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EDITORIAL PAGE .. EDITORIAL SECTION ‘ NATIONAL PROBLEMS SPECIAL ARTICLES Part 2—18 Pages WILL PRESS CONGRESS FOR BUILDINGS BILL| President and Legislative Leaders Will Urge Authorization of $50,000,000 to | House Government Here. O remedy a condition that in- vestigation by a commission of congressmen and publi offiejals shows is “Intolerabl: “preposterous” and bordering on criminal neglect—the first impor- rant measure called up for action in the Senate, after Congress reassem- bles on December 1, will%e the ad- ministration bill authorizing expendi- ture of $30,000,000 to meet urgent housing needs of Government depart- ments in the National Capital. President Coolidge has ler It be known that he will use his influence to get this measure passed, that he will recommend it particularly in his message, as he did in his first mes- sage a year ago. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Public Bulld- ings Commission, is primed to lead the fight in the Senate, with Senator Bert M. Fernald of Maine, chairman of the committes on public build- ings and grounds, staunchly support- ing him. The bill was introduced in the last session of Congress by Senator Smoot n the Senate and by Representative Richard N. Elliott of Indiana, acting chairman of the committes on public bulldings and grounds, in the House. 1t was favorably reported in the Senate by Senator Henry W. Keyes of New Hampshire. Will Urge House Action. In the House action has heen de- layed because many members have been adverse to doing anything about the public building program in the Capltal before =omething was done © meet the need for Federal build- bring its activities fogether under one roof, or at least in the same tmmedlate vicinity. Tt will be shown that the Govern- ment i8 squandering untold sums for messenger service, for automoblles and trucks and for time lost in golng from one building to another, bexides | the highest officials of the Govern- | ment kept waiting for hours at a| time for important papers that have | to be brought from a distant build- | ing. The bringing together of bu- | reaus and divisions would effect great | cconomles and increased efficiency, | | Congress will be told. i For example: The controller gen- eral estimates that $260,000 could be | saved each year from money that| is now being spent it all the work of this sffice, which is a corollary of | | the budget system, was placed under | under one roof. Another illustration: | The commissioner of Internal Rev- | enue bLelieves that a building for his| bureau would save 15 to 20 per cent ! of the present cost in collection of | taxes, which would mean a direct | saving in taxes to the man in every community throughout the land| who has to dig down into his pocket | to pay the taxes. The Government already owns sites for practically all the publ buildings needed at present, unless| possibly it may have to buy land| on which to erect an archives build- | ing. The Government owns these squares avallable for new buildings | west of Seventeenth street and south | of Pennsylvania avenue. It owns| three squares south of Pennsylvania, avenue, east of Fifteenth street, run- ings in many other places through- out the country. The House will be brought “to see the light” however, because Presldent Coolidge and Sen- ator Smoot will emphasize that there i3 no place in the country where the situation {s as bad as it is right now in Annex 2, Fourteenth and B streets northwest, in the shadow of the Washington Monument and of the White House, occupled by a unit of the Internal 'Revenue, which is the biggest source of revenue to the vernment. There, priceless records. worth not mitllions, but billions of dollars in actual cash to the Federal Treasury, are in a flimsy firetrap. in constant danger of destruction would be not only ity. but Senator 1 ction authorizing this zram, over a period of 10 years, as a matter of ‘vital importance” to the Government. He_will remind his col- icagues that the Public Bulldings Com- mission has repeatedly called attention to the hazardous and uneconomical ar- rangement of the Government oifices. Jt will be emphasized that the Fed- ernmer now paying about 00,000 & Year> for rental of ‘privately owned bulldings i Washington, which re not properly adupted for the use t which they have been put, and that in | addition to this it is costing some $300,- | 000 a year for maintenance of these! rented buildings, so that Uncle 1 sam | is veally paying out more than £1,000,000 | a year that ought o go iuto new | buildings. New Billy Pressing. Among the new buildings, the pressing need for which is recognized, are for The Internal Revenue Bureau, the De partment of Justice, the General Ac- counting Office, tiwo or three for the De- partment of Agriculture in the imme- diate vicinity of the administration hullding: an Archives Building, one for Commerce. Labor, the Inter Commerce Commis and an pendent offices bulld: The bill when it ably carry only relatively small amount, some $3,000,000 or $4,000,000, to have plans drawn for the first three or four of these buildings and to start work on two of them. The public, even in Washington, does not realize, as the Pubitc Build- 1gs Comlssion does, how uneconom- cal and Ineflicient as well as a grave fire peril the present conditlon is. The Nepartment of Agriculture alone o cupies 45 buildings, the Treasury De- partment 38, the superintendent of the State, War and Navy Building (a malntenance organization), occuples 30 buildings: the General Accounting flice 21, the War Department 14, the Government Printing Office, the In- tavior Department and the Navy