Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1927, Page 3

OFFERS TO DEBATE DRY BODY'S RIGHTS Lawyer, Resigning From Cal- vary Baptist Church, Hits Citizens’ Service Group. “Well, we're making it mighty hard to buy liquor in the National Capital, anyway,” remarked Harry N. Douthitt, field secretary- of the Citi- zens' Service Association for Law and Order, upon learning today of new criticism of his organization, includ- ing a “protest” resignation of one member of Calva: Baptist Church nization of an opposing bedy, iberty Boys of '27.” Elgin H. Blalock, an attorney, an- nounced his withdrawal from the church in a letter to Rev. Dr. W, S. Abernethy, pastor and president of the Citizens' Service Association. “Inasmuch as I cannot indorse a movement which encourages treach- ery to friends and neighbors and teaches hypocrisy and the greatest of all crimes, snitching, 1 respectfully request that either my church letters be forwarded to me or that my name be scratched from your roll Bla- lock wrote. Said to Be “Scarcely Known.” At the church office today it was indicated that Br. Blalock’s resign: tion would be accepted. It was point- ed out at Dr. Aberneth: study that" Mr. Blalock had been a member of the congrezation only since last February and that he was “scarcely known’ by church officials. The “Lilierty Boys” stepped into the limelight with former Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland as a charter member and C. C. Lowe, local writer and magazine editor, as presi- dent and organizer. Temporary of- fices have been opened in the Albee Building. “Opposed to all manner and form of unofficial snooping. smalling, spyine or squealing under the guise of local Jaw enforcement,” reads the slogan of the club on its membership cards, which entitle the bearer, upon ray ment of 25 cents, to enroll as *a lib- erty-loving citizen of the United States.” In replying to the Blalock resigna- tion, Dr. Abernethy wrote that the purpose of the Citizens’ Service Asso- ciation had been misunderstood, and that the organization did not yropose to engage in spying on neighbors, but to make a concentrated effort to rid the city of bootleggers. “As a Christian man.” the pastor stated, “do you not think that the ef- fort to co-operate with officials in curb- Ing lawlessness, particularly when they ask for it, is our legitimate business? 1 am sure that you do not realize what damage is being done to the young people of Washington and others by the illicit liquor sellers. When broken- hearted wives and mothers are im- ploring that something be done, do vou not think that the church would be guilty if it did not bestir itself? Challenged to Debate. “We are not tattling or snitching, but if any individual knows where liquor is being dispensed, it is s much his business to reveal the evidence that he has as it would be if he saw & murder or hold-up committed. I have the hearty support of my board of deacons and, so far as I know, the whole church.” Mr. Blalock replied with a challenge to Dr. Abernethy for a public debate on the subject, and said: “p']l grant you that a great damage 18 being done both young and old peo- le by drinking poisons called liquor. R'iv. years ago we quit educating the younger generations on the evils of strong drink, quit teaching temperance and began a hysterical campaign against bootleggers. “Make every member ‘((wf }'Du‘: POYI\; tion pledge himself or herse :;':K!flo buy,purve or drink liquor, and the bootleggers will starve to death. They exist because society now de- mands liquor with a kick.” Ee DEPARTING PASTOR IS GIVEN RECEPTION Officials and Citizens Pay Tribute to Rev. F. P. Lackey at Clarendon. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va., June 28.— Practically all the county officials, leaders of civic, commercial and tra- ternal organizations, and other prom- inent citizens, representative of all religious faiths of the community, numbering about 500, participated in the farewell reception tendered Rev. F.P. Lackey, pastor of St. Charles’ Catholic Church for 18 vears, who has been transferred to Martinsburg. W. Va., in St. Charles’ Parochial School hall last night. Addresses in praise of the work of Father Lackey in building up the parish and in contributing to the moral and physical development of the county were made by State Sen- ator Frank L. Ball Commonwealth’s Attorney William C. Gloth, Rev. Perry L. Mitchell, pastor of the Clarendon Baptist Church; Charles R. Taylor, Crandall Mackey. James D. McDon- nell and Judge Robert Mattingly of the Distric: of Columbia. Father Lackey was characterized as a man who has more than