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A ~4a all being expected. CHOIGE OF HERRIOT AS PREMIER HELD GERTAININ FRANGE Socialists Decline to Take Cabinet Posts, But Will Vote With Radicals. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1924, PARIS, May 15.—It is now a prac- tical certainty that Edouard Her- riot, leader of the radical party, will be the next premier of France. The political event of the day is the decision of the Socialist leaders who fought the elections in close al- liance with the Radicals not to par- ticipate in a Radical government, but at the same time to give this govern- ment their full support. This means there will be no Soclalist ministers, but that the socialists will vote with the Radicals, thus assuring the Left a strong majority. The decision of the So Le confirmed in a party congress to be held June 1 and 2. Prognostica- tions of the policies of the v gov- ernment still are premature. lists will To Protect French Interests. M. Herriot has left Lyon, of which he is mayor, and has gone into tem- norary retirement in the country. The neral opinion that international creements looking to execution of the experts’ plan and general pacifi- cation of E ope will be facilitated, but it doubtless would be a mistake to assume that the Radicals are any more willing to sacrifice vital French interests than M. Poincare himself. For example, it is improbable that the Ruhr will be evacuated until after a full general scttlement. In the in- terior the Radicals probably will have some difficulty in resisting the pres- gure they will be under to vote in ac- cordance with a demagogic policy. Financial circles have a favorable mpression of the probable new for- eign policy, but an unfavorable im- pression of the probable new financial policies, hence they are remaining in & state of cautious expectancy. It is doubtless unnecessary to re- call to American readers that the Radicals held power in France for years before the war and are radical chiefly in name. Even the French So- cialists are relatively a moderate party, especially since the communist clement seceded angrily from the party a couple of years ago. SOCIALISTS RESTIVE. Worried by Absence of Radical Leaders From Paris. By the Associated Pre PARIS, May 15.—The coalition of the Left seems less and less decided on what to do with the victory won in Sunday's elections. The Socialists, who claim the lion's share of the credit for defeating the Bloc National, are beginning to show uneasiness at the continued absence of such men as Herriot, Painleve and Briand, who logically, they say, should be at the helm of the new coalition ship, but all of whom appear to be waiting for some one else to tuke con:mand. PRESIDENT RECEIVES BISHOP L. L. KINSOLVING Brazilian Clergyman Introduced by Bishop Freeman—Other White House Callers. President Coolidge today received Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, ¥piscopal Bishop of Southern Brazil. Introductions were made by Bishop James E. Freeman of the Diocese of Washington. Bishop Kinsolving gave the President briefly an interesting description of his experiences and ob- scrvations in Brazil. where he has been for more than thirty-four years. Rishop Kinsolving came to this coun- try on a leave of absence to see his #on ordained last week into the order ut the theological seminary outside of Alexandria, Va. 4 E. R. Erskine, president of Studebaker Corporation of India who was one of the President’s call- ers today, commended him on his veto of the Bursum pension bill and assured him that the country would . be behind him if he vetoes the bonus bill and also the tax reduction bill, unless the latter is so modified in conference as to contain the funda- mental principles of - the original Mellon tax reduction plan. At the request of President Cool- idge, Vernon Howe Bailey, architec- tural_artist, who recently completed ten drawings of different prominent points at the Muscle Shoals project, brought reproductions of these draw- ings to the White House for the President to study. These drawings have been on exhibition yesterday and today at the Senate for comsid- cration of those senators who are interested In this proposal to sell the Muscle Shoals project to Henry Ford. MARY C. Wl.'IELAN DIES. Conducted Business Here for Past Twenty-Five Years. Word was received here yesterday of the death in Key West, Fla., on Tuesday of Miss Mary C. Whelan, sixty-five years old, who for the last twenty-five years has been in busi- ness at 1105 F street. Miss Whelan went to Florida for her health during the early part of Jast winter. She had expected to re- turn to this city in the early spring. Due to_ illness,” however, her physi- clans decided that a trip back to ‘Washington would be inadvisable. The body is expected to arrive here tomorrow. Funeral services will be conducted at her home, 3020 Mount Pleasant street, Saturday forning at 9 o'clock, and thence to the Shrine of the Bacred Heart Catholic Chu: 16th and Park road, at 9:30 o'clo where requiem mass will be said. I terment will be in Mount Olivet cem: etery. Miss Whelan was born in this city October 17, 1858. She was the daugh- ter of Alexander and Mrs. Margaret Whelan. Before going into business for herself she worked for some time with the Palais Royal. She was a well known worker for charity, having tontributed to many of the charity organizations of this city. She took an especial dnterest in unfortunate children. She is survived by her sister, Mrs. Anna Whelan Bartlett of this city: a nephew, Hugh