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WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorro: cooler tonight; probably light frost in ex- posed places, Temperature for twent: four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 68, at 5:30 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 55, at 8 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 12 29,026. 0. post office Was| Entered as second-class matter hington, D. C. MONARCHIST ARMY ~ WAITING COMMAND TOSEIZE GERMANY Prince Oscar, Kaiser’s Son, Leads Force Ready to Dissolve Republic. CONQUEST PLANNED EVEN TO MOST MINOR DETAILS Ludendorff in Conspiracy Which Threatens to Restore Hohenzollerns. BY HIRAM K. MODERW y Cable to The Star and Chicago Du = Copsright, 1923, BERLIN, October i3 (by courier to Amsterdam, delayed) —DMilitary prep- arations for a monarchist revolt in north Germany have been completed. The military leader is Gen. von Let- tow Vorbeck, who was commander in German North Africa during the world war. The secret commander- in-chief is Prince Oscar, the younger son of former Emperor Wilhelm, who hias been living in the reichswehr barracks at Potsdam for the past few weeks. Gen. Ludendorff is intermedi- ary between the illegal military or- ganizations—the “black reichswehr” ~and the national army. He has been secretly in Berlin for the past week. All the monarchist couriers are | now mobilized and ready for instant ction. A hundred and fifty military | automobile trucks are waiting at Bornstedt, near Potsdam. The split | in the * monarchist organizations which spoiled the last uprisings has| been healed by the good offices of reichswehr officers. H The refchswehr has demanded that the state police deliver up all heavy artillery “for inspection.” Republi- cans now believe that the reichswehr is completely organized to aid the uprising, and it is only unce rtain whether Chancellor Stresemann will seek to gain the leadership by order- ing military 1measures inst red Saxony, which would occasion an in- stant and complete general strike, or will seek to delay the climax Participation by the reichswehr in the matured plot is evidenced by many signs. Leaders Monarchists. Its generals are practically all mon- willing to join monarchist whenever these promise success. They consider that the time has now arrived. They have man- aged cleverly in the past few months £0 to involve responsible goyernment officials, like Minister of War Gessler, that these are now helpless to thwart their plans . The illegal military organizations stand in closest connection with the regular army. Their leaders come and go freely about reichswehr head- quarters in Kurfuerstenstrasse, Mem- bers of the “black reichswehr” have their uniforms and equipment hang- ing In many reichswehr barracks, | ready to be taken down when the call comes. During the week end the first of this month the black reichswehr was mobilized everywhere around Berlin The writer is informed that two i legal military organizations—the Bis marckbund and the Deutscher Herold —were supplied with ammunition by the reichswehr. The irregulars. whe, on October 1, attempted uprisings at Spandau and elsewhere. were “ar- rested” and sent home with full mili- tary equipment to await the next summons. Summons Issued. This summons has now been issued, the correspondent is informed, for irregular leaders in Bavaria have re- ceived mysterious telegrams reading “Life insurance expired,” which is said to mean that the German repub- lic is finished. The ematic provocation by the chswehr Gen. Mueller against the axon government was intended to prduce a situation in which the reich- swehr and the irregulars would hav an excuse for a general monarchistic uprising with the Bavarians. Note.—Later advices from Berlin in- dicate that Chancellor Stresemann ha spoiled th scheme, at least tempo- rarily, by decision 11 the ob- jectionable He also is reported to ecided upon dis- placing Gen. von Lossqw, the reich- swehr commander in monarchist Ba- ia. * The latter step is vigorously grnosed In Bavaria, and If taken may ead to complications betw. erli and Munich. S Charge Cuno Knew of Plot. Former C cellor Cuno is alleged monarchist circles have been aware of the organization of illezal n\xlnx_r\ bands and to have a rov it " Evidnce of this complichy wag contained, it is asserted. in the test mony by 'Herr von Graefe, leader of the Deutsch Voelkische pare; in the preliminary hearing held last April in the case against the Turnerichaf- ten, or “athletic clubs,” which were | d of being mere disguised mil- | ry organizations Graefe testified that he had con- ferred with Chancellor Cuno shortly before the occupation -f th: Ruhr and | had offered his athletic clubs to the | government for fighting either for- eign enemies ‘or internal disorder: but demanded in re compense that lcaders should he immuns fron Herr Cuno, according to his testimony, welcomed the idea, but did not give any promise. Shortly’ thereafter . ineeting of nationaljst leaders was held at Han- over, at which Gen. Ludendorif was present. and plans for organization of the black reichswehr, as described by the writer in previous dispatches, were drawn up. Ofieials Appraised. It was decided to concentrate most of these irregulars in the central Ger- man industrial area, including Saxony. These plans, it was asserted, had the approval of the reichswehr generals, It seems unthinkable that such plans could have been carried out without the knowledge of Chancellor Cuno, Minister of War Gessler und Pres dent Ebert. The organiger of these athletic clubs was Lieut. Rossbach, who was re- leased recently without trial on a charge of high treason, and who was ordered rearrested by Minister Gess- ler, but managed to proceed to Bavaria _without molestation. The former chancellor held a_conference with Lieut. Rossbach at Munich last April, shortly before the lieutenant's arrest. Herr Cuno admitted having attended the conference, but claimed he did not know who Rossbach was, and pleaded his innocence of any com- plicity in secret military organiza- tions. The _whole _affair . constitutes (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) arch uprisings re in not Heads Monarchist Plot in Germany PRINCE OSCAR. Son of former Kaixer Wilhelm, whose order ix awaited by royalixt army to take control in Germany. Complete plans for dissolution of the republic have been made down to xmallest de- tail. CHANCELLOR PLANS T0 DISCUSS CRISIS Stresemann Speech Today to Deal With Chaotic Condi- tion in Nation. By the Associated Press BERLIN, October 20.—Chancellor Stresemann, it is announced, will pub- licly discuss today Germany's foreign relations and the situation in Ruhr and Rhineland. The report that Gen. von Lossow, commander of the reichswehr in Bavaria, has been recalled by Dr. Otto jessler, the military dictator, w confirmed at the ministry of defensé late last night. While President Ebert and Dr. Gessler sincerely desire to avoid friction with Munich at a_time when the Berlin government is busily engaged in an effort to subdue the red premier of Saxony, von Lossow's stubbornness in acting ¢n the or- ders of the defense minister, in which he has been liberally encouraged by the Bavarian dictator, Dr. von Kahr, has so incensed both the president and Dr. Gessler that they felt federal military authority and army discipline would be menaced should they permit the reichswehr com- mander to flout them further. Position Delicaté. Unless Dr. Gessler now succeeds in selecting a successor to von Lossow as military governor of Bavaria, the central government's state of emer- gency decree will become null and void so far as Bavaria is concerned and_dictator- von Kahr will then be in a position to dlsregard entirely any edict proclatfhed by President Ebert or the minister of defense. The immediate outcome of the pres- ent controversy will be another ex- change of diplomatic amities between Berlin and Munich, in which the cen- tral government, experience show usual comes out second best. The situation with regard to Saxony indicates a temporary abatement in the tension of the past few days and the Berlin government is confining its activities in that state to a general policing movement in an effort to suppress lawlessness and rioting. A report that Gen. von Mueller, chswenr commander in Saxony, has recalled is officially denied. It aid that the military governor of axony is acting in complete unison with President Ebert and Dr. Gessler. DEBT BODY APPROVES YEAR’S REPORT OF WORK Decline to Discuss Question of De- lay of Foreign Governments’ Negotiations. The American debt commission held a brief session today, but took no action except vote approval of the annual report to Congress. - Members declined to distuss ques- tions whether there had been talk in the meeting about the delay by for- eign governments in initiating or re- newing funding negotiations. No date Was set for another meeting. Bird Dog Saves Life of Master Fighting Death Hug of Beari Special Dispateh to The Stu CAMDEN-ON-GAULEY, W. Va. October 20.