Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1924, Page 2

| PERSHING MAY GET PLACEIN GABINET Seen as Likely Choice as War Secretary in Event of Weeks’ Retirement. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Gen. John J. Pershing, recently re- tired chief of the general staff of the United States Army, may be Secre- tary of War in the reorganized Cool- idge cabinet after March 4, 1928 There Is nothing savoring of a _cam- paign on Pershing’s behalf. Preal- dent Coolidge himself has not broached 'the subject to the general and is not likely to do so unless John W. Weeks expresses a desire to retire from the cabinet. But in the event that con- siderations of health, or any other Teason, impel Mr. Weeks to return to private life, Gen. Pershing is bound to be seriously considered as his suc- cessor. The President has fust desig- nated Pershing to be the sbecial am- Bassador of the United States at the forthcoming centennlal of the battle ot Ayacucho: in Peru: Gen. Pershing’s selection for the Peruvian mission—a semi-diplomatic representation—illuminates the many- sided qualities of the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. That is to say, Pershing is far more than a soldier and able military adminisrator. The constant exigencies of his job overseas con- verted him into an experienced diplo- mat and executive. He would bring to a cabinet portfolio talents and background not equaled by many, if any, of his predecessors at the War Department. ‘Weuld Break Traditfon. Inclusion of Pershing in a new Coolidge cabinet as head of the War Department would break with the tradi- tion that only civillans, or, at least, not officers of the Regular Army. should oocupy that post. A number of Civil War retefans for longer or shorter periods were Secretaries of War. Ulysses S. (rant was Secre- tary of War under President Andrew . Johnson from August, 1867, until February, 1868. John M. Schofield served for a few months under John- son in 1868 as chief of tha War De- partment. In 1869 Willlam Tecum- ®eh Sherman was President Grant's Secretary of War for a perfod of six weeks. Russell A Alger was Me- Kinley’s first War Secretary. Persh- ing would be the first Regular Army officer to be promoted more or less di- rectly from the military establish- ment to the War D rtment. Apart from the all-around merits of executive expericnce and diplo- matic skill which Pershing would take with him into a cabinet post, his friends frankly would like to see him made Secretary of War for at least one fmportant military reason. Pershing has devoted himself since t armistice to building up the citi- zens’ miittary training movement and | the Officers’ Reserve Corps. Both of | these institutions are virtually his creations. They ar: prospering, but thelr supporters belleve that to carrv them through to ultimate and Com-[ Dlete success they must be developed | around a sentimenzal personality like | Persbing. Legion Wanted Perahing. The American Legion wanted to| make Pershing i national com- mander und probably would take hir | for Nfe. It is Itseif :. hearty sup- Pdrter of citizens’ training and weuld See in Pershing’s appointment to the ! War secretaryship a guarantee that | the movement would be intensively | and systematically propagated. | Pershing was placed on the re- tired list on September 13, 1924, b cause he had reached the satutory age of 64. But there's not an Army | officer in the early fittfes who is in better physical shape or more men- | tally alert in any respect than| “Black Jack Officers who know | Tershing intimately say he has at! least eight mdre vears of virile ser fca in his sturdy frame. They reflect | the views of a large body of Amer. lcan citizens who feel that. under the elrcumstances, it is an indefensibla | waste of “national resources” to let John J. Pershing devote himseif to| the duties of the Battle Monuments | Commission. or tour South Ameri i as a special envoy om annmive: Ty occasions, or otherwize lead a niore| or le: ecurative life. i Anxious for liard Work. The general himself s notoriously anxious for hard work. He has just returned from a fiying visit to his son Warren, at school on the shores of; Lake Geneva, in Switzerlund, look- 1 and feeling als sound as a West- orp cowboy. Secretary Weeks 1s adxious for the retention of Per- shings’s services In some active role. Jtsis about & year ago that the Se e introduced a bill in Congress Providing for the keeping of Per- shing on the active list for at least| another year. The bill was never! taken out of the military affairs com- mittees of the t¥%o houses. It was gaid that some of the enemies Per- sling made in France, in the rutb- iless pursuit of duty, were ready to "Kill” the bill if it cver reached the fidor of House or Senate. But if Calvin Coolldge wants the counsel, #xperience and professional skill of “Black Jack” in his cabinet, few authorities think any Senate mafority icould be found to reject the nomina- ition of the American soldier who on nore than one historic occasion, put fdoyd George, Clemenceau and the rest ¢ the supreme war council their places. FISH T BEARING TAGS TRAILED LIKE AUTOS ology Professor Tells of Police Methods Used on Sea Denizens, PY the Associated Press. 2 PALO ALTO, Calif., November 17.— Fizh can be trailed in their wander- ings around the Oceans in a manner not unlike police methods of tracing @utomobiles by their license numbers, @ccording to Charles H. Gilbert, pro- Jepsor of zoology at Stanford Uni- veraity. 