Evening Star Newspaper, February 5, 1925, Page 4

CHINA'S PEACE AIM - RECEIVES SETBACK. Sun Yat-sen’s Party Declines to Enter Parley, Charging People Are Ignored. By the Associated Press. PEKING, February 5—China’s uni- flcation co erenc by which it was hoped that internal factional strife in the empire would end, today was aded toward the babel of misunder- standing, before it had formally or- ganized The basis of revealed when Sun’ Yat Sen, h of South China, in the name o people's party, vate in the had not taken ‘poople’s confer as a the reorganization of the Chi ernment Dr. Sun, who has been at the hos here erated upc hout vosed, ac that th e he had sunderstanding was the adherents of Dr. 1d of the government iss manifesto the Kuomingtang or declining to partici- ference bacause Sun's plan for w basis for e gov- t D: critically 11 he was op- ago, pro- adherents, -¢” should ting aders st 10 @ h assur t the support try, where xpressed d an unday organ 1ave been held esto recalled th «phed pan on he received to the ndition that his plan, the plan, of reoganization be This condition, although epted by provisional govern- t that time, has not been ied out, the manifesto recite While Sun’s South Chi #ation will not support the reorgani- of the provisional Chinese nment, re et up at Pe- it will main- t toward the said rcople's adopted. a Dr NAVY OFFICER GAG IN AIRCRAFT PROBE DENIED BY WILBUR Continued from First Pa up me consideration of other appeint- Has Wilbur Suppert. Admiral Moffett ted support f in the having of aviation, 000,000 for approved it | however, | ngre vas cut in half. 1t the Bureau, ot sought to “go over the heads” of th general board in acquiring legislation he believes would be of benefit to naval aviation. He has endeavored to ‘educa those ‘in power to the needs of arm of the serv. and whe failed he has gone mo farther and then the responsibility for any aftermaths. as the result of the board's decisions, est on them. He has “played fair with his own crowd,” the Bureau dcclares, $250,000,000 Needed for Army. If Congress granted the War De- ment $25.000,000 a year for 10 rs, plus the amount necessa for hing and similar expendi- at the end of a decade Amer- tea could control the air, Brig. Gen. H. A. Drum of the general staff told t elect committee of inquiry into operations of the United States Air Services at hear held yesterday fterno maki this statement Gen. Drum said he disagreed with Gen. Mitchell that if the air service were given half the price of a bat- tleship for two years America could control the air. There is mnot Air Servic priations for p the wrong with the ck of appro- Drum said. onnel is ¢ ent in his_opinion, has ‘“done vonders. Gen. Drum, who is op- sed to a united air service, said no improvement could be made in the fliciency of the Air Service, if it were separated, over present accom- shments. The commit ing to i nd, charged with bring- & £ te and in- ces has met path of the House s committee deliberat- bill for a unified alr crosse litary aff 2 on th service. or Deniex Any Pressure. time was given Drum was on th the merits of Gen. Mitchell. Repre- sentative Perkins of New Jersey esked the witness if there was any policy which called for disciplining officers for ng testimony before Congress, and n. Drum replied he knew of no such policy. To the con- d, the War Department encouraged officers to give their opin- Much while G sterday stand to presentati Reid of Tilinois witness was endeavoring several questions and, jump- ing up, declared the Army “tactics had not been open and above board,” and said Gen. Drum could “maneuver bet- ter than y airplane he had ever heard of. Representative Perkins asked the witness if he did not think the dis- ciplining of Admiral Moffett and Gen. Mitchell “would put the fear of some thing in the hearts of other officers,” to which Gen. Drum replied it would depend upon what they were trans- ferred fo After discussing the war record of Gen. Mitchell and the battleship bombing experiments, Gen, Drum was asked if he did not think such en- ta thusiastic men as Gen. Mitchell's type were of great importance to the de- fense of the country. “I would ltke to reserve an answer,” said Gen. Dram. Pralses Gen. Mitghell Some members of thh committee sought to have a resolution adopted declaring it would be detrimental to the service for Gen. Mitchell to be deprived of his present rank and de- tail. Representative Californi Curry, Republican, author of the bill to create @ united air force, issued a statement yesterday afternoon indorsing the views of Gen. Mitchell and express- ing confidence in his ability. “We need Mitchell as assistant chief of the Air Service, as he is the best qualified man in the service for that pos said Mr. Curry. “Since Mitchell's statemenfs of facts as to the power of the alrplane have been challenged, let me suggest that it is a thing susceptible of proof. The pational defense is the concern of us all. Controversy leads nowhere ecept up blind alleys. If the War and Navy Departments “are sincere,” he added, In doubting Gen. Mitchell's assertions, “most of which have been proven, I challenge tho older services to order tests cov- erink the entire field in Mitchell's testimony. The air force will speedily prove its case If such tests are con- ducted,” . Mr. Curry =aid from testimony thy far prescn WEAF NARROWLY ESCAPES PROBE FOR ATTEMPT TO CURB “ROXIE” Congress on Verge of Ordering Investigation of Ef- fort to Make Him Formal W hen Station Withdraws Edict. BY ROBERT T. SMALL. There has been so much talk in Washington the past few days about the proposed “disciplining” of Army and Navy officers who bave been en- gaged in the asrial warfare raging in Congress, that.the attempted “dlsci- plining” of “Raxie’ Rothafel by sta- tion WEAF of the Américan Tele- phone and Tele graph Company was almost over- Tooked. It ought to. be stated, however, that Congress was on the verge, the very verge,in fact, of ordering a con- gressional tnv on:~ gation of the inci- RomIn, dent. “Roxie” lsre- xunad as almost a Washingtonian, for it s through him that all of the war vetewins' hospitals about the ational C: > equipped with radio receiv s, and un- questionably the ience with which is most popular each Sunday et % is composed of the disabl ghboys who did _their bit France or met with enduring ailments in the war cantonments maintained in this countr The hoys the hospitals re ready to quit cots and crutches and ) to war again in defense of “Roxie” A one was planning to take the matter up with “his” congressman The soldlers w outraged that “Roxy” should be prevented from in- dulglng~in the banter and patter that have made his performahces over the air so distinctive in their informality. Many of “Roxie's” remarks were ad- dressed- to his‘ veteran friends in Washingion and in other hospitals within the range of the broadcasting stations putting out his stuff. The thought that “Roxie” was to be compelled to adopt the high-brow and near-learned tone and manners of th rerage radio announcer and CHILD LABOR FIGHT WILL BE CONTINUED Senator Walsh Criticizes Way Measure Was Opposed. The question of the child amendment. to fthe Constitution, defeated by vote-of 13 State dcbated yesterday at a luncheon meeting of the Women's Demiocratic Cilub, 20 Connecticut avenue. Senator Walsh of Montana declared the defeat to be only a.temporary one, announcing the fight was to be taken up and carried on ut.omee for the measure. % Airdell Mears of -Neeth Carolina presented the oppesition: to . the amendment, _basing his argument mostly on. the question of States’ rights and the right of parents to control their chifdren. Walsh Criticizes Opponents. Senator Walsh erfticized the.“out- rageous campaign of misrepresenta- tion™ carrietl ‘on ‘by+opponents to the amend@ment, and pointed out that it did not prohibit children from work- ing nor interfere with the rights of the parents to control of their chil- dren. R Cvery State but one in the Union,” said the Senator, “has legislation regulating child labor. The single exception is 4 Western State that has no need of such laws. Yet even where there are falr laws they are often not enforced, and in many States there is crying need for protection of chil- dren. Eleven States allow children under 16 years to work from eight to nine hours a day. The census of 1920 showed that thero were 60,000 chil- dren from 10 to 15 years old working at gainful occupations, and of these 173 per cent were workers in fac- tories. ; Contrary to the accepted idea,” said Senator Walsh, “'the South is not the greatest employer of child labor. In New Bedford, Mass., 18 per cent of the children are workers, mostly in the mills. This is a common thing in factory towns, the percentage run- ning from 11 to 18 per cent. e dent some of the “Iine officers of the Army and Navy regard an airplane a ‘poor, little, petty, fluttering thing. ” He then added that the air- plane is rapidly approaching the point where it must be recognized as the first line of defense and offense. The alleged “muzzling” of Army and Navy officers was referred to on the floor of the House yesterd when Representative Hull of Towa, Republican member of the military committec, declared it would be “un- fortunate” if officers were prevented from coming before congressional committees to tell the truth. Representative Anthony, Republi- can, Kansas, in-charge of tho Army appropriation bill, sald it had been 2 policy of both the War and Navy Departments to place restrictions on officers as to testimony they could offer, and that his subcommittee, in seeking to determine the needs of the Army, had found it “extremely diffi- cult” to obtain straightforward or confidentia) fnformation. T The easy mark doesn’t know how eany he is until some salesman of worthless stocks or bondx. has his money. ed on aviation it is evie{ ] ’ A be prevented from projecting his own personality into the Sunday concerts was too much for the doughboys. One of them ‘sent word in to the radio_editor that he was “bored to ars” _with the ' announcers