Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1924, Page 2

9 * NEW GIFT TAX LAW TOPENALIZE RITTER Manufacturer Must Pay Heavily for Giving Away Stock to Employes. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Tha Internal Revenue Bureau of the Treasury Department is about to have its first real experience with the new gift tax law passed by the last Congress as a sort of twin brother to_the inheritance tax | The Lurden of paying on what you! Eive aw is about to fall upen | Willia cLean Ritter of ! who ha mined to p to score of his & relatives and employes a block of stock the lumber company said | to he worth In the neighburhood of | $2,000,000. If M. ernment that 1 g s wtes, ot be a straight gift mount the tax would $630.00 But, fortunately for the generous manufacturer, gt is divided into something lik~ 125 parts and no tax at all need be paid on a gift of $500 to any one person exemption, however, applled persons w over only $62,- | tot 002 The exc nor from e S BOVSHOTDEAD PLAYING “INDAN" 13-Year-0ld Son of Joseph Warner Accidentally Shot | by Chum. & away possibility of P e he dles, all his worldly goods bef thus permitting his heirs to escape the inheritance lovy ut wherean the heirs would have to pay under the Inheritance fax, the donor has pay under the gift law. Total Tax Doubtful. Government experts 6aid today there is as vet no way of telling just what the tax against Mr. Ritter will be The terms and conditions of hls Eift, as well as the exact vaive of | the securities will all have to be} thoroughly studled before a decision | 18 reached For inst the value of the shares to be d Is sald to be $1,260,000, but bdankers have estimated the real vai A8 nearer 1 ,000, althougt: stock 15 not on the market and the fs no actual means of figur the Drodise worth { with the right amount of enthusiasn The ing o - n the | ! I BL Anaunt 0L ANSIpeasD. HatAe o G alates) by the | Santa Claue was good to him, even if beneficiaries of the gift :h! did wi n eye a trifle over old cl*~umstance which must be co | Nick. John e el ik ed £romim e i eachiis it ; ing until night with his new L8t Government tax the fun began to pall somewhat, and he EMft Mr. Ritter says that {nasmuch | began to look around for new excite- | a8 the entire transaction has been | MENts. | hagtled by his Columbus, Ohlo, law-| Visits Hix Chum in Virginta. yors. is unable himself to give the! ga thought of his chum, the equal- daialls other 'l:i"h_ o B (e aad )iy vouthful son of William P. Lock- consistent with the greatest good. ,‘m,‘,,l,‘ consent, he went erday The Ritter gift to his emploves fs! Po "l TORSCRE e, B0t ot 3.3 one of the largest of that character|fS {I®ieFNro0k. arfying ahout 40 on record and, as stated, is the first| D the afternoon e found Loc to come within the pyrview of the| 004 like himsell. ready for some- some e e o thing new. They decided to go out- t aitt . : i e deors and play age-old game of ton 2 rather 2 heavy one and its ef- |1 yian > Lockwood obtained a rifie fect upon benefactions to private in-| 1F D dividuals will be studied with great | .7 th!s case, not a Christipas pres- deal of interest. ent—and together the boys started Beginning at 1 per cent, the tax|Out to kill an Indian or two. rises rapidiy until at $1600 000 fi| John Richard, polite as usual,| At $1.500,000 | 3ETeed to be the Indian, and Willlam, it has reached 18 per cent, and for amounts to 12 SRR . became the lion-hearted gifts between $2,000,000 and $3.000,000 { Indian-killer. The game went t is fixed at 21 per cent. Botween | tntll Willlam located his qua $3,000.000 and $4.000,000 the percent- | SPOt his foe and aiming his age of the levy is 24, he pulled the tricger and Tho law specifically taxes all prop- | “Bang!” Ichoing his cry, however, erty *“transferred by gift, whether|CaMe & more sinister bang and John | directly or indirectly, but it exempts | Richard collapsed without a sound. all gIfts to the United States, to any | Frightened, Lockwood called for State or Territory, or for charitable, { help and a doctor was summonea, | fraternal or educational purpeses.