Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1928, Page 5

’ , Teachol.” DOTYSEESMATES | TORTIREDINCELS American Describes Brutality of Guards at Clair- vaux Prison. it the ewhicenth of a series o oy’ e e A whose vatunt secrice in (e Feemeh Forelon Tegion and L Brivaie AN BY BENNETT 4. DOTY. Written exclusively for The § American Newspaper Clairvaux Prison lived up reputation. Tt is & chilly, group of stone bulldings n in Champazne. not far fre mer A, E.F. headyuart mond The monastery. seat of the famous nard de Clajrvaux. We were taken from Albertville t Clafrvaux in prison gains. The cars are cut into t . fitted with hard bench. so small a tall man ean not stand in them. 1 had to sit bol | uprizht 24 howrs. We were stift when we reached Aube. i At the prison 1 recelved a new uniform, a collarless coat shu vajr of trousers and sa ut socks. It rained daily in morning there were Dbitter frosts Without socks 1 was blue with cold and 1 had trouble managing my s bots. They had steaps. Whe ever 1 went upstairs 1 had to carry mine in my hands and walk in my bare fect. Given No Coffee. We arose at T o'clock, cleaned our cells and filed down to the dininz room. We got a large chunk of bk prison bread. If you had money could get coffce. The prison fur-| nished no coffee. wine or tohacco. Tobaceo was taboo. Some of the, and North Alliance o its glooamy Aube n! a the and Miss Florence Dibert, second vice Lower, left to right: Mrs. Mrs. H. R reasure: Upper. left fo right: Mrs, £dward Franklin White, first vice president, ace Morriso '“I‘HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON., D. €. JANUARY 8. 1928 -PART 1. 'WOMEN T0 DRAW PEACE PLANS HERE! Delegates Representing 10,- 000.000 Will Hold Anti-War ‘, Sessions in Capital. Intent upon framing a definite program for world peace, nine na- {onal women's organizations, repre- wenting «n estimated membership of | ird 200,000, will co-operate in the third | S jonal conference on the cause um: e of war when several thousand delegates will hold sessions _herc from | i ay 15 to 19, at the ‘Washington fons nre the Amerl: University Women, ¢ Women for Home Mis- Wederation of| Woman's Boards " Missions of North America. cederation of Women's nal Cauneil "r‘ ‘.\lfl“"1l:: omen, Natlonal League of Won V™ Xational Woman's Christian 1 mpevance Union, Natlonal Board of | Young Women € Ch .MI |.\‘n .\M!j\l - Soms National Women's Trade Union oc o General Clubs, All Phases to Be Aired. | War, January septing the premise that world Al 'n...-.«n,xn! A1 sidex of the | €O om will be discussed by speakers | emg chosen for their expert national and interna national committee; M the national committee. COMING HERE FOR WOM | Upper, Ma';cnl ;In Cauce and Cure of War; Dr. Mary E. Wooley, member of national commitiee; Mis« Belle Sherwin, rguson of Miss Mary Garrett Hay, chairman of hanquet con dobn' D. Sharman, member of the national committee; Miss Josephine Schain, secrtary of 5 | NEATDET RAPPED SEAR DAL |Mrs. Henderson’s Plea for Ban on Flesh Foods Is Applauded. EN’S PEACE CONFERENCE | A plea for abandonment of a meat diet us n means of striking at the everdncreasing seourge of cancer, voleed by Mrs, John B. Henderson in #n latter to I Jobn H. Kellogg of the Battle Creek Sanitorium, was zreeted with applause by the Race Hetterment Conference at Battle Creek. Mrs. Henderson was advised in gvam from Dr. Kellogg yester Kellozz added had proved that the enn- to be a great Mrs Henderson, in her communicz tion to Dr. Kellogg, who”heads the conference. stated “The lirge nference to consider rice hetterment now in session at the Baltle Creek Fanitorium is very fm- pressive. - It is composed of ths lead. ing wcientistx of the day. learned heads of our best known universities and colleges besides scores of others, May they take us out ef the dark nges on a subject now universally discussed by the American press. a | groping about for the chief cause of onference on the Cause and Cure 3 City,.member of the national committee on the member of national Yorl mmittee; Miss Ruth Morgan, member of | Know tiomal attairs, and who nclude thuse | are tor ament and those who | e hemament, Inolationisis wnd | and those who favor the United States in takinz uffairs pro-leagu Doliey of the ‘ hand In Central American ind those who are against it The widely dive nany of whom a fmmous, i the fo at three o e, 19 tes from "ot the co-operating organizations e