Kept abreast of the times. With little to work on and by many personal sacri- fices, it was pointed out, he has been instrumentai in the huilding of two church structures, one at Clarendon and the other at Cherrydale, and a modern school hullding. A purse of $500 raised by members of the Clarendon and Cherrydale par- ishes under the direction of Col. M. fanee and John Cavanaugh nted to the priest. Refresh- which were served by woman membera of the church, concluded the program. for_his new_char; OF THE | i declared a ($6 per b able on | to_its sha f record | The books for the transfer 1 rems Throtch 2 NOTICE 1S HEREBY ON THE 28th l.l;\'“u’l .ln’m 19 2 n;. I will not be re- onsibio or anv debts contracted by any other than myself, A bl 714 N st NOT BE RESPONSIBLE ntracted by any other than myself V. P. WARE 3611 Prosnect at. n.w. _28% T Wil debts © BUILDING cheap: kood wallboard rim. flooring. TE! 1 ised lumber, all kinds: radi oors. windows complete with t sheathing. siding, 2x4s. 2x8s. 2x8s and 2x10s. See Mr. Cohen at Walter "Reed Hospital grounds (next to Ad- ministration Bldg.). A MILLION-DOLLAR foprinting plant equiooed to bandle every The National Capital Press 1210-1212 D _&T. N.W. ___ Phone M. 650 KEEPS RUST AWAY in fine shape and lasts for years apply it. Call us up! KwN :{unhut 119 3rd BY ato; made oot We St S.W PRINTING IN A HURRY b ide, but not hi, iced. Huh oo, B N - Prominent Women D! Interviewed by “In 1914 we were beginning to he a temperate nation—and now look at us! Magistrate Jean M. York's only woman judge, 17 years a lawyer and vear on the bench She circuits from one city court to another: now the Women’s Day i Court at Jefferson Market, now the Family Court or down on the ! East Side. | In her black robe on the bench looking stern and spartan, or in her chambers in mo- dish frock and dainty shoes, her hair sleekly shingled and brushed straight 2 ba this very Judge Norrls. feminine person following an age-old masculine calling talks to hundreds of transgressors a vear, studies them, listens to their tales of temptation and of wrong. Judge Norris was reluctant at first to talk of prohibition. “I am too close to it,” she said. see the evils of the law too clearly.” But finally she did, commencing with the sentence that openms this inter view. Says Drinking Was Declining. “How well T remember in my lawyer ck in 1910-12,”" she said, “when t wa common practice to have a cocktail with lunch, one or two before dinner, a couple of wines during the meal and perhaps a cordial after cof- fee. “Gradually one saw fewer lunchers taking cocktails. Often it was a glas of beer or thin wine. Then it became New been Norris, h 8 “yp drinks at luncheon. “It became bad form to carry in business hours the reminiscence of liquor on the breath. Cocktails were reserved for dinnertime and moderate- Iy partaken of at that. Hear of Prohibition. “We began to hear vaguely of ‘pro- bihition'——and how we scoffed at it! We told one another such a thing would never be tolerated in this free country, Or, if it came at all, it would be years and years hence, and never to cities like New York. “Then—almost with the suddenness of a collision it came, and bang! back we went to drinking. * * * It was a \\:ll‘ measure, and we were all for that For a while after the eightecnth amendment became a part of the Con- stitution on January 16, 1919, there was less drinking. This was for the simple reason that the bootleg in- dustry was not yet organized. “By the time the Volstead law went into effect and every bar in the United States closed at midnight, October 28, 1919, amid scenes of revelry that had best be left behind a veil, people began to realize that the ‘war measure’ was a pretty permanent thing. Refers to “Demoralization.” “It is said by those who have studied the situation that no period in American history was distinguished by more demoralization and lawless- ness than the four years following the Volstead act. Many laughed, but others set about seriously to find sup- plies of liquor, and the bootlegger began to flourish in the land.” What distresses Judge Norris most is that, so she declares, the normal, intelligent reform from within halted abruptly. Rebellion imposed from without burst forth, in her opinion, and the results, she thinks, speak for themselves. That prohibition- advocates were well meaning Judge Norris does not doubt, but the law, she says, was stupidly framed and far too drastic. It the distilling of whisky had been stopped, the saloon abolished and the controlled sale of beer and mild wines substituted, it would, says Judge Nor- ris, have been a good law, willingly