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Evening star., 1919-10-13
TEACHERS RETIREMENT
FOR D. c. IS APPROVED
Favorable Report on House Bill
Without Change Ordered by
Senate Committee.

The Senate District committee today
ordered a favorable report on the
House bill providing a retirement sys-
tenn for the public school teachers of
the District of Columbia. The bill was
reported without amendment.
1t is regarded as a foregone conclu-
sion that the measure will pass the
Senate. During the last Congress a
similar measure was put through the
Senate, but failed of action in the
House, because of the legislative jam
at the close of the session.
Provisions of Measure.
The bill provides for the establish
ment of annuity funds to be paid the
teachers upon their retirement be-
cause of age or disability. A certain
amount is to be deducted from the
basic salary of the teacher to help
create this fund.
The bill provides that any teacher
may be retired at the age of sixty
two. and that upon reaching the age
of seventy, If still in the service, the
teacher shall be retired unless. in the
judgment Of two-thirds Of the board
of education, the teacher should be
retained longer for the good of the
service.
Case Of Apartment House.
The Senate committee also voted to
lay on the table the bill which pro-
posed to halt the erection of an
apartment house to the south of Me-
ridian Hill Park because the apart
ment would shut off the view. The
action of the committee makes it pos
sible for the work on the apartment
house to be continued without fur
ther threat. The committee, however,
relies upon the general zoning bill,
which has passed the House and is
now before the Senate, to prevent
erection of other buildings which
may interfere with the view from Me
ridian Hill Park.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
II. c. |. COMMITTEE
| CONSIDERS ACTION
Anticipating Presidents Fa-
vor of Food Control Amend
ment, Plans Are Laid.

Anticipating favorable action by
President Wilson on the amendment
to the food control act. passed by
Congress last week. the special COM
mittee on the high cost of living met
today in the office of Attorney Cen
eral Palmer to determine new line
of action under the increased powers
of the amended act.
Those who met in executive session
with the Attorney General today in
cluded Secretary Glass of the Treas
ury Department, Secretary Wilson of
the Department of Labor. Secretary
Houston of the Department OF AEri-
culture. X. l.. Lsfiiugwell. assistant
secretary of the Treasury. in charge
Of fiscal bureaus: Assistant Attorney
General Charles Ames, and W. B. Col
ver chairman of the Federal Trade
Commission. This committee was first
called together by Attorney General
Palmer last July to consider living
cost problems. and the amendment
W hich just passed Congress embodies
number of it's recommendations.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
For Future Deliveries.

Referring to the loan. Sapiro said:
We are not saying that 1t had
any extraordinary sienificance"; but
he added that more than half Of the
l.250.o00 bags of 100 pounds each
bought by the government were on
orders placed with kutner's company,
and that kutner received orders for
deliveries so far ahead that he could
buy on an advantageous market
Sapiro also charged that "on the
ground of mutilated telegram" one
order placed with kutner was can
celed, but later reinstated at 'one-
half cent a pound higher price" and
that the food administration investi-
cation disclosed the telegram was
not mutilated.'
Some oriental beans Sapiro assert
ed, We're bought at prices higher
than American-grown beans could
have been obtained.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
DANIEL W. LOTHROP DIES.
Was Oldest Employe in Auditors
Office, P. 0. DEPARTMENT

Daniel w. Lothrop. Oldest employe
OF the auditors office. Post Office De-
partment. died suddenly Friday at his
residence. 1881 North Capitol street.
He was appointed as clerk in the audi
years ago. Because of his niea sant
personality he was called by many
friends Uncle DAN"
He was born in 1894 in Maine. and
came to this city just before the civil
dren. Dr. Edwin s. Lothrop Mrs Al
lice L. Thompson and Mrs. Eta 4,
Rhomstine. ="
Funeral services were held at his
late residence this afternoon at 2
cemetery. o'u
Evening star., 1919-10-13
COURT WILL NOT REVIEW
Three ESPIONAGE CASES

