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COOLIDGE WRONGLY
QUOTED IN FRANCE
French Papers Get Far From
Right View of Attitude
1% v on Herriot.
/" in DAVID I,AHBK\tK.
President Coolidge was completely
misrepresented by the French press
with respect to his alleged comments
on (he fall of Premier Herriot. Such
irritation as is reported from France
due to erroneous press reports, is
the inevitable result of a system
' hich does not maintain a single
special correspondent in Washington
for French newspapers.
Had the representatives of French
newspapers heard what Mr. Coolidge
said they would not have been mis
led. Most of the correspondents of
J' rench newspapers make their head
quarters in New York and are de
pendent on what they read in the
P'eßS generally so that the version
Ifhally cabled is second hand. Here
is the Information divulged at the
M bite House when Inquiries were
ia4de last Friday as to whether the
President had any comment to make
on the change in the cabinet in
Fran ce:
That the President did not know
that he could very well comment on
the resignation of Premier Herriot
in away that would be helpful to
the correspondents.
Recall* Selection,
That the President recalled that
M. Herriot came into power on the
suggestion of a little more liberal
government and on a desire to ar
range some settlement with Germany
relative to reparations. Now that
vas accomplished—and it is a real
accomplishment—the President thought
it a piece of work in which Premier
Herriot could take a good deal of
satisfaction. Ttie President judged
that M. Herriot had gone out of pow
er on account of the great difficulty
■that has attended French finances,
and the President noticed in the aft
ernoon newspapers the statement of
the premier that he was not to blame
about that, and that the difficulty ex
isted before he came into power and
was not the result of his action.
That the President did not know
what the effect would be on F"rance.
He imagined it would depend more or
less on who came into power.
Situation Delicate.
That the President found it difficult !
to comment about It because, of;
course, it was rather delicate to say i
much of anything about it.
the foregoing was, of course, in
j o sense a eulogy of Premier Her
riot nor any attempt to criticize the
French for overthrowing his minis
try, but rather a passing observation
on the Banes settlement, which is
an accomplished fact and on which j
messages of gratification were ex-1
••hanged at the time between Wash-1
ington and Paris.
Not having the background of the j
remarks made here on the subject,
and not knowing that the newspaper
men always ask for comment, formal
informal, on events happening in
Kurope, the French editorial writers
have assumed that Mr. Coolidge went
out or his way to praise M. Herriot I
atd in a sense to lament his de- j
p&rture. Nothing was farther from !
Mr. Coolidge's mind, as he knows I
tyo well how indelicate it is ty com
<»ent on a change of cabinet in a !
J'/ireign country.
I Officials here are anxious to leatn I
mist how the French press was mis- j
|fd on the subject, and it may be I
■ hat American Ambassador Herrick |
iyUl be asked to present the exact
P* ords the White House spokesman
fcised and learn the origin of thi
■nisrepresentation.
(Copyright, 1823.)
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POSSE SEEKS NEGROES.
Shoot Wrong Man in Hunt for
Assailants of Deputy.
MACON. Ga., April 13. —An exciting
chase is being conducted by a force
of armed men in the Lizella neigh
borhood for Monroe and Tom Fowler,
negroes, suspected of being partici
pants in a gun fight with Earl Mos
ley, deputy sheriff, in which the dep
uty was injured. David Johnson, an
other negro, arrived at the Macon
hospital within an hour after the of
ficer was brought here for treatment.
Johnson said he was shot by a band
of searchers, who mistook him for
one of the negroes they were seeking.
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BUT IT SHOULD BE DONE PROPEIILT.
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MOTHER QUIZZED IN FIVE DEATHS
■PjlSLen x ? i ■* *
t I / ffipk HgiftlS
A remarkable poison ease is ex
pected to be uncovered with the tak
ing Into custody of Mrs. Anna Cun
ningham of Gary, Ind.. upon the sud
den illness of her remaining son,
David Conninghsm, 24, and with the
discovery by physician* that he was
suffering from arsenic poison. Mrs.
Cunninghnm’s husband, together with
four of her other children, hnvc all
died within the last six years under
mysterious circumstance*. In each case
being sick hut 10 days to 2 weeks.
Besides David, there Is one surviving
daughter of 17. All the deceased were
Insured nnd Ihe proceeds from these
policies and the earnings of David as
a machinist have been Mrs. Cun
ningham’s main source of support.
