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"Dotter omes- I ob~r25 The Times Is the Bond Between 190.Th ims &thTBnoBtwe Pa e 1920__ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ FIGHT ON RAO TO BE DROPPED Prohibition Bureau Doesn't Think Case Can Be Made Against Flavoring Co. The case against the Raso Manu facturing Company, of this city, charged with manufacturiner flavor =ng extracta which were being used for beverage purposes, probably will be dropped at the instance of the prohibition bureau. A wide dif ference of opinion is reported be tween the Revenue Bureau and the Prohibition Bureau. The latter, it is said, believes the case should be dropped, while the Revenue Bureau thinks it should be pressed. DOUBTS AISMITY TO MAKE CASE. One of the high officials of the pro hibition bureau said today he did not believe that the Government could make a case out against the manufac turers of Razo. lie is of the same opinion about hundreds of other man ufacturers of bitters, and extracts throughout the country. The test, he said, will be, to prove the manufac turer know his product was being used for beverage purposes.. In evidence seized when the Razo plant was raided, were several bar rels of alcohol. The manufacturers of Razo have fought this seizure de claring it was withdrawn on a genu ine permit. They have carried their contention to the legal department of the prohibition bureau, where. it is said, their claim has been sustained. TRIED TO RETURN IT. Several weeks ago the legal depart nent endeavored to give back to the Razo company the barrels of alcohol. and even went so far as to have part of the stuff loaded on a truck from the storage warehouse. While the ,driver of the truck was in the act of loading the remainder of it on the truck, the fact was discovered by revenue agents, and they climbed up into the truck and threw the barrelA of alcohol off into the alley. They contended that the legal department of the prohibition bureau did not have 'the power to give the alcohol back to the Razo company. It has been charged that one of the 'proprietors of Razo was seen dining (with an official of the prohibition bu reau. Prohibition Commissioner Kramer says he cannot see that this iwould alter the opinion of the official on the case. RAIDED THROUGH FOWLER. The Razo company's factory cn Tenth street northwest was raided by .revenue agents several months ago. after Dr. Fowler, health officer for the District of Columbia, had started a fight against them on the grounds that their flavoring extract was being: Fobl for beverage purposes in viola tion of law, and that it was endanger ing the health of the community. CITY CLUB TO OPEN SUFFRAGE DRIVE A. S. Worthington to Address Civic Group at Weekly Forum Luncheon. "District Suffrage and Taxation" will be the subject of an address by A. S. Worthington, prominent at torney. at the weekly forum luncheon of the City Club at 12:30 Wednesday afternoon at the clubhouse, Farragut Square. The luncheon will be under direc tion of the club's District Suffrage Group and will mark the opening of campaign for national representation for the District. Roy L. Neuhauser. chairman of the group, will preside and will urge every member of the club to assist in the campaign. The suffrage group's campaign is expe(ted to reach its climax soon after Congres4s convenes. A rgiantic demonstratinn in behalf of suffrage will he staged whent the time is deemed rip. The group's program calls solely for representation of the District in Congress and the Electoral College and for equality for District citizens in federal courts. The program ignores the question of local self government, over which there is a great difference of opinion. MOTOR CARS AND CYCLES IN D. C' THIEVES HARVEST ,Capital Has Many Robberies Reported Over Sunday. An auto~mnbile, a motorcycle with sidecar attached, several articles or clothing and a silver cup were among the loot taken by thieves in this city in tne last twenty-fnuar hour. liryo.t Sputh, a llaltinmore'an who is stopping at 724 E'levv'nth street north west, reported to. the police that his new automobile valued at $1.100 was stolen after he had parked the car on HI street, between Eleventh and Twelfth street northwest last night. A motorcycle owned by W. A. Wood. 1510 ThIrteenth street no'rthwest, wasn stolen last night from in front of 2210 Washington Circle northwest. The mnachine was equipped with a side car. Mrs. 3. W. Stone, 141fl South t'aro lina avenue, reported to the police that a woman, who purported to be selling articles for the benefit of a crippled children's home in Pennsyl iania. wasn given permission to use the washroom and after she had left