion—and T have only rambled along, not touch- ing this very important and very ex- cellent code in all its details. I have alluded to the concentration or merg- ing of the journalistic efforts of the country. You have been told until You are weary of it of the great in- fluence of the press. But you have not stopped to think of the critical sftuation which is in your keeping. 1 liked what Mr. Davis said about the securities of the Constitution. 1 like everything that is sald that tends to rivet our belief in a preserv- ed civilization. It has been my for- tune within the week to have had at the executive office three oustanding visitors from the old world. I can- not tell you all the story they told me, but T tell you, fellow editors of America, it 18 an’ astounding story and while I think that while we stiil have our own feet on the ground and an anchor that will preserve us the world is in a pretty bad way. I do not think the social order can be overtuned. It would be only momen- tary if it would. You can revise civilization with the concrete ex- perience and judgment of forty cen- turies of progressive civilization hack of it. But nevertheless civilization is in very critical stage. We are more lfortunate in America than elsewhere in the world. It is so essential to do the thinge which you can do toward making our position more firm and stable, so that we may be a great and helpful example to the world. Don't you see how important It is to_tell the simple, comforting truth about things when there is a simple, com- forting truth? And don’t you see how important it is to omit the things when tend to destroy the faith in so- clety? Don't you see how essential it is that you preach faith in the ju tice of the republic rather than & suspicion that justice can not abide under our present soclal system? Oh, my countrymen, we have done 80 well in America. We have wrought 50 much in the democracy of this new world. We have made such a record for ourselves and such a contribution to human progress that 1 want to o on and here in America we have done more than elsewhere in the world for the development of a free press. And T want a free press in America to re- pay its debt in the preservation of this republic of ours. Gives Early Experfence. At the start of his address the President reminisced about his boy- hood davs and his early experience as a young publisher. The President sald: “Mr. President, fellow editors: My imind ran back while the chairman was reading the code of ethics on the small town paper with which 1 have ! things which led to adoption of the code. “I wonder if any of you ever have moments of retrospection when there comes to vou. in the recollection of your lives, events which you regret more than others? 1 have a lot of them to regret. but there are two particular instances which apply to this code of ethies. “The first was when 1 was a boy eight years oid. It was my fortune every summer o g0 to the home of my grandfather on the farm. One of my chores was to bring in the cow got my orders to go for the cows and was unwillingly complying. but as I skipped along. boy-like, I picked up a stone that we called ‘sailor'—a thin stone, you will remember, that you throw and it sails in the air—and I let it go without any responsibility or design at a flock of geese. And, by some misfortune of fate, the sharp edge of this stone struck a fine. big tl'l‘ldar right in the side of the head, an and fell dead. Well, in my excess of sorrow that I had killed the gander and my sense of injury to my grand- father. I rushed after the cows with- out making a word of explanation. And when I came back I then found my grandmother plucking the gander to save the feathers and grandfather was orating. He had examined the dead bird and had concluded that it had been kiiled by a very ill-behaved turkey gobbler, and he had reasoned 1it out'that the gobbler had struck him in the side of the head and had killed him, and thereupon decreed the gob- bler should die. And there T stood. a | boyish culprit and liar through omi. sion. saying nothing in the gobbler's defense, and he went to the block and I helped to eat him. And a more ;l’;ngcenl gobbler had never lived and ed. Ineident Recurs. “It may seem strange. but that in- cident has recurred to me a thousand times in my life and is ever impell- ing fair statement ‘And the other one was a_sillier one still. In the very early days of my newspaperdom—it takes me back long it will be amusing to you— If 1 tell you that I rolled my first form forty-six years ago next month. Within a week after that I had stack ed my first stick of type, as an eleven-vear-old boy. I don't say it {to boast. T say it because the at- mosphere of this occasion suggests it. T have done everything in newspaper office that anybody ever did._including taking a licking. “Well, in the early days of the newspaper business, we thought an obligation, and it was quite the cus- tom in the small towns to have the editor specially invited for the all- important events, social or other- wise, and there