When relatives learned of the dying
condition of David, they notified the
authorities, and It Is expected that all
five of Ihe bodies will be exhumed
from their graves for poison evidence.
The pictures above are of Mrs. Cun
ningham. her late husband and two
of the deceased children.
m IS NEEDED
IN CHARITY DRIVE
Returns Up to Noon Show
Total of $39,314 So Far
Contributed.
According' to returns given out at j
the Social Service House. 1022 j
Eleventh street. 4.277 contributions j
have been received in support of the j
work of the Associated Charities and
Citizens' Relief Association up to
noon today. Each contribution has
been registered as a vote in support
of the work of these family welfare
organizations. Since the first of April,
when this Easter referendum was
opened for the sixth season, 272 mem
bers of 6 of the leading trade bodies
and clubs of the city have registered
their votes by contributing to this
work of mending broken homes and
saving children. Many of these con
tributors have given for the first time
in response to the appeal of the
finance committee for a wider support
from the professional and business
men of the city. This number, 272,
does not include the larger number
of the memberships of those same
organizations who had given earlier
in the year.
The total in hands today of the
joint finance committee of the As
sociated Charities and Citizens’ Relief
Association is $29,314, leaving $15,-
686 still to be raised in order to
provide the minimum budget of $35.-
000 to carry the work to the end
of the fiscal year, September 30. The
committee, of which Milton E. Ailes
is chairman, and Ord F'reston treas
urer, will welcome additional gifts
sent to 1022 Eleventh street in order
to complete the budget.
— «
COMMUNISTS WINNERS.
Obtain Organisation of Canadian
Labor Party.
TORONTO, April 13. —The Commu
nist candidate, A. E. Smith, formerly
a Methodist minister In western Can
ada, was elected president of the
Ontario section of the Canadian Labor
party by two votes over Harry Ker
win, the trades union candidate, by
the 160 delegates at the convention
of the section here Saturday. The
Communists also elected their candi
date. John McDougald. as vice presi
dent and secured control of the ex
ecutive committee.
The delegates adopted the Commu
nists’ resolution providing that the
party's five delegates to, the gather
ing of British Empire Labor parties
in London next year be instructed to
move that the colonial and semi
colonial portions of the empire have
complete Independence. An amend
ment to have “self-determination"
substituted for “independence” failed.
DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE ILL
Former Governor General of Can
ada Stricken in Ireland.
By the Associated Press.
WATERFORD, Ireland, April 15. —
The Duke of Devonshire, former Gov
ernor General of Canada, ex-secretary
of state for the colonies and one of
England's largest landed proprietors,
had a slight seizure of illness yester
day. while staying at Lismore Castle,
his Irish estate near here. He spent a
good night, however, and his condi
tion today was declared to be satis
factory. The Marquis of Hartington,
eldest son and heir of the duke, is on
his way here from Chatsworth, Der
byshire, one of the principal seats of
the Dukedom.
The duke is in his fifty-seventh
year.
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SHIP FIRE QUENCHED.
Philadelphia Fireboats Save Ital
ian Steamship.
PHILADELPHIA. April 13.—Fire
boats from this city, summoned by
wireless telegraph last night, suc
ceeded in bringing under control a
blaze in the No. 3 hold of the Italian
steamship Valrossa In the Delaware
River south of Wilmington. Del.
For a time the flames threatened
to envelope the vessel, but a desper
ate fight by members of the crew,
headed by Capt. Federici, managed to
hold them in check until the arrival
of the fire tugs. Dense clouds of
black smoke poured from the burn
ing hold, handicapping the crew in
its efforts to subdue the blaze Upon
the approach of the fireboats the
Valrossa, which had been proceeding
slowly up the river under its own
power, weighed anchoc in the mid
dle of the stream. y
THE EVENING STAB, WASHINGTON, 1). C., MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1925.
\ " :
RED ENLISTED MEN
TO ESCAPE LIGHTLY,
GENERAL SUGGESTS
(Continued from First Page.)
and everything pertaining to the I
cases, but it is not unlikely that Ij
shall deem three years' imprisonment)
and discharge from the Army ade- |
quate punishment."
Paul M. Crouch, a private, aged 25. {
was sentenced to 4U and Walter M. J
Trumbull, aged 23. to 26 years' I
imprisonment and dishonorable dis-j
charge from the Army. Sev
eral other soldiers were under
suspicion of bolshevistic sympathies,
but no conclusive evidence could be
found against them. Some may be
discharged from the Army, but none
of them is likeiy to be brought to
trial. Gen. Smith declares that "the
poison of sovietism" has been remov
ed from his command, and that his
troops are “ideally sane, loyal and
patriotic."