a silver cup. valued at $3, was miss in g. A duplicate key thief gained en trance to the home of Madeline Ar Lold, 1907 $evente'enth street north west, last night and stole clottrng ,valued at $200. Dr. C. W. Stills. nf the Dresden apartment house, reported that an everost valued at $10 was stolen a.. a lecher i= his anaftnant. interade in lesea 11101 11 ies,. who die at L"eewh Kul, Lsres, JM Battle Wed", ie a few beers after Mr. Ceakma as a remt of a fta frem a hogse. NURSE DIES AFTER FALL FROM HORSE Miss Hattie Woodson Succumbs Shortly After Henry R. Concklin, Her Patient. Shortly after her patient. Henry R. Concklin, Washington attorney, and for years active In Republican circles In the District of Columbia, died at Fort Leavenworth. Kans.. Friday. Miss Hattie Woodson, his nurse. was thrown from her horse there and re ceived a fractured skull from which she died. Miss Woodson was a former nurse at Garfield Hospital. this city, and re cently was employed to care for Mr. Concklin, who was an invalid. They hdd gone to the home of Mr. Conck in's son-in-law, Major Howard Sny der. U. S. A., at Fort Leavenworth. Mr. Concklin was born in New York city seventy-four years ago. Upon graduation from the Columbia Univer sity Law School. he came to Wash ngton to practice his profession. He was a member of the District Bar Association. Active in Masonic cir cles. he was a past master of St. John's Lodge of Newport. R. I., Washington Commandery. No. 4. Knights Templar, of Newport, and was affiliated with Almas Temple, Washington. His wife, two sons, D r.Edward F. oncklin of New York, and Arthur F. Concklin of Cleveland, and two daughters, Mrs. Howard Snyder. wife of Major Snyder of Fort Leaven worth, and Mrs. H. J. McKenney. wife of Lieut. Col. McKenney of Wash ington, survive him. Masonic rites will mark the services at Fort Leavenworth prob ably today or tomorrow, and the body will be sent to New York for inter ment. Miss Woodson's home was in North Garden, Va., and the body will be interred in the family burying ground in that town. She is survived by her father, five sisters and five brothers. G. W. U. EXPERTS CONDUCT HIGH EXPLOSIVES TESTS Silentists Hold Series of Ex periments for Graduates. Experiments with dyes and ex plosives, the results of which are expected to receive widespread at tention in scientific cricles are be ing conducted in a special laboratory at George Washington University. according to anouncement by uni versity officials. The special dyestuffs and explo sives laboratory, located in the uni erity's college of pharmacy build ng, 308 T ptreet northwest, was es tahished last May. but just is get ting in complete running order The research work is being con ucted under direction of [Dr. George Washington Phillips. with the as istance of F. B. Moore. Rtuben Schmidt, and Meyer Weinstein. Nu Ierous graduate students, under the general supervision of Professor Mc eil, of the chemistry department. are carrying on experimental work. Dr. Charles Edward Munroe, In ventor of smokeless powder and one >f the world's greatest authorities n hIgh explosives, is assisting in the capacity of consulting chemist. Graduate students interested in experimental work with dyes and explosives will continue to be en rolled for several weeks. JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION IN NEED Charitably Inclined Washingtonians have been appealed to for funds to help carry on the work of the Ju venile Protective Association, which is making its annual appeal for funds to take care of delinquent and de pendent children of the District of Columbia for the coming year. Mrs. Whiteman Cross. president as the organlixatioln, said today that the work of sending out notices of the annual appeal had been completed. The money collected will be handled by JT. Phillip Herrman, treasurer of the association, and by a special com mittee headed by Gerson Nordlinger as chairman. Alfred Harding, bishop of Wash ington, is one of the supporters of the ssociation. In sending his con tribution, ltishop Harding said: "1i gives me great pleasure to give my hearty indorsemenlt to the Juvenile Protective Association and to say that I shall be happy to see it get the public support to which it is en titled. I am happy to lend my aid to it1 annual appeal." Headquarters of the asyqciation ani at 2n3 I .treet aorthwest PICK JURY TO TRY KRRYGO Youthful Sweetheart of Alleged Slayer Will Marry Him If Freed. "I loved him then, I love him now, I'l always love him." Mabel Hill, the seventeen-year-old bweetheart of Edgar Randolph Per rg, eighteen, who went on trial hs mornin7 for the killing last February Mrs. Emitt Faithful, and to obtain money to wed whom