Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1925, Page 2

2 * MASON MEMORIAL ON ISLAND PLANNED Construction of Park Across Potomac Favored by Developers. BY WILLIAM 4. WHEATLEY. Acquisition for park purposes of An alostan Island, on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, and its develop ment as a memorial to George Mason, who once owned it, is to receive the immediate attention of the group in Washington, Maryland and Virginia | which is working for the regional de velopment of the National Capital. This island, which is separated by & small stream from Columbia Island destined to play a prominent part in the Arlington Memorial Bridge proj ect, is now owned by the Washington Gas Light Company, and unless pur- chased for park purposes is to be the site for a large gas works. It lies near the 14 acres of Potomac shore property recently purchased by the National Capital Park Commission. Representative R. Walton Moore of Virginia, - who is actively engaged in the regional development work, said Jast week that he was very much in favor of the acquisition of this land and would work for its purchase. He has already had the matter up with Lieut. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, ex ecutive officer of the Natlonal Capital Park Commission. The latter said that the island must become a part of the park system, as the governg ment of the metropolitan districl could not afford to see its utilization for commercial purposes Wants Memorial Land. Representative Moore recalled that the land was originally owned by George Mason of Gunston Hall, author of the Bill of Rights and the first writ ten Constitution in the country. It would be a fitting memorial to Mr. Mason, Representative Moore believes, and there is none at this time. This year, Mr. Moore declared, would be good time to purchase the island, it is the 200th anniversary of birth of Mason. The development of the metropoli tan district should also extend as far as Great Falls, Mr. Moore continued. 80 that the beautiful palisades of the Potomac could be preserved. Quarry- men now are destroying these beauties as they blast out the granite for com mercial purposes, and quick steps must be taken to preserve it. While Representative Moore said that the details of the development must be left to the officlals and people directly interested from the com munity improvement standpoint, he nevertheless is fostering it in every possible way. Representative Moore, has been one of the prime movers in bringing about the development work. The Arlington County Board of Supervisors, E. C. Turnburke, W. J. Ingram and Edward Duncan, have taken offictal action to place the hoard on record as being In full accord with the plan of having a central planning committee for development of the area surrounding Washington and to that end adopted the following resolution last week: Board Backs Move. “Resolved, by the Board of Super- visors of Arlington County, Va., that it thoroughly approves the suggestion of the governor of the State relative to the co-operation of the authorities of this county with the National Capital Park Commission, and will be glad to confer with the commission at such times and in such manner as the commission may find convenient in respect to any proposed action in- volving the interests of the county and looking to its development and ‘welfare.” Impetus given during the week just closed to plans for the metropolitan district is believed by those most in- terested to assure the ultimate realiza tion of the project. Interest in the movement is taking such a hold that some persons in adjacent States already are offering plots of land to the National Capital Park Commission for use as a part of the metropolitan district develop- ment. Others have offered large plots provided the Government would pur- chase the rest, not at prohibitive or speculative prices. but at such a price as a board of appraisers might fix One land owner in Virginia, whose name is withheld for the present, al. ready’ has made a valid offer of four acres of woodland for use as a part of the National Capital park system. The commission has authority to ac cept such offers, and it probably will accept this the Plan Gateway Development. Maryland, District Government officia of the present week and and Federal met at the head Sixteenth street last agreed on a plan for de- veloping the extension of this thor oughfare, which met with the ap- proval of all. It was the first real step in this co-operative movement, which brought out the sincerity of purpose of those who now are work ing for the development of the great metropolitan district. Sixteenth street is to be the grand gateway to the city from the north, west and east, and it was decided to preserve the high hill there, and to prevent any deep cut which would destroy forever the beauty ‘of this site for future de- velopment into a great memorial. With this concrete evidence of wholesome co-operation in mind, rep- resentatives of Virginia, Maryland and the Federal Government met at a luncheon at the City Club the fol lowing day, Friday, and gether the strong support of three commiunities, including the Dis- trict of Columbia. for mobilizing the sentiment of these autonomous sub- divisions behind a great movement to have the national and State legis latures pass legislation which would bring about the formation of an allied city planning committee, with full authority to make plans for the development, but reserving to each of the geographical entities the veto power. This meeting is to be held at the Interior Department Auditorium here at a date to be fixed by a special committee