Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1924, Page 16

BRITISH AMBASSADOR IN W. new representative of Great Brita at the embassy SECRETARY KEEPS PET IN HIS OFFICE. which was pre parrot, accor: retary holds Poily on his arm. DECLARES TINKHAM INSULTED CONGRESS .Wayne B. Wheeler Scores Charge That Members Were “Bribed With Patronage.” | FAVORS CIVIL SERVICE | Denies Anti-Saloon League Favors Political Appointments. Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, today is- sued a statement in which he charged | that Representative Tinkham, repub- lican, of M achusetts had “insulted | two-thirds of Congress by charging | that they were bribed by patronage | promises to exempt part of the pro- hibition cmployes from civil serv- ie Mr. Tinkham had appeared before the House cummittee on civil service | in bemalf ot his bill to place all em- | ployes of tuo prohibition unit in the clyil gervic “The nu-Saloon League favors olvil service.’ said Mr. Wheeler, “Mr. Tinkhaws 1. the contrary notwith- standins The combination of the wets with t.e head of the civil serv- ice assuutils n Mr. Foulke, in attack- ing prolubuon enforcement, indi- cutes tue, wre principally interested in fighto.g 1 hibition. “If the teagae controlled the ap- pointme..t of federal prohibition agents,-ax ctarged, it would not be| advocatiug eivil -service to destroy | that power These appointments are | now puliticss aud a.e suggested by the | leaders ot tae Gominant party in the states Dry otganizations protest agatuesy thuse applicants who, they | belleve, will not enforce the law, and | give iynors.m. 1t to those whose rec- | ords uicar. thuir sincerity and efficlency i saw enforcement. If! dry orgenizadons d d not do this the | ! vcombed with inefliolen. a..d corrupt agents. | Wes nore thets a_coincidence | this con.ana.on attack upon | service would be tha. prohibiti. en.oteem: nt was launched just ac tne tn.e wher. forty wet mem- 'bers vi Cungress agreed to introduce their & 156 per v.nt beer bills. They clrcularized Congress in a desperate effort to get 100 signers to their beer pact, but weuld get only forty out of + .-s8 than one-tenth, to join this scheme to uefeat law enforce- ment 41 thi s rhe best they can they shuu.d hurg crepe on the H fllc';or 'of theis 10pes (o defeat national {prohtbivon.” " GRDERS CABS GIVEN UP. Wustice McCoy Issues Decree in i, Pennant Taxi Case. Chiet Justice .actoy has ordersd the United States marshal to sur- ! render to the Colonia: Discour.t Com- _pahy and the Pernatt Finance Cor- poration of New York the twenty taxicabs which were recently seized from the Pennant Taxicab Company, which was.operating them in this city. The seizure is said to have grown out .of financial differences between the taxicab company and the financial institutions. Other cabs of the company were taken some time azo by agents of the Burns detective service near Marlboro with the assistance. of ten marines hired by the detective egenoy, it ia stated. | ) L |of the National Proportional ‘Repre- { plan was explained on a blackboard | Sir Esme Howard, the nited States, photographed in in the sterday just after his arrival in Washington, National Photo. Secretary of Agriculture Up-to-Date Bootlegger Supplies Customers With 1924 Calendars Patyons of an enterprising local bootlegger today were receiving calendars for 1924 containing a unique advertisement. A local lithographing concern put out the calendars, but did not appreciate the significance of the make-up. The calendars contained the pic- ture of an automobile of a popular make and beneath the picture the following legend: “Joseph D—, Choice Oils.” At last reports other bootleggers were rushing to have orders filled in order that the good will of patrons may not be lured away by the progressive calendar and’ oil dirstributor. EXPLAINS CLEVELAND ELECTION SYSTEM Official Consultant Lectures Before Penguin Club and Stages Mock Balloting. How the proportional representa- tion plan worked out In the recent Cleveland election for a new city council was illustrated in a mock election for five governors of the city of Washington last night at the Ponguin Club, in connection with a lecture by George Hallett, jr, who was official consultant at the Cleve- land election and assistant secretary sentation League. Prior to the meeting, which wi one of the series of educational lec- tures conducted by the League for Industrial Democracy, fifteen names of prominent men.and women had | been nominated for the mock elec- tion, and these names were placed on hallots for the audience to use in marking their prefererice by means | of figures from one up. | The