Evening Star Newspaper, November 24, 1927, Page 2

L \ HIGHER RETIREMENT PAY 1S SUGGESTED Director of U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Asks In- crease for Civil Personnel. A » . Tncreased retirement civil personnel is urged by Col J.ester Jones, director of the Unii States Coast and Geodetic Survey his annual report made public Ha also emphasizes the inequity tha amount of retired allowed pay for ! men who have “demonstrated talent and ability above the ordinary” as compared with that of others whe| have done routine work and contrib | uted in smaller amount to the retire | ment fund i This i< amo needs cited by Col. That the interest of highest effi clency and la st returns for the| expenditures involved, appropriations be increased so that rewards may be | given in accordance with the eflici | ency ratings attained by the em ployes of this bureaw.” and that funds | are needed to maintain the authorized | commissioned force — the hureau | should have in addition to 141 offi 10 more properly to meet its needs. | He also points out an urgent need for | a new chart division. Many Demands Made. Tn the past year. which is the hu reau's 111th of active existence, demands upon it have far e any prior year In its histor Jones says. “The great question that presents ftselt is how these® normal increases in the demands are to be met without an increase in personnel which now does not adequately meet the situa- | tion that has come to stay. “The Coast Survey is charged with | making charts, from the first surveys to the completed products, for the en- tire coasts of the United States and possessions. This is a large task in itself, but to modernize by keeping nearly 700 charts up to a high stand- | ard of efficiency, combined with the increased demand for special informa- tion, requires more personnel than 10 years ago or even 5 years ago. With- out this, the public is bound to suff “On the Atlantic Coast we are| hackward, owing to the fact that we | have not the up-to-date ships to meet | the demand as it is being met on | the Pacific Coast. “The tailure of Congress to author- ize a mew ship for the East C. is | unfortunate. The need of this vessel | is urgent. and it had the approval of the Budget and committees of Con- gress at its last session, but failed 1o become a law. It is hoped that this estimate mav be carried in an early deficiency Dbill. Vital Needs. “Instruments are the bureau’s most vital need Col. Jones empha- sizes. He sa he making of mod- ern charts should be expedited.” He points out that in each of his annual reports for the last four years he has stressed the urgent need of the bu- reau for new surveying vessels to replace those worn out in service. He asks for increases in the field ap- propriations to provide for personnel at the observatories which are in- adequately manned. He calls atten- tion that by direction of Congress the work of the bureau has been con- siderably increased by making cur- rent and tide surveys of the impor- tant harbors of the country, which will decrease insurance rates on shipping, but there has been no in- crease in the personnel to reduce the dsta from these surveys and issue the results. He stresses the “urgent need for a_chart division,” and says that an effort to meet this need will be met with an appropriation of $10,000 allowed last year by Congress for the current year. Personnel and Funds. In regard to the classification of civil personnel, the retirement of the civil personnel and the funds needed for maintaining the authorized com- missioned force, Col. Joyce reports as follow “The classification act of 1923 has undoubtedly gone far toward remedy- ing faulty and serious conditions that existed before its enactment. It has replaced the rigidity of the statutory- pay positions in which the incumbent received the same pay, once he was appointed to the position, whether the quality of the service rendered was ex- cellent, average or of but passing quality, has brought into effect a sys- tem in which flexibility permits a more prompt reward for efficient service and an adjustment of pay commesurate with the service rendered. “This has thrown into the service a | nore wholesome spirit and has speeded up accomplishments in all activities. Jiach employe now recognizes that to hold his present pay scale or to attain a higher one he must render efficient service.” NEW MERGER PLAN GIVES PUBLIC SHARE IN TRACTION LINES (Continued_from First Page) the important bureau Jones, Others are newspaper reporters. Mal. ig, Hugh M. Frampton and Charles I Stengle, members of the committee, however, expressed their desire in no ain terms in favor of full v for the proceedings. Maj. Emig explained today that the Wansel plan which is embodied in a voluminous document of 125 closely typewritten pages in addition to more than 100 maps, plats and charts, would s00n #o to the printer for print- inz and bindinz and that it would be made public simultaneously with its presentation to the committes. prob- ably next Wednesd: The Hansel plan, according to Maj. Emig, is hased on a comprehensive survey and study by the firm's engi- neers of the transportation problems ot the District. Maj. Emig said that it was received “very well” oy mem- bers of the subcommittee who were present at the conference and that he felt quite confident that every mem- ber of the subcommittes was highly gratified with the report. Fleharty May Study Plan. Tt has been Maj. Emig's intention | ta submit the Hansel plan to Ralph 1 Fleharty. peoples