thelr own confiicting opin series of forum discussions. seace plans” will be vead at | e, the result of & contest president. enel will ol ions in nole, recording secretary, i Blanton Bill Hits Immigration} From Canada and zuards bootlezzed a little. but smok- | ing was against the rules. Woe to the man found deing it! Eight dars on bread alone or confinement to a punishment cell resulted | We staved in the dining room an i hour. Then we marched into the court for exercise, This was the rou- | tine throughout the day. An hour in- | side, an hour out. There were 1.200 men in the prison, Jivided into sec- tions of 30. The sections were organ- | ized alphabetically, the prisoners ac- | cording to number. We wore our| numbers on our sleeves. | The first half hour of the first out- | side period we washad at faucets. | Then we exercised a half hour, march- inz according to our alphabelical- or- der, under surveillance ali the time. No one was zllowed to speak while ex- ercising or while inside. The second half hour of the outside period we sat on benches, still in al- phabetical order. During these rest periods we could talk, but not break ranks. Hence a man could talk only with neighbors chance assigned him. Harvey, Weisser and Lass, my fellow @eserters. and men 1 had known at Afhertville Prison, were lr-n!!erml with me, but days would pass when I had no chance for a word with them. Thieves and Murderers. | My nearest neighbor was a soldier named Bouet, doing five years for | mriking a sergeant. Another i Davin, serving five years for at: ing a corporal. The attack had con- wisted of seizing the corporal by the shoulders and shaking him. We had Algerians, Tunisians, Mo- roccans, Syrians and all sorts of na- tives of French colonfes who had | taken service undet the French flag. ‘We had thieves and murderers as well men confined for purely military =nses. Every article worn by the prisoners is made st Clairvaux and the cell bouses proper are surrounded with ‘worksh When 1 was there times were glack and no work was done. With nothing to do. scanty fdod, cold weather and brutal guards the men were sullen, resentful and touchy. The | greatest hardship at first was the lack of "tobacco. Shortly after 19 o'clock we had our first real meal of the day. This con- sisted of soup, warm water with rome bread in it and a vegetable. measured the vegetable one day. We were getting eight teaspodins of beans, lentils or peas. Thirsdays and Sundays we got.a piece of #tringy beef, halfl the size of y hand. At 520 we had a similar meal. A half hour after dinner we were marched 1o the celiroom, lined up, searched, then locked up. There was o heat and we were glad to get into our bunks. The cells were comparatively clean, They were not cells in the American sense, but wire cages just hig enough for a man to lie down and turn around in Talking Forbidden. ach section of 30 men was under eontrol of one of the inmates. a pro- yot In his cell was a pushbutton. Talking was forbidden. If a man tzlked a provost pushed the button, which summoned the guard. The guard stood in front of the provost’s cell repeating the names of the men in the section. At the mention of the gulity one, the provost nodded and the culprit was haled hefore the privoners’ eourt next day for punis ment. Thux the prisoner never actu- 8liy heard the provost report him. The maun put on elght days bread and water, or for more seyere offenses sent for 30 16 40 duys 10 the The “carhots” were sub. terranean vaults, They said at Claw vaux that & man who put in 60 da i one wav always taken o the how | piial afterward, The severity of the Bte made Clatrvaux very unhealthful Out of 1,200 men, an average of 40 | Gied every year In the yard, a man was sent 10 hix eell for the most minor infractions of the rules. We all knew what that meants The Corsican keepers fell wpon him and beat hin unmercifully before locking him up. The other mowt Areaded form of Aix €ipline «t Clairvaux was the “sps- Arlle” A prisoner wis tuken Lo u Jong room, forced 1o exchange his #abuts for s palr of vope whoes, and then put o marching round und sound the room. He was compelied 10 Ao thix o)) day, rece'ving 1wo wanty | meals during that Ume. He generally | OI4 wivit 46 Kilomelers, ut the « which his feet weis blistered and | bleeding Tyrannieal Guards, H e most galiing th ng about Cla 1 vaix wes the complete tyranny of the | BURrds Viisoners had 1o stund un