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Evening star., 1919-10-11
SCOTTISH LODGE HONORS
GOMPERS WITH ELECTION
Honorary Membership From
Abroad to Be Bestowed Through
+ D. c. Lodge.

Officers Of the Grand Lodge and OF
the higher Masonic bodies, as well
as many prominent local and out-of-
town Masons, will be guests at the
banquet to be given Monday night at
the Hotel La Fayette by Dawson
Lodge, No. 16. in honor OF Samuei
Compers, president of the American
Federation of Labor. The occasion
is intended as a tribute Of apprecia-
ton OF the patriotic services rem
dered by Mr.. Gompers during the war.
The banquet will be preceded by
meeting and reception In the COM
mandery rooih of Masonic Temple.
A program has been arranged by
committee consisting OF Milton Stras-
George G. Seibold, P. NJ; Frank T.
Crown and Elmer NJ. Johnson.
A certificate Of honorary member
ship in the lodge of Journeymen Ma
sons Of Edinburgh. Scotland, Will be
formally presented to Mr. Gompers
Brown Of Dawson Lodge. This is the
Oldest Masonic Lodge in Scotland
and in its entire history has never
before conferred an honorary mem
bership upon any Mason.
During the war Mr.. Gompers de-
livered an address before the Edln-
burgh lodge.
The honorary certificate has recent
ly been received by Dawson Lodge for
due and formal presentation.
Grand Master Joseph H. Milans
will be present, accompanied by the
officers Of the Grand Lodge, to sane
tion the acceptance by Mr.. Gompers
Of honorary membership in the Edin:
burgh Lodge. The address of the
evening will be delivered by Rev.
DR.. James Shera Montgomery. An
been arranged by Walter Humphrey.
A general invitation to the meet
ing and reception has been rendered
the Masonic fraternity. but invita-
tions to the banquet have been nec--
essarily limited to the members of
Dawson Lodge and special guests OF
the occasion.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
THEIR HUMAN SIDE
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

1867 until his death in the closing
days of 1898.
William Boyd Allison of iowa served
In the House from 1863 to 1871 and in
the Senate from 1872 until his death
in 1908. He had the record for the
longest continuous service in Con-
gress and also in the Senate.
William Pierce Frye of Maine re-
signed after serving in the House
from 1871 to 1881. He was elected to
the Senate to succeed James G. Blaine,
and served from 1881 until his death
in 1911. He was member OF the
commission which met in Paris in
1898 to settle the terms of peace be-
tween the United States and Spain.
There was a roundup in the House
the other day, and Representative
Claude Kitchin, in facetious mood,
thus described it in the Congnession-
al Record:
Just before the roll call began i
saw Uncle Joe Fordney running
around-they knew they were going
to be beaten if they did not get to
work-with a bull whip in his hand,
popping and slashing it over the
heads Of the republicans. (Laugh-
ter.) Uncle Joe Cannon had one.
and with that famous left arm he
was making it sizzle around his CO :
leagues. Mondell was swinging the
party. cudgel right and left amid the
lodging heads of the protesting
republicans. No herd of cattle on a
western ranch was ever more effectu-
ally rounded up than the machine
and bosses were rounding up the re-
publicans. In the commotion I said
Where is DR.. Fess. the chairman OF
the republican national congressional
committee? 1 looked again. and 10
and behold! I saw him going about
among the republicans with lady :
LITTLE riding whip which Leader Mon
dell had given him Qaughter). whis-
pering, Get together, boys! Get to-
gether. Republican tariff bill at
stake"" daughter.)
Evening star., 1919-10-11

The disenfranchised National Cap
ital now has one of it's residents~en-
rolled in the House membership.
Representative w. E. Andrews, who
represents the fifth Nebraska dis
trict, has been a resident of Wash
ington for more than twenty years,
and he is a real Rip Van Winkle in
politics.
In 1898 and 1894 he was secretary
to Gov. Crounse of Nebraska. and
then he came to Congress March 4,
1895.
For eighteen years he was auditor
Of the Treasury. serving during the
presidency of Mckinley. Roosevelt
and Taft, and for two years under
Wilson. He made his home in Colum-
bia Heights and was considered one
of the old Washington residents.
But he used to save up his vacations
and spend them campaigning in his
old home state-and during the eight
cen years never missed but one state
campaign and that was in 1914, when
the files from the auditors Office were
being moved from the Treasury build
ing to the old bureau of engraving
When he became a candidate for
Congress all of the younger voters
looked upon him as a Rip Van Winkle.
an old man just come down from the
mountain. The young voters were
mere babies three or four years old
when he came to the Fifty-fourth
Congress and thence to the Treasury.
When the democrats came into
power Secretary Bryan and Senator
Gilbert N. Hitchcock had differences
Of opinion over the political plum
that Andrews had. Bryan and Hitch
cock each had candidate for the
office of auditor. Representative Ash
ton c. Shallenberger. after two years
had elapsed, interested himself in
patching UP this matter and succeed
ed in having Hitchcock's man, Samuel
Patterson, appointed.
Andrews, Shallenperger and Patter-
son all came from the same town in
Nebraska. Shallenberger got Patter-
son appointed to succeed Andrews as
auditor, and then Andrews went out
and got the people to elect him to
Congress to succeed Shallenberger by
a close vote-17,S19 to 1928.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
WAR DEPARTMENT BLAMED.
Criticised for Failure to Salvage
Bulk Of $4,000, 600 Cargo.

