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. Tight, 1920)—Robert Lansing was ‘THE EVENING WORLD,’ ‘WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1920. LANSING ALWAYS (Barnard College Hockey Teams of 1920-21 Classes; SACRIFICED VIEWS TO SUT WILSON'S: pik. Never Complained When His Advice Was Turned Down by the President. DIPLOMATS LIKED HIM. Real Author of Some of the Notes For Which Wilson Was Praised. 'y Dovid Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World). WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (Copy- popular as Secretary of State. Dip- lomat# recognized the awkwardness | of his position, particularly his in- ability often to speak for the Presi- dent because the latter individual would not take him into his confi- dence, but they made allowances for this and liked Mr. Lansing for such frankness as he was able to dixyplay. He was courteous with foreign governments, and although he dif- fered again and again with the Presi- dent as to the wisest policy to pur- , he never showed it to a foreign government. Whenever the Presi- dent decided a question, that was enough for Robert Lansing. Like an ambassador in a foreign country, he followed instructions faithfully. HOW LANSING HAS_ INFLU- ENCED OUR FOREIGN POLICY. Nevértheless it must not be imag- ined that Robert Lansing has not ex erted a very great influence on our foreign policy in the last four years. | Even before he took office he framed | the neutrality policy of the Govern- went as counsellor of the Department of State, and is generally credited with having been the authpr of the phrase “a strict accountability,” which was} used in one of the first Lusitania notes. He wrote many drafts of notes that never saw the President's eye, an‘ he wrote many that were pigeonholed by the President. sw Scene at Close of Game Yesterday, Won by ’21, 5 to 1 LAW PROPOSED 10 COVER DISABILITY OF THE PRESIDENT Constitutional Amendment Is Suggested Giving Congress and Supreme Court Power. WASHINGTON, stitutional gress and power to authorize the Vice President | or the ranking Cabinet officer to as- sume the duties of the President dur- ing a disability of the Chief Execu- tive has been prepared by Represen- tative 8. D. Fess, Ohio, for introduc- tion in the House. Mr. have power by concurrent resolution Fess proposes that Feb. amendment 18.—A con- giving Co the Supreme Court joint | Congress Pe en REE REEL MiLoReo MARIORIE Leeore, Hel DECLARE HARKNESS WAS DELIRIOUS DAY HE SIGNED WL Wife ward Witnesses to Million- aire’s Condition. First es Bis For- n- Harry 8. Harkness on the last day of his life, Jan. 23, from 2. | til his death at 8 o'clock that hight, \according to a statement by B. Palmer Lewis, the Christian Science practi- tioner who attended him. Did he sign a will in that delirious 1919, was delirious 5 o'clock in the afternoon un- BY |. R. 1. DESPITE MONTHLY DEFICIT Accountant Says Certain In- vestments Were Not Written Down to Real Value. | Testimony to-day by experts of the Public Service Commission at the in- vestigation of the Interborough, shows that the company continued to de- clare dividends up to 1919 at an an- nual rate of ten per cen. notwith- standing a monthly deficit estimated at $400,000 before dividends. DIVIDENDS KEPT UP | | the Public Service os avoided the $39,000,000 note issue of two years ago,,he said, “If the $40,000,000 worthless assets had been written off,” said Dr. Bauer, Not only the 10,000,000 surplus re- ported by the company as of June 30, 1919, ld disappear, but the net remaining @assets would have been barely sufficient to support outstand- ing bonds and current abilities. Dr. Bauer said the $35,000,000 capi- tal stock outstanding has practically no assets supporting it, and in not writing off outside losses end worth- less assets the company seems to have virtually declared dividends out of capital. A. F. Weber, chief statistician for Commission, read . report of his investigations of the! Interborough in which he said the| striking thing was “the relatively good showing of the subway division and the poor showing of the elevated division.” “The financial statement submitted by the Interborough indicated that the necessary cash disbursements made, or expected to be made, in July, August and September of this | year would exhaust its cash resources, LIKENS DRY LAWS TO SOVIET SEIZURE OF PRIVATE GOODS “Ambassador” Says Abolition of Liquor Is Confiscation Without Compensation. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Continu- ing his testimony to-day before the enate Investigating Committee, Lud- wig C. A. K. Martens, Russian Soviet Ambassador to the United States, to- day compared a Prohibition and the) emancipation of slaves in the United | States to soviet Russia's confiscat of private property. “In abolishing liquor you are con- fiseating property without compensa- tion approximately the same aa we! are doing in Russi,” Martens eal. Throughout thé examination by Wade Bilis, the Committee's counsel, Martens sought to w a distinetion between the acts of his Government and his own “official” activities and those of the Russian Communist Party, ‘The witness said he had not incited revolution in the United States and Mr. Ellis produced a letter signed by Lenine, Soviet Premier, dated in Jan- uary, 1919, urging American working- men to establish a Soviet Government and “overthrow” reactionary labor leaders “like Gompers,” and also overthrow “bourgeoise Parliaments.” Martena said the letter did not come through him, but added that “under; certain circumstances such a letter might be justified.” The letter was “war propaganda,” he said, adding that “Russia was at war with all powers during the last two years “The United States did not declare war on Russia, did it?” asked Sen- ator Brandegee, Republican, Con- necticut. “It made war without de- claring it,” the witness said. Was that war going on when you were appointed ies appointed @ representative in a country-with which it was at war,” the Senator persisted. “Officially ‘theer was no war,” Martens said, “but actually there was a war, which is now fin- ished.” At this point Martens said revolu- tionary propaganda in the United States would not be “justified.” Never Needs Renovating An occasional sunbath or j Franklin Simon Co Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets How Many Pairs of Gloves Do You Need? WOMEN’S GLOVES They Demonstrate What Franklin Simon & Co. Mean by VALUE ranges are complete— QUANTITIES ARE LIMITED. ‘ AT 1.25 ONE-CLASP CAPESKIN GLOVES F in tan, brown, gray, ivory or pearl, pique or prixseam sewn. One-clasp white washable doeskin ploves, prixseam sewn. Six-button Biarritz slip-on doeskin gloves, white or natural color, wash- | able. AT 1.50 IMAGINE six-button slip-on ‘ white doeskin gloves at 1.25! ‘ Imagine silk lined mocha f ploves at 1.50! It sounds like a bit ¢ of history, but it is a present fact— f ; in the Glove Shop. To read these ie: items and prices is to. see the wisdom i of anticipating, future glove needs. ‘ But do not delay, for while size ! - : despite the fact that in its published th a i . kis Bie 6 ie Se nae to declare that the President is un- ani aed alee copemartol t aideiye a After corroborating contentions | reports the company sets out a cor- etercnas il ever caine i \ Hi NCH D GLO ONE OR . sarrcnent of the alternatives Invelvea, able to serve, after a finding of the first wife, contends that he did. The] 14 Hy experts under Corporation| porate surplus in excess of $19,000,000. || ‘Its shape ‘and ‘elnaticity are per. || \Ad FRE) KI VES, statement of e ve volved. | a 65 facts by the Supreme Court. In case question has a vital bearing on the | Congress was not in session when the fight she is making for execution of |President became disabled, the pro- the mutual contract will that he If such a surplus