Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1925, Page 17

" MERGING IS URGED BIRDS OF A L BIRTHDAY OF LAFAY vesterday the observance of the Statue, opposite the White House i THE FIRE LADDIES ON PARADE. il a;i’_”i‘”f (i EBRATED IN WASHINGTON. general’s birth and Maj. Georges Thenault of the French s an niversary, 3 With bells ringing. horns blowing and sirens screaming, the Washington firemen marched down Pennsyl- vania avenue vesterday at noon. The colorful exhibition was followed base ball ‘game between the firemen and police at American League 10 REDUCE WASTE Secretary Davis Advocates!Eskimos Hunt Dovekies With| VERA CRUZ IN WAR | Methods for Assuring Labor | Steady Employment. By the Wseociated Pre: MOOSEHEART, 111, September &.— Industrial consolidation as a step to aliminate waste in production, assure steady emplovment. reduce costs and curb overdevelopment was advocated last night by Secretary of Lahor Davis in his Labor day address, broadcast from the Moose headquarters station WIID. Laws which make economic consoli. dations illegal serve no public interest | and should be altered to conform to present-day industrial tendencies, Sec. retary Davis asserted He warned against organized at tempt& to abolish the prevailing svs. tem of selective immigration, urging friends of the method to join him in an effort make the present law more selective. i In alluding incidentally to organized Iabor, he said that trade unionism “will have hard sledding and a rough road | 1o travel if it cannot itself adjust the Jurisdictional disputes.” ‘““The unions alone can settle that difficulty, and they should.” The greatest sourcesof unemploy- | ment in this country is the overdevel- | opment of industry He sald 227, or 1415 per cent. of 1,570 boot and shoe factories in the country shjpped 65 per cent of the industry’s production “In this group each man produces an average of 1,696 pairs, valued at This group alone, with employment. could produce a1l requirements. In the next 738 plants, producing about of the country's shoes, production to a worker Tn a third group of the output for each em 1.069 pairs. ! steady present group of 31 per cent the average 1x 1,388 pairs 605 factories ploye is Full Year's Work Blocked. “Tn other words, 14% per cent of the factories, emploving 60.4 per cent of | the workers, now produce 856 per | cent of the output, and could, with | ateady work for 300 days a vear, pro- | duce all the boots and shoes we need. | “The balance of these workers | operate solely, fn an economic sense, | to prevent any of the workers from getting a prevent any one in the industry from | earing a decent living. i “It may be that the law stands as a | barrier to any remedy. If so. I sub-| mit that there must be wrong with the law it can be stopped | “For some time the Interstate Com- merce Commission has been urging the railroad corporations to merge in) certain cases for the purpose of cut- ting down the overhead - expense. * '+ « And vet we are told that any such corporate control of coal mining | colony off, a shadow of a Navy plane | the stones are small the birds cannot would constitute a crime. ‘But with a realization of our own | economic ills. I want to leave with vou the thought that we are hetter off n America today than in any other country In the world.” | expedition Copsright by P. & A. Fhotos. RGTIC VALUED AS FOOD Sticks and Devour 100 Raw at Single Meal. West Greenland was described as a land of “red-brown hills brightened by orange-colored lichens,” and a ‘“‘suc cession of knolls covered with green timothy gra " in a radio dispatch received and made public by the Na- tional Geographic Society yesterday from the MacMillan Arctic expedition. The dispatch was descriptive of the birds and flowers of West Greenland as viewed by Maynard Owen Wil- liams, widely known writer, who is the society’s correspondent with the and Jacob Gayver, color photographer. “Etah’s distinctive hird," the dis- patch sald, “is the little auk, or dove. kie. In Etah the dovekie figures largely in the early Summer bill of fare of the Eskimos, who eat it raw Eskimos are all fond of little auks breasts. Although we have found four sufficient at a time, it hundred for a hungry Baki and the breasts crowd four large fry- ing pans. Skin Bird With Teeth. “Our trouble was not to secure the birds, but to