The Supreme Court of the United
States today refused to review several
convictions under the espionage act
resulting from statements made by
the defendants during the war. The
cases were:
The Rev. Wilhelm Schumann of
Pomeroy. Iowa. sentenced to five
years imprisonment; William Dodge,
Buffalo. N. Y. sentenced to six years.
and Joseph M. Coldwell. Providence
II. l.. sentenced to three years.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
PRESBYTERY TO MEET.
Sessions at Jamestown, Nd, To.
night and Tomorrow

The fall meeting of the Washington
Presbytery will be held tonight at
Jamestown. Md, and continued over
tomorrow.
Those contemplating the trip to-
morrow will leave Union station on
the o'clock train for Gaithersbure.
Where bus connects for Darnestown.
seven miles away.
Ihe regular Monday meeting will be
held next Monday morning at 10 20
o'clock at the New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church. when DIR. John Rob
ertson OF Glasgow. Scotland, who this
wee week is conducting series of spe-
ciaI meetings at the First Baptist
Church, 18th and o streets, will de-
liver an address,
Evening star., 1919-10-13
WOMAN LEAPS FROM WINDOW
Miss Elizabeth Woodward Victim
of Nervousness

Miss Elizabeth Woodward of 141s
Goth street was injured yesterday
when she jumped from the second
story of her home. She was treated
by DIR. Robert Beale of 1852 Rhode
Island avenue and was later sent to
Emergency Hospital in care of DIR. NJ.
F. Cuthbert, the family physician.
Extreme nervousness following a
long period of illness was given as
the cause for her act.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
"Fair Price" to Continue.

1t is understood that the fair price
committees in various parts of the
country, including the District Of Co
,umbia. will be continued, and the
new law will give them increased
power over unscrupulous tradesmen.
1t also gives them power TO say what
profit shall be made on articles of
clothing, including shoes. and pro-
vides Jail sentences for hoarders and
prof1teers.
Clarence r. Wilson, chairman of the
fair price committee in this city. said
today that he would take no action
as result of the adoption of the
amendment. in the event it is signed
by the President. until he had been
advised by the Attorney Generals Of
Ace on what course to follow.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
Favors Kellogg Resolution.

Favorable report was ordered to-
day by the Senate judiciary committee
on the resolution of Senator Kellogg.
republican. Minnesota, postponing un-
til July !, 1920, operation Of the pro-
vision of the Clayton antitrust law
prohibiting common carriers from
purchasing from or dealing with cor
porations which have interlocking
directors.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
RESPECT ARMENIANs, ORDER.
Nationalist Head of Turkey Says
New Government So Commands.

SIVAS, Asiatic Turkey. September
20 (by courier by the Associated
Press).-Mustapha Kemal Pasha, head
of the nationalist Turkish govern
ment recently set up in Asia Minor,
has informed the correspondent of the
Associated Press that the new gov
ernment has issued orders to respect
the Armenians and deplores earlier
Armenian massacreS.
All the kurds are eager to have the
United States assume a mandate for
Armenia.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
Escaped Interned Captive Caught.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, October 13.
Jack Schmidth who escaped from
the German internment prison at Fort
Oglethorpe Friday afternoon. was re-
captured at Summerville, Ga. late
Sunday afternoon and returned to the
prison. The authorities refuse to
state on what charges Schmidth is
held or where he was arrested 0rIgi-
nally.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
STRIKE ADJUSTMENT LIKELY

Department of Labor officials today
are optimistic that the longshoremen's
strike in New York will be brought IN
an end tomorrow Officials expressed
the belief that satisfactory adi,isrment
or the situation would be reached in tha
next twenty-four hours
Evening star., 1919-10-13
SEES NEED OF MORE
PUBLIC PARKS HERE
(Continued from FIRST Page.)