overed before them and recejve | Wicke, cuffe and torrenis of vilest shyse. If they made n move, punish: | ment v lmmeddate and uwui When the directir sppeared in the 3620 everyune uneosered and stond B0 wiention 1a'n or shine A gusrd never had 10 appesr aguins Ahe prieoner ot the primon court, ANl | vecensary war his report The sas Was yeviewed und punishment ax #igned. T prisoner had no part in the procecdings and sny eitempl Lo speak for himeell carned him 4 worse el s I ohad becn advised 1o watih iy wtep at any cost My futher und my Py er sere doing everything possibie o podily vy seatonee, ahd | was de germined 1o help by keeping my res ord sporiess I osphte of this | wos anrown 0o one of the worst oul breaks of yecent times sl France's worst prison. oM ativan Newspaper ATl i by Woith . | et ALA Blood Clot Kills Son of Banker, Who Thought Injuries Were Slight. 4 By the Associated Press. GREAT NECK. N. Y., January 7.— Alan Harriman, son of a prominent New York hanker, who thought him- self only slightly injured in an auto- mobile accident yesterday, died sud- denly today of a biood cot on the im. i Pround unfler his overturned auto- mobile yesterday. Harriman, the 29- year-old son of Joseph W. Harriman, founder of the Harriman National Bank, lay unconscious for an hour while the technicality of a county line held an ambulance from coming to his b h % efused Medical Examination, Taken to the office of a physician, he regained consciouzness and was told that he was merely suffering from shock and a sprained ankle. He re- fused to permit the physiclan to ex- amine him for internal injuries and hurried to his home in Babylon. Harriman was found by Chester O, Ketcham of Babylon summoned an ambulance from Amity ville immediately. After waiting an | hour for it to appear, Ketcham took the unconscious man te a doctor in his own small machine. Amityville police #aid that department regula tions forbade the sending of the am bulance scross the county line to the place of the accident. Headed Auto Agency. Harrnman was the head of an auto mobile agency in Babylon. He is sur vived vy his parents, his widow anc two children. Two yzars agoe Harriman was ar rested on a reckless driving charge after an automobile he was driving had injured a woman from Orange, N J. The woman staried suit for dam ages, but the case was settied out of court, In 1917 Harriman served in France with the Red Cross, transferring in 1918 0 tne American Naval overseas service. with which he was associated until the end of the war. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. A meeting in honor of Clara Barton will be held, 3 o'clock, In United States Chamber of Commerce. The Wanderluster's hike will start from Chain Bridge at 2:45 o'clock. A new wulk. Mr. Schley will Jead. The Tted Tria Outing Club will meet at Sherman Monument, 7 o'clock, for a sunrise walk, to be followed by y. Waldburg Hewitt, Another meeting will he held tomslyn at 245 o'clock way tleket for Rixy for n croms-conntey walk. Brink lunch and cup, Camp. fire and coffee U ] o'clock, Barishaneky ut Frwia will Tt A bridze and 500 card party for the bhenefit of the rural Catholie hool of T pper Mariboro, will he held January 16, % pap., at the Raleigh Hotel, under auspices of the parish- foners of Bt. Mury's Church, Mar) horo, and of K1, Anthony's Church North Chesapeake Besch, Reserva- tons ean he made by addressing atner Francls Laughran, Marthoro, The first annual ball and entertuin. ment by the Reta)) Cleaners und Dyere Association will be given Jan wiary 10, 9 pan. at the Jewish Com munity Center, The program will feuture the 1win misters, Rose and Dorothy Cohen M meeting for fathers and ® of dohnson Parent Teacher Hon will be held ot the school Janusry 16 ut & pm The Itetnil Protect Clerks' e Awssorintion. No wil) moreow. K ., in - Trades Coionist Hall, 720 Fifth street. Fles tion of officers L tona) The Business Women's Councll wil) meet Tuesday evening in the feeture moof the Chureh of the Covenant There will he u musial The Neweomers tunehean ® etallation of i Club will hold 8 tomoriow for in. The Iinols Btate Hoclety will hold a veception and ball in honor of Rep resentative Henry 1L Rathhone w: Woelected presidens of the society, nt the Willard Hotel, Junuary 11, K36 v ' ; » . Mre, Vlinit-Lynn, the women Bying wew of Grest Britain, has muyrvied $iv James Heath, a wealthy ivoh manu factuper, A week hefore hey marringe