|but when he arrived he could do The phraseology of the law actually | little but give the verdict that all is for “exclusively public purposes.” could read In the white stiliness of Therefore, the great recent gifts of John Richard’'s face. millions by George Eastman of Ro- Bullet Passes Through Heart. chester, and James B. Duke of North Carolina do mot come within the |, The bullet had passed directly #ouse of ‘the it law, bith belng er| (PLONED _Bis heert aaf dabth wis an educational and public character. ['PNRIANCONS o In an endeavor directly to PIay{ine oniy witness of the tragedy, told benefactor to the man who helped him | pie 90 ¥ W IRess 0f the tragedy, toid build his enterprise, Mr. Ritter has| \ "pansom. acting as coroner, gave a DPlaced himself in the tolls of the| i gice of accidental death, excner- tederal toll collector. And nobody as . = s ating the grief-stricken boy. yot knows what the exact cost will|*"0% 0% 5 " jonn Richards family was all on edge with thé plans for Christmas and the New Year cele- bration. Saint Nick was good, but the Grim Reaper, about to gather in the old year as Its last moments draw near, has taken up a young life in his harvest. AMERICANS DUPED, INVESTMENTS HURT, BERLIN EDITORS SAY (Continued from First Page.) heels ed | itg n Warne The fun of the holiday centered large- . | 1y around John Richard, the 13-year-old ! son of the family. He was just the «ge when he could fill the merrymaking | the home of Joseph 5 O stre ue on (Copyright, 1924.) MYSTERY SHROUDS DEATH OF COUPLE Hollywood Man and Wife Found Dead in Midst of Christmas Scenes. at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning in the French foreign office to approve the final text of the note to Germany giving the reason for the decisions of the allles not to evacuate the Cologne area on January 10. There {s apparently little difference be- tween the French and British view- points regarding the substance of the communication, according to foreign office spokesmen. The meeting of the French cabinet counell st 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning_will be presided over by Premier Herrfot in his private apart- ments in the Qual d'Orsay and will consider the draft of the ambassadors’ note. The premier is still unable to &0 out and will not attend the min- isteral council with President Dou- mergue in the Palace of the Elysee an hour later, at which Minister of Justice Renoult will represent him. The foreign office authorities fore- cast that the session of the ambas- sadors will be a brief one and that the note will be presented in Berlin by the ambassadors of the five sig- | natory powers—Great Britain, France, Italy, Belglum and Japan, probably the first of next week. ASHER LEADS LOCAL RAID. “Lone Wolf,” Cleared in Philadel-) phia Court, Gets Action Here. Having received a complete vindica- tion at the hands of a Philadelphia jury of a charge of having inflicted a fatal Injury to the proprietor of an establishment during a raid, Leroy Asher, more familiarly known as the “Lone Wolf" of the Federal Prohibi- tion Enforcement Service, returned to this city, and was in evidence In Northeast ~ Washington yesterday afternoon. Hearing rumors of the bad effects hard cider had had on numerous per- sons in the northeast section, Capt. Stoll of the ninth precinct set about to locate some of the beverage. Know- ing of the record Asher had made in this oity months ago, the captain sent for him to lend a helping hand. Following a purchase Asher was alleged to have made, Capt. Stoll, ac- companied by Asher and Deteotives | Kuehling, Davis and Wilson, visited | the place of business of Albert Sohlossberg, 1019 H street northeast, arrested the proprietor and seized 13| gallons of oider. Charges.of sale and possession of intoxicants -were pre- ferred against him. By the Aesoclated Pres. HOLLYWOOD, Callf., December 30. ~—The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Holly, said to have been well-to-do former residents of New York, were found In thelr bungalow court apart- ment here last night lying in the midst of Christmas decorations and presents, the cause of their deaths a mystery. They apparently had been dead since Christmas night, when they last were seen by Theodore Covel, who told police he Was @ nephew of Holly, and that his uncle’s only other relatives were two nieces in New York. Covel scouted the theory that Holly and his wife had ended their lives with poison, though a cursory exam- ination indicated they might have dled of poison. Police sald gascould not have killed them, since a fire was burning in the gas grate when the bodles were found, and the ven- tilation seemed satisfactory. Investigators differed in thelr the- orles as to how the mliddle-aged pair died, but agreed that until an autop- sy could be performed the affair would remain a mystery. CARDINAL GIORGI DIES. By the Associated Press. ROME, December 30. — Cardinal Oreste Giorgl died of pneumonia at his residence in the Palazzo Altemps jare today, in his sixty-ninth year. e was born in Valmontone, Italy, was created a cardinal December & Y916. held the office of grand peni- el of the Holy Roman Church. ! 