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SUGAR GOST-RAISED
BY GROWER PROFIT
Tariff Hearing Develops First
New Statistical Idea on
Subject in Years.
BV HARDEN COLFAX.
Among Washington's forgotten in
vestigations, gone dark in the blaze
of oil and allied inquiries, is one
which Hared to momentary light this
week with a general appeal to the
housewife and the average man—an
inquiry by the tariff commission into
the relative costs of producing sugar
under the American flag and in Cuba,
one source of our supply.
The Inquiry was directed into the
coats of sugar during the period a
year ago, when the rising price of
the Cuban product, dominating do- |
mestic markets, shot to such heights
that the government took legal action
designed to end the alleged profiteer
ing.
When numerous factors, including
a generous yield of domestic cane and j
beet sugar, plus supplies from Porto |
Rico and Hawaii, toned down the i
price to average reach, public inter
est waned. it is an unusual testi
monial to public memory that the
present inquiry, touching prices then
under hot Arc. has received virtually
no mention whatever.
For that reason, perhaps, there has ]
been overlooked thus far the injec- |
tion into the inquiry of a factor that ;
tends to upset all the commission's ]
estimates of Cuban costs and itftiy es- i
tablish an entirely new method ol j
procedure in figuring future costs. |
with profound effect on the future of ]
the American sugar industry.
“Loaded W ith Profits.'*
Briefly, the contention is made that !
the reputed costs gathered by the!
commission, so far as Cuba is con
cerned. are not costs at all, but are ]
loaded with heavy protits to the I
Cuban growers and. for that reason, j
should not be considered. If the con- i
tention prevails, the commission will j
have to compile new figures on an j
entirely different basis.
The commission gathers its figures |
in the United States, Hawaii. Forte !
Rico and Cuba for the purpose of de- j
lermining cost difference. Cuban i
producers, on account of the fertility I
of their fields, the climate, cheap la
bor and other factors, produce sugar
more cheaply than it can be produced
in the United States and its posses
sions. A tariff duty of 1.76 cents a
pound, imposed under the Fordney-
McCumber act. is designed to enable I
producers under the American flag to j
meet Cuban competition, which they j
claim they could not do otherwise.
What the tariff commission wants |
to learn is whether the 1.76-cent pro- |
I action is too great. Upon its findings j
it will make recommendations to the I
President, who is authorized, under ,
'he flexible provisions of the tariff’
iaw. to readjust the tariff up or down
by a maximum of t>o per cent. If the
protection is too great—that is. if the
cost of production in Cuba is not
1.76 cents a pound less than it is in
the United States, Porio Rico and
Hawaii—the tariff could be lowered i
to a minimum of about seven-eights
Os a cent a pound. The President. ■
not the commission, however, would
be the final determining authority.
Figures introduced by refiners of j
Cuban sugar before the commission
this week show the "cost” of produc
tion to have increased in Cuba by al
most 10 0 per cent between December.
1922, and May, 1923. These figures
cannot be compared with similar fig
ures from any American field, it is
claimed, because such data have not
been obtained. It is charged also
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Cyclist , Hit by Auto,
Lands in Car 9 s Path;
Dragged , But Unhurt
After being struck by an autorao-
Ibile and thrown from his bicycle In
front of a moving street car. which
dragged him for some distance, flf
-1 teen-year-old Edward Clements, 1910
14th street northwest, surprised hor
rified onlookers by getting up, shak
ing himself and declaring he was
unhurt.
He was thrown from his wheel
when it collided with the automobile
j of William Stein, 3720 Jocelyn stbeel
northv—«, on H street, between 141 It
and streets.
GF.TS PARIS PROGRAM.
Bty State Radio Enthusiast Breaks
Record With Hour's Hearing.
VCW YORK, March 29.—A French
radio program broadcast from the
Eiffel Tower in Paris tonight was
heard by Bert Moulten in Chatham,
Mas*., for more than an hour, it was
announced from the offices -of the
Radio Corporation of America. It
was believed to be the first time a
French program has been heard con
tinuously for more than a few min
utes.
