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Evening star., 1919-09-29
MANY ACCEPT INVITATION.
Big Attendance Expected at Pan
American Financial Congress.

ity of Central and South American
governments indicate that the second
Pan-American Finsa ncial Congress in
this city next January will be one of
the most important gatherings from
a commercial standpoint ever held in
Washington.
A few of the tw-enty-one republics
have not yet accepted the invitation
as they are not certain whether their
ministers of finance will be able to
leave next January. as many national
congresses will be in session then.
But Secretary Glass believes that
every country in this hemisphere will
be represented when the conference is
called.
Evening star., 1919-09-29
WILL GATHER FARM DATA.
Census Bureau to Use $1,000, 900
Schedules for Purpose.

Fifteen million farm schedules will
be used by the census bureau in gath
ering the agricultural statistics of the
nation for the fourteenth decennial
census, it was announced. today. The
enumeration will begin January z.
1920. and it is planned to complete the
gathering of both population and ag-
ricultural figures by February j.
To facilitate the work of taking the
census and promote accuracy large
numbers Of schedules will be distrib-
uted in advance OF the enumerator's
visit, in order that the farmer may
become familiar with the questions
and be prepared to furnish promptly
the required data regarding acreage,
tenure, values, live stock and crops.
The bureau anticipates that the
coming census will show an increase
OF, approximately. one million farms
since 1910, when the number of farms
enumerated was 6,361,502. valued at
more than forty billions of dollars.
Evening star., 1919-09-29
DEMAND GERMANS ACT NOW.
Allies Want Baltic Provinces to Be
Evacuated PROMPTLY.

PARIS, September 12s.4The text of
the note sent by the allied powers to
the German government concerning
the evacuation of the Baltic PROV
inces was made public this evening.
The note says the evacuation must
begin Immediately and continue un-
interruptedly. That German soldiers
and officers who were demobilized
from the German army and have en-
listed in various Russian corps must
be recalled Is also stipulation Of
the note. and rigorous measures must
be taken to prevent further enlist
ments in these corps
Evening star., 1919-09-29
COURT DEFERS HEARING
ON R. R. TRANSFER ORDER

Justice. Gould today deferred until
October 10 the hearing Of the injunction
proceedings brought by citizens and citi-
zens' associations against the Public
Utilities Commission to test the validity
of the 2-cent transfer order. Counsel in
the case conferred with Justice Gould
today. but as the justice had other inn
portant matters demanding his attention
he was unable to name an earlier date
for the hearing.
1t is expected the commission will have
acted on the application of the railroads
for an increased fare before the time
fixed for the transfer hearings. Should
the transfer arrang ement be discontinue
ed. as is generally expected. the court
hearing may become unnecessary
Evening star., 1919-09-29
GERMAN FLYERS CARRIED
PRESS AND PAPER MONEY

GENEVA. Saturday, September 27.-
Rumanian troops have seized q big
German biplane carrying SOC, ,ooo, ,ooo
paper rnbles and miniature but
complete press at tHotin. Bessarabia,
according to the Rumanian bureau at
Bern.
The bipfane, which was en- route to
Moscow, was forced to land at Hotin
because Of leak in the gasoline
tank. It was manned by. four Ger
man officers. who are said to have
resented their arrest The rubles
are said to have been new notes.
Evening star., 1919-09-29
CONSUL GENERAL HANDLEY
SUcCUMBS TO APOPLExY

LIMA. Peru. September 2S.-William
W. Handley. American consul general
at Callao. died from apoplexy last
night. He was stricken about ten
days ago. He is survived by his wife.
The Lima press pays high tribute to
Consul Handley.
William W. Handley was a native Of
New York. He entered the consular
service in January, 1904. and was ap-
pointed consul general at Callao-
Lima in 1915. Prior to that he had
served at Puerto Plata as vice con-
sui; at Trinidad as consul and at Ma
pies as consul general.
Evening star., 1919-09-29
Defends Strike Leaders.

Defending John Fitzpatrick. chair
man of the strikers national COM
mittee. and William H. Foster, secre-
tary of the Steel Workers Union,
from charges of radicalism, he said:
You have not heard Of their max
ing revolutionary speeches in this
strike" and added that both of them
had renounced radical theories years
ago.
Judge Gary's refusal to meet the
two men on the ground that they
did not represent a majority of the
employees on strike was censured by
Mr.. Gompers. who said that Judge
Gary woud have been in a better
position to know If Fitzpatrick and
conferred with them.
1T is unthinkable that this strike
will be lost" said Mr.. Gompers. TT
is bound to win. because the men
are in right. They are striking for
better living conditions Through
out the world the mind Of the work.
er is awakening to his right to enjoy
fair play. He realizes that it is this
for which he made sacrifices during
the dark days Of the war. Any low
ering of labor standards or wages
now would be a calamity. It would
bring about crisis. With lower
wages consumption would decrease,
and with less consumption there
would necessarily have to be curtail-
ment of production. Reversely, rec
ognition of the principle Of fair play
on the part of employers will in
crease our prosperity.
Evening star., 1919-09-29
Foster and Fitzpatrick Records.