counsel hefore the Public Utilities Commission be- fore it is formally presented to the Commission for consideration. Al thouzh Mr. Fleharty was not present at a conference belween the Hansel officials and the Federation subcom wmittee he was represented by James | 1. Murtin, his research clerk. { As soon as the Hansel plan reaches | the commission It will have three different merzer proposals to con- sider. One was submitted October 31 by Mr. Wilson and the second was yeceived yesterday from B. McK Bachman, chief accountant of the commission. The Wilson plan, how- ever, is the only one that has beerf made public. Those who have made a cursory examination of the Bachman plan say that it Is essentially the same as the one proposed by Mr. Wilson. The major difference hetween the two it was €aid. is that the chman scheme does not provide for a ziar anteed return to the consolidated company on fts capitalization. whereas 1iie one prc d by Mr. Wilson muarantees a 7 per cent return on a §52,000,000 capitalization ineering and shipping a, from her <lip at Camden is 888 feet long. The phota exc THE 1WENING STAR. WASHINGTON, 1. (' THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1927.'* problem confronted Navy officers in the n, N. ., into the Delaw: e River. The mammoth craft cellent stern view of the great plane carrier just after it s UNCLE SAM LAUNCHES MAMMOTH PLANE CARRIER task of easing the giant airplane cu D00 tons a pped from the w: 2 TORNADO VIGTINS G HOLIAY G Tharksgiving Brings Joy as Red Cross Delivers Funds and Food to Sufferers. Thanksgiving day dawned auspl- | ciously for the destitute families in Washington's tornado-stricken today. Volunteers of the Red Cross Motor Corps dispatched by the committee on awards visited families this morn- ing to extend them immediate and ade- quate financial help In the reconstruc- tion of their damaged homes. Other couriers of Thanksgiving day brought to scores of homes baskets ladened wilh provisions for a heliday feast, so that none of the unfortunates was for- gotten in the midst of plenty. Meanwhile, subscriptions to the tor- nado relief fund continued to filter into the office of The Evening Star. a total of $416 having been added to the fund since yesterday. This brings the grand total $2.671 nearer the $25.000 quota set by the District of Columbia Chapter of the Red Cross, of which $2.364 has been acknowledged by The Star. Contributions received by the local Red Cross since yesterday were not made public today, but it is belie ed the amount, when it is known, will swell considerably the total relief fund collected to date. Two Give $250 for Fund. Among the latest contributors to the relief of the storm sufferers were the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., which sent in $150, and the firm of Middaugh & Shannon, Inc., whieh con- tributed $100. Red Cross workers at the Hine Junior High School headquarters were busy visiting homes in the tornado areas today to see that no family should suffer from neglect. Owing to the closing of all Government depart- ments and most of the business estab- lishments, the committee on awards, which is passing on all worthy cases, was not in session. The awards committee, however, met last night and considered 48 cases and as a result 16 awards were author- ized. One other case is to be recon- sidered when the committee meets again tomorrow afternoon. In making these awards and the seven authorized the previous day, the committee inquired thoroughly into the financial ability of each family to help itself. Each of the 23 cases in which awards have been authorized was represented as heing entirely un- able to get along without outside as- stance. Handicapped by Hollday. The work of the committee Wwas handicapped yesterday afternoon be- cause the building loan associations and other places of business at which it was necessary to make inquiries concerning families, had closed early There will be no real delay, however, by reason of the brief committee re- cess, for individual cases are being investigated today to place the facts hefore the commiitee at its next meet- ing. Fear that some of the destitute fam- ilies in the stricken areas might o without a Thanksgiving dinner brought offers of assistance from A number of churches and other organ- izations who volunteered to provide dinner baskets. Names of more thay a score of destitute families were fur- nished them by the Red Cro: These baskets were taken to homes by committees representing the Girl Scouts, the Girls' Friendly Society of the Good Shepherd Church, St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Powell Junior High School. The motor corps of the District of Columbia Chapter, under the leader- ship of Mrs. C. H. Jewett of 1739 1 «treet, is playing an important role in the relief activities by furnishing transportation for supplies and work- c New Cases Uncovered. In passing on awards for reconstruc- tion work the committee uncovered last night a nember of cases not heretofore known because of the pride of families in falling to make their needs known to the Red Cros One of the most desperate wcases which have been assisted is that of a widow whose sole means of support is a son incapacitated for manual labo y an \utomobile accident just before” the storm. Her home was badly damaged and repairs will be made at once through the Red Cross. Ina previous accident, this woman son had lost four fingers of one hand, and in the recent accident he shatter ed an arm so b v that it was nec