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Kaiser’s Fall Told in Diary (Continued From Third Page.) effect of the Kalser's abdication. From 80 intensely conservative a gran seigneur this illuminated the situation like a flash of lightning. U. and P. (our own attaches) both thought abdi- cation unavoidable. At 4 p.m. an ap- pointment with Romberg. He handed me Wilson’s answer, which had just arrived. Expects Kaiser to Quit. “BERNE, Oct. 10. “The newspapers bring ' the rumor | that the Kalser has abdicated. At breakfast J., of the Austrian Legation, told me that he believed abdication | necessary. In the evening I dined with | two woman friends of King Constan- tine and the Turk, Schefki Bey. The rumors of the Kaiser's abdication were | referred to by all three. People speak | of it as of something natural, some- | thing self-understood. All these for- | mer clients and allies—Turks, Poles, | Greeks—flutter about like birds become | anxious and mistrustful. They try to read our faces and shently ponder how | they shall save themselves | “BERNE, Oct. 11. i “This evening with Schoeler (my ad- Jutant) to Montreux. He is very down- cast and feels that our formal attitude | toward the great collaps: approaches indifference. In fact, this noiseless, almost eventless collapse is hard for the imagination to grasp, far from home, on foreign soil. Nothing has | changed. and yet through an unseen | dislocation of power the world is turned | upside down. Plot for Revolution. “BERNE, October 14. “After breakfast to the Albanian, B. Bhe told me, according to information | which she had obtained from the American, British and French tions, the conditions which the Entente | would impose before engaging in peace negotiations. She insists that we send her to France, so that she can start & revolutionary movement there, with| the aid of her Socialist friends. On! the wall bshind her hangs a picture of Skanderberg on horseback. While I was there an attache of the French Legation telephoned. What does she want? What is she up to? Where dces she think her country's aavantage lies? “She has a childish face and big black, blank eyes. She handed me the plan of a German fortress which she claimed to have stolen this morning from the American Legation. ‘You can take anything there you want to,’ she explained. It occurree to me that it was carefully rolled up and that the roll was bulky. How had she concealed it going out? “She travels between Paris and Berne 2s she pleases. Clemenceau receives her, it is certain. as a friend. Whom is she betraying? Whom is she serv-. ing? She has a little son whom she takes along with her to France. ‘It is a nice thing for children, now and then,’ she says. Very nice, but for what Medean ends? Chaff of the World War, blown about hither and thither in the turmoil! Amusing and romantic, if one did not have to reckon with it practically and take the un- reckonable into the reckoning. Almed to Save Monarchy. “BERNE, October 18. *Anniversary of the Battle of Leip- sic. In 1915 we were on that day in Radom, in the great retreat. Hinden- burg made a speech at dinner. How far off is that time! Appointment with Romberg. I raised the question of the Kaiser's abdication. Romberg ad- ‘mitted in principle the necessity of the Kaiser’s vanishing, in order. to save the monarchy. “But. it would be best if they sent him to the front and gave him the epportunity to die a soldicr’s death. in the midst of his army. An abdication was not without danger, because things might happen as they did in Russia and the dynasty fall with the person of the monarch. “As a result of our conversation he go to Berl himself now. He also were prepared to start negotiations with Pilsudski (then fmprisoned in Germany). I said thet I would do that only if I received the Sullest powers. I held a tentative con- wersation with Pilsudski to be useless end ev!:ehlmflll. it “Romberg pressed me al to_Berlin tomorrow. In the after- T called on Haguenin (the French e t with whom Herr von fix:"nm discussing the possi- | dem¢ of peace since 1917). He asked me to assure his mother’s safety during our retreat from Prance. (In conse- quence of the negotiations over Alsace- Lorraine, in which I took part, my journey to Berlin was postponed until October 26.) Kaiser’s Place at Front. BERNE, October 21. “Simson (counselor of legation) took s meal at my house along with Schoe- ler. He told us that he had talked quite frankly yesterday with the Queen of Greece about her brother’s position and the