Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1923, Page 5

PRESDIENT'S COURT ISSUENEETS TEST Made Platform of Los An- geles Candidate for Con- ' gress, Who Wins Easily. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Harding is deriving con- €lderable satisfaction from the result &¢ a congressional by-election in the Los Angeles district of Calfornia on Ma; It is the first cotest at the polls vet fought on the clean-cut is- sue of the President’s world court proposal. Final figures Jjust an- nounced show that John D. Fred- eric republican, who stood for American entry into the court won b,y an overwhelming majority. The Hiram Johnson anti-court element pittéd a candidate of its own, Alfred L. Bartlett, ainst Fredericks. The Johnson nominee ran a poor fourth. Fredericks' vote was 28,084, while Bartlett's total was less than & third of that figure— Fredericks is « lawyer who made a natlonal repu- tation in 1911 by convicting the Mec- mara brothers for blowing up the ‘Los Angeles Times building. Is Largest District. The Los Angeles contest, held to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Henry Z. Osborne, took place in_the tenth California district. With 00 inhabitants, the district is the most populous in the United States. It is made up largely of repres practically Mississippi very state beyond the who are now domiciled in southern Californi In a way, there- fore, Fredericks' el tion on the straightforward world court proposi- tion is inteipreted at Washington as h ymptomatic cro: ction test of merican_public opinion. nounced at the outset of his cam- paign that he was running on a plat- for of emphatic indorsement of the Harding-Hughes plan for Amn-rlh'zm participation in the Permanent Court of International Justice. The day be- fore the election Fredericks stated that he didn’t want anybody to vote r him who was not definitely favor of the President's project. Court Convenes Soon. About the time, during the third weck of June, that the President is making his principal World Court speech the outset of his swing acposs the country, the tribunal will be getting down to its first real work at The Hag On June w11l b nvened to deal with its ini- tlal inte ational controversy, with a sovereign nation. Germany, virtually in the role of an arraigned defendant. The ¢ has been brought by Great Yritain, France, Italy and Japan in nnection with Germany’s refusal to 16w the steamship Wimbledon free to the Kiel canal. The German government, in virtue of the right cenferred by the court’s statutes, has #ppointed judge of German na- tionality, Prof. Walter Schuecking, to #it in the case. Poland has informed the court of its desive to intervene under article 62 of the statutes, which in entative eastern people from Fredericks | 15 the court ! 'Rulers of Arabs To Discuss Pact For Federation By the Associated Press. CAIRO, May 24 (Jewish Tele- graph Agency).—A meeting be- tween King Feisal of Mesopotamia and his brother, Emir Abdullah, the Transjordanian ruler, is to be held shortly at Abdullah's headquarter s , according to & report current here. King Feisal, it is sald, is pro- ceeding to Transjordania to discuss with his brother the new situation rising out of the British treaty author- izing the or- ganization of a confederati o 1 of Arab-speak- ¥ _ ing countries. King Hussein of the Hedjaz, father of the two rulers, it is stated, further, may go to London in order personally to conclude ar- rangements in connection with the ‘treaty, which he hopes will lead "o the establishment of an Arab confederation including all states | aSimultaneously EI Karmel, an Arab daily in Haifa, says it learns Hussein intends cailing to Mecca the Arab leaders of Syria, Pales- tine, the Irak, Transjordania and Hedjaz to consider the terms of the British treaty. The paper adds E in co ders that Palestine and i cannot be excluded from the terms of the British treaty, nor from the formation of an Arab confedera- tion, despite the fa that the former is under a British mandate and the latter under the French. THE WEATHER District of Columbia and Ma {Fair tonight and tomorrow ichange in temperature: {northeast winds. | Virginia—Partly cloud |tomorrow; probable showers in extreme {southwest portion; little change in temperature: fresh northeast winds. West Virginla—Partly cloudy to- :nh.'hl and tomorrow unsettled in ex- {treme south portion; little change in temperature Record for Twenty-four Hours, Thermometer—4 p.m., 62 {12 midnight, 54; 4 am., 5 inoon. 77. |, Barometer—s 30.20; 12 midnight, 30.22; 18 a.m.. 30.30; noon, 30.28. Highest temperature, , occurred at noon today. Lowest temperature, 48 jocgurred at 5:50 a.m. today. i emperature same da ast y — Highest, 83; lowest, 60, - = o0 Ye4F Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of the water at 8 am.: Great Falls—Tem- perature, 62; condition, very muddy. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States coast and geodetic survey.) Today—Low tide, 9 a.m. P.-m.; high tide, 2:14 a.m. and | | Tomorrow—Low tide, 10 10:21 p.m.; high tide, 3 3:38 pm. KING FEISAL. tonight and pm., 5 am. and THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON Snapshots. SN SAYS SURE HE'LL GET HER SLARP - VER RS KNOWS - HER. LESSLY DENIES SHARPLY SHE SPECIFIED RIGHT HAND TOP DRAWER- SAYS DEMOLRATS LAVSH WITH BUNK George B. Lockwood, secretary of the rcpublican national committee and also editor of the National Re- publican, regarded as the semi- official organ of the national com- mittee, has come back with a sharp reply to a recent statement by Chalr- committee, which alleged that the {republican national organization was {not giving women voters equal rep- resentation in its make-up. In an_editorial today in his news- !paper Secretary Lockwood says, in i part: i { “Bunk is, of course, an important PICKS UP THINGS AIM= REPORTS IT ISN'T THERE POKES IN R.H. TOP DRAWER AND TURNS IN ANOTHER NEGA- TIVE REPORT man Hull of the democratic national | oPP TOP OF CUREAU FOR A BACK WILL GIVE BENEFIT. | Y. W. C. A. Booklovers to End Tenth Year. Y. W. C. A. Booklovers will bring to a conclusion the tenth year of their existence on Monday, when they give their fourth annual benefit at the| Hotel Lafayette, at 8:15 o'clock. The | | proceeds of the benefit will be devoted to the partfal support of a destitute | Washington boy, who is cared for by | the Central Union Mission. Since the death in France of Lieut. | | Louis Hamllton Bayly of this city, the | Booklovers have maintained a memorial | fund designed to keep alive the mem- | lory of the son of Mrs. Willlam Ham-| ilton Bayly, who was, for fourteen years, president of the Wa ington | Y. W. C. A. This year the annual bene- fit will be given two days before the | | consecration of the cemetery at Sures- hes, near Paris, in which is interred {the body of Mr. Bayly. i Mrs. Bayly will be present at the ceremony. Mrs. Richard de Lambert, who is temporarily living in Washing. ton, will give the benefit program, as- sisted by Mme. Paulette Greco, former- CALLS NEVER MIND HE dUST TOUND T WAY IN AT THE | | CALLS DOWN WHERE'D ~ SEARCHES LITTLE SHE SAV iT WAS TOP DRAWER PER INSTRUCTIONS BAYS WELL T LOOKED LIKE HER SCARP TO HIM-A! THAT'S NO WAY TO ACT, HE WAS dUST TRYING 10 HRL PORTRAIT OF A MAN FINDING © wheetersyn. ne. SOMETHING POR HIS' WIEE & MISS GRACE ABBOTT SOCIAL WORK HEAD The results of election of officers of the National Conference of Social Work for 1924 were announced at the closing session of the fiftieth an- niversary meeting here last night as follows: Miss Grace Abbott of Washington, chief of the federa] children’s bureau, was elected president. She was unopposed Dr. Lee K. Frankel of New York | city ‘was elected first vice president, | Rev. Peter Bryce of Toronto. Canada, i second vice president. and James | Hoge Ricks of Richmond, Va., third vice president. The following were elected mem- bers of the executive committee: D. O, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1923 APPEALS SOUNDED ! Ex-Justice Clarke and Presi- dent of Harvard Urge President to Act. The league of nations and the United States were linked together by former Justice John H. Clarke of the United States Supreme Court and Dr. A. Law- rence Lowell, president of Harvard Uni- versity, In addresses yesterday after- noon at Memorial Continental Hall, at a mecting held under the auspices of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Assoclation, of which Mr. Clarke is preeident. The meeting was in connec- tion with the fiftieth anniversary of the ‘Nltlonnl Conference of Social Work, which closed a week's session here last night, If or when the United States enters the league it will be the frontedoor and because the public opinion of the coun- try, irrespective of party, approves of 50 doing, said Dr. Lowell. He agreed with President Harding that America shall not enter the league “by the back I door, the side door or the cellar door.” Appeal to Harding. Justice Clarke declared he did not urge acceptance of the covenant “as it was In 1920, nor as it is now, but as it would be as modified by such reserva- tions as our present administration, or, If not that, the next one, may propose as conditions of our entering it." Mr. Clarke said: “The different thing which the league has proved to be in practice from what it was thought to be in theory and the moral obligation of the promises upon