result of the balloting on this | and was as follows: Louis F. Post, Charles J. Bell, Ethel Smith, Jackson Ralston and Charles Edward Russell, Mr. Hallett explained that the pur- pose of the proportional representa- tion plan is to give every group of opinion the same share of the mem- bers elected that it has of the votes cast. In the recent election of the Cleveland council, republicans, demo- crats and independents were elected from every one of the four districts into which the city was divided. Two of the new members are women, the irst ever elected to .the council in Cleveland. PROPERTY IN LEGAL SUIT. Premises at 929 New York avenue were not involved in the suit for mandamus brought yesterday In the District Supreme Court against Judge Robert E. Mattingly of the Municipal Court, by Eugene H. Ferguson. The property in question was premises 939 New York avenue. T HART WINS COMMISSION. Frederick M. Hart, 1828 Kilbourne place, has been commissioned as cap- tain of engineers, in the Organized heserve Corps of the Army. CELEBRATED HIS NINETEENTH BIRTHDAY. Rear Admiral Colby M. Chester, retired, and his birthday cake. Hhe was eighty years old vesterday, but he celebrated his nineteenth anniversary, He was born on February 29. Wallace and his Bolivian parrot, nted to him by one of the field workers of the department. The bird is not an ordinary ng to Secretary Wallace, for it is one of only five of its kind now it capti The See- fonal Photo. Y. MEMBER OF HOUSE | | | | REBUKED BY LEADER Longworth Scores Michaelson for “Reflection” on Senator McCormick. | | l SAYS RULES VIOLATED Adjournment Stops Debate Blanton Takes Sides. House Leader Longworth publlcly’ rebuked Representative Michaelson, | republican, of Illinois on the floor of | the House yesterday for inserting In | the Congressional Record remarks which Representative Longworth | claimed were a reflection on the in- | tegrity of Senator McCormick, re-| publican, of Illinois. 1 Mr. Longworth offered a motlon that the remarks be expunged from | the Record, but a vote was prevented when Representative Blanton, demo- crat, Texas, made a point of order that a quorum was not present. A motion to adjourn prevailed as Mr. Longworth and Mr. Blanton were in | the midst of a heated exchange and Speaker Gillett was reminding both that they were out of order. Repeated References Made. Discussing proposed water diver- sion from Lake Michigan as a part of Chicago's sanitary program, Mr. Michaelson made repeated references in_ the Congressional Record, issued today, to Senator McCormick. Mr. Longworth said the lilinois repre- sentative had not only challenged the senator's integrity, but had vio- lated a rule of Congress that a mem- ber of one house shall not criticize the motives of a member of the other house. “If the truth Is told,” asked Mr. Michaelson, “is that a violation of the rules?" Mr. Longworth refused to enter into discussion of the rules or of Mr. Michaelson's action. D. C. FIRMS BID HIGH FOR STREET REPAIRS Richmond Firm Lowest in Pro- | posals for $200,000 in Re- surfacing Work. A The firm of McGuire & Rolfe, Rich- mond, Va., underbid local contractors for the job of resurfacing asphalt streets in Washington this spring, it became known at the District build- ing today. The engineer department plans to spend $200,000 between now and No- vember in laying new asphalt topping on existing pavements. The money will be distributed over eighteen thoroughfares. The Commissioners will decide at a board session next week whether to award the contract to the low bid- der from Richmond. This work is to be done from the lump-sum ap- propriation for repairs to streets and the city heads must decide upon the stretches of roadway most urgently g g in need of improvement. A tentatlve list of the streets to Commissioner Bell for approval ‘e the malaria-carrying mosquitoes, ¥ presented with a choloe- of diet, will Chinese emigration began in the|be repaved is mow before Engineer !bite men just as readily as they willlless than an ounce for every 100 seventh century. 2 National Photo. Staying with her husband at Ellis Island. Baroness Royce-Garrett of Russias royalty, whose hus- band, a cripple, has not been al- Jowed to enter the United States. The baroness is allowed to_enter because she an artist. She is remaining with her hushand. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood New British Envoy Says Nation Desires> Close Ties With U. S. Every one in England from the king to his humblest subject, is agreed that a good understanding and friendship between Great Britain and the United States is essential for world peace, said Sir Esme Howard, the new British ambassador, who spent his first day In Washington yesterday. Most of Sir Esme's time was given over to receiving visitors and getting acquainted with his staff. “I have returned to Wash- ington with real pleasure,” he said, "since 1 have never forgotten the hospitality and kindness I met with during my previous visits.” The relations between the two continued the new am- never have been more nd all serious questions might have caused differ- of opinion, appear to have been practically ‘eliminated owing - to the good will and desire for mutual understanding shown- by both side Arrangements for presenting his creaentials to. the American government have not been com- pieted. |STRESSES DANGERS TO GIRLS ON STREET Mrs. Van Winkle Says Only Fire Will Clean Out Avenue “Pesthouses.” * Short talks by soclal work special- ists on various phases of the prob- lem of juvenile nmeglect or delin- quency featured the weekly confer- ence held at the Northeast office of the Assoclated Charitles, 816 I street northeast, yesterday afternoon, the direction of Miss Sadle H. Wil- son. under Lieut. Mina Van Winkle, in_charge of the women’s bureau of the police department, spoke on the subject of “Girls on the Street at Night.” speaking of some of the “pesthouses’” into which the trail leads along the lower Avenue, Mrs. Van Winkle de- clared that “nothing -but a good fire to sweep them all away” would ever clean up those places.” In Miss Dorothy Allen of the Juvenile Protective Association described the practice of having little children ped- dle from door to door small wares on & commission basis, and the difficulty of that all such cases be reported to the association. reaching this abuse. She urged Miss Keene of the child labor bureau discussed the matter of permitting children to beg while selling with a street trade badge. the whole question of the recent in- crease of street guise of selling, and Mrs, Van Wink'e pointed out that this was primarily a question of interpretation of the law by the authorities having the issuance of seiling licenses. This brought up begging under the Rev. C. R, Stauffer was the chairman of the conference, and expressed the opinion that all ministers would do ‘well to know more of this sort of child abuse in order that they might help with their preaching. —_— Recent experiments f{ndicate (ha; if horseg or cowm PHOTOGRAPHED AT THE CAPITOL. The gallery of the Senate wus crowded yesterday with Washingtonians whv were interested in the oil case debates. was snapped outside the Capitol. Lamb, director of the chemical director of the Fixed Nitrogen L: has discovered a new catalyst that of hydrogen and nitrogen atom: chemical discovery -of the age, g BANK LAW CHANGES | URGED BY DAWES| Controller Says Branches Must Be; Curbed to Save System. FOR McFADDEN BILL Letter to Chairman Points Im- portance of Early Action. Controller of the Currency Dawes urges early enactment of legislx‘umni amending the national bank and fed- eral reserve acts, as provided for in a | bill _sponsored by Chalrman McFadden | of the House banking and currency | | committee. In a letter to Chairman McFadden, Controller Dawes stated that this is a matter of the utmost importance and that “failure to legislate is in ef. fect a promotion of the cause of | branch banking” The bill, amons | other provisions, would permit na- | tional banks to engage in branch ! banking in any state whose laws did not prohibit the practice, but only | within the limits of the city in which | the bank is located. Fears Undermining System. Unless some curb were placed on branch banking- activities, Mr. Dawes sald, the Federal Reserve ~System eventually would be undermined. The situation had developed to the point, he declared, where the question with banks in the smaller communities is whether they will be absorbed by branch banks or dle out by gradual privation, “The condition of the national banking system is not a matter for academic discussion; it Is critical and | lumbia, Monday at 8 p.m., in Cosmo- a subject for immediate action,” the controller sald. Describing branch banking as “ut- terly un-American,” Mr. Dawes de- clared it created a condition of ab- sentee control over local finance. He asserted that the practice was, in its essence, monopolistic, and expressed the opinion that the McFadden bill would remove the danger of its devel- opment to menacing proportions, PLAN MASS MEETING. Colored Residents Seek to Find Employment for 1,000. A mass meeting among colored peo- ple of the District, to discuss ways and means to get work for more than 1,000 colored people and to-t arrange for better