Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1924, Page 6

PARKS OF CAPITAL 10 BE DISCUSSED American Civic Association; and Park Organizations to Meet Here. The American Civ ion will hold its annual meeting in Wash- ington, beginning October 7. The ses- sions of the organization will be held intly with merican Institute and the America on parks will At ning of rence be held at th Joint the joint meet October th and proposcd parkways of Wash ton will be dis | cussed and the aims and purposes of | the rewly formed Capital Park Com- mission taken up, It is held particularly fortunate that park conference occurs this use of the act of Congress, t before adjournment. which ated the Capital Park Commission h the duty of extending the park system of the National Capital and the privilege of co-operating with the States of Maryland and Virginia to| co-ordinate the three park tems where they touch one another. © Up D. C. Parks. The joint meeting October be held in the Willard Hote be devoted entirely to the the Capital. Theodore ¥ t of the American Park Executives, will make the in- troduction. Frederic A, Delano, n of American Civie As- ciation’s committee of 100 on deral city, will preside. The spea ers will be Col. C. O. Sherrill, officer in charge of public buildings and grounds; Maj. James Francis Bell Commissioner of the Dis- oore. chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts; Coldren, vice chairman of the ee of 100 on the Federal city chairman of the committes on the Washington Board of erick Law Olmsted, who izht rs as a member National Commi of Fine d who was er of the MeMillan Park in 1901; Sid J. Hare of Williany ) and only Institute of B ctivities in the ks of be discussed the purpeses of the Capital Park Commission will be pre- sented W Tak- Up Playzrounds. Wednesday there will be a session on playzrounds and recreation at the Willard Hotel: there will be an out- door lunch served at Arlington Ex- periment Station, and a trip in the afterncon through the parks and pub- lie 1 In the evening there will National and forest ssion hursday bles are missions “What Are “Minimum be park three round- inounced on “Park Com- | 5. Park Departments,” | Proper Park Uses?” and Issentials for Park Re- ports.” An resting conference will be held Thursday at the City Club, when parks and land values and parks and human will be dis- cussed, will close with the annual meeting of members in the evening at the home of the secretar teenth street. rorning, Officers of Assoctation. The officers of the American Civic Association are J. M Farland of Harris 4 dent; J. C..Nichols of first vice president; Harle secretary, and Clinton Rogers Wood- ruff of Philadelphia, treasurer. Members of the board expected to be | present are Mrs. Edward W. Biddle of Philadelphia; John Nolen of Cam- bridge, Mass.; Dr. Albert Shaw, edi- tor of the Review of Reviews, New York; Thomas Adams, famous town planner, of London and New York, Who is ‘acting as general director of | plans and sur for the regional plan of New d its environ Harold A. Caparn, landscape arch tect of New York; Dr. Carolina Bart- lett Craney, whose committee won the first prize for Kalamazoo, Mich. the better homes contest for 1924: Mr. Delano, Miss H. M. Dermitt, secretary of the Civic League of Allegheny County, Pa; William C. Gregg of H. nsack, N. J., who has been serv- g as a member of the commission appointed by Secretary of the In- terior Work to select a suitable ea for a national park in the Southern Appalachian Mountains; Eiectus D. Litchfield, architect of the war town of Yorkship Village, near Camden, N. J; Irving E. Ma- comber, president of the regional planning commission of Toledo; Fred- ercik Law Olmsted, jr., well known landscape architect and town planne; Mrs. Albert Lee Thurman of Wash- gton, former secretary of the American Civie ion, and Rich- d B. Watrous of Providence, secre- tary of th »ciation nearly 10 years. The American Civic Association has lent its ald in securing a Capltal Park Commission from the outset of the movement, but when the Wash- ington committee of 100 on the Fed- eral City was organized in April, 192 the committee selected as its firs serious piece of business the passage of the bill sponsored by Mr. Coldren to secure the creation of the park ommission with authorization equate appropriations. Now that the bill has become a law, the asso- ciation and the Washington commit- tee stand ready to co-operate in every possible way with the Capital Park Commission, it is explained. COUNT SALM’S BRIDE GIVES BIRTH TO SON Former Millicent Rogers, Reported Heiress to $40,000,000, Doing Nicely in Hospital. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, September 27.