Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1924, Page 5

—— “MOBIIZE GERMAN FINANCES"DAWES Question Should Be Tackled Before Budget, He Declares. i he Associated Press, _PARIS, January 15 —Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, in his address before the first expert committee on repara- tions yesterday, said, In part: “The difficulties involved in the de- termination of the allied policy both in time of war and In time of peace are little realized by the average citizen in all countries. To him It scems strange that eventual common- . Bense agreements, which in times of emergency characterize allied policy, come about so slowly. does not reaiize the barriers Which must be first beaten down, erected by national pride and the pride and Selfish interest of different licd officials whose powers are af- ed by an act of coerclve interal- | ed co-ordinatlon, and by the Inces- sant misrepresentations and_intoler- able interjections of those foul and aitlon-loving vultures—the nation- tic demagogues of all countries— would exploit their pitiful per- ities out of = common misfor- ic et me fllustrate: Sixty-fourth maxim of war was that nothing in war is more Important + than u central command under one ¢hief. This great principle was real- «d and accepted at the beginning of e war byr all the military author- les in the d. and yet, after near- 1y four years of warfare and the un- | necessary loss of tens of thousands | of lives ‘and hundreds of mililons in material wealth. the German army, Napoleon's sldered. In general, we failed to find much value In economic arguments bared upon what ought to be instead of what Is—based, in other words, upon a constantly changing status quo. Capacity for Payment. “As the cconomlic processes of Ger- many under a stable currency and with a balanced budget are revived, there will be demonstrated the ca- pacity of Germany to pay. The basic and controlling facts will then ap- pear. Any common sense individual can estimate the distance a well man can run, Fifty medical experts gath- cred around the bedside of a dying patient will give fifty estimates of i how far he can run If he gets well. The reparation commisaion and the world upon the question of Germany's capacity to pay, have been listening thus far to the medical experts. Let us first help Germany to get well, “Now that we are membera of a committee having a definite and au- thorttatively defined object in view we are less concerned for the moment with the present capacity of Germany to pay than with the present capac- ity and courage of this committee to act. What is the use of deferring plain statement or for this committee to waste time in formalities and meaningless courtesies and conven- tlonalities? “Let me make thus early one prac- tical suggestion. Under President Harding 1 cstablished o system of executive control set up by executiv order under which the first budget of the United Stater was prépared in accordance with our recent budget legislation. I hesitate to call myzelf an expert on budget matters. lest I put my reputation for common Sense undor one, but how could anv suggest suspiclon, expert or non-expert, {anything worth while about the Ger- man budget If the money collected through taxes and dispersed under the budget would not buy or pay for anything? “The first step which we should take. it seems to me, 18 to deviso a system of stabllizing Germany's cur- rency so we can get some water to run through the budget mill. Let us bulld the mill after we find the stream to turn its wheels.” e 75 ENLIST TO AID on March 21, 1918, struck at the junction of the British and French | armies and broke through because of the lack of 2 central command cun<x i | i t-olling the proper disposition of re- neTves. Beltish Are Forced Buck. *“Ihe British army was forced Yack uion fts lines of communica- Mon toward the channel ports. The ¥rench army was forced back upon 3te line of communication toward arls. A gap was opened. Then it Was that the allles, facing the abyss, yielded part of their sovereign pow- \ er for the time being to the central command under Foch, which paved the way to the allied victory. “What brought about the complete &llied co-operation in time of war? Nothing but an overwhelming emergency. And when the victory came and the of Versailles was signed, have we e natural forces : laws of human na- prevented the