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stenographers working in the same
embassies. At the present time
there are four grades of secretary
ships.
The first grade receives $500
yearly. and the second $4,000. Third
grade secretaries are given $2,625
a year and fourth grade $4,000.
The present scale of salaries for
consuls general ranges from $500
to $4,000 yearly. The consul gen.
eral at Paris and the one at London
receive $4,000. Consul generals In
such posts as Rome and Barcelona
receive $500 a year.
The annual salaries for consuls
shift from $4,000 to $4,000. Vice
consuls receive anywhere from
S2,500 to $4,000 a year.
For their own efficiency, both dip
lomatic and consular officers are
compelled to take some part in So
cial affairs. In foreign countries.
business and diplomacy are much
more apt to be done over tea and
dinner tables than in consulates and
embassies.
At present. only co.Sular and dip
lomatic officers with private in
comes can socially do at Rome as
the Romans do" This undemocrat-
ic situation has closed Americas
diplomatic and consular doors to
ican.
Lansing Decried Evils.
Former Secretary of State Lam
sing saw the necessity for a sweep
ing reformation of our foreign serv-
ice. In his recommendations to
Congress, he advocated salary in
creases all along the line.
He declared that American diplo-
macy was not without it's occasional
breakdown during the war.
This inefficiency frequently could
be directly or indirectly traced back
to the underpayment of personnel.
The Rogers bill, now before the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs,
regrades and reclassifes officers in
the foreign service. The yearly sal
ary proposals follow:
Ambassador. $4,000; minister,
class one, $4,000; minister. class
two, $4,000; consul general, class
one, $4,000; consul general, class
two, $4,000; consul general, class
three, $4,000; consul general, class
four (of whom five shall be desig-
| mated consuls general at large),
$500; consul, class one, $4,000; con-
sui, class two, $4,000; consul, class
three, $4,000; consul, class four,
$4,000; vice consul, class one, $4,000;
vice consul, class two, $4,000.
Indications are that the Rogers
bill, or at least its financial provi-
sions, will be passed this session OF
next session. This session is ex-
pected to end about June /.
Residences for Ambassadors.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs
OF the House has been holding hear
ings on the measure carrying ap-
propriations for the Consular and
Diplomatic services. The members
were surprised at the revelations in
a good part of the testimony.
Men in the Consular and Diplo-
matte services often canot AFFORD
to come home when they are given
leave by the State Department. On
the other hand, private concerns see
that their foreign employees are CIV
The Washington herald., 1920-03-25
BROWNING DIES
I'm BARBER SHOP
Representative from New
Jersey Stricken While
Being Shaved.

Stricken with heart failure while
in the BARRIERS chair In the House
barber shop at the Capitol. Repre-
sentative william L. Browning, of
New Jersey. dIed yesterday morn
ing before a physician could be
summoned.
Overwork in connection with the
naval appropriations bill is said by
his colleagues on the Naval Affairs
Committee to have brought on the
attack. Since last October he has
been suffering from heart trouble
and for the last ten weeks has been
working necessarily on the bill
which was passed Tuesday. The
House adjourned until today upon
of BrGwning's death.
The body Is at the undertaking
establishment of J. William Lees
Sons, ,332 Pennsylvania avenue
northwest. awaiting disposition by
his son, Mr.. w. X. Browning, of
Camden, N. J., who is-expected hour
ly. The burial probably will be
at Camden.
Was Going Home.
browning had purchased a ticket
for his home and was to have left
at o'clock yesterday afternoon,
stopping in Philadelphia to see his
physician. His original plan was
to have gone home a week ago for
a complete rest, but work on the
bill kept him in Washington.
Browning was cheerful and ap-
parently in his usual health when
he entered the barber shop. He
greeted Prince Robertson. the bar
ber who has shaved him for years.
as he stepped into the chair. When
Robertson raised the chair after
shaving him to permit his customer
to arise. Browning collapsed. He
died in a few minutes.
A Born in Camden. April II. 1850.
Browning had been for a long time
in public life. He was clerk of the
House from 1895 to 1911, when he
was elected to seat. He had
served continuously since.
House to Pay Him Honor.
The entire New Jersey delegation
services in Camden. In addition, the
following members of the House Ma
val Affairs Committee. of which the
deceased was a member. were ap-
pointed to represent the House at
the services: Butler. OF Pennsylva-
mia. chairman of the committee:
Britten. of Illinois; Mudd. of Mary
land; Padgett. of Tennessee: Rear
don. of New York. and Oliver, of
Alabama
The Washington herald., 1920-03-25
CAMPAIGN FUND
SOURCE ASKED
Plumb Plan League Sends
QUESTIONABLE to Presi-
Dental Possibilities.
ELEVEN ARE QUERIED
Letter Demands Republic
Controlled by Men, Not
Money.