3 iProf. Gilbert explains that “scales irender a report on the: bring drE-up of the fish as well as furnish ibirth certificates and automatic age frecordors, and show the approximate fweight and size at any time during 4ts past growth.” A few scales are scraped from the bgck of a salmon and stuck in a book ofposite a number. A small alumi- ngm tag bearing this number Is mped on the fish's tai] and it is thrown back into the water. Under Dr. Gilbert's direction more than 000 salmon were tagged in this y last year. Zo i Line Waits for Shady Spot. In Texas, it is said, there are some pgrtions 80 devold of trees and the sgn so hot at times that long lines of n wait for a chance to sit in a siady spot under a tree for & few ments. during their day's work. inventor from the Lone Star State hgs claimed this in introducing his|, pérpetual shade device, which is har- |, _n§ssed to a man and acts as an um- Dbfella or parsaol and can be worn le' at most any kind of work be- it is so light. He thinks this 1 not be s unpopular as & parasol among ‘men weuld be. iparently Coolidge Lauds South’s Industry; Forecasts Boom President Coolidge, in a letter addressed to Richard H. Edmonds of the Manufacturers’ Record, made public today, expressed his Inter- est in the South, and declared he looked for further advences in all Southern enterprises in the next few years. : “It is & pleasure,” Mr. Coolldge wrote, “to avail myself of your invitation to express my interest in behalf of the South. That sec- tion has been signally fortunate in recent years, despite that it has had to bear its share of the bur- dens that have come to the Nation during and following the war. Its wonderful industrial develop- ment, the great progress 't has made in utilizing {ts water power, @and the impressive advance in the aivesification of agriculture have &l wrought together for the firm establishment of the new era in the South. “Whoever knows of that sec- tion’s splendid resources in both natural endowment and the char- acter of its citizenry must be con- fident that it will continue the progress already entered upon. I look for & great further advance in all the iInterests of the South in the next few years.” ARRESTS TWO MEN IN CHING MURDER Detective 0’Dea of Washing- ton Trailing for Clues to Leonardtown Crime. Spectal Dispatch ta The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., November 19.—This historic little township, quieting down from the turmofl en- gendered yesterday by the brutal murder of Attorney Joseph H. Ching, today was awaiting legal develop- menta from the arresy of Isaiah Butler and John Lewis Milburn, both col- ored, in connection with this first crime of capital violence in the two centuries of its exlstence. Lawrence J. O'Dea, private de- tective from Washington, D. C.. who | had been sworn in as a deputy sheriff yesterday, made the arrest as Butler sauntered up Back street, in the colored settlement, late yesterday afternoon. This arrest and the arrest of Milburn, shortly thereafter, stirred up flagging Interest, Groups from various places of safety watched the first arrests in the murder case. Witneases Under Quiz. There had been quizzing during the early afternoon in the little one-story frame office of the State attorney. | which {s also the headquarters for various fire insurance and allied com- panies’ agencies. _To this office had haen brought Mrs. Edna Thompson, octoroon wife of | Arthur Thompeon, colered, who live {In the house where Hutler occupied rooms. Arthur answerad questions so loudly that newspaper men and local haracters on the fromt steps en- countered no difficulty whatever in folowing the trend of the secrot ex- amination. Hoet, black coffee was con- tinually administered to Thompspn | in an effort to quiet his nerves. After Mrs. Thompson and her husband had glven information which officials re- garded as sufficient to justify an ar- rest, based upon alleged facts occur- tng at the Thompson home prior to the murder, Butler was arrested. Thompson told the investigators that he was upstairs in bed at about 11 o'clock Monday night—which wa dbout an hour prior to the murder— when he heard Mr. Ching and Butler in an argument downstalrs. He men- tioned something about property be- ing the basis of the argument. KFollowing the theory that personal animus was at the root of the murder, | the detectives and investigators then arrested, Butler and Milburn. What caused Milbuen's arrest is unexplained except that the coroner's Jury, 1se wounds ©n the of the clain man were inflicted ap- with both a hlunt instru- ment and a sharp instrument, were inclined to the opinion that two per- sons were implicated. Milburn and Butler, in the eves of the officials, are regarded as “bad peaple” and by one of fate's many peeuliar twists it was Butler himself, in a trial on a charge of manslaughter some time ago, who gained his liberty through the skill of the late Mr. Ching, his counsel. PR Herriot's Mascot Hungry. The governor of French Indo-China has given Premier Herriot of France a costly pet. It is an elephant 11 years old and weighing 2,644 pounds. On the trip from Indo-Chipa to Franee it ate 400 bunches of bananas, for which the premier had to pay. In desperation he has sent it to the Lyon zc0. BOWIE ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. FIRST RACE—Claiming; purse, 2.year-olds; 6 furlongs. Jubal Early e Wonder Light *Velentino Grace Troxler Aunt Aggle Carthage Buena Vis El Cld . Gotd Crumj Flagon SECOND RACE—Claiming; purse, $1,300; 8-yearolds and up; 6% furlongs. {Wood Lake . *Director ... Racket ....... Reliable’ ' Wid Goose' Sdacques . *Lady Bess Lady sMetal . Despair Clem Theisén .. 100 ' 18ea Sand Beregni and ‘Trueman entry. $Foreman and Campbell entry. THIRD RACE—The Seandal Purse, $1,400; 2.yearold filies; 6 farlongs. A 8winging 116 Edisburgh . Biery Flig! 108 Note o' Lov Mies Greble 102 Revoke Flivver 100 FOURTH RACE—The Flight Handicap, $1,600; all ages; 6 furlongs. Worthmore. . Noel . Fraternity 11 Heeltaps ... FIFTH RACE—Cialming; purse, $1,300; 3- year-olds and up; 1 mile and a furlosg, Skirmish . 108 Candy Stick . *Sandpile .. Also Elfgible— usky Belle *Duckling . Cl n . SWrack Lane Clique *$Elementai . Also_eligibie— hAdmirer reury. SLenter Doctor #Beare Crow *Quotation RACE—Olaim seatous 454 up7 Th eton . 3 oNorth Wales . *Mystic *Giadss V SEVENTH RACE—Claimiug: purse, $1,300; -year-olds and up; 1d miles. 1007 014 Timer 10¢ *RHechabite 104 *Lough 108 i Intreped . Misar . head | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON CARDINAL LOGUE CALLED BY DEATH Unexpected Demise of Noted Primate Causes Shock Throughout Ireland. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, November 19.