Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1923, Page 2

] * THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. DAWES HITS CRITICS British. Continue to Search OF NATIONAL BANKS Controller’s Appeal to Coun- try for Their Preservation and Protection. Henry M. ‘:awes, controller of the currency, made an open appeal to the country in his annual report to- day for the preservation and protec- tion of the national banks. The national banking system, he said, deserves more consideration than it recently has received. sisted that it {s now a question for Congress to decide whether the sev- | eral unfavorable factors bearing on the system shall continue or whether “we shall sit ldly by and apatheti- cally watch its retrogration.” One of the principal influences cited by Mr. Dawes was the “persistent suggestion” that the office of con- troller of the currency be abolished. Another factor characterized equally - important is the agitation over branch banking. Outlines Controller's Policy. { The controller, Mr. Dawes asserted, POSSesses many powers ptible of | arbitrary and rigid enforcement, but | he declared It is not now the poliey and never has been to employ them | in way that not further | the banking interests of the coun- try. He declared the controllér al- ways should act as a co-ordinator and use his b s for the specific p that the affairs of national banks are admin- istered in accordance with the laws and to protect the national institu- tions from encroachment of other banking interests against whom they Lave been powerless because of fed- eral limitations. s of the controller of the currency has to be organized for 'k and summary de Dawes, m er complacent enough ; meeting. 1t ra is com- v and force an ¥ wou! r Federal Reserye posed of the men of | of character that has typificd thix| Loard in the past, cach member in | seif-respeet will Insist on expressing | himself and impressing his personal- ity on any proposed methods for r laf, and the wagon, If it arrives | at all, will appro in_orderly and aignified fashion long after the last wisps of smoke have floated away and the ashes cool Cltes Prejudicial Suggestions. “1 cannot reslst a feeling little short of resentment that so many uggestions and so many tendencles seem directed along lines prejudicial the national banking tem. 1f| are to have a national banking em over which the government es supervisory control, that control must be In the hands of an independent executive and not the representative of a prefercntial cred- itor. The only fair and only logical thing to do Is either to continue the nt system with an independent introller or abolish the system en- tirely.” The branch banking problem, the | controller said, presents a clean-cut | { jssue s to whether the country pry fers a system of privately owned branch banks or a reserve system under federal control. The question, He in- | as | For Missing {Wife Scouts Belief He Was Drowned in Channel. Regarded Here One of Most Daring in World. | By the Associated Pres. HASTINGS, England, December 14. | Coast guardsmen this morning were | continuing their search for Lawrence {B. Sperry, the American aviator, | whose airplane was found in the Eng- lish channel three miles off Rye yes- { terday. Detéctive Inspector Milton, who was shooting game on the coast at the place where Sperry flew seaward, ays that the aviator's engine was running badly just before the plane disappeared from view. Sperry, ac- cording to Milton, ecircled at a low j altitude, apparently seeking a suit- able landing place, but finally decided to venture oceanward. The plane, identified as Sperry’s by the fact that his name was on part f the floating wreckage to shore. It apparently was not dam- i and the engine seemed to be in or. The surveyor of a bungalow estate near Falrlight and a coast guard at Rye saw the plane strike the water about three and one-half miles off- shore, REGARDED AS SPECTACULAR. _ Sperry Did Feats Other Seasoned Airmen Here Shunned. Lawronce B. Sperry was regarded by military irmen with whom he was closely associated ms one of the most spectacular pllots in the world With his little Sperry Messenger, of which type he bullt and soid many to the governmont, he would attempt Ice plancs would not attempted flight to Amsterdam from Croyden. resulting, it is believed, in tho death of the famous airman, was the first major undertaking of this METHODIST PRESS BODY MEETS HERE Representatives of Twenty- Five Church Periodicals Open Convention. cons'der. His The Southern Methodist Press As- socfation, representing church papers and publications in the south, sald to have a circulation of more than 2,250,000, opened a three- day conference today at the Mount Jie added, wis interwoven, both with | the life af the federal reserve system and the life of the national banks. which are compelled, by the federal rveserve act to retain ‘membership in | the reserve system. Held Essentially a Monopoly. Branch banking, the controller as- | serted, was essentially monopolistic, | and, he added, that to assume that half a dozen or a dozen state banks | would not have some mutuality of | action in states where they con- trolled a large portion of the bank- ing Interests was to ignore the fun- damental basis of human actlon. “If any lessons are to be drawn; from the development of large in-! dustrial enterprises in the United | States,” he sald, “it is that the| principle of centralization, when once inaugurated, will proceed, un- less interfered with by government action, to a point of complete con- entration in an individual or a group dominated by an individual. Should a situation of this kind de- velop In any federal reserve district the federal reserve bank there either would be eliminated as a factor in the financial community or would be virtually under the control of such a | group.” | The constructive course, the report | declared, lies in relief for the na-| tional banks. Such a program, Mr. | Dawes said, should permit continua- | tion of state bank privileges on their | present level, while at the same time ! the operations of the national in- | stitutions would be lifted up to the | same plane of competition. He sald ! that at present the national banks | were handicapped by hard and fast | obligations to the federal govern- | ment which they were bound to ob- serve, i | | Declines to Make Suggestions. The controller declined, however, | to make recommendations to Con- | gress for national bank rellef at this | time. He preferred, he sald, to allow Congress to solve the branch banking problem, after which the situation | will be clarified, so that suggestions for improving the conditions faced by national banks may be made with some hope of beneficial results. Turning to bank operations, the controller reported that dividends aggregating $179,000,000 were paid| by the national banks in the year| cnding Novemberw 1, the greatest issue ever made Dby the national banks of the country. He reported, also, that $203,500,000 had been add- | ed to the combined profits account of the natlonal banks in the same period. This represents an increase of more than $20,000,000 over the pre- ceding year in the earnings of the national institutions. DUEL AVERTED AS WIFE IS BLAMED IN DISPUTE Frenchman Challenged by Italian Explains Criticism of Army. 2y the Assoclated Press. TURIN, Italy, December 14—A threatened duel between Bruno Genell. Italian war hero, and M. Cas- sagraiu, French hortlculturist, was definitely called off, when M. Cassa- grain blamed his wife for writing a letter defaming the Italian army, which brought forth Genelli's chal- leng: The affair started with the belit- tling >f Itallan products in a French horticultural catalogue. Genelli, who holds the gold medal for military valor, promptly tele- graphed the Frenchman begging him to consider himself “soundly cuffed” and challenging him to a meeting on the field of honor. In the letter now received in repl; M. Cassagrain begs to be exc and designates his wife as the cause of all the trouble. Vernon Place Methodist Church South, with business reports, and invitations | to hold the next sessions at Fayette- ville, Ark.; Canada. The committee on nominations ap- pointed today to consider the invita- tions, and report at the final session, consists of Rev. A. W. Plyler of Greenwood. N, (.; ¥ P E. Riley of Dallas, Tex., and Rev. J. A. Burrow of pened with devotions Nashville, Tenn., and in Nashville, Tenn. The session of me address by the Rev. | ), G. Chappell, pastor of Mount Vernon " Piace Methodist South. Greetings also were extended by Dr. E. C. Regester, presiding elder of the Washington district. The presi- dent of the assoclation, Rev. Dr. R Satterfield of ashville, responded. Reports were heard from the aecre- tary-treasurer, Dr. J. M. Rowland of Richmond. Nashville Makes Bid. The fnvitation to Nashville was pre- sented by T. A. Wiggins of Nashville, and the invitations to Fayeiteville, Ark., and to Canada were nresented by Dr. A. C. Miller of Little Rock, Ark. Among committeew for the confer- | ence appointed today were: Advertising—R. O. Ransford of St. Louis: M. E. Lazendy of Birmingham, Ala.; F. McNeil of Nashville, C. O. Chalmers of New Orleans and L. J. Ballard of Atlanta. Resolutions—A. J. Weeks, Nash- ville; T. L. Holce, Loulsville; W. L. Reed, Point Pleasant, W. Va. Nominations—L. J. Ballard, Atlanta; T. A. Wiggins, Nashville, and W. H. Nelson, San Franeisco. Sightseeing occupies the program of the conference during the after- noons. The conference lasts until Saturday nigh{. Several of the dele- gates will remain_ over Sunday and take a trip to Richmond on Monday as_guestd of the Richmond ministers. | Much Interest attaches to the pro- gram tomorrow morning, when “edi torial policy” will be