homes, is to be held under the auspices of the Amer- ican White Cross Free Labor Na- tional Federation and Ministers and Deacons’ Unlon of the District of Co- politan’ Baptist Institutional Church, N street between 9th and 10th streets. Bishop Isaiah P. Brooks is to preside; Rev. Dr. S. P. W. Drew, pastor of the churchy today announced that opposition is also to be made against the erection In_ this city of a monu- ment to be called “The Black Mam- my.” He sald many colored people desire that it be called “The Colored Mammy."” Asbestos can be made into ma- terial .as hard as steel or as soft-as the softest wool. A single strand of it can be spun so finely as to weigh yards of jts length. MAKES IMPORTANT CHEMICAL DISCOVERY. This photograph of Senator and Mrs. Pat Harrison National Photo. Prof. Arthur B. labosatory of Harvardyg and first aboratory here in Washisgton, who bring about a permanent union This is claimed to be the greatest ing the nation a great war wearon. WAR DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL REDUCED 3,453 Fewer Civilian Workers on Rolls, Says Weeks—42,453 Still Employed. Since April 6, 1917, the civilian per- sonnel of the War Department, both in this city and ir the field, then numbering 45,911 employes, had been reduced at the beginning of the pres- ent calendar year to a total of 42,453, {a reduction of 3,453, compared with the pre-war strength. In a statement {on the subject, Secretary Weeks sad: “The reduction has been accom- | plished gradually through institution of policies of consolidation and re- trenchment. The reduction during the six months ended December 31, 1923, was 6,331. The actual reduction becomes a more pronounced indica- tion of the drastic enforcement of a policy of ecohomy when it is consid- ered that the field of endeavor of civilian employes was materially en- larged during the world war. The need for technical experts is greater in many branches now than before the war, and, in addition, there have been organized two new branches which have unusual requirements in that respect, namely, the air service and the chemical warfare service. Those services, respectively, have 2978 and 620 civilian employes. If that total of 3,598 is deducted from the present grand total, there re- mains the number 38,860 €or compari- son with the pre-war number of 45,- 911 civillan employes in the corre- sponding branches and offices. “The estimates for War Depart- ment_appropriations for the fiscal year 1925 carry a decrease under 1924 of $179,334 for pay of civillan per- sonnel, which will mean a further reduction of the present compara- tively small number of these em- ployes.” RAILWAY COMPANIES AT WAR WITH MELLON Seek Injunction Against Secre- tary’s Threat Affecting Train Entries From Canada. The New York Central Railroad Company and ten other raflway cor- porations engaged in operating trains between the United States and Can- ada yesterday filed suit in the District Supreme Court for an injunction against Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Tgeasury, to prevent the carr: ing out ‘of an alleged threat to re- fuse admission into the United States of freight trains of the corpo! ations attempting to cross the inter- national border between the hours of 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. and on Sundays and holidays. The railroads claim that the Treas- ury Department {s unlawfully con- struing an act of Congress Which provides additional charges for cus- toms inspections on. vessels en ing this country at night or on holi- days, to Include’the inspection of rail- road freight trains. Failure to make the alleged “illegal payments” is to be followed, the court is told, by re- fusal to permit the trains to cross the border. The plaintiffs declare the law never was meant to include rail- way trafiic and ask the court to so STAR HAS NEWEST RADIO SET. Dorothy Stone, daughter of “Dane- ing Fred,” and her dressing room radio receiving tet. This is claimed to be the most compact tube set yet perfected. and may be carried around in a brief-case. SOCIETY IN ANNUAL COSTUME BALL. Each year the winter vaca tionists at Palm Beach indulge in a big costume Here we have Mrs. Archibald MeNeil, jr over America aftendi of Bridgeport, Conn., and New York, in her ball costume. McNeil was Miss Ann Orr of musical comedy moderate variable winds. Virginia — Partly ' cloud and tomorrow; and southwest winds. at noon today; 30, occurred at 11:30 p.m. ve Temperature same date Highest, 45; lowest, Tide Tables. high tide, 5:25 a.m. and 5: Today—Sun rose 6:41 sets 6:01 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises :4 sets 6:02 p.m. Automobile lamps to one-half hour after sunset. & Temperature. 