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: PAINLEVE FINANGE BILL HOTLY FOUGHT Little Chance Seen of Plan; Passing Before End of the Week. By the Associated Press. PARIS, November 8.—The prospect of the passing before the end of the week of Premier Painleve's bill to put France's finances on a sound footing still appears remote. This much progress has been made, how- «ver: The filnance committee of the Chamber of Deputies, which at first would have none of it, after a full . day of debate, which often was acri- monious, is prepared to consider it as a basis for discussion M. Painleve having oA his part ex- pressed willingness to accept any modification that likely will be useful, political circles are confident that the government and the finance com- mittee will come to an agreement in the near future. The principal ground for adverse criticism from the left block is that the government's plan involves inflatibn, disguised but none the less inflation, to the extent of ten and a half billion-odd francs. Fault also is found with the national contribution provision. the ground aken being that it is too sweeping. | and not sufficiently gradual. Further, doubts are expressed as to the inde-} pendence of the b f managers of the sinking fund s the government | proposes to constit | The Natior of the oppo- sition declares that M. Painleve's bill would crush the middle classes out of existence and kill French industry. Meanwhile other plans are beginning 10 be put forward by various authori: | tles. 1In addition to several proposing 10 solve the problem by various forms of lotteries, Louis Loucheur has pro- duced one based on the plan of the| Socialists. The principal features of this are for consolidation of short- term treasury bonds and the redemp- tion of the entire national debt in a period of years by a tax on all forms of wealth. OLD ‘TRAMP PRINTER’ HAS CHANGED STYLE, Is Still With Us, But Rides in Auto Instead of on Freight, Says Union Head. iated Press. INDIANAPOLIS. November 9.—The | ramp printe that colorful charac- | ter of great wanderlust, has not dis- appeared, in the opinion of James M. | Lynch, president of the International Typographical Union, and he offers | records to prove it. “The type has changed, ‘boomer’ is still with us,” Lynch. “The difference is that traveling tvpe who once rode brake rods and the blind baggage spins blithely along in h mobile and s seldom fir barrassed. “Scarcely a day paper somewhere in solemnly record the p ‘last of the old-time tramp printers Some one is always trying to rob the but said the Mr. the | the now own auto- neially em- | 1t @ news. 2 does not sing of the ! could quite well stimulate is the re- | have had a policy of absolute freedom | | are “Grabber” Attacks Another Child, 12, And Makes Escape Ruth Gwynn, 12 C street northeast, the fourth vic- tim of ack the Grabber,” was seized while at Twelfth and C streets northeast about 7:30 o'clock last night. The man, mounted on a bicycle that was not lighted, rode up to the curb, dismounted and grabbed the child. Ruth made an outcry that frightened her assailant off. The child described her assailant as being about 27 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing about 140 pounds. He wore a blue suit and cap. Lieut. 0. T. Davis of the ninth precinct formed several squads and made a futile search for the man. years old, 1111 RADIO CURB VITAL TO SAVE INDUSTRY, HOOVER DECLARES operation with the Government. An- other problem for solution by the in- | dustry itself and which now rests | prominently on the public mind, is | that of advertising. been pointed out over and | n that advertising in the sive sense will dull the interest | » and will thus defeat | industry. Furthermore, it can | 1z disaster to the very purpose of | advertising if it creates resentment to the advertiser. If we can distinguish on one hand between unobtrusive publicity that is accompanied by a direct service and engaging enter- tainment to the listener and obtrusive advertising on the other we may find solution. “Another problem that the industry moval of stations from congested centers. “My major purpose today is to dis- cuss those problems which must be solved in co-operation with the Gov- | ernment. Up to the present time we | and untrammeled operation. 