8. W. Williams Commissioned. Sidney W. Willlams, 222 Cedar ave- ;ue, Takoma Park, D. C. has been commissioned by the ar Depart- ment_a second lieutenant of Infan- try, Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Army. } ‘Warrant Officer Retired. ‘Warrant Officer Ernest W. F. Rich- Rer, under treatment at the Letter- man General Hospital, San Francisco, has been placed on the retired list of the Army on account of disability | If you need work, read the want 4ncident, to the servica of The Stag, Eden-Like Costume Declared Vital to Whites in Tropics LONDON, December 30.—Whita men and women must revert to Garden of Eden costumes if they are to be successful in eolonizing tropical countries, according to Prof. P. F. Fyson of Berhampore, Bengal. If the European tropical is to stand temperatures, save the professor, he must get over his that the exposure of naked n is indecent and he must fol- the example of the Indians, no clothing above the waist or about the legs and feet. ing, Prof. Fyson . interfercs with the regulating action of the nd makes it imp Buropeans to endure trop mates for long. ° STREET PROGRAM SEENSASSURED Commissioners Find Liberal Attitude in House Commit- tee Toward D. C. Practically the entire program of streets and road {mprovements recom- mended by the Bureau of the Budget be approved in the District ap- propriation bill, according to indica- | tions given at the hearing of District | officials by the subcommittee of the House appropriations committee to- day At the morning hearing most of the street projects included in this pro- gram were discussed, and while the subcommittee {& planning to make a tour of inspection of the principal strests and highways, May. J. Frank- lin Bell, the Engineer Commissioner, sald after the hearing today that he believes the entire program will be adopted without any serious change. Three Items Included. This includes $298,000 for street and road improvements and repalir, $279 500 for suburban roads and strests and $722,600 for road and street work to be paid for out of the funds cre- ated by the gasoline tax. The hearing this morning progress- ed as far as discussion of the gaso- line tax, which was taken up when the hearing was resumed this after- noon. Both Commissioners Rudolph and Bell expressed themselves much pleased with the attitude of the sub- committee. “We have a fine com- mittee,” said Maj. Bell Accompanying the Commissioners at the hearing today were Daniel Garges, secretary of the Board of Commissioners, and C. B. Hunt, Dis- trict engineer of highways. —— SCOTT 1S ACCUSED INWIFE'S ANSWER Declared to Have Gambled at “Boar’s Nest” and Brought Liquor Into United States. By the Assoclated Press. ALPENA, Mich, December 30.— Hearing of the suit for divorce brought by Representative Frank D. Scott, and which is being contested by Mrs. Scott, was resumed today with Representative Scott continuing his testimony. Yesterday he charged his wife with indiscretions involving Army officers in the Capital. He is to be followed by Mrs. Scott, who has filled an Znswer and a cross bill. Mrs. Scott, in her answer, denied her husbahd's allegations and charges that, along with other congressmen, he frequented a club on K stree MWashington, known as “The Boar's Nest,” where he lost heavily at gam- bling. She also accused him of pur- chasing large supplies of liquor. “The plaintiff, on a trip to the Isthmus of Panama.” the answer asserted, “brought back a couple of barrels of liquor and a trunkful of liquor into the United States.” Mrs. Scott charges that her husband's private secretary, Miss Jane Kennedy, “has consistently poisoned the mind of the plaintiff against his wife by means of false and malicious talebearing. “SNAKESKIN” HOSIERY. Used as Basis for Designs in New Type of Stocking. BERLIN, December 30. — Snakeskin designs are the latest In women hosiery here. They come in various colors, but the most popular is a sort of coffee and milk shade with verti- cal stripes and here and there a touch of brown or black. Chocolate and coffee shades bearing blotches and 'spots patterned after markings of the water moccasin and other reptiles which do not go in for stripes also are in demand. For stealing dolls, a 64-year old man was sentenced in November to smonths hard laber in London, | six rudwnln SENATOR CHARGES HUGE BREAD GOUGE Capper Declares $300,000 a Day Taken From Consum- ers in Short Weight. Declaring that consumers of bakers’ bread In this country “pay in excess of 3200000 a day, or more than $100,000,000 a year, for bread they do| not get, enator Capper of Kansas today introduced a bill to establish standard weights for loaves and to prevent deception as to weights and to prevent contamination of the product by the use of ingredlents or adulterants deleterfous to the public health. Sk.ator Capper's bill would apply in the District of Columbia