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WEATHER. Partly cloudy tonight; tomorro: fair; not much change in temper: ture, Terperature for 24 hours ended at 2 pm. today: Highest, 75 at noon today; lowest, 61 at 5:45 a.m. today. Fuil report on page 2. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 Entered as second class matcer post office Washington, D. C. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,415 @h DEADLOCK ON 38TH BALLOT: CONVENTION RECESSES | No. 29,282, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1924—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. 2e NEW YORK DELEGATION BREAKS:; GIVES McADOO 2 VOTES TO SMITH’S 88 Bryan Pleads for McAdoo in Address to Convention—In- dorses Five Others. CALIFORNIAN REACHES #45 VOTES; MISSISSIPPI ADDS 20 TO TOTAL New York Executive Has 321 and Davis i ) 107—Big Drive Is Begun by Man- agers of Various Leaders. ' NEW YORK, July 2—The Democratic national convention recessed at 4 o’clock until tonight at 8 o’clock. The convention was deadlocked on the thirty-eig!lth ballot. The vote on the thirty-eighth ballot was: McAdoo, 454; Smiith, 321; Davis, 106. McAdoo gained 10, Smith was unchanged, Dawis lost 1. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, July 2—The first break in the big block of 90 votes, which constitutes the corner stone of Gov Alfred E. Smiti’s strength in the Democratic national convention, came today on the thirty seventh ballot. Two members of the New York delegation cast their votes for William G. McAdoo and started the supporters of the former Secretary of the Treasury on another big demonstration. Smith supporters said the two men casting the votes for McAdoo were personal friends of the candidate, but the McAdoo forces got as much encouragement out of it apparently as if they had won over a state delegation. Franklin D. Roosevelt, campaign manager for Gov. Smith and chairman of the New York delegation, broke the unit rule himself at San Francisco and consequently in this convention he gave instructions that delegates were to vote as they personally desired. Bryan Speaks for McAdoo. At the beginning of the thirt cighth ballot William Jennings Bryan asked unanimous consent to explain his vote for McAdoo. He got it and mounted the platform. “When I am through I hope you will feel I have improved my time for the benefit of the Democratic party,’ began Bryan. “I have only one de- sire and that is that we shall win this next election. I only desire that cause | see no other hope for the nation _except in the victory of the Democe party. cned to the pleading f the various candi- thought that if we a campaign long enough let ry voter get as well ac- quainted with the candidates as those who advocate them it would be easier to make a selection. ‘Will Net Criticize. “I am only one of twelve delegates from Florida and one of 1,098 in the convention. I only k that you con- sider the reasons that have led me to the conclusions [ have reached and | give to my conclusions such weight | as you think they deserve. g 1 shall not mention any candidate whom 1 should have to criticize; 1 only want to speak of some whom 1 would be glad to commend. When 1 have done that I want to speak of something more important. “In the first place the party has ecandidates in abundance. In every state we could find « Democrat worthy of being President. In some states there ars more than one who could fill the White House with credit. “In Florida,” Mr. Bryan continued, *“we have Dr. Murphree.” “We want Smith.” shouted a dele- gate from New York. “We never heard of him,” shouted another. Praise for Daniels. “Those who have not informed themselves on the nation's great men ought to be silent until they have had a chance,” retorted Bryan. “He would fill the office with credit to himself and with honor and credit to the nation. I travel north from ¥lorida to North Carolina and me tion one of the best Democrats in the United States—Josephus Daniels. He made a magnificent Secretary of the Navy. He is sound on every ques- tion and he would grow every day in the campaign as people knew him better. “My third is another southern man —Senator Robinsop of Arkansas, “He measurcs up to every require- ment of the presidency. Here are three men from the south. This is probably the last convention of my party at which I may be a dele- gate-——" At that there was ap- Dlause. “Don‘t applaud,” interrupted Bryan. “I may change my mind.” “I want to pay back today the debt of gratitude 1_owe to the south” Bryan continued, when the laughter died down. Sees No Bias In North. “The south has helped this nation secure every economic reform that has been secured in the last sixty rears. Some people have said you <an’t nominate a man from the south. We have had two wars since the civil war, and the sons of those who wore the gray and those who wore the blue were ready to die together on the battlefield. The south furnished as many soldiers to the late world war as it furnished to the Confeder- acy. The south furnished more money. 