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SATURDAY, MARCH 13. 1920
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TWO CENTS l,n Greater New York and I THREE CENTS
J within commuting dlotance I Elaewboro
fransit Lines
Quit Fare
Fight Here
_ i
flb-draw Plea for In
?ease From Board of
Estimate; To Seek Re?
lief From Legislature
flfecourtesy Said
$o Be Chief Cause
jjtyer Advises Action;
Stub-on Calls Hylan's
ExplanationTureBunk'
j|t traction companies yesterday
Map their fight before the Board
Jsjilmate for increased fares. In
?^formal statements counsel for
the receivers of the various compa
????otified Mayor Hylan, as chair
tjjn of the board, that they had been
by Judge Julius M.
Jiayer, of the Federal District
Court, to withdraw their petitions
relief, and would not again ap?
pear at the traction hearings before
the board.
While no further explanation of
hemdden withdrawal of the com
pf?s was given by counsel, the re
??Ters or the court, it is understood
that the underlying reason was al?
leged discourteous treatment on the
put of members of the Board of
Estimate, particularly the Mayor
lid Comptroller Craig, during the
hearings at the traction investiga?
tion. The point had been reached, it
wu said, where the traction repre
wnutives did not propose volun?
tarily to submit themselves further
to such treatment.
They felt that the hearings were not
tsndueted by the city officials with
serious intention of considering
'ftieir petitions for relief, but merely
f?r the purpose of discrediting the
b-panies. The Interporough Rapid
Tuosit Company did not formally
?i'tidraw its petition, bat only because
;. wu explained, its case had been
cealpleted before the Board of Esti?
rarte. The companies are now expect
{* to concentrate all their efforts for
ralhi.Bpon the Legislature, where bills
art pending giving the Public Service
CoRKsiasion power to Increase fares.
. Stimson Leads Withdrawal
.Ciflonel Henry L. Stimson. counsel
f?rEeeeiver Job E. Hedges or the New
York Railways Company (the surface
Site;, who has been the particular tar
Jit lor the thrusts of the Mayor and
Comptroller at recent hearings, was
at first to notify the Mayor of his
?ithdrawal. His note to the Mayor fol
"By direction of Judge Mayer, of
fee united States District Court, I
kg to inform you that I shall not
rmicipate in any further hearings
of your board upon the subject of
ft affairs of the New York Railways
Company. By the same direction the
wtition filed with the board on Jan
<Mj_J by Mr. Hedges as* receiver of
I tttt company is hereby withdrawn.
Sueh further Investigation into the
affaira of that property as your
ward may desire to make will not
m attended by counsel for the re?
ceiver,"
.Undley M. Garrison, receiver for the
?JoWyn Rapid Transit system, and
?ne? R. Sheffield, trustee in bank
"rtey for the Interborough Consoli
Mt?d Corooration, the holding corpora?
tion for the subways, elevated and sur
?e* jinej of the Interborough, sent
??war communications to the Mayor,
waptroller Craig declared that the
Wttdrawal of the petitions would not
?? the investigation. The action of
*? teeeivers pursuant to the instruc?
tion! of the eourt, he said, would not
Meet the power of the Board of Esti
**t? ty subpoena witnesses and con
2*| the inquiry. Corporation Coun
g Jon*, who has been conducting the
"?ring? for the city, is ill at home.
Brian Thinks He Knows Reason
JUjor Hylan, upon receiving Colonel
S**?'? letter, issued a statement in
?w? he inferred that the withdrawal
"??New York Railways Company
WlfcP* due to their leluctance to
fjwee certain important information
??!??? Corporation Counsel had asked
/Pwporetion Counsel Burr mad? a
25W ?t the last hearing for the
jjgenen of Important information
??"?Merer appeared before at these
P?*," said the Mayor. "The trac
fMotopany promised to have this in
PWlon at the next hearing. But
?_%r the withdrawal is due to this
?t I don't know."
to told of the Mayor's statement,
Stimson characterized it as
?_ 'unk" He pointed out that he
.w the laet hour of the last hearing
*_?in* 'n evidence all of the in
**tion and data that had been re
T*F** by the Corporation Counsel,
?i.__iother ?in? i*?"" to which
?Or"* h*<* referred aa not having
presented were all a matter of
?_ fn<1 ava?able to the Corporation
nit hu
?,*''U Guardia, President of the
3^* of Aldermen, said he waa sorry
'"? ?apanies had withdrawn theii
ET0?.'* He thought it was essential
T.* ?finite solution be obtained.
tg?S*??!? President Curran's eommeni
gifa't see why anybody should sub
?{??elf to the discourtesies and in
a_?|.insults of the Mayor and the
^roller unies? he is compelled to.'
