Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1925, Page 12

CIVIL SERVI by President Cou in yesterday a: ( C. Deming. pre CHARGES SWIM WAS STOPPED. COMMISSIONER SWORN vil Service commn t of the comm IN. r by Dr. John T. Doyle, secre Miss Gertrude Ederle, returning on the Mauretania yesterday, told members of the Women’s Swimming Asso- ciation who met her that she could have continued further in her attempt to cross the English Channel had English trainer, Jabez Wolfe. she not been made to quit by her TUnderwood & Underwood Miss Jessie Dell, Democrat. of Georg > to fill the position left vacant by the death of Mrs. Helen H. Gardener, heing sworn ary of the board. le, Miss Dell and George R. Wales, commissioner. . recently appointed Left to right: W. National Photo Co, ANT! above during the tria BRITONS 70 DROP RIGHTS IN CHINA Chamberfain Says Nation Is Willing to Surrender Privileges. By the Acsociated Press LONDON. September Chamberlain, foreign secretary, in a speech vesterday indicated Great Britain’s policy toward China in re- gard to “unequal treaties” conferring on foreigners special extra-territorial privileges. As circumstances change,” Mr. Chamberlain said, “Great Britain will gladly surrend the special arrange. ments which were brought into being only to preserve peace between China "nd the outer world. Our hands will o out to meet China in memory of old friendships and in the desire to restore cordiality Addresses Parley Delegates. Mr. Chamberlain spoke at a luncheon given by the China association to Sir Ronald MacLeay, British Minister to Pekinz, and other British delegates to the Chinese customs conf in Peking next month These delegates soon will leave for China Alluding to the interna China, which have agar ready grave situation lain said ‘I am convinced that these are only surface features If th htly handled and the opportunity rightly seized, the situation may lead 19 —Austen he o hetter relations than have been experienced for many ve The foreign reat Britain v secretary added that would vy out in <pirit and letter the Washinzton con ference e ments. but he said that for the full fruition of that conference to be realized and for the inquiry into the matter of extraterritorinl rights two preliminary conditiors were necs sory: First, an atmosphere of good I. putting aside suspicions en- zendered by those who saw their op. portunities in other people’s troubles second, that China should hecome united and at peace with herself. with an effective central authority, able to undertake engagements and see them kept, and able to provide security for life and property. Asks No Privileges. Mr. Chamberlain emphasized that ireat Britain has no desire for special privileges, but is ready to meet China half way, bearing her no ill will. He asserted that Britain would not allow herself to be diverted by the memory of things past, but would be ready to relinquish her special right just in proportion as the Chinese gov- ernment could assure to British na tionals the due enjoyment of the ordinary rights which foreigners en- Jjoy in other countries. Capt. Joseph Shipp Dies. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.. September ‘apt. Joseph Shipp, 80. quar- - general of the United Con- federate Veterans, died at his home here yesterday after a brief illness. hipp served in the Civil War in a Georgia regiment and rendered distinguished service. He was one of the organizers of the United Confeder- e Veterans and has been prominent in activities of the organization many ~ | SON OF DARWIN DIES. Was His Father's Assistant in His Botanical Researches. CAMBRIDGE, England. September 19 (#) r Francis Darwin, third son of the famous British scientist, Charles Darwin, died here today aged 77 vears. Educated in Trinity College, Cambridge, he became an assistant to his father at Down, being espectally | interested in the latter’s botanical re searches, and after his death came | here to reside He was the author of vamous pa pers on physiological botany from 1876 onward, and also wrote several books touching on the life and work of his illustrious parent, among them Che Life and Letters of Charles Darwin,” published in 1887, and Foundations of the Origin of Species,” in 1903 OFFICER EXCHANGE WITH JAPAN URGED Brig. Gen. Malone Favors Policy of Training Men With Oriental Army. Recommendations have reached the Department from Briz. Gen. Paul Malone, commanding the Divi- that the policy of exchange as of officers hetween and Japanese made permanent The concurred in by Maj Gen Hinds, commanding the Sth Area. was transmitted in connection with the completion of the first period of observation of this character on the part of two Japanese officers, Capt. Kauyzo Kinemura, gen- eral staff, and Capt. I lery. They have returned to after having been attached