—The former Millicent Rogers, daughter of Col. H. H. Rogers, who returned from Europe last May without her husband, the Count Salm Von Hoogstraeten, gave birth to a boy this afternoon at Miss Lippincott's Sanitarium. Both the countess and her baby were re- ported “doing nicely” tonight. Rumors of the expected arrival of a child followed the countess from Jurope, whence she was accompanied by her father and his attorney. The countess spent the summer quietly at the Rogers' place at Southampton, Long Island. Miss Rogers, reported heiress to $40,000,000 left by her grandfather, one of fthe founders of the Standard Oil Company, secretly married Count Salm, head of an Austrian noble house, and one time motion picture actor, January 9. When the couple Jeft for Europe shortly afterward it ‘was reported Col. Rogers was es- tranged from his son-in-law and had cut his daughter's allowance. ] An unusual situation has arisen in a suit filed in_the Federal court by the Southern Pacific system against the Arizona Southern Railway from the fact that father and son are the executive heads of the two roads in the legal controversy. Julius Krutt- schnitt is_ controlling head of the Bouthern Pacific, while Julius Krutt- ~chnitt, jr., is president of the defend- ing road, » | ilization to meet and cope with the | extremly baflling problems surround- | United States in 1919. | sweetheart urge drew him back to of | When the plans of Premier Herriot of France for the abandonment of the Devils Island and neighboring con- vict seftlements have been put into effect, the world at large will have witnessed the passing of the last of a number of prison colonies whose names have been written in blood in some of the darkest chapters of the history of penclogy. The curtain will then have been rung down upon that drama of clank- ing chains and crazed beings—of foul smelling ships and blistering tropical suns—that has provided material for innumerable hair-raising tales of fact and fiction. Another slight advance will then have been made in the efforts of civ- ing the punishment of the criminal. Devils Island and her two sister | islands just off the coast of French G a “have been to France what ustralia cnce was to England, and what Siberia was to the Russia of the czars. * To this island group France ha: consigned many of her most notori- ous undesirable citizems. Its popu- lation has included supposed traitors, grafting officials, society swindlers and Apaches. Dreyfus Case Recalled. The attention of the American pub- lic was focussed upon Devil's Island a generation ago by the case of Capt. Albert Dreyfus, artillery oficer who was imprisoned there for supposedly selling government secrets to a for- eign nation; and who was found after years of punishment to have been the | innocent victim of a plot. At present Charles B. Ullmo, for- mer French naval officer, is said to be there serving a sentence imposed for selling naval secrets to the obd Czarist Russia. Only recently representatives of the German Republic protested bitterly over threats on the part of the French authorities to send prisoners from the Ruhr to that remote little settlement. The history of penology is one of a series of crude experiments with a vital human problem. In the France of a few centuries ago the convict was branded, shackled and placed in MOTHER IN, BUT BABY | BARRED BY ALIEN ACT Appeal to Washington Made for Sicilian Immigrant—Husband Already Admitted. 1 Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, September Island was disturbed today and the heart of a youns mother fluttered between hope and despair because a girl baby, aged 3 months, has ar- rived at this port without proper credentials. The fault is attributed to the American consul at Palermo, Si ¥, who stamped a vise once, which admits the mother, when he should have made two impressions, to cover the entrance of the child. The immigration regulations make no allowance for consular omissions, | so the letter of the law requires the | baby to be deported. Appeal was made today to Repre- sentative Nathan D. Perlman. He sent a telegram to Washington, ask- ing the Immigration Bureau to relax the rules to let the baby into the country, otherwise the deportation order would include the mother, who has a right to land. Commissioner Curran is powerless without a Wash- ington order. The case involves the happiness of Sante Messina and his wife Mariana, who were childhood lovers in Castel- lamare Golfe. Sante came to the He d wished ‘to become an Ameri took out first papers. In 192 Sicily. He married and he returned here last March. In May he read that intending citizens might bring their foreign- born wives from abroad without re- gard to the quota. He sailed at once T French Action on Devils Island 3 * Dooms Last Great Prison Colony the galleys: and it was with the dis- appearance of the galley that France took to sending offenders to far-off