the boy is alleged to have committed the crime, told a reporter for The Times this morning that she will stand by the boy. WANTS TO MARRY NIN. The girl who has been detained at the National Training School for Girls, following the crime last Feb ruary, even admitted upon being di rectly questioned that she will marry the youthful prisoner should he be freed of the crime. Mabel Hill has been called as the principal witness for the Govern ment. She says, however, that she will say nothing against her boy lovqr. "I don't know anything against him," she said. "I loved him before. He has never done anything to make me turn against him. Of course I still love him." Before the trial started this morn ing the girl sat in the courtroom, on the front row, with her sister-in-law. Mrs. Viola Hill, and her brother. She attracted the attention of many in the courtroom by her continued laugh ter. Iater, in the witness room, she ,miled evasively when asked if she knew anything about the crime, and even laughed. DEFEN5E PLEADS INSANITY. She seemed to be more concerned about a little niece, eight or nine Years old, who has been brought to testify, than about herself. "It's a shame to bring that child nto a courtroom," she said. "What -an she know of such things?" The younger girl is supposed to ',ave found the money which young :errygo had taken from the woman lie killed, and which he is supposed .o have given to his sweetheart. The trial of Perrygo began this norning. after Justice Gould, preuid ng in Criminal Court No. 1, had over -uled a motion of James A. O'Shea for .he defense that the case be continued intil next Monday. The defense will plead insanity. )'Shea asked for a continuation of he case because Dr. John Lind, one ,t the alienists who will testify in he case, had just recovered -from an llness. Judge Gould ruled that inasmuch as the defense admitted that Dr. Lind had recovered, it would be impossible to postpone the case. PRISONER IS CALM. l'errygo, neatly dressed in a blue serge suit, with a soft collar, and hair neatly combed back from a high forehead, exhibited the calmness that is more or less customary with prisoners on the first day of trial. He ,;at alone just back of O'shea and Sacks, Bertrand Emerson, .r., who are representing him. The G;overnment is represented by Paul Cromelin. and James P. Schick, assistant United States attorneys. Twenty seven witnesses have been summoned for the Government. The drawing of the jury started at 11 o'clock and at 12 o'clock the first panel had not been exhausted. It is expected that the Jury will be select ed this afternoon, and the actual trial of the case get under way either late this afternoon or in the morning. POLICE CLAIM CONFESSION. Taken to police headquartecs after his arrest the young boy whose looks belie his age, confessed. the police say, that he had assaulted and robbed Mrs. Faithful in her Congress Heights' home and then attempted to assault William Collins, a boarder in the same house. When the wo man died several days later in the Casualty Hospital the charge against the boy was changed to one of mur der. The youthful prisoner is a son of E.lmer lerrygo. liroisperous Congrems Heights farmer. TILLS POICEtI' OF 1.0 . To the police the lad told a story of love for a seventeen-year-old sweet heart, whom he Intended to make his wife. It was this love, it is alleged, that drove him to the point of rob bery in order to gain the funds neces sary for a honeymoon out of Wash ington. "I was in love, wanted to get mar' ried and dettle down to housekeeping, and to do this I needed money." the youth confessed, say the p'olie. "I did not know where to get money. I brought my girl in from Miaryland andl took her to thi. home of her brother, at 413 South Carolina ave~ nue. 'Then I left her there, promising to return with a marriage license. I came back but without a license. When I left Mabel I took a car to the City Hall. Arriving there, I be gan to feel ill. Several times I start edi to enter the building, but I felt too had. I sat 'lown on the curb and a man approached me. He asked if I wer'e sick. I told him yes. Then he said. 