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WEATHER. Fair tonight row; continued ‘warm. Temperature ‘for t ended at 2 p.m, toda. today. | nd probably tomor- nty-four hour: Highest, 92, at 4 p.m. yesterdi y; lowest, 67. at5 Full rejiort on page 20. .m. [ osing N. Y. S ocks uld Bonds, Page 2 No. 28,889. 108t office Was ¥ ntered as second-class matter shington, D. C. - GERMANY V/ARNED 10 SET NGy FIGURES -~ INNEXT PROPOSAL Hint From F{ritain in Repara- tions Disnute to Be Taken, Prr;ss Declares. NOTE T BE DISPATCHED TO ALLIES THIS WEEK Will Detail Guaranties for Pay- men$s, But Will Leave Sum to Expert Commission. BY GEORGE WITT By Wircless to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923. 3ERLIN, June 4.— Upon another Tint from Great Britain, Germany will not name a definite figure in her new reparations offer to the allies, according to the Berlin newspaper Welt Am Montag. The three dele- gates sent by Chancellor Cuno to London to get information as to kow Prime Minister Baldwin felt about the matter returned with a discour- aging report. Mr. Baldwin and other high British officials refused to see them, and personages whom they did | see declared that 30,000,000,000 gold| marks was insufficient | “However, Chancellor Cuno received | word from England a day or twol| ago,” continues tte paper. “that no definite sum should be mentioned in ermany’s next note, and he is act- ’"”.é“’.‘.’,,".y”l“.?mh will_be sent to the allies probably Wednesday Thursday wi in detail thel} guaranties Germany offers for rep-| arations payments, the total of which will be left to a commission of international experts. WILL DETAIL PLEDGES. Note to Allies Will Suggest Num- ber of Annuities, Says Report. ted Press. 3 By the Assos DRASTIC RUM RULE FOR SHIPS DRAFTED Treasury Department Pre- pares to Put Regulations Into Effect June 10. BERLIN, June 4—No date has vet| been fixed for the official dispatch of | Germany's amendatory reparations i note to the entente powers. At gov- | ernment headquarters it was stated that the cabinet has not reached its | final deliberations on this subject. It is generally aesumed that the note will be read about the middle of the | week, and that its cardinal feature | will consist of a definite offer of fixed number of annuities, for which ngible guarantees secured by strin- gent legislation will be pledged Informal conferences between government and the industrialists, agrarians, banking and commercial interests, labor federations and reichs- tag leaders have been taking place ! daily for the past week: up to the| present they have largely resolved | themselves into a protracted exchange | of views on the guarantees to be of- fered. >aralleling these semi-official par- | Jevs are negotiations between the in- dustrial leaders and labor officials who are mutually striving to neutral- ize some of the more marked differ- | ences which have arison from the | publication of the industrialists memorandum to Chancellor Cuno and | labor's reply to this. { Study Mark Slumps. t The financial writers are led far | afleid in their contemplation of the mark’s catastrophic siump and fts| possible bearing on any reparations program. The nation's floating debt, budgetary chaos, unending currency | inflation and the devastating effect ! of the Ruhr occupation are freely | cited as some of the more obvious | storm signals. Augmenting these are | a _ precipitate upsetting of wage | schedules and a growing practice of | fixing prices of all commodities on a | gold level—both desig: el as men- | acing contributary factors in a situa- tion which is anything but auspicious | for the projection of a tangible | reparations offer. i Declares France Wants Rhine. The experts seem to concur in de- claring that a moratorium is inevit- able, as Germany must be given time to adjust her affairs so that she will be enabled to construct a logical foundation for her pyramid of repa- rations annuities, The slump in the mark, the Deutch Aligemeine Zeitung apparently | fllustrates the complete nonsense ac- | complished by the irrational peace | treaty. H Other editorial pessimists are con- | vinced that any reparations solution | proposed Ly Germ: foreordained | to founder on France's imperialist aspirations. “Poincare negotiations i i I | | says, s is not looking for mone: or securities—he wan the Rhine.” says the Boersen Zeitung, | which adds: “The world’s capitals | would do well to scttle down to seri- | ous contemplation of the ultimate significance and working out of the Rhineland irrendenta which aspires torcibly to place twenty million Ger- mans under hostile foreign dominion. BRITISH SURVEY READY. i | | Modifications in Terms Now Con- sidered Likely. BY MAL O'FLAHERT DBy Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1923. LONDON, June 4.