discussed, In. cluding such subjects as “Ku Klux Klan,” “Methodist Unification” “In- dustrial Relations” and “Soclal and Race Relation: DEADLOCK IN HOUSE GROWS AS SENATE CONTEST SUBSIDES (Continued from First Page.) publicans and two farmer-labor sen- ators, who have voted for Senator La Follette. five of whom shifted on Wednesday to Senator Smith of South Carolina, the democratic nom- Inee for the place. ‘While many of the regular repub. licans would be glad to vote for Sena- tor Couzens as a satisfactory method of breaking the deadlock over the or- ganization of the committee which must handle rallroad legislation, there are some who are opposed to the plan of electing him. It was pointed out that Senators McLean of Connecticut, Watson of Indiana, Fernald of Malne, Elkins of ‘West Virginia, and Gooding of Idaho, in addition to Senator Cummins and Senator La Follette, are all ahead of Senator Couzens on the commit- tee list. Under the usual pro- cedure in making committee as- signments it would be necessary to get these senators to waive their right under the seniority rule of the chalrmanship in order to elect Senator Couzen: Still Back Cummina, Should it appear that the republi- can organization In the Senate is willing to support Senator Couzens as a compromise candidate, undoubt- edly, it was sald in well informed quarters today, a meeting of the re- publican conference would be held and the matter regularly passed upon. At present the republican conference is committed to the election of Sen- ator Cummins as chairman. The progressive group, it w. 1d today, would also be wiiling to vote for Senator Howell of Nebraska as a compromise candidate. Mr. Howell is one of the progressive republicans ‘who have been supporting Mr, La Fol. lette for the place. The progressive group, however, it was indicated, would not be willing wus brought | flights that calloused airmen in serv- | twenty-five ' Church | Aviator, LAWRENCE B. SPERRY. k|!lm.!‘ that Sperry failed to accom- plish. A tall, fair young man of extreme- Iy nervous temperament, Sperry was admired by pitots of hoth tha Army and Navy. Tate In September he undertook to win the “On-to-St Loui®’ race In connection with the nternational air meet in the Mis- dourl elty. BELIEVES HE IS ALIVE. Wife Says He May Have Swum Ashore to Village. By the Associated Press HEMPSTEAD, N. Y., December 14.— Mrs. Winifred Sperry refuses to be- lieve that her husband, Lawrence B. Sperry, the aviator, has been drowned in the English channel wracked plane was found Mr. Sperry has bee many things that I dc | thing serfous has happenes | she sald today at her home. “I lieve if anything had happened | would have had some presentiment of it It after his plane fell into the | water he swam to some little viliag | news of him would not reach London until after the story of the accident had arrived. is safe somewhere."” REVERSES DECISION LIMITING RAILWAYS | Interstate Body Permits Con- struction to Open New Coal Mines, 1] The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion today reversed a decision in which it had lald down the where his yesterd through I feel that he principle that no further railway con- | struction open new should be authorized to coal mines In its original finding, handed down last spring, the commission re- {fused the Virginian rallway author- i1ty to extend its Guyandot river branch a distance of slightly over a ymile In order to reach mines of the Focahontas Fuel Company. Today's !decision declared that present and | future public convenience and neces- ,sity required the new construction !and authorized the railroad to pro- | ceea. | Firat Decinion Attacked. | ‘There had been attacks from many | quarters on the commission's first de- ision in the Virginian case, which | was based in part on a premise that here are already more coal mines in {the United States than needed, and | that raflroads are not able to fur- inish them cars for hauling thelr products. The first decision also de- jclared that the Virginian in particu- lar had been unable to meet demands {for car service from mines already on its line. At a rehearing, today's decision de- jclared, evidence was produced showing conclusively that the railrad would be able to Increase its coal tonnage progressively In the future by reason of additional facllities acquired and anticipated PERMANENT RENT . BODY PROPOSED Senator Ball to Introduce New Bill Within Few Days. The District Rent Commission would be made a permanent establishment under a bill which will be introduced iby Senator Ball, chairman of the Dis- trict committee, Within the next few days. The bill will extend the existing rent commission law in practically the same form that it now stands. The present rent act expires May 22, 1924, and unless legislation is en- acted the Rent Commission would then go out of business. There is a strong feeling, however, that the rent commission