Bartlett; a niece, Mra. J. B. Leatley, and several grand- mieces and grandnephews. —_— Clubs to Act on Immigration. MIAMI, Fla, May 15—A definite stand on restrictive immigration aa & pazt of the '3"“% D:;lln" is ox- ected to taken e interna- b convention of Clvitan clubs which opened here today, it was stated by Ernest Groenwood, presi- dent. tes were arriving by hun- ércds for the convention, about 2,000 he BRIG. GEN. BENJAMIN ALVORD. BRIG. GEN. ALVORD RETIRES FROM ARMY Assistant to the Adjutant Gen- eral Leaves Service After 47 Years, at Age of 64. Brig. Gen. Benjamin Alvord, assist- ant to the adjutant general of the Army and chief of the personnel bu- reau, A. G. 0., closed his active career in the Army today. He was born in this city sixty-four years ago, and has had nearly forty- seven years' service in the Army. Ap- pointed to the United States Military Academy from the District of Colum- bia in July, 1877, he was graduated in June, 1882, and assigned to the infan- try. After twenty-three years' serv- ice in that arm he was transferred to the adjutant general's department as a major in June, 1905, and has re- mained with it to date. He served with the volunteer estab- lishments in the Philippine insurre tion and the world war, and was made a brigadier general in the regu- lar establishment in August, 1922, He was brevetted for conspicuous gal- ntry in action in the Philippines and was awarded the distinguished service medal for exceptionally meri- torious service as adjutant general of the A. E. Gen. Alvord was an instructor at the Infantry and Cavalry School in 1894 and at the Military Academy in 1887-1892, was chief of staff in the Vera Cruz expedition in 1914, adju- tant general of the western depart- ment in 1917, and has_had several tours of duty at the War Depart- ment. It is expected that Gen. and Mrs. ‘Alvord will continue their resi- dence at 2400 16th street, in this city, without regard to the general's relief from active service. That Ger. Alvord is highly esteemed by his official associates at the War Department was shown by the pres- entation to that officer this morning of a large basket of beautiful flowers by the officers of the adjutant gen- eral's office and of a fine golf set by the civilian employes of that office. Practically everybody attached to the office, from the highest to the lowest in grade, called on him to pay their respects during the day. COL. MILLER TELLS OF SEEING HARDING ON OHIO MEDDLING (Continued from First Page.) Attorney General's secretary, ar- ranged the deposit of collateral and the handling of the Midland Bank funds. In the fall of 1922, Miller sald, he took Gaston B. Means to Unde gecretary Gilbert of the Treasury De- partment. He had met the detective in work with the Department of Justice. “Means demonstrated to me that he ‘was a very able investigator in one or two matters my office turned over to him,” Miller said. “He told me some things the Treasury ought to_know. “The matter ended there S0 far as I was concerned, because Mr. Parker informed me that ‘they hadn't much reliance in Means. “The matter” had reference to the liquor situation and the conduct of “Mr. Sexsmith, a confidential man down at the Treasury. Means, Miller said, had worked on the attempt to lay hold of funds of Grover Bergdoll, the notorious Ger- man deserter. “I myself got a commission as spe- clal agent of the Department of Justice,” Miller asserted, “without pay, for my own duties in trying to get hold of Bergdoll's gold. It lets you carry a gun and some other things.” Memey for Dry Prebe. Reported efforts by the late Presi- dent Harding to ascertgin independ- ently the facts about prohibition en- forcement were further described before the Senate Daugherty commit- tee today by H. L. Scaife, former War and Justice Department investigator. In September, 1922, he said, Gaston B. Means, who like him had recently left the Justice Department, em- ployed him at $1,000 a month. “Mr. Means had credentials from the prohibition unit and the alien property custodian,” Scaife said. “He told me the money came from Presi- dent Harding. It suddenly stopped, in January, 1923, after I had received a total of $5,000. “We made several investigations in New York into liquor traffic. Scaife repeated many of his previ- ous charges about wartime frauds and the escape from prosecution of those responsible. Questioned by George H. Chamberlain, counsel for former Attorney General Daugherty, he agreed that the Treasury Depart- ment was responsible for instituting prohibition prosecutions. " Chamberlain also asked Scaife if he had not sought a $10,000 payment from government officials last fall for furnishing information in airplane suits. Scaife objected that the ex- aminer “had no right to ask ques- tions liRe that,” but the committee directed him to answer, and he sald he had asked for “whatever was cus- tomary.” Chamberlain insisted the information had come to Scaife while he was in government service. The witness also agreed that he had been employed by the Senate Daugh- erty committee at a salary of $500 a month to investigate. e, NEW SHOALS BID IN VIEW. Willingness of the associated power companies to submit another Muscle ‘#hoals proposal to purchase power pro- duced at Muscle Shoals by the:govern. ent and distribute it under the fed- ‘eral water power act was expressed at today’s Senate agriculture committee’s hearing by E. A. Yates, general man- ager of the Alabama Power Company. Yates explained this proposal would depend upon perpetual government ownership and