Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1925, Page 2

d COOLIDGE TAKES UP COAL WITH HOOVER Both Hopeful of Solution to. Avert Strike in Anthra- cite Fields. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG Staff Correspondent of The Star | SUMMER WHITE HOUSE, Swamps: cott, August 8.—Secreia of Com merce Hoover, following an interview | with the President today upon the] coal situation, issued the following | statement. | “The President’s view is that the coal industry ought settle its own labhor relations, #nd he is hopeful that the industries will find solution.” Secretary Hoover added that the Government i§ in entire agreement with this position. and is very hopeful | that the operators miners may | find a way 1o settle their dispute and avert a strike Commercinl Dirigibles Talked. As & result contersnce President and 3 Hoover with John Hays Hammond. jr.. Her-| bert Satterlee and Fred Hardesty. the latter of Washington. D. C.. the ad ministration is now seriously consider- | ing giving the use of the Loa Angeles) to & commercial company for develop- ment of commercial dirigible opera- tion. These men are forming the Com- merefal Alrways Corporation, and sut mitted a proposal to take over the Los Angeles and run a divig hetwant New York. Chicago, Oi and S T.ouis. Under the tréaiy by which United States became in possession f the Los Angsles it js provided tha the Los Anzeles muei he used in con mereial axperiment The Government monthe ago i carr and has received from private corp the use of the Los Angelss. 7 The policy having heen determined *Mpon, it now remainsf ro the Gover ment to decide what corporation shall be given the opportunity of develop ing MHghter-than-air navigation merclally | President Coolidge today referred the matier of accepting private pro posals 10 the Secretaries of War, Navy snd Commerce. Secretary Hoover cussing business cond of his recent trip in the Pacific that the country was enfoving greatest of prosperity. 17 the country as a whole and in a big sense,” he said, “thers has never been such & universality of employmeni The country has naver lived upon such the | had | 1010 sizhi out this several tions for mined nolic posals com- eclared. in dis jons as a resul coast the veu take I high standard as it is doing today.’ There §s a bad spot here and there such as the textile and coal industri But things are not entirely satisfac tory. Farmers are now upon the up road Favors Waterway Development. Secretary Hoover helieves that great constructive problems him now include the development of | the waterway sysiems of the country for power, storage and flood conirol. These include developmenis on the Missiasipp!, Colorado and Columbia Rivers as well as the Lawrence | Canal. He does no( believe that much | can be accomplished in the develop. ment of the Colorado River until the several States now invelved in a quar rel reach an agreement and pérmit the Federal Government io undertake the development of that hig project Secretary Hoover is hopetul that the Canadian engineers now studying the St. Lawrence Cama! schems will | complete their survey hy next Spring. One of tha great subjects of inter ast to Secrstary Hoover, he said to day, was the reorgantzation -of the Government departments. He is hopa ful that the next Congress will do something along this line which will bring about a better co-ordinagion of the varfous executive dapartments of the Government In his opinion the dirset saving will not be very great although it will mean the saving of some money in the operation of the Govarnm: The expénse In the con- Auct of businéss beéfore the Govern ment because of duplications and the antiquated methods used in many of the departmenie a1 this time is éx conriv the Departmental Matters, The President | caused it to he announced tha Sécrétary Hoover, although looked upen generally as tha hast authority in the cabinet on the oal question. has a number of depart mental matters lay before the Fxecutive ax well invitation from the people of California to at 1end somé celebration in that Siate in September. It fs understood a'so that Mr Hoover's opinion will be sought by the President upon s plan of commercial aviation advancement which has been presenied the President by John Havs Hammond jr.. son of the mining eénginaer. who himaelf is an inventor and scientist From an authoritative source it is nnderstood that among the judicial appointmenta 1o follow soon will he the selaction of a successor 16 thé iate Tndge Charlas A Wands of Routh Car slina. on the tourth judicial ecircuit of the United States Cireuit Court of Ap- paals, which includes Maryiand. V PRia. Wear Virginia, North and South Carnlina Mar Pick D, Man This {& of more than ordinary iner est 10 the Distriet hecause Maryland an@ Virginia are in this