Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain, changing to snow, and colder tonight; tomorrow, snow and colder. Temperatures—Highest, 40, at noon today; lowest, 34, at 1 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 26 Entered as second class matter No. 29,464 ost_office, W PRESIDENT TELLS * CONGRESS RENTAL ACTION IS URGENT Letter Discloses New Bill Was Drawn at His Order by Commission Head. HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE TO RUSH CONSIDERATION Mational Issue Raised by Real Es- tate Men Who Criticize Executive's Stand. President Coolidge over his own piznature today notified Congress 1hat the bill introduced in both House Senate to establish a perma- Rent Commission in the Na- Capital, - with extraordinary prepared at his request Whaley of the Rent The President asked be considered 2id nent tional powers, By Chairman Commissior 1hat th By very After @ressed House wi legislation important.” the President's letter, to Chairman Reed of the District committee, had been Tead at a meeting of the committee today, the rent bill was referred to same subcommittee, headed by Florian Lampert ch had previously held s on the proposal to of the ad- presentativ Wisconsin, wk extensive he extend the Commissior Solicitude for Employex. President’s letter was as fol- ri; ife The Jows “I inclose 1 have had a copy of the Dbill that prepared by the Rent Commission, or. more especially, by Dir. Whaley, undertaking to provide 2 law that would deal with the pres- difficulty in the District of Co- Jumbi wish that you would sub- mit this tgy the committee for their consideratih. As you know, matter is very important and has @ very direct effect upon the em- ployes of the Government resident in Washington.” d The subcommittee to which this bill has been referred is composed of Representatives Lampert of Wiscon- »d, Michigan, and Stalker, all Republicans, and Rep- Tesentatives Blanton, Texas; Hammer, North Caroli: Democrats. 1 1 it Promises to Ald Bill. Following the meeting, Chairman Lampert of this subcommittee, sald he would call the members together for consideration of the rent bill as ®oon as possible, probably this week. “I am for this bill and will do all I can to get it favorably reported as 800n as possible,” said Mr. Lampert. Representative Lampert said that this bill is practically the.same as one that he had previously introduced and on which extensive hearings were held. He did not see any necessity for further hearings, as the committee had all the essential facts before it. Representative Blanton declared this is the most far-reaching slation he has seen in his eight years' service in Congress, and its ef- fect will touch practically every com- munity throughout the country. He did not oppose sending the bill to the subcommittee, but wanted to be sure that dequate hearings were permit- ted Blanton Has Letter Read. in response to Mr. Blanton's that the President's letter Mr. Blanton expressed the opinion that perhaps the President’s attitude in support of this legislation had been too strongly presented through the daily|newspapers. Representat Lampert explained that there are many publicity seek- ers who would like to appear before the committee and air thelr views. Je was oposed to let down the bars and thus piling up a lot of testimony when the committee already had ail the essential facts. Representative Blanton replied that the whole question to be considered in the subcommittee would be on legal phases and that the committee should carefully consider the legal rights of property owners. The suggestion by Representative Blanton that the subcommittee be en- larged on account of the importance of this legislation to include Repre- sentative Underhill of Massachussets, Republican, formerly opposed to the yent legismtion, and Representative Gilbert, Democrat of Kentucky, who previously supported the legislation, was not acted upon. Takes On National Aspect. with the introduc- control legislation entire matter has a local question to become a nation-wide cal Association of Build- ing Owners and Managers announced today that it will fight the bill on every possible ground and has re- ecived the support of the Natlonal Association representing several thousand property owners and an mszregate investment of more than £1,000,000,000. According to a letter received to- Aay by the local association from Jee Thompson Smith of New York City, president of the National As- sociation, prominent members of the association who have been active in their support of the President’s re- elcction and business men in large «ities throughout the country are dis- Pleased with the President's advo- wacy of the bill, which they feel will be the probable basis for the nation- awide enactment of State property wontrol Criticizes