Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1924, Page 10

LIBERALS REIECT BALDWIN ADVANCE! Refuse Coalition, Labhor Cabinet Seen by Editor, Predicts Early Fall. BY A, By Radio to The LONDON. January §.—Desperate at- tempts being made in conserva- tive quarters to induce H. H. As- quith and his liberal followers to join Prime Minister Baldwin and the conservatives in preventing the ac- cesslon of Ramsay MacDonald and la- bor to power. The most panic.stricken element in the me is the notorious Roth- ermere p: hich, haviy best to destroy the Baldw mont, reduced to condlition of fear at the pr labor government. It publishes dal frantic appeals to Mr. Asquith to sav the nation from the wrath to come. He must line up with the conser tves, or death and damnation are imminent. The spectaclie of Lord Rothermere going down on hands and knees to the man his press has lam- pooned for years is a subject of gen- eral derisfon. Lord Northeliffe but ARDINER. govern- ludierous spect of is now wa [ dangerous ad certain hich his lacks, fact is that con- are appealing § n to mak: to Mr. Asquith with a vie to Inducing him to form a liberal government supported by the votes of the conservatives. This represents the practically unanimous feeling of the conservatives, but Mr. Baldwin has put the idea aside as impossible. Asquith Adamant. Mr. Asquith has declared his in- tentfon to turn the conservatives out accent office as If he p the liberal ctionary conservatives element joining preciscly what the It does not want want to eliminate priant Londc Baldw sued party would element joinin and the prog: labor. Thi Tabor office. the libe It ma; s certain. there- fore, that the conservative govern- ment will be defeated on the address from the throne and will be su ceeded by labor. The prospect is creating much alarm among the moneyed cla; It is notorious that great sum of money are being trans- ferred to Amerida. This is under- stood to be one of the maln causes of the fall in value of the soverelgn, though the main cause is attributed to the payment due on the American debt. MacDonald In London. Ramsay MacDonald, now the pros- pective prime minister, has returned to London from Scotland, where he spent the holidays at his birthplace in the highlands village mouth, a famous golf cen- MacDonald formerly was a mem- ber of the golf club. but was excluded during the war on_account of his anti-war attitude. it was expected that the club wonld re-elect him, but it refused and MacDonald was com- pelled to spend the holidays in walk- ing expeditions. This indicates the temper of the wealthy classes toward him. MacDonald is accustomed to this sort of hostility, and knows that he has a formidable task befors him. Practically the whole press is against him, and he has to form his new gov- ernment from wholly untried ma- terfal, with only a third of the house of commons to support hir Depends on Liberal How long can he survive? That depends on how long he can retain the solid support of the liberal vote. This, in turn, depends on how far he can keep the extremists of his own party in che He himself ie not an extremist, though he often talks like one. The test probably will come in Ma: The miners’ agreement is to be dete mined then and it will be impossible for the government to avoid natlonal- ization of the min been in the forefront program. Such a propo; would split the liberal party. A ma- jority would spport nationalization, but a considerable section is hostlle to the idea and would abstain, or even vote with_ the conservativ That weakens MacDonald's position. only requires the transfer of fifty 1ib- eral votes to the conservative lobby to bring about MacDonald's fall. Superficially, it Is impossible for him long to pay the price of unani- mous liberal support without creating civil war in his own party. Ne pre- mier ever entered office in such a hopeless case and long tenure is un- thinkable. Parliament to Open. Christm of the labor Parliament meets next Tuesday for { the election of a speaker. But the real struggle begins a week later. Much discussion is raging on_th subject of the sudden failure of Pre- mier Poincare's New Year message to England. made, but Poincarc was silent, and there has been no explanation. Eng- land still survives, Copyright, 1924, Pl i ST THREE DIE IN SNOW. Alpine Passes Cut Storm. Switzerland, January §5.