A query addressed to the Presi.
Dental possibilities in both parties
has been sent out by Labor" the
official organ of the Plumb Plan
League, asking information as to
the source Of the. candidates cam
paign contributions and il he will
support q law providing for a
sworn statement of expenses by
all candidates and parties. The
letter has been addressed to Maj.
Gen. Leonard Wood. Senator War
rem G. Harding. Senator Miles Poin-
dexter. Governor Frank o. Lowden,
Herbert Hoover. Governor James
Cox. Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer. Senator Robert L. Owen.
William G. McAdoo. Representative
Champ Clark. and Senator Gilbert
NJ. Hitchcock.
The questions in the letter fol-
lows:
Source of Funds Asked.
''First-How is your campaign
financed? How much have you ex-
pended to date. and how much do
you expect to expend before the
national convention of your party
meets? Will you be good enough
to furnish the contributors to your
campaign fund. or to any fund
which is to be used IN your behalf,
and the amounts of the contribu-
ton? Will you. before your ma
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one Of the established parties can
be led to recognize the public de-
mand for something other than a
merely partisan nomination. some
thing more modern and up-to-date
than the traditional party wheel
horse. II will be next to impossible
for the voters to get a chance to
vote for a man Of the sort they
seek.
Recognition Of this fact makes the
discovery that the Wood managers
have resorted to the barrel method
of securing delegates doubly offen-
sive to Independent voters whose
numbers already fill old-line politi-
cal managers with apprehension. II
the Republican, convention Is bought
where can independent Republicans
go? The charge is likely to have
some effect in the remaining days
of the preconvention campaign
which has little more than six
weeks yet to run. But IT is likely
to be even more prejudicial to the
generals interest in the convention.
No one expects that the issue there
will be controlled from the outset
by instructed delegates. or that any
candidate will have anything ap-
preaching a majority on the first
ballot. The ultimate action of the
convention will be determined by
conditions Of expediency-by the Sc
rious conclusion of the leaders as to
the man who can make the most
successful appeal 70 the country.
Element Of Doubt Enters.
A few weeks ago Republican man
ayers told you in confidence that
the choice would not be a difficult
one. They then felt that anyone.
even the traditional yellow dog.
could win on their ticket. But that
was before the Republican Congress,
in both of its houses, and made its
record of bungliEg and inefficiency
The leaders of that party thought
kgaily that their campaign would be
offensive only. They would capital
ize the unquestioned unpopularity of
the Wilson administration. They
would attack the enormous war ex-
penditures of the Democratic party
and describe the most essential
ones as extravagant and wasteful.
They would condemn the admins
tration for not reducing the high
cost of living, and lay all the eco
nomic ills from which the country
Is now suffering at its door.
This program has been side
tracked by the failure of the Repub-
lican Congress to establish our in
ternationalestatus, to loose the bar
riers to resumption of our foreign
trade, to effect any governmental
economies, or even to attempt any
thing that would bring down the
cost of living. Far-seeing politicians
said when the Republicans carried
Congress in 1918 that their victory
then would prove their greatest
handicap in 1920. Certainly it has
had the effect of putting them to
some extent upon the defensive to-
day. They cannot afford to take
any candidate who may be able by
either strong-arm or barrel methods
to control a majority of the con-
vention delegates without appealing
successfully to a majority of the
The Washington herald., 1920-03-25
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Relief awaits you. "St. Jacobs Oil"
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tional convention meets, make a
further sworn statement of expen-
ditures, together with the list of
contributors. and furnish same to
the press?
"Second-Are you willing to join
in an appeal to Congress to imme-
diately enact legislation which will
compel all candidates for the Presi-
dency to make sworn returns to
some official of the natiaaal govern
ment, showing all mSneys expended
by the candidates, or anyone acting
in their behalf. together with the
names of all contributors to the
candidates campaign fund. or to
any fund which may be raised in
their behalf?
Letter Is Not Indictment.
1--WE want to assure you that ttfs
letter is not to be construed as an
Indictment of the methods OF any
candidate. 1t is being sent to. all
the men who are popularity regard
ed as Presidential possibilities,
either because OF definite announce
ments made by themselves or be-
cause of the activity of their admir-
ers. Labor is not interested in ad-
vancing OF retardIng the candidacy
of any man, but 1t is opposed to the
republic we all love being controlled
by money rather than by men"
public Ledger service.)
The Washington herald., 1920-03-25