—Cardinal Logue, primate of Ireland, is dead. Death occurred at 6 o'clock this morning. * There had been no previous intima- tlon of the cardinal's fllness and the news of him demise caused a great shock throughout Ireland. The primate died at his residence, Ara Coeli, in Armagh. Archbishop O'Donnell, the cardi- nal's coadjutor, who lives at Dundalk, on belng advised, left for Armagh. Admirer of U. S. Institutions. Cardinal Logue was a great admirer of American institutions, although he disliked the republican principle, which he discussed frankly with the late Col. Roosevelt on one of his two visits to America. It was this dis- llke which made him welcome the \.llomlnlon solution of the Irish ques- tion. The last time he commented on po- MNtical questions was on the occasion of the Queenstown affair last March, in which British soldiers were fired upon, with nearly a score of casual- ties. Speaking to the Associated | Press carrespondent, he termed the incident “a dlabolical outrage, perpe- trated to prejudice the relations be- tween Great Britain and the Free State.” Golden Jubllee in 1916. Cardinal T.ogue celebrated golden jubilee as a priest on De- cember 21, 1916, on which occasion Pope Benediet XV honored him with a papal letter imparting the papal benediction, together with the faculty of conferring the papal blessing on all who attended the sacred celebra- tion of the jubilee. Cardinal Logue was known as the grand old man” of the Roman Catholie Church in Ireland. He had a tiny frame but unbounded courage, of which he frequently had need during the pertod of strife in Ireland. One thing for which he was noted was his severe condemnation of mod- | ern dress. Ireland used to be proud of her women, but the dress, or want of dress, of women in the present day is a scandal,” he declared at one time. “There seems to be rival among them as to how little dress they can wear. his Cardinal an “Approachable Man.” The cardinal was the most ap. proachable of men. He invariably answered in person any telephone in |auiry recelved while in Armagh. He always spent his annual holiday at Carlingford, a pretty seaside resorf in County Louth, where he private jetty from which he every morning. The civil war in interrupted his holiday and drove n to Armagh, hix motor car being ! seized on the way. Although he never complained officially, it was known that he greatly resented the| actlon of the Ulster special con- | stables who twice held him up on the journey and searched his car for arms. Sketch of Cardinal's Career. | Cardinal Michael Logue, venerable | Archbishop of Armagh and Primate lef All Ireland, “the successor of St. | Patric strove for Irish tranquil- ty and peace. The guerrilla tactics {of Sinn Fein sympathizers and the re- {prisals of the Black and Tans filled him with horror and evoked strong pastoral letters denouncing the crimes which, in 1929, brought Ireland to {the verge of civil war. Exhorting the people fo prayer and to avold all associations leading to crime and disaster, the cardinal, in ovember of that vear, charged that he activities of the British military authoritles are being carried into dis- tricts which hitherto have been considered peaceful.” He concluded “God help our country, moaning un- der this competition in murder.” The | calamities in Ireland, he declared, were greater than in the memory of any living man. Active Despite His Years. Cardinal Logue was physically small, with gray hair, ruddy face and blue eyes and was vigorous and ener- | getic despite his eighty years. He de- {nounced the attempt on the life of Viscount French, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. in 1919, and sald that the! shooting of the police was “plain murder.” When conditions became critical he forbade political meetings; !later he received @ warning threaten- ing his life. The cardinal paid a visit to the United States in 1903, at the time of the centenary celebration of the founding of the Roman Catholic| archdiocese of New York. He cele- brated pontifical mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral in a $6,000 vestment and later was the guest of President Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired. Before returning home he placed a wreath on_the tomb of Washington, at Mount Vernon. He also met An- drew Carnegle and John D. Rocke- feller and in a public statement praiseq them for their philanthropies. Favors Standing by England. At the-outbreak of the World War Cardinal Logue sald Irishmen would and by England,” but later blamed the government for the political un- rest in Ireland. He opposed conscrip- tlon on the ground that it would create grave @isorder. When the war wae over and the Versallles treaty had been concluded he declared “the whole peace busine$s is a game of ‘grab.’” Although warning Sinn Fein- ers and others to heed the law, the cardinal declared Ireland was not ruled by ordinary statutes, and, with other Catholic clergymen, united in urging freedom for that country. In June, 1919, he presided at a meeting of the Catholic Hlierarchy which adopted & resolution demanding home rule and in an address express- ed the hope that the Irish would gain thelr just rights without vio- lence. Born at Kilmacrenan, Ireland, on October 1, 1840, he studied at May- nooth and Durboyne, and upon gradu ation showed such a scholarship that he was appointed, although not yet a priest, to the professorship of theol- ogy and_ belles letters in the Irish| Colleze, Paris. Ordained in 1866, he returned to his native diocese of Raphoe, in 1874, and was made a doc- tor of divinity. Two years later he became a dean of Maynooth and professor of Gaelic, which position he exchanged in 1878 for the chair of dogmatic and moral theology. Attains to Bishopric. On July 20, 1879, at the age of 39, he was consecrated Bishop of Raphoe, and for eight years labored among the people of Donegal, who at that time were impoverished by a fallure of the, crops. In one year he col- lected for the relief of the people of his docese nearly $150,000, and in 1887 the parish priests of Armagh chose him aa coadjutor to their ven- erable primate, a position to which he soon after