Responsibility for failure to sal
wage the bulk Of the $5.0oo.oo0 cargo
OF the steamer Port Hunter. which
sank or Martha's Vineyard last No
vember. was placed on the War De-
partment yesterday by Rear Admiral
Taylor. chief Of naval construction,
and Thomas A Scott of the shipping
board. testifying before q House war
investigating committee.
They said neither the Army nor the
Navy had equipment for cargo sal
wage. but that 1t might have been OBJ
tanned by the War Department. to
which the cargo belonged.
The total salvage obtained from the
ship sunk was valued at 100000, II
was said.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Two "Mine Hosts" in House.

There are two mine hosts" in the
House Representative Allen T. Tread
way Of Massachusetts and Represent
ative Edgar Kiess Of Pennsylvania are
the two hotel proprietors, and both of
them have been In the business for
many years.
Representative Treadway was really
born into the business. For three
generations his forbears had been ho-
tel men before him, and he is now
training his son, a prominent Harvard
athlete. to succeed him in the Eusi-
ness.
Mr.. Treadway was born in the old
Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, Mass,
which he still owns and operates. This
was a famous tavern in the daye of
the stage coach. and was on the old
stage route from Boston to Albany.
He is also proprietor of the new hotel,
Heaton Hall, also in Stockbridge He
is former president of the New Eng
land Hotelmen's Association.
Representative Kiess started the
Forest Inn Hotel twenty years ago at
Eagles Mere, on the top Of the noun
tain. Then six years ago he bought
the Raymond Hotel. He has also de-
veloped q cottage colony around his
| hotels. He is proud Of the fact that
his hostelry has always been a tenn
perance house."
Evening star., 1919-10-11
MEXICAN PROTEST INDICATED
Objection to u. S. Aviators' Activ-
ity Thought to Be on Way.

Mexican Ambassador Bonillas, who
is returning to Washington after
conference with President Carranza
at Nenegas. will present protests to
the State Department against Ameri-
can aviators flying over Mexican terri
tory. 1t is reported
The protests which Ambassador
Bonillas is said to ne bearing, are be-
lieved to be based son charges made
by Luis Cabrera. secretary of the
Mexican treasury. that American
Army aviators have established a
base near San Quentin. Lower Califor
MIA. These charges made by Cabrera
recently in an official bulletin are said
to have caused considerable of a SEN
Sation in Mexico City.
A courier arriving in Washington
today from Francisco Villas head
quarters in northern Durango brought
word that a major offensive would be
begun next month with larger forces
than villa has been able to command
for the past four years.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
To Deal With Problems.

1t was decided by the executive
committee that the constructive work
of the conference should take form
through hearings held and conclu-
sions reached by the chairmen and
members of ten committees. each of
which would deal with some particu-
lar group of problems Of basic impor-
tance to the industry. Each of the
ten committees will consist of twelve
American and three foreign delegates.
The committees, with the chairmen,
follow: Growing of cotton, seed Sc
lection, methods of cultivation and
picking, E. A. Calvin. Houston, Tex;
ginning, uniform baling and COM
pressing. Harvie Jordan. Monticello,
Ga; warehousing aud country dam
age, L. K. Salisbury. Memphis; trans
portation and insurance, NJ. ]. San
ders, New Orleans: buying and SELL
ing, equitable tare and net weight,
Frederick A. Flather, Lowell. Mass. !;
exchanges, classification, contracts
and purchases, Arthur r. Marsh, New
York; financing, foreign credits and
exports. w. p. G. Harding. governor
OF the Federal Reserve Board. WASH
fngton; research. reports and statis-
tics. Samuel L. Rodgers. director Of
the census. Washington; world re-
quirements and stabilizing produc-
tion and prices, w. M. Thompson,
New Orleans: permanent organiza-
ton. James D. Hammett. Anderson,
S. C.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
JAPANESE LABOR BARRIER
Senator Phelan Introduces Amend.
ment to 1mmigration Law