on arrangements appoint- ed on the motion of T. Howard Duckett, chairman of the Washing ton Suburban Sanitary Commi: of Maryland, and consisting of Maj. E. Brooke Lee, secretary of state of Maryland; Mr. Duckett, R. C. Plymale and Arthur Orr of the Arlington County Civic Federation. So that the official power of the two States and their representatives in the National Congress might ob- serve the spontaneity with which the movement has grown, there are to be invited Gov. Albert Ritchie of Maryland, Gov. E. Lee Trinkle of Virginia and the Senators and Repre- gentatives of these two States. Also there will be the county representa- 1ives of those countles bordering on the District of Columbia and repre- sentatives of commissions having charge of the development of these communities. Congress Action Expected. As it is these State sections which are to receive the greatest benefits of the development, they are the prime movers in the plans for this gigantic development. The District of Colum- bia and the Federal Government through the National Capital Park Commiseion 'are wholeheartedly, for, welded to- | the | sion | wan Prisons Full, | U.S. Seeks Space in | State Institutions | By the Associated Press. The Federal Govarnment is short of prison space for confine- nient of offenders against its law | and is looking to State authori- ties for help. ‘The Justice will complete Department soon a canvass of avail- able empty cells in te penal institutions, where it already has many prisoners quartered under a contract system. Department of- i e not received the co- tion they had hoped for from te officials, but some additional omimodations have been found. s probable that the first big assignment of prisoners wjill go to Texas, where it is believed 200 additional can be quartered. The Federal prisons at Atlanta and Leavenworth each is housing more than 3,200 convicts. The i crease is attributed by depart- ment officials to Attorney General Sargent’s effort to clear the Fed- eral dockets. ESTIMATE PARING TO BEGIN THIS WEEK City Heads to Tackle Reduc- | tion of 1927 Fig- i | ures. With recommendations before them from the Board of Tradeand from the Citizens’ Advisory Council as to proj- ects that shouid be sought from Con- gress at the next session, the District | Commissioners will begin a careful study of the 1927 estimates early this week in order to submit a total figure to the Budget Bureau before July 15 The original recommendations b department heads aggregated more than $47,000,000. The Commissioners already have gone once through these tentative suggestions with the blue pencil. The results of this first pruning have not been tabulated, but it is be- lieved the total still is something over $40.000,000. This means that the sec- ond perusal of the estimates this week { will result in further paring. It is reported that calculations are being made at the District Building to determine how much the estimates could total, based on a tax rate for 1927 of $1.70, the rate just fixed for the current fiscal year. $38,500,000 Total Seen. It has that a 500,000 been unofficially estimated budget of approximately $38,- could be handled for 1927 without raising the tax rate above $1.70. This calculation may have to altered somewhat in the light of further study. For example, it may be necessary for the Commissioners to figure on raising a larger sum next year toward stablishment of the cash working fund which Congress has decreed must be provided, in order that the city will be able to meet its current expenses each month before taxes arc collected in November. For the past several years the city has been raising $600,000 annually toward the cash working fund. The annual appropriation bill for the Dis. trict has increased in total, however, to such an extent that a larger cash fund may be nece: ry. Another factor which enters into the question of what the tax rate will be in 1927 is that of fiscal relations. Both the Board of Trade and the Ad visory Council are urging a more equitable division of expense bhetween the Federal and District governments than the present temporary plan, under which the United States pays a lump sum of $6,000,000 and leaves the District to raise the balance of the appropriation total. Fenning to Return. Commissioner Fenning will return from his vacation tomorrow and it is likely that the full Board of Com- missioners, assisted by Auditor Daniel J. Donovan and Secretary Daniel E. Garges, will begin detailed considera- tion of budget items Tuesday. It has been figured that the bare maintenance of the machinery of the city government next year will call for $25,000,000. The question for the Commissioners to decide now is how much above that figure they should £o in asking for municipal develop- ment, such as completion of the water supply, building of new schools a new Chain Bridge, a buflding for the recorder of deeds, additional structures at Gallinger Hospital and milar projects, including the appro- priation for the National Capital Park Commission The relative importance of big projects will be weighed care. fully by the Commissioners in the coming conferences before deciding on a total budget to be submitted to the Bureau of the Budget. these the plan, and it is believed that when Congress is apprised of the unanim- {1ty of the action, which is certain to follow the big meeting, it will pro- vide the necessary authority, and that |the two State Legislatures will take | similar action to authorize the co operation of their respective States. | _All that remains for the States to do after authorizing the appointment of | committees to become a part of the | central