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POSITION OF U. S.
RELIEF EXPLAINED
BY DAVID LAWBENCI
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1921.)
WASHINGTON, Sept I. The
United States government is making
it clear to the governments of Eu
rope that the American relief ad
ministration which has undertaken
to help Russia is a non-governmental
institution and that it would be
preferable if the whole relief project
were stripped of any governmental
aspect whatsoever.
The supreme council recently voted
to co-operate with the United States
government on Russian relief, believ
ing the American government had
been negotiating with the soviet gov
ernment. This misunderstanding
arose because Secretary Hoover is a
member of President Harding’s cab
inet and is, at the same time, head
of the American relief administra
tion. Mr. Hoover entered the Har
ding cabinet with the understanding
that he be permitted to carry on the
relief work in Europe and Mr. Har
ding consented to the arrangement.
But even if there were no doubt
about the absolute separation, which
is a consolidation of charitably or
ganizations, the European govern
ments probably would have propos
ed governmental relief. There are
very substantial reasons why the
United States government thinks the
relief project should be kept as far
as possible out of the realm of gov
ernment. In the first place, the
chances of breeding misunderstand
ing in Russia by permitting an al
lied expedition of agents to rove
around Russia under the pretense of
studying relief, but with the object
of getting data wherewith to handle
the political situation are recognized
here.
Soviet Propaganda
Secondly, the soviet government
has been endeavoring for some time
to enter into diplomatic relations
with other governments on one pre
text or another so as to give the
impression inside Russia that the
soviet program is being recognized
throughout the world. Those who
believe the soviet methods must
be abandoned think the quickest
way to insure the establishment of
a good government in Russia with
which the rest of the world can deal
is to leave the situation to the Rus
sians themselves to develop without
side Interference.
When the relief project was first
broached to America even the Rus
sians had an idea that it would mean
the resumption of relations with the
American government. The depart
ment of state did take a hand in
the proceedings to the extent of ad
vising the American relief adminis
tration that the Washington govern
ment wanted all American prisoners
released before relief work should
begin, and this was respected. Now,
however, the American government
takes no further part in the nego
tion or the execution of relief plans.
All the American charitable organi
zations interested in Russian relief
have been united under the direction
of General Haskell.
It is the firm intention of the
American relief administration to
co-operation with any allied effort,
but under no circumstances will
American charities be turned over
to Europeans for administration.
Each nation wanting to help Rus
sia can do so on its own responsibil
ity and will find America ready to
co-ordinate so as to prevent over
lapping. But the men who have
raised funds from the American peo
ple have a responsibility to the don
ors which the American relief ad
ministration feels it cannot ignore.
Purposes Nou-Political
America’s purposes in Russian re
lief are wholly non-political. The
United States government under
stands that the American relief ad
ministration is not interested in car
rying an any propaganda for or
against sovietism or with respect to
any other political phase of the Rus
sian situation. There are those who
think the European habit of mixing
international politics with relief proj
ects would find expression in the
present instance and that a tie-up
of the American machinery with that
of the European governments would
mean a loss to the American project
in sentimental value and funds might
not be as readily obtainable.
While the European powers have
just appointed a committee to go to
Russia and study the situation, the
American relief project is under
way. Fifteen men have been sent
into all parts of the country to re
port on the true state of affairs.
Estimates vary as to the number of\
persons in distress all the way from
ten to fifty million.
Secretary Hoover is inclined to be
lieve that the Russian problem has
gone far beyond the reach of char
ity. It is said that nine million chil
dren are starving. The American
relief administration has undertaken
to help one million but if the num
ber of people affected by the famine
is fifty million none of the relief
projects will be adequate. The facts
should be available within a fort
night.
Baptists to Consider
New Orleans’ Offer for
$2,000,000 Hospital
The proposal of the city of New
Orleans to furnish a site for a $2,-
000,000 hospital to be built by the
Baptists of the southern states, will
be considered by the Baptist Home
Mission board at a meeting to be held
Thursday afternoon at the headquar
ters of the board In the Healey build
ind. Dispatches from New Orleans
announce that Walter Parker, gen
eral manager of the New Orleans As
sociation of Commerce, will appear
before the board to present the New
Orleans proposition.