observed. Sees Temptation Everywhere. “The Volstead law,” Judge Norris went on, “has planted temptation everywhere, debauched the weak, made driakers of the temperate and opened the way to one of the saddest spectacles 1 have ever seen—intoxi- cated boys and girls, blinded, para- lyzed men and women, and a steady flow to our police courts of youthful lawbreakers. E “When I came Yo the bench in 1919 I dealt with mature delinquents and crooks, Now I am confronted with college boys, and girls from good families whose parents would he aghast to know their children were frequenting cabarets and night clubs.” Judge Norris thinks Canada has met _her problem well in the method employed by the Quebec liquor com- mission. Five commissioners conduct the trade in the name and for the benefit of the government, to the ex- clusion of all private interests. Voted Against Prohibition. Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, Judge Norris observed, abandoned prohibition, and in 1923 70 per cent of the women in Winnipeg are reported to have voted against prohibition. To the assertion of the drys that a law, once on the statute books, must not come off, Judge Norris replies: “Simply childish! It is like refus- ing to take an antidote for poison. A nation is no more above making an honest mistake than is an individ- ual.” COL. GRAMMES HEADS MARYLAND VETERANS Foreign Wars Group Ends State Encampment With Ball at Cumberland. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., June 28 Col. Robert A. Grammes of Baltimore was re-clected commander of the De. partment _of Maryland, Veterans of Foreign Wars, at the business session | of the eighth annual encampment yes. terday at the Queen City Hotel. Other officers chosen are; Senior vice com- mander, Walter A. Finster, Mont faucon Post, Perry Point; junior vice commander, Leo Hamburger. Red- wood Post, Baltimore: judge advocate, R. C. Rowe, Annapolis; surgeon, Ed- gar Fay, Schley Post, Baltimore; coun- cil of administration, P. J. Dunleavy, Annapolis; Col. James E. Abbott, An- napolis; J. A. Rosskopf, Champaign Post, Baltimore; William J. Weber, ‘Walter Howard Shaw Post, Balti- more; Willlam H. Harmon, Henry Hart Post, Cumberland, Samuel Leit- heiser, Montfaucon Post, Baltimore; P. C. Dailey, Rotan Post, Baltimore. The encapgpment ended last | with a mifftary ball at the St | Armos Maj. Moses Harris Dies at 88. . Moses i a retired Army who was awarded the Con- Medal of Honor for heroism r Smithficld, Va., Au- y at his according Born in 28, home in Rocl to War Depa New Hampshire i ; the Union Army during l)w Civil War and was retired as a majpr of Cavalr: iy 1892, at his own request, (Copyright, 1927, by North American Newspaper Alliance. in | the way of the majority to have no | NG _STAR, WASHINGTON. Speaking of Prohibition iscuss the Nation’s Most Debated Topic. Z0E BECKLEY. All rights reserved.) | *“Anna Pritznak to the bar! John | Pritznak! Jennie Pritznak!” Mother, | father and daughter line up very | scared _and solemn before a rail, |and a little above it a desk, behind | which a small, gray-haired woman sits. | The gray-haired | woman wears a ’ simple black frock | Pl with a wide white { s turnover collar. | i | She is Judge Mary M. Barthelme, of 115 French stock, but born in the coun- try she now serves as judge of the Juvenile Court of Chicago. “Mrs. Quinlan, the officer here,” begins the soft- voiced judge, ad- justing her glasses and con- sulting the report before her, “tells me Jennie has run away. This is the third time. You are her parents, Anna and John. Can't you keep your girl happy at home?” The Printznaks both talk at once and Jennie starts to cry. The little judge holds up a hand, quiets things, organizes the speeches with a few gentle, encouraging words, and the of an errant girl proceeds. The Took of fear leaves their faces, Jennie arts to hunt for her handkerchief nd the judge, knowing it will be in | vain, whips one from a drawer appar- | containing endless new hand- cer s, and hands it to her with a Judge Barthelme. § Cost Stopped Drinking. “Is there drinking in your home, Jennie?” she asks. “No, ma'am, not any more. Pa gets it sometimes, but Ma can't afford it. It costs 55 cents a glass. Things are all right home now."” “Why did you go away? the truth, Jennie.” Jennie drags out a disjointed story of a girl friend who had a job and a room, and a boy friend with a car. Tell me money, a night or two spent in the locker room of a deserted bathhouse, hunger, weariness, _disillusion and trouble generally. Pa locked Jennie out when she crawled home and Ma had a fight with him for doing it. There was a general