Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1923, Page 4

APLATFORM OF - PRINGPLES ONDER NEW ORGAMICAGY Set Forth in Report of Citi- zens” Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations. U. S. SHOULD CONTRIBUTE FIXED RATIO FOR UPKEEP 60-40 the Right Ratio for Main- tenance- 50450 for Discharge of Contr.vetwal Obligations. A platform of yrinciples for the Dis- trict in its financ Ual relations with the federal government' was adopted by the utive committcw of the Citizens” Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations, Theodore W. Noyes. chairman, at a meeting held Octobe: 21, 1923, as fol- 1o IZnactment of the new’ organic act of 18922 automatically shifted our al-j legiance from the half-a nd-half to the eixty-forty ratio, and am nded the lufil\’ plank in our plasform of principles so that the platform now redds: We contend: Fivst, that the United s should contr¥bute lasgely to the maintenance and upkuilding of the Na- tiona! Capital ond, thas this con- | tribution should be a ¥xed ayid definite r Third, that this ywoportion | hould be sixty ty, sixiy by #he Dis-| triet taxpayers and forty by the United State: In Joral defensc of the last two j@ank: of our platform of principles. this sem- mittee, g organized Waath- ington, will rongly and steadily redst any cffort t nio our fixed, definde and related proportion of capital cors- tribution at ratio of sixty-forty This obliga obviously vigorous and unyielding T to such lative proposition 1 which wou substitute for the defini Jortionate, related plan of capital ribution an annu: lump- | by the nation destroy the safeguard agains unjust taxat 1t would pital contribution of the na- exey i | portion represent N as { Th | House one the new law of the standard of assess- ment from Bot less than two-thirds to full valuation. with a_corresponding decrease of the tax rate (if the actu tax burden i» gflrem':ln the same) compe! ngton prove again and agaln that the tax rate alone is no measure whatever of comparative ens. the increased standard of as- sessment the tax rate must be de- amount of tax revenue. ‘Washington must therefore be pre- pared to prove in the future that a tax rate from $1 to $1.30 per bmndred. when applied to genuine 100 per cent full assessment valuation, taxes Washington as. heavily in total bur- den as other cities with low assess- ments and tax rates two, three and four times as large as that of Wash- nged ington. When Washingtan's tax rate qu from $1.50 to $1.82 and $1.95 & was repeatedly challenged as indicating a tax burden less than half that of other specified cities. Washington must hereafter demonstrate that with gen- uine full assessment valuation a rate of $i.22 to $1.30 means the imposi- tion of a tax burden upon Washington as great as that imposed in citles whoSe tax rates are many times as great as that of Washington. What Washington Must Show. Washington must be prepared to show in the future that with full as- sessment valuation, meaning in dif- ferent American cities anywhere from 20 to 100 per cent of ‘value, the correspending diversity in tax rates in these cities, ranging from $1 to $14.63, has no significamce what- ever in a comparison of actual tax burdens. It will be necessary to show in fu- ture wears. as was done, utilizing the census figures of 1818, that the tax rate is no measure whatever of com- parative tax burdens, since, if iz were, the citis of Illinois, Iows, Nebraska and Washington state wowld be shown o be taxed m 1913 anywhere from three to six times as heawily as the cities of Ohio, Rhode Island, Vir- gmia and Wisconsin; which demon- stration reduces to an absurdigy the original propesition. The tendency to rely upem the shifting, unreliable tax rate. as a standard of measurmg compRrative tax burdiens, is, however, strung, and must be resisted in the futwre with even greater vigor and effectiveness than in the past because of this de- crease im Washington's tax rate, in effect comapelled by the Lerms of the Capital’s mew fiscal law. Last Yenr's Events Beneficial. The events of the last vear have benefited the District in several par- ticulurs. * 1. The finding by all three repre- eutatives of the Senate and by two of the three representatives of the the joint District of Co- lumbia surplus committee that no obligation, legal or moral, attaches to the alaims of alleged. ancient buried deits of the la ntury in favor of either nation or Capital is o relief to the District txpayers, \threatencd with their resurmection. 2. The findings in regaxd to the Nistrict's | treasury surplus prepare tih: way fbr speedy and equitable ap- propriatiott by Congress of the Dis- trict’s accumulated and unappropri- azed taxes of this decade. Lo be @p- plied upom the District's nropor- tionate shure of the cost of Capital tion and would leave uniimited that ex- acted from the 1 'hree Insoes Created. report of this committee ssues, created or left un- solved by the law of 1 whic peiled this committee to continue ist. It will be of interest to ascertain what has been don what remains to be dar dor these issues . 1 tention of the fifty-fifty ratio under the new fiscal system of sixty- ratio where the former ratio contractual, as in respect to the payment of interest and sinking fund 1o meet the .65 bonds. the funded debt. These honds will all soon be paid and canceled in sccordance with existinz law, and in a few mohths this issue wiil cease to trouble. 