was a very promi- nent wedding in my town and I was not invited. T took ft very much to heart, and. like a culprit, on that oc- casion. after the wedding, I published the news of the marriage as an obli- gation, but limited it to a three-line item without a headline. And the lit- tle notice of the wedding was so re- marked about that there came to me that inevitable remorse of conscience that I concluded never after that in a newspaper with which 1 was as- sociated should the news in any man- ner be affected by the prejudices of the editar and . paper. “There never was a time, gentle- men, . when a fitting code of ethics was' 80 esvential to the press of America. You know there has come a transformation. There is & condi- tion in newspaperdom unknown here- tofore in America. It has come about under your own eyes, and you are scarcely conscious of it. 1 ask- ed tonight what is the relative num- ber of newspapers in the United States tonight to the number twenty years ago. 1 will venture to guess that there are 25 per cent less news- papers in the United States now than there were ten years ago today. In the great cities the processes of con- solidation are going on, helpful, I believe, in many ways. Processes in County Seats. “These *processes of consolidation and elimination are going on in the county seats; in the smaller citieg inland. I can look about me in my home state, to the east and north and west and south, where there were formerly two or three daily papers there is now in nearly every city but one. The processes of syndicating owner- ship are going on. I have been of- fered more for the Marion Star, 2 good deal more, than dt is worth, by men who are seeking to pick up a number of papers and bring them under syn- dicated control and manegement, and if T did not love the business better than anything else in the world have been offered so_liberally that I would quickly sell. But I am hang: ing on because I would rather be newspaper publisher than anythin, else in the world. I like it, and hope I am going to be the chief owner of the Marion Star after they ttle up my estate in a legal man- ner. ““Those processes of comsolidation have brought about a condition in which the publication of newspapers been connected so long. to one of the | at milking time, and one evening 1! he whirled a half dozen times| the | HUSBAND “LYNCHED” WIDOW TO GET $2,500 CLEVELAND, April 28.—Mrs. George K. Fanner will receive $2,600 from Cuyahoga county in settlement of a suit for $5,000 for the “lynching” of her husband in & pay roll hold-up more than two years ago. Fanner and his business partne: ‘W. C. 8ly, were shot to death when resisting & pay roll robbery. AnOhlo law makes the county in which & lynching takes place responsible to the relatives in the sum of $5,000. The settlement was made at the suggestion of County Attorney George Hansen, who stated that while the legislature probably did not have slaying as the result of a hold-up in mind when it enacted the law, the wording of the measure is such that a jury would be likely to give the full sum If the case were brought to trial. i Three of the men engaged in the hold-up have been executed. G. R. JAMES NAMED TO RESERVE BOARD George R. James of Memphis. Tenn., was appointed by President Harding yesterday to be a member of the Federal Reserve Board. He succeeds John R. Mitchell of St. Paul, resigned. Mr. James s a democrat and is |president of a large dry goods com- | pany. vice president of a bank and ia director of a stockyards organi- ion in Memphis During the war he served as chief of the cotton and cotton linter sectfon of the War In- dustries Board and later as a mem- ber of the industrial board of the Department of Commerce and of the industrial conference. A White House statement said he had de- voted “much time to and is greatly interested in social work and is one of the outstanding men of the south in every way.” The appointment was in line with the White House policy of placing on the board a member from the south. One vacancy still remains to be filled, that created by the death of Milo D. D. Campbell, the “dirt farmer” member. PAY FEDERAL TRIBUTE. April 25.—Feudal days are recalled by a little ceremony which has just ogcurred at Perpignan, where a delegation of mountaineers solemnly brought in the sum of 980 francs as their annual feudal tribute to the head of the Freuch govern- ment. The latter shares with the Spanish bishop of Urgel a sort of suzerainty over the little republic of Andorra, in the Pyrenees. where 5,000 moun- taineers have lived since the year 1278 in an independent state, com- prising less than 200 square miles, between the French and Spanish bor- ders. The bishop wets 460 pesetas an- nually, which at the present rate of exchange exceeds the French ruler's share, originally intended to be twice as much as the bishop's. PARIS, is a profitable and commercially portant enterprise. It is not the old- type of journalism. Tt is mnot the {old questions of political parties or self-interest. It has got to be that which