which he was elected all lead us to urge the President to defy the little group of ambitious men In the Senate and by one bold stroke of lead- ership lift this fateful question out of party politics and restore our country to its rightful place in the family of na- tions.” (o Dr. Lowell sald the republicans won out in the election for reasons “wholly apart from* international questions,” and that to treat the lezgue as the campaign issue would therefore “have been misleading.” He sald he belleved that party politics should stop at the water's edge, be- cause foreign policy which is not continuous is dangerous to a nation, and “no policy can be continuous which is supported by one party and opposed by the other.” Miss Grace Abbott, director of the But 7 Days Left . To Pay D.C. Tax Only seven days remain for the payment of real estate and personal taxes without penalty. All bills unpaid at the close of business May 31 will have a penalty of 1 per cent added for June and an additional 1 per cent for each succeeding month the bill remains unpald. The tax office on the first floor of the District bullding is open from 9 until 3 o'clock. If you have obtained your bill you have the privilege of maliling a check. children’s bureau, representative of the United States on the league of nations’ advisory committee on the traffic in women and the new presi- dent of the national conference of s0- cial work, spoke on the work of the league on the white slave traffic ques- tion. She was followed by Dr. Linsley Willlams, director of the anti-tuber- culosis work _of the Rockefeller Foundation in France and of the Na- tional Tuberculosis Association, who stated that health should have no frontiers and that international sus- picions and rivalries should have nothing to do with the question of public health. Homer Folks, past president of the conference, presided. SHOW FILES DEMURRER. Claim Defects in Monkey Bite Suit. The Johnny J. Jones Exposition, & corporation, and W. A. Sigsbee, named as defendants in a suit to re- cover $5,000 damages brought by Harry L. McCormick, jr., for injuries alleged to have been received by the boy when attacked by a monkey at the show last month, today filed a de- murrer to the declaration. . Through Attorney James A. O'Shea the defendants say the plaintiff falled to allege negligence, misjoined parties and failed to state a cause of action. the suit. Cuticura Soap Will Help You Clear Your Skin They ask the dismissal of | 5 Three Delegates Of United States At Drug Session By the Aswociated Press. GENEVA, May 24.—The fifth session of the oplum commission opened to- day at league of nations headquartsrs here with nine countries represented including the United States, whoss delegates are Representative Stephws V. Porter of Pennsylvania, Right Yev C. H. Brent and Dr. Rupert Blue, with Edwin W. Neville of the State De- partment as expert. Germany, one of the largest e: porters of cocaine, is represented, b Switzerland has no delegate present, having declined to ratify the opium convention of 1913. The Swiss press of all shades of opinion is criticizing its government's refusal to ratify. “The strong op- position of a few powerful, profiteer- ing poison merchants,’ s the Ge- neva Tribune, “should not influence the judgment of the federal govern- il Distorted Diamond Values “Three-quarter carat diamonds for $7875; half-carat, $38.95; carat stones, $99.98—all of the finest quality, blue- white,. perfect cut, flaw- less, perfect gems.” Pick up many of the popular magazines, periodicals or newspapers and you will see from one to a dozen such offers as these. * Misre presentation, of course. Sometimes through ignorance, sometimes through in- tent, but in either and both cases. misrepre- sentation that brings loss and disappointment to the credulous buyers. * * Please bear this in mind. Diamonds of fine quality have a very definite value. True, some deal- ers, by reason of their large volume of busi- ness, low overhead e * * % * % penses, shrewdness in merchandising, etc., may be able to underquote The Skn and Moon. {part of thé stock in trade at demo- rose cratic natiohal headquarters, but in this outgiving Chairman Hull is tak- ing chances on using up the whole vast supply in one broadside. Women tute fully one-half of the re- blican women stance of any democratic politician in looking after their own rights and interests in a ly of Parls, and Miss Alice Hutchins | N Edith Campbell, Cincinnatl, ke e he iNtoanent (of SReNE. | Martha P. Falconer, New York city {C. A., Mrs. Herbert E. Day, will pre- | Jonn L. Gillin: Madison. Wis . Mo side. | Lean, Toronto, Canada; Ameila Sears, | 3 | Chicago, 111, i , others. But production