De- partment occupy 8 buildings each, the Commerco Department occupies the Department of Justice 6, the Clvil Serviee Commission and the ! Labor Department occupy 4, and even some comparatively small units of the Federal service, such as the Fed- eral Trade Commission, the Inter- “tate Commerce Commission. the Post Office (not including substations), the Shipping Board, the State Depart- ment and the -Veterans' Hureau, ac- cupy 2 buildings each. ‘Some of these departments and bureaus have their main offices in monster structures which they have outgrown. Besides the million dollars a year that the Government is spending on rented buildings, Congress will be shown that other great economies would result from a comprehensive program providing adequate housing for Unclc Sam's workshop. Then each department would be able to s well urge immediate building pro- ng. passes will prob- | | makes that | a national calam- | ¥ a n calam- | FRIUE It ning back to the Mall. Safety Important Question. A serfous factor that will bs espe- ' citlly {mpressed upon Congress is that a large part of the office space now occupled i= in flimsy temporary butldings, which are not only a evesore, disfiguring the Capital Beau | tiful. but of inflammable wooden and paper-board construction, which them a constant menace to the safety of thousands of employes | and most valuable records of the| overnment. These buildings, Sena- tor Smoot will emphasize, are rapidly isintegrating and the cost of upkeep | is entirely out of proportion to their | value for office use, aside from the No successful private busi ness concern would think for a min- ute of continuing to use such offic It will be pointed out that the| Tnited States Government is under an obligation to furnish its employes sanitary, safe, properly lighted and ventilated, comfortable working quarters—especially since it preaches | that gospel on welfara of the| workers to private employers. = Detailed information will also be laid before Congress showing that in | somre - of the temporary buildings | | there is a veritable hodge-podge of | unrelated activities, sometimes as many as 20 widely varfed units of the ~Government service in one building. Probably the fi be erected will st new building to be for the Internal Revenue Bureau, which really needs a building most. Parts of the In- ternal Revenue work are now located in four temporary buildings, and more than 70 per cent of the bureau space is in these mnon-fireproo! structures. Revenue Work Important. The Internal Revenue work is just sbout as important as any in all the Government service, bLecause it brings in most of the money that pays the bilis for all activities. Yet now occupies 10 scattered build- ings, two of which aré rented. The most serious factor is that the major portion of this bureau's activities are | carried on under conditions as most dangerous regards fire hazards. Destruction by fire of any one of the | 10 bulldings it occuples would cost the Government several times the price of a new, model building for the bureau’s use. The Bureau of the Census has files running back to the very start of this Government in a firetrap building. These files are and geneological value. The Department of Agriculture rapldly expanding and is of growing impertance to the country. It is ex- panding Into firetraps, while its main building has never been completed, and the 45 buildings it occuples are of every conceivable type and scat- tered all over the city Then, too, Congress will be shown that there are many files that are ead,” or at least only semi-active, which are occupying more than a half million square feet of good oftice space. That will be used as an argument for the early erection of an archives building of fireproof con- struction where all these records of intrinsic or historical or consultive value can be safely assembled and readily accessible. Senatot Keyes, ifi urging early action on this measure, says, “Eco- nomy and good business administra- tion demand that all activities of the Government be housed in public buildings, located with due regard to the rapid and eficient transaction of the public business.” Coast Guard Engaged in Real Warfare Against Rum Runners PDuring the last six weeks more ef- |the riads and to 'get thorough infor- | foctive work in blockading the North | Atlantic seacoast against big foreign Jum-running ships, and breaking up this most profitable smuggling business, has heen accomplished by the United States (‘gast Guard than In any previous simi- Jar perlod since the prohibition act was passed. This was the result of a major drive, carrying out a campalgn form- lilated by Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, commandant of the Coast Guard; McKenzie Moss, assistant sec- retary of the Treasury In charge of collection of revenue, and Mrs. Mabel Walker Widebrandt, assistant attor- ey general. The chief objective was Lo capture big foreign ships that have previously not been attacked and Which considered themselves im- mune. "This intensive campaign is stil be- ing continued, and one of the main objects 18 to have definite information regarding the rum smuggling busi- | nness and the tricks of the trade to lay | hefore Congress, and especially be- | fore the House and Senate appropria- | tions committee when they take up| consideration of the budget for pro-| hibition enforcement. | So important has Ahls drive baen! considersd that Admiral Billard de- tailed his own aid on special assign- ment to be scunior officer in making, mation regarding the whole rum-run- ning fleet. In carrying out this mis- sion Lieut. Comdr. Stephn S. Yeandle, aide to the commandant of the Coast