kind of reapers- are needed in South
Africa and what they ought to be
sold for in order to compete with
the German manufacturers Of reap
ers or the British manufacturer of
reapers, and to connect up an agent
over there with the exporter over
here.
That is very commendable and
most useful. But 1t does not touch
the big questions in foreign COM
merce and in international rela-
tions.
The basis of all our international
relations, as I see IT, is the economic
cause; back of every political move
ment the world over is an economic
question or consideration.
IF we could keep our State De-
partment promptly. and continuous
ly informed of what is going on in
both the economic and political
fields the world over. and could in
terpret political movements in the
light of their economic setting or
basis. and then bring that co-ordi-
mated knowledge to bear upon the
questions with which ii Is neces-
sary to deal in our relations with
other governments and also utilize
1t in the formation of wise interna-
tional policies for the promotion and
protection of our own interests
abroad, / believe we could do ror
this country something which we
have never done in the past, are not
able to do now, and which, II not
done in the future, may have an ad-
verse effect of a very serious nature
in the course of the next twenty-five
or fifty years, and 1t Is in terms of
twenty-five and fifty years, rather
than in terms of one, two, three,
four or five years. that, in my opin-
ion, we ought to be thinking"
The Washington herald., 1920-03-25
"Guest'' atAsylum
Kicks When Court
Bailiff Gusts Him


Precedents were broken at Crimi-
nal Court yesterday when plain
tin. Nicholas J. Curtis. was carried
kicking. from the court room by
Bailiff Joyce.
Curtis, a guest" at st. Eliza
beth's, about a week ago sued the
supervisor" for 100000 damages.
Yesterday he went A. w. o. L
from the asyItm and betook himself
to the Criminal Court.
He started to argue his case with
enthusiasm but soon found himself
ir the embrace of Bailiff Joyce.
Police returned him to st. Eliza
beth's.
The Washington herald., 1920-03-25
SPEAKS
CONTRADICTION
Secretary Of War Praises
America S Past to Army
And Navy Club.

Secretary Of War Newton ID. Baker
emphasized the power OF tradition In
an address to the District Chapter
Of American Officers in the Great
War at the Army and Navy Club last
night.
He said, in part:
II am convinced that tradition is
the great force In the world. Think
of what would be the result IL the
memory OF Engiand's naval heroes
should suddenly be obliterated from
the mind of every Englishman.
Though the history of this country
is brief, II is rich in tradition.
without those traditions, the
achievements OF the American army
in the world war would have been
impossible. This country was more
of a nation November IL. 1913. than
ever before or since.
upon you and similar organiza-
tions rests the responsibility of pre-
serving the spirit of great. pure and
national effort that created that
unity. This society is especially
charged with keeping alive the ira
dition of leadership in this country's
greatest crisis"
The Washington herald., 1920-03-25

