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WEATHER.
Fair tonight, with frost; tomorrow
fair, with rising temperature. Tem
perature for twenty-four hours erded
at 2 pin. today: Highest, 54 at noon
today; lowest. 39 at 6 a.m. today.
Full report on page 4.
Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 24
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$7,140,1,000 GOLD
AGAIN OFFERED BY
BERLINTOALLIES
Utmost and Last Proffer
Germany Will Make, Von
Rosenberg Asserts.
HOLDS BATTLE IN RUHR
IS OF RIGHT AND WRONGi
I
Approves Hughes Suggestion That
Reparations Be Referred to
Body of Experts.
HV {.KORGK WITTE.
T'? Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily t
News. Copyright. 1923.
RIiRUX, April 16. —Today in the 1
rvchstag. Foreign Secretary Von j
Rosenberg reiterated Germany's offer 1
of last December to pay 30.000.000.000 !
gold marks (?7.140.000.000) in repara- !
lions to the allied powers. “That is j
the utmost and the last offer Ger- ■
many will make," he declared. His !
speech was received with great ap
plause except by the socialists.
Doubts as to the honesty of Ger
many’s. or rather the Cuno cabinet's,
Oft-repeated good will in the Ruhr
question have raised recently in j
many quarters. The government’s |
failure to come out with a new and j
definite reparations program instead j
of clinging to the old one has often j
been censured.
RIGHT AND WRONG ISSUE. j
Minister Declares Hughes Proposal
Would Solve Tangle.
Br the Associated Press.
BERLIN. April 16.-—Foreign Minis- j
ter von Rosenberg, addressing the 1
i eichstag this afternoon, declared the !
battle now in progress on the banks j
of the Rhine and in the Ruhr was i
not one for coal or wood, but a fight ■
which would determine whether the j
ideas of right and peace would pro- I
gress or loae ground.
The foreign minister voiced ap- j
proval of the suggestion of Secretary
of State Hughes that the reparations !
problem be referred to a body of j
authoritative experts, and he also j
indorsed the conclusions on this sub- i
ject recorded in the resolution adopt- j
ed by the International Chamber of j
Commerce, at its recent congress in j
Rome.
Attempt AFutile.
In view of the economic devastation .
wrought by the invasion of the Ruhr [
and what he characterized as France’s j
avowed purpose to paralyze German
economic productiveness, any attempt
at present to appraise Germany’s ca
pacity for payment or establish the
precise amount would be wholly fu
tile. the foreign minister declared.
The German government, said the
foreign minister, had tried in various i
way to get the reparation guestion I
out of the “quagmire - ’ in which this |
problem, together with all Europe, j
was threatened with becoming stuck
fast. It had also tried to help put an
end to the daily increasing tension
and economic chaos under which Eu
rope was suffering. Germany's es- j
forts in these directions, he said, !
were designed to facilitate the release j
•>f all possible forces for reconslruc- )
lion. in which process Germany!
wished to co-operate.
Task for Experts.
Referring to Secretary Hughes’ pro- J
posal at New Haven in December, j
Baron von Rosenberg reiterated the j
statements he recently made before 1
the foreign relations committee of j ;
the reichstag.
I.n the German government’s opin- j !
ion, he said, an international commis- *,
sion of experts such as Mr. Hughes
had suggested should determine, first,
what Germany has done so far on
reparations: second, what could and |
should Germany do regarding them 1
in the future, and. third, in what 1
way could she do what was expected < ■
of her in the future. Germany and i ,
the entente, he added, would be rep- i j
resented on such a commission with 1 ■
equal rights.
Would Seek Big Loan.
If the problem were handled in this I
or a similar way, he repeated. Ger- I
many would be ready to seek the 1
highest loan possible in the inter-i!
national finance market, and the pro- .
reeds of this loan would be available
immediately as a cash installment to
be turned over to the allies or to
France.
Premier Poincare's speech yester
day at Dunkirk, the foreign minister
declared, was “a preachment of might
which rendered poor service toward i
the needed attainment of interna
tional understanding and reconcilia
tion.” »
In conclusion the foreign minister j;
declared the German government i
would not sacrifice or jeopardize j
Germany's future merely for the pur- j
pose of overcoming or eliminating | ;
present complications.
“Women’s Mode of Living to
Be Changed hy King T ”
Fpeci.il Dispatch to The Star.
