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SOLUTION SOUGHT FORWAGE PROBLEM Campaign Begins to Bridge Gap Between High and Low Pay Rates. Efforts are being made to bridge the growing gap between the diminishing number of workers who receive high wages and the increasing number of employes who recelve low wages. This and other phases of employ- ment_are receiving serious considera- | tion by Government agencies, and the study is reflected in the bills intro- duced in the Senate and the House, respectively, by Senator Wagner, Demo- | crat, of New York and Representative | Cable, Republican, of Ohio. Senator Wagner calls his measure the “Unemployment Stabllization Bill” and provides for a board consisting of cabi- | net members, who would plan in ad- vance all public projects, including river and_harbor work, public build- | ings and highways, so that these proj- | ects may be immediately started in pe- | riods of depression without waiting to prepare plans. Co-operation Plan Outlined. Another bill by the New York Sena- tor would provide for co-operation be- tween the Federal Government and the States in maintaining municipal public employment offices. This work would abolish the present United States Em- ployment Service and would make an enlarged operation in conjunction with the States. ‘The third Wagner bill would expand the statistical work of the Department of Labor so as to gather data from the major industries as well as retail and ‘wholesale trade. The three Wagner bills are aimed to secure better information, to utilize the construction programs as a means of stabilizing employment, and to provide a “clearing house of men and jobs so as to eliminate the unemployment and the waste resulting from job hunting.” Representative Cable's bill seeks to allot among the States an appropria- tion for the organization of & national employment_system, using the United States Employment Service as a base, with a woman as assistant director gen- eral, who would have supervision of all matters relating to the employment of women. In brief, the Cable bill would co-ordinate existing public emgloymenb | offices and would provide for the publi- | cation of information relative to oppor- tunities for employment. It would es- tablish and maintain uniform stand- ards and procedure and would endeavor o assist in the transportation of work- ers to such places as might be deemed | necessary. | Senator Wagner’s Proposal. Senator Wagner has been agitating the question of unemployment data for three years. He says that the bills has introduced “have in principle been approved by the foremost economists of e country and a Senate investigating committee has rec;:mulz:nded the enact- nt of such legislation.” ‘”One of th:] t;:‘l':ludlmi\:t‘l;l wifi: :I:; | employment legislation e bee‘:: me political aspect. When the peak of prosperity was reached during the Coe?ld.e administration it was noted that a large number of people were unemployed. Senator Wagner | gave out an estimate which the Repub- | licans said was exaggerted. The Gov-| ernment agencies, as a rule, which are under the influence of the party in power have had difficulty on this phase tter because at times their reports have not jibed with the op- timistic statements of their superiors. By establishing al(ande'l vly:ich em:'m operate independently of an - tration through a system of constant publication of data’it is belleved thmt the unemployment problem ‘would re- ceive more serious attention. In fact, it e ek The presdents Jem of prosperity which the commm‘;e is expected to tackle. i considered that many of mex:[e’l" in the industrial field which jead to unemployment could, if scien- | l Head Eastern Star | | | | Upper—MRS. KATHARINE S. MERITT. Lower—DR. CHARLES C. GALLOWAY. tifically surveyed, bring to industry a better distribution of skilled as well as unskilled workers. The redistribution of workers is one of the principal phases of employment which is before Government agencies today, and the fact that Congress is taking a deep | interest in proposed legislation mh:ymbe H e e resent session governmental facilities in relation to employment studies will be materially increased. D. L. (Copyright, 1930.) FIVE NAMED 'i'O SET VALUE ON TWO SQUARES | Property Being Condemned for House Office Building Annex to Be Viewed Tuesday. Montgomery Davis, D. Lawrence En- gleman, Charles F. Andrews, Norman E. Brooke and Theodore J. Heller were se- yesterday by Justice Alfred A. ‘Wheat as a jury to assess the value of squares 636 and 689, being condemned by the Government for a site of the ad- dition to the House Office Building. The | Jjurors, accompanied by a deputy U. S. marshal, will view the property Tuesday January 14, and will begin the hearing of testimony before Justice Wheat January 27, The Government is represented by Assistant Attorneys General Henry H. Glassie and A. Leftwich Sinclair, while a number of lawyers appear for the owners of the property. Tennis Star Is Exception. NEW YORK, January 11 (#).