circuit and be rauge of a possibility of one of ite citi zens being appointed 10 thiz bench Maryland and Virginia already are represented on 1. and eliminating North and South Carolina for political raasons, it is thought that the Presi Aant is looking 1o West Virginla and the District of Columbia. The Exac nriva has declined to make known any af the names suggesied (o the Presi Aent in connsctian with the Alling of this vacancy President as ‘an Coolidge has for next Monday. Brig. Gen. Lord. di veétor Af the budget. will come to White Court loaded down with all the ' figures And facts incideni to the as tirhate o be recommended tn Con. Zréss next Winter of the eost of run ning the Government the next fscal vekr, commencing July -1 next. a real job Orator Atta(-Ks Or Defends Klan, Hearers Uncertain rcome with emaiion due the presence of many rebed and hooded figuras about the City Post Office and Union Station today. a | middle-aged woman asiablished her. self in the main corridar of the Post Office and for 10 minutes de Ivered an oratian which postal of. ficials were unable determine sither as a defense or attack against the Ku Klux Klan The orator had no audience but | that did not deter her. She talked for about 10 minutes and about the most any one could hear ciearly was “Stars and Stripes” and “God and Our Country.” Finally the watchman became impatient and gently and politely escorted her from the bullding The woman made ne protest, but continued her apeech en route to the sireet, where ahs disappeared. - to i while acting before | ! Famous Editor Dead 4oRRN MG JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. COL. GRAVES DIES AT HIS HOME HERE: END WAS EXPECTED (Continued from First Page.) Negro.” His 'nd magazines vida articles in n read Awspapers far ana Championed World Pea. Of late an ardant and he d lecturing and Two years aae deifvering Jectu pleaded dvoes tion of na throughout ihe active editor and Hy of Tempie Cochran Palm « G im nville (N nd fames thons 1¢ rid periods of the las wo dicated much of h vriting on that he toured t famous Armageddon the establishment in n During vear Beach (Fia.) Graves had heen rid peace time to subject he Nation hautangue which hs of an sure peacs his ha was Post Times two daughiera sut Mrs. W York Oty + vesidinz funeral services will he held here, and Graves, the laite the body anight for ) follow s e Graffenreid and the la Gre Frederick and will be taken 1o Atlanta interment fohn ter two of ille, S Tom Anne No Miss here Ga. Monday From Colonial Stock cal, € ily. His grandfa pie Graves posed Yadkin Willlam John ( The rise of ( paper profess; wrote a word made by Georgia him employment and later as Tacksonville (F atory was given History Dl Legislat under Cornwallis morther’s Calhoun *. Calhoun Willington enator aves came fi ther “Gen passnge eldesi b ol Chureh Gr »m a noted fam Col. .1 o hero of the Revolution Greene ohn Tem op the was of of (her rother ave Graves in the news cture Rrown which ns a ure first managing ) Union place i a of Georgia n wak sensational 1 addiess | hetore of a edi He the brough! reporte tor of the This same n Avery's From the time he bacame a reporter for the After several he satablished which became Florida politics. Union a Atlanta (Ga.) Jour on its way Tribune for 10 pro assumed editorship of the three vears his the rise vears with t Daily powertul 111 health forced him 10 leuve Florida some time later..and in 1887 ha hecame chief editor of the nal was rapid. paper Herald, tactor in hat which he atartad | perity and then Rome (Ga.) Held New York Kditorship. His newspaper in of the Atanta after two vears 1905 to be editor Daily career there Gec was carrisd and co-proprietor him and aight gian for vears editor-in<chief of the Naw York American writer for papers a Later ayndicate he as ot aditorial 12 datly Col. Graves himself sntartained po litical ambitions affective as a promoter and patriotic mentiment in order to he more of progressive in the South and was in 1905 a candidate for United orgia. but was States Senator forced 1o withd health. 7Three candidate for V U'nited States of pendence party He taught vears after school his graduation from from € raw years e Presidant National the for becase laie ot i r he wat of the Inde. of the number University of Georgia and at ons time was president of (ary Academy From his winning debater coast 1o coast for ing orations. his speech at Henry the the He w Henry Lagrange college days Mili he was a known from his fluent and mov Waterson termed Grady Me marial the hest sulogy of the cantury. Col. Grav prided himself on the fact that he never champlonsd an un worthy causs. th; supporter of and persona! life. He married wae Mattie Ga of Rome. Ga at ideals twice. Simpzon and his second, Annis F. Cothran he in was His of a stanch Goavarnment fAirst wite Hancock. JOHN L. SCHAFFERT DIES; BUILT MANY HOMES HERE Was in Contracting Business Capital for 35 b John Leonhart vears a builder dence, 912 Mr. Schaffart in A young man the huflding busi he erected more various parts of structed A plants here far t tired Mr. Arminius vived by feri. one son Mre. M. Pfeiger Tmhau. Schaffert number Henry ears. Schaffert, and contracior District of Columbia. died at M stre eet 1848, and came 10 nese than the ha 1R vears ago. was A member Masonic Lodge. He is sur- his widow. Katharine Schaf- and 1wo Mrs. and of rallroads. 