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* W.C.T.U MAY URGE U.S. DRY SURVEY Conference, Opening Tomor- | row, Seeks Official Light Upon Prohibition Results. Government survey shibition will be laid U. con which wer Ho. continue Proposal for nf the effec ) Lefore the Na T ference on_las opens tomorrow tel. The conf through Thursday Preliminary sions are being held today. More t 600 delegates from every te ')lt"l‘\;“\‘\" C. will seek to have the overnment _institute survey ach of its departments to ascertain he effects prohibition has had on the ndustries and activities with the departments come in cont The Departments of Agriculture. € merce and the Inter yt'«l(li'”ml]\ will be asked to cooperate he ob ject is not a conumission investigat but rather independent veys, the reported Mrs. 2 national president of the will sound the keynote it the epen session morning at 930. Mrs. ready laid pr President sev meeting tomorrow has al efore the Boole 1 Do Conference Aims Cited. the conference. Mrs. F ww obsery T which re “t I The aims of was called by focus attention on study the problems ment and to prov that end.” It cided that the be the best me sults of prohit Bducation of where the el and other dry officials wil 1s one of the objects toward w conference will work. Gen. Lincoin C. Andrews, Secretary of the Tr prohibition enforcement at the session tomorrow tear Admiral Frederick commandant of the Coast will make an address. meeting will be opened with by Col John T. Axton, chief of chaplains, U. and will include a round scussion on “Hold Fast.” and forum on the subjects of mobiliza- tion for law enforcement, legislation, «ducation and young peop Tomorrow afternoon the delegates will the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington, where a service will be held, and Mount Vernon. To- morrow night's meeting will include musical program and addresses by Senator Willis of Ohio, Mrs. Nellie G. Burger, as it recording secre- ary of the union, Ida B. Wise Smith, vice p! t large. Roy A. Haynes, prohibition commis- sioner, will speak at the session Wed- nesday morning. Other speakers will be Representative Cooper of Ohio, | Representative Hudson of Michigan. Miss Anna A. Gordon, president of the World’s W. C. T. U., and Mrs. Mabel ‘Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attor- ney General of the United States. The forum will include discussions of refer- enda, mandatory and non-mandatory. ‘Woman Executives Guests. Woman executives in the Federal Government and Tepresentatives of national women's-organizations will be guests of the delegates at a luncheon in the Chinese roontiof the Mayflower | ‘Wednesday. At 3:30 a service in_honor. of Frances E. Willard of Tilinois, one of the lead- ing spirits in the early work of the W. C. T. U., will be held at the statue of Frances Willard in Statuary Hall et the Capitol. Wednesday night ad- dresses will be given by Senator Jones of Washington, Dr. Howard A. Kelly of Baltimore, Mr&. Mary Harris Armor of Georgia and Senator Capper of Kansas. Dr. J. M. Deran, chief chemist of the prohibition unit, will speak on poitoning of alcohol at the meeting Thursday morning. Representative Cramton of Michigan and Repre sentative Stalker of New York also will speak. Reports of committees will be given and the results of the conference consolidated. President Coolidge will receive the delegates at the White House at 12:30, and in the afternoon the members of the conference will visit the Capitol A banquet Thursday evening k will conclude the conference. Members of Congress and their wives will be ests of honor and other guests will be Gen. Andrews, Mrs. Wille- brandt, Admiral Billard and Bishop Willlam F. McDowell JAPAN EISPATCHES WARSHIPS TO CHINA AS BRITISH MARCH (Continued from First Page.) te legislatior dy has been de oposed survey wou ns of brin the re ion before the people. he country to tion of a dr: T will speak morning Billard, ard, also flower o'l ferring with Finance Minister Soong of the Cantonese government Th»l crowds invaded the corridors and at tacked Soong’s bodyguard, but were finally dispersed by Cantonese troops. Shows Chen’s Task. Officials here say the inference is that Chinese extremists were agitat- ing against Soong negotiating with | foreign officials. The affair is also re- arded as indicating the difficulties nfronting Eugene Chen, Cantones foreign minister, in his efforts to c trol the radical element among the Cantonese. Resumption of business*in Hankow today by the British bankers and mer chants shows that the general pos tion in the city is