skin them., We had Eskimo women come aboard to do it for us. of the neck, which opens the that the breast can be torn awa the st of the carcass. ““The meat is firm and tender, vet not so nice a flavor as one would ex- pect from knowledge that the main food of the birds is shrimps. ““All day long the birds fly out ta sea and back, going on the north side of the fjord and returning on the south side with their craws so packed that |they can hardly rise from the water. “They also float in large colonies of several hundred birds each, and when we first came a powerboat could be driven up to the very edge of such | a mass of black and white birds. “Each bird has its favorite rock near its nest where it suns itself and the colony on each slope forms = group by itself. When a plaugh gull Swoops down or a man or fox passes. | the grovp take wing out into a tipped full vear's work: operate lellipse with the lower rim slipping to- ! jtg enemy, solely, from a labor point of view, to|ward the rock slope and the upper rim | projecting out over the water. Kill Them With Sticks. “By placing himself (or more ofien ° 4 ipices rent by frost, and tumble mething (herself) at the point where the ellipse [ Precibices rent by it If this waste |sweeps the slope Eskimo can net sev-|!0 the water's edge. Now there will cannot be stopped under existing law |eral hundred birds at a swoop of his|be one m"br?ken rock slope. then a then let us have a law under which | long-handed pole and can average a | Succession of knolls. covered with bird a minute, “The birds are not easily frightened and are very curious. So that when one frightens them all he has to do is wait, and they will return, within 10 feet. and even cloger, to him. “While a gull or a man_ start one would start a million of the birds into the air. While we lost good pictures for which we had patiently waited be. cause a plane two miles away started its engines, I once cagnted on one small rock, sthough above takes a | They make one bite through | the clean, white feathers at the base | 9 hirds | THE EVENING STAR, \\'ASHlNG'l‘()N. D. . TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1925. Patriotic and civic organizations joined exercises held embassy at left. Copyright by P. & A were at the Lafayette Photos POLICE A The defeated firemen below. ON AGRARIAN BANDS§ Members Privileged to Join Army, Otherwise Will Be Disarmed, Is Edict. By the Associated Press. VERA CRUZ, Mexico, September 8. —The solution of the agrarian trou | bles in thi sstate, agreed upon at a re- | cent conference of Gov. Jara and Gen. | Almazan with President Calles at | Mexico City, was revealed today with the general's return here. ! The armed agrarian bands which | have been threatening the land own ers will be given an opportunity to join the army and those who refuse | will be disarmed. Their leader will be esponsible to Gen. Almazan as chief | of ‘military operations in this state, | with headquarters here. Presiden Calles, it is made known. plans to| visit Vera Cruz the latter part of the | | month. He will inaugurate the sta- | dium at Jalapa, the state capital, and | also inspect the various military | | SHOWING IMPROVEMENT Posse Still Seeking Assailant of Henry Hicks of Wal- dorf, Md. | | Special Dispatch to The star WALDORF. Md.. September 8.—A | posse of farmers today still was hunt- ing through this section for the negro wanted in connection with the shoot- |ing of Henry Hicks, deputy sheriff, yesterday, while attempting to make an arrest during a disturbance at | Mason Spring. Hicks, in the Government dispensary at Indian Head, is in critical condi- | tion. but it was said this morning that he_is showing progress: | these dovekies, on the same cliff, lives the plaugh gull. | _“On the north side of Foulke Fjord i the red-brown hills, brightened by | orange colored lichens, break away for | two thousand feet.from disintegrating imothy and edged with rock “The little auks have their nests in the talus (rock debris), deeply hidden from the eyes of foes. Each nest is | marvelously placed where there will iba the least possible danger from the ‘Where | constant shifting of stones. | nest, so that where one ‘finds nests | there are sure to be rocks from a foot o six feet, all piled helter skelter, {and thus affording niches in which the FIREMEN WHO STAGED A REAL BATTLE AT