SAX FRANCISCO. Calif., April 16. —
Poor old King Tut: Already held re
sponsible for some of the most out
landish feminine fashions of recent
years for enforcement of a curse that
brought death in its wake, even
though his mummy is not yet out of
Us tomb; and for a revolutionary
movement in Kgypt he is now to be
the medium of a feminine insurrec
tion. His influence is to extend to all
that women do as tvell at to their
frills and furbelows.
Listen to Ralph Vandeman McGoffln,
Ph. D., LL. D., A. 8., president of the
* Archaeological Institute of America
and instructor in classical archeology
in Johns Hopkins University in Balti
more, now in California for a short
He says—and he ought to
German Populace
Cheers at Drills
Os Reactionaries
BY GEORGE WITTE.
By Wireless to The Star (nil Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1923,
BERLIN, April lei —Everywhere
in Germany the reactionaries and
monarchists are banding together,
holding parades and drilling as
siduously. Today’s morning pa
pers contain dispatches from many
parts of the country telling of
Rationalistic demonstrations toler
ated by the republican authorities
and in some Instances participated
in by the reichwehr.
In Stettin several regiments of
the regular army were reviewed
by Prince Eltel Friedrich, the
. former kaiser's second son, and by
| Gen. Von Mackqnzen.
In Leipzig the bands of the
reichwehi played the old imperial
marches at a reunion of members
of “his majesty’s imperial navy”
Though Leipzig is in “Germany’s
first soviet republic," as Saxony
is called, the police did not inter
fere.
in Munich Hittkrs “gray shirts.”
after their weekly drill paraded
12,000 strong through the streets, j
Most of the men were equipped I
i with rifles, side arms and steel
j helmets. Mounted police headed i
[ the parade, which was cheered by !
( the populace.
LAW’S FRIENDS SEE (
PLOTTOOUST HIM
London Press Hotly Debates,
| Necessity of Prime Min- j
ister’s Resigning.
j By the Associated Press.
LONDON. April 16. The stanch (
■ supporters of Prime Minister Bonar I
i L.aw among the morning newspapers '
j are indignant at what they call the I
| “conspiracy to weaken the ministry’” j
1 launched in the Sunday press, which i
reported that he was about to re- j
j sign because of ill health.
1 The Morning Post, the leading con- !
| servative paper, asserts with the j
j greatest emphasis that there is noth- j
1 ing in the condition of Bonar Law’s j
j health to compel his retirement,
j The Post and the other papers j
; which share its views attribute the ,
! “conspiracy” to Lord Birkenhead and !
j other conservatives who refused to |
1 participate in the government. They I
i also implicate David Lloyd George {
| and his supporters, whom they say, I
i desire the restoration of the coali- I
1 tion. j
Elsewhere there is equally firm sup- i
port for Sunday’s rumors. One writ- i
I er. referring to last evening’s official !
Menial of the eports, save:
“It may be true that Bonar Law has 1
! no intention of resigning, but it must I
be equally true that he has no inten- 1
tion of not resigning.’’
Most noteworthy among the news
papers confirming Sunday’s reports !
is the Daily Telegraph, which usually !
expresses moderate conservative views
although it was a strong supporter of
Lloyd George. This newspaper's par-l
Harnentary expert says there are solid '
i grounds for the rumor and asserts!
j that if Bonar Law had thought free 1
I lo do so he would have retired before
j now. The premier, the writer adds,
has now come to the conclusion, with
profound regret, that he cannot hope
to prolong indefinitely his incumbency
in his present post.
Stay in Sense of Duty.
The Telegraph, however, in com
pany- with other newspapers, ;
says that the prime minister’s high !
•sense of duty will induce him to con
tinue in office until plans for the fu
ture can be made.
“The prime minister has no inten
tions whatever of resigning,’’ said a
statement issued last night from No.
10 Downing street, the official resi
dence of Andrew Bonar Law.
This constituted the government’s
reply to statements in several of the
Sunday morning newspapers. This
official denial, however, it is generally
agreed in political circles, does not
affect the situation as indicated in 1
these dispatches last week that Bonar I
Law’s retention of office depends on i
his health.
Undoubtedly the prim© minister has j
no intention of relinquishing hold if ■
his health will stand up under the
continuous heavy strain of office.