The Southern Baptist convention,
at two successive meetings, has con
sidered the plan to erect a big hos
pital plant to serve the Mississippi
valley, as well as Latin America.
The home board has been authoriz
ed to secure proposals from cities de
sirous of obtaining the hospital and
tentative plans have been made look
ing toward the location of the in
stitution in New Orleans. No definite
conclusions have been reached, how
ever.
An SBO,OOO site has been selected in
New Orleans and a campaign has
been inaugurated by the Association
of Commerce to secure funds for it»
purchase. The sum of $26,270 has
been secured thus far, according to
dispatches from New Orleans, anti
the balance is in sight. Mr. Parker
will present the proposition to the
home board at the Thursday after
noon meeting.
Dr. B. D. Gray, corresponding sec
retary and executive head of the
home board, has been in close touch
with the New Orleans situation, while
a committee from the board has made
an inspection trip to look over the
site and investigate the tentative
plans of Ner Orleans trade body.
It is expected that definite reports
on the project will be made to the
next meetin gos the Southern Bap
tist convention.
150 Victory Medals
; Issued to Georgians
L One hundred and fifty Victory
medals were issued to Georgians in
August by the local recruiting sta
tion of the marines in the Austell
building, according to Captain Peter
C. Geyer, Jr., officer in charge.
J “We still have a large supply of
Victory medals on hand for ex-ma
rines in the south,” stated Captain
G e y er> “and I will be glad to furnish
medals to former ‘devil dogs,’ who
will mail me their discharges, upon
receipt of which, I will immediate
ly send the medal.”
Fred M. Braden, a former marine,
now residing in Atlanta, received the
largest number of stars and bat.le
clasps issued to Georgians during Au
gust. He was in every battle in
which the marines participated in
France, and returned to his home
without a scratch.
THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
HARDEST-WORKING MAN IN WORLD
GOES BACK TO MINING JOB AT 80
ji j L
3AKES HAS v-kiHBP O W* * s HAS 50 GRANDC
SMOKE RUN, Pa.—The hardest
working man in the world is going
back to the mines—literally.
Eighty years’ of daily toil —sweat-
ing, straining toil —in the bowels of
the earth has left Daniel James un
able to rest.
So, after a brief, vain effort to re
tire, his name is on the list of those
on call for duty in the Yorkshire
mines of the Thomas McGlynn com
pany, near this village.
At 86 few men show the pink of
form that Daniel James displays in
every action, every gesture, every
word. „
“Hard work has kept me young,
he says. “Hard work will keep any
man—or woman—young.
“I’ve been plugging away since I
was five—and, if I do say it my
self, I’ll give way to no man when
it comes to swinging a pick or
handling a shovel.”
Few days has James missed since
he went to work in the British
mines at the age children newa-days
enter kindergarten. This was short
ly after his father died.
“Five feet five inches, 150 pounds,
%ound of wind and limb and perfect
ly happy despite the fact that I’m
an orphan,” is the way James de
scribes himself.
He has not been an ophan long,
however, for his mother lived to be
101. And he still has his wife, who’s
only 76, to comfort him. Soon they
BAR ASSOCIATION
CffISIDERSREPORTS
CINCINNATI, Sept. I.—Wading
through a morning of reports from
various committees and sectional
conferences, the American Bar as
sociation today disposed of a long
business program and was ready for
an old-fashioned barbecue and burgoo
at Latonia this afternoon.
Consideration of the reports was
begun at the opening of the morn
ing session, with eight affiliated sec
tions to present resumes of their
conferences and seven committees
to report their activities for the
last year. Frederick W. Lehman, of
St. Louis, former solicitor general
of the United States presided.
This afternoon the lawyers and
their guests were to cross over into
Kentucky as guests of the Cincin
nati Bar association, which arranged
the outing at a Latonia clubhouse.
Theuries of political philosophy
now “advanced by those who either
violate law or sympathize with the
law violator” in industrial conflicts,
agitation to upset American form of
government and against enforcement
of prohibition statutes are the great
est forces at work in the United
States to undermine respect for law,
Attorney General Daugherty declared
Wednesday in an address before the
association.