2. Retention of the fit where the sisty-forty Tath utilized. be inequitably and retroac- tively applied. as in the futura penditure of District tax surphu secumuiated in purs of terms of the half-and-half law the sole purpose cxpenditure the half-und-nulf basis. This cowr mittec will contend earncstly for this equitible method of surplus approa priation when Cougress comes to ap- propriate the surplus, 31 vear's report noted an im- mediate specific obligation of committee to operate with the Commissioners in presenting Was inglon's case to the joint select com- tee of Congress which was to de- termine the cxistence and amount of the accumulated taX surplus of the District This oblication has been fully me The citizens' committee, by a care fully prepared brief, and by repre- sentation ut the hearings of the con- gressional committee through Chair- man Colladay, co-operated effectivi with the District Commissioners in the vigorous surplus contentions. Joint Committee Found Surplus. The congressional joint committee reported on the basis of the authori- tative opinion of the controller g cral and the other evidence before supplementing the controller ‘gener- cert e that the District had its on the books of reasury” atter deductir 1 obligations 2 net surplus of ap- proximately four and 2 half millfo aollars: and that after moral (squi ble) credits in favor of nation | since 1574 had been subtracted from Treasury surplus and mor: uita credits in favor of the trict far the same period had been ided to it, the Distriet's Treasury urplus was reduced only about $200.- 000, und still considerably excoeded Tour million dollars. The effect of the committee’s report was to record the latter amo as the net legal moral obliation of the nation to t joint capital upbuilding fund. The ce the controiler the joint com- | noted certain com- to} | t the District's net Treasury vailable for appropriation as part of the District proportionate contribution whenever Ci wishes to appropriate Citizens’ Committee's Task. What in this respect remains for the citizens’ joint committee to do? (a) To urge Congress appropr ate quickly the Distric Treasury surplua #n order to help to meet the District's urgent need of much more money for bringing municipal equip- ment up to date than can be spared from current revenue. (b) To make this appropriation on ifty hasis with equal contri- bution from the United States. (c) In appropriating to make only & reductions from the Treasury surplus, as moral (equitable) credits of the United States, as have been ily approved by the joint se- district of Columbia surplus com- tree. (1) To Wefend before Congress and «lsewhere the wise and sound conclu- sions of the congressional joint com- mittee on Ristrict surplus, One mem- Ber of this joint committee of si (three réapresenting the House and three the Senate) filed a minority report. Our ecitizens’ committee is to prepare itsel{ thoroughly to sustain the accuracy of the facts and -the soundnesé of the reasoning of the congressional committee's report, es- pecinlly upon the issues raised by the minority report, concerning, for ‘ex- ample, the provisions of the new or- ganic act ini respect to interest, and in to offectting ‘equitable crédits &ince 1874 and comparative moral in- debtedne 1. One of the ‘avowed purposes of the new orgahic act ‘was to function a5 a peace-promoting compromise be- tween House and Senate in the period- cal controversy over the fiscal rela- tions of nation and Capital, and to ive everybody for a time, and per- haps for a long period, a much-needed Test from prejudice-raising and hurt- ful tax-changing agitation. Prepare for the Future. But the burden is as much upon us this year as last to prepare for that time 'in the future when the peace period promised in the enactment of ihe new organic act shall end, and in Yiolation of the spirit of the law of 1922 the District shall be again as- sailed on the theory that tax rate and tax burden mean the same thing, and that Washington's comparatively low tax rate means that its actual tax: burden is correspondingly low, and that It is undertaxed. The raising by surplus | for} on our | ngress | wpbuilding. In :wsddition to reli from a threatened! money drain to meet bogus alleged debts of the past and rquitabliz use of the wccumulated taxrs of thi- present, some disposition is tpanifested by the powers-that-be in 1district’ affairs to call upon tax- payews of ‘the future in fairness to (-r-nlx"huln- 40 greal permanent mu- nicipidl improvements by which they will_grofit more than anybody el Washington has raason to hope and xpect s that this equitable co-opera- tion of. the taxpayers of the future will be secured either by a national advanc ¢, replid with interest dent set between 1900 1400, or by : municlpal bond ith payment guaranteed on the forty-sixth ratio by nation and Capttal. MOTHER UNWILLING WITNESS AGAINST SON Charles Phillips, Youngest of Ten Children, Accused of Slaying Brother-in-Law. i H i By the Assx KENTO! ovember 14.