operation, and in effect would be a modification of the Norris bill which provides for government operation of the 0 « ““If the southern states are ever to get hydro power it must come Muscle Shoals through the co-ordi- nated operation and inter-connection of Muscle Shoals with the other power resources of the southeast,” Yates iy said. THE OPPOSE ZONE BAN ON NEW APARTMENTS Builders Tell Commission Need of Suturban Building to Keep Down Rents. CITIZENS CROWD HEARING Question of Protecting Residential Sections Being Threshed. Apartment houses in residential ctions were discussed pro and con by bullders and property owners at sessions . which began this morning in the boardroom of the District building before the Zoning Commis- sion. Bullders contended that if the zoning Jaws did not permit the con- struction of apartment houses in the suburban areas, apartment dwellers would be forced Into the congested and more expensive sections down- town. Property owners, on the other hand, upheld the zoning laws as pro- tection for their property against the construction of apartment houses, which they termed objeetionable. A crowded boardroom and applause now and then by the audience testi- fied the interest taken in the proceed- ings. Speaking ¢ houses in re Wardman said “Youwll push all the young married couples downtown into the high-rent sectior By keeping apartment houses only In the congested, expen- sive sections, you're simply going to crowd these young couples into high- priced one-room, Kitchen and bath apartments, where they could have cheaper three rooms, Kitchen and bath in apartments out in the sub- urbs.” prohibiting apartment dential sections, Mr. Protection of Estates. Then, when E. F. Colladay, attor- ney, representing Senator Phipps, who owns property at Woodley road and 28th street, asked Mr. Wardman Whether he felt that estates were not deserving 4f some protection, the builder replied: > “Certainly let them protect it. I've Kot no objection to what they want to do with their property. let them do anything they want. But it's what they want to do with my property that I'm objecting to.” The commission did not go very far in the hearings this morning. Bates Warren, representing the Samuel Ross interests; Mr. Colladay and W. C. Sullivan, representing the Bliss properties, filed briefs in support of contentions of their clients. This con- sumed some time. And then Judge Daniel Thew Wright, representing Wardman, took the floor, as one of the concluding speakers at the morn- ing session. Fears Continued High Rents. Warren and Judge Wright based contentions against limitations pro- hibiting apartments in “A" residential areas on the ground that it would mean continuation of high ren.s in the sections described. Sullivan spoke to his brief, with three legal reasons why apartments should not be ban- ned. Colladay favored the complete zoning of sections, without excep- tions, dotting and spotting the zon- ing map in the shape of exemptions. Sitting _with _the three Commis:- sioners of the District were Col. ( O. Sherrill and David Lynn, officer in charge of public buildings and the Capitol architect, respectively, who are members of the commission. Provisien Is Protested. Several protests were filed against the provision which authorizes the Commissioners to withhold permits pending a public hearing, but the in- terest in it was by no means as keen as in the consideration to place 105 parcels in the “A" restricted resi- dential classification. It was here that the tenso situations developed. Numerous other propositions are to be considered -at the hearing this afternoon. When the commission started the hearing, Mr. Sullivan, on behalf of the Bliss properties, registered objec- tion to consideration of complaints except on their merit. He contended that the hearing was not a continua- tion of the old hearings last fall, and said he would object to a complaint being made against the desires of his clients by any citizens’ association rep- resentation or by any person mot actu- the radius of three biocks of the proper- ally a property holder or resident within ty. He said that the zoning act pro- vided for this limitation of objections. Mr. Colladay asked for the inclu- sion of all adjacent property to the Phipps property on Woodley road, in “A” restricted residential area. Ap- plause followed Colladay's assertion that to assign zones and permit prop- erty owners to spot certain zones with prohibitive types of structures is destructive to the whole principle of zoning. He quoted the New Jer- sey supreme court and assured the commission that the drift of legisia- tive work and judicial decisions is favorable to zoning laws. Guy Ma son, representing the Nelson proper- ties, noted his concurrence in Mr. Colladay’s remarks. First Opposing Change. Mr. Sulllvan was the first witness to appear against a change in the present classification of parcels of the Bliss interests, which permits build- ing cf apartments on not more than 40 per cent of the lot ile registered his objections as follows: The zoning act authorized the division of the District into distriots, one of which was to be residential. There can be but one classification for residential purposes. Secondly, the power for subdivision of the residential divi- sions by the zoning authorities was exhausted when the first set of rules anent districts wes promulgated. Third, there is no reason for a change. Mr. Warren next took the stand. He said: “Apartments have come to the front as desirable dwelling places. Children live in apartments. If