regional development commit- tee is to co-operate in the plans formu- lated by it. Funds for the planning { work will be provided through the Na- | tional Capital Park Commission and it | was suggested by those in close touch | with this movement that the services | of well known city planners could be | obtained, through their willingness to come here and work on a plan which would stand out as a great monument. Committees are to be appointed in the near future by both the Maryland and Virginia authorities to prepare drafts of the proposed legislation to | bring_about the co-operation looked | for, and these drafts will be presented at the meeting to be held here. Arthur Orr, who presided at the meeting last week at the City Club pointed out that while the dominions across the Potomac were functioning on a county basis, they were really a city now, and it was realized there by those whe had the development at heart that they could not succeed and progress unless they tied up with the Natfonal Capital and carried along their development in accord with that Jof the District of Columbia, and now they were more closely tied with it on account of the building of the big bridges. This was the birth of the movement which has recetved such im- petus in the past few weeks. In promoting this great movement, Col. Sherrill pointed out that neither {autonomous subdivision would lose any of its authority, and each would retain its veto power. The plans would be worked out by the repre. sentatives of each, and then it would be up to the States to carry them out. It simply means that all will join in one planning agency, and he prom- ised that the full support of the park commission and the District gqvern- ment authorities could be expecieds 5, 1925—PART Left to right: Mrs. Quinn, wife of Mayor Quinn of Cambridge; Gov. Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts, Mayor Quinn of Cambridge, President Coolidge, Mrs. Coolidge and Senator William Butler of Massachusetts, seen in the reviewing stand at Cambridge, Mas: when the Chief Executive reviewed the parade which was a part of the cele- bration in honor of the 150th anniversary of the memorable day when George Washington took command of the Continental Arm; Cambridge. SEVEN LOSE LIVES IN APARTMENT FIRE Victims Trapped as 3-Story Wooden Building Burns at Saranac Lake. By the Associated Press SARANAC LAKE, N. Y., July 4.— Seven persons lost their lives in a fire which a threestory woodenz apartment house here early today, either trapping the victims in their rooms or cutting off their escape. The origin of the fire was undetermined. The flames started in the rear of the building, either in the basement or on the first floor. The dead: Gaorge Martin, Chateaugay eorge Duckett. 21, of Saranac Lake, and his infant daughter. Peter Dwver, 35, of Saranac Lake. Kenneth Monikey, 11, of Saranac Lake. 3 Robert McGowan, 16, of Burlington, vt. Joseph McGowan a brother of Robert. 3 Mrs. George Duckett is in a critical condition at the General Hospital. She sustained serfous burns, and was in- jumping from a third-story swept 65 years old, of of Burlington, Duckett. evidently believing that she was holding her child, drop- ped a pillow into the arms of the fire- men below. Then she jumped to earth. Jumped ip the earth. Two hours later when the firemen were able to enter the building they found the baby dead in:its crib. & The bodies of the McGowan brothers also were found in bed. The other victims were found:in the hallway, with the exception of George Martin, whose body was lying across a window ledge. Mrs. Sarah Monikey, mother of Kenneth, was taken to the General Hospital, but it was believed that her injuries were not serious. The burned building formerly was a hotel known as the Adirondack House, but recently was made over into apartments. It was damaged to the extent of $15,000. NATION'S TEACHERS ASK MODEL SCHOOL SYSTEM IN CAPITAL (Continued from First Page.) tional significance and should typify the best in education,” he said. “It is unfortunate that educational condi- tions there are unsatisfactory.” The newly elected president of the . BE. A, Miss Mary McSkimmon of Brookline, Mass., is another who be- lieves that the Washington schools should occupy the educational lime- light of the Nation, and promised to use her influence as head of an edu- cational organization that boasts a membership of 147,000 teachers and school officers, to bring such a condi- tion to a realization. “Washington schools cannot help being a system that has a more far- reaching influence than any other system,” she said. “Representatives in Congress from the whole country place the Capital’s schools under trib- Lone Dollar Fine Is Total Business Of Traffic Court In the quiet. sultry atmosphere of the Traffic Court last night, far removed from any hint of the proverbial roaring crowd, another record fell by the wayside when Judge Macdonald heard only two cases and collected a total of but $1 in fines. The smallest number of cases heard in any previous night was and the largest total was T4. The lone contributor was Aibert Jackson, colored, of 647 Girard street northwest, who was fined §1 for ignoring the stop sign at Thir- teenth street and Florida avenue. Blame it on the sultry weather, lack of patriotism or whatever you wish, the fact remains that the District was losing money, so the judge, calling it a bad day, ad Jjourned court a half hour early and went home. Thirty-five men and women were before Judge Macdonald in Police Court yesterday on charges of in- toxication. Some of the holiday irit must have pervaded the s heart, for he released most of them on their