—Mrs, Ida Phillips, seventy-two years oid. mother af ten children, was forced to take the stand yesterday, as an unwilling witness, amd tell the story by which the state hopes to convict her youngest child, Charles Phillips, of murder. Phillips is on trial for the murder of his brother-in-law, Claude Hunt, at the home of Mrs. Phillips in Ada last August. The mother, who was the only eye witness of the killing, tried to soften the Story aguinst her son, but the state forcefl her to confirm damaging admissions in her preliminary stories before the coroners jury and the lowar courts. Three women and nine men compose the jury. KLANSMEN IN MEETIN (AS GOVERNOR SPEAKS ted Press. |Georgia Executive Asks Support of Tax Program in Legislature at “Private Affair.” By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., November 14— Gov. Clifford M. Walker of Georgla urged support of the taxation pro- ram before th® special session of the Georgia general assembly at a meeting last night at a local hotel which was attended by members of the legislature, Imperial Wizard H. W. Evans and other officials of the Ku Klux Klan, it became known today. Gov. Walker declined today to dls- cuss the meeting, saying it was a private affair. He stated, however, that in hig speech he urged co-opera- tion for the success of his program, Several members of the legislature, who refused to be quoted, sald that from thirty to 100 people were pres- ent, many of them being members of the' gencral assembly. Representatives Haddock of Early ‘and Logan of Banks, .who said they bad been invited to the meeting last night, but were unable to attend, said today that the purpose of the meeting “was to get together me Klan in the assembly. T o® Of the . ALMA RUBENS BRIDE. Movie Actress WedsDr. Goodman, Producer, Weeks Ago. NEW YORK, November 14.—Alma Rubens, motion picture actress, was married several weeks ago to Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman, author and film producer, it has been learned. The romance developed during the pro- duction of a new film in which Miss Rubens starred under Dr. Goodmah's direction. —_— U. S. EXPERTS FOR GENEVA ‘Will Attend Conference on Transit and Communication. GENEVA, Switzerland, November 14. —The United States government has in- formed the league of nations that it is wending technical experts to the inter- national conference on transit and com- munication, opening here on Thursday. ‘The experts will report to Washington, flnfl.y filling the same role -as the: erican delegation to the recent cus- toms conference. v 7 IBAVARIA IGNORING EX-CROWN PRINCE Regards Him as Unimportant Until He Shows Himself Able to Take Throne. BY WILLIAM E. NASH. By radio to The Star and the Chicago: Daily News. ~ Copyright, 1923. MUNICH, November 14 (by tele- phone to Berlin).—The return to Ger- many of the former crown prince be- came known here Tuesday night and produced hardly a ripple of interest. He is supposed to have been some- where in Germany for the last three days, bulv(he papers have not com- mented upon it and the people have not talked about it. The only aspect Interesting the pub- lic was the supposed prohibition by the entente against his return. This was fiercely resented. The general at- titude is: . “The erown prince is un- important to us until he shows he is able to take the throne in Berlin. Un- til then we have our king." Tempermental Munichers tering a period of frenzied enthu- siasm for Prince Rupprecht. This perhaps explains the marked coolness foward von Kahr. Munichers resent his coming out strongly for the black, w nd red. Thus his par- tial -securing leadership of the erman nationalist movement is being paid with partial loss of his own following here. Meeting Proves Stormy. His meeting Tuesday with the Ba- varian people’s party, of which he is leader, was stormy The proceed- ings have been kept secret. but it is reported In political circles that the party’s mood was Ko SIrONE AgWin: von Kahr that hjs position therein was endangered. Von Kahr count- ored the ttacks, rding to ports, by proposing that a dran ultiniatum be sent to Chancellor Stresemann demanding of the Wittmar constitution so as it affects Buvaria, and resumption of tull Bavarian rights as they existed under Bismarck. This might satisfy emotional I varian localism without - costing von Kahr leadership of the larger national- ist movement. en. Ludendorff marched at the head of the funeral procession of his fallen troops Tuesday in full military form. Om his arm was the mothe his former trusted servant, Kurt Neu- bauder, who tell fighting. Ludendorft said over the g promise to dev the remainder ¥ life to the cause for which this fell. 1 shall never desert it.” Promise Formula Curlous. The promise Ludendorfl gave which seeured his release from juil was not a promise to refrain from political v, as at first reported, but was phrased in this curious formu 1 promise not to participate until after the end of my trial in an attempt to overthrow the government by Vio- lence.” Meanwhilo maintaining reiation of his party and is ¢ ing messengers and debate on who doubl Thursday night continue: diminished bitterness, Ludendorft, Lossow, Hitler and Kahr being re- spectively charged with being cow- ards, liars and traitors. Kahr appears distinetly to be losing public esteem. Hatred of foreigners is growing into fa frenzy. One hundred and fifty per- sons have been exiled from Bavaria. They were mostly forelgners and al- leged Jewish speculators but also some citizens. The socialist leaders are all in hiding. RIVERS CONGRESS | HERE NEXT MONTH |Ports, Waterways, Canals, l Levees to Be Discussed i by National Experts. Port of Hampton Roads’ Mayor Al- bert 1. Roper. Norfol “The In- | tracoastal Waterway” C. S. E. Hol- {1ana, president Intracoastal Canal Association, Houston, Tex.; “Pitts | burgh's Three Rivers and Their Con- nection With Lauke Erie,” W. H. Ste- venson, Pittsburgh, Pa. Other speak- i ers will make addresses regarding the routes proposed for & “snal connect- ing Lake Eric and the Lio river, Speaks on Camal. Senator