as well as throughout the country. Senator Capper sald t the “short- weight loaf” is responsible for the consumer being “done” out of this large amount of money each year. Whils not all bakers practice short- weight selling, charging full price for a short-weight loar—a 12-ounce for a 16 and a 20-ounce for a 24— evidence is that the practice fs gen- eral among the large baking corpora- tions where State 's do not pro- nator Capper. Short Welght $300,600 a Day. “Bakeries now produce approxi- mately 60,000,000 loaves a day. At an average price of 8 cents a loaf this production is sold to the con- sumer for $4,800,000 & day. If all bakers sold short weight the total gouge would be $500,000 a dey, but several States have regulatory laws fixing a ful-weight standard loaf, and practieally all the small inde- pendent bakers sell full weight. So it is estimated the amount the eon- sumer pays for what he doesn't get is about cut in half. This fixes the total daily gouge at approximately $300,000 “New York City affords a striking example of the cost to the consumer of the short-weight loaf. New York has no State law fixing weights and standards, As a result, bread sold the millions of New York City con- sumers {s practically all short weight. The loss to the New York City consumer is estimated to be not less than $10,000.000 a year. “During recent years the baking industry has grown to a degres that bakers’ bread Is now the reliance of the consumer for this essential sta- ple, and bakers' bread has become an ftem of interstate commerce. Spbject for Regulation. “As such it 1s a proper subject for Federal regulation, preseribing uni- form standards protecting the con- sumer against short weight profiteer- ing. Moreover, baking has become a great national Industry, too largely perhaps, In the control of great cor- porations operating plants in various States. “A huge merger of baking inter- ests Involving an investment of $15,- 000,000 has recently been effectad. This merger {s now under the scrutiny of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. These in- vestigations are undertaken to deter- mine the probable effect of such a merger upon the &mall, independent baker, and to discover whether such 2 combination will tend to result in a monopoly control of the consumer's bread supply by crushing the small independent baker. “It is not to be wondered that man- ufacturing millers, farmers, small bakers and, indeed, the consumer should view with concern such a po- tential centralized control of the man- ufacture and marketing of 8o great an item In the Nation's essential food as that Involved in these combinations in the baking industry. Charges Short Weight Selling. “Whatever may be the outcome of these investigations, there can be no doubt that short weight selling ‘as now practiced by the big fellows is decidedly unfair competition against the small independent baker, who sells his full 16 and 24 ounce loaves for the same price the big fellow sells his short 12 and 20 ounce loaves. “If this is to be corrected Federal action is necessary, for but 12 States have laws fixing bread weights and standards. “Such uniform regulation as the proposed legislation contemplates can scarcely work a hardship upon legiti- mate profits of the Industry. This is rather clearly brought into evidence in the case of the District of Colum- bla, where bread weights and stan- dards have been fixed by act of Con- gress. The legislation resulted in a full 16-ounce loaf, at equal or less money cost to the bread consumers of the Capital. Prior to the enact- ment of the law a 12-ounce loaf sold in the District for 10 cents. Now the consumer gets a 16-ounce loaf for the same or less money. “It was shown at the House hearing that a Washington baker sold his prod- uct to the public at 8 cents a loaf and furnished the Navy bread at $3.69 the hundredweight. The proposed legisla- tion, therefore, cannot furnish a de- fensible reason for an increased price of bread to the consumer.” A bill similar to that introduced by Senator Capper has been favorably re- ported to the House by the committes on agriculture. This bill was introduced by Representative Brand of Ohio. False Tip Aids Bank Robbers. CHANDLER, Okla., December 30.