?fen Island Dark Again
*kn Island was dark and -without
? ?ervic? last night for the third
?three weeks as the result of an
P at the plant of the Richmond
iAt?n<* Railroad Company at Liv?
ing? letting off the ferry at St
?fi? Poped their way to tie plazs
???__ lni that no ears were waitins
***_uu *!?? When they got home ai
t????* the help of the steam train?
g_t,?B?e8. most of them had to eat
<'_sh y candle light. The opening
^.SS?1* .Picture houses throughoul
T??mgh ?r/as delayed by the -fail*
~ *?? electric current.
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S1??? Qaerto Sprla? Water ai
f^i"* ******* Boa-Swaia, At
Berlin 'Junkers'
Plot Revolution
BERLIN, March 12.-~The Ger?
man government has discovered
a revolutionary plot organized by
a reactionary clique, which also
has been endeavoring to corrupt
the troops. The public security
forces and the Reichswehr have
been confined to barracks in
readiness for an emergency.
"Die Freiheit" alleges General
von Luettwitz is implicated.
Minister of Defense Noake has
ordered the arrest of Captain
Pab8t, Dr. von Kapp and two
other persons.
Two Jewelry
Shops in Same
Family Robbed
Feldman Idly Dining When
His Broadway Store and
That of Brother-in-Law
Are Entered by Thieves
Marcus Feldman, who owns a vest
pocket jewelry store at 1543 Broadway,
in the Gaiety Theater Building, went
out to dinner about 8:30 last night and
left in charge of the store his young
clerk, Albert Anusewitz. Over an
order of Weiner Schnitzel, Feldman
lingered long, wishing he had a nice
large stein of dark beer to go with it
Meanwhile things were happening at
the Feldman store. They involved a
bold attempt at robbery, which had as
decorative appendages a Bpell of pepper
throwing, a wild chase through crowded
streets in the heart of the theater dis?
trict, the sensational capture of the
two alleged thieves and th? recovery
of the stolen goods?all in the space of
twenty minutes.
Brother-in-Law Attacked
Nor was this all. While Marcus
Feldman was still lingering among the
pleasing odors of cooking in his favor?
ite restaurant, and about the time that
he was ordering his second cup of
? black coffee, Frank Schwartz, who has
a jewelrir store at 1870 Broadway, on
the southeast corner of Thirty-seventh
Street, was wasting'many precious mo.
meats in an attempt to inform Feld?
man, who is his brother-in-law, by
means of the telephone, that -he also
had been attacked, although in some?
what different fashion.
According to the police, in neither
case did the robbers get any loot worth
mentioning. The two men involved in
the Feldman affair, who said theyVere
Vincent De Marco, twenty, of 603 East
Fifteenth Street,- and Barrett?" Scolla,
twenty-five, of 133 Alexander Avenue,
the Bronx, Bpent last evening oh a
hard bed in a cell in the Wast Forty
seventh Street police station. Two
rings alleged to nave been taken from
the Feldman store were found on the
prisoners.
At midnight the lone bandit who
smashed the window of the Schwartz
store, and subsequently got away
through a B. R. T. subway manhole,
was still at large.
Clerk Blinded by Pepper
When Feldman finally strolled from
his restaurant to his store, he found
there a vastly different scene from the
one he had left. Anusewitz, the clerk,
was being treated by Dr. Cralg, of
Bellevue Hospital, for temporary blind?
ness, induced by the sudden Introduc?
tion to his wide open eyes of a quan?
tity of black pepper.
In the firm clutches of the law, as
represented by Traffic Patrolman, Ber?
nard Stager, were De Marco and Scolla.
Most of the transient population of
the Times Square District was strug?
gling and swirling around the door, and
over and above the clamor of many
tongue? arose the strident tones oi
brother-in-law Schwartz, who was curs?
ing, alternately, the telephone service
and the rotten luck of the Schwartz
Feldman family.
Anusewitz told the police that De
Marco entered the store shortly after
Feldman left and asked to be shown
diamond rings.
While he was looking at rings the
other man strolled in, he says, and
before he knew it one of the pair had
filled his eyes with pepper. The cus
Ontloued en p?fe Hght
Plot to Kidnap
Dempsey's Ex-Wife
Friend "of Pugilist Arrest*
ed9 Charged With Plan to
Prevent Her Testifying
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
SAN FRANCISCO, March 12.?With
the arrest of Bert Gardner, of Salt
Lake City, an intimate friend of Jack
Dempsey, champion heavyweight pugi?
list, at Tia Juana last Tuesday, ape
cial Agent O. O. Orr, of the Depart?
ment of Justice, believes he frustrated
an attempt to kidnap Mrs. Maxin?