—H. V. Jarrett, cross- tie contractor of Three Forks, had a thrilling fight with a bear and two cubs, in which his two dogs also figured, and he displays the carcass of a bear weighing 220 pounds, a rifle with marks of a bear's teeth on the stock, a badly lacerated chest and right arm and a hunting shirt torn to ribbons as evidence. f Jarrett, about seven miles from Three Forks, picked up the trail of a female bear and two cubs. The bear had entered a thicket clump of laurel and the hunter's two dogs, one a seasoned bird dog, the other an ejghteeh-month-old “green” dog, rushed into the at- tack, z Can Fire Only One Shot... After pushing his way through the thicket, Jarrett was confront- ed by the mother bear making for the-young dog, which was in full fiight. The bear was about twenty feet away when Jarrett first saw her and was coming down the hill erect with front paws high in the air. Jarrett had time to fire only one shot, a roar of rage showing that it had taken effect, but be fore he could throw another cart- K the | thes dean of the acti: WASHINGTON, ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION B, RACEMAD 100000 | GATHER FORCLASSIC OF TRACK HISTORY Zev and Papyrus More Calm Than Frenzied Throng Be- fore Barrier Lifts. LAST-MINUTE RULING ELIMINATES MY OWN Muddy Track, Gray Skies, Fore- cast—Both Horses Ready for Contest. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October hemispheres were awaiting today the shout from one hundred thousand throats that would be echoed around the earth—“They're off! The day dawned brisk and clear at Belmont Park, where Zev and Papy- rus will run at 4 p.m. The track was slow as the result of several days’ rain, which did not subside until late last night. The forecast was cooler and cloudy. Zev and Papyrus are ready. The pleture is of a vast crowd, tense and shouting, mostly grouped in a big mass, but scattered all along the fringe of a huge oval; a bell rings and then two prancing horses of blue blood and high spirits, and atop them two diminutive figures, one flashing royal purple and primrose, the other in soft green bordered in white. | A few nervous minutes s they draw up at the post, and rear; !hvn“ a flash as the barrier is sprung and | man and beast shoot out for the en- viable lead and the coveted rail; the struggle at the turn: the dash down the back stretch; the contest as the last curve is rounded and the deaf-| ening roar as they come down the| stretch to home. | It's “Come on, Stev!" and “Come on, | Earl!” and today the glory of tw nations is riding with them. Eight thousand dollars and a gold cup to| the winner; twenty thousand to the | 1o 20—Two 1 Horses Oblivious. | Beforv last night's dripping, siar- less sky faded into a dull gray and | morning came, two horses slept un- disturbed, oblivious that for days mil- lons had been watching their every move Zev, America’s horse, and Papyrus Great ‘Britain's animal, no doubt haven't been aware of all this, but they will be at 4 o'clock this after- noon when they are led from the | paddock and have thelr sensitive dis- positions touched by a demonstration that no race track ever before had | heard or seen. Both horses were pronounced ready last night by their trainers, Samuel C. Hildreth, regarded by some as the | corps of American experts on horsetlesh, and Basil Jar- | vis, the pleasant-toned young Eng-| lishman. Both the derby winners of the lands lto which allegiance was given them, both the highest class on four feet that either nation could muster, are in form. Jarvis has said that Papy- | rus hasn’t reached the best condition |he has been in England, and every one knows that Zev has been both- ered by a skin eruption that nearly cost him his chance. On their records and on their form | |the experts are about agreed that| neither is the greatest horse yet de- veloped. They say that Zev isn't in the class of Roamer and Extermina- tor or Man-o’-War of the later day: on this side, and that there is more than one three-year-old in reat | Britain that woufd have represented | John Bull better. 1 Golng to Be Muddy. Those views will be disputed this afternoon by the colts themselves. The going will be muddy and hard, | the distance will be long and tire- some—it's a mile and a half—and the excitement will be cruel and over- balancing. Papyrus has come a long way, over a troublesome sea, and has set foot on hard gravel when his feet heretofore have known only the| velvety softness of green grass. i So those who wagered fortunes on | them believe them to be so closely matched this morning that bets were laid at even, or at light odds one way | or the other. Comforting them, coaching them, pushing them, urging them, reining them will be two of the best jocke; that's undisputed—of all time. On the invader will be Steve Donoghue, for nine years the premier rider of | Europe; five times in the saddle of a | Derby winner On Zev will be Karl| Sande, the lad whe had the leg up when Zev came