'Here, take some of this.' It looked and tasted like whiskey. Theun I felt worse. I decided not to go into the courthouse, but to gro to Mrs. Faithful's house and rob her." SAYS WHISKEY DROVE NIN ON!. With the demon voice of whiskey whispering in his ear, telling him "to get the money anyhow," young Perry told the police he knocked at the door of the woman who had befriend ed him for so many years. What took place after he entered that door the hoy is expected to tell on the stand. He said he found only $60 hidden in a bag and was about to open other concealed money bags when he was frightened away, He left the woman unconscious witti a wound in her head. P'olice later recovered $1.936, which they allege Perrygo took fJrom the woman', home. The youth, the police charge, than returned to his sweetheart and told~ her that ihe police were after hisE beausne .te had hit a woman, mn= A4ING1 a sharge of mar S aced the chau of the Edgar Perryge is photogral Cari T. Thon.r, the Times' a is charged with killing and ful that he might pay the with Mabel Bill, the girl his bride. The girl, shown the principal witnesses at 14.6 an he wait leaving the house he was put under arrest. When Plerrygo was arrested he said that $50, which the police found in his clothes, was all that he had. He admitted later, however, they may. that he gave Miss Hlill the $1,935 which was recovered fromt her. So far am Is known the police have been unable to find any trace of the man who gave the lad the drink of whiskey. 20,000 EXPECTED AT "M"[EXHIBIT, S"Mrs. Woodrow Wilson,"' Seven-, Foot Plant, Voted Qu~een of U. S. Show. Ideal weather and an attractiv-e ex hibition of more 2000 plants drew a crowd of more than -,,(HO persons yes terday afternoon to the nineteenth annual "mum" show of the Depart ment of Agriculture, at Fto)urteenth and B streets. The show will. be open to the public from () a. m. to 9 p. m. for the remainder of the week%. Seven feet fall andi holding Its head above all the other "mums" In the greenhouse wai the hands me white flower "Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Thi flower wai voted the queen of fhe "mumns." The exhibit was viewed by Secretary of Agriculture Meredith and Dr. A. W. Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry. tho pro nounced it the "fist gathering of chrysanthemums ever assembled in this country." There are 101 Japanese varieties and 1R varietes of the single and pompom type. The plants range In size from the tarden variety to those with sitalksx r-angping a4 high a% eigzht fet. Each p0hnt has card attached to it. so oat visitor" may ensiy learn its nrigin and an what hranch hiinof tefmorey it.0be lns de crot ofepctda more than 30.000ron ys tersony aftenoo vst the nweteeth manalgemnt o .aoof theat muet of Arcutu, anuty. reet adSTIC street. T U.owwill b Tw. o ayh' remsionde of thy weeo Tee forty-t annua holdn ittona aovte allman'sothri"s"nTher anenos wof the hdsrme wit e fln owrr.odrow nring n. Thinal veeary Bapi Arultuyrehl Hoe.eit Eaght and A. s.tayls ort he ft. he convetion Pln InduWtdn.sdho prf MruncEmanod itte"ins herng prf dhnt of the nin, evlr almlted con veeo toarer 10 a.m. vrepotis andl arietie, and tege tandh p'deaiomopom tp.Teplns ranub wib hieafromte.e areyi hs fe. a., w ldeie he wcom n atahd treit. soe rhsponieitorthmayaddrs) ,f thl e fmadeii b Mrs.Gerehu. ptern willer vin the mornting wek, be eMribiti. i. uendrk, irMar m. aagm. or Der.e Tal. ofarhe r M.SFC.Ful Wr. C. M. Uol. Mrll ous te Wmgtns Chian Mper-. aneWo of the uninie will bedi gine tomorowg mheningeno the l vart Bais t theda hool Wiia Eigtad 20t street northwest. The trsponsil o aaeetmtda M.20. Emmain Sand fulon rtisi-g ventuod toodeat 10wr de.toym. hepot --e-eratio of- omn's Clu wil b ler today aldy as he camra, seventen-year4d Ad behind prisn bars by Afd photographer. PrTygo robbing Mrs. Emily Faith expenses of a honeymoon whom he intended making in the inset, will be one of the triaL k . DRSIMON ASKS, FOR SUB BOARD Wants Committee Picked From Civic Associations to Con fer on Schools. A special meeting of the Board of Education has been called for Wed nesday afternoon to consider a sug gestion of Dr. Abram Simon. board resident, that a committee of citizens be named to co-operate with the school board. It is believed members of the board will act favorably on Dr. Simon's plan. Such a committee would be in the nature of a "sub-board of educa tion." and its main work would be to advise the board of school matters. The tentative plan is to have this committee comprise the chairman of the various school committees of Washington's civic organizations. In the past the school board has often appeared before Congress with appropriation bills for school needs, which citizen associations have op posed. Dr. Simon hopes that when this committee in formed there will be no opposition by local organizations before Congress when the school board presents requestb. He believes united backing of citizens on every measure of the board before Congress will be most beneficial to the school system, MOTORIST ON TRIAL FORMANSLAUGHTER Douglass C. Jones Faces Crimi nal Court Jury Today for Death of H. A. Shreve. Chlarged with manslaughter in con nection with the death of IHarrison