Dempsey, divorced wife of the cham?
pion, from the jurisdiction of the
United States courts.
Mrs. Dempsey was not arrested bj
Orr, but accompanied him to Los An?
geles voluntarily. Gardner was placed
in jail ?In Loa Angeles on charges oi
"threatening, intimidating, influencinj
and corrupting a witness," the witness
Orr says, being Mrs. Dempsey.
According to Orr, other arrest? oi
men who accompanied Gardner acre?
the Mexican border and had a hand in
the alleged attempt to keep the cham?
pion's divorced wife from appearing
against him as a witness at the cominj
trial are expected.
Part of the plot to save Dempsey ant
Kearns at the forthcoming trial, ac
cording to Orr, was an attempt bj
Gardner and his associates to force th<
champion's divorced wife to sign a ???
ries of letters which could be used witl
telling effect as evidence for the de
fence.
LOS ANGELES. March 12.?Maxin?
Wayne, former wife of Jack Dempsey
heavyweight pugilist, who appeared a1
the Federal Building here to-day undei
trie escort of a special agent of the De?
partment of Justice, "related a star
tling story and will repeat it immedi
ately to the grand jury," according t<
Gordon Dawson, Assistant Unitec
States District Attorney.
Before being taken to the District
Attorney's office the former Mrs. Damp
sey said she was ready and willing t<
tell anything she knew.
7,000 Strike
On Coastwise
Piers To-day
N. Y. Longshoremen Vote
Walk-Out Unanimously
When Demands for $1
an Hour Are Refused
Entire Seaboard
Tie-Up Imminent
Employees From Boston
to Galveston Balloting;
Companies Stand Firm
Longshoremen, checkers and steve?
dores employed at this port by the
coastwise steamship companies voted
unanimously last night to go on strike
this morning for higher wages. The
strike vote was by way of reply to the
answer their employers returned to
demands the longshoremen made a
week ago.
The answer to the demands was made
through E. R. Richardson, vice-presi?
dent and general manager of the Ocean
Steamship Company (Savannah Lino).
Mr. Richardson declared that further
increase in wages was out of the ques?
tion. Already shipment of freight by
water was so expensive, he said, that
the railroads were in close competition
with the steamship companies. If the
men insisted upon their demands, he
asserted, it would mean tying up all
coastwise shipping and sending freight
by rail.
Get 65 Cents an Hour
By their unanimous vote the men
showed that they accepted the chal?
lenge to battle. They are getting 65
cents an hour now and demand in
1 creases which would put them on an
equal footing with the deep sea long?
shoremen who won their strike a fevr
months ago. About 7,000 men are at
fectod in New York. Coastwise long?
shoremen's unions were taking a strike I
vote last night at all Atlantic ports be-1
tween Boston and Galveston.
Instead of the 05 cents an hour, with !
$1 an hour for overtime, the longshore?
men insist upon $1 an hour and $2
an hour for overtime. The checkers,
who work forty-eight hours a week
for $25, demand $38.50 and a forty-four
hour week. Some of the men who work
for a flat rate of $35 a week are fight?
ing for a 25 per cent increase.
James Rilev, organizer of the check?
ers' union, declared that an increase in
wages had been promised by the
steamship companies to, be effective
March 1, when private operation of the
lines was resunredrr This was denied by
representatives of the company, who
said that the award made by the Na?
tional Adjustment Commission last
October was agreed to by employer?
and employees and is effective until
September 80. t
Rates Prohibitive
In his reply to the strikers Mr. Rich
! ardson said he was aware of the de
j mands made upon the men by the high
j cost of living and conceded that wages
I are rightfully a first charge on indus
! try, but urged that they be patient un
| til an increase of freight rates would
, enable the lines' to reconsider the
I proposition of increasing the pay of
the men if the high cost of living con
I tinued. Just now he said the termi
| nal expenses are prohibitive and that
any further increase at this time would
inevitably put the coastwise lines out
of business and the longshoremen
I would have no work at all.
In a letter which he sent yesterday
to the vice-president of the Longshore?
men's Association Mr. Richardson
called attention to the fact that the
union had been kept informed of the
financial situation of the steamship
companies, and added:
"Mature and extended consideration
on our part confirms our conviction
that members of your association en?
gaged in coastwise terminals are paid
a fair and reasonable wage for the
work they perform.
"Surely it must be recognized by the j
men that to increase the freight hand- !
-
Continued tn p?|? i?ve?