of Washington. These forts are of
historic interest, and, IN addition to
providing a magnificent boulevard.
preserves many places of historic In
terest. Already two have been &C
Quired east of the Eastern branch,
namely. Forts Davis and Dupont. This
would make another link In this
chain, and the reason for this par
ticular link is that improvements are
taking place very rapidly along this
drive, making early action imperative
If they are to be preserved.
"5. Dean tract. The Dean tract Is
another tract of land recommended
for use as a park by the Board OF
Trade This would be quite desirable,
but, of course, 1t Is very expensive
parcel of land"
Street Recommendation.
In connection with his recommen-
dation for a reform in the law gov
erning the opening Of new streets
Mr. Hazen suggests:
EITHER there should be general
law authorizing the Commissioners to
institute condemnation proceedings
whenever, in their Judgment, the pub
lie interests require 1t. and allow the
Jury to assess a percentage OF the
cost against the property benented, or
there should be a law for each spe-
cific case. 1 would prefer the first plan
If that could be secured
Evening star., 1919-10-13
Florence, Ala, Street Cars Tied Up

FLORENCE. Ala, October Ia
Florence has been without street car
service since midnight Saturday, when
conductors and motorn.en of the Flor
ence-Sheffield and TuScumbia Electric
Railway Company went out on strike
because their demand for increased
wages had been refused. Supi. Gam
mon notified Mayor Eastep of Flor
ence this morning that a new force
would be put on during the day and
Doevtoe resumed.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
Experience Counts.
Aiding Education.

w. Carson Ryan, editor Of the United
States bureau Of education. is human
izing work OF that federal agency
and In trat way is creating closer re-
lations between the people through
out the country and the federal
agency designed to help them. DR..
P. p. Claxton, the commissioner of
education. is encouraging Mr.. Ryan
in thus getting close to the people
and their needs.
The bureau of education has start
cd weekly school paper in co-op-
GRAFTON with the National Geographic
Evening star., 1919-10-13
BOARD of Trade Committee Meets.

The executive committee OF the
Roard of Trade met at l o'clock this
afternoon in the board rooms in The
Star building to discuss a number OF
important organization matters, m
cIuding the settlement of details for
the October meeting of the board.
scheduled for October Il.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
SEE END OF STRIKE
of LONGSHOREMEN
Representatives of Workers
Hope for Early Settlement of
New York Harbor Trouble.
FOOD HELD ON SHIPS

NEW YORK. October l3.-fiope for
an early settlement of the strike OF
40. 900 lcngshoremen and marine work
ers which has tied up Transatlantic.
coaStwise and harbor traffic here for
almost a week appeared bright today.
according to T. V. O'Connor. president
OF the International LongShoremcn :
Association. and John f.. Riley. chair
man of the strike committees.
! AS a result of n stormy meeting
last night. at which delegates from
fffty-four locals urged the men to so
back to work. a mass meeting will be
held tonight for ratifying or rejecting
the proposal to return tomorrow and
wait until December ] to press de-
mands for increased wages. An earlier
proposal to take a referendum vote by
locals was abandoned.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
REPORTS PLENTY OF MEN
At H0BOKEN ARMY DOCK

The situation at the Hoboken On J)
Army dock was said to be "satis-
factory" today in reports reaching
headquarters of the embarkation
service. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines
said sufficient men were on the scene
to replace the striking longshoremen
and to handle the expected Army
transports and freighters,
Evening star., 1919-10-13
New Mexico Given Right to Sue,

The Supreme Court of the United
States today granted permission to
New Mexico to Ale suit against the
state of Colorado for the purpose OF
determining the correctness of the
present boundary between the states.
The case was made returnable next
March l.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
THEIR HUMAN SIDE
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