Ransdell of Louisiana will speak on “The Panama Canal”; Rep- resentative W. J. Driver of Arkansa: on “Levees and Navigation”; Edware B, Lyman of Passaic, N. J., director of the Passaic River Improvement Ass ciation, on “Shallow Water As and Mrs. Louls N. Geldert of Wash- ington, president League of Ameri- | can Pén Women, will submit practical suggestions for “Making Our Rivers Known.' Representative C. A. Newton of Mis souri will speak on “Co-ordination of Rail and Water Transportation,” H. B. Cummins, assistant traffic manager of the Galveston Commercial Assoc tion, will present “Galveston's Views on Co-ordination of Rail and Water Routes”—which differ quite widely from those held by managers of the government-owned Mississippi-War- rior Barge Line. Discuss Great Lakes Level. An interesting feature will be a dis- cussion_on the “Diversion of Water Through the Chicago Sanitary Canal™ and its effect upon the levels of the great lakes. Addresses in opposition to the diversion will be made by Wil- liam George Bruce, president of the Milwaukee harbor commission, and of the recently formed Great Lakes Har- jbor Association, and by a Canadian speaker who will be announced later. Two well known engineers will be heard in_defense of the diversion, Gardner S. Willlams of Ann_ Arbor, Mich., and Robert Isham Randolph of Chicago. Mr. Randolph’s address will be_illustrated. Among the speakers at the will be Masanao Hanihara, the Japa- nese ambassador: Mrs. Maud Wood Park, president National League of ‘Women Voters, and Senator Fletcher of Florida, who will preside. KELLOGG QUITS LAW FIRM. New Envoy to London Drops Prac- tice of Profession. Frank B. Kellogg, recently appoint- ed by President Coolidge as United States ambassador to Great Britain, has resigned from the St. Paul, Minn., law firm of Davis, Kellogg, Sever- ance & Morgan, according to a state- ‘ment made public by the firm today. Cordenio A. SBeverance, former v:.n- ner of Mr. Kellogg, will ti a case today and tomorrow before the TUnited States Supreme Court. in which Mr. Kellogg had been .expected to appear; & are en- man Ludendorff is with me sed whom with ur The nineteenth annual convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress will be held at the Willard Hotel, Decernber 5 and 6. Tentative arrangements for talks and discus- sions are as follows: ‘The Port of Los Angeles,” Repre- sentative John D. Fredericks; “The e banquet WASHINGTON, D. 0, WED Samuel Gompers, Preaident of (he American Federation of Labor, isx a buxy man, but wax n the American Red Croas with M Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of alxo took time to powe for this picture wit i the U dainty Miss Moffett. The Red Croxs annual roll call endx November 29, Thanksgiving WALTON BARES 55 KU KLUX NAMES" Says He Will Prove Con- spiracy in Legislature to Remove Him. By the Assoiated Pross, OKLAHOMA City, The Ku Klux Klan peachment proceedings 3. today: Novemb 14— ue in the im- against Gov. Walton moved to the fore again for the present a “sde issue’ in the executive trial on churges of official misconduct. Taking occasion last night to deny the purported testimony of a former klan official that he had subscribed to the oath and paid the initiation fee in the organization, the governor let it be known, in a public state- ment, that the matter probably would form an important part of his defense in the trial. At the sume time, he made public the names of fifty-five membe of the lower house of the state legislature who, he said, had been represented to him as members of the kian. 'he executive charged that the legislature conspired with the Klux Klan to remove him from office “In Poxsession of Facts™ have the facts and circumstances in my possession to meet this issue when it is presented in the hes Gov. Walton declared in whil, ‘Strenuous’ made by klansmen to have him join the organization, he did not subscribe to the oath nor did he pay the mem- bership The = Klan angle re-entered the situation rday when a house investigating committee made public the testimony of Dr. W. T. Tilly, former cyclops of the Muskogee klan, who was quoted as having said he administered the oath to the governor last February and collected the reg- ular entrance fee of $10. Davenport, st health 4 member of the Kian, suid by the former cyclops to have been present during the formalities, also was questioned by the committee, and his testimony is cxpected to be made public soon. Would Expedite Trial. A move to expedite the governors trial was Seen by observers in the an- nouncement by the house board of prosecution at yesterday's session that it would rest its case after evidence on thirteen of the twenty-two counts in the impeachment bill had been pre- sented. It was said that the remain- ing nine articles probably would be taken up later. The announcement came after testi- mony had been heard concerning financial collections made for Gov. ‘Walton during his campaign and af- ter he became governor, and the ex- ecutive's private banking affairs, in- cluding investments in local and loan assoclation stock. Hearing of testimony In connection with his private financial transactions will be continued today. RITES FOR W. D. ALLEN MAY BE HELD FRIDAY Arrangements for Funeral of Park Policeman, Electrocuted by Ac- cident, Not Yet Completed. as Funeral services for William D. Allen, park policeman, who was ac- ! cidentally electrocuted Monday af- ternoon while assisting & neighbor who was stringing a radio wire, have not been arranged. It