whe crented u new yerord for light planes by ascending to @2.000 feet, cur: rying & punsengey, ' 400 “‘reader: " who exploration, | to | | torced par {rack to rock and !Four Schoolboys, Marooned on Island ASKS TIGHTENING i In Potomac, Are Rescued by Police ! creator “ana “Tuter."in” His wisdom. - FBMNONALENS Four high school®hoys, hent upon | supper, their parents b found | rooned on Analostan Island in the Po. nac yesterday afternoon and were to await arrival of a rescue v in a rowboat. from the mainland by jumping from | note that the incoming tide was sl Iy_cutting off their route of return. The boys are Edward Clifford,* jr., | the ever-increasing sourge of civil- | ization—cancer. “This subject of diet. so long studied by yourself, fits well into the subject of race betterment, the Great manages to get rid of dead creatures by means of the germs of putrefac- tien.- Under their active participation, former living tissues soon become more tender. and still (urther decom- position best suits the taste of the socalled and wrongly named “bBin viveur.” In time the blood of the new participant becomes befouled. and cancer as well as many and all of the filth diseases naturally follow Gives 52,000,000, me worrie ma- | About 7:30 o'clock, Mr. Clifford went | | to the seventh precinet and reported Mr. Clifford. Lieut. H. R. Lohman. and two policemen secured a hoat at {the Columbia Sand & Gravel Co.. Twenty-ninth and K streets, and then had failed to | started to row across to the island. he hoat hegan to leak and two men | | were forced to hail while the other themselves ‘They had crossed DIESAFTER CRASH BAN ON BILLBOARDS WL BEDISCUSSED Directors of Federation Board to Hear Reports at Session Wednesday. - | Progress in the work of restricting billboards and other campaigns insti- tuted by the General Federation of | Women's Clubs will be outlined before | the mid-Winter sessions of the board of directors, which will open at the | federation’s headquarters, 1734 N | street, Wednesday morning. National officers, chairmen of the eight depar ments, State presidents, members of {the board of trustees, chairmen of di- {visions and confercnce msmbers of | the board will attend. ! This will be the final session of the board before the retirment of | president, Mrs. John Dickinson Sher {man, in June. and business will center {on rounding out the programs inaugu rated during her administration. Pluns [ for the coming biennial convention in |San Antonlo, Tex., in May will be | made. | Delegates will begin (o arrive here | today and tomorrow, and Tuesday will | and committee meetings. A reception will be given by Mra, Sherman and the | n only to the ve heen following a definitely out- | and Mexico. lined course of study since last J"E i O SAEG ity in preparation for this meeting. | - Those women, who have beea Aotk | By (he Assaciated Prgn 13033 N street, son of & former assist- | Linds: | Lang. When the hoye failed to return for Thomas Lang and Jack |ant Secretary of the Treasury; Bass | |two rowed. Three times they were | | nearly upset by floes. The hoya were found waiting on the |shore. After much dificulty. they { were finally brought safely bick to| the mainland. “May man, the hizhest of afl ani- mals. abandon the diet of the tiger, buzzard and hyena for the purer food dietary of the most inteiligent and longest-lived of the lower animals, | and may the experiments of Burbank ing xingly and In groups, hase Bewl 4 pronibition for seven years against| rite essays 0 exc l} PRl I Tenath. to be turned | all Immigration except seasonal labor | Sen I 2 Smierence committee by Jan- | from Canada and Mexico, and a ma. | Y®F 250.000 aliens uniawfully enter vty 1. The two enayy ofering e | terial strengthening of existing fmmi- | "‘;‘""""l'd'-‘-l PATtend A | most practical plan o 5 ks | » 5 pp rovi- e said that, althopgh assur v e af war and for & forelgn policy | &ration laws, including certain pr (s Houms, expoy oA amuretly [t ine United States will be read to | sions of the La Follette seaman act. that an increase was provided for the conference. wan proposed yesterday In a bill hy the deportation squad next year, he Mrs. Catt Announces Plan. eprosentative Blanton, Democrat, | till did ot think _the " amount | . e meeting Mrs, | Texas. | enough and that the Immigration Bu* | ""w"n"‘y?:.':.':‘?:“r.:? previding officer | Chairman Johnson of the House im- | reau did “not dare to ask