Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1924, Page 4

—~ ¥ D. €, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1024 Dr. Durkee Lauds Secretary Davis As Self-Educated Secretary Davis of the Depart- ment of Labor praised for his efforts in self-education as & young man, by Dr. J. Stanley Dur- kee, president of Howard Univer- sity, in a sermon yesterday morn- ing in the First Baptist Church, 16th and O streets northwest. “How a young .man spends his time from © to 11 o'clock in the evening determines what he will be in the future.” Dr. Durkee de- clared. “If he has a small amount of money he can go tq the movies or the theater every night in the week every month in the vear. But if he spends his time in study he will be @ leader umong men when he 1y forty-five or fifty vears old. If he adopts th other course he 7 1 simply follow others. “Secretary’ Davis is a flne exam- ple of how a young man can dete mine his own future. He had few educational opportuniti other than what he made for himself. He resolved early in life to spend three hours evers night in the most helpful kind of reading and decision.” LONG DELAY LIKEL IN OIL LEASE CASES Civil Actions May Be Fairly Prompt, But Criminal Pros- ecution Would Be Slow. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. While the Senate oil committee is in recess, and tension in Washington correspondingly relaxcd, authorities are considering the legal phases that moon will be prominent and par- amount. Two prosecutions are ten- tatlvely in contemplation—civil action to restore the lcased naval oil r serves to the government, and erim nal actin against alleged wrongdoers. Proceedings to enjoin further opera- tion of the reserves will be the first| step During Senate, | stuck to hi: . DANIELS BOOMED FOR PRESIDENCY | Stand Against Teapot Leases Be- ; lieved to Give Him Good Standing. Denby de the view found that the government's ca drag out “five, if mnot ten, Washington lawye e federal procedure the think t s pessimistic prognosticat They think that suits to recover Tea pot Dome d k Hills might pro- a use they are 1ot expect very stern onposition. Rut eriminal prosecution prolong Federal fra ich it took an indictment, « convietion and and : HAND OF BRYAN SEEN wh — views, which he for study speeding usti | Opinion Grows That Ex-Secretary Is Commoner’s Dark Horse. rrers, ot Drocesse tornity writs, and loved of the legal F: ion and scuted, they sourceful high rank [t nei hington Levi Cook Hogan has made defender in - United ntly in th Virginia, he aguinst the as counsel (3% ROBERT T. SMALL. T | i 1 Tl t uld oyl al and personal fricnds of Josephus former Secretary of the 1y sounding out senti- te well us other east as to the possi- of the distinguished editor as the next | Daniets, I Navy ment E sections of th ailabilit ina as is repre of Washin, b setions | 1 North { democer won i g, Depart- | et vet, for the Harness of the 1 counsel ¥ i much the *d to con | he oil seandal wil jMment fidires | 100 instituted hy rament. R court notable nt of 1 1t boom is a tiny one as out of the steam ot Dome. It has upetus as the move- hich has been started in some ling for the nomination Thonmes J. Walsh of Mo ad the bur- on his mparta mine exi ! tana 4 | den of the ¥ shoulders fo has he that the | E. Hughes g when h Their second d Wil Ty the veuue,” i fixX upon the place. or jurisd 5 which the crime, as a matter of Taw an_ be prosecuted matter_« wue is exceedingly import The law does not periit any Yenue m procesdings question Another efsion matter for the ns the to be lawvers minds cute fo bribe-tak of vice of t of i spiracy to The penalt T Dan- States'” of the convicted the not more th for two yeurs Federal » off ceiving bribes (unds the Criminal Code) n ce times the cepted re. Con s demo- Persons i un be fined + $16 als ction 117 of that head nold! 9 of the to fed- Trefer Conw The govern prafer con breau apirs ons. dictment en bloc alleged wi Bribe-g; of =« thus is dered that concerned in the | could eded ther upon con the nission of the , under is possibl point where any of ha incumbent 1t to prove ti “substantive” « spiracy proceedin cute at any comu of the al prac- insurance companies. the case of Mr. Daniels, how Vever, his friend I t rought him forward befo e con d lLim as presidentia timb long before the Teapot Dome disclosures have shown him in such ja favorable light. ‘They have be- jlieved M Daniels would the ‘\ ing of many of the be: Darty. 