Mr. Davis has becomingly dig- nified it, a great and honorable pro- fession, combined with highly su cessful business. “I can_remember—I wonder if any others of you can—when a load of stove wood was a very welcome a rival at our office. And I have dis- tinct recollections of crocks of apple butter and bags of specially selected potatoes, and plenty of pumpkins and | squashes and half-bushel measures of apples and even more—oh. you young fellows haven't a dream about it at all. 1 can remember when a wedding cake came to the office neatiy packed in a shoe box, so that we could get a taste of every particular cake that was cut on a very particular occasion. And we had that contact with the com- munity that does not exist nowadays. Strict Code of Ethicn. “Now in the present regime in the publication of newspapers there is indeed a call for a strict code of ethics in the activities in the- most important profession in the world. I am not to discuss that code in de- tall, but there are two or three phases of it that 1 want to take the oppor- tunity in a very rambling talk to emphasize. i “I will_pass the one on responsi- bility. We are all agreed about that. {And T have no need to make reference to the freedom of the press. And I think I may reasonably pass—no; 1 will stop for a moment at number three, ‘freedom from obligation, ex- cept that of fidelity of public interest is vital. | “If my observation as President of | faw the United States has taught me an one thing, it is that there are too many men in the newspaper world who believe one thing and preach an- other. And that that is not a contribution to hecoming journalism. “How shall I say it? T sat in the outstanding editor-publisher of the United States, who took my time for two hours urging upon me the nece: sity of reduction in federal taxes. notably excess profits and income and surtaxes, particularly pressing it with every word of argument that he could form, and his newspapers at that very hour ‘were clamoring that the minions of capital were proposing to reduce the taxes on the wealth of this coun- t T would not give a rap for the j conscience of a man like that' Think of the spectacle of a great publisher appealing to the President, on the one hand, for the very thing against which his papers were crying out! I will give you another, probably not a reflex of selfish interests. It is a thing that suggests fairness of com- my If T made a definition of jour- nalism I should pronounce journalism the profession that combines the pub- lising of news with an honest inter- pretation of it and becoming com- ments thereon. It is easy to spectable purveyor of news. That is not journalism. There are fine ethics in purveying news, but journalism covers the whole fleld, and an honest Journalist is never unfair in stating the facts upon which it bases its com- ment.” Mr. Davis Speaks. John W. Davis, former ambassador to Great Britain, made 1t very ev dent that he is opposed to the cur- taflment of the powers of the United States Supreme Court in the matter of holding unconstitutional acts of Congress, as has been recently agi- tated. Mr. Davis devtoed his remarks to a strong defense of the principles of the Constitution and to his apprecia- tion of the part newspapers can play in guarding the sacredness and safety of that instrument. He said that because of the freedom given the prees of America, the obligation of the latter is great and should be at all times most righteously ob- served. New Officers Chonen. During the evening announcement was made of the election of the fol- lowing to serve as officers of the soclety for the ensuing yvear: Presi- dent, Casper S. Yost, St. Louis Globe Democrat: . first vice president, George IE. Miller, Detroit News; second vice _ president, Edgar B. Piper, Portland Oregonian; Secretary Eric C. Hopwood, Cleve- land Plain Dealer; Treasurer Beck, Chicago Tribune; board directors; David E. Smiley, Philadel- phia Public Ledger; Willis J. Abbott, Christian_ Science _Monitor; Joseph Pulitzer, St. Louls Post-Dispatch: T. J. Dillon, Minneapolis Tribun E. Stout, Kansas City Star, and Frank Cobb, New York World. i | i executive offices and listened to an!Fri FRENCH LAUD U.S. GOOD-WILL MOVE Tardieu Sees Lesson to Propaganda Bureaus in Visit of Women. PLANNING A TRIP HERE Details of Campaign to Help Re- build Devastated Area Made Big Impression. BY ANDRE TARDIEL, Former French High Commissioner to America. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, April 28—The interngs tional situation can be dismissed to-! day while T tell you about the visit of those American women, elected by their compatriots to come and see uy work. They arrived here vesterda; and it seems to me the 1923 good- will delegation offers rich food for thought about the deep roots of the Franco - American friendship, and those people who alwavs are talking about abroad” cou'd learn a valuable from the, women of heart and brain who o ganized this trip. The delegation last year suoceeds ed wonderfully. Tt saw the ruined France of the battle front and tha happy France of the interfor. As honorary president of tha American Committes for Devastated France, I had the privilege of meeting tha visitors several times and getting their impressions. But at that time there wes no obstacles to mutu, g00d fecling and good will Conditions Show Change. This time it is different. Th many difficulties in the way ridiculous Turkish policy ham Jost much American svmpathy, while our Ruhr methods, rendered necessary by the RBritish attitude, have been jllv understood in nerica. So much so that there was a suggestion of posi- poning this latest visit until autumn. These delegates are respongible for the raising fo 3600000, which will ba’ expended in restoring the devastajed regions of our count Certain detaiis of have made a great impression here. For example, the fact that in New York- 200 firms participated spoke for 1tself. The wa n which the Durant Motor Company raised $120.000 by ountry-wide appesl to its factories Was an examnle ¢f American speed dvertising campaign of the American Bank Note Company. which deluged the peonie with ingenuous picturesque advertising showings what it was.ail about, brought homs to the people their traditional friendship for France. Then the fact that many business houses aever)- where gave their employe to listen to speakers in faver of restoration of devastated France re- sulted in demonstration of friend ship that have not L manifested since the war Lesson to Propagan s What a tremendous lesson this to the dull. sterile official ganda bureaus! 1t dem silly it is to believe can be oculated toward France th lications. All that give that sympathy which is in ail of vour hearts a c nce to show itseif. The greatest thing about tha good-will idea is its . simplicity. What a simple idea To appeal di- rectly to the American people to re~ cruit delegates in, the principal cities: to proclaim one dollar buys tén votes to enlist tl support of great com- mercial and industrial enterprises, and. finally. to insist that the dele. gates must all be workingwomon earning their own Mvelihood. Not officials, but private individuals, originated this simple idea, and they were women who already had raised a million dollars since 1817 to re- build French ruins To conceive and realize the plan they refused to heed either conferences or experts, with- out which officialdom cannot ges along. The heart's impulse, back ed with common scnse, is all the required—two qualities’ which gov= ernments usually lack. and which lack prevents their accomplishing what they undertake. (Copsright, 1923.1 FRENCH TO VISIT U. S. “propaganda lesson campaign s propa- 1strates how that America with sympath: »ugh insipid pub- is needed s to Plans to Send Good-Will Delega+ tion in Few Months. By Cable to The Sta PARIS. April 28— France plan- ning to _send a good-will delegation to the United States within the next months. Many American en- thusiasts have urged this, and the proposal has been discussed with leading French industrialists. who now have given it their unqualified is not honest and {approval. But lest there he disappointment later it has been decided by the or- ganizers that instead of girls, th ch delegation will be composed) of rising voung business men repre. senting the chief French industrie in every section of the count Jusg how they will be selected not vet been decided, but it is very prob. able it will be through the news papers, as was done in the United States. Tt has not vet been determined fod what purpose the money raised wil be used. The plan seemingly mos favored is for the benefit of Frenc scientific laboratories, many of whic lack instruments and equipment. Th immense importance of scientific re search as applicd to modern busines| would thus be emphasized. Miss Anne Morgan and A. M. Dikd organizers of the American good-wi idea, are heartilv back of the ne proposal. (Copyrright, 1923.) ADMIRAL ZIEGEMEIER NEW NORFOLK YARD HEA[ Director of Naval Communicatiol to Go to New Command July 1. Rear Admiral Henry J. Zlegemei will be assigned as the new com mandant of the Norfolk navy ya: about July 1, it was announced yeste day at the Navy Department. He now serving as director of nav communications in the Navy Depar{ ment. Capt. W. D. Brotherton, now at th Naval War' College, will be detailel as commandant of the seventh nas district and the base at Key Wes Fla., succeeding Capt. W. S. Crossle: who will take command of the ba tleship Idaho. —_— COLLEGE GETS BOOKS. Astronomer Leaves Library an Medals to Institution. The late Prof, Edward M. Barnar for more than a quarter of a centu on the staff of the Yerkes Obser atory, left to the University of Ch| cago his astronomical books, a: medals 1o the observatory. He gave to the university his home, as memorial to his wife, the late M Rhoda Calvert Barnard. Among the medals awarded to Pro Barnard for his work in practici astronomy are the Lalande, the Or: and the Janssen medals from ti] French Academy of Sciences, and ti Bruce gold medal and the gold med} of the Royal Astronomical-Seciety: Great Britain.