Japanese laborers would be exclud-
ed from the United States the same
as are Chinese laborers under a bill
introduced late yesterday by Senator
Phelan, democrat of California.
The bill. which is in the form OF an
amendment to the present immigra-
tion law. would enlarge the zone from
which laborers may not come to
America by extending the longi-
tudinal and latitudinal lines so as to
include the empire of Japan.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
U. S. NOT TO FIX PRICE
ON RAW FERTILIZER

Prices on raw materials for ferti-
iizer have not been fixed by the gov
ernment, said a statement issued by
the Department of Agriculture. After
a conference with producers here Oc-
found impossible to determine "a fair
profit and the department will con-
tinue to, exercise it's powers against
profiteers under the licensing system.
Warning vas given that penalties
of $4,000 fine and two years. imprison-
ment were provided for in pending
amendments to the control act
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Tragedy Recalled.

The veteran members of the House
were visited during the week by a
youth fnquiring about the murder Of
VIII Press Taulbee. a member from
Kentucky twenty years ago. He was
shot on the stairs leading from the
House chamber to the gallery. and his
blood still dishgures the marble stair
treads in the corner where he crum-
ent representing a Louisville paper.
who wanted to be secretary to the
congressman and who later died in a
Kentucky almshouse. The young
man who visited the members was
Paul Taulbee. nephew Of the slain
Evening star., 1919-10-11
SPECIAL NOTICES.

THE NURSES EXAMINING BOARD OF THE
District of Columbia will hold an examination
for the registration of nurses on N1vemSeI oe
IL, 1919 Applications to be IN octooer 20
amply to IL. r. FLYNN, Secretary and Treas
nrer,l 1887 X st. NV.
PARTIES THAT SAW ACCIDENT SUNDAY
night about $3.50, at 21st st. and Penna. ave,
when automobile struck lady, Will kindly notny
NJ. DAVID. 100 7th st. NV. Is
TTERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF
safety Our safe deposit vaults provide TINS; M
WASHINGTON SAFE DEPOSIT CO., sl6sls
Pa.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Curious Situation in House.

When the House voted to repeal the
Canadian reciprocity act which has
been dead letter because Canada had
not enacted corresponding legislation,
there was a curious situation in the
House. Republican members were sur
prised when Representative Claude
Kuchin told them that the democrats
were in favor of this republican pno-
posal. 1t so happens that only two
democratic members had opposed it
in committee-Represen Henry
T. 2ainey of Illinois and Representa-
tive J. w. Collier of Mississippi-and
neither of them was present when the
House voted.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Long Careers in Congress.

Congress has had four mon who
served In the national Legislature for
them is now member, and he In also
the only one who gave his entire serv-
ice an the House-"Uncis Joe" duern-
sey Cannon.
Justin Smith Morrill, Of Vermont
served in the House, to which no was
elected as a whig. from 1866 10 1857;
and IN tho Senate. to which he was
elected ~ . Union republican. from
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Must Approve Officers Discharges.

The Secretary of War has directed
that emergency officers undergoing
trial or serving sentence imposed by
ourt-martial shall not be discharged
under general instructions for de.
mobilization. without the approval Of
the adjutant generals office. He also
directs that investigation and trials
be expedited.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Onions Up IS Per Cent.

All other commodities in the list
of staple foods showed increases
ranging from 1 per cent for round
steak. rib roast and bread, to % per
cent for lard. So per cent for coffee.
So per cent for raisins and up to So
per cent for onions.
Butter showed an increase in price
of 19 per cent. though principal but
ter substitutes showed no increase
Lard substitutes. however, increased
20 per cent, or 1 per cent more than
the increase in the price of real lard.
Breakfast cereals showed no Increase
for the year, nor did evaporateo
unsweetened milk in Is to 16 ounce
cans. Fresh milk, however, showed
an advance of IA per cent. Strictly
fresh eggs showed an advance OF Is
per cent; bacon went up IL per cent:
IAN, l6 per cent: potatoes, % per
cent, and granulated sugar, 18 per
cent. Bananas and oranges, accord
ing to the tabulation, showed no in
crease.
Evening star., 1919-10-11

People in Siam are cautious about
getting into debt. When q debtor is
three months in arrears he can be
seized by the creditor and compelled
to work out his indebtedness. Should
q debtor run away his father, his
wife or his children may be held In
slavery until the debt il Cancelled.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Lost Base Ball Bet With Dentist,

When the members Of Congress
meet little Johnny McCabe. the chief
page on the republican side Of the
House. these days they stop him
and examine his teeth. Johnny does
not know yet how much he lost on the
world series, and the members exam
inc his teeth to help him figure it out.
You see. Johnny. who admits he's a
good sport and game loser" bet on
Chicago to win the pennant. He bet
with his dentist. If Chicago had won
Johnny was to have had all his teeth
fixed up for nothing, but since Chi
cago didn't win he must pay double
for his dentistry. and Johnny says
that every tooth In his head needs at
tention.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Former Secretaries Honored.

