Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1925, Page 5

| SPLIT THREATENED IN DISTRICT LEGION Peyser Faction’s Tactics in Fght for Commandership Arouse Wide Opposition. Stirred already to a point where some members forsee a wide split in the ranks of the organization be- cause of the holding, five days ago, of an alleged “secret caucus” to put Capt. Julius I. Peyser across as de- partment commander of the Amer- ican Legion in Washington, new fuel has been added to the internal fight in the legion by the naming of a group of delegates and alternates to the annual convention of the Amer- fcan Legion at another “secret” meet- ing of the Peyser proponents last night. The opposing faction was outspoken today in denunciation of the tactics of the group supporting Capt. Peyser, and members of the anti-Peyser group declared their in- tention of carrying the fight against such tactics to the limit when the annual convention of the District of Columbia department opens tomor- row night for the election of officers. The convention will be held in the auditorium of the Interior Depart- ment Building. Is Out of City Capt. Peyser left Washington last night for Hot Springs, Va., to attend the conveation of the District of Co- Jumbia Bank 3 ociation and will probably not attend the convention, where he is scheduled to be elected department commander. The anti- Peyser group declare the non-attend- ance of a candidate for department commander the department con- vention is without precedent. “apt. Peyser heads a slate of can- tes for the various offices named caucus held in his office in the Wilkins Building last Saturday night. The 12 posts which attended the first “caucus held another meet- ing last night and were mid to have nominated the following for delegates to the annual convention 10 be held in Omaha, Neb., in Octo- ber: Joseph J. Idler, department adju- nt and _commander of Edward Douglas White Post; W. N. Merrell, commander of Lincoln Post; Howard S. Fisk, commander of George Wash- ington Post; William Coggeswell of A.P. Gardiner Post; Austin . Imirie of Quentin Roosevelt Post and Nor- man B. Landreau of Cool ough P The latter is ve presided at thte meeting. ates to the convention were not named. Mr. Idler would not comment on the mction of last night, declaring that he did not wish to give out an inter- view. See Peyser Victor. Those close to legion affairs, have watched the trend of events of the last few days, foresee the election of Capt. Peyser after a close vote and a lasting test of strength. Lieut. Howard S. Fisk and Lieut. Charles L. Riemen are the opposition candidates already known, but other nominations may be made from the floor. The probability is, according to members, that the early balloting will find the Peyser ticket running well in front with the opposition turning from di- vided allegiance to a solid front behind ¥isk. Riemer has declared his inten- tion to back Fisk to the limit. The gap is growing wider and has been widened during the past four days by discussions between the two factions at which remarks of a per- sonal nature were passed. Nomina. tions for officers will be made tomor- Tow night, with the election scheduled for Saturday night. TRADE BOARD HEADS TO DISCUSS TAXES Will Seek Means of Keeping Dis- trict Rate Within $1.70 Maximum. who President Samuel J. Prescott has called a special meeting of the direc- tors of the Washington Board of de for next Mon afternoon at 4 o'clock to receive the report of the committee on municipal finance, which is considering a recommendation for the maximum tax rate for the District, of Columbia for the fiscal year 1927. The committee has before it the problem of sing all projected tmprovements and so allotting them that the maximum tax rate will not exceed § ). mittee is understood to have discussed as the utmost for the 19 1 year. The cost of all i s noted and expenditures balanced so the tax rate will not exceed the $1.70 figure. Chairmen of all committees which have recommended municipal im- provements calling for expenditure of | District funds will attend the meeting Monday, when efforts will be made to ascertain just what improvements the Board of Trade can recommend without pushing the tax rate above the $1.70 figure considered. “THE ACID TEST” TONIGHT Second Prize Winner in Play Con- test Will Be Given in Garden. “The Acld Test,” the second prize winner in the annual play contest con- ducted by the Arts Club, written by | Mrs. Henry Hayes, will be presented tonight in the garden of the clubhouse, 2017 I street, by the dramatic commit. tee of the Arts Club, of which Mrs, Maud Howell Smith is chairman. Mrs. Hayes Is also the author of the play which was awarded first prize, produced in May. The leading part of a Hawaifan girl in “The Acid Test” will be taken by Miss Caroline McKinley, with other roles taken by Denis E. Connell, who 1s also directing the play; Mrs. William Wolfe Smith, Orme Libbey, Miss