THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1922. Miss Roy den, England 's First Woman Preacher, Assails Reformers For ' 'Pointing Finger of Scorn Instead of Lending Helping Hand" m . . m m f m a &l m mti l rn m ai r- r- ncnpiT nr pii i inu NUiK MAT ULtAK RHUOTrnw nr iirnmi in i i 1 1 in i in i n SFFN WITH RnNIIS- IVIT5ILKT Ur MbllUlM INHORTON MURDER i ( PRESIDENTUNEASY I te jj 1 lawyers and Police Recall Lack of Any Prosecution of Jrs. Brooks. WHITMAN INVESTIGATED Worst Finance Jam Since War May Compel Harding to Address Congress. By David Lawrence. tion of Laresch for 2d De gree Murder "Merciful." Mcriibers of tlie bar practising In (ho criminal courts tire awaiting with Interest the urtlon and comment of auov, juuier upon mo recommcnuauons i!rftf tho Grand Jury which, under direc tion of ox-Gov. Whitman, encaged In an Investigation of why Mrs. Lucille Kranu Brooks was never tried for her alleged part In tho murder of Pollr Lieut. Floyd Horton and turned In a report exonerating not only Mrs. Brooks, the wlfo of a wealthy Chicago insurancn man ami politician,, but Nicholas Laresch, convicted of the murder In a minor degree and now serving a term of twenty years In Sing Sing Prison. The Pollen Department Is also awaiting with Intense interest tho comment of Gov. Miller upon that portion of the report of the Grand Jury which states that "there Is very grave doubt whether Nicholas Laresch was. In fact, guilty of the crime for which ho was convicted or of any crime In connection with tho killing of Lieut. Horton." Tb Interest of lawyers Is aroused chiefly by the fact that In this case rhe Grand Jury has taken upon lttelf ihe task of reviewing the evidence taken In a murder trial upon which a petit Jury found a verdict which was indorsed by tho court. When Attorney General Newton designated Mr. Whitman as a Special Deputy to Inquire into tho reason Miy Mrs. Hrooks, wlio owned and yirnlshed the revolver with which Stlcut. Horton was killed, escaped 'prosecution for her part In the mur der, it was stated that District At torney Banton had demanded tho In vestigation because he not then connected with the District Attorney's office had acted us the woman's counsel at the time of her arrest and advised her to go before tho Grand Jury. Also, It was hinted that Mr. Banton had been Inspired to action by complaints which had been made to him and to Gov. Miller that there had been a miscarriage of justice In tho Brooks case. The .inquiry was begun early In. February. The pre sentment was handed up two days go. It. Is recalled by lawyers and police men and friends of Lieut. Horton, who was a police officer of the highest class, that these facts were brought out in connection with his murder. Mrs. Brooks and Joe Laresch rode to the apartment houso at No. 546 West liOth Street in a toxlcali driven by IVicholaa Laresch on tho night of Dec. Vl7, 1920. All were drunk. Joe Laresch had a revolver which Mrs. Brooks had given him and at her Instigation he was bent upon shooting Tyler Hair ston. the Negro elevator man In the apartment house. Mrs. Brooks had chargod that Halrston had insulted her. Joe Laresch entered the lobby of JKio apartment house and fired a shot Lt tho Negro In charge of the tele. ' phone switchboard with murderous intent. The Penal Code proscribes that persons In tho company of a person who commits a murder while engaged In the commission of a fel ony are automatically guilty of the same crime as the actual killer mur der In tho first degree. After firing tho shot Joe Laresch ran back to and entered the taxlcab. Lieut. Horton, on hla way to the Hath Street subway station, heard the shot , uuu I t -v-1 1 lull 41.111 Villi;! the cab. Horton Jumped on tho run ning board and somebody In the cab shot him. Ho fired a shot that killed Joe Laresch. Nicholas .Laresch drove the car away with Mrs. Brooks and the body of his brother. Horton, mortally wounded and lying in tho street, wrote down on a slip of paper the license number of the vanishing car. Through this the car was traced and Nicholas Laresch , and Mrs. Brooks wore arrested. 