over the mark at Churchill Downs and in his other great victories, the acknowledged peerless boy of the American crop. Three thousand miles away, at the end of a cable, will be Ben Irish, the small_land_owner, who dabbled in (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) ridge into the barrel of his rifle, the bear was at arm's length and reaching for him. Jarrett turned his rifle end for end and jammed the stock into the bear's mouth, then backed away to escape the claws, which were rapidly tearing | his shirt to shreds. After he had backed against a fallen tree, the upper side of which was' about four feet from the ground, the hunter had about made up his mind that he was powerless against the onslaught of the bear's paws. Dog Snaps at Legw.’ Suddenly the young _bird dog rushed from behind its master, where it had sought protection, and started snapping at the bear’s hind legs. The mother bear turn- ed and made a vicious swipe at the dog, but the brief seconds were egough to give the hunter time to whirl his rifle around, throw in another cartridge from the magazine and fire. The bullet entered the bear's side, broke her back and she dropped In her tracks. . Meanwhile the older dog, which had chased one of the cubs up a tree, returned at the sound of the shots apd, Seeing the bear tear up the ground, sprang at her and almost lost his life. The wounded bear clawed at his throat, slashing it open and just missing the jugular vein. | by the husband at the point of a| WOODWARD KIWANIS [Club ana District trustee this year, n Star. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1923 -THIRTY PAGES. SLAYER SHOT DOWN Pershing on Jaunt to France; Trip Secret Fail BY POSSE IN SIEGE Plans to Keep |Accompanied by Sister, General Will Re- Member of Attackers’ Body visit Scenes of Battles—Political Signif- Killed by Bullet Fired by Own Party. | | | 1 35 the Asso ted Press. LEXANDRIA, Minn., October 20.— | Edward Larson, thirty-eight, slayer of Jacob Ley, was shot to death by a| posse and his body partly burned | when his bungalow was fired in effort to drive him from cover early tod Willlam Ransden, a member of the posse, was killed accidentally by a | bullet from the posse. { Larson shot Ley last night after | the latter had attempted to intercede for Mrs. Larson and her two sons, who had beefl driven from their home | an gun Larson then barricaded himself in the bungalow Larson’s death followed an all-night siege. during which the possemen, un- der the direction of Sheriff Emil Lun- deen of Alexandria, sough to dis lodge him by rifle fire and by pouring ammonia into the house. One mem- ber of the posse gained entrance to an adjoining room to that in which Larson had barricaded himself and spread about two gallons of ammonia about the floor. The ammonia failed, however, to have any effect on Larson and the posse divided itself into two sections and began to pour a steady stream of lead into the building, to which Larson steadily replied. It was during this exchange of shots that Ransden was fatally wounded apparently by a bullet from the oppo- site section of the poss While the possemen held a consulta- tion Larson kept n intermittent fire, and the sheriff's rty decided to fire the house. This W done at 6:30 o’clock, and shortly after the building was burned Larsom's partly charred body, with one leg aimost shot away, was found in the ruin D. C. HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR NAMED Maj. Kennedy, Retired, Appointed Assistant in Military Science. Maj. Belton O'N. Kennedy, retired, formerly attached to the Coast Artil- lery Corps, now a resident of this city, has been detailed as an assistant pro- fessor of military science and tactlcs in the high schools of the District of Columbia, to take effect today. He will succeed Capt. William H. John- son, infantry, U. S. A., recently trans- ferred to Fort Eustis, Va, A native of South Carolina, Maj. Kennedy was appointed from Penn- sylvania a second lieutenant in the Coast_Artillery Corps in May, 1910.! In July, 1917, he was transferred to the field artillery as a first lieutenant and in July, 1920, he was promoted to the rank of major. In the following month he was transferred to the Coast Artillery Corps. During the world war, from October, 1918, to February, 1920, he served as lieuten- ant colonel in 'the field artillery. In December, 1922, he was placed on the retired list on account of disability incident to the service, Maj. Kennedy will be in charge of the 24 Regiment, with headquarters at McKigley High School. DISTRICT GOVERNOR| Local Man Unanimously Elected at Baltimore Convention of Thirty-Four Clubs. Special Dispatch to The Sta