A. Shreve, 803 Seventh st reet, southwest. August 5 last, whom be is alleged to have struck with hiG auto. Douglass ('. .lones was tnday placed on trial before a jury in Criminal Court No. 2. Justice Bailey presiding. The acci dent is reported to have happened at Frifth street and Rhode Island ave nue northwest, and charges of intoxi -ation were made against the accused at the time. Ar'cording to tlie poilce, witnesses 'at the tim stated that a red road ster driven by Jones at a high speed. struck a touring car car of the Bel mnont Tazi Company, injuring the driver and two passengers. The smaller car was traevling so fast that it sent the larger car onto the sidewalk. injuring Miss Lulu liolland andl Charles A. Shreve. The latter died at Glarfield Hospital from a fructured skull. Others injured were Marie Biggs, 324 Ninth street north west. Lewis W. Dewaine, Camp llumphreys. Va., and Brice Rosen thai, driver of the taxi, which was struck. A featuire of the empanelling of the jury was an attack by Attorney M. T. Wampler on the system of se lecting the jury and the administra tion of the oath to the jury com mission. ST. ALOYSIUS CHURCH OPENS PUBLIC NOVENA A publie novena will begin tonighi In St. Alonyslus Catholic Church at 7:.10 n'elock, nnd will continue until the evening of November 2. The 11ev. Paul, it. Conniff, rector of St. Aioypius' Church. today had erected at the sanctuary rail a hnx into which anynne, ('atholic or Protestant, may place lists of departed relative4 and friends for pray er. The devotions ciach evening will last a half hour. A short sermou wil e p eanched. D.C. BARS 182 MILK DEALERS Health Officer Fowler Relets New York Applications. Court Fight Impends. One hundred and ty-two plications for permits ship into the District from Nw Yogk State were rejected today by Dr. William G. Fowler, District Health Officer. Dr. Fowler refused to issue the permits, he stated, because the ap plieants had failed to submit their cattle for the tuberculin test. LMGAL FielgT IMPUNDs. Dr. Fowler's stand is expected to result in a legal fight between the l.istrict Health Lepartment and the men who applied for milk permits. The health officer said today that he would issue no permits to these ap plicants until their cattle are tested or unless the courts forced him to. The 132 applications. according to Dr. Fowler, were filed by an attorney for the Merrell Soule Company of New York. The farmers planned to ship their milk through this concern. MAY eEEK COURTS. It In expected that this company will ask the District Supreme Court to issue an order compelling Dr. Fow ler to issue the permits. The law. according to Dr. Fowler. provides that the health officer issue permits if he is satisfied with the milk to be shipped into Washington. Dr. Fowler said today he is not satis fled with any milk to be shIppe4 where the cattle have not been sub mitted to a tuberculin test. Washington's milk supply now comes from Maryland and Virginia. U,.&CLERKSPR'O WNG RENT PROFITERING Questionnaires Sent to Em ployes Will Determine Ac tion to Be Taken. The magnitude of rent profiteering in Washington will determine the action to be taken by the Chief Clerks' Association regarding the questionnaires it is receiving from employes in the Government depart ments. At the invitation of Postmaster Merritt 0. Chance the association met with him several weeks ago to take up the matter of high cost of rents. It was decided at this meet ing to send out questionnaires to all Government workers in order to secure information as to renting con ditions. The association will meet with Postmaster Chance next week to go over the questionnaires which have been turned in. They will then take action along one of three lines, namely an appeal to Congress for action, an appeal to the Rent Commission, or a solution of the problem through some form of proceedure. The extent of profiteer ing shown by the replies will de termine which course is to be adopt ed, it is uz,'arstood. Followinj the consideration of the 4uestionnalires by the association they will be turned over to a special committee composed of C. E. Baldwin. chief statistician of the Bureau of Labor Statistics; Postmaster Chance. and Edward Britton. private sec retary to Josephus Daniels. This committee will take the data up In detail and make its recommendation to the association of the course of action to be adopted. RYAN WOULD QUIZ HARDING AT RALLIES 0. C. Man Tells Candidate He Will Question Him at Ohio Meeings. Edward A. Ryan, of Washington. who was arrested in Baltimore sev eral weeks ago when he attempted to ask a question of Senator Harding during the Republican candidate's speech there, today addressed