—Helen ‘Wills Moody is an exception. Warning girls against development of ugly muscles and scowling faces and other dangers of athletic competition, Dr. Frederick Rand Rogers, State director of physical education, said in an ad- dress: “For every girl who, like Helen ‘Wills, retains her attractiveness in spite of her participation in masculine com- bative physical activities, there are doubtless 10 who pay heavily for what- :ver caps and bells they are striving or.” SPECIA LNOTICES. SPECIAL NOTICES. __ 1 iOT BE mommmm m’fl"l!' devts contracted BY ARNBACKER, 1010 4th st. ne. IN THE l_‘l_A'rrlR or ‘We, the president and a majority of elgf board of trustees of the Washington Am: e can League Base Ball Club, hereby cenb that the amount of capita d by the charter of sald club jousand _dollars ($200,000), S g Tt e, o (3130,000). CLARK C. GRIFFITH. s President. rumEia BioEENON, Jr. Distriet of Columbia, to Wit: ldent of the Wash- G ican Lekgue Base Ball Cluby 4o e Torseoing satements in the foregoin 5 Aheh 35" me and s majority of the board of “rustees of the Washington American Leastie Base Ball Glub. are true to, the best of my knowiedge, Information and belief. President. Subscribed and swarn to before me this %th_day of January, A.D. 1930. « LAUB. s Xary Pubiic, D. C. . D._C.. JANUARY 8, 1930. WASHINGTON, D_C UARY 8 REPORT O} LANMAN ENGRAVING COMPANY. ‘We, the undersigned, the president and the majority of the board of trustees of the LANMAN ENGRAVING COMPANY of Wash ington, D. C.. do certify that the capital o o i Sl b ot .e.!“fl'hlch has been ltlulllrh‘nltd in, and ting_de that' there are no existing Bagent. ARRY- CONNIN T R President and Treasurer. CAROLINE L LANMAN. Secretary. MAX CUNNINGHAM, Manager. T Chas. F. Lanman. president of the Lanman_Engraving Company of the Dis- tiet of Columbis, do hereby swear that the facts stated in the above certificate are f3e, 1o the best of ‘my knowledss end o CHAS, P. LANMAN, President. bed and sworn to before me, & no- e 1 and for the DIstrict. ‘of Co- of January. AD 1930, GREENWOOD. Noiary Public, D. C, ington American depose and_upon TRIM GRAPE- n TIME_TO IOy, frait trees and all surubberjes. ~Law then ‘manure. . Cail F. e L ' TING OF THE STOCK- A o the "Continental Trust Company ficjiaes of the Continsatsl Pt comoany 14th and H sts. n.w.. Washington, D. C.. on Tuesday, January 14th. 1930, at 1 pm., for the hu:nuc{lr{un al'lu:h business e et se oL B MM ORI TOCKER. Asst. Sec 1 WILL NOT ad:bnzémwunlzfi;rlflzn ANY tracted by anyone o £ RS WPRNUMHOLE, Tore TTth at. nw. MAN, CTER _AND MEANS, WISHES A aneee estate or office bulding: knows how Keep. down costs. supervising repaire: Teferences, Address Box 196-K, Star 1? NNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- HOLDERS of the HOME BUILDING ASSO- TION will be heid at the ofce of the treasurer, 2006 Pennsylvania ave n.w., Tues- day, January 14, 1930. at 8 o'clock p.m., for the ‘election of officers and directors for the ensuing year and for the transaction of Such other business as mav. properly come before the meeting. JAMES M. WOODWARD, ret office. 14° MEETING —THE MUTUAL BUILD- lation will hold its annual meet- stockholders on Monday, 8 o'clock pm. at'f 4 n st. Sw. The resding of the annual report and the election of offcers ld at "this meeting WAL Be herg, SlAR ‘e BROWN, Prestdent. PETTY, Secretary. & FOR RENT_SUITABLE FOR quets, receptions, parties or meetings. to per day each. New chal UNITED SBTATES STORAGE CO., 418 10th B,w._Metropolitan_ 1844 i AMERICAN SECURITY AND TRUST Company of the Distraict of Columbia, trus- fee under s deed of trust, dated February 15 1506, made by the litan Club_of o City of “Washingt lstrict of Co- fumbia, pursuant to the brovisions thereof, 8 stated in said fpstrument in conpection With the sinking fund. awn temnuon at the office of the truste rs. st on, ‘ebruary 15, 1930, bonds nu 7. 501 and < fun ind the inf it _on st an e Wil cdase on the 16th" dsy of Pebru- 'y D. 1 . “fififi%%fifia@.fl% (g?l ITON, Assistant Becretary. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- holders of the Chas. Schneider Baking Co.. Inc. tor the election of directors and other business, will be held mce of the 413 Eve st. n. d 1930, at 7 p. 10’ days prior to the meeting. JOHN G. MEINBERG, President. OVER. Secretars: WE MOVED YOUR NEIGHBOR—LET US know where and when you wish to move. and you, t00. Wil like our service. Call National $220. DAVIDSON TRANSFER & STORAGE CO. = THE REGULAR ANNUAL MEETING OF the shareholders of the Columbia National Bank of Washingion will be held Tu $930; at its_bankin it F'st. n.w.. Washington, D. C.. for tion of directors and such other business as may preperly come before the meeting. Polls open” from * 12 noon ‘wntil 1 o'clock D.m. ARTHUR N. MITCH: NOTICE_THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE sharehoiders of the Second National Bank, Washington, D C.. for the election of di- rectors for ' the eisuing year and for the transaction cf such other business as may be ‘properly brouht before the meeting will be held at the bank at 12 o'clock noon on Tuesday, January 14, 1930. Polls will be open beiween the hours of 12 noon and 2 o'clock p.m. VICTOR B. DEYBER. President. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE_STOCK- holders of ‘the Lincoln National Bank for the election of directors and such other busi- ness as may properly come before the meet- ing will be held at the main banking house Tuesday, January 14, 1930, between 12 m. and 1 p.m. 'Books for the transfer of stock Wil be closed from December 20, 1929. to Janu- ary 15. 1930 _JAMES A. SOPER. Cashier. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL BANK OF TON. The annual meeting of the stockholders of The National Capital Bank of i D. C.. for the election of directors transaction of any other busing at_the banking house Tuesday. 2 . 1930, between the hours of 17 o'clock noon and. 3 o'clock e M. C_STEWART. Oashier. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK- holders of the Real Estate Title Insurance Company of the District of Columbia for the purpose of electing 15 trustees of the company for the ensuing year is to be held at the office of the company, 503 E w. on Tuesday. Jan. 14, 1930. Polls_ will be opened at 2" o'clock and closed at 3 0'clock Dm. ks for transfer of stock will slosed from January''s; . to Jan. 14, . ates inciusive. 5 KNEW. Assistant Secretary. " ArD & MC WANTED R 7 From NEW VORK STy . 0MD3 From NEW YORK CITY From BOSTON ... To PHILADELPHIA "’ To NEW YORK CITY "' To NEW LONDON, CONK ... Tates ITE RAGE CO.. INC.. £n joth Bt NW.____Metropoiitin "Sis ANNUAL MEETING OF TOCK. holders of the Norfolk & Washingion . Sieamboat Co.. will be held at theoffice of v, 2 - west, Washinglon. D.'C. Thursdsy: Februar Cashier. p.m. as ore the meeting. Tr: will be closed from February I“:;hlr!,bffllkflnv inclusive. CLARENGE F. NORMENT, JR., President. TH, Becretary I ALVII T8H, Nw do hereby state that after tnis date T shail Tesponsible for any debt by any one except mysell eAsmas ALVIN WIMBISH, 533 T 8t. N.W. URNITURE ML g BRI rom_ Philadeiphia or ‘en. route, Jan. 3ist. MCNEILL BROS.. Dec. 1866. e WANTED—RETURN LOAD RNITURS Smith’s Transfer & Storage Co., 1313 0 8t North 3343 AUTUMN GOLD, Best Cider on arth, Can be had dally and Sunday until further notice at the Celebrated Cider Barrel, Fred- erick_Pike, hour out A Printing Service —offering exceptional facilities for & discriminating clientele. The National Capital Press 1210-1212 D ST. N W._Phone National 0850 f an remptly and capably oked 7 practical roofers. District 6933, "Don Britt, Haberdasher, Formerly at 1200 Pa, Ave. N.W. OFFICERS ELECTED BY EASTERN STAR Mrs. Meritt Worthy Grand Matron and Dr. Galloway . Worthy Grand Patron. £ Mrs. Katharine S. Meritt, associate | grand matron, was elected worthy { grand matron, and Dr. Charles C. Gal- loway, associate grand patron, was ele- vated to the office of worthy grand patron, of the Order of the Eastern | Star of the District of Columbia at the election of the Grand Chapter last | night at the Raleigh Hotel, where the Grand Chapter is holding a three-day session, Other officers elected were: Mrs. Amy C. Hollander, associate grand matron; Theodore C. Lewis, associate grand patron; Mrs. Rose A. Yost, grand sec retary (re-elected); Mrs. Lillie Mc Kenzie, grand treasurer (re-elected); Miss Edith A. Williams, grand con- | ductress, and Mrs. Elizabeth Plitt, as- sociate grand conductress. Reuben A. Bogley, William G. Betls, Mrs. Maude E. B. Wright, Mrs. Nellie Plumley and Mrs. Helen Brashears were elected members of the board of control; Mrs. Alcena Lamond, Mrs. Helen B. Strait and Mrs. Flora Camp- bell were chosen members of the board of directors, and Mrs, Julia N. Streater was elected trustee for the Grand Chapter. Installation This Evening. ‘The installation of the officers will take place in the ball room of the Raleigh Hotel this evening at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Meritt, a native of Michigan, is the wife of Edgar B. Meritt, former Assistant Commissioner of Indian Af- fairs. Mr. Meritt is a member of Na- tional Lodge, Columbia Chapter, and Columbia Commandery and past patron of Esther Chapter, No. 5, O. E. 8. Mrs. Meritt is prominent not only in fraternal circles, but in the club life of Washington. She is past president of the Capitol Hill History Club: is a charter member of the Women's City Club; the Political Study Club; Chap- ter B, P. E. O. Sister ; is a_mem- ber of the W. C. T. U.; Deborah Knapp Chapter, D. A. R, and in 1924-25 served as State chairman of the D. A. R. studlent loan fund committee. Mrs. Meritt has served the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs as chairman of press and pub- licity, second and first vice president, and for two years has been president of the federation. Mrs. Meritt is an ac- tive member of Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church. She is a member of Esther Chapter, No. 5, O. E. 8., and served as worthy matron of that chap- ter in 1921. ' She was elected to the Grand Chapter line as associate grand conductress. Dr. Galloway has been a Master Mason for more than 34 years, having taken the degrees in North Star Lodge, No. 447, A. F. & A. M, December 14, 1896, in the jurisdiction of Iowa, his native State. ~Upon coming to Wash- ington in 1904, he affiliated with Ben- jamin B. French Lodge, No. 15, and later with Takoma Lodge, No. 29, in which he holds the station of senior deacon. He was a charter member of Jeptha Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, in the jurisdiction of Yowa until he took up his residence in Washington, when he affiliated with Columbia Chapter, No. 1, R. A. M., and was its high priest in 1914. He was initiated in Martha Chapter, No. 4, O. E. S, in 1906, and when Takoma Chapter, No. 12, was organized in 1907 was elected patron, while the chapter was under dispensation, and its first patron when its charter was granted in 1908. He was elected associate grand patron of the Grand Chapter last year. Church and Civie. Work. | Dr, Galloway also has been active in church and civic affairs, being a mem- ber of the official board of officers of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church more than 25 years, and was one of the early supporters of the movement to bufld the National City Christian Church, the corner stone of which was laid Jast month at Thomas Circle. Be- sides being a member of the District of Columbia Dental Soclety, the Amer- ican Dental Association, Sons of the American Revolution and Takoma Park Citizens’ Association, he was the first president of the Takoma Park Com- munity