Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1926, Page 20

DEBT CONTROVERSY, ENBITTERS BRITAIN Mellon-Churchill -~ Duel Words Revives Feeling Against America. BY A. G. GARDINER. By Radio to The Star. LONDON, July 24-—The Mellon- Churchill duel has brought to the sur- face in England niuch latent feeling in regard to the debt settlement with America. Responsible sentiment here keenly resents the offensive attitude toward the United States adopted by tha blatant and vulgar Rothermere It is much to be desired that a will not take Rothermere’s coarse jests about ‘‘Uncle Shylock” as representing any veputatble feeling here on the subject. At the same time, it is undeniable that the controversy between Secre- tary of the Treasury Mellon and Chancellor of the Exchequer Church- 31l has released much accmulated dis- content. The writer will not express an opin- jon regarding the view attributed to Mr. Mellon that Chancellor Churchill is promoting a cabal in Lurope for the purpose of compelling America to cancel her debts all around. The writ- | er's confidence in Mr. Churchill’s wis- | dom strictly limited, but at the same time it i§ certain that any cabal of that sort Mr. Churchill would have | no countenance from Prime Minister Baldwin and no support from the treasury. Honor in Settlement. - Tt is recognized here in all authori- tative circles that Baldwin's set- tlement, however premature gnd un- in view of the fallure to proportion of “ebts from the allies, is a settlement which must be honored. or is it claimed that in discrimi- ng in favor of other debtors like ance and Italy, as compared with gland, Washington is acting beyond its rights. A cerditor's kindness to one debtor implies no claim to simil r consideration in the part of another debt. But in suggesting _the grounds for discrimination. Mr. Mel- lon clearly delivers himself into the hands of the British treasury, whose categoric statement that the money borrowed by Great Britain from the States was spent in the States on the States’ c odities, approved by the States' t ry, is unanswerable. Further at the back of the feeling here, is always the sense that the debt’ problem, which has bedeviled Europe so long, might have been solved if America had agreed to the cancellation proposal put forward by Great Britain, or by treatment of the whole debt as a_ unit of obliga- tion. So far as England is con- cerned, the sacrifice would have been equally great, but the view here al- ways has been that any price w: worth paying which would restore fi- nancial stability in Europe and with it the activities of trade. This coun- try is sick of the spectacle of succes-| sive chancellors dunning unwilling creditors for payment, not of their| debts to Great Britain, but of debts incurred on their behalf to Amer Situation in France. Whatever the truth of the allega- n with regard to Chancellor Church 1l which is attributed to Sec Mellon, it is certain that the Chancel- lor is not responsible for the present | hostility of feeling in France toward | Americans. The English have hither- | to been the chief objects of that hos- tility, which is the customary Aribute paid by a country in adversity to a | country in prosperity. = Even the | wealth which American tourists ar pouring into the pockets of French traders minist¢rs by its sense of of is abounding riches to the feeling of ir-| ritation. There is'nothing comparable with | this spirit of animosity visible in the | U English popular mood, but it is un-| deniable that public opinion is pro-| foundly sensible of the violent con- trast between the British finarcial position and that of the country- to which Great ‘Britain s paying annual installments of 37,000,000 pounds sterl- ing. Strike’s Effect on England. This contrast is aggravated by the events of the most disastrous Sum- mer in the modern history of the coun- try. An alarmipg est cost of the general miners’ strike has just been put for- ward in Parliament. The miners’ strike continues to drag on without much likelihood of an early end. The struggle has become a sheer war of attrition and has been prolonged by the fact that the strikers’ families are being maintained out of local rates, which of course fall mainly gn the colleries, Meanwhile, the general industry of the country goes from bad to worse and such ‘industry as continues is | maintained by vast lmportations of | foreign coal, which are making. con- tinental ports like Rotterdam, which the writer has just visited, scenes of incredible acti (Copy? t. 1 CANADA KEEPS P..0BING. Sir Frarnois Lemieux Named to Con- tinue Customs Inquiry. OTTAWA, July 24 (#).—Appoint- ment of Sir Francois Lemieux, chief justice of Quebec, to continue and complete the recent customs investi- gatlon has been confirmed by an or- der-in-council. He is commissioned tg take up the work of the parliamentaby committee which began the investigation into ! the conduct of the customs depart- ment. He is asked to make his re- port to the government for subm slon to Parliament at the next ses SHIP WEDGED IN LOCK.| Five Tugs Trying to Free Vessel in Welland Canal. PORT COLBORNE, Ontario, July 24 (P).—Traffic in the Welland Canal was halted today because the Lake Gradan, a steel steamer bought by Henry Ford for scrapping, is wedged in the top lock of the canal here. Five tugs were trying to pull the ves- sel free of the lock. The Lake Gradan Detroit. SHIP CAUGHT IN STORM. — . ATAMI, Fla., July 24 (#).