Arguing equally against sentiment
that regards a convicted I. W. W. as
a “hero of conscience” and "politi
cal prisoner;” t'hat holds a bootleg
ger an exponent of "personal lib
erty” and sets up the slogan of "hu
man rights against property rights,”
in employment disputes, Mr. Daugh
erty asserted fallacy and danger lay
in all.
The attorney general in his al
- which was his first since
assuming office, suggested a method
of Informing public opinion by
semi-governmental means to obviate
industrial conflicts but advocated
complete disregard for the theories
advanced in the other two fields.
He declared the demand for “person
al liberty” in prohibition enforce
ment had been “advanced in the
past by every champion of lawless
ness who has sought excuse for un
lawful conduct.”
Members of the general council
for the coming year elected included:
Alabama Henry D. Clayton,
Montgomery.
Arkansas —Asnley Cockrill, Little
Rock.
Florida —William Hunter, Tampa.
Georgia—Theodore Hammond, At
lanta.
Kentucky—Helm Bruce, Louis
ville.
Mississippi—A. T. Stovall, Oko
lona.
Missouri —W. L. Sturdevant, St.
Louis.
North Carolina —Thomas C. Guth
rie, Charlotte.
Oklahoma —Frank Wells, Okla-
homa City.
Philippines and China —E. B. Co
nant, St. Louis Mo.
South Carolina —P. A. Willcox,
1 Florence.
Tennessee —Elias Gates, Memphis.
Texas —R. E. L. Saner, Dallas.
Virginia—James H. Corbett, Suf
folk.
MR. HAMMOND MEMBER
OF LEGAL FIRM HERE
Theodore A. Hammond, the well
known Atlanta lawyer, who has been
elected a member of the general
council of the American Bar associa
tion, is a member of the legal firm
of Smith, Hammond & Smith.
Declares Men Are
Slaves to Fashion
More Than Women
BOSTON, Sept. 1. —Women dress in
fear of what other women will say
and not to please mere man, A. A.
Allendorf, president of the New Eng
land Retail Milliners’ association,
which opened its annual show here,
said today.
Allendorf declared men, instead of
women, were "slaves of fashion.”
“They are afraid to break away
from the conventional black and
grays, dull mixtures and dark
shades,” Allendorff said.
Women, he said, dread the glare of
the “other woman” and their sur
mises on dress have led to popular
use of the word "catty.” They fear
criticism of their
“A man doesn’t know from one
season to another what the style is.
One season means nothing to a man,
but it means everything to a
woman.”
Monterey Bank
Destroyed by Fire
NASHVILLE, Sept. I.—A tele
phone message from Monterey, Put
nam county, says that the older
part of the Imperial hotel building
there burned early this morning and
with it the quarters of the Bank of
Monterey, three stores, coal company
office and printing office, entailing
a loss estimated at $60,000, partially
covered by insurance. No one was
injured so far as known.
DANIEL JAMES
will celebrate their 60th wedding an
niversary.
It was when James was rounding
out his 80th year in the mines—
earning sls a day much of the time
—that his children and grandchil
dren persudaded him to retire.
So James checked out at the mine
in Banian Junction where he was
employed, and went to Philadelphia
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NEW QUESTIONS
1— Is 12 o’clock, midnight, consid
ered 12 o’clock a. m. or p. m.?
2 How many languages has one
man been known to speak?
3 When was the first peace move
ment?
■4—Does it take longer to digest
fried fish than it does boiled fish?
5 Are qual and partridges the
same?
6 Why are some shoes called bro
gans?
7 Why has the third verse of
“The Star Spangled Banner” been
eliminated?
8— Has any attempt to sound the
depth of the ocea been successful?
9 Is there a disease by which
negroes become white?
10— How was Anne Moleyn’s name
pronounced?
questions ANSWSBED
1— Q. How many eggs does an
oyster lay?
A. An average oyster produces
about 16,000,000 eggs, a very large
oyster sometimes producing 60,000,-
000.
2 Q. Why is Dante’s “Divine Com
edy” called a “comedy?”
A. The word “comedy” is here
useed as the English equivalent of
the Italian “comedia,” which means
a play or drama.
3 Q. Over how great a part of the
United States will blackberries grow?
A. Some variety or other of black
berry is cultivated in all parts of the
IS THIS QUEER FREAK
ONE EAR OR ELEVEN?