this restriction is put into effect there will be many who should be in the sub- urbs who will not be in the suburbs. “How can you square yourselves in saying that you can build one type of dwelling in onme section where you can’t bulld another type of dwelling > Judge Wright obtained testimony in question and answer from Mr. Wardman as a bit of strategy to block the change in classification of twenty-five acres of Wardman prop- erty. The law states that 20 per cent of ~property owners can protest against the change of classification and make the protest valid, he said. He had Mr. Wardman, who said he owned about 95 per cent of the prop- erty, to make such objection and then took the stand that the commission could not override _the property owners’ protest. The Wardman prop- erty is located west of the Connecti- cut avenue bridge, south of Calvert street, and east of street and on Woodley road, west of 28th street, all the way down Klingle road to Rock Creek Park and thence back to Connecticut avenue to the lot on which the Klingle Mansions now stand. —_— LOST GIRL FOUND. Student Is Located in Virginia Roadhouse. Special Dispateh to The Btar. ‘WINCHESTER, Va., May 15.—Louise Baker, who disappeared early Sunday from St. Hilda's Hall School, Charles ‘Town, W. Va., where she was a stu- dent, and for whom police of three states had been on the lookout, was found today near here at a roadhouse operated by a colored family named Fisher. \ ‘Employes of a nearby woolen mill identifi her by published descrip- tions. Her father, John C. Baker of. Germantown, Pa., came this after- noon from Charles Town to take her back home. The l declined to ex- plain why she the: 5 school, o EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ASSOCIATED PRESS PURPOSES DETAILED Declared Co-Operative News- Gathering Organization, Pre- senting Impartial Facts. HELD TRUSTEE, NOT TRUST Melville E. Stone. Counselor, Ad- dresses Coal Association. By the Associated Press. . CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 15.—That the Assoclated Press is not a trust, but a trustee, recognizing the respon- sibility of telling the truth respect- ing the world's happenings, was the declaration of Melville E. Stone, for- mer general manager and now coun- selor of the organization, in a talk to members of the National Coal Asso- ciation in annual convention here to- day. Mr. Stone said the Aswociated Press i8 a co-operative news-gathering or- ganization, having no stock, no cap- ital, making no profits, selling noth- ing, but supported by the newspapers constituting its membership, and having no purpese other than to se- cure and furnish truthful, impartial facts to its members. Borm of an Obligation. “The Associated Press, as you in a casual way know it. was born of an obligation. It is siriving to recog- nize the responsibility of i very great trusteeship,” said Mr. Stone. “The Associated Press was organs ized by a brave, consclentious, pa- triotic body of journalists to assume this responsibility, to meet this ob- ligation. Their purpose was to_tell the truth respecting the world's hap- penings—perhaps not the whole truth, yet nothing but the truth. They pledged hundreds of thousands of dol- lars to redeem this obligation. “The newspaper members it serves as ‘a joint reporter include papers of every sort of affiiation—Republi- can, Democratic, free trade and pro- tection, capitalistic and trades union- ists, conservative and radical—and this carries with it a trusteeship. Newspapers have but one common de- mand upon the organization—that it shall furnish news and not view: that, as nearly as possible, consider- ing the frailties of human nature, its service shall be free from bias or de- duction or opinion. And the only tie that hinds any member newspaper to it is the confidence of the newspaper member in its integrity and impar- tiality. Responsibility to Nation. “You also have a larger responsi- bility for the welfare of this nation than' most of the citizens—much larger than the merchant, the manu- facturer or the professional man. There is @ curious analogy between the Associated Press and the Coal Association. Both have and do enjoy special privileges at the hands of the American peopie. “There is something very interest- ing to a news man about the bitumi- nous coal industry. It seems to be the one occupation which success- fully defies, the recogmized economic laws. I do not pretend to speak by tho card, but I am told by those who should know that the greater the output the greater the discontent of the employed miners and the coal consumers alike. In every other field of activity the greater the competi- tion the happler the employe and the cheaper the output. With your en- terprise the very reverse seems to be true. Declares Co-operation Vital. “You have some hard problems be- fore you—the questions of a liv- ing, a falr wage; and of a fair price for the consumer. You cannot solve those problems alone. There must be co-operation from a number of sources. And it is upon this question of co-operation that I wish to lay stress. Our government is based upon co-operation. Without it we must fail. One of our national weaknesses—perhaps the greatest—ie the unwillingness of our good cit- izens to co-operate, o ‘carry on’ with their civio duties. They are drunk with the opportunity for money-mak- ing in this God-given heritage of material wealth. “What sort of co-operation do I mean as a remedy for the admitted diseade? I am opposed to govern- mental owneiship or even of govern- mental control, save as a last and ob- viously necessary step. But mine owners must recognize that they. in their enterprises, are charged with a trustecship which they cannot evade. The very so-called owmership of a mine is a misnomer. And the em- ploye must remember that as an ele- mental principle of economics we must strive to get back to a condi- tion very properly spoken of by Presi- dent Harding as ‘normalcy.’ And the rallroads, which are the largest coal consumers, must recognize their trus- teeship. They, 00, having been given special privileges, have special cor- responding obligations. Their method of holding off on their purchases un- til the approach of winter and then using their cars for the acoumulation of a supply for themselves, leaving a shortage of cars for the needs of the public, must be modified. And fac- tory corporations and individuals as far as possible must cease seasonal buyving. We must all join hands to keep the mines going at as nearly as possible full time the year ’round. This is the kind of co-operation we require.” LADY PARMOOR CHOSEN TO HEAD WORLD Y. W.C. A. Korean, Mexican and Jamaican Or- ganizations Admitted to Mem- bership at Session Here. Lady Parmoor of England was to- day elected presidéent of the world committee of the world's Y. W. C. A. meeting in the Grace Dodge Hotel. Mrs. Montagu Waldergrave, also of England, the retiring president, was elected vice president. Other vice presidents elected are: Elizabeth Tritton, Lady Proctor and Mrs. Erbuthmot, all of England; Mme. Burtrand of Geneva, Mrs. James S. Cushman, United States; Mrs. Mel of China and Frauline Zarnack of Germany. At the meeting in the hotel last night the national Y. W. C. A. or- ganisations of Korea, Jamaica and Mexico were admitted to membership on the world committee of world’s Y. W. C. A Discussions at all sessions yester- day_ were in regard to extension work to be_carried on by the world committes. The progress of this work was told by Miss Charlotte Nevin, world secretary. Yesterday afternoon the delegates made a journey to Mount Vernon and placed a wresth on the tomb of George Washington. John D. Kendall and Miss Alice Grendin pre- sided at the tes table in the | m;e‘l_ vesterday. e delegates are a session this afternoon. _— MYSTERY OF SILENCE. French to Seek Solution of Peculiar Zones. PARIS, May 16.—Ten tons of mel- Inite will be exploded tonight at the in the center of D. C., THURSDAY MAY 15, 1924. Two spans of the bridge connecting Maryland and West Virginia (shown on right), were washed away yenterd BONUS BILL VETOED; COOLIDGE EXPLAINS _ECONOMY IS CAUSE (Continued from First Page.) to the whole people In the form of reduction in taxes. I cannot recede from this purpose.., 1 am for the in- terests of the whole people. The pen ures proposed in this bill are against the ingerest f th whole people. 1 do not he they are for the benefit of th “The running expenses of the gov. ernment for scrvices and supplies must be met. Certain other obliga tions in the ure of investmen for improvements and buildings are d often result in a sav- The debts of the nation must be The sum of all th is a tre- mendous amount. At the pregent rate it is nearly $35 for each resident of our country, or $175 for each average family ev. year, and must be for some time. This bill calls for a fur- ther expenditure in the aggregate of nearly $35 for each inhabitant, and luys nearly $175 more on each family, to be spread over a period of twenty No one supposes the effort will stop here. Already suggestions a made for a cash bonus, in additio to be paid at once. Such action log cally would be encouraged, if this bill ccome law. Neither the rich nor the profiteers will meet this ex- pense. All of this enormous sum has to be earned by the people of this country through their toil. It is taken from the returns of their pro- duction. They must earn it, they must pay it. The people of this country ought not to be required by their government to bear any such additional burden. They are not de- serving of any such treatment. Our business is not to impose upon them, but to protect them. If this bill be considered as in- surance, the opportunity for such a provision had already been provided. Nearly $3,000,006,000 of war risk and government life insurance is now outstanding, and over $500,000,000 has been paid on such policies. When this provision was made in 1917 it was on the explicit understanding of the Congress that such insurance was to relieve the government of sub- sequent contributions. The then Secretary of the Treasury said in ro lation to the proposed insurance ac “It ought to check any further at- tempts at service pension legislation by enabling a man now to provide against impairment through old age, total disability or death i from other causes and to giv protection to those kindred who may be dependent upon him and who do not share in the government com- pensation.” “This opportunityw as afforded all those who entered the service. It was distinctly understood that it cov- ered every obligation on the part of the government. The intent of this bill now to provide free insurance lacks both a legal or moral require- ment, and falls into the position of a plain gratuity. “Considering this bill from the standpoint of its intrinsic merit, T see no justification for its enactment into law. We owe no bonus to able-bodied veterans of the world war. The first duty of every citizen is to the na- tion. The veterans of the world war performed this first duty. To confer upon them a cash consideration or its equivalent