for months to the Ist Infantry and 12th Field Artilery, r ort Sam Houston, Col. H. Morita, Japanese milita attache in Washington. writing to Gen. Malone on the subject. expressed the thanks of his government for favors extended to the two officers and urged that the system of exchanze be made permanent to promote better understanding between the two armies The two American officers now tached to the Japanese army Maj. William C. Crane, jr.. Artillery, and Lieut. Warren J. Clear, Infantry, both of whom had studied the Japanese language in Japan. Maj. Crane was attached to the Japanese army August 1 and Lieut. Clear, May 1, each for a period of six months. w R sion znments American the armies be report rnest Corps at- are 450 OIL WELLS CLOSED. Production Stopped Indefinitely in California Field. BAKERSFIELD, Calif., 19 (P).—An indefinite shutdown of 430 oil wells on Associated Oil Co. leases in Kern River fleld was made |last night. The Standard shut down more than 100 wells in the field last week. also a number of wells in the Elk Hills and other portions of the Midway-Sunset oil fields. Advices from Taft- today stated vir- tually all the Standard leases were af- |fected. The General Petroleum {also adopted the policy of shutting-in | production on a number of its proper- ties. September Field | has | LA FOLLETTE GOE INTO FINAL DRIVE wors o < Woodward, Indorsed by Klan, Withdraws in Favor of Dithmar. By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE. Wis.. September 19 ~—While anti-La Follette leaders tried vainly to reduce the number of Re- publicans who are entered as inde- pendents in the United States sen- La Follette, jr., got a flying start. proceeded to Stevens Point, where last night he opened his campaign for the final drive for the senatorship. Developments yesterday tended clarify the anti-La Follette situation. Daniel Woodward, who ran third in the Republican primary with Ku Klux Klan indorsement and had asserted he might run as an independent at the election, definitely withdrew. His withdrawal was accompanied by the following statement issued at Osh kosh “Wednesday miorning I made a statement to the Republican head quarters of this city that it Mr. Roy P. Wilcox would withdraw from the | race, supporters isfactory ‘Under the circums received close to 69,000 votes in | primary and Mr. La | received a seems wise for me to withdraw favor of Edward F. Dithmar. Almost immediately following Wood ward's announcement came a state to select a candidate sat to both parties. ment from C. B. Lewls, imperfal Ku |not be enforced. Klux Klan representative in Wiscon- | at enforcement has yet been made. sin, that the Klansmen of the State were not “going to be fooled into sup- porting the reactionary element rep- | resented by Roy P. Wilcox." Mr. Lewis refused to say who would | receive the Kian indorsement. “While many Klansmen in the State | voted for Robert M. La Follette as a | protest against Wilcox,” Mr. Lewis said, “the Klan is just as much op- posed to the radical and un-American principles of Gov. Blalne as it ever was and will continue until ultimate victory crowns our efforts, but we are not golng to be fooled into support of the reactionary element represented by Wilcox. The Klan Is not for sale.” BOY, 15, IS MURDERER. Convicted of Slaying Aged Man With Intent to Rob. MARQUETTE, Mich., September 19 (). —Fred Rose, jr.. 15 years old, confessed slayer of August Laplante, aged blueberry picker, was convicted of second-degree murder here yester- day. Rose said he shot Laplante in the back with a high-powered rifle and robbed him. Rose became 15 vears old after the shooting. and his attorney moved to quash the indict- ment on the ground that the boy was not 15 when the crime was committed and could not come under the juris- diction of the Circuit Court. ~The motion was denied and the case will probably be appealed. IRCRAFT GUNS IN SUCCESSFUL TEST. Is held at Fort Tilden, Thursday. He | ment s to | nibition situation is faced, it Follette having | surprised landslide indorsement, it |have pers in |ion. |and predicted is due solely to delin- “BILLY” SUNDAY ARRE has much of his former a cently in Portland, Or Of course. the “arres| club of Portland, but D was it 100k six The hletie <kill ver Al joke. perpetrated Billy™ didn't know it, and fought like he re- demonstrated that ted revivalist for when he was sturdy cops to force him i by o business me steer. I A Ph WILL « the heavy freight trains of the Wash northeast yesterday. New Several towed tarzets were hit, and FAILURE OF PROHIBITION LAID TO DELINQUENCY OF OFFICIALS Success of Dry Law, Research Head of Federal Council S If prohibition is to be made a suc the task is up to the schools and Rev educ of the at the of the conclusion of head of the tion and restarch department Federal Council