— While the county sheriff's force guarded banks of Stroud, having been “titpped” that there would be a 'Yobbery there, four men today robbed the Farmers’ National Bank here and LIGHT GONSUMERS GET $150,000 MORE Revised Figures Show Total for Public Is $2,950,000, Instead of $2,800,000. The impounded fund of the Potomac Electric Power Co., half of which is t be distributed among the 75,000 users of electricity. will amount to 6,385,000 when the impounded money for this final month Is added to it, officials of the Utilities Commission estimated today. This ls more than it was thought would be In the fund several days ago when the agreement between tho company and the commission wa: reached. At that time it was pre- dicted the equal shares of the com- pany and the people would be $2.800,000. It now develops that the people will get $2,950,000 and the company the same amount. This makes & total of §5,800,000 to be divided between the company and the public. The balance of N!I‘,M\!\ is to be set aside for payment of taxes due on the fund U. 8. to Get $370,000. An interesting development today was the announcement by Maj. W. E. Covell, assistant to the commissio: that Uncle Sam’s share of the mon. as {ncome tax will be $370,000. The District government's tax on the fund will be $118,000. Announcement was made today that Wi'liam L. Jones, assistant to the controller of the power com- pany, will be placed in charge of the special office to be opened at the East Capltol street car barn for the carry- ing out of the work of computing how much is due to each customer. The company plans to issue & set of rules to be fol'owed by consumers in obtaining thelr refunds, but it is not expected that thess regulations will be announced until after Jus- tice Stafford of the District Supreme Court has handed down his decree bringing the litigation to a olose. Refunding Has Difficulties. One of the difficult jobs invo'ved in the refunding will be to verify the amounts due familles that have moved frequently from one address to another during the seven years during which the rebate has ac- cumulated. There is one former patron of the power company who, although no longer a resident of Washington, has not forgotten his interest in the case. He is Herbert 8 Bailey, now of Savannah, Ga. and at regular inter- vals since 1919 he has written to the Publio Utilities Commission to inquire for the status of the litlgation. E. V. Fisher, secrotary to the Utilities Commission, will write Mr. Bailey a letter today, informing him of the settlement. Now that the Potomac Electric Power case is settled the comm'ssion. within a few davs, will turn its at- tention again to the pending inquiry into the condition of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. Inventory Nearly Dome. When a hearing was held several weeks ago to consider the reason- ableness of present telephone rates the company explained that it was in the midst of a new inventory of its physical property. Maj. Covell said today that the in- ventory s now virtually complete and that employes of the commission will begin to check it, after which it will Do determined whether the valua- tion is to be changed. ARREST TWO IN THEFTS. Washington Men Held in Baltimore With Stolen Army Goods. Two young men glving their names as James Garner, 819 SIxth street southwest, and James Mothershead, 822 Sixth street southwest, were ar- rested in Baltimore early this morn- ing, when plocie found them trying to sell & number of Army coats and blankets. It was reported by the Baltimore police that the young men told a story of having taken the coats and blankets from an Army supply store on Pennsylvania avenue between Ninth and Tenth streets. No report of such a robbery had been received by the police. Detec- tives Mullen and Murphy, assigned to make an investigation, learned that a robbery had been committed at 926 Pennsylvania avenue last night. Coats, blankets and $10 had been stolen. A warrant charging young men with housebreaking and larceny was obtained and the dete tives went to Baltimore to get the prisoners. — POLICE SLAY SUSPECT. Man Believed to Be Bandit Wounds Two Officers in Fight. MOBILE, Ala, December 30.—~An unidentified man, believed to be the bandit who robbed s branch of the Marine Trust and Banking Company of New Orleans of $13,000 on Christ- mas eve, was shot and killed in a pistol battle at the Louisville and Nashville depot shortly after 1 o'clock this morning, but not until after the bandit had seriously wounded Charles Ferrer, special agent of the Louis- ville and Nashville, and Patrolman Walter Pistole of the Mobile police force. PUSEL A S R Lawyers can stir up trouble and undetermined business, but doctors are !Veterans’ Bureau Death Puzzle May Be Given to Court The Veterans' Bureau probably will ask the courts to decide whether Arthur Frasler, a war veteran, is dead or allva. Dr. H. Burns, a bureau investi- gator assigned to the case, has been ordered to continue his In- quiry {n the West, as bureau of- ficlals here feel that his work is not yet complete. The Frazier case is the most un- usual In_ the experience of the bureau. Frazler, an Indlan youth, is listed