1 am | convinced that policy was sound. | “Higher power has greatly strength- | ened the service to listeners, but it | has aggravated the problem of pro- viding lanes through the traffic, for geographical ~separation must be greater. “It is a simple physical fact that we | have no more channels. It is not pos- | sible to furnish them under the pres- | ent state of technical development. It takes no argument to demonstrate | at 89 wave lengths—and no more available—cannot be made to | serve innumerable stations. If we impose more division of time than at | present we shall drive the best sta- tions out of action and the public will | be poorly served. Cannot Widen Band. | “It has been suggested that the | remedy lies in widening the broadcast- ing band. The vast majority of re-| ceiving sets in the country will not over a_ wider band. Nor could we xiend it without invading the field assigned to the amateurs. Radlo in | this branch has found a part in the fine development of the American boy and 1 do not believe any one will wish | to minimize his part fn American life. | “We hear a great deal about the freedom of the But there are two parties to freedom of the air, and to freedom of speech, for that matter. present of the picturesque in order to reflect glamour on the past. The fact | is that more_traveling cards are being | i8sued to union printers today than | ‘were issued at any time in the past. | “The ‘tramp printer’ of the old da was highly useful as well as romantic He carried the printed word into the | dark places of %w earth. He came | into contact with®he best minds of the | age and travel broadened his outlook. | Unfortunately, mode of life tended ! to el nation, and his | travel extended to | tree- But he was a zental, lovable and practically never vicious. i “The traveling printer of tod | ges things much better. He -l dom without money, and he usually | studies conditions of business before | into new and untried fields. | n card establ tency and he is assur ‘sub’ when he rrives town."” Mr. Lynch was asked if he believed the traveline nrovensity of printers was good for them. Yo, Not as a_continuous perform ance. Thrift and steadiness are vir- tues that outweigh all others a crafts | man may possess, but the exchange | of ideas on craft methods is undoubt- | ediy good for the trade.” i im netime ion. type fi His un in a union MILLION TONS LYING IN COAL FIELDS TIED | UP BY CONTRACTS (Continued from ter, it has been figured. But a mil-| Hon or so tons would not-last a weelk | f it were distributed indiscriminately. { Non-Union M Pottsville is the only city in this <ection that is not turning to| lituminous coal, so fa this writer | has been able to ascertain. This ity however, boasts of having the only anthracite mine now operating around here. It is owned by two brothers by the name of Rosenberger, em- ploys non-union labor and has been | zoing right along without molesta- tion from the union. Its however. is said to be on 4 its owners will not the coal to any but those who drive up to the collieries to get it. s is also the first city found in thracite fields that is beginning to complain of ill effects from the strike. All of the other places visited | seemed to be booming along at a t it, but Pottsville depends entrel upon coal for its living, and there are evidences of distress among the busi. ness men. In fact, a league of busi. ness men has just been formed here for the purpose of endeavoring to get both sides around the peacd table, at least. There is a general idea here that the miners are thoroughly tired not only of this strike, but of all strikes. The workers are sald to have been content with the wage scale and disinterested in the check-off plan. If these two things were eliminated from the dis. pute there would be little else to argue | about, and Pottsville’s business men are beginning to zet busy on that point. Little was ne Working. found elsewhere, how- ever, to show that this view of the situation is a true reflection of general conditions. Pottsville is small com- pared to the other anthracite centers, and everywhere else an atmosphere of determination to hold out exists, with no indication of surrender on either side. Around the other greater cen- ters the miners seemed to have be- come too accustomed to their game of blind man’s buff for any person to hope very seriously for a reconcilia- tion. ' Spring styles in shoes are being prepared for London’s footwear fair, i he held duping the Winter. | listener. | development | adminis i This {a semi-judicial function whic | have | receiving sets, elimination of sparks, There is the speechmaker and the | Certainly in radio i believe | in freedom for the listener. He has | much less option upon which he can reject, for the other fellow is occupy- ing his receiving set. The listener's only option is to abandon his right to use his receiver. The ether i3 a pub- lic medium, und its use must be for the nublic benefit. | What are we to do? We simply must say that conditions absolutel preciude increasing the total number of stations in congested areas. But | this implies a determination of who | shall occupy these channels, in what manner and under what test. “It seems to me we have in this of governmental rela- | tions two distinct problems. First, | is a_question of traffic control. This | must he a Federal responsibility. | From an interference point of view, | every word broadcast is an interstate word. Therefore, radio is a 100 per cent interstate question. And there not an individual who has the most rudimentary knowledge of the art, who does not realize that there must be a traffic policeman in the other, or all service will be lost in com!