When he assumed the prmeiership, 1
Bonar Law frankly said his retention
of the post would depend entirely on 1
his health and official denial such as |
that issued today, it is believed, will !
not influence public opinion, which has
been almost universal since last 1
week's happenings in parliament, that I
if the government is to survive it j
must be greatly strengthened, and
that unless the premier’s physical
condition rapidly improves he cannot
wield the necessary driving power to
carry on the administration in the
face of the capable and alert opposi
tion.
Three Months* Grace.
The premier still has three months
before him in which ha may recon
struct his ministry without the neces
sity of new ministers having to run
the gantlet by elections, and this is i
an important factor, considering the
general dissatisfaction caused by the 1:
government’s complete inertia In
connection with the Ruhr trouble
and home problems like unemploy- •
ment, housing and the labor disputes.
know what he is talking about—that
. the swelling vogue for all that was
popular in the time of the ancient
Pharaoh is to increase until it has
changed the entire trend of present
1, day feminine thought.
•‘Women of the period of King Tut,” j
he said, "as archeological discoveries I
i already have disclosed, garbed them
' I selves in the most beautiful colorings
| that the world has ever known.
i “Not alone were they the most beau- I
! ! tiful, but at the time extremely sim
■ : pie. These women were slender and
I | graceful—of the mode now so ad
i mired—and they didn’t wear corsets
' lor high heels; neither did they use
: lipsticks, rouge or cosmetics to pro
i duce their rose-petal complexions.
; Likewise, although they did not go
! In for woman’s suffrage, equal rights
. ! and public office, they were cultured
to a degree that leaves something for
us to attain in this twentieth century.
' They had the most alluring perfumes.
, music that the best artisls of today)
i (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.)
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V J Vs X WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION
WASHINGTON, D. MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1923—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. *
UPSHUR ST. SCHOOL
BANISHED
Citizens Win Prolonged Right
Against Using Tract for
Tubercular Pupils.
DISTRICT COURTS UPHELD
Supreme Court Denies Commission
ers’ Plea for Appeal or Review
of Case.
The citizens today won their pro
longed fight against the authority
of the Commissioners In selecting the
so-called Upshur tract as a site for
the proposed school for tubercular
children, when the United States Su
j preine Court not only denied the
Commissioners' request for an ap
| peal, but turned down the request j
; for a writ of certiorari. The re- i
j fusal of the latter writ meant that '
! the court would not even review the ;
j proceedings in the lower courts.
1 The effect of the high court’s action •
I today was to sustain both the Dls- ;
1 trict Supreme Court and the District
| of Columbia Court of Appeals, which
| had decided against the Commls-
I sioners' authority to select the tract
without specific direction from Con
! gress.
Two Course* Open.
j The action of the United States
Supreme Court In turning down the j
Commissioners’ application to review j
| the Injunction proceedings in the
1 tubercular school case means that the
j city heads must either erect the
; building on some District-owned
property other than the Upshur street
tract or wait until Congress takes
| further action.
j The opinion of the Supreme Court
i today brings the court action to an j
end with the Injunction granted by i
1 the District Supreme Court, restrain
j ing the Commissioners from putting
i the school on the Upshur street tract
I in effect.
A bill was introduced in Congress
at the last session which, if enacted.
I would have granted the Commlssion
i ers specific authority to place the
j school on the Upshur street land. It
I was impossible, however, to obtain
| action before adjournment,
j It is not known at this time
i whether the Commissioners will en
| deavor to have the bill enacted at
' the new session in December or
j whether they will now seek another
! site.
School Fund Available.
) The appropriation of $140,000 fori
I this school, which is to replace the
j antiquated Hamilton School for I
Tuberculars. near Bladensburg road.-
I has been available since the defti- |
clency act of 1921 was passed. The I
| municipal architect’s office has com- j
j pleted the plans and specifications ;
! and is in a position to call for,-bids:
; from contractors as soon as a sue
!can be found.
( It was pointed out by the Commis
j sioners today that Cpngrtss did not
1 appropriate any funds to buy lands
j for this school, which meant that the
I building had to be located on property
I already owned by the city.
: Commissioner Oyster recalled today j
I that there Is a possible site on Grant |
! road near the Fort Reno section, but 1
ihe said this tract was hardly large |
! enough for the purpose.