SALT FROM EARTH FLOORS.
j From the Industrial Student,
i In a southern woman's recollections of
(civil war times a novel means of ob
taining salt, resorted to in those days, is
described.
“A common practice,” she says, "on
the part of people who sadly missed salt
us an ingredient of their food was to
: dig up the earth floors of the smoke
j houses and by a sort of distilling process
i get out of the earth the salt that had
| dripped from the pork and other meats
| that had been cured in the smokehouse."
i This made a fairly good substitute for
; the salt that could no longer be ob-
I lained from the closed channels of com
[ merce.
I that they represent only a small pro
-1 portion of authentic Cuban figures.
I lawn ILa ns Attack Figure*.
, The Hawaiian producers, in a brief
j filed by Royal D. Mead and in lesti
| mony given by W. Jett Rauck, econo
| mist, attack these figures, claiming
i that while they are alleged to be cost
1 figures, in reality they contain the
| entire profits accruing to the growers
lof sugar in Cuba. Cuban growers and
mills, they claim are separate, in con
trast to the situation in Hawaii where
i the mill Interests grow the cane. The
tariff commission's figures of costs, it
is charged, begin with the price of
sugar at the mill in Cuba. The situ
ation is further complicated by the
j fact that the grower is paid on a
j sliding scale depending on the price
i of sugar in New York.
Thus, it Is claimed, when sugar
) prices in New Y’ork soar, Cuban grow
j ers reap enormous profits. Prices were
[high in New York in the first half of
1923: lienee, it is argued, millions of
growers’ profit,* are contained in the
‘alleged Cuban cost figures. Before an
'accurate comparison can be made. Mr
! Mead claims, the entire element of
' growers' profits must be blotted out
| of the cost figures.
The commission listened with un-j
disguised interest to the presentation !
'of the contention. It marks a new i
thought in sugar tariff economics and :
is generally regarded as the first I
| original contribution to the theme I
which has been made in the two ,
generations it has been under politi
! cal discussion. Klirnination of the
j Cuban growers’ profits, it is claimed,
j will show a far greater difference
between Cuban and American costs
than 1.76 cents a pound and result in
justification for the present rates.
Refiners of Cuban sugar maintain
that the figures before the commis
sion represent cost to the refiners and
that they have not gone behind them
to the extent asked by the Hawaiian
producers.
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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 30, 1924-PART 1.
SPONSORED KIRBY’S
SELECTION, HE SAYS
Representative W. S. Greene Clears
“Air of Mystery” at Banquet
Held Last Night.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS HOSTS
More Than 100 Attend Testimonial
Dinner.
The mystery surrounding the selec
tion of Maj. Wallace W. Kirby, U. S.
A., to head the bureau of engraving
and printing was cleared for the first
time when Representative W. S.
Oreene of Massachusetts, in an ad
dress at a testimonial dinner to Maj.
Kirby at the La Payette Hotel last
night said it was he who picked him
and Drought about his appointment.
Representative Greene said that it
was during a talk with Maj. Kirby
several months ago that the latter,
while discussing affairs at the bureau,
convinced Representative Greene that
he was the man to tackle the big
problem of reorganizing the bureau
and restoring harmony and efficiency
there. Maj. Kirby told Representa
tive Greene that he would be willing
to try out his ideas at the bureau if
he could be granted a leave of ab
sence from the Engineer Corps, of
which he is an officer.
More Than 100 Attended. 1
More than 100 men attended the
banquet last night to pay tribute to
Maj. Kirby. The affair was given un
der the auspices of Rathboue-Supe
rior Lodge, No. 29. Knights of Py
thias. of the District of Columbia,
Besides members of this and other
local Pythian lodges, there were '
gathered about the banquet table a
number of Maj. Kirby's immediate as
sociates at the bureau and several
from the Engineer Corps. Among lh£
latter was Maj. Gen. Lansing H.
Beach, chief of engineers. U. S. A.,
who in a speech told of Maj. Kirby’s
valuable work for the Army in France
during the world war.
In a brief speech acknowledging
his appreciation of this tribute Maj.