succeded, Pope Leo XIII, in 1893, elevating him to the cardinalate. It was an event that filled Armagh with pride, for it was a.dignity never bafore attained by even the greatest of 114 primates, going back to the days of St. M*B‘h zm cl::.ludnl of Armagh, under ministration, Was Ollll&" in 1397 by the addition " the synod hall, northeast of the ‘| but D. Establishment of a $3,000,000 in- stitute for the study and treatment of diseases of the eye and for re- search deallng with the causes of hblindness and allied ailments, to be under the direction of Dr. William Holland Wilmer of this city, noted ophthalmologist, and which, it is de- clared, will not only be the first of its kind ever established In America, also the equal of any In the world, {8 contemplated under exten- sive plans announced today by Dr. Frank J. Goodnow, president of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. In order that Dr. Wilmer may be in ‘direct supervision of the insti- tute, the Willlam Holland Wilmer Foundation, organized here about two years ago by friends who re: ized ‘the limitations of the present facilities in Washington, {s co-oper- ating with the Johns Hopkins author- ities in financing the project. The trustees of the foundation are Intent on making the institute a permanent memorial to Dr. Wiimer and his work as well as a place where his abilitles may be given wide scope during his lifetime. $1,000,000 Gife Conditional. That th institute is not a far- fetched dream on the part of those behind the movement is indlcated by the fact that tomorrow Abram Flex- ner will present to the General Edu- catlonal Board, founded by John D. Rockefcller, the proposal to appro- priate not less than $1,000.000, pro- vided $2,000,000 be ralsed from other sources, and provided further, that | Dr. Wilmer accept the professorship of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins, which he will, his friends say, pro- vided the requisite $3,000,000 be in sight by January 1. Dr. Goodnow said that ft would cost | approximately $1,000,000 to erect and! equip the proposed Wilmer institute. | The plan also calls for $1,000,000 to endow at least 40 free beds and pro- vide fncome for the treatment of patlents who have not the means to pay the full cost of hospital care. A third $1,000,000 will be required to endow the teaching of ophthalmology in the medical school and to pay the salaries of the institute’s staff, who will also be officers of the Johns Hop- kins Hospital and members of the medical faculty. The Wilmer Founda tion already has $200,000 to con- tribute to the project. Establishment of such an fnstitu- tion now appears to he close to | a reality was in the minds of Dr.| Wilmer's friends when they inco porated the foundation, and when they discovered th an institute of ophthalmolog was contemplated a part of the present ten gram of the Johns Hopkins versity and the Joh Hopkins Ho: pital, they decided that thelr purpe as well as that of Johns might best be served nsolidation of both to Dr. Gioodnow Few Facilities In U. S. hera is probably no field in which the facilities of American medical schools and hospitals are =o inade quate as that which deals with di ases of the eye,” President Goodnow said. Imost all our foremost ophthalmologists have been trained in Europe. Today American medic students who have the ambition and abllity to excel in this field must £0 to Europe to obtain the best train- ing. Great ophthalmological insti- tutes have been in existence there for more than half a century. “The result is that the American public does not recelve such skilled attentlon in the treatment of diseases of the eve as would be possible if there were a first-rank institution for the training of ophthalmologists in this country. STONE DISCUSSES INCOME PUBLICITY (Continued from First Page.) e, Hopkins through the plans, according which may result in an indictment within the mext 24 hours. Several cases are being presented to grand juries, It was learned at the Department of Justice, in order to cover all the phases of the curlous problem which arose from the two apparently paradoxical provisions of the revenue law and the diversity of practices adopted by the various col- lectors of internal revenue through- out the country. At the same time the principle in- volved in publicity of inceme taxes reached the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of a tax- payer in Wisconsin who has appealed hig case against the State law. which provides for publicity there. The Su- preme Court has taken the motion for an appeal under advisement, and will shortly announce whether it will per- mit the case to be brought before it for review. Brings State Case. The appeal from Wisconsin reached the Supreme Court of the United States from Willlam J. Juneau, tax- paver, of Milwaukee County, who pointed out that the Wisconsin Legis- lature had enacted in April, 1923, the publicity statute of which he com- plained, and asked that the Supreme Court permit him to bring up on ap- peal the decislon of the State courts sustaining the law. He would challenge in the Federal Court the constitutionality of the law on the ground that it deprived him of rights under the Federal Con- stitution, In that It permitted the dissemination of private Inform: tion by publishing to the world for the benefit of any inquisitive person facts contained in his income tax return which would greatly injure him in his credit and in the conduct of his business and would be par- ticularly harmful in the hands of his competitors. Such publicity, he asserted, would abridge the privileges guaranteed him a8 a citizen of the United States and would also violate the constitutional prohibition against any State depriv- ing a person of life, liberty or prop- erty, without due process of law. It would also, he contended, deny him equal protection of the laws under the Federal Constitution. The pub-: licity in no manner assisted the State in the collection of taxes, he main- tained- ‘Wisconsin denied that the publicity was harmful and asserted that it would be helpful in the collection of taxes. In the trial court Juneau obtained an injunction restraining the tax of- ficials of the State from making his income tax returns public, but the State Supreme Court reversed that decision and without passing upon the constitutional question, dismissed the complaint on the ground that Juneau had not shown affirmatively any money damages. Threshing in Snow. GRAND FORKS, N. D, November 19.