The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1920, Page 1

| k ‘ i i F WILSON TO SEE RAIL TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Prol bably snow. 1920, by The Vress Publishing (The New York World). NEW YORK, FESESDAY, FEBRUARY aa, 192 US.CANSHE aia : TAVES BY ONE DRASTIC mt ee | Scrapping of Ship Board and Its Plans Would Avoid Detici cit Next Year. BIG FUTURE SAVING, Loss on “Investment” More Than Offset-—Would Ease Labor Market, Too. | By Martin Green. (Special Staff eek np of The Evening Worl WASHINGTON, Feb. vise pews bere in Washington, where the war is still being carried on against the taxpayers, Government officials, who Profess to be trying to save the coun- try by getting ready for another war and using up all the country’s money and credit in the operation, look upon one who proposes to demobilize the deficit before it gets any larger after the manner of visitors to an insane avylum inspecting the unfortunates Confined therein. The average Je-! Partment or bureau chief classifies as mentally deficient people who Would go right to the root of extrava- | gance and put the Government on the| same footing as the citizens. The foreseen deficit for next year| could be avolded by the exercise of| courage and determination in Con-| gtess and in other branches of the) Goyernment. ‘The Shipping. Board) ‘all its branches could be made| to serve to this end if the Govern-| ment would: of all its equity in shipyards, housing plant and material, and realize possibly one-third of the cost, or $150,000,- 000. | SECOND—Put a@ stop to the proposed expenditures for this year (the fiscal year has more than four months to run), and save possibly $750,000,000. THIRD—Sell all completed ships and ships under construc- tion, realizing about one-third of the cost, or approximately $1,000,- 000,000. DRASTIC MEASURES WILL SAVE BILLIONS. The result would be, in saving on Proposed direct expense and in real- ization of funds for projects under way on contemplated next year, ap- proximately $2,000,000,000, of which | taore than one billion would bo re- turned to the Treasury, and there would be no deficit next year Of course, this would involve the wiping out of the Shipping Board and the abandonment of the Emergency Fleet Corporation programme. Such @ move would be drastic in the cx- treme and official Washington hates to think about it, but drastic meas- Ures are necessary, and the politicians are going to tind it out as soon as the people become aware of the true state of affairs in the Government, The Government's existing ships represent an investment of $3,000,000,- 000, This investment, as something to be disposed of, represents a value of ‘only $1,500,000,000. If the ships s operation by overhead must actual investment value of (he pr Because of t! cost which contractors ¥ centar th on wit ermment’s it would have the same magnitude private capital. 1 ts arretrievably GOVERNMENT SHIPPING LIKE A WATERED STOCK CONCERN. e to the Gove figured and not be continued in iment, th be on tt plant system, by aid a vent and not per- on what the Gov- ney accompl nvestmen what wlivities of ducted 8 waste been for by One-half the Government's invest- cqeat in ships Is equivalent to wat ‘took ih a corporation. The 8 joan in respect Alp sneraty o-day ts in about ne conditic as the surface railways of New York, {Continued on Highth Page.) * ARMED MEN TP FREE SINN FEWER Barton, on Way From Court Martial, Rescued in Dub- lin Streets. DUBLIN A military mo- tor car was held up in Berkeley Street to-day by twenty armed men and the driver and four armed soldiers or- dered out of the oar. Tt & id that a prisoner being con- veyed to Mountjoy Prison was carried off by the raiders. A dispatch to the London Even- ing Globe from Dublin says the rescued prisoner was Robert Bar- ton, whose trial took place there during the day ing conveyed to Mountjoy and who was be- Prison after the court-martial hearing. Robert Barton, of the House of Commons, who was arrested last March, escaped from the Mountjoy Jail, was rearrested and Sinn Fein Member | OF HISLLNESS o Authority for Issuing It | Was Given at the White House. | SECRETS S_ STILL KEPT. enh Got His Facts | Second Hand. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve ning World.) | WASHINGTON, Feb. j right, |tery envelops 12 (Copy the issuance by Dr.