— atulitles in consequence Off by BER ‘Three more of the heav Alpine region are reported from the Tyrol, where a party of five skiers was struck by an avalanche. The returns from one valley in the Canton of Valais, cut off by snow since the election of December 21, ‘were T ed only yesterday. But aine vote: being snowbound in their homes. CONFIRMS PRIEST MURDER St { Belgian Legation in Peking Gives Details. By the Assoctated Press. PEKING, January 5—The Belgian Jegation here today confirmed the re- port of the slaying of the Belgian missionary, the Rev. Father Soene: and the sacking of the Catholic mi sion at Tsaoti, near the Mongolian border, recently. “The bandits applled for medical aid at the mission and killed Father Soenen while he was engaged In min- istering to_their needs, according to legation advices. EEVEN DIE ON SCHOONER. CURLING, N. F., January with her crew of seven men, Thursday, in St. George Dbay, Heatherton, sixty miles east of here, _ was reported today. Five of the bodles have been recovered. The ship was_bound from the Bay of Islands 10 Gloucester, Mass. POLES ADVANCE BILL. ‘WARSAW, January 5.—The Polish diet today voted the third reading of a bill granting full powers to the minister of finance. The vote was umanimous, but the deputles repre- senting the national minorjties ab- stained. CANADA DEPOSITS GAIN. OTTAWA, January ' '5.—Savings bank deposits in Canada increased $36,000.000 during November, accord- ing to monthly. statistics issued today.! B done its | s, which has always { probably { Tt | All arrangements had been | snowfall throughout the | were cast, the other voters | —The ; Joss of the schoonmer Donald Silver, last ! ofF | !Orgies of Berliners on New Year i { | BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN By Radfo to The Star. BERLIN, January 5.—New Year eve. i Six degrees Fahrenheit. But the crowds dance in the deep Enow in the main streets and make [music on penny whistles. | procession of motor cars is compelled to stop. Rockets and fireworks to warm themselves with more drinks, knock vainly at the doors of the wine- rooms and restaurants which are closed “because overfille: Dozens of big advertisements in the newspapers have invited the night's merrymakers to suppers, bails and ballets, where they are surrounded by the fumes of wine, rum and brandy. Everywhere Is a festal tone and no- where {s & comfortable place vacant. In the lobbies of the fashionable hotels, gold and silver brocades and diadems and neckluces spanklc But alongside the announcement in the newspapers that closing time had been extended to 3 o'clock stood the mayor's appeal to succor dlstress— become fntolerable as a resuit of the long cold spell by increased dona- tions. i | 1 Scoren Dinnipation. How much money this night might have realized for the poor. had they been given all that was poured out for amusement. gourmandizing and dissipation! Must not a sense of de- cency have demanded that a nation which is compelled to beg at strangers’ doors renounce these things? Charity begins at home, even when, as now {n Germany, forelgn help is indispensable. But such thoughts disturb neither those who, in evening dress, drink champagne, nor the crowds on the streets. The peal of the New Year chimes is drowned out by the einging, shout- ing masses. But in the background lean figures of wretchedness collect confetti, paper snakes and other rub- bish in'dirty bags in order to resell them for the price of a_plate of soup. Whoever sees these figures—among tirem children—feels in this premature carnival the approach of Ash Wednes- day. In oft-darned socks he joins the crowd, and doesn't heed the fact that the government now permits public dances four instead of three times a week. Kind-hearted Americans who are col lecting money to feed the poorest Ger. mans, especially the children, must not be led by this dissipation and squan- dering of money to belleve that the need is not so flerce as has been represented. It is appallingly great At least a million government em- bloyes have been discharged, and the salaries of those left have been re- duced to a llving minimum. A third of all the men and women normally employed in industry are entirely un- employed or on short time. Patience Is Inexhaustible. | German people are