for any- i ey "the two preceeding con- | migration committee announced he | thinz mor ¢ oo | would seek to increase hy $500.000 the | Blanton® L hase 3 med from n | $925.000 appropriation carried In the of all immigration, except seasonal AL ) e “\here " the | Labor Department supply bill for de. ' fabor. “until January 1, 1935: the de- enen of more (han a score of coun. | bortation of allens during the fiscal | portation of all allens ‘unlawtully in tries were seeking a plan for world | vear beginning next July. | the country well as those aliens | peace upon which they dould unite| These developments were preceded | who withdrew their declarations to ier the zuldance of the Interna.|by A brief discussion of Immigration |hecome citizens to dodge military e o of Women for Suffrage | \Mairs on the House floor Friday, dur: service, and the registration of all | aunl Citizenship. and T look eon. | Ing which Johuson declared that eachaliens _remaining.” ~ The measure fdently to our Washington meeting | to develop definite conclusions as to | bill proposed suspension ./ what individual women and organiza- | tions of women in the United States ecan do to help toward international unity, 1 “When we had our first conference ! on the cause and cure of war in| Washington five vears ago there was | an enormous amount of interest in| pence, with many men and women' olnz around the country lecturin | on the general subject, but consider- | able confusion among women's or- ganizations ms to what was propa- | ganda nnd what was fact. A group of ! national erganizations with the! largest membership of women in the | who said he be devoted 1o preliminary conferences | United States decided that the thing | to do was to have a meeting at which ! {on animals and plants. by means oi also would provide tightening up of Penisn influence. be practiced on man- the La Follette seaman act, witich Kind itself permits. seamen of foreign vessels to Gifts of Innd‘-nd money totaling ap disembark while their ships are in|Proximately §2000.000 by Mrs. Hen - derson to the Battie Creek College. 1+ EIIMEE ot be used in the interest of race betier ment, were announced yesterday. | Will Guide Tobacco Production. | ! MELBOURNE, Australia, January | Piedmont Warehouse Sold. |7 UP.—Charles H. Slagg. chief of the| GREENVILLE. §. C.. January 7 tobaceo division of the experimental (®;.—The sale of the Piedmont bonded | b .| warehouse and compress in this city e e et pedia eDa | Lo the Anderson Clayton Co. of Hous . ™ aP-|ion. Tex. for a reported price of $1.- pointed director of the production of | 600,6)0. was announced today. The tobacen in Australla. Shgg proposes firm will be known henceforth as the to improve the quality and quantity |Greenville Compress Co.. and will be of Australian tobaceo by putting fts! chartered wih a capital of $500,000, cultivation on a sound economic hasis. it was announced Evening School { Reading Time: 3 minutes} their chairmen of international rela- Buy one: | Inrael | i | the natlonal officers tomorrow evening | tions and peace departments without | ! at the clubhouse. The board members | omitting. the organizations could dh~[ | will be zuests of honor. cuss definite plans for the elimination Among the speakers who will ad’| of war ax an institution. We have! | dress the evening sessions are Miss | done thiy at twn meetings. Great | | Grace Abbott of the Children’s Bu- | progress has been made. 1 regard veau, Lieut. Col. H. Edmund Bullis, | our third sexsion as the most funda Rev. Edmund Waish of Georze. | mental of our undertakings." town University and Merlin A, Avies. | worth, president of the National | Broadcasting Co. of New York. | KAISER §! BERLIN, January 7 (#).—Desplte | an injunction of tke lower court, the former Kaimer Wilhelm was repre. sented at the Communist Theater Inst night in Erwin Piscator’s production of Alexe Tolstol's drama. “Rasputin The uncensored production of the | play was ordered by the Court of Ap: veals. whose three Judges, with attor- | neys representing Piscator and the former Kalser, attended the perform. ance to see whether the scene depict. inz Withelm was offensive, . In play the former emperor Is op ted as addressing his troops t the heginning of the war, ANNUAL DANCE HELD. ‘The local chapter of Avukah, stu- { dent Zionist organization, gave followlng putrons Emanuel Aa and patr Dr. and Mrs, Ed- | and Mix Wiillum | hen, Mr. | L