Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1929, Page 27

‘BASISFORSTUDYING WAR DEBTS FOUND Committee Plan Subordi- nates Total Due to Amount of Annuities. +By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, February 22.—An avenue of attack for the main problems of the ireparations’ settlement seems to have been discoveged. Working sifice the first of the week, often with considerable dissension | ilmmg them, a' subcommittee of five of the ‘“second Dawes committee” has found a basis for possible determination fof how many and how much the Ger- jman reparations payments will be. The subcommittee’s plan, it is under- b tood, involves a roundabout procedure, In which the idea of a gland total is fsubordinated to that of the size of the lnnultlf‘s themselves. Two Provisions. Under the Dawes plan, the “transfer klauses,” determining the size of the annuities, has two provisions, one pro- tecting Germany from extortion of too Jarge apyments, the other providing in- crease in the size of the annuities ac- cording to a device known as the index ©of prosperity. ‘Thus a serious financial depression in | ‘Germany might have brought about a | reduction in the size of the annual pay- | ment, or an increase in prosperity have | resulted in an increase in the annuities. | It is the subcommittee’s plan, it is un- | derstood, to eliminate tne protection idea from the transfer clause on one hand, and on the other hand discard the plan of increased payments accord- ing to enhanced prosperity. Believed Basis of Settlement. It is believed that this scheme may prove the basis for settlement of the size of the single annuities, the problem then remaining being to determine over how long a period the annuities are to be spread, or, in other words, what the grand total of the payments will be. It is thought probable the vast di- vergence in viewpoint between the Germans and the allies better may be | spanned in this way than by attempting 10 find a compromise between the maxi- | mum which Germany says it can pay | and the minimum which the other na- tions say they will accept. DRY APPOINTMENT CHANGES TABLED mator Wagner Declares Prohibi- tion Fails to Use Civil Service Eligible List. By the Assoclated Press, Charges that the Prohibition Bureau has failed to make appointments to its field service Mrom the civil service eli- lists were laid before the Senate mation concering intments. m resolutioh. was u&%’&" .:enn- Ror Warren, Republ , Ob- Jected ration to its ilnmedl and was referred to & committee The charges were contained in & tele- im sent the Senator by the Chief, a ew York publication, which asserted that “notwithstanding the fact that eli- ible lists were established in August, 928, almost two years after- the law took effect which placed the Prohibition PBureau under cigil Service, these. in charge of the Prohibition Bureau in wvarious parts of the country, particularly in New York, have failed to make all the appointments from said eligible lists, thus ignoring the act of Congress.” STUDY ARC}';IVES NEEDS. ©Chiet Clerks Discuss New Building Requirements. Chief clerks of all the Government partments met yesterday with the iblic Buildings Commission to con- sider the plans for the management and administzation of the proposed archives building, to be erected between Ninth and Tenth streets, Pennsylvania avenue and B streets, as part of the triangle development. ‘The Public Buildings Commission hopes this will be one of the early )= ects in the building program, and the meeting today was for the purpose of fed thefe, how much space probably ere, how much' space ly ‘Would be reqlured -nd similar problems. I.xfe in l’nndon. § According to an lish 3 when " hndlord asked fn" et of tha measured 12 feet by 18 feet. occupied by a husband and wife eight children. February 22nd Grocery Clerk Counts 775,693 Words in Bible JANESVILLE, Wis. (#).—Mark J. Goodger, a grocery clerk, not only is a student of the Bible, he’s a statistician of the Holy Book. In the past six months Good- ger has read the Bible three times. Me counted 775,603 words in his first reading; 31,873 verses the second time and 66 books and 1,189 chapters in his final atudy. For his accomplishment, Good- ger was awarded a scholarship by the American Bible Society. He intends to enter the ministry, PROBE DRY AGENTS BACK T0 BOYHO0D Civil Service Asks $50,000 Extra to Pass on 9,500 Applicants. By the Associated Press. ‘To become & prohibition agent these days one must not only pass a eivil service test, but must receive a clean | bill_from Uncle Sam's Beoret Service on his deportment dating back t6 boye hood days. This was disclosed in testimony made public with the report of the second deficiency bill to the House by William C. Deming, president of the Civil Servs ice Commission, who urged an emer- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘D. ¢, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22 '1929.° for prohibition enforcement jobs who took the tests last ber, that it would take two and l half mn with the t staf? to the character of the applicants, mpnnnhtlva ‘Wood, Republican, Indi- ana, Asked why. Go Back Five Years. “Because it 18 ni into an average of At least two different communities and investigate his per- sonal lite for at least five years back,” Mr, Deming replied. “The Secret ice,” he added, “in- vuu‘lm clear back to the applicant’s school d Beonomy has made it ne essary lor us, as a rule, to investigate tor lfl average of only about five years prior to his application.” ‘That character investigations are car- ried out not only on the applicants, but on the commissiont examiners as well, was the testimony of Dr. H. A. Edson, chiet examiner of the commission. He told Representative Byrns, Democrat, Tennessee, that the commission had had some “sad experiences” in recruit- ing examiners. “What 18 your trouble, doctor?” Byrns asked. “Simply,” he replied, “that it seeths to us that anything that has any con- tract with prohibition appeals to & type of people who cannot be trusted.” Work Overlaps. President Deming sald the commis- sion had been operating under very difficult circumstances, largely because it did not have sufficient money for the “gigantic” prohibition task in the first place. ‘The work is constantly overlapping from one fiscal year to another,” he “In other words" observed Repre- sentative Buchanan, Democrat, Tex., “prohibition plays thunder with every- thing that fools with it?" “Speaking figuratively, yes, sir,” Dem- ing replied. g i) Capt. W. A. Rawles, Jr., Is Retired. Capt. William A. 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