Poincare Assails
Supreme Council
PARIS, March 12.?-Raymond
Poincar?, former President, in his
first political article in the "Re?
vue des Deux Mondes," assails
the attitude of the Supreme Coun?
cil on Russia, the Adriatic, the
East and the small nations. He
expresses the wish that the coun?
cil will soon "sleep its last, sleep."
$100,000,000
Home Building
Plan Launched
Mayor Asks Contractors,
Union Leaders and Real
Estate Financiers to Get
Together on Big Program
Builders, real estate financiers, con?
tractors, building material dealers and
labor union officials will be invited by
Mayor Hylan to attend a conference
to be held at City Hall on Mondov to
discuss plans to soivo the ? housing
problem.
Aroused by the scarcity of houses
and apartments and by threats of land?
lords to demand still higher rents, the
Mayor conferred yesterday with Ed?
ward P. Doyle, representing the Real
Estate Board. Later the Mayor said
Mr. Doyle had informed him that real
estate financiers were ready to put up
$50,000,000 to $100,000,000 to start at
once a building program to relieve tho
situation. All the builders want, the
Mayor said, was assurance from the
building trades unions that strikes or
other labor troubles would not interfere
with construction when it had been
begun.
"I hope to bring together all the
labor leaders, builders and others vi?
tally interested in the program," said
the Mayor. "I will ask them to come
to some agreement. However great
the difficulties, there must be some
solution. People must be housed.
Fixed Prices Sought
"I understand that the builders ask
that the building trades shall agree to
a fixed wage for a stated period, prob?
ably a, year or eighteen months, and,
that in that period they will perform
100 per cent work. I haven't the slight?
est doubt that the union men will do
everything they can to relieve the
situation.
"Great emergencies demand action.
It would be futile to have any more
protracted hearings on the housing
problem. Next Monday we ought to
emerge from our conference with a
fixed plan in mind."
The Mayor said he had not decided
who would be asked to the conference.
Contractors are not doing any build?
ing simply because of uncertain con?
ditions ahead, including labor unrest,
said Mr. Doyle.
"If real estate investors can obtain
assurances that prices and wages will
remain fixed for a stated period we
will have the biggest building boom
in history," he said. "Within a year
the tension will be relieved. The city
needs 40,000 new apartments every
year. The shortage now amounts to
several times that much."
Tenants Form League
Headquarters for the Tenants' Rights
League were opened yesterday at the
Madison Club, 922 St. Marks Avenue,
Brooklyn. Nomer Gray, president of
the Association of Men Teachers and
Principals of New York, Who organized
the leagu?, announced that 1,000,000
tenants who say they are victims of
rent profiteering will be enrolled if
possible.
Thousands of circulars were sent out
by the league yesterday. They read:
"Has your rent been raised? Do you
expect another raise? Solution: Join
the Tenants' Rights League, which is
seeking to bring into one organization
Continuad on mo? thron
City Bus System Is Expected
To Doom Surface Car Lines
If the hopes of Mayor Hylan are
realized, the day is coming when sur?
face cars in New York City will follow
the horsecar into oblivion.
With the declaration that it was only
the beginning of city operation of
busses, Mayor Hylan yesterday led the
members of the Board of Estimate in
voting for an appropriation of $1,140,
000 to purchase two hundred motor
busses for the city to be run on routes
to be determined later.
The present municipal bus lines, es?
tablished primarily to take the place
of abandoned surface lines, are under
the supervision of Commissioner
Grover A. Whalen, of the Department
of Plant and Structures, but are pri?
vately operated. The new lines when
installed will place the city in direct
competition with the surface lines in
Manhattan, as well as in the other bor?
oughs, and as they increase and multi?
ply are expected to spell the doom of
the already embarrassed surface lines.
Mayor Hylan. as recently as the last
hearing on the traction situation be?
fore the Board of Estimate, Wednes?
day, declared the solution of the transit
problem lay in operating city busses
instead of surface cars, in conjunction
with the sfabway and elevated lines.
Statement by Whalen
Commissioner Whalen, in a state?
ment issued following yesterday's ac?
tion of the Board of Estimate, said:
"When the busses are placed in op?
eration and the streetcars and street?
car tracks are ' eliminated from the
roadways it will completely revolution?
ize the city's traffic problems.
"The policy of the city in connection
with the operation of the bus system
by the Department of Plant and Struc?
tures will be one of courtesy and effi?
cient service. ? It will also afford to the
City of New York an additional source
of revenue which is much needed.
"The routes upon which the busses
will operate have net been determined
upon, bat it will be my endeavor to
ft
submit without delay to the Beard of
Estimate and Apportionment such pro?
posed routes as will meet the immediate
needs. Plans and specifications will
be submitted to the Board of Estimate
and Apportionment at once for ap?
proval of a contract for the purchase
of the busses, so that bids may be
opened as soon as possible.