by the War Department as Killed in actlon and burled in Nebraska, but another Indlan listed as Frazier is receiving tr ment at a veterans’ hospital in Minneapolls. An immense flla of affidavits has failed to clear up the mystery. e LABORWILLFIGHT CUTINSTANDARDS, Abuse of Injunctions Also to Be Opposed, Says New A. F. of L. Executive. A strong announcement that or- ganized labor during the new regime will fight reduction in living stand- ards and will oppose with all its power abuse of the writ of injunction in labor disputes, as well as legalized compulsory arbitration, was the out- | standing statement of William Green, new president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, in his firet formal interview at labor headquarters here. Regarding prohibition, he would say nothing. Regarding the relation- | b of labor to politics. he merely referred questloners to the previous stand of the federation, announcing that he would follow out the dictates of the last convention. “Ours is a constant and never-end- Ing fight for a full and complete rec- ogmition on the part of all employers of labor of the prineiple of collective bargaining, for justice. decent wages and tolerable and humane conditions of employment,” he said. “We purpose to be helpful in sup- porting sound, worthy projects in the fleld of social justice and economic reform. While supporting legisla- tion, both State and National, which may prove by careful analysis to be of benefit not only to the workers but to the citizenship as a whole, we shall oppose with all the power we possess legalized compulsory arbitra- tion, the abuse of the writ of in- junction in labor disputes, the re- striction of a legitimate exercise of our liberties and the curtailment of our inalienable rights. “We face the future, therefore, with unbounded confidence in ourselves and in our organized labor movement. We are inspired by a hope which springs from a desire for the enjoyment of a tuller and freer life. We are filled with expectation because we firmly belleve we shall share in full measure in the prosperity which we trust the the | New Year has in store for all. It is in this spirit we go forward.” DISAPPROVES AIR MAIL LINE TO LATIN CAPITALS Postal Committee Cites Objections to Proposed U. S.-Central American Project. Establishment of an alr mail serv- ice to Central American capitals from the United States will not be under- taken in the near future by the United States Government, it was in- dicated today. Discussions on the subject between Central American and American of- ficials resulted in Postmaster General New sending a committee of two postal officials to the Latin American capitals to survey the situation. Their report was not favorable to the pro- posal principally because of the In- sufficient amount of mall to meet the heavy expense the service would en- tail. Tentative plans called for airplane departures from Key West, with | Havana, Cuba, the first stop, thence across the Yucatan Channel and southward to Guatemala City, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, Managua and Panama. Other proposals suggested New Orleans as the American termi- nal. —_— NOT DEAD, SAYS COBB. “I Hate to Disappoint Any One,” Declares Humorist. By the Associated Press. * NEW YORK, December 30.—Irvin 8. Cobby like Mark Twain, has had the pleasure of denying a report of his death. Mark sald the rumor about himseif was greatly exaggerated. The latter- day humorist, in a telegram to the New York World teday from Paducah, | Ky., says: “I hate to disappoint any one, but the Chicago report that T am dead is, 80 far as I can_learn, entirely un- founded.” Virginia Postmaster Named. John A. ‘was nominated by R TR President master at DAVIS, BACK HOME, DENIES HE'LL QUIT Secretary of Labor Returns From South American Tour of Inspection. EW YORK, December 30.—James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, who has been away since November § investi- gating immigration systems in South n countries, returned on the Santa Teresa, which docked last a report pubiished shortly after his departure which said he intended to resign from his posi- tion in the cabinet “My resignation,” he said, matter between the President me; I don’t wish to discuss it.” Mr. Davis said he returned more in favor of selective immigration than before, and just as strongly in and tavor of higher salaries for the Tmmi- | gration and Public Health Services. This was his first it to South America. He said he went because he had heard 0 much sbout the South American methods of handling immigration and he wanted to for himself. Now he returns feelin that the South American methods are not o good as those of the United States, he eaid