necessity of his abdicating. She ook his almost brutal suggestions with eat dignity and even thanked him for em. She asked him to reduce them to writing and when he declined to do fthat she intimated that she would ‘write_them out herself. Although he says little, Schoeler suffers, as a loyal Prussian officer, under these discus- slons, as under the blows of a whip. “Afterwards I went to Romberg. to get his orders for my trip. He asked me to inform him here how the case #tood with the Kaiser, so that he could weventually take some steps with regard to affairs at court. (He was a relative of two ladies very high in the Kaiserin's Thousehold.) “The Kaiser’s place was at the front, among his soldiers. The thought was unendurable that he, a Hohenzollern, the idol whom millions had cheered. should sink down into the bog and retire to some castle, like a pitiful no- body. At present people nad the im- pression that he was merely wabbling about in Berlin. Romberg’s face and mood were tragic. “Early on October 27 I arrived in Berlin and stayed there until I could take my rest in Warsaw. “BERLIN, Oct. 26. | “At breakfast with me Ersberger, in | ler that I could talk with him about e Kaiser's abdication. Also Councillor won Berger. Erzberger started the con- versation with the question how we in | Berne stood on abdication. I said that | T regarded it as necessary, and neces- | before the armistice, at the latest | 48 hours. As long as the Kaiser yemained, there could be no feeling of tranquility in the world. The Crown ince was not necsssary. The throne | mould have to go to the grandchildren. | “Ergberger said that the question | would be discussed that afternoon at | sitting of the war cabinet. The great | :lflnfl!y ‘was, who should be regent. All the Kaiser's sons were impossible. Also Prince Henry. Prince Friedrich | ‘Wilhelm was too young and too little %nown. Berger proposed the Duke of | , who had good relations with England. But first a president of the mmmn state ministry must be named, | t of all Logbell, because he was con- rvative and could hold the conserva- ives in leash. Loebell ought to go at once, if possible tonight, to the Kaiser snd demand his abdication. “Erzberger added that at the same fime the troops at the front and the officials must be required to take an osth. Everything must be timed to the minute, so that no hesitancy or dis- unity should be disclosed. He would bring the matter up today in the war sabinet. Bolshevist Meetings Held. “BERLIN, Oct. 30. “G. came to see me this morning. %t was his opinion that in two or thres days things would break. In the Zwie- tusch Optical Works, with 800 work- men, secret Bolshevist meetings had been held for many weeks. The work- ers of Zwietusch, Loewe, and of all the { lega- |, | Ists. were ready. I asked Lothar Spitzenberg, the chief of the Kaiserin's cabinet, for an interview. We met by appointment at the German Club. I sald to him that the Kaiser must abdicate and showed him the reasons why no further postponement was possible. “S. said that he (the Kaiser) would never get out voluntarily, because the Kaiserin would oppose it. But if the Imperial Chancellor (Prince Max of Baden) would go to the Kaiser and say, ‘Now it is time,’ then he would | agree to it in five minutes. [The Chan- cellor did not go, but Minister Drews was sent instead—Ed.] S. also holds the abdication necessary, but does not like the idea of jumping over the Crown Prince. “In_connection with this Fraceulein von G., of the Kaiserin's court, came to see me and entrusted me with a packade of jewelry, which I was to put away in some safe place. She looked helpless and worn out and when I saild that the Kaiser must abdicate she sobbed violently. At 4 o'clock with Lewald he told me that the War Cabi- net had decided to send me tomorrow to see Pilsudski. Read Wilson's Conditions. “This evening at the ‘Wednesday So- ciety’ Wilson's armistice conditions were made known and they led to an excited scene. Some old gentlemen, who drew pensions, wanted to send ers protested vigorously against it. Since nobody was willing to go him- self, nothing happened. “BERLIN, Nov. 1. “Tisza murdered in Budapest. In Vienna and German Austria revolution has raged for several days—also in Prague and Budapest. All the news- papers this morning discuss the Kaiser question. ‘The Herrenhaus (upper house of the Prussian Parliament) passed yesterday a resolution of devo- tion to the dynasty. “BERLIN, Nov. 2. “Visit to Prittwitz at the Imperial Chancellery. He also considers abdica- tion necessary if the dynasty is to stand. But opposition comes from the Kaiser and Grand Headquarters. The Kaiser left Berlin suddenly yesterday for Grand Headquarters, without giving any notice to the Imperial Chancellery. Faced Internal Revolution. “At half-past one with Solf. He de- veloped all the difficulties in the Kaiser question. From Grand Headquarters came the information that if the Kaiser abdicated the army would dissolve. He admits that feeling among the workers at home against the Kaiser is becoming more and more threatening. He sum- marized the situation in these words: ‘If the Kaiser stays, we have revolution n:.