Text of Letterhead.
Crouch and Trumbull belonged to'
the executive committee of thej
Hawaiian Communist League at the 1
Schofield Barracks. Their letterhead !
reads:
“Workers of the world unite, You]
have nothing to lose but your chains.)
and the world to gain. Hawaii fori
Hawaiian workers. Arise, ye prison- j
ers of starvation! Arise, ye wretched [
of the earth, for justice thunders con- !
dernnationl A better world is in i
birth."
Here is some of the language ac- |
cepted by the court-martial as hav
ing been uttered by Crouch at the
Schofield Barracks in the presence of'
other soldiers:
“The majority of the common I
people will be hard to swing into the !
red column. I am in favor of the
overthrow of the United States Gov
ernment—by peaceful means if it can
be done, but, if not. by any other
method that may present itself, in
cluding revolution.”
Trumbull was found guilty of hav
ing spoken as follows to his fellow
soldiers:
"The President of the United States
may be all right as an individual, but
as an Institution he is a disgrace to
the whole damned country. I am
sick and disgusted with this damned
country and everything and every
body in it. I wish I could get away
where I would not even hear of the
name of the United States again. The
flag and country are a disgrace to hu
manity.’’
All these terms were held to he in
violation of the sixty-second article
of war formulated in the interests of
“good order and military discipline.”
This alleged Soviet conspiracy at
the Schofield Barracks has been run
ning since February. It originated
in a soldiers’ class ostensibly organ
ized to study Esperanto. Some of
the members were bona fide students,
and it is asserted that as soon as
they discovered what was really afoot
they withdrew. Crouch is from North
Carolina, and Trumbull, who Is from
Massachusetts, is a graduate of the
University of Delaware. Crouch and
Trumbull Identified their propaganda
with the third Internationale. Some
reports in Honolulu suggested that
the Moscow reds have been trying to
impair the loyalty of American sol
diers through the Workers* Party of
America and the Industrial Workers
of the World, but the agitation at the
Schofield Barracks is believed to have
been started independently.
Popular sentiment in Hawaii is ad
verse to sovietism in or out of the
Army, but, of course, especially in
the Army.
(Copyright, 1823, by Chicago Daily News Co.)
Today's Star
Contains
22 advertisements for office help,
including
SALESMEN
SOLICITORS
CLERICAL POSITIONS
ASSISTANT MANAGER
GENERAL OFFICE WORK
ASSISTANT SUPPLY CLERK
tOl NTER CLERKS
CLOTHING SALESMEN
SECURITY SALESMEN
BOOKKEEPERS
I SALESLADIES
| OFFICE ASSISTANT
| TYPIST
—and—
-11 advertisements for office sit
uations, including
ACCOUNTANTS
BOOKKEEPERS
STENOGRAPHERS
i CLERKS
DICTAPHONE OPERATOR
' The Help and Situation column*
i of The Star are the means of bring
ing: together the employer seeking:
a certain type of office help and the
clerk having the desired qualifica
| tions.
The best results are obtained by
carefully worded help advertisements
stating fully duties expected
clerk and situation
fiving qualifications
EASTER OBSERVED !
ATTOMBOFCHRISTj
Christian Peoples of World
Represented in Jerusalem
in Colorful Array.
By tbe Associated Press.
JERUSALEM, April 13 Several j .
American Catholic bishops, Proles- j
tant pastors and Jewish rabbis j
figured prominently in yesterday’s j
Easter services in Jerusalem. The
city was crowded with more pilgrims
than at any time since pre-war days, j
Under a hot sun throngs poured i
all day past the JalTa gate through
the narrow streets to the Church of
the Holy Sepulcher, where people of
all religions and sects fought for
standing room around the tomb of
Christ.
Armenians, Copts, Arabs, Russians, .
Greeks, Syrians, Abyssinians, Am<*rl- ]
cans, French. British and Spanish i
jostled one another In a bewildering
variety of drers.
The Right Rev. Francis J. Ties,
Bishop of Concordia, Kans., led a
group of 100 American pilgrims Into
the edifice.
The Right Rev. John J. Cantwell,
Bishop of Los Angeles and San i
Diego, Calif., who. with Mgr. John
Nash of Buffalo and Father James
Coffey of St. Louis, Mo., were the
first Americans to celebrate mass on
Saturday in the sepulcher, headed
a group of French Canadians.