Anne Peeples and Miss Judy Lyeth. Singers in the production vAll be Harry An- gelico, Wilmer Hepner, Teddy Rose and Jultan Stewart. Preceding “The Acid Test,” the mu- sic committee of the club, under the direction of Paul Bleyden, will present an operetta in one act, “The Maglc Hour,” with Miss Helen V. Harper figure which the com- | The Beginning of a Beaut "WELL, ¥ SEE ANOTHER. FPOLITICIAR HAS B Ene CAUGHT RAIDING THE PUBLIC FUMD S IT'S MOST DEPRESSMNG] I'M CoONVIMCED ALL PourTiclans ARe CROOKED! HuMmAr 15Ny HORYARS CERRAMLY, BUT You DON'T GO FAR ENOUGH . EVERYOME ™ THE WORLD 15 A CROOK AT HEART, YOU RE A NAIVE OLO 8008 THE EVENING iful Friendship. WMAT Do You ExPECTT HE'S [ D C e ? €ExPOSE — MC CABE WA A GRAND OLD 8oy - MC CABE . STRAIGHT asiaipie siov AT \SHOMES T HAL .?N His HEAD: HE WAS SOME FoLt- TictArs Too Ky PRICE CUTTING HIT AT DRUGGIST PARLEY Chain Systems and Corporations Are Crippling Retailers, Vir- ginians Are Told. By the Associated Press. STAUNTON, Va., June 25.—Suc- cess in obtaining the withdrawal of many regulations which have worked hardships upon the retail druggists of this country was reported vester- | day by Frank T. Stone, Washington, chairman of the legislative commit- tee of the National Association of Re- | tail Druggists, speaking before the annual convention of the Virginia Pharmaceutical Association here. “The active and intensive co-opera- tion™ of the retail druggists of Vir- ginia was asked in_the national asso- clation’s efforts to have laws enacted to stop the practice of price-cutting, which Mr. Stone characterized as one of the deadliest bloys at the regular retail drug trade. “Virginia as yet has mno cities whose hearts are being eaten out by greedy chain systems and heartless corporations,” he said. ‘“Come with me to Washington. New York, Balti- more, Cincinnati, Chicago and many of the other larger cities—there I wil show you the hard-w <ing, earnest, onscientlous, painstakin- fellow-drug: zist like you and me, owly losing zround daily. Last year more than T would like to admit passed out of business—broken, discouraged, hope- less—never to return. P NEW BOMB:PLOT IN SHANGHAI NIPPED; DRAGON DAY CALM (Continued from First Page.) serts that soldiers and police at the | British concession suddenly npened. fire with machine guns and rifles | after the parade had passed almost | entirely up Shakee street. The fire, | the Chinese official contends, was| directed at the crowds, and was par- ticipated in by police and soldiers of the French concession, who followed the British lead. A Portuguese gunboat fired big guns, with the result that the killed and wounded totaled more than 100. This brutal killing was premeditated and secretly planned, the civil gover- nor asserts. When he heard the par- ticulars, the Chinese official said he was exceedingly amazed, and in duty bound to enter the most serious pro-| test. He added that the entire re- sponsibility for the affair rested upon the civil and military officials at the French and British concessions and the Portuguese soldiers and gunboats concerned. Denies Gunboat Fired. The British consul general. reply- ing, points out that the Portuguese gunboat took no part in the unfortu- nate affair. It was the defense forces of the British and French concessions alone who replied to an attack made on them by Chinese troops or military students on their side of the canal. “I can, from the evidence of my own eyes, make the statement on oath,” he says, “that the firing was first started by Chinese. “The senior British naval officer and myself were standing unarmed by the bridge for the special purpose of guarding against any precipitate or hervous action on the part of the de-\ fenders, ond only escaped with our | lives out of a hail of bullets directed | s. 2t was only then that in self-defense fire was opened from Shameen and by French forces, which were smiilarly attacked. The firing from Shameen ceased even before the sniping from the tops of houses opposite by Chinese soldiers was discontinued. “You state that the action taken by and Louis B. Goodyear in leading roles. The musical accompaniment for * “The Magic Hour” will be played by Miss Violet Kelk, on the violin; Miss Dlive Kelk, cello; Steele H. Cole, flute, and Miss Elizabeth Swenk, piano. The plays will be given at 8:30 o'clock, following dinner served at 7. Mrs. Hayes will be the honor guest of the club at the dinner. it e - I Mrs. Langtry (Lady de Bathe), the former English actress, is one of the few women who have had a town named in their honor This hap- she was touring the and a Canadian named Roy Bean founded the flourishing: ~AQWR-0k Langtcy, in Texas, the British and French authorities was nremeditated. This I absolutely deny.” The consul general points out that the premeditation was on the part of “hinese troops or military students, who, as well known before hand, and pointed out to Chav Chu-wu in the consul general’s letter of