is probable, however, that services will be held at his late home, 107 Xenia street, Congress Heights, Friday. Arrmange- ments probably will not be completed until relatives in Michigan are heard from. The deceawed, twenty-five sears old. had_been in the air service a Rolling Field and later served as u | guard at St. Elizabeth Hospital. He survived by his wife and a six-day- old child. Allen had been a member of the park police force since August He had made w splendid record during his short term of service, his superior officers say, and efforts will be made to provide a pension for his widow and child. Capt. Watson L. McMorris and Lieut. P. J. Carroll, deeply interested in the case, are making an investi- gation of the circumstances under which Allen lost his life. It is is their contention that he was killed in line of duty, having been sum- moned from home by reason of being a policeman. They will recommend to the compensation commission that such pension be granted. —_— Force of Habit. Prom the Milwaukeo Sentinel A friend calling on De Soaque ask- d tor a glass of water. As the guest drank it the host stood with a speculative gleam. O st Somewat embarrassed, asked the reason for this behavior. 'De Soaque apologized immediately. “Force of habit,” be explained. “T was waiting to see if it was going to kill you. —_— t the age of eighty-three years MIAH \'/.n Robinson of Seaford, Del., T“Il fll&infil her ds?.‘u“' Illl‘l; ine: usiness. has been g}ml:en continuously -for more than ty years. Ku | PRISON HELD CURE FOR U. S. PHYSICIANS BOOTLEGGING DOPE rom First Page.) i On the other hand, if the commit- ment of all drug addicts was made obligatory, necessarily be diminished or abolish- ed, according to how complete were the resuits of the commitment. Favors Prison Terms. In addition to this, bootlegging, whether in the ordinary manner, of iby a druggist or physician, must be made, by statutory enactment, a very ! krave offense and punishable, not by {tines, but by a long period of impris- onment.” The radiological section of the Southern Medical Society will be en- tertained at Garfield Hospital at Juncheon today by the hospital for the radiologists there, Drs. Gruver, Chris and Merritt An inspection of the recently ampli plant at Gar- field Hos for radiological work, which plac institution in the foretront of an hospitals with this facilit; she place following the luncheon. White Houxe Reception Plans. Delegate to th outhern Medical Association convention, who will be |received by President Coolidge to- morrow, will assemble at the east | gate to the White House at 12 o'clock. T gate will main open only until 12 . 11500e detegation will include visiting physicians and their wives, and only those identificd by badge wili be ad- mitted. The women attending the conven- tion will be reccived by Mrs. Coolidge at 11:45. Thix group will assemble at the Pennsxylvan avenue entrance to the White House Use of Inxulin. estimated 1,000,000 diabetic: in the United State and only a very small proportic that number able ake hospital treatment, physician should consider it ‘Well as 4n OpPOTLURIL ared to use in (Contini With 3 n sulin Dr. Seale Harris of Birmingham, Ala., a brother of Senator Harris of Georgia, yesterday declared at & sym- posium ‘on Insulin conducted by the section on medicine of the Southern Medical Association In convention at the Willard. “The physician however,” insulin he is dealing with the extract of a powerful internal secretion | which, when rightiy used, saves lives; but if not properly safeguarded by diet and careful obeervation of the patient after the initial doses it has dangerous possibilities In every body, Dr. Weodyatt of Chi- cago explained, insulin is manufac- tured, but in the case of diabetics the { product is_insufficient to neutralize the gugar formed in the body, and it is to correct that defect that the use of manufactured insuiin is invaluable. Pity for Fat Folks, Thin, long-waisted, usually nervous individuais, whose greatest aim in life is to get fat, should be envied . Dr.'K. H. Beall of Fort Worth, Tex., told the medical section of the Southern Medical Association in convention in the Willard yester- da; “Foday fat is a constant curse to its T, and is sure to shorten life, as the lack of surplus flesh is sure to Jengthen it,” he said. “We all know that the expectation of life at birth has Increased twenty vears, but we also know that there has been no ex- tension of life past middle age for a century. 1t is my belief that a popu- |larization of the idea of the parasitism of fat will resuit in a tremendous re- duction in morbidity and mortality at forty-five and above. In every thirty pounds of fat there are twenty- five miles of blood vessels to be fed by the heart” he declared. Chiropractic was scored in a paper by Dr. C. M. Rosser of Dallas, Tex. read last night before the annual conference of presidents and secre- taries of state medical associations land_state health officers meeting in conjunction with the Southern Medi- cal Association. Dr. Rosser also launched a general attack on healing cults of all kinds, in citing the steps taken by the state of Texas in_passing a law which re- quires a “reasonable” amount of medical association in order to be licensed to practice in the state. Examination prior to employment as a curb on lame back in industry was urged by Dr. Robert B, Osgood and_Dr. Lawrence B. Morrison, both of Boston, in an address before the section on bone and joint surgery vesterday. 