"In support of the contention that
the strike was fomented by agitators
it has been pointed out that William
2. Foster. secretary Of the national
committee for organizing iron and
steel workers. once advocated syndi-
calism, and that John Fitzpatrick,
chairman of the COMMITTEES, was An
extremist. These men long ago have
If they still believed in them today,
you have not heard Of their making
any revolutionary speeches in the
present strike.
"Just because Fosters record has
been unearthed and it has been found
that he once advocated syndicalism is
no valid reason why 100000 or more
workers should be. discredited. The
conduct of the strikers has been ad-
mirable. The good order alone has
disproved the statement that the
strike was stirred up by revolutionary
interests
Evening star., 1919-09-29
LABOR WILL
NOT SEND ENJOYS HERE.

MELBoURNE, Australia, September
2S.-The trades councils in the vari-
GUS Australian capitals have. refused
to nominate delegates to the Wash
ington labor congress.
Evening star., 1919-09-29
Admits Financial Chaos.

Ezberger admits that the financial
reconstruction OF Germany il extraor-
dinarily difiicult. He thinks the public
abroad knows little about Germany's
miserable war finance.
How bad it was" he says. will be
shown. To cover 1850, /, ,000, 900 marks
(nominalIy &4,375. .00N, ,0OOl Germany
Evening star., 1919-09-29

Contrary to popular belief the ll6
square miles embraced in the area of
Greater London are not owned by a
few. but by thousands of landlords
SS. 200 in all.
Evening star., 1919-09-29
38 IN CROSS-COUNTRY
ENDURANCE AIR TEST
Will Start October 8, 8 A.M.-Mili-
tary Attache of French Embassy
Here Latest Entrant.

Thirty-eight airplanes have been en-
tered to date in the transcontinental
endurance test, which will start at
am. October 9 under the auspices of
the air service. the latest entrant be-
ing Capt. de Ia Vergne, military at
tache Of the French embassy here.
The French officer had wide ex-
perience at the front in the war with
Germany. and at one time was in COM
American flyers. He has received q
number Of decorations for his feats in
combat with German flyers.
N. Y. to San Francisco Entrants.
A list of entrants and their machines.
which will be increased before the
date of the fight, follows.
From New York to San Francisco:
Air Commodore L. E. o. Charlton and
Lieut.. p. Z. Trail, Bristol fighter:
Co. c. c. Brant, De Haviland: Col.
De Haviland; Lieut.. col. H. E. Hart
ney, machine not given; Lieut.. Col.
John H. Reynolds, De Haviland; Mai.
N. F. Davis. Martin bomber; Mai.
Maxwell N. Y. Girby, Fokker: Maj.
Henry Abbey and Capt. J. Etheridge,
De Haviland; Maj. H. J. Miller and
Maj. Edward Lyons and Capt Harry
Smith. De Haviland; Capt Fred Kim
dley. Sopwith experimental; Capt
Reynolds, De Haviland; Capt. Roy N.
Francis. Martin bomber; First Lieut..
Alexander Pearson and Serst. Royal
John p. Roullat and H. W. Haines,
NJ s. E., De Haviland; First Lieut..
Roberts and Second Lieut.. William
Coates. De Haviland; First Lieut.. r. B.
Bagby. De Haviland; First Lieut.. H. II.
George. De Haviland; Second Lieut.
LIE. Pere: Second Lieut.. Fred c. Mel
son and First Lieut.. Sam NJ. Lunt.
De Havilanf: Second Lieut.. H. A. Nc
Ginnis, De Haviland Bluebird; Second
Lieut.. r. e. kirkpatrick and Second
Lieut.. Victor Bean. De Haviland; First
Osbourne, De Haviland; Second Lieut..
Willis Taylor and Second Lieut.. H. D.
Morris, De Haviland; Second Lieut..
Honsinger, De Haviland, and Second
Lieut.. J. B. Machle, De Haviland.
San Francisco to New York Flyers.
San Francisco to New York: Mai. J.
G. p. Barthof, Sopwith experimental; /;
Capt. Lowell H. Smith and First
Lieut.. r. w. Ruggles, De Yavfland
Bluebird; First Lieut.. Colbert Kauch
and Second Lieut. Warren A. Max
well, De Haviland; First wieut. s. e.
Rice. Sopwith, experimental; First
Lieut.. J. G. Hall and First Lieut. J. p.
Richter. De Haviland; Second Lieut.
81. E.. Queen. De Havfland; Second
Lieut. Spencer Hall and First Lieut..
Bevan. De Haviland Bluehird: Second
Lieut.. F. w. Seifert, Sopwith, expert
mental; Second Lieu Robert s.
Worthington. :Sopwith- experimental; !;
Cadet A. J. Nassanier, LePere.
Evening star., 1919-09-29
San Francisco to New york F1vers.