June 22, had determined to create an incident with the view of posing as magtyrs after- ward. Attack Was Anticipated. The consul general states that it was well known in Chinese circles in Hongkong and Canton on June 22 that an attack on Shameen was contem- plated and would take ghuee on the 230, and that ia the of the You SALO T THe Boss WAS OME OF NATURG S NOBLEMEN. A FINE CHARACTER., HE'S ™MOT 1~ Poutmics How €ouT 1OW HIS BROTHER? Soemme PAY 23d_two motor cars were distributing leaflets signed “Students’ Union of the hool of {wangtung v, inciting all and sundry to rise and drive out foreigners. The consul general most emphatically the charge that responsibility the foreigners for the recent dis- turbances and asks the civil gov- ernor to take the most complete measures for safeguarding the lives of British residents in and around Canton. Miss Julia Meadows, American missionary, one of the refugees ar- riving here from Canton, declares the Canton government was warned two days before Tuesday's shooting that a plot was on foot to attack the foreigners, byt that it took no repudiates Chinese rests with adequate steps to prevent blondshed. | The firing from the bund upon Shameen, the foreign settlement, she says, deliberately started by “hiny students under the leader- ship of a Russian. (This corroborates Hongkong dis- patches through London yesterday. Shameen, she says, now is ade- quately protected by gunboats and troops. About 150 refugee Japanese women and children, former residents of Canton, arrived here today. 23 TO BE PELLE! PARIS Matin says #). — Le addition to June that 25 in the seven Chinese conducted to the | Belgian frontier and expelled from France vesterda other warrants for expulsion have been signed. Some 50 Chinese, it add Belgium of their own accord last night and a compatriot handed each one a 100-franc note as he departed. The seven expelled yesterday were implicated in the forcible entry of the Chinese legation here last Sun- day. 20,000 PARADE. LONDON, June 25 (#).—Agency dis- patches from Peking say ,000 stu- dents, merchants and workmen pa- aded the streets today with banner: inscribed “Declare War on England. The dispatches say the demonstrators shouted{ “Death to the English bri- gade,” but that therg were no signs of further disturbances and that less enthusiasm was shown today than during previous Chinese demonstra- tions. Many Chinese troops and police guarded foreign houses and shops, and all entrances to the legation quarters were kept under observation. WOULD LIMIT PARLEY. PEKING, June 25 (#).—Representa- tives of the foreign legutions today objected to including in the proposed Chinese conference matters not direct- 1y related to the recent strike disturb- ances at Shanghai. This attitude was expressed verbally to the Chinese for- eign office by Signor Cerruti, Italian minister and dean of the foreign min- isters stationed here. The suggested conference would be between represen- tatives of the Chinese and foreign gov- ernments. No disturbances occurred here today during the mass meeting and parade for the Dragon Boat festival. It had been reported that anti-foreign demon- strations might be attempted, but as a matter of fact the parade was less impressive and animated than in for- mer years. %@orm ! SEEMS AsTHOUGH SOME GRAFTING () YoLiTiCiAars 1S Too BAD AGOLT Boss A REMARKABLE MAN - MC CABE « | MET Him OMNCE AND 2 YEARS LATER MET HIM AGAIN. HE REMEMBERE D ™ME AMD LUMCH WITH ME left for | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1925. -BY WEBSTER.|LA FOLLETTE SONS’ ABILITIES PROBLEM BEFORE NEW PARTY | Both Display Some of Father’s Traits—But Both Are Yet Untried in Independent Leadership—W idow of Wisconsin Senator His Possible Successor. Say, You ALk AS THOUGH THE PoLITICIAN 'S HAD A Mor™~oPoLy Or ° DISHoNCSTY. PONT) 8e A F_a/o_l.: VERY { HAD THE SAME EX- PERIEM CE WITH Hit, HE CALLED ME BY NAME S YEARS AFTER ‘D MET thm! SNT AT ? CALLED ME mea Yeu SAIO ! BuUT | CAN'T PossiBLY ©O \ T rMucH BEFORE ‘\'t:l_!_S NOJ)"“ = 'HURRIED WEIGHING OF, MEAT BANNED Dealers Found to Gain by Too Snappy Work With Scales to Be Arrested. Meat dealers who make a practice yvanking a piece of meat off the {scale before they or the prospective | purchasers have a chance to read the | weight on the fluctuating indicator are frowned upon by the District gov. ernment. Suspicions that the habit more often was calculated to rebound to the bene- fit of the dealer than to the customer have been verified b s of secret investigations, s eorge M. Roberts of the Weights and Measures Department announced today. Mr. Roberts already has ordered prosecution of several dealers under |the short-weight regulations. A flagrant case was found on na avenue, he said. An inspec- the weig department pur- sed from a dealer there a smoked shoulder. He ed the price per pound, and it v ed to be 184 |ce He then selected a shoulder |and said that he would take that one. | The dealer