■ .wMBS
1 t : - x’' z :
Once in a while the corn-grower finds a freak ear grown
on a spike of the tassel of a stalk, showing that the process
of fertilization has worked backward from the “silk” to the tas
sel, instead of from the tassel to the “silk.” S. J. Flavett, of
Shoreham, L. 1., has found a cluster of eleven ears in one, ten
of them “nubbins,” grouped around an ear that is quite big enough
to eat, apparently formed on all the spikes of a tassel which grew
in a position so that it was brushed by the silk haiging from the
real ear..
to visit a son. But Philadelphia Irk
ed him; the city’s lights burned eyes
that were used to the flicker of the
miner’s lamp in the avenues under
the earth.
After a time James bade his son
goodby, and returned to the coal
fields.
He found the mines practically
closed down, due to the business de
pression, but he immediately made
application for a job as soon as they
should get going.
“And it’s back on the old job I’ll
be in a few weeks," he says. “So
the folks needn’t worry about a coal
shortage this winter—not unless I
break my pick handle!”
James fears only one thing—"get
ting soft.” So every day now he
does a 10-mile walk over the hills,
accompanied only by his dog.
"Walking in the fresh air is the
best exercise a man can take,” he
says. "And every man needs exer
cise no matter how hard he works.
You see, exercise makes you ease up
—relax, the doctors call it—and adds
years to your life.”
James proves his own precepts—
in all his life he has spent only $9.95
for doctors’ bills and medicine. Part
of this was caused by his only acci
dent in 80 years’ mining, resulting
in a broken bone in his leg.
(Copyright, 1921, by Newspaper
Enterprise.)
United States except in southern
Florida, part of Wisconsin, Minne
sota, North and South Dakota, Wyo
ming, Colorado. Montana, and sec
tions of the western states where hot,
dry winds destroy the ripening fruits.
4 QQ. How did the term “midship
man” as applied to men at the Naval
academy originate?
A. The title originated in the Brit
ish navy more than 200 years ago
when the "young gentlemen” who
were under instruction on these ves
sels for the purpose of becoming of
ficers, were given quarters amidships
abreast the mainmast on the lower
deck.
5 Q. How many enlisted men have
applied for discharge under the pres
ent reduction of the army?
A. About 25 per cent of the erJ
listed men have applied for discharge,
this amounting to approximately 55,-
000.
6Q. What Is a manitou?
A. This is an Algonquin word used
to designate a particular religious
concept ot the Algonquin-speaking
Indian tribes around the Great Lakes.
They believe in a cosmic mysterious
property which pervades everything.
They personify this element in vari
ous manlike gods, spoken of as man
itous.
7Q. What is "darso?”
A. Darso is a new sorghum said
to have been developed and named
at the Oklahoma Agricultural Experi
ment station.
8— Q. How large Is the Sea of Gal
ilee, where Christ sailed with his
disciples?
A. The Sea of Galilee is really a
lake; it is thirteen miles long, eight
miles broad, and is nearly 7uo feet
below sea level.
9 Q. Will teeth that have not de
cayed cause bad breath?
A. The unclean condition of the
mouth resulting from tartar deposits
on the teeth is a common cause of
“bad breath.”
10— Q. How many kings have there
been in the world?
A. There are na actual statistics
on this, but Armstrong’s “Synopsis
of Facts and Figures.” 1891, says
that there have been known to be
2,250 kings and emperors ruling over
seventy-five different peoples. Os
these 300 were dethroned, 64 were
forced to abdicate, 28 committed sui
cide, 23 became insane, 100 were
killed in battle, 123 were captured by
the enemy, two were tortured to
death, 151 were assassinated, and 108
were executed.
HARDING TO HURRY
GDNGRESSJ ■
BY DAVID LAWKENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1921.)
WASHINGTON, Sept. I.—The un
derlying purpose of the unemploy
ment conference called by President
Harding is to get congress employed.
The administration realizes that un
less the Republican majority gets
busy and passes the legislation which
is needed to stimulate business
throughout the country the number
of jobless folk will increase instead
of diminish this winter, and the con
gressional elections next fall may
develop considerable danger for the
party in power.
Congress is taking a vacation at
present and the administration reluc
tantly consented to the recess. But
when both houses reconvene the
drive will begin to clear the calen
dar of the vital measures which
most everybody believes will mean
better industrial and business condi
tions.