| plete chaos of interference. This is| an administrative job and for good | ation must lie in a single responsibility g | Asks Communities Act. “The second questaion is the determi- nation of who shall use the traffic| channels, and under what conditions. s a_very large discretionary or should Aot devolve entirely upon a single official, and is, I belleve, a matter in which each local community should have a large voice—should in some | fashion participate in a determina- tion of who should use the channels available for broadeasting in that lo- | cality * * ® S I am secking vour views as to| how far this can be made practi-| cable, or what other basis may be found for handling the problem. I no frozen views on radio—ex- cept that the public interest must dominate. As many of you know I am not one of those who seek to ex- tend any sort of Government regula- tion into any quarter that is not vital and in this suggestion I am even en- deavoring to create enlarged local responsibility.” Committees Named. The personnel of nine committees which will endeavor to work out a solution to a number of the perplex- ing problems before the conference was announced by Secretary Hoover at the close of his opening address. The initial meetings of these com- mittees have been scheduled for 4 o'clock this afternoon. The topics with which the commit- tees will deal include advertising, re- adjustment of present frequency bands, operators’ licenses, class re- quirements, construction permits, listening for _distress. license fees, power, time division, rebroadcasting, duplication of wave lengths, removal of broadcasting stations from con- gested_centers, extension of the plan of individual assignments of wave lengths to shore stations, radlating station interference, miscellaneous in’ terferences, the necessity for legisla- tion, suggestions to be embodied in legislation and the use of copyright material. BUILDS HOME IN FRANCE.| PARIS; November 9 UP).Charlle | Chaplin 1s building a house at the | little village of Jean de Luz, alongside one owned by Feodor Chaliapin, the famous basso. It Is believed ‘the profits of the French edition of his new film, “The Gold Rush.” are being used in this venture. Real estate has already gone up in the neighborhood, the French appar- | ently. calculating that these two notables will make the neighborhood more popular. “Charlot’s” new _pic- ture, gallicized as “La_Ruee Vers L'Or,” is very -popular in Paris. » l Warns of His Advertising. | | the bandit leader. | of Abd-el-Krim THE EVENING KRIN UNDEFEATED, SWEENEY ASSERTS Leader Untouched—Either - He or French Eventually Must Go, He Says. BY COL. CHARLES SWEENEY. Commander of the American Escadrille in Morocco. . By Cable to The Star and Chicago Dally News. OUEZZAN, November 5, Via Parls, November 9.—Now that the Moroccan | campaign is ended and our campaign | with French army operations is draw- ing toward its end, it may be inter- esting to take a retrospective view of the general results. Last April Abd-el-Krim, In spite of the friendly relations he had always had with the French, attacked sud- denly French outposts guarding the plains about Fez and the coast cities against Incursions by mountain tribes. At _that time he had a well trained, well supplied veteran army of 80,000 regulars, elated by thelr victory over the Spaniards. Tribes Rallied to Krim. As they advanced in the French zone, tribes as yet unsubdued, or those just lately ‘subdued, rallled to his standard, attracted b the pros- pects of rich booty. I shall not at- tempt to describe the ferocity of that first attack. nor the desperate situa- tion of the French forces, which were outnumbered and almost over- whelmed Arrival of reinforcements enabled Marshal Lyautey to stem the flood and finally to re-establish a defensive line behind which a counter offensive could be organized. Now Gen. Petain has carried out that offensive, and the French line has been re-established approximately as it was before Abd-el-Krim's raid. Krim Still Uutouched. But what is the situation now? The Riffian Pancho Villa, who has been driven back over the Moroccan Rio Grande, unfortunately makes the an- swer only too clear. He has not been touched as yet. Up to the present the French have been fighting only against warriors drawn from tribes which revolted under the influence of The Riffian army itself furnished only the necessary number of trained soldiers to stiffen the mass of irregulars. But the Ber- ber troops have not yet encountered the enemy. Abd-el-Krim's 80,000 regular: trenched in their mountain fastnesses, await favorable opportunity again to raid the fertile plains. This promises new fights in the near future. Spain, meanwhile, if one can be- lieve the Madrid press, intends to persist