placed it on the scale, re. moved it quickly before the inspector saw what it weighed and told him that it came to $1.15. The weight was five pounds. should have been a little over pounds at the price quoted, | Roberts stated About half hour spector in this department went to the same address and made a pur- chase of a smoked shoulder. The same method was followed and the shoulder priced at the same price per pound. He was charged $1.48 The weight received was 5 pounds and three-fourths ounce. At the price quoted it should have been eight pounds. The shortage was therefore almost three pounds on this sale, &t was pointed out Chief Inspector Diller saw both pur- chases made, but was not close enough to hear the price. He had the oulders brought to this office and re- weighed them, and knows that they were the same shoulders purchased. The person making the last pur- chase did not know the price pald by the one making the first purchase. Both reported paying the same price per pound without knowing what the other had paid. FRATERNITY TO MEET. The thirteenth annual convention of Delta Sigma Phi National Fraternity will be held tomorrow and Saturday. Organized in Central High School in 1912, the fraternity now has five chapters in the District, which were located until the last few years in the five white high schools. " Since that time it has become a commercial or- ganization and has at this time 10 chapters outside of Washington. The convention will open with a luncheon at the City Club at 12:30 o'clock tomorrow. ~Another session will be held at the Willard Hotel at 8 o'clock and will be followed by a buf- fet supper at midnight. A tour of the city and a roof garden party at the Willard at 9:30 o'clock are features of Saturday’s program. of It six Mr. later another in- Business success—social stand- ing—depends on appearances. Your watch—your diamonds— make an impression before you speak a word. . s ILLINOIS-STERLING 17 Jewels Adjusted, guaranteed. A new movement if yours fails to give service. oy Er | BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Sons may follow the footsteps of their fathers in business and in golf— sometimes even in the professions— but it would seem that statesmanship is an exception to the rule. Never- theless, Washington is wondering if there is to be an exception to the ex- ception in the case of the two sons of the late Senator Robert Marion La Follette. There is young ‘‘Battling Bob' and the still younger “Fighting Phil,” both with a flair for politics and both determined to have a polit- ical career under the tutelage of their fiery father. The question now arises as to whether the fledglings had pro- gressed sufficiently far in their educa- tion and aptitude to carry on without the assistance the late Senator was preparing to give. Young “T. R.” Failed. Washington had placed high hopes in the abllity of young Col. Theodore Roosevelt to follow in the footsteps of his f{llustrious father and eventually reach the White House, where the elder “Teddy” ruled so long and so loud, but young “T. R.'s"” career got a check last Fall when he had his op- portunity to become Governor of New York in a Republican landslide year, but was defeated by *Al"” Smith, Democratic incumbent. Republican politiclans say that a defeat by Al Smith shouldn’'t count in considering the availability of young Roosevelt and they believe he will come~”back 400 ARE INVITED TO DEFENSE SHOW All Civic Bodies Are Urged to At- tend July 4 Affair at Central High. Four hundred invitations to attend the celebration of Independence day and Defense day in Central High Sta- dium on the evening of Saturday, the 4th of July, at 8 o'clock, have been sent in the name of the execu- tive committee charged with the de- tailed arrangements for the occasion by Mrs. Cecil Norton Broy, director of the Community Center department, District of Columbia public schools, to prominent officials of the Federal and city governments, to officers of leading educational and patriotic or- ganizations and to directors of civic groups here in Washington Among the special guests on the evening of July 4 will be members of the boards of directors of the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade, the Citizens' Advisory Councll and delegates to the Federation of Citi- zens' Associations, editors of local newspapers and representatives of the press covering activities of the public school system here. All Bodies Expected. Prominent churchmen of the city, justices of the District of Columbia courts and presidents of local univer- sities and of all eivic clubs, including Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, itan, So- journer, Men’s City, Women's City, Federation of Women's Clubs, Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, the Society of Natives, Oldest In- habitants, State regent of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, the presidents of the Sons of the Revolu- tion