—Realizing th possibility of new interallied consulta. tions on reparations, the British gov ernment has made a complete survey | of the plan Andrew Bonar Law pre- sented to Premier Poincare last Janu- ¥, and is ready with a new memoran- | dum outlining substantial modifications | of the rBitish terms. First, the French occupation of the Ruhr_as it affects Germany’s ability 1o pay, and, second, the funding of the British debt to the United States and the consequent clearing of doubt as to how much Great Britain must demand from her allies and from Germany, Great Britain is now able to explain exactly what sums she must have an- nually from the debtor nations. Pos- sibly the total is smaller than was Jaid down in the statement five months ago. Prime Minister Baldwin has sounded out French, Belgian and Italian opin- jon in talks with the ambassadors of those countries in London, and at the same time has given them some idea 4f Great Britain’s new terms, which will be more fully outlined if the way 10 a new conference is opened. | preme | erage use on any The prohibition division of the in- ternal revenue bureau and the pub- lio health service today are making every preparation to put into effect the regulations issued yesterday by the Treasury Department applying to the letter the decision of the Su- Court barring all beverage liquors from territorial waters of the United States. The regulations take offect after 12:01 a.m. June 10, Specifically the regulations pub- lished today apply the deadline to liquor carried for bev- United States or forelgn vessel as soa stores. It was by finding some means of exemption for liquor so carrled that Treasury officials had hoped at first to avoid conflict with forelgn laws. Besides the exemption granted liquor for medicinal and sacramental purposes, the only exceptions in the wall thrown up against liquor trans- portation within the three-mile limit are the usual immunity accorded dip- lomats and the privileges allowed foreign vessels of war. Also vessels forced by distress into an American harbar and able to show that the necessary refuge was grave, will, if they have liquor aboard, be permitted to give bond for faithful observance of the dry law. Look for No Change. The public health service officials do not believe that it will be possible for foreign laws S0 as to permit of an excessive amount of liquor aboard vessels for | medicinal purposes, or that the na- tions will attempt any such amend- ments. Nor do they look for any effort to include as medicinal liquor the liquor which some of the foreign vessels now carry by law as part of the rations for their crews. “Liquor as a part of the ration is no more medicine than is bread or meat,” one official said today. However, in other quarters it has been suggested that possibly forelgn nations might seek to have this liquor ration regarded as “medicinal,” and in that way avoid some of the difi- culties which are sure to arise over the strict enforcement of the decision of the Supreme Court against the carrying of l:quor aboard vessels within the three-mile limit. The decision by the federal court in New York to the effect that Con- gress has no right under the prohibi- tion amendment to limit the amount of liquor which a physician may pre- three-mtfe | nations to amend their | l | tate MeCandl {eof Virginia ana WASHINGTON, D. Giant Submarine InBritain Mounts Twelve-Inch Gun Br the Assoclated Press. LONDON, June 4—England will have the largest and most power- ful submarine in the world when the mystery ship, Submarine X-1, is completed. This glant under- water craft, which will soon be launched at Chatham, will dis- place 2,780 tons and 3,600 tons when submerged. This displace- ment is greater by more than a thousands tons than that of any American or German submarine now afloat. The X-1 will mount a twelve- inch gun. She will be able to bambard an object at long or short range and then slip quickly benaath the waves. With her great speed and gunpower, which will surpass anything in her class in the American Navy, she will be more than a match for most sur- face veusels. The submarine w 1aid down eighteen months ago. M. VERNON VISIT FIRST SHRINE ACT Imperial Potentate Welcomed at Washington’s Tomb by Gov. Trinkle. George Washington, man and Mason, was lauded today at exer- eclses held at Mount Vernon, the first official act of Imperial Potentato George Sutton McCandless of Hon- oiulu and his divan, together with past Imperial potentates and the imperial