1o do our part in the world war than it furnished to the Confederacy. It is time we should hush forever the volce that says we should mot recognize the south in full participa- tion of our party triumphs. The man who says the north would not vote for & southern man libels the north. “What this nation wants {s a man whose heart. beats in sympathy with the common people and they don't care where he was born, ‘“The first northen man .I mention is-Samuel M. Ralston of Indiana—He| (Continued on Page 5, Column 2.) * | this occasion. is a progressive Democrat with a noble record of work done for his state and his nation through the Democratic party. My next man from the north is K. T. Meredith of Towa. He was in the President’s cabinet—an honor to the cabinet—he has long been identified with agriculture and knows the farmer's needs. Thye com- prise the largest group of our popu- lation and they are the one most d tressed today. Their condition pre- sents its piteous appeal to the nation and the Democratic party has tried to answer that appeal. “My next northern man has the misfortune to be my brother. You needn’t take my word for his value —take his record, and the 50,000 he got in Nebraska. He protected the people against the gasoline monopoly and those who control the coal in Nebraska. “Then T go to the northwest and mention the name of a man from Montana—Thomas J. Walsh. Walsh Highly Praised. s a lawyer he has no superior; jas a statesman he has few equals, and as an investigator he is above them all.” There was a roar of ap- proval. . “Under his leadership more gigan- tic corruption has been disclosed than in any other investigation. He raised the 1id and let the people see how the Republican machine was lubricated with oil. Out of that investigation will come one priceless benefit to the nation. ‘We for years have been try- ing to show the Republicans that these men who contribute large cam- paign funds purchase favors at pub- 1 Aauction.” “Name the real one you have mind.” shouted a man in the galle don't rush me,” replied Bryan. “I shall not disappoint you when I am through. “I now want to present a brief ar- gument for one, who, I think, fits into It's necessary that we shall make a progressive fight. We have been challenged and cannot de- cline. That is the issue that must be settled. It is necessary that our can- didate on the liquor question is such that every mother will know that every home will be protected. Must Be Progressive. “l have given you the names of men whose position will not be doubted on the question of law en- forcement. There must be no doubt about your candidate’s position on the great progressive issues. To fit out party’s sentiment and record and platform and to appeal to the only Votes we have any chance of secur- ing, our candidate must bé a pro- gressive. 1f we attempt to nominate a reactionary—which I consider im- possible in this convention—he could not draw reactionaries from their party nor hold reactionary Democrats away from the Republican ticket. ““We have tried it before. After having disgraced us they have desert- ed us at election day. And this year they shall not take us on to a moun- tain and promised land that they don’'t own. “Now 1 mention one that made it possible for us to have a progressive platform. If he had not made the fight we could not have a progres- sive convention today. “The man who has made possible the election of a progressive is Wil- liam Gibbs McAdoo.” Driving ahead full speed to make the greatest show of strength they could muster, Smith and McAdoo forces went out today to roll up their scores in the hope of reaching a point ofi decision in the Democratic national convention. McAdoo forces, using all the powers at their command, won the Mississippi delegation with its 20 votes away from John W. Davis of West Virginia and brought it back to the McAdoo column, where it was agreed it would stay for fiye Wallots to give McAdoo a chance to show what he could do before the delega- tion looked for another place to light. Missouri, hanging in the balance, with McAdoo forces working tooth in NELTRAL NAY CAL RVALS MANACERS T0 FIND “HAY OUT Conference Tonight of State Chairmen Held Orly Solu- tion of Deadlock. HATE BETWEEN McADOO AND SMITH CAUSES JAM Lack of Real Boss to Yank Stub- born Candidates Out Also Found Source of Trouble. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Staft Correspondent of The Star. NEW YORK, July 2.