Re0d HGme Fur ShoD Al Under
for sale.-Advertisement. IL
Evening star., 1919-09-29
HOPES
FOR j. S. CREDITS
Declares Germany, Though,
Will Recover With or With
out Outside Aid.
BY MICHAEL FARBMAN.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News, Copyright, 1919.

As0AAy Nc"~s SVpyIABhts A0Aos
BERLIN, Germany. September 26.-
When the German mark is worth only
about cents and the mad race be-
tween imitation Of currency and cost
Of living is leading to the inevitable
catastrophe; when speculation is
rampant and capital is streaming out
of the country, thus still more en-
dangering the financial situation;
when the only means Of combating a
financial crisis is restricted, first, by
the lack of raw materials and next
by the lack of willing work on the
part OF German workers, and, second,
by the economic policy Of the allies to
diminish as much as possible their
own imports: when at the same time
the allied indemnity demands are
growing to fantastic dime ensions-one
IS interested in knowing what the
German finance minister, Matthias
Erzberger, thinks about the situation.
The way Erzberger talks-attaeks
his enemies or defends himself
proves his extraordinary vitality.
Most Germans are now downhearted,
hopeless. desperate or panic-stricken.
Only the pan-Germans are as usual
defiant. Erzberger belongs to the
third and as yet small category of
those who have no time to lament and
who know the situation too we'll to
be defiant. He is aware that the only
hope for Germany is work and that
the only way to reconciliation lies
through work.
Evening star., 1919-09-29
Explains Monetary Crisis.

There are" continued the minis
ter. only two causes for the fall Of
monetary values-lack of imports and
international bear operations .au
grand style. General experience and
financial history show that low mone-
tary values make international snec-
ulation rampant
After all, unfavorable exchange hAs
the same effect as the highest pro-
tective duties. and il the question is
neglected will keep the world to an
economic crisis amounting. to a dis
aster."
The minister then explained that
America could not trade in Europe
until the monetary question was set
tied. The next consideration was how
the. problem was to be solved, He
answered the question by saying that
the nrst thing to do was to allow
Germany to develop all the forces of
her industry by obtaining enough raw
materials and export facilities; sec
ondly, by arrestfng the imitation OF
the currency. which he was confident
could be accomplished by q capital
levy. and, thirdly. probably the most
important and speedy method by ar
ranging with America to give Ger
many q money loan.
Such loan. he said, would be Of
enormous Importance to the United
States itself because Germany to q
very great extent would become it's
debtor. What significance that would
have to the commercial relations Of
the two countries, to Americas posi-
tion in the international money mar
ket. to the promotion Of peaceful re-
lations and to the strengthening Of
peace was. he said. hardly necessary
to elaborate upon. The action must be
on a great scale in order to have ef-
feet and must by no means exclude
private credits. II America gives Ger
many such a great valuta loan then
American merchants can at once send
to Germany any amount Of goods be-
cause they can get the equivalent for
them in their own securities. Such
credit will at once prove Of extra
ordinary value to the American trade.
Private credit could not solve this
question. Only a state loan quickly
and substantially would put Germany
on a paying basis and develop .
healthy business.
Evening star., 1919-09-29
Chief Justice Bond, Missouri, Dies

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, September
2s.-Chief Justice Henry W. Bond,
seventy-one. of the supreme court of
Missouri. died suddelny hero yester-
day following an attack of apoplexy.
Evening star., 1919-09-29
"Will to Work Awakening.n

