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DAY HTSPAPE INALIEN DPUTE No Right to Criticize Admis- sion of 4,000 Without Facts, He Says. CHICAGO, November 26.—James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, s in a letter to the Chicago Tribune that the recent admission of approxi- mately 4,000 immigrants brought to New York on the steamships Levia- than, Majestic and Berengarfa was in accordance with definite provision of the law, and takes the newspaper to task for what he calls seeking to re- buke a public officer without first ob- taining the true facts from that offi- cial. It also since has been demonstrated that virtually none of the allens who were in New York harbor at the time referred to were found to be in ex- cess of quota. Mr. Davis asserted, adding a defense of Interpreting law with a regard for the human factor, Sworn to Support United States. “I have taken an oath to support the Constitution and laws of the United States, and I am doing just exactly that,” says the letter as vrinted by the Tribune. “I am well aware of my obligations and I en- deavor to the best of my ability to fulfill them. 1 do. however, insist that a public officer cannot well di regard the human factor, and I kno that Congress néver intended that he should. “It is not an easy task to admin- ister the labors I have undertaken to perform in this office, and it add: to _fhe burdens to be charged edi- torfally by a great newspaper as b ing derelict to one's duty and un- falthful to one's oath by serving foreigners instead of one's country.” Editorial Gives Offense. The Tribune's editorial to which Mr. Davis took exception was cap- tioned “Let's Be Humane to United States for a Change,” and comment- ed upon reports that the Secretary had authorized admittance of the im- migrants brought over on the three ships, although the quotas from their respective filled. _The letter as printed today is dated Washington, November 14 GERMAN BEER-DRINKING DECLINE HITS BREWERS By the Ascocinted Press. BERLIN, November 26.—Beer con- sumption throughout Germany has fallen off to such an extent since the last boost in the price to 40 gold pfennigs a glass that the Brewers' Association has called a special meet- ing to consider way and means of keening the vats from cooling. The brewers raised the price of a twenty-two-gallon keg on 18 from 29 to 35 gold marks, con- tending that they couldn't manufac- ture beer and sell it for less. Beer drinking greatly dimin- ished. The manufacturers incline to the belief that the retallers raised the y alittle too much. The retailers reply that they must charge the equivalent of forty gold pfennigs to meet the brewers’ increase, and that the industry will be ruined if prices are not reduced. countries were reported thereafter | session.” Kiss Is Called Prelude to Bite By Scientists By the Associated Press. BERLIN, November 26.—Is the kiss a relic of cannibalism? Many German sclentists say it is and insist that it was customary for the cannibals to kiss their prospective victims. They further contend that the meaning of it was “I love you so much I should like to eat you.” TIn other words, it was a prelude to a bite and is a wholly inappropriate manner of displaying real love. The German press, however, is not unanimous-in accepting this ultra-scientific statement. Die Zeit rises in defense of the kiss and the poets, who have sung its praise, and declares that American doctors reported to be organizing leagues to abolish kissing must nott have had any practice in the art. v FIELD ARTILLERY FUTURE MENACED Maj. Gen. Snow, Chief, De- clares Lack of Funds Threat- ens Drastic Curtailment. A gloomy plcture of the situation in the Army field artillery forces was presented in the annual report of Maj. Gen. William J. Snow, chief of that branch of the Army service, made | public today by the War Department. After reviewing the ‘“unsatisfac- tory” conditions due to the “single promotion list, shortage in both offi- cer and enlisted personnel and short- age of draft animals which threatens to immobilize the entire horse-drawn field artillery “unless funds are ob tained from Congress during the next Gen. Snow asserted em- phatically that remedies are essential if the field artillery is to attain the desired standard of efficiency. During the past year, the report said, individual mounts have been re- duced 20 per cent, due to reductions in animal strength, and caissons, roll- ing kitchens and other rolling equip- ment which normally form a part of field artillery batteries “have been left at posts in stora due to the fact that necessary animals required for drawing this equipment were not availabl . Force Below Minimun “At the ent o Gen. Snow continued, B h normally require being drawn by four horses. animal stre of field artillery s time is only approximateiy of the minimum number requirs peace strength Unless funds are gress during the next session for ani- mal replacements the field artillery will be forced, by n of lack of anim: due to normal ualties which are bound to occur, to further reduce the number of animals by angamount equiv- alent to the dismounting of two regi- ments of divisional artillery. While this reduction will not be concentrate: 4 entire horse-drawn field artillery almost immobilized. Referring to personnel troubles and its_effect upon. the field artillery, the report said that after three years' trial under the reorganization act of 1900, “it is debatable whether the Army whole has bepefited.” It plainly stated, however, that *“Individuals have bene- fited. 