mix-up, and now the Pritznak family was in court *o be straightened out by a woman who probably knows more about human nature than any one anywhere outside the Salvation Army. Inquires About Work. “Are you working, John Pritznak? John is working, he volubly ex- plains, as a street car conductor. It is not true he “takes anything.” Any- how, hardly anything. e did “before the ‘war,” and lost his job. During the war the company had to re-em- ploy him because of the man-shortage. John has never been drunk since. Honest, judge, not once. Would the company keep him on if he “took any- thing”? “Please, your honor—" Tt is the probation officer speaking up, “I have thoroughly investigated the Pritznak home and find it clean, well managed and all right every way. Jennie wants to return to it. She realizes her foolishness and if she and her parents have a new understanding everything will be agreeable. Jennie will work and contribute to the house. The judge considers. Will Jennie take a place in a family, working daytimes and sleeping_home? She nods eagerly that she will. Very well. Now all three of you, and Mrs. Quin- lan, go into that room and talk things over. Human Stream Passes. They go, and the steady stream of erring humanity that passes by hun- dreds and thousands before Judge Barthelme resumes. Truant girls, girls who are bad because ignorant, shoplifters, runaways, unmarried mothers, feeble-minded adolescents, incorrigibles, idle and homeless, de- serted—the young of all sorts and conditions who are thrown unfairly against the world. But almost no mention of drunken- ness, wanted you here on the bench,” said Miss Barthelme to me, ‘“so you could see for yourself how few cases come before me from drink. It was not so before the Volstead act. In those days—and I have been 14 years in the Juvenile Court—4 out of every 20 who came here either were in- toxicated or were here as a result of their own or some one else’s intoxi- cation. Since prohibition we do not have one such case in a month! Do jou see why I am so earnestly a ‘dry’?” Thinks Money Does It. Judge Barihelme is convinced it is the huge sums of money involved in the liquor interests, the saloon- keepers, brewers and others who wax rich from the appetites of the weak and the convi 1, that keep alive the debate on prohibition and the tempta- tion to drink. m no fanatic about it,” she as- sures us. “I come of a family with European background, and no thought of depriving people of wine either in public or private. But in France and Switzerland they do not drink -as Americans do. Hard liquor is harm- ful when used as a beverage, and every one knows it. “If we admit the much vaunted ‘light wines and beer’ we shall only have a saloon of a new type with the same old results of misery, cruelty, poverty, suffering and crime. It is not possible to regulate it, and the money should be spent on the homes. Expresses Disagreement. @ “I do not agree with those who say the working man gets his drink just the same. With the closing of sa- loons he became interested in his fam. ily and had ambtiions for himself. I know it. I see it daily. You yourself have seen an example. The ~ Pritznaks. Judge Mary re- turned to the bench from her cham- bers, where we had gone to talk, and d tznaks. The three | of them went off—pa, ma, and Jennie | with her new handkerchief and newly discovered knowledge that home was best it your ma and pa did right by you and you had a job, and the gray- aired lady on the judge's bench promised to be a friend and would al- ways advise and help if anything went wrong. o REINSTATING INSURANCE. U. 8. Veterans’ Bureau Piled Up ‘With Applications. ‘With only four more days after to- day for veterans to reinstate and con- vert their Government life insurance, the Veterans’ Bureau is piled up with applications from all parts of the countr: The local office in the Veterans’ Bu- | reau is open during office hours to veterans. The American Legion rchabilitation committee, at 417 Rond Bullding, New 1y avenue and Fourteenth street, ing free vice each night, { with experts in attendance from the Veterans' Bureau. Last night vet. erans calling at this office reinstated about $180,000 in insurance, making a total of $650,000 reinstated at this of- i ince it opened its evening service to_vetera Midnight July 2 will close tha Gov- 2% There was a trip, an accident, nof' BRITISH PROPOSE DIVIDING CRUISERS INTO 2 CLASSES (Continued from First Page.) length of time in order to allow a period of reflection for all e powers represented, and, above all, to permit the British to return for further con- sultation with the home