islands. England. however, {8 said to have “beaten France to it” in this respect by undertaking to use the North American continent in the early part the seventeenth century as a con- venient plac: to get rid of her crimi- nals. When U. S. Wan the “Dump.” From 1619 England shipped con- viets to Virginia from time to time until the period just preceding the American Rewolution, when the colo- nists refused to tolerate this practice For a few years after the shipment of prisoners to the American colonies | had been stoppesl England kept many of her prisoners in old hulks of boats and employed them at dredging and other useful but unpleasant tasks. Then, however, came the decision to utilize Australfa’as a penal colony, and in 1787 the first shipload was sent to Botany Buy. The following year the prison ships began also to unload their human cargoes at New South Wales. As In the case of Virginia, the law- abiding settlers in these places eventually became &0 numerous that they were able to apply pressure upon the Government to have the prac- tice stopped. It was in 1867 that the use of Australia as a place for penal colonies was formally declared abandoned. “As a matier of fact for years before that no prisoners had been landed there. Over near Australia, France had a somewhat similar penad colony situ- ated on the Island of New Caledonia, and it was to this colony during the latter half of the last wentury that large numbers of communist prison- ers were sent The shipment ef prisoners to New Caledonia was stopped in 1896, and the last of the prisoners remaining there were ordered removed in 1914. The passing of New Caledonia as a convict dumping ground left only one survivor of the old overseas prison system. This surviver was that EToup off the South American coast known as the Iles du Salut, or Islands of Safety. DAIRY COW HISTORY IS GIVEN IN EXHIBIT Most Complete Exposition of In- dustry Ever Assembled Starts in Milwaukee. By the Associated Preas. MILWAUKEE, Wis, September 27— The curtain rose today in Milwaukee on the most complete exposition of the dalry industry. past, present and future, ever assembled in one place. The whole history of the dairy cow, “the foster mother of the human race” is portraved by the national dairy show at the State Fair Park and the auditorium. All the inven- tions of modern science, mechanical, chemical and bacteriological, that have been utilized to increase the productiveness of the dairy cow and to aid in the distribution of her prod- ucts are shown in a $5.000,000 exhibit. Thousands of visitors thronged into State Fair Park today and pack- ed the main arena and smaller halls of the auditorium, bewildered by the variety and magnitude of the dis- plays. Eighteen national organisations connected with the dairy industry will hold their annual conventions next week in Milwaukee. The Na- tional Dairy Association, which is promoting the dairy show, will hold its yearly sessions. Uniform sanitary laws and marking methods will be advocated at a con- ference of dairymen at the fair grounds on Wednesday. Former Gov. F;l;ank 0. Lowden of Illinois will pre- side. - Christians Lead. Close to 600,000,000 people in the world are living under laws based on for Sicily. On arrival he learned that the order had been rescinded. He sailed back after a stay of only one week with his bride. In August he was assured that the order had again become effective. He sent for his wife and baby. When they arrived a week ago the consular omission of a stamp for the baby had been noted. As the days drag- ged by and no relief appeared, the spirits of the little family dropped. The baby became fretful and Mari- ana began to cry. She smiled for the first time through her tears when Representative Perlman said he would straighten out her troubles. But Washington had not moved today. Sante said that of course he was un- happy over the detention of the wife and baby, but his Americanization won't halt through that accident. OFFICERS INTERVENE, HALTING KLAN WAR Ku Klux and Sons of Italy Had Planned Rival Demon- , strations. By the Associated Press. STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, September 27.