& home; if he goes, the army goes to ces.’ “At luncheon with Erzberger in the back blue room at Hiller’s, with Am- bassador Bernstorfl and Berger. The conversation turned almost without ex- ception on the Kaiser question, on which Erzberger is much upset. Where- as on Tuesday he saia that he would bring the question up that day in the cabinet and talked with Berger and me about a gift of 30,000,000 marks for the Kaiser on abdication, today he had only hesitations. He was much influ- enced by the reports from grand head- quarters that the army would break up. “Then the lack of an available and popular agnate (relative on the pater- nal side) for the regency, the objections which the South German courts would make, the uncertain attitude of the Social Democratic party. A trade union leader had talked with him and said that the abdication would drop dyna- mite into the unions. Bernstorfl in Background. “Finally Scheidemann had said that he would not make abdication a cabi- turned the scales with Erzberger. Berger demanded that the cabinet de- though Erzberger kept looking in | expectantly with his curious, naively . | uncertain eyes, like an alert child to its teacher. “Berger sald to me confidentially afterward that in his opinion. the Hohenzollern dynasty could no longer be saved; it had gone bankrupt. It was & matter of indifference whether the Kaiser abdicated or not, since the dynasty was lost. “BERLIN, November 3. “The Kaiser issued today a procla- mation in which he promised complete ocracy. In view of the past: ‘Regis voluntas suprema lex esto,’ etc., its effect is and ridiculous. Who will believe in . this sudden po- litical conversion? “BERLIN, November 5. “Kisl is in the hands of revolution- The third civision of the fleet has mutinied . The following days I was busy in Magdeburg with Pilsudski. On the evening of November 8 I re- turned to Berlin. . Fateful November 9. “BERLIN, November 9. “At midday, going to the railway di- rector’s office on the Schoenberger, Ufer, where we wanted to order an extra train for Pilsudski, Hatafeld (Prince Herman Hatzfeld, Polish expert in the foreign office), and I saw at the corner of Koeniggraetz and Schoenberg streets extras being sold: ‘Kaiser’s Abdication.’ End of dynasty pitiful, casual, not even any longer the chief event of the day. The Kaiser ::“uk ‘;ueh? because nobody any longer stucl im. ro the question, “Will the Kaiser shdicate?’ early this morning in the Wilhelmstrusse a legation secretary from whom I was seeking information answered me: ‘The question has no meaning at present.’”, (Copsright. 10728.) THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Monday, December 24. Conflicting aspects are seen in to- morrow's horoscope, according to as- trology, and the morning is the most auspicious time for any sort of impor- tant accomplishment. ‘Women again have the friendly stars on their side and they should find the day most favorable to domestic prepar- ations, last-minute shopping and social affairs. There is a first-rate sway for wed- dings, and marriages should be attend- ed by prosperity. There is a benefic aspect that prom- ises aid to those who are engaged in any sort of philanthropic or charitable work. Under this planetary government those who forget self in their solicitude for others are believed to benefit greatly. In the business world the early morn- ing hours are best and should be em- ployed .in constructive plans or routine work. ‘There is & sign read as helpful to those who engage in occult studies or religious observances. While this rule prevails there may be a tendency to exaggerate and even to deceive. It is not a good time to speculate. Men should beware of designing wom- en who play at love, for those who read the stars see perils to those who dabble in_romance. There is a good sign for intellectual or artistic interests. Much