Coolldge's Stand. The letter which refers to the Pres. jdent's action reads, in part, as fol- Jov “Our idea is that at the present time. with the bill where it is and vith the nation-wide publieity which 3t has.received and will receive on account of the President’s reported attitude on the subject, the first thing to do is to set President Cool- jdge right. He ought to realize and Jiis advisers ought to realize that he cannot afford, preliminary to the be ginning of his own administration, to ~ (Continued on Page 5, Column 5.) Simultaneously tfon of the rent into Congress the changed from one that may §ssue. The lo Full text of the pro- posed rent bill will be found on pages 9 and 11. A District Rent| the | hington, D. C. Trotsky Willing To Go if Friends Can Keep Offices By the Associated Press. LONDON, December Trotsky, the Russian Soviet war minister, is still in Moscow, ac- cording to newspaper dispatches received by way of Helsingfors and Copenhagen. Trotzky 1s said to have declared himself willing to leave the Soviet cupital If his dismissed adherents are reinstated in their old posi- tions and not exposed to reprisals, also if his opponents in the su- preme revolutionary war council, ospeclally Gen. Frunze, are re- moved from the council. It I5 belleved an agregment will be reached, the dispatches add, but Trotsky's friends are of the cpinion that the reconciliation will not endure. 31.—Leon BRITISH BANK HEAD INU.S. ON MISSION { Mystery Surrounds Sudden Arrival of Montagu Norman “ and Colleague. | | By the Associated Pres With the question of war debts al- ready enveloped in a dense fog of conjecture and diplomatic reticence, | two Englishmen, officfals of the Bank of | of England, have added a new first- | class mystery to the picture by ap- pearing unheralded in New York, ac- companied by a flock of vari-colored rumors. The visitors are Montagu Norman, governor of the bank, and Sir Allan Garrett Anderson, one of its directors. Important as they are in British fin- |ancial life they succecded in crossing the Atlantic without a hint of thelr | departure appearing In English news- papers, and now have appeared on the horizon of officlal Washington as a factor whose importance can only be surmised. Mission Not Explained. The State Department today dis- |claimed any previous knowledge of | the visit, the Treasury followed suit, {and the British embassy insisted that its first Information came from this morning’s newspapers. Reports that the debt situation would be discussed |during the presence of the two dis- tinguished British financlal authori- ties in the United States were met | everywhere in Washington with dec- | larations of complete ignorance. i But there was no officlal who sought | to entirely dismiss the possibility that | Mr. Norman and Sir Allan might, in the course of their travels, find them- selves In conference with Secretary President Coolidge. Visitors of thelr n\'dm’i would have _entree at the White House if they desired an audi- ence and would be listened to with great atténtion if they came on a mission for the government at Lon- | don. Officials Define Status. The farthest American officials would go, therefore, was to say tha if the two bank officers had come to national debts or on any other official mission, no knowledge of it had pre- ceded them. At the British embassy, likewise, it was declared that if the British government had sent the two on an errand of an official character, the foreign office had neglected to so inform its representatives here. There are a number of interesting questions to which Mr. Norman and Sir Allan might address themselves if they really held a commission from the London foreign office in regard to the debt question, as indicated in re- ports circulated in financial circles after their arrival in New York. The British government has taken a deep ing the French debt to the United States. The two capitals are in cor- respondence also on the Question of. payments of American claims against Germany under the Dawes' plan, and beyond all of these problems is the ever-present subject of a general in- terallied debt arrangement in which |all efforts to interest the United States hitherto have failed. Discussion of Debts. The suggestion that interallied debts may be discussed at the forth- coming Paris conference had made | that question, for the moment, one of { immense importance to Great Britain, but the Coolidge administration had {Indicated that it still is loath to be jdrawn into such a debate. The mystery surrounding the ar- rival of the two British visitors reaches even to their present where- abouts. After their arrival in New York they apparently disappeared {with the same success that attended | their secret departure from Great | Britain. The British embassy ap- { peared to incline to the belief today {that they still were somewhere in |New York City and eyery one else | professed to be entirely without in- | formation about them. LONDON IS MYSTIFIED. Norman's Visit to United States Made Without Public Notice. By the Associated Press. | LONDON, December 31.