BALTIMORE, Md., October 20— Claude H. Woodward, former presi- dent of the Washington Kiwanis unanimously elected’ governor of the Capital District of the club at the district convention here to- day. The district includes thirty- four clubs and embraces Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia and West Virginia. Those elected to head the: four zones in the district were: First zone, lton “for France, jbra M. E. Tolwner, Baltimore; second zone, J. M. Fentress, Norfolk, Va. third zone, G. Thomas Burch, Ma tinsburg, W. Va.;/fourth zone, Charles G. Maphis, Charlottesville, Va. icance Denied by John J. Pershing. whe a little over six r > secretly left Washing- again has slipped from the Capital for a sojourn on French soil. His passage over the Atlantic has been engaged | aboard the liner Leviathan, sailing today from New York, and it will be three months before he returns again from the land where his leadership helped to write history during the| great war. Neither the general's name nor that of his sister, Mrs. D. M. Butler of Ne- aska, who accompanies him, ap- pears on the Leviathan’s list of pas- sengers; but only in respect to the lack of publicity surrounding his de. arture does his going today resemble CUTLLOYD GEORGE CAPITAL PROGRAM Staff Members Say Public Appearance Impossible. To Visit Coolidge. quietly awa | All plans for public entertainment of David Lioyd George while the for- | mer British premier is in Washing- ton next week were abandoned to- | day, and the committee of representa- | tives of civic bodies organized last week to prepare plans for such enter- | tainment was disbanded following re- ceipt by long-distance telephone of a message from Mr. Lloyd George that | he does not desire to attend any pub- | lic ceremonies during his stay in the | capital. 8 E. J. Henning, acting secretary of labor, talked over the telephone today with Sir Alfred Cope, a member of | Mr. Lioyd George's party/ who in- formed Mr. Henning that the former premier did not wish to attend any public entertainment while in Wash- ington, muck as he regretted the step. | Private entertainment of the former premier will be carried out as out- lined, Mr. Henning was given to un- derstand. Mr. Henning was chairman of the civic committee in charge of arrangements for a luncheon and din- ner by civic bodies to Mr. Lloyd George. He advised E. F. Colladay, president of the Board of Trade, of | the wishes of the former premier, and | at his suggestion the committee dis- | banded. Mr. Colladay was vice chair- mon of the committee, To Lunch at White House. Mr, Lloyd George will continue with the rest of his schedule, includ- |in a “diploma mill” exposed Monday War Department. | This time he s bound, 1t will be, o far as the brother and sister are able to con- trol events in France, just a sight-| seeing tour of their own, with the public not invited 1 The plan for the trip was laid| months ago. All the agencies of the government have been invoked that might aid in helping to prev2nt pub- licity or to induce the Frenzh authori- | ties to allow Gen. Pershing und Mrs. | Butler to come and go in France as | can brother and sister migat do &as tourists there {rict secrecy has been maintained about the general's | office in Washington. Only 2 Fandrful of the officers closest to him knew of the impending journey. ' Mrs. Butler| voided any ment f her (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) THINK 15,000 FAKE PHYSICIANSINU.S. that of 1917 St. Louis Prosecutors See| Eastern Practice in “Di- ploma-Mill”” Scope. By the Assoclated Press. ST. LOUIS, Mo., October 20.—In- formation alleging that probably be- tween ten aud fifteen thousand per- | sons are practicing medicine under | fake diplomas and licenses purchased from “diploma mills” operated by | cliques of physicians probably will be given to federal authorities, it was announced today by St. Louis| prosecuting officials. Willlam P. Sachs, former examiner for the Missouri school department, voluntarily appeared yesterday at the office of Howard Sidener, circuit at- torney, and confessed to taking part by a St. Louis reporter. Implicates Others, Sachs named Dr. Robert Adcox of St, Louis and Drs. D. S. Alexander and Ralph Voight of Kansas City, who has been arrested and released on bond, as members of the clique | which operated in Missourl, and as- | serted that several other “diploma | mills” were in existence in the east- | ern part of the country and in California. Sachs told Sidener that fn ten years he had sold approximately 1,000 high school certificates necessary for per- sons intending to buy a short cut to | the medical profession to obtain be- fore purchasing medical