should be continued. The housing situation In j the District is still such ds to require uch a commission, and also the in- terest of the government in the prop- er housing of its thousands of em- ployes in the District warrants the establishment of a permanent com- mission, it is sald. Author of Original Act, Senator Ball is the author of the original reht act. This act has been twice extended by action of Congre: Senator Ball sald today that he wouid do all he could to expedite the passage of a deficlency appropria- tion to give the' rent commission funds needed now to carry on its ) work. The efficiency of the commis- sion, he sald, has been hampered too [much already through lack of funds. | to support other republican senators {who are members of the committee for the chairmanship. While the Senate will meet tomor- row, under an agreement entered into, nothing but routine - busines: will' be transacted and the questio of election of a chairman of the interstate commerce committee will go over until Monday. Sperry broad | [TEMPLE OF MUSIC ' PROIECT APPROVED D. C. Committee of Garden Club of America to Push Bill in Congress. With three definite objectives in view, the committee In the Nativnal | Capital of the Garden Club of Amer- ica was Inaugurated In Washington yesterday afternoon at the home of !the first chairman, Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, 1239 Vermont avenue. Mrs. | Calvin Coolidge, It was announced, :hns @accepted the honorary chairman- ship. Erection of a white marble memo- rial bandstand to be called “The Tem- ple of Music,” in East or West Poto- {mac Park as a tribute to the Wash- { | Ington men who served in the world war was proposed as the most fitting Dproject on which the committee could begin its activities in the city. Such a proposal, it was explained, had been introduced In the House in | 1920 by Representative Gould, chalr- man of the House library committee, authorizing a commission In charge, d giving authority for erection of such a structure on government rround. The new organization will obtain the refntroduction into Con- gress of a similar bill this session, it was stated, will press for its adop- tion, and will plan a c: paikn for raising sufficlent funds within the District to bulld the temple Move to Save Dogwood, The new local committee Garden Club of America also will make an effort, Mrs. Noyes announced, to prevent the destruction of dogwood in Washington and vicinity, probably by sponsering a bill to prevent the sale of dogwood here. A. third op- | portunity for the commitiee was said !to be the posaibility of forwarding some day a movement for th |lishment in Washington of {arhoretum. The m forty of the | i | ting was attended by about sons. including national offi- rden Club - York. Phila burgh, and by Chairman Moore | |of the Find Arts Commission, and En- cor Commissioner Bell of the Dis- ‘derick Delano, chairman of the {committee of one hundred. delivered |@n address on the pressing necessity {of further “city planhing.” and cor- dially approved of the project to con- istruct “the memorfal “temple of music.” City Plannlng Advised. Pointing to what he considered a danger of Washington expanding in ja_ “haphazard” fashion beyond fts | present limits, the speaker deplored | he fact that the expansion which had already exceeded the limits of the {federal city planned by Washington, L'Enfant and Jefferson was unsatis- factory The city should look ahead. twenty- five years at least, he adviked, when | Washington probably will be ‘& mil- Mon in size, and Baltimore half as large again, with the distances be- tween the outer edges of the citles growing constantly closer. Charles Moore, chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, explained that the commission previously had gone on record as favoring the erection of a |bandstand in Potomac Park. and had japproved the general feature of a structure such as is proposed by the | committee. Approves Temple Plan. Dr. David Fairchild of the Depart- ment of Agriculture, spoke In appro- val of the “temple of music” project, and also proposed. In connection with a discussion of preservation of dog- wood, that a fitting thing to be con- sidered would be the gift by the Gar- | !den Club of America of 2.000 beapti- | ful dogwood trees to Japan. This he sald would further strengthen the lhnn(l of international feeling which {was augmented by presentation to ! Washington of the flowering cherry | trees of Japan. Mrs. Samuel Sloan of New York, president of the Garden Club of America, lauded the work started in Washington, predicting that it would Ibe of interest to the 5,000 members |of the club throughout the nation. 1Other out-of-town members of the club at the meeting were Mrs. Henry { Rae of Pittsburgh, Mrs. Bayard Henry | of Philadelphia, Mrs. McKnight and ! 