—News of | the visit to' the United States of Mon- tagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, and Sir Allan Garrett Ander- son, a director of the bank, caused as much surprise among the British public {as it seems to have in America, The only information as to the purpose of their trip 1s contained in a brief agency ! dispatch from America to the effeet that they will confer with Secretary of State Hughes on the subject of the interallled | debts. Bank of England officials, as well as the heads of the government depart- ments, are silent on the object of the mission, and the information published in the British press is confined to the supporition that the two bankers are officially Tepresenting the British gov- ernment. They slipped out of England without the knowledge of the press, and !nolhlng concerning ~ thelr plame. has leaked out. Actress Injured in Play. NEW HAVEN, Conn., December 31. _Miss Mary Nash, playing the leading role in the opening performance of “The Heart Thief,” last night injured one ankle and was bruised when she {was aceldentally thrown heavily to ! the floor of the stage by James Crane. {another member of the east’ An sxamination will be made, Hughes and Secretary Mellon, or ¢ven | the United States to talk about inter-| interest in the discussions for fund- | WASHINGTON, D. HERRIOT ASSURES U. 5. FRENCH DEBT WILL BE HONORED State Department Welcomes Official View Sent Through Ambassador Herrick. CLEMENTEL IS WORRIED OVER EFFECT OF SPEECH Finance Minister Asserts Plea for Adjustment of War Loans His Only Aim. Ambassador Herrick's conversation with Premier Herriot on the question of Fanco-American debts reached the State Department early today and is understood to con- tain first official assurance to be re- ceived here since the question en- tered its present phase that France jdoes not intend to repudiate -her obli- gations to this country. Pending a careful scfutiny of the report by Secretary Hughes, depart- ment officials declined all comment, but it was obvious that they welcomed the communication because of its offi- clal and timely nature. It had been hoped since M. Clemen- tel, the French finance minister, pub- lished his celebrated balance sheet and gave rise to a whirl of discus- sion that some representative of the Paris government, either in the for- eign office there or the embassy here, might see fit to explain the facts to officials here. CLEMENTEL EXPLAINS STAND. Finance Minister Declares No Re- 1 pudiation Is Planned. By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 31. — Premier Herriot last evening gave the Ameri- can ambassadory Myron T. Herrick, additional verbal explanations and assurances, together with an explicit detailed memorandum on the subject of France's attitude on the debt sub- ject, and an annotated copy of Fi- nance Minister Clementel's memoran- dum contalning an inventory of France’s financial position. :Ambas- sador Herrlck, it Is understood, im- i mediately forwarded the information by cable to the State Department at Washington, M. Clementel continues greatly ex- ercised at what appears to him to be (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) JAPANESE OPPOSE report of his i Recent Anti-Nipponese Qut- i burst in United States Has ‘\ Aroused Suspicion. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Jingo chickens, like others, come home to roost. On the very day that President Coolidge expressed -the hope that 1925 might find conditions propitious for another naval confer- ence, word reached Washington from Japan that the recent anti-Japanese outburst in the United destroyed Japanese enthusiasm for further reduction of naval ments. Remarkable statements to that ef- | fect emanate from no less authori- tative a quarter than the Tokio for- elgn office. ~They were supplied to | the Japanese press on November 27 and are discussed In detail In Toklo newspapers which have just arrived in this country. It is asserted that the Japanese government is willing to participate in another interna- tional naval conference. But it is insisted that the ‘“mass opinion” of the empire, made suspicious and irri- tafed by recent events in the United States, would effectually prevent the Lovernment from assenting to any further limitation of Japanese naval power. Alarmed by Events. The “recent events” catalogued at Tokio as having thus agitated Jap- anese “mass opinion” are: 1. Immigration exclusion tion. 2. Navy League and congressional clamor for expanded naval arma- ments. 