—Wireless fllsp&tch(‘fl from the American tanker ills, picked up here early to- é&v the Tropical Radio Co. vtation, reported that the vessel was en- countering a storm off San Juan, Porto Rico, with a 60-mile ¥gale. The boat’s commander reported that little progress could be made, but that the ship was not in distress. General storm warnings have been posted in this section. 6.) is bound for Upper; Harry A. Hegarty; Lower, Edwin A. Moores, appointed by Chair- man Fitzgerald of the House commit- tee on revision of #he laws to get all laws affecting the District into con- crete, condensed and usable form. AUTOMATIC LIGHT PLANS DISCUSSED Eldridge Confers on Exten- sion of System at Cost of $350,000. ng out the instructions of the t Commissioners, T’ tor M. O. Eldridge conferred yester- day with members of the District Traffic Council as to the advisability extending the automatic traffic ght system and the creation of addi- onal one-way streets. The Commissioners directed Mr. Fldridge to seek the views of this or- anization following his recommenda- n last week that Fifteenth and Seventh streets be made one-way «horoughfares from H street to Rhode Island avenue, preparatory to the in- llation of traflic lights. Director Eldridge and his assistant, Col. 1. C. Moller, outlined the pro- jected plans for the extension of the traffic signal system and urged the members of the council to make spe- cific recommendations as to what ad- ditional streets, if a should be made one-way thorollx.hfar and on what streets the new traffic lights should be placed. - The traffic bureau éxpects to use $350,000 obtained through the re- newal of automobile drivers. permits to extend the light system. Those who attended the conference were George W. Offutt, president of the council; Charles W. Darr, Pearce Raynor, Jerome Fanciulli and Inspec- tor E. W. Brown, in charge of the traffic bureau. MASONIC LEADER DIES. Robert A. Shirrefs Was Grand Sec- retary of ‘State Body. FELIZABETH, N. J., July 24 (®).— Robert A. Shirrefs, 76, deputy grand secretary of the New Jersey Grand Lodge of Masons, died today at his home here after an illness of two months. Mr. Shirrefs was born in Fleet- wood, Lancashire, England, and came to America with his parents when he was 7 years old. He was a Thirty-third Degree Mason and a member of 43 Masonic organi- zations. At his death he was secre- tary-general of the Northern Jurisdic- tion of Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masons. Disi SRR AR oL That Indefinable Something. From the Life Magazine. “I think it's perfectly terrible the way you lead men on!” “Lead_men on? Don’t make me laugh! It's all I can do to hold them ack!” REDUCED RATES Wilson Lines WILMINGTON- PENNSGROVE FERRY S0c ALL PASSENGER CARS (Excefit Busses) Including Driver — Additional Passengers, 10c Each Arulgamlddnfwh-lund e 7 Skin Hemeds: At Barbers and Druggists SHORTEST AND BEST ROUTE TO ATLANTIC CITY 20-minute schedules from hoth Wilmington Terminzl and Penns- grove. Follow the Ferry Markers THE, SUNDAY ‘STAR, WASHINGTON, LOANDATAINFULL SOONTOBE KNOWN Congréss Expected to Ask For and Publish Details to End British Claims. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. RAUL SMITH'S, N. Y., July 24.— President Coolidge rather significantly points to the records in the Treasury Department as the best answer to the dispute that has arisen between ‘Sec- retary Mellon and the British Chan- cellor of the Echequer, over the man- ner in which the money lent by the United States to Great Britain during the was was spent. The question has become compli- cated, because in Great Britain a cer- tain impression has always been culti- vated by British officlals to the effect that borrowings from America were simply to cover advances made by the British to their Allies. The fact that the effect of the transactions was to bolster up British exchange may be a subject for debate merely as an aca- demic matter. The truth is that the money was borrowed from the United States for the general purpose of pros- ecuting the war and certain statements were made to the Treasury officials at that time as to the purpose of the bor- rowings. Some of these statements were oral and some, in writing, but they all constitute a record to which Secretary Mellon has had access and on which his public pronouncements are based. If the present British government discovers in Mr. Mellon's statement various things that it chooses to term “inaccuracies,” then the conclusion is inescapable that the British rec- ords do not correspond with the state- ments made on this side of the At- lantic during the war. Accounting Never Asked. This is not altogether surprising, because, after all, the United States did not demand any accounting from the British as to what was subse quently done with the funds advanced. | Much of the money was spent in America’ in connection with munitions and food purchases. Some of it may have been used to pay interest on pri- vate loans previously floated by the British in America. The point is that it was possible for the funds to be transferred from one place to an- other in the intricate process of financing which developed between Great Britain and the United States on the one hand and between the British and thelr allles on the