League. In June, 1914, he was commissioned leutenant, junjor grade, in the United States Navy Dental Reserve Corps, whic* commission he held until he was honorably discharged in August, 1922. He is a founder member of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps Coun- try Club. In 1895 Dr. Galloway was graduated from the Philadelphia Dental College, and practiced his profession in his na- tive State until he came to Washing- ton in 1904. He was married to Miss Maude H. Maxwell of this city. They have two daughters, Roberta Belle and M. Maxwell. COLUMBIA PLAYERS ARE WELL RECEIVED Amateurs Give Pleasing Presenta- tion of “When the Ship Goes Down.” The audience attending the per- formance of the Columbia Players last night was rewarded by the presentation of a play which in itself was not only fine, but gave ample opportunity for the actors to prove their mettle. Few amateur companies have ever handled a one-act play more effectively than did Mrs. Poston's players when be | called upon 4o render such a difficult and the same time worthwhile drama than “When the Ship Goes Down.” Mr. Chase’s portrayal of “Lighty, the galley rat,” was an example of just how a “Helena's Husband,” a historical farce, written by Phillip Moeller, seemed to please the audience, although one suspects that some of the actors didn't make the most of their lines. And “The Slump,” the first play presented, was cffectively done with all the drabness that evidently belongs to it. E U, " | part should be played. Two Commissioned in Reserves. William J. Heale, 6505 Eastern ave- nue, Takoma Park, D. C., and Norman E. Weeks, 1201 Girard street northwest, have been commissioned in the Or- ganized Reserves of the Army, the for- mer as & captain of Coast Artillery, and the latter as a first lieutenant and specialist. NEW YORK, N. Y., January 11.— 1t seemed like old times to hear Mr. Coolidge quoting statistics over the “rodeo” last night. No man can quote figures like he can. And he always pulls a new one for us. Since the Wall Street crash, which the Republicans refer to as a “busi- ness readjustment,” prominent men have done nothing but tell us of the n_“stronged” to death peeches and statements, but last night Mr. Coolidge said, “The heart of the American people is strong” and here over 500 died of heart fail- ure during the late “Republican re- adjustment.” What he really meant ‘was that “the American public's head 15 strong but his heart is weak.” { WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JA Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke (left), president of the Woman's Board of the Children’s Hospital, presents to Superintendent of Nurses Carmody three $100 bills received from an anonym ous donor for the three little foundlings being cared for at this Community Chest institution. Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, jr., vice president of the board, at right. SEA ROADS TO PEACE Quarrels Over Rjghts as Seen by Varied Nations Cause Changes In Principles. (A possible solution of the causes of umarrels over sea power is ted in tne ninth article of this series.) BY EDWARD PRICE BELL. All creation seems to be quarrelsome: man unquestionably is. Individuals quarrel, nations quarrel, groups of na- tions line up on opposing sides and have it out with each other. But for mankind’s proneness to brawl and maul, historians would have been deprived of the principal raw material of their in- dustry. Men have differed and fought pro- digiously on land, and they have per- severed in the same kind of liveliness at sea. However, all this strife has not been for the mere fun of i#; issues of importance, frequently of crucial im- portance, have been at stake. For ex- ample: Should Saracen or Christian rule Europe? ‘Why particularly, ed at sea? See Conflict of Interests. In a word, because at sea, as on land, men have viewed their interests as in conflict. They have wanted to do in- compatible things. Nefther proponent nor opponent would yield, they could not agree, and hence they came to blows. Three distinct points of view have lain behind maritime struggles— that of those who wished to trade, that of those who wished to be traded with and that of those who wished trade to accommodate itself to a special interest at sea. ‘The first of these points of view was keld by neutrals, the nations not at war. The second was held by a bellig- erent who was suffering from a block- ade. The third was held by a belligerent havé men contend- maximum neutral rights, the blockade belligerent wanted the same rights in so far as they would supply his needs and the blockading belligerent wanted his sea power to stop all commerce un- less it were of service to him—the ele- ments, patently, of a heap of trouble. Of Ancient Origin. And these sea disputes are as old as history—I dare say older. Demosthenes worried over them not far from 2300 years ago. At that time we find the great Athenian, so famous for his oratory and his patriotism, addressing Alexander the Great, conqueror of Asia, in much the strain of the traditional American argument on the sea question. The orator and patriot, a champion of the freedom of the seas, charged the grim Macedonian with violating a treaty which read: “The signatory powers shall all have the full freedom of the seas; none shall molest them, nor seize their ships, on pain of being regarded as the common enemy.” So ran the story of political conflict over the sea question for unnumbered centuries prior to the modern era. So it has run ever since. So it runs to- day. And, from