is not now repre- sented by cash or other liquid assets it must have been expended tn the | acquisition of fixed assets or securi- oe Damp proof, Come fooms and see the OE eer Usually he gave the President the vai ous courses of action which could be followed, and, while politely sugges moth proof, || Fred W. to our show. recently Chief of Accounts of the Pub- Counsel Burr, Lindars, until que or oversewn Back, tan or wd fess two-clasp bye B seams, in white, i easga i ene i J pryice = ssion, said he eS of her companies, for which the | sed amendment would give the made in 1909, when he and she ex-|lic Seryice Commission, a ties of other companies, ing which he himself thought best, in- | posed amendment |W to ball’ it into changed wilis, Ske maintains that |reached the conctusion that the divl-|Intertoroumh would be entitfed to,ie-|| MATTRESS One-clasp, Bray es; silk rg AA A Maa Seated - the co " | valid. And roe wn years totaled 187 1-2| Se its own securitic Goat. Jne-c mocha ; variably special session for the purpose of de- the contract will is still vali dends for sixteen years totaled 1 set Spb onennerepe ernie ry [A yet Ge Mt lined choose. But Robert Lansing knew| ‘ening whether the chief execu- she 1s suing Mrs. Florence Steuber|por cent., or an average rate of 11.718 | was made ont of aurplus carninne, || qyltd clmabeth St. i ; traditional American doctrine, and he | (OTN ME Wate on |Gaines Harkness and her co-execti- | per cent. per annuum. Although the|why might not the company now seli|| Teas mercer: i ; ee aac we ee tie nade See anh = jen John W. MacMiller, for alleged books of the company showed suur- phe eb ee Shp ite ot ne treasury ‘or bie near oan + k AT 2 25 : , = o retmb} ent of its or the eaprate pay % i ‘ } he celled more on Mr. Lansing’s . : + No. 272) sividend payments, sufficient surplus B : naa pas ~ | West 90th street, admitted he was one} .oua not have been available hi a H SIX-B ON LENGTH CAP! iN Even on the notes for which the | vo men of the witnesses of the disputed will Ki . rn he | “It began to look as if the two 2 v abies i pias ESKI ea ae neat erent (Would get close together after all. : slip-on p 7 “ evant ee bine sa nia {| Mr. Lansing continued to work hope- = Ht, fossa bid Leponipse : pd Peceaeort penicunty one at the | fully. He didn’t want the President i mig bls 7 oe - wn, is ; {to go on that Western trip. e | pe best notes ever sent out by the : * uch gers entered the sick room late in ‘ thought Mr, Wilson could do mu Lape ey rc usd bat megane Bray or brow ¢ United States Government, a com-| 016 eractive work in Washington the afternoon while he and another) DON” Uae Muth exeteen lee ae Ro) ge cen aes ; aemnicetion to the Austro-Hungarian a ih hysical Christian Science practitioner were) a : and he felt, too, that the phys! ti f its surplus earnings, at the vi Government about the requested em-| 1 eain might break him down. trying to help the patient, He said |portion. o6 4 yf roaplon earniten, 42 hake IN QuiaLity elastic at wrist, in slate, beaver or bargo on arms. Solicitor Woolsey and |" 5, tne real crux of the situation he believed one of the strangers pa DISTINCIIVE IN Si ae ia leew: Ai aly sing framed that note} oe when Mr. Lansing showed un- |burned the TYLE wn. and the editorial praise which the President received for doing what he didn’t do had no effect on the feelings mistakable readiness to write a com- r promise on the peace treaty, a will- | were administering a serum. He and | the adapt the Lodge reserva- | the other practitioner, Miss Winifred | Company. Railway | had been de-| If that rate WOMEN'S GLOVE SHOP—Main Floor ingness to ~. oer certain investments and advances disposing of a $25,000,000 estate, but seen written down to their real value, | va ether it was signe was not sure whether it was signed io Gectared. ae Levis emia that three sbran-| 22 any event, he said, it would ap- - fodiens ar that if more prudent