3rs. Stewart of New York. | Headquarters for the committee will be at 1741 New York avenue, with Miss Leila Mechlin, secretary. BERLIN’S OVERTURE ON NEW DEAL IN RUHR FINDS FRENCH WILLING! (Continued from First Page.) is acting In good faith we shall soon know It. But if the move is a maneu- ver to get around the Duesseldorf {agreements it is doomed to certain tailure.” Le Matin, however, opines that the German move, “whatever hidden mo- |tives may be behind it. constitutes an avowal of distress which offers to a constructive policy of opportunities which must not be neglected.” The invitatlons to the experts who are to sit on the two international committees that are to examine Ger- many's financial troubles will prob- ably be sent out early next week, it waa sald today, after Sir John Brad- bury, British member of the repara- tion commission, has returned from London. RI White marhle structure marden Club of America (Mrx. Frank at polo grounds or xome other xpot in NEWGASTLE ISSUE AGAIN DEADLOCKED British Surprised at U. S. D mand for Exoneration of Consuls. e-| By the Assoctated Press. 3 . LONDON, December ‘14.—Surprise was expressed in governmental quar- ters today over Washington dis- patches stating tha€ the United States could not reopen its consulnte; at Newcastle-on-Tyne until the British government had publicly exonerated Consul Brooks and Vice Consul Slater from the charges which led to the closing. These charge: made by British shipping intecests and sustained by the foreign office, were that the officials had dis- criminated against British shipping in favor of vessels flying the Amer- fean flag. It is declared here that neitaer in Ambassador Harvey's conversation with Foreign Secretary Curzon nor: in the subsequent communications was any such condition raised by the American government as {s now re- ported from Washington. It is explained that the main terms for re-establishment of the consulate by the State Department were that the consular officials whose exequa. turs were revoked were to remain perwona grata to the British govern- ment and be eligible to serve in| American consular posts in any part | of the British empire. It was not forseen, however, by the British foreign office that the United States might desire to reassign Mr. Brooks to & place so near his old post at Belfast. It 1s belleved In well informed circles, therefore, that the deadlock between the two governments will | continue unless the situation is al- tered by the expected change of | cabinet when the British parliament meets early next month. — i i { | | somewhat suspicious of American in- tentions, and seems to fear that the proposed committees will end in some kind of an Anglo-American conni- vance with the Germans to oblige France to evacuate the Rubr and re- duce reparations with compensation. In the opinion of some of the best | observers here American participa- tion In these committees, if it suc- ceeds In allaying French suspicion that every international commission It is expected that the committee will be able to begin its work about January 10. TO TEST BERLIN MOTIVES. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. 8ty d Chicago Daily News. PARIS, December 14—Passive re- in the Ruhr now having Eiad in Teality as well a3 theoret- feally, the French government, it is announced, will agree to the German government's proposal for direct ne- gotlation on all outstanding questions affecting the two countries, It is widely feared here that the Marx cabinet intends to follow the policy attributed to the Stresemann cabinet, namely, obstruction and tem- porization as regards French proj- ects for direct exploitation of oc- cupled/territories. In this case France intends to withhold concessions and keep a tight grip on everything. 1£. however, contrary to French ex- pectations, Germany should prove to be in good faith in her professed de- sire for an understanding, France is ready to make many concessions, for an understanding ls precisely what France wants. As far as can now be judged one of the first questions the French in- tend to raise as a test of Germany good falth is that of German dis- armament. On the basis of German estimates, Le Temps concludes that passive resistance thus far has cost the German government nine billion gold marks, and the municipalities ten billions more, or a total of nine- teen billions, Whereas the total French reparations claim against Germany at present s only twenty- illfons. B emps concludes that Germany's real interest is to pay reparations, since the policy of resisting payment of reparations can only lead to still greater ruin. Le Matin enthuslastically approves the appointment of Charles G. Dawes, the American expert, to the repara. tions commisslon _in; ting com- mittee, and declares that Dawes will give “German dissimulators” some- thing to think about. The remainder | of the French press, however, is still or conference tends to end in &n antl- | tjon and through the medium of | French plot, will have done much to | smooth the way for a real final gen- eral reparations settlement. TO “SMOKE OUT” FRENCH. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 14.—Dr. Strese- mann, the forelgn minister, is de- termined to bring about an early clarification of Franco-German rela. tions, especlally with regard to France's plans in the Rhineland and the occupled Ruhr sector. Since assuming the foreign port-{ follo the former chancellor has im- pressed on Chancellor Marx and his colleagues in the cabinet the imme- diate urgency of “smoking out” France and French aspirations in oc- cupled Germany. Until France is forced to show her colors, Dr. Strese- mann belleves all budgetary calcu- |lations or attempts to salvage Ger- many's internal economic situation will be futile. In a frank discussion of the Rhine- land situation with the German editors the forelgn minister an- nounced that Germany would seek early contact with Paris and Brus- sels to initiate discussions calculated to restore German jurisdiction in the occupled sones sufficiently to enable the government to obtain unrestrict- ed control of the economic and ad- ministrative machinery: R To this extent the Marx cabinet is' taking a new course, in that it proposes to eliminate local con- trol commissio or even the recent- ly_constituted “committee of sixty,” which was to be accorded plenary powers in connection with its nego- tiations with the occupation authori- ties. Upon the success of these impend- ing negotiations will depend th question of appointing an ambas: dor to succeed the late Dr. Mayer, who was recalled soon after the French invaded the Ruhr and who subsequently died. - The foreign min- ter informed the editors that three candidates proposed by Germany had, been rejected by Premler Foincare. DAY, DECEMBER 14, 1923 or hand concertx which the newly formed committee of the N B. Noyes Potomac Park. NEW COURT PLAN HELD TASK BEFORE SENATE (Continued from First Page.) sides, there is no particular urgency In the Senate for framing a substi- tute plan, as those who oppose the present world court will insist that domestic matters should have the right of way. The tacking of reser- vations to the protocol already be- fore the Senate foreign relations committee is a foregone conclusion, but the reservations proposed by Mr. MUSIC”? FIVE AGCEPT POSTS Ball and Reed Are Among Number to Be Honorary Vice Presidents. i Hughes would simply amount to a| statement that the United States by its approval does not adhere to the league of nations. What Mr. Lodge kas in mind are reservations that constitution of the court. The present world court owes its cstablishment to Elihu Root, repub- lican Secretary of State, who devised the pla: which ended a generation of dobate. The permanent court idea failed “at the second Hague confer- co because no acceptable method of selecting judges could be found Mr. oot proposed that the machinery of the league of nations be utilized and this made possible the present court. It is thought that the reser- vations of the United States Senate might indicate a plan whereby the voting for judges would be done by amb: adors and ministers of the same powers who are members of the leaguc. This would enable the U'nited States to vote tending the sessions of the assembly or council of the league. It remains ito be seen whother the other nations |approval of the me of the world will present court, care to alter the which {s functioning satisfactorily,” simply to please the American SBenate, but until the other governments have spoken there will be no opposition from the White House to the plan of submitting a counter proposal. LODGE GIVES VIEWS. For Court Idea, But Not Present SBystem. A new statement of his position on the world court was given out yes- terday by Senator Lodge of Massa- chusetts, chairman of the foreign re- lations committee, who declared In favor of a world tribunal if divorced from the league of nations. The statement was contained in a letter of November 30 by the senator to a con- stituent. It has always been the pollcy of the United States and very emphati- cally the policy of the republican party,” said the letter, “to promote In every way possible the settlement of international differences by arbitra- arbitral tribunals. We have advocated in the past the establishment of a permanent court of arbitration. I am thoroughly in favor of a world court, but'I desire that it should be a true world court and not involved in any way in the league of nations. Munt Be Separate Body. “I think such a world court could be framed, and the easfest way as it appears to me, which is a matter of personal opinion, would be to take what has been done at The Hague as a basis and to that add the power to make a permanent court, but I am not in favor of adhering to the protocol unless ‘reservations could be made which