mental ac- ruration prevails. The rule is conducive to tender mem- ories and’ high resolutions, which bring members of families into closer sym- pathy. Persons whose birth date it is have the augury of success in financial af- fairs in the coming year. Children born on that day probably will have a distinct talent for con- structive work. These subjects of Cap- factories in Wedding would parade the l:reeta if the Kaiser did not abdicate in the aaxl few days. Red guards ricorn often combine practical ideals {with artistic instincts. They generally make s success of life, 557 { The Fascist | Italy's war strength. speakers to the Potsdamer Platz; oth- | | composed of the foilowing: | Edward G. Bliss, Maj. C. tivity is encouraged while this configu- | jzeq THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. DECEMBER 23, 1928—PART 2. Gigantic Sums for Warfare (Continued From First Page.) peace chorus at the Geneva round table. As stated before, her 1929 “es- timates” contemplate the enormous ex- penditure of 2,200,000,000 gold francs on her army and navy—an increase of 836,000,000 gold francs over 1924. In view of the “steel wall” that the French defense minister plans to erect just back -of the Rhineland, the expendi- tures after 1930 presumably will double. The “Locarno guarantees” of the Rhine frontier evidently are taken at face value—on paper. France’s expenditures for army and navy (000,000's omitted) for the past five years and 1929 esti- mates, are as follow 3.876.7 6.814.8 War Navy . 1,0656.4 2,960.1 In gold francs ...... 1364 2,200 Italy’s armaments expenditures like- wise have shown steady growth, but not to the extent of those of hor neighbors. predilection for juggling figures is cited by some as rendering comparisons, so far as Italy is con- cerned, useless. But Mussolini has never shown any tendency to conceal his be- lief in military and naval preparedness and probably would be inclined to over- emphasize rather than underemphasiz> In millions of gold lire Rome’s expenditures were: . 911,000,000 970,000,000 1,127,000,000 1,324,000,000 Expenditures of United States. The war expenditures of the United States are too well known to need repe- tition, except to call attention to the fact that actual expenditures jumped from $554,000,000, in 1925-6, to $558,- 000,000, in 1926-27, and to $628,300,000, in 1927-8. The estimates announced by President Coolidge for 1928-9 call for an outlay of $658,000,000, or nearly $100,000,000 more than the 1929 esti- mates of the United Kingdom. In fact, the American “preparedness” bill in 1926 was more than the combined ex- penditures of Italy, France and.Ger- many—the three European countries which are regarded as traditional ene- mies. The same ratio was not main- tained the past two years, however, and this year the three continental powers together are spending around $813,000,- 000 as against $628,300,000 for the United States. ‘While their “big brothers” are doing the international goose-step behind the scenes, the smaller countries of the world, especially of Europe—and the so-called more backward nations, such as Turkey, India, China—are not mark- ing time. No statistics are available for Turkey and China, but it is known that in both countries enormous strides in militarism are being recorded. China, a few years ago a disorganized mass of nearly a half-billion people, can throw armies—trained and equipped—figured by millions, into the fleld. Turkey has a crack army ready, while India, though under British supervision, spent $199,- 000,000 on “armaments” in 1926. Switzerland, perpetually neutral, spent but $7,700,000 on her “police army” in 1909. In 1926 the amount had ngarly trebled. Sweden, traditionally peaceful and without a war for more than a century, shows a jump from $24,100,000, in 1913 to $42,900,000 in 1926. Den- mark has gone from $8,000,000 to $15,- 700,000 over a like period: Spain from $50,000,000 in 1909 to $78.900,000 in }g;:. and away up to $140,100,000 in First Lieut. Victor Gondos, jr., Coast Artillery Reserve, a resident of Wash- ington, residing at 1831 Corcoran street, has just completed a two-month course of instruction at the Coast Artillery School, Fort Munroe, Va., this officer being one -of two Reserve officers ap- pointed by the War Department from the 3d Corps Area, comprising the Statcs of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, to undergo this course of training. In civil life Lieut. Gondos is an assistant architect in the Treasury Department, and he was