government without having suffered American ra fusal to reopen the capital ship ques- tion. Denies Pact Plan. Announcement by the Japanese that they had cabled to Tokio for new instructions after they had become convinced that the British proposal to discuss capital ships appeared to promise decreased nmaval expenditure was made by Viscount Ishii, former foreign minister. In answer to a ques- tion he said that so far as Japan was concerned there was no intention of proposing a_security pact. Subsequently the report was circu- lated that Viscount Ishii had visited Hugh S. Gibson, head of the Ameri- can delegation, and told him the Jap- anese had been impressed with the British proposals to discuss capital ships during the present conference. Among the opinions prevailing as to what prompted the sudden change in the Japanese attitude is one that they may use the question as a lever to win the Americans over to an in- creased ratio for Japan as regards auxiliary war vessels. Another is that the Japanese, seeing the conference in danger of collapse, are working to bring about a compromise that would result in a settlement of the Anglo- American differences. A third is that the Japanese have been definitely won over to the British viewpoint. A formal statement of the Japa- nese predicted that the pourparlers would have to continue for some time, as the Rritish proposals “‘unexpected- ly included highly important propo- sitions regarding maximum tonnage and the life of so-called capital ships, namely, those fit to fight in great na- val actions. U. 8. FIRM IN STAM Ishii's Opinion Only Serves to Empha- size American Attitude. By the Associated Press. The United States was pictured to- day by State Department officials as unalterably opposed to accept- ance of the British proposal to revise at the Geneva conference the Wash- ington arms treaty provisions affect- ing battleship and cruiser tonnages. Declaration by Viscount Ishii, a Japanese delegate at Geneva, that he recognized merit in the British plan and had asked his government for instructions whether to support it, gave officials only slight concern and served merely to add emphasis to_their opposition. The oftreiterated contention of the administration is that there would be little value in revising now a treaty which in all probability will again be changed in 1931 with the participation of all five signatories. Furthermore, any revision of capital ship tonnage would not become ef-| fective until 1931, when first replace- ments are possible under the 1922 treaty. Agreement Must Be Unanimous. It was believed here that the Jap- anese government would not consent to formal consideration by the three power conference of the British plan, but might authorize its delegation to discuss it informally with a view to preparing material for the 1931 meet- ing. Finally, it was stressed that any agreement must be unanimous and that this would be impossible since the United States would not alter its position. Another feature of the British plan, that concerning substitution of 13.5- inch guns as the maximum for the present 16-inch weapons, was held up as additional reason for delaying any revision until 1931, Great Britain now has many guns of that caliber, while the United States uses 16 and 14 inch arms, with a reserve supply sufficient for naval needs beyond 1936, the pos- sible termination date of the Washing- ton treaty. Acceptance now of the 13.5-inch gun maximum would require this country to scrap its commissioned and reserve weapons, melt and recast the material, and prepare new molds. That would entail tremendous cost, it was explain- ed, in the face of the possibility that a different caliber maximum would be decided upon four years hence. o Dr. Green to Address Lions Club. Dr. Thomas E. Green, director of the Speakers’ Bureau of the American Red Cross, will deliver an address at a luncheon of the Lions Club in the Mayflower Hotel tomorrow ofternoon at 12:30 o'clock. The KNOWING MOTHER ENJOY THIS DRINK D. €., TUESDAY, JUNE. 28 1927. |last war was not a war to end wars, | AMERICA DEFENSELESS IN AiR Part Two. BY W. ]EFFERSONTMI'IS. HAT aircraft will dominate in warfare of the future is gen- erally conceded. The opinion of Marshal Foch, the greatest military genius of the World War, may be taken as exemplifying the general consensus of opinion among military expert “The military mind recently remarked, “always imagin.s that the next war will L'e upon the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. One of the great factors in the next war will obviously be aircraft. “The potentialities of aircraft attack upon a large