Few officials can be found who
think the mere calling of an unem
ployment conference can produce jobs
for the idle or food for the hungry.
The most that can be accomplished
is the collecting of data as to the
true conditions of unemployment, and
the laying of that data conspicuously
on the doorsteps of the capitol as a
sort of mute warning to the Repub
licans that theirs Is the responsi
bility for action on pending bills. It
is for the psychological effect that
the conference is being called.
What Harding Wants
President Harding wants congress
to do several things which in his
opinion will speed the return to nor
malcy.
First, the president wants the
pending treaties with Germany and
Austria ratified so that America’s
foreign relations will be clarified and
trade resumed with central Europe.
Second, Mr. Harding wants au
thority given at once to Secretary
Mellon to arrange with the allies
for the payment of interest and prin
cipal on the ten billions of dollars
owed us. Thus, it is hoped, that by
definitely fixing the time of payments
the allies will be able to calculate
upon the amounts they must set
aside every year toward the payment
of the debt and when the allied gov
ernments begin to finance themselves
on a definite basis the value of their
currency will increase and interna
tional exchange, which is the basis
of all trade, will tend to become
equalized. With exchange improved,
the purchasing power of Europe will
gradually return. Once the purchas
ing power of Europe is restored,
American surplus goods can be ex
ported and the firms which have
closed down their factories will want
to reopen them so as to supply Eu
rope. Indeed, the international bank
ers who have favored the League of
Nations and American co-operation
with Europe in matters of finance
have argued that American factories
would never have closed down if two
years ago the United States had rat
ified the Versailles treaty and ‘ en
tered into closer financial relation
ship with Europe. However that may
be, the fact is the same argument is
being made now in behalf of the
Hughes-Knox treaty, namely, that
ratification will “stabilize economic
conditions’’ in Europe and thus help
America to sell her goods.
Congress Backward
Third, congress has been vainly
urged to use the war finance corpor
ation to use its funds to pay the
railroads certain sums owed them.
This, it has been contended, would
mean the placing of half a billion
dollars of money into purchases for
equipment and would mean that the
steel business and other trades af
fected by railroad development would
have to take back many of the men
they have laid off. Mr. Harding
pleaded with congress to act on the
railroad bill . before it recessed so
that an Improvement in the indus
trial situation might result, but the
senate refused to allow the plea to
interfere with its plans for a month’s
vacation.
Fourth, congress has debated first
the tariff and then the revenue bill
and has failed to pass either one.
The administration has urged action
right along, contending that the bus
iness men of the country want to
know what their taxes will be before
they make any plans for expansion
or the reopening of factories now
closed down. It is practically as
difficult to operate a business with
out knowing the size of the year’s
tax bill as to try to get along with
out knowing from week to week or
year to year what the payroll will
be. Business petitioned congress
to hurry up and get the tax bill
through by July 1, so that planning
could be done during the summer
months. Now it will be late autumn
before there will be a revenue bill.
The administration will have to keep
congress constantly reminded of its
duty to get results on the tax bill,
the passage of which is expected to
stimulate business.
The unemployment conference is
generally commended jin Washing
ton as a move in the direction of dis
covering the true facts, but when
anybody asks an administration of
ficial what is to be done with the
facts, what remedies are proposed,
the inevitable answer is a shrug of
the shoulders and the expression of
a hope that congress will take heed
and employ itself with pending leg
islation.
Georgia Bride of
Arrested Man Will
Stick by Husband
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. —Declar-
ing an intention of sticking by her
husband no matter what happened,
Mrs. Walter Krout, bride of two
weeks, accompanied her husband to
Baltimore today, where he is to be
arraigned on charges of forgery.
Krout, who was arrested, here Tues
day and who is saiCi oy the police
to have confessed to raising and
forging a number of checks ’n sev
eral eastern cities, was said by po
lice today to have been identified
by an official of a Baltimore bank
as the man who had deposited a
forged check for $2,100 in that bank.
He is alleged to have victimized sev
eral other Baltimore banks, using
different names.
Krout is said to have told the po
lice he was traveling salesman for
the Check Protectograph company,
of Richmond, Va., and that the rais
ing of checks was so simple he could
not resist the temptation 'as he
wanted the money tc show his bride
a good time.