granted two months’ leave from that de- partment in order to be enabled to accept the appointment. The Coast Artillery School at Fort Monroe is one of the highest schools of Artillery, if not the highest, in the fiensive and highly specialized courses ntensive ani E courses in harbor de(eme,’nflmy and anti- aircraft artillery material and gunnery. It has been in existence for more than a century, ha been founded during the administration of President Monroe, from which fact the post derives its name. Coast Artillery officers of the Regular Army are given a nine-month course of instruction at the school, while Reserve and National Guard officers are offered a special and intensive two- month course of training. Lieut. Gondos has recently been elected secretary-treasurer of the Coast Artillery Club of the District of Co- lumbia, of which organization Maj. Robert M. Zacharias, Coast Artillery Reserve, is president. The former offi- cer received his education at the Uni- versity of Michigan. Five conferences are included on the inactive training schedule of the Spe- cialist Reserve, approved last week by Col. Melville S. Jarvis, Infantry (D. 0. L., senior instructor of Washing- ton Reserve units, the first of which was held last Friday evening at local Reserve headquarters in the Oxford Ho- tel Building. This program of meetings for Washington officers belonging to the Specialist Section of the Officers’ Re- serve Corps was prepared under the direction of Col. George T. Weitzel, Specialist Reserve, who appointed a committee to work up a program. In addition to himself, the committee was Lieut. Col. . Aspinwall, . W. Brennan and Lieut. S. F. This committee decided to continue a course of lectures to be pre- pared and delivered by officers on duty in the office of the Assistant Secretary of War. ‘The lectures for January, February, March and April will be held on the last Friday of each month. They will be as follows: January, “Transporta- tion,” by Maj. Gilbert Van B. Wilkes; February, “Power,” by Maj. Beverly C. Dunn; March, “Strategic Raw Mate- rials,” by Maj. Roger Taylor, and April, “Specific Procurement Plans,” by Maj. Donald Armstrong. These meetings are entirely official in character and credits for hours of inactive training are grant- ed to every attendant. Alarm was sounded by the War De- partment last week over the loss of a considerable number of Reserve Officers’ Training Corps graduates to the Reserve, after being commissioned therein, through failure to maintain contact with their units. The Secretary of War is atly concerned over this loss of Junior officers for the Reserve compo- nent of the Army of the United States, since in the not very distant future, as the World War officers are gradually separated from active participation in the Reserve movement, due to age, dis- ability, etc., the success of the Reserve project must eventually be assured by the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps graduates who now provide the main source of recruitment and who furnish a yearly increment of approximately 5,000 officers. Every effort will be made by the ‘Washington headquarters of the Organ- Reserves to have the Reserve Offi- cers’ Training Corps graduates who re- side in the District of Columbia and vi- cinity, to keep up their military educa- tion so that they will be able to qualify for an active reappointment at the ex- iration of their first commission. To eep these junior officers from vacating their commissions in the Officers’ Re- serve Corps, close contact will have to be maintained between them and the Reserve units to which they have been assigned. Ways and means will have to be devised by the various Reserve unit headiquarters throughout the coun- Organized Reserves The expenditures of the succession states—nations born as a result of the peace treaties—explains to some extent why these countries are constantly facing financial difficulties. Poland, the largest of the mid-European group, had a military budget of $91,300,000 in 1926. Czechoslovakia's army cost her $62,800,- 000 the same year, while Finland, with her population of about 4,000,000, spent about $4 per man. ‘The ’Do%\elmom. following the upward trend of the British Isles, show cor- | responding gains in expenditures the past three years. Canada, with an ap- propriation’ of $13.292,700 in 1926- climbed to $16,668,400 for 1927-8. Con- sidering the 1925-6 index figure price level, the increase amounted to 25 per cent. Australia shows a gain of 17 per cent over 