—Leaders to- day began to look about for some means of ‘breaking the deadlock and one definite plan came under con- sideration. It was suggested, that if the bal- loticg rides along today without showing any really important breaks, some leader who is neutral as be- tween McAdoo and Smith should in- vite a meeting of the chairman of all the delegations after adjournment and put down the proposition that “it is time to consider the interests of the Democratic party; who is your second choice?” It was argued that by this means some concensus of opinion could be obtained as to the strength of the dark-horses and shed a light upon the situation. Caune of Deadiock. “What is the cause of the deadlock in the Democratic national convention?’ There are two answers to this question. The first is that two prin- cipals in the contest for the presi- dential nominate hate each other. Each thinks he alone Is the Moses of the purty and that he only can lead the Democratic hosts out of the wilderness. Personal pride and jeal- ousy forbld either froni ylelding to argument suggesting making his own fortunes secondary to the party welfare and permit a compromise candidate to be selected, notwith- standing it seems to be evident by this time that neither can get two-thirds of the convention. The second cause is that there is no dominant boss of the party who can tear two combatants from the death clinch in which they are now engaged and lead the body of the delegates to the choice of a compro- mise candidate. Even Boss Murphy, had he lived, would not have been able to do that. David B. Hill, were he here, would have done it ere now. Bryan Bosses Negatively. There is only one really potent boss on the scene, William J. Bryan. He is not a constructive boss. He is a veto boss. He commands a following which can say “Thou shall not,” but lacking the power to say “Thou must do this.” The unit rule is also operating to hold the deadlock fast. This is the rule by which a majority of the dele- gates from a state can cast the en- tire vote of the state. It is known that in nearly every delegation sen-| timent is divided among several can- didates, but the minority is delivered against its preferences to the tender mercies of the majority and are made mere pawns in the game. For a short time after thevconvrn- tion adjourned yesterday brief hope of a break in the deadlock was of- fered in the announcement that the Ohio delegation would caucus imme- diately. It was thought this might portend that Ohio was going to drop Gov. Cox and start a movement for some candidate in which other states might join. ©Ohio Holds for Cox. But the Buckeye state delegates in caucus just marched up the hill and then down again—settled back under the Cox banner. The day opened with no outwird evidence of anything having hap- pened during the night since adjourn- ment which would offer a prospect of breaking the deadlock. The dele- gates looked forward with Micawber- like falth to the hope that “some- thing might turn up” on the first ballot; they could not suggest what it might be. In the search for a compromise candidate with whom to break the deadlock the seekers find themselves handicaped- with limitations upon the choice. 'He ‘must not be a wet, he must not be Klansman, Re must not be from the south, he must be from the west and, above all other con- siderations, he must be a genuine progressive. These requirements rule out one man after another as their names are suggested. One name which is being put forward with some insistency is that of a former Secretary of Agriculture, Edward T. Meredith. He is a farmer, once a member of President Wilson's cabinet. The fact that he is not formally in nomination does not matter. Progressive Demanded. Mr. Bryan keeps drumming away on his dominant note of the necessity of nominating a progressive—a Bryan type of progressive, to be sure. Hold- ing no expectation of getting the nomination for himself, he is intent upon putting his vise on the man who may be chosen. It was Mr. Bryan who nipped in the bud the blossoming boom for John W. Davis yesterday. Like a bed of early June Deas, the Davis boom encountered an_unexpected frost. The Underwood leaders are still niaintaining a bold front, although they do not feel as confident as they talk. It is suspected their apparent hopefulness is based mainly on ex- pectation of a possible miracle of some support from Smith when the break comes. There again looms the portentuous specter of Willlam J. Bryan, to whom Senator Underwood is anathema. : . Z STIEKS =7 CLOSE T THE, S BERRYM! W PROGRESS OF BALLOTING Final Ballot Last Night. McAdoo ..... Smith .... J. W. Davis Cox Underwood , . Ralston THIRTIETH BALLOT. .415Y; | Glass 3231, Robinson . Ritchie ... e Saulsbury o s J. Davis .. Walsh .. ... 