Guard, actually visited the colonies on lonely shores where the bootleggers have set up warehouses, ship repair yards and which are the headquar- ters of thein excellent intelllgence service. Mr. Yeandle went among them in the guisa of @ man eager to learn the rum-running business, to buy'a boat and get soma of the “easy spoils.” . Congress to Hear Thrillers. As Lieut. Comdr. Yeandle is Ad- miral Billard’s legislative agent and invariably accompanies him to hear- ings at the Capitol, the members of ‘ongress will Raye some first-hand “thrillers” and lively tales of.bucca- neering told to them by one who has participated in some of the biggest captures of contraband rum under eneiy fire. Showing the importance of recent seizures, it may be noted that the Dorothy M. Smart, a British schooner captured by the Coast Guard cutter Gresham, October 30, had 21 barrels and one case of “rum”; the Diaman- tine, another British schooner, cap- tured October 12, by the Coast Guard " (Coitinued on Third Fage.) B he Sunday St WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23, 1924 BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. © decision which has been made by the new Tory government of Great Brit- ain s likely to be more important or to have more real interest for the United States than that taken almost immediately after the entrance into power of the Baldwin cabinet and comprehended in the dezermhmann to resume the construction of the Singapore naval base, which was aban- doned by the Labor ministry. 1t is jmpossible to disgulse the fact that this decision is in itself a clear evidence of the change in Anglo-Japanese relations, a change which followed the World War and was disclosed conclusively in the Washington conference, where the Britlsh abandoned the old Anglo-Japanese alliance, which had lasted for nearly two decades, and substituted for it the four-party pact, which aimed at creating a condition_of permanent peace in the Pacific. Yor the British dominions and to Australia, primarily, the result of thé Washington con- ference was by no means satisfactory. The worst phase of the general agreements was that which envisaged the retirement of the Tnited States to Hawail, the abandonment of the Phillppines and Guam as advanced bases for our fleet. This withdrawal left no real barrier between Australia and Japan. Hol- land, too, was rendered apprehensive by the fact, for the Dutch East Indies, with more than 50,000,000 of inhabitants and their enor- mous present and future commercial yalue, were even more immedlately exposed to Jap- anse aggression. i Vital to British Policy. Following the Washington conference, and tn pursuance of a policy disclosed in the geo- graphical limits fixed for the Pacific pact, the British began to outline the plans for the construction of a vast naval base at Singapore, which should be the replica in British naval strategy of Hawail in our own. Just as our fleet would cover all our Pacific inter from Alaska to Panama, based on the Ilawalian es ablishment, so the British fleet would cover both India and Australla from Singapore. Any less considerable preparation against a possible Japanese advance would have left Australia unsatisfied and have directly weak- ened the security of the empire. The Aus- tralian continent, with an area above that of the United States or Canada, has a population of less than 6,000,000. The vast open spaces which remain to be settled, then, offer an unmistakable attraction to the Japarese, whose restricted area already is terribly over- crowded and whose population is growing by millions between each census period. Australia, however, like the United States, Canada and South Africa, has adopted immni- gration laws which exclude the Asiatic and Las declared itself committed to the policy of a “white” Australia. This purpose, of course, arouses precisely the same resentment in Japan as the simlilar policy in the United States, and it is worth recalling, the two pols jcies have been carrled out with the same aftronting of Japanese sensibilities. But the essential diffcrence as between the TUnited States and Australia i{s disclosed in the fact that the former is a great nation, the latter still a relatively small dominion, regard being had for its population and indus- trial resources. Thus, at one time Australia offers the incvitable affront incident to ex- cluding the Japanese on racial ground and the unmistakable temptation of a country Which cannot defend itself and would furnish a wide fleld for Japanese immigration, ‘Wlille the United States remained in the Philippines, with full liberty to transform Corregidor into a first-class base, the Aue- trallan situation was not as unfavorable, but when the United States withdrew from tle Asfatic slde of the Pacific by renouncing it8 right to fortify beyond the Hawalian Islands, one potential barrier fell. The dominions, and particularly Australla, which had contributed enormously to imperial armies during the World War, called upon Britain for guar- antees. The Singapore base was the British re- sponse, and the Tory government, which pre- ceded the MacDonald cabinet, had already begun the gligantic operation which was to ‘create a new Gibraltar on the cross-roads of the Asiatic seas to watch British sea routes, as the Mediterranean fortress watched thoss in Ferope. While the decision to do this pro. voked endless comment, it is worth noting in passing that the charge that such a construc- tion violated the Washington agreements, cither in fact or in spirit, was utterly un- founded, for the British representatives had deliberately Insisted that the geographlcal limits should be so drawn as to permit