20 per cent of all accidents in_a working plant, it was asserted. Dr. Oagood did not estimate the annual loss to industry through back cases Other _ speakers urged periodical should understand. and not pitic ear. yTh(‘ following eclections were re- corded yesterday at the section meet- ings in conjunction with the sev- enteenth annual convention: National malaria committee—Honorary chair- man, Dr. H. R. Carter of the United States public health service of Wash- ington; chairman, Dr. John A. Fer- rell of the international health board of New York: secretary, Dr. L. D. Fricks, surgeon, United States public health ‘service, Memphis, Tenn. Con- ference of southern states statisti- cians of the bureau of public health— President, Dr. W. A, vis, Atlanta, Ga,; vice president, Dr. J. George Dempsey, New Orleans, La.; secre tary, Dr. W. A. Plecker, Richmond, Va. Section on ‘radiology—Chairman, Dr. W. R. Bethea, Memphis, Tenn.; vice chairman, Dr. E. C. Or- leans; secretary, Dr. Howard E. Ash- bury, Baltimore. Conference of the presidents and secretaries of state medical associations and state health officers—President, Dr. Holman Tay- lor, Fort Worth, Tex.; seoretary, Dr. P. T. Talbot of New Orleans. —_— MARK MAYFLOWER DATE. The Society of Mayflower Descend- ants in the Distriot of Columbia will celebrate the 303d anniversary of the arrival of the Mayflower at Proyince- town harbor November 21 at 8 o'clock at the New Ebbitt, 14th and F streets. The meeting will also mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the loeal organization. then the demand would | he warned, “that in using | Back strain constitutes | physical examination at lcast once | NESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1923, = FILMDOM CUTTING DOWN ON WASTE Hollywood to Be Run in Fu- ture on Scientific Shop Principle. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Special Dispateh to The Star. NEW YORK, November 14.—The moving picture people still are work- ing twenty-four hours a day endeav- oring to explain to the public at {large just what is going on within | the industry. They may that various misconceptions have placed the indus- |y In a false light. They say it is | foolish to think of it as tottering to a fall. They say it is equally foolish {to think that any of the big pro- | ducers are going back to cheap pic- |tures. They say the present produc- {tions are not good enough and that future pictures must be bigger and | better. The real purpose of the recent agi- tation, precipitated by the announce- ment of the Kamous Players-Lasky combination that it proposed dras- ‘ tically to reduce the costs of produc- | thon, is said now to be the cutting out (O waste. Actors, directors and nearly every one else connected with the picture business had got the idea | that they had reached the end of the ralnbow; that all about them were {Pots of gold and that nothing in the way of cxtravagance was barred. Extravagance. it was argued, made £00d press stuff and helped to adver- tise the productions. The business was new and had not adjusted itself. Change of Mind at Hollywod. Jesse Lasky fcels already that the agitation has made good. He says there is a change of mind at Holly wood. This change of attitude is re- garded by the producers as extremely vital, as much of the wasta of the {past was largely due to the mental attitude with which the studio people |approached a production. They re- arded the sky as the limit in every respect. Now all that has got to be changed. The picture business has got to be put on a business basis. Costs have got to be watched. In other words the temperamental stars of the gcreen have got to understand in the future that productions are going to be run on a scientific shop manag ment plan. There is to be a speeding up of production. Producers have allowed the studio people to run things in the past according to their own whims and ideas. Six months have been oc- cupied with a production which might casily have been “shot” in three, The 0dd thing about this movie con- troversy is that the demand that the salaries of stars be reduced has come most loudly from the exhibitors or owners of theaters who merely pa o fixed rental for a film and have nothing whatever to do with its pro- duction. ~The producers are not so confident they can give the atars a cut in salary. This is because after all is said and done there are so few outstanding bright lights of the filmss All the producers are after the same stars and 0 long as that competition continues it is foolish, they say, to talk about a reduction in salaries. Shutting Down No Remedy. A temporary shutting down of pro- duction will prove no remedy, accord- ing to some of the producers, because they realize that when production work is resumed all the producers will proceed to fish out of the same pond and salaries will rise again. Too few stars, too few star di- rectors, too few “continuity writers” are attributed as the root of the evil in the picture industry, in the view of F. J. Godsol. president of the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation. Mr. Godsel seldom is heard from officially even in all the welter of publicity that goes out concerning thie picture: But he has felt that the present agitation has called for some sort of explanation. In Mr. Godsol's opinion there are not enough stars to go around The yearly output of pic- tures in the United States is tre- mendous. This leads to much com- petitive buying for the better known names. ‘There are thousands of young