other. ‘The British officials desire to have their people think that the status of British credit during the war is one thing, and what actually happened to the money after American officials were told the general purposses of the loans, may be quite another. Brit- ish officials now are saying that but for the loans they had to make to their allies, the London government would have been able to finance its own part in the war without borrow- ing- from Amgerica. There is no ac- cusation against the British for pre- senting their own version of the loan transactions. Nor would any contro- versy have arisen if the British had not at this time desired to make it clear that they are more generous to- ward the allies, especially the French, than is the United States Government. Public to Get Details. The upshot of the controversy will be the publication of all the records. The first thing that will happen when Congress reconvenes will be the adop- tion of a resolution calling for all communications’ and data on the sub- ject. Had it not been for this dis- pute the Secretary of the Treasury would have been compelled by inter- national courtesy to say that it was not “compatible with the public in- terest” to make known the detalls of the correspondence. Since Great Brit- ain has publicly questioned the Ameri- can records, the Treasury Depart- ment will be compelled to make pub- m Gives Her $5, The late J. P. Morgan, financier, while examining treasures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City stopped to fondle a baby in arms of Mrs. Mary Burbige. He presenled the mother with a certifl- cate. is said that Virginia Marie Hllrhlge at the age of 7 months was a life member of the Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art—the only one ever given to a child or woman. On July 8, 1 Virginia Marie Burbige (above) cel brated her 18th birthday, and under the fellowship awarded receives a €5,000 scholarship. She is now going to Paris and Rome to study art. .This picture shows her at home. RITES TO BE HELD AT CAMP GOOD WILL tertainment Features Offered Daily to Mothers and Chil- dren on Outing. Although the swimming pools are providing the most popular amuse- ment at Camp Good Will in Roc Creek Park and Camp Pleasant at Blue Plains, D. C., numerous other entertainments and amusements were provided last week for the mothers and children enjoying an outing at the camps. At Camp Good Will a program was given Wednesday night by the Y. W. C. A. and Thursday afternoon the mothers enjoyed a ride in the Ru!fl.ly bus to Soldiers’ Home and other points of interest around the city. Thurs night the children gave a minstrel show and'Friday night a movie show was given with a projection machine furnished by M. K. Gardner of the Elite Laundry, and Government films. This afternoon vesper services at the camp will be conducted by Rev. J. T. Herson and a special musical program will be given by the Christian En- deavor Soclety of Eckington Presby- terian Church. At Camp Pleasant Thursday night a concert was given by children at the camp and last night the mothers gave a concert. lic all the documents in its posses- sfon in deference to the wish of Con- gress. ‘here is some talk of making pub- li¢ the records now, but the general disposition is te see how far action will be forced by the public state- ments of the British treasury. The whole thing is merely another ex- ample of how governments are com- pelled for political reasons their people one thing and their Am- dors across the seas something else as the true motive for their acts. (Copyright, 1926.) When your partner trumps your Ace— _| ment or busines to tell | SESQUI HEAD FINED UNDER LAW OF 179 Posts Bond ‘for Immediate Appeal—Fair Expenses OQutstripping Receipts. By the Assoclated Pres PHILADELPHIA, July 24.—Erastus L. Austin, director general of the Sesquicentennial Exposition, today was held guilty by Mrs. Violet E.{ Fahnestock, police magistrate, of vio- lating the Sunday blue laws of 1794 in operating the exposition on the Sab- bath. Mrs, Fahnestock fined him the 1limit of $4, provided by the law, plus costs of $4.50. The law provides that if the fine is not paid, the alternative is six days in“jail. Appeals are per- mitted. % Instead of xmy!m; the fine. Mr, Austin put up a bond of $17, double the amount of the fine and costs, pending an appeal to_the county courts. The prosecution, as in former cases, was brought by members of = the Methodist Men's Committee. It was testified by Thomas . Tayler, chair- man of the committee, that goods were sold in the exposition grounds last Sunday and that amusemerhs were operated in the Gladway. No One Saw Him Work. It was admitted that no one saw Mr. Austin do any “worldly employ- * Jast Sunday. “But,” it was contended by counsel for the prosecution, “no man can run a falf like the SuSquicentenntal unless he is in active charge of it, and consequent- ly he is guilty of violation of the Sunday observance law. “We have been severely criticized,” counsel continued, “for not locking up those” higher up in this affair. If you think Mr. Austin has not violated the 1794 Sunday law, then discharge him Mrs. Fahnestock sustained the con- tention of the prosecution and im- posed the fine and costs. Mgre warrants are to be issued for the arrest of employes working at the exposition on Sunday, it was stated. Amusements