a let ter to the Senator notifying him that he will seek to question hIm on the League of Nations during his speeches' in Ohio this week. Ryan. who was invited to the plat form in Baltimore by Senator Hard lng, states in his letter that he ap precIates this c-ourtesy which was in terfered with by the police. He asks; however, that Senator Harding make plain his stand on the League of Na tions. "If you do not feel that you earl answer this question. I wish to say that I intend to be present at youa meetings in Ohio, where I may have the privilege of meeting you face t< face and of presenting this questios to you before the people of your owr State," said Ryan in his letter. Winner of G. 0.P.5$6,000 Prize Comes Oat For Ce. Carl smith Josly'n, Harvard un dergraduate who won the $4,000 prise last spring offered by the Re publican National Committee for the best suggested national platform. is out for Glovernor Cox and the League of Nations. Young .Toslyn, whose proposed deeisration of principles for the Re puablicans attracted country-wide attention. annnunced his repudiation of Senator Harding's attitude oen the League of Nations and his adher ence to the stand taken by (Overnor Co! in a letter recently sent to the Sp.ringiel uMs... R amettein.t Ne "Jap.es Traty idin Redmle Following a romance which had its beginning at Columbia Univer sIty. Miss Esther A. Rogers, of Buf falo. N. Y.. and Kiyoshi Shiomi. a Japanese resident of Washington. were married yesterday afternoeo at RookvIlle Md. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. P. How land Wagner. pastor of the Baptist Church. at his home. Mr. Uhiemi and his bride will leave for Japan in December. where they are to become professors in the Congregation University, the largest Christian university in Japan. Shiomi. who has been in this country for four years. is well known at the Japanese embassy. it was slated there this morning. He is twenty-nine years old. Miss Rogers was twenty-four years old. EXPERTS TO DEBATE' LEAGUE AT CENTRAL Charles A. Douglas and Hannis Taylor Opponents Tuesday Night at High School. What promises to be an historic debate on the League of Nations will take place tomorrow night in Central High School when Charles A. Douglas and Hannis Taylor will discuss the League of Nations. Douglas has been chosen by the Democratic central committee to champion the Cox pro-League posi tion. and Taylor has been named by the Republican campaign committee as the Harding anti-League spokes man. Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, vice chair man of the civic center advisory council and president of the Mothers' Congress of the District, will preside. Equal time will be given to each of the speakers, and at the close of the debate, if the audience desires. an opportunity will be given for the auditors to express their decision. Douglas Is a native of South Caro lina and for many years has been a prominent member of the Washing ton bar. He Is recognized as an authority on international and con stitutional law, having served throughout the Carranza administra tion as the attorney of the Mexican government. Taylor is also a native of South Carolina and member of the District bar. As minister to Spain during the period preceding the Spanish war and as writer and lecturer on constitu tional and international law he in widely known. SECRET EIRNG HELD BY REVISION ENPLOYE Secrecy veiled a supposedly impor tant meeting of reclassification work ers thin morning in the offices or Congressman Lehlbach, chairman of the House Committee on Reform in the Civil Service. Although the leaders in the reclas sification movement were included in the meeting they refused to divulge the names of those in attendance or to intimate what the purpose of the meeting might be. It is understood that this secrecy was maintained be cause of an alleged dissension of opinion which has sprung up over the draft of the proposed new reclassifi cation bill. Several meetings have been held in Mn Lehlbach's office within the past few weeks and each had the cen sorship lid clamped down on it. Mr. Lehlbach an chairman of the House Committee on Reforms in the Civil Service, has requested every bit of information available on the reclassi fication subject in order that he could gather the best, facts into one con crete report to be presented to Con gress when it convenes. In an effort to furnish Mr. Lehlbach with such information it was declared today that opposing groups with di verging views on reclassification have sprung up. and it is understood that each faction, striving to have its re port accepted, is the cause for the secrecy in the session held today. MEEKER FOR ST. JOHN'S. Edward Meeker. economist of the local New York stock exchange. has been engaged to deliver a series of lec tures to students sof St. John's Col lege and the college's new High School of Commerce and Finance. Brother D. Fdward, resident, an nounced today. Mr. Meeker will, beginning in No vember, deliver two lectures each month during the winter. He will explain the functions of the exchsange. The lecture will be open to the pub lic. Fined for Disorderliness. Charged with disorderly conduct. W. Marvin Smith wvas fined $10 in~ police court before Judge McMahon. Smith lives in northeast Washing ton. NotSa 'rhe iByeT We have rusei', of n' have W.