: If the Commissioners should con- i
1 elude to hold up the building In an es- '
fort to get new legislation at the next i
session for a site, indications are that j
It would be another year before the j
school could be built.
It is probable that in view of the
action of the United States Supreme i
Court the Commissioners will take j
up the question at a board meeting
within a few days and decide on !
I their future course of action.
The injunction restraining the !
Commissioners from building the 1
school on the Upshur street tract was
obtained by a group of property own- ‘
ers in that vicinity, who went to the i
District Supreme Court on the ground
that the site In question was pur
chased by Congress for the specific
purpose of erecting the hospital for
the tubercular and a junior high
school and could not be used for any
other purposes.
The Commissioners contended that
they had a right to erect the build
ing on any land owned by the city in
view of the fact that Congress did
not provide funds for a site.
School authorities had no com
ment to make today on the action
of the Supreme Court and Indicated j
that they would adhere strictly to 1
their past policy of remaining aloof i
from the controversy over the loca- I
tion of the tubercular school. It
was pointed out that the board of '
education had decided to let the ap
propriation of $6,000 for the purchase
of equipment for the school lapse, i
and ask for a reapproprlatlnn of this |
amount when the site for the build- |
ing is ultimately selected.
PRESIDENffOAID
RED CROSS DRIVE
President Harding today agreed to
serve as chairman of the Red Cross
Memorial Commission to the sacri
fices and services of women of the
United States during the world war,
which is to start very shortly a cam
paign to raise $350,000 to erect in
Washington a memorial In the form
of a model Red Cross chapter house.
This was made known by Miss Ma
bel T. Boardman, secretary of the
American Red Cross, after a brief
conference with the President, during
which time she explained to him that
the resolution of Congress appropri
ating $150,000 for this memorial, al
though passed by both houses of
Congress, became lost in the last
minute rush at the Capitol on the day
of adjournment and failed to get to
the President for signature. It, there
fore, Is necessary to raise the entire
amount ($350,000) immediately for
the purpose by popular subscription.
She said that it is likely that the
quota of the District will be approx
imately $30,000.
North of Present Building.
This memorial chapter will be con
structed on the Red Cross property
Immediately north of the present ad
ministration building. It. however,
will not be built of marble, as Is the
latter, but will be handsome and serv
iceable.
Secretary of War Weeks will serve
as vice chairman of this memorial sec
tion, Secretary of the Treasury Mel
lon will be treasurer and Gen. Per
shing and Rear Admiral Benson, re
tired. will be representatives, respec
tively, of the Army and Navy. John
Barton Payne, president o fthe Amer
ican Red Cross, will represent that or
ganization and the executive chair
men of the House and Senate libra
ries committees will represent those
bodies.
WELCOME, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
ARMS PACT CAUSES
DELAYATSANITAGO
Delegates Fear Discussion of
Reductions and Situation
Grows Tense.
BY CLAUDE O. PIKE,
Hy Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1923.
SANTIAGO, Chile. April 16—The
fourth week of the pan-American
conference opens with the important
issues still in nebulous state and with
j every indication that the leaders are
seeking to avoid meeting them
| squarely. Agreements have been
| reached in committee on some of the
minor proposals on the agenda and
l have even been approved at the ple
] nary sessions, but these are considered
insignificant in comparison with the
really live issues which the delegates
seem afraid to take up.
The subject of armaments is becom
ing more delicate daily. The A. B. C.
nations are beginning to show tem
per. although open discussion has not
I yet been reached in the committee.
1 The report of Dr. Huneeus of the
j Chilean delegation is causing bitter
| editorial comment in the leading
I Buenos Aires dailies, which charge
! Chile with bad faith in proposing the
j subject of a reduction of armaments
J and with entering a secret pact with
i Brazil for the exclusion of Argentina,
i The Chilean newspapers insist that
i the report lays the foundation for an
■ exhaustive discussion of the subject
| of armaments in the committee and
| also that Argentina is not prevented
from stating Its position,
Argentina Worried.
Should the conference fail to come
j to an understanding and not make a
i real start toward a reduction of
■ armaments Argentina, according to
• citizens of that country here, will be
forced to begin on a naval program
equal to that of Brazil to the neglect
of public works.