school di- ing the luncheon at the White House on October 25, the dinner that even- ing as the guest of Secretary Mellon. The following day he will visit Ar- lington, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial and Mount Ver- non, and will be the guest of Secre- tary Hughes at dinner that evening. Mr. Hennlng was informed that a re- ception to the former premier by the Welsh people of Washington and Bal timore will not be held, but no indi- cation was given that~the luncheon to Mr. Lloyd George by the Overseas Writers will be canceled. During his visit here Mr. Lloyd George will visit former Presidents Wilson and Taft. ANSWERS FRENCH ENVOY. Lloyd George Bitter in Reply to Col. Dumont Here. By the Assbciated Press. i ST. LOUIS, Mo., October 20.—David Lloyd George, former British premier, claimed for Great Britaln the right to give advice, to claim “that we have friends,” and reiterated previous statements that the German repara- tions situation is the crux of the present European condition here last night. The first statements were in the nature of a reply to Col. G. A. L. Dumont, military attache of the French embassy at Washington, who had been quoted as having said “'Pray ay the Lord protect us against our friends.” The distinguished guest was given a rousing reception yesterday for his program, which was curtalled at his request that he be permitted leisure after his exhausting Canadian tour. (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) plomas and state licenses. He admit- ted having sold a few medical school diplomas. The average price obtained for high school diplomas was about $10, he said. Promises Full Exposure. He asserted he had evidence of at least 100 physicians practicing in va- rious parts of the country with false licenses, and that he would present their names to Sidengr, together with hundreds of those he believed are practicing in Missouri without gen- uine diplomas. Sachs, sought by police for several days in connection with the expose, was not held by Sidener, who said he expected to question him further next week. SNOW IN MICHIGAN. Follows Severe Storm on Upper Great Lakes. SAULT STE MARIE, Mich., October 20.—Two inches of snow fell here last night and early today in the wake of the storm that swept the | upper lakes Friday. Although the| storm had subsided today few vessels were passing through the.locks. The only lockages were upbound craft and ‘these vessels dropped anchor in the npper St. Mary’s river, not daring to enter Whitefish bay. Last night's seas were the highest of the fall season, but all ships are believed to have reached safe anchor- { “From Press to Home Within the Hour The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. _Yesterday's Net Circulation, 91,351 TWO CENTS. STATES MUST ENFORCE DRY LAW, BUT U. S. WILL 7 ASSIST, SAYS COOLIDGE Text of Address By President to Governors Here The text of President Coolidge’s speech at the governors' conference to- ay follows: It is my peculiar privilege to welcome you here as one who, by experience, can look at your prob- lems with that sympathy which comes from common followship. The governorship of a sovers state of our natlon is an exalted position. It outranks, within its own jurisdiction, with a single ex- ception, every other office in Amier- fca. It is the very greatest honor that a state can bestow. A gath- ering of governors has a signiti- cance greater than any other un- officiai convocation that held in the United States. It would only a matter of large pub ortance that could justify gathering of the chief executives of the states and the nation for a conferencc at Wash- mngton. You have been invited here that I might lay before you some of the problems for a betler en- forcement of law. A statement of the purpose is sufficient to indi- cate the importance, for a govern- ment which does not enforce its laws is unworthy of the name of a government, and cannci expect to hold either the support of its own citizens or the respect of *he informed opinion of the world That ours is a dual system of administration does not nced to be explained in this presence. Joint powers and joint responsibilitie ist which can best be exere discharged by joint action. Restriction of Allen While certain classes of aliens easily distinguishabl>. have been excluded from this country 7or a considerable length of time, a gen- eral policy of restricting immigr on, broadly inclusive, has only ccently been adopted. The new law admits approximatelv 350,000 aliens, or about onc-third of the number coming in annually under the old law before the war. On the other hand, the number de- siring 1o enter is now much larger A at to evade