To Use Latest Types
"The type of bus that will finally be
determined upon will be such as will
fill every requirement. We will have
a type of bus that will be modern in
every essential, highly sanitary and
well ventilated, a stepless bus and one
that will not permit of overcrowding."
The board was" unanimous in voting
the appropriation, and it was passed
without debate. Mayor Hylan told
Commissioner Whalen, who was pres?
ent, to see that some of the new busses
went to Borough President Van Name
of Richmond, where the traction situ?
ation is acute since the abandonment
of service by the Midland Railroad
Company surface lines. Commissioner
Whalen declared that Staten Island
would receive first consideration.
On motion of Major F. H. La Guardia,
President of the Board of Aldermen,
the board also authorized Commissioner
Whalen to operate a line of busses from
the ferry terminal at St. George, Staten
Island, to the army base hospital at
Fox Hills for a five-cent fare. There ia
a private bus line operated at present
between these two points which chargei
a 25-cent fare.
Table Police Protest
Borough President Curran of Man?
hattan offered a resolution that th?
board disapprove the bill now befor?
the Legislature providing for perma
nent appointment of police inspectors
Mr. Curran said that, while the bil
had been urged in Albany by Polio
Commissioner Enright and Inspectoi
Dominick Henry, the patrolmen in th?
department were against it to a man
The Curran resolution was filed by i
vote of 9 to 7. The board approve<
?the expenditure of $10,000 to providi
permanent concrets benches in Csn
tral Park.
France Asks
Explanation
From Wilson
Strong Protest Against
President's Charge of
Militarism Filed by
Ambassador Jusserand
Evinces Surprise
At Accusation
Requests That He More
Clearly Define Meaning
He Sought to Convey
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 12.?The
French government has officially com?
municated to the United States its
"displeasure" at President Wilson's
reference to France as a militaristic
nation. The reference was made in the
President's recent letter to Senator
Hitchcock bearing upon the treaty situ?
ation in the Senate.
Reports that the French government
was taking steps to inform this gov?
ernment of its displeasure at the Pres?
ident's words reached diplomatic cir?
cles soon after publication of the Pr?s- i
ident's letter. It was admitted at the |
State Department to-day that a protest ]
has been communicated to the depart?
ment.
The French Ambassador, J. J. Jusse?
rand, has laid before the State Depart?
ment what was to-day characterized as
an "inquiry," but which in reality is
understood to be a strong protest
against the references made by the
President to militarism in France and
the presence of militaristic tendencies
in the French government.
What President Said
The words of the President to which
France has objected were used in con?
nection with the President's plea
against the adoption by the Senate of
a reservation to Article X that, in his
opinion, would impair the obligations
of the United States under the treaty.
The President said:
"It must not bo forgotten, Senator,
that this article constitutes a renun?
ciation of wrong ambition on the
part of powerful nations with whom
we were associated in the war. It is
by no meanB certain that without
this article any such renunciation
will take place. Militaristic ambi?
tions and Imperialistic policies are
by no means dead, even in the coun?
sels of the nations whom we most
trust, and with whom we most desire
to be associated in the task of peace.
Throughout the sessions of the Con?
ference of Paris it was evident that
a militaristic party, under the most
influential leadership, was seeking to
gain ascendency in the counsels of
France. They were defeated then,
but are in control now. The chief
arguments advanced in Paris in sup?
port of the Italian claims on the
Adriatic were strategic arguments?
that is to say, military arguments,
which had at their back the thought
of naval supremacy in that sea. For
my own part, I am as intolerant or
imperialistic designs on the part of
other nations as I was of such de?
signs on the part of Germany."
State Department Is Silent
Officials of the State Department de?
clined to discuss the precise character
of the position France has taken.
Whether the protest is a written state?
ment or was delivered orally by Am?
bassador Jusserand was not disclosed.
It is believed that the French gov?
ernment has instructed Ambassador
Jusserand to inform the State Depart?
ment that the French government is
surprised at the references in Presi?
dent Wilson's letter to the present
government there, and to request that
the President inform the French gov?
ernment more clearly the meaning he
sought to convey. The French Ambas?
sador is understood to have made it
plain to the State Department that his
government was at a loss to see justi?
fication for the assertions made by
President Wilson and to welcome any
fuller statement that would make un?
mistakable the meaning the President
intended.
The French Embassy to-day issued
a statement for Marshal Foch denying
that the generalissimo was opposed to
the league of nations, as reported in
Paris dispatches printed in this country.