beginning to end, the contention has been due to the effort of each participant to promote or de- fend his own welfare, without much thought of anybody else’s. Neutrals looking out for neutrals, belligerents for belligerents, blockaded for bloc- kaded, blockaders for blockaders—that is the spectacle of the wranglings and warrings of the sea, whether we look at them in '«hedg‘:y drawn of history gr in the meri blaze of our own ay. Expediency in Control. Constancy of principle never has these endless contro- versles, e cy alone dictating policy. If a nation were neutral in one war, it strove for maximum neu- tral rights; if it were belligerent in another war, it strove for maximum belligerent rights. Of this fact our own history is perhaps as good & proof as could be cited. We fought England in 1812-14 for doing very much what we ourselves did, half a century later, in the Civil War; and in the great war cl our own policy, after we entered i, fell | no whit short of that about which we were on the point of forcibly challeng- ing England & few months earlier, when we were still neutral. All attempts to bring order out of this maritime chaos have failed. First there was a two-sided rule that en- emy goods in neutral ships might be captured and neutral in enemy ship might not be captured. Eng- land practiced this rule (it came to be known as “the English rule”) up till the Crimean War, and it in- volved her in much turmoil, including the war with America in 1812-14. The, opponents of “the English rule” coined the slogan, “Pree ships, free goods,” meaning that enemy goods in neutral ships (excepting contraband) were im- mune from capture; and this been the American doctrine (though not the American practice) since the first years of our government. Free Goods, Free Ships. Continental European powers for a long time stood with America for “free ships, free goods, excepting contra- band.” It was this principle which inspired the armed neutrality of Eu- rope in 1780. President Plerce pro. claimed it an American principle 1n 1854. We embodied it in our very first treaty—our commercial agreement with France in 1778—and in only the Jay treaty with Great Britain in 1794 did we ever accept the contrary rule. Nevertheless, the powers of continental Europe finally receded from their posi: tion, and we ourselves at :ast came re- luctantly to recognize “the English rule” as the prevailing law of nations. In the Crimean War there was a temporary lapse of existing sea prac- tice, Great Britain and Prance (who were allies against Russia and whose maritime principles were diametrically opposed) agreeing for the duration of the war to seize nothing but cont: band, whether the goods were on neutral or on enemy ships. At the end of the Crimean War Lord Clarendon wrote to Palmerston from Paris (where Claren- don was the British delegate at the con; of Paris), staf that England must abandon her olfi rule of the sea X or “have all mankind against” her. The consequence was the declaration of Paris, which conceded that ““the neutral flag covers enemy goods, except contra- |band.” and that “neutral goods, ex- | cepting contraband, are not liable to capture under the enemy flag.” Theory Fails to Work. Such was the theory, but, like 5o many theorles, it failed to work. Rules of contraband and blockade were | widened 50 greatly as to leave small protection to neutral commerce. We widened the rules in the Civil War, they. were widened again in the Franco- | German war, they were widened still | more in the 'Russo-Japanese war, an | they practically were wiped out in the World War. The declaration of Lon- don (1909) had stipulated an elaborate code of rules of war at sea, but these use and futility. Indeed, Britain found herself in the thick of the World War before ratifying the declaration of Lon- don, and she eagerly availed herself of her legal freedom to ignore it. We have seen, then, that men fight at sea because they approach every in- ternational question from a local instead of a general point of view, and because these local points of view are main- tained to the extreme of war. We have seen also that the rules of maritime | hostilities are observed or overridden | by a nation according as that nation’s fortunes, at the time, stand to gain or lose by the one course or the other. We have seen, too, that war after war | has broken through the meshes of all | history and repeatedly enthroned might | as the arbiter of the struggle. Solution of Difficulty. What, if any, is the way out? Clearly, nationalism must yield to in- ternationalism in matters _interna- tionally overlapping, just as State in- terests, in a Federal system like that of America, must yield to the com- mon interests of the republic. In other words, world affairs must be handled, if they are to be handled without war, by means of a world, not a national, approach—the explanation of all the great international conferences, whether of two persons or of more, since the | armistice of 1918. | " Clearly, further, rules and warfare, | legal principles and fighting, are mu- | tually annihilatory. If you have law | you cannot have war. If you have | war you cannot have law.” To try | to mix them is to try to mix fire and | water. The only hope would seem to | be to unite the whole moral and in- tellectual energy of civilization for ace. Something in that direction—much, | verily, in that direction—should be ac- | complished by the forthcoming naval conference in London. That conference should give a marked additional impetus to peace. It should do it by sounding the deathknell of competition in naval armaments, by thus paving the way to land disarmament, and by further solidifying the world against aggression. (Copyright, 1930, by Chicago Dally News.) (The dangers of sea power is the sub- | Ject of the next article.) :THOMPSON. DEFEATED IN BUDGET BATTLE Chicago Council Votes to Recon- sider Entire 1930 Slate After Stormy Session. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 11.—Anti-admin- istration forces defeated Mayor William Hale Thompson and his followers in"a stormy session of the city council yes- terday and voted to reconsider the en- tire 1930 budget. ‘The administration sought to limit future discussion to only those parts of the 1930 budget which had been vetoed by the mayor. ‘The budget had caused dismissal of 473 policemen and 220 firemen last week, but the mayor vetoed five major items, including the Fire and Police De- partment allowances, in the hope to substitute the 1929 budget for these departments and let the 1930 budget stand for the rest. the firemen and policemen were rein- stated, while effort to override the veto failed. The Board of Education, also meet- ing to solve financial difficulties, re- versed its action of yesterday by decid- ing not to oust the R. O. T. C. from the schools. TRIBUTE TO HAMILTON. 173d Birthday of First Treasury Secretary Celebrated. NEW YORK, January 11 (#).—Two hundred persons attended a brief cere- mony yesterday at the grave of Alex- ander Hamilton in Trinity Churchyard commemorating the 173d arniversary of the birth of the first Secretary of the Treasury, which is today. Wreaths were placed by Columbia University and several patriotic societies. Alexander = Hamllton, great-great- grandson of Secretary Hamilton, ex- tended the thanks of the descendants for the celebration. City Club Gives Dance Tonight. The City Club will have its first dance’ of the new year at 10:30 tonight. Mrs. Carl Neu will resume her post as offi- cial hostess. These dances, for mem- bers and their friends are held in the City Club's main dining room every Saturday night. David McWilliams and his 10 City Club Syncopators furnish the music. followed the principles of Paris into dis- | e8! Following his veto | = | NUARY 1930. |ANONYMOUS DONO AIDS THREE WAIFS Abandoned Youngsters Each Given $100—0ne’s Prob- lems Believed Solved. i, Each of the three little waifs aban- doned in the streets of n | within the last few weeks and given | shelter at the Children's Hospital, a Community Chest agency, was present- ed with a crisp new $100 bill yester- day by an anonymous donor. The money will be deposited to the credit of “Robert V. Gordon,” “Cecelia Jefferson” and “William Francis Brady" in some local bank, with Miss Mattie Gibson, superintendent of Children's Hospital, as trustee. Parents of “Roi: rt V. Gordon” have been located and indications point to & settlement of his troubles. Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke, president of the woman’s board of the hospita acting on behalf of the anonymous donor, presented the bills yesterday. All officers were re-elected by the ‘Woman's Board of the Children’s Hos- pital at their annual election at the hospital yesterday. Mrs. Brooke was chosen president, Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, jr. first vice president; Mrs. Charles C. Glover, second vice president; Mrs. Thomas B. Sweeney, third vice president; Mrs. Willlam J. Flather, jr, recording secretary, and Mrs. Arthi O’Brien, corresponding secretary. Mrs. James Alexander Lyon, a vice president of the Thrift Shop, perma- nent sales activity of the four child welfare organizations, was named chair- man of a committee to co-operate with the executive board of the Thrift Shop to push its work. On the committee with her are Mrs. Prank S. Hight, vice chairman; Mrs. Edward E. Robbins, Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, jr.; Mrs. Brooke Lee, Miss Cassells, Mrs. Centina, Mrs. Jordan and Mrs. Arthur O'Brien. BUREAUCRACY SEEN PRICE OF COMBINES Senator Wheeler Proposes “Real Corrupt Practices Act” to Safeguard Senate. d | BY_the Associated Press. The price that business must pay for centralization through great com- binations, Senator Wheeler, Democrat Montana, said last night, ulation by & bureaucracy. Outlining the views of the “Western Progressives,” in a radio address, the Montanan proposed & ‘“real corrupt practices aci ‘The Progressives, he continued, “are fighting against domination of Congress by men who represent selfish interests, because they believe sincerely that un- less the growing concentration of wealth and power is checked this Nation will soon be converted into a plutocracy where a few supremely rich men will rule and the rights of the common men will be trampled under foot. “We want to stop the Vares and New- berrys and other multi-millionaire can- didates from buying their election to the United States Senate,” he said, “and we want to stop the Grundys from rals- ing the huge ‘slush funds’ to put ‘Vie- trola’ candid: in Congress. You can always tell a ‘Victrola’ candidate because ‘he knows his masters’ voice’ and that is all he knows. The masters are the men who put up the money for the election and who know exactly what they will demand in of special favors if their candidate is elected. e BIBLE CLASS SPEAKER. Senator Stephens to Address Con- gress Street M. P. Group. Senator Hubert D. Stephens of Mis- sissippl will address the Harrison Bible class of Congress Street Methodist Protestant Church, 1238 Thirty-first street, tomorrow