improving, although the British foreign office is still with- out news of definte progress in the conferences between Charge O'Malley and Foreign Minister Chen “No Better, No Worse The foreign o ral situation in ¢ and no worse." There is no confirmation of the re- port that the Cantonese have launched a mew drive against Shanghal, and advices received here indicate that the reverses reported to have been suf- fered by Gen. Sun Chuan-Fang, north- ern commander, were not serious American missionaries reaching Hongkong as ref savs an Ex- change Telegraph dispatch from Hongkong, report further outrages by the Chinese. They tell of the looting on Friday of a Y. M. C. A. building and of looting Which occurred at Foo. chow Sunday after an outrage on a Spanish convent Blind Are Evicted. Pupils of & school for the blind were turned out of the building, which was later destroyed. Headmaster Woods and his wife were forced to flee, while the fate of their pupils is not known. The American consular authorities, the dispatch says, are directing mis- slonaries in the interlor territory under control of the Nationalists to proceed to the coast. Many women and children and some men re- ¢ sums up the gen- ina as “no better by | which | Com- | { ing standing this the looting has con tinued The missionaries report further that [an American Methodist institutional | church was wrecked and that ‘Mr Gould's” home, in the foreign section of Foochow, was looted and the furni ture burned in the streets. Foreign ers in the Ameri tion were dragged from their homes, which were looted. ! ! | India to Participate. ] India is to have a share in the mili | tary preparations to meet untoward { developments in China. In n ing known to the legislat ssembly at Delhi that the Indian I government had agreed to contribute 1gent made up in part of na the viceroy, Lord Irwin, empha sized, as been done by the govern ment here, that reinforcement: : to China “merely as a defensive a con tives viceroy did not divulge the strength or composition of the Indian units, and nothing has been given out in London. His remarks are consid | ered as confirmation of a report that the Indian government had chartered | two vessels to transport troops to | China, and that a contingent from the Allahabad district was soon to em- Lurk at Caleu E nghai Soon. Chinese lonalist troops, it is { expected in oftictal quarters, will enter wwhai in about three weeks. On trength ot this, the Daily Exp | and some other papers stress the ap. | parently increasing gravity of the Chinese situation. The defeat suffered | by Gen. sSun Chuan-Fang, governor of Chekiang the hands of the Cantonese at Lanchi, miles southwest of Hangchow reported ently with the of his nications, is as of import. indicating a po: | rapid Nationalist advance on Shang- i hai Neverthele ment are anti-British sent crisi: pointing out that the atched to China in recent would be used only in event ction by the Chi ar Department annou further four battalions of and a thousand marines are under orders to start immediately for the st. Two regiments are ready alta for service in China if this becomes necessary. Troops Get Orders. ARBOROUGH, England, Janu 24 UP)—The 5th Armored Car Com- pany has been ordered to prepare to leave for China on a few hours’ notice. French Consul Arrested. PARIS, January 24 (#).—The Hongkong correspondent of the Indo- Pacific agency says the situation in Kiukiang, on the Yangtze River, is rapidly growing more serious, and that the French consul there has been arrested. The situation in the Yangtze ports is critical, he adds. ATIONALIS s official eyes for the rned to Hankow, where tion precipitated the troops da of too the that a infantry TO NEGOTIATE. Invites Powers Treaty Problems. HANKOW, January 24 (P).—The Nationalist government in a manifesto issued today proclaimed its ability to enforce its will in Nationalist China, and invited the powers to join it in negotiating new treaties with econom- ic and territorial integrity as their basis. The following are extracts from the declaration: “The leading assumption of all Brit- ish and other foreign declarations of policy in regard to China is that she is unable to look after her own in- terests and that pursuant to the ‘spirit of the Washington conference’ the powers must enter into self-deny- ordinances regarding China in order to safeguard her integrity and independence, promote her political development, rehabilitation and her finances. “New China Strong.” ‘This is not true of Nationalist China. Today this new China is strong and conscious of its power; its ability through