0 one thing during the past year.” WASHINGTON. D. C., EA]' M[]RE BREAD, Laughs Lighten Thrills o.f Life. For Newspaperman in India PUBLIC IS URGED Continuance of War-Time Restrictions Considered Injury to Agriculture. Sieey iy Needless continuation of bread- saving habits formed In war time, Department of Agriculture officials declared in a statement issued today, is limiting American wheat consump- tion to the disadvantage of both producer and consumer. A return to pre-war food habits in the use of wheat by the public and the feeding of low-grade wheat to live stock, de- partment experts assert, help greatly toward solving the wheat problem. The widg disparity between the cost of bread to the consumer and the price received by the producer for the wheat from which it 1s made is cited by the department as a typical llus- tration of the disproportionate rela- tionship which exists between the price of farm products and the price of things that have gone through a manufacturing process. “The price of bread in cities has not fallen with the price of wheat and flours,” says the statement. “A pound loaf of bread which in Min- neapolis in 1913-14, cost 5.3 cents, now costs approximately 9 cents, while flour which in 1913-14 cost $4.43 a barrel, now costs $0.89. Allowing 250 loaves to the barrel, the margin between the flour price and the bread price increased from $10.40 to $18.30. “It is obvious that such conditions, however caused, work to the disad- vantage of both producers and con- sumers. Producers are injured by the restriction which Is caused in the de- nd and consumers are injured by high prices which enforce an un- economic limiation In the use of an essential food. All interests in the country, including those of the bak- s and millers, would be benefited the restoration of a more normal ratio between the price- of wheat when it leaves the farmer's hands and its price to the final consumer.” —_— sald the report. “has more seriously affected the efficiency @f the fleld artillery of the Regular' Army than the shortage of enlisted personnel. To be prepared to meet the demands of a major emergency it Is require that each active associate designate and train certain of its personnel in peace to form the nucleus of the in active associates when organized. Regardless of the merits of this plan, and there is mo doubt but that it has great merit, it is impracticable of efficient execution in view of the present existing shortage of person- ne Gen. Show added that the morale of both officers and men on duty with the fleld artillery is high, despite pre- vailing conditions, which, he explains. are not to be accepted as being “wholly bad” He sums up in this way: 5 “While T have painted a rather gloomy picture of the personnel sit- uation in the field artiliery, I do not want to leave the impression that conditions are wholly bad. On the contrary, the officers, as a whole, are excellent, their spirit is fine, they are deeply Interested in their profession and they are working hard. The reg- ular organizatio are doing better than could reaxonably be expected under the present trying conditions. The morale of both officers and men is high. Such handicaps as both work under are beyond their control and hence T have pointed them out in this report in order that higher au- thority may correct or alleviate them. T LA 1 The Main Office Greatest Used Car Sale Ever Held in Washington I T Reuter Correspondent Tells of Scoop on Bomb Outrage, Tiger Hunts, Runaway Elephants, Earthquake in Bed. I l Editor's Note—This is the second and Iast article written especially for this paper by a man who for more than thirty years has been a journalist in In- dis and which throws a vivid sidelight upon the social and political life of this newly awakened pation. BY E. J. BUCK, C. B. E. Reuter's Agent with the government of Ind: A German consul who lived In Simla for two or three years and who caused a good deal of trouble to the British empire owing to the part he played in Persia in the recent war, was Prince Henry of Reuss XXXII, whatever this title may mean. Prince Henry, who was a very pompous official, once had a conver- sation with me regarding the merits of German officers as compared with English officers. He complained that English officers in India spent zar too much of thelr time in raclag. polo and pig sticking, and could not, therefore, become good soldiers. I retorted that men in the hot weather must keep fit, and asked him If he would prefer them to. go in for mu ‘c and beer drinking. He then qulckly sald, “But you have stpped dueling in the British army. Why have you done so?’ I replied that so far as 1 was aware it had been due to the conduct of a German officer. “How was that” in- quired the prince. “Well" sald I, “I'll tell the story as it was told to me.” Story of Quel. “Not many years ago a German and a British officer had some slight quarrel and it was decided by their friends in Berlin that a duel must be fought. After a good deal of con- sultation by the respective friends it was settled that the duel should take place.in an empty dark room, each duelist being securely blindfolded, and also armed with a six chambered revolver. The duel was to cease on either man being wounded. The day arrived, and the ‘two officers were conducted to the room, and their sec- onds carefully stood away from the door in the passage outside. Not a sound occurred for three minutes, and then there was a shot, a cry and a heavy fall. The friends burst open the door and found"—and here I hesitated. “What did prince eagerly. “They found,” I continued, “that the Englishman, who was quite a decent fellow, had very quietly crept on his hands and knees to the fir place, and not caring to seriously in- jure his enemy against whom he only had a very slight grudge, had fired up the chimney, and down came the latter.” Never shall they find? said the 1 forget the German consul general's face as I finished, and he loved me no better af ward when I laughingly sald: “If you ever tell the story you can al- ways bring down a Frenchman.” Scoops on Bombi; One of the most memorable scoops made by Reuter's in India was that of the news of Lord Hardinge's at- cempted assassination in the famous Chandni Chowk. the richest street in Asia, in Delhi, on December 23, 191 {{t will be remembered that a bomb which was thrown at from a housetop pitched on howdah of the clephant his excel- lency was riding en route to the B Durbar In the Dewani Am of the Delhi fort. The result was that an Indian attendant sitting behind the viceroy and holding up the state um- brella was killed on the spot. a sec- ond was very badly hurt, Lord Hardinge was severely injured, while Lady Hardinge most providentially escaped. How Reuter managed to get the news through to London by 10:15 a.m., to enable the head office to Inform the world at large, and practically be in sole possession of news of this event for several hours, eventually caused a question to be asked In the house of commons. This is how it all happened. I remember the morning quite well. An elephant procession had been ar- ranged in Delhi from the rallway station through the Victoria Gardens, down the picturesque Chandni Chowk, and so to the Delhi gate of the fort en route to the Dewan-i-Am, (f)r t[;'ml»!. hall of audience inside the ort. Reasons for Delay. I remember too how the pressmen were allotted special seats in the fort, and how all except myself went by a specified route to occupy those seats, and awaited there for the viceroy's arrival. But for some rea- son or other I determined to witness the show en route, and having located my motor under a convenient tree, I took up my stand onsthe roadway just outside the Delhi gate. After some time the procession commenced to arrive, and then suddenly it haited. After a two minutes’ wait I felt in- stinctively that something had hap- pened, for in India processions and ceremonial functions always move like clockwork. Sinister rumors that the anarchists intended some day to make an effort which would astonish the world flashed through my brain. Regardiess of orders and regulations and mili- tary guards I rushed up the road. The first man I met who could tell me anything definite was Maj. Vernon Kelghley, commanding the viceroy's badyguard, and he briefly communi- cated the bare facts: “Viceroy seriously injured by bomb thrown at him, Lady Hardinge safe, one at- tendant killed, another badly hurt.” 1 ran back giving the newe to the commander-in-chief, the lleutenant governor of the Punjab, whom I re- member saying, “Good Lord, what ought I to do?" and to one or two members of the council who were all perched up in howdahs on their elephants, unable to descend with- out laddeérs or unwilling to ‘do so without orders. I then dashed into the shop of my old friend Kishan Chand, an Indlan shawl merchant who has made more wonderful silken robes and garments of gold and silver for royalties and viceroys and governors than any other man in Asia, and seized his telephone. I got through to an officlal whom I knew well at the Central Telegraph Office, and within two minutes my first brief message was on Its_way to London. Five minutes later I was on the actual spot where the tragedy oc- curred and gathered further details. News Hours Ahead. Thanks to red tape, which appar- ently in the absence of {an certaln { ;maq or had to be destroved. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1923.' Lord nge was convalescent he happened to have a conversation in Delhi wih my, wife, who had been absent ih Caicutta when the bomb incident ‘oecurred. 1In reply to her question what it felt like to be bomb- ed, the viceroy told her that he really felt very little pain for the moment, and that his first thought was for his. wife. . He then sald, “You were at Calcutla at the time, Mrs. Buck. | ‘What did you think of the affair when you first heard of it?” My better half's reply will probably be better anppreciated -by those connected with Journalistfe enterprise than it was by the governor general. “Oh,” she sald, “my first thought was, I do hope my husband got his wire home before anybody else.” But even viceroys are human and Lord Hardinge laugh- ingly admitted that Reuter had very successfully and most uncomfortably forestalled the government of Indla. Tigers Not Everywhere. I have already briefly referred to shooting in India. Tigers are not found behind every bush, as is fondly imagined by some tourists, but they are fairly plentiful in the terai or thick jungles at the foot of the Hima- layas,’in the Sunderbans at the mouth of the Ganges, and in portions of the central and united provinces. They are now as a rule strictly preserved for the rulers themselves, or for viceroys and distinguished guests, in native states like Gwallor, Rewah, Alwar, Bhopal, Cooch Behar, Hydera- bad and Mysore. There is, of course, magnificent tiger and rhinoceros shooting in_ the kingdom of Nepal, but passes to shoot there are difiicult to obtain, and the Nepal authoritics nowadays only ax- range their famous shoots for them- selves or royalties, Both King George and the Prince of Wales "enjoyed splendid_sport in the Nepal forests during their tours in India. Some 500 elephants, I remember, were engaged in beating and ringing up the tigers in the prince’s shoot. The only lion shooting in India_is found in the forests of Gir in Kathiawar, on the Bombay side, but leopards are found all over India, and bears are fairly common on all the Himalayan slopes. Pig-sticking or boar hunting, in many men’s minds the finest sport in India, is excellent in parts of Bengal, the united provinces and Bombay. In Elephant Runaway. Life has not been without Its ex- citements in the east, apart from Journalistic episodes. I think I have had at times all the fevers which at- tack the ordinary sojourner in India. 1 have been to more than one big- game shoot, and in addition to assist- ing In killing several tigers I have had a wounded leopard jump on to my elephgnt’s head, and have then gone throgh the uncomfortable ex- perience of an, elephant bolting through the jungle and having my clothes torn "to ribbons in conse- quence. ~ 1 have aléo been on an elephant when It was attacked by a swarm of wild bees which was disturbed in the jungle. and again there was a wild race, luckily on this occasion across an open plain. But this time the ele- phant was urged to rapid action by its mahout (driver), for more than one man in India has heen stung to death by wild bees, as their eting is poisonous in the extreme and their viciousness and persistence suit are extraordinary. I have also been knocked down by elephant, which suddenly went mad with fright when an endeavor as made to place a huge dead python twenty feet in length on its in pur- | vack. Experience in Earthquake. On another occasion I had to shoot on foot a wounded charging leopard | at about elght yards with a shot gun. I have narrowly escaped being bit- ten by a_ cobra which made its way into my bathroom, and 1 have had a mad dog under my bed in a tent in camp in the dead of night. I man- aged to shoot the brute, but not till it had bitten two ponies, two camels and three dogs, all of which went Once >fficlals prevented any telegram being | while pigsticking a boar charged my ‘ent without authority to the India|horse. {as ahead of any other messages. everal months afterward when knocked it over, jumped on me I lay thed I can also re Simla an earthquake so severe that a floor col- lapsed and a colonel's wife descend- on the ground, ripped open | the viceroy |t ffce, combined, of course, with won- | b5 tont and left s o the |derful luck, my dispatches were hours | AMERICAN RED CROSS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHAPTER 16 Jackson Place MEMBERSHIP DUES Please enroll the undersigned as annual, $1; contributing, $5; sustaining, $10; supporting, member. Amount of dues, Checks to be made to D. C. Red Cross