personal bond. board, Congress and the other agen- cles with which he has to deal. “We, and I mean virtually every person connected with the National Education Association, believe that the Washington schools ought to be the best in the United Staes. The sup- erinendents all are happy because Washington was selectd as the con- vention city for the department of superintendence next February, and they will go there primarily to express their appreciation to Dr. Ballou and the school board for making the Dis- trict schools what they ought to be.” Ballou’s Work Praised. Dr. Ballou’s untiring and persistent efforts to build & model school system in Washington in face of the numer- ous obstacles were lauded highly by Dr. J. M. Gwinn, superintendent of schools of San Francisco. I hope when the superintendents come to Washington in February for their con- vention,” he remarked, “that the Cap- ital's schools will be so far advanced that they will serve as an inspiration.” “You have a great superintendent in Washington,” Dr. Gwinn added. ““He does not move until he knows in which direction he should move. We feel that the Washington schools are coming very rapidly to the front in educational leadership. The teachers’ salary bill and the huge building pro- gram almost brought the achievement which the country’'s educators are looking toward."” Hawaiians Interested. Even in far away Hawali, the teach- ersand school authorities are support- ing the movement for a model school system {n the National Capital. E. V. Savers, chalrman of the Hawaiian delegation at the convention, pointed out that the teachers in Hawaii are in- tensely interested in the national project of making the schools in Washington the most efficient in the country. “We wish to look to the public schools of Washington for leadership in education,” he said. “The teachers of Hawail are progressive and will be keenly appreciative of the scientific and effective procedure as the City of Washington might well provide for the schools of the Nation. We also are very glad indeed that a splendid building program is to be carried out in the Capital. This, together with the increased salaries for the teachers, are the first big steps in realization of this ideal of the teachers of the country.” ute for their own children during resi- dence there, and the influence of that system will be carried to the farther- most corners of our country. “The greatest need in public.school education today is to conserve the precious years of every school child to the end of making them of the highest possible value. The reasrch necessary to lift all school systems to a higher standard will be possible when under the new education bill the Federal Government makes the results of research and experimenta- tion available to every school system in the land. 1l teachers visit Washington whenever their duties make it pos- sible and the study of the schools there, planned and equipped with the best curriculum and the widest op- portunity for the development of in- itiative service and leadership on the part of the directing authorities and children alike, will have a far-reach- ing effect in putting forward the cause of education in the most di tant school system in our country. Recent Laws Are Praised. Snactment of the Keller teacher’s salary law, giving increased compen sation to the District teachers, and the authorization by Congress of the gigantic $19,000,000 school bullding program has been “very gratifying to the educational _profession,” com- mented Walter R. Siders, superin- tendent of schools of Pocatello, Idaho, and chairman of the board of {rustees of the N. E. A. “We believe,” he sald, “that the National Capital should set the pace for the public schools of the country. That can only be done by maintaining high standards in the per- sonnel of the teaching staff, and ma- terial equipment and in providing a curriculum adequate to modern edu- cational progress.” Jesse Newlon of California, the re- tiring president of the association, stressed his sympathy for Dr. Ballou because of the diffiult problems con- nected with the operation of the Dis- trict schools. “The superintendent in (PAINLEVE RENEWS WAR DEBT PLEDGE Premier Declares He Wil Honor All Obligations. Lauds Amity With U. S By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 4—Premier Painle speaking at the Fourth of July ban- quet of the American Chamber of Commerce of Paris tonight, declared once more: “France does not seek and never sought to repudiate her debts. No effort ever discouraged her. No obstacle ever deterred her. Despite the war devastations she will honor all her obligations and will make all attempts that are humanly possible. All she seeks is the best way of meeting her obligations. The premier was applauded many times during his remarks, as he con- tinued: “You, being men of affairs, know the difficulty in the working of the Dawes plan; it is a singularly difficult and delicate question. One nation, in order to pay, must exxport much— just at the time when barriers are erected throughout the world against such exxportations. But with zood will on both sides we will reach a just, equitable and measured solu- tion.” Stresses Amity Toward U. S. . He quoted Kipling's “take up the white man’s burden.” and made refer- ence to the duty imposed upon the great nations of preserving western civilzation against overzealous and undeveloped races, referring indirect- 1y to China and directly to Morocco, where France was operating with “firmness and resolution,” and added: “When we fight in Morocco we ara not trving to conquer. We are sol- diers of civilization in Europe.” With