23 17% How Candidates Fared Today. McAdoo ..... Smith ....... J. W. Davis.. Cox i - Underwood .. Ralston .... Owen ... McAdoo . Smith ... J. W. Davis. Underwood ... Cox Ralston Owen ... McAdoo . Smith ... J. W. Davis Cox. -.... Underwood . Ralston .. Ferris ... Owen .. McAdoo . Smith ... J. W. Davis. Cox s Underwood . Ralston ..... Ferris ....... McAdoo . Smith ... J. W. Davis. Cox.. ....i-. Underwood Ralston . Owen ... McAdoo . Smith .... J. W. Davis.. Underwood Glass ... Ralston ... McAdoo ..... Smith ... J. W. Davis. Underwood . Ralston ... Glass .. PROGRESSIVE PARLEY TOBAR Cleveland Committes Decides Dele- gates Must Come From Ac- credited Bodies. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 2.—Com- munists will not have a part in the.accredited organization, THIRTY-FIRST BALLOT. 4151, Robinson . 3221, Glass ..... 127Y; Ritchie . Walsh ... Saulsbury . J. Davis ..... THIRTY-SECOND BALLOT. 4155 Glass ..... 322 Robinson . ...128 Ritchie .. Saulsbury J. Davis .. Walsh ........ THIRTY-THIRD BALLOT. ....408 Glass .,.... 310% | Robinson . Ritchie ... Saulsbury J. Davis .. Walsh THIRTY-FOURTH BALLOT. .445 Glass . .311 Robinson' .. Ritchie .... Saulsbury .. J. Davis ... Owen Walsh THIRTY-FIFTH BALLOT venee.. 43974 Glass ..7.. . .323y; Robinson .. .107 Ritchie ....... Saulsbury ...... J. Davis. ....... Walsh ......... THIRTY-SIXTH BALLOT. .429 Robinson ... .323 Ritchie . Saulsbury . J. Davis..... E. L. Doheny. Walsh ......... THIRTY-SEVENTH BALLOT. veeee....4441; | Robinson ...... seseeer:107 Ritchie ........ L cmaioe s DD G Ror Saulsbury ...... cotgssas 3954 3. Davis ... Walsh COMMUNISTS ried out. munists, it W. A. Gaston of Mass.. oa .24 e .. 161 .. 24 .. 15 6 6 2% Y James W. Gerard. catier oo 24 6 conference for progressive political action, which meets here July 4, if the sentiment of the national com- mittee, meeting here today, is car- This committee agreed that the credentials of all delegates shall be critically inspected and that Com- when known to be such, shall not be scated. Each delegate, as said, wijl have to re; represent aa | Radjo Programs—Page 39.' THE HALL ] wagy MEANS CONVTED GETS THD YEAR Like Penalty for Secretary. Fined $10,000 and $5,000 for Liquor Plot. MAKING CASE, IS PLEA Harding Letter, Giving Him Or- ders, Was Stolen, Former U. S. Agent Declares. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 2—Gaston B. Means, former Department of Justice agent, and Elmer W. Jarnecke, his secretary, who yesterday were con- victed of conspiracy to violate the na- tional pronibition law, were sentenced today to the federal penitentiary at At- lanta for two vears and fined $10,000 and $5,000, respectively. Means got the maximum penalty. _After the verdict was returned last night Means and Jarnecke were sent to the Tombs, After motions that the verdict be set aside, judgment arrested and a new trial granted, had been denied, counsel for Means and Jarnecke filed a writ of error and obtained the release of their clients on $25,000 bail each. The indictments, returned against them October 18, 1920, charged Means and Jernecke with having entered into a conspiracy to remove fifty barrels of rye whisky from the Sam Thompson distillery, in Brownsville, | Pa., to a warehouse in Pittsburgh. Government witnesses testified that Jarnecke had been given $15,097.60 with which to pay the tax and re- move the whisky, and that Means re- ceived $5,297.60 of this money. Magnate Owned Whisky. The whisky, according to witnesses, belonged to John W. Hubbard of Trenton, N. J., a steel magnate and friend of Secretary of Treasury Mel- lon. He admitted during the trial that he had desired to obtain the re- lease of the liquor for beverage pur- poses and that he had given Charles W. Johnson, former Uniontown, Pa., brewer, the money with which to ob- tain the release. Johnson told the jury that Means had promised to help him, claiming influence with Jess Smith, friend of former Attorney Gen- eral Daugherty and the late Presi- dent Harding. Means admitted having entered into negotiations for the removal of the whisky, but contended that he had done 6 in his capacity as an inves- tigator to obtain evidence against big bootleggers and influential men sus- pected_of violating the prohibition law. He swore that a letter signed by President Harding authorizing him to make an investigation had been stolen from him on March 31 by Department of Justice agents while he was assisting the Brookhart com- mittee in investigating the Depart- ment of Justice. Christiana to Be Oslo. CHRISTIANIA, July 2.—Christiania, Norway's capital, will revert to its ancient name, Oslo, on January 1 next. The proposal, which has been long discussed, was finally adopted by Parliament yesterday. Criminal Is Identified By Telephoto From New York to Chicago By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July Z—A eri inal in New York was identified today in two minutes; whem a telephoto picture of the imdex dex finger on his left hand was tramamitted to Chief of Detectives Huhes of Chicage from Police Commimioner En- right of New York. Upom re- ceipt of the fingerprint photo ughes went to the bu- reau of idemtification, where it was identified immediately as that of a piekpocket. el 2 JAPANESE SEIZED FORCUTTING DOWN U.3. FLAGIN TOKIO Police Seek Third Member of Youthful Radical Band. Emblem Recovered. INCIDENT HELD CLOSED BY SHIDEHARA’S NOTE Press Deplores Affair and Patriotic Societies Call It “Stupid Blunder.” By the Associated Press. TOKIO, July 2.