Secretary Daniels has adopted the
policy Of naming warships after for
mer secretaries Of the Navy. The
United States destroyer No. 1874. under
construction at Newport News. has
been named in honor of William III.
Hunt Of South Carolina, who was Sec
retary in 1881, and destroyer No. 212,
building at Philadelphia, has been re-
named in memory of Smith Thompson
IF New York, who was Secretary in
1914
Evening star., 1919-10-11
ON[YFOURF0ODS
TAKE DROP IN YEAR
Eighteen Staple Articles In
crease, Department of
Labor Statistics Show.
ONIONS SET THE PACE

Just four items out of list OF
twenty-five staple articles of food
used as basis of price comparison
showed decreases in price July. 1919,
as compared with July one year ago
These. according to figures prepared
by the bureau of labor statistics of
the Department of Labor, were: Navy
beans. declined so per cent; plate
beef. per cent decline: chuck roast
per cent lower, and corn meal wita
q decrease of 3 ner cent
Evening star., 1919-10-11
HEADS Of NINE COTTON
STATES WILL PRESIDE
All Phases Of Industry to Be Dis
cussed at World Conference in
New Orleans Next Week.

NEW ORLEANS. October 11.-Gov-
ernors of nine cotton-growing states
will preside at the sessions here oc-
tober IS to 16 of the world cotton
conference, at which representatives
will be in attendance from thirty-one
nations interested or affected by the
cotton industry.
The governors chosen as chairmen
are w. P. Hobby. Texas: A. II. Rob-
erts, Tennessee: Charles H. Brough,
Arkansas; Theodore G. Bilbo, Missis-
sippi; Thomas E. Kilby, Alabama;
Hugh Dorsey, Georgia; J. D. A. Rob-
ertson, Oklahoma; Thomas w. Bick-
EFT. North Carolina, and Ruffin G. Pleas
ant, Louisiana.
Subjects announced for discussion
include growing and handling Of cot
ton. future requirements and new
sources of production. storage and
insurance of cotton. transportation by
river rail and overseas. buying and
selling and world problems of the
textile industry.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Status of Women to Be Discussed.

The house Of bishops has placed on
its calendar, for future action. the
whole question of the status of wom-
en- in church legislative matters. The
house of deputies has already, in open
meeting, recognized the activities,
other. than legislative, Of women in
church work, but the question Is ex-
pected to provoke much discussion in
both bodies. It is the opinion of lead
ing churchmen that the question ulti-
mately will develop as to whether
woman delegates shall be elected to
the general conventions.
The matter was brought to the front
when the missionary district of San
Joaquin asked the amendment of the
constitution of the church to permit
women to sit in missionary district
conventions The house of bishops
then learned that women already
have places in the legislative bodies
of several districts and in one dis
trict have so served for twenty-nine
years. =:
This was a short day in the con-
vention, sessions closing at noon. The
house Of bishops this morning con-
tinued the work of arranging mis-
sionary districts. preliminary to cleo
tion of bishops. The house of deputies
had before it for final action modifi-
cation of sections Of the liturgy ap-
proved in the last convention.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
13 Per Cent Average Rise.

The average of increase for the
twenty-five staple food articles in
ciuded in the list was IS per cent for
the period. The figures were based
on averages of actual prices paid in
open markets in fifty principal cities
of the United States.
The increase in the average price
OF the same articles for the period
from July, 1913. to last July was 90
per cent, with eight staple food ar
ticles showing increases of more than
1oO per cent. These were: Lard. 1874
per cent; potatoes. 153 per cent; flour,
l21 per cent; corn meal, lit per cent:
pork chops, ia per cent; bacon, 109
per cent; granulated sugar, 1O2 per
cent, and ham, 101 per cent.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Condemn Mob Violence, 1ynchine

Among various resolutions introduced
in the house of deputies was one con-
demning "mob violence and '1ynching
without trial of member of one race
by members of another"
The open forum meeting was address,
ed by Vida D. Scudde-. profer~o- re ~c~-
romics ut Wellesley College. Miss Scud.
der characterized Lenin, RUSSIAN 81 ,ei
leader, as the greatest mind in modern
Europe" These meetings are not part
Of the convention proper, but are held
for the purpose Of discussing economic
problems,
Evening star., 1919-10-11
EXPECTS QUICK ACTION
ON BUDGET LEGISLATION
Chairman Good States That Com
mittee Intends to Expedite
Passage Of Bill.