300 city in for 35 in the hig resi today. was born in Germany this country as During his 35 vears in in Washington houses in and con- vefrigerarion He re. of the isters, Christian The funeral will be held at the home of his son, 1107 Clifton street, on Mon. Lenski of the day at 2 p.m. Rev. Lutheran Church will Interment Prospsct Hill Cemetery. Grace the services. .G B will conduct be in : WINE GIVEN HINDENBURG. | | Dealers Send Him Sample of Each | i | Rind Made in Germany. COBLENTZ, Germany, Hindenburg's P wine cellar stocked that President has he von heen may, out once repeating. The United Wine Growers and Deal- o August 8 plentitul it he chooses. | sample a different brand of wine each | | day for the next several weeks, with- ! ars of Germany, who are conducting a wine exposition here, have sent the wines. Since President von Hindenburg is | justification for the proposed location | president samples of ‘all the different | wines produced in Germany, to demon- | strate to him the extent of wine culti- | vation and the excellence of the native | creasing in residential population. and, a very moderate consumer. it i be- leved many months. the supply will 4 last him for THE EVENING AROUSED CITIZENS ' STRIKE BELT-LINE STAR. WASHINGTON | Marylanders Vote Appeal to: Check Proposed Lough- borough Project. A citizenry alarmed, Ita spokesmen (#Ri6. At the threaened destruction of | | their home values, and the logical de- {velopment of the wetropolitan district fof Washington, arose en masse last night, and without a dissenting voice voted to nsk the Public Service Com- mission of Maryland 1o reject the ap- plication of ihe Washinglon and| Loughborough Belt Line Railway to axercise its charier rights and priv ilege: The wction came after vehe ment attacks on the proposal, | “The mesting was held in the old clubhouse the Montgomery oun- | try Club, a1 Bradley Hilla, several | miles tron the nearast railroad, but | the larze azsembly room was filled for | [ the meating. which was cafled and held under the auspices of the Bradley | [ Hills Community League. The meei. !ing represenied more than the mem- [bership of the organization: it includ- led those froni towns and subdivisions | inll over Montgomery County, and their| |Tejection of the project long befors ! the voie was indicated by the vigo lous and prolonged applause which | punctuated and followed the attacks of spokesmean at the meeting. Serving People He Says. W. kagar T.eady, representing the corporation promoting the project, was first callsd upon by President Chavies W. Merryman, 1o lay the plans hefors ihe meeting. Mr. Leedy | pictured 10 his listeners a sad condi tion of thonsands of dollars’ worth of 'food projecis rotting in ne South bhecause the producers would not ship. due to the congestion in Potomac Yerds. ‘Thie the beli line would over come. he claimad. He pictured his or ganization 28 having the interests of Nfontgomary County deeply at heart. He nor The promoters cared for money, he said. and they had not hope of vaward from the erection of this vailroad. being buill solely ‘for the benafit of serviug the people—none other. He complainad the small salavies paid (Government emloyes, and said (hat (ne company wanted to {help thens .o beiar conditions and in dependency by providing light fa tovies. stich a< shoe and silk factories | in this seciion wo (hey could go out here and seal jobs If the Govern ment lei them on He told of ihe plan of Mrs. Berg doll of Philadeiphia to provide a pub Nie park in that ction, and of his efforts 10 put it in a hetter place. Mr. Leedy said 1aat his corporation own ad every hit of land hetween River and Conduit roads, and if any proper tv wak hurt it would he that of his corporation. Is Challenged. “This statemeni was immediately challanged by W. H. J. Brown. who anid that the corporation did not own all the property in that area, but that he owned propertv there and that it would he serieusiy damaged by the proposed commercial development and | he moposed helt line rallway. Mr. Ieady conceded that he as perhaps wrong on that point, but said that was the only exception, when Mr. Brown again jumped 1o his faet and pointed | out several orher instancas whére he was wrong i Then