| \Hugh H. Young of Johns Hopkins | University of a statement describing {in detail the fllness of President} Wilson, and revealing particularly, what the White House has so long, declined to admit, namely, that the, President has suffered from an im-| pairment of his left leg and arm. | President Wilson nor. Dr. Cary T.! Grayson, U.S.N., his physician, was consulted concerning the statement, | and there is good reason to believe} that its publication was hardly) pleasing to them. On the other baud, it is thought | inconceivable that a man a Dr. | Young's position would so far vio-| tate professional ethics as to author- | ain escaped, only to be recaptured |ize a newspaper interview revealing recently, was tried to-day before al/the nature of the ilness of one of court-matrial his patienis without sanction. The charge against Barton was|jNTERVIEW AUTHORIZED BY that at Shillelagh in February, 1919,] SOME ONE IN GOVERNMENT. he sald, referring to the imprison-| ‘The plain inference is that some-, ment of the local Sinn Feiner|body in the Government, who has Fleming: felt that the White House policy of “I do not make a tbreat, but if concealing the facts of the Prési- Fleming dies in jail there wil be] dent's illness was misleading and un- reprisals against Lord French (Vis- count Franch, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), and Frank Brooke (member of the Viceroy’s Advisory Council), who will suffer injuries as he did.” It is alleged he repeated the same threat at Carnew. The Court reserved decision. Barton offered no defense The King’s Bench Division Court to-day refused to grant an order for the release of the Lord Mayor-elect of Dublin, Alderman Tom Kelly, who i Wormwood Scrubbs prison, Th | was on the ground that Alder- Kelly was out of the jurisdiction re Court. LONDON, Secretary Feb. for Ire 12.—lan MoPhers and, was asked the House of Commons to-day why Alderman Tom Kelly, Lord Mayor- elect of Dublin, had been sent to prison, Mr, MacPherson replied that Kelly had been arrested and deported under the Defense of the Realm reg- ulations because he had been suspect- ed of having acted in a manner preju- dicial to the pub SINN FEIN LEADERS ; ACCEPT HOME RULE|_ Oo” Prof. MacNeill, Member of “Irish H Republic” Cabinet, So An- WILL SUCCEED LANE nounces in Speech. | i LONDON, Feb. 12.—Speaking at t | Chicago Attorney, Head of Ship- Irish eelf-determination meeting e; ping Board, to Be New Secre- last night, Prof, MacNeill, Ministe tha inter of Industries in the Cabinet of othe! tar af the Interior bal ¢ Republic,” said he believed 1, # ASHINGTON, F John Baer Sinn Fein was ready to accept Pi a ie of Minois 1 en selected Lloyd George's Home Rule plan, Bl ccc kane iawn th a a Ing it Out on the same plan it now] : ‘ hig handles local government in Ireland. rior, to succeed Franklin: i, jictadial i nelaash e, who resigned bie; Payne is now Chairman of the IS LORD GREY TO RETURN? | erekes Bey Board Seeteenonas John Barton Payne was born Lieyd Ge Tele Co ® Hel iytown, Va. Jan. 26, 1856, an Poosa’t “Knew cated in the private sc of his LONDON, Feb.” 12.—Rep! to a Ite w i h in question in the ars t La v bassador, and if not, who aly se Judee of the Superior ¢ successor, Prenrier Lloyd George suic was unable to make any etatom the subject. , fair to the public, told Dr. Young to} go ahead. It is not important to know who the person was, but it is a] confession that the curiosity of the | public to know the truth about the | President's ailment has | | | at last reached a point where the wishes of the President's own household to keep the matter a private affair are to some extent being set aside in the interest of the public. The whole situation develops out of the conflict between tho r of the public and the rights of the President and his family to keep their privacy from being invaded, Just where does of the public end and the a public official begin ‘There are those who defend vigor ously the White House policy of silence on the ground that while the President was in the midst of the of his illness and no- body could tell just what develop- ments might bring, it would have been politically Msastrous to hand over to Mr, Wilson's political oppo- nents a lever with which to delay ac- tion on the treaty by raising the serious stage (Continued on Fighteenth Page.) JOHN BARTON PAYNE | t of | Cook County, He résigned in 1498 to take up the practice of law, His "home iy in Chicago and Minshuret, Ll, : 1920).—Something of a mys-'@ 1920. Boston Rid Streets of Siow in eg When the Electric Shovels Got Busy (Copyright. Underwood and Tedarwood.) So far as can be discovered, neither | | Ceaeseteeeess Sbecadecdbbesoseebaqiavekeos £O0000000699 Boston used clectric shovels to rid ite streets of snow and ice. operation, The snow and ice were gathered ACCUSERS T0 ASK CRIMINAL TRIALS FOR SOOALSTS Pease is Assembly Committee Will Send Evidence to Prosecutors Here and Urge Action. By Joseph S. Jordan, Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World. ALBANY, Feb, —The that be intend that no rest shall be given to the five suspended Sociai- ist Assemblymen, this morning it was announced that their accusers are going the limit in the matter of powers for punitive measures. State, local and Federal authorities are to be set on their trail and the investigation which ts going on at the Capito! is to find ‘its sequel in prosecutions in the courts This morning the brief of the 8! in the case before the Judiciary Com- mittee was given out for publication, showing the principal points) which have n brought out by the prosec tion, It is contended in the document that the evidence shows the disqualifi cation of the suspended members, This brief is to be epitomized, it, was learned to-day, and sent to the United States Didtrict Attorneys of New York and Brooklyn, asking that the sus pended Assemblymen be proceeded aguinst under the espionage act Copies will also be furnished to the (Continued on E SAYS MIDDLE MAN GETS ALL PROFITS ghteenth Page.) Farmers Urged to Elimina’ and Cut High Cost Living, », 12,.