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Harding Studies
Canal Defenses
On Paeif ie Side
Confers With Army and
Navy Officers ,on Strategic
Policy ; Operation of the
Bip Guns Demonstrated
Starts for Home Sunday
Utters Assurances of U. S.
Friendship for Panama at
Banquet Given by Porras
ANC?N, Canal Zone, Nov. 26 (By The
Associated Press "?.?Problems connect?
ed with the defense of the Panama
Canal were studied by Senator Harding
to-day during a detailed inspection of
the fortifications at the Pacific terminus
of the waterway anil in conferences
with army and navy officers in charge
of the zone forces, lie spent several,
hours making a round of the defenses j
in company with Brigadier General :
Chase W. Kennedy and Rear Admiral
Marbury Johnston, of whom he asked
many questions of the capabilities and ,
needs of the establishment.
The operation of the big guns were
demonstrated to the President-elect,
and many problems of strategic policy
were laid before him.
Accompanying Senator Harding were
Senator Frederick Hale, mi-mher of the '?
Senate Naval Committee, and Senator
Joseph S. Prelinghuysen, chairman of !
the Coast Defense Committee, his
guests on the trip.
Late this afternoon Senator Harding
returned by train to Cristobal, where :
on Sunday he will go on board his
?hip to return to the United States, ?
sailing for Norfolk.
Speaks at Porras Banquet
In exchanging greetings at the din?
ner given in his honoi last night by
President Porras of Panama, Senator
Harding said to President Porras:
"The cordiality of your greetings
and the tine spirit of your good wishes ,
6tir me deeply. It is a fine thing for
one republic to be so reassured of the ?
abiding confidence nnd friendship of a ,
sister republic. I am wholly conscious
that I am here as a private citizen,
though I am not permitted to forget,
boujever much I may wish it, that I am :
to come to a great responsibility at a
no very distant day. Is it for that you
honor me as you c.o ? Believing that is
the reason, I cannot believe it unbe?
coming to accept, because more cordial
relations between peoples and riveted
ties of friendship amonsr nations is the
call of the great heart of human kind.
"Moreover, though bent on this hur?
ried visit mainly for recreation, I
would bo insensible to the obligations
of citizenship if I were indifferent to
the great sponsorship of my country.
This is a most attractive land, and i
would be deaf to the call of duty as a
public servant in the ?Senate if 1 did not
aeek a fuller understanding of the :
developing obligations of our civiliza?
tion #s reflected here, and aim to add
to the friendly understanding which
becomes our two rep?blica in their
exceptional intimacy here.
Partners in Great Advance
"We are rather more than friendly '
neighbors, quaffing th? cup of most
cordial association. We are spiritual
partners in one of the gigantic ad?
vances of the twentieth century?
transportation. Your freedom and our
genius and resources combined to link
the oceans, and the day will come when
the commerce of the world will stage
its surpassing pageant here. One can- ;
not escape the inspirations and the '
impelling influences of commerce and
trade. The adventurous navigators and !
discoverers came hither and revealed
a western continent to the Old World,
but they came because they were in?
spired by trade. Trade has made peo?
ples eminent throughout all time, and
this fact is no less true to-day than in
the past.
"In your own republic you are aspir?
ing to enhance your trade. The su- !
preme problem is to further (his es?
sential trade, hold it everlj,slingly
righteous and not forget th?- finer
human accompaniments which ure es?
sential to spiritual as well as material
upbuilding. It would be folly to pro?
duce and exchange if we failed to edu?
cate and uplift and exalt.
"You spoke of our America being
mirrored here in our Canal Zone ac?
tivities. I can well believe and trust
that you find in the zone a reflex of a
righteous America which believes in
that liberty for others which we de?
mand for ourselves, and that you
catch that spirit of ample justice apd
fair dealing which indexes the best
human relationship.