Mr. Leedy was plied with ques tions in rapid-fire order, all tending to | getting somerhing definite from him He told his audiencé that the pro posad line would follow the same cut As the present spur of the Baltimore and Ohlo Rallroad. Quesiions brought | from him the admission that he had | no working agreement with the Bal. | Statement imore and Ohlo: no assurance that the road would allow its tracks to he used or tha samé cut. Jealousy among ralironds. he said. prevented the mak- [ing of mny working agresment. He | #ald. however that if it couldn’t use the B. & O. right-of way that it would parallel . making the necessity of condsmning land for 30 feet on one side or the ofher | Quirzed as to Future. ! | @uestioned by W. W. Bride as to what powers the patition was asking for. hé said it was the usual rallroad | powera of condemnation. ‘“That means that vou ean go wheré vou choose. ™ #aald Mr. Bride, who asked what might happen If the rallroad got out of the hands of its present owners, who had | only the Montgomery County At heart. to which Mr. Leed\ replied that the company would never ‘181 it get out of its hands. He ad- I mitted that it wanted the right to condemn a right-of-way and to build warshouses. but Added. however. that his company never intended to build these warehouses. hecause™thev couldn’t make money at 5% per cent. lle sald if a rallroad made more than that it would have to give it to a con- necting road. which might not bs mak- ing thie much on it investmen:, and adAed that if there was any one pres ent from the Interstate Commerce mmisgion they would hear him out Some one from the Interstate Com- merce Commission didn’t bear him out He was told that the road mak ing the axcess was only required to land it to the other road. Howaver. he said rtha Loughborough corpora tion. a subsidiary, would construct warehauses Mr. Brown asked Mr. Leady why he dfdn’t bring everv bit of informa tion with tha largh number of plans, | specitving particularly the charter! |and petition. There was no anawer dential ares which a bélt lins develop- ocoficerned with the losses of somm vould include. |$15,000.000 spent by home owners In Thare are several other sections in |thid section which would come as a the suburbs of the District of Colum. Tesult of a railroad development. e bia and adfacent Maryland and Vir | characterized the whole project as ginia which are aiready apparently |conjéctural and the languagé of the dedicated to terminal and industrial, | pétition ambiguous and misleading Aevelopment. The people of this sec. | The history of heit line development |tion feel that the terminal and in. in Wther cities. hs said. showed that | dustrial Adevslopmant should be con- | Proparty ewnsrs got out with the fined to sectionk whers it has already |frst announcemant like rata running started. from a burning bullding. Gearge E. Hamilton. wrote as fol Sees Ménace fo City's Beauty. ik | Walter Tuckerman expraased dis- 4 “I. prasent 1 would undoubtedly SLA as a group of questioners arose ', .. .ited opposition to this petition. fiomhrh;:,‘ur}?fu«l;n::;‘mlt[vlr;':‘::r(r": simultaneously in various parte of . 4 The hall. Upon questioning, he saia | hc construction of his road and|park i there than on the proposed {ha road would nol agree to operate .po™ 181 along the linas indicated i1 tailcond aidings in Bethends. ‘He sai it entirely by electricity. jthe votition. with the power it would (hat {t was hoped to get a zoning law Have if the Maryland Public Service |0 v, loomery County at the next Denies Factorles Planned, ' Commission should approve it. to p & 2 Askad by Attorney Bride how chase or condemn land for terminal definite the plans for location of the ' Purp would eatablish a certain line were, he replied that they wars|barriér to the development of our fairly definite, but that furthar sur- county the advantages that is now | veys would have to he made. He,®njovs, and will in the future anjox | sald tha road naver Intended to [N #ven greater degree. of that de.| atring factories along tha right of velopment which all of us desire and | way. but sald the only purpose of|&re striving for. ! the halt line is to fead the commerecial| T have read with pleasure the ad- | post who must rise up and defend development known as Loughbor- | Mirable lstter of Mr. Brooke Les talthe Nation's ideals which, would be ough. ‘on River road. Then followed [the PubMs Servics Commission. and Aestroyed by the laying of such a line, a line of questioning which ultimately [ [ concur most heartily in the posl-| with its consequent erection of ware- rasulted foreing the admision that|'ions taken by him. houses and factories. the company planned a rafiroad vard ‘It the hearing héfore the Public, R. B. Lewrence. formerly of Pitts- | development 'in Loughborough like | Service Commission is postponed until | burgh, sald that he had reached that ! and:after the first of September 1 will| point in lite where he could pick the i make It a point to be present And'ideal piace to live, and he selected | District line. {to do all that I can to .prevent the ! metropolitan Washington because of Tia was asked that It the rallroad |&pproval of a petition which would | its environment and a fine place for waa being buflt solely for the in-|DP® A mistartune to our county and !children. He came (o gat away from i i it people.’