—Dire < shie of Lacomotive All-American Farmer tive told the Co-ope: Congress here pric The 3 will consumny afford 10 pay » iniddlenne suae even with increased pay tie farmer the erice will be lower.’ ~ |KAISER FORBIDS | nae PRINCE TO VE HIMSELF UP} to Have caked Dutch Also Said Government to Prevent Such a Procedure. : BERLIN, Feb. 12 3 former Kaiser has for- bidden his son, the former Crown Prince, to, surrender himself to the A and has re- quested the Dutch Government to prevent such procedure, says the | Krenz Zeitung THE HAC was known the ex-Crown Feb. 12.—Nothing Wieringen of Prince's inten- tion’ before his messages to tho heads of the various governments had been despatched, and the only at notification given by Frederick Wiliam was one to the Dutch Government when) he sent the communications abroad, ewspaper reports to the effect that the Grand Duke of Hesse and his son and seven German gen- eralé named on the extradition list bad escaped into Holland are discredited at the Dutch Foreign Office > > THROWS AWAY $197 TO SHOW WORKERS MEANING OF WASTE, Factory Treasurer Tosses Silver | Dollars Out Window, Scatters Gold on Floor, NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Feb. 12, ILVER and gold were thrown S away yesterday to illustrate a talk on the waste rep- resented by carelessness among, factory workers of the McCallum Hosiery Company, George B, Me- treasurer of t! Callum, e company, told the operatives that in a week needles, worth 11-4 cents each, had been lost effect was the ‘same, he as if $147 were thrown from he » window, whervupon t treasu: took his desk a Pile of 147 silver dollars ai ed them out of the window Silk scattered under foot was as much destroyed as if thrown away, he added, estimating the | amount of loss from rausi | last week at $50, He toxsed a 4 amon, ened t emarks t gold, whil snow TAKE BELI-ANS AVERR MEALS and cee ww Ane GOOD DIGESTION mates you (eel. Ade reprprevyerreyyen sj segvtntenenpenease The above photograpl. shows the device | UD ln a hunTy. and Carri, pif sie Jewtric care. POLICE BUSY WITH PICKS AND SHOVELS CLEANING STREETS ‘Half Force Answers Mayor’s Appeal to Aid—Keep Snow Flying, Says*Hylan. Responding to the appeat of Mayor of New York's police force to-day sig- | nifled their to pick and shovel in ridding the streets } of snow and ice : Hylan, more than 3,000 members willingness handle Immediately ufter a with Mayor Hylan, at’ which Street MacStay, Enright, Dep- Laura of Mills, Deputy of Plants and Strue- tures; Chief dnspector John J, Daly and Inspector John O'Brien, in change of traffic were pregent, Mr. MoStay said that Commissioner En- zig announced taht 1,000 peticemen had volunteered for street cleaning |'work. This numiber was soon pmased | over by reports from Brooklyn, Har- lem and the Bronx, which indicated that approximatoly 59 per cont. of the uniformed force were only await- ing orders to attack the snow with pick and shovel Mayor Hylan, after the conferen: said that a large percentage of wo Jers in other dep conference Cleaning Commissioner Police Commissioner uty Street Commissioner William E Commissioner | Brooklyn, rtments also had vol- |unteered their services as shovelers | “I have no fault to fina with any |official,” the Mayor said ery one }is doin, a heavy handi- ¢ difMicutty ar of men. i" men you can't de the work.” KEEP THE SNOW FLYING, orR- DERS THE MAYOR ou have not the Commissioner MacStay said that the] Mayor had issued Instructions to keep \the snow flying until the streets are are doing all we can,” said Mr, MacStay. “We have 18,215 men, including ouy regular einployees and schoo! students, at work to-da The Commissioner denied th vate truckmen are being by the city dumps, or that there has been 4 riortage of wows, He suid he ex-! pects to work his gangs until § o'clock (Continued vu Buond Page.) TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Probably RL CHES NAME IRE _ MEMBERS TO SEE PRESIDENT } Will Confer With White HouseG WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—P: fourteen railroad brotherhoods to | Director General Hines. In making the annouticement | |to the White House, U.S. SENDS HIM PHOTO} |OF HIS OWN GRAVE TO PROVE HE’S DEAD Ex-Soldier Admits He Was Wound- ed in Franee, but Remains. Sceptical as to Burial. \Seegal to The rening Wortd,) a. PHUADEUPHLA. Feb. 12- HL War Deapriment is stop- ping at nothing to convince Nathan C, Cooperman of No, 2411 South Third Street, that he is not alive and working as n, coppersmith at Hog Island, but is really dead and buried in an American cemetery in France. Cooperman, who served with Company H, 38th Infantry of the 4d Division, enjoyed the unique sensation yesterday of looking at a photograph of his own grave, with his name and description of his outfit carved on a wooden crows above a fresh nv iad of dirt, Cooperman arrived in France May 1, 1918, witb the 3d Division, and was wounded in July near Belleau Wood. He believes that the mistake was made through the finding of one of three sets of fdentification cards he lost during his stay in France. —_-_~ O. K’S EXTRADITION OF MRS. STOKES Goy. Smith Grants Chicago Re- quest for Woman Indicted As Anarchist. ALBANY, N. ¥., Feb. 12.