—Prompt action of poliice and de- puty sheriffs at Follansbee, W. Va., across the river from here, narrowly averted serious clashes there today | | between members of the Ku Klux Klan and anti-Klan' factions, who had planned rival demonstrations in viola- tion of the town mayor's orders. With the intervention of the West Virginia officers, both factions di- spensed with their demonstrations. Bad feeling in the town developed when Mayor Dillor revoked a permit for the klansmen to parade. Several hours later the klansmen announced the parade would be held as scheduled despite the mayor's orders. The Sons of Italy, which had agreed to postpone their annual jubi- lee scheduled for today, forthwith announced they would also parade and hold a demonstration in another part of the town. Sixty special officers patroled the streets until both demonstrations had been called off. UPHOLD RAIL SURCHARGE Statisticians Before I. C. C. Seek to Justify Pullman Practice. Passenger traffic figures to show that the Pullman surcharge collected by American railroads from Pullman car passengers are justified, were presented to the Interstate Commerce Commission yestérday by statisticians and economists called by the carriers in their fight against the attack be- ing made upon the surcharge by as- soclations of traveling men. Further statistics, upon which the Pullman Co. will base its conten- tion that the rates are not unreason- able, were prdknted by K. L. of the American Appral Milwaukee. Mr. Hyder was employed by the Pullman Co. to appraise the value of its passenger car build- ing plant at Chicago. He testified that the ‘cost -of - roducing the plants new would be §25,332,589, and fized .the value, less depreciation, at $17,851,621, as.of December 31,-1922, the Christian Teligion, and this is greater than the number of people fol. lowing any other religious belief. There are about 138,000,000 Buddhists, 300,- 830,000 Confucians and Taoists of China, 221,825,000 Mohammedans, 211 000,000 Hindus and approximately 12, 000,000 under Jewish belief. —_— A Brooklyn woman, Annette D. Buck, is the first of her sex to a complish the ascent of Mount Rob- son, highest peak of the Canadian Rockies. SISTERS CHOOSE - STAGE AND VEIL Two Go to Chorus, One to Convent, Mother Approves All Three. Special Dispateh to The Star. NEW YORK, September 27.—Under the glare of the footlights, kicking their shapely legs high, two sisters nightly dance in the chorus of a Broadway revue. In the dimness of a country con- vent a brown-robed figure, sister to the two young actresses, goes quietly about her novitiate duties, her rosary dangling from her belt. The story of these three sisters who have chosen such widely divergent careers came to light when the young nun renounced the vanities of this life on the same day her younger sisters opened In Earl Carrol's “Vani- ties. Betty and Bobbie Condouris elected Broadway, Athena the convent of Mount St. Francis at Peekskill, for their habitat, all with the full consent of their mother, Mrs. Lilllan Con- douris of 101 Quincy street, Brooklyn. The “kid sisters” of Athena are pretty, bobbed haired. peppy and gay, delighted with their work, finding the stage all that they hoped it would be. Radio Brisg Call. With a slight lisp, demure, Bobbie told how the idea occurred to them to go on the stage. “Betty and I were sitting alone one evening in our living room, listening to the radio. Betty tuned In on all the nearby stations, switching back and forth until we struck something that appealed to us. Suddenly we hoard a pleasant volce ask for pretty girls with good figures and neat ankles to report for a tryout as chorus girls, bringing with them one- picce bathing suita Betty and I1o0k- ed at each other. Did we have the qualifications? 1 said that Betty would certainly be fitted and she said that 1 would undoubtedly make the chorus. We were both right. ~On our first visit to the manager's office a friend of mother's went with us, and after the rehearsals started mother came several times, fully ap- proving of our parts in the show. Our older sisters, Helen and May, made an awful lot of fun of us those first days. They used to ask us whether we had been thrown out, and when the blow would fall. But we showed them all right.” Bobbie an Understudy. Bobbie, who is understudying one of the principals in the show, took dancing lessons for years and has studied at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School two seasons. Betty is totally untrained, but reveals an apti- tude for jazz steps. Theatrical work will not hold her long, Bobbie says, as she wants to become a great danc- ing teacher. Coming home when everybody else is going to work is the most distasteful part of her pro- fession to Bobbie. Betty, however, can find no fault with life as a chorus girl. Both girls would like to enter the movies, but Bobbie fears she would not be able to dance as much as she likes on the silver sheet. OHEV-SHOLOM SERVICES. Rabbi Loeb to Deliver Addresses on High Holidays. At the Synagogue of the Ohev Sholom Congregation, Fifth and T streets northwest, services will be held on the high holldays, beginning at 6 o'clock this evening, after which Rabbi J. T. Loeb will give a short address extending greetings of the New Year. Tomorrow morning services at this synagogue will start at 6:30 o'clock and continue until midda: At 10 o'clock Rabbi Loeb will deliver a sermon entitled ‘‘Rosh Hashanah—A Call to World Conscience.” The same order of services will be epeated on the folowing day. ‘Truth, Justice and Peace,” will be the theme of a sermon by Rabbi Loeb on Tuesday morning. A male choir will assist Rabbl Loeb in con- ductiing the services on the high holidays. Jewish soldiers stationed around Washington are invited as guests at the Ohev Sholom Synagogue, and will be accorded the hospitality of mem- bers of the congregation at their homes during the holliday season. Boy Is Drowned In Canal Plunge To Rescue Dog Speeial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, September 27.