- fl n the last ar's worth every dollas motto. Our 1mrm inwer .nal y his greet -he benefit We have -he X-rt Iento ind nnisatlon. Atr Admtal MY 3' .W CA~T es -5 AIIACKS WORK OF PAY BOARD Robert Catherwood, Economio xpert of Commission, Calls Report "Buncombe." Characterizing the Jones reclass fication measure as full of "red taps rat holes, and buncombe," Robesrt Catherwood, a former economic ex, pert of the Reclassification Coimmii ion, makes a second attack upen the bill through the National CWH Service Reform League. WILL WRECIK SYSTEM. "Certain sections of the bill, if en acted into law, undoubtedly will wreck the present civil service system." he declares. "When this measure begins to de stroy the substantial and valuable provisions of the civil service law and to deceive and to delude the public and the federal employee into a at render of real beufits for a salary will of the wisp. it is time to speak out. "The language, for instance, about making promotion by transfer is peculiar, but when we observe that few classes in the federal service are without at least one position exempt from the classified service, we see the reason for promotion by transfer. An exempt position may be filled by political appointment. Then the next step is to require the Civil Kervige Commission to promote and transfer the politioal appointee into the class ilied service to the exclusion of per sons who have passed the examina tion. POINTS OUT FAULTS. "It is not difficult to provide one of these waiting-room jobs in each class of the service. Indeed. the service is well peppered with them now. When the political appointee is appointed in one of these waiting room jobs hf may be transferred into any positioti in the classified service at the same rate of pay and in the same class as the waiting room job, or he may be promited by transfer. The political appointee in the waiting room, while they are fixing him up for the class ified service. must r.ot block the gangway, for section 9-4c is a 'step lively, others are waiting section. containing a 'no harm done if you fall down oil the job proviso.' "Appointment for an hour or so is sufficient to cause rights of reinstate ment to attach for six months. These valuable rights are called reinstate ment rights, because they are nothing of the kind, but involve the Irish bull of returning to where one never has been before. QUOTES INEQUALITIES. "But this game should be quoted verbatim. 'An employe who is changed from a position in one class to a position in another class may at any time within six months after such change, if he resigns or is about to be dismissed for inefficiency, ap ply for reinstatement in a position in the class from which he w&A changed or from in which he har served at any previous time. The commission shall thereafter, in case a vacancy exists in a class which has been designed to be one to which an f employe holding a position in another class may be promoted. certify the name of the employe available for reinstatement in accordance with such application.' "We have promotion for inefficiency. promotion by transfer, reinstatement in the sense of coming back to where one his never been before, a host of idotic provisions which border upon buffoonery, but each of which is a godsend to the political appointer' who would steal from the classified employe and the eligibles on the civil service registers the ayppointment. which they have honestly won iii open. competitive examinations.' MAY REPEAT PAGEANT FOR CAPITAL CHILDREN Requests for repetition of the Children's Pageant, presented At the, eentral High Schooi last Satiurday night. may he grante(d. acording- to Sliss Ina '. 1imery. n ho sponsored the event. Among thosr wh- s ted MiN. lnamery in t he produc.titon wer 1rvini in. Rtose. Miss Minnie Haswke. Mme. Marie von Unschuld. Mrs David I liineheinw. Mrs. Gertrude Deland Price. Miss Urace Batcherlor. Miss Mary Frances Murray. Mrs. Mary S. Parker, M.iss Audrey Keyes. and Misu Kelnan. 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