1 Sece Hand of Bryam. Not the st potent of the ! ences claimed to be behind Mr. iels is that William Bryan When Mr. Bryun {some time ago that he had | hor under cover for the nvention to be latter part of next It he had M 1 e He wnd the North lindan erved together in { Wils As a m, ;(l said that it tdue to yan's insistencs {Mr. Wilion named Danicls {of the Navy Department. {further asserted that his dark horse {was & “dry” and a southerner. This | strensthened the belief in Mr. Dan iels. “Then the commoner narrowed { his choic said the man he hud {in mind was a Floridan. Dema ithat he “name his man” brought o { the B n statement in favor of the nation or Dr. A, A University of f known educators of the south, _utterly unknown in the polit da it con, u_named D Lelief it would h attain hi immediate ambition of being clected a delegate at large } from] the Peninsula stat Mr. ianiels’ friands say they arc confi- wnt of the wholehearted support of { o Bry ng if any headway all ¢ made with the boom. Centers About Teapot Dome. < The present movement in favor of the alleged co- Mr. Danfels has grown out of the ‘(’v.n:n\ ‘ix ]Mr;:”‘ L Lelief that the Teapot Dome scandals _y\n‘—;'”indicun‘rnx i fln- going {0 have a dominant fi',:mlu.-:m»m:hu""3" b:;litn"};‘;:{u}‘ru:;:' been shown that the oil plotters tricd SoEe e 1to put over on Mr. Daniels the same Whether Washington, because of the | feaiSWhich developed 1 political Implications dnd “angles” in | fhey weserc: stood iike the memiels: the ol; ol e s et iGibraliar agulnst the Invading hosts venue for any tion that might | ¢ = 5 't b instituted against Fall, Dolieny or | of, Privilese and the seekers after Sinclair, nobody vet knows. Of course | LR JUCHT Tivore. These, same friends peald this the public should remem- | things being said about Mr. Danlels, T e oL At yabsolutely certaln leven in the republican papers. that there JL Dhrosecution.| The move to create a Daniels sen! Thigre et D N T | ment here in New York city has fol- aasikind : has completed | 10Wed an editorial in Krank Munsey Jias completed | nartigan i e maties o camaideration | She Dantels incident was referred to >res soolidge | 25, President Coolidee | It is pleasunt to record that when ol as to whetlier | Creel introduced Stack to Josephus e S ete | Daniels and Stack asked Daniels -ommittec ‘ther it ha Teapot Dome be opened up, Danfels government refused. That refusal by Mr. Wilson's Becretary of the Navy shines like a 8ood deed in a naughty world of oil and money. Almost everybody el wanted something, or gave something, or got something BALTIMORE BANKER DIES. BALTIMORE, Md., February 18— John M. Littig, one of the best known figures in financial circles in thi city and for thirty-five years presi jdent of the National Marine Bank, died last night at his home. He was seventy-nine years old, . Mr. Littig was stricken with acute indigestion about three weeks ago. THE EVENING STAR COUPON “THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT” By Frederic J. Haskin d, but the Pr can be d’ emphatically. is fully alive to the popular expectation that there will be th action that th tions involve | i PERSHING DUE BACK SOON. | Gen. Pershing, chicf of staff, who has been in France several months nspecting battleficlds and gathering data for his memolirs, is expected o return to this city about the mid- dle of March, according to retar: Wecks. He has spent most of his time in Paris. $1.00 at the Business Office of The Evening Star and se- cure your copy of the book, a 5-color map of the United States, 28x22 inches, and a 32-page booklet containing the Constitution of the United States. Mail Orders. Add_for p. up to 150 miles, G¢c; 300 miles, Scj tances, ask postmaster pounds. ‘The American Government, by Frederic J. Haskin is & most valuable’ and interesting GEORGE SUTHERLAND, Associate Justice, TUnited States Supreme Court. i { Jennings | rounced | comm ark |y Mr. Bryan i Daniels ] i later under | Daniels, ! i laudatory | { i i York Herald, in which | to let | i | i i i { | EDWIN B, Copyright by diarr DENBY. & Lwin n the event ency there. Denby Resigns to Give Coolidge Free Hand in Oil Suit Pro | ted d t he might side of the th loyal co- department in the tations. any on question tc operation by treaty nego ving ently which ym First Page.) en e inartial, of | elusic isted men rr freq ependent to the de hould be cxer- 1918 observer in s eler Fought With Congress. Secretary Denby fought many bitter ]hflltllfl! with the congression com- mittees during his tenure of office in his effort to keep the authorized per- sonnel strength of the Navy up to the { point which the department f necessary if dis- member of ity to the That 1¢ rked deg out ed by tan M. ine Although s Marine Corps, v end of the war, gion before the he y of the 3 Lim into the Navy Department, ho 1g opinions bhoth i ed man requesting of the would serve Wandward &Glothro 24l Our Annual Store-wide Event, be insThursdcy Febrioary 21« Exceptional Valuer HEAD OF UNIVERSITY | STANDS FOR ALL LAWS Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler Be- lieves No Single Enactment Should Be Made Favorite. 1 N = | the Associated Press. i NEW YORK, February 18.