Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1924, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1924’ - M’ADOO DEFENDS TAX SUIT RETAINER 000 for Appearance for Steel Company. SAYS ACTS WERE PROPER BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. LONDON, February 28.—"In the Lawyers Must Live, Former Secre-|§7and game of golf to press fa to tary Declares. B7 the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Calif,, February 28. ~—Willtam G. McAdoo last night par- tiafy corroborated what he termed “the Youngstown Story” in a state- mwent in which he sald his former segal firm in Now York had repre- \ sented the Republic Iron and Steel Company befo ment at V of $150,000 3Mr. Me. @ the Treasury Depart- hington for a total fee dou’s statement in full fol- meerning the Youngstown I have no hesitation in saying that my former law firm in New York was emvloved as counsel for the Re- Public Tron and Steel Company, an tadependent concern, in & complicated tax matter at Washington. This case was heard In the regular legal way before the board of wppeals and re- view of the Treasury Department, a semi-judicial hody composed of civil vervice men. Whether it came before Commissioncr of Internal Revenue Willlams on appeal 1 do not recall. Briefs were led and the case was argued several times. It Involved very serious und important legal Guestions concerning tnvested cupital and was of finterest to taxpa; throughout the United States. amount involved was larg. . Case Up Two Years. )/ “The employment begun vember, 1919, t which er of $10,000 was pald, und the was closed in the early part of . whereupon aa additional fee of #140,000 was paid the firm—the com- pe the importance of the matter and the in service performed. he practice of law in New York nvolves u very expensive organiza- tion, high rentals, ctc., und the fees «4re of, course, high. Thls was not a personal fee, 'but a fee to the firm, and 1 reccived, of cou only my roportion of it. l Need to Practice. here appears to be w concerted effort by my political enemles to di- vert atfention from the scandals in administration circies at Washington by trying to attack my law practice. I have no apologles to make for it Former assoclate justice of the Su- preme Court Charles L. Hughes and other public officials upon retirem~nt om office resumed the practice of . Just as T did, and no one critl- ized them for if. A lawyer must practice law after he retires from public lifo or be deprived of the gpRortunity of supporting his fam- . WILL DECIDE ON REPLY. McAdoo Manager Wants Reed’s Practice Revealed. NEW YORK, February 25.—The Mis- uri McAdoo campalgn committee will de time and place for Willlam doo’s reply to allega- tions of Senator Reed of Missourd, that the farmer Secretary of the Treasury had expected to receive fees of more than $1,000,000 from the Do- heny oil interests and other corpora- including Charles W. Morse in- in return for which he never had uppeared In & lawsult. This was announced last night by McAdoo's campalgn manuger, David L: Rock- we All president!al vandidates should lay len Moscow, we are not afraid of it. | open their records before the Senate publle lunds committee, Mr. Rockwell said. “We want Senator Reed to come tn with the list of his client, werted. “We want to know the clients of all the cusdidates who are lawyers and the business transactions of the others.” This suggestion, Mr. Rockwell said, was made to him today by a news- paper publisher, whose name he did not reveal. The publisher may lay the suggestion before the Senate com- mittee, the campaign manager added. Reckwell planned to leave to- it or tomorrow on & trip to make ngements for the McAdoo cam- puign. He sald Georgia was one of the states in which Mr. McAdoo plan- ned to speuk soon. ENDS LIFE AFTER ATTACK. MARION, Ohio, February 28—Cal- win Price. sevent Marion horse trader, died last night from poison e is eald to have taken after he shot George Gillette, fifty-five, a Chicago horseman, yesterday during a quarrel Price died time a re- | foozle. And even in International af- falrs man may well bear {n mind the golf adage, slow back, follow through.” In these words the British prime mintster, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, out- lined to me the spirit and point of view with which he approached fore elgn affairs at the present critical moment in European uffairs. “When you are golng to drive you do not presy, you do not try to get ahead, to be tricky or to be finicky. You do not think too much. You step up, make # long, clean, perfect cir- cle, the ball goes straight off down the fairway toward the green.” “Now that is my conception forelgn policy. The old method alwuys tricky, finleky, it al pressed, it always topped and sliced. I will not suy always, but usual- 1y. We have been saying that if you look out for the pence, the pounds will look out for themselves. Well, perhaps, 1 am not so sure, but T am sure that if you take care of the pounds, the pence will take care of themselves. Must Have Comfidence. “Until there Is a state of wind in Europe in which doubt and suspicion are absent, it is perfectly useless to cussion becomes a battle for points. Until there is an atmosphere of mutual confiderice, there is no use in cven No. {OPgning the mutter of details. “Now, 1 do belleve there is a new feeling of optimism In this country, in Europe, as to the prospect ‘of Buro- pean settlement, and I do sharc it It you had been here, say, In Novem- ber, you would realize now what change has taken place since then, atlon being commensurate with | the differences disclosed in the now state of mind between Britain and France. Then we did not have the right state of mind, could not discuss detalls. Now we can accomplish things and belleve we are golng to accomplish things.” 7 ‘Aguin I remind you, don't forget your golf, it will teach you many thisgs. Remember, in golf not only you do not press, but also you have patience; yes, patience is very much in golf, in international affatrs also.” “What about your plans for making wider use of the league of nations than hitherto?” I asked. Use of League. “Well, 1 do not care to say much about that. T have spoken and writ- ten my views there. That is & sub- if you talk about it S your views get spread abroad tnexactly. 1 think I had better refer you to what I have writteu on that however, that the league ig¢ there, that we must, we shall make much more use of it than we have so far.” “What about labor and Russia? asked. “In America there {5 not little tendency to see a connectio between British lubor and Moscow. “T xnow, 1 know.” he replied. with Jjust a touch of feeling. “T know what s sald in America and elsewhere about the relation of our party to Moscow, but it Is all so absurd. so absurd, the whole Idea that there ls any connection between us and Mo: cow. o one has fought Moscow bitterly as British labor. Why, in fact, it was British labor which final- ly broke Moscow., We did that at the Berlin conference, where efforts were made to unite the second and third internationale, and I was put up to make the fight. No Longer a Danger. “We fought Moscow, we have beat- Moscow hai little or no following in this country. Now and then it at- tempts something in the way of prop- ble, but not much. It is no longer danger {n this country. = “I"do not say that jt never can be a peril again. Yes, it was a danger once, when it was young and strong, when Europe wae {n tumult But it is only a danger now in those parts of Europe where the dcvastation of war remains. This country is not afral we know it, we have faced It, bea en It. “As for the British labor party, the British socialist party, it has always been national. attempt to discuss detalls: then dis-| ' he as- aganda; it may give ‘'us a little trou-! In point of fact, we | psm, 60 per cent mors. Booms 'PREMIER LINKS POLITICS AND GOLF | THE DARE DEVIL. IN OUTLINING HIS FOREIGN POLICY ‘Admits Ris Firm Rectived $150,-| “T0 Press Is to Foozle,” Says Macdonald—Seeks to Create Atmosphere of International Trust Throughout Europe. Scotch have always headed it. But Scatch, Welsh, English, all our inter- nationalisme, have been international from the British point of view, not from that of Moscow. Party Truly Brith “No party has been or remulns more thoroughly British in its origin and history than the British lubor party. To confuse it in any way with Moscow s ubsurd.” And now, without seeking to make further direct quotation, —therefore assuming full responsibility for the interpretation, I Should ilke very briefly to set forth the essential de- talls of British foreign pollcy under Ramsuy Macdonald as ‘I gathered them in my talk with bim and from other lcaders in his party and move- ment. As to the main issues, labor can no more change the direction of Brit- ish forelgn policy than it can modify the fact that Britain is_an island The divergence between French and} British interests and policies {s me uteably fnevitable. MacDonald must oppose France in such things as the Ruhr occupation, precisely us have Baldwin and Lloyd George. Such difference us