Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1924, Page 5

BIG BUSINESS RUNS| * GERMAN POLITICS People’s Party, Though| Small, Generally Has Its Way in Cabinet Affairs. BY EDGAR ANSELL MOWRER. Correspondence of The Star and the Chi Daily, New: BERLIN; Germar ovember The German People’s party is not the | lnast interesting and is, in one sense, the most influential party in German; Tt represents big business and stands close to the industrial magnates, who | somehow succeed in obtaining their | own way in all important questions. \ As in other countri the party uf‘ big business has the support of a sreat part of the little business peo- | ple, who make the mass of its voters. | No party in Germany has so amaz- | | Ingly bettered its position through the war. nder the kaiser this group. then known as the National Liberal | party, was looked upon with con- | tempt by the agrarian Conservatives. | Mere business men were not “hof | fahig"—they were not received, at | least not until the kaiser's desire for | supremacy on the sea led him to as- | soclate himself with Warburg and | Ballin of the big steamship com- | panies. i Since the revolution the owners of | that vast industrial machinery which supports and sustains two-thirds of Germany's- 60,000,000 are the real | power. TUntil 1921 the party was | never actually included in the cabi- | net. although it was said to reign an | uncrowned sovereign and its leaders were accused of having interfered With every attempt of men like Lrz- Rathenau and Wirth to pay | tions and come to terms with as as having been the ronges ters of the inflation | policy which ruined the German mid- dle classes for the benefit of the | merchants and exporters. | In 1922 the party practically came | the front in the person of Herr | His untimatum of November. | provoked the resistance agains®| nch occupation of the Ruhr. The | ans had exaggerated their strength and misjudged the British. When, nearly a year later, passive stance had to be abandoned and rmany submitted to the French terms, although the industrialists in- sisted on the stabilization of the cur- T and made their peace with ¥ r.lnt e and ceased to subsidize the va- rious armed bands of superpatriots, the chancellorship passed from the cader of the People's party, Gustav Stresemann. to W¥! Im Marx, of the Catholic center. Likened to Lloyd George. ! Stresemann ‘is more ductile than Lloyd George and equally reséurceful Although he has made countless ene- mies, it is impossible to get rid of him. He has been chancellor, and minister for forelgn affairs. There wag no chance of replacing m un- til he decided to leave. He is limit- | lessly ambitious. | His party will not diminish in an era of ever-expanding and devgloping capitalism, and is today an element making. for peace. 1 The People’s party is the chief sup- porter of the Dawes pla in Germany. | Led by Dr. Buecher of the National | Assoclation of German Industry, the | industrialists have forced through the | eceptance of the Dawes scheme, oner- s for Germany though it was, first| bheeause it seemed to offer them a way out of an othefwise hopeless | mess, and second, because it gave | them an arm to use internally against | ail eo-called social legislation, such as the_ eight-hour day, which they wish to do away with. Today the are even stronger, since every one realizes that only German fndustry is in a position to carry the burden of reparation payments. (Copyright, 1924, by l'hk‘l(o Daily News Co.) SEIZED GOODS GIVEN UP. TU. 'S. Marshal Returns Parapher- nalia Taken in Raid. Untled States Marshal Snyder yester- day was obliged to surrender betting slips, marked money and parapher- nalia seized by the police May 1, 1923, at a raid on the apartment of John B. Keleher, 1336 I street, in accordance with a recent decision of the District Court of Appeals that the things had been seized without a valid search warrant. Attorney T. Morris Wampler, repre- senting Keleher, who was charged with accepting bets on horse races, zave the marshal a receipt for the money, 27 telephones, a card stem and a great mass of al- leged betting information. The mar- shal delivered the goods to the law- Yer's office. to i Army