2 um g is Statlozs. z 5% 5 g Buttalo ... 29.86 Charleston.. 3000 64 Chicago .92 33 Cine.nnatl[] 2078 58 Cleveland .. 29.88 30 Denver .....30.20 48 Detroit . 34 El Paso. o Galvesion .18 61 Helena . 116 50 Huron, 8D 3008 40 Indianapolis. 20.78 &6 Jacksonville, 30.08 64 Kansas City. 20.86 62 fos Angeles 000 80 58 Lovisville Miami, interpret the act of Congress. Attorneys G. F. Snyder, Julius 1. Peyser and Adkins & Nesbit appear slightly warmer south portion tonight; moderate west ng. y tonight Records for Twenty-Four Hours. Thermometer—Yesterday, 4 p.m. 38; 8 p.m.. 35; 12 midnight, 30; today 4 am, 31, 8 am, 34; noon, 47, Barometer—Yesterda s, 4 p.m., 29.90; 8 p.m.. 29.90: 12 midnight, 29 day, ;8 a.m., 39.87; noon, 2081, Highest temperature, 47, occurred lowest temperature esterday. last year— (Furnished by United States coast The Sun and Moon. am.; 0 a.m.; sun Moon rises 3:48 am.; sets 2:05 p.m. be lighted Weather in Varfous Cities. @ Cloudy Clear’ 2 S 1y 20 ia Fcloudy .15 Clear 32 - Clear 30 Cloudy FOREIGN, (8 a.m., Greeawich time, today.) Temperature. Weather. London, England 34 . Clear Paris, France. Part cloudy Copenhagen,” Denmari, Part cloudy Stockholm, 'Sweden. . Snowing. Gibraltar, ' 8§ Part cloudy Horta (F Part clondy | Hamilton, " 1 Ruining San Juau, Porto Rico r Cuba. eaer Cloudy £anal Zon0uiiseiaes 80 A Zart clondy | Nobody can belisve that” THE WEATHER | PREVENTION OF FEA District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy | tonight and tomorrow; no change In! temperature; lowest temperature, degrees; moderate variable winds. e ) Maryland—Cloudy tonight and to- | Christian Science Lecturer S-v: morrow; no change in temperature; | sz in | | and geodefic survey.) {on his subject after many years Today—Low tide, 10:53 am. and the demonstration of Chris :l ? pm.; high tide, 4:19 am. and | gejence. Mr. Lathrop s a men Tomorrow—Low tide, 11: {of the board of lectureship of | | {and It has a long range ‘Wide World Phot« e all, society from all M Copyright by U SOUGHT BY CHUR This Will Prevent Much Needless Suffering. EXAMPLE OF NAPOLEON Proved Plague Harmless to Man Who Was Unafraid. A lecture on “Christian Sclence: The Religion of Right Resistance,” was delivered last evening at First Church of Christ, Scientist, by John C. Lathrop, C. S. B, of Brooklin auditorium was filled and t lecturer was ably qualified to spe The e mother church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Ma sun | The leclurer said, in part: “Christian Science, understood au: proved, not only cures all diseases. but consistently teaches how to pre vent disease, and as a preventive it i worth even more to mortals than as a curat “Science and Health teaches tt ‘the procuring cause and foundatic of all sickness Is fear, ignorance, of sin’ (p. 411). These causes, then, ar o be prevented as well as uncover:d and destroyed. Prevention of Fear. “Prevention of fear s emo of . 4 chief functions of Christian Sciel its’ complete success in this would alone justify its holy mis | To abolish fear is to remove the ex- cause of most of mortals Probably two-thirds of all s pain, disease and death i3 used by fear. A great poet writes ‘Fear is a state of indolent weakness and susceptibillty, which makes it easy for any foe to take possession of us. In Egypt Napoleon visited those sick of the plague in order to prove that the man who could van- quish fear could vanquish the plague citing troubles. I1so. He felt he risked nothing in giving his army an imposing ex- ample’ - It 1s definitely established In the medical world that fear and worry weaken bodily resistance to disoase, and that fear, worry and de- pressing conditions are active causes of polsonous secretions which pro- duce disease. “It has been said of the Christian Science assertion that there really is nothing to fear in the world that this is mere bravado, not bravery. Fearlessness is, however, something very different from blind bravado.. A multitude of good people will gratefully testify that they have lost much if not all of the fear, worry and anxiety they formerly ex- perienced. “Christian Science is of supreme value to mankind because of its pure teaching about creation and man. All mortals are weary of sufferings, tor- row and disease, and should be ready to consider the giving up of what ever causes them. This Adam man and Eve woman of whom we read In the second chapter of Genesis, cre- ated one from dust and the other from a rib; this material man with all his limitations and errors, surely all can see is not the maun to whon God gave- dominion over all things