nlng back. threw himself on his mothers
grave, declaring he would not leave her
there alone in the rain.
There is another story of his life that
carries great big heart -throb AS a boy
ne worked as long as he could stand
II Tor q farmer who overworked him
and underworked kindness. One day
when young Champ had overfed the pair
he thought it was time to Eight out"
years later, when he had gained the
size and strength for which his young
manhood was noted. he went back to
give that old farmer good thrash
ing. He found him old. broken and
IN need, ard he was moved to compass
sion and saw to it that the old man
was cared for. That's Champ, with a
hand always ready for the unfortunate
or needy, and the hand not empty.
Is Little Late.
Sometimes even Homer nods"-and
so do members of the United States
Senate. This was emphasized twice re-
Gently by Senator Calder of New York
who started to call up committee re-
ports on small bills and ask for i'm
mediate consideration. He was promptly
told by the Vice President that he was
a little slow because these measures had
Deen called up and passed the day be-
fore.
Smile on "Newly-Weds."
Even hardened United States senators
smile indulgently upon young newly
Weos This has been a great month
TOT honeymooners in the Capitol. The
other afternoon practically every sena-
tor on the floor was deeply interested
in a "spooning couple in the gallery
who were holding hands and otherwise
giving visible indication of their OBJ.
liviousness to all else but themselves
until a gallery guard ruthlessly broke
In upon their daydreams.
Hit by H. c. of L.
congressman are being hard hit by
the high cost of living, and frankly
admit 1t. While the naval affairs COM
mlttee OF the House was holding hear
lngs on the proposal to increase the
pay Of naval officers one young officer
testified that he had to give up his
his bills.
chairman Butler. who has been in
congress for twenty years. said that
he had been forced to quit on q
policy that he had carried for forty
three years In order to pay the income
tax on his salary as representative.
Experience Counts.
Admiral Wilson, commander-in-chie
or the Atlantic feet, while testifying
before the naval committee, was argu-
ing that as general rule the longer an
officer remained in the service the
more valuable he became. II suppose
thats true also as regards a men,
Der OF Congress-" he said. turning to
Representative Lufkin of Massachu-
setts. I've always understood that
man In Congress six, eight or ten
years Is more valuable to the people
OF his district, isn't that so?"
well, at any rate, it's what we try
to make our constituents believe"
honestly admitted Representative
Lufktn, who graduated into Congress
from having been secretary to Repre-
sentative A. P. Gardner for many
years.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
Takes Look Backward.

Champ Clark took long look back
ward while addressing the House on
the vocational education bill, and told
some of the Lincolnlike struggles Of
his own rugged youth. IT am as much
in favor of education as any man who
ever lived" he said. "I plowed corn
and mauled rails and broke rock In
order to get money enough to go to
college. l began to teach school be-
fore I was fifteen. The only Qualifica-
ton I really had was my size. and
down in Kentucky. just after the close
of the civil war. size was a good as
set in the community. was presi .nt
of a college when / was twenty three
years old down In West Virginia, so /
have a right to talk about educational
matters"
But Champ Clark did not tell how,
as very small boy. he attended his
mothers funeral and when 1t began to
rain members of the funeral party were
hurrying him away. He pulled away
from the hand that held his and. run
Evening star., 1919-10-13
Gompers Denounces Strike.

The lonsshoremen's strike was de-
nounced as violation of the furda-
mental principles of the American
Federation of Labor" by Samuel Com
pers. president of the A. F.. of L.. in Il
letter received by T. V. OConnor,
president of the international Long
shoremen's Union. The strike was
unauthorized by the union, and Mr..
O'Connor has consistently endeavored
to induce the men to return to work.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
Illustration Of Detail.

How much detail is sometimes put
into legislation and how many amend
ments to a bill may really mean but
little change in the measure was IL
lustrated by Representative Webb of
North Carolina, former chairman OF
the House judiciary committee, In ex-
planning the conference report on the
prohibition enforcement bill. He was
answering a criticism that the man
ayers for the House had yielded on
many amendments. and said: I'VE
yielded on fifty-five amendments, where
we struck out That at the beginning
of each section. The Senate. out of its
sense of style, struck That out and
let the sentence just begin The We
agreed to that fifty-five times. 1t was
Just question of taste and of style.
but we wanted to get down to business
and SO we allowed the Senate to have
its way"
Evening star., 1919-10-13
Food Situation Serious.

Meanwhile the food situation con-
cerning products coming to the city
from New Jersey still was serious.
Not an ounce of food was removed
from ships. The milk shortage was
somewhat relieved when the milk
trains were switched here by the way
Of Poughkeepsie
Evening star., 1919-10-13
Tightening Still Held Up.