economic means to en- force its will on Chinese soil against any power. ‘The question then is not what Great Britain and other powers may wish to grant China to meet ‘legiti- mate aspirations in the Chinese na- tion,’ but what Nationalist China may justly grant Great Britain and the other powers. “This great, impressive fact must be grasped. “Today the effective protection of foreign life and property does not Manifesto Settle to foreign bayonets and forelgn gun- boats, because the arn of the Chinese Nationalist—the economic weapon—is more puissant than any engine of warfare that foreigners can devise. British Must Understand. “The Britfsh, in particular, must understand that the forces in the pres- ent revolutionary situation are hand- ing over protection of foreign life and property to the government that derives its authority from those in whose hands is centered power thati can paralyze the economic life of the foreign nationals in China. “It is, however, the view of the Na- tionalist government that liberation of China from the yoke of forelgn im- perialism need not necessarily involve any armed conflict between Chinese ationalism and foreign powers. “For this reason the Nationalist government prefers to have all ques: tions outstanding between Nationalist China and foreign powers settled by negotiation. Indicated to American. “It is this sense that the National- ist minister of foreign affairs indi- cated as the policy of the Nationalist government to the American Minister when the latter visited Canton last Autumn, and the same policy has again been indicated to the new Brit- ish Minister, the Japanese represent- ative and the representative of the American Minister. “In order to prove that this is not an idle statement of policy, the Na- tionallst government hereby declares its readiness to negotlate separately with any powers for the settlement of treaty and other cognate questions on the basis of economic equality and mutual respect for each other’s polit- ical and territorial sovereignty.” Americans Are Safe. BOSTON, January 24 (#).—The arrival at Foochow of missionaries from the Inghok station of the Ameri- are | sible | stand, and can no longer stand onYy THE EVENING PAPER ANIMALS WIN BOY FAME | Cripple Invades Jungle Land With Scissors to Clip Silhouettes. | | ‘ | | | By the Associated ¥ AUGUSTA, Ga., | invalia off from |doors he loved, | embroidery 1:1)\ artist o y ’ | He s Cranston 17 old, of this city. His imaginat | vades the deepest ju | swamps mix with { there; while deft fin, { silhouettes out of pape | e never traces a gn first. He had t Artists uary An | though shut the hunting sors and won fame as | boy. who out with | animals and great went vears | n in- | rests and lite vivid | Joe Jones the wild s snip to d has never an art lesson < | Who have praised his work marvel at Lhis insight into and I matural history to him as a geniu its full meaning. One day, when old, he was lifted could see his firs in bed again, he {and paper. Late to look, and the | his bed, was a line of paper animals In the same order as th procession he had just witne A few year carrfed to an Atlanta hospital, whe an orthopedist, known the world over | for his ability, worked on his frail body Vi But while the specialist conducted an unsuccessful battle, Joe's silhouettes began recelving no- tice. Mrs. B. Pressley Walker, an Atlanta artist, became interested and sent sev- eral of his stlhouettes to art lovers, who immediately bought them. The first sale around Christmas tim Joe celebrated with a midnight feast for the other children in the hospi ad’s work is used national magazines and | museums in New York, Atlanta and | other large citles have given it ex- hibition. One of Joe's first his income was a fitted with a spec body. On fair days he and his mother drive to the woods, where many happy | hours are spent. His great desire now | is to motor to Yellowstone Park, there | to see the animals in the natural haunts he pictures daily. animal anatomy Luis Mora referred , getting out of life did Leonardo was only 6 years from bed s0 he ircus parade. Back asked for scissors | he cailed his mother marching across purchases from | mall automobile, al brace for his LAYS CHINA TROUBLE | TO WIDE DISTRUST| Authority on Country Addresses| Mass Meeting at Eighth Street Temple. Distrust is the cause of the eco- nomic and political unrest in China today, Dr. Robert Speer of New York, general secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and well versed in Chinese affairs, declared yes- terday in discussing conditions in China at a mass