Vessel in Peril;
Fog Balks Rescue
Steamer Lake Deval* 29
Aboard, Labors Heavily
Off Shinnecock Light
The steamship Lake Deval, bound
from Galveston for Boston, which went
aground yesterday in the fog off Shin?
necock Light, Southampton, L. L, was
reported last night to be laboring
heavily In a ground swell and com?
pletely hidden from shore by a dense
fog.
Four of her crew of thirty-three
men who came ashore yesterday at
noon in a lifeboat to ask for the as?
sistance of tugs weTe unable to get
back to her Decause of the thick
weather. As soon as the vessel's plight
became known the coast guard cutter
Seneea was sent to her assistance, but
it is thought the cutter was unable
to find her.
The crew of the coast guard sta?
tion No. 71 at Southampton, in com?
mand of Captain William S. Bennett,
took positions on the beach ready to go
out to the stranded vessel when the
weather clears. The Lake Deval, in
command of Captain E. Daniels, is
laden with sulphur.
The disabled freighter Tyee, which
was taken in tow on Thursday by the
steamship Lake Markham, broke from
her lines yesterday and was reported
missing in the fog off Atlantic City.
Radio messages received last night by
the Naval Communication Service from
the Lake Markham said that she had
the Tyee again in tow and was heading
for Ambrose Channel.
According to advices received in this
city yesterday by the Ward Line, the
company's steamship Esperanza was
towed safely yesterday to Progreso,
! Yucatan. She had gone aground on
? Madagascar Reef. Her passengers will
j be sent north by another vessel of the
Ward Line.
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Lodge Presents Final
Article X Compromise;
Democrats Reject Plan
Text of New Compromise Reservation
To Article X Offered by Senator Lodge
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 12.?The compromise reservation to Ar?
ticle X, which was introduced in the Senate to-day by Senator Lodge,
reads :
"The United States assumes no obligation to preserve the terri?
torial integrity or political independence of any other country by the
use of its military or naval forces, its resources, or any form of
economic discrimination, or to interfere in controversies between na?
tions, whether members of the league or not, under the provisions of
Article X, or to employ the military or naval forces of the United States
under any article of the treaty for any purpose, unless in any particular
case the Congress, which, under the Constitution, has the sole power to
declare war or authorize the employment of the military or naval forces
of the United States, shall, in the exercise of full liberty of action, by
act or joint resolution so provide."
Schools Send
36,000 Pupils
Home in Week
1,293 Classes Dismissed in
Seven Days Because of
the Shortage of Teachers;
Situation Grows Worse
i ??'
During the first week in March 36,000
children were sent home from New
York's public schools because there
was no teacher available to instruct
them.
Between February 25 and March 2,
both dates inclusive, 1,293 classes were
dismissed for the same reason. From
February 18 to February 24 the number
of classes dismissed was 1,265.
The fact3 indicate that the situation
is growing worse. Between January
28 and February 3, for example, there
were vl,180 classes turned into the
streets for a minimum period of one
school day as a direct result of the
teacher shortage.
Brooklyn Suffers Most ?
The classified figures for this earlier
period, which, Board of Education of?
ficials say, is broadly representative of
the average distribution, reveal Brook?
lyn as the worst sufferer, with Man?
hattan next, and the Bronx, Queens
and Richmond following in order. It
may be accepted therefore as estab?
lished that the condition is neither
temporary nor peculiar to any particu?
lar locality.
The board's itemized statement of
classes dismissed during the January
28 to February 3 period shows 386
classes in Manhattan, 121 in the Bronx,
686 in Brooklyn, 59 in Queens and 28
in Richmond.
The condition which in one week de?
prives 36,000 New York children of an
equal number of school days is not an
extraordinary one under the existing
circumstances. So commonplace in?
deed has it become that every school
in the greater city is equipped with
mimeographed slips in huge quantities
which read like this: ?
P. S. 00, MANHATTAN
This child was sent home TO-DAY
because there is no teacher for his
(her) class. Send him (her) TO?
MORROW at the usual time. *
-, Principal.
The Board of Education officials
make no attempt to gloss over the sit?
uation. Admitting that it is deplor?
able, they ask: "What else can we do?"
The actual facts are that there are not
enough teachers, that there are too few
substitutes and that not only are the
teachers already installed in the
schools dropping away in steadily in?
creasing numbers to find positions
which pay a more nearly approximate
living wage, but that fewer young men
and women are taking up teaching as a
profession.
Although conditions are probably
more acutely reflected in New York
than elsewhere, by reason of this city's
greater concentration of population,
the teacher shortage and the conse?
quent school shortage are by no means
confined to New York. They are na?
tion-wide.