Economic conditions in the A., B„ C.
nations would seem to make it neces
sary that all three should approach
the subject earnestly, as the finances
of each are nearing tbe cracking
point Some of the delegates here
watching from the side lines are
wondering how long the game of
bluff will continue.
Dr. Gondra, a Paraguayan delegate,
! offered an amendment to the Huneeus
1 report, making more binding the sec
tions recommending that the nations
; agree to conferences and investiga
tions before hostilities break out.
This amendment is believed by some
| to be based on the form of treaties
; William J. Bryan sought to conclude
1 when he was Secretary of State. It is
] believed that the proposal will find
j favor among the South American na
| tions
Wilson Popular.
Should the United States delegate
accept the amendment it will put the
republican party in the position of
indorsing the acts of the Wilson ad
ministration, which at that time were
the subject of republican ridicule.
Because of his advocacy of the
league of nations Woodrow Wilson is
very popular among the South and
Central American republics which are
members of the league.
SARGENT PORTRAY GIVEN
Harvey Presents Painting of Duke
of York to Dady Elizabeth.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. April 16.—George Harvey,
the American ambassador to the
Court of St. James, has sent Lady
Elizabeth Bowes-Lytton as a wedding
present a portrait of the Duke of
York, her prospective husband, by
John Singer Sargent, the American
artist, says the Dally Express.
The duke is the first member of the
royal family who ever sat for Sar
gent for a portrait, the newspaper
adds.
r~ . •. - \ 1 i
An Old-Fashioned Love Story
By Laura Jean Libbey |I j
|i “Jil-Bett” or “Stifling Conscience”
i! Begins in Today’s Star
Exclusive and First Publication i
• I- ■ ' ”
Judge Scores
Vice Conditions
i: At Annapolis j
' Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS. Md., April 16.—1 n
bis charge to the loca! grand jury
! this morning Judge Kobert Moss
said that gambling and violations
of the liquor laws were flagrant
and widespread in Annapolis and
Anne Arundel county and that not
an officer of the law. as far as he
knows, had done on© thing to
suppres either.
He said that, liquor was peddled
like milk and that general con
ditions were deplorable.
1 Judge Moss said that it was
known that an Annapolis police
i man had accidentally stumbled
, into a gambling house while a
game was going on and had nearly
1 fallen down the steps backward
i getting away.
. Drinking among the midship
men and failure of the author*
1 ities of the academy to furnish
information by which those who j
I sold intoxicants might be con
. victed were also mentioned bv
’ Judge Moss. ’ (
!
BRITAIN PREPARES !
: TO PAY U. S. DEBT
I
[ Hope to Settle Final Form of
i
\ Bonds Soon, Says
i
Chancellor.
By the Associated Pr#K.«.
! LONDON. April 16.—Chancellor of I
t the Exchequer Baldwin, referring in
his budget statement today to the
| American debt, said he hoped shortly
to settle the final form of the bonds
to be given in replacement of the de
mand obligations. * <>
Mr. Baldwin, making his budget
statement before a crowded chamber
in the house of commons today, said
? the past year’s surplus of £101.000.000
. } had gone to reduction of the debt,
s j The financial year just closed had be
come steadily better as it proceeded,
trade at home and abroad had im
? proved. and unemployment had
• diminished considerably.
Cut Military Costs.
Last year’s surplus, the chancellor
, said, came about through the best of
. all possible causes, namely, the re
i duction of expenditure. including I
I £27.000,000 for the nation’s fighting
services and £55.500,000 for civil ex
penses. I
The ordinary estimates for 1923-4
are £421.000,000, as compared with
‘•£473,000,000 last year. Mr. Baldwin
, said it was not intended to provide
; any margin for supplementary esti
mates.
He estimated for the coming finan
, cial year at £816,616.000. The total
revenue for the new year on the basis
of the existing taxation is estimated
i at £852.650,000, leaving a surplus of
i slightly more than £36,000,000.
I
SIGH FINNISH AGREEMENT.
I
J Debt Funding- Commission Author
j izes Mellon to Approve Terms.
, The American debt funding com
mission today authorized Secretary
Mellon to sign the war debt funding
agreement with Finland.
The agreement, already ratified by
the parliament at Helsingsfors, has
yet to be accepted by Congress, but
members of the commission expect
no opposition from that quarter. No
’ official announcement was made as
to the date for the signing. No pay
ments on the 'Finnish obligation,
among the smallest due the United
States, are required under the
agreement until late autumn, but the
suggestion that the arrangement be
(Continued on Page 2, Column 6.)