EASTER STYLES QUIET.
Little “Color’’ Noticeable in Fifth
Avenue Parade,
R.t th<* Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April IC.—New Fork
went through its annual Spring
coming-out yesterday throughout the
golden hours of a climatically made
to-order Easter Sunday.
Crowds thronged Fifth avenue, the
traditional stage of the city's Easter
pageant.
Coney Island, a dozen miles away,
also furnished its fashion parade,
promenading In two endless lines
along the newly finished boardwalk.
Ordinarily these crowds held their
Easter promenades on their beloved
Bowery. It was estimated that half
a million persons were at Coney.
Tlte Coney parade was even a bit
more brilliant than the more exclu
sive Fifth avenue pageant, with the
colors of the girls’ and women's
clothes a shade more pronounced and
the skirts quite a bit shorter.
Probably the day’s greatest sur
prise. in a fashion way of speaking,
was the absence on Fifth avenue of
the extremely short skirt that the
mode-makers have been predicting.
"Quietness" was predominant in the
color of dress fabrics. Many black
costumes appeared, relieved, usually,
by small splashes of color here and
there. Black satin coats, the lower
edges trimmed in fur, also were
worn. There was no fur at the neck
or sleeves.
Many of the women wore shoulder
boquets of orchids, sweet peas or
pansies.
One of the post-church strollers to
gain considerable attention was a
black-eyed girl, tall and slender, who
appeared clad in black satin pajamas,
alrno&t hidden by a long coat of the
same material, and with a black satin
bonnet. She carried a long staff, un
adorned.
Many of the women appeared in
double-breasted coats of serge or
cheviot. These were predominantly
in the darker shades.
Coffee shades, with fair sprin
kling of reddish bronze footwear shot
with metal and giving ofT rainbow
lights were conspicuous probably be- j
iau.se of the overwhelming predomi- ,
✓ance of rather severely plain black
and gray leathers.
GREAT THRONGS IN ROME.
Basilicas Crowded for Pontifical
Easter Masses.
By the Associated Press.
ROME, April 13.—Hundreds of
■ thousands of Italians and Holy year
i ptlgrims from all parts of the world,
j including thousands from the United
i States, crowded to the doors Rome’s
| four basilicas this morning when
j pontifical Easter masses were cele
[ brated with traditional gorgeousness
i by cardinal archpriests. Great thongs
' aiso filled the city's 400 churches, in
j each of which a joyous mass marking
| the end of Holy week was celebrated.
I The churchgoers were favored with
j sunnny weather.
The most splendid service was at
j St. Peter's, where, amid special dec
j orations illuminated by shafts of sun
light, Cardinal Merry Del Val offici
■ ated as celebrant. The famous choir
intoned the Gregorian chants and
sang other music.
POLICE GUARDING HOME
OF WYOMING EXECUTIVE
Mysterious Man and Woman Ob
served Prowling in Vicinity of
Gov. Nellie Ross’ Mansion.
Bt the A**ociate(i Pr*«*.
CHEYENNE, Wyo„ April 13—De
spite statements of Gov. Nellie Tayloe
Ross that ‘‘l have not seen any
guards” and “I know' no reason for
guards,” two men w r ere patrolling the
grounds of the gubernatorial mansion
here last night. State law' enforce
ment officials also continued to evade
explanations concerning the guards
and their need And Gov. Ross re
fused to admit that she had even seen
guards around the mansion.
Virtually the only fact upon which
Cheyenne citizens are basing their
theories of the need for guards has
been the reported mysterious appear
ance of a man and a woman in the
neighborhood of the mansion yester
day. Conjectures, however, of the
need of the guards continue to run
from bomb threats to fanatic fears.
Gov. Ross was said tonight to be
planning to leave within a week or
10 days to visit relatives and for a
short respite from her executive duties.
After her departure the guards will
i be withdrawn.
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COLORED MAN IS SLAIN
IN DISPUTE OVER CRAPS
William Jenifer Shot and George
Mitchell Held by Police on
Murder Charge.
! William Jenifer, colored, 23 years
! old, of 1267 Third street southwest,
! was shot and instantly killed l»i»t
i night at the home of George Mitchell,
j colored, 2629 Douglas road, Ana
! costia. and Mitchell was arrested
i later on a charge of murder.