7 There was no charge made against -Mrs. Brooks of violation or the Hull! van law, although It .is customary to prosecute such a charge against all persons found to bo in possession of a revolver mid without a permit. In regard to tho ownership of tho tevolver used In the killing of Lieut Horton, Joe Laresch said In thi 'JBombs last night to a World reporter: ilrTho pistol Joe used was Mrs. T.rooKs'a. She put It In her stocking." Thcro hi no way to ascertain if these facta were disproved by tho ex onerating Grand Jury. Those who aro Interested In tho outcome of the extraonllnary proceeding anticipate that Gov. Miller, in taking action upon the presentment and recommcn datlons of executive clemency toward Nicholas Laresch, will clear up the mystery which stilt surrounds the in- I vestigatlon. SMOKESTACK CAUSES $2,500 FIRE ON CADEO Local Are apparatus was called to fight a tire wmcli started ahourd the steamship Cadco, owned by the Knto Steamship Company, and lying In the yards or Ihe mbicii island Shipbuilding Corporation nt Port rtichmohU, iSlulcn island, early to-day. JUi overheated smokestack cuused n portion of the vessels deck lo catel Jre. Tho blazo was fin ckly ex. inculshed. Damage Has cstlniutcd nl l'he vessel Is undergoing ivDalr at thn aM. ... HHMMHH liaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM HkliiiiiH HiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiK apnOBHipjjjjjjjjiijjjjjj TVZta.'M.Utmnil MrMl kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaaaaaaWaaaal ux "A minister must not try to reform propie, hut to iinAcrNtnnil llicm." Woman Who Was in Murder Car m When Lieut. Horton Met Death Mrs LUCILLE E His Ham Quest Comes to Grief In Kosher Shop Promises to "Tell All" When Arrested, but I lasn't Got Ham Yet. As Fred La Jole swung beneath a freight car in New Haven last night his nostrils were caressed by the tantalizing aioina of broiling ham In the station restaurant "With a bit of luck," he prgmlbod himself, "I'll have some ham before sunrise." About midnight the train stopped In tho Mott Haven yard Fred crawled out and went In quest of ham. At 3:30 o'clock this morning ho was urrcstcd by Patrolman Schardcl. "I'll tell all." he said, "If you'll feed me some ham." He hasn't got tho hum yet, and he hasn't told "all," but tho police Eay he told a little, to wit: "I saw a butcher shop. I had some keys and ono of them worked. couldn't find any ham, but I got 63S pennies rom the cash register and a revolver. Do I get somo ham now?" "Not yet." He went to the suhwuy station at 13Sth Htrcet and Brook Avenue, the policeman following. When l.n Jole pointed the. gun nt the ticket holler the policeman disarmed and arrested hint. In Morrlsanla I'ollce Court, to-day Magistrate Harris held him in-?2o,000 ball on charges of burglary and viola tion of tho Sullivan Law. "But what 1 can't understand," ho said, "Is why there wasn't any ham In that shop." "IlccaUBe," said Patiolman Schaedcl, "that was Leo Frcund'u kosher shop." MINERS' FAMILIES FACE STARVATION Lawrence Dwyer of llecklcy, V. Va., a member of tho I2xccutlvo Com mlttcc of the United Mine Workers of America, reached New York to-day with the purpose of asking labor unions of this city to contribute funds for food for nearly 80,000 persons In the Went Virginia coal Holds who nrp fucimr starvation as a result of lie miners' strike. Mr. Duvet brought to union lieml qu.iittis the that rulings by Judse Knupp in the Fourth Federal Dlftrlct Court jcsteitlay, suspending many of the restrictions put upon union orginlicrs will probably, result "Tho finger of fcorn does not help its much us thn cordial jtanjl griisp wild rye of on-derstnndliig.' " j 1 "J P 4 -n .CI ln c for SonlsMwnnt ynnps jlrls to come to mo Sl!!