"I need not assure you anew of the
friendship of our United States for
your republic. We are deeply inter?
ested in the development of your good
fortune. More. we want our proven
friendship for you to add to the con?
fidence of all America, North, Central
and South, in our people and our
government. We crave friendly re?
lations, and we wish to promote them
and make them abiding. We want a
spirit of fraternal Americanism which
befits the American Continent, not in
selfishness, not in rivalry of the Old
World, but in a mutuality of interest
and helpfulness to one another,
"Indeed, I may speak for our Repub?
lic. We choose peace and amity with
all just peoples, and we crave for all of
the Americas that happy relationship
and cordial friendship and good will
which you have uttered to-night, and
which 1 can so b?i cerely reciprocate and
t rledged to y iu and to yi ur people."
N.Y.U. Changes Announced
The committee oi curr culum at New
York University announced some
changes yesterday In the various sec
?tior.s of the. College or* Engineering,
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with full preparation in foreign lan?
guage are no longer required to take
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lar plan has been adopted at Yale.
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s Bowlby Plan!
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will be placed before our board of man?
agers looking to the introduction in
the state Legislature of a measure to |
bring about a very noticeable reduction!
of Sunday trafile."
Steam railroad companies are also to ;
be asked to cut all unnecessary trains j
from their Sunday schedules.^i-'specia!
ly excursions, which are considered
particularly baneful by the blue law
proponents.
"These chenp-rate and widely adver?
tised Sunday excursions to places like
Washington and Gettysburg are a stim?
ulus to lead people away from their
dutv of worship and the quiet home
life'."
"Would you prohibit the use of auto?
mobiles for Sunday pleasure trips,
along with the denial of Sunday ex?
cursions to persons who do not own
automobiles?" Dr. Bowlby was asked.
"We would appeal to automobilists to
observe the Lord's day," he explained.
"This moral suasion on motorists j
would be abetted," ho continued, "by |
making gasoline stations few and far j
between."
Pending their efforts to bring the
traction companies into line for Sab?
bath observance, the alliance is going
to exert a lot of pressure on the 1921
Legislature and the Board of Alder?
men to repeal the laws and ordinances
permitting Sunday movies and base?
ball. Jacob Ruppert, president of the
Yankees, and Samuel Rothafel, man?
aging director of the Capitol Theater,
hinted yesterday that organized opposi?
tion to this aim would soon be under
way.
Opposes Sunday Paper?
Like transportation companies, news?
paper publishers are to be urged to
abolish their Sunday editions, Dr.
Bowlby disclosed.
"The hawking of newspapers on the
streets on Sunday," he said, "ia an in?
sult to the decent, intelligent, Chris?
tian observers of the Sabbath. It is
rn-American, because the newsboys
ought to be in Sunday school and in
the quiet of their homes, learning to
be good citizens."
Ihe alliance believes that the only
sure way to make the American peo?
ple behave is to remove temptation
from their way, it was gathered from
Dr. Bowlby's statements to a Tribune,
reporter. That is the theory upon which
its lobbyists are going to work this
winter in the capital of every state
that has a session of its Legislature
and at Washington, where a bill to
clamp down the Sunday lid in the Dis?
trict of Columbia will be pushed.
Referendums, whereby the voters of
a state might determine the degree of
Sunday observance, if any, they de
-ired, are not to bo thought of, Dr.
Bowlby declared.
"You can't amend the Fourth Com?
mandment," he asserted. "No state
has the ri<;ht to amend Gods law
lov.nward. If anything they should
strengthen His laws."
Sinai and Plymouth are the rocks
upon which the movement Is based, Dr.
Bowlby intimated when he held up the
example of the Pilgrim Fathers in
their adherence to the letter of the I
Sabbath law as the one to be followed. ?
"We wouldn't have this great, free i
country if it had not been for the Pil-i
grims," he said, "and, therefore, it is'
unpatriotic and un-American, as well!
as irreligious, to yjolate the Sabbath."'