oand | Freudberg, Mr. and chner, Dr. and Mre. . Dr.'and’ Mrs. H man_ Hertzberg, Mr. and Mvs. Hen: { Hirsh, Max Rhoad, Mr, and Mra ' ! John ‘M. Safer, Dr. and Mrs. Israel | Bchapiro, Mr, and Mrs. Harry Sherby, | Louis Splegler, and Mr. and Mrs Charles J, Stein, Carl 2 @ JOSEPH JASTROW, yehologist of an out: ding university is alloged to hpve recantly said; “Success? Bah! Suceess is due o luck luck and just enough braina not to itay in the way of i he ware right what an uninspiri ] this world would be, el Higlag R. JABTROW proceeds to demalish his L | ; I | | own theory | yai | “Bright parents move 1o the vity bocause they find more stimulation in city life"; and goes on to say: 1 adva almost the next sentence when i “City loys are on an average brighter." | € thus admits that it was not luck that care t BRIGHT parents to (granting this is )y but b | 1D many of the warld's outstanding men advan | D by luck? Did Edisan? Did Fard? Did Washing- | ton? Did Beaumarch, Did Madama Curia? Did ‘ Lindbergh? | Wl rath efer Edison's definition of genius than ! Dr. Jastrow's definition of Buccess, Edison said: i nins is 110 inepiration and | nine-tanths perspiration,” | ON'T ‘wait far Dr, Jastrow's “Luck”, Halp YOUR. | l) BELF to succeed by b ml:: indei "l-«tu | baln yoursell vo bacome indspandent by spanding le { 3 | | This Bavin | interast compounded THE MORRIS ' | PLAN BANK Under Supervision U, S, Treasu 1408 H Street N.W, New Method Cuts Time in Half and Improves Results in Evening School Stenographic Courses HIS management has long felt that the usual methods of night school instruc- tion were susceptible of radical improve- ment. Eight years of painstaking study and careful observation of teaching experiments in many cities have been devoted to this problem The advice and counsel of nationally promi- nemt commercial educators, including two former world's champion writers, has been soughe and carefully considered. The method followed in most schools parallels closely the “day school" program. But this method either requires too long a time, as, for example, two school years, or, if the time is shortened, a burden of study is placed on the students, already tired from a full day's work; which in most cases is unbearable. Last spring a new plan for night school teach- ing was brought to ‘the attention of this school. Apparently, it was possible to minimize “home work™ and, at th¢ same time, ac- complish adequate results in a single school year, three evenings a weck. in effect tentatively about six months ago. ceeded all expectations and the new method is now announced This plan was put Rgsults have ex- as a permanent feature of The Washingtoa School for Secretaries night school. This means that you can now become an em- ployable stenographer in a single school year and, at the same time, avoid the hardship of excessive home work which such a program would formerly have entailed. This is perhaps the greatest single accomplish- ment of this institution among its many contri- butions to the progress of commercial educa- tion in Washington, D. C. Fortunately, also, this method has made pos- sible numeraus and considerable economies in rendering this service. These savings have been passed on to students in lower tuition rates than this city has ever known. It is also the policy of this management to maintain at all times the “satisfaction. or money back™ principle which has become basic in modern business. Thus you are saved time, expense, and as- sured of complete satisfaction at one and the same time. You are cordially invited to call at the school office and discuss, without obligation on your part, the problem of your vocational training. Howrs: 3200, 5340, 6:20, 72000, 2240 eAnnouncing the addition to the faculty of Mr. Albert Schucider, in 1921 champion short- kand writer of the world. Mr. Schaeider will teach a special class for those de- siring to acquire reporting speed. The Washington School for Secretaries Dr, Tromas 8. Apans, PhD, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Dr. Ler Garroway, BS, PhD. The Ronald Press Company, New York City Mn. Geonae K, Hysior, C.A. Smart, Gore & Co,, New York City TRANSPORTATION BUILDING Aduvisary Council Dr. Jeremtan W, Jenks, LLD, PAD. Alexander Hamilton Institute, New Yoek City Pror. B A, Ross, PhD, LLD. ' University of Wisconun, Machson, Wisconsin Dr. Atnert Swaw, PhD, LLD, The American Review of Reviews, New York Qivy