Dismissals Approved. (GGeneral orders issued by Maj. Gen. | J. Hines, chief of staff of thej Army, announced that the President has approved the sentences of dis- | nissal imposed by courts-martial in the cases of Second Licut. Howard Farmer, Quartermaster Corps; Licut. Clement A. McCalley, vice, and Second Lieut. Joseph A. Physioc, jr., Air Service, for viola- tions of ‘the articles of war. _The sentence in the case of Lieut. Farmer also called for imprisonment at hard abor for five years. He was tried at Chicago. Lieut. McCalley was tried at Fort Sam Houston, T and Lieut Physioc at Chi : P TS Tl R TR R Al S S AL A S 2 S A Sl S AL S A e A AR | Court yesterday Quinter, | 8100.000 | Sands, | “distinguished | 1etter: THE CYNIC. SO B (X ¥ WORLD). rrmes U8 0O $24,500 COMPROMISE | IN SURETY BOND CASE Court Orders Receiver of U. S.| Trust Company to Settle for Alleged Shortage. Justice Hitz of the District Supreme authorized Willlam K. substituted receiver of the United States Trust Co., to accept the offereof compromise made by the| Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance | Co. to pay $24,500 in settlement of the company’s liability under a bhond of as surety for Tucker K former receiver of the defunct trust . company The known as Bradley Hills, Inc., which is interested in the litigation, took ex- | ception to the order of the court and noted an appeal to the Court of Ap- peals. Recently Herbert L. Davis, auditor of the District Supreme Court, filed a report in which he held the former receiver, Sands, to be responsible for a deficit of $50,000 in the funds of the United States Trust Co., and sugge: ed that suit be brought against his surety. The court' directed Receiver Quinter to sue, but the compromise now makes that unnecessary. When he receives the $24.500, the court directs, Receiver Quinter shall | pay the District of Col@mbia $2,556.49; |the International Bankipg Corpora- tion, §5,333.33; holders of stock in the United States Trust Co., $15,600; At- torney William G. Johnson, $1,000, and the receiver's fee of $1,000. Should there be any balance after payment of costs of the proceedings it shall be ! paid to the bonding company. WOMAN WINS DIAL PRIZE. New York Library Assistant Gets Award in Literature. NEW YORK, December 24.—Miss Marianne Moore, an assistant in one of the branches of the New York Public Library Dial prize of $2,000 in recognition of service to Amer it was announced yesterd: The award was based upon her “Obser- vations,” row being published. She is the fourth recipient of the prize, which was established in 1 Miss Moore was born in St. and was graduated from Bry in 1909, after teaching three years in the United States Indian ‘School at Carlisle, She has contributed azines and has pub lume of vers: Louis Mawr corporation | as been awarded the | THE: EVENING Paris Pedestrians Demand Silence And Purified Air Gird for Battle Against Auto’s Noise and Noxious Gas. | i | By the Associated Press. | PARIS, December 24.—Paris pedes- | trians are in a sort of sullen revolt. They demand that automobiles grant them two things—silence and {air. They .assert that 'free air was the only thing remaining of the pre- | war era, and now this is poisoned by noxious gases from the exhausts of | the scores of cars that clog th streets. Slience, they declare, they necd at night, to allow their shat- tered nerves to recuperate. Old laws, couched in fatherly lan- | Buage, requiring chauffeurs to blow horns gently =o as not to disturb the population, and forbidding open cut- outs, have been resurrected by the police, who have been desperately trying to move traffic in the congest- ed streets, with considerable success, and also have undertaken to purify the city both of the gaseous fumes and to end obnoxious honking, The slowness of traffic movement is held chiefly respensible for the bad fumes, for the thousands of mo- tors running idle in | quickly make the air bad. particu- |larly for persons afoot. The situa- {tion also has affected the subways, | for the fumes from the motors fre- | quently sweep into the air ventilators on the street level and are sucked into the entrances. In order ta coun- teract this.the subway officials are preparing to send cars with ozone | machines through the tunnels pe- I riodically. { MACDONALD ON VACATION. Form® British Premier Goes to West Indies—May Come to U. S. LONDON, December 24.