the law have greatly 1t is esti- mated by the Department of Labor that there is page wver the border and through the ports of about 100,060, which is able menace to the sucees immigration pol uch an in- flux of persons, the coun- try in violation law, can- not fail to attract the local police authoritie borders and on our s can be of ver. notifving the local ruprese of the Degpartment of Justice or the Department of Labor, in order that such persons may the more readily be excluded and deported Another problem exists, whi worid wide in some of its aspects. It is considered of such—impor tance to our own welfare that spe- al representatives of this coun- try attended, when the league of nations recently considered the regulation of the opium traffic where their efforts met with large success. The national laws and the laws of most of the states reg- ulate the sale of marcotic drugs. Their use, except under the dire tion of competent medical advice is everywhere regarded as attend- ed with grave danger, usually re- sulting_ in_ lamentable disaster. The effective protection of the people from these results depends on our ability to prevent the smug- gling and unlawful sale of such narcotics. ‘Their use is, in part, perhaps due to physcial disease and, in part, to lack of moral stam- ina, but their abuse is alm wholly a result of violations the law. If the law can be forced, medical science would very soon rid the country of this men- ace. This traffic is carried on s cretly and evasively. It can only be detected and eradicated through a system of local inspectors and police. The national secret serv- ice and enforcement officers can cope with the smugglers and the wholesalers, but the peddlers and retailers cannot successfully be suppressed without the ance of state and municipal police. Problem of Dry Law. The other problem which I wish to lay before you is that of in- toxicating liquors. The eighteenth amendment was proposed by the Congress in 1917, and its ratificas tion™ proclaimed in January, 1919. 1t prohibits the manufacture, sale or transportation and the impor- tation and exportation of into: cating liquors for beverage pur- poses, and confers upon the Con- gress and the several states con- current power to_enact enforce ment legislation. This power w exercised by the Congress in the national _prohibition _act, which was finally passed in October, 1919, two-thirds of the House of Repre sentatives and Senate present hav- ing voted in the affirmative. Sub. stantially all of the states have likewise passed enforcing acts un- der the authority of the eighteenth amendment. In all of the states there had long been laws regulat- ing the sale of intoxicating liquors and in many of the states prohibi tion had already been adopt Neither the amendment nor th prohibition act undertakes to re lieve the states of their respon- sibility relative to intoxicating liquors, but, on the other hand, the améndment confers jurisdiction upon them, and the prohibition act authorizes state and local prose- cuting attorrfeys to bring injunc tion proceedings in any court hav- ing equity powers in the name of the United States. The national prohibition act places the duty of its enforcement on the commissioner of internal revenue, his assistants, agents and inspectors. In accordance therewith, there is an assistant commissioner in direct charge of prohibition enforcement, and there are prohibition agents and in- spectors in each state. Corre- sponding provisions will be found in nearly all state laws. The Constitution and the laws of the nation and of the several states are binding alike pon all the inhabitants. It is the Constitu- tion which we have given our oaths to support—the Constitution which requires of the President that “he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed”; and the state constitutions lay a simi- lar obligation upon their gover- nors. can be in ong our Questin of Duty. The Constitution and the laws are perfectly plain, and the direc- tions which they contain to the President_and the governors are equally plain. The country ought to know all this. It ought to understand just what duties the laws have imposed. It ought to comprehend that when laws have been made there is, and can be no_question about the duty of ex- Reminds Governors of Oath to Uphold Constitution. DECLARES PEOPLE ARE LAW-ABIDING Federal Agencies to Be Used to Fullest, But Problem Held Local. Placing squarely up to the state governors Tocal enforcement of the prohibition laws, responsibility for President Coolidge told the tives of thirty-cight | White House today posed to assume { the burden by e forcement mack ent of its capacity.” The