—A nondescript pup came floating down Gowanus Canal today, and by all the rules of that dismal spot no one bothered until the dog passed the wharf on which Charli8 Evans was standing. Charlie was 11, his father said tonight, and, like the other six kids of the fam- ily, loved animals. That was why he couldn’t let the pup drotn. He leaned over the canal. A play- mate saw him slip and disappear into the greasy water. He never came up. Three hours later the marine police brought the Ititle body to the surface, dripping with tar and ooze. Nobody knows what happened to the dog. MAJ. IMBRIE'S BODY IS NEARING CAPITAL Flown at Half-Mast as Cruiser Trenton Enters Bay. Flags By the Associated Pre NORFOLK, Va., September All ships in Hampton Roads today flew their flugs at half-mast as the cruiser Trenton, bearing the body of Robert Imbrie, American vice consul, slain at Teheran, Persia, by a mob of fanatics last July, passed through the lower Chesapeake Bay en route to Washing- ton. The vessel was accompanied by the battleship Wyoming, which met the Trenton outside the capes, and acted as escort up the bay. The siain diplomat's funeral will be held In Washington Monday, with burial in Arlington. HONORED BY PERSIANS. Legation Officials to Place Wreath on Coffin. Persian Legation officials will par- ticipate in the funeral ceremonies to- morrow. A large wreath will be placed on the coffin’ on behalf of the Persian government by Mr. Bagher M. Kazemi, in charge of the legation here, while other members of the legation stafl and representatives of Persian or- Ranizations in the United States will take part in the funeral cortege, The Persian flag will be hung at half mast from the legation building. NON-FATAL ACCIDENTS COSTLY TO EMPLOYERS Special Dispatch to The Star. W YORK, September 2 on- fatal accidents, of which those to the eye constitute 10 per cent, show a loss in a year to industry of 158,- 000,000 days in the United States. At an estimate of §1.50 a day as the average wage to workmen, the cost to_employers is at least $237,000,000 These figures, culled from a sur- vey conducted by the Federated American Engineering Society, un- der the direction of Herbert Hoove are now published by the National Commission for the Prevention of Blindness in its own report after a two-year study, which extended into practically every industry in every State. But “many employers of labor still necd to be convinced that it is cheaper to prevent eye accidents than to pay for them.” protests the commission in its report, and ex- plains that the “hard-boile: old- time employe who shies off from gog- | gles is as hard to convince of the need of preventive measures at times as his employer. ASKS PACKERS’ BOND. The big packers, as well as traders and other dealers, were called upon yesterday by Secrctary Wallace to furnish bonds covering their business transactions at al public stockyard markets. Heretofore only commission men have been required to file bonds, but under the authority of the last agri- cultural appropriation act Secretary Wallace has issued an amendment to the regulations under the packers and stockyards' act requiring that traders, packer buyers and other dealers be bonded. The bc®is will range from $1,000 to 350,000, according to the volume of business handled, plus 10 per cent of the amount of the business over $50,000 Al To[e—a[o[e——[0][c—————[o[——[o[———]u] “DO IT NOW!” Is there a day that passes when you and your wife don’t tell each other WHY YOU OUGHT TO OWN YOUR HOME like “So and So?” No matter how long you put it off you have to decide some time, so start “NOW.” ok lol———lo]c——— o] c—=——=[o[ca]a[c———=|a]———=|o]———=]a o= DRIVE OUT TODAY —over Pa. Ave. Bridge, up 25th S.E. to Good Hope Hills—or turn down 1ith to Good Hope Road, then up to Good Hope Hills. 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Special Dispatch to The Star. LONDON, September 27.