of Churches; end of a comprehensive study present liquor situation in the United States, {n which he made no effort to pass over the present alarming tend encies With a new Federal policy he sees a is Ernest Joh the atorial race September 29, Robert M. | requction, if not an end, to edforce andals. But he a holds that no enforcement policy can be a com: plete success while a large and influ- | ential portion of the populace is not in sympathy with it. Saloon Little Favored. Dislike of prohibition, he found, crops up in all classes of society, from prosperous business and professional men to immigrant laborers who can not speak English to express their | views, He found little sentiment, however, in favor of the return of the saloon In conclusion he sayvs “When the darker side of the pro- must be no intelligent advo- remembered that T would withdraw, leaving our |cate of the new regime expected that | it no Further, of would be fully one familiar effective. with the efforts nces, T having | those States which adopted a prohibi- the | tion policy many vears ago has been that violations of the law isted in very obstinate fash The fact that prohibition is still far from yielding the results that were hoped for from it does not warrant the widely current assumption that it can- No adequate effort Officials Delinquent. “But there Is a dangerous fallacy in the often heard statement that our failure to secure through prohibition the social results that had been desired quency on the part of enforcement officials. The fact that the adoption of a national policy by so overwheim- ing a vote should be followed so,soon by a virtual nullification of that policy by important sections of the popula- tion signifies something much ' deeper than administrative inefficiency and failure. The scandals that have at- tended our experience with prohibi- tion are part of the picture of what happens in a soclety like ours when such a reform is undertaken by polit- ical action. The illicit liquor traffic is quite as much the cause as it is the effect of the political corruption that is associated with it. The funda- mental fact is that a large part of our people are unconvinced with refer- ence to the liquor traffic. The trouble is with the people more than with their Government. “If the new campaign of the Federal Government succeeds, the shutting off of the liquor supply at its main sources may take the profit out of the business, break up the organization and reduce the traffic to controllable quantities. On the other hand, its suppression may ultimately depend upon State and municipal agencies, in | which case the immediate future 1n] several States Is dark. There are sec-| | couraging | quency | ferior | our youth. in Report. 3 he countr in which the is likely to continue until forces vie organization and social edu cation succeed in developing a public opinion strong enough to modify the habits of that portion of the popula tion which has thus refused to be governed by the law. The fact which be kept constantly in the fore- is that a favorable and en- trend which began several before 1 has been reversed since that yvear—temporarily, many believe. There is no little ground for hope that we are turning the corner, but there is no basis for assurance Challenge to Churcies. “This situation presents an unprec. raffc must ground vears | edented challenge to the schools and the churches. Thus far the delin- of the churches is perhaps even greater than that of the Federal Government. In former years tem- perance education was stressed as a part of the religious educational pro- gram. It was often of a decidedly in- type. to be sure, but the im- portance of temperate living and self- control was kept continually before With the passing of the prohibition laws the task of moral education with reference to temperate living has been it ignored. As part of the study here reported a care- ful analysis was made of the mate als of religious education now in u with respect to the training of chil- dren and youth in temperance and in the responsibilities of citizenship en; tailed by the prohibition laws. The results, which have been published elsewhere, were chiefly Even the rude awakening that the outbreak of lawlessness hag brought seems to have registered more in mere protest, on the one hand, and in discouragement and dissatisfaction with prohibition, on the other, than in the perfectly obvious alternative of setting about the performance of an educational task for which no amount of social legislation can ever be a sat- isfactory substitute. ‘A new opportunity is at hand. The crisis that has developed in the en- torcement of prohibition calls for a frank facing of facts and a_new as- sumption of responsibility. The Fed- eral Government has announced a right-about-face on enforcement