Kirby said, that he has by no means
succeeded in reorganizing the bureau
but that he felt a good start in the
right direction had been made and
that he was happy to say harmony
is being restored and that he hoped
to make good of permitted to con
tinue as the head if this big insti
tution.
Edgar C. Snyder Presided.
Edgar C. Snyder, United States
j marshal of the District and a mem
ber of Rathbone-Superior Lodge for
many years, presided as tog.stma.ster.
Others who spoke were Representa
tive M. O. McLoughlin of Nebraska,
John J. Deviny, superintendent of
work at the bureau; William Tyler
Page, clerk of the United States
House of Representatives, and Arthur
E. Gorham, grand chancellor, com
mander Knights of Pythias of the
District of Columbia.
Those who contributed to the en
' tertainment during the evening were
j Harry Angelica, Fred East, Charles
IT. Perry. Talbot O. Pulizzi, George
, H. Wilson and Ruskerfs Orchestra.
Besides the speakers those present
! were: E. H. Ashworth. Joseph A. Ben-
I nett. A. G. Bishop, J. E. Borland, P. P.
' Brown, E. R Bromwell, Franklin But
ler, L. Butler. H. H. Chappell. Shelby
Clarke. George T. Clayton, George C.
Cole. Carl Collier, R Percy Daniel, H.
Dawson, Alvin H. Day. Henderson B.
Douglas. George W. Dove. George M.
Duncan, Bertrand Emerson, jr., Rich
ard Emtenman. William Foley, A. B.
Foster, E. C. Fowler. D. A. Pulton,
Lurton R. Ginn, Charles A. Hall, H. S.
Hance, J. D. Harbaugh. Benjamin F.
Harris, Clifford H. Harwood, E. W.
Heiss. J. C. Hooker, R. R Humphries,
Joseph Jacobs, T. A. Jarvis, E. F.
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Black Snow Covers 25 Miles,
Dyeing Hills, Forests and Rivers
Special Ltmpatcb to The Star.
Harrisonburg, Va., March 29.
Black snow to the depth of three
Inches fell in Brocks Gap, In the
northwestern part of the county, and
across, the line into West Virginia
over an area of more than twenty
five miles, according to reports reach
ing here from that mountainous sec
tion.
Coming down on top of the ordi
nary snowfall, the black snow gave
the landscape an unusual appearance,
especially where it was in contrast
with the sparkling while. Trees,
shrubbery, fences, houses and every
thing were covered In the same man
ner as ordinary snow.
Dog Turns Black.
When it melted, the streams were
colored a dense black. A white dog
AUTO DRIVER DIES
AFTER HITTING POLE
Benjamin F. Benton Succumbs to
Injuries—Three Others
Hurt.
Benjamin F. Benton of 112 Ist street
southeast was killed last night when
an automobile in which he was en
route to this city with three other
men left the Queens Chapel road on
the “hairpin" curve at McChesney’s
corner, near the District line, struck
a telephone pole and overturned.
Others in the car escaped with
minor injuries. The men were Dal J.
Booty, 128 12th street northeast, said
to be the owner of the car; John
Peters, 529 12th street northeast, and
S. E. Herby of Georgetown.
Driven from Baltimore.
According to information obtained
by Constable Thomas Garrison of
Hyattsvllle. the car was being oper
ated by Benton at the time of the
accident. The party was said to
have driven from Baltimore.
Benton was removed to Garfield
Hospital, where surgeons found him
to be suffering from a fractured
skull, a broken leg and other in
juries. He died early today.
The authorities are investigating
the circumstances surrounding the
accident.
Jaehnke. S. A. Johnson. James H. Kel
ley, Frank Kelly. W. A. Kimmel,
Warden B. King. William A. Kirby,
Robert E, Rambert. William J. Mc-
Elhinnev, B. P. Myer. Edward E.
Myers, Robert O'Hara, Arthur B.
Pierce. Robert E. Pile, Joseph T, K.
Plant. Talbot O. Puiizzi. E. E. Putnam,
Auguste C. Radue, John Reding, John
IE. Rhodes. Dr. Charles W. Rich.