-L-jjyif ? f -h('lr norldly life." . i ''' BROOKS. ALL WOMEN PRETTY AND 25, MEN 30, IN DOYLPS HEAVEN 1 lors.es, Dogs, Sport and Coun tr Homes Also Part of "1 lereafter," Says Lecturer. "Oh, death, where Is thy sting?" Every woman in I'aradiso will toe twenty-fivo and pretty, ac cording to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who told of life beyond tho grave at Carnegie Hall yesterday. All men will be lhlrt. There will ho love and laughter, and nil the physical attributes of this life, and a gieatcr power to enjoy them. The phjsic.il Ills and cares of earthly existence will bo forgot ten, our Ideals will bo fufillcd, our rifts (Irvelonotl. There will be horses and dogs, sport and country homes. Thoro will to no hypocrisy and tho self ish person will be shunned unUI he Is fit to associate Willi. You will get what ou deserve, no niorf and no less. Hut. all in all. It will not be so different, in a pleasant senbe. from the life we know now. After death there will bo three days' rest for tho ethcric body. Then those who havo boon kind nnd generous and humble will have a triumphant entry Into Paradise. In tho unionizing ol Hie West Virginia Holds. MYSTERIOUS" FIRE IN STUDENT'S HOME Bo) Mad Been Arrested in Scries of Trinity College Blazes. nrcitOKNFIKLD. N. .1.. April 19. Chief Coombs of Hie liergr nllrlcl pollen Is Investigating a Hie which started early this morning in the kitchen ut the homo of CicorKC Mulligan, lax col lector of ncrgenflcld Townsiiip, caus ing $100 damage. A policeman who aided in putting out the fire reported it of "mys terious origin, ns there was no fire In tho stove. In the house were Mr. and Mrs. Mulligan and their two sons. Oi-orge. onn of tho Mms. left Trinity College d few weeks ago. after an Investigation of a mt'.cs of llres In college buildings, two ol winch weic In the Mulligan boy's loom lie wus HiTCHlcd, but the raw was dropped. and no further action was taken ly the college authorities. The student aftcrwaidj returned home. "Ifl understand them in a liroail light I may lirlp jhom. If I nm a Mrs. Grundy I slionld drhe them away." L E Jersey City Mayor Acts After Complaint of Early Morning Party. Miss Mona King, young and pretty nurse, was dismissed from tho service of the Jersey City Isolation Hospital last night by Mayor Frank Hague following a hearing In his office. The principal charge against Miss King was that she had been seen kissing Dr. John II. O'Nell In the hospital. Mayor Hague, sitting as Commis sion of Public Affairs, found that Miss King had been guilty of conduct un becoming a nurse. At tho time of tho alleged oscillatory adventure, Aug. 29 last. Dr. O'Neill was medical officer in charge of the Isolation Hospital. He was dismissed from ho service last January. Miss King was suspended in February, after, it was charged, she and another woman and two men had come to the hospital nt 1 o'clock In the morning and sat In an automob'to In front making catcalls and Imitating crying children, according to Policeman Tim othy O'Donoghue, who is detailed to tho hospital. Miss King denied the charge that she had kissed Dr. O'Neill and said It was net unusual for nuisrs to return to tho horpltal after 1 o'clock In the morning with men friends who did not leave, frequently, until several hours later. FOUR IN CAR CAUGHT LOAFING NEAR HOME OF R. WANAMAKER Three Guns in Party Which Claimed to Be Looking for "Village" Sights. Detective Thomas Flokbohm and Louis Trcbuccl of tho Mercer Street Station, whllo patrolling tho Wash ington Squaro District early to-day In a high-power car, were told by Policeman William F. King that sev eral men In a sedan car had been acting suspiciously around. They had been loafing along near the home of Honorary Deputy Com-' missloner Hodman Wnnamaker, and tho homo nearby of Albert Shattuck, which was looted recently of $100,000 worth of Jewels, and had appeared particularly Interested In itho houses of exclusive, fashionable Washlngtun Mews. The detectives picked up King and they went on until they saw the sedan In Fifth Avenue, near Wash ington Mews. Manoeuvring their car, they ciowded the sedan to tho curb, jumped out and ordered Its occupants to put up their hands. They saw one of tho men had a revolver, and on tho floor of tho sedan were two tully loaded automatics. Tho prisoners described themselves aH Andrew Cervasio. thirty-two; Frank Ureese, twenty-seven; Joseph Hamilton, thirty-two, nnd John pola ! intra, thirty-one, all of Port Chester They said they had conio to New York to see tho sights of Greenwich Village and weio afraid to so un armed. All arc chatged with wola tion of tho Still van law. The owner of tho sedan is not yet known to the police. TROLLEYS WRECK TRUCK, CHAUFFEUR SCRATCHED A I n C'rimlinl lulu Splinter" n Wolilin lnxr linr.r Sercnni. Albert Fanllla, thirty-one. a uff. of No. 816 .Morris Park Avenue, the Bronx, drove hla truck Into a w' bound trolley as he avoided mi e.m bound ear this mornlnc on Kordham Uoad at Harlem Itlvcr Terrace. There was a terrific enwh of meiil and breaking Khw. Women puiecm.