women and younz men per- fectly willing to be stars, but few of the producers like to go to the expense and the trouble of exploit- ing new names. - Yet that is what must be done if the industry is to thrive and the people be sfled. The ~comparatively few brilliant {lights of the screen cannot make all the pictures and it is foolish to lead the public to think so. Time Saving Favered. Mr. Godsol feels that directors have been permitted to take too much time in shooting productions and be- lieves that the fixing of a definite time for a picture to be finished will cut out a great geal of cost. The real source of uneasiness “in {the pictures” is the guarrel that is {on between producers and exhibitors. { In many ecities ail of the local pic- ture houses are either controlied by one man or one group of men. These groups tell the producers flatly that they will pay so muoch for rental and no more. The producers have to take this rental or stay out of the city. Several efforts to combat this state of affairs have been made, but a combination of the producers has not been attained. In cities where the picture houses are not in a com- bination and where competition for the better films exists, the producers charge exorbitantly in an attempt to make up for the poor rentals received in the organized towns. Picture rentals, therefore, have mnot been based on fair values, but on the policy of “get what you can. “Growing pains” some of the pro- ducers call the present troubles, but they say the public need not be larmed. Matters will be adjusted sooner or later and good pictures will be produced. CAR COMMANDEERED IN CHASE OVERTURNS Policeman and Hacker Narrowly Escape Injury—Fugitive Escapes. i i Policeman David McCutcheon of the first preceinct and Wallace J. Ken- fdrick of 610 K street northeast, a hacker, whose automobile the police- iman had commandeered, narrowly escaped serfous injury at 13th and E streets last night when the machine overturned while making a left-hand turn at the intersection in pursuing a fugitive car. Both the driver and the policeman were thrown clear of the wreck when it fell. Policeman McCutcheon halled Ken- drick to go in pursuit of an auto- mobile containing a colored man who had hurled a wrench through the win- dow of another automobile and driven west toward 13th and E streets. S The dilemma faced by the police department is who will pay for the damage, the department having no fand avatlable for such purposee. ———— ACTRESS GIVEN DECREE. lnflaflo Ramhbeau Divorced From Hugh Dillman McGaughey. SAN_FRANCISCO, Calif., November 14. — Marjorie Rambeau, prominent actress, was granted an interlocutory decree of divorce esterday from Hugh Dillman McGaughey. A prop- erty settlement, said by friends of Miss Rambeau to have been for $60,- 000, r:_- her favor, was effected out of °°n‘;l.n Rambeau - charged .. devertion. The suit Was uncontested. FRENCH SELECTIONS ] TO FEATURE EVENING! 7l Benedict, Formerly of | Mrs. Comedie Francaise, Arranges ! } Special Dispat —The Somerset ! MME. JEANNE FARNES m:smmc‘r.; Freach and English intermingled in dialogues, selections and comedy | sketches will feature the second ! French-American evening organized by Mme. Jeanne Barnes Benedict, wife of Lieut. Col. R. E. Benedict, | U. 8. A, and formerly of the Conser- vatory and the Comedie Francaise of | Paris, Friday night, at §:30 o'clock, | at the National Arts Center, 1106 Con- | necticut avenue. Mme. Eenedict herself has written | a number of sketches which will bu.']‘ presented to a limited audience, while | several of the other numbers have been selected especially for their adaptability, As Jeanns Farnes of the Comedie Francaise, Mme. Benedict starred for | some time in the French capital as a{ leading comedienne of various play: which _attracted widespread comment | throughout the continent. She will be assisted by Mme. Icad. Boury and Mme. Rence Mirial, as well “as by Walter Berry, Frank Hojsgard and M. George Foulin,| French professor. ~ Mlle. Yvonne Sauber will be at the piano. ROYAL ORDER OUSTS SPANISH OFFICIALS? .Eendl of Senate and Chamber of | Deputies Forced to Resign by Rivera. By the Amsociated Press. s MADRID, November 14—A royal! decree promulgated today relieves of | their posts the presidents of the sen- | ate and the chamber of deputies. Count Romanones, former premier, and Melquiades Alvarez, respectively. Their removal was effected by Gen Primo-Rivera, president of the mili- tary dircctorate, upon receipt of @ communication from the presidents | in which they aseerted that according | to the present constitution of Spain | the cortes must be convoked within ninety days after the dissolution of an old parliament Gen. Primo-Rivera, in reply, issued a statement denying this, and assert- ed that the last cortes, as well as all Other pariiaments, did not represent the will of the people. He accused the parliamentarians of not having balanced a budget within the last three TS, He said no attempt had been made | to_ascertain who caused the Spanish ) debacle in Morocco in 1921, thus de- laying constructive measu for the good of the ation. ‘Thy military irectorate is mot thinking of elec- tions for soms time to come, said the statement, and will prevent further infractions of the laws until the chambers can truly represent the opinion of the countr: As soon as Spain has balanced a budget and soon as order ha been restored and work fesamed, the government will mot Resitate’ to proowed in accordance with the constitution. MEASURE TO END MARGIN TRADING, SENATOR’S PLAN King, Utah, Says Money Needed to Aid Farmer Is Held in New York by System. A trading in_stocks, bonds, £raih Gnd cotion would be prohibited by a bill which Senator King, demo- crat, Utah, is preparing for introduc- | tion as soon as Congress meets “The money of the country, which should be available for agricultural and industrial purposes.” he said to- day, “is now held in large quantity in New York city to finance margin trading. By prohibiting such trading that mone; would be released fo more beneficial use by the peopl HORSES PULL FORTY TONS | Pair Also Start 26,000- Load in New York. NEW YORK, November 14.