™ | the, amoke and dirt. f tactotles. ~ He e | aaid he had meen what belt lines ha R done 1o Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cin- Speaking of the project in a letter. | cinnati and other iowns. He couldn't Mr. Stone said that “such development, | heljeve that the metropolitan district highly advertised as it will be, may|of Washington was going to starve If | have - adverse effecta far ahead of yuch a road were not bullt, and he |and beyvond actual construction and | fel that If the corporation were al achieve for this section of Maryland | owed to build it that “he would have {notoriety as a questionable in placa | | | been handed an awful gold brick." {of the existing reputation A= a Krow-| Adon Phillips sald that the paople |ing community of substantial resi- of the section didn't want the pro- dence owners. As A matter-of munici- | poned rallroad. hecause it would pass ipal planning. the high lying banka i through a residence section. The of the Potomac and contiguoud ter-|pegple have built homes thers hecause ritory north of Washington unqu they wanted th gét away from the Ing regret at his inability t6 be pres- | tionably offer tha ‘most ideal 1esi-ioity, and if the railroad came they ent. “and have vet to ind one who |dential advantages and should be ve-| would have to mova 10 or 15 miles in not deeply opposed to the approval served for auch development. T be-|further out into the country, He thén to the charter for the proposed belt |lisve that we should prevent any en-|moved that the president appoint a line. | croachments of a commercial nature!committee to draft resolutions to the “The objections advanced seem to|save such as are recognized as neces- | Public Service Commission of Mary- be that this section of Montgomery |sary features of a growing residence |jand which would oppose the charter. County is at present aimost entirely | neighborhooed."” This was followed by an amend- 2 residential section and 1n fast in.| Asalling the project, Oliver Owen |ment of O. M. Kils. which would have Kuhn brought te the mesting & copy { the resolutions a: of the petition -of right to operats tion file a petition showing a specific and proceeded to tear it to pieces. HPFUIQ. but war rejected by an over- should be fixed by the people. The Capital City helongs to the people of the whole " country, he aaid. and ft was the dréam of avery American to make It the most beautitul city in the world. - In the séstionin Maryland the Distric; has no contrel over, and he picture the Potomac yards fn Virginia, which would extand right up fo the terests of the paopls of metropolitan Washington, it they should not have & say as to whether they wanted ir.| | Hia reply was that he didn’t know. | This concluded the croms axamin- | ation. and President Merryman: read { lastars of protest from Maj. K. Brooke Lee, secretary of State of Maryiand: George F. Hamilton and Jamen H. Ktone | T have talked to a considerably | number of residents and proper |owners of the Silver Spring-Weodside- | Forest™ Glen-Takoma section of the county.” sald Maj. Lee, aftar expresa. | turther, that there is no need of or of a freight .belt line through this section with the obvious damage to this section’s desirability as a resi- sald the people of this district were helming viva voce vote, and the not interested in the losses of. producta’joriginal resolution was passed unani- in the South, but were more déeply | mously. Legislature. but in the meantime zones | the peoplé there, as out- | that the corpora- | Upper—A delegation from Ocean N. J., which reached here today. ter—A delegation from Hunting. W. Va. composed of some of the 0 auxiliaries. Lower—Some . who mingham, Ala. came from Bir. 50,000 WHITE-ROBED KLANSMEN ASSEMBLE FOR COLORFUL MARCH (Continusd from First Pags) from Georgea. Alabama. Fiorida nessee, Vitzinia, West Virginia. Penn | sylvania. Delaware and other States ! within a radius of hundreds of miles of the Capital here. The parcel room and rest room in the big station. large enough to handle an ordinary crowd. were over run with the whita.capped knights of the Klan. The crowd grew larger as the noon hour approached. They wera in allmanner of aniforms, in addition to the white Klan robes. A platoon of World War