-ers screamed. The trolleys were backed away and Fanllla was found unilei Hie wreckage. He was only scruleleil. Street cleaners swept up the wniK.ise. Trnlim f'rnnh llrnil-Oiu llulli I'.n Klurrr Klllril. Pit ATT. Kan., April 10. -T.. -Kincern were killed nnd pitenc r weru reporled Injured in u liraU-nu a' lislon of liock lelnnd trninc N. 'I I and 31;'. ui I'lalne, Kan., early irnn: according to dcioatcnca JtttiYid tu'i-. NURSE IN HOSPITA USIEO ON GHARG FD D I "It Is humnii nature "I don't spo why girls shouldn't wmolip. To barco Is a drug, but If "ion line It, n li y shouldn't women!" to. balk iij tho 'dun'ts' and. lo dislike people who laVo nwny per, sonhl liberty." England's WomanPreacher, Who Believes in Divorce, Wins Confidence of Girls In Her "Clinic for Souls" She Proves She's No "Mrs. Grundy," and Her Counsel Is a Help to Her Confidants Has a Broad Outlook and Asks "Why Shouldn't Women Smoke If Men Do?" By Fay Stevenson. "The reformer's flnacr ol scorn leads to no maii'.i land. "The cordial hand grasp takes you over the top." (' That is the creed .of Miss A. Maude Hoyden, London's first woman preacher. Miss Hoyden Is the youngest daughter of tho lato Sir Thomas Hoyden, First Uaronct of Frankly Hall, Birkenhead, and Is pastor of tho Guild House Con gregational Church in Fccleston Square, London. She lias been tho guest of John D. Rockefeller Jr. for tho last twenty-four hours and Is now on her way to Hot Springs, Ark., to bo principal speaker of the Young Women's Christian As sociation at their seventh national convention. It was at tho National Board of the X. W. C A. at No. 600 Lex ington Avcnuo that Miss Hoyden expressed her creed not only with her lips, but with her clear brown eyes, her frank, wholesome man ner nnd broad outlook upon life. Although Miss Hoyden has been slightly lame since her birth, there Is something athletic and even ro bust about her. Iflko all true Kng llsh woncn, she Indulges in swim ming, rowing and outdoor games. Add to this splr.lt of sturdy womanhood a rich spiritual voice and a keen understanding of life and you have Just a faint idea of this energetic woman preacher of London, who Is in her forty sixth yeor. Miss Hoyden's path to the min istry has not been a rosy one. Tho Church of England does not believe In women preachers ami tho Hlshop of London forbade her to preach. Hut If the service is not a statutory ono a rector may invito any ono to ills pulpit, and It was tho rector of St. Hototph who Unit Invited Miss Itojdcn to his pulpit four years iikh. Slnco thai Miss Itojdcn, who wan educated at Chrltenhani Indies' College and Lady Mar garet Hall, Qxford. hi." held many Important positions. She was as sistant preacher at the City Tcmplo from 1918 to 1920; founder with Dr. I'ercy Dearmer of tho Fellowship Services at Kensington, nnd Is now pastor of the Guild House Congregational Church, where sho also conducts a "Clinic for Souls." Aiwa j s a passionate feminist. Maudo Itoydcn threw herself Into the Huffrago movement at .ts critical stago In IJngland, was editor of the Common Cause and mado us a visit In 1911 to get a few, of our viewpoints. During the war she did much lor thu outli of the countn, and was especially sympathetic with I'm uung girl; of tlie age. It Is in her dime, wiieie nlie discusses the lilt piuhlems of iun;. Ills to-day, during the attei ni.ilh of war, that she most thurmighl enjoju her mlnlstcri-il lareei. "A minister, especially a woman minister, must not try to reform lcople, but to