EXECUTION IS DELAYED. | BICIRD) Swanka. costs and wholesale Homer Folks, the retiring presi- pl’iCCS are too fixed to Edgdr R. Perrygo, political party where they are by dent, who has presided at the fiftieth = admit of extravagantly force of numbers fitty-fitty and| Murder, Wins Stay for Appeal. Convicted of | anniversary m!ellhngk, summed up his | impressions of the sessions as fol- H ities L C s large disparities. where they have today exactly the | * x same rights as men About two- | lows: | " “Social work is on the map. Every thirds of the women of the country Take our own business, who went to the polls at the last for instance: R. Harris Edgar R Perrygo, twenty-two years | grate in the Union was represented general election voted the republican & Co. has for more than provides that a state considering “that it has an interest of a legal | wature, which may be affected by the | decision in the case, may submit a re- quest to the court to be permitted to intervene as a ghird party.” At the forthc®ning session the World Court also will consider a_sub- ject upon which the council of the ue of nations has asked it for an advisory opinion. This concerns meas- ures taken by the Polish government with regard to individuals of German race in who have protested ARAINSE ex ion from their holdings SR rman territory ceded to 40 am.; sun sets Sun rises 4:49 am.; sun 1001 p.m.; sets 1:13 am Automobile lamps t shted one- half hour after munsey, U LEhted one- Weather in Various Clties. '8 * ¥ e | Weather, | | ! q om0 g “augp gen Mr. Harding Pleased. At the White House there is un- concealed contentment with the or- zanized phases of public sentjment . .30 which now are on record in favor of | Hirmingham. 30.0¢4 the President's world court proposl- | ginmarck’... 30.20 tion. The churches have been for it | " e wholeheartedly from the start. The | national business community, as ex- | mplified © the strong resolutions dopted by the United ates Chamber Commerce at its New York con-| vention earlier in the month, is| qauarely behind Mr. Harding. Sam~| el € 1pe president of the Amer- | ican Federation of Labor, has com- | mitted th de union classes to the project. Senator Arthur Capper, lead- er of the farm bloc, has by his per- | sonal support indicated that agricul- | ture favors American adhesion to the’ court. At Atlanta, recently, the Gen eral Federation Pt.cloudy Clear Clear ‘lear Cloudy “Toud, Clear” : onay | POtiay Cinnay Denver Detroit ¥1 Paso. Galveston HIS is the original home of Goodman & Suss Clothes—hand- tailored in Rochester. old, convicted of the murder of Mrs. Emily Falthful at her home. on Con- | o diminienng trom the® Seersmiad EEAENIEIIRREE I enras) 7ot o !to the end. The pleasure of seeing not be hanged at the District jail to- | \Washi | ticket, and these e recognise | morrow. Justice Bailey of the Dis- Vg‘u“,:)y‘";f;.onbe:r:‘dau::lrd'l'::l‘l‘elsglneal;rt‘ e e D D o = | trict |Supreme Court. \at tequest Of| haraest Kind of Motk on the bact of fifty years handled an Hull fn appointing himself the cham- | Jtiorney James A. O'Shear today | horocnsds "I priork,on the part of Y oUE 2 B S Gwo e v veentation iin polit- | Prostponed the execution until Oc- | better for their jobs. Social welfare unusually large dia- ical parties is to be based on the sex | (EeT 28, 1923. | Is now a recognized permanent. im- mond business. We are rather than the citizenship basis, It] . L€ Postponement was made neces- | portant, responsible factor in Ameri- : Gt ought 1o begin with two delegates | pr%, by the pendency of an apyeal | can life.” importers, too, with di- (o every national party convention, | PeifYEQ to the District Court of | Mr. Folks also reminded the con- rect connections with e & man and one & woman in|APpeals’ A decision cannot be reach- | ference of the statement of Emerson: B Dlrce of overs Sinele delegace chosen | €d before fall, as the case will not be | “In attacking ubuses for every one the wholesaling centers, {;x:lfrnlhe y single & Osen |ready for argument in the appellate | who aims at the root there are a both d ti d for- d present wystem. The same | ¢ripunal untll the October t L a i ot icomestic. aic jor S Al e piiea A ey er term. thousand who aim at the branches. eign. ‘We can both buy state and local convention. For these 5 3 conventions are the real’ sources of and sell to greater ad- authority and final arbiters in politi- s " cal parties. Women are not children, vantage tllmn !hf {1]\ e}r- age jewelry establish- ment. Huron, § Jackxonviile. Kansas City. 30.08 Los Angeles. 