—Editorial denunci- ation of the cutting down of the flag in the American embassy compound yesterday by an unidentified Japanese is voiced today by the Jiji Shimpo, a leading Tokio daily. The paper says: “The flag incident seriously in- jures the dignity of Japan and the nation feels unbounded regret for it. Nobody but an idiot or a madman would commit such an outrage. “Knowing of the anti-American demonstrations, the police ought to have exercised the strictest guard against an event such as this. Their failure to do so shows incompetence. Attributed to Excitemen “There is no doubt this act is to be attributed to excitement, fanned by agitators using rash and wanton utterances against America. It is re- grettable that thoughtless speech and writings have caused an incident marring the country's good name. The force of the Japanese govern- ment's candid, upright protest against the exclusion clause (of the American immigration bill, which prohibits en- try of Japanese to America) has been impaired by the incident. | “Realizing the serious menace of misguided actions, whether due to & lunatic or not, we most strongly em- | phasize the neCessity for prudence on the part of the press and the author- ities and the most rigorous measures for control of jingoistic anti-Ameri- can agitation during this dellcate sit- uation.” Other publicists also de- nounce the flag incident. The police have informed the. Amer- ican embassy that two men arrested yesterday evening, when the flag was recovered, were accomplices before the act of the man who cut down the flag. They said they knew the name of the chief culprit, who still was hiding, but whom they expected to arrest at any minute. Radicals Cut Flag. Those arrested and the culprit who actually cut down the flag are mem- bers of a group of radical youths, at whose lodging house the police ob- tained evidence which they contend shows that the youths were Impli- cated. The flag still is in the hands of the police, unharmed, except where it was cut from the canvas band. The official expression of regret which Baron Shidehara, the foreign minister, delivered to American Charge Caffery, and which the latter, has forwarded to Washington, is re- garded as closing the incident, The police, however, on the premier's or- ders, continue the most vigorous ex- amination of suspects and are mak- ing further searches. The chief of police says he is doing his utmost to bring the guilty to justice. Leaders of the Black Dragon So- ciety and the Great Forward Asso- ciation, which were most active in Yesterday's demonstration against the exclusion act, denounce the incident as a “stupid blunder,” declaring that it tends to nullify the patriots’ dig- nified efforts to arouse the national spirit. The chief of police of Akasaka, the section of Tokio in which are situat- ed the embassy grounds, where the embassy stood before the earthquake of September 1, has resigned. : The opposition parties in the Diet have anounced that they will not use the flag incident politically to embar- rass the government owing to the gravity of the affair. DROP 60 IN FOREIGN SERVICE SHAKE-UP State Department Officials Take Drastic Action Under Rogers Law. An unprecedented shake-up in the foreign service was announced today by the State Department under authority of the recently enacted Rogers bill for reorganization of con- sular and diplomatic activities. Re- tirement for age and resignations re- moved sixty names from the perma- nent rolls, and in addition a reclassi- fication from top to bottom was an- nounced. One diplomatic and thirty-one con- sular officials were retired as having reached the limit of sixty-five years; five diplomatia attaches who had been carried on an unassigned list ‘were redesignated as ‘‘not reinstated’ eight diplomatic’ and thirteen coi sular officials were demoted as fail- ing to reach the required standard of efficiency and two names were re- moved by resignations. The reclassification, carried out by the recently organized personnel board, was declared by officials to have had the effect of placing the entire combined service “on a merit | ment basis.” From this time, they said, the service should be considered definitely a profession in which ad- vancement - will be dependent solely upon . individual qualifications. BOLT BY TEACHERS 10 30 PARTY URGED IF PLATFORM SUITS G. 0. P. and Democratic Edu- cation Planks Roundly De- nounced to N. E. A. “GO0D WILL DAY” NAMED TO HELP WORLD PEACE Simpler Method of Instruction in Arithmetic Favored—Safer Films Demanded. Denouncing vigorously