morning, 9:45 o'clock, in the auditorium of the church. His subject will Temptation.” charge of the talk on it. . ‘The pastor H. A. Kester, will preach at the regular church services, 11 am. and 8 pm. | SERMON fiJPICS GIVEN. Rev. Thomas E. Boorde to Preach at Temple Baptist Church. ‘The sermon topics at the Temple Baptist Church tomorrow by the pastor, Rev. Thomas E. Boorde, will be “Fool- ishness” for the morning and “Lessons of the Jordan” in the evening. ':h:hfllgleyscgooll’ meets at 9;32 am, and the B. Y. P. U. program at 7 pm. Prayer service will be conducted Thurs- day evening. ‘FOLLOWING JESUS’ TOPIC Rev. B. H. Whiting to Preach at Friendship Heights Baptist Church “Following Jesus” will be the subject of Rev. B. H. Whiting, pastor of the Priendship Baptist Church, First d H street southwest, tomorrow at 11 k Rev. J. A. Johnson will speak at 8 p.m. Sunday school at 9:30 am. B. Y. P, U. at 6 pm. Prayer and praise serv- ice Tuesday at 8 p.m. OTTAWA, Ontario, January 11 (#).— wheat using United States channels for their shipments be required to post a bond guaranteeing inspection by a Ca- nadian customs officer before export will be sponsored by J. G. , mem- ber of Parliament of Moosejaw, Sas- katchewan, at the coming session of Parliament. FOR RENT Three Rooms, Kitch- en, Bath and Reception Hall. Electric Refrig- eration. 2001 16th St. FOR RENT Two Rooms, Kitch- en, Bath and Recep- tion Room. Electric Refrigeration. $70 Per Month THE ARGONNE 500,000 TO WORK 4 YEARS ON FRENCH DEFENSE SYSTEM (Continued From First Page.) but they are not convinced and feel unable to take the risk. Meanwhile, they know that German industry is powerful, the German peo- ple numerous, loyal, capable; German naval and air developments remark- able, the German army reorganized by a~strange paradox of the Versailles treaty into a light, swift, strongly armed, excellently trained force, ideally adapted for a lightning offensive. Consider Republic Duped. Against this continual menace, which they hope is imaginary, but fear is real, the French wanted to create an inde- pendent buffer state of the Rhineland in the peace negotiations, but were dis- suaded by great Britain and the United States with a promise of a three-power guaranty treaty. Neither the United States nor Great Britain kept the | promise, and the French ever -since have considered themselves duped. They have been forced back, therefore, on makeshifts and devices. ‘The first of these is, in place of a defi- nite triple guaranty treaty, ‘a series of general pacts, of which three have now been realized—the covenant of the League of Nations, the Locarno treaty and the Kellogg anti-war pact. But, whereas France is trying continually to strengthen these pacts and make them more definite, the feeling here is the United States and to some extent Great Britain have been trying even harder to weaken them and make them more vague. Any French government which want- ed to leave French security to these pacts as they now stand would not | last long, for every one remembers how, when the Russians were at the gates of Warsaw in 1920, Great Britain, despite the League, counseled Poland to surrender, and only France went to Poland’s aid; how, when France wanted to strengthen the covenant by a Geneva protocol, Great Britain re- fused it; how Great Britain, as sig- natory to the Locarno treaty, already seems restive, and Italy, the other guarantor, even more so; finally, how the Kellogg pact the other day in Manchuria was spurned with derision and impunity by he Russians. France, herefore, wants stronger pacts and more of them. It aspires to take the lead in a peace movement every- where. It still hopes to revive the A proposal that exporters of Canadian | Geneva protocol and still hopes for an Eastern European Locarno and has even proposed a United States of Europe. Meanwhile, and failing in these, it is trying to get the Kellogg pact reinforced by an agreement to confer and the situation in the Med- iterranean stabilized by a non-aggres- sion pact there. Alliance Series Sought. ‘The second French makeshift com- prises a series of alliances with the smoller powers, which also are inter- ested stabilizing Europe—namely, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Jugo- slavia and Rumania—but, as these are all small countries, no exaggerated ex- pectations are being upon them. The third French makeshift is a di- rect reapproachment with Germany in the hope that eventually the interests of the two countries will be so closely interwoven that a German attack against France wtll'be out of the ques- tion. But will this expedient succeed? Is Germany sincere? WIill it not one day betray France? Nobody here dares to prophesy. So in the end, bitter with the experi- ence of three great invasions, favoring all kinds of peace pacts but doubting their efficacy, favoring small allies but doubting their strength and will, favor- ing rapprochement with Germany hut doubting Germany's sincerity, France is falling back more and more on a serles of self-reliance 3 Next June, if all goes well, the last French soldier will leave the Rhineland. The French Army, owing to an anti- militarist trend of opinion, has fallen to its lowest ebb in the present century, If of its prewar s h, and is in- capable, according to neutral experts, of any sort of quick offensive. Of 250,000 men instantly available in the country to meet an offensive from Germany's 210,000, only six divisions can be considered offensive units; the rest would be almost paralyzed pending mobilization, that is to