—Farmers in_ Manitoba, Canada, just across the line trom North D: kota are threshing in the snow, ac- cording to reports recelved here. The grain is being hauled in sleds. main edifice. Seven years later the cardfnal broke all precedents by hav- ing the historic interfor of the ca- thedral redecorated. The work, be- &un in 1900, was finished in 1904, and resulted In attracting many pligrims “to Armagh.. # C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER "9, 1ooe. DR:. WILMER TO HEAD $3,000,000 INSTITUTE FOR EYE DISEASES First Establishmeént of Kind in U. S. to Be Founded in Connection With Johns Hopkins—Memorial to Capital Specialist. Dr. Wilmer was born in Powhatan County, Va., In 1863. He was grad- uated from the Medical School the University of Virginta in 1885 and afterwards studied in the Poly- clintc Hospital, New York, and in various European hospitals. He be- gan the practice of medicine in Washington, in 1889, and for many years was professor of ophthalmol- oky In Georgetown University. Dur- ing the war he was officer in charge of the medical research laboratory of the Army Air Service at Mineola, Long Island, and was later surgeon in charge of the medical research laboratories of the American expe- ditionary forces. He, is a member of the advisory board of directors of the Natlonal Committee for the Prevention of Blindness, and holds positions of like importance in many other similar organizatibns. His pub- lications, particularly in regard to g&laucoma, one of the common causes of blindness among adults, have been regarded as most Important contri- butions fn advancing methods for treatment of diseases of the eye. Trustees of Foundati The trustees of the Wilmer Foun- dation are: Rebert W. Kelly, presi- dent: Henry Breckinridge, secretary treasurer: Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root, Robert M. Thompson, Willlam P. Eno, Joseph Pulltzer, Mrs. .Henry R. Rea, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, Felix Warburg, Mrs. Willlim K. Vander-! bilt, lk» Maj. Gen. Merritte W. d, surgeon general of the Army; William Ross Proctor, Herbert atterlec and Harold F. Plerce. The plan of the trustees of the foundation to make an Intensive jdrlve to secure pledges and contribu- tion conditioned upon favorable action being taken by the general! educational _board. Subscriptions may be made payable under what- ver Instaliments are convenient to he donors. Buy rultng of the Treasury Department, all gifts to the Wilmer Foundation are deductible under the terms of the income tax law. They should be sent to Mr. Breckinridge, No. 2 Rector street, New York Cit President joodnow public a statement Willlam H. also made gned by him- Welch, director of School of Hygiene and Public Health; Winford Smith, the hospital, and Lewis H. Weed, dean of the school of medicine, explaining the need for an institute of obhthal- mology and the plans for establishing one at Johns Hopkins, Eager to Complete Fund. “The board of the Wilmer Founda- tlon has collected $200,000 already, and the university, deeply imbued With the feeling of the importance of completing the fund of three millions which is required, Is anxlous to sup- port by every means In their power the efforts of the board in their en- deavor to interest other friends Dr. Wilmer and of good work ophthalmoelogy to contribute to this fund so that it may be quickly com- pleted. It s clear that the use of about ome willion, perhaps, chiefly that collected by the university, should be directed toward the prose- cution of Investigation and teaching, | while the rest is being sought for the hospital and its active work in treat- ing diseases of the eye. “The plan then Involves the con- struction of a hospital of adequate size in Baltimore in immedlate connec- tion with the Johns Hopkins Hos- pital, to be under Dr. Wilmer's con- trol and to contaln aull necessary offices, laboratories, teaching rooms and operating rooms, so that his work, with the ald of a suffictent staff, may advance as he wills it ATTEMPT TO SCRAP SECURITY PROTOCOL DENIED IN LONDON (Continued from First Page.) Datly Telegraph's diplomatic corre- pondent upon the announcement. It in nowise follows,” the corre. respondent declares, “that all hope of an international conference on re- duction of armaments is necessarily to be abandoned. The probable de. mise of a league conference on thes lines, as the United States could not be expected to participate in any more active shape than that of ob- server, would furnish President Coolldge an opportunity for himseilf convening a conference, in which the United States woulg take a leading part, an opportunity which the Geneva plan would so tactlessly have deprived him, to the prejudice of ac- tive American collaboration in the establishment of world peace.” Action Not Surprising. The writer thinks Great Britain's actlon not surprising in view of the strong objections raised by the do- minlons, and that it also was difficult to see how the protocol could be amended in detail without all the alterations in conformity with the covenant being deleted. This, he says, would have implied what is implied by the present action of Great Britain, namely, @ return to the original cove- nant, together with possible elabora- tion of new procedure for arbitration on justifiable questions by The Hague court. None of the other newspapers com- ment on the situation, Some curlosity was aroused in political newspaper circles by a visit former Premier Mac- Donald made to Austen Chamberlain at the foreign o yesterday, but about which nothings known, Specu- lation, however, connects it with the Geneva protocol, concerning which it is claimed by the supporters of the late government that Mr. MacDonald did more for peace in eight