the creatlon cf this base, just as the American had made a similar provision for Hawaii A Challenge to Japan. Yet it is manifest that to Japan the action of the British government was doubly disa- greeable. Recently allled and associated in the World War, the two nations had sunlk their separate alllance In the larger combina- tion of the Pacific pact. But hardly was the ink dry on this when the British began to construct @ naval base which could have but one purpose, could be almed at but one pos- sible antagonist. Even if one assume that Japan was without purpose to attack Aus- tralla or disturb the Kastern status quo, the construction of the Singapore base was at snce a challenge of good faith and a threat When one considers thie situation of Japa- nesc-American relations, rising at that time to the crisis which was later to come with our new immigration laws, it is plain that the Japanese looked at the Britlsh imperial and at American policies as the disclosure of an Anglo-Saxon combination against Japan, designed not alone to establish racial inferi- ority as a political fact, but also to bar the expansfon of the Japanese and, condemn the nation to suffocation within its already ter- ribly overcrowded shores. Labor; coming to power in Britatn shortly uilding of British Base at Singapore | May Vitally Affect Peace in Pacific‘ after, perceived, with clarity and aceuracy, that the Singapore base project was a menace to Anglo-Japanese relations; that it would doom the friendship of the two nations, and that it might lead to eventual collision. On the other hand, it was certain that to abandon the project would be to awaken Instant and violent Australian protest and generally to injure the imperial cause In the whole vast empire, since it would have the appearance of a deliberate abandonment of the dominions by the homs country in the vital matter of seeurity. Nevertheless,» the Labog govérn- ment took this step, which has just been re- tuken by the incoming Torfes, Outpost of British Emplire, Singapore, then, is to be the outpost of the Eritish empiro in the East. From that base Lritlsh sea power is to stand guard against any Japamese advance southward or westward toward Australia or toward Indla. Within Mmits this British position will be supported by France in Indo-China and Holland in the Dutch East Indies, since both of these coun- tries have large stakes in the Far Bast and both would be menaced by any Japanese ex- tension. Again, as I have said, the United States will stand guard at Hawail, blocking any Japanese expansian in either America, - Now, In estimating the meaning for the fu- ture of the conditions thus established, it is necessary to look Lackward for a moment to the period preceding the World War and to one phase of the pre-war polemics. Then, and for that matter even now, the great mass of the German people were convinced that there existed a definiee policy in Europe, having its origin in the brain of the late King Edward of Britain and having as its purpose the “en- cireling” of Germany. No single detail in all the confused mass of facts and fancies which contributed to create the war psychology In Germany was more im- portant than that which was Interpreted by the mases of Germans as the revelation of the purpose of the British to create about tiermany a circle of alllances which would prevent the expansion of Germany, either within Europe or without, an expansion which the rapidly growing German population and the equally swiftly increasing industrial de- velopment seemed to make necessary if Ger- many were to remain a great power. Monro: Doctrine a Factor. Eastward and southward in Europe Germany felt herself blocked by Russian championship of the smaller Slav peoples in the Danube Valley and by Russlan purpose to acquire Constantinople, the land bridge to Asia. In Africa British support of France had been Dbased upon the open enunciation of the dog- trine that Britain would not permit German possession i North Africa, while in South Af- rica Britain had herself acquired the Dutch states as a consequence of the Boer War, More- over, Americans should remember that our own Monroe doctrine seemed to the Germans only one more prohibition of German expan- sion. & of great historical | | 'LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE Conflicting Views as to Whether They Are Ready for or Even . Want the Ballot. | | BY HENRY L. SWEINHART. 1 S the TLatin ‘American woman | ready for the vote? Is she suffi- clently interested in public affairs; and does she desire to vote? Listen to the views of two promi- nent women—one a South American | diplomat's wife; the other one of the best known sociological and philan- throplc woman workers in the United States. Seated in the beautifully furnished drawing room of her Washington home, on Massachusetts avenue near Dupont Circle, Mme. Varela, cultured and_charming wife of the Minister of Uruguay to the United States, voiced the opinfon that the women in many of the Latin American coun- tries are anxious to enjoy the full rights of suffrage and, if given the right, would be prepared to exercise it. @n_the other hand, Dr. Kate Wal- ler Barrett., internationally known | through her activity in varfous | women’'s movements and other social welfare work, expressed doubt as ‘to ‘whether the women of South and Central America and Mex- ico were fitted either by training or témperament, either by their habits ot lite or by their public instincts, to go, forth into the world and take an active part in either politics or other civic work in the same manner as do the women of the United States. TUrnguayan Women Public-Spirited. Mme. Varela, herselt’ a