occafion was the conference called by the President with the gov- ernors of the several states to con- execu- at the he pro- his own share of « federal en- to the fullest states that sider the problems of | ment, particularly traffic intoxicants, | immigrants. idge's first official expression upon the subject of prohibition, and he |left no room for doubt that the bur den of enforcement must rest alike upon the shoulders of the President law enforce- regards t and It was President Cool- arcotics | and the governors of the states. Ren Reminding his guests that they, too, had taken a solemn and bindimg oath uphoid the of the United States, the President said no provision of the eighteenth amend- ment or the national prohibition act { contemplates any surrender of state responsibility great body of the American are thoroughly law abiding, and he warn- ed that they must be supported protected *“to the limit.” “The Constitvcion a fectly plain,” tions which they contain to the Pre dent and the governors are equally plain. The country ought know all this. * * % It ought to comp! hend that when laws have beer made there is, and can be. no question about the duty of executives to en- force them with such instruments and such means as the law provides for curing their enforcement. They ve no alternative. They cannot b ticized for securing enforcement This is not a political question; it cannot be made a political question If there be any principle which has been established by time, by common consent, by the unqualified assertion of fundamental and statute law, it that executives are the la forcing officers of this nation.” * People Law Abiding. The President nly that the problems law ment are not to be decided by preju dice, nor answered as a_result of political intrigue. He clearly in sinuated that the American peop| would obey the law when its enforce- ment was begun when he said: “They are not a nation of inebriates; they are not a people who are charged with being hypocrites. They have |respect and reverence for duly con- | stituted authority. To them the law a rule of action. Those funda- | mental national characteristics not going to be changed. Referring first to the question of smuggling immigrants into this country, the President said that the Department of Labor estimates there age across the nation’s bor- about 100,000 immigrants the annual limit fixed by nds of Oaths. to Constitution people; he said, and 1laws are per- he said, “and the direc- asserted enforce- oler ders of more than the law. This, he said, a considerable menace to the saiccess of our immi- | gration policy.” Such an influx, P'resi- dent Coolidge continued. cannot help ttracting attention of local police authoritics, who, he said, “could be of very great assistance in notifying the local representativ the De- partment of Justice or Depart- ment of Labor.” Local Ald Vital. The problem of the traffic cotics, the President said. is world- Wide in some of its aspects, but it is of such importance to the United States that this government sent rep- resentatives to the league of nations when it considered the regulation of the opium traffic. The traffic in this esident Coolidge told the can only be detected and eradicated through a system of local inspectors and police. The national secret service, he said, can cope with the smugglers and the | but the_peddlers and re successfully be suppr the assistance of state and municipal police. | BRINGS CRITICAL PARLEY. “is of the in nar { Dry Conference May Have Bearing on Coolidge's Future. By the Associated Press, Calvin Coolidge takes up one of the most troublesome problems confront- ing him as President and as a polit- ical figure in meeting today with the goOvernors of the several states to dis cuss enforcement of the prohibition, immigration and narcotic laws. The prohibition phase of the con- ference holds by far the most for good or for ill for the President and his administration, and the interest in that phase has been increased b. recent developments in the prohibi- tion enforcement situatfon and the greatly increased ussion of the dry law enforcement problem. Other Issues Added. dis The conference in its prohibition as- * pect is a heritage from the admint: tration of President Harding, who had planned a meeting with the state ex- ecutives last spring to consider means of closer co-operation in making the prohibition laws effective. Lengthy sessions by some state leg- islatures which would have prevented attendance of governors caused Mr. Harding to postpone the conference. and Mr. Coolidge, in assuming the presidency upon Mr. Harding's death, (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.)