inexhaustible. cause they made all the sacrifices of- fictally demanded of them, they were able to survive the maddest of all omy and_inwardly undiminished pow- ers. And because they make no sac- rifices not officially ordered, they are | still, after five years of bad govern- ment, upright and industrious, subtle and_unswerving in discovering new methods of earning money—but more willing than their fathers to spend thelr earnings for gross pleasure. For no inflation, market slump or price increase can rob them of what has been spent. Foreign critics must not forget that Germany has no money at all in the proper sense of the word—no stable yet elastic measure of values. Herr Helfferich wished to create such a measure when he recommended a money based on the price of rve, Germany's most important cereal. But the idea was weakened and the renten mark decided upon, which, un- like the Russian chervonetz, is not even partially secured by gold, but A Few of Our Unusually Attractive DIAMOND Values i Are being offered here—they are typical of the many values in Diamonds we have been serving to thou- sands of pleased patrons for 31 years. 1 Very Brilliant Diamond, beautiful in color; weighing 2 points more than % carat. $85 1 Very Beautiful and Bril- liant Diamond, of rare color, weighing 10 points less than T 08 1 Diamond of Exceptional Brilliancy, beautifully cut and beautiful in color; weighing 7 points more than 34 carat. $310 1 Absolutely Perfect Dia- mond, of beautiful cr.or and exceptional brilliancy; weigh- ing 12 points more than one 495 Arthur J. Sundlun Treasurer j Adolf Kahn President Of ‘HalincInc. Jewelers Platinumsmiths 935 F Street 81 Years at the Same Address A whole divert the dense masses who, hoping | The patience and strength of me‘_ Be- wars, with unimpaired national econ-|= Scathingly Denounced by Harden {German Publicist Calls Attention to Appeals for Poor By Mayor at Time When Revelry Was High- est—Says Germany Not Responsible. only by the guarantee of the produe ing classes, - This artificial adjust irr flable with ~ hos created an atmosy mistrust. But finally becan economics, ere of indefinabie of merchandise and, since one reckoned 1d ‘marks and pfennigs, things that had seemed dear at two hundred billions appeared cheap when they cost simply “four | marks,” although this was twenty- fold their former price. Secure Feeling Elusive. In addition to the renten mark, there are about two hundred and fifty quad- rilllon paper marks in circulation, con- siderable amounts of treasury certifi- cates and also Incalculable masses of 1 emergenc: which was issued by the munieiy d private indus- try. It is clear that such chaos, com- bined with a national debt of four hun- «dred quadrillion marks, canuot create feeling of security. There the people—whao fear the remainder of their prop- mistrust this traordinary “stabilization clined to ‘get whatever pleasure possible from what still remains. The horizon of international poli jtes is somewhat brighter. Th peaceful forces of British democracy Will soon move more unhampered. Since the Franco-Czecho alliance, the first atten a W (alliance, in i security { Premier jiirst with Germa I8 the wor hehind learns and nd for and he v as their aim. of the thorny s—if Ger- t merely the dutics of & demo- cratic republic and understunds that only those sacrifices which are made voluntarily and -not by order are worth while and permanently valu- able. w man. (Copyright, 1924.) PRINCESS SAILS FOR JAPAN. anuary 5.—Princess Kata- whose husband was killed mobile nt at Ber- a Apri tled from Mars y for Japan. The princess was injured sericusly in the accident, but recovered after an op- eration. She was unable, however, to accompany the Lody of the prince to TARDIEU SAYS FLOOD MAY AROUSE for Not Taking Precautions _Is Forecast. TREMENDOUS DAMAGE DONE{ Thousands of Homes Can Be En- tered Only in Boats. BY ANDRE TARDIEU. By Radio to The Star. PARIS, January 5.