representatives of the Im- perial Council, Ancient Arabic Or- der, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In the presence of thousands of assembled Shriners, Imperial Poten- and the Shriners were welcomed to the tomb of Washington by Gov. E. Lee Trinkle his staff. Leonard P. Steuart, potentate of Almas Temple of this city, placed a magnificent wreath of roses upon the tomb of Washington. The exercises began shortly after 11 o'clock, the imperial potentate and his divan hav- ing left Washington on special elec- tric cars from 12th street and Penn- sylvania avenue at 9 o'clock. Gov. Trinkle, in _ welcoming Shriners, declared that very few, if any, men have visited the sacred shrine_with more right than those the (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) First Floor of White House Is Opened to Shrine Hosts As a special compliment to the visiting Shriners and the members of their familles Noble Warren G. Harding has thrown open the entire first floor of the White House for them to see. No tickets or invitations will be required and, according to some of the older attaches of the White House, this is the first time any President has extended such a broad and general invitation to inspect the famous old presidential mansion. At an early hour (oday. hundreds of members ‘of the order took ad- vantage of “Brother Warren's” kindly offer and went through that part of the house opened to them. The front grounds of the White House were alive with sightseers all day and the large old shade trees and smooth lawns and picturesque shrubbery were greatly admired. Ben All Temple of Sacramento, Calif., has the honor of being the first of the visiting Shriners to sere- nade the White House. Shortly after 10 o'clock this morn- ing this organization, 250 strong, led its band and chanters marched into the front grounds and gave an In- teresting, though brief, concert In front of the north portico. Mrs. Harding, with some friends, appeared at an upper window and waved a most cordial and friendly greeting to the visitors. George B. Christian, jr., the President's secre- tary, greeted the officers of the or- ganization on the portico. President Harding was busily engaged prepar- ing two speeches he was to deliver later in the day and was prevented from personally acknowledging the compliment. The clown choir, here with Bagdad Temple, Butte, Mont., caused much ) 154 | ! ! fun in the White House grounds when it appeared. Its piano was painted white and on rubber-tired Whetls, which made it easy to move from one place to another. Those in this fun-making group were Howard McIntyre, county treas- urer of Silver Bow county, Mont.; Joe Davis, Bert Mayer and Fisher Thomp- son, ‘the last a prominent song writer. They were introduced to Secretary Christian at the executive office by Noble Eddie Hanmer, who R to Washington several days ago to_make arrangements for Bag- dad. President Harding has prom- ised to write his signature on the face of the piano before the conven- tion is over. Probably one of the most pictur- €sque outfits to present itself to the White House was Damascus of Rochester, N. Y. More than 300 mem- bers of this temple, arrayed in_their handsome and brilliantly colored uni- forms and headed by Potentate Her- man Dossenbach, entered the grounds through the west gate. Their band and drum corps of more than forty pleces attracted hundreds of persons and called for much applause when it concluded its concert in front of the executive office. Secretary Christian formally ceived Potentate Dossenbach at the door of the office building and ex- tended the President’s appreciation of thelr coming. He also expressed the latter's regret at not being able to come out and personally greet them. Potentate Dossenbach introduced to the secretary members of his divan, Capt. Charles S. Owen of the patrol; ‘W. Stanley Hawkins, leader of the chanters, and Thomas Dossenbach, leader of the band. He al intro- duced Noble C. D. Van Zandt, mayor of Rochester, re- Foening Star. { | | i fof 3. | street, shortly after 3 o'clock this aft- WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION “From Press to Home The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Within the Hour” | | | Saturday’s Net Circulation, 89,043 _Sunday’s Circulation, 101,142 NAVY YARD WAGE INCREASE FAVORED Report Recommends Pay Raises of Five Cents an Hour as Average. Increase in wages on an average of 5 cents per hour is recommended for approximately 2,400 employes of the Washington navy yard and vicinity in a report of the local wage board, forwarded to the Navy Department's general wage board, It was learned