type. of Uruguayan woman of high culture and refinement, spoke of the advances which the women of her country | already have made. She told of their | deep interest in all matters pertain- |ing to education and of the work | they have been doing to improve con- | ditions among the school children of | the nation and give them all the ad- vantages possible to develop Into | strong and useful citizens. This, as | well as the interest which the Uru- guayan women take in health condi- tions in the schools and in other public welfare efforts, is a clear indi- | cation, in the opinion of Mme. Varela, of the fitness and ability of the women of her country to participate in any and all affairsiof a public and civic character. i Many of the women in Uruguay themselves have attained a high de- gree of education, not only having gradugted from the high schools, but having gone on through college to obtain, their degrees in medicine law or some other profession. which many of them.practice in Montevideo and other cities. The unusually-high percentage ‘of education Which pre vails among the women of Uruguay, Mme. Varela believes, is a proof of | their readiness to take a greater | share in_public life. Mme. Varela, who ‘spoke particu- | larly of her own country, pointed to | the fact that it will be a compara- | tively simple matter to secure the vote fér the women of Uruguay, all that is required being the approval by the national Congress by a two- thirds vote of a provision in the con- i stitution to that effect. The women in Brazil probably will attain the vote im not. distant. future, in.the opinion of Mme. Varela, who is familiar also with conditions in that neighboring country. In some of the other South American coun- tries, she believes, the vote will be longer delayed, although 45 to some of those nations, particularly on the west coast, she said she could not speak from close personal knowls edge or observation. In Argentine, apparently, the women are not as desirous of gaining thelr political freedom and securing the vote as in several of the other Latin American nations. The influence of what women are dolng in other nations, however, may have a stirring effect on the women in some of the South and Central American countries, Mexico and the West Indles, it is belleved, and bring to them*the vote sooner than other- wise would be the case. The power of imitation in this respect, as in many other directions, it ig pointed out, may have a wonderful effect In speeding up the potential political inatinct of the Latin American whman. Not Ready For Vote. On the other hand, it wiil be a long time, in the opinion of Dr. Barrett, before the women of Latin America as a_whole or In any con- siderable numbers will be clamoring, as did their sisters in the United States and in England. for the right to vote and to hold public office and to do other things in community life which, are contrary to all the habits and traditions of Latin life. Having recently returned,from a visit to a number of the South American countries, and having been also in Mexico, Hait! and the Domin- ican Republic, Dr. Barrett was speaking of what she had seen per- sonally. The women of Latin Amer- ica, she sald, have been interested, in some countries for a long time past, in certain kinds of charitable and social work; but she had found during her travels that there ap- peared to be little inclination on the part of the average Latin American woman to actually get out into the hustle and bustle of the world, into its business and politics, and to en- gage actively in‘any form of civic enterprise. Some Execeptions In All Countrie: Dr. Barrett who, through her ac- tivity in the work of the Interna- tional Council of Women, has studied conditions, particularly as they af- fect women, In practically every country of the world, admitted that there are some women or groups of women in a number of .the Latin American countries who have been manifesting a keen interest in que: tions of public and national concern. The great majority of the women in South America, however, she is con- vinced, are.neither fitted for nor d | sirous of having the vote or of par- ticipating actively along other lines in general public welfare movement: She thinks, further, that it will be a long time before they do break away from the home ties and from the shackles of tradition and age- long habit and ancestral training which have kept them secluded and carefully protected from public in- trusion and decide that the time has come for them to enter the arena of public Mfe and personal liberty. (Copysight, 1024.) & ( Former Gov and Only Labor | By DREW PEARSON. 16¢ strike without arbitration is becoming just as out of date as the divine right of monarchs to govern with- out the consent of the people,” said Henry Allen of Kansas, leaning back in the editorial chair of the Wichita Beacon, which he occupies both in name and In fact. “Old George the Third.” he con- tinued, “with his tax on tea, had nothing on the anthracite miners whose strike put a virtual tax on coal. It's a policy of the-public-be- damned, whether it comes from king or coal miner.” A press boy came in with the gal- ley sheets of Mr. Allen's daily edi- torial and he interrupted himseif long enough to correct fit. Back to First Love. Henry Allen has deserted politics for his first love—the newspaper. And he finds it far more absorbing |than the governorship of Kansas, which he held for two terms. “A governor.” he confided Jater, “does not know what real work is. Give me the choice of any job in the world, and I would pick the same one— just an ordinary newspaper reporter.” And as the interview progressed I saw