meeting in the Eighth Street Temple, Eighth and H streets, under the auspi of the First Con- gregational Church, Dr. Jason Noble Plerce, pastor. The principle of confidence in one's | neighbor and fellow man is begin-| ning to take root in Chinese life, he stated. Little hope for a stable and responsible government from the war lords of China is held, he added, even in the movement mnorth of Canton, which the Chinese people are looking | to as a possible established govern- | ment. It is marvelous that as much order and regard for law exists in China as at present, he continued, considering the political chaos on every hand. China cannot be left alone to solve her problems, he stated. The other nations must help her, he added, for the Chinese heart is a human heart and wants only the good will and benevolent attention of its neighbors. HOLD-UP STAGED ON 14TH FLOOR OF OPEN BUILDING Paymaster, Believing Workers Joking, Robbed of $7,500. Bandits Escape. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, January 24—Upon the fourteenth floor of the unfinished unit of the Palmer House, hundreds of workmen were busy. It was pay day. John Ketterick, the paymaster for the contractor, appeared. He had a bag of money which he placed on a couple of planks. The first men to appear were grimy gloved and dressed in overalls. He waved them off with the remark: “Not ready yet.” ““Well we're ready,” came a response, and the paymaster was looking into the muzzies of a pair of guns. “This is a fine joke you guys are pulling. Go on!” Then the guns were pressed against his stomach and the men_stood so that other workmen could not see, The bag was taken It contained $7,500. The bandits scattered among other workmen and escaped. The police suspect some of the worker: ——— Empty Graves Not Hazards. According to a new rule of the golf club at Tientsin, China, one need not play his ball from a hole recently va- cated by a corpse. In making regu- lations for a contesf between Tientsin and Peking Japanese players recently the committee {ssued the rule that “Fresh ‘excavations and surrounding soil resulting from removal of coffins will be regarded as ‘ground under re- pair,” and balls lying therein may be lifted and dropped in line with where the ball entered and not nearer the hole, without penalty.” can Board of Commissioners for For- eign Missions w announced in a cablegram received by the board to- day from Dr. Willlam L. Beard, presi- dent of Foochow College. The mes- sage sald that all the women and tlu]ll(lren of the station were safe and well. “Dionloh men staying unless com- pelled to leave,” the message added. “Situation improving."” iy e GETS 18 MONTHS’ TERM. CHICAGO, January W. Kliber, 32, pleading guilty in Criminal Court here to embezzle ment of $4,600 from the Unicorn Club, of which he is treasurer, was sentenced to 18 months In the Ohio State Penitentiary. The club was formed 17 years ago by 19 mem- bers of a Sunday school class here when all were about 16 years old. Recently, with the books showing 24 P).—J. ported to left Foochow for Manila in an American gunboat. Three Soldiers Shot. As a consequence of consular rep- resentations, three soldiers caught looting were shot, their bodies bei Jeft in the public square, but notwil a balanceé of $5,000, the club sought to purchase a new clubhouse. A check for $3,600 came back from the bank. Kliber told Judge Walter McMahon that he took the money to aid a firm with which he was connected, but that the venture was unsuccessful. Mexico Delegates For Arbitration Picked, Paper Says By the Associated Pre MEXICO CITY, January 24.—Ex- celsior publishes an unofficial report to the effect that Mexican delegates to The Hague Court already have been appointed for arbitration of the land and oil dispute with the United States. Fernando Gonzalez Roa, Arturo H. Orel and Gilberto Valenzuela, the last named being Minister in London, have been designated to defend Mexico's viewpoint, the paper says. It claims to have learned that Mexico will suggest The Hague Court for settlement of the contro- versy if arbitration materializes. The Permanent Court of Interna- tional justice cannot be used for the purpose, it adds, because Mex- ico 18 not a member of thetdsague of Nations. 