—~The year ba- PEOPLE Revolution Against Government ed that the same disaster arrives after ‘fourteen years' warning The public authoritiés are doing the beat they can, now that the catastrophe has come, but they can't do much. And perhaps the war has brought the poeple to accept such things fa- talistically. Everybody thinks, “wel we've been through worse than th and so there is mot too much grum- bling. Now and then somebody mur- “what we need a Musso- 1ini,” but that is pure absurdity. For on 'the one hand Mussolini’s ultimate success is still in doubt, and on the other hand methods applicable on one side of the Alps are not neces- sarily applicable on the other. The truth is we would like to see our government with greater foresight and continuity. That would not cure all evils, but it would inspire great- ter confidence abroad. Program Was Ignored. Take the example of this flood !and examine it fmpartially. A pro- gram of publlc works to prevent flood recurrence was adopted after the flood of 1910, Nothing, or almost THE SUNDAY STAR, WASITINGTON, D. ¢, JANUARY §; gins badly for Parifians, with a flood which bids fair to equal the devasta- tion of 1910, and turns attention from nothing, was war. explaine: uch an was done to execute it. This d and excused by undertaking was im- the since tern-eastern | erritorial | Japan. The Piano Shop 227 Pennsylvania Ave. Southeast reat Piano Sale!! Newly Accumulated Stock of Used ianos—Players—Grands SACRIFICE | i | | | AR ¥aul this piano away and we will well it for $25.00. It i a Ebony case and worth more than double the price we ask for i Thix is your chance. All Pianos Not Exactly Like Cu This piano will go to the first customer for $35. We will deliver it free within a radius of .5 miles of Washington. Bring what you can for a first payment, and pay the balance at $1.25 per week. Act Quick! Don’t Delay! Bring What You Can as a Down Payment. We Wi world affairs to those of rescue an relief. It is absurd to try to wall up riv- ers in the midst of great citles an the ancients knew better than to at- The moderns are less wise Just as the Japanese tempt 1t. or less prudent. constructed modern American-styl bulldings on voleanie ground, Paris has confined the river Seine betwee high walls of masonry, which it oc- casionally overflows with dire effects. seems It happened In 1910 and about to happen again. Damage Already Great. Already the damage Is tremendou 1910 the maximum flood 30—and it In housands of | uated an | their condition is serious, In view of | the housing shortage. 1t is much to of the trouble. lled armies cut of timber for t1 The French and al enormous and trench material that the countr; alance has been up- This was a good reason for the taking of extr: remedies take enormously. We are poor, and a! our borrowing power is required fo rehabilitation and pensions. fore, the great canals which woul save Paris from flood have not bee constructed. Face People ar. Iy, but precautions, but suc! il Bravely. facing this evil This is yoi was be feared that de- forestation of central France, neces- sitated by the war, {s at the bottom quantities 2 long time und cost There- brave- cannot help being astonish- ousible during the war, and Ten money has been lacking. ~But between 1910 and 1914, during four years of peace, nothing was done since the war, the city of engaged on public works al cost and far less utility. The imply that the author- failed to do the best they the materials in hand. clusion applies to many ters. oo Much Rexlgnation. The sense of fatalism, of which the writer spoke a moment ago, makes the people mccept such catastrophes with too much resignation, The press, which, with two or three ex- ceptions, somewhat eervilely follows all the meanderings of successive Fovernments, has lost public opinion in maze of contradictions, Al of governmental responsibility The sple grum- I ver demand a d ris ha lof eq ll‘ur\cluahu |ities have uld with Afd this other © n ns | t1o and comp ¢ | Chastisement of suilt Our great foreign problems haye ffered from the sume malady in the four y well us our eco- problems. The elections are ir months off, and the writer is mot sure but that, amid all this confus the voters will insist on the accounting that is their due. France Too Passive. France's great danger Is that she as become too patlent and too pas- sive. Nations, like individuals, have seases that come and go. What }1 | France needs today is treatment on )t | methods of authority and responsi- bility Thus the d nomie only u | h Paris floods leads o some very general conclusions nd that 1s se in the life of ns all questions are linked and serves to shed light on all a| e topic of n | to | (Copyright, 1925.) LTI LT PRICES ur one and only chance of aecur- ing the pinno yon have always wanted at a lexs than auction price. For years we have been bullding, bu: We h order to & thexe Instr loxs, and. secure your favorite make. cpportunity chance may buy, even chase zn in come over 5o Here Is ome of the greatest bargafus In the sale. It it ix not wold when you get here snap it up, as it will be one of the first to go. Free delivery within 5 miles of the elty. e nccumulated anothér great stock of fine instruments to sell off. 