sary to amputate it. The mothe cld and in ill health. case involves a woman 6 without relatives, whose pade practically uninhabit the storm. She was ing to get to her house and will be incapacitated for soveral weeks. A third oman, whose was passed upon favorably last ni . works as a charwoman to Keep three of her childien in school and a fourth at home 1n the care of a neighbor. He only assistance is through another daughter who Is just beginning as a typist. Practically all the clothing of this family was lost during the storza which purtially wrecked the t ome, is ars old, home w able durin Jjured while tr Tarpaulins Cover Homes. Through the co-operation of War Department a number of lar pauline were furnished houses lust night through the roofs of which the is still peeping. These were spread <0 as (o provide a measure of protec- the Twice as much lumber from America I} s being used in Germany as last year. tion against the elements, Joseph L. areas | BEN LINDSEY PRAISES COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE ! Sends Congratulations to Kansas| | Couple on Their “Courage [ 1 in Admitting It.” By the Associated Prese { Covember 24— Former | Judse Ben Lindsey of Denver. who | | coined the expression “companionate | | i made public_a letter he | | had ten Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey | Roselle, whose marriage along com- | panionate lines took place this week at_Girard, Kans. iy hearty congratulations upon | vour marriage,” he wrote Roselle and the former Josephine Haldeman- | Tulius. “My still heartier congratula ions upon your honesty in entering | | upon a companionate marriage. That | is what modern marriages are as they are performed hy all the clerzy in all the churches, but few of them are frank to admit it as you ave. “Far less than one-half of the entire number of 10,000,000 young men he- | | tween 20 and 30 vears of aze are married. Of the nearly 6,000,000 who are not, very few are the hevirgins that our hypocritical society and the churches command them to be. DAUGHTER OF 1612 DIES N BGTH YEAR Miss J. Estelle Richardson Prominent in Patriotic and Eastern Star Work. Li | Miss J. Estelle Richardson, ears old, believed to be the last daughter of a veteran of the War of 1812 re- siding here, dled at her residence, §33 Longfellow street, last night. Miss Richardson, the daughter of Rufus Richardson, who enlisted in the War of 1812 at the age of 16 and served throughout that war, was born in La Harde, 11, in 1842, later moving to Newton, Kans., where she took up a homestead in 1870. She moved here in 1907 and since that time has been actively engaged In local patriotic societies. Miss tichardson was for many vears auditor of the District of Columbia Society of the United States Daugh- ters of the War of 1812, a former member of the state historical com- mittee of the D. A. ., and a member of the Columbia Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. Following a revision of the constitution of the United States Daughters of the War of 1812, two years agi. which gave the Dis. trict of Columbia a vice president na- tional similar to the office possessed by the 1§ States which took part in the War of 1812, Miss Richardson was chosen for that position and thus far has been the only representative from the District of Columbia to the Daughters of the War of 1812. Miss Richardson was the last surviving member of a group of 15 women, all daughters of veterans of the War of 1812, who sewed on the replica of the famous American flag, which floated over Fort McHenry during the war. This flag will cover Miss Richardso casket during the burial services to- morrow. Miss Richardson i= survived bv a niece, Mrs, Eunice B. Neff of 1343 Massachusetts avenue southeast. Funeral services will be held at the idence tomorrow after ck. Ttev. Walden ) I of the Kourth Church, will officiate. Interment will be | Cemetery. in Rock Creek Policeman Is Acquitted. ' BLUEFI November 24 P).—John villiams, Bluefield police officer on trial for the slayving of N. Dow Dillow. Federal prohibition agent, was acquitted a Tazewell County, Va., Circuit Court jury last} night. Williams shot Dillow September 1 when he found the Federal agent with | Mrs. Williams 'in_an automobile on a lonely road. Williams pleaded self- defense and the “uny the appointment of four mltlillunull members. These are Harry N. Stull, George 5. Wyne, W, | Walter B. Avery, all contractor: | builders, who will act in an advisory capac] in making awards. Previously acknowledged. ... .$1,948.00 oo 200 20.00 . F . rs. A, Brylawski, ... Middaugh & Shannon Wilbur G. Nale. . Demond 10.00 § .00} 100.00 4.00 | 1.00 | 2.00 | Ine. and Mrs. George B. John- ston s 5.00 Florence . 2.00 600 1.00 Vanderhoft . 