Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1925, Page 3

ARGENTINA SEES CHILEAN VICTORY Coolidge Award Held o Be Mainly Against Peru in Dispute on Tacna. By CaMe to The Star and Chicago Daily News. BUENOS AIR! March 10.—It Is generally considered In Buenos Alres that Chile has won a declded victory o the Tacna-Arica arbitration, in- asmuch as the plebiscite ordered | one of the points insisted on in Chile’s argument While President Coolidge Peru failed to prove its ch the two provinces had been * ixed,” It s accepted here that any plebiscite held would be certain to favor Chile, inasmuch as the Chilean population overwhelms both prov- inoes. finds that Sympathy for Peru. The sympathy of Argentina goes out to Peru. There is a feeling here that she lost more than she gained. However, while she has the sympa thy, it is generally admitted by those who have visited Tacna-Arica and other place in the province, Chile probably has done more for thelr ad vancement than if ti had r ained under Peruvian sovereignty Only within the decade has| Peru awakened to necessity of | modernizing and improving standards | of living, and st of her cities and villages now, except Li back- ward and the as two centuries ago. Chile, realizing the value of first impressions, has given careful attention to the cities of Tacna and Arica. Both are attractive and sanitary, in striking contrast to PPeruvian villages in the interior. (Copyright, 1925, by Chicago Daily News Co.) DISTRICT FIRZ LOSS GOES UP $1,115,204 Most Fires Here Preventable, Na- tional ~ Underwriters’ Board Declares. past the ar nsanit District_of $1,348,762 in the totaling Losses Columbia in increased $1,1 period ended with board of fire unde today. In 1918 fire ington totaled $2 8 Of the riginating fires in Washington, def chim- neys and responsible for losses aggre while matches and caused losses amounting to $338,581. Both fall with the strictly preventable classification, the board said, which lends suppor support to the ntic fire p vention that three-fourths of the na destruction is al- ways avoidal m fire iters losses in annou Wa causes for is is the second of three articles describing in_detail President Cool- idge’s plans to cut down operating expenses of the Government in the face of a continually growing Fed- eral pay roll. BY WILLIAM P. HELM, JR. President Coolidge has called on every branch of the Federal Govern- ment to send him, through proper channels, a monthly report showing the number of employes on its pay- roll at the close of the month as compared with the number at the close of the preceding month. If there is an increase, an explanation will be demanded. That is the second step in the President's campaign to reduce the number of Federal employes so that taxes soon may be cut again. The first step was taken on the night of January 26 rast, when the President, addressing the Cabinet and bureau heads at a meeting in Washington, asserted: “What we are looking for is a re- duction in the number of employ Let me remind vou that the Go: ernment pay roll for 1924 reached the staggering total of $1,680,000,000. + * ¢ Not a dollar should be asked from the taxpayers for superflous personnel. We have superfiuous em- ployes. 1t is an unpleasant and difficult task to separate people from the Federal service. But it can be done. It will be done. I advise Fed- eral administrators to plan to. operate with a smaller personnel than is now employed.” Determines on Vigorous Action. Since that utterance Mr. Coolidge has seen figures compiled by the Civil Service Commission showing that the number of Federal employes Increased by 10,948 during the year 1924—the first calendar vear of his presidency. In the light of those figures, and coupled with his expressed desire to reduce the personnel, the President has determined on unusual and vigor- ous action. Hereafter he will keep his eye on the public pay roll to an extent greater than ever before attempted by the White House. Mr. Coolidge wants to know how many persons are working under his direction. He intends to see personally that the number is not in- creased unnecessarily. The count of heads will go to the White House hereafter about the 10th of each month. This count will be made by the Civil the Budget. Gen. Lord, director ot the Bureau of the Budget, sent the request several weeks 0, “by rection of the President.” ervice Commission. The commission has prepared a simple and handy form which will be used by each depart- ment in reporting, so that the re- turns will be standard. Information In Axked. The first request for this informa- tion wa Turned to the §1,248 modern, costing § 1 ction and| r to any| orks, this roved condi- | taxcs netary was re- ast for a time. from the | In arriving at| the cost of extin-| al fires re-| [ money | tions, losses pperty destroy hing the in the ma total board divic was not be added the public, eckoned | the | pena | number letters addressed to the proper officials of it office of the These tion w Febraary, it was. thought best to go back to the ending of 1924 as a con- venient date for the comparison, rather than to the end of January Hence the first reports to go to the President will contain figures show- ng in detail the number of Federal | employes December 31, 1924, and the| of employes February 28, 19 The comparative periods thus| will be two months apart in the first summary. 