5 3. The American Navy's forthcom- ing maneuvers in the Pacific. 4. Natlonal Defense day. | Since the Japanese became excited | over these developments, Representa- tive Fred A. Britten of Illinois, pour- | ed fresh oil on the jingo flames by his proposal of a conference of “white nations bordering the Pa- cific.” Mr. Britten's recantation, un- der fire of a barrage of American public condemnation, and his latest | scheme to “take in Japan and China” iin_his conference are not likely to obliterate the bad impression made by his original outburst. | Dislike British Action. Another factor, which has depopu- larized the idea of additional limita tion of Japanese armaments is the decision of the new British govern- ment to_revive the Singapore base project. But it is primarily the alarm and anxiety Inspired in the masses of the Japanese people by news from America_that have made them doubt the wisdom of weakening their own Sea defenses. Many Japanese editors were aston- ished by the claims of a Tokio for- oign office spokesman that the gov- ernment’s disarmament policy at an- other Washington conference would be controlled by popular sentiment. Yet, as insiders. knew at the time, Baron Kato, the able leader of the | Japanese delegation at the: Wash- |ington conference of 1921-22, con- stantly and successfully pleaded his inability to makKe certain concessions because of the state of public opinion in Japan. Mr. Hughes' famous bomb- shell program for serapping capital { ships provided for the demolition by Jupan of her newest and finest bat- tleshin, Mutsu. Kato contended that (Continucd va Page 5, Column 3.) FURTHER ARMS CUT States has | arma- | legisla- | C., 1925 TOFINDD.C. SOLEMN AND GAY Church Services and Street Revelries Will Be in Full Sway at Zero Hour. As the clock In the chureh tower sounds the zero hour tonight, Wash- ington will give Old Father Time his tattered hat and show him the door, with the suggestion that he take along with him his 1924 varfety of teapots, campalgn oratory, bobbed- hair and, br-r-r-r, cross-word puzzles, while with the same sweep of the arm and a muttered “what's next?”’ a hearty welcome will go forth to his lusty-lunged successor, young Tempus | Fugit, jr., of 1925 Hopeful avenue. The change in regime will be the signal for~ strange mixture of re- gretfulness and joy, of solemn reli- £ious rites and light-hearted revelry of i varfed récollections of the past and anticipations for the future. Midnight, ~ accordingly, will find churches filled with devotional con- gregations, glving thanks for what {the past year has wrought and in- voking divine benevolence during that | which is to ensue; hotels, cafes and jdance rendezvous making merry to the sound of blaring jazz bands and in showers of confettl; streets lined | with gay celebrants intent on drown- ing out the aforementioned- lusty- lunged newcomer, and hundreds of homes filled with New Year eve party | guests. Big White House Reception. The festivities will continue well into the first day of the new year, when the ceremonies will take on a more formal aspect, marked by & great White House reception, at which officialdbm and the plain citi- zenry will extend their best wishes {for the coming year. And soclety, taking its cue, will stage its cus- | tomary round of calls. Many of the churches will hold “watch night” services and speclal New Year services tomorrow morn- ) Ing. The Church of the Epiphany, G street between Twelfth and Thir- teenth streets, will observe the event with a chime concert, from 10 to 10:30 p.m.; a cantata, “The Christ Child,” at 10:30, by the church choir, and the usual watch night service, beginning at 11:15 o'clock, with sermon by the rector, Rev. Dr. Z. B. Phillips. Holy communion will be celebrated tomor- row morning at 9 o'clock. Foundry M. E. Church, Sixteenth and Church streets, will be the scene of an illustrated lecture at 9 p.m., on “Methodism's Task in 1925, accompa- nied by music and other features. At | 10 o'clock there will be a social hour. and from 11 o'clock to midnight the gathering will join in a service of praise, devotion and consecration, con- ducted by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Fred- erick Brown Harrls, At the Metropolitan Baptist Church, Sixth and A streets northeast, there will be a musical and literary pro- gram from 8 to 9 o'clock; a debate on “Resolved, That women do the pro- posing in 1925, rather than men,” in which the aflirmative of the proposi- tion will be taken by Mrs. D. C. Shan- kle and Miss Mergaret McKinley, and the negative side by C. E. Warner and Rolland La Pelle; two-minute prophecies for 1925, by various or- ganizations of the church; a social and refreshment program, and, final- ly, from 11:15 to midnight, a sermon by the pastor, Rev. John