Free Today. Tomorrow, the conc ons on the Gladway, where all the amusements are concentrated, will be operated free of cost to the public. The only charge will be the usual 50 cents ad- mission to the grounds. Nothing will be sold, under the orders of the man- agement, except food and drink. The owners of the amusements will be re- imbursed out of the general fund of the exposition to the amount of the cost of operating their concessions, Besides the Sunday closing ques- tion, the directors of the exposition have a more serious matter on their hands in the form of finances. The ‘exposition expenses are running ahead f the receipts, and something must be done to reverse the situation. The executive committee of the exposition clation will meet Monday night to discuss the situation. Explained. From the Boston Transecript. Willie—Mother, how did pa get to know you? Mother—I fell into sea and he dived in and brought me out. Willle—Huh! So that's why he dosen’t want me to learn to swim. BumsteadsWormSyrup ““To children an angel of merey.” When di- rections are followed IT NEVER FAILS Despita scarcity and enormous cost of SAN TONIN, it contains full dose. Stood sixty years' test. Sold everywhere, or by mail, 50¢c a bottle. Est. C. A. Voorhees, M. D., Philadelphia. Keep Coon Delight the whole table with that most CHESTNUT FARMS Sweet CHOCOLATE laVored MILK Delivered with\your morning milk by— 10c PINT Penna. Ave. at 26th St. * Potomac 4000 refreshing fountain drink for the home— D. C, JULY 25 1926—PART 1. CAPT. WALSH HONORED. Re-elected President of‘ Volunteer Infantry Association. - Capt. Harry A. Walsh was re- elected president of the First District of Columbla Volunteer Infantry As- sociation at its annual reunion on Santiago day last week at Mérshall Hall. Maj. ¥. 8. Hodgson was elected vice president and John Lewis Smith secretary-treasurer. Capt. Walsh appointed a commit- tee consisting of Willlam O. Ohm, chairman; H. C. Bonnault, Maj. T. V. Walker, John A. Gallagher and John A. Chisholm to arrange for the an- nual banquet on November 20, the twenty-sixth anniversary of the mus- tering out of the regimeat after its return tc the United States from the Cuban campaign. BURLEY GROWERS WIN. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 24 (P)— Holding that the Burley Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association in Tennessee does not operate in re- straint of trade, and that it is not gullty of illegal competition, nor does not operate contrary to public policy, the State Court of Appeals here to- day reversed the decision of the lower urts, dissolved the - injunction sainst the assoclation and dismissed lhe sulit. IBi 80TH DIVISION MEN PLAN BIG REUNION Annual Gathering Will Be Held August 26 to 29 at 01d Camp at Petersburg, Va. Members of the 80th Division Vet- erans’ Association will hold their sev- enth reunion, August 26 to 29, on their old stamping ground at Peters- burg, Va., where the division trained at Camp Lee for its conspicuous part in the Meuse-Argorine offensive and other operations of the American forces in France. In a message to all who served in the division, Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite, commander of the 80th throughout the war, urges that they join in the re- unfon 100 per cent and “put it over” with the same purpose and spirit by which “the grand old 80th never fall- ed to accomplish its objective.” “Our Division Veterans’' Assoclation adds its wholehearted welcome to that of our Petersburg friends,” the Gen- eral's message says, “and stands ready to render any service which will make your outing really memorable and pleasurable, as it has already stood ready to loyally render every service to you or to the friend who hiked at your side, ever since our days of 720-722-724 7th St. N.W. EHREND LOST STUDENTS FOUND ON MOUNT LE CONTE PEAK Five Missing Day and Two Nigkts Are None the Worse for Their Experience. By the Associated Prees. KNOXVILLE, T .%4., July 24—Ztve students from Southwestern Coliege, Winfleld, Kans.,, who were lost on Mount Le Conte i1 4%e Great Smoky Mountains, near hets, for one day and two ‘nights, were fobnd today by & searching party on the top of the peak. They were none the worss for thelr experience. Nineteen students, accompanted by Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Goldsmith, a tour te study biology in the pro posed Smoky Mountain National Park, and during & violent rainstorm Thurs- day night on Mount Le Conte the five became separated from the party. The lost students ronsisted of thre boys and two girls, and despite their experfence of hating to satisfy tMeir hunger on huckletarries and blueber- rics, they sald they enjoved it, and felt certain all the time their com- panions would find them. zc}‘lve service over there came to an end.” The reunion will be in observance of the ninth anniversary of the mus- tering in of the division at Camp Lee, Va., and will fall almost on the days of that event in August, 1917 e Syt WWW&S&W&:§ Clear-the-Rack Sale of Women’s 2= -00 J These sheets are made of a heavy, firm, bleached muslin. Slight seconds and seamless. 36-inch wide round thread mus- lin, free from dressing, in lengths from 2 to 15 yds. 49¢ Colored 40-inch wide new voiles in dotted and figured pat- terns, in color, voiles. 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