I Information obtained by the police
i was to the effect that Mitchell was
| "cutting” a game of craps in one
! room, while dancing was going on in
another part of the house. There was
1 a dispute about' money, it is stated,
j and Mitchell terminated the misun
derstanding w'ith his weapon.
1 Jenifer’s body was taken to the
Lmorgue, where Coroner Nevltt will
■induct an inquest tomorrow,.
Coolidge and Economy
$150,000 a Year Paid U. S. Experts Directing
Drive Against Governmental Waste.
BY WILLIAM HELM.
The Kre-,1 K'«.’ to flail starts a- series
of six articles h ,/ 'WfUiafit Heim ilftfiV
i, g Ike economies iff’in fj carried out «u
--dpT the Cootid go administration, with
further tax reduction as the goai.
On the budget director's desk in
Washington there is ft pasteboard
box half filled with exceedingly short
pencil stubs. They were turned in
by his clerks under the rule that the
stub of the old ueneil must be banded
in before a tie'.', one is given out-
They constitute Exhibit A in the Cuol
idge economy program.
At the Navy Department and the
Shipping Board Government purchas
ing agents are now engaged in crack
ing into numerous small contracts
the annual fuel oil requirements of
those two great consumers. They
run to 33,000.000 barrels a year. Not
so long ago they were let in bulk.
Prices jumped in expectation of so
huge an order, and the Government
itself had to pay more. Now the
numerous small orders no longer un- ;
e«*tlo prices, and the Government j
saves money. Exhibit B in the econ
omy program.
Over at the Naval Hospital in
Washington Government engineers
have put to work a great quantity
of exhaust steam. For years this
steam wasted Itself in evaporation.
Now it helps to heat the hospital in 1
Winter, and, through a refrigerating
apparatus, to cool it in Rummer. The
result is saving. Exhibit C.
In tlte great building housing the
Veterans’ Bureau a group of profes
sional savers have linked into a
single unified system thousands of
miles of government-owned telegraph
wires. Formerly these wires, used j
only by a few departments, were idle j
much of the time. Now' they are used |
by all departments and have replaced ;
to great extent the use of Western j
Union and Postal facilities. The re
sult? Savings, running into thou
sands of dollars monthly, in tele
graph toils for government messages.
Put it down as Exhibit D.
Discount on Hotri Bills.
Throughout the United States there
are, perhaps, 200 hotels frequently
used by Government employes trav
eling on official business. Thanks to
a corps of professional monev-savers
at Washington, these hotels now give
Government employes a discount of
from 10 to 25 per cent. The result
is a considerable saving to the Gov
ernment and also to the employes.
Exhibit E.
Quiokly the alphabet is exhausted.
We run lightly down to , Y. Z and
back again, starting with double A.
Again the alphabet io exhausted.
And again and again it will be ex
hausted in listing the economy ex
hibits. Indeed, one could use the
Greek alphabet, the Russian, the Chi
nese, in identifying individual econ
omies put into effect as a part of
the drive toward further tax reduc
tion at AA’ashington.
Put into effect by whom —Coolidge?
Certainly not: tile President never
heard of a tenth of them. To tote each
individual economy to the White House
and lay it on the doorstep would not
mark it as the President’s baby. Not
one in fifty originated witli Calvin
Coolidge—not one in a hundred. Most of
them would seem strangely unfamiliar
to him.
But all of them bear the brand of
the thing he like-i—economy in running
the Government s affairs. And ail of
them, down to the last often-used
paper clip, ar*- children, grandchildren
or great-grandchildren of a single idea.
That idea was adopted by the Harding-
Coolidge administration. It hasn't brer,
adopted four years as yet, but it has
been more than prolific.
ALLEGED ASSAILANT
OF WOMEN IS GUARDED
Mob Attack Feared in Illinois
After Arrest of Man Accused
of Many Crimes.
By the Associated Pres*.
LEWISTOWN. 111., April 13—The
county jail here is under guard to
prevent any possible trouble from
citizens of Canton. 15 miles away,
where Donald McLaren was arrested
early yesterday and accused of being
the person who has attacked many
women the last year. Twelve women
have been assaulted and two deaths
have resulted from the attacks of a
moron for whom the Canton police
have been hunting for nearly a year.
McLaren was arrested as he was
leaving the vicinity of Mrs. M. T.