1 | | F { because of indicatior STAR, WASHINGTON, I a, JoE CRANSTOM JONES ~ S MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1927. AN INVALID BOY GOES HUNTING WITH SCISSORS. LHOUVET TES CLIPPED WITH EMBROIDERY SC/SSORS CARMEL LOSES 0oUT IN BROWNING TRIAL; HIGH PRICES BLAMED (Continued from t Page.) fusely during the first in_court. With its Winter population of 800 swelled by several hundred, this town's facilities were overtaxed to- day. At the corner drug store the many angles of the romance of the “Cin- derella man™ and his schoolgirl e were threshed out by the villagers and the “outsiders.” few moments Seminary Guards Students. But even this excitement was nied the 125 voung woman students at Drew Seminary. Rev. Dr. Herbert E. Wright, the principal, forbade an of the young ladies to leave the semi- nary grounds during the trial except under escort of a teacher. Many persons who hoped to get into the courtroom were doomed to disappointment. Curiosity had aroused because some of the in the c de- papers se had been impounded and that the my: arring of Peaches with her marriage might be ious before plained. The ch to Westchester County, where well-to-do New Yorkers have country homes, has aroused s Jections. Arthur I. Miller, an blyman from that county, ha nounced he will introduce a bill in the Legislature to prevent the hearing of a matrimonial action in a county in which neither party is a resident. Peaches filed her suit in White Plains. Carmel, however, greeted the invad- ing host of newspaper men and court attaches with open arms, and inci- dentally with increased room rent and restaurant prices. The town, 50 miles | from New York, and seat of Putnam County, was selected for the trial by agreement of counsel. The average Carmelite knows his Browning. One cannot walk a block without hearing 2 discussion not only of Browning's love affair with his youthful wife, but also details of earlier episodes. _In 1925 Browning advertised for a girl of not more than 16 to become his adopted daughter and companion to Dorothy Sunshine Browning, his 11- vear-old adopged child. Mary Louise Spas, beautiful daugh- ter of Bohemian immigrant parents, was selected from an army of appli- cants and it developed that she was 21 instead of 16. Investigation re- sulted in the voiding of the adoption. Crowd Gathers Early, Less than a year later Browning met peaches while attending a dance of a school sorority. They were married by a justice of the peace on April 10, 1926, and in October the bride left her husband and their apartment in Kew Gardens, Long Island. Browning, in addition to his legal difficulties with his wife, also is a defendant in two damage suits. The one for $500,000 has been filed by Mary Louise Spas and arises from her brief adoption by the wealthy realtor, and the other asking $100,000 has been filed by Renee Shapiro, 21, an actress of Brooklyn, who alleges an attack upon her in July, 1923. By 7 a.m. today little groups of men and women, clad in galoshes and heavy coats, had already appeared in front of the old white courthouse. Among the first arrivals were many women of outlylng districts of the county. Photographers, barred from the courtroom by ustice Seeger, clustered around the rallroad station awaiting the arrival of either of the principals. Cars, large and small, early began to flll the parking space outside the court, and by the time court opened both sides of the wide street were lined. Huge sleighs slid up to the courthouse, pouring out farmers and dairy people. Today’s legal action was laid 20 miles from Cold Springs, N. Y., a fown no larger than Carmel, where in April, 1926, Browning and the then Miss Heenan, who gave her age as 15, were married. The next day Browning issued a statement saying his mar- riage was “an answer and rebuke to efforts of the Children’s Society to in- terfere.” Browning was the first of the prin- cipals to arrive from New York. His turquoise blue limous ine, purring up to the courthouse, created the first flurry of the day. Twenty-five photographers surrounded him. Poses for Photographers. As he posed he responded to ques- tions about the trial with the state- ment that he wanted “everything to be open to the public,” nothing in chambers, and that he hoped the trial would vindicate him of the charges of his wife The arrival of Mrs. Browning was less photographed, but no less stage- set. Accompanied by Epstein and others of her counsel, the young wom- an alighted from a_motor which had come from New York, and faced a battery of photographers, making no attempt either 1o shield herself or to pose. On the arm of her attorney she walked into the courthouse. Close behind was her mother, Mrs. Cath- crine Heenan, guardian ad litem, dur- ing the action. A India, commonly thought of as a place of heat and of sun-baked na- tives, buys more than $3,600,000 worth of underwear and hosiery from other ountries each ye Young man, Clerical po- sition in local banking in- stitution. In reply state age, business experience and salary expected. Ad- dress Box 435-B, Star Office. been | 1| injurious to the liberty of the citiz 'WADSWORTH SAYS PROHIBITION MAKES NATION OF HYPOCRITES | (Continued from First Page.) election in New York last Fall. His wet views, drys , brought about his political downfall. 