1924-5, when her actual expendi- ture was $24,970,000. The following year showed an increase of 3 per cent, while 1926-7 showed an actual increase of 11 per cent, or an expenditure of $27,780.000. South Africa and Ireland show re- ductions in estimates of 1027-8, the former by 2 per cent and the latter by about 25 per cent, having cut expen- ditures from $16.000,000 in 1924-5 to $12,400,000 in 1927-8. Millions Under Arms. Summarization of the military estab- lishments of the nations of the world reveal equally startling figures, Accord- ing to unofficial, but reliable, compila- tions made from the League's last arma- ments yearbook, there are something like five and one-half million men un- der arms in the world, or about one to every 300 inhabitants. The world is spending one-sixth of its aggregate of national income—about $2 per individ- ual or $16 per family for the entire human race—on armaments. Despite the dark outlook revealed in these cold figures there is some cause for optimism on the part of serious ad- vocates of the abolishment of war. Nev- er in the history of civilization has there been such concerted and audible opposition to the use of force as a means of settling international disputes; never before has a permanent peace organi- zation like the League existed, nor has any agency kept everlastingly hammer- ing away to enlighten the public on af- fairs which heretofore were the sole concern of foreign offices and war min- istries. Futility Made Apparent. And, likewise, never before was the futility of war more apparent, nor| “splendid isolation” more undesirable. ‘With the airplane, wireless telephone, roxious gases and secret death-dealing weapons which exceed the dreams of even a Jules Verne available for future | wars, informed peoples (and the best in- formed are military men and diplomats) realize all too well that war tomorrow would be suicide. One sinister thing behind it all, and a factor which may in a way explain | the upward trend of armaments, per- haps could be uncovered in an investi- gation of financial interests involved. So long as money is to be made out of armaments the products are going to seek markets. How long the taxpayers of the world will stand for the drain upon their incomes is impossible to pre- dict. However, public opinion, slow to be aroused, is a mighty force and Kel- logg pacts, Locarno treaties, disarma- ment conferences—even so-called pac- ifist propaganda—are getting in their insidious work. try of maintaining this contact. No stone will be left unturned by Col. Melville S. Jarvis, senior instructor of the Washington Reserve units, to main- tain contact with and to interest the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps grad- uates of Washington in the Washington Reserve units to which they have been assigned. A contact officer at local Re- serve headquarters is on duty daily from 9 to 4:30 pm. with the exception of Saturday afternoon, for the purpose of meeting all Reserve officers and giving lg’!normnuu_lr; ?nmnuézve affairs. Reserve cers’ Training Corps graduates re- slding in Washington should make their contact at Reserve headquarters in the Oxford Hotel Building at the earliest practicable date, as their next advance- ment in the Reserve project will be based to a great extent on the interest they display and their participation in :t'nled i:\c-t:nved T:kcl:'lmm“ conferences ve duty trai activities of the units to which tl’::;n:n assigned. There will be no instruction in equitation today at Fort Myer. Due to the Christmas holidays, no troop school inactive training conferences will be held by Washington reserve units until January 3 when members of the 306th Cavalry will meet. Three Washington Reserve officers, all second lleutenants of Infantry Reserve, have been promoted. They are James R. Shaw, 1415 Thirty-third street, to be first lleutenant effective September 19; Granger G. Sutton, 3615 T street, to be first lieutenant effeetive Novem- ber 19, and Kenneth J. Winfleld, 3520 Thirtieth _street, to be first lieutenant effective December 1. All three officers are assigned to the 320th Infantry, which assignment” will remain in effect. ‘The following changes in the asssign- ments of Reserve officers residing in ‘Washington were announced last week by local Reserve headquarters: Second Lieut. Edward L. Clifford, Pield Artil- lery Reserve, 3033 N street, having moved beyond the division area, is re- lieved from assignment to the 313th Field Artillery; Second Lieut. Henry N. Spottswood, Infantry