scale are almost incal- culable. But it is clear that - ich a tack, owing to its crushing moral ef- fect upon a nation, mav impress pub- lic opinion to the point of disarming the government, and thus become de- cisive.” S The national Stirring of Congres some sort of action is hopeful, and it is entirely inadequate. It is mer the beginning of what should be most_energetic development of our na- tional aircraft policy. Even though these authorized propriations be made and the serv increased as indicated, we will yet he far below our national requirements for an adequate defense. Gen. Patrick says that even then there will be a deficit of nearly a thousand airplanes needed for Army peace- establish- ment. According to Gen. Patrick the total number of planes on hand, when the new five-year air Drograms . wer adopted Primary training plane 350; advance training, 75; observati hombardment, 102; pursuit, ttack, 1 1,256—with the train: ing and observation planes far in e cess of fAighting craft, The deficit was then as follow; obser- vation, 172; bombardment, 88; pursuit, 08; attack, 92. In other words, where- as this méager estimate calls for 92 attack planes, we have only 15, and are shy 36 pursuit planes. And th deficit, it must be remembered, is fi ured merely on the basis of the mos meager peace-time necessity. Britain's Big Appropriation. Great Britain appropriated over a hundred million dollars last year for her air service. This compared to the total expenditure of $75,000,000 tributed over five years in our gram. TFrance, which has led the world In aircraft since the war. has a total of approximately 5,000 planes in actual use or ready for use, compared to our 1,200, most of which are ol lete training planes. Japan has ap- propriated $25,000,000, and her appro- priationz for military aircrait while kept closely a secret, are undoubtedly very large. It is probable that Japan today is second only to France in mil and naval aircraft. At the beginning of the war the Tnited States expended $625,000,000 for aircraft, about 80 to 90 per cent of which was entirely wasted, largely be- cause of our utter unpreparednes We had no aircraft factories, we had no specific plans, we experimented wildly and desperately, and fell down terrifically as a result. A hundred mil- lion appropriated today would bring four times the result. Result of Agreement. The five-pact naval armament agree- ment, which was hailed by our supel optimists as the end of great militar: expenditures, ‘has resulted in only one good, and that is in the checking of expenditures for semi-obsolete craft. The most effective fighting hines, the submarine and airplane, were not included in that agreement. Nations and are going on, as before building the destructive sub- marines and the deadly, wide-sweep- ing airplane. The matter is put up to us thus: Our wide-flung commerce upon which depends the prosperity of our farms and ranches, our factories and mines, are at the mercy of any enemy submarines; our Panama Janal, our coast cities, our Na: which we have been so proud, the mercy of enemy aircraft. The only reasonable assurance that we have that these will not be at- tacked and destroyed rests solely in the world knowing that we are rea- sonably prepared to defend them. Our only safety is in equality of defense. We cannot remain third, or fourth, or seventh, in the air and be safe. We must have a reasonable equipment of fast cruisgrs, submarines and fight- ing planes; not an ability to build them in two or three years, but an actual possession of them, equipped and in readiness for use within a sud- den call. The American public Is on the right track when it inquires into the mean- ing of the terms “Department of Pul lic Defense”—"Unification of ~ Ai Forces Separate Air Force.” It has a right to know who favors these comprehensive plans of national de- fense, and what forces have aligned themselves against their acceptance. Some 23 years have passed since the birth of the airplane, and inj that Marshal Foch 1 pro- WILL HAVE NO OTHEIf For sultry days there is nothing more refreshing or as satisfying as a cool glass of Chestnut Farms Buttermilk. You can have this healthful beverage delivered regu- larly to your door. 