PRESIDENT THROWS
DOWNGAUNTLET
| Ready to Fight G. 0. P. Lead
ers Opposing World
Court.
BV FIU'DKHK,' WILLIAM WILE,
President Harding’ has thrown down
the gauntlet to republican leaders on
the world court proposition. He is
going through with it at all costs,
even at the risk of embattled oppo- j
sition within his party's ranks. He- I
publican spokesmen who foreshadow t
a serious rift in the G. O. P. if the
I world court program is maintained
have learned that such an argument j
; makes no appeal to Mr. Harding. He i
is convinced the country can be won j
I for tha world court; insists it is con- I
j slsient republican doctrine, and will '
j espouse It to the bitter end. regard- |
less of consequences.
' These statements can be made on
unimpeachable authority. The Presi
dent is back from Florida in a fight
ing mood. In a very real sense he
is trained physically and spiritually
for a contest. He is described as
having arrived at the Grover Cleve
land temper under something of the
provocation that impelled that demo
cratic President to stiffen his back
bone on a critical occasion. The
air of conflict Mr. Harding sniffs has
whetted rather than diminished his
determination to advocate American
entry into the international tribunal.
He is not frightened in the slightest
| degree by the admonitions of repub
lican senators like "Jim” Watson
that the blood-relationship between I
the court and the league of nations I
dooms his plan. The bogey about the 1
I British empire's power to outvote the j
United States in the league assembly |
is dismissed at the White House as 1
an irrelevant scarecrow. The Presi- j
dent has persuaded himself that, with
proper reservations, the United States
can join the court without the re
motest danger of contaminating en
tanglements. He is confident the na
tion can be easily and clearly edu-
I cated on that point.
President Is Firm.
Republican chieftains, including, it
is understood, even members of the
cabinet, hoped to Induce the Presi
dent to drop or sidetrack the world
court by appealing to his well known
sense of party loyalty. They thought
if they dinned "party split" into the
Harding ears long and loud enough
his devotion to G. O. P. harmony
would overcome his enthusiasm for
the court. But split or no split, the
President is going to swing "clean
through.” His answer to the argu
ment that it is "bad politics” to force
I the court issue is that It would be
I difficult to find a better one. With
"prosperity” at home and the court
gesture In the direction of “interna
tional co-operation.” Mr. Harding
feels that the G. O. P. in 1924 will have
two winning issues, instead of one.
He prefers that republican minds
should w-illingly go along with this
theory, but he will adhere to it
whether they do or not. Those who
have seen it at close range during
the past day or two say the Harding
jaw is set on that score. They never
found Mr. Harding more determined.
Irreconcilable republicans are trying
to "sabotage” the world court proposal
by assailing it as a "Hughes scheme”
or a “Hoover scheme." The idea back
of those tactics is to make out that
the President had the thing “put over”
on him, more or less against his will
and better judgment. The exact con
trary happens to be the case. It was
President Harding who submitted the
proposal to Secretary Hughes, and not
the other way about. Mr. Hughes gave
it his immediate and cordial indorse
ment.
Hoover Backs Plan.
Secretary Hoover’s speech at Des
Moines last week, firing the administra
tion’s opening gun for the world court,
was read and approved by President
Harding before delivery. Secretary
Hughes’ elaboration of the scheme be
fore the International Law Society on
April 27 is certain also to have con- ,
Crete White House approval. It is
likely to cover different ground than
Mr. Hoover traversed In lowa. He will I
be talking to international lawyers, so |
In large part the forthcoming Hughes i
exposition will be legalistic. But It
may be expected to deal In hammer-
I and-tongs fashion with the cardinal ob
jections which opponents have raised.
The Secretary of State, for instance,
brands as grotesque the notion that
America might some day find Itself
haled Into the world court to adjudicate,
at foreign behest, such things as her
tariff and immigration laws. Mr. Hughes
may discuss the world court in general
terms this week in his D. A. R. ad
dress.