months than other governments did in eight The British request that discus- sion of the Geneva disarmament pro- tocol be deferred aroused interest in administration circles in Washington, but there was nothing to indicate that officlals had any other information on the subject than was supplied by preas dispatches. ‘The first impression undoubtedly was that the Geneva disarmament conference projéct might be imper- iled, ‘but later explanatory dispatches from London seemed to elarify the situation somewhat in representing Premier Baldwin as merely desirous of delay in order that British opinion could be formulated with greater care. Until the Washington Government receives an invitation to the proposed conference, the question of its atti- tude toward the project does not arises for determinatio It has been assumed all along that league mem bers would have to thresh out among themselves the question of the pro- tocol before definite steps are taken t0 lay out the agenda for the dis- armament oonference or Invite non- member states to partieipate. Nom-Members Not Cemecermed. The protocol itself is not a mat- ter with which non.member states ‘can be concerned at this time. It in- ‘volves commitments and engagements to be undertaken by league membera There has never been mflm in Washington that the o | director of | ot | in} RIVER PROVINCES IN CHINA SECEDE Set‘Up Military Government Independent of Peking. Political Plot Seen. By the Associated Press. TIENTSIN, November 19.—The tan- gled governmental situation In war- torn China became more complicated today. Word was received from Wu Chang, captain of Hupeh province, reporting the issuance of a proclama- tion there Monday telling of the es- tablishment of a military gov.rn- ment independent of Peking. The proclamation was sigu=d by all the Yangtze River military authorities and caused considerable astonishment here. ;Adherents of Tuan Chi-Jui, former premier, who has been groomed as the next presldent of China, today claimed that, with the exception of two signers, all parties to the establishment of the mllitary government were pledged already to support him. Dispatches from Shangha! Monday sald Gen. Wu Pel-fu, deposed mili- tary head of the Peking government | was at Hankow and with the Tuch- uns of the Yangtze and Yellow Riv. provinces had formed a new military government. CHARGES WAR IS PLOT. By the Awsoclated Press. PEKING, November 1 Simpson, In a signed article in the Far Eastern Times, alleges that he has evidence that ‘the Chinese war was promotsd by a coterfe of Chi- nese politiclans. The war was start- ed, according to the writer, for the purpose of creating conditlons under which the central Chinese govern- ment would be compelled to expedite a settlement of the Sino-French gold franc controversy and thereby release to Chinese agencies $10,000,000 (Mex- ico) which would be avallable out of a total of $70,000,000 involved. Supporting his statement, Mr. Simpson says that after Gen. Wu Pel fu, former military head of the Pe- king government, committed him: to war he was offered a chan. finance the central government f through the proposed Sino-French settlement. When Gen. Wu refused to agree to the program his destru tion was planned It would ha been accomplished, doubtlessly, with- out the unexpected coup of Feng Yu- hslang, the “Christian general.” who returned to Peking to overthrow Gen. Wu's government while Wu thoughy Feng was fighting off the {common enemy, Gen. Chang Tso-Lin, {in_the north The Sino-French frane settlement proponents were not concerned with the actions of the “Christian” gen- eral In” overthrowing his old chief, but expected to control Gen. Feng eventually and make peace upon their own terms. The coup of Gen. Feng disrupted the plans of the plotters, amoni whom were two members of the cabi- net, several minor departmental chiefs and a few secretarfes, the writer says. Tsao Kun, president of the Peking government under the regime of Gen. Wu Pei-fu, was kept totally ignorant | of the machinations of politiclans. It as after discovery of the plot by Gen. Feng that he deemed it neces- sary to remove the “boy emperor” from the imperial palace to another abode, because of the constant men- ace of the return of the Manchus to power. Lenox | | would consider sharing such ynder- takings, whatever its attitude on the general question of reduction of armaments. President Coolidge made this plain during the recent campaign in his reply of October 28 to an inquiry from the Society of Friends in Phila- deiphia, seeking a statement of his attitude as to the league disarma- ment conference proposals. In that communication he said: “This Government is deeply Inter- ested in every effort to promote the limitation of armament and to re- move the burdens of militarism> This Government has not yet been invited to attend the conference to which reference has been made, nor have we vet been advised that plans to hold such a conference have been per- focted. It is our desire that there should be & conference to effect limi- tation in armament, and we. shall sympathetically consider any invita- tion that may be received for this purpose and will gladly give our co- operation, provided we are permitted to do so without commitments which would {nvolve us in European politics or be contrary to the established policies of this country. In official circles here it is deem- ed that the British move means an adjournment of the arms conference until 1926, with the possibility of a revision of the protocol itself at the next assembly meeting. Officials, however, are careful to insist that postponement does not mean aban- donment. Officials regard the British request as based on the desire to observe empire policy by carefully consulting the dominions. It is belleved that speclal points involved Include the activity of the British fleet under the protocol, the provisions of which stipplate the taking of sanctions against an aggressor state and which it has been argued in some clrcles might result in bringing Great Brit- ain into a dispute with the United States as a non-member of the league. Other points involved probably are the so-called Japanese amendments, whereby domestic problems could be aired before the council, and the que: tion of revision of treatie states fear that the treaties, esp clally those establishing frontier: may require revision later, and th protocol, being rigid, might hinde: this revision. These states apprehend, for in- stance, that the protocol might make it difficult to live up to article 19 of the covenant, which says that the assembly may advise reconsideration of treaties which become inapplicable and consideration of international conditions whose continuance might endanger world peacs Sickness | today One-Legged Youth Wins High 'Honor For Athletic Feats By the Associated Pres; ENGLEWO0OD, J., November 19.