today. number of instances the crease will amount to more thar cents per hbur, while In & few cases there will be & decrease in wages. The suggested scale, it is under- stood, would bring the wages of ma- chinists from 73 cents per hour to 78 cents; pattern makers, from 85 cents to 90 cents per hour; boiler- makers, from 13 cents to 78 cents per hour; molders, from 78 cents to 85 cents per hour, and would also bring a reduction of a few cents per hour to painters. This scale will go Into effect July provided that the general wage board of the Navy Department ap- proves it. The routine of such cases is for the local wage board to make the recommendations for and to present such recommendatons to the commandaint of the navy yard, who in turn forwards the matter to in- In a the general wage board of the Navy | Department. The scale becomes au- thorlzed upon approval of the gen- eral wage board FIVE HURT BY FALL OF PART OF CEILING Collapse in Store Causes Near Tu- mult on Crowded Streets. Collapse of part of the ceiling on the second floor the the three-story store E. Cunningham & Co., 316 T7th ernoon resulted in the of five persons. Great excitement prevailed among the large crowds downtown as the police cars sped to the scene with sirens shrieking. Those more seriously injured were Miss Catheriné Streets of 915 L street northwest, Miss Emma J. Hinkins, Falls Church, Va., and Miss Currier. They were taken to Emergency Hospital. The injured persons were on the second floor, in the millinery department, when the plaster and other portions of the ceiling suddenly gave away. Head- quarters detectives responded to the emergency cals. SLAIN GRAIN DEALER FOUND UPON TRACKS Police Say Kansas City Man Was Murdered and Body Moved. injury By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 4.—The body of Guy A. Moore of the Moore- Lawless Grain Company and former president of the local board of trade, was found on the tracks of the.Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail- road near here late yesterday. had been cut in two. Police said that Moore had been killed before the body was placed on the tracks. The place where Mr. Moore's body was found is near a large grain ele- vator, and police believe robbery was the motive for the killing. MUST PAY ALIENS. California Compensation Act Held Valid by High Court. California’'s workman’s compensa- tion insurance and safety act of 1917 applies to non-resident alien de- pendents as well as residents and is valid, the Supreme Court held today in two cases brought by the Madera Sugar Pine Company a the California Industrial acci com- mission. MONDAY, JUNE 4, increases | Multitude Sees Service at Marker of Hub of System Accepted Part of An appeal for better roads as a means of developing trade and com-| merce and of obliterating remoteness | and the making of a better America | was made by President Harding to-| day in an address at the dedication of the Zero Milestone, on the Ellipse im- mediately south of the White House, this afternoon. Mrs. Harding, Imperial Potentate McCandless and hundreds of other | high officers of the Mystic Shrine and | other prominent citizens were among | the several thousand persons who were on hand to witness the dedica- tion of this stone, which from now on Is to mark the point of calculation of | all road distances in this country. “Our country has been more depend- lent upon the ‘develonment of internal | ihiehways.” the President sald, “than lany other country in all h icause our vast continental area is so 11l supplied with those arms of the | sea which have always kept the coun- tries of western Europe in close touch | !with that great universal and common high road, the open ocean” The President pointed proudly to the de velopment of highways in this country, | which accomplishment, he stated, has been done in a most inconceivably short time. Progress Wonderful. Touching upon what he termed the wonders of the progress in road building in America the President said: “On the whole, we have made a wonderful progress, as Is attested by the fact that our continent pos- sesses approximately half of the world's whole mileage of railroads But in the matter of rural roads tributary to these we have until very recent vears made a far less impres- sive advance. Within two decades howéver, marking the era of the mo- tor age, our advance in this respect has been phenomenal. making it most fitting that a recognized center of the highway system should be set.” The executive paid high tribute to tho capital, =“en he said, “It is ap- | propriate that our golden {has been placed in the Nath | tal, the spiritual and _ Institutional {ceéntér of the catten. From it will | aiverge, to it will converge, a cease- | less tide whose movements will al- { ways keep our wide-flung popula- | tion in that close intimacy of thought |and interest. and aim which is so i | necessary to the maintenance of uni. ty and nationality.” The President's Address. President Harding's address in full at the dedication of the zero milestone follows: “My Countrymen: In the old Ro- man forum there was erected in the days of Rome's greatness a golden milestone. From it was measured and marked the system of highways Which gridironed the Roman world {and bound the uttermost provinces |to the heart and center of the em- { pire. i e are dedicating here another golden milestone. to which we and | those after us will relate the wide- | ranging units of the highway system |of this country. From the golden |zero stone of the Roman highway system the soldie the adventurers, the administrators and, later, the missionaries of Rome went out to In a stirring appeal to the American people to devote more attention to better housing and to the increase of home comfort, President Harding to. day in addressing several thousand people at the dedication exercises in- cident to the opening of Home Sweet Home, the national demonstration house for better homes in America in | Sherman Park, which is located south of the Treasury Department, declared that the great single industry in America is the management of the have too often overlooked this the President said. “But so far as this world knows or can vision, there is no attainment more desirable than the happy and contented home.” Accompanied By Mrs. Harding. The executive was accompanied by Mrs. Harding, several members of the cabinet, Imperial Potentate McCand- less and other high officers of the Mystic Shrine. ' As the executive looked admiringly toward the attractive house, which has been designed as a model home, from the general lines of the boy- hood home of John Howard Payne, author of the world famous song, | “Home, Sweet Home,” he sald with much feeling, “the ‘home is at last not merely the center, but truly the aim, the object, and the purpose of all human organizations. We do not seek to improve society in order that from better homes we may bring forth better servants of the state, more ef- | ficlent cannon fodder for its armed { forces; we seek to make better homes sity for conflict and turmoil in our world. The home is the apex and the aim, the end, rather than means of our whole social system.” Text of Address By Presiden “Ladles and gentlemen, the move- ment for better homes in America, as we all know, is a movement for a better America. “This house which we are dedicating is modeled after the much-beloved cottage on_ Long Island which was the home of John Howard Payne and inspired his im mortal song, “Home, Sweet Home. Erected by the sponsors of the bet- | ster_homes movement of America, it is_dedicated to the enlightment and advancement of our efforts for home- making: and beyond that—I am sure 1 hardly need to tell you this—the movement represents the organized women of America, those who are al- | ing forces of clvilization and 1923 -FORTY PAGES. TWO CENTS. Dedication Zero Milestone National Highway by President on Nation. carry the institutions and the civiliza- tion” of the imperial state to their expanding world, The Romans were the highway builders of the ancient world: and we shall find inspiration on this occasion in the thought of how greatly their highways influ encod the course of all history since their time. Along those ancient highways surged the great conflict bar- barism. now ebbing, now flowing. but always influencing the barbarians toward the civilization, the institu- tions, the religon of the Ttalian penin- sula. Indeed, it would require little imagination to picture our civilliza tion in terms of its distance, by miles or by centuries, from that ancien Roman community which first con- ceived the highways as the arteries of the enlightened state. Always the avenues of trade were the paths of widening civilization. Dependent on Highwayx. “Our country has heen m a pendent upon the development of in- ternal highways than any other in all history, bLecause our vast con- Unential area is so ill-supplied with those arms of gea. which have always kept the countries of western Europe in close touch with that great uni- versal and common highroad, the open ocean. To us, comirg late in the drama of human development, it was particularly necessary that won- ders of highway construction should be accomplished in an almost incon- celvably short time. On the whole, we have made 4 