—The former | Labor premier, Ramsay MacDonald, is | taking a vacation. He left Monday | for Kingston, Jamaica, and before setting sail he remarked joyfully: “I am going to sleep and read and worldlg troubl The British Labor leader intends (o visit various parts of the West Indies and Central America, and. it is thought he may visit the United States as well, though no provision r this has been made in his iti ar. With Jfiest of wtsbes - 4 Merry thmstmas STAR, ‘BouT Mme T cHri s Muss! the main streets ! kick up my heels and be free from all | WASHINGTON, D. —By WEBSTER. AN HERE | BEEM THIMKIN MOBODY CARED NOUGH Wi SH ME A MERRY wieLe, IT'S GoMmA MAKE T HoLIDAY 5 A BIG Success FER ME ALL RIGHT "ALL Ruu.«r 'BIG BRITISH NITRATE PLANT SOLD IN U. S. ‘Guggenheims to Take Over Anglo~ Chilean Property if Agnement. Is Ratified. By the Associated Press. LONDON, December 24.— one of the largest Rritish nitrate companies is likely to come into the hand P " according to a statement is- sued yesterday by the Exchange Tele- free{ graph Company It said: “A meeting of the share- holders of the Anglo-Chilean Nitrate and Railways Company, Ttd., has been called for January 2 to sanction an agreement between the company’ board and the Guggenheim Bros. of Now pany’s assets for £3,600,000, =atisfied by 7 per cent debenture stock of an American com- pany to be formed by the Guggenheim Bros.” to be FEEBLE-MINDED HOME CONTRACT IS AWARDED | Near Camp Meade Will Cost $25,400. The District Commisstoners yesterda awarded o contraet for the first build- ing project fo rthe new District Home for Feeble-minded Persons. tract was awarded to the W. L. Mor- rison Construction Co. and provides for a mess hall and dormitory to cost $25,400. The plans of the Commis- | sioners call for a large group of build- ings, which will be erected over a period of years. The Feeble-minded Home will oc- cupy a’large farm near Camp Meade, {Md., acquired about a year ago. Charity sometimes begins at home and ends in the almshouse. To Our Valued and a BHappy Good Cheer, “ontrol of | of a powerful American com- | York for the sale of the com-| mortgage | C., WEDNESDAY, BOY SCOUTS SHOw FOURFOLD GR(]WTH Four Years, Annual Meet- ing Is Told. Membership in the Boy Scouts of | America in the District of Columbia during t four years took a big { jump, xecutive Edward D. | Shaw stated last night his annual report at the annual meeting of the shington Council e ile there were tbership t four troops, 43 troops of 893 cears ag. with a tota) 1 These troops ar tributed throughout the churches of {the District of Columbia in the fol- lowing nner In Methodist “hurche scopal churches, Catholi Presbyterian, 16; tist, 1, Christian & e 4: Brethren, jtarian, 1; schools | Y. AL R AL 20 boys' | institutional, 15 | Oflicers | The follow | for the ensuing | scout commixsio |ident: Orville B. | president: H. 1. { president; Arthur | president; Georg treasurer. Members of {board elected wer | Henry P. Bl Brig. ( Lloyd | Brett. Isaac i, J. H. Han | L. Neuhauser, L. Whiting F Wilson, Osc ican, M Whi ney, K es. L. I Luttrell Roland and Julins | finckel President Snead reviewed | of the past year g the | able progr the troops. | vancement standing of Kept with in > annual re- of this work of vocational camps owned reviewed in the Camp Roosev with a ¢ are mber- dis- now 14 ship of ap- tional, o Lut) clubs, nd non- Are Chosen. offic elected Mohu ad, pre t vice were Barry A. Sn Drown, Rust, second vice JoM third vice Hewitt Myers, the executive Paul Bartsch r, r Coc W Lee Jc Robbins the work ss of Ad- in the bas more than | creased enrollm j port shows 1) from the guidance the sco annual report Calvert Cliffs, Md., and Camp Wilsol Burnt Mills, Md., are to be equip to handle thousands of sc | all parts of the United {total of 593 weeks was by Washington buts at these cambs last year. Assisting the veterans of e G. A. R. was reported in tho nual review as one of the most portant ces which scouts carried out last vear value ndpoint The two s were Report for Comm | Mr. Mohun reported for row Wilson scout reser velopment committee, | Bartsch for the/committee and camping, Brett organization committee and P. Elair for the court of honor. (ol E. L. Mattice, deputy commissioner of division. 