—4dov. Smith to-day signed a requisition asked by Chicago authorities for the extradition of Roxe Pastor Stokes, who is under in- dictment in Chicago on changes of hay- ing advocated forcible overthrow of the Government Mage. Stokes was arrested on Tuesday fast week In. Justice Bartow 8. Weeks’ part af the Supreme Court, where she was a witness in the trial of former Assemblyman Benjamin Gitlow, since convicted and sentenced to five to ten years in Ging Sing for orlminal anarchy Mrs, Stokes had just finished her testi- mony, when detectives of the Bomb Squad told her of the Ohiecago indict- ment, Justice Weeks permitted her release 5,000, nding extradition, untyl Hip. te ane waited ‘one hour and Mt ven minutes in Tomps Prison for the Nerival of bail. On that day Mrs, Stokes Dpeared to be on the verge of collapse At her home, Oo. 18 Grove Street it was said that ering from an att id, W wolng to WILSON O. K.’S SALE OF GERMAN SHIPS | WASHINGTON, Feb. Wilson has again gi 12.—Pre t 1 his approval to the snie of ex-G rand argo vessels the ing Board, it was indicated at the officers of the board to-da: Ohairma the board ¢ at the Wh ate yesterday, It was underst 4 we hag caused. te Prosidebt to change hie mind about their sa Payne to-day emphasized that every effort will be mage to get top prices for vi tives of 2,000,000 Union Men i —Expected to Refuse Demands, 2 2,000,000 railroad employees which are to be referred to him to-day: I been decided which of the brotherhood representatives woukt be inyites | Thee Renee rounds To-Morr resident Wilson will have a conference at 10.30 to-morrow morning with three representatives of the Be discuss the wage demands of thts ‘ Secretary Tumulty said it’ had 7 @ Selection of (hetr spokesmen waa |) |left by the President to the uniom resentatives who chose B. M, acting President of the Railway ployees Department of the Federation of Lubor; W. J. Prosident of the Order of Telegraphers, and Timothy Shea, ing President of the Brotherhood ‘iremen and Kngineers. i At wae suid at the Waite. Liat the. President had been the railroad situation serious. for several days and that it was. OWn suggestion that he ace men, He was understood that he could handle the situmtiol better if he saw the Bhat personally. Union leaders to-dey were attic timistic over the probability of tle); gaining from the President their com, Plete demands. Officials, however, believed they would prevent a mail- road strike. ‘Tumuity, after his tals with Hipes, was especially optimistit The union jeaders will see t President on the south lawn at White House, where Mr. vue spends a portion of each merning. Attorney General Palmer culled 0) Tumulty this afternoon, but den) the railroad situation was 4 Or Ubat there was any talk of enjol: ing railroad employees from stri This was made very emphatic. Before meeting the Brotherhood officials, the President will study ip detall the report on the wage nega> tiations which Mr. Hines submitted through Secretary Tumulty, ‘The Director General was in confereney with Mr. Tumulty to-day and thep returned to his office to complete hia memorandum for the President, who will be asked to make the final de» cision on the demands presented by the raliroad workers nearly # year ago. PRESIDENT WILL GIVE MEN SPEEDY ANSWER, It is expeqted that the Present will give the men to-morr answer to their demands for diate wage increases. Following the announcement that the President would meet the mon Personally, Secretary Lansing ad» matted that he had called off all Cab- inet meetings until further nobiee, Ir was recalled that the Cabinet hamdied the coai strike and the calling o@f of the bi-weekly meetings was regarded Qs showing the President's degision to handle the rail wage controversy alone. The next meeting of the Cabinet probably will be called and presided ever by President Wilson, Rear Admiral Grayson, the Presi- dent's physician, said to-day the Presidents physician, said to-day the President has said nothing to him about attending the next Cabinet ineeting, but he added that it would not be a bad guess what he would, |The President's physician frowne on his patient doing too much work aud? | said he had by no means let down thé | bars. For several weeks the President ha been taking more of a hand im thi conduct of official business, Seeres tary Tumulty said to-day he had never seen Mr, Wilson looking beter Mr. Hines's memorandum was ens derstood to embody the claims anW& arguments he union officials) While Ratlpoad Administratiog of} cials and union representatives ¢) parentiy were inclined to quicacent, White