reference to the Fourth of July, M. Painleve said “How natural for a Frenchman to celebrate your fete as If it were his own! When we have such common remembrances we are sure of our ability to traverse the future in frank- ness, loyalty and friendship,” The American Ambassador, Myron T. Herrick, sald it was most fitting that the United States embassy should be opened on July 4, because “France was the first country to which we as a new Nation turned to establish contact.” Touching debts, the Am- bassador recalled the agreement which Benjamin Franklin signed in 1782 with Vergennes (French foreign min- ister) for the repayment of loans re- ceived from France, and whereby Louis XVI deferred certain payments, saving he was willing- “to give the said United States new proof of our affection and friendship.” Mr. Herrick praised the declaration made yesterday by M. Briand, the French foreign minister, who, in announcing that the French govern ment had decided to send a debt fund- ing commission to the United States, avowed that France's debt to Amer- ica was sacred, and that she would not repudiate it, but would pay to the utmost of her ability, and that the French would still have remaining their debt of gratitude. James M. Beck, former United States Solicitor General, alluding to recent White House warnings to un- official American spokesmen abroad to observe silence, said the fault of all democracies was the tendency to loquaciousne: THEN and NOW . Washington babies again fared well during the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1925. According to the Health Office. of 9,277 born in the past year only 113 died of intestinal troubles, or not more than 1 of Every 82 Born Years ago, when we began our campaign of educating Washington mothers, over one-fourth of all babies born died before they were one year old. Every family ‘with a—Eby suffered worry and heartaches because of feeding troubles, which were the rule here and elsewhere. Every mother dreaded the second Summer. During the past four years we have mailed our The Bottle-Fed Baby to all Washington homes where a baby was born. This pamphlet, in simple and clear language, educates mothers in how to feed and raise babies that have to be brought pamphlet, up on the bottle, We believe that this education of Washington moth- ers has been largely responsible for the almost total dis- appearance of feeding troubles among Washington babies and for their nowadays generally healthy appearance. Mothers who receive our pamphlet will save them- selves worry. and anxiety by strictly following the direc- tions given therein. Washington,” he declared, “has to deal with more complicated situations than any other superintendent. Dr. Ballou owes much of his succes§ to Bureau of \Health Education E. Berliner, Sec’y. P 1 DIRIGIBLE MOORED IN'RECORD TIME Shenandoah Made Fast in 18 Minutes as Governors Observe Feat. By the Associsted Press. BAR HARBOR, Me., July 4.—A new world record for mooring an air- ship was set today by the U. Patoka, mother ship of Navy dirigi- bles, when the Shenandoah was made fast just 18 minutes after the afr- ship’s line had been picked up by the Patoka's boat. The best time previously recorded for the mooring aperation was 32 minutes, Navy S stated. Patoka, commanded by Capt. leorge J. Meyers, made the record when the Shenandoah returned from short flight on which governors of three State were passengers. They | were Govs. E. Lee Trinkle, Virginia; I2d Jackson, Indiana, and M. E. Trapp, Oklahoma. = Other 'passengers were Col. Farnum, chief of staff to Gov. Ralph O. Brewster of Maine, and Guy Torrey of Bar Harbor, a member of the governor's council The party of governors, who closed their seventeenth annual conference at Poland Spring Tuesday night and devoted the remainder of the to a tour of the State, divided today. | While the three executives went cruising on the Shenandoah, Gov. ! Brewster led the rest of the party on water trip 1o Camden on board Cyrus K. Curtis’ yacht Lyndonia, and were entertained at luncheon at the Camden Yacht Club. This ended the program of the week, and the gover- nors and their party dispersed to re- turn to their homes. The three governors who made the flight expressed the greatest enthus asm over their experience. They agreed that the climb to the top of the mooring mast was the most ardu- ous part of the trip, Gov, Trapp find- ing it especially irksome. Gov. Trin- kle of Virginia added a touch of phil 0sophy to the story of his sensation a8 he looked on the islands, the coast and the hills of Maine. “It makes a man feel like a power- ful small perstmmon,” he said DAWES CONFIDENT HE WILL WIN FIGHT ON SENATE RULES (Continued from Fir: t Page.) that Gen. Dawes is exploiting Senate reform as a smoke screen for presi dential plans in 1928 With all the vim, vigor and vehemence he pos- sesses, Dawes denies this soft im- peachment. Like his superior execu- tive officer, the Vice President of the United States may not be quoted. - But his whole bearing is that of violent and explosive impatience with the taunt that personal interest, not public good, is the mainspring of the warfare in which he is now enlisted. Dawes’ friends see in the effort to depict him as a presidential aspir- ant, and, therefore, a rival of Mr. Coolidge, a desire to discredit him with the President and with the public generally, on the Senate issue It is insisted in Chicago that Dawes is not a candidate for anything on earth _except victory in the conflict with Senate “tyranny” and old fogey- ism. If he can overthrow them, he will achieve the goal of all the politi- cal ambitions he cherishes at the moment. Dawes’ friends point out that if the Vice President were now gunning for the White House he would specialize in pussy-footing and not embark upon a Hell-and-Maria expedition that is loaded with polit- ical dynamite. He would be reduc ing the visible supply of elbow grease, slapping the “leaders and generally currying favor with the practical gentlemen known as the powers-that-be. None of these things finds place in the Dawes program. What his devoted supporters and ad- mirers plan and hope—that's another story, and one of which, this writer is convinced, more is going to be heard. Respects President. There is impatience, too, and some- thing more, in the Dawes region, with the recurrent reports of hostility be- tween the Vice President and Mr. Coolidge. No tinge of bad blood is discernible hereabouts. Dawes con- fesses the deepest respect for the President, both as man and states- man. As the first director of the budget the Vice President greatly admires the tenacity with which Mr. Coolidge is conducting his economy drive. It is conceded that the methods of the two men differ, and that they do not always see eye to eye. But from the Vice President's standpoint, there has not ‘been, and is not now, the remotest kind of a breach or break between them, or any cause for one, to say nothing at all of enmity. If Dawes' hat were in the ring for the presidency, that would be a horse of a different color. But it isn't. And that’s all there is at this writing to the Coolidge-Dawes feud of current romance and rumor. When the Vice President was installing the budget in Washington in 1921 and 1922, he and Mrs. Dawes lived a few doors away from the Coolidges in the same hotel. A friendship there was struck up, of a peculiarly intimate kind. The Dawses are not aware of any rife in the lute, either personal or political. Fifty Senators Sawing Wood. As far as the Vice President has been able to check up, 22 United States Senators thus far have come out in favor of changes in the rules, and, by a strange coincidence, 23 Senators also have come out in oppo- sition. This total of 44, who are on record, leaves 50 (taking the passing of La Follette and Ladd into account) who are not yet committed. Thus, more than & majority of the Senate as now constituted is pursuing the canny ways of Senator “Jim” E. Watson, Republican, of Indiana. They are sawing wood. From the Dawes angle, there is method in this reticence. The Vice President’s supporters diagnose the reluctance of the faltering 50 as anxiety to see what is going to hap- pen to the prairie fire Dawes has set going. “‘Prairie fire” is exactly the figure of speech Dawes is fondest of, when he can be persuaded to discuss his cam- paign. Sometimes he calls it a bon. fire. The poind stressed in this inflam- mable connection is that people who want to put out either a bonfire or a prairie fire don’t usually stand aloof and let it burn. They clear for action. They try to stop its spread. If they maintain the role of inactive observ- ers, the contention is that they efther know they can't extinguish the fire or are afraid of being consumed by its devastating flames. Gen. Dawes is subjected to some of his heaviest criticisms for failing to get down to brass tacks on changes in the Senate rules. Opponents charge him with being vague and visionary, instead of definite and practical. They complain that the Vice President re- fuses to indicate “what he's driving at.” Dawes is determined not to be drawn into a position where the great. er issue can be clouded by details. For the moment he is concentrating on principles, not paragraphs. He is bent on getting to the country the broad fundamentals of the question he has raised, rather than particularized, s | Jumps in Cars and Catch Three Fleeing Youths in Wild Chase. Pluck and quick thinking on the part of Miss Elsa Haas of 3203 R street northwest party of girl friends saved a high-priced new tour ing car and caused the arrest of three Baltimore youths who were trying to take the automobile to Baltimore on a joy ride vesterday According te the police in station the car was parked outside the R street residence when the girls saw the three men get in and drive away. Thinking quickly the girls dashed out of the house into (wo cars parked in fronl and gave chs ‘ollowing closely the two carloads of girls chused the three me: Connecticut avenue and Woodley road where one carload of girls stopped and picked up Policeman R. D. Padgett who was on crossing duty. The other car sped ahead and catching up with the fugitives forced them to one side of the road, where they came to a standstill. Officer Padgett and the other girls came up immediately and the policemen arrested the vouths talph Nordon, 19, chauffeur, 2116 Maryland street; Norman Stisler, clerk, 1611 John street, and Philip Acker, paperhanger. 