would separate the court from the league and make it a genuine world court. Whether this can be brought about, I do not yet know and can not tell at this time. You may Test assured, however, that the ques tion will be thoroughly considered the Senate.” PYenator Lodge added that the United States had done much toward world Deace and mentioned the armament Conference, action in the Tacna-Arica dispute between Chile and Peru and the conventions with Mexico. T know of no other nmation which has in the same time done as much for the cause of world peace or can Show such a record of service to hu- manity,” sald Senator Lodge. “If such a nation extsts I do not know ft, but T know well that the armies of the nations composing the league are to- day larger than they were before the world war with Germany. MARKS ARE DISOWNED. Reichsbank Disclaims Responsibil- ity for 180 Million Trillion. BERLIN, December 14.—One of the numerous legacles bequeathed to the German government by the {ll-starred policy of passive resistance now pre- sents itself to the Marx cabinet in the form of 180,000,000 trillions of marks in__emergency currency, most of ‘which 18 of doubtful ancestry or now wholly orphaned. The Reichsbank declines to assume responsibility for it without at- | Senator L. Heisler Ball, chairman of jthe Senate D ct comm! | Represe: man of the House District committee, | would, if accepted by the other pow- | have accepted honorary vice preside iers of the world, actually change the cles of the Washington Safety Coun- cil, it was announced today by {council. Others who have acc the office are: John B. Larner, Emile Berliner and Miss Mabel Boardman Senator Ball, in accepting the elec- tlon, wrote to President Boobar of the council: “Permit me to accept the honor con- ferred upon me as suggested in vour esteemed favor of the Sth instant, and to say that it will give me pleasure to be considered one of the honorary | vice presidents of the Washington | Safety Council. | . Methods Are Approved. “It gives me added pleasure to ex- | press to your council of my hearty ods followed. and {feel that the program heretofore fol- {lowed has been productive of much { g00d and doubtless will result in still can be kept in existence.” | _Mrs. Ellis Logan, chairman of the Women's Club of the Washington Safety Council, apnounced today that the “Safe Drivers' Club"” booths in the District building will be in charge of the following organizations during the coming week Will Run Safety Booths. Monday, Park View Club, Mra Ed- ward P. Perkins, president, and mem- bers of the club_assisting: Tuesday and_Wednesday, Columbia Union, W. {C. T. U., Mrs. Ella S. Knight, presi- dent, and members of the union: Thursday, Lincoln Circle, No. 3, |Ladles of the G. A. R, Ms. Alice | F. Goodacre, presitent, and members of the circle; Friday, Northwestern Union, W. C. T. U, Mrs. Irving S { Woodruff, president, and members of the unfon, and Saturday, Emma San- |fora Shelfon Unlon, W. C. T. U., Mrs. {BEva Crisswell, president, and mem- bers of the union. “Regulations alone will not save {1ives on the streets of Washington, but I!lrlfil compliance with them will,"” In- spector Albert J. Headley, chief of the | traffic bureau, declared iast night, ad- dressing graduates of the school of in- struction of the Washington Safety Council at McKinley High School. More than 100 motorists were given diplomas by the council, slgnifying that they ~have succesifully gone through the school for safe drivers. Other_addresses were delivered by Judge Schuldt of Police Court, Odeil Smith and W. Graham Cole, secretary of the Safety Council SAYS IMPORTED LIQUOR IS BOTTLED IN JERSEY By the Associated Pr NEWARK, N. | Much of the | during the holidays as smuggled g0ods In reality is made in this coun- try and Is backed in counterfeit bot- tles and boxes. Prohibition Director ‘Al\drun C. Chamberlain declared to- | day. Much, he added, was poisonous. the | | continued benefit if the organization { J., December 14— AND ONLY 8 DAYS o ional Capital of the | chairman) proposes to erect either on the site of the bandstand ON SAFETY COUNCIL pted | mported” liquor -sold | 200 IN CATHEDRAL FUND CAMPAIGN Teams Ready for Canvass Tomorrow, Following Di ner Tonight. Two hundred workers will begin to- morrow to raise Washington's un- named quota toward the building of the national cathedral, following the opening of the campalgn at a dinner at 7 o'cléck tonight at the New Wil lard Hotel. The ten-million-dollar campalgn to finish the cathedral will be opened at the dinner tonight, when |addresses will be made by Senator George Wharton Pepper, John Hays Hammond and Rt Rev. James - Freeman, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. Newbold Noy local manager, has purposely lef! trict's share of the fund a question, as it is hoped that Washington will raise a fund that will in a sense “set @ mark for the to_shoot