AME base ball fans turned out to see the annual clash between the Washington “ladd; and this was the fourth time that the men of Maj. Sullivan have defeated the boys who fight the conflagrations. Above: The v | Company | TRUCKER IS BEATEN birds lay thelr eggs and hatch their young. V. HE BROKE TWO WORLD RECORDS. Joe Petrali of Los Angéles, who ean get all sorts of speed out of a motor cycle. Joe shattered two world recor in the 10.mile and 25-mile races —at the Washington-Baltimore speedway y yafternoen: Copyright by Underwood & Underwood ICAN LEAGUE PARK YESTERDAY A s” and the “cops. Two Men’s Club Holds Last Meeting | With Three Surviving of Original 29 By the Associa STILLWA1 Minn., September 3. —Drinking a toast In wine to thel departed comrades, three old soldie of the Civil War who saw service in €. Sth Minnesota. dropped | their glasses yesterday and virtually disbanded the Two Men's Club, which has been in existence for 20 vears. In company with the 14 widows of their comrades and the wife of one of the surviving members of the club, the | three aged veterans, whose combined | ages total more than vears, held | their last meeting at the home of Hor- ace Voligny. The wine which provided 1 Press. the toast was given to the organiza. tion by Mr. Voligny in 19t Besides Mr. Voligny. the veterans at | what probably was the last meeting of | the trio are John Blake of Mellon. Wis., 83 vears old, and Jacob Secrest, | Minneapolis. 83 vears old. Voligny is the dean of the trio, having reached 86 vears, The Two Men's Club was organized by 29 members of Company C. Al though the wishes of their comrades in arms provided that the toast to {he departed members of the club should be drunk by the two last survivors, it was decided today that the weight of the encroaching vears was growing | too burdensome to permit annual gath. erings. | WILL NOT ATTEND PARLEY | TO DEATH BY BANDITS | IF COMMUNIST COMES | Mountaineer Left on Road to Die|Col. Woodcock, British M. P., De- After Proceeds of Day's clines Mission to U. S. in Asso- Sales Are Taken. clation With Saklatvala. By the Associated Press. i LONDON, September §.—Col. H. P. | Woodcock, Conservative member of | Parliament, in a letter to the news- Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va.—William | Rainey, elderly mountaineer trucker, | died here yesterday as the result of an attack by highwaymen who . clubbed 2 Rainey into unconsciousness and left | Papers, announces that he will not| him on a country road to die Saturday |0 to Washington and Ottawa as a | night after robbing him of the pro. | British delegate to theInterparlia- ceeds of his day’s sales. mentary Conference If S. Saklatvala, Tke only clue in the hands of officers | 2 Communist member of Parliament, | s the number of the license on an |Who also i a delegate, intends to, automobile known to have heen make the trip. 1 parked for an hour near the scene be- | Col. Woodcock explains that he fore the attack. {cannot associate himself with Mr. Saklatvala, who is a Communist and ' whose utterances are_ disloyal to Great Britain. MASONIC PARLEY IN-ROME BARED BY FASCISTI PRESS The highwaymen overlooked a roll of bills which Rainey kept pinned in his clothing. WAHABI LEADER DENIES ATTACK ON HOLY PLACE By the Associated Press. > By the Associated Press. LONDON, September 8.—Reuter's! ROME, September 8.—The extreme | Agency vesterday received a telegram | Fascist newspaper, L'Tmpero, from Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd and!gives front page display to an article | leader of the Wahabi tribesmen of | purporting to give an account of a Arabia. officially denying reports that | secret meeting of the general assem. | his followers have bombarded Medina, | bly of the Masonic Grand Orient in “the city of the prophet,” in the ' violation of the Fascist law prohib Hedjaz. | ing the assemblage of secret societie: “Our forces have surrounded Me-| According to L'Impero, the meeting | dina,” the Sultan’s message says, “hut , Was held on Sunday in the Justinian | our government has issued strict | Palace nad was attended by 332 per- | orders to the military commanders to ! sons, including prominent Masons | respect and protect the holy places | from all parts of Italy. as well as of Medina and its inhabitants. Wea representative of the Italian lodges are ready to sacrifice all we have for |in North America. | this. We are bound religiously to| The reporter gives abstracts of all | protect the holy tomb (the tomb of |the speeches and discussions, as well | Mohammed). Our government will [as a warning from the presiding offi- Keep the promises given to the Mos- | cer that all present observe the ut- lem world.” most secrecy regarding the affair. At the end of the“article is a long list of the names of those said to have been present and below them in ital- ies: A Jerusalem dispatch on August 22 reported that the Wahabis were bombarding Medina and had wrough much d”"“m%?