18,279 Schools Closed
By Teacher Shortage
National Bureau of Education
Statistics Show Conditions
Everywhere Growing Worse
Reports received from school dis?
tricts throughout the United States by
the Bureau of Education, Department
of the Interior, show that 18,279 schools
are closed because of a lack of teachers
and that 41,900 schools are taught by
teachers "below standard."
The teacher shortage, which in some
parts of the country is slightly better
than last October, when the National
Education Association made its inquiry,
. is still "a very grave problem," the re
' port of the bureau states.
"One significant fact in connection
with the shortage," the report declares,
"is that 190 state, county, city and pri?
vate normal schools reported 11,503
fewer students November 1, 1919, than
they had the year previous to the war.
The schools represent 60 per cent of
the total normal schools, and on this
basis there would be a shortage of 19,
170, and in June, 1920, there will be
7,000 fewer graduates. Teacher train?
ing departments in colleges show ap?
proximately the same falling off, al?
though other departments show a great
increase in enrollment."
In response to the question: "To what
extent are taxpayers interesting them?
selves in paying better salaries for
tachers?" fourteen states reported the
interest is general. One reported
"great interest." Another reported "do?
ing their best."
With regard to provisions made for
children in territories where schools
have been forced to close, eighteen
states reported to the Bureau of Educa?
tion that children are transferred, to
other schools. Three reported no pro?
vision. One state report rsports "some,"
? "."
CeatlouH m ?if? fear
England Fears
Crisis in Near
East Problems
Alarm Increased by Com?
plications in Syria and
Mesopotamia ; Anxiety
Revealed by Earl Curzon
LONDON, March 12 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?Earl Curzon's speech
on the Turkish problem, made in the
House of Lords yesterday, and other
official and unofficial statements on
. the subject are generally regarded as
showing that the Near East tangle is
quite serious and is causing the au?
thorities some anxiety?an anxiety in?
creased by complications threatened
in connection with Syria and Meso?
potamia. The shadow of Indian and
1 i Moslem opinion darkens the problem,
i j and, it is believed, influences the coun
1 sels of the AHies more than is always
immediately apparent.
The suggestion that the employment
. of force against the Turks might excite
[ general hostility in the Mussulman
world is regarded as one that cannot
safely be ignored. In some quarters
the feeling prevails that there is dan?
ger if the Turks are pressed they may
immediately be joined t>y the Arabs.
The Italian view that it would be dan?
gerous to employ against the Turks
British Moslem and other Moslem
troops in the service of the Allies is
evidently based on these fears.
Syrian Congress Watched
Careful watch is being kept here on
the outcome of the Syrian Congress
at Damascus, and it is understood any
decision or proposal by the peace con?
ference regarding Syria would be
purely tentative.
Among the day's reports was one
that to France had been given a man?
date over Cilicia, but this was uncon?
firmed. It is argued in some quarters
that France's hands are too full to
undertake this responsibility. Great
Britain is similarly regarded ruled out
as a mandatary for the same reason,
| and the league of nations is looked, to
j as the only hope for protecting Tur
I key's non-Moslem subjects.
Earl Curzon's statement attributing
j the cause of the Turkish trouble to
i awaiting action by the United States
is not commented on by some editorial
writers, but others point out that if a
settlement had been taken a year ago,
when Turkey was militarily humbled,
the present trouble would not have
arisen.
More Complications Seen
Fresh complication has been added
to the Eastern situation by the news
that Prince Feisal, son of the King of
the Hedjaz, was proclaimed King of
Syria. Prince Feisal had displayed a
strong inclination to play ins own
hand ever since the British govern?
ment made a treaty with him. He had
also shown himself strong for self
determination for his people. The re?
cent Pan-Syrian Congress proclaimed
as one of the principal planks of its
platform that Syria be an independent
state with Prince Feisal on the throne.
Hitherto that movement was not taken
seriously here.
An invitation was sent a short time
ego to the prince inviting him to pay
another visit to Europe and coni'er
with the Supreme Council. He was
urged to take no action until the Su?
preme Coujvc'il passed upon his case.
The upshot of the matter, it is gen?
erally conceded, appears to be that the
Syrian people propose to run their own
? affairs and are bent upon self-deter
| mination.
The next move apparently is for the i
British and French governments or for
j the Supreme Council to decide what !
| shall be the attitude toward the new I
? nominal kingdom and its King.
Turks Indifferent
To Allied Action
Officials and Public Show
iVo Concern Over Naval
Displays in Bosporus
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 11 (By
The Associated Press).-?Numerous dis?
patches from London and Paris an?
nouncing that the Supreme Council has
decided to take drastic action at Con?
stantinople to prevent .the killing of
Christians and enforce peace terms
more radical than were contemplated
before the trouble at Marash have been
received with apparent indifference by
. the Turks, the only effect being the des
, j ignation of a slightly changed Cabinet.