waaring “tin” heiméts led hand {from North Philadeiphia. which stopped on the squaré hatween the city poat office and the station and piaved patriotic music. The Akron, Ohio. delegation wae lad by a pic {turesqua Kroup dressed sa Scottish | pipers. while Lancaster. Pa.. sent an- other delegation of khakirvlad vet |erans, and Texas its sombrero.crowned | rangers, Ten vat a i iant Cross Planted. | While workmen put the finishing touches on the large platform in the | 8vlvan Theater, where high Klan of | Acials will address the marchers after | the parade tonight. group of Klans | men put into A 10-foot hols in the | Arlington horse show grounds, at the { Virginia end of Highway Bridze. the giant fiery cross which will be burned A% the spectacular feature of the Kian celebration. The glow trom rhis im- mense flary crose, which stands R0 | feet ont of the ground. will he visthle far into the Virginia country and in | many sections of the District | Although it was originally plannad {mot te light the big cross until tomor row night. Klan officiala altared the |arrangements today. and now will set {fire to it tonight during a preten- | tlous ceremonial aftar the parade. i‘l‘h- croas ia made from a tall tras trom the mountains of Virginia. It ;has been hollowed and filled with ofl. Around its bark has heen wrapped oll-soaked burlap. The platform In the Sylvan Theater Lhas a wooden canopy and ix deco- rated with Klan flage and ambiems. A battery of amplifiers stands over- head. | Royal | automobile drivers | by _Policeman Foley. | change of quartara is that the bureau ought the Klansmen | { ran | | | 1 | beautiful pitch and 6-foot putt for a The change in the spactacular fiery | cross demonstration was due, LoMcials explained. to the faet fthousands of the visitors will | Washington tonight, and they are | Anxious 10 hdve the strangers ses the largest symbol of the Klan ever erect. #d. Another ceremonial will be held at the horse show. grounde tomorrow night, however, { remaining in the city. Immediately after the parade the marchers will assemble on the slopss Klan that 1eave | for those Klanamen of the Monument grounds overiooking | jthe Sylvan Theater to- listen messages of the high Klan offcials who will address them. Dr.. Hiram Wesley Evans, imperial wizard of the Klan, and other leaders of the hooded order are scheduled to speak. Service in Morning, The program for tomorrow calls for a religious service at the horse show grounds at 10 o'clock, after whioh- the Klansmen will go to Arlington Ceme- tery and place a wreath on the tomb of America’s Unknown Soldier. Reports are still current that a hriaf | mervice also will be held over the grave of the late William Jennings Brvan,| said to have heen one of the first na- tional figures 1o join the Klan. ‘Thé finale is the cersmonial tomo row might in the horse show ground A ‘thousand or more neophytes, it is said, will be initiated into the secret organization amid the most colorful eremonies ever staged by the Kian. Trolleys Must Halt. Pennsylvania avenue was roped oft early today and notices were sent 1o the Capital Traction and the Wash. ington ' Railway and Electric com- panies that all street car. traffic mu be halted Auring the parads. The to the | | By the | 1dea |JACOB STEINER, 97, | ing | said. made clothes for Chicago Uses Ads To Make Criminal SEES IMPURI BH[GK Prop Bl Ware' DERT PLAN ABROAD France Has Vision of Huge Colonial Empire. Politics Institute Is Told. Asacciated Press CHICAGO, August day decided to adopt in atracking advertisin Chief of Police Collins Announced | that warninge te ecrimina and 1n those contemplating crime are 1o be printed in poster form and will he placed in straet cars, sleveted fraina, and other public conveyances. One poster, captioned “You can't win." shows a condemned man being led to the gibbet. Another says tha “7,000" police are sworn fo 'get you dead or alive” and “you'll have 1o get all the breaks. One little slip means Joliet:" 8. «hicago 1o the New York erime through Br tha Associated Pr WILLTAMSTOWN. Mass.. August Decrease in agricultural Imports r an increase in the export of manu factured goods. or both, will form the basis of Europe's del:t pavment pro gram, Prof. E. F. Gay of Harvard sald foday in an address at the In stitute of Politics round table confer ence. There are limiting reased production of agricultural commodities in Europe” he said Among the most Imporiant factors may he noted increaged nrbanization. A return (o the selfsuficing =mall farm and availability of cheap for stuffa from foreign lands The movament of population from the farm 1o the cfiv, which was marked In the industrial states of K {rcpe before iha war. has heen temporarily checked. but with the SIrong Impeius to increase the ex POrts of manufaciurars there can he little doubt but that the former swing of population 10 the cities will be re factors in in DIES AT HOME HERE Was Tailor to Famous Men During and After Civil War—In D. C. for 24 Years. Jacoh Steiner. 