—Mass production of standardized steel houses for the working class is Lord Weir's solution of the present hous- ing problem in Great Britain. Lord Weir is a big Glasgow iron and steel manufacturer, was Scottish controller of munitions for a year during the war and later held important admin- istrative posts in the British air min- istry. From the time of the armistice clec- tion onward the cry, “homes for heroes,” has been an election slogan for all three parties in this country and each succeeding government has passed a “housing bill” which, how- ever, has failed to produce enough houses. In Lord Weir's city of Glas- gow alone there is a shortage of 60,- 000 dwellings. Now Lord Weir has erected near his factories there a three-room workingman’s house of steel which, he says, can be built, after mass pro- duction has been started, for $1,500, exclusive of the cost of the land and ewerage and which can be erected in a day after the concrete foundations are completed. Less Skill Required. Lord Weir's scheme provides for the almost complete replacement of brick and mortar by steel construc- tion and by his process of factory standardization the building opera- tions will not require the services of the highly skilled men in the build- ing trades needed to erect an ordi- narily constructed dwelling. In addition to the saving of time and money cffected by the employ- ment of unskilled or semi-skilled la- bor, the substitution, he says, will meet the building difficulties of the past caused by the post-war short- age of skilled labor. Even the plumber will be dispensed with, as the piping in these houses will be made in standard lengths and screwed instead of soldered together. Externally the experiment house built in Glasgow looks much like the ordinary, small working class home. The framework is of wood. to which are bolted steel plates. All the fac- tory-produced pieces of the house are numbered, so that the assembling job is a simple one. Between the ex- terior and interior sheets of steel there is a felt lining, which is damp- proof and will tend to act as an in- sulator against changes of tempera- ture within. Lined.With Beaverboard. The outside steel shell is painted while the interior one, forming the inner walls of the house, is lined with beaverboard. The roofing can be slate or one of the various patent fireproof substitutes on the market. Included in the total building cost of $1,500 are the kitchen and other grates, electric light fittings and bathtub. John Wheatley, M. P., minister of health, has visited the experimental house and given it his tentative ap- proval, as have also various municipal housing officials and several Scottish members of Parliament. But Lord Weir is not content with this first experiment and is calling upon women connected with labor organizations to advise him regarding an.improved labor-saving design and ‘the details of the interior equipment before put- ting the house into mass production. The present house took about a week to build, but Lord Weir is shortly giving a “while-you-walt" demonstration before government and municipal authorities, when he ex- pects to have the job done in a few hours. semteotpa o Mrs. Margaret Allman of Canton, Ohio, a widow with her four children, is not only making an active cam- paign for the Ohio State legislature, but is serving as a member of the national Democratic finance commit- tee MESSMER IS WORSE. Rise in Archbishop’s Temperature Held “Disturbing.” A rise in the temperature of Arch- bishop Messmer, Catholic prelate of Milwaukee, who is ill here with a rheumatic attack, was described by his physician last night as a “dis- turbing sign” although otherwise his condition was good and his mind clear. The clinical thermometer, during a visit to the archbishop's bedside last night, registered his temperature as sligatly above 100 degrees, his physi- cian sald, adding that the patient complained of no great discomfort MINERS 0 REVIVE PIONEERING DAYS Modern Methods Also to Be Displayed in Mining Con- gress Convention. Special Dispatch to The Btar. SACRAMENTO, Calif. September 27.—What is expected to be the great- est gathering of mining men ever held in the West is scheduled for this oity mext week when the American Mining Congress has its- twenty- seventh annual convention here. Ar- rangements for the convention are in the hands of the Department of mines and mining of the Sacramento Chamber of Commeroe, California’s Capitol will be the scene of the convention sessions, while close by, housed in a huge tent erected be- tween two State buildings, will be the national exposition of mines and mine meahinery. On the spacious capitol lawn the convention delegates will be welcomed at the opening reception on Monday evening by representatives of the city and State, while President H. W. Seaman of the mining congress will make the response. An imposing array of important topias features the program of speech- es and discussions for the sessions. Taxation, the tariff, standardization, Government interference in business, problems of the gold and silver pro- ducers, creation of State and Federal departments of mines and prevention by