Mr. Davis visited all the large ports in South America, and wae greatly impressed by the country he | visited He was accompanied by Mrs Davis and his son, James, jr and Ethelbert Stewart, commissioner | of labor statistics, and former Repre- | sentative John J. Lentz, He sald he [ would return to Washington today. BRYAN’S EVOLUTION OPINIONS DECLARED MENACE TO CHURC (Continued from First Page.) matism, tonsilitls, syphills and other infectious disease in relation to the heart. Every person should submit himself to examination by a compe- tent physiclan at least once a year, so that any heart defects that may de velop can be detected immediate after their Inceptio; Chiorine Gas Useless. Dr. Henry J. Nichols, director of the department of preventive medi- cine and clinical pathology of the Army Medical School. was authority for the statement that chlorine gas has proved useless, in its present stage of development, as a cure for colds and disease of the respiratory | tract. His conclusions were reached, he said, only after careful tests had been made at Walter Reed Hospital. “A preliminary report of the bac- teriological findings is made at this time,” he continued. “It has been im. possible to demonstrate any baote- ricidal action basis for No evidence of antiseptic action has been found in nearly made on about 75 individuals; in other words, the germa of the nose and throat are not killed by this method.” Compared With Darwin. “Darwin's method s characterized by an unblased search for truth and the utmost frankness in the meeting of difculties and objections. Mr. Bryan, on the other hand, ignores objection. special pleader for a preconcelved idea. Darwin takes the attitude of science in recognizing that most be- liefs—sclentific, religlous and practi- cal—are incapable of demonstrative proof; Mr. Bryan considers all of his own bellefs as of a certitude per- mitting no discussion. “Darwin's work represents tho study of a lifetime; Bryan's is a mere avoca- tion of a man buay in other lines—the amateur versus the professional. Sar- casm and ridicule are as conspicuously present in Bryan's writing as they are absent from Darwin's. “Happily, not all theologians follow the dogmatic method of Mr. Bryan; nor, unhappily, is Darwin's scientific method characteristic of all of his followers. It is to be hoped that the outcome of the present controversy may be the alliance of a more scientific religion and & more religlous seience.” Discussing the monogamlc family as the chief corner stone of the exist- ing civilization, Dr. John Franklin Crowell of New York City told the association today that certain notable tendencles are developing in that family which “are giving students of the subject much concern. Stability of the family, he said, is the out- standing essential for the continua- tion of our race. Worried By Small Families. “Among other tendencies that are causing specialists some concern,” the speaker declared, “is the tendency to smaller families, especially among the native-born parents. The American- born family is choosing the road of quality, while the alien-bern famlly is choosing the road of quantity. This thought is followed by the question, Do mere numbers win wars, gain control over territory and expand a ctvilization? “Another annoying tendency Is the instability of the family as a momo- gamic institution, as recorded by the extremely high divorce rate. It is noted that probably the main causes for this alarmiug condition are eco- nomic and moral. Rut it is a serious problem that must be solved.” Dr. Crowell praised the greater tendency toward school training of today, but said “a sad note is struck, however, in the fact that too many wealthy families orphan their children At an easly '- to the numsecy, the Hi method. | 500 oultures | His method is that of the | 15 ARE RESCUED FRONT SHIP AFIRE | Passengers and Crew Take to Lifeboats as Vessel Burns in Pacific. By the Aasociated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., December 30, —After fighting flames aboard the Japanese freighter Ginyo Maru through the night the remnant of the crew—30 men—left the vessel at day- break today off the coast of Mevico near Acapulco to board the rescue #hip Julla Luckenbach, which hat Previously picked up 79 passengerw and 73 mem f the crew, mes- sages radiocast to stations here said Only the captain and his officers rp- mained aboard the burning ship at daybreak. The passengers were sent into lifeboats shortly after midnight The Luckenbach will proceed to Man zantllo with the survivors How long the passengers and mem- bers of the Ginyo's crew were tossed about near the scene of the burning vessel before they were picked us was not indicated