—Despite the loss of his right foot in an accident several years ago, George 8. Conway, jr., 17- year-old youth of this place, ix the wearer of an gle Scout badge, the highest award In the Boy Scout movement. To win the award Conway attained 23 merit badges, some of them calling for considerable athletic skill. With the aid of a crutch, he ran 50 yards in 73 seconds, leaped three feet 9 inches in the running high jump and performed requir- ed swimming strokes and life sav- ing feats. STRICT DRUG CURB PROPISED Y .. International Opium Parley Told Restriction of Produc- tion Is Necessary. By the Associated Press. C EVA, November 19 —A series | of proposals striking at the very root of the evll caused by the misuse of narcotic drugs was presented to the | International Oplum Conference here by the American delegation, headed by Representative Stephen ¢ Porter. Only by the most drastic re striction at the point of production, the Americans held, could the quan- tity of {llicit drugs reaching the peo- | ple of the world be shut off or cur- tailed. Consequently they proposed preventton of a surplus production of raw oplum and also of the cocoa leaf, from which cocaine s extracted. They also would prohibit absolutely the distribution of heroin, an oplum derivative, holding it unnecessary in medical or scientific practice. Besides the Inhibitions on the pro- duction of narcotic raw material, va- rious proposals were advanced for its handling in commerce where neces- | sary. Provisions for Handling. Provision was made for the proa tion for exportation, or the actual exportation, of raw opium for the purpose of taking prepared into those territories where its use is now permitted, but the contracting parties were asked to limit the num- ber of towns and ports through which such raw opium and cocoa leaves were exported. An extensive and strict system of licenses for im- portation and exportation was sug- gested. It was recommended that of raw opium for the purpose of mak- ing prepared opium, which is gen erally used for smoking, be curtailed in those countries where such use now is permitted, the amount im- ported being reduced 10 per cent each year untll all importations ceased. It was also suggested that the contracting partles take meas- ! ures for the gradual suppression of the manufacture of, internal trade in and the use of prepared opium. Under the program as outlined the manufacture, sale and use of mor- phine, cocaine and their respective salts or derivatives would be effect— ively limited and regulated exclu- sively to medical and scientific pur- poses, and the Americans requested co-operation among the nations to that end. A rigid system of licenses also was suggested for this trade, with the keeping of books and records to as- sure proper checks. that the contracting parties enact laws making it a penal offense to be in fllegal possession of any of the substances to which the convention applied. A central board was recommended, to which the contracting parties would, each year, furnish estimates of their reqdirements for all pur- poses, the signatory countries under- taking to prohibit importation In ex- cess of ‘the quantlties necessary. In regard to raw opium, the produc- tion, distribution, importation and exportation of which the convention binds the adhering powers to con- trol: the attitude of the United States, Representative Porter said, is that It is a dangerous drug, and that its use for other than strictly medic- inal or scientific purposes is unlaw- ful. The United States feels, he con- tinued, that unrestricted production of raw opium or other such drugs inevitably results in a surplus above that requived for medicinal and scien- tific uses, and that the diversion of it or its derivatives—morphine, her- ofn and codeine—into illicit channels of international traffic creates a problem of universal international concern. . PAVE WAY FOR RUSSIA IN GENEVA LABOR BODY Full Power Given to Director to Take Any Steps He Deems Desirable. Correspondence of the Associated Press. GENEVA, October 28.—A distinct step toward preparing for the eventual adhesion of Russia to the International Labor Office was taken recently by the governing body of that organization. A resolution was adopted declaring that in view of the importance of preparing for official relations with Russia, and of the necessity of informing Russian labor &roups of just what the International Labor Organization is accomplishing, full power is given to Albert Thomas, the director, to take any Initiative he may deem desirable in connection with Russia. Director Thomas informed the board that 40 new ratifications of in- ternational labor conventions had come in since the last meeting and that the Itallan government had given conditional ratification to the Washington eight-hour convention. This brings the total of ratifications ngfi international conventions up to 1 is responsible for 80 per cent of Washington’s poverty — the nurses of the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society not only heal the sick, but cure poverty by preventing sick- LV.N. S. campaign—$97,000 needed. Help the nurse heal the sick. opium ! mports ! It was proposed | Headquarters, 220 Star Building. BIG RISKS TAKEN BY WALKING PUBLIC i | Many Pedestrians = Plunge Into Traffic Regardiess of Policeman’s Advice. If ever Washington's ‘“walking