Dr. Bowlby exhibited glee in calling
attention to a recent decision by ths
Supreme Court of Maryland striking
from the ballot a referendum by which
the Maryland Defense League had |
hoped to obtain a popular expression i
of opinion on the Sunday laws of that
?t?te. The league Dr. Bowlby said,
has raiseif $35,000 to fipht the Lord's
Day Alliance and has combined with
like organizations in Eastern Pennsyl?
vania and Southern New Jersey to com?
bat the movement and bring about
, legalized Sunday movies.
May Seek Amendment
"Mark me," said Dr. Bowlby, "if this
! sort of things continues we will have
! no alternative but to ask for an amend
j ment to the Constitution of the United
! States."
"Aside from the question of re-j?ing
from work on Sunday," Dr. Bowlby was
j asked, "isn't there a difference of opin
; ion among professing Christians as to
the manner of their resting on that
day? Wouldn't some Christians con
' tend that they had a right to be trans?
ported to Coney Island for recre-ition
on a Sunday, or to visit Washington or
Gettysburg on an excursion?"
"They can't believe that and be
Christians," the secretary of the Lord's
Day Alliance replied. "'Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy,' the com?
mandment says."
"Hew about the Jews, who observe
Saturday as the Sabbath?"
"It little becomes any Jew, orthodox
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Congress Plans
Radical Slash
In Departments
Reorganization Program of
Repnblicans Calls for Abo?
lition of Some Bureaus
and the Merger of Others ?
Act to Cut Big Waste
Proposals Are Embodied in
McCormiek Bill, a Com?
panion of Budget Measure
From The Tribune's Wa.ihington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2(1.-One of
the first acts of the new Republican
Congress when it meets soon after j
Senator Harding is inaugurated next
March will be a sweeping reorganiza?
tion of the executive departments of
the Federal government, Republican
leaders of Congress declared to-day.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, ,
Republican leader in the Senate, said j
the question of reorganizing the gov- !
ernment departments and bureaus so |
as to eliminate duplication of work i
and jurisdiction would bo taken up
during the short session that opens '??
December G, but that legislation look- |
ing toward a reorganization would not
be enacted until after March 4.
Senator Lodge made his statement
after the draft, of a bill providing for ,
a general reorganization of the execu?
tive departments, including the aboli?
tion of one existing department and
the creation of two new departments,
was made public from the office of
Senator Medill McCormiek, of Illinois.
The McCormiek bill would abolish the !
Department of the Interior and estab?
lish new departments of Public Works
and Public Welfare.
"I do not think that we will under- ,
or reformed," Dr. Bowlby declaimed, ?
"to stand against the American Sun- '
day, which has given him a freedom he ;
never enjoyed in the country from <
which he came."
"Would not those who keep their
own Sabbath complain they would have
but five business days a week, as
against six days their Christian com- j
petitors enjoyed."
"The Jewish Sabbath," Dr. Bowlby1
responded, "is from sundown Friday to '
sundown Saturday. They can keep I
open Saturday night, which is a line ,
night for business."
"Suppose a Jew wants to go to the
theater on Sunday?"
"He must respect the American Sun?
day. Our missionaries in Palestine
respect the Jewish Sabbath and have
only a five-day week."
Won't Force Worship
The alliance does not contemplate ;
asking that men and women be com- ,
pelled to engage in worship of some \
sort on Sunday, Dr. Bowlby vouch- j
safed.
"All we demand is that the church
be safeguarded in its fundamental
rights to be free from disturbances j
and distractions, and that temptations ;
to break the Sabbath be withdrawn
from the people."
Dr. Bowlby was questioned concern- '
ing reported cooperation of the Anti- !
Saloon League in his campaign.
"I have received no intimation," ho
said, "from any national effect of the '
Anti-Saloon League that it would line \
up with us. But many members of
various state Anti-Saloon leagues have ;
told me that as individuals--and as j
far as their organizations were con- I
cerned, if we should ask it?they would
aid us."