_ great mosque of the prophet & suffered, them to memory,” WORLD RECORDS BROKEN IN at the Washington-Baltimore speedway, distance., FTERNOON. Eighteen thousand The police won the game by a score of 9 to 7, orious policemen. ington Star Photo. FUNERAL OF VIVIANI WILL BE THURSDAY Noted French Statesman Will Be Buried With Elaborate State Rites. By the A PART pciated Press eptember 8.—The funeral of Tene Viviani. noted French states- man, orator and former premier, who died yesterday after a_lingering 1ll- ness. has been set for Thursday. It will be elaborate, and. as is the case in the death of so prominent a per- sonage, the expentes will be borne the government In a message to the Petit Parisien today, Premier Painleve expressed his sorrow at the loss “to French demo- racy of one of its best sons and lead- ing defenders He recalled M. Viviani's mission to America in 1817 and paid tribute to his services to France in the tragic hours of the World War These sentiments are echoed by the editorial writers of all newspapers. NEW D. C.-BALTIMORE ROAD WILL BE PUSHED Stephens Citizens' Association to Study Plan to Extend Ed- monston Highway. Special Dispatch to The Star. EAST RIVERDALE, Md., Septem- ber & —Pointing out that trafic over the Washington-Baltimore boulevard has become so heavy that a new thor- oughfare between these cities rapidly is becoming virtually imperative, a movement l0ooking to the extension to Baltithore of the Edmonston road, which recently was paved from th National Defense highway at Bladen: burg to East Riverdale, is being push- | ed by citizens and is expected to re- celve impetus at the September meet- ing of the Stephens Citizens’ Asso- ciation of East Riverdale tonight at 8 oclock in the basement of St John’s Lutheran Church, East River- dale. Citizens of Berwyn, Laurel and other communities along the routs of the proposed extension are under- stood to be supporting the movement and representatives of some of these sections are expected at tonight's meeting. : Purchase of a lot upon which to erect a community house is another | matter slated to come before the as- sociation. Boy, 6, Falls From Tree. Six-year-old Samuel Lee of 710 Eu. clid street fell from a tree in .which he was playing at Georgla avenue and Euclid street yesterday aftefnoon, bre: nis. left arm. He was taken io G@Afield Hospital In a passing auto- m And treated by Dr. Ray. | professors and MOTOR CYCLE RACES YESTERDAY. The finish of the five-mile race Jim Davis finished first and set a new world mark of 2:42 2-5 for the Other world records were broken in the 10-mile and 25.mile r Capt. R. P. Crandall. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. and Hugh Frayne, placing flowers on the grave of the federation, at Tarrvtown, N. Y SCIENTISTS ATTACK POLITIGS PROBLEM Breeding Race of Able Office- | holders Proposed as “Key to Social Control.” By the Aseociated Press NEW YORK. September 5. Poli tics is being viewed through the eyes | of science by more than 100 college experts who are at- tending the third annual meeting of the national conference on the science of politics, Round-table discussions were begun today with a view to pla¢ing politics on a more scientific basis. “What we want to do is to find a method of controlling .nolitical . beha- vior,” saild Dr. Arnold Bennett Hall of the University of Wisconsin, who i: chairman of the conference. Millions for Soap Ad. “The two things that probably af- fact us most, relizion and politics, we | study least. We spend millions to find out how the public reacts to a soap advertisement, but nothing to know how it reacts to political prop- aganda. “Everybody wants peace. vet the forees for war go right ahead. We have not been learning to control