voters even Of his own party. They
must avoid nomination that VIII
leave sore places In the party OR.
ganization. ~
OvercenAdence Among Repuslicans
Harmful.
An emipently practical Republican
politician from Indiana said to me
the other day. "we are going
through exactly the troubles that
always attend a party when It's
chances of victory seem good. The
candidates for nomination are
spending on each other all the cam
paign yigor that they ought TO be
saving for the common enemy. The
National Committee that started out
with the best purpose of being
wholly neutral has been dragged
into a position which has enabled
some of the candidates to accuse II
Of bias. Its position of urging un-
instructed delegates, which 4ordinarf-
iy would appear eminently fair 10
construed as hostile to both Wood
and Johnson. Lowden and Harding
are aggrieved because others are
invading the States which they. as
fayorite sons. should control John
son accuses Wood of spending TOO
much money. and Wood passes the
charge on to Lowden. A few days
ago / thought the Democrats were
having all the trouble with their
noisy fight over prohibition. But
I'm not sure now that there is siot
more menace to a successful Repub-
lican campaign in the hard feeling
spreading among supporters of our
various candidates than there is In
The Washington herald., 1920-03-25

The extension of Liverpool Uni
versity will require s5,000.000s dur
ing the next five years. according
to the estimates of its regents
There was no Improvement TO the
university during the war.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-09
A. c. LOSES
TO OWINGS' STATION

The Eastport Athletic Club, COM
posed of Annapolis and Eastport lads,
played the Owings' Station Club on
the latter's grounds on Monday, and
while they were defeated by the close
score of 10 2, nevertheless the play
ing of the Eastporters was of unusual
high caliber. Robert Jones, who was
on the mound, pitched great ball. En-
rors at critical moments in the game
caused the defeat of the Eastporters.
The Eastporters viii line up against
the Cedar Grove Athletic Club on the
later's grounds on Saturday and a
grueling contest is looked for, as both
teams have been playing the best
clubs in the State and have unusually
good records.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-09
GOVERNOR TOLD
RACE PROMOTERS
TO co AHEAD

Attorney General Armstrong has
been asked informally as to the status
of the State Racing Commission, now
that the Governor has not complied
with the law by making the appoint
ments in June, as directed in the act
creating the commission. The Attor-
ney-General, without writing an opin-
ion, yesterday held that the section of
the law relating to the appointment OF
the commission by the Governor was
not mandatory, but merely directory
and that the Governor, having been
given full month in which to make
the appointments, a writ of mandamus
to make him act would not issue till
after the month or 30 days had ex-
pired. Therefore it is held that, though
the appointment of the three members
of the commission has not yet been
made, it will be fully legal whenever
it is made by the Governor, and that
the regularity of the appointment can
not be successfully attacked in court
proceedings.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-09
PETTY OFFICER HELD
FOR BOMB THROWING

Roscoe Jenkinson, said to be of An
napolis, was one of eight petty Of
ficers attached to the destroyer Nc
kee. at the Boston Navy Yard, ar
rested yesterday at Portsmouth, n. H.,
charged with having thrown a light
ed signal bomb into an automobile
driven by William Mckenzie, OF
Gloucester, Mass, July 4, according
to a dispatch from Portsmouth
Mr.. Mckenzie is at Portsmouth
Hospital, where little hope is enter
tanned for his recovery. Harry A.
Virgins, Griffen, Ca, according to the
police, has admitted throwing the
bomb and is said to be in a pitiful
condition from grief. The explosion
of the bomb caused Mr.. Mckenzie to
lose control of the automobile, run
ming into a stone wall and badly
wrecking the car. The petty officers
are held pending the condition of Mr..
Mckenzie
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-09
FREIGHT RATE INCREASES
ANNOUNCED July IS

The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion is expected to announce by July
Is railroad rate increases that VIII IN
crease the earnings of the transpor-
tation systems TO the extent necessary
To proyide a 6 per cent. return ON
property investments. as authorized
in the Transportation Act governing
tho return of the roads 10 private
ownership.
Heraings before the commission for
the presentation of arguments and
statistics sustaining the claims of the
RAILWAYS were completed yesterday
and to permit exclusive consideration
Of the evidence presented both by
shippers and railroad owners the com
mission has postponed for one week
all hearings heretofore scheduled
No official statement has come from
the commission, but it is intimated
that it is prepared or is preparing TO
grant the railroads the following in
creases:
Official classification territory east
of the Mississippi and north of the
Ohio, 80 per cent.
western classification territory, "a
per cent.
Southern classification territory, 81
per cent.
1t is estimated that these increases
in freight rates will increase the gross
revenues of the railroads approxim-
ataIx, S1 C1T 000 00O
At the same time the commission Is
preparing to take cogniZance of the
award in increased wages to be grant
ed railroad employees by the Railroad
Labor Board This increase is ex-
pected to be % per cent, which auto
matically will increase the expenses
of operation by about $600,000,000.
While details of the proposed plan
have not been made public, it is un-
derstood that railroad owners have
presented to the commission a plan
providing for small increase in pas
senger rates that will increase the
revenues by between $250,000,000 and
$3O0,OOO,OOO
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-09
MANY NAVAL MEN
GRADUATING FROM
GREAT LAKES STA.