47 vears old. for many years a prominent clothing manu facturer and a resident of Washington for the last 24 years, died ai his resi- dence. 1212 Euclid strest, vesterday,| SUmed and, if anything, the per He and Mrs. Steiner celebrated their | Centage of urban population requiring golden wedding anniversary in this|food imports will become larger city, December 16, 1916.. Born in Germany, Mr. Steiner came | 10 the United Siates when 20 years old, and soon after staried in the cloth in Staunton, Va. Later he moved 1o Baliimore, continuing the business wiih hix hrothers. under the firm name of Steiner Bros.. for many vears The Sisiner Room for Increase. “Unless there are compelling sonk in the nature of upward changes for agricultural there will he no canse f change its food consur 1o change reultire price producis Enrope 1« yiion hah the organization of its ag For the immediate furure there still remain new lands in for #ign couniries where an increase production ean take piace without am stimilis of higher prices Ales Rroz, (zechoslovakian general in New York. discussed &1ahilization of currency, the y of financial squilibrinm and the indus irial and agricultural conditinns of his country “There are many tacie showing that the financial dificulties with which Czechoslovakia has bean faced hithario are ransitory charactar i will soon be overcome.” he sald A declaration that a great dream of supremacy in northevn Africa domi nates French policy and that France by & system of slow ahsorption mpUNE o suppreas the free It nationality in Tunisia, Algeria Morocco was made & Antoni Cippico. Italian Fascixi Senator, in & {16ctire at the instituis last nighi. He charged that France had fafled 1o ob rve her conventions with,ltaly re garding Tunisia and wae irving to en force her moral supremacy upon the world at Germany trisd eatorce “kultur The formula of the mora ity of France i« rasentad hy it will perhape be accepiad %0 long A& France is toda formidably armed nation of tinent of Europe.” he said He criticized the “social contrae Rousseau #s tending to level do the spiritual. intellectnal and physica differences individuals under the brutal rule imbers Yesterdav.” he many was armed hrough her program of cultural he {gemony. Today it i& France. who hy the armed peace of her presumed his orical mission. triee 1o anforce her moral supremacy upon the world Charges Conventions Broken. As regards Lyhian Tunisian frontier,. while there &re mora than a hundred thousand Italians in Tunisia who have redeemed and cul tivated that Jand and are settled there today. the French are rapresented hy more than A quarter of that number 10 govern their proteciorate. In A geria and Morocco there are another 130,000 ltalians who ask no better than 1o be left in peace. France ir hese lands. which are neither her colonies nor mandates. attempis b a policy of slow absorption 1 press the free Italian national conventions of 1915 hetween and Italv respecting Tunis been serupulonsly respecied We cannot the same as is concerned. Tialy did not aim of contantion of Tunisia. he said zood undarstanding haiween would he reached when Franee faithfully to a regimé of protacior in Tunisia. whila recognizing it a= sovereign state: when she racognized for Italians the same vighte anjovec there by Frenchmen and granted ltaly equal customs meni: removed her prohibiti against establishing additional Tia ian schools and against the purchase of land by Itallans: and allowed lialians to take part in public life husiness clothing company. it is President Wil son’s father. and Jacoh Steiner had listed among his friands Gen. Rober: E. I#e. Gen Grant and many other men of prominance in the davs of the Civil War. He was s member of the Arcanum and formerly had other fraternal aMliations Mr. Kisiner married Miss Freda Pels in Baltimore, in 1%66. She also wan born in Germany He is survived by his wife, 1wo dsughters. Mra. Fannie leon of New York and Mrs Norman Luchs of Washington: four grandchildren and oue great-grandehii Funeral services will ba at the residance tomorrow At 2 o'clock. Interment Washington Hebrew Cemetary NEW TRAFFIC BUREAU OFFICE IS OPENED| Improved Facilities Provided for Examining Drivers for consuy he inducied alternoon will be in the Congregation tan Coun supar many the mast he ¢ Permits. Tra ffic the The threw heada: Police open riers, 1414 avenus, whers Inspecior Brown hax provided cilitiss for the wi o today its new Pennsylvania E w improved fa- examination of new doors ¢ of continued v w0 as 10 carry Tha firat person 1o gei & parmii in the new bullding was James Stanion Albers. son of 