for performing this first duty is unjustified. “It is not jfustified when considered in the interests of the whole people; it is not justified when considered alone on its own merits. The gratitude of the na- tion to these veterans cannot be ex- pressed in dollars and cents. No way exists by which we can either equalize the burdens or give adequate financial reward to those who served the nation in both civil and military capacities in time of war. The respect and honor of their country will rightfully be theirs forevermore. But patriotism can neither be bought nor sold. “It is not hire and salary. It is not material, but spiritual. It is one of the finest and highest of human vir- tues. To attempt to pay money for it is to offer it an unworthy indignity which cheapens, debases and destroys it. Those who would really honor patriotism should strive to match it with an equal courage, with an equal fidelity to the welfare of their coun- try, and an equal faith in the cause of righteousness. “1 am_ not unmindful that this bill also embraces within its provisions the disabled of our veterans and the de- pendents of those who fell. To state that the disabled veterans and these dependents are entitled to this addi- tional gratuity is to state that the nation is not meeting its obligation to them. Such a statement cannot truth- fully be made. The nation has spent more than two billion dollars in behalf of disabled. veterans and dependents of afternoon, and it Is expected t rs will follow. District Legislation - May Be Considered By Senators Tonight The teachers’ pay bill, the bill increasing the pay of the police and firemen of the District, and other District bills on the calen- dar of the Senate, may receiv. consideration at a night session which is to be held under unani- mous consent agreement from § until 11 tonight. At this session unobjected bills on the calendar are to be con- sidered. U. S. CITIZENS LAUNCH WAR ON RADICALS Mobilization of forces represent- ing organizations with memberships totaling approximately 14,000,000 to better American citizenship and strike a blow at radicals seeking to destroy citizenship and American ideals, was started today when a con- ference of delegates representing eighty-three national organizations assembled in the auditorium of the Interior Department building. The conference is to last for three days, meeting morning, afternoon and possibly night. It was called by the national Americanization commission of the American Legion, and has for its purpose the formation of a na- tional council, to combine patriotic, civic aad fraternal organizations in this great movement, prevent dupli- cation of efforts along these lines and to save millions of dollars an- nually spent in these Datriotic move- ments. The conference was organized to- day with the election of Garland W. Powell, national director of Ameri canization of the American Legion, Indianapolis, Ind., as chairman, and Mrs. Rose Powell of this city, repre- senting the General Federation of Women's Clubs, as secretary. The conference also named the following chairmen of the several groups which will deal with special problems: Citi- zenship, Judge E. D. Reynolds of Il- linois; subversive radicalism and com- munism, Peter W. Collins of Boston, Mass.; organization, Herbert Chonis- ki, San Francisco, and flag commit- tee, Gridley Adams of Boston. those who died. It is now spendin; for ~compensation, - training, ingurance and hospitalization n 00,- Soo pheepitalization more " than $400, Solicitude for the disabled veterans and the dependents of those who loat their lives is the nation’s solicitude. To minister to their cvery need is a sacred obligation which will be gen- erously and gratefully met. The na- tion stands ready to expend any amount needed for their proper care. But that is not the object of this bill, America entered the world war with a higher purpose than to secure material gain. Not greed, but duty, was the impelling motive. Our vet- erans as a whole responded to that motive. They are not asking as & whole, they do not want as a whole, any money recompense. Those who do seek a money recompense, for the most part of course, prefer an imme- diate cash payment. We must either abandon our theory of patriotism or abandon this bill. Patriotism which is bought and paid for is not patriotism. Opr country has maintained the principle that our goy- ernment is established for something higher an& fher than to permit those who are charged with the responsi- bility of office, or any class whose favor they might seek, ta get what they can out of it. Service to our country in time of war means sacrifice. It is for that reason alone that we honor and revere it. To attempt to make a money pavment out of the earnings of the people to those who are physically well and financially able is to abandon one of our most cherished American ideals The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our coun- try is mo longer secure, our people no longer free. This bill would con- demn those who are weak to turn over a part of their earnings to those who are strong. Our country cannot afford it. The veterans as a whole do not want it. All our Amerioan prin- ciples are opposed to it. There is no moral justification for it. CALVIN COOLIDGE. The White House, May 15, 1924, A girl, young, without friends, the support of a sick sister. She is told has she ONE YEAR TO LIVE! The same girl. The eyes of all Paris are on her. Fame . . . adoration. What has she done with her one year of life? What would YOU ‘do