understand them," Miss Hoyden tald, In her spiritual, magnetic voice, which has a ring of girlhood and tho lovo of youth and good things of life in it. "Tho finger of scorn does not help as much as tho co--dial land grasp nnd (- or under standing. Throw a -lone mil Mm tin n people, fioiu mhi: -n Ciem know jou iiiul'.iland lie and its temptations nnd the) will open their souls to ou "In my London 'Clinic for Souls' 1 waaL young uU-to-cutno "Prohibition . .wonld not do In England at all. An Englishman wants bis owti jolly way ahont gTPjajUgy to me with stories of their worldly life," said Mlas Royden. "If I understand them In a broad light I muy help them, but If I am a Mrs. Grundy I should drlvo them away. Tho girls of London havo even faced a more serious bo-callci modern girl problem titan hero In Now York. There they have to face splnlsterhood In many cases becauso tho man they would have married were killed. If they smoko a cigarette or drink I want to bo broud and big enough to aco their point of view." Then Miss Itoydcn gavo one of her merry laughs and asked: "Why shouldn't tho girls smoke Just as well as tho men If thoy wish to, anyway? Tobacco ts a drug, but If men use It why shouldn't women?" But In tho "Cllnlo for SoulV other questions besides dripklng and smoking and marriage are discussed. Because Miss Itoyden does not point the finger of scorn or try to reform many of tho girls who como to her. other subjects, subjects which affect their overy day life, como up. "I remember wc had a very In teresting discussion shortly be fore I came away," said Miss Roy den. "It was whether tho busi ness girl Is Justified In lying. So many girls were asked to tell their ngc, to tell whether they ever bad tuberculosis, or to tell that a dress had been reduced ' from a certain prlco when thoy knew It had not. Wc discuss all sorfs of problems when onco we understand each other In this clinic." In speaking of the change In England's religious attitude since, tho war, Miss Royden said you might dtvldo the people Into three classes: Those who bcllovo In "eat, drink nnd be merry, for to morrow we die," those who must havo an absolute faith In a better life, nnd those who had gone In for spiritualism. "Personally, I havo had lltt'o experience with spiritualism," she said, when I referred to Sir Arthur Conau Doyle, "but I be lievo It has been a great comfort, a new religion, to many KnglUh people. It soems to be a caso of human mind helping human mind." ' Naturally, Margot Asqulth's name came up, but Miss Royden smiled and said: "I do not wish to give my opinion of Margot." In speaking of Ijidy Astor. Miss Royden said: "That wonderful woman is highly thought of In Hngland." Mlsi Itoydcn does nut think that John Hull would npprovo of Prohibition at nil. "Prohibition would not do In England, I fear," she said. "An Englishman wants his own Jolly way about every thing. Of course, I have not been In New York long enough to no tice tho effect of Prohibition here, but hii mti n nature ts tho same all over the world, and people do not like to bo told what they can't do" Although the t.'huiL-i of Eng land does not sanctiou divorco, Mies Royden hrondly proclaims her belief in this step. "Sacred ns I hold the tlo of marriage," she said, "I believe Iti divorco where marriage proves a hopeless failure. And, of course, that means I bellee in remar riage und starting all omt again. Whep England Is willing to give t IchjiI .epi-rntiuti I think it would be much wiser lo she a diu;ce upon the same cause." This uniihiially clem iinmkd wu-iyin is the author of "Women und .tiie Kovcielgn State," "The llour-.An4 the Church." "BlejacA w i mm "As acrrd as T hold marriage, I bel I Iotc In dltorco where a mar riage proTes a hupo. less failure." CHAUFFEUR SAVES E Brickley Breaks Into House When Child's Nightdress Becomes Ignited. Carl W. Brickley. who drives a motor truck for a Bronx firm of fish dealers, heard a child's screams as he was passing the two-farally house ut No. 616 Hegncy Place, the Bronx. He stopped his truck and ran into tho house, breaking In the street door. There