Theoretically" he began, there
are two possibilities. Germany win
recover slowly by hard work or a new
and more terrible crisis will ruin the
country and recoil upon the rest of
the world. Practically, however. only
the first alternative remains The
will to work is awakening in Ger
many and she will soon prove once
more that she is a working nation"
Germany will recover more quickly
il the outer world, and especially
America, comes to her help" he said.
With or without that help she will
recover.
IF we get no raw materials" he
continued. then Germany must do as
she did during the war-but all en-
ergy and all force into an increase Of
her own production and find substi-
tutes for the old raw materials. It
VIII be terrible way for Germany,
Dut 1t VIII aso mean an enormous loss
Tor the world. because once the Ger
man production is based on her own
raw materials Germany will cease to
be a customer of America for the
raw materials Of today"
AS an example Erzberger mentioned
cotton. II Germany does not receive
elsewhere enough wool and cotton
sheG|nust increase sheep breeding and
by technical processes substitute
something else for cotton. The ex-
perience gained during the war shows
that this is by no means impossible.
Erzberger is emphatic in the opin-
ION, though it is now the fashion to
rut all the blame for the decrease of
production on the workers, that the
idieness Is not wanton. but the result
OF overtiring and undertaking during
OF recovery and is sure that the Ill
ness will be overcome sooner than
the pessimists expect. Efzberger was
especially concerned in showing that
It IL not only question of other
countries willingness to send yaluta
standard values). The pan-Germans
assert that the fan Of values is the re-
suit OF Erzbergers policy. especially
notes for nau ~A'H
Evening star., 1919-09-29
Brass Beds Relacquered
Glad to Quote YQm

NIdO 10 quote YOU
prices on BEAVERl
! BOARD, and tell you
how its use will cut
. your home alteration costs.
Geo M Barker Co., e; aaas MAIN II ! 1s.s:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-21
Joy of SdDing
BRIGGS
Don't save for a rainy day"
rpLo@ ;.,,'+ tAa Fo~u,arJ Inpkip

Don't save for rainy day."
That isn't the orward-looking,
empire building spirit of America.
Save so that there won't be any
rainy days"
That is the philosophy of opti-
mism, the kind of thinking that is
going to make you happy and make
your old age a period of fullest en-
joyment.
Don't save as a dull, hateful duty.
Save because, by saving, you can
win the delights of competence.
Don't save because you can't af-
ford to spend.
Save SO that you can afford, a lit
tie later, to buy something you want
very much, for eXample-the auto
mobile you are walking for to-day.
Savings isn't Il mustn't do that
grind" 1t is II will do that joy"
Saving leads to temperance in all
things, to constructive thinking, to
clean living, to building for the fu-
ture.
Start your mind going along saw
ing lines and then watch it travel.
1t will take your fattening pocket
book along with it.
nounces that it is going to carry on
a widespread and intensive cam
paign of thrift education.
1t has begun by asking the people
to:
Think In interest, save and invest.
If this organization can induce us
all to think in interest, save and
invest, it will have done a splendid
thing fer us and for our country.
The campaign for War Savings So
cieties and for the buying of gov
ernment Savings Stamps, based upon
the foundation of thrift, has a dou-
BILE appeal.
1t urges each individual to benefit
himself and in doing so to help his
government finish the world war job.
Let's pull together to produce
more, to eliminate waste, to save
and to invest in w. S. S.
Don't be cutters. Be savers and
learn the joy of saving.-War Saw
ing Association.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-21
"THE LOST LEGION"

To John Stavens: IF you have fin
ished with your wanderings over the
world there is a place at home for
YOU and a share in the estate you
have not merited.-Father.
What story lies hidden within
these lines of an advertisement in
the Personal" column of the Lon
don Times? Is John Stavens one of
the wayfarers on 1.-The Long Trail"
Where the blindest bluffs hold good
dear lass,
And the widest tales are true,
And the men bulk big on the old
trail. our own trail, the out
Trail-the trail that is always
new.
Or is John Stavens of the Lost
Legion, which Kipling, too, immor-
talized when he wrote:
The ends of the earth were our
portion,
The ocean at, large was our share
There was never a skirmish to wind
warn
But the Leaderless Legion was
there;
Yes somehow and somewhere and
always
we were first when trouble be-
gan,
From a lottery-row in Manila
To an l. d. b. race on the Pan.
Yes, one of those wandering Eng
lishmen whose estate is the earth
and the fullness thereof, must John
Stavens be. His like rode the COW
ponies of the western ranges, thirst
ed and died along the weary AUS
trHlian gold trails, taught the Indian
of the Canadian Northland the
devious learning of the White Man
and the grievous mockery of his
sins, trekked beyond the last Hin
terland of South Africa, dared the
wastes of the Obi and the Sahara.
True members of the Lost Legion
who, as Kipling says:
We preach ahead of the Army,
We skirmish ahead of the Church,
With never a gunboat to help us
When we're skuppered and left in
the lurch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-21
Then Let 1t Be Reiected