Compton Ball, on “My Blessings in 1924 and My Resolutions for 1925." Columbia Heights Fete. Beginning at 9 p.m. the members and friends of the Columbia Heights Christian Church, 1435 Park road, will gather at the churéh for a pro- gram of entertalnment and social features, followed by a devotional service from 11 to 12, led by Rev. Harvey Baker Smith, pastor. A song and devotional service will be held In the Central Presbyterfan Church, Sixteenth and Irving streets, beginning at 11 p.m. Other services will follows: | McKendree M. E. Church, Massa- chusetts avenue mear Ninth, 10 p.m.; Mount Vernon Place M. E., Ninth and Massachusetts avenue, 11 p.m.; Ver- mont Avenue Christian, Vermont avenue north of N street, 9 p.m. Hamline M. E., Fourteenth and Emer- son streets, 10 p.m.; Calvary M. E. Fourteenth and Columbia road, 9 p.m.; be held as and H northeast, 10 p.m.; Dumbarton Avenue M. E, 10:30 p.m.; ‘Petworth M. E., Grant circle, 10:30 p.m.; Metro- politan Memorial M. E., John Marshall (Continued on Puge 3, Column 4.) Radio Programs—Page 15 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Douglas Memorial M. E., Eleventh] WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 31, TOWLINE SNAPPING RETARDS SHIP’S RESCUE Japanese Liner's Fire Practically Extinguished as Vessel Heads for Manzanillo. Iy the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 31 Progress of the Japanese liner Ginyo Maru, being towed to Manzanillo, Mex- ico, by the Pacific Mail liner City of San Francisco, following a fire yes- terday in which two children were killed and two steerage passengers injured, and which for a time threat- ened destruction of the boat, was checked by the breaking of the tow- line late last night, according to a message received by the Federal Tel- egraph Company this morning. Later advices from the Ginyo Maru stated that fire was almost extin- guished, but did not indicate whether she had again been taken in tow. All passengers and a number of the Ginyo's crew are en route to Manza- nillo on the Julia Luckenbach. CHAUEFEUR SENDS BULLETINTO HEART Police Hold Companion Pend- ing Result of Coroner’s Inquiry. While a friend waited for him in an automobile nearby, Earl H. Grant, 26, a chauffeur, shot fiimself through the heart in Potomac Park early today, about 150 yards east of the District approach to the railroad bridge. : Alexander T. Speck, 28, street northeast, his friend, who had accompanied him to the park at Grant's request, was just getting out of the automobile to see what was delaying his companion when the pistol shot rang out. Running down to the lawn between the road and the river, he found Grant, he told police, lying prone on the ground, near death. He pulled the body back to the roadway where motorists would see it, that he could not aid materially, drov to police headquarters to report the tragedy. Find Whisky in Car. " According to Speck, he and had taken a bit of cormn wh fore reaching Potomac P police found four and one-half gallons of corn whisky -in the automobile when it was seized. Polic® of the first and fourth pre- cincts, and Detectives Springmann and Darnall, arriving on the scene, found Grant still breathing and rushed him to Emergency Hospital. He died en route. They arrested Speck and he will be held pending the result of a coroner's inquest Friday. Friends of the deceased told the police that Grant had arranged a party for Christmas night, but it fell through from lack of funds; that he ! and | was estranged from his wife, that domestic and financial troubles had made him despondent. Pistol In Found. The pistol was found near the spot where Grant had fallen. In the pock- ete of the deceased were found sev- eral cartridges fitting the weapon. One empty shell was found in the pistol's magazine. Only 11 cents were found in Grant's pockets. The spot where Grant shot himself is directly opposite Arlington County, Va., where the estranged wife and Grant's child reside with Mrs. Grant's pareats. Acting Coroner Herker E. Martyn in- stituted an investigation shortly be- fore noon., Grant, who formerly roomed at 1231 C street, had more recently occupied an aparement in the Tuxedo, 1439 T street northwest. James L. Grant, father of the deceased, was telegraphed by the police at his home in-Washing- ton, Ind. THREE MEN END LIVES. Two Inhale Gas and One Fires Bul- let in Head. Tkree suicides were recorded in police reports yesterday. The vie- tims were Edward Whitcomb, 46, of 3139 Twenty-fourth street northeast; Pvt. Felnman Henderson, U. S. A, stationed at the Washington Bar- racks, and Zealy Leitner, colored, 52, of 2004 Eleventh street. ‘Whitcomb, a clerk in the city post office and married for only a few months, according to the police, de- spondent hecause of illness, inhaled gas through a tube in the bathroom