at.” Beginning tomorrow, until Christmas eve, the paign workers will perso. the fund. Beginning Mo luncheon will be held eaci 12:30 p.m. at the Willard, resuits of the day's work i reported by workers and tains 7 YEARS IN PRISON FOR THEFT OF AUTOS Albert E. Moran Sentenced on Two Charges—Others Incur Crime Penalties. form campalign t the Dis- rest of the country and lasting local cami- Seven vears in the penitentiary was the sentence Imposed today by Justice Bailey in Criminal Division 1 Albert E. Moran. a young white man, convicted of stealing two automobiles. Four years was given and three years on the oth Moran had been on probation in { Delaware when he took the two cars it was stated, and his counsel, ing for lentency, told the co: Moran is of a good far could not resist the temptation steal automobiles. The court declded to remove him from the temptation for an extended period Benjamin H given five ye for forgery, on r one cass Covell, white, rs In thé penitent which he cashed ni; liberty bonds. The court impos that term in each of the nine case: but allowed the sentences to run con- currently. Charles Willlams, colored, convict- ed of violating the Harrison anti- narcotic law. noted an appeal from a sentence of five years imposed on him by Justice Ba The court declined to bail pending the w. appeal Robert Butler will spend two In the penitentlary for an assauit {with a dangerous weapon. Justice Bailey gave him that sentence tod: $1,200,000 FOR STUDY IN FIELD OF SCIENCE IS MADE AVAILABLE from F ears ay (Continued the Carnegie Inst ble to being whisked sudde that realm of fairy wonderland of fiction where impossible seems quite commonpl The mystic arts of modern gen re put to naught by the real wonders that may bo seen in the exhibition, which will be open to the public next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons While a learned doctor in the room assigned to the nutrition laborator: is proving by one of the most finel balanced scales in the world, assis by a human subject, that a pers actually loses a given amount welght every hour that he sits ease, in another room the miniature | tissues of a living heart may be ob- {served beating, although they have been separated from the body to which they once belonged. Snow-Making Shown. In another corner of the same room sclentists from the geophysical lab- oratory of the institution may be seen manufacturing real snow from a tank of liquid carbon dioxide. By imixing it with ether they reduce its temperature to 110 degrees below zero and then freeze mercury—the same substance that is used In the thermometer—in the solution. Not content with this, they rescue the solidified piece of mercury from its lcy draught, drop It into another glass of carbonated water and, be- fore the eyes of their astonished spectators, oblige the obedient mer- cury to melt itself back into it elusive liquid form and condense th water to ice at the same minute, com- pletely reversing the previous, opera- tion. One may then walk to the opposit. end of the room and suddenly find himself floating in space, millions and millions of miles from this plane amid the flaming stars and swirling nebulae of the unmeasured universe His airplane will be the gigantic lens of the largest telescope in the world and his pilots the world-famous sclentists of the institution's ob- servatory atop Mount Wilson, Calif Wonders of Space Shown. From his safe seat in the warm administration bullding the specta- tor gazes deep into the forbidden vol- canoes of the moon, then studies tho peculiar rings around Saturn, only to find himself a minute later re- flecting upon the beauty of a star so many millions of miles away from this_planet that the layman could not begin to absorb its true distance. Even the sun's wonders may bd watched in- safety—its seething sur: face and Its conflagration of hydro- gen, the flames of which pour 80,000 miles into space. These are only a few of the won- ders that were Viewed last night L the guests of Dr. Merriam and (! board of trustees and may be ser by the public next Monday, Tuesda and Wednesday afternoon. from 2 o'clock until 5:30. Experts will Lo on hand to explain in detail each of the exhibits. In his annual report to the board of trustees today, Dr. Merriam re- viewed the work of the institution and stressed his earnest desire for closer co-operation, not only between the various departments and bureaus of the institution, but between othcr sclentific investigating and research bodies as well. —_— WATSON NOT CANDIDATE. But Senator Qualifies Remark With “Now.” PASSAIC, N. J., December 14.— United States Senator J. E. Watson of Indiana last night declared: “I am not a candidate” when asked whether he would aspire to the Presi- dency of the United States. The sen- ator, with a smile, then qualified his declaration by eaying: “I don't know what I will be, but tion is compara- the {