1.00 5.00 10.00 o | Francis w Joseph €. Colquirt, t Atlantic Hill, v & Pacifie 1.00 | . imell, chairman of the committee on awards, has announced Total to date. .. MALICE CHARGE HIT BY MRS. CRAWFORD Says Action to Recover Por- trait From Mrs. Hopkins Has Foundation. Another chapter in the mysteri story of a missing family portrait was written today when Mrs, Lucy Wormeley Crawford of the Grafton Hotel denied that she acted maliciously used the arrest, November Grace Porter Hopkins. R. regent and prominent local society woman and writer, Mrs. Crawford swore out a w nt charg ing Mrs. Hopkina with taking a paint- ing of her grandfather left with Mrs. Hopkins about 10 years ago, Indignant national and local officers the Daughters of the American past D. A, of of Mrs, Hopkins, who has declined to take the matter seriously, explaining that the portrait must have heen lost in moving. Private Hearings Held. Ralph Given, assistant United States attorney for the Police Court, gave Mrs. Hopkins a private hearing Tues- | day. Mrs. Crawford said today that she expected to be given a private hearing by Mr. Given tomorrow. After considering all sides of the mat- ter, Mr. Given will make up his mind whether to take the case into court. “I regret this whole affair,” said Mrs. Crawford this morning at her hotel, “but 1 feel that it is now my duty to defend myself against state- ment* that have been made. I have hitherto declined to talk for publi- cation, because I considered that the wise course to pursue, but now that Mrs. Hopkins has explalned her side of the matter and reflections have been cast upon me, I think the time for silence on my part has passed. “l do not seek the value of the protrait in money. 1 only seek the portrait, because its loss breaks a eries of nine gemerations in our family gallery.” Holds Evidence Contradictory. Mrs. Crawford said she was willing to accord “praise” to Mrs. Hopkins for her literary work, but she was forced to ‘“consider contradictory evidence given for publication re- garding her arrest, which Mrs. Hop- kins views as ‘ridiculous’ and with- out_foundation.” “No warrant is issued by the United States attorney,” declared Mrs, Craw- ford, “without evidence, and no right- thinking patriot of the D. A. R. would denounce an official document upon which s printed, ‘The President of the United States,” ete. 1 have thus far remained silent confident of the Government’s protection. I have thought it unwise to be known for much speaking, but now, as to Mrs. Hopkins' contradictory evidence: “First, she claims intimacy with me, which T smphatically deny. Then she claims that I have several times been her social gui ‘This 1 also em- phatically deny, for only business re- lations have existed between us.” Mrs. Crawford said that her posses- sions, including household furniture, had been returned to her by Mrs. Hop- kins, with the exception of the paint- ing of her grandfather, Dr. Carter Warner Wormeley of King Willlam County, Va. “The present regent Arnold Chapter, D. A. ward Nelson Dingley, is quoted as having denounced Mrs. Hopkins' ar- rest as an ‘outrage,’ and yet 1 have never met Mrs. Dingley. So upon the contradictory and one-sided evidence of this patriotic lady are the steps, taken by our Government, de- nounced as an ‘outrage.’ Mra, Hop kins also states that the portrait. painted by Thomas Sully, was of a Revclutionary hero, whereas Sulty came fiom Knglund to this countr, and did his bost work between 1541 and 185 Denies Keeping Boarding House. “That I have ever kept a boarding house I emphatically deny, but that of Richard R.. Mrs. Eua- ifive of the subpoenned witnesses in this case are now living in Mrs, Hop- kins' lodging house at 1926 Biltmore street and that they went together with Mrs, Hopkins fo the courthouse is not surprising. 1 am pleased that Mrs. Hopkins' stay in the House of Detention was of such short duration. ad Mrs. Hopkins not sublet her house, furnished with my antiques and unknown to me, thereby making of revenue of the same, mat might not have become so compli- cated, and had the portrait been re- turned some days ago, as promised by { Mrs. Hopkins, the arrest would never have been made. Mrs. Crawford said that the series of family portraitd hezins with a painting of Ralph Wormeley, 1si painted in 16 she said her grand- father, ~wh portrait is missini aradu from the University Pennsylvania in 1836 and earlier from the University of Virginia. She re terzed for substantiation of these facts 1 the history of her family to 'ds of the Virginia State Histori- ociety, the State Library of Vir- , records of Virginia and Penn- sylvania un'versities and various his- torical works, Mrs. Crawford also showed a letter recently received from her brothes ter Warner Wormeley, who 8 en ployed in the governor's office at Rich mond, in which he savs he places a high value on the missing portrait. 6 e Ezypt's used car problem has be- come so serious that dealers have formed a joint company to handle the disposal of second-hand machines. ous | Revolution have rallied to the defense | 2dvocates agree, (to find a BAY STATE STANDS BY AUTO INSURANGE Compulsory Law Is Popular With Most Motorists, Survey Reveals. BY WILLIAM ULLMAN. (Antomobile Editor of The Star.) BOSTON, November 24.—When Al- van T. Fuller, lsading New England motor car dealer, was made Governor of Massachusetts, his inaugural ad- dress touched upon the subject of ever-increasing ' automobile accidents and he said, in part: “A serious problem is that of the victim ot motor vehicle accidents, who finds it impossible to obtain financial redress for dizability result- ing from his misfortune. These v tims often are the bread winners of amilics: (heir death or injury offers, in addition to the personal tragedy, an economic problem. It is estimated 1t at least 60 per cent of the owners nd operators of motor vehicles of Massachusetts do not carry personal liability insurance. Thus in many in- stances the injured party has no re- dre “I recommend that careful consid- eration be given to legislation which would require owners and drivers of motor vehicles to furnish security for liability for personal injuries or death caused by their motor vehicles." Put on Statute Books it came about in time that ¢ State Legislature put it upon the statute hooks