0,000 and 300,000 d mostly publicans, voted for F) man, Republ independent dry c didate for the Senate, making it pos- sible for Justice Wagner, Democrat, to win over Wadsworth. | Senator Wadsworth’ was regarded as due notice that if he is to be candidate for the Senate again in 1928 against Senator Copeland, who comes up for re-election then, it will be on a wet platform, a platform | calling for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. So far he has made no nouncement of his plans with re gard to the 1928 senatorial rac At the outset of his address today Senator Wadsworth declared that pro- hibition has no place in the Constitu- |tion of the United States. The Con- stitution, he said, confined the Gov- | ernment’ itself within its limits ¢ denied to it the doing of certain things n. ighteenth amendment, he said, the vitally important original rddress today | The | violat “ | conception of the Constitution. aise for Andrew Getting to the practical side of the wet and dry issue as it has developed in this country, Senator Wadsworth -|said that the Federal Government had done its best to enforce the prohibi tion law, but that millions of citize today are violating it, paying no at- tention to it; that a big business has grown up out of the law violation, the bootleg business, one of the largest businesses in the country today. He cited the appropriations, now running nearly $30,000,000 a year, made by the Federal Government for the enforcement of the Volstead act. He cited the use of the Coast Guard and other agencies to curb the use of liquor for beverage purposes. He paid high tribute to Gen. Lincoln C. An- drews, head of the prohibition en- forcement, whom he described as a man imbued with the highest ideals, owing no obligations, political or otherwise, and bringing to-his work a splendid energy. And yet we all know,” said Senator Wadsworth, ‘“‘that shake-up after shake-up among the prohibition gents in the field is found neces- Senator Wadsworth contin- “In an effort to prevent the use of industrial alcohol for beverage pur- poses the Government has treated that product with poisonous chemi- als, with the result, now well known, ores of people have died. Gov- ernment agents themselves have en- gaged in systematic violations of the law, spreading corruption all about them as they seek to entrap others. The employment of ‘agents prevaca- teurs,’ long denounced and detested in certain countries of the Old World, is now common in America. “Not satisfled with the measures employed by the Government and by the States—some of the States have enacted laws of extraordinary sever- ity—great public conventions, held un- der the auspices of organizations de- voted to the cause of prohibition, have passed resolutions demanding that the Regular Army be called out to compel obedience of the law at the point of the bayonet and that the bluejackets of the Navy with battleships, cruisers, and destroyers be enlisted in the effort. And, to cap the climax, the leading, prohibitionist of the State of New York called upon the Pope at Rome to lend the weight of his influence in sup- port of the law. Enforcement Called Failure. “An intelligent observer witnessing such a spectacle might well venture the observation that there must be something wrong with a law which glves rise to such conditions shot through as they are with hypocrisy, corruption, violence and death. Employing all the forces of the Gov- ernment, we are endeavoring to pre- vent any one of the 120,000,000 peo- ple under our flag getting a drink, and we are met with the persistent effort of millions of those people do- ing their best to get one. We can- not deny that this is the case, or do we contribute problem by to the solution of the indulging in wholesale de- nuncation of the millions who are re sisting the mandate. It is perfectly apparent that they no attention | whatsoever to denunciation. We may regret such a state of affairs, but we might as well acknowledge its ex- | istence. “What is the attitude of the average man toward it, be he drinker or non- drinker, as we use the terms? How often and to w extent does the |average man give his assistance to | overnment in its effort to en- | force? Let us be perfectly