Chapter. RED CROSS APPEAL INPERSON PLANNED Mail Solicitation Drive Fails to Raise Quota of $75,000 for Washington. December 3 to 10 was set today as the week for individual solicitation on behalf of the District Chapter of the Red Cross, following virtual falure to ralse the $75,000 local quota during the past two weeks by mafl appeal. A call to the auxiliary was sent out today by Miss Mabel T. Boardman, an- nouncing a meeting at 2 o'clock to- morrow afternoon at 16 Jackson place to make plans for the renewed cam- paign. Heads of the auxillary and of de- partments were asked to attend the meeting without further notice. Workers for the individual solicita- tion will be recruited, and an inten- sive, old-fashioned effort made to raise the funds. Efforts will be made to get banks, stores and other institutions to al- low members of the auxiliary to have booths in lobbies, in order to make a direct appeal to the public. “Make your enrollment in the ni €ure of a thank offering this week, said an officer of the local chapter to- day. “Make it a thank offering for the happiness and prosperity of the National Capital of the United States.” The “widow’'s mite” came in today, when Mrs. Ben Hart, newswoman at 14th and G streets, dropped a dollar into the hand of a Red Cross worker. The worker, accepting the gift, could not help but mentally contrast what that dollar meant to the woman whe gave it with a dollar which might be given—but has not—by hundreds of persons to whom a dollar literally and figuratively means scarcely anything at al |ea, bed and all, on to & Frenchman {who was also in bed in the lower { floor. Curious to relate the latter was in no way injured, but he was so as- tonished ‘and Impressed by the epi- sode that he immediately got out his camera and took a photograph of the scene. His punishment for this act was thought by some people to be unduly severe, for his conduct was {judged to be ungentlemanly, and he Wwas in consequence asked to leave the hotel. (Copyright, 1923, in United States and Canada by NoruaA.}lmefieln r Alllance. R T HRETICT BITTERNESS GROWS: INBRITISH ELECTION Temper of Voters Requires Guard for Speakers in Certain Sections. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 26.—Nomina- tions for candidates for the 615 seatq - in the house of commons were being made today preparatory to the elec. tion of December 6. It was estimated beforehand that a record number would be named, with the conserva- tives in the majority, the liberals a good second and the laborites not far behind. Three-cornered contests, which every individual candidate wishes to avold, were expected to be rather numerous. Forecasts placed the num- ber at more than 320, although it was supposed there might be several with- drawals at the last moment. The electioneering campaign in th press and on the platform continues bitter, and {n some constituencies the peopls are showing an angry spirit. » The conservatives say that several of their speakers have received notices threatening them with violence if they appear on the platforms in East Low don. Postmaster Evans was heavily guarded by police when he spoke in that district on Saturd: Prime Minister Baldwin's debt set- tlement with the United States, which David Lloyd George used against him in a speech last Saturday, is doing servioe for the premier's opponents elsewhere. The Daily Express, one of Lord Beaverbrook's newspapers which are attacking Mr. Baldwin ostensibly because his tariff propozals do not go far enough, says that what unpopularity the prime minister has acktieved is almost entirely due to his financial settlement in Washington Raps U. S. Sqttlement. “It is generally admitted,” says ths Daily Express, “that but for Mr. Bald- win's ‘bull at a gate’ methods the United States would willingly have postponed the whole question and given us in the end far better terms. As it Is, the British public must find 40,000,000 pounds yearly, which nearly twice as much as the total in- ducements the premier is holding out as part proceeds of his tariff scheme. The only difference is that we know the money goes to America, but we are not quite so certain of the cash coming into the customs under Qg tarif.” The Dally Express takes a fiing at the Times because that newspaper is supporting Mr. Baldwin, saying: “The Times can always be trusted for giv- ing the American view, seeing that its principal proprietor was born in the United States.” Lord Younger, who, as Sir Georga Younger, is accredited with having forced the resignation of the Lloyd George government, is to have com mand of the consgrvative campaign. He has hurried to® Londcn from his country seat to take the place of other party chiefs, who will be forced to leave headquarters and fight for thelr respective seats in the constitu encles. Has a Preference. 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