in her announced policy of leaving Abd-el-Krim a free field to fasten his hold on the mountain tribes. From time immemorial the chief occupation of these hillsmen has been raiding and plundering the lowlands, and certainly only force can stop them from continuing this lucrative and agreeable trade. One Must Leave. One is compelled to conclude that sooner or later the French will send a punitive expedition across the mountains. In a word, the presence and the French in Morocco at the same time is prac- tically impossible. The French must conquer him or get out. It is now evident that the cam- paign of 1925 has done little toward a final clearing up of the Riffian sit- uation. It has established a basis for a future solution, but it has not solved the problem. If the French intend to conquer northern Morocco there arises immediately the question of the control of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean. Behind this shadow is England anl unending international complications. The writer is inclined to believe that Abd-el-Krim will prove as great a factor in the stirring up of future conflicts and wars in Europe as the Balkans have been in the past. (Copyright. 1925, by Chicazo Daily News Co.) FLYERS ARE LEAVING. in- se: Defend Operations as “Most Humane Colonial War. By the Associated Press. OUEZZAN, Morocco, November 9.— Sixteen American aviators, who for two months have been operating against the rebellious Moorish tribes men in Morocco, carrying on with the French forces, but under colors of the Sultan of Morocco, “the most humane al war In history,” are leav- ing North Africa, this season's work having been completed. Notwithstanding the orders of the State Department at Washington last month to Consul General Blake, at Tangier, to inform the birdmen that their service in Moroceo might in- fringe upon the Revised Statutes of the United States, they have continued at their work, but now, with the advent of the rainy season, have decided to return to France. France contended that the airmen were not fighting for France and that their activitles con- stituted an affalr between them and the Sultan. The Americans often flew over the rebel lines and dropped bombs and used their machine guns In describing the war as humane they assert, however, that during all their 470 war missions, in which they loosed 49 tons of bombs, their attacks were upon ‘ortifled positions or rebel concentrations. Altogether the men of the Sheriflan squadron, as the Ameri- can contingent is known, had an ag- gregate of 635 hours in the air. Mar- shal Petain, prior to his return to France, lauded the Americans for their work. MRS. HELEN GANss DIES. Was Prominent in Hebrew Circles for Many Years. Mrs. Helen Peyser Ganss, 45, long prominent in Hebrew organizations here and a lifelong resident, died at her residence, 3824 Harrison street, yes- terday after a short lllness. She wi the wife of Morris Ganss, milline; sister of Capt. Julius T Peyser and the daughter of the late Philip Peyser, a pioneer merchant of Washington. Mrs. Ganss attended the public schools and was graduated from Cen- tral High School. She had long been interested in charitable and church work, She was a member of the board of the Jewish Foster Home, the Council of Jewish Women and the Sisterhood of the Washington Hebrew Congregation. She is survived by her husband, two brothers, Capt. Peyser of this city and Sol Peyser of Newport News, Va.; a son, Harold Ganss, and three sisters, Mrs. Sol Herzog, Mrs. Charles Fried- lander and Mrs. Morris Gusdorf. Funeral’ services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rabbi Abram Simon and Rabbi Kronman of the Wash- ington Hebrew Congregation will officiate. Interment . will be in the Washington Hebrew Congregation Cemetery. Construction of a railroad neatly 40 miles long, from the Transconti- nental Line of the Canadian National Railways to the Rourn mi dais- trict, will cost nearly $3,000,000. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1925. Fine Arts Commission Disapproves The Fine Arts Commission has dis- approved the proposed design of a Natfonal Cemetery to the Army chap- lains who lost their lives during the World War. The design in_question consisted of a small bronze tablet in- scribed with the names. of the dead, which was to be attached to a large bowlder near the tomb of the Un known Soldier. Application for per- mission to place the memorial was made by the Army Chaplains’ Assocla- tion. In jts report to the Secretary of War on the subject, the Fine Arts Design of Memorial to Chaplains memorial to be erected in Arlington | Commission said: *The commission could not approve the tablet. It is of the ordinary ‘stock type,’ very crude and cheap and ugly. Public taste has now advanced beyond the bowlder stage and the regulations of August G, 1916, pertaining to Ar- lington prohibit the use of the bowl- der. The commission recommends that this memorial take the formof an in- scription cut on one of the pilasters in the interfor of the Arlington Am- phitheater. These pilasters, it seems to the commission, are eminently fit- ting for memgqrials of this character, and they provide space for placing memorial inscriptions in future years.” AUTES TAKE TLL OF 8B IN MIDVEST Week’s Fatalities Show De- crease—43 Killed in Southern Crashes. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 9.—Automo bile accident deaths in 10 Middle West- ern States dropped to 88 last week, as compared with more than 100 the pre- vious week. Twenty-three deaths oc- curred in Illinois, most of them in for other States as follows: Indlana, 16; Michigan, 12; Minne- sota, 7; Texas, 4; Missourl, 2; Kansas, Oklahoma and North Dakota, 1 each. The week end fatalities included the death of four high school students at Kalamazoo, Mich., when their auto- mobile was struck by a Michigan Cen- tral train. Two persons were killed in Chicago Sunday, bringing the death toll for the city and vicinity so far this year to 672. Nearly a score of persons were killed in other Sunday accidents. Fi woman hotel employes died at Hib- bing, Minn., presumably of asphyxia- tion; a_hunter was drowned at Cen- tralfa, IIL; four deaths were attributed to the storm and cold weather, three in Chicago and one at Springfield, 1IL., while foot ball injuries proved fatal to a_college student at High Point, N. C. Two persons were killed in Chicago fn gun fights: a Detroit po- liceman accidentally shot and killed himself, while other accidental deaths were recorded at St. Louls and Car- Iyle, Til. 43 KILLED IN SOUTH. 208 Are Injured in Week, Statistics From 10 States Show. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., November UP) —Forty-three persons are known to have been killed and 208 injured in traffic accidents in 10 Southern States last week, reports collected today by the Associated Press from 11 States reveal. The outstanding accident of | week was near Nahunta, C |an Atlantic Coast Line train {2 bus loaded with {on their way to school ght were killed outright and 22 fnfured. Four died later from their injuries, boosi- ing the total fatalities to 12. This put Georgla leading the list of fatal- |ities. Florida ranked next, with seven deaths. Florida, with 91 injuries, led that column, while Georgla trailed a_poor second, with 36, the latter made up principally by the Nahunta accident and week end accidents in Atlanta. Mississippl, so far as could be as- certanied, escaped scot-free for the entire week, not a fatality nor an in- jury being reported. SWISS DENIES FORECAST “QUOTED” BY D. C. MAN Scientist Says He Made No Pre- diction of Summerless Year, as Dr. Brown Stated. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, vember 9.—Dr. mut Gans, a_Swise scientist, who is director of the biologlcal station at | Lunz, Austria, says he cannot under. | stand why Herbert Janvrin Browne, | ocean meteorologist, of Washington, D. C., mentioned him among other Suropeans as supporting Mr. 9 { the when truck would be like 1816, “the year with- out a Summer,” and prove a menace to_the world’s grain crops. Mr. Browne made his statement at Wellesley, Mass., September 23, in an address before the twelfth annual business conference. Dr. Gans in a statement forwarded here from Lunz says he does not know Mr. Browne and that he does not understand why his name was attached to any such prophecy. Dr Gans exp-esses the belief that as the world's climate often has changed, it will change in the fu- ture, “in other words, there is some periodicity. “However,” the statement adds, “it is absolutely impossible to determine the character of a single year.” Doubts Browne Theory. OSLO, Norway, November 9 (#).— Dr. Hesselberg, chief of the Oslo Meteorological Bureau, says he does not think that Herbert Janvrin Browne is right in his forecast that next year there will be no Summer. He concurs with Mr. Browne that there has been less solar activity lately than unsual; that the radia- tion from the sun therefore has been decreasing, but he does not agree with Mr. Browne's assumption that this phenomenon will bring about a cold Summer. FINDS BETTER REACTION TO MUSIC IN GERMANY American Violinist in Berlin Says Applause Now Is More Spontaneous. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, November 9.—Albert Spald- ing, the American violinist, who is now giving his first concerts in Ber- lin since 1912, has found that Berlin post-war audiences are reacting more spontaneously to music than did those before the World War. “I explain this difference by the fact that the German of today has such serious economic and other prob- lems to worry him that he needs something as an offset,” Mr. Spalding sald to the correspondent. ‘“This es- cape from the hideousness of life he finds_in music, of which he always has been fond, but which he loves especially now. Before the war, when everybody in Germany enjoyed an or- dered and well regulated life, applause also moved along ordered and conven- tional lines. Now the audiences break into applause spontaneously and with an almost ‘continuous reaction.’ " Mr. Spalding this season has achleved a notable success in the rendition of his own compositions besides eliciting praise from the critics for his masterful presentation of Bach and other German composers. 2 D SR A hawk flying contest was held re- cently in England. . ). Chicago, and 21 in Ohio, with figures | singing children | Hel- | Browne's forecast that the year 1926 | PROVICEOF U. . PARKS I CHANCED Will Be Primarily for Educa- tion Purposes in Future, Work Says. Heralding a new epoch in national park history, Secretary Work of the | Interior Department announces that the Government of the United States recognizes education as the principal function of the natlonal parks system. | To refit the system for this higher purpose it is to be purged, he says, of parks which are inconsistent with its fundamental status—which is, In effect, that of national outdoor mu- seum of the original American wilder- ness and national gallery of the mas- terpleces of American scenery. Rec- reation in national parks will continue to function healthily, Secretary Work explains, but will no longer control development and administration. In this purpose to preserve the na- tional parks system as a great na- tional education institution, Secretary | Work has the heartiest co-operation | of the National Parks Association, | whose ebject is “to mobilize all our Federal lands for recreatfon and na- | ture conservation.” George Bird | Grinnell is president of this associa- | tion, which includes in its organiza- | tion officers of the American Federa- tion of Arts, the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Soclety, the Smithsonian Institution, the Ameri- can me Protective Assoclation, the American Alpine Association, Izaak Walton League, National Federation of Women's Clubs, Boone and Crockett Club, National Research Council, | Chautauqua Institute, Nationai | League of Wild Life, American For- | estry Assoclation, National Associa tion of Audubon Societies, etc. Work Statement. i | In announcing conclusions reached | | through administration of the Parks Bureau, Secretary Work sald: “Municipal and State parks and na- | tional forests together offer outdoor opportunities in countless numbers, | and easily accessible. “The Government finds itself dupli- cating these areas down to the smallest picnic park. We have gotten way from the fundamental principle that the Government should do | nothing an individual municipality or | State can do for itself. and we are competing in little things, benumbing | public spirit and thwarting local pride | of possession and development. “The rapidly growing popularity of our national parks system marks a jtime when these ‘first temples’ may safely take their proper place in the higher education of our people in the ‘finer things,’ with which both | physical and mental recreation will necessarily be associated.” Supporting the Secretary's announce- ment, Robert Sterling Yard, as execu- tive secretary of the National Parks Association, = empasizes the new standing given to “museums of the original wildernes: etter which Secretary Work ¥s ‘“suggests a on for our national parks that will be new to many people who now regard them only as recreational areas. Yard's Letter. Mr. Yard's letter to { Work is, in part, as follows: “Your idea of squeezing out of the National Parks System the parks which do not measure to standard has met with the hearty approbation of several of our board whom I have consulted, and I predict that you will have a support all over the country that will surprise you, especially by its_quality. “Uncle Sam needs to have his museum collection cleaned up so that the world will know how great it is and the country will use it for its highest purpose. Secretary CHRISTMAS JOBS AT P. 0. FILLED, BUT MANY APPLY, Postmaster Mooney Reports That Work Is Slowed Up by Flood of Applicants. The Post Office Department is being flooded with applications for tem- porary Christmas positions as clerks and carriers, despite the fact that the application list was filled and closed at the end of October, according to Postmaster Mooney. | The department employs only 500 extra men during Christmas week, Mr. Mooney said, and the application list, carrying 1,000 names, was filled | within a month after it was opened. The continual stream of applicants is slowing up the work of the depart- ment, the postmaster says. Most of the applicants are from the local high schools and colleges, Mr. Mooney said, but there are still some requests for the positions coming from persons_already on the pay roll in other Government departments, re- gardless of the fact that Controller General McCarl has issued an order that any one already employed in one Government department is not eligible for work in another. v LABOR HEAD FLAYS BORAH'S DEBT VIEW Woll Urges Reduction of Wari Obligations to Promote | World Prosperity. ‘ Matthew Woll, a vice president of the American Federation of Labor, last night issued a statement urging remission or reduction of the war debts owed this Government and chal- lenging Senator Borah on his posi- tion on the debt question. Mr. Woll proposed that wage-earn ers support cancellation or modera- tion of war_debts, in an effort to pre vent the Italian negotiations from following “the same way as the re- cent French negotiations.