our- selves with regard to our behavior in political and international matters. We have been doing it in business, for business has reduced to a science | the problem of getting the right man for the job, but politics has not. “This is the problem: -of- the *sci- ence of politics. This requires sci entific knowledge of political behav lor that will give us the key to social contrel. It requires the contributions | of psychology, pathology. anthropol- | ogy and blology and all other dis- ciplines. that are concerned with the study of the individual or the group. “We breed stock to accomplish cer- tain designated ends. Why ean't we breed human beings to fit into the needs of modern politics?" Among the topics to be discussed during. the conference, to continue through September 11, are the char- {table activities of political parties, political tendencies ‘among negroes Wwho have migrated to Northern cities in the last 10 years, the politician’ study of human motives and effect o the election of judges on a non-par- tisan ballot. The conference is being held under the joint auspices. of Columbia Uni- versity and the National Institute of Public Administration. Almdst every State university in the “country is represented at the| conference. There also are many civie experts in attendance. SEr : ‘Fireman Sued by Wife. Wallace L. Souders, a fireman of Engine Company 22, was sued today for a limited divorce and alimony by his wite, Sallie M. Souders, on charges of desertion and non-support. They were married at Rockville, Md., Sep- tember. 27, 1917, and have one child. The wife says her husband deserted her August 1 and has not contributed to the support hersellf and child since July 15. ?orne_v M. F. Blsd’bi ff appears for tRe wife. | County ! the Alleghen | products at low | edly wanted of Samuel Gompers, late president . vesterday Copr s P. & A. Photos BLAMES COOLIDGE FORPOORRVERS Senator Reed of Missouri Hits Executive’s Failure to Seek Improved Waterways. By the Associated Press ST, LOUIS Reed, Democrat for the unimproved water: ways at the door of President Coolldge in an address last night to a St Mis: ri said program September §.Senator Missouri, laid blame nterior Louis meeting of Demo- crats. The Senator to ‘ald river transporta the space o few years Louis a population of from o 3,900,000 in habitants He pointed out that ind Rocky reat avenie to market fre es throuzh the Panama Canal to the West Coast if the comprehensive rver tran tation system were undertaken by Federal Government “It is true that Congress has the power of appropriation, but it is like wise true that the executive depart- ment has always dealt with the prob. lem of. river improvement in a miserly and shortsighted way. The chief engineers, who make the esti- mates, have been dragooned into cut- ting them to the very bone “The fact that the last river and harbor bill did not carry a sufficient on would “in tes between Mountains would have the {appropriation speedily to drive to com pletion the improvements of the Mis sissippi. Missouri, Ohio and other streams can be laid directly to the door of the Presdent himselr. ‘“The majority of Congres: to pass a provision di recting that the projects already ad vocated should be completed within a period of five vears. That provision was killed at the direct command of Calvin Coolidge.” Senator Reed said that the canal must be brought to the Middle West through the improvement of the Mis- undoubt | sissippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers. CITED FOR ALIMONY. Special Dispatch to The Star ROCKVILLE, Md., September & Judge Robert B, Peter has signed an order in the Circuit Court here giv- ing Roland C. Booth, Washington real estate dealer, until Octiber 1 to show cause why he should not be adjudged in contempt of court for alleged fail- ure' to. comply with an order of the court that he pay his former wife, Mrs. Maude E. Booth, alimony at the rate of $75 a_month. On November 11, 1924, Mrs. Booth was granted a limited divorce on the ground of cruelty and desertion. Mrs Booth states that she has not re. ceived her monthly payments,.due on July 11 and August 11. Wirth on Way to U. S. BERLIN, September 8 (#).—Forme: Chancellor Wirth left for the United States today on the steamer Stultgurt to attend the congress of the 4 ter- Parliamentary Union in Washfnkton.