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It can no longer be farmed out as an orphan in the asylum of the Army and Navy Departments, which have throttled "its development and have sought to render it auxiliary to older forms of warfare. ‘The exponents of the airplane now that it be given its proper place s an element of national defense, and that for this purpose there be created a Department of Public Defense, un | der the direction of a cabinet officer, responsible to the President for the defense of the country, with undersec- retaries responsible alike for the Army, Navy and the ai The American public Is not primar- ily interested in an Army-Navy squab- ble, but when a high ranking officer of the Army Air Service saw fit to scathing denunciation of the inefficiency, and pointed out glaring defects in the present system of subordinate control of the air, he presented a_problem in which w American citizens, are vitally ested. Air Preparedness Lacking. What are the facts? Today Ameri ca, the birthplace of the airplane— America, whose genius has contributed more largely to the development of aeronautics than any other country— merica, who by reason of her initiative, her inventive genius and her unlimited resources, has been able to hang up nearly all the world records for individual performances in the air —should be in the v tion. Yet, so far a r pre] is concerned, we find Ameri at a side table, with France the great world _leader in _aeronautics, Japan in air power in the world. The important question is, are we defenseless in the air today Is it true that on a peace time foot- when the new Army and Navy ear building programs were adopted, we faced peace time deficit of lly 700 planes, and many thonsands of planes in case of a war emergency? Have we learned nothing from the expenditure of over six hundred mil- lion dollars in the last war, in which we had only a few hundred planes at the front with which to combat Ger- man air raiders who were proceeding at will across American trenches, bombing and directing machine gun fire against our men, who could pre- sent no defense to them” ‘What have we received for the five hundred million dollars which has been spent on our air forces since cessation of war activities? Why is it that if war were declared tomorrow we would have from 13 to 15 Army pilots cap- able of performing combat work, and practically 19 planes available for their use, with probably 30 naval avia- ators who are capable of landing and taking off a plane from the deck of a battleship. The fact remains that today the Army and Nay istrations are facing an inquiry by the people of this country into the status of our air preparation, Future Wars Foreseen. Universal peace is an ideal toward which nations must strive. It is an ultimate goal, but history tells us that wars have succeeded each other as new generations have come into be- ing, and if we approach the future guided by our reason and from lessons learned in the j we know that the " SAVINGS ON 4% Wage Earner's Bank rather, Oven 8:15 to 5:15 CENTRAL SAVINGS B4 K 710 Tdth St Near G ‘ Mustard . EATIN ER. A BEST-BILT GARAGES G ND Why not protect your ear—Iin which_you have invested many dol- lars—when it only costs you $8 PER | All Steel and MONTH| Wood Frame WAEEON 200 K St. N.E. Lincoln 10100 In One of Washington’s Most Exclusive and Well Serviced Apartments Phillips Terrace Apartmen 1601 Argonne Place North of Col dust North of Columbia Road t 1 5 Washington’s Foremosi Resideutial Seeti 7 . One Room. Kitchen, Dining Alcove und Bathi, Murphy Bed. $52.50. 55.00. $57.50, $00.00. $62.50 'wo Rooms, Ree n, Kitehen, Dining Al Murphy Bed. $¢ and $8 Four Rooms. Bai i Resident Manazer on Premises at Al imes William S. l:filfipa & Co,, GULDENS | ind that we are not yet in the Utopian period where the Slavic bear, the Brit- ish lion, the French unicorn and the American eagle can lie down to rest in peace with an immunity from attack. So long as nations are composed of individuals in whose breasts surge emotions or envy, hatred, cupidity, lust, anger—just so long will nations be moved to pursue courses of nation- al_aggrandisement, which will incite other mations to war in the protec- tion of what they deem to be right and just. Just a generation or so ago the Navy went down to the sea in sailing ships, ucceeded in turn by steam-propelied vessels, and we all remember the re- cent electrification of our dread- naughts. Even now Great Britain is forging ahead with dreadnaughts, which are half battleship and half air- plane carriers. Every Japanese war- hip, submagfhe, destroyer, cruiser, dreadnaught carries its quota of air- planes in addition to large airplane wirriers. The airplane cannot be relegated to a subsidiary place in the development of the fleet, although there has been 4 determination on the part of avy Department to subordinate its activities and treat it as an aux- iliary arm of that service. The navy of the future will be the nmavy that flies. The army of the future will be the army