4. addressed the on_“What Scouting Means National Boy but he has recently requested the i i ton council to assume jurisdiction over the neighboring cou of Prince Georges Montgomery in | Maryland, ana gton County and the city of Alexandr Virginia | and President 1 appointed a | committee composed of O. B. Drown, Barry Mohun, W. Whitne | anda " Hu, | reorganization plan this cnlargemer tees. th tion Dy on c for the Henry de- Paul to dqu Wa .\1. in keeping of territory Reasonable Separation. From London Opinien Applicant—I want about husband, go and r. He ain't si left n 1 him Applicar separation | | | New Mess Hall and Dormitury‘ The con- | STORE" Countless Friends We Extend Our Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas and Netw Pear May We Wish Everyone a Christmas of Brimful - With - Real Happiness, Good Health and Sound Pi‘;lspen'ty Roy | nark- | ¢ scouts | the Wood- | DECEMBER- 24, 'SERVIN \HERO BARRED FROM BABY’S RITES ‘British Ex- .Son Jump From 893 to 3,536 m‘ By Consolidated Pre Calif., OAKLAND. . somet today upon war penaltie ishmes British him It denied him t ing for the Jast hie loved most on Jandro is sery passing wort’ get " funds to Christmas for was only a whic| vear’ a police escapades. Wo he oni ury imprison ord ome ) of srations does ot of it found But he Like a rations, shop. Jandro was war. One nigh bombed Londor three other men aloft to give th; was shot down dro’s death. Ultimat not until month: hospital death Britich Two T s overnn to Oak e the Aro cume si he In alm cloped he was used the mon he ced to jail after Carpenter Attempts Dance on Rail Bridge, Drops to Ice Below. DES MOiN Stumbling whil | cute dance ank feet the Rac efferso ber of fr home bers to his oon Riv nds, of of t nps | fas he looked” b the ties of the cident occurred board | advice ! ¥ Jandro pri exs his High War Honor. an companions in a despe has been Jefferson, with his w an 1924, —— G YEAR IN BAD-CHECK CASE, |STREET CAR PLATFOR ORDERED INCY, ties Comlmlsmn Se: Aviator Remains in Cell W hile 2-Y ear-Old Is Buried-—Police Record Agair Him Prevents Leniency. Service Likely. Public Tt afternoon issued hat the act of street car platfay] the protection be complied with commission’s ordefG fo rendered in Police Cour 5. in which William F. sident of the Washington Ry anl Electric Comp: was fged on a « of ing form Mr. Ham case to Court of A4 The W. R. and E, § 70 of these Ham of them were ing schedule ned and service The esterd; 1 requirin inclosed motor: The decision rec Con be his worry . weeks ago. his little boy December 24— |Jandro. unable g0 to fmes inexorable in its| was almost insane with visited merciless pun- | grief. nk Jandro. once a| Sunday ro. 1t did not hang |buricd yes 5 abably wishes it had.| The cross of punishment which the he privilegs of look- | law laid upon Jandro was an -ada time upon the thing | mant refusal to let him leav 1 earth—his little boy. | long enough to attend his ¢ ing a year in jail for | ne The sheriff said he had checks, cashed recently been threatened with indic provide bounteous | ment for an almost s act of hu- 2-year-old son. It | manitarianism wparatively small sum | ed, but he received ment because he had for similar bad check to « 5 and the rda little boy died. He was S afternopn, conld not he. would he London k he proud- | at Britain's h ar-time bravery ( for P-B Service 1009, We can’t beat a perfect record. more deco- a pawn- its way into during the igible with went plane of Jan- nstant but ina inst | he t ina gi em battle. and all three dashed to he recovered, had been spent = . duly decorated b ely Last year we delivéred thousands of glft packages—and did not re- ceive one complaint about an error in delivery. This vear shortly cland, a b n on several out of wor to support juple of times were dism a competent man will be at the Ninth Street entrance Christmas morning from 9 to 11 to correct any possible errors. 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