Railroad. port and terminal workers
at a meeting held in Jersey City today
unanimously decided not to resume
operations of ferrybOats. railroad tugs
and lighters until their demands are
settled, according to a statement issued
at the headquarters of the Marine
Workers Union.
"A committee representing the rail-
road administration conferred yester-
day with striking firemen. oilers and
deckhands in an effort to adjust their
differences. The strikers were assured
their demands for higher wages and
shorter hours would be given just and
speedy consideration provided the men
would return Immediately. The Strik-
ers accordingly planned to meet during
the day.
Evening star., 1919-10-13

Speaker for one day-that is the dis
tinction Of Theodore Medad Pomeroy,
a representative from New York in
the Thirty seventh. Thirty-eighth.
Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses
He was elected Speaker of the ma
tional House of Representatives on
March 3, 1859, and served for only
one day.
The present significance Of this fact.
which comes as a surprise bit OF leg
islative history for even old habitues
at the Capitol. Is that former Speaker
Champ Clark is now advertising IN
the Boston newspapers for grand
son of the one-day Speaker. Some
time since this grandson wrote TO
Champ Clark asking If he had the
right to have portrait OF Mr. Pom
eroy hung in the Capitol lobby with
those Of the other Speakers. since his
grandfather served in that office for
only one day.
Champ Clark thought the writer
confused Speaker pro tempore" for
the Speaker, and he tore 1t up. But
later he thought the matter over and
he looked UP the congressional bi-
ography and found that Schuyler Col
who was Speaker in the Thirty eighth,
Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses.
was elected Vice President on the
ticket with Gen. Grant and resigned
on March 3 instead of waiting to fn-
ish out his term of Speaker on
March 4.
Representative Pomeroy was elected
for the one day. After leav-
ing Congress he was mayor of Au-
burn, N. Y, and died there in 1905.
He was first vice president and gen.
eral counsel for the American Express
Company.
Champ Clark is now endeavoring to
get the address of Pomeroy's grand
son so that he can advise him that
Pomeroy's portrait has just as much
right in the gallery of former Speak
ers as his own, because Pomeroy was
duly elected to the Office.
Evening star., 1919-10-13
II Leave Cleveland; 4 Buffalo.

Eleven west bound flyers left Cleve-
land early in the day. while four
others hoped off from Buffalo, head
ed for San Francisco.
Half dozen flyers passed one an
other in Chicago during the morning.
A dozen flyers were strung out be-
tween Chicago and Salt Lake City.
racing toward the Pacific coast. All
the flyers expect to reach their des-
tinations before tomorrow night.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13
IT'S A GO.

The canvass of the electorate OF Keokuk In
an effort to secure the required fifteen per cent
of the registry as consent to the calling OF an
election for Eyes and mo- vote on the prop
osition to erect in this city soldiers and sail
ors memorial building has been completed and
with gratifying results More than fifty per
cent of the necessary signatures to the petition
has been gathered and in only few instances
was there avowed opposition to the project
voiced.
Enthusiasm with which the plan is received
indicates success of the proposition when put TO
the vote of the people at the special election
which probably will be held within a few weeks
Nearly three hundred municipalities through
out the country have already decided upon cree
ton of municipal buildings as memorials to the
American soldiers who fought IN the world war,
and Keokuk will find itself in excellent company
in this respect. The plan adopted to meet the re-
quirements in paying for the proposed building
comprehends tax period of time spread over
a great number Of years, and so the cost VIII
scarcely be felt by the present generation
1t looks like Keokuk will put this municipal
memorial building proposition over.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-13
AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY.

In the examination of foreign language news
papers printed and circulated in this country
the Inter-racial Council has made a discovery
that ought to interest American business.
Seven-tenths of the national advertising IN
these prints is of non-American products, and
from non-American advertisers 1t is certainly
just to say that this points to a neglect OF our
greatest and nearest foreign market-that Of
Tered by our own alien population. These PEG.
pie are, according to the nterracial Council
Investigators, ready and willing to join IN the
life and manners of this nation; they desire to
adopt American dress, American foods, Amerl-
can house appointments. But in the press
which circulates among them it is the racial
product and the racial shop which are empha-
sized. The Inter-racial Council suggests that
along with its campaign to present constant
means of knowledge of American Life and ideas
in these alien language newspapers, the Amerl-
can manufacturer and merchant cooperate III
printing advertisements of American products
and industry. The suggestion is good one. 1t
is sensible both from the viewpoint of business
interest and of spread of Americanism.