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Nothing Reserved—Everything Thrown Into the Sale SUCH MAKES AS CHICKERING, BRADBURY, KIMBALL, EMERSON, FRANCIS BACON, BUSH & GERTS, STULTZ & BAUER — MANY OTHERS - THE PIANO SHOP 227 Pennsylvania Ave. Southeast 1924—~PART ‘1. e STOCKHOLDER PLAN DECLARED ILLEGAL All Shareholders Have Rights in Steel Firm Affairs, Attorney General Says. NEW GROUP IS ruxmm Refusal to Subscribe to Trust Fund Is Upheld. By the Assoclated Press. BUFFALO, January G5.—Alleged plans of the L. R. Steel stockholders’ committee to exclude non-subscribers to the steel trust fund from further participation in the affairs of the L. R. Steel enterprises were today char. acterized as “fraudulent and dis- honest” by the attorney general's office. The characterization was made in a letter from Deputy Attorney General Hugh Retlly, countersigned by Attorney General Carl Sherman, recelved by Morgan Coakley of this city in response to queries regarding the reported plans. The stockholders’ committee, in a communication to stockholders, was sald to have et today as the final date for subscription to the trust fund. Stockholders in any of the Steel enterprises who failed to sub- scribe were to consider themselves severed from the organizations. The attorney general’s communication de. clared the procedure fllegal, and a vised the stockholders that such wo- rights as stockholders. Plans Mass Meeting, As a result of the communication from the attorney general's office another organization of stockholder: the L. R. Steel Investors’ Trust A soclation, has protested the execution of the plan and is planning a mass I tion could not deprive them of their meeting of nll stockholders, It was said today. Charles H. Dougherty, representing the investors' trust association, said today that he planned to lay the facts before United States Attorney Wil- llam J. Donovan, requesting a fed- | eral investigation Three Millio: Left. Approximately $3,000,000 in live as- sets still remain in the L. R. Steel Companies, according to a report of the trustees in bankruptcy. Twenty- six: million -dollars were said to have been poured into the Steel enterprises by American and Canadian investors prior to the bankruptcy proceedings of last April and the death of Leon- ard R. Steel, president and founder. | Bubsequently Walter M. Wilkins, former vice president and head of the companies when they were declared | bankrupt, and five assoclates were indicted by federal grand jury here, Wilking is said to be active head of the L. R. Steel stockholders’ com- mittes, of which Clarence E. Booth of Rochester is chairma The committee’s open letter to stockholders, said to have threaten- ed the dropping of non-subscribers to the trust fund, was mailed Decem- ber 10, it was sald today. In the letter 'the committee stated that 3,461 American and Canadian stock- holders had subscribed 10 per cent of their stockholdings to the commit. |tee, the total amount reaching $2.083,850. LOWDEN TQ BE SPEAKER. SYRACUSE, January 6. Frank O. Lowden, former Governor of Illinois, today wired to Chancellor Wesley Flint of Syracuse University acceptance of an invitation to liver the commencement oration at the midyear graduation exercises at the university February 4. de- | Electric Wiring Any 6-Room House Wired for $60.00 Including Bath, Falls and Basement RALPH Pv.’ GIBSON & CO. 1407 1lth St. ‘ Potomac 1528 Night Bervice—Potomac 1935, Columbia 5210 'l'hrm}?h Trains Daily Leave Washington as follows : Everglades Limited %:30 wm. Havana Special (1st Section) 3:15 :: Havana 2nd Section) 3:15 Falmeto Liaed e ] ( Florida Special Coast Line Fla. Mail Winter Tourist Tickets, at redaced fares, now on sale, allowing stop- overs, return limit June 15, 1924. 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