earller upon a_ central allied command in time of War operating common allled plan in peace? Vhat is the wquestion of today Upon what duves the success of this tee depend—upon the powers | ion? Primarily. uo. Upon ability® Primarily, no. - riefly upon whether in, the public mind and conscience of ¥ “the allies and of the world there fs, &n adequate conception of the great! i fa, cach ally” and common is sense Doex Conception Existf! i “Does this conception exist? We | o not know, but we shall know. To | this knowjedge of whether this con- ception exlsts the results of our work and the action of the reparation | commission thereon will perhaps be the final coniribution. As an Ameri- can citlzen invited to this place tha reparation commission, 1 #peak nelther for the government of the United States nos for the Ameri- can people, but as un indfvidual 1| can say that | have read in shame | und humiliation the outpourings of | the Amerlcan natfonalistic demua- gogues who undertake to lecture | Jiurope in order to iift themselves into some petty office or to maintain | political popularity. | Want To Be Helptal, | “We come only wanting to be help- ful to you who, with your superior | knowledge and lonwer experience, whl | take the in v arch for a | common agree; We come | determinad that nothing shall prevent | our full usefulness, if we have any, | to you In a work which is yours. “This i3 no time to mince words. | What foday, at the inception of the work of this committee, have we found? In the first place we See an | impenetrable und colossal fog bank ,of economic opinfon based upon premises of fact which have changed #o rapidly as to make the bulk of them worthless, even 1f they were in sgreement. With all due respect to the great ability of these who wandered through . they could not h in oppostite directions. fronted with the ne- can 1f In_their computations, designed | arify the mind, they dealt with | the mark, the next week the mark | was romething else; if they dealt with the dollar, the pound, the French ,or Belgian franc or the Ttallan lira there Was oue value in exchange for | each and another Internal pur- ¢ chasing power; {f ey dealt with Bold there were values pre-war | ar_gold to_be SARDINES French Boneless 35¢ Godillor’s, 14 tins.. 50c Godillor's, ¥ tins.. Yacht Club, ¥4 tins. 35¢ Yacht Club, 15 tins. 50c ZIONIST MOVEMENT Meeting Draws Many Workers to Local Organization as Drive Opens. Seventy-five workers were enlist- ed in the Zlonist cause at a meeting called for the purpose of inaugurat- ing a drive for increased member- ship in the local Zlonist organization at the Washington Hotel last night. - Before an audience of ahout 400, Louts Lipsky, president of the Zlon- | st organization of America, urged all Jews to unite in the upbuilding of Zlonism. He polinted out that it was not the purpose of the Zionist movement to have Jews from various countries re- Il!\xrln l!n Pl]f)““l‘d’ v‘;n masse. but that alestine should be the - tional home. SRR Willlam Grant of land, a Christian, who has devoted his " work to the cnuse of Zlon- , 2130 spoke on the development nd progress of Palestine. = Paul Hemelfarb, president of the local Zionist organization, presided. Isadore Hershfield, a local member of the Zionist cause, alno spoke. Rabbl 1. 'T. Loeb offered pruyer. dx!;,ux:‘lhn-l(;‘ns “l:;:; ”ll)klhx held every ¢ Madrillon % commlittee. AT Edinburgh, Scot- — e BRITAIN RECOGNIZES GREEKS. B the Asmoctated Press, ATHENS, January 15.—Grest Brit- ain has rccognized the Greek gov. ernment, the British charge here wa oficially advised today by £ don foreign ofice, > ¥ the Lon- NG HEARING ON OFFERS FOR MUSCLE SHOALS Committee to Favor Ford Proposa:. Discussion of the. Muacle Shoals question was reopened today by the House military committee, which, after a two-hour hearing, put further consideration over until Thursday. Representative McKenzle, republi- can, Illinots, presiding, announced that offers for the government propertles at Muscle Shoals should be placed be- fore thec ommittee within the next few days, as the committee was de- termined to lose no time in determin- ing {ts recommendations as to dls- position of the project. Garrett and Madden Urge Actl At today's hearing Representative Garrett of Tennessee, the democratic leeader, and Chairman Madden of the House appropriations committee both urged favorable action on the offer of