law of the breaking up of gold coins for other uses are some of the subjects which will be discussed. Exhibit of Metals. British Columbia, Nevada and other Western States. in addition to all parts of California, will be represented with exhibits of minerals and metals in the exposition, which also will have on display mining machinery of the latest type. _The United States Bureau of Mines will conduct a daily demonstration of mine rescue methods in a special ly-constructed stope in the exposi- tion tent, with trained crews from some of California’s mines on hand to show how lives are saved in min- ing diasters. The head of the bureau, H. Foster Bain, is coming from Washington to address the convention. Invitations also have been extended to two mem- bers of the President’s Cabinet, Sec- retary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Secretary of Labor J. J. Davis, to attend and deliver addresses. Secretary Callbreath of the Mining Congress has toured the country, ex- plaining the importance of the con- vention, and as a result mining opera- tors, industrialists and Government officials will be present in large num- bers, many of them coming in a spe- clal train from Chicago. Besides the business sessions, Sac- ramento has arranged for a distinc- tive entertainment program. to be marked by the days of 49 atmosphere, this city being the cradle of Cali- fornia mining. A colorful pioneer pa- rade, with the famous Whiskerinoes taking part, will greet the convention delegates on their arrival Tuesday. Gold Trail Celebration. Wednesday the convention will drop all business at noon and proceed to Auburn, pioneer mining town in the HERRIOT DENIES - CARDINAL'S PLEAS French Premier Disputes Contention That Attitude Toward Church Is Menace. By the Amociated Prews, PARIS, September 27.—Premier Herriot has drawn up a reply to the letter sent to him by the six oar- dinals of France in which they called his attention to the deep fee! ing aroused by his policy toward the church, especially with regard to tuppression of the French embassy to the ican, introduction of edu- cation without religious teaching in Alsace-Lorraine and striet applion- tion of existing laws to religious orders. The reply, which was submitted by the premier to the cabinet counci today for its approval, is couched in moderate terms, but takes sharp ex- ception to the arguments advaneced by the cardinals. “It is entirely impossible for me to admit,” the letter says, “that the measures elaborated by my govern- ment can constitute—as you say—a grave menace to internal peace, jus tice and liberty. Permit Religious Freedom. “Under our administration all func- tionaries, clerics and others, have been permitted the fullest liberty their religion. Moreover, should th Catholic faith in our territory be mo lested in any way we would inter fere immediately and take energetic steps to assure the full exercise of that faith. Moreover, freedom of re ligion is the foremost principle in the establishment of internal peace. “But we are resolved to protect the rights and conscience of individuais. We are entrusted to maintain State rights, but we are of the opinion that it is necessary to distinguish the spiritual from the temporal. While refraining from interfering with in- dividuals, we refuse to permit these rights to be controlled by others than those concerned with our nationa sovereignty. Antiquity of Doctrine. “This doctrine was exercised by the revolution, exercised likewise by for mer regimes, particularly by Riche lieu and Mazarin. This national sov ereignty in no manner approache upon legitimate interests. For in stance, in the near east, France is protecting Catholicism, not Catholi- cism protecting France.” Referring to Alsace-Lorraine, premier conclude “We are of the opinion that it be- hooves the people of Alsace and Lor- raine to settle direct with the centrai executive the outstanding differences with regard to religion. Your emi nence will permit me to add, with all due respect to his person and rank, how deplorable have been the recent events, assuming the form of acts of hostility toward the government Again mav I add that the government is only carrying out the law dealing with non-authorized congregations.” —_— the Sierra foothills near here, for a gold train extension celebration. Citizens of Auburn plan to bring back the days of '49 in vivid fashion for an afternoon and evening and the con- vention delegates will step from to- day into a mining camp of 70 years ago., The annual dinner of the convention will take place Friday evening in Sacramento’s new $2.000,000 Hotel Senator. A number of side trips to famous mines along the Mother Lode will be arranged by the Sacramentans in ac- cordance with the wishes of the dele- gates. 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