wonderful progress, as is attested Ly the fact that our continent possesses approximately half of the world's whole mileage of railroads. But in the matter of rural roads. tributary to these. we have un- til very recent years made a far less impressive advance. Within two dec- ades, however, marking the begin- ning’ of the motor age, our advance in this respect has heen phenomenal, making it most fitting that a recog- nized center of the highway system should at this time be set up. “It is appropriate, too, that our golden milestone has been placed here in the National Capital, the spiritual and institutional center of the nation From it will diverge, to it will con- verge, the ceasless tides whose move- ment will always keep our wide-flung population in ihat close Intimacy of thought, pLers Meeting Place of Highway “There s another reason why this particular location ehould have been chosen for our golden milestone. It marks the approximate meeting place | of the Lincoln highway and the Lee highway: of the northern and south- | ern systems of national roads. From it we may view the memorial to Lin coln and the kFome of Lee. It mark: the meeting point of those sections which once grappled in conflict, but now are happily united for all time in the bonds of national fraternity, of a single patriotism and of a com- mon destiny. As we shall extend and improve our highways and more and more adapt them to the method: of transport which this age has so marvelously developed for us, we shall strengthen, vear by year, the ties of mutual interest and interde- pendence which united all our sec- tions. Every vear of our develop- ment in this epoch of rapid and uni- versal transportation makes it more unthinkable that suggestion of dis- union shall ever be tolerated among President Makes Home Plea In Dedicating ‘Model Dwelling’ devising new conveniences, of ex- panding that understanding of domes- | tic science which must make for the improvement of American homes. We have devoted much thought to the improvement in production, transpor- | tation and to a thousand things that | make for the advancement of civiliza- tion. | “We have too often overlooked the | fact that after all the greatest single industry in America is the manage- ment of the American home, where 20,000,000 women toil every day of the | year; 18,000,000 of these women doing | their own work without help. There | 18 no other activity or industry com- | parable to this, in the numbers em- | ployed, the effort devoted to it, or the | importance of its products; mor, in the significance of the spiritual forces that envelop it. Aim of All Organizations. “The home is at last not merely the center, but truly the aim, the object, | and the purpose of all human organ- ization. We do not seek to improve | socfety in order that, from better homes, we may bring forth better servants of the state, more efficient cannon fodder for its armed forces; rather we seek to make better homes in order that we may avoid the neces- sity for conflict and turmoil, in our world. The home is the apex and the aim, the end rather than the means of our whole social system. So far as this world knows or can vision, there is no attainment more desirable than the happy and contented home. “It is only a few years ago that this problem of deliberately develop- ing better homes received its first consideration in the establishment of departments of home economics in some of our universities. Since then training in home-making has become a feature of our educational system, It | in order that we may avoid the neces- | but it should have wider projection i The problem of beiter equipment of the home, from the viewpoint of econ- omy in labor and effort, has received all too little attention. We have at- tached importance to making better- looking homes, to providing for home ownership; but this movement is de- sigried to advance the creation of homes which require less effort in management, of homes equipped in better taste, of homes which leave to women who must manage them of privilege for social and spiritual improvement. Man of Yesterday a Serf. “The common man of yesterday was a serf, a peasant, bound to tasks whose significance he did not know, and for whose results he had small care. The common man of today is a citizen, a ways at last responsible for making the home. It is not so much the prob- lem of housing as it is the blem of incréasing the home comforts, of voter, a sovereign, truly a participant in determining the ends and destiny of the state. It is the purpose of the Bet- (Continued on fi 12, Column 4.) a wider opportunity, a greater range: | i | i