If he ventilates views his friends
all know him to hold, Secretary
Hughes’ public advocacy of the
world court idea will be found to
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PRESIDENT WELCOMES
D.A.R.; LAUDS CRUSADE
OF TRUE AMERICANISM
|
Harding’s Speech
A t D.A ,R Session
In Memorial Hall
Daughters of the Revolution:
It is a great pleasure to greet
and join in the welcome which the
nation's capital gladly extends to
the notable body of enlightened
and patriotic women who gather
annually to renew their pledges of
highest national usefulness.
I am sure that Washington re
joices in the presence and profits
by its contact with an association
wherein long ago you merged the
finest aspirations for service, and
submerged every consideration of
section, faction, ancient division
and merely selfish ambition. Tt
has been the uniform object of the
Daughters of the Revolution to
preserve and promote those senti
ments of civic duty, of broadly
national concern, of genuine pa
triotism, which constitute our rich
est inheritance from the fathers
who laid the foundation of our na
tional estate.
Our country will have done well
when it is assured of the full en
listment of all the unselfish devo
tion of its womanhood in the su
preme duty of implanting senti
ments of real Americanism in the
hearts of all our citizens. It is
because your order has so long,
so earnestly, so unswervingly led
in enlisting womanhood for this
splendid service, that these year
ly conventions are recognized as
occasions of refreshment to the
spiritual welfare and reinforce
ment to the physical reserves on
which depend the national move
ment forward and upward. Yours
is an unceasing, a self-perpetuat
ing crusade. You seek constantly j
to draw in new armies of recruits
to the forces which uphold the
banners of exalted nationalism
and of ennobling citizenship. Your
service to country finds its re
cruits in the youth of the on
coming generation; it gains in
strength through the training and
| discipline of these: it seeks al-
I ways to expand and improve its
| ideals and aims, through its es-
I forts to open a wider and a truer
j vision to those who will be the
I leaders of tomorrow.
! It is in this conception of your
| organization that. I think, we shall
j most justly appraise its usefulness
j to our country. You have made it
j your especial endeavor to train
the rising generation in the ways
of righteous and useful citizen
ship. In your zeal for a better to
morrow you have wrought greatly
for a better today.
The Daughters of the Revolu
tion have preserved for us all a
lesson in the desirability of for
bearance. patience and tolerance.
In the beginnings of the nation
there were wide divergences of
judgment about institutions, meth
ods, directions, means and meas
ures. There were conflicts of sen
timent. section and fundamental
I social procedures. Passions were
i often inflamed, and jealousy often
j was threatened. These conflicts re-
I quired to be settled through mu
■ tual concessions, through generous
j recognition of inevitable and
■ yet perfectly honest differences.
Fortunately for our country's
great experiment, there was a suf
ficient endowment of wisdom,
moderation and selflessness to
make possible the adjustment of
all the differences. The great
project of government of the
people. for the people, by the peo
ple was sent forth in the world
because no group or faction or
narrow interest assumed to be or
to represent all the people. No
group arrogated to itself all the
political righteousness of the
young republic.
Because it has ever t>een the
aim and object of your organiza
tion to keep this general atti
tude at the front among your
policies, one is prompted to note
the striking coincidence between
the complexities of those early
days in our history and the prob
lems which the world confronts
today. Never has mankind faced
difficulties of such varied char
acter, or on so huge a scale, as
now propound to it the riddle of
the Sphinx. The very destiny of
the race, the future of civiliza
tion, seem to depend on our find
ing answer, and on our sincere,
generous, broad-minded accept
ance of that answer when it is
found. Until the new paths are
well revealed, we must hold se
cure those which we inherited.
We shall not find an answer which
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Schwab Warm of Inflation
In V. S. Busines Expansion
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 16.—“ Indications
are that we are entering: into a period
of business expansion, and utmost
caution must be exercised to prevent
this from developing: into a secondary
inflation, which would be disastrous.”
Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, de
clared In a statement today.
“Business is plentiful and industry
la active throughout the country,” he
added, “and we have every reason to
feel happy over the situation.
“Our Job right now is to keep an
even keel and to steer a straight
course. Business is on a firm founda
tion, but It must be kept there. Eco
nomic conditions abroad are not as
promising: a* I would have them, but
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I
Inspiring Spectacle
as 32d Congress
Convenes.
j
MRS. MINOR MAKES
STIRRING ADDRESS
President General Urges
Continued Fight Against
Bolshevism.