William H. Anderson, superintendent
of the New York State Anti-Saloon
League and an officer of the national
organization, has declared its regula?
tions forbade it from engaging in any
work other than that which has to do
with prohibition.
Robert G. Davey, special counsel to j
the Lord's Day Alliance, appears in
the 1918 roster of the New York Anti- ,
Saloon League as a member of its
prohibition enforcement committee.
The Rev. ?j. C. Dinwiddie, who
headed the Anti-Saloon League lobby?
ists at Washington during the figl t
; for the eighteenth amendment, is in
j teresting himself in behalf of the pro?
posed Sunday law for the District of
Columbia in his capacity as chairman
of the committeo on moral and social
welfare of the United Lutheran
Church.
Wayne B. Wheeler, chief counsel to
i the Anti-Saloon League, is billed as
'one of the speakers at a conference at
| Washington December 8 to 10, under
f*the auspices of the National Reform
Bureau, which is cooperating with the
'Lord's Day Alliance, and at which the
! District of Columbia Sunday measure
will be one of the subjects discussed.
i The Rev. D. John Roach St raton,
| of Calvary Baptist Church, who has
; been much in the public eye through
i his castrations of theaters, cabarets,
take to reorganize the government de-'
partments until we have control of1
them," said Senator Lodge, The Sena- i
tor declared, however, that the Mc
Cormick bill would furnish the basis'
for a general consideration of the sub- '
ject during the short session.
The McCormiek bill will be intro- \
duced in the Senate soon after Con- :
?rress meets by a colleague of the \
Ulii rs Senator, who is now in Europe.
It will be offered as a companion i
measure to the budget bill which Sen- !
ator McCormiek introduced last ses- ;
sion and which was passed by Congress i
and then vetoed by President Wilson.!
In addition to abolishing the Interior !
Department, the McCormiek bill would !
do away with many government bu?
reaus and divisions, including the |
Council of National Defense and simi
lar war emergency organizations.
In general the bill would coordinate i
existing agencies, which are now scat- I
tered among the various executive de- j
partments. It would strip the Treas?
ury and War departments of all work j
not immediately concerned with the
nation's linances and the national de- ?
tense.
Departments Included in Bill
The McCormiek bill would bring to- ;
gether in th? new Department of Pub- :
lie Works all engineering and building !
services of the government, which now
are scattered among the War, Treas
ury, Navy and Interior departments.
The various existing agencies that ;
would be brought into the proposed :
new department include the General I
Land Office, the Geological Survey, the !
Bureau of Mines, the Reclamation j
Sen-ice, the National Park Service,
Public Buildings and Grounds, the
Public Roads and Forest Service, [
boards of engineers for rivers and har- ?
bors and the various Alaskan commis- j
sions.
The Department of Public Welfare I
proposed in the McCormiek measure is j
similar to the one proposed in a bill |
drafted by Senator Kenyon, of Iowa.
Senator Harding during the campaign
advocated the creation of a depart?
ment of public welfare that would in?
clude the War Risk Insurance Bureau,
the Public Health Service, the Burenu
of Pensions, the Indian Service, Chil?
dren's Bureau, the Women's Bureau, ?
the United States Employees' Compen- ',
sation Commission and the Federal :
.Hoard of Vocational Education.
women's dress and many other things, ;
said yesterday he was heartily in favor
of strict Sunday legislation. j
Dr. Straton differed with Dr. Bowlby ?
to the extent of favoring a popular
referendum on Sunday laws.
Jacob Ruppert, president of the New j
York American League baseball team, i
asserted: "All red-blooded Americans |
will combine to oppose the object of !
the Lord's Day Alliance."
"The effort to step good, clean,
health-giving sports is an outrage," he !
resumed. "The first thing we know ?
they will be driving everybody out of j
the United States to some country that :
is really free. The United States, no i
longer a land of liberty, has become a j
land of tyranny, owing to the fanati
cism of a bunch of cranks, who are |
drunk with the success they attained
in other prohibitive drives. Most of
them don't themselves believe in the I
doctrines they preach."