Mrs. Krout is said to be the daugh
ter of a widely known Rome, Ga.,
business man.
Thirty-Third Degree
Mason Dies in Boston
RENO, Nev., Sept. 1. —Adolphus L.
Fitzgerald, of Eureka, Nev., eighty
one, dean of the supreme consistory
of the thirty-third degree Scottish
Rite Masonry, for the jurisdiction of
the United States, died yesterday at
the hort» of his son in Boston. Mass.,
according to word received here to
day. He was born in North Carolina
and served with the Confederate
army throughout the Civil war. He
was chief justice of Nevada in 1894
and was leader of the Silver party
in the first Bryan campaign of 1896.
Woman May Seek
Athens Postmastership
WASHINGTON, Sept. I.—The civil
service commission announces there
will be an examination held at Ath
ens, Ga., September 20, to designate
eligibles for appointment, as post
master in that city. The Athfens of
fice is now vacant and an acting
postmaster is officiating. The of
fice pays $3,600 per annum.
It is understood here that among
the applicants for the position -will
be Mrs. Samuel J. Tribble, widow of
the late Representative Tribble, of
the Eighth Georgia district.
SATURDAT, SEPTEMBER 3, 192f<
YORK TELLS CONGREGATION
MONEY CANNOT TEMPT HIM
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W \ A TALKS - WITH HO
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SKETCHES OF SERGEANT 1 uRK MADE BY ARTIEST GROVE,
WHICH YORK AUTOGRAPHED.
Declares He Will Not Exploit
Patriotism Vaudeville
Offer of S3OO Weekly Is
Spurned
CLEVELAND, O.—“I could have
anything in the world that I want,
but—
“My conscience simply will not
permit me to exploit patriotism.”
Sergeant Alvin C. York, whom Gen
eral Pershing called “t'he freatest
hero of the World war,” had just
finished an evangelistic address be
fore a religious gathering at Nazarene
tabernacle here. He had held a
packed hall Intensely interested for
close to an hour with a “heart to
heart talk on conscience.”
"‘The day I left for Cleveland,”
said York, ‘“I received an offer from
a vaudev’Ue concern in New York.
They proposed to pay me S3OO a
week. or. a 20-week contract, for
speaking 30 minuses from the stage
each evening.
Spurns Offer
"I didn’t answer the offer. I’m
not interested in making money out
of patriotism. It is only one of
many offers that I have had —and
turned down.”
And this, in spite of the fact that
there is a $12,500 mortgage on York’s
farm near Pall Mall, Tenn., which
will soon be due.
"If I could stand in the open on
my farm and say, ‘This is my farm,
then things would he about as bright
for my wife and child and myself as
they possibly could be,” York con
tinued. , .
“The farm was given me by
friends in Tennessee. They paid
$6,250 down, leawing a balance ol
$18,750, to be cleared In four insta 1-
ments. The first payment has been
made and the second is due on No
vember 18. About $5,000 must be
paid at that time
“Whether my friends will be able
to make that payment I cannot say
They are trying hard to raise the
money, Crisis
York says if the payment is not
made on time, the whole balance of
the lien becomes immediately due.
‘"No doubt that would mean .that
I’d have to give up the farm, he
added ‘"But I believe that my pray
prs will be answered.” . .
A=ked what he would get out of
his religious talks in Cleveland,
Y °“‘Oh, e they’’# pay my
a little more. But they’re giving me
a chance to talk religion—an oppor
tunity to attempt to help other men
to see the right way. That means
more to me than talking from a vau
deville stage for money.
York was asked if he would ac
cept a captaincy with retired pay, if
the McKellar bill, which provides
that, is passed by
“Certainly.” he said, that,is, _t I
do-’t have to parade before the pub
lie to get it.”
Socialists Score Failure
To Grant Pardon to Debs
CHICAGO, Sept. 1 —ln a statement
issued today commenting on Pr-si
dent Harding’s faiiure to act on an
application for a pardon for Eugene
Debs until after the peace treaty
with Germany is ratified, the Social
ist national executive committee,
which is meeting here, declared we
decline to accept the latest reason
for failure to act. It is not in ac
cord with the known facts
The statement refers to the re
lease of many convicted German
spies, some of whom "were convicted
of placing bombs on ships sailing for
European ports” and denounces the
the statement says,
“learns with profound regret and in
dignation that, after months of wait
ing, no definite action has been taken
by President Harding. . . . The United
States has today the unenviable dis
tinction of being the only country
where the administration has not
granted a full amnesty to all its po
litical prisoners.”