of 53 K| and finding | 1924 —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. BLANTON DELAYS REPORTONPOWER Favorable Action on Great Falls Project Halted by Lack of Quorum. Favorable report on the proposed hydro-electric development of Great Falls to provide light, heat and power to Uncle Sam’s workshops and other consumers in the National Capital and adjacent territory was to have been made to the House Dis- trict committee today by a subcom- mittee of which Representative Frederick N. Zihlman of Maryland is chairman. The quorum of the com- mittee, however, was not-present and #s Representative Thomas L. Blan- ton, Democrat, of Texas, was pre- pared to make a poiat of order against the report, it was withheld. The report is ordersd by four of the five members of the special sub- committes which has held extensive hearings, The one objecting member is Representative Blanton. The report favors the execution of the Great Falls development project and works out in the report of Maj. M. C. Tyler, Army Engineer Corps, with several provisions. One of these would authorize the Federal Power Commission to issue licenses for utili- zation of the surplus water and water power in accordance with the .plans of the Federal water power act. An- other provision would be that the actual construction should not be started on any unit of the project until the necessary lands and easements for chase or condemnation or agreement made for such purchase on terms deemed reasonable by the Secratary of War and until guarantees have been obtained in such forms as satisfy the Federal Power Commission that the power can be disposed of on terms that will protect the invest- ment of the United States and con- serve and utllize in the public inter- est the navigation and water re- sources of the Potomac River. Representative Zihlman will have a statement prepared for the next meet- ing of the House District committee summarizing reviews of the subcom- mittee. Bidders Ready to Act. Initial project in the Great Falls development would be a dam near Chain Bridge at an estimated cost of about $13,000,000. If the Federal Power Commission sees fit to lease this property after the dam has been built without the installation of ma- chinery the cost would be reduced about one-third, Representative Zihl- man explained. The opinion of the subcommittee was that the Government does not want to go into the peddling of en- ergy or power at retail or the dupli- cation of transmission limes, which would cost an immense amount. The total cost of the entire Great Falls development under the report | of Maj. Tyler would be about $44,000,- 000. Prospective bidders of the power rights testified betore the subcom- mittee that they were ready to pay one-third of these costs if given a satisfactory long-time lease by the Federal Power Commission. SUN YAT QUITS ARENA. Former President Appeals to Peo- ; ple to “Save China.” PEKING, December 31.—Sun Yat Sen, former head of the southern Chinese republic, with its capital at Canton, has arrived here and has is- sued a pamphlet asserting that he does not want political power and calling upon the people to ‘‘save the country.” Dr. Sun’s pamphlet declares that the state of his health forbids any {political activity at the present time. | {Fake Psychologists By the Associated Press. - CHICAGO, December 31.—The modern charlatan calls himself a psychologist and defrauds more victims, than. any gold bricker, Arthur W. Kornhauser of the psy- chology department of the Univer- sity of Chicago, said In an address prepared for delivery at the clos- ing sesslon today of the Ameri- can Economic Association conven- tion. | “Honest psychological tests have provéd Invaluable In sizing up ofice employes and measuring flowage had been acquired by pur-| { Than Any Other Crooks, Says Scientist as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 96,241 Loeb, Defendant In Accident Suit, Wins on Appeal By the Assoclated Press. LANSING, Mich., December 31.— A judgment obtained In the Charle- voix County Circuit Court against Richard Loeb, convicted slayer of Robert Franks, was reversed by the State Supreme Court today. The case revolved about injurles alleged to have been sustained Au- gust 5, 1920, by James Franklin O’'Brien when struck by an automo- bile Loeb was driving. Loeb's father and mother were co-defendants In the action. At the time of the aceldent, O'Brien 10 yvears old. He was riding fn a pony cart near the Loeb's summer home in Charle- voix, which was struck by 1 car young Loeb had borrowed from his brother Ernest. | During the triul the Loebs as- | serted they had made a cash set- tlement with Ruth O'Brien, mother of the injured boy. The supreme court today held that the lower court erred in not directing a verdict for the de- fendants