1 Thomas Roche. George W. Rue, Adam
I'. Ruth, A, J. Schippert. Edw. U.
| Schrack. Gus A. Schuldt, W. P. Scott,
Alfred M. Schwartz. Robert E Slagel.
■ sr, A. S. Simons. Edgar C. Snyder.
Howard W. Steen, B. R. Stickney, E.
J. Swain, George W. Talbert. If. K.
I Troutman. E H. Troutman. H.
Thomas. Frank M. Walter, jr.. Wil
liam H. Wertman. James H. Wind
sor. Andrew S. Wright, Capt. Nathan
Williams, J. A. Williams. William T.
Wade. H. 1. Wilson, jr.. T. M. Yo.ung.
Dinner oonunittee —Edgar C. Snyder,
chairman; W. J. McElhinney, J. T. K.
Plant, Gus A. Sehuldt, Alfred M.
Schwartz, chancellor commander.
Rathbone-Superior Eodgo, No. 29.
Knights of Pythias: A. B Simons.
W. F. Scott and E H. Troutman.
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swimming’ one of these streams came
out dyed pure black.
A chemical analysis of the black
snow has been made and It was found
the substance was composed of pure
carbon In the very finest state—so
fine that it passed through ordinary
filter paper.
The presence of the carbon in the
black snow is undisputed. The only
theory for it is that the fine carbon
from the smoke of some of the big
industrial centers was carried by the
higher air currents and the conditions
wore not acch as to caosa tt to drop
until it reached tho area over which it
fell. _ There was a change in the air
currents, it is believed, which caused
the carbon particles to be precipitated
with the snow, giving the latter a
coal black appearance.
SURPRISE AT HOME
WAITS LADY ASTOR
Expected Elderly Social Workers
at Party and Found All
Young Folks.
By t'aUle t«> The Star anil f'hieago baiiy N'ews.
Copyright, 1924.
LONDON, March 29. —Bady Astor
had a real surprise when she rushed
home rather late last evening from
a temperance meeting to take her
place as hostess at a reception she
was giving to the juvenile
employment exchanges.
She had exj»ected her guests would
be of the staid, werjous-rninded chari
table worker type, and when she
found on her belated arrival V e.t
the guests were lively young peep**.,
she climbed upon a chair in typical
laidy Astor fashion and made a
speech, to the effect that had site
known their ages she would have
organised a dance rather than a ro- j
ception. This was met with a hilaro
iuus reception by the guests.
It is nothing unusual for Bady
Astor to corne iate to affairs at her
own house, or to get up .and leave a
parly she. is giving to rush off to the
House of Commons.
RETURNS TO PHONE STAFF
I
Samuel M. Greer to Serve Company
as Vice President.
The Chesapeake and Potomac Tele
phone Company yesterday announced
that Samuel M. Greer, a former of- 1
ficial, will return to the company on 1
April I as vice president in charge
of commercial activities. ,
Mr. Greer Is a telephone man of ,
twenty-seven years’ exeprience. From ,
;1911 to 1917 he was with the Ohesa- ]
ipeake and Potomac Company', leav- '
ing to accept an executive position \
jin the American Red Cross. .Since
I the close of the war he has been an 1 j
|olficiai of the Bankers’ Trust Com- j
jpany of New York.
—•—
ENTERS SENATE RACE.
WHEGhrXG, W. Va.. March 29. — ,
■ Representative Benjamin B Rosen- J
; bloom tonight announced his can- i
didacy for the republican nomination
■ for the United States Senate from ’
. West Virginia. (
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RELIEF OF FARMERS
PLEDGED BY M’ADOO
Promises to Eeopen Foreign Mar
kets for U. S. Products
it Elected.
ASSAILS RAILROAD BILL
Would Reduce Freight Rates to
Reasonable Basis, He
Declares.
By the Associated Press.
PHOENIX, Ariz., March 29.—Imme
diate legislation to “relieve the farm
er" and do "everything that is pos
sible to establish sound conditions of
prosperity” will be asked of a spe
cial session of Congress if he be
comes President of the. United States,
William G. McAdoo, candidate for the
democratic nomination, declared here
tonight.