Decorations Populated by queer-looking Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of stood a-top the Capitol and polis 1 1 overnight. ington had become Mecca and | Those who came downtown { most fantastic costumes of the ¢ I pletely surrendered today to the frivolities and fanfare of the SHRINE THOUSANDS THRONG CITY AS CONCLAVE GETS UNDER WAY: 200,000 DUE HERE BY TONIGHT Fantastic Oriental Costumes and Transform the Avenue Into a Huge Bazaar. CAPITAL DROPS ITS STATELY AIR, CAPITULATES TO MERRY HOSTS Nobles Journey to Mount Vernon to Pay Tribute—California Reaches Zero Milestone. C aravan clans of jolly men garbed in the olorful orient, Washington com- the Mystic Shrine. Had Aladdin hed his lamp until it gleamed like i gold, he could scarcely have created a more complete change ! Gone was the quiet everyday life of America's capital. In | its stead there reigned the bazaar atmosphere of a pompous land that lives only in fairy tales or childish imaginations. For Wash- down its stately avenues there romped the noisy bands of the faithful, called to annual conclave by the most illustrious muezzin of the Shrine. Incessant Parade of Bands. with thoughts of work in their | minds gladly gave up such ideas in desperation as an almost in- i cessant proces ion of bands, lea { nobles of newly arrived Shrine | Pennsylvania | inviting the most reticent to join below. | rendered gleefully. | All was not unrestrained fu | the tomb of George Washingto: | States and a Master Mason. eral _hundred Shrin, emple, seyergl b “and placed a wreath on ‘and | \ With 100,000 Shrine visitor another 100,000 expected before jammed. Thirty-one special trai | Shrine clubs and affiliated bodi 1 ‘Welcome to Pacific Caravan. At 1:30 o'clock every noble in Washington greeted with a tremen- dous shout and blast of trumpets and bass drums the transcontinental | caravan, which completed its long | trek from California to Washington |on the Ellipse just south of the | White House. There President Hard- ing, assisted by ‘his brother nobles, deaicated the zero milestone, which all highway distances henceforth be measured. Scarcely had the flag been removed from the zero milestone than the President and the entire party moved over to the rear of the Treasury and dedicated the model home in_ honor of John_Howard Payne, author of “Home, Sweet Home.” It was a call for better homes in America, and the structure itself represents the ideal home—the foundation of civilization itself. One Can't See Everything. No person will ever be able to say they saw everything during Shrine week. The sideshows alone would require almost two whole weeks. Og, every hand there is something to at- tract the visitor and citizen alike. The Potomac river and Eastern branch swarms with craft from mini- ature motor boats to sleek destroy- ers and seaplanes. Over at Bolling Field a constant air circus is in progress and down the side streets there are sights of interest to everybody, from babies to Masons. While 2’ Rodeo was in progress at Union station plaza and a base ball game at American League Park, a I motor boat parade was under way up the Potomac river and visiting bands were furnishing music in every part of the city throughout the afternoon. | Washington is simply a huge circus | €rounds, with the center of the city ;and the big top fringed on every edge by hundred of sideshows. Temples Swarm In All Day. The first temples today began to arrive at day-break. No sooner had their trains stopped than the nobles abroad swarmed off, fell in line and paraded through the city, led by their own personal bands. Most of the temples brought large uniformed patrols and by noon Pennsylvania will over-flowed into F street, and around the Treasury. Fezz-capped men, wearing red velvet bloomers, white spats, blue jackets fringed with yellow braid literally swarmed the 'streets. There was every color of the rainbow mixed with dozens of shades that art would be ashamed to recognize. Some wore veils. A complete list of the specials due today follows: Abba of Mobile, Ala; Affi, of Tacoma, Wash.: Ainad, of East St. Louis, Il.; Aliadin, of Co- lumbus, Ohlo, the President’s home temple; Alcazar. of Montgomery, Ala; Al Chymia of Memphis, Tenn.; Ale of Savannah, Ga.; Aleppo, of Boston, Mas Alhambra, of Chattanooga, Al Kader, of Portland, Ore.; Al Malaika, of Los Angeles; Al Sihah a.;, Anah, of Bangor, Me.; Ansar, of Springfleld, Ill.; Antioch, of Dayton, Ohio; Arabia, of Houston, Tex.; Ararat, of Kansas City, Mo.; Bagdad, of Butte, Mont. Bektash of Concord, N. H.; Ben Hur, Austin, Tex.; Benl Kedem, Charleston, W. Va.; Crescent of Trenton, N. J.; Cyprus of Albany, N. Y.. Egypt