29.04 Louisvitie If the Railroads Are Too Busy You May Be Cold Next Winter The busier the railroads, the fewer cars available for hauling reserve fuel. The less fuel stored now the greater the shortage to come. But that need not trouble you if you take advantage of the available supply of Consolidation By-Product COKE. CONSOLIDATION BY-PRODUCT COKE IS THE PERFECT DOMESTIC FUEL It is a labor saver. Now costs much less thaw anthracite coal. 1t is the cleanest fuel. It main- tains a uniform heat. Can be used satisfactorily hot air furnaces, hot water plants, steam plants, cook stoves and latrobes. Phone your coal dealer TODAY—if he can not supply you promptly, commaunicate with us. THE CONSOLIDATION, . COAL COMPANY INCORPORATED Union Trust Building—Washington, D. C. ‘W. A. Leetch, Manager. to be tickled with and if power | in political parti to be given them on the bloe stem, because of their sex, they should Le given the substance and not the shad>w of power. “Meanwhile if Chairman Hull will devote his energies to the task of ad- vancing the legal and economic status of womankind to a point where there will be some approximation in the {sectional south which controls his of the standards attained in whose laws and institutions ent republican policles and he will have far more to do than it will be possible for him to even make a good start on before an- other national campaign rolls round."” * X We know, * from daily experience, that dia- monds of fine quality are not plentiful at any price. We know that if the diamonds advertised as mentioned were of the quality claimed, they could not be bought wholesale for triple the retail prices quoted. * * Pt cloudy Pt.cloudy Glear Pt cloudy Clondy Clear Ciear c of Women's Clubs | acclaimed the scheme in categorical terms, omitting only the mentlon 0(1 its name because of the desire not to widen a breach in the federation on league issues. Mrs. Thomas G, Win- ter, p 1t of the federation, is| vublicly a supporter of the Harding- | Hughes program i The poll just taken by a New York | per, showing seventy-three | ors for the President's proposal | hirty-seven republicans and thirty- democrats—is considered in ad- inistration quarters an uncommon- accurate piece of foreshadowing. Counting the seven republicans and wo democrats certain to be #1 oppo- Yition and listing as hostile even thir- teen other repullican, democratic and farm-labor senators, a total pcw- sible ‘opposition of twenty-two—the world court is seen as a sure winner whenever it can be brought to a vote, But there's, admittedly, the rub. No- body will prophesy when the foreign relations committee, in which opposi- tion is strong, if not paramount, will permit the proposal to reaia the Sen- ate floor for debate and passage. (Copyright, 1923.) Prospects Look Bad. #rom the Kansas City Star. The magnate came home grinninj and sat down In a cheerful frame of mind to carve a large roast. “My private secretary,” he an- nounced, “told me today that he is cngaged to be married. On His salary | the girl will starve.” At this the daughter of the house burst into tears, whereat dad was considerably taken aback. “Why, what's the matter, daugh- ter?” he inquired solicitously. “It's me he is engaged t0-0-0,” sobbed the girl. Okla, Cit. Omaha Philadelphia. 3 Phoenix, Ariz 29, Pittaburch... 3 Portand, M Portlan Raleigh,N.(". 30 S. Lake City 29, Let’s say it again. Clear Cloudy Clear Pt.clondy Clondy Clondy We don’t mind admit- ting that they have had a lot to do with building up this business. Kan_Biego. 8. Francls St. Louis. St. Paul. Seattle Spokane WASH.,D. ¥ This does not mean that good diamonds are necs- sarily prohibitive in price. Fifty dollars, and even less, $75, S$100— we can offer a wide se- lection of high-grade stones within that price range. They are not half, three - quarter or carat stones, of course, but they make an at- tractive showing be- cause they have the bril- liance that comes of genuinely high quality. * % ¥ There are few things so disappointing and un- profitable as inferior diamonds. There are few things so gratifying, pleasurable and profit- able as ownership of a really fine diamond. * % X *x That is why we write this little message—to help you avoid vexation and loss—to help you find protection cad profit. (8 a.m., Greenwich time, toda, : { ) Stations. Temperature. Weather. London, 42 Clear Parls, Raining YVienna, Part cloudy Copenhagen, Part cloudy Stockholm, Part cloudy Cleer Part cloudy Cloudy We don’t mind admit- ting that we had to shave our profit to bring them within the reach of those who liked fine things but thought they were out of sight. Goodman & Suss Clothes are to be had here for as little as $35, because we are more in- terested in VOLUME than we are in the profit on one suit. 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