was an odor of burning clothes In tho place and, as tih ran Into a rear room, he found a little girl -with her nightgown In flames. Sho was alone In the kitchen. Ho smothered the blare with a blanket and, after a fruitless search for sweet oil, carried the child to his truck and drove as fast as he could to the ICbanon Hospital, flvo blocks away. Tho little girl was five-year-old Dorothy Schmidt, who had been left alone while hor mother went market ing. Sho had played too close to tho stove und a blazing coal had fallen on her. Sho was severely burned about tho hands, legs and body, but it was raid sho would recover, owing to tho chauffeur's timely rescue of her. Joan of Arc" and "Sex and Com mon Sense," a book written since tho war and Just published In Its first American edition by Q. P. Putnam's Son. In tho first chapter of this book Miss Royden deals quite frankly with tho "Disproportion of the Sexea." "But u cannot suppose," she writes, "that of 2,000,000 surplus women theso aro alt celibates. Among tho number how many aro young widows, girls who were engaged to marry men now dead, nnd how many whose natural vo cation was marriage, mother hood, home making, and all that Is meant by such as these? If this be tho normal vocation of tho normal woman, how many of theso havo been deprived of all that seemed to them to make life worth living? Is It astonishing If they rebel? If they determine to snatch at anything that lies In their grasp? If they affirm 'the right to motherhood' when they want children, or the satisfaction of the sex instinct when that need becomes Imperious" When I asked Miss Royden what her solution to this problem wns, she said: "Well, there will, of course, always bo a typo of woman who lovea her work, who finds in her career what she might have found In home and love of husband and children. For the other type we must be broad, we must try to under stand." This Is, Indeed, a broad state ment from a woman, but the richness of Miss Hoyden's soul had been brought out through a chapter In "Painted Windows." a book written by the samo anony mous author of "The Mirrors of Downing Street." "Miss Hoyden's memoirs, If they aro ever written." says this nuthor, "would have, I think, tho rather unusual merit of pleasing both saints and sinners; tho saints by tho depth and beauty of her spiritual experience, tho sinners by her freedom from every shade of cant and ih ,ier strong, almost masculine sym pathy with the dlllU'iiltlrs of our. human nature." CLOSING OF BROOKLYN NAVY YARD PROTESTED WASHINGTON. April J9. A dcleca Uon of tho Brooklyn Cluunhe.r of Com merce to-day urxed upon Kecelnry of Navy Denby the need for maintenance of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, pointing to Its neeejsllilllty to tlie lid'or market Hiid detp water nnd lt.i record of hand ling the crcntest ImlneKS du.iii? the war. lter Seeretno iMniiv luul to'l tlieni (hit tho MatiiH of the ard will depniid on what Cougicus dtKx with tlw Nvy Illll. the party ilt"d Senator I 'aider, I'olndixter. Newbeiry unrl Vt ' . ii'g Iiir good licatmenl fur the o.,'il in llm forthcoming bill. Tho pajiy was headed by ex-Congressman Koe, GIRL FROM DEATH BY FIRE IN HON! (Special Correapondent of The Eve nlno World.) WASHINGTON, April 19 (Copy right). GoVernmcnt finances aro In the worst Jam they have been In sine the war. Secretary Mellon estimates the total deficit for the fiscal year beginning July next at nearly a halt billion dol lars. Pongress Is on the verge of passing a soldiers' compensation bill as well ns other measures for rivers and harbors. Nobody knows how much higher the deficit may go. though officials estimate that if the roldler bonus bill should become law the amount of the deficit may reach a billion dollars. President Harding Is deeply con cerned over tho situation. Ho may read a special message to Congress In an effort not only to secure greater economy on existing appropriation bills but to head off the soldier bonus. The action of the Senate Republican caucus In voting to have a sotdUr bonus bill passed at this session pre cipitates