Henry Ford. Both declared that the House should be given un opportunity of voting o1 the Ford proposal at an early date. At the outset of the hearing, Rep- resentative Wainwright of New York, a republican member of the commit- tee, and formerly assistant secretary of 'war, sald the question of dispos- Ing of Muscle Shoals should be placed in the hands of some select commit- teo, a proposal which met opposition, however, from Mr. McKenzle and a i number of other committee members. ; Question of Procedure. Tho question of procedure, Mr. | McKenzte declared, could be deters !mined later by the military commit- tee at an executlve pesston. Chairman Kahn read a latio: foam {Gray Silver, Washington representa | tive of the Amuticaw v . | Federation, protesting again:t any { v-ference of the question to a “smail ‘trad ask your physician 1 is so widely For men, H | Garrett and Madden Urge House Lommittes with authority to and inquire the rating of Chestnut STAR, WASHINGTON CONTINUE DRIVES ON DRY VIOLATORS | Capt. Reilly and Lieut. Cornwell New Heads of Sixth Precinet, ‘Stage Several Raids. Capt. Martin Rellly and Lieut. Fred M. Cornwell, recently placed in com- mand of the sixth police precinct, are continuing their crusade in an effort to clean the precinct of violatora of the liquor law. Yesterday afternoon they started a series of ralds, beginning at 209 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, where they arrested: Antonlo Picco, forty- five, oh charges of selling and illegal possession. It was long after 11 o'clock 1 night when the ralding party reached 20 McCullough street northwest and arrested Georgla Marion and Jessle Thomas, both colored, and charged them with selling and lllegal posses- slon of liquor. Police reported the gotzure of weventy-four one-hulf gal- lon: of whisky. While the ralders were loading the confiscated whisky in_ the patrol wagon Andrew King. colored, attempted to get away wit! one of the jars of whisky, but wi discovered. ~ He was fined $50 o thirty days in Jjail in Police Court t James A. Sheahin, 1100 Sth street northwest, and Solomon N. Chesivolr, 219 L street northwest, were arrested at 6th and H streets northwest early today and charged with illegal trans- portation of liquor. They were ar- rested after thirty one-half gallons of liquor had been deposited in the areaway of a house near 6th and H street northwest. Policeman Sayer of the third pre- cinct yesterday afternoon arrested Lawton Stenerson, thirty-seven, Har- ris Hotel. on charges of fllegal pos- session and transporting, it being al- leged that he had ten bottles of Scotch whisky in his automobile. Liguor and automoblle were seized. | " Lord Freders, colored, 1618 12th street northwest, was arrested early this morning by Lieut. Davis and Sergt. McQuade of the vice squad and charged with f{llegal possession of a small quantity of whisky. ' Call the Health Department Farms Dalry, for his opinion of it also, No milk can be safer or more desirable used in Washington. S a0 women and children of any age. lin 4000. *Jrom the AVENUE of In all sizes, 33 t Thrift Week Special o 50. Regulars, stouts and shorts. 400 Men’s Overcoats Last week we made a special purchase from an Eastern manufacturer of high-grade overcoats. We purchased them at a figure far below the actual cost to manufacture. The would ordinarily retail at $37. . 50, $40, $45 and $50. We are passing the advantage of this extraordinary pur- chase along to you. There are 400 overcoats of various models; staples, English straight-line coats, town and great ulsters. with belt all around. Half belts, some These Coats are not from our regular stocks, but are all of the same high standard that P-B exacts in correct tailor- ing, excellent fabrics and style. The fabrics are in the wanted colors, oxford, grays, b and the popular heather shades. grays, browns ! | D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1924.° |SLAIN MISSIONARY WAS ON HONEYMOON Prof. Hoff Married Before Leaving to Open Work Among Chinese. By the Associated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, January 15.—Prof. Bernard Hoff, an American mission- ary to China, who dled in that country from wounds inflicted by Chinese ban- dits, wae 2 native of Moorhead, Minn., and was on his honeymoon. He married Miss Elizabeth Broen, daughter of Prof. E. N. 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