manage- wrist of the dying man {liberal dividends, at least equal t@ thc with a candle, and he thought they 7 per ce nt. paid to the stockholders of Manhattan ated a ee ee Hier a et i LE Nei ECE LLG LLL LLL ALLL CE IL a@f the men in the Department of| 1.315 to the Wilson viewpoint in such | Leonard, withdrew from the room. | clared regularly on the I. R. T. stock State, who took it as a matter of! ¢,snion that ratification could be ac-| The only distinguishable words that | additional surplus would have been| course, complisheg without loss of dignity by | Harkness uttered that afternoon, Mr. | available as of June 30, 1919, amount: | Annual Re uction 4 LANSING'S POSITION IN CON: |ejitner side. But Mr, Wilson was furi- | Lewis sald, were, “Fight, fight, fight!” |ing to $26,420,800. ‘This amount as it : NECTION WITH THE LEAGUE. | ous. He was impatient with any one! This was in response to a nurse who! accrued in sixteen years might have ° Mr. Lansing will always be remem- | who even mentioned the word “reser- | was a co-witness to the will, She had|been utilized by the com F 20% Discount vered or his clear definition of Pan-| vation” in“his presence. sald to him: ‘Mr, Harkness, now Is|part gf its contribution he| ras ia Americanism and for tts splendid | The nearest one could get in a com-|the time, You have got to fight for) cost of construction and equipment of |y ; conception of what our relationship | munication that would bring forth/ your life.” new lines, the witness said, and there-| On the Entire Stock should be with the nations south of|his displeasure was the employment} Leo F, Wanner, No. 393 Madison by to that extent the company would us. It is true that he didn't favor the|of the word “interpretations.” Sen-| Avenue, a witness to the last will, said| have avoided issuing long term bonds ‘ coupling of the League of Nations! ator Hitchcock could probably tell an|over the telephone that it was signed|for those purposes and the consequent with the peace treaty simply because | interesting story some day about his)in the morning. Robert H. Strhan, | imposition of fixed charges for interest he thought better consideration could | troubles with Eresidont Won Whee No. 37 Wall Street, New York attor-{six per cent. annum on $26,400,00 * | would perha y light o1 . i be given to each separately, But he| YOUd Perhaps throw Teme iy. dise|aey for Mr, # arkness’ sisters, saidi would have saved a yearly fixed | didn't preas bis views and when the | missed. they had received “considerably 1e83| charge of $1,584,000, he asserted American mission got to Paris, he} Internationally, the departure of/than $1,000,000 each.” They are Mrs.) ‘Tho net corporate income of the ' e Mr. Lansing will cause much uncer- : Bacneds is anal es OA Bs 4 ' worked us hard as anybody to help ae Ogden M. Edwards , according to testimony, | tninty, fc . Ambassadors and Min- |? 4 ewkize the ideal which the President papell pi long felt that ihey | Kingsley Macomber, both of Pitts- {1 1, 1903, to June 36, 19 $91 Fifth Avenue had t before th ace Conference.| were unable to execute their tasks | burgh. The estat mounts to between Blevated division, $13,830, ee League of /Decause of the lack of knowledge of |$7,000,000 and $8,000,000 autet ailélons aed. bes Farrters Exclastvely for Ninety-Nine Years 2 what the Department of State had z Nation { along with 4 4 414.52; tot), $78,895,973.83 in mind, ‘There. will be even more the rest, but showed no of dis-| perplexity, boctuee, it will take the \FIRE DESTROYS ‘OCEAN YT] Py ee a RG ME i a u (@) m e n alee ‘ rat eaten? Peng Ae State some time to} mer Racing Club Building at| rect surplus adjustments naa | oe ae r 8 going will be re-| Sheepshead Day @ $35,000 Lo: Ff ASL AMRIe PETS Ade ORL AM It you want to economize, yet want the best, visit stowed —_upo 01 mewspaper men generally, |. é ‘ ing a net credit balance available the President's , r nied him as not