[From the Kansas City Timesl
ION his arrival here President
Wilson soon made it plain that those
in America who did not like the
league legislation in it's present form
would have to accept or reject it as
a whole with the possible eception
of slight verbal revisions for all the
aid they would get from him in their
demands that important amend
ments be conceded. Paris Dis
patch.
Fine! The best thing that could
happen would be for the league in
it's present form to be rejected. 1t
is too impractical, too artificial, toe
lacking in reality, too dangerous in
the obligations it imposes on Amer
ica.
Let it be rejected and the way
would be cleared for the only sort
of a league that is really practical
an informal association of nations
with q common purpose.
Then the Peace Conference could
adjourn to meet at a fixed date, and
there would be the beginning of a
real League of Nations, elastic
enough to meet any situation. 1t
would have no fixed membership. 1t
would exact no sweeping promises in
advance, easy to make and easy TO
break. 1t. would not pledge America
TO take a hand in every boundary
dispute in the world. 1t would not
invite Europe to break the Monroe
Doctrine.
It would be merely an entente,
an understanding, gentlemens
agreement, through which the ma
tions by discussion and co-opera-
ton would become accustomed to
working together. 1t would gain
power only as rapidly as it should
be able to justify it's existence to the
moral sense of mankind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-21
The Returned Soldiers

What manner of men came back to
New York on the Leviathan and the
Mauretania? Not boastful, brappa RI
men, telling tales of their own prowess
Those who told us that our boys would
come back brutalized by their work
or war forgot that "the bravest are
the tenderest"
Not in all the journey" wrote n
correspondent who made the trip with
the men OF the Twenty-Seventh Divi-
sion on the Leviathan did | hear one
OF them say that he had killed a Ger
man. They had other things to talk
about"
1t may puzzle the folks at home to
know just how their boys are changed,
but changed they are assuredly. They
do not talk about their idolsm: few
American boys are so constituted: but
the idolism is there. Only to an occa-
sional man is given the gift. In EXPRESS
ing what remains unuttered in most
hearts. One of the living voices is Con-
ingsby Dawson of the Canadian Army
and author of Garry On" Writing in
McClure's Magazine of the returning
soldiers and the thoughts and ideals he
is bringing back Lieutenant Dawson
says:
presently we shall take of our
knbhl, Dul we Stldll not cease 10 De
soldiers. We shall not be soldiers
in the sense that you dread-swag-
gerers people banded against the
civilian by the pride of military
caste. You see we never wanted to
be soldiers-the thought filled us
with horror. 1t was your need, the
heroic fact that some one had to
die in your defense that made us
fighting men. Nevertheless, though
we don civilian dress, we have not
done with fighting. We are COM
ing back to man the trenches of a
kinder social order and to follow
the barrage across No Mans Land
in pursuit of a new heaven and
new earth. Our souls will still be
clad in khaki: we shall be broth
erhood for righteousness"
More briefly, that is the testimony of
Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt,
ir., himself of the Twenty-Seventh
Division. who predicted that every man
who went through the war would be
SO uplifted that the whole Nation would
feel their upward urge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-21
FASTER THAN WINGS
LFrom the Scientific American

lFrom the Scientific Americana
1t was only a short time ago that
we could scarcely believe our eyes
when we read that a motor car had
made a speed of 120 miles per hour,
or a mile in half a minute. Since
then, mile records have been sue
cessiVely smashed. With the advent
of the airplane we grew quite ac-
customed to think of travel at speeds
OF 125 to $50 miles per hour; and
so, when we learned that Ralph de
falma, racing at Ormond Beach, on
Llncoln's birthday, had made a mile
IN 24.O4 seconds, we were not half
as astonished as we really should
have been.
This figures out to nearly $50
miles per hour, orr 1893, to be ex-
act; Few airplanes have made as
nlgn speed as this against the air.
TO be sure, with following wind to
help them, they have exceeded this
speed as measured over ground, but
loO miles per hour without the aid
or drift is an exceedingly high ve-
locity and it is truly remarkable
that we should be able to make as
nigh speed on wheels as on wings.
The car with which the record
was smashed has n twin-six aviation
engine power plant. The former rec
ord for the mile was 25.4 seconds.
Following the Lincoln's birthday
performance, Ralph de Palma made
some other interesting records. The
mile from standing start was
made in 38.S3 seconds as against n
previous record of 40 seconds, and
two miles were made in 1884 sec
onds as against SIPS seconds. Tho
records with flying start for miles,
3 miles, 10 miles and 20 miles, were
1884 seconds; minutes, 4.5S Sec
onds; minutes, 93 seconds, and s
minutes, 54.2 seconds respectively.