1611 John street, all of Baltimore, were arrested for joy-riding. The vouths admitted that they were on the way to Balti more with the stolen car. They were locked up at No. 7 precinct and the car was turned over to John I. Hz owner of the car. and a Sub T thinks, after all. are secondary mat- ters. It's the big idea that counts just now, in his estimation. The skilled parliamentarians of the Senate can wrestle with the verbiage of the business when that bridge has to be crossed. Meantime Dawes doesn't want the forest lost to sight in a con- fusing jungle of controversial trees. Relies on Popular Pressure. The Vice Presidert is relying upon the irrestible popular pressure (o which he believes Senatd tually be subjected. That's the whole rhyme and reason of his scheme to carry the cause straight to the people from the hustings. He iserelying t00, on the completely non-partisan character of his crusade. He claims for it, in a phrase of Woodrow Wilson's, ““the moral advantage of dis interestedness.” Dawes is less. con cerned, at the present stage of hos tilities, with what individual Senators may say, do or think than he is with the “sale” of his program to the country at large. It's in the barber- shops and on the sidewalks of the land that Gen. Dawes desires the Senate rules freely and fully dis cussed. The Tennessee evolution whirlwind started in a corner drug store. That's precisely the sort of forum that the Vice President wants to organize, or to have organized wherever the plain citizens of the republic foregather to debate the fate and state of the Union. He seems sublimely hopeful that from great and solemn referendum there will sooner or later be an earthquake {of public sentiment that will rock the Senate out of its reluctance to facili tate constitutional government Gen. Dawes had just returned from New Hampshire when this writer came to Chicago. was in jubilant mood over the way in which Senator George H. Moses' con stituents received the recital of sena- torial iniquity. Moses, as President pro tempore of the Senate and a pow erful member of the rules committee, has informally assumed the leadership of the anti-Dawes forces. But the audi ence that listened to the Vice Presi dent at Manchester on June 23 left little doubt in his mind that New Hampshire is with Dawes, than with Moses, on the burning is sue. The Senator’s nelghbors observed with particular_attention the knock out blow that Dawes handed to one of Senator Moses’ favorite arguments namely, that non-limitation of debate in the Senate prevents multiplicity of laws. When Dawes reeled off figures showing that filibustering, far from preventing excess legislation, seems to promote it, the New Hampshire folks sat up and took notice. Senate Passed More Bills. The Vice President intends making increasingly heavy play with these figures — that in the last five Con gresses the Senate, in which alone filibustering still lingers, put through more bills and resolutions than the House. The totals were: Senate, 3,113; House, 2.931. The Senate pass. ed these 3,113 bills and resolutions out {of a total of 29,332 introduced. while | the House passed its smaller number of 2,931 out of a total of §2,§32. In other words, the Senate, without ef fective cloture, passed in proportion (103 per cent) three times as many measures as the House with cloture passed (31¢ per cent). Yet, as Dawes literally hammered home in New Hampshire, there are only 9 Sepa tors to 435 members of the House. These statistics, Dawes believes, dis- pose effectually of his oppositions plea that in “holdup” parliamentary methods lies the country’s only bul wark against a deluge of unnecessary laws. These figures, and the co- related fact that a minority—some. times of only one Senator—can levy tribute, in the shape of personally- desired legislation, upon the majority are going to be the biggest guns in the artillery the Vice President is go- ing to train on the Senate trenches during the next 16 months, and till further notice. Those arguments, and the further fact that a single Sen' ator can on occasion wield a greater power over legislation than the Pre: dent of the United States, Dawes counts upon to swing the people in his direction. He will tell of a West- ern Senator. sometimes called the best legal mind in Congress. who for vears has held up, in commitiee, codification of the laws of the United States, for which the whole bench and bar clamors. South Antagonistic. Southern Democratic Senators are looked upon as a phalanx on the rules proposition. Their antagonism rests on the sacred and successful filibuster against the Force bill in the preceding century. In latter-day times it's the Dyer anti- lynching bill and the Tinkham re- apportionment bill that the South has wanted to kili by filibuster. At Manchester the Vice President asked: “Why do not these Senators propose some modification of the rules which, while providing majority clo- ture on all questions affecting ordi- nary legislation, will permit unlimited debate upon those few occasions when legislation involving alleged encroach- ments upon the constitutional rights of the States is under consideration?” The foremost Democratic editor of the South, Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution, who will be one of the Vice President’s hosts in Georgia in the Autumn, declares that this puts it up squarely to Southern Senators to meet Dawes half way. Howell urges them to modify their program accord- ingly and assure the country majority government. Wants Record Vote. If the Vice President can have his way, the opening session of the Sixty- ninth Congress will see the rules fight dragged boldly into the open on the floor of the Senate, with the entire population of the United States in the gallery, so to It his influence as far as | 24, | will even- | such a| The Vice President | rather | solid anti-Dawes Teiones tnempe | NEW WORLD PEACE To Drive Off Auto! MOVE IS LAUNCHED i League Members to Fight for ‘ Compulsory Arbitra- tiorf Pact. By Cable to The Star and New York World. GENEVA, July'4—A general under taking by all members of the League {of Nations—and also Germany, the | United States and other non-Jeague countries—to agree to virtual compul sory arbitration in justifiable disputes and to submit other controversies which might to war to an bitral body tnder special agr {will be sought by a group of nations at the coming assembly. According ead ar ements to reliable information, of an international agree