in messages from the Luckenbach ers ¢ Passengers Scantily Olad. One report sai Ginyo's passen, when the fire were for and were expos until the res stabbed the w spotted the loaded The Ginyo was north and west of Acapulco, Mexico, about 1,500 miles south of here, when it began sending out distress calls. “Come quick!” was the urgent mes- sage picked up by the Julla Lucken- bach's operator, and by the time the vessel had put about and steamed to the burning ship's assistance the fire had broken through the Ginyo Maru's No, 4 hatch. The No. 4 hold was loaded with nitrates, and fear of an explosion hastened the decision to launch the lifeboats. The Ginyo, of 8,600 tons, owned by the Toyo Kisen Kebushik!, and operated on & triangu- lar route between the Orient, Cali- fornia and South America, was bound from Valparaiso to Japan via San Pedro and San Franc SENATE 0. K.’S BILL TO CLOSE STREETS | Thoroughfares Made Unnecessary by Changes Would Be Aban- doned Under Plan. d that most ef rs were scantily clag unded and they feboats. | The be giv roads or street, t Commissioners woula Foritr o\ clows inbrs or any part of & judgment of the Com seless or unneces by reason of the open ing, extension, widening or straight ening, In accordance with the high- {way plan of a street, road or high- | way in the District of Columbia, u: {der the terms of a bill passed by the : Senate today Th bill provides specifically for the | closing of Piney Branch road, between and Thirty-first streef; between Spring rce Mill road consin consin cle, Col square 713 between g street n Wisconsin ticut avenue | Joce | between Tilden street {avenue, Belt road betwee {avenue and Chev. {fax street, | Queen’s Chapel | densburg road ar Grant road, be Inue and Connec Bla- and ave road, | SNOWSTORMS CAUSE ' DEATH IN CAUCASUS | Bitter Cold Brings Much Suffering. | Baku Is Entirely | Buried. By the Associated Prese BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 30.— Heavy snowstorms and bitter cold prevail throughout the Caucasus, en- taillng considerable loss of life and causing much suffering and Incon- venience. Baku ls entirely buried in snow. and all work in the oil fields has ceased. Eight persons were found frozen to death la night. Rallroad communication w the whole trans- caucasian region riously impeded Alexandropol, where Americans are caring for thousands of orphane, is experiencing the coldest weather in its history. Gales are whipping the Black Sea, jeopardizing shipping. — e school or to the aimléess expenditure ob money.” While he admitted that wealth | has taken its toll of the family, money i has done more good in that regard than harm Hope for Development. | “These results apply equally to the treatment in a room by the portabls machine and in the Individual treat ment machine. Harmless organisms sprayed on the membranes of the nose and throat are not killed by the treatment, aithough it is hoped that experience with chlorine is the first ! step in the development of a more selective and effective gas for use by this method. “But in its present form we be- lieve that chlorine in doses used is neutralization und becomes inert, and that really effective doses are too toxie, too dangerous to the life of the patient, to be used. “Darwin and Bryan—A Study in Method,” was the toplc of the address by Dr. Edward L. Rice, professor of 200108y in Ohio Wesleyan University, a Methodist institution, before the zoological section of the American Assgociation for the Advancement of Sclence. In his paper Dr. Rice char acterized Mr. Bryan's views as “dog- matic” and “dangerous to religion.” Calls Bryan Illogical, “Mr. Bryan's_attack upon evolu- tion,” the speaker said, “of course, has no scientific significance, but it is dangerous alike to freedom of inves tigation and teaching, and to religion. This danger justifies the present ad- dress, the aim of which is further to emphasize the unscientific and illog- ical character of Bryan's argumenf by a comparison of his method with thakt of Darwin. “Darwin's work is a perfect exam- ple of the Inductive method—hypoth- esis followed by the most careful varification and leading to a degree of probabllity amounting to practical certainty—all that the _{nductive method can ever attain. The known scientific facts upon which the evo- lution theory ix based are either ignored or categorically denied by Bryan. “Bryan's main attack upon evolu- tion is a deductive argument based on the assumption of the literal accu- racy of the Bible in general and of the first two chapters of Genesis in particular. This assumption is not biblical; it has not been uniformly accepted by the early church, nor is it accepted by the leading Bibls achelars of today, A |