—Respect for all law and not merely for fa- vorite luws was urged by Dr. Nichol- as Murray Butler, president of Co- lumbia University in a letter to Federal Prohibition Commissioner Haynes made public yesterday “To select one provision of law for emphatic enforcement at huge cost in derogation of all other provisions is itself a spirit of lawless act which adds incentive to that lawlessness which moral and intclligent citizens are striving to check,” he wrote. It was his opinion, he added, that much of the present cry for law en- forcement was insincere. “Only those laws will be genuinely obeyed which by their own force and reasonableness appeal to our intelli gence and conscience,” he continued The letter was written in respons to a request by Mr. Haynes for un expression of Dr. Butler's opinion on the: problem of lawlessness which hax followed the ratification of the eight- centh amendment. | SOCIALIST VOTES DROP. Communists, However, Increase in Mecklenburg. BERLIN, February 18.—F to the Mecklenburg diet yes [resultcd in & considerable decrease in the socialistic votes and a moder- at increase in the communist turns. The nationalists about S0 per cent of the vote s0 | ORDERS OWN ARREST. ANDOVER, Conn.. February 18 & the only grand juror in town George T. Platt consented to sign a warrant for his _own arres state authorities found he possessed an unlicensed dog. In court Saturday he pleaded guilty and paid a fine of 31 and costs, totaling $11.97. MISS BLOOM SPEAKS. Miss Vera Bloom, daughter of Rep- reeentative and Mrs. Sol Bloom of New York city, spoke today at_the [luncheon of the Women's Press Club in Hotel Hamilton, telling of her | newspaper experiehces in Europe. She particularly ‘her meetin, with Pope Benedict, the Empress Eugenie, Mussolini and D'Annunzio. Miss Bloom has interviewed a great | number of celebrities in this country {and abroad. Be —_——————— miral was effected under his author- ity, and he recently had taken a lead- ing part In the now suspended plans for the polar flight of the Shenan- doah. From the beginning of the oil lease inquiry Secretary maintained that the leass itself. wholly aside from any possible question of corruption that might be involved, was of vast im- portance to the Navy and the nation. He was convinced that the holding of resere oil supplies in the underground | pools of the naval reserve lands was lan fmpossibllity; that the oil was | being drained off through operations on surrounding private wells. He ap- peared several times before the in- vestigating committee, and although he firmly maintained that the leasing policy was sound he was unable to answer many questions put him by | members regarding the technical de- tails of the proceedings. This circumstance led to repeated | charges on the Senate floor that the | although not sus-{ moral _ wrongdoing, has not proven a sufficiently alert guardian of the vast reeerves in- rusted to his care. | | i lnmmn, has moved the Oldest Building in World Found By Explorers in Ancient Babylon Temple Erected Near Ur of-the Chaldeans at Least 4.500 Years Before Christ—Jewel of King A-An-Ni-Pad-Da Unearthed. BY thie Associated Press, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., February 15. |golden horns. —The oldest building in the world | “Of the frl still standing above the ground has | R pq %G .o, off 1 enemy hands which had iorg of cattle lving down Gozen examples Above them w T of a differ been found by the joint expedition of [ent sort. Flgures carved in white the British Museum, London, and the | shel] or limestone were fnlaid agains: University Museum, Philadelphia. at |* background of black tesseran. T S Museum, Philadelphia, at |y e 0000 G 2 copper frame. C ell El Obeid, Babylonia, four miles {thix we Imve a complete section i from Ur of the Chaldees of hiblical | perfect condition. Som. bull fame. ‘u‘(\'-flh’ih): in solemn Vrl!“b“\r‘flnr’, :TY’- e s e et post interesting, & panel four’ fe Dr eorge B. 2 on one side a milking see; nd their calves, and men m University Museum, in making: pub- the cows Into tall jars. Woolley, head of the joint expedition on the banks of the Euphrates. The excavation of this building, a night by ordon, director of the carved in’ rellef witl iwthological subject, a man-headed {bull on whose back is perched a lion I headed nira. eady ancient 1 impe history of Babylonla back another|of two 1000 years. The building is more | Ssed than 6,000 years old. and its history { Both is placed at period far removed from (1° Ilh remarkable they stood in the tn discovery wae tl ten feet high in work in blaci mother o’ pearl d by thelr 1all to preserve ans, if not ple, at least us had once fallen, tant columns with red stone z i been d was found po ibic King Tut-ankh-Amen in the past as the present generation is removed from him in known history. hey we te 4,500 Years Before Chrin [Asemt Dr. Gordon announced that the ex- | dition has unearthed remarkable rvings, one of the choicest finds as mall golden raboid_bead | inscribed with the name of i builder of the temp) g Pad-Da of Ur. who reigned 4. before Christ This the royal jewel know The rej Dr. Woolle “A broad flight of = H atform about twen the south co. stood the | tlon of North Ame temple proper, its gate tower front- | Mob mg on the s r Its facade set back from the cdge of the platform | CONC <0 as to le; " A NArTOW Step hich | 1o Fis tood a row of statues of bulls sculp- | tured in the round. 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