who talk like a floorwalker walks.” The stilted mannér of the great run of New York announcers, the superior tone of thefr broad “a’d’ and their would-he-correct pronunciation of all foreign b . places and names il in théir place, but zger manner could not be ap- plied to the, “Roxie” concerts without breaking the spell and spoiling the whole works. Only a complete sur- render by WEAF in the face of an overwhélmipg bombardment kept Congress from acting or ‘attempting to_act. The ‘attempt to discipline Roxie for being too fious oh ' the air is really’ an fmportant step in the devel- opment of broadcasting none the less It fs a development in the line of certain stations specializing in cer- tain programs and in a certain man- ner of presefiting thém. Certain of the New York stations, WEAF, in particalar, are’ desiros of being known highbrow. They like to thé' their ‘studlos with the atmos- of Carnegie Hall. They would de the Metropolitan’ Opera House if they could. Therefore, it was con- cluded “Roxie™ was entirely too breezy {for such un atmosphere. He would have to tone down or walk out. But the highbrows reckoned without their invisible hosts. The fans protested too vigorously. WEAF backed down Neverthele the future soon will | see symphany stations and jazz sta- ticns and various varfeties of sta- tions in between. “Radlo restaurants,” the “hired hand” at station WBAP down in ‘Fort Worth, Tex., calls them. Virtually all of the Middle Western stations have their “breezy” announc- ers and their community forms of entertalnment, and they naturally have smiled broadly at the attempts of the “effete” E discipline so mild a little person as Today the untrammeled spirft of the radio is marching on (Copsright, 1 AWAIT DESTRUCTION i FASTING AND PRAYER (Continued from First Page.) goods, even.part of their clothing, and are spehding the last few days subsisting on carrots and water. Tomorrow il go to a hill- i top near East Patchogue when they { expect to be taken im a cloud chariot {to woods mear ‘San Diego, Calif,, [ Where they say 144000 “Brides of the Lamb” will b6 gathered. Al other people will perish, according to their predictio hey Denounced by Leaders. Disagreement from the headquar- ters of the Sevénth Day Adventist organization in W hington that to- morrow is the decreed date for the {millennium has not affected the prop- arations of the little band. Mrs. Margaret W. Rowen, leader of those Who have fixed the date for tomor- row, was denounced hy ‘the church leaders. It is theé confention of the adventists organization that the date fixed by her is extremely premature. The seven plague: inelu & the great battle of Armageddon—must come before the world’s doom, it is maintained by the main group of Adventists. But Reidt has made his predictions in detail. The perfod of destruction, starting tomorrow midaight, will last for seven days, hé says, with fire, disease, hallstone and pestilence striking the earth at one time. Reidt is himself no longer a mem- ber of tho Adventist Church. He has sold his furniture to. a second-hand dealer on condition that he may buy it back. WJILL NOT SELL PROPERTY, By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 5—The belisf of followers.of Mrs. Margaret W. Rowen, prophetess of the Seventh- Day Adventist Reformed Church, that, the world would end some time Friday, with the return to earth of Christ 'at Hollywood, will :result in no additional commissions to Los An- geles real estafe dealers. Firm in their trust in thé prediction of Mra. Rowen, the followers await tho millenium without hysteria and without outward signs of prepara- tion. “There is no .need for fear or anguish over the end of the world,” asserted Dr. B. L. Fullmer, head of the (church here, as he pointed out scriptural passages which he de- clared confirm Mrs. Rowen's prophecy. Df. Fullmer has not seld 'his’ hewme tor, he asks, why should he sell prop- erty: which he believes that he will not be gble to deliver. Nor Has he coun-- seled others to sell, but added that it might be right to sell and use the money to furtirer the kingdom in the brité time which remains. Some members of the.church have. taPked of gathering together, but others think that the day should be met:quietly at Home. ceRradis Main " Shartest w’;rd 4336 $o 1 Jhomas Cirdle . A A R i . Supper Dancing fNot mid *ths - ordinary flash of : gaudinesé~rather a subtle note of refinement —a charth that is inimitable in its distinctivéness— eyonnd .. Andre cecand. .. Rudac 1 Dancing stars of Al Jol- son’s mew show, “BIG BOY,” offer an exclusive program at dinner and after the theater. H “Horads Band OF WORLD WITH SONG, | WASHINGTO. CK SOLICITING PUBLIC SCHOOLS Association Members Argue Charges of Discrimination in Fund Raising. The question of the solicitation of contributions in the public schools reached storm proportions at a meet- Ing of the District of Columbia Publie School Association in the District Building last night, when charges of diserimination in allowing any form of soliciting were