Samuel Rothapfel, of the Capitol !
Theater, declared that the effect of !
blue laws on motion picture box offices i
would be a minor consideration, beside
the imposition they would be on the j
public.
"In the better class houses," he said,
"the educational and moral value of the |
films is equal to any found in sermons. I
A crowd going eagerly to see a motion j
picture show is surely a more health- |
ful and progressive spectacle than is a j
handful of disgruntled citizens driven ;
unwillingly to church."
To all of which Dr. Bowlby smiles
knowingly and ventures the prediction
that things will com? to pass exactly
as the Lord'3 Day Alliance would have
them.
Labor Plans to Aid Russia !
Alliance for Trade Relation?
Seeks to Lift Blockade
The American Labor Alliance for
Trade Relations With Russia, at a
meeting in its headquarters at 31 Union
Square yesterday, elected permanent
officers and formulated plans for an
intensive national campaign in further?
ance of the movement to lift the Rus?
sian blockade.
The officers chosen were Timothy
Healy, international president of the
Eccentric and Stationary Firemen,
chairmen; A. Raroff, secretary of the
Women Garment Workers, treasurer;
Alexander Trachtenberg, organizer of
the Associated Teachers' Union, secre?
tary, and James T. De Hunt, of the
Railway and Steamship Clerks; Sidney
Hellman, president of the Amalga?
mated Clothing Workers; Captain W;
A. Maher, of the Master Mates and
Pilots' Union, and Arthur Giovanitti,
of the Italian Chamber of Commerce,
vice-chairmen.
Republicans May
Modify the Walker
State Boxing Law
Leaders Discuss Confiscation
of Purses Over $20,000
and Box Office Receipts in
. Excess of Cosii of Bouts
The Republican leaders are seriously
discussing amendments to the Walker
boxing law which will confiscate to the
state prize purses in excess or $20,000,
and the confiscation to the state of all
box office receipts in excess of a ra?
tional sum to cover the cost of staging
the bouts.
Any such scheme carried through
probably wouM force the holding of
the Dempsey-Carpentier battle outside
of the State of New York. The purse
hung up for that bout is ,?500,000. The
up-state Republicans say the state
needs the money, and that it is not in
the interest of real sport to have the
promoters make huge profits.
The Boxing Commission either will
be reorganized on lines desired by the
up-state Republican leaders r! abol?
ished altogether, It was predicted. The
Republicans were not consulted in the
constitution of the commission when it
was organized. Governor Smith, it is
charged, after allowing the Republi?
cans to indulge in the belief that they
would share in the management of the
commission, filled all the best positions
with Tammanv men, with the result
that Senator James J. Walker, of Tam?
many Hall, and a coterie of his asso?
ciates have had all to do with the com?
mission.
If the Republican up-state leaders
adhere to their present attitude, and
if they are supported by Judge "Miller,
both prize fighting and Sunday base?
ball aro facing doleful prospects. The
Sabbath observance forces are organ?
izing to force a repeal of the Walker
and the Sunday baseball bills, and the
sporting interests, having backed the
losing candidate, have nothing to do
but wait and see how hard they are
going to be hit.
Assemblyman Joseph A. Maginnies,
of Chautauqua, is out of the Spearker
ship ?race. II. Edmund Machold, of
Jefferson County, now has no formid?
able opposition. Mr. Maginnies sent
lett<Ws to various Assemblymen this
week saying that he no longer was a
candidate for Speaker. It is expected
that he will, be a candidate for chair?
man of the Ways and Means Com?
mittee.
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Bullet Wound;
Girl Accused
! Secretary of Late Repub?
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man Is Sought on War?
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ARDMORE, Okla., Nov. 26.?Jacob L.
Hamon, Republican National Commit
i man from Oklahoma, who was wounded
here last Sunday night in a hotel room,
died this morning at 8:15 o'clock.
County Attorney Brown charged in
an. information that Clara Smith, of
Ringling, Okla., said to have been Mr.