the failure of the Republican and Democratic parties to give but “scant considera- tion” to education in the platforms drafted at their respective conven- tions, Dr. William C. Bagley of the Teachers’ College of Columbia Uni- versity urged the teachers of the United States at today’s session of the general assembly of the National Education Association to throw their votes en masse to the political or- ganization which promises to do the most to promote education Dr. Bagley's appeal was Breeted with a storm of applause by the dele- gates, who crowded Central High School auditorium to capacity. Although Dr. Bagley made no specific reference to a third party his declaration was construed among some of the delegations to mean thai should another political party cnter the presidential campaign this fall with a platform friendly to the cause of education it should get the sup- port of the nation’s teachers. Calls Conventions Cool. “Scant consideration which both of the political parties have given to education in their platforms.” de- clared Dr. Bagley, “should be the signal on our part for a positive and aggressive stand. Contrasted sharply with the courteous and generous treatment that our representatives have met in Congress is the treat- of quite the other sort that our representatives were accorded n the conventions at Cleveland an New York. At those two conven- tions the great questions have bee not what is right and just and be: for the broadest and most enduring interests of our country, but how can we placate the minorities that hold the balance of power? “Organizations that could be count ed on to deliver the vote of tho strategic and powerful nominees had no trouble in reading their planks into the platforms or in suppressing planks that they did not like. The others, and among them our own, had to be satisfied either with in- solent rebuffs or with mea ss Eolanciy ningless Party Bolting Discussed. “The lesson for us seems tolerabiy clear. If other groups are willing to disregard party lines and throw their votes en masse to the party that promises to do most to pro- mote often selfish and almost always minor interests which these groups represent, should there not be a Broup that will throw its votes en masse to the party that promi: to do the most for the basic interest of our national life—the most un and far-reaching cause n?m'\elin) EToup can espouse? And sh, X gr;))up?'l'x d T, agley pointed out that the most fundamental issues of profes. sional ethics are those that refer to the relationship between the profe sional group and the public. “Clearly they include 'in our case,” he said, “the attitude that we should take toward those important elements of the public that are represented by political parties and political leaders. Under our form of government the welfare and progress of our cause depends in no small measure upon the political factors.” Good Will As a means of promoting the spirit of international good will, the as ciation was urged to inaugurate movement to set aside May 18 cach year as “Good Will day,” in a re- port prepared by Mrs. Fannie Fern Andrews of Boston, chairman of the American Citizenship League, and submitted to the general assembly by Mary McSkimmon, principal of the Pierce School of Brookline, Mas: The report, which was accepted the assembly, also contained a decl ration of principl for the associa- tion, which is identical with resol tions adopted by the world confer- ence on education in San Francisco last year. These resolutions declared that a new and better world could be made through the training of the youth in all countries in the ideals of interna- tional justice and co-operation. The committee set May 13, as “Good will day,” in commemoration of the opening of the first Hague peace con- ference. This date is especially ap- propriate, the report stated, “for concentrating upon the ideals of jus- tice and world friendship.” Safe Films Demanded. Drastic regulation of inflammabie motion picture films was recom- mended in a report of the committes on visual education, which was sub- mitted by Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, former commissioner of education of Pennsylvania. The hazards of in- flammable film and the shortage of non-inflammable films are serious ob- stacles to the useapf motion pictures in the schoois, according to the com- mittee. Because of present legisla- tive restrictions, teachers and super- intendents, Dr. Finegan said, “must either install a very expensive equip- ment for the use of inflammbalo film or confine themselves to the small and unsatisfactory library of non-in- flammable film.” The committee recommended a model law providing for control of films at the source. Under tho pro- posed law no one may make, buy, sell. rent, leave, use or handle nitro- Proposed. a -~ (Continued on Page =, Column ), £ a