when it was shown they did not own the automobile Rich- ard was driving, and ordered a new trial, EFFICIENCY RATINGS OPENTOINSPECTION Stone Rules Employes Are| Entitled to Know Records in Own Departments. Efficiency ratings of all Government employes under the classification act will be open to inspection “by all employes of the department” in which they are employed. This ruling was sent out to Government departments today by the Personnel Classification Board, based on an opinfon by At- torney General Stone. The Attorney General, when pre- sented with the question as to which one of several different kinds of pub- licity might be given to efficlency ratings, has decided that the classi- fication act requires that “the inspec- tion of efficiency ratings was intended to be available to all employes of a department, regardiess of grade or class.” Asks for Comment. The Personnel Classification Board in handing out a circular ruling to- day asked the various departments for their “comment” on the plan and conditions under which the lists should be made public. Wide difference of opinion has existed not only among Government employes themselves, but among Governmeni chiefs as to how far publicity should go. Upholds Pabliclty Lists. The opinion of the Attorney Gen- eral, which consists of four pages, is a detalled answer to four Qques- tions submitted by the Classification | Board. The first question was an- | swered in the affirmative and other!| three in the negative. The first question which the At- torney General held rightly Inter- preted the classification act read as| follows: “Can the classification act reason- ably be construed to require that the efficiency ratings of the employes in| any bureau or office shall be open to inspection by all employes in that bureau or office irrespective of grade | or class?" Detailed Answer. In his answer, which amplified his affirmative answer to this question, the Attorney General, referring to the | classification act on publicity, said: “There seems to be no ambiguity nor uncertainty as to the plain pur- port of these words: ‘Inspection of the current ratings for each grade or class thereof in a given department by any or all of the employes of said 2. (Continued on Page . GEORGE W. FAIRCHILD DIES IN NEW YORK HOME Former Representative Succumbs to Heart Attack After Several Weeks' Illness. e Associated Press. NEW YORK. December 31.—George | Winthrop Fairchild, former Repre- sentative in Congress, died at his| home here today of heart disease. Mr. Falrchild, who was in his se enty-first year, was stricken No- vember 4 in Tucson, Ariz, where he had gone on a business trip, and had been confined to his bed since that time. Mr. Fairchild was a direct descend- ant of Thomas Fairchild, who set- tled in Stamford, Conn., in 1632. Born | in Oneonta, N. Y., May 6, 1854, he, began life as a printer, entering the employ of the Oneonta Herald in 1876. He was owner and publisher of this newspaper from 1890 to 1912. . A Republican, he was elected a member of Congress from the twen- ty-fourth New York district in 1906, and from the thirty-fourth New York district -in 1908, 1810, 1912 and 1914. Mr. Fairchild was president or di- rector of numerous cofporations, in- cluding banks in Binghamton, N. Y., and Oneonta. He was an officer of several New York corporations, in- cluding the Fairchild Aerial Photog- | raphy Co., and also was president and director of the White Plains Development Co., White Plains, N. Y. He Is survived by a son, Sherman Fairchild of New York City; two sis- ters. of Oneonta, and a brother, Charles Falrchild of Watertown, N. Y. Column 6.) Victimize More ability of workers of all classes,” he said, “But the pseudo-phycho- logist is not worthy of trust. “The time may come when few business firms will hire employes ‘without subjecting them topsycho- logical tests. But not yet. Tests are belng worked out that reveal a person’s intellectual ability, his manual dexterity, the acuteness of his senses and his ‘ability to do abstract thinking involving the handling of words and numbers. But psychologists are still in the experimental stage of much of their. work that has a practical application for business.” {our confidence - TWO CENTS. FUTURE OF WORLD HINGES ON SCENCE, COOLIDGE ASSERTS Welcomes Visiting Savants as “Wonder Workers of All the Ages.” WAGES OF U. S. EXPERTS NOT GENEROUS, HE SAYS Chimpanzees May Be Taught to Read and Write, Dr. R. M. Yerkes Holds. Society looks to science for the future welfare of civilization, Presi- dent Coolidge told more than 4,000 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, who halted their 79th convocation toda: long enough to visit the White House as the guests of the President. Whatever: feeling of awe the la n may attach to the scientist for his