necessarily The th: story frame building form: rT 1 1 th rate p siaplitnidiel Dear. lS ‘ Stdte we have (ly the Sheepshead Bay Club, of which| for dividends or other corporate pur what they were|the best Secretary of Stdte we have |ly the Sa ircomce te, ‘ yer ald tlever had, but as one of the hi |W. K, Vanderbilt, August Belmont ard) poses of $7 reine, INTER overcoats still are in | Picts ervantdid | iwpes of public officiai—an hi other race horse owners were members| the witnes to keop Telaiions har-| Christian gentleman, who gave more |at Jerome and Ocean Avenues, Sheops-| Dr, John Bauer, testifying as a season, | OWER STOR instead | to ‘the President than he ever re-/nead Bay, was destroyed by fire to-tay.| financial expert for the city AeA i { rifice of jceived F was erected In 1901 when|Agures to show how the company | Ample showing of comfortable [A BARGAIN BASEMENT] } retary of State, oftentimes |» a, DOO ANNOUNCES aN oan was, Be sain height might have saved $40,000,000, He also weights, dependable fabrics, ! had ony |M’ADOC LESeAAn ike thn ca lust tie “pracarantial! of: #47 | skilfully tailored and justly | i LANSING SAID TO HAVE AL- HE’S NOT IN FIELD), Recently, the bullding was purchars4| 335990 @ year allowed the Interbor- | priced. | ° WAYS HIDDEN HIS PRIDE. — into a tWenty-room apartment house ough under contracts No. 1 and 2 ee | | uits oats resses He gave so much time to Col.|.Rormer Secretary, Declining to amounted to more than 20 per cent. | }}]]! For those who are inclined to | Rat aad ; Radiined Redu Ho a placed n sage confidence | Stand for President, Urges Unin- Bee waltee Gal on a net Mages ot #r0,n00;000 | an early selection of Spring 85 50 | 95 95 95 ced 50 ne man from ns that it : : vhereas “a fair return” of interest at j | np Saas sea structed Delegates at Convention, | years a Baptist sclerzyman, ai Pgs ec lh ePaper clothes~-we have prepared an 1985 to3959 | 10953795 | 795 to 2950 q o comment on every | night at his home Bast Twents per ce ould have amoanted to aR ; } A iW iM using hid his pride| William G, McAdoo, former Secretary | thing Stroct, Paterso, J., where he | $1,800,000, thus making the excess al advanced display of summery things. | ‘ and did his jod, | of the Treasury, Is not a candidate for Harpe for a io He|lowance to the company under the * , | REMEMBER, practically all of these garments are It w hen the SI g acttie. | the White House, he says in « letter MW teue dene 4 He ctees deere a Pree Men's and boys’ clothes—from head to | suitable for Spring as well as immediate wear ten the Presi. |7ePlying to a telegram from Miller 8. vived t and f : see eases a fitti ize: | ¢ ment came RS WB Hell, Mayor of Milledgeville, Ga., notify: | sons, one of whon Albert. Dr. Bauer said the company had | foot—a fitting range of sizes. Housedresses Und Blanket Robes dept wens inenlysd: ts ane ais al ing’him that his name had been placed | !@nt of ~ made av inadequate allowance for ! |B Check Percale, Smart | a ne er W ERT. Heavy Blanket Cloth, toe HEC CA AA Te ad con incrcn LArrsated for Tiayiew © AUN | sets to the “aubloue ROKAW Fee aiieatow | Pettiecate. Nas ry, ae number questions, + of which] a MeAdoo furthe r wee § onlpatruar hanna lotisinie hasserted Gwh fas | amounting 1 make I 1457-1463 BROADWAY Kotane = served irritate Mr on, who| ted delegates to the anal cans - ¢ Jo \ and K the 1 r ah 5 Fee earrauecoront, Prea: | ton whereever possible,” and pleads for Sauier®. Eric Johansen und Neils Kyell-|the cous he AT FORTY-SECOND STREET cia Reto | Unter mute, jouldn 4 the support of “principles rather than | morning. wr ne whlakey. ee | 5 t i seconds End Mr Air Heel Was ene morning, not ing whiske written off and 1 ou up to 56 Bust 1.65 bust measure. ently 1 mj} men" in this crisis of American|for having the ~a copper still | *" his fig@ence in the judgment of Col, history, of two and @ half gallons capacity, [past earnings, This would have | , |