that he meant it. I had come to quiz Mr. Allen on the Kansas Industrial Court, of which he was the principal author and most stalwart champion, and my question “Is the Industrlal Court dead?” had brought forth a vigor- ous dental. " Henry Allen pointed out, s better than its administration. My successor, Mr. Davis, after being overridden by the Legislature when he attempted to kill the court, and after being overwhelmed by a three- fourths majority when he cut off its appropriation, proceeded to appoint two unfriendly judges. But by some irony of fate close contact won them over to the plan and now they are its staunch supporters. “At present the Industrial® Court is marking time awaiting the final decisfon of the Supreme Court. This is chiefly a technical matter. Judg- ing by the three previous decisions handed down by the courts, there can be no doubt about the state's right to regulate industrial relations in or- ganizations whose products are es- sential to the welfare of the peo- ple; that is, food, fuel, clothing and transportation. State Has Right to Act. “The State has a right to regulate almost everything these days.” c tinued Mr. Allenearnestly. “It in invade the home and take the cilld away from its parents and require that up to a certain age the child must go to school. In this it is reg- ulating the most sacred of all rela- tlonships. It can take the young imen and send them 3,000 miles across the sea to serve their country. Yet some” people still maintain that the State cannot interfere in a war be- tween worker and employer. “I say if the State cannot protect the publio in wars of this kind, what is the State good for? “The State has abolished nearly every kind of fight there is. It pro- hibits fist fights and duels and pro- {Continued on Sixteenth Page.) [tects us against riots HE divine right of labor to|US Still retain the sacred right to|ters and activities that SEES A USEFUL FUTURE FOR INDUSTRIAL COURT . Allen Says Workers Favor Leaders Oppose Kansas Tribunal. But some of derail trains, burn factories and picket stores in the most horrible of all fighting—industrial wars. ow vou ask why labor opposed the Industrial Court. Labor as a group did not, but labor leaders did. And for one reason only—the court takes away thelr divine right to order strikes. “A labor organizer is the secretary of war for his union. He runs the war department, keeps the dues paid, has everything In a constant state of preparedness. Now I never knew of any secretary® of war et who did not object strenuously to the abolition of his job. And that is exactly what the Industrial Court does. It gives a means of settiing disputes without access to war, so there was no further use of paying dues to a war department. It hurt the unions. Not Against the Unions. “I am not against the unions. I am against union organizers who tell their men not to own their own Il:omes because property hampers their freedom of action in Industrial warfare. They Keep their men in a |constant state of get-up-and-go. It is a stade of unrest which is not good for thiWcountry. I would not abolish labor leaders, hut rather have them instruct their men in the principles of American ownership and show them that property ownership furthers thelr own interests as well as their community’s.”" “The Industrial Court forblds men to strike” I said, “but what pri vents them from taking a vacation “Nothing. They can all take a vacation. But at the same time, what is to prevent the employer from bringing in other men to fill their places under the protection of the State?’ Samuel Gompers admitted in his debate with me that a strike was useless unless it was picketed. Right to? Quit Protected. “The State of Kansas, under this court, protects the laborer in his right to work or to quit. The law reads specifically : ‘Nothing in this-act shall be ‘considered as restricting the right of the individual employe to quit his em- ployment at any time’ but that does not mean he shall come around the job ho has left with brickbats and dyna- mite for the purpose of preventing the other fellow who may wish to continue. “The unions accuse us of having taken away the divine right of quitting work. They Kick about robbing them of personal liberty. But how much lib- erty do they give thelr men? Take a case in the Kansas coal etrike. The union quit, but one man stayed on. His name was Guffy, and the union suspend- ed him from membership for 99 years. Union officials went to the grocery store where he traded and threatenéd the ex- tinction of the business of that store if they Sold to Guffy, and they went to Guffy's landlord and sald, keep Guffy in your house. sonal liberty for you. “No, the State of Kan#as has inter- fered not with the right to quit work, but the divine right of union leaders to require their men to quit work. “Down at Pittsburg we had a strike the miners not only refused to coal. but the truckmen ‘refused to (Continued on Third Page.) That's per- “You cannot | U. S. of Chaeotic BY OLIVER OWEN KUHY Moscow thene sits a Ilttle man Wwhose eyes glint as he carefully Etrokes his heard and dreams dreams of political conquest. Scattered throughout the world are his paid emissaries. As their re- porth flood his desk he grows more and more pompous in visualization of the day when the disciples of Lenin and Trotsky shall rule the world and when his own hand shall be a guid- ing one in formulating the destinles of mnatlons. His importance grows| upon him. He gets larger and larger in his own estimation as he sees the supposed progress of his infiltrating nostrums in the lands of illiterate as he sees the unsophisticat- _supposedly more enlightened countries grasp at Lis insidious gospels. And as one sees his en- deavors to implant Soviet ideas of Bovernment upon the world at large, une recalls the story of the little frog who swelled and swelled until it b came no more by virtue of its own folly. And the little frog in Moscow i none other than Gregory Zinovieff, | head of the Communist Internationale, whose efforts against civilization and | present-day government are felt on i every hand. Natlons Are Awakened. Zinoviefl's activities have been taken serfously in several countries and un- doubtedly have had far-reaching ef- fect in shaping the political destinies of several, but not iu the direction desired. | Russia has Ler own | it i | sought. in the midst of oviet-created chaos and ‘d!