public” demonstrated the need of be- Ing educated in ecrossing trafflc streams safely and quickly, it was yesterday afternoon at 11th and ¥ streets northwest during the traffiu peak pericd As an_experiment a ‘“pedestrian trafic officer” was detailed to assis’ the general traflic policeman at this corner from 4:30° o'clock until the rush period ended. His sole duty was to attempt to regulate pedestrian traffi The plan was simple. As vehicles moved, =0 should pedestrians move. When vehicles went east and { west, ro should pedestrians go east and west. And similarly ‘when north and south was the vehicular' move- ment. When the green “go” sign would mark an opening of lanes for north and south bound traffic. naturally the “stop” sign would mark the closing of the east and west bound lanes. The east and west bound vebicles would 13top. They had well educated drivers Pedestrians Arve Willful. pedestrians. however, not Despite the fa that fon to the center “stop” sign chey had in addition the upraised nd of a policeman especially signaling then to s e & would hesitate, glance uncomprehending!y 'man and forbidding gest t the sign in the ce a second, and step off—into th am of north and | south I A comparatively f curb until the flow nging to the direction of their destinations. The maljority halted only long enough to ponder uncer- tainly a few seconds and then con tinued on its way, regardiess of signs and signals. The officer worked like a troja. The lot of the traffic educator was hard. The public did not “compre- hend. 1t was a practical demonstra- tion that further ecducation was vital need Will Repeat Experiment. This afternoon the experiment will be repeated, ax well other lafternoons this week { The pian is not complicated. {that the walking public has to ¢ {to remember “When v move In the vehicles stop, ped same direction al: nter sign and man for signals.’ Time and again Yesterday the of- ficer stopped those who attempted to pass him, pointed to the stop signal atop the semaphore and told the walkers that they were deliberately fnterfering with tra only ons !man was seen to heed this warning and wait beside the polliceman until traffic was changed to his direction. The others seemed to listen only half heartedly and then keep on going skipping in and out between the jautomobiles. | Resent Good Advice. { Several woman shoppers registered red-faced indignation when the officer suggested that they should not, for their own safety, attempt to skip in and out of traffi Two men, who had been held up by the policeman, showed anger by the time they had reached the opposite corner und continued on their way. this brand of “jay wal was caught in the motion plc ture that is to be shown beginnin; next Sunday. at the Metropolitar, Rialto, Tivoll, Palace and Columbia Theaters, showing scenes in Wash- ington's _traffic mess, photographed for The Star. The camera man could have made a dozen reels of this sort of recklessness, but the exigencies of screen time Iimitations made it necessary to curtail this phase oi the film. Open Theater to Taxi Drivers. So Intensely interested are the managements of the Columbla and Palace Theaters in the move to bet- ter conditions in Washington's traf- fic that Mark Gates of the Columbia and Lawrence Beat Beattus of tho Palace announced today that the: would accommodate 50 drivers from the taxicab companles to see The Star’s picture any morning next week at the first performance. Any 50 drivers from the Black and White Taxicab Company who appear at the Palace any morning next week at 10:30 o'clock will be ad- mitted to the theater free of charge. All they regiure for admission will be their regular grivers' uniform and identification cards lik number from the Yellow company will be admitted to the Columbia, under identical conditions of identi- fication. | would in addi t the was, ined A i nicles same move direc pedestrians Wihes facing the Watch the trian police. 1§ Open Any Morning. It was made plain that the men need not attend in a body unless they prefer. They may choose any morning during the weck, the mana- gers of the theaters having only re- quested that they appear at the firs: show, which begins at 10:30 o'clock in the morning. This time, it was fig- ured, would make it possible for the greatest number of men to attend. as the call for cabs at that hour is least heavy. It was pointed out that the invita- tion was especially extended to the cab drivers because they, using their cabs every day and night, are a big factor in the settlement of any trafl problem. The suggesion to make it possible for them to sce the picture gratis, it Is made plain, is no attempt to make it appear that the cab men are more to blame for present canditions than any other class of drivers. PREFERS BISMARCK DAYS Reichstag Scrubwoman Finds Her Income Cut. November 17. She knew Bismarck” s an expression appiwed by parliamentarians to Frau Anne Possien, & widow aged 6%, who is b oldent scrubwoman In (ho Reichs(ds building. She has served there con- tinuously for 34 years. She is one of four widows who have been employed in that capacity for more than 3¢ years. Frau Possien’s service began during the last vear of Bismarckis chancellorship. The pest-revolution parliament is not so pleasant to work for as was the Reichstag in the good old days, in the opinion of Frau Pos- sien. “Then,” she declared, “we received a gift of 15 marks at Christmas, but now -we get nothing. Also we got o know the members of the Reichstag better and we knew just how they desired things arranged. In the old days the members permitted us 1o gather up the old newspapers and other printed matter and sell them This gave us a considerabls extra In- come. Now the government claims #ll the old papers and sells them itsei.” BERLI Hindus to TnveTby Zeppelin. Owing to the success of the Shen- andoah and the ZR3, the glant rigid airships owned by the United States, the India government is preparing to put several airships larger than these into operation to anmihilate distances in the Hindu empire. It is expected they will be bulit soom, each one to be twice as large as the Shenandosh,