of the Common- wedlth that all Massachusetts auto- mobile owners, hefore heing permitted to operate a car, must take out in- suanes {0 compensate possible vie- tims of their negligence or reckless- ness, That is the sole reason why Mas- achusetts adopted compulsory aulo- mobile liability insurance. There upon that lone motive stand the sponsors of the legislation. Opponents of the law, in their en- deavors to head off its adoption in other States, however, charge that it was urged as an accident preventive and that, instead, it has increased ac- cidents No such distortion of the truth can change the fact that a personal ean- vass and survey of the situation shows financial redrvess for victims of accidents was the single object of the law's proponents and that safer sars and saner drivers are, §0 to speak, a happy by-product of its adoption. It is the personal opinion of The Star's representative that a principle of and formula for safety unparalleled in the history of aulomobile legislation are inherent in the law, in that it provides a simple yet marvelously comprehensive system of determining accident causation. This, all safety has been the most vital need and at the same time the greatest stumbling-block of all efforts temedy for the Nation's motor menace. Opponents Called Selfish. Massachusetts officials are impres- sive in the thoroughness with which they have tabulated the opponents of ‘he compulsory liability insurance law. In the objections of each they see a narrow, selfish viewpoint. _Among the law’s chief critics they cite the automobile manufacturers. This group, it is pointed out, sees the compulsory insurance law as a re- sistance to the sale of automobiles One of their organization's primar; functions is to eliminate sales resist- ance forces, and therein, as Bay State officials sce it, is their opposition to the statute, Then there are the finance compa- nies, organizations deeply concerned th the wide sale of cars to persons who must buy on time. Another quarter from which comes opposition, now growing more passive, is the automobile dealer. He is de- clared to see the law as a vital factor n reducing used car sales, thus ren- dering more complex his most diffi- cult problem. Sponsors of the law answer this with the statement that, of course, compulsory insurance has affected used car sales, but only the sale of cars so decrepit that they he- long to the junk heap and not on the highway. National motoring agencies also are catalogued as enemies of the law, but here the Bay State throws down the rauntlet and challenges executives of this group to prove that their opposi- tion is not based upon special inter- ests of individuals on their boards of directors. Massachusetts officialdom declares that this attitude is not rep- reseatative of motor clubs member ship. because it is common knowledge that motorists of this character are insured and thus committed to the principle that this form of protection is highly sound. Also, of course, there are the i surance companies whose executivi as was pointed out in yesterday's Star, continue to see the specter of State insurance, or, if not that, State supervision of rates which generally means lowered rates. Individual motorists form another class of opponents. This class in- cludes those persons who have a very small interest in the cars they drive, boast that they have nothing to pro- tect with insurance and recognize no moral obligation in event of Injury to an innocent victim. State Not Excited. On the whole, MassachuNetts is not nearly so exeited about its compul- sory automobile lability insurance law as are opponents of such u statute in other parts of the country. The Bay State, save for a few who foresee dumage to their special inter- ests, ia Inclined to look upon the law as one of the most progressive steps ever taken in motoring legislation and let it go at that without any furore and flaming oratory. This attitude, so distinctly in con- trast to the picture of the situation in Massachusetts that foes of com- pulsory labilly insurance paint, was clearly evident to the representative of The Star wherever he went in the Bay State in quest of information concerning the merits or demerits of the law. To be sure, there are those in Mas- sachusetts who condemn ths statute, However, when their position is fully stated, one cannot escape the conclu- sion that theirs is a dwarfed, selfish, narrow view of the situation, not a wholesome recognition of the ends that the law was expected ta serve— and is serving, from the viewpoint of the majority. Interviews with butchers, bakers, truck drivers. bankers, educators, m torists who drove cars from the larg- est to the smallest, officials, insu: ance men. new and used car dealers, and others established for The Star's representative two main points: First, that the Bay State Is satis fied that the law s serving the gen- eral welfare, and, Second, that the State as a whole is a great deal more honest and broad-minded in its view of the stat- ute than are opponents on the out- ide. A significant instance of the econd point is that it was only from dozens of Bay Staters, officials, in- surence men, motorista and others, that the writer has ever heard t| chief weakness of the ed as its fallure to include property damage Insurance. Autoists Broad-Minded. 