pol- icy. That is the Government's task. It is not its task to change the minds of the people. Religion and education must do that. Nothing but energetic and sustained educational effort can atone for past negilgence.” ASKS DR. WILSON TO ACT. NEW YORK, September 19 (). — Dr. Clarence True Wilson, general secretary of the hoard of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist Church, has been invited to present facts to back up his criti- cism of the prohibition report of the Federal Council of Churches. An- swering Dr. Wilson's denunciation of the report as something for which the wets might have paid, Dr. John A. Marquis. chairman of the adminis- trative committee of the council, said that the report was purely a research document prepared by skilled investi- gators. The council has always been, and negative. | type Browning anti-aircraft machine guns that fire 100 cartridges in 16 seconds shown Army and Navy officers were gratified at the results. Underwood & Underwood AMERICAN COTTON i i ,\'@-qml to Make BRGWERS SUUGHI {Azerbaidjan Republic Offers Tracts to Any Who Will Emigrate. BY JUNIUS B. WooD. B Cable to The Star and Chicago Dails News MOSCOW, September 19.—The Azer batdjan Republic, on the west coast of | the Sea. offers extensive tracts of land suitable for American cotton growers who desire to emigrate according to announcement from Baku, its capitai. | The announcement follow of a letter from Morris Zetterman, | who is described as a well known and wealthy American cotton planter. Zet- terman said 200 American families are | desirous of coming immediately if they are able to secure land. Letters from other American farmers also | | were received. The applications were {referred to the Soviet council of labor | and defense, which expressed approval of them, contingent on the wishes of the Azerbaidjan authorities. The lat ter have decided that immigration of | American farmers would be extremely helpful in the Mugane cotton belt Notification was sent to the applicants |that they would he permitted to come | providing they were able to introduce | latest American methods of cotton cul- | tivation. | The government promises to provide all the land required. (Copyright. 1925. by Chicago Daily News Co.) | Caspian an receipt ! now is committed to prohibition, Dr. | Marquis declares in a formal state- | ment published today. The commit- tee believes, he says, that presenta- | tion of the facts will awaken friends |of prohibition to the necessity of | more rigid Goverment enforcement. | Will Welcome Correction. “The department, seeking only the facts,” Dr. Marquis said. “has no pride of position to maintain. If it| has been mistaken in any of its statements of facts, it will welcome carrection in the same spirit in which it_has made *the study.” i Mr. Marquis denied Dr. Wilson’s as- sertion that the report was unau- thorized. It was prepared by the re. search and educational department of the council through the administrative committee, which Dr. Marquis said works along different lines than the executive committee, of which Dr. Wilson is a member. The research de- partment has reported on other prob- lems heretofore. The statement ex- | plained that the Rev. F. Ernest John | son, by whom the report was copy- righted and of whom Dr. Wilson said he never heard until last Wednesday, had been head of the research depart- ment since 1918. Is Published Here. The document is being issued for publication in Washington in six in-| stallments. It emphasized that sta tistics on the increase in crime since | prohibition mean little, and that it was as vet too early to judge whether the eighteenth amendment had proved ARRY NO MORE GRAVEL. | communicable diseases a success. Dr. Wilson denied that prohibition was facing a supreme test or that there was doubt as to the final 1 outcoma, The result of a fiveto ington, Baltimore and An truck dispt The truck was knocked 30 feet and badly crumpled up. tting the right-of-way with one of apolis line at Eighteenth street and Benning road IRISH GENERAL ATTACKED., minister of the Irish Free State, and eggs and tomatoes by Irish republican in Hoboken from the steamship President Roosevelt Thursday. women and three men were arrested PROTEST BY FASCISTI. Criticism by Italians in Other Countries Is Resented ROME 19 (®).