Fifth World Tour
For Little Traveler
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SAN FRANCISCO —Little Am
elia Volger, born in Singapore,
has circled the earth four times.
With her mother.. Mrs. Fva Vol
ger, she will complete her fifth
globe girdle when they reach
Hankow where Mr. Volger is the
representative of banking inter
ests.
New Aerial Weapons
To Be Tried in Tests
On Warship Alabama
WASHINGTON, Sept. I.—(By the
Associated Press.) —New weapons of
aerial warfare will be given an Initial
test when the army air service con
ducts Its next bombing operation—a
night attack on the old battleship
Alabama. The present plan Is to
stage the attack about September 15,
probably at the scene of the recent
tests upon the former German craft,
off the Virginia capes.
A "light barrage” composed of
giant aerial flares, each of more than
200,000 candlepower, will be one fea
ture of the attack. Army engineers
have submitted such enthusiastic re
ports on this weapon that larger
flares, estimated to be equal to
1,000,000 candles have been placed
under construction.
Giving a greenish-white light, lit
erally “brighter than day,” the flares
to be used In the Alabama test will
illuminate an area of five square
miles and expert flyers say should
enable the aviators to obtain greater
accuracy than in daytime. The flares
are attached to a parachute of white
silk which reflects the light down
ward with sufficient intensity, it is
believed, to blind the officers and
gunners on the ship under attack so
as to demoralize any plan for de
fense, while keeping the upper air
reaches shrouded in gloom.
It will not be the object of the
army pilots to see how quickly they
can sink the Alabama, officials said
today, but rather to try out special
gas and non-extinguishable phos
phorus bombs on her, as well as to
ascertain the effect of small demoli
tion bombs. Bombs up to 4.0C0
pounds each may be used.
11 Miners Killed,
7 Hurt, in Explosion
HARRISBURG, 111., Sept. I.—Elev
en miners were killed and seven in
jured in the explosion in the Harco
company’s mine near here. More
than four hundred others at work
in the mine when the explosion oc
curred were accounted for.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. I.—lndica
tions of a broad general business re
covery throughout the country are
lacking still, according to the review
of financial and economic conditions
during August 1 Issued by the fed
eral reserve board.
“Slight improvement," the board
said, “in some branches of foreign
trade, fairly good agricultural yield
and enlargement of manufacturing
demands seem to point to a more
favorable autumn season, but the sit
uation is not such as to forecast any
extensive or immediate revival of
business in a large sense.”
Heavy movement of agricultural
products to market, hastened by a
revival of a fair export demand, the
board declared was the outstanding •
economic activity of the month. De
terioration of some crops, it added,
notably cotton, had modified the ag
ricultural outlook but cost readjust-,
ments in many agricultural lines was
approaching a point where it was
probable some crops would show
good returns.
Early crop movement, the board
continued, with resulting liquidation
of ouststanding Indebtedness had les
sened the intensity of the credit de
mands usual during the marketing
season.
Taking up the employment problem,
which President Harding has called
a national conference to solve, the
board asserted that "large figures
for unemployment have been trans
mitted to congress, but it should be
remembered that these figures are
based on comparisons with peak pe
riods of employment in 1920. There
are Indications of increasing employ
ment in various manufacturing indus
tries, but taken as a whole the em
ployment situation for the month of
August appears to show but little
change from the precednig month.
10 Per Cent Return
On Apartments Fixed
NEW YORK, Sept. I.—A return of
10 per cent upon the value of apart
ment houses was fixed as reasonable
by the appellate term of the Brooklyn
supreme court in an opinion given
for the guidance of justices of mu»
niclpal courts in the great rent liti
gation that is expected in connection
with New York’s annual moving day,
October 1.
The court suggested that munici
pal judges ascertain the fair market
value of the premises Involved in
rent cases, *he gross rentals de
manded by the landlord and the al
lowable operating expenses for the
year and do a little arithmetic.
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