Murray’s residence. Mrs. Murray had
called the police and said that a man
was standing between two houses
watching her daughter retire for the
night. After an examination, police
say McLaren admitted to "peeping
Tom” activities, but declared he did
it in his capacity as investigator in
an effort to learn the true identity
of the moron who has been terror
izing the town. He denied he ever
attacked any of the women.
Fearing mob violence, the Canton
police hurried McLaren to Lewlstown,
the county seat.
McLaren, an electrician, is married
and has several children.
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WILL CALL COAL STRIKE.
Union Official Hopes to Tie Up
West Virginia Panhandle.
WHEELING, W. Va„ April 13.—A
general strike order affecting all
union and non-union mines in the
West Virginia Panhandle counties,
with the exception of Hancock, will
be issued today, Frank Ledvinka,
eastern Ohio sub-district president,
announced last night.
It was specified the order would
FLAT TIRE?
MAIN 500
LEETH BROTHERS
1 “NOTICE” I
To All Home Buyers
We
Hire under construction a new Home
development tint undoubtedly fulfills
a long cherished wish of the buying
public to get a respectable home in a
refined neighborhood within 15 minutes
of the center of the city, and where
there is not the environment of a
limited breathing space, but where
they are privileged at a nominal outlay
to have and enjoy an atmosphere of
| real home conveniences.
| These and many other advantages
| await the purchasers of these Homes.
Watch for the announcement.
! The pTioe will be under SB,OOO and
| the terms on a basis and with the
1 thought of defeating the High Bent
Problem. Wait for this opportunity.
j
Chas. D. Sager
Realtor and Builder
j j 924 14th St
.
The idea of saving the taxpayers’ j
money was not born in Calvin Cooiidge’s !
New England brain, much as its parent- j
age would do him credit. It was not born !
in tl>,e brain of Warren Harding. It I
did not originate With Woodrow Wilson, j
or yet with William 11. Taft. It is an
old idea, old as the foundations of the
Republic. For generations it knocked
around AVashington. Once every four
years the politicians used to dress it
up and parade it before the voters. At
other times it was neglected, forgot
ten. entirely abandoned.
Warren Harding put it to work, and
after he died Calvin Coolidge became
its buddy. Under the genial Harding
the idea of economy got its start; under j
Coolidge it was made to give up its
union card and work 23 hours a day.
Ever since Coolidge has been President
he has been riding the idea of economy
harder than hehas ridden Ills electric
hobby horse. And how he has made it
perform!
In its details the idea lias been tura
!ed over to the Bureau of the Budget
; and by the director of the bureau, Gen.
H. M. Lord, transmittted to the Govern
ment’s working force. Gen. Lord has
gathered about him a staff of workers
whose sole duty is to find new ways
of saving Government money. He
spends about $150,000 a year in running
| Ills bureau, and most of the money
I goes to pay salaries of men who think
up new ways of spending less.
| The business of saving money has
been systematized to as fine a point
as change-making in a department
store. The Intangible idea of econ
omy has been dragged down from the
clouds, given an outline, a set of
I books, a corps of assistants, and set
! up in business as unrornantically as
ja corner grocer. It has been thor
j ouglily commercialized. It works
with adding machines, typewriters,
j loose-leaf systems. Once it was a
political poet's dream; today it is
like a sleek business man.
lYhiit Is It All A bout t
How has the transformation come
about? AVho did it? How do the
wheels go around? AYhat has it ac
complished? AVliat more can it do?
And when it does all it has in mind,
what of it? In other words, now
that we’ve got economy in Govern
ment, what are we going to do with
it and of what earthly concern is it
to the average man in the street?
eThese are questions to which an
swers will be attempted in this series
of articles. But here and now it is
opportune to say that thus far econ
omy in Government has led the aver
age man in the street to two tax re
ductions. It is on its way to a third
reduction. And after a time it will
take the taxpayers to a fourth one.
This correspondent has listed 1,000
separate and distinct Federal econo
mies, all of them unknown little more
th'an three years ago. Each one of
them has helped save money. Each
one has contributed to past reductions
in taxes and is helping in a coming
reduction. About many of them
opinions differ. Some persons feel
that here and there the wine of econ
omy has turned to the vinegar of
stinginess. Maybe so; maybe not.
But the fact remains that the most
economical man —in his own affairs—
who ever sat in the AVhite House is
riding his hobby hard for national
benefit.
Space will not permit listing the
I. Federal economies in this series
of articles. Even if It were possible,
the recital would become tiresome.