Assailing the "obnoxious features"
of the E sch-Cum mi ns bill, which he
said must be repealed, and the “re
actionary republican party,” Air. Alc-
Adoo asserted that prompt measures
to “bring about railroad reform” and
to “reopen the foreign markets” will
be taken “if the progressive democ
racy Is restored to power.”
Demand for Action.
Air. McAdoo told his audience there
was ”a demand for action now to
meet an emergency in which agricul
ture is suffering and in which the
people of the entire nation are suf
fering from wrongs inflicted by un
sound and unwise railroad legisla
tion."
"The farmer needs relief,” he de
clared. “The country needs relief
and yet we merely drift. Neither in
normaky nor in dormancy is there
hope.
"If I should be el/jcted President I
would take prompt measures;
Would ItcHlorr Markets.
"First, to reopen foreign markets
to our farmers so they could dis
pose of tiieir surplus products at the
best obtainable prices.
"Second, to bring railroad re
form so as to reduce freight rates to
a reasonable basis, enabling the
farmer to get a higher price for his
product and reducing the cost of aJI
of the materials and supplies which
he must ship over the railroads to his
farm.”
"Third, to repeal the Pordney-Mc
''umber tariff bill, and substitute a
reasonable and fair tariff measure
which will give the farmers fair play
and the largest possible opportunity
to dispose of their products at profit
able prices and enable them and the
people generally to buy their necessi
ties at reasonable prices.”
"These reforms must be directed
toward securing more efficient trans
portation at less cost to the public."
he continued. "This can be done;
this must be done. The difficulty
now is that selfish interests insist
upon continuing a wholly uneconomic
system of transportation, because it
advocates strong railroads to main
tain the existing status, regardless of
the public welfare. No great industry- I
like transportation can successfully
maintain itself upon an uneconomic
basis.”
Fire Razes $1,000,000 School.
LYNN, Mass.. March 29.—The Lynn-
Engllsh High School, a building con
structed to accommodate 2,000 pupils
was destroyed by fire Tate tonight
with a total loss estimated at Si noo -
00^.
Pins , Dime, Bolts ,
Nails Taken From
Stomach , Man Lives
By the Associated P-ess.
CHICAGO. March 29.—Dr Max
Tfcorek, operating today on Wilv
Ham Bartel). professional "swal
lower,” removed 275 objects, rang- !
ing from pins to bolts, from Bar
tell's stomach. The collection in
cluded a dime and a beer check.
Bartell did not suffer loss of ap
petite or any indigestion until a
Bail penetrated the «ul vi Kva I
stomach, causing peritonitis, Dr.
Thorek said. The patient was
resting nicely tonight, he said.
poincarecFedTted
WITH BOLD STROKE
— !
Has Created Cabinet Out of Past i
Enemies to Cement His
Position.
By Radio to The Star and Philadelphia Public !
la-djrer. Copyright. J9IU,)
BARIS. March 29.—The, most strik
ing deduction drawn from Premier'
Poincare’s choice of a new cabinet,
with so many politically diverse
parts, is found in the mouthpiece of
the new minister of public instruc
tion—Senator Henri de Jouvenel. editor :
of the Matin.
In thinly veiled language his lead- 1
ing editorial today infers that M. ■
Poincare elevated more than one 1
formidable opponent to the rank of i
minister, in order to remove the alle- •
gation that he is seeking a dictator- I
ship.
"We hope no longer to hear talk 1
of a dictatorship.” says the news- i
paper. “There tain bo no dictator
ship in a country where the chief of
slate affirms the- principles to which
France owes her recovery, and where
the chief of state, in the superior in
terests of the nation, doesn’t at all
hesitate to appeal for the co-opera
tion of those who were in opposition
to him."
Tardlen Sflll Bitter.