there may be must be in method. Under Lloyd George British policy was dexterous, clever, what the present prime minister would perhaps call finicky. It won victories only to he obliged to begin all over again. Under Curzon it was arrogant. Lloyd George made prom- ises which were not meant to be kept. Curzon made threats which proved empty. The result was the creatlon ; of an atmosphere In which confidence was lacking, negotiations were no more than hostilities. It was impos- sible to discuss detalls because the spirit made diecussion futile. Would End Suspicion, The whole effort of Macdonald since he came to power is to remove that atmosphere of doubt and suspicion, to muke discussion of details pos- sible. He belleves, the British peo- ple believe, he has been measurably successful. | But It is clearly recog- nized in London that there is & second condition antecedent to suc- cess, namely, a considerable change in the French temper. This. too, London believes is coming about, but it appreciates, Macdonald appreciates, that the change must come naturailly and have neither the character of a British triumph nor of French hu- miHation. Tn many ways Macdonald ~holds strikingly the ideals of the late Pres- ident Wilson. but with this radfcal difference: Mr. Wilson assumed the existence in the world of a state of mind_which did not exist, and on this he based his whole action at Parls. Macdonald, on the contrary, believes that the main task 1s to create this state of mind, that the rest will be simple. We are, then, almost sure to see a new world conference one day if the labor mintstry lasts, but in the mean- the prime minister will not ht. 1924, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate. MOTOR BODIES COMBINE. Two New York Associations End Long Fight. By the Assoclated Pre: ALBANY, N. February Amalgamation of the New York State ‘Automoblie Association and the State Motor Federation was effected last night at a joint meeting of repre- sentatives of both organizations, thus bringlng an end to differences which have existed between the two for years. A joint meeting of organizations will be held March 10 in this city, at which definite plans for unification will be arranged. The combined mem- berships of the organization total about 60.000 autonioblle owners in the state of New York. . In Chinese Turkestan there is a 28— 2 famous shrine which {8 frequented by women only, and especlally by girls who offer prayers for rich hus- bands, without mothers-in-law. HOTEL INN' Formerly stag Hetel §7 rooms, 1 wilh alet, onower —By WEBSTER. SENSATIONS OF THE MANM WHO DELIBERATELY WIPED HIS HANDS ON A GUE ST Towel DANCER SEEKS THIEVES. Gilda Gray Looks Over Rogues’ Gallery in Jewel Theft. NEW YORK, February 25. Gray, dancer, inspected the gallery in police headquart terday in an effort to identl! men who robbed her of jewelry val- { ued at $160,000 in Chicago on Febru- ary 12. She looked at the pictures for half an hour, but detectives re- fused to say whether she had found the robbers. t A Bit of the P By tar’s Former Carriers. “I would like to mect again some of the boys who carried Star routes with me,” writes Joseph A. Lynch, 1027 Irving street northeast, “and look back with pleasure to the days of 1834, 1885 and 1886, when I was serving under Agent Martin Leese, in Northeast Washington. How I looked forward every month to my pay! When I see the boys of today with thelr express wagons and re- member how we had to lug them with 2 big strap, times seem to have change: Willfam C. Cole, 1118 Montello ave- nue northeast, also served Stars un- der Mr. Leese in 1884. Hc says that on his travels, winter and summer, he had the companionship of a large black dog. He often meets old cus- tomers of his today, some of whom remember him, his dog, and the shrill whistle with which he announced his coming. Mr. Cole is now foreman of carpenters and painters of the Chesa- peake and Potomac Telephone Com- pany. William B. Moore, 1 M street north- west, says he sold The Star half a century ago and has been a subscriber ever since. F. A. Mehler, 400 B street £outheast, and his brother, Willlam B. Mehler, 1506 Meridian street, were both BErving routes twenty-five years ago for one of the Roderick brothers, Star_route agents. John Walker, 1140 Buchanan street northwest, says he carrled a route known then as the “Ridley rote” in “Foggy Bottom" and also th, “Bas- table” routs, in the late '80s #4d early °90s, although The Star has © record of agents by either of thofs names. 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