candid about this thing. Let us wipe from | our countenances that smugly virtu | ous look and eliminate from our con- versation those insincere protestations which » so characteristic of our demeanor and our discus Let us look the facts straight in the ace and tell the truth as we see it. I make hold to make this assertion and challange its contradiction. Violations Not Reported. “The average man may know that s lend and neighbor has purchased om a bootlegger. thus con- to the violation of the law. ion may have occurred hi: y and he ma be present upon subsequent occasfon: when the liquor is consumed in the home of his friend. And yet that same average man will not report that violation to the authorities. When I 1se the term “average man” I include men in public life. Yes; I include members of the United States Senate “The country might endure this state of affairs if its effect were felt only among those of middle age and more advanced years. But what,will become of this country if the youth of today is to be brought up and trained for the performance of the obligations which must come to. it in an atmos. phere permeated with hypocrisy of this sort? What sort of a country will this be? What sort of a Government will it have? What will be its ideal What will be the popular conception of civic obligation, respect for law, re- gard for the Constitution, when those who shall govern 20 or 30 years from now shall be those who haves spent their formative years in such an at- mosphere? “Youth is high-spirited, eager and adventurous. It is energetic, restless, potentially rebellious. very restlessness and rebelliousness contribute immensely to the progress of the race, but only when these qual- ities are free from contamination by the baser considerations of inordinate selfishness, cynicism and hypoeri: Moreover, let no one of us imagine for a moment that youth is not clear- eyed and discerning. We of the elder generation, in the midst of our faults and foibles, do not deceive. Youth perceives. With deadly accuracy it identifies the man who declares in public his undying devotion to the pro- hibition law and then turns around and violates it in private with a cyni- :al laugh. Youth recognizes the drink- ing “dry.” The greatest menace in America today lies in the fact that youth, perceiving the habitual attitude of its elders living a life of pretense and living it successfully and in secur- ity—youth, I , perceiving this, is rning fo applaud successful hy- pocrisy.” Senator Wadsworth'’s speech led to a half hour of rapid-fire exchanges of oratory between Senators on both sides of the question. In the course of the discussion, Senator Heflin, Democrat, of Alabama, remarked that while addressing an audience of 1,500 persons in Baltimore esterday he stated that all of the wet enators could be put in one taxicab, WANTED— Young man. Teller for local banking institution. In reply state age, experi- ence and salary expected. Address Box 436-B, Star Office. Morris let the money bar your boy or girl from the far reaching results of a good education. Loaning money Jor this and other worthy purposes is our_business. ' UNDER SUPERVISION U.8. TREASURY. 1408 H ST..NW. HINGTON Sometimes its | land he sald the statement was ap- plauded. | This brought Senator Bruce, Demo- lcrat, of Marylapd, and foe of prohi- bition, to his feet with the reply, “all | the Senators I have seen refuse a {drink could be put In less space than | the cubic content of a taxicab.” Senator Edge, Republican, of New Jersey, followed Senator Wadsworth with an appeal for a national referen- dum in which all the people could ex press themselves at one time as to | whether they want a change in pro- | hibition. He admitted that a majority in ecither branch of Congress would vote on the dry side at this time, but he declared there fs an increasin. number who entertain doubt as to the proper course in this matter and he asserted that the only solution is 1o let the people themselves say what they want through a referendum. enator Willls, Republican of Ohio defended the prohibition law, chal lenging Senator Edge to ask for vote in Congress at any time on the question of repealing it. Answering the referendum proposal, Senator Willis declared that Congress is the only body constitutionally empowered to vote on the question and that s referendum would be merely a straw vote, Senator Sheppard, Democrat of Texas, and also a strong supporter of prohibition, said that from his observation the great majority of Senators on the dry side are dry in practice. ™ s SENATE TO ACT ON ARBITRATION PLAN