; Turkish official are watching without
any evidences of concern the movement
, i in London to force them out of Europe,
. and the printing of a dispatch report
> ing that President Wilson would in
Cisttsusi sa ?wet sjssjs
Simmons Withdraws His
Pledge of 32 Votes for
Reservation ; T r e a t y ' s
Fate Seems Up to Wilson
Little Hope Now
For Ratification
i At Least 30 Must Join Re?
volt Against President
to Give Needed 64 Votes
From The Tribune's Washington Bmreetm
WASHINGTON, March 12. ?A
final offer of a compromise on a res*
ervation to Article X of the peace
treaty with Germany was made in
the Senate to-day by Senator Lodge
on behalf of the Republican friends
of the pact.
It was immediately opposed by
Democratic Senators who previously
had supported the proposed reserva?
tion during the negotiations that re?
sulted in its presentation to-day. As
a result the Senate to-night again is
in a muddle as regards the treaty,
and leaders of all factions in th?
treaty fight declared that ratification
now depends upon acceptance of the
compromise by President Wilson or
a general revolt against the Presi?
dent that would lead at least thirty
Democrats to vote for ratification
with the Lodge reservation.
The reservation was introduced by
Senator Lodge soon after the Senate
met. It is the reservation on which
a compromise was sought by Senator
Watson, for the Republicans, and
Senator Simmons, for the Demo?
crats, early in the week, although
the wording has been slightly
changed.
Simmons-Pledge Withdrawn
Charges that Senator Lodge had
surrendered were made by the "irrec
oncilables" and by Senator Freling
huysen, of New Jersey, immediately
after the compromise reservation
was read, and then Senator Sim?
mons, who previously had informed
the Republicans that he could ob'
tain thirty-two Democratic votes for
it, nullified the compromise effort by
saying that he could not obtain the
Democratic votes, and that the Re?
publicans "would have to take their
chances" on getting enough Demo?
cratic votes for it to insure ratifica?
tion.
Senators Hitchcock and Underwood
declared the treaty would be defeated
with the proposed compromise, and
Senator McKellar, or Tennessee, one
of the Bryan followers in the Senate,
led a group of anti-Hitchcock Demo?
crats in opposition to the new reser?
vation.
The reservation has been sent to
President Wilson for his opinion, but
no Democratic Senator to-night would
admit that he expects the President tc
send any further statement of his po?
sition to the Senate.
Senator Swanson, of Virginia, on*
of the strong Administration followers
went to the White House and is under
Btood to have left a copy of the reser
vation there. Ho declined to discus:
his visit, but said that he did not tall
with the President. Senator Swansoi
said h?? believed the chances of th<
President accepting the compromis)
and of the treaty being ratified an
"very remote."
Final Effort at Compromise
That to-day's move will bo the fins
effort of the Republicans toward i
compromise was made clear by Senato
Lodge and by the "mild reservation
ists" who initiated the reservatiot
Senator Lodge explained that he ol
fered the substitute because he ha
promised the "mild reservationists
and others who want to get the treat
ratified that he would not stand ot
against changes being made in tl
wording of the Lodge reservation. Tl
promise now has been carried out V
proposing the compromise reservatio
he said. The "mild reservationist
will not press for a further compr
mise, they declared, and if the subsl
tute reservation offered to-dav fai
they said they will go back to t
Lodge reservation and vote for ratifie
tion on that basis.
[ The "mild reservationists" declar
they have enough votes to force t
adoption of the compromise in pis
of the Lodge reservation, but are c
laying a vote because they have r
been able to obtain the sixty-four vol
required for ratification on that bat
They claimed thirty Republican vo<
to-night and the votes of twenty De
ocrats who are prepared to vote i
ratification on any basis, making a n
jority of the Senate for the new reB
vation.
No Vote Before Monday
A vote on the Article X reservafh
is not expected to be had until Mont
at the earliest. In the meantime W
iam J. Bryan, who is urging ratifi
tion of the treaty on the best possi
terms so that it will not become
dominant issue in the Presiden!
campaign, is expected to come to Wa
ington and use bis influence in
Senate to line op more Democrats
ratification with reservations.
The Senate will not reach the fl
vote on ratification until the end
next week. After the Article X rei
vation has been disposed of, the 0\
reservation on Egypt will come up,
other reservations not included in
Lodge program are expected to
offered.
The Republican leaders have I
unable to arrange pain for the abi
Senaten, and the vote will be dels
until things are arranged 10 that ei
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