say, during two or three weeks. Act to Meet Situation. It is to meet this situation that fron- tiers are being fortified in the hope that these remarkable fortifications will in the first place discourage a German attack, and secondly, place a check upon it if it occurs. At the same time Prance is bent ear- nestly upon strengthening its internal situation and international prestige by developing its colonial empire, restoring, its finance and rebuilding its navy. Development of the colonies is pro- ceed: slowly, due to lack of capital and of emigrants of the French race. Restoration of finances has been almost phenomenal. France now possesses the world’s second largest gold reserve, amounting to nearly $2,000,000,000. As for the new navy, which the coun- try desires and is proud of, its pu is to defend the colonial empire and seaborne traffic, guard the costs, insure the safe transport of troops from the African colonies to France in case of war and also, perhaps as the Prench reckon, to regain the respect of Great Britain and the United States, which at the Washington conference seeemd to consider France almost a negligible quantity. Such being the French outlook, it seems evident that much may depe: at the London conference on the way France is treated. The French would undoubtedly listen with interest to any p tending to guarantee peace and stability and would !Jroblbly be willing to sacrifice a part of their pres- ent naval building program to obtain suitable facts along these lines. An arts bullding to be built in Sas- katchewan, Canada, will cost nearly three-quarters of a million dollars. 16th & Columbia Rd. | President, PRISON INDUSTRY MAY BE REFORMED Women’s Clubs Federation, in Convention, Urges 'Equitable Prices. Constructive plans for organizing the prison industries in each State of the Union on a proper basis were brought before the members of the board of directors of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs this morning by out- standing experts on prison labor prob- lems at the conference on prison labor, which concluded the annual Midwinter board meeting at the N street head- quarters. Col. Joseph D. Sears, chairman of the prisan labor committee of the board of managers of the New Jersey State prison, under whose direction it was said this prison has made the greatest progress of any in the country during the past 10 years in solving prison labor problems, described the methods used by his organization to secure a fair standard of values for prison-made products, and to promote efficiency through the right type of employment for the laborers. Price-Cutting Decried. Col. Sears was followed by A. F, Allison, chairman of the National Stan. dard Council, who discussed the neces~ sity for the proper labeling of prisone made goods to prevent exploitation, to provide for which the -Hawes-Cooper prison labor bill was passed in the last regular session of Congress. At the expiration of a 4-year period of “prep= aration,” this bill will go into effect, he said, and every State will have to ether or not it shall be enforced within its boundaries. He pointed out the valuable work that the clubwomen could do in influencing public opinion to secure its enforce ment, thus eliminating the cut-throat marketing methods which he said bave bred so much discontent and unfaire ness to prison labor in the past. Mrs. John P. Sippel, president of the general federation, presided over the conference. Miss Julia K. Jaffray, chairman of the division of correction of the department of public welfare, in- troduced the speakers. She cited the examples of the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts as the most progressive in prison labor re- forms and urged the clubwomen to work for similar progress within their own States before the hour strikes for the formal enforcement of the new jaw. ‘Wilbur Addresses Session. Instead of permitting the steam of youth pass and pick up those who fall in the march, the White House con=~ ference on child health and protection proposes to walk along with the young and understand their problems, declared Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur at the afternoon session of the board yesterday, describing the task of the group of 500 experts and a score of committees who are working, under the direction of the President, in this study. “The problem of the child today must . be thought out in new terms and viewed from an entirely new angle,” said the Secretary, pointing out the necessity for a careful study of th= problem of the so-called delinquent child; of the chil- dren who find themselves in difficulties beyond the capacity of their years; of the crippled child as well as of the general needs of all childhood in this complex age. His corps of co-workers, he said, are preparing to present to the for the use of the entire Nation, an array of facts about problems of childhood such as never has been gathered before in this world, which, if used to the best advantag may have effects which will be felt by & whole generation of American children and passed along from one generation to the next and the next. Dr. H. E. Barnard, director of the White House conference, of which Sec-~ retary Wilbur is the general chairman, :.p::; also on the task they have under- Mrs. John D. Sherman, immediate past president of the General Fed- eration, was unanimously elected honorary president of the organization and Mrs. Florence Dibert of Johnstown, Pa.. was elected hone vice president. 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