1. T. Alhers of Fire Truck Co. No. . He was examined Ths biggesi Advaniage in (he is now on the straer Aoor, wherens it formerly occupied the third foor of the Graham. Building. Fourteenth and streets A feature of the reception réom in which applicanis for permits mav make themselves comportable while waiting 10 be ex- amined. The force of examiners has been increased from four 1o seven to reduce the walting time for appii- canta. MARINE MANEUVERS ON CURTAILED BASIS Reduction of Personnel and Trans- fers Necessitate Abbreviated Exercises. new buresu is a 1o make a hons Kkept Marine Corps maneuv mer will be an a hasis. Congress has reduced the enlisted personnel by 1500, and there have been many transfers from the base at Quantico, Va, The 6th Infantry Regl ment for the time being has been dis. bandad. although It still exists on papAr The 5th lafantry Regiment. which still is intact at Quantico. will conduet Abbreviaied Aisld exercises nearby, and the 10th Regiment ot Artillery. also 1 Quantico. will hold targat practica at Camp Meads and the Aherdsan Prov ing Grounds. & this Sum greatly curtailed et Babes and Cowboys Mark Extremes in Klan Contingents One small touring car loaded with humanity breezed along Pennsylvan avenme all dolled np with goidenrod from stém in stern—the gavest and firat harbinger of Fall, McAULIFFE IS LEADING "IN PUBLIC LINKS FINAL Br the Amociatad Pres GARDEN CITY, N. Y., August § Ray McAuliffe of Buffalo. N. V.. wae 2 up ‘on Bill_Serrick of New York at the and of nine holes in thei 36-hole match for the national public links golf championship at the Salisbur: Country Club. ioday The firsi three hut in and the calshra faiher ana There's A cunning tiny arme, with A hright vellow cap pacifier, come to join in tion along with motner, big brother haby Poughkeepsie. N. Y., folks rolled down the Avenue ahout 10:30 (his morning in & huge interurban motor bus, plastered all over with Pough keepsie signs The K. K. K. emblem was avery where, one of the most nsual signs being in whits on & hlué hand re halved in pa McAuliffe took the fourth with a Birdis 1. Thev parred he ffth and McAuliffe took fhe sixth with a par 5 | : = T wwhen Serrick’s {rons fafled him. The | Ry ML T aeventh and eighth were halved in 5s | 70 SRRTEARE A ‘ and the short ninth was halved jn T**% par 3a. | 16 with lonz_galden hrawn enrl estling alongside mather, ir wearing & neai_and riny bius band with fie white K. K. K. Klang! klang! rattie rattle cowboys from Texas are not onlv to be sean—they're heard. Tall and ! bronzed, they wear the white, tall felt hat of the cow country, and jangie | cowbells. ““Beaumont, Texax.” is to he seen in big letters on their hats. packages, of R[weet Given Air School Job. Maj. James A. Mars. Air Servics. ai- tached 1o the office of the chief of the | Alr Service. War Department. has been assigned to duty at the Air Serv- | ice Balloon and Airship School. at Scott_Field I police had not intended to.rope off the | thoroughtare or stop the movement of | g ' 4ja the strest cars. The thousands of | ,,e.conrainers visitora in the city convinced them | o ! ve :\‘:"’L"or";o,f;”'d the original esti-| o4 in newspaper. Several were neatly 5 encased in black patent leather and e ot Pomnayiioma | aae | Strung over the shoulder. “Regalia aue ~to . Fifteonth steset. Turning| 3814 ° one onlecker. And his guess south into Fifteenth, the procession | 26emad as gnod ax the next ane. 11 will head for the Monument grounds, | &% noted ihat in ihe moraing rew where it will disband. ‘lfihbd men and women vav|04 hun Trucks losded with ice water and dles, while rn'\(\-l new arrivals had other cooling drinks will be stationed | S0M* kind of package along the line of march for the fa. | tigued klanamen. Téxas Rangers. members of the order, will pgtrol the | line of march. Many Ku Klux bands are observed on fha sirests’ prior to the start of | the parade. The Ladies’ Band of Cum- beriand, Md., which arrived this morn. ing. attractsd considerable attention. The public aiso manifested keen in terest In A delegation of Klansmen which formed for the parade near pe Tice headquarters. Heading this whits- robed contingant ,was a flag bearer. fanked on. either’ side by two armed Klansmen with lflxed bavonets. the valises, suit many Kinds, ed, and for the most part coverad. weré seen sarly in the day. The Klansman planned, it was predicted, 10 make the American flax a big feature of the demonstration Many fags, fu Although the parade was not - to start until late afternoon. Klan music stirred the air in the vicinity of the Treasury before 10 o'clock this morn ing. A band of about 20 pieces, with players clad in dark blue, heafied a delegation marching down Fifteenth street, They turned up F andstopped in front of the Willard Hotel. In the procession was alse & Arum eorpa.