Hamon's secretary, fired the shot which
resulted in his death.
This version of the story, howevor,
was denied by Frank L. Ketch, Hamon's
business manager, who issued a state?
ment asserting the national commutee
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this morning from the effects of a
' gunshot wound accidentally self-in?
flicted. Funeral services will be held
i in Ardmoro Monday afternoon at 2
o'clock and burial will be made here
by request of Mr?. Hamon.
Following the death of Mr. Hamon,
Carter County authorities redoubled
their efforts to locate Miss Smith. The
County Attorney to-day reiterated his
belief that she had not left the county,
but was in a nearby town. A warrant
for her arrest, charging assault with
intent to kill, was placed in the hands
1 of the Sheriff of Carter County last
Tuesday.
The career of Mr. Hamon is a story
of oil and of railroads, for o>ne of his
hobbies was building railroads.
In 3 898 ho was graduated from the
law department of the Uiiiveraity of
Kansas and came to Indian Territory
; to seek his fortune. His first job was
| as a clerk in a store at Newkirk, Okla,
When the Kiowa-Comanche country
; was opened to settlement, Mr. Hamon
went with the first rush of new set?
tler? to Lawton, becoming that town's
firs^city attorney. He was later chair?
man of the Republican territorial com?
mittee and for many years continued
active in the leadership of the party
; in Oklahoma.
One of Mr. Hamon's first big ven?
tures was the building of two rail?
roads, one from Lawton to Ardmore,
the other from Wichita Falls, Tex., to
Oklahoma City. After futile years of
trying to get his paper roads bonded
he concluded to start the job himself.
Backed by John Ringlinf?, of Xc.r
York, circus man, he built 331 miles of
railroad from Ardmore to- ?uvpling
Okla. Later he became awneii_oi the
Hamon-Kell Railroad, in Texai?.
Stern Brothers
West 42nd and 43rd Streets
Suitable for Christmas Gifts
will be featured To-day.
Shakespeare's The Tempest?Illustrated bv
Dulac,. $9.00
Arabian Nights?Illustrated by Dulac, . . $9.00
Stories from Hans Andersen?Illustrated bv
Dulac, *.$9.00
Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book,.$9.00
Sindbad the Sailor?Illustrated by Dulac, . $5.40
The Sleeping Beauty?Illustrated by Dulac, $5.40
The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe?
Illustrated by Duiac.$5.00
My Days with the Fairies?Illus. by Dulac, $5.00
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam?Illustrated by
Dulac. $4.50
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam?Illustrated by
Brangwyn.$7.50
The Scarlet Letter?Illus. by Hugh Thomson 10.00
The Courtship of Miles Standish?Illustrated
byWyeth.$3.00
Al?man
MADISON AVENUE = F?FTM AVENUE, NEW YORK
Thirty=fourth Street Thirty=flftlli Street
A Redaction Sale of
em's Wieter Overcoats
at $57o5(D)
will be continued to=day (Saturday)
on the SHXTHi FLOOR
The modeEs are fashionable 5n every respect, amid! Sncfiiutde
a in u era be r of ?imported Overcoats, made o? fancy nuilxed
fabrics? as well as Dress Overcoats mraade of Oxfoir ? gray
naellton c2oth. Une? throughout with satin.
A Clearance Sale off
Men's Boots and Oxfords
(the greater number of Baita make)
w5M be contnniuied ie=day (( Saturday)
on the Sixtihi FHoor
The assortment nndlimdes
.Men's Boots of enanneieci leather, with Scotch gras;
tops and wing or straight tips
6.7.
per pam
Men's Boots of black, Russia tan 0: cordovan brown
calffskSn
at opo>0 /<D> per pair
Men's Oxfords of genuine she].1 cordovan on ?black or
dark brown; very special!
at $7.5<0>
per paor
The values are exceptional 5n every instance. All sizes
and widths may be obtained, bunt not in every style.