made, and the asso- clation went on record as disapprov- ing any form of soliciting for funds among school children. The Issue arose when Mrs. E. R. Kalmbach and others expressed ob- Jections to the distribution of envel- ies to the school children as an in- t method of appealing to the parents to centribute toward the Washington Hospital radio fund. She harged that discrimination had been shown in granting the right to solicit for the fund, and told of instances where proposed solicitations had been turned down by the school authorities. The Board of Education recently granted the right to distributc the envelopes to those in charge of rais- ing the fund, believing 1t to be for a worthy cause. Dixcuss Building Program. The five-year school bullding pro- gram was briefly discussed at the seting and several members of the sociation, while expressing the opinion that the program as made out is not perfect, were of the belief that nothing should be done to hamper the program. Dr. William A. White, head of St. beth's Hospital, delivered an ad- dress on “The Need of Psychiatrists in the Schools.” He said that schools e gone ahead more or less blindly trying to deal with children and in many instances not being able to do anything constructive for a child of defective mentality. Dr. White told how defective men- tality and criminology can nearly al- ways be traced back to early child- hood and emphasized the importance of early corrective measures C., THURSDAY, I DR. JOHN T. COLE DIES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS Physician Had Practiced Medicine Here for 30 Years—Born in. Manasses, Va. Dr. John Thomas Cole, 63 years old, a practicing physician in this city for the last 30 years, died at his resi- dence, 816 Massachusetts avenue northeast, last night after 2 short 111- ness. Born near Manassas, Vi., October 30, 1856, Dr. Cole received his early education at St. John's Military Academy, and later attended George- town University, from where he was graduated in miedicine in the elass of 1891. He was a member of the Medi- cal Soclety of the District of Colum- bia. He is survived by three sons, John L., Park A. and David J. F.; a daugh- ter Miss Susie May, and a brother, Dr. G. R. Cole, also a practicing physiclan here. Funeral _arrangements been eompleted. BARTLETT TO SPEAK. ‘Will Tell of Explorations in Arc- tic Waters. Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, Admiral Peary’s chief alde and the l‘nremost* lving practical navigator In the| Arctic, will address the Natfonal Geographlc Soclety tomorrow a!lvr-] noon and evening at the New Masonic Temple on his explorations in far! northern waters during the past Sum- mer. Capt. Bartlett was commis- sioned by the National Geographic Soclety to make this survey with a{ view to gathering data which will be] useful in future alr exploration of| the Polar reglons. apt. Bartlett brought back valu- able information about temperatures, tides and ocean salinity and in ad- dition gathered many specimens of sub-sea life which are of valuye to innce. The lecture will be lilustrat- ed by motion plctures and sides. have not WIEDFELDT GOES HOME. NEW YORK, February 5.—Dr. Otto Wiedfeldt, retiring German Ambas-{ sador to the United States, started for | home today on the steamship Albert | SPEEDING OF D.C. BUILDINGS SOUGHT Fernald Says Bill May Call for Immediate Spending of $50,000,000 Here. A favorable report on 00,000 public bulldings bill was predicted by Senator Fernald of Maine chairman of the public build- ings committee of ths Senate, fol- lowing a discussion of the measure at a meeting of the Senate commit- tee today. | The committee will have a hearing next Wednesday at which the supe vising architect of the Treasury and several officials of the Federal Gov- ernment in the District interested in the building program here will | appear. Senator TFernald sentiment expressed at today's meet- ing had ,been gemerally favorable to the House bill, although it might Le amended in some particulars. One amendment, he said, might provide | for immediate expenditure of money | in the District to meet the pressing | need of Government buildings. | The bill, as it passed the House, authorized the expenditure of $150,- 000,000 to be allocated to various States with the understanding that $50,000,000 would be used to carry out the building program in the District of Columbia, which has been recom- mended by the President and by the Public Buildings Commission. Under the terms of the House bill, the money 1s to be expended over a period of six years. The committee ordered favorable Teport on two Senate bills, one in- troduced by Senator Phipps of Colo- rado authorizing appropriations for | a medical school bubding at Howard University to cost not exceeding $370,000, and for equipment to cost not exceeding $130,000. The other bill favorably reported, introduced by Senator Fernald, au- thorizes the comstruction of a nurses home for the Columbia Hospital for Women here. 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