Reserve, 1523 Al- lison street, is assigned to the 320th Infantry; Second Lieut. Clifton J. Wag- ner, Engineer Reserve, Coast and Geo- detic Survey, having moved beyond the division area, is relieved from assign- ment to the 305th Engineers. The following Reserve officers of ‘Washington, all second lieutenants, are assigned to the 80th Division: Elmer G. Cross, Air Reserve, 2121 New York avenue; George W. Gardes, Engineer Reserve, 2310 Ashmead place; Edward L. Duffies, Field Artillery Reserve, 2412 Twelfth street northeast; Herman T. Johnson, Field Artillery Reserve, 2001 B street; Cecil H. Stroup, Field Artil- lery Reserve, 1627 K street; James K. Browne, Infantry Reserve, 1736 K street; Frank W. McCalliff, Infantry Reserve, Munitions Building; Marvin L. Parler, jr., Infantry Reserve, 600 Twen- tieth street; Chester L. Barnes, Field Artillery, Red Cross Building. and John P. Lane, Engineer Reserve, 37 Oxford sireet. Marionette Spirit Dance. In order to hold their sway over the populace the magicians, or medicine men, or wonderworkers of the tribe of Sumatra resort to many bits of trick- cry and deception. One of these is that the family of a deceased person must prepare for a farewell visit from the dead person a few months after the funeral and that the services of the magician must be employed to bring about this return. In the meantime they devise a figure like the marion- ettes, so familiar in other parts of the ! world. This figure is prepared to re- semble the deceased in some respects and then in the semi-darkness of the tent of the magiclan it is made to go through some dance, being manipu- Jated by hidden strings. The relatives are duly impressed with this form- ance and are satisfled that this is the spirit of their departed kinsman and that it is the last appearance on earth. ‘The magician collects tribute in one shape or other from the family of the departed and everybody is satisfled. In Utopia. From the Philadeiphia Public Ledger. A clock has been Invented that does not need winding. Ultimately, m‘fig, says the London Opinion, ti :'ubl a cat that puts itself out at » ArmyandNavyNews Army. Interest is being evinced in the pro- posal to make Maj. Gens. Hunter Lig- gett and Robert L. Bullard, now re- tired major generals, lieutenant gen- erals on the retired list of the Regular Army. The grade of lieutenant gen- eral gradually eliminated itself through the death of these few officers who held that coveted rank during and after the Civil War. This grade was revived on February 5, 1895, with a proviso that when sald grade should once have been filled and become vacant, it would be of no effect. A lleutenant general was included .in the composition of the Army by the act of February 2, 1901, but was omitted from the composition of the Regular Army by the act of June 3, 1916. From the close of the Spanish-Amer- ican War up to the entry of the United States in the World War, there were but two lieutenant generals, Gens. Nel- son A. Miles and John C. Bates. But with the contact with the allied armies in France, with their field marshals and other high-ranking officers, the rank of lieutenant general in the Amer- ican Army was revived. There were three officers who held that rank, Gens. Liggett, Bullard and Joseph T. Dick- man, the latter having since died. Upon their return from France and the de- mobilization of the American Army, with the subseuent reduction of the rank of officers to their permanent rank, Gens. Bullard, Liggett and Dick- House & Herrmann - | man reverted to their rank of major general. Criticism has been raised in certain quarters over the fact that the elevation of Gens. Bullard and Liggett to a lieutenant generalecy will be fol- lowed by other efforts to provi~: an increase in their pay. But the law is clear on this subject. The retired pay of both Maj. Gens. Bullard and Lig- gett is $6,000 a year, and, in the event they should be elevated to the grade of lleutenant general, their compensa- tion would be $6,750 per year, but $750 per year more for each officer is, indeed, a small reward for the dis- tinguished services they rendered to the Nation during their entire active duty careers. ‘The view is still held in some Army circles that it is possible to acquire congressional authorization for Army promotion on length of service, without restriction as to numbers in grade and with all that is contemplated in the way of voluntary retirement and dis- charge as contrasted with enforced sep- aration. Much has been said of