of Tampa, Fla.; Elf Khurafeh of Saginaw, Mich.; El Hasa of Ashland, Ky.; El Jebel, Denver, ‘olo. El Kahir, Cedar Rapids, lowa; El Maida, El Paso, Tex.; El Mina of G street | they opened their program toda: from | avenue was a riot of color that even | ding the patrols, potentates and temples, paraded up and down avenue—"“The Road to Mecca’—shattering the atmosphere with one continuous clash of music and cheering, the merry throngs on the street > It was an irresistible appeal to cast aside the fetters of | business—to bow before Queen Frivolity—and Washington sur- n with the nobles, however, for y with solemn ceremonies at n, first President of the United Headed by Imperial Potentate James S. McCandless and Leonard P. Steuart, potentate of Almas e officials journeyed to Mount the tomb of the nation’s father. 100,000 to Arrive Today. s in Washington yesterday and midnight, the city was literally ns arrived at their various termi- nals yesterday and another seventy-six were scheduled to come ;in today. In addition to a number of special trains chartered by es were due here, bringing the estimated number of trains coming here today alone, exclusive of the regular trains, at nearly 100. "'ral\'eslnn. Tex.; Hejaz of Greenvill 8. C.; India of Oklahoma City, Okla.; Irem of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and Jaffa, Altoona, Pa. Jerusalem of New Orleans. La.; Kaaba, Davenport, Iowa: Kalurah of Binghampton. N. Y.; Karnak of Mon- | treal, Can.; Kazim of Roanoke., Va | Kerbela of Knoxville. Tenn.: Khediv | of Norfolk, Va.; Kismet of Brook- |lyn, N. Y.’ Kora of Lewiston. Me Kosair of "Louisville, Ky.; Lu Lu of | Philadelphia; Mahi of Miami, Fla.; | Mecca of New York; Media of Water- | town, N. Y.: Medina of Chicago; Me- {dian’ of Wichita, Kan.; Merza of Pittsburgh, Kan.; Mocha, London, Ont. They came from every | the nation anq proclaimed | ners and cheers the names of their home temples, each one vying in friendly competition with the other, trying to make the best appearanc and the most nolse and turning staid Washington into a veritable bedlam Swam Into Buildings. | Not satisfied with confining their | riotous celebrations to the streets, many of ‘the bands swarmed into newspaper offices, office buildings, hotels unq various Shrine headquar- ters, serenading the occupants for ten to fifteen minutes. It was simply fmpossible for Washington not to laugh and cheer with the merry, laughing Shriners. Their very uniforms provoked frivolity, and he who walked down the street without at least a smile soon enough found reason to “haw-haw” outright. Washington simply opened its eyes in wonder. As a matter of fact w !ders became the commonplace. Ev- jery time a new patrol or band march- ed past the staring pedestrian | thought he must have seen the height | of color and music, only to find it suc- i ceeded a tew minutes later by anoth- er_patrol even more pretentious Mchammed of Peoria, 111.; Morocco, Jacksonville, Fla; Moslem of De- troit; Oleika of Lexington. Ky, Omar, ‘Charleston. §. C.; Oriental. Troy, ¥.: Pyramid of Bridgeport Conn.: Rajah’ of Reading. Pa.; Rameses of Toronto, Ontario; Riz- pah of Madisonville, Ky.; Salaam' of ewark, N.'J.; Soudan of New Bern, C.;" Syria’ of Pittsburgh, Pa.: yrian of Cincinnati. Ohio; Tebala, ! Rockford. TIl.; Tigris of Syracuse, {N. Y. Tripoli of Milwaukee, Wis.. Wahapl of Jackson, Miss.; Yaarab of Atlanta, Ga.; Zamora of Birmingham, Ala; Zem Zem of Erie, Pa., and Ziyara, Utica, N. Y. 35,000 to March on Avenue. Tomorrow will be an even busier day than today. At 9 o'clock tomor- row morning every uniformed patrol and _Shrine body in Washington, rumbering nearly 35,000 men will march down the road to Mecca, pass in review before Noble Wa ren G. Harding in the Garden of Allah. In the line of march will be the imperial potentate, hi§ imperial divan, all of the past imperial po- tentates, the Almas Temple divan and a host of other Shrine dignitaries. While the parade is in progress, the United States coast guard will give a life saving drill in the tidal basin and immediately after, the procession hag passed the reviewing stand, the Imperial Council will be called to or- der at its first session in Keith's Theater. Planes to Give Exh At noon an organ recital will be held in Epiphany Church by H. E. Meuller and the wives of the Im- perial representatives will be en- tertained at luncheon at the Hotel Raleigh by the ladles of the 1923 Shrine committee. Beginning at 10:30 a fleet of twenty land and seaplanes together with the U. S. S. Langley, alreraft carrier, will give the largest Continued on Page %, Column 2.) corner of by ban- i N i pition.