\'uslfl.l!(\n. to peddle her govern- mental cures to the werld. When i it was seen that they could not make {Drogress by virtue of their own | demerits the internationale, of which | ZInovieff js the head, Legan fits sys- { tematic attempt to sway other peoples ;:Alre:ld beset and mentally torn by Idomefi!ic problems to Bolshevistic theories. His activities have approach- ed the ludicrous, so bold has he be- come. Instead, however, of influenc- ing supporters he has made enemies and he has done as much as any other person fn Russia to bring about repudiation of the Russian govern- | ment and the Communistic theories }of human relationships. The latest rebuke to Zinovieff and the Moscow government has come from the Conservative Bovernment of 1:re:|_x Britain. Austen Chamberlain forcign minister in the Baldwin gov- ernment, has made it plain to Moscow that the treaties negotiated by for- mer Premier MacDonald and Russian | emlssaries are rcpudiated. There's | I not a good thing about them accord- | i ing to word that has gone from Whitehall. England can never: con }sent to recognize or deal with any| | regime in any nation that persists in | | uadermining tenets of government in| | force. That Russia has continued to | press her propaganda with known insidious practices is pointed out. | What England Foresces. | England realizes that in recogni- | tion there will be opened even broad. | er avenues for Soviet propaganda| | against the government and England | | wants none of it. It would appear ' that Zinovieff, who on the eve of elec. tion urged the Communists of Eng- land to rally around the Labor party | and bring about a Communistic form | of government, was the one man to! awaken England to the dangerous| shoals that lay ahead in continued | dealing with the Soviet government. | It was a Zinovieff lefter that caused | Secretary Hughes of the American | tate Department to announce last- | ing opposition to recognition of the| | Soviet regime. . It was Zinovieft let- | have done| much to undermine confidence in the | Russian Soviet in France, while in| Italy the government has intercepted | many communications from Zinovieff, all designed to reorganize forces| | against the Mussolini regime twhich | | has done moro than any other to- |ward the eradication of {in Italy. Zinovieff, the busybody of Moscow, in Bolshevism | busy litite pursuance | Has Thus Far BY HARDEX COLFAX. Taxpayers in dispute with the Fed- | jeral Government either have failed to | realize that their disputes can be ad- |Justed elsewhere than at Washington don't want them adjusted else- where, and as a result the administra- tion's desire to take tax adjustment |relief into the highways and byways |has thus far come a cropper. The| United States Board of Appeals finds that only 30 cases have been placed on 'its out-of-tosn calendar within five weeks after the announce- ment that 1t was ready to do busi- |ness in other sections of the country. { As a consequence, the plan to send a division of the board out on a tour of the Northern, Northwestern and Patific Coast territory, with tax hear- ings scheduled at cities along the way, has been held up until more cases accumulate. Announcement of ‘lha proposed trip was made October 8. At that time it“was hoped that the | response would enable the board to {send out its division within a short | time. Response Limited. Response to the announcement, 'however, instead of being sweeping in | its extent, has been limited to about | 15 instances in the territory in ques- tion. Accordingly the board has post- |poned until about December 15 any further definite announcement as to the trip. Officials expect that there will*be a still further postponement at that time. It now looks as if-the trip would not be made before Febru- ary 1. ')l'he board, it will be recalled, was created by the tax reduction law passed last June and was intended to relleve the congestion of accumulated disputes between the Government and taxpayers. It was also intended, ap- par#ntly, that the board should dis- tribute its members, from time to time, in various geographical sections so that taxpayers would be saved the | expense and lost time incidental to | coming to Washington to have their | troubles adjusted. 2 It now develops, in the 'light of | four months’ experience, that the| board cannot well distribute its members over the country as some of the framers of the law angicipated, but instead will have to adopt the policy of sending divisions out from time to. time, as. needed, on . tours lasting from’oné to two months. The reason for this, it was stated | | that | a decided hit. AND ENGLAND BARS TO SOVIET INROADY % ” Steadfast Against Encroachment Theories. of his wild dreams of sovietizing the world is doing more than any¥ other person to prove to the clvilized world the Soviet cannot be trusted under any circumstances, quick to deny the connection of the government with the internationale and has repeatedly stated that Zi- novieff's act ties are not in accord with the desires of the government Other nations, however, fully cog nizant of the close connection be- tween the various Soviet organiza tions in Moscow, and knowing of the tremendous sums that have been scattered over the world by the So- viet regime to impress the ‘world with the righteousness of its causc have not countenanced the govern- mental attempts to prove its extreme innocence. 