1If it takes broad-mindedness to look upon the situationt from the stand- voint of general good, then Massachu- setts motoris exemplified in that cross-section, selected at random by The Star's representative, are broad-minded. An unsentimental an- Thus the Ton I. C. Bratianu, premier of Rumani; who died today, and Prince Carol, for whose removal as heir to the throne he was responsible. indicates that, in the main, the motor car owner is the one who should be entitled to the first objection to the law—for he pays the bills. Does he take advantage of this right? The answer Is to be found in the state- ment of a man, evidently of average circumstances, who was just getting into his ear parked on the east side of Boston's famous public gardens. “How do 1 feel about the com- pulsory liability insurance law? Well, at first. I did not like it at all. It appealed to me only an increase in the cost of operating my c Then, when they fixed the riates 2 per cent lower than they ever had been before, 1 began to look at it in another way. After that it struck me really were thinking of the general good, not the good of the insurance company or of just another way of penalizing the motor car_owner. “Naturally, T don’t like the idea of paying more for anything than I hav been paying. and this costs me money every year., But, when I got to look- ing at insurance just as I look at brakes or something else on the car. | it didn’t seem so much like the mo- | torist had been picked out to be some- body's goat. I like good brakes, a steering mechanism that is in good condition, lights that illuminate the rond and all tha other thinzst that contribute to safety—the other fel low’s as well as my own. Calls It & Good Thing. “Rut not all brakes and other safety features of all cars are good—at least the way lots of motorists take care of them. And, even if they are, drivers slip up at times. Well, if/I slip up or let my car get into bad condition, and there's an accident, there's no reason why the innocent vietim of my slovenliness or careless ness should have to pay the bill. When at compulsory insurance that cay it strikes me as a pretty good thing. I know that no kid is going to have to spend the rest of his life selling lead pencils or shoestrings on a street corner just because I slipped up, Most of my friends feel the same way.” That most of his friends did feel the same way was well established by con- versation with others in Boston and alsewhere in Massachusetts. Not all of the Bay Staters do feel that way, however The driver of a dilapidated small car, whose opinion, let it be said. was not representative of other owners of the same make of automobile, de- clared that the law was a process of “gticking the poor man.” The whole situation, in his thought, was due to the desire of the insurance companies to “get rich.” When it was pointed out to him that the insurance com- panies were among the bitterest op- ponents of the law when it was in- troduced, he declared that “they had to take that side to get the thing through the State House.” ‘This incident. with the other pre- viously cited. is fairly typical of the average motorist’s perspective on com- pulsory insurance. A majority. how- ever, agreed with the first car owner that if one could look at the law un- selfishly. it was a good, sound plece of legislation, even if it did consider the public interest rather than the special viewpoint of the motor car owner. A high official of one of Boston's largest banks threw some interesting light on Bay State conditions under the compulsory insurance statute. Principle Held Sound. “Every one agrees that insurance is an excellent thing, whether it is life, fire. theft or any other kind. It is soclety’s way of distributing individ- ual losses among the entire group, and insurance in America is our largest single enterprise indicating where this country stands upon the principle. “In the individual instance it may be hard to see this viewpoint. Looked at generally, however, the point is execeptionally clear. ‘Massachusetts believed in this prin- ciple firmly enough to make automo- bile liability insurance compulsory. This State has established financial responsibility behind every car owner. In many quarters we heard that it would work an economic hardship. I don't believe it has. Perhaps it has interfered with the sale of a certain type of cheap used car, but general economic conditions and traffic condi- tlons in certain parts of the State have had a much greater effect. T believe. “The majority is inclined to look upon the statute unselfishly and it ctands upon the same ground that it did when, through its Legislature, it passed the law. namely. that it was a sound action. Throughout his entire study of com- pulsory insurance in the only State which is operating under such a law the writer was impressed with the frankness with which its most ardent advocates admitted that it had its de- fects. An outstanding instance of this was to be noted In the interviews which were given over a period of several days by Frank A. Goodwin, State registrar of motor vehicles. Time after time. in the course of these conversations, Mr. Goodwin was given ample opportunity to shade his an- swers in favor of the statute as it now graces the books. Not once did he take advantage of this opportunity. Minor Changes Needed. It still requires minor changes as step by step the State gets farther into this fleld in which it is pioneer. ing, he admits. After these minor changes, which will create a greater implicity and effectiveness of opera tion, he belleves, there may come a significant major extension—the inc'u- sion of property damage insurance for every motorist. "Thi: latter point interestingly