—Roberto Faraccini, f Fascisti party, rday received a resolution passed meeting of 21 Fa St organiza in Switzerland, asking that tion be taken gainst Italians ake refuge abroad to criticiz Tialian government d to in foreign press campaigns F: ism The resolution condemned the recent action of the Italian government allowing Dr. Guiseppe Donati, the editor of Il Popolo, and ex-Premier Nitti to go abroad. LOWER DEATH RATE PREDICTED THIS YEAR Decrease in Fatalities From Dis- ease Seen by Cumming With Publication of Figures. ptember secretary tions ac who the again: an unusual number of deaths June attributed to ‘“heat waves.” preliminary figures made | public vesterday by Surg. Gen. Cum- ming indicated the official death rate for the first seven months of 19 would be lower than the average for | the last five years. Health conditions were sald by Dr. Cumming to have been ‘‘generally good" this vear, with reports indicat ing that the more common | have been less destructive than usual during the Summe: | A decided decrease was shown in diphtheria cases for the eight weeks since the first of July, as compared | with the corresponding period last year. During the surveyed period of 1925 approximateiy 6400 cases were | reported, against 8,100 for the same time in 1924 Unusual prevalence of paralysis during the Spring and Sum- mer months was reported. Thirty-two | States recorded 1463 cases for the | eight weeks, as compared with 635 Despite in ‘most of infantile | | last year. | A slight reaction also was shown in typhoid fever deaths, which for | many years had been steadily decreas- | ing. Since the first of July, 33 States | reported 7,173 cases, as compared with 5,013 last vear. Some of the apparent increase, howevere, the surgeon gen- eral declared, may be due to mors complete reporting of cases. WOULD SEND EDUCATORS. Teachers to Ask That Attaches Be Appointed With Diplomats. | CHICAGO, September 18 UP).—Ap- | pointment of educational attaches to | forelgn countries would be provided | for in a bill in Congress sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers, | F. G. Stecker, .secretary, has an-| nounced. | The federation also is working for | the introduction of a bill embodying | the principles of the Fess-Capper hill. | which provided for Federal aid to | physical education in contradistinction | to military training. | Free text books for all public school pupils will be the objective of ldcals of the federation in various States and the District of Cgumbla. {2 Gen. Richard Mulcahy, | names before former defense his party were greeted with sticke. sympathizers when the party landed Two for the assault. P. & A. Photos |ZZY ANDMOE LOSE SLEUTH IDENTITY Famous Dry Agents Must Go About Incognito Under Chief’s Orders. NEW YORK, September Einstein and Moe Smith, the Siamese Twin sleuths, to whom prohibi tion brought almost as much notoriety as it did to Mr. Volstead himself, to got their pictures in the New York papers for probably the last time. The 13. — Izzy rum it pictures accompanied an an | nouncement that John A. Foster, New York's chief, that new prohibition enforcement had issued an henceforth all operating under him are to remain i Izzy's and Moe's names were not men tioned in the order that the ruling was aimed at them asmuch as they are virtus agents in these parts who ever ‘top head order providing agents cognito. but it was obvious in Iy the only make a in the papers. Reason Not Given. Just why the incognito order sued—whether it still th. calous pangs in the breasts of lzzy and Moe's co-workers whether it was inspired h other motive was not made clear It could hardly have by fear that Izzy and Moe m t come too well known to the hootleg Ring gentry through constant publica tion of their pictures. their names and their methods. For it is a curious fact that. despite the constant broadcasting of their pictures and descriptions. they never seem to be “spotted” as prohi bition agents. One of the best stories the pair have was is <ome been inspired |turned up for the papers recently was the story of how they had purchased drinks from, and then arrested, a saloon keeper who had their picture pasted up on the bar for identification. The fame of Izzy and Moe, who now pass into history and eventually, per haps, into legend, was based partly on their skill at disguises, partly on their sense of what was a “good story” and partly on their willingness to “stand for” almost anything the reporters thought up to write about them. Variety of Disguises. Their list of disguises ran the entire gamut, from gentlenien of the evening out for a good time in “soup and fish down through the ranks of coal heav ers, longshoremen and yegg: They have impersonated bartenders out of a job and suffering from potent thirst It is even rumored that they have im personated beer barrels. which is not entirely incredible considering their general contour. But diszuises or no disguises. their exploits must be recounted from now on behind the allas “two prohibi tion_enforcement agents.” Apparent Iy the only way they ean keep their the public is to turn bootlegger. There is no ban vet on publication of the names of bootleg. gers who fall into the toils. More than 1,500 barréls of crude oil a minute is the production record ef the United States at the present time. \