Declaring the world today faces
difficulties on a larger scale and of a
more varied nature than ever before.
President Harding, in an adores* be
fore the National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion in Memorial Continental Hall, to
day urged America to draw a lesson
from the fortitude of the nation>
founders and follow their path until
a newer, better one is discovered.
The President congratulated the
daughters upon the fact that their
ideals are those of America’s fore
fathers. The very destiny of the race,
the future of civilization, he said,
rest upon the answers we find to the
important questions the nation faces
today. America, the President assert
ed, might draw a lesson from the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion.
“Until new paths are revealed to
us, let us hold secure to those which
we have inherited. The war-torn
world of today easily might find ,i
helpful lesson and cheering encouratr
ment from the founding fathers wh-.
found away to a union and concert
ed effort. World wonder, sometimes
world envy, has attended the astound
ing development."
The Daughters of the American Revo
lution formally convened their thirty -
I second congress in Memorial Continent;-1
Hail promptly at 10:30 o’clock this
morning. Mere man—a salwart bu
gler of the United States Marine
Corps—called the 2.500 delegates and
alternates, representing every state
in the Union, to order a moment be
fore Mrs. George Maynard Minor, the
president general, entered in state
and declared the convention in ses
sion.
In the tense excitement of the
inaugural exercises all else but the
society’s creed of true Americanism,
as enunciated by Mrs. Minor in her
annual address, was momentarily for
gotten. Politics, the coming selection
of a new president general, personal
ambition—all were laid aside when
the incumbent president general call
ed upon the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution as a body to stamp
out radical societies “masquerading
as peace and freedom organizations."
"Out-and-out patriotism for the
preservation of American ideals” was
the duty, Mrs. Minor charged upon
the delegates. She delivered her ad
dress in an atmosphere fairly over
flowing with the spirit of A'merica.
Grouped before her were the blood
descendents of the valiant men and
women who. more than a century
ago, founded this nation. Swinging
slowly from the stained glass ceil
ing above hung suspended a huge
colonial flag: around it were grouped
the flags of the states.
Assembly Sounded.
Only a few minutes earlier every
person in the room had stood at at
tention. right hand to salute, while
"The American Creed.” and "The Sa
lute to the Flag" were recited. Im
maculate in his blue, red and gold uni
form, the marine bugler had sounded
I assembly. Red. white and blue hy
drangeas nodded from the ferned
fringes of the rostrum, upon which
sat the national officers and high
city and government officials. It was
in this atmosphere that the presi
dent-general called upon the repre
sentatives of American womanhood
to go out and fight the creed of bol
shevism which, she declared, is seek
ing to crush true Americanism.
"Oh. you women, gathered here today
from all the states, representative of
hundreds of chapters throughout our
broad land, if I could only make you
realize all that it means now to be a
Daughter of the American Revolution!
It means, in its deepest sense, a self
dedication !«> home, country and God.
A’ours is the heritage which means
America and all that America stands
for, and yours is the obligation to per
petuate and defend it.
“It has been well written that those
who have no reverance for their ances
tors will have nothing worthy to
transmit to their descendants. It is
true that we are a society that looks
backward, but it is into a living past
that we gaze. No past that is worth
anything can ever be called dead. Is
not the past which gave us our homes
and built up our country worth some
thing? We look backward only that
we may go forward with greater hope
and courage.
Liberals Sneer at Pam.
"It is the fashion to sneer at the
past, to make it the butt of superficial
jokes and radical denunciations. But
the fluttering leaves of a tree might
just as well give themselves airs of
superiority and deny the roots. Where
would they be were the ax laid to the
roots and the tree cut down?
"That is what many Americans.
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I am not at all discouraged over tlie
I outlook, and I think progress is be
] Ing- made and will be made for the re
| mainder of the year.
"I have always found the steel in
dustry is a pretty accurate indicator
of industrial conditions. Bethlehem
plants are all working almost to ca
pacity and 1 am sure the same condi
tions apply to most other steel mills.
It is rather a good sign that a good
part of this steel is going into new
construction work and railroad equip-
I menl. This indicates business leaders
| are looking forward in an effort to
] meet demands that will be made on
I them for increased productions and
Increased transportation.
“If there is one word of advice I
would give, it would be that we pro
ceed carefully and place our confi
dence in the integrity and good judg
ment of American business men.”
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