CHICAGO, ILL. July s.-Nearly
100 men are being graduated every
three weeks at Great Lakes Naval
Training Station from what naval Of
ficers describe as the biggest trade
school in the world.
The school is devoted exclusively 10
the training of aviation mechanics,
and at the present time 1928 students
are taking the courses, which range IN
length from 16 10 36 weeks.
More than 1000 men have graduated
since the school was established
slightly more than year go ana an
other 1000 will complete the work bv
November. Lieutenant-Co,n'r and"r e.
f. Wilson, commandant OF the school.
says all of the 5000 men provided for
in the naval air force will De gradu-
ates of the school within another year
The cost of turning out the first l.
600 graduates was $1,000. making the
average cost of producing trained
aerial mechanics 81 each. The low
cost was due to the fact that the stud
ents produce nothing in their studies
to be wasted. Instead of making the
frequently useless examples they work
on parts actually needed for repairs
and construction of new airplanes.
A number of planes, ranging from
small land flyers to huge seaplanes,
only a step smaller than the famous
nc" type, have been completed.
Ills A Valuable School
The school is valued at betwcf II
$40 900 900 and $S0.0O0,000, but all the
tools and equipment are salvagcd ma
terials. which would otherwise have
been sold at a great loss after the war.
Part of the equipment is several mil
lion dollars worth of partly finished
airplane mootrs and paris, which were
purchased from the manufacturers az
ter the armistice as junk at Hat cost
of 81 cents a pound. The students are
completing the parts and building ma
chimes from them.
Lieut.. Commander Wilson started
the school from the bottom year ago
AS the first step the navy officer wrote
all the text books to be used.
No flying is done but the best men
from each class are eligible later to
attend school for enlisted pilots
Each graduate of the mechanics
school receives a certificate, while
gold, silver and bronze medals are
awarded to the honor men. The 3,225
students now here include 44C
marines.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-09
RED CROSS CHIEFS
MEET AT GENEVA

The medical advisory board of the
League of Red Cross Societies is in
session at Geneva to discuss with the
director-general and the chiefs of the
medical departments of the league
health work to be undertaken.
The following experts are in at
tendance: Professor Bordet, director
of the Brussels Pasteur Institute
Professor Madsen, director Copen-
hagen State Serum Institute; Profes-
sor Roux, director Paris Pasteur In
stitute; Prof Albert Calmette, sub
director of that institute; DR.. Leon
Bernard, professor of hygiene, Univer-
sity of Paris; Lyle Cummins, profess
sor of pathology, London; Sir Walter
Fyetcher, secretary medical research
committee of London; Sir George
Newman, chief medical officer, minis
try of health, London; Professor Bas-
tianelli, pathoiogist Rome Polytechnic
Hospital; DR.. Castellani, professor
Tropical Medicine; DR.. Kinnosuke
Miura, professor Toxic University;
DR.. Chagas, director Oswald Cruz In
stitute of Rio Janeiro; DR.. William
WEIGH, director School of Hygiene,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore;
DR.. Herman Biggs, health commits
sioner, New York State, and DR.. Simon
Flexner, director Rockefeller Insti-
tute.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-09
WAR AWARDS TO
OYSTER NAVY BOATS

The United States Government has
awarded is bronze medals TO the Con-
servation Commission to be distrib-
uted among the is boats OF the oyster
navy that were drafted into the serv-
ice during the war for patrol duty.
The police schooner May Brown of the
local patrol will be among the re-
cipients of the awards.
Chairman Vickers will make the
distribution of the bronze pieces this
week or next. Each vessel will be
decorated with an individual plate.