While the pro-Poincare press is as- i
suring the public it can remain I
’’tranquil” over the cabinet appoint- I
ments, and is promising that the]
policy of the government will not
change, quite the opposite view’ is
taken by the spokesmen of those I
whose politics are represented by the I
left of the chamber of deputies. N'one
is more bitter than Andre Tardieu
who. in the Bcho National says:
Francois Marsal, i.ouis i»ucheur
Daniel Vincent and Henri tie Jouve
nel. after battling against M. Poin
care. appear today in the front row
of the new cabinet. In order to get a
vote of confidence in the past Premier
Poincare showed these gentlemen as
destroying our credit and ruining the
franc.’’
“M. Marsal. who fought against a I
i -0 per cent increase in taxes, is now
going to collect it. M, Loucheur, in- i
sensible to economics, is going to .
put them in force. M. de Jouvenel. '
who tried to exterminate the decree i
laws, is going to apply them.”
Considered flood Stroke.
t However, M. Poincare’s decision to |
"create a government not of his
friends, but of his adversaries,” while
regarded in some quarters as a be
trayal. nevertheless may he consid
ered as a bold stroke, not only dissi
pating rumors of a possible dictator-
DAUGHERTY SAYS TOE
NOT SORE, NOR HEAD
Burden Lifted, But Great Respon
sibilities Still Felt. Says
Ex-Attorney Genera?.
•
SILENCE PLAN INDICATED
Shore Reporters Get No Statement
on Future From Sojourner.
Special Dispatch to The Star
ATLANTIC CITY, X. J„ March 299
“I have neither a sore toe nor a sop*
head.” so declared former Attorney
General Harry M. Daugherty to
I newspaper men when pressed for a
j statement of his future plans at the
| Hotel Traymore here, where he i
spending a few days routing after the
t strenuous days leading up to his re
, tlrement from public life.
; The above sentence was all the re.
porters could glean from Mr. Daugfi- *
j erty, who refused to enlarge on It
, N’or would he say whether it was an
| indication that he was planning p.
j remain silent on the charges hurled
i at him a.nd his administration. The
j latter course of action is considered
j most doubtful, and there are report
j based on numerous messages he has
received during the twenty-four *
j hours he has been here that he is
considering the advisability of going
before the public; with his defense
Many of these messages expressed
their faith in him and urged him to
such a course. Mr. Daugherty re
fused to slate what he intended to do
Great Responsibility Felt.
| “My. it feels good to have a greai
I burden lifted from one’s shoulders.
. he said. “Vet, I feel strongly that I
have great responsibilities.”
i Again during the chat with the
| newspaper men he gave them portion
lof his philosophy. ”ls one is too so!
j emn everybody thinks you fee! as
though the weight of the wholecoun
try rests on you. and if you speak
humorously they think you are frivo
| lous. The best thing you can do is '
just be yourself.”
Mr. Daugherty was disappointed at
the weather. A cold drizzle fell
throughout the day, and. owing t.. a
slight cold, he decided to remain in
his room. He planned a long stroll
along the Boardwalk, ’with a moving
picture or theater as a climax. He
did venture forth later in the after
j noon.
■ His night's rest appeared to have
greatly refreshed him aatd he lost
| much of the nervousness which was
j clearly visible yesterday.
I Ship, but serving to consolidate the
i premier’s position on the eve of the
elections and at the same time
strengthening the foreign policies of t
.France.
A return to policies based on inter- *
national accords is foreseen. M. Dou
cheur's influence will be on the side
of such a procedure, which M. Poin
care himself instigated recently in
seeking a pact of guarantees with
Great Brit&in. 31. Loucheur's experl- •
ence as a treaty maker is attested
■ by his negotiation of the “plan of Ch.
j quers” .and the ’Wiesbaden accord.”
; M. de Jouvenel's influence on th
i foreign policy of the country also
, will be thrown toward the league of
j nations, he being one of the most con
j spicuous pro-leaguers in France and
| twice Us representative at Geneva
1 Whether de Jouvenel will seek t.
1 exploit his league views in the cabi
net. thereby causing a clajsh w!t;
Premier Poincare, remains to be seen,
for the new minister of education is
favorable to the league playing a
major role in handling the repara
tions problems and questions grow
ing out of the Ruhr occupation