But some of the outstanding savings
come straight home to all of us. And
these, with their origin and manner
of execution, will be detailed.
(Oopj-righf, 1823.)
not affect the Hitchman and OKm
dale mines, Marshall County, which
are protected by Federal Court in
junction.
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scan the Help Wanted
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That’s why it is so ad
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OUTSIDE PAINTERS
DENIED JOBS HERE
300 Out-of-Town Workmen
Apply for Places Vacated
by Union Men.
More than 300 letters from oiu-of
town painters seeking: to replace
those on strike here have been re
ceived by the Master Painters' Asso
ciation, according- to Capi. H. H.
Woodhouse of that organisation,
hone of these men have been em
ployed, however, because, according
to Gapt Woodhouse, there are plenty
of open-shop painters in this city. He
said he had made a survey this morn- j
ing of all tiie shops belonging to the j
Master Painters’ Association and I
found that not one of them were in '
want of men and all were working
normally.
He said that the association was
more than ever determined that an
increase in wages at this time was
economically unsound and, therefore,
they were decided that there would
be no increase. With William J.
Gallagher, organizer of the National
Painters’ Union, out of town until
tonight, matters at the local union
remain the same. The men still con
tinue to appear at union headquar
ters to sign the book showing that
they are on strike. They are de
termined to stand by their demand
for |lO a day.
While there is a temporary lull in
the heretofore rapid developments of
the situation, it is expected as a re
sult of a series of meetings to be
held by both sides of the controversy
that there will be further develop
ments within a day or so.
NOTED U. S. EXPLORER
AND LECTURER EXPIRES
Dr. William E. Geil, Known for
Research Work, Claimed by
Death in Venice. Italy.
j By tiie Associated Press.
DOYL.ESTOWN, Pa., April 13.—A
cablegram received here from Venice,
! Italy, announced the death there on
Sunday of Dr. William Edgar Geil.
noted American explorer, lecturer and
author. Dr. Geil was on his way
home from research work in Jeru
salem for the British museum. Dr.
Geil was best known for his explora
tion of the Great Wall of China,
which he made as part of a four-year
trip around the world, started in 1901.
He also made at different times ex
tensive tours through Africa, Austra
lia and the Holy Hands. Many of
Dr. Oeil's books deal with his travels.
Dr. Geil was a fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society, the Royal As
tronomical Society and a member of
the Royal Asiatic Society. He was
born near here in 1865 and was
graduated from Eafavette College. He
specialized in religious literature,
later becoming an Evangelist. He is
remembered for an evangelistic cam
paign in Cincinnati in the early 90’s.
Dr. Geil Is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Constance Emerson Geil and one
sister. Miss Elia Geil of Doylestown.
I Aviator to Resume World Flight.
TOKIO, April 13. —Maj. Pedro Zan
ni, Argentine, aviator, today received
a more powerful engine from the
United States for his airplane. In
which he Intends to resume his cruise
around the world. The flight was
interrupted at Tokio on account of
Winter weather conditions on the
transpacific air lanes.
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3
NEGROES ATTACK WOMAN
AFTER KILLING ESCORT
Murder -and Assault Take Place
Near College Campus
in Dallas.
By ihe Associated Pro**.
DARLAS, Texas, April lis —A man
was beaten to death and his woman
companion was criminally assaulted
by two negroes here last night while
the couple were riding near Southern
Methodist University campus.
The negroes slugged the man, At
kins, 38, to death with pistols. Tiie
woman, Mrs. Mary Sterr, is in a
serious condition in her home in the
fashionable Belmont district of
Dallas.
Police reported the couple were
riding slowly along when the two
negroes jumped on the running board
of the automobile and beat Atkins
After leaving the woman, the
negroes van the machine several
blocks and wrecked it. They escaped
Snow Falls in Massachusetts.
SPRINGFIELD. Mass., April 13.-
Winter staged a post-Easter return
here today, with mercury at an of
ficial 34 degrees. Snow flurries thaT
began late in the night continued in
termittently until daylight.
A free traveling poultry clinic, to
which farmers may bring diseased
chickens for diagnosis by a veterna
rian. is being conducted in Ohio.
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It s tnnrn than a r»aint and
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to maxe every job a refeieaee—
atudyinjj itn r»artu«i’ar need* find
putting into it Paint, skilled
labor and common t*en*e.
It doesn't coat any more to hi**
ua do it—but we believe we do it
better.
Phone West
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Painting Dept.
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