enough, first was mentioned to the writer by several car owners whom he interviewed. A typical case follows: “I'm thoroughly sold on this Insur. ance idea now that we have tried it," said the owner of a moderately priced car. “If I have no right to injure a man without being able to repay him, then I have no right to damage his property without paying that cost. I'm not entirely unselfish, understand. for I don't believe that any one has a right to run Into my car and escape ving me to pay the repair bill. 1 think the law is fine as it stands, but if they go farther with it to make it include property d I'm willing to chip in with my s to make it a better law."” The reiteration of this point by several others led the writer to take it up with Mr. Goodwin. That is right, perhaps,” he said. “We are going along step by step. The inclusion of property damage in surance is a matter for the future. Any number of car owners have called my attention to this aspect of the law. It seems to indicate that once the ad- antages of the insurance principle are recognized by the individual he is not averse to extending them— which certainly leaves out in the cold a lot of those who are telling what a failure the law i<.” On the whole, Massachusetts is go- ing calmly, definitely, confidently ahead with her great experiment. The results ro date may indicate success, but whatever the present results, they are nothing to what Is anticipated by the Bay Staters, who passed the law beeause they believed it sound in prin ciple and just in practice. McANDREW ACCUSER MIXES HISTORY BEFORE SCHOOL BOARD (Continued from First Page.) only regret is that T havi to give for my country “That was Nathan Hale, was it not, Mr. Righeimer?” Raymer retorted. “Just the same, these bpro-British history bool fail to mention Ethan Allen,” maintained the board's counsel. At the suggestlon of President Coath it was decided to have coples of the McAndrew statement mailed to all members of the board. “The.state- ment, in part, said: “It is now nearly three months sinte the president of the Board of Education and five members voted to charge me with insubordination and improper conduct in having entered into a conspiracy with certain em- ployes of the board, designated as extra teachers. 1 belleved these teachers were essential agencies for the efficient conduct of the schools and 1 did not assist the attorney for the hoard to supplant them by political appointees. Books Adopted by Board. “I have, week after week, presented myself for trial on the above charges, which has been denied me. Instead you have entertained various paid pa- triots who have complained of the na- ture of various text books in use in the schools of America. “These books were adopted for Chi- cago by the Board of Education before 1 became superintendent, readopted by the board on the recommendation of teachers after 1 became superintend- ent. TInstead of trying me on the al- leged misdemeanors for which I was suspended, you have permitted to be added a list of irrelevant allegations. Of these 16 charges, No. 3, concern- ing the English-Speaking Union, re- fers to an organization of which I am not and never was a member and with which T never had any dealings. Declaring that the trial had “de- graded the school system in the eyes of the entire country,” Mr. McAndrew concluded: “I respectfully decline to further at- tend personally these hearings until notified by my counsel to appear in defense of the charges on which I was suspended, when, if ever, you address yourselves to them.” ut one Iife GIANT SARATOGA DOCKED SAFELY IN NAVY YARD By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, November The ticklish job of drydocking the giant airplane carrier Saratoga, which was placed in commission last week, was accomplished at the Philadelphia Navy Yard yesterday afternoon with- out the slightest mishap. ‘The great ship, 888 feet long and with a displacement of 33,000 tons, will be scraped, painted and otherwise conditioned before she makes her 'shakedown™ cruise to the West Coast, where she will join the Pacific fleet. Thirteen little puffing tugs helped the leviathan of warships out of her shipyard birthplace on the New Jer- sey side of the Delaware River and fussed around her until they had her safely off the navy yard, four miles do.lV:';"lI!l‘elnll. - e carrier has cost approximately $40,000,000. . i SHIP CALLS. FOR HELP. SEATTLE, November 24 (#).—An SOS message sent at 7:23 a.m. today by the Japanese steamer Tentaisan Maru was stranded off Grays Harbor, on the radio. The message reported that she was stranded off Grays Harbor on the ‘Washington coas d was in need of immediate assistance. Actress’ Bequest Comes Too Late to Save Beneficiary Found to Be Poverty Victim By the Associated Prens. NEW YORK, November 24.—A sum of money from the estate of her sister, the late Clara Morris, famous emo- tional actress, came too late to be of any use to Mrs. Eliza P. Burtis, who had been separated from her famous sister since infancy and who was found a month ago llving iIn dire poverty. Mrs, Burtis died in Roosevelt Hospltal yesterday. During her lifétime Miss Morris had made a search for her sister without avall. When she died the quest was as an heir to the actress’ estate. She was located living in a tenement in "Hell's Kitchen” alone and suffering (rom inflammatory rheumatism. Surrogate George A. Slater of West- chester County signed an order mak- ing Mrs. Burtis legal heiress to the estate of her sister. She was to re- ceive about $7,000. Under direction of the court she was removed to the hospital, where the care and comfort she enjoyed for a month was all the benefit she re- ceived from the money left by her alysis of the statute by an outsider' taken up in an effort to find the sister ' sister. . | GILES S REBUKED " FOR CONTROVERSY Flyer’s Backer Warns Against Weather Bureau Dis- pute and Demands Action. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 24— With his financial backers in Detroit demanding “performance inste: d ot cheap and vulgar publicity,” and Weather Rurean officials hers dis. counting his story of a narrow escaps from bad flying weather at sea dur- Nz an attempt to fly to Honolulu, ‘apt. Frederick A. Giles, British avia. tor, was back here today defending himself against criticism and making plans to take off again on his pr posed Golden Gate-New Zealand flight, Giles left here early Tuesday, os- tensibly for Honolulu, his first stop en route to New Zealand. but turned up later that daq in San Luis Obispo County, about 400 miles south of here, whenee he telephoned to Los Angeles announeing that his plane had nar- owly escaped being wrecked in an “air pocket” 480 miles off the Call- fornia shore. After the mishap, hae sald he had dumped out most of his soline and turned back Weather Service Halted. Maj. K, H. Bowie of the Weather Burean here cited repocts from ships at sea to the effect that there had been no storm near where Giles said he found one. Bowie further an- nounced that the bureau had censed to give weather forecasts to Giles on the ground that he had failed to co-operate with it Giles gave an interview socinted Press on arrival night and then denied visitors later. “You ean quote me as s as a foreigner to this country I am thoroughly disgusted with the action of local Weather Bureau officials. who took advantage of my absence from San Francisco by issuing statements in which they declared that atmos- pheric conditions that forced me back were ‘simply impossible, " he declared. “In the first place. T never described the foul weather conditions encounter- ed at sea as a storm in the sensa one usually refers to a storm The air conditions that caused my plane to upset would not he observed by ships, nor could they he charted on anv weather map, I did not fall in a squall Says Plane Dropped. At the time of my bump I fly- ing at about 1,000 feet. 1 was he- tween two layers of clouds, and at times it was misty. 1 suddenly feit the ship drop straight down. I had no control of her. I passed through the low strata of clouds, hanging des- perately onto the stick. Charts, tood and other loose articles in *he cockpit were falling out. ‘The engine :put- tered. All I could think about was to hang on to something, so I hung on to the stick. A “Just as I pulled out % cw the clouds I saw the sea beneath me. and then the plane completed the loop. | had throttled the engine down during the Fall, and now the motsc started to pick up.” Giles described his flight to land, aided by strong tail winds, and his landing with about 10 gallons of gusu- line left. To remarks by T. R. Re: aviator at present with the \Veather Bureau, to the effect that “A sani- tarium is the only place for an avia- tor who couldnt fly safely through the weather prevailing at sea yester. da. Giles_retorted that he believes he had between 3,000 and 4.9 Pying hours’ experience, besides having been credited with downing several eneiny planes and balloons during the World ‘War. Giles could not be reached for com- ment on a vigorcusly worded telegram from his backer, W. H. Rosewarne of Detroit, which reproved the flver for the controversy with the Weather Bureau. and declaring such byplay ~as “'not in the interest of good sports- manship.” The telegram asked Giles to “get back to Frisco, check her over and get ready to go again.” Rosewarne, wealthy contractor and a native of New Zealand, said he backed the venture to stimulate avi- ation in that country. BOWIE ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. FIRST RACE—Purse. $1.300: year-old fillies: 6 furlongs. Lady Durbar ... 114 Mollic Elizabeth Bella Martin Fair Hour .. Balkan_Queen Just u Pal . Rough Sea . & Apple Pie . Many Flaws a Suppertime . aR. W. Carter and K. N. Gilpin entry. SECOND RACE—Purse. $1.300: claiming 3-year-olds and up: 6 furlongs. +Donna Mona . 0 T SCUME .. .. Mad Mullah Sabret ....: Bristol Crossuntani Bosard ... Bi 001 Magnus . THIRD RACE—Purse, $1.400: the Sunset Purse: Z-year-olds: 1 mile. to the | here himself maiden C o Johuny Jewell Col. s Joan Grier Lady McNeil —Purse, $1,400: the Sun- (second division): ‘Z-year.olds: 1 o oo 100 S I00 Field Marabal [l 1o 103 Dear Lady ..... 100 110 Wellet” . 104 100 Blarney 103 —Purse. $1.500; the Ben- ear-olds and up: 1% miles. . 104 Corinth e 104 Euphrates ..... 104 108 Mifodd™e oo 1N Grippeminayd . . 104 S 7 SIXTH RACE—Puree, S.yeat-olds: 1 mile. and 70 a lsotta . Marlander ... 11 Hearta =Redlimation 0 11 Hone “Dimple Dunkie: 11 ougettc .- *Boom o b Trapstock p Scat . so0en *Drawing Bourd Also_eligible— Franic Andrew. a Drs' Toast Housn bedick of € “Beau G “Ebutord Backrope . i a Flamingo Farm entry. bW S Owena entry. | EVENTH RACE—S year-olds and Up: 1y miies. Gilbert Cook *High Heart Warfare - Zeebrugze fi'k“”n . inkitjou Michael B Frances Rock Carefree Baiitont 1 *Arsacid L 103 *Apprentice allowance elaimed. Weather clear: tra fast Christmas 1927 Buy Now Mail 'Early Better Service 1 : § Hystander Eloise FIFTH RA ning purse: 3 300: claiming ; rds. .10 iba 110 . 10