achievements of the past the President sald, “we are confident that soclety will somehow devise Institu- tions " capable of adaption to the changed circumstances with which ou are surrounding the business of living in our world.” “The National .Government has special and profound interest in the gathering of the country’s' scientific leaders here” the President said, aking from the rear portico of the White House. “No single agency has 50 extensively relied upon the men and women of science as has the Government. The personnel of the Government's service and the figures of the annual appropriation allke testify to this. The Government has been foremost in employing and most liberal in endowing science. Not Liberal in Salarfex. t me say at once, however, th do not intend to imply that we have been impressively liberal in dealing with the individual sclentists who con- duct these activities of the Government The most casual inspection of the eal lary list of scientific workers in Washington will make very plain that it is toward science, not the scientists, that the Gov- ernment has been officially generous. “I was impressed with the new real jzation of the extent and importance of the scientific activities which center here in Washington by some figures ehowing the geographical distribution of members of your association. In propor- tion to its population, there are more than five times as many of your mem- bers here as there are in any State. I Wirh time would permit a Drief sugges- tion of the amazing variety, the wide ramifications and the enormous value to the whole people of these sclentific activities which_ are conducted under the administrative depiartments. “Whether in study of the stars or mapping the bottom of & sea; whether in making two blades of grass grow where formerly one grew: whether in developing a chemical compound that will destroy life or one that will save it: whether in welghing an atom or analyzing the composition of the most distant star—whatever the problem of human concern or social advancement, the scientific establish- ments of the Government h en- listed the men and the means to consider it, and ultimately to solve it Welcomed to ttal. . as one particularly interestcd this governmental university in i practical and implied science, I wel- come your great gathering to Wael ington. You represent the interests, the forces and the endless activities which literally from day to day are conquering new domains and adding them to the imperial realm of human knowledge. The future of ¢ n- zation is well-night in your hands. “You are the wonder workers of all the ages; the marvel of discovery and progress have become commonplaces simply because their numbers have paralyzed the capacity of the mind for wonderment. Those of us who represent social organizations and political institutions look upon you with feeling that includes much of awe and something of fear as we ask ourselves to what resolution you wliil next require us to adapt our scheme of human relations. “But we know that you are an {mated by a profound purpose tg bet- ter the estate of men. We aré con- fident that society will somehow de- vise institutions capable of adaption to the changed circumstances with which you are surrounding the busi- ness of living in our world. We trust ourselves to you, perhaps with some doubt as to what you may final- 1y do with us and to us, but at least with firm- convictions that your ac- tivities will save life from becoming very monoto.ous. And, besides, we realize that if we did not give you you would go ahead without it. Ald Truth Quest. “It 1s a wonderful thing to live in a time when the search for truth is the foremost interest of the race. It has taken endless ages to create in men the courage that will accept the truth simply because it is the truth. Ours Is a generation of ploneers in this new faith. Not many of us are endowed with the kind of mental equipment that can employ the scientific methods in seeking for the truth, but we have advanced so far that we do not fear the results of that process. We ask no recan- tations from honesty .and candor. We know that we need truth, and we turn to you men of science and of faith, eager to give you all en- couragement in your quest for it. Moteors, or “shooting stars,” are not distant worlds plunging ruth- fessly into oblivion, as many unin- formed persons think, but compara- tively small bodles not more than 50 to 100 miles above our own earth, which are heated Into incandescence upon entering the upper air of this planet at high spoed, Dr. C. M. Spar- row of the University of Virginia, told the physical section of the convention today. When they -disappear they (Continued on Page, 2, Column 2.) No 5:30 Edition of The Evening Star Will Be Issued Tomorrow (New Year Day)