directly under the league f furtherance of werld peace is fa advanced than it was when the Benes protocol was {the theory ment { the more March, | scuttied That specific was killed, but out of it was born a determination to secure the adoption ef the principles involved in another form Will Make New Attac The pro-protocol |assembiy a different {was forces, at the next will tackle the problem from alient. Where the attack on the threeline front of | security, disarmament and arbitration the BenesPolitis scheme, will time be concentrated upon the ont f arbitration. Thro h arbitration the league h to gain security with urity will coma di made in this { sir pes rmament The plan as outlined is for a gen- eral arbitration agreement. wherehy every nation agrees accept even compulsory arbitration in all justif able disputes. Aside from the gen eral agreement, regional agreements i for arbitration will be urged. For in | stance, Germany will have separate pacts with Poland, Belgium, Czecho- slovakia and other countrie: hese in turn will have separate pacts with each other—the extent of the arhi tration. of course, to be governed by the situations existing between the {contracting parties 1 Aggressor Is Defined. Through the general pact each natory thereto will not only his treaty with specific powers it refuse to arbitrate or sions of an arbitratory body, but witk every other power included the {agreement or protocol. Consequen il’;fl'nl’ ny, for instance, refusing {arbitrate with Poland, would be br ing a treaty not only with but with all members of the { Thus Berlin would automaticall an “agg or,” threatening the peace of the world and deliberately accept ing a state of war against the rest of the league—and high contracting parties outside the league. Canada, as a result of Mackenzie i King' note to the league regarding the Benes protocol, is looked upon as the logical leader in the arbitration cheme. At present Canada is far |ahead of the rest of the British Em- pire in regard to arbitration- Mac kenzie King’s pronunciamento, on | which the league places so much im {portance, is: “As Canada believes |firmly in the submission interna tional disputes to joint inquiry joint arbitration and has shared in certain notable undertakings in this field, we would be prepared to cor sider acceptance of the compulsor; { jurisdiction of the Permarent Court in Justiciable Disputes with certain reservations, and to consider methods of supplementing the provisions of the covenant for settlement of non- justiciable disputes, including method of joint investigation, reservin u mate decisfon in domestic matters and | without undertaking further obliga- tions to enforce decisions in case |other nations.” With Canada in |arbitration campaign will be ciated all the neutrals—Sweden, Den !mark., Norway. Holland, Spain and Switzerland Also the South Ameri can countries and the Baltic and | Balkan states, which thus far are left {out of the negotiations on the four power pact, can be counted upon to lend weight. France Will Follow Lead. France, the sponsor of the Benes- Politis protocol, while whole heartedly in favor of arbitration, will follow rather than lead at the next assem bly, it is believed. Briand is too astute a diplomat to jeopardize a cause the Quai D'Orsay espouses b {arousing suspicion or antagonism | through heading the parade. Great Britain, on the other hand, is drifting rapidly back to its old accus. tomed place in the realm of pacific set tlement of incipient causes of war Foreign Minister Chamberlain quite clearly indicated that Downing Street not only favored but would insist upon all regional pacts in which England participated, being framed “in the spirit of the covenant of the league The proposed four-power pact with France, Belgium and Germany based on the latter's adhesfon to covenant As in the past, the position of Wash- ington in a large way influences the success of any scheme that is devised by the league to bring “security and disarmament” to Iurope. But it is being taken for granted that the United States will soon join the Per- manent Court of International Justice at The Hague. Already prac v every nation in the world is a member. Germany has voluntarily appealed to the body for assistance in disputes with Poland in Upper Silesia. (Copyright, 102, DISASTER I\TEARLY MARS | WELCOME TO AMUNDSEN Jetty at Horten Sags Under Crowd. Prompt Action Averts Its Collapse. By the Associated Press. HORTON, Norway, July Amundsen party, returning from Spitzbergen board the steamer Albr W. Selmer, landed here at mid- night tonight. Notwithstanding the lateness of the hour the bay was allve with craft of all kind,” while hundreds gathered at the quay. When Capt. Amundsen stepped from the gangplank he was nearly carried off his feet by those who pressed close in their eagerness to present him with flowers. The jetty was so crowded that it began to sag under the surging ‘mass, but the guards finally succeeded in getting the people on to the main- land and a disaster was averted. _— violate <hould cept deci in H a Pol league. the the 5.) 4.—The on on the question. He wants to have the issue threshed out as soon as poss sible. He thinks the country is ready for a show-down on whether the Sen- ate is to remain a palace of palaver “secret legislative barter,” and per- sonal prerogative put above national welfare, or whether the majority is to have the right to transact business in the manner provided by the Constitu.! tion. Gen. Dawes will be 60 years old in August. In his eye there is the glint of fight and fire, and his jaw is set at an angle betokening a flerce determi- nation to see things through.