TOMORROW Pa, (Continued from Fir: clety of Latin Americans other than Mexicans, resident in the Mexican | capital, condemned the Latin Ameri can policies of every United States government, past and present. The Monroe doctrine was pictured as hav- ing been twisted to suit the purposes of the Washington government Meanwhile, the situation in Mexico with regard to the ofl situation is de- scribad as indicative of long-drawn- out legal contests, with a clariification depending on the ruling of the Su- preme Court or the Attorney General. Foreign oll companies remain in pos- session of thelr properties, but Tampi- o reports say they are curtailing op- erations. The only bigh light in the Nicara- guan civil war to develop over the week end was a statement issued by | Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, head of the Liberal government at Puerto Cabezs, declaring he would give up his claims to the pwesidency if a suit able neutral, in his dispute with Adolfo Diaz, Conservative President, were chosen at an “honest and super- d election."” He also said he would gladly re- linquish his claims to “any one choren through the meditation of the United States and the signatory powers of the Washington pact, with the final ap- proval of the neutral members of the present Congress or by a new, hom- estly chosen Congress.” TWENTY-EIGHT REBELS KILLED, MEXICO CITY, January 24 (). Twenty-eight rebels and one chieftain were killed in various combats with federal forces Sunday. Gen. Pablo Cabanas, heading a group of insur- gents, attacked Santa Maria, State of Guerrero, but the small garrison de- feated and dispersed the rebels, killing 10 of them. Simon Cortes and four of his followers were killed after cap- turing a part of the town of Santiguel del Monte, State of Michoacan, when state guards defeated the band. Shx rebels were killed at Ahualica, six at Los Altos and two at Ayo Chico, dur- sion —_—— WATER LITIGATION GIVEN NEW PHASE Issue Over Diversion by Illi- nois From Lake Michigan May Become International. By the Associated Treaties with ( Central American States and ul et Russia, zoverning the flow and diversion of boundary waters in their relation methods [ iting hydro-electric | are vie of the of Wis it Britain, Mex to new wer, able litigation brought by wsin and other Gre States against the Illinot district to prevent fu version of water from into the Chicago dr present withdrawal y & permit of the dated March 3, 1 19 nesw sanitar undue di Michigan > canal. The were authorized etary of War , which lapses in Direct Inquis Closed. The hearings, conducted before Charles E. Hughes, Al ref eree appointed by the Supreme Court have been concluded far as the taking of direct evidence is concerned, and will be resumed on February 2 when both parties will introduc buttal evidence While conjectural evidence dealing with the effect of the present dives tion b hydroelectric power gene * heen ruled it is®ow assumed f the re attorneys f the litigants th of th ultimate ruling of' t me Cou on the legality of the present dive: sion and the question o Federal rights locally power developme ng inlang waterways, the present suit is a for runner to treaties with foreign coun tries now joint owners with the United States of boundary water. Canada a Factor. They comprise Great Britain be cause of the Canadian boundary or four of the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence er, Mexico'’s _bordes rights on the Rio Grande, Panama and Nicaragua, and, more remotely, Russia, as regards that part of the Bering Sea in which she still claime rights of navigation. In the present litigation conducted” by Mr. Hughes the Canadian govern ment was represented by two “unof- ficial observers.” It is known, how. ever, that Canada claims injury to her water rights in the St. Lawrence because of the present diversion from Lake Michigan into the Illinois drain age canal. Power Issue Prominent. ] While the injunction sought by Wisconsin and other Lake States i asked on the ground of injury to lake navigation and harbor and dock prop- erty by the diversion of water from Lake Michigan, the power issue has been given ch prominence in the controversy, especially with respect to its ultimate international ramifica- tions, that the litigation is viewed as one of the most significant brought to the attention of the Supreme Court in recent years v Mrs. L. M. Foster Welch, J. P., re. cently appointed sheriff of the county of the town of Southampton, is Eng ing clashes with federal soldiers in the State of alisco. 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