with one year to live? Would you give up? Go on in the same old way? new? Make a frantic grasp at something ONE YEAR TO LIVE! ‘A ‘SERIAL that keeps you waiting on tiptoe for each day’s installment. Read the First Installment in The Star Beginning- Friday CLOSES FUEL YARD TO INDIVIDUAL USE Work Orders Facilities of U. S. Coal Center Restricted to Government. DECLINES TO BUY LOCALLY Says Acceptance of D. C. Dealers' Offer Would Entail Loss. The government fuel yard after June 30 will not deliver coal to officers of the Army and Navy, Secretary of In- terior Work has notified Frederick Stephens of the governmental rela- tions committee of the National Re- tail Coal Merchants' Association. This action, Secretary Work said, is based on a decision rendered by the con- troller general on June 29, 1923, and troller general on June 29, 1923, and he of the inequalities existing between different classes of government em- ployes and at the same time will take the government fuel yard out of the retail business of delivery to indi- viduals and restrict the activities of the yard to the simple purchase and distribution of fuel for the govern- ment’'s own use. In this field the fuel yard's activi ties, Secretary Work explained, do not differ from those of other supply offices. “If any further change is to be made, said Mr. Work, “that would seem properly to be a matter for consideration of the bureau of the budget.” Would Bring Lems. Secretary Work. however. informed the assoclation that he would not recommend to Congress the abolition of the government fuel vard on the ground that it would mean a loss to the taxpayers of 42% cents a ton. In his letter to Mr. Stephens, Sec- retary Work said: “Your reply of April 15 to my letter of January 9 relative to the government fuel yard has been given careful consideration. While I appreciate the effort you have made to meet the objections raised to your earlier proposals, I find myself unable to accept those now offered and to recommend to Congress abo- lition of the yard. Analysis of the figures may be made as follows: Under government fuel yvards legal cost for the fiscal vear of 1923 was 85 cents a ton, degradation cost on anthracite .006 cents, indirect cost to taxpayer, .372 bents: total cost per ton to taxpayer, $1.22." Cost Would Be Higher. Secretary Work pointed out that under the dealers’ proposal of April 16 the cost would be as follows: Dealers' average bid for unloading, trucking and delivery, 92 cents; deal- ers’ bid for guaranteeing mine weights of railroad cars, 10 cents; cost to tae governmemt for issuing specifications, awarding contracts and handling direct ipments, 5 cents; cost to the ‘government of weighing and inspecting coal as re- quired by the zct of March 15, 1898, .080; cost to the gpvernment for storage inspection, .024; investment loss of the vard M abolished, pro- rated on coal deliveries of five years, 479, making a total of $1.65%. This would mean a loss to the taxpayer of 421, cents a ton. “Aside from minor points, the dif- ferences are essentially as to the in- direct cost to the taxpayer under the present system and the amortization cost of doing away with the yard as a_ going concern,” said Secretary Work. “The former has been dis- cussed repeatedly and in detail, and the figure here used was, after full consideration, accepted by Congress. The cost of amortization used is that determined by experts not connected with the department but fully ac- quainted with the facts.” 5,000 PLANTINGS MADE IN BISHOP’S GARDEN Five thousand permanent plantings have been made in the Bishop's Gar- den at the National Cathedral during the last eight years, according to the report made yesterday by Mrs. G. C. F. Bratenahl, president of All Hallows Guild, at the meeting in the Bishop's Garden, to celebrate the spring planting. The guild was organized under Bishop Harding to develop a suitable setting In trees, shrubbery and flow- ers for the National Cathedral at Mt. St. Alban and has been carrying out the plans of Frederick Law Olmstead, landscape gardner of Brookline. Mrs. Bratenahl reported to the gulld that all his detailed instructions have been carried out and plans gre being pre- pared for the lower garden to de- Velop the native shrubbery and flow- ers, such as dogwood, wild azalea and abutus. The meecting marked the completion of the upper garden, and two years will be required to ‘establish plant- ings in the lower garden. The future program of the guild calls for the development of the entire sixty-five acres of the cathedral close into one o big gerden spots of the city. The report was made on the me- morial of All-Hallows Guild to Bishop Harding. A sum of $300 has been col- lected from the members for the pur- chase of a box tree for the bishop's garden and a bronze tablet to be placed on the wall. Work on the completion of the wall of the bish- op's garden was started today 8o as to segregate it from the rest of the cathedral grounds and give it privacy. Attention was called to the increas- ing value of the investment of the ap- prentice gardeners in yew, holly, box, thorn, azaleas and other plantin For instance, the Dolly Madison tree at the cormer of the bishop's house, which was planted by Mrs. Nourse, & former owner of the hill- gide, from & slip from the inaugural bouquet Dolly Madison, is now valued at tfig. STANDIFER VICTORY FEATURES TOURNEY Wins Chevy Chase Golf Match After Being Four Down, With Six to Go. DAILEY DEFEATS STEAD Other First-Round Results as Pre. dicted. behind this morning to defeat Reg nald A. Loftus