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Howland of New York, as the new president of the Greek Land Settlement Commis- sion. and voicing the council's plea: ure the successful floating of a $50,000.000 loan in New York, London and Athens. A resolution adopted approved Mr. Howland's suggestion that the prob- lem of the Greek refugees requires persevering humanitarian work for its complete solution, and addressed an appeal to charitable institutions A report of the league's permanent financial committee also was adopted. It recommended that the commission of governmental experts engaged in studying double taxation and fiscal evasion be enlarged by the addition of representatives of the United States, one South American country, Germany and Poland. Arbitration Move Gains. The league's economic committee informed the council that the protocol for the insertion of arbitration clauses in commercial contracts had been signed conditionally by Austria and Paraguay and by Great Britain for Southern Rhodesia, and had been ratified by Belgium, Germany and Great Britain. The protocol has been signed by 25 states and ratified by 6, the other three ratifying powers be- ing Albania, Finland and Italy. The council approved a decision of the economic committee to send three embers to the international con- ference to revise the convention for the protection of industrial property, which is to meet at The Hague, Octo- ber 8. Holland especially desires their presence in an advisory capacity, stressing the importance of the collaboration on this sub- . which is connected with the gen- eral question of unfair competition in trade which the league is study- dwig Scholz, for a long time prominent in the promotion of Ger- man enterprises in the German ved here today from Ber- lin private representative of German colonial interests. He me- morialized each member of the council, asking for the appointment of a commission to investigate the Ger- man colonial question, a proposal which he presented to the mandate commission last year. Ho told the council that sixty mil- lion Germans needed an economic out- let and insisted European security never would be really assured until the German people have the possibil- HIGH GBADE, BUT NOT HIGH PRICED BYRON S, ADAMS, IRmvTen. 812 Ut St ity of overseas economic expansion. He argued that Germany should 'be siven some mandate, ) rvice Commission, which in turn is| cting on request of the Bureau of | sent out by the commission | | within the past three weeks in iden- | tical ach department and inde- | Government. | letters said that the informa- | s intended for the President. | As the first request was sent out in | THE EVENING COOLIDGE TO CHECK MONTHLY ON SIZE OF FEDERAL PAYROLL 1Calls on Every Branch of Government to Submit Comparative Statements on Number of Em- ployes in Service Every 30 Days. The commissicn estimates taat the information will be received early enough each month to enable it to compfle the figures and place them in Gen. Lord’s hands not later than the 10th. Gen. Lord will transmit them without delay to the White House. Thus, right after his inauguration, President Coolidge can engage ac- tively in one of the self-appointed tasks dearest to his heart—active work looking to further tax reduc- tion. There is mo doubt that the President will go carefully into the reports, for on this subject he is pos- sessed of an interest deep and com- plete. Having announced his policy to reduce the Federal personnel, the President expects to carry It out. More than that. he expects his sub- ordinates to assist him wholeheartedly. Must Explain Increases. For that reason, any department or office registering an increase in per- sonnel from month to month, even of a handful of workers, will be under the necessity of making com- plete and satisfactory explanation to the President, through the Bureau of the Budget, of the conditions mak- ing the increase necessary. Reasons will be asked, no excuses. And will take a compelling and convinc- ing reason to justify an increase, The President wants to creases, not increases. If be done, he would like to see the personnel, exclusive of the postal service, brought down to the point where it rested 14 months ago, or to a total of 250,385 persons. That would involve reducing the force by more than 4,000 persons. He is not making that achlevement hls goal, however. It may not be possible, but if it could be done without hurting the service White House approval un- doubtedly would follow. The Civil Service Commission is en- gaged in checking the first returns recelved under the President's re- quest, The chances are that the fig- ures will run, In their totals, a little higher than the total shown' for De- cember 31 last. In other words, the prospect s that a slight increase will be shown over the number of per- sons employed two months ago. it c Last Showing of Kind. If so, it will be the last time for many months to come—barring great emergency or an act of Congress— that the comparative figures will show an increase. The mere fact that a report must be made monthly to the President will. of itself, prevent an increase, in the judgment of compe- tent observers. "Official Washington knows that President Coolidge Is dead In earnest on this subject. And it will fall in line when the record has to come along every thirty days. That is different from the old way of counting jobs every six months. This correspondent is convinced, too. that no single department making out Its monthly report will show an increase in its personnel for the second time. That, of course, bars emergencies. Any one who was privi- leged to see the Bureau of the Bud- {get in action when it first learned that the Federal force been in- | creased nearly 11,000 names during 924 would share the correspondent’s opinion. As the President said, separating the Federal job and the jobholder is an unpleasant and difficult task. It is doubtedly. But in the long run, as the President sees the situation, it will help to bring about another reduc- tion in taxes. Hence it will be done— beginning at once. (Mr. Helm's next and concluding | mrticle will dixcuss other means of reducing Government employes o quiring longer hours.) (Copyright, 1825.) \TWO DOCTORS ADDED TO DISTRICT STAFF F. Y. Williamson and W. B. Mar- bury Go to Police and Fire Board. Appointment of Drs. Fred Y. Wil- liamson and Willlam B. Marbury as additional members of the board of police and fire surgeons was an- nounced