™ Challenges Borah. Disagreelng with Senator Borah, Mr. Woll challenged ‘“the truth, the logic, the humanity and the common sense” of the assumption of the Sen- ator, “that any friendliness in this matter toward the debtor peoples means a betrayal of the people of the United States.” “Two major considerations must dominate this European debt ques tlon,” said the statement. “International debts must be set-| tled, and they must be settled in such a rational way as to promote the| prosperity of debtor, creditor and all | nations. The future prosperity of the | debtor natlon requires that enough should be paid to sustain its financial honor and its credit for future com- mercial borrowings, but that no such excessive sums should be paid as would injure its productive power, its accumulation of capital—and fts fu- ture ‘ability to pay’ its international | debts. | ‘There is another limitation; the world is In large measure an eco- nomic unit, and it is to the interest of all nations that all should prosper. Nothing could be more damaging | to world prosperity than that huge | and crushing payments should be pressed out of the less prosperous and most heavily taxed of the na- tions by the most prosperous. Ul- timately America would lose as much as any country by the economic op- | pression of the nations of the Euro- | pean continent. | “The first consideration is that there should be some settlement that an end be made of a condition that makes for international disorder and {ll-will. Nothing could so delay and obstruct any concefvable settle- ment as the propaganda of enmity led by Senator Borah and his kind. Every word that he utters on this subject tends to convince the peo- ples of Europe that he and those | he represents are willing to have them as economic enemies and would rejoice to have them as economic serfs. If there is ever a European bloc directed against the United States, Senator Borah, more than | any lving American, will have to be credited with that notable achieve- ment. “Substitute for Lives.” “The Senator wants us to forget that we offered these loans as a tem- | porary substitute, in view of our un readiness to send over our quota of | men when we first entered the war; that we deliberately offered our dol- lars as substitutes for lives, and that | the leaders on both sides of Congres on the floors of the House and Sen- | ate expressed America’s willingness | to turn these loans into gifts if need | be. Senator Borah was present, bu'.l possibly he stopped his Now that the loans accomplished their purpose and helped to win the war, we have a right to expect repayment —but_within reason, and not to the extent of inflicting grave damage on our assoclates who, with our dollars and their lives, maintained the front until our armies were ready to fight. = s “I am confident that, backed by | public opinlon, the administration will reach a generous, sensible and advantageous settlement, first with Italy and then with France. And there can be no question whatever | that any settloments to which these | nations will submit—if literally inter- preted—as they will be by all en- emles of settlement—will amount to ‘a partial cancellation of the debts.’ " Elected by Pennsylvania uates Here. F. Granville Munson was elected president of the Washington Chapter of the University of Pennsylvania Alumni at the annual meeting at the | University Club Saturday night. Other | officers _elected were: Frank H. Shultz, first vice presi- dent; M. G. Lloyd, second vice presi- dent: Karl Schaeffle, third vice presi- dent, and Henry A. Smyth, secretary- treasurer. Mark Lansburgh, D. W. Fetterolf and Frank Armstrong were elected to the executive committee. Dr. James T. Lichtenberger, dean of the department of sociology at the | University of Pennsylvania, discussed | the $25,000,000 endowment fund drive | now under way. He also said that anything lost in the present large enrollments at the leading universi. | ties fs more than balanced by wider range of the curriculum open to the | students. | Dr. Leo S. Rowe, director of the | Pan-American Union, said that the people of this country can expect to see universities with a student body numbering around 50,000 within the next few years. 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