that fiies. National defense demands that we keep abreast of the activities of every country, and when a superior instrumentality of warfare is discovered, it is an objective on which the eyes of a vigilant American public will focus, with a demand that sur Army and our Navy officials—the servants of the people—utilize and de- velop that new instrumentality, so that America can be free from at- tack and our national prestige shall not be in danger of being crushed under the wheels of a hostile invading air force, How War Will Start. We like to consider ourselves as free from attack. We adopt a patron- ng air and say that America will never indulge in a war of aggression. In my opinion, we will never even have the opportunity of debating about the next war, because it will come in e air, over night, and the declara- tion of ‘war will be ushered in by the dropping of a bomb, which will not be preceded by the interchange of dip- lomatic courtesies as in the past. The American people want all tne facts; we want them heard dispas- we want them presented dis- ely, so that our judgment ot be biased or prejudiced by the individual viewpoint or the individu- al's _desires, The world has moved swiftly these HOOVER CREDITED * WITH RUBBER CUT, MAKING RECORI (Continued from First Page.) temporarily in control of a situation Whatever may be said In favor of in augurating a restriction policy by th British five years ago, there has beei nothing in the last three years v justify its continuance.” Last week the British colonial see retary informed the House of Com mons that, despite the considerabl fall in the price of daw rubber recent ly, his majesty’s government contemplating the abolition of rest tions.” ~ American rubber authori say this statement plomatic quib bling. They confidently expect modifl cation of the restriciion program by November 1 next year at the latest with still further Towering of the pi votal price of rubber in the world' market. 60,000 Tons Saved. Secretary Hoover cleared for actior against the British Empire’s rubbel monopoly after there had been five consecutive price increases in 1925 American manufacturers and consum ers resorted to voluntary consersatior %0 effectively in 1 althougk car registration was t 10 pes cent greater than in gasolin consumption almest 15 per cen! greater, and number of tives manu factured showed an Increase, Ameri ca’s net consumption of raw rubber showed very sharp reductions. In 1925 the consumption of raw rubber in the United States amounted to 388,000 tons.” With the Increaseé number of automobiles in use durins 1926 the consumption at an equal rate with 1925 would have been nearly 426,000 long tons. The actual 192¢ consumption was only 266,000 tons Accordingly, a saving of about 60,00¢ tons of rubker resulted from the con- servation measures employed by man ufacturers and users of rubber goods during 1926. May Restrict More. John Bull's rubber restriction pro gram is carried out under a law passed by Parliament known as the Stevenson act. In 1925 prices were forced up to over $1 per pound foi the American consumer, but the aver age price was reduced to 48.69 centy per pound in 1926 by the conserva tion measures. During the first hal| of 1926 American imports of Britis) rubbed were valued at $3210988282 During the last half of 1926 we im ported just as much British rubber ir volume, but paid for it only $153, last few years. We talk to London on the telephone; we speak to Australia on the radio; we fly across the At- lantic without touching land; air lanes are spreading over the surface of the E‘":rth like huge spider webs in the V. It Is the height of folly for a great nation like America to linger in its de- fensive program in the shades of the Civil War, or with the relics of the ish-American War. erever and whenever a_deadly fighting machine is invented, America must not only master it, but must own its full share of it. (Covyright, 1927.) Editor's note—This is the third of a series of articles by Col. Davis. discussing America's defense problems. Another will appear in The Evening Star to- morrow Z4 \ N \ 7 % 7222, One Moment Z Just when was it that you could have Bought a Home? Do‘a friend 829.525. The British continue to restrict pro duction in Malaya and Ceylon to 3| per cent below the possible produo tion, with the prospect of increasing restrictions to 40 per cent. The re stricted area accounted for 64 per cent of the world's rubber in 1922 be fore enforcement of the Stevenson act T:’FG produced about 56 per cent of (Covyricht. 1927.) Oregon Has Special Election. 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