and the Sons of the American Revolution, officers of the Mothers' Congress and presidents of parent- teachers’ associations meeting in com- munity center buildings are expected to be present and will be seated in specially reserved sections in the big stadium. The guests of honor will include members of the Board of District Commissioners, justices of the District of Columbia Supreme Court, members of the Board of Education and public school officials of the District. Per- sonal letters of invitation have like- wise been sent by Mrs. Broy to the members of the cabinet who are in the city and by Mr. Gans to Gen. Persh- ing, Gen. Rockenbacher, Admiral Eberle and Gen. Lejeune to be present. SmEeE B FULKERSON ADDRESSES KIWANIS CONVENTION By the Assoclated Press. ST. PAUL, June 25.—An address by Roe Fulkerson of Washington brought yesterday’s session of the Kiwanis in- ternational convention tb a close. Robert Lynn Cox, vice president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York, explained to members how life insurance provided longevity as- surance. Last night Kiwanians attended a Midsummer ice carnival in Minne- apolis, where a hockey game between the St. Paul and Minneapolis clubs was played. John H. Moss of Milwaukee, Wis., was the unanimous choice of the nomi- nating committee for the next presi- dent. TREE,- ATTACH from his Indian hunting trip with a new appeal to the people. It was not young Roosevelt’s defeat, however, so much as his weakness on the stump that has caused doubt to arise here at the Capital if he will follow his father to the highest political peaks. Young T. R. spoke breezily, but all too briefly to his big audiences, the burden of the real spellbinding being passed along to older and more experi- enced heads. Perhaps this was due to the G. O. P. management of the campalgn, Perhaps they should have given young Roosevelt his head and let him go. But whatever the fault, many mistakes were made and Al Smith smilingly won an easy victory. Share Father’s Traits. Next to young “T. R.” public political interest will center in the La Follette boys, both of whom seem to have inherited some of the traits that helped to make their father famous. ~ Neither of the two sons, however, seems to have inherited all of the father's political assets. If either had done so the task of suc ceeding the father would have been far simpler. Both of the La Follette boys shared in their father’s campaign for the presidency last Fall on a third party ticket. Both are at home be- fore an audience and both have the sift of ‘political craft. Whether they have the skill and the strength to go forward alone, whether one is to resign a public career to make room for the other, or whether both will tempt political faith in a name and a cause, are questions for the future to settle. Of the two boys, Philip, the younger, who is about 28, already has had his tast of public office. Last Fall he was elected district attdrney of Dane County, of which Madison is t Young Phil has inherited his 'S powerful voice, his father's effective shock of hair, and many of his father's stump-speeching mannerisms. In ac tion he is a delight to the old admirers of “Fighting Bob,” but no one yet knows whether he possesses the polit ical finesse, tact, shrewdness and sagacity which must be the handmaid ens of stumpling abllity if success is to be attained. Young Phil is far more suggestive of his father than young T. R. was suggestive of the colonel, al though the younger Roosevelt often displayed, consciously or unconscious. ly. many of the nannerisms which had heightened the popularity of his father. ~Mannerisms may add to a man's appeal, but of course they do not make_ him. Mrs. La Follette May Run. Both of the La Follette boys have an advantage over young Col. Roose. velt in that they were close compan ions of their father in their maturer years. They have watched, studied and appreciated his methods. They have had long tutoring in his school of politics. Young T. R. got his last- ing impressions of his father after the latter had left the White House and his days of political success were ended. Young Bob La Follette differs in large degree from his brother. He is the more quiet of the two. The father’'s quiet work appealed to him more than his oratory. Young Bob makes a good speech, shows a wide grasp of public affairs, but he is more at home in a group than on the stump. They say he was being groomed by his father for the gov- ernorship of Wisconsin. Recently there has been some talk that Mrs. La Follette might be select- ed to succeed her husband in the Sen- ate. She would far prefer that one of her sons should have the honor, but in whose favor would she resign, if the opportunity presented? (Copyright_1925) Hotel Inn Phone Main 8108-81 604-610 9th St. N.W, $7 rooms, $6 weekly: $10.50 rooms. z! ‘II with toilet, shower and la . $10: % more. 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