7 Will Iofluencs Others. Unquestionably, the action of the British government will be far-reach- nig in influencing other governments to keep their skirts clean and un dobbed by Soviet mud. France is in position ‘of having recognized the Soviet, but, according to advices re- ceived from Paris, Premier Herriot already is rather dubious of the out look, inasmuch as there are dangers galore in attempting to amicably es- tablieh relationships with the Rus- sfans. Commercial advantages to be gained by recognition are of dublous character. Russia unquestionably is rich in natural resources and Rus- sia’s advance and the general pros perity of Europe might be enhanced by recognition of Ru but best minds in all government circles a careful to different; between the Soviet and Russia. Russia with sane minds at the helm might prove boon to the world st large. Russia with the Soviet elique in control, con stantly maneuvering to undermine the destinies of peoples of other realms, is a thing to be shunned u 1 there has been political rebirth New Russia Expected. That there is to be a new Russia. though Soviet influences are bound to Jeave thelr mark upon any regime by virtue of the long tenure of bolshevism, is certain. Governmental circles in London and Washington have advic to indicate that it is but a question of time until there is repudiation of the Soviet as it is at present constituted This will n come in a week or a month, but there are marked signs of revolu tionary progress toward more desira- ble ends. With the largest and most influential nations of the world, the TUnited States and Great Britain firmly holding out against the Soviet and with chaos continuing in Russia it will be but a question of time until there are marked changes governmental personnel in Moscow. France with ghange of governme is expected to follow in the steps of the new Baldwin government and repudiate such treatics as have been effected, for it is confidently believed that by that time the perils of Soviet infiltration will have been definitely proven, and advantages, commerclal- 1y speaking, to be ga d by con- tinued recognition will have been proven chimerical in the extreme. In the meantime safeguards against Moscow and its internationale agents are belng made stronger and stronger in every nation of the world, and it is believed that stand of the United States and Great Britain will do more toward the everlasting repudia tion of bolshevism and communism, or whatever it may be called, than any other factor. Modification of | viewpoint and policy Is not expected under any circumstance: no mat- ter how strong the pr ure, un! Russia really has placed her hous in order and definitely proven her disinterest in the internal policies of other nations. Whatever the attitude of other na- tion the American Government in- tends to stand firm and pursue pres- ent policies, diplomatically, political | Iy and commercially, until such tims as Russia may be trusted and policies as have be espoused Soviet leaders irrevocably repudiat sucl by ed Tax Adjustment Relief Plan Opposition Sure to Keep Other Nations Been a Cropper the law provides that unless the board as a whole reviews a case the division’s findings will hecome the findings of the board within 30 days. Apprehension that divisions may con flict somewhat in their findings has decided it to pass as a whole on each case for the present. The board’s present plan is to send a division out to hold hearings a: Milwaukee, St. Paul. Helena, Spokane Seattle, Portland. Oreg.; San Fran- cisco, Los Angeles, Salt Lake Ci Denver, Omaha and Des Moines. That plan will be put into effect when tax- payers in those sections indicate, in sufficient numbers, that they prefer having their cases heard at home rather than Washington. The trip will cost the Government $10,000 or more, and Chairman Hamel does not want to undertake it until the ex-¢ pense will be justified. Another divi- sion was expected to tour the South-; west holding hearings at Louisville, St. Louis, Kansas City, Dallas and Austin. Thus far only four tax payers in that section have indicated ’ that they wanted the hearings held at home. The trip 15 oft until mor. cases accumulate. Less than a +lozen taxpayers, it is said, have indicated their desire for hearings in the Middle West, so th projected trip to that section has been deferred. The board has adopted the policy of notifying each taxpaver whos: dispute comes before it that he may have a hearing of his case at home, or nearby, but even this plan has not brought many applications. Appar- ently, taxpayers don’t mind the ex- pense and trouble of a trip to Wash- ington. The board is somewhat surprised at this, as it was expected that the idea of sending the board to the tax- payers instead of having the tax payers come to the board would make To date, however, it has met a frost instead. A New Steel Process. It is stated that an important dis- covery in steel production has been made by a Swedish éngineer named Flodin which saves 50 per cent of production costs. Tests are now being carried out at the large Udde- holm Steel Works, the practical re- sults of which are sald to be v-ry at the offices of the board, i3 that promising. i also’,