Speedy action by the House on
budget legislation is looked for when
that measure comes up for considera-
tion, probably late today. Chairman
Good of the special committee ap-
pointed to investigate the feasibility
OF budget has announced that it is
the intention Of the committee to ex-
pedite passage Of the bill as much as
possible.
Under provisions Of the bill a bud
get bureau would be created, under
direction of the President, and a di-
rector and assistant director appoint
ed, whose duties would be to compile
department estimates and submit
them to the President, who in turn
would send them to Congress.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Missionary District Changes.

The house of bishops yesterday after
noon combined the missionary districts
OF Oklahoma and eastern Oklahoma un-
der Bishop Theodore p Thurston of the
latter, and Bishop Frank Touret Of the
missionary district Of western Colorado
was transferred to the Idaho district.
missionary district in the Panama
Canal Zone was created These acts
must have the concurrence of the house
Of deputies to become effective.
There remain to be elected mission.
ary bishops to Utah, Salina, Kan; the
Canal Zone. the Philippine Islands, and
possibly Liberia. 1t Is understood Colo
RADIO and western Colorado will be united
under Bishop Irving p. johnson.
Evening star., 1919-10-11

Oysters are such nervous creature.
that q sudden shock, such as innS
thunderclap. will kill many hundreds
Of them.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Membership Increased.

The House appropriations commit
tee would be increased from twenty
one to thirty-five members and would
have control of all appropriations,
stripping other committees, such as
military, naval, agriculture and post
Office, Of their respective appropriat-
ing powers. However, the subcom-
mittees still would govern expansions
of the departments over which they
have jurisdiction.
A controller and assistant controller
of the budget also would be appoint
ed, and they would audit all receipts
and expenditures. Salaries of the di-
rector and controller would be $1O,-
900 annually and those of assistants
$500, while salaries for subordinates
in excess of $4,000 are prohibited,
and those under $1,000 are to be
taken from the civil service eligibles.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Question Of Pension Office.


The meeting went on record as ia
voring no initiatory move for amend
ments to the bill, which has been IA
vorably reported from the committees
In both houses and is on the calendar
for consideration.
Under the present bill, Mr.. Alcorn
pointed out. another feature stands
out. The pension Office, he said, which
is a well organized machine for
handling such business as the pay
ment of retirement pensions, is now
being faced with dwindling business,
since the civil war pensions become
fewer with every year. IN order
not to lose the organization, the PEN
sion organization for civil war vet
erans could be turned over to pension
work for civil service employees, he
said. The machinery is ready. he de-
clared, and it would be "loose" busi-
ness to allow it to drift into inactivi-
ty when actual need for it continues.
Evening star., 1919-10-11

1T Pays to Look
into our MILLWORk &
LUMBER values before buy
ing. Prices always low for cash.
Geo. MI. Barker Co., Inc,
64o-5I N. Y. Ave.-Ph. M. I348.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Honest-to-Goodness Cider.

The kind that gets Interesting" :" Oh.
BOY!! Made from select Stayman Winesap
daily, 60c gal. Bring jugs. Also get winter
apples Now at wholesale. Bring basket. Sill
yer Spring up state road to Glenmont. turn
to right, to Norwood, to Heart OF Maryland
Orchard. Write for road map. WILL E.
THOMAS, Ednor, Md. ~
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN-THIS is TO
give notice that / will not be responsible Io1
any obligations made by any other than myseif:
DEWEY NJ. RADCLIFFE, Hyattsvilie Mo. -
AS YOUR DIRECT REPRESENTATIVE
can negotiate confidential or important oasi
ness matters in this other cities. leaving
oct. 20 for indianapolis. Chicago, Detroit
Cleveland, Pittsburgh. Address r .: BOX M llso
i,o ~. - ~ sa,,,cs 20 Won IT.
WILL THE FOLLOWING PERSONS CALL
at Red Cross. 6o6 Kenois bldg, for Information
regarding allotment checks:
Mary Francis Moore, 2117 Ward place NV.
Glady X. Dawson. 1924 Willard st. NV.
Hattie Perkins, 1913 9th st.
Mary NJ Bradford, 7th and SITS. NV.