—A test at the national horse show to deter- mino how heavy a load a team of draft horses can pull was won by u, team entered by a local manufactur- ing company, which was able to start a load of thirteen tons and to pulll one of forty tons. The tests were recorded on a dynometer brought ‘(rum Towa State University. Pound lened outrages. |in the ai i left HUNT MARYLAND WOULD-BF SLAYER Police and Husband t:l(f' Wounded Woman Trace Mysterious Letters. i to The Star. CUMBERI.. D, Md., vember ) county officials ar working with the state police to rur down the person who attempte to assasinate Mrs. Maud Emerie thirty-five, wife of Louis Emeric and their thirteen. ar-old son, Car! as Mre. Emerick was in the pantr at their home, above Wellersburs: about ten miles north of the Mar laml Monda. night. Mrs. Emerick and her son are i Miners' Hospital, Frostburs, and ar improving. Mr, Emerick, with Somer t county officers, left Frostburg f the farin early Monday night to work on a clue. The Eme s own a fin farm and live a half a mile fron their nearest neighbor. They belong to a wide'v.connected family, are members of Reformed Chure and are nighly reganled. Threat Signed “K, K. K.~ Between the receint of two threw ening letters within the past fev months, the F parked near the and later was d an several hogs cremated ac ‘were committed after dark The firs threatening letter was signed “K. K K.” The Emericks were told to g off the farm and leave the countr: The matter wa n up with pe sor known to be intimate wit K matters in that the Kian not only disave act, claiming some enemy w: thé Klan as a cover, but promisel the Emericks protection from threat Smerick knows 1 reason for the pursuit of himsel and family. The second letter, re tved six weeks ago, warned th mericks unless they v th ‘arm in thirty days they burned out. Mrs. Emerick was dressing rabbit Monday night, which her husban had shot while hunting, when bot! charges from a double-barreled shot gun wers fired through the window from the outside. Mr. Emerick was ng room at the time. A disclosed that a numbe ot lodged in Mre thigh A part of the charge struck her son on the der, the greater portion in the side of the pantry. Emerick_and her son were brought to the Thospital Monday midnigh Their condition is regarded as sati factory. The Emericks have two other eb: dre They have resided on the far seventeen years, of sipce their mar riage. the the nerick automobi house, was burn. the pigst Bot! X-ra bucks FORMER GREEK ENVOY TO THE U. S. A. DIES Lambros A. Coromilas Served in ‘Washington in 1808—Wedded Missouri Girl. Dy the Assoriated Press, NEW YORK, November 14 —Law bros A. Coromilas, former Greek min- ister to the United States and later minister of finance under Premier Venizelos, died at the Hotel Seville ¢ night, it was announced today. He was about seventy years old, and had been in ill health for some time. He had long been identified with the Greek diplomatic service, and was minister to Italy when he was pro- moted to be minister to this country in 1909. He was married to Miss Anna 5. Cockrell, daughter of the late Unit States Senator F. M. Cockrell of Miseouri, at Norwich, Conn, in 1910, and returned to Greece €oon afterward 1o accept the position of minister of finance in the new cabinet formed by Venizelos. He was appointed a member of the Greek peace conference committe when the treaty of Versailles was drawn up. While in Paris he present the claims of Greece to President Wilson. and later opposed the British- American suggestion for full liberty of ports and waterways. He represented Greece at the or ganization of the league of nation commission. WARNS OF DILUTING GOSPEL TEACHINGS Bishop Gailor Urges Sterner Faith in Address to Episcopal Prelates. las Texas, November 14 taken that the gospel and not some weak imitation of the gospel is brought home to the peo- ple,” the Rt. Rev. Thomas F. Gallor. president of the National Council of the Episcopal Church in America, told the house of bishops of the church in a sermon at the opening of its special session here today Warning against “watering down and dituti stian truth,” Bishon Gailor _said “sometimes’ thought that we are yielding to the tempta tion to popularize t gospel anc adapt it to the natural desites and preference of our pencration. The world has an insidicus power to lay its hand upon the work that we ar trying to do for God: the world want efficieney; it wants results; it lov the machinery of servie cares fo the glory that comes from men rath er than the consciousness of the proval from on high.” DALLAS, “Care must be 65 Years of Faithful, Efficient Service Anthracite Pea 2 .65 THIS IS _GENUINE ANTHRACITE OF THE VERY BEST QUALITY. AND ECONOMICALLY IN ANY FURNACE, THE GRATE D OWIDE EVEN IF YOU HAVE THE STOVE, TIONALLY WIDE APART. 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