on the 19th hole the first round of match play of th Chevy Chase Club's spring golf tour nament. The Standifer-Loftus mate was one of a series of cloze first round matches in another of whic John F. Dailey of Georgetown versity defeated Robert s Chevy Chase, two up, ney of Chevy Chas Kellerman of Columb The other first - round worked out according to pre with the following results Tuckerman, Chevy Chase. Page Hufty, unattached, 4 and Brawner, Columbia, defeated Chevy Chase, 4 Shorey, unattached, ond, Baltimore, ‘ond flight ornwell, Columbi Uni nd defeated 7 and Davidso) y tohert Johneon, Was H. Davidson, W hington R. Hough, e 6 and 5; Roland R. MacKenzie, Col bia,*defeated R. T. Harrell, Arzyie § and 7: . M. Savage, Baltimore, de feated A. B. Leet, Chevy Chase, © L. Hawse, Richmond, defeate n M. Porter, Columbia, 5 ana U. S. WILL FOLLOW UP WHEELER INDICTMENT Senate Probers’ Full Exoneration No Reason for Dismissing Case, Stone Declares, The Department of Justice will con- tinue its procecdings against Semator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, under indictment in his home state, despite the senator’s exoneration by a Senats committee. Attorncy General Stone said today he saw no reason for a change in the department’s attitude, and that no reason appeared for dismissing the proceedings. A report exonerating Senator Wheeler “from any and ail violation” of the statutes under which he was indicted at Great Falls, Mont., has been sul- mitted to the Senate by Chairmar Borah of the special committee wh investigated the charges against him The report, which was signed b four of the five members of the com mittee, was confined to the question of Senator Wheeler's guilt or inno- cence, and made no mention of th indictment or the p: ding activities in Montana of Blair Céan, at the di- rection, he testified, of Su:'{e_!flr» Lockwood of the Republican national committee. Senator Sterling, Kepuotuican, South Dakota, dissented from the commit- tee majority’'s view as to its fune- tions, holding that it was mot in- structed to pass upon the zuilt or in- nocence of Senator Wheeler, but upon the question whether the indictment was justified by the veidence, or, as charged on the floor by the Montana member, was the result ¢ up.” He reserved the right to subn a separate report. Got No Money for Work Here. The majority report, which Chair man Borah announced he intended to discuss later, said the committee had found that Senator Wheeler had “neither received nor acc ed, r agreed to receive or accept, any comi- pensation whatever, directly or ind rectly, for any services rendered, o to be rendered, in behalf of C Campbell, the Montana oil ope indicted with him, in relation to any case in which the United States was a party or directly or indirectly & terested.” After reviewing the statute under which the indictment was returned and setting forth the sole question Which it was held the committee w authorized to investigate, the major ity _report sa: “Your committee finds: “First. That during the mon January and February, 1923, afte election 1o the Senate, a Wheeler entered the employ of G: don Campbell as his attorne: sald contract of employment inciud- fng the firm of lawyers under the name of Wheeler & Baldwin. Got $10,000 Retainer. “Second. That, according to the terms of employment by which he entered the service of Campbeil as his attorney, the said firm of Wheeler & Baldwin was to receive a ret fee of $10,000 per annum; that § thereof was paid January 9, 1923 $2,000 thereon on February 18, 1921, and’ that the balance is still unpaid ““Third, That it was fully under stood and agreed between all parties to said contract of employment tha the services of Senator Wheeler ant his firm related alone to tne Iitiga- tion then pending or to be brough in the state courts of Montana, sa Campbell being at that time inter ested in a number of law suits, sou nineteen or twenty at least in num- i e ourth, That said _ Burto Wheeler did not at any time : to receive compensation for se before any department, court-mar tlal, bureau, officer, or any civil, tary or naval commission at Was ington, and did not at any time re ceive compensation for such services before any department, court-martial bureau, officer or anv civil, militars or naval commission. “Rifth. That, on the other hand, th® sole contract ‘of employment which he had with Campbell related to mai- ters of litigation In the state courts of Montana; that Senator Wheeler did not at any time appear for said Campbell, or his companies, befor* any of the departments in Washins- ton under agTreement to receive com- pensation, and did not at any timr Teceive compensation for any appear ance or services rendered before sall government departments.” Senate Employe Honored. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. McNeil have bernt presented with a handsome silver tei service, a wedding present, by offi and employes of the Senate who have served for many years with Mr. Mc- Neil, one of the Senate doorkeepers. Mr. McNeil was recently married to Mrs. Ethel Battell, formerly of v York, in Alexandria, Va. Mr. Mc has been In the employ of the & for twenty-four yea came Washington from Minnesota original- 1y with_former Senator Clapp of that state. He was a close friend also of the late Senator Nelson of Minnesota. —_— Baron de Constant Dead. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May-15.—Baron d' Estour- nelles de Constant, senator for Sarthe and one of the most noted proponents of International disarmament, is dead,