by the Commissioners at board session today. Three contracts for grading new reets were awarded. as follows: W. F. Cush, Inc., to grade Brewer place; L. P. Shaw, to grade Tenth street be- tween Spring road and Quebec place, and to Latimer & Maloney, to grade Fifteenth street northeast from New- ton street A contract for the purchase of 50 new fire hydrants for the Fire De- partment was awarded to the A. P. Smith Manufacturing Co, Kellogg Named to Deb; Body. The nomination of Secretary Kellogg to be a member of the World War of former Secretary Hughes was sent to the Senate yesterday by President Coolidge. Bananas shipped by Guatemala to this country last year were valued at $1,000,000 more than those of 1923. o e L R 2R Stratford ] Apartments 2010 Kalorama Road Exceptional apart- ments of three and five rooms and bath in new five-story building. El- evator. Oil-heated building. Refrigerator in each apartment. Shower baths. Beauti- fully decorated. Best location in city. One block from car line. Reasonable rentals. Apartments as low as $67.50. oorgfl& Hill it| hard on the separated individuals, un- | Foreign Debt Commission in the place | 730 17th St. N. W. | | place. STAR, WASHINGTO “CHLD FARMING N DISTRET DENED Social Workers - Deciare Gross Injustice Done Board of Guardians in Charge. The “popular” idea that dependent or delinquent children are farmed out or indentured in the District of Co- lumbia is a gross misconception and should be denounced in most em- phatic terms, the Washington Council of Soclal Agencies was told yesterday by speakers at its monthly meeting at the Raleigh Hotel. Miss Grace Ab- bott, director of the Children’s Bu- reau of the Department of Labor; James uart of the Board of Chil- dren’s Guardians and Joseph W. San- ford, clerk of the Juvenile Court, ad- dressed the meeting. Mr. Stuart said it is a national shame that Washington has been try- ing to care for its dependent children under the methods that have been used. He said a lack of public under- standing is the greatest handicap the Board of Children’s Guardians labors under, its entire motive being to pro- tect, care for and rear children desti- tute of a suitable home, whose welfare might be injured if the circumstances under which they lived at home were permitted to exist. Referring to the popular misconception that children are “farmed out” in Washington, Mr. Stuart said no child has been placed on indenture in this city since 1914, Walter S. Ufford said the social agenc of the city have been “un- justly maligned” with reference to the allegation that they take children away from parents without proper cause and “farm out” these chlldren. Guardians Overworked. Soclal work should begin and end in the home, Mr. Stuart told the council, adding that the workers for the Board of Children's Guardians are now very much overloaded, each worker being responsible for 140 children, when the proper standard is regarded as 50 children per work- er. Iach year, he said, the work of the board with regard to care of de- pendent children grows less, there being about 1,600 children now in the care of the board and 2,045 cared for last year. Reviewing the work of child- caring agencies throughout the United States, Miss Abbott said no child should be taken away from its home without proper cause, and that some scheme of caring for children in their own home is needed. “The child is happiest in its own home,” Miss Ab- bott added. A child should not be removed from its home and commit- ted to a public institution without a cause so serious, she said, that con- tinued residence in the home would be detrimental to the development of the child. The aim of all child-caring institu- tions, Miss Abbott said, should be to secure a semblance of home sur- roundings and to give the child ap- proximately the same conditions under which he lives at home. Ald to the family should be given by social agencies before a period of stringency may be forced to separate the members of the family group, she declared. Miss Abbott said the transfer of a child for legal adoption | should be passed on by some State agency before legal transfer takes resent Laws a Disgrace.” characterized as a * the fact that the juvenile court law in the District of Columbia has remained unchanged for a score of years. “The laws for regulation of children here are a disgrace,” Mr. Sanford added The Juvenile Court, he said, never makes a commitment on its own motion, but on complaint usually of the Board of Children's Guardians. It is unfortunate, he added, that per- sons who are subnormal or abnormal and whom he termed “unables” in the sense that they to support their families, usually have large families. No child committed to a child home on sole ground of poverty. “The court is really one step on the road of treatment of dependent children,” he added. Others were Dr. is the joining John O in the discussion rady, head of the Catholic charities, and Miss Louise Beall of the Associated Charities. John Ihlder, president of the council, presided. - Maj. Aurand Ordered to Manila. Maj. Henry S. Aurand, Ordnance De- partment, has been relieved from duty in the office of the chief of ordnance, War Department, and ordered to Manila, P. L, for duty. standard and approved RADIO —SET— from our stock and pay for it with a small cash payment and $ the unheard De Forest, Freed-Eisemann, Atwater Kent, Operadio, Ware Neutrodyne, Pennsylvania, Radiola, Federal Radios. ANSELL, BISHOP & TURNER INC. 1221 F Street sometimes unable | D. C., TUESDAY, WORK FOR MAP LAUDED. Geographic Society Answers Letter of D. C. Commissioners. The National Geographic Society, through its president, Gilbert Groi venor, today replied to the letter re- cently made public by the District Commissioners thanking the society for -installing in Union Station the large map of Washington showing all important buildings and places. 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