the Issue. No specific bill was advocated by the caucus and th resolution can bo Interpreted, If tha Republicans choose, ns a vote In favor of a bonus bill with other forms of compensation besides cash or borrow ing, such as land grants, vocational aid, &c. The group tn the BenaU which favors the Hous bill will not let that be the Interpretation without a vigorous fight. Before the climax cfmes, however. several developments may be looked for, among them a reiteration of tha Government's financial situation, In an address by tho President to th Senate Mr. Harding knows thut If tha House bill were to come to a vote to-day it would be passed by an overwhelming majority. The swing In sentiment In the Senate toward passage of a bonus bill with money, tn It for the service men has been gradual. Talk of burying the bill in the Sen ate has been swept aside by the ac tivity of the bonus adherents, who threaten to Jam the whole legislative programme unless they get a vote on thn bonus. Once tha measure is up for voto, there, will bo-few who will dare W go on record against it. In these circumstanced, Mr. Har ding's only chance to prevent the sage of the House bill or any meas ure which further drains the Treas ury lies tn a mrssago setting forth tbe financial situation explicitly. It is feared this may injtire tha chances of the Republican majority In the com ing elections, because Mr. Harding will have to state publicly that the Administration faces a t)600,000,000 deficit and that tho economy pro gramme started out so auspiciously, with Director Dawes has failed to balance tho budget for 1923. Mr. Mellon, however, has already disclosed the painful facts, so that from a political viewpoint Mr. Har ding will not bo ablo to erase the im pression thus fox mado by tho an nouncement of a half billion dollar do ficlt. Unlpss Mr. Harding Is able to exercise further' control over his party In the Senate, the chances am tho de ficit for 1933 will grow larger. So the Kxecutlvc la compelled by clrcum btances to call a halt toward further expenditures. In many respects the fight that Is in prospect looks as though it will bring tho turning point In the Harding Administration. The President has not given vent to his feelings over tho , continued Indifference of Congress to his expressed wishes. Ho and his Cabinet had a fight hard to over throw a naval committee's recom mendation In tho House last week and the ICxccullvc is lielng encouraged to uso his Influence even fuither tn se cure Congressional acqulesence tn his viewpoint. Curiously enough, most members of Congress expect Mr. Harding to sur lendcr to them on the bonus issue, and they Insist that, deficit or no deficit, ho will -havo to sign tho bonus bill or seo It passed by a two-thlrds vote over his veto. Mr. Harding has not made public the strategy 'ho will adopt. Ono ipolnt however. Is clear. Tho plan to side track the tariff and take up tho bonus issues doesn't have his approval. He believes tho tariff pledgo should be redeemed before anything clso Is done, as thero Jiiis been so much delay. Tho tariff problem Is complicated; on every side. It looks like a pro longed debate. The supporters of tho bonus aro Impatient. The first skir mish will come over giving the bonus bill right of way over tho tariff. If defeated In that, tho supporters of th homi.s will merely renew their fight when the tariff Is out of the way. The statement of the Clovernme nt' fiscal situation is counted upon mean while to prevent precipitate action. For tho moment Secretary Mcllon'a announcement that even with the $200,000,000 payment of Interest oa thn British war debt to the United States there would bo a gross deficit of )J4SI, 000,000 has given members of Congi ess supporting tho bonus their liiggext surpiiKe.. They had counted on paying the bonus out of British funds. Mlhough it Is too curly to iy what the. ultimate fule of the bonus will l tho chances are tho 1311 budget will be binuller than 19!3, and It tha service men aro defeated at this ses sion they wIlLsurcly- win out before tho Presidential-campaign of -19:, t 4 i