the grave doubt that would attend any such proposal, principally because of the present policy of the administra- tion, as communicated from the Budget Bureau, at the instance of the Presi- dent, as against any such expenditure of public funds as is certain to in- volve such a project. On the other hand, it is suggested that it would be possible to convince Congress of the Seventh and Eye Streets Jjustification for the outlay, if it fur- nishes a military personnel that is as- | be sured of advancement after a specific term of years in such grade. It has been recommended as a meas- ure of saving on these appropriations by the observance of a “sabbatical year, when the Army, Navy and Marine Corps could come to “shortened ra- tions,” with enlisted forces not kept up to the maximum, and when other economies could be practiced. Through this functioning of budget liberality, and a seventh year reduction, it is esti- mated that, so far as the Army is con- cerned, the cost of adopting promotion by length of service, with whatever in- crease of numbers in grade might occur, would be converted into more of certainty than has appeared from the statistical calculations of extra ex- pense—and it is in the direction of cost that the proposal for unrestricted promotion on length of service has en- countered its obstruction. Navy. It is understood that the shifts of high-ranking officers to and from the fleet, including flag officers and ship commanders, will commence, so far as most of the places are involved, in June, after completion of the gunnery pro- gram from this fiscal year. Much in- terest, of course, centers upon the fleet and division commands. Although Ad- miral Henry A. Wiley, commander-in- chief of the United States fleet, will not have been at sea in his present tour of duty for two years until the Fall of 1929, it is understood that he will be relieved next June or later in the Summer. It remains to be decided whether Ad- miral William V. Pratt then will be moved up to command that fleet and Hou 5 Nulton will advanced of the bate tleship division to command the battle fleet as successor to Admiral Pratt and Rear Admiral William C. Cole, now in command of battleship division 4, desig- nated as the relief of Admiral Nulton. It is more than likely that a number of slates of changes will be made and discarded before final decision as to important assignments is reached. A study of the flag officer assignment situation indicates that about 15 flag officers of the Navy will be subject to assignment to shore duties next year. In order to place all officers of the Navy who fail upon examination for promotion on a parity as regards loss of mflbers the Navy Department has recommended that the present law be amended so that all officers will suffer a more definite loss of numbers than occurs under existing law. Under the proposal the loss of numbers for line officers will be as follows: Ensign to lieutenant (junior grade), 50 numbers; lieutenant (junior grade) to lieutenant, 25 numbers; lieutenant to leutenant | commander, ' 12 numbers. _ Staff _offi- cers, under the proposal, will suffer a Joss of numbers proportional to he losses of members of line officers in similar ranks in the same ratio as the total number of commissioned officers in all ranks of the particular stafl corps, exclusive of commissioned war- rant officers, bears to the total number of commissioned officers in the line in all the corresponding ranks on Janu- ary 1 of the year in which occurs th- failure of the officer upon professional examination. Vice Admiral Louis McC. from command e ‘The cost of running the Government for the coming year is set at $3,700,- | 000,000. se & Herrmann Why Not Make Merry at Christmas With a New Dining Suite There’s time—for any suite bought of us tomorrow—>Monday—will posi= tively be delivered Monday. ~And there’s tempting opportunity here also, with these two featured suites—of remarkable values and offered at equally re- markable prices. This 10-Piece Suite—$129.75 Ten-piece suite of ex- ceptionally attractive designing. It is made of handsomely figured walnut veneer and gums- wood, and is full of un- usual details, such as linen drawer and china closet. The construc- tion throughout shows skilled craitsmanship, painstakingly carried out. i 7 | Of genuine walnut veneer combined with sturdy gumwood. Fin- ished in that attractive rich shading and with cffective carvings. Ex- cellent cons truction throughout. 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