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The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
A. E. F. Needs No
Defense, Leader
Tells Congress

The achievements of the Amer
lean Expeditionary Forces speak for
themselves"
This was the answer yesterday Of
Gen John ]. PershIng to charges
made against the American army
in France before and by the War
Department investigating commit
tees OF the House.
Pershing Joined with Brig. Gen.
Charles G. Dawes, who recently de-
nounced the investigating commit
tees in such yitriolic manner, in
resenting the charges made against
the army.
Pershing's statements were in a
letter to Representative Flood, of
Virginia, Democratic member of the
committee, who asked the general
if he desired to appear and refute
the charges made against the A.
E. F.
In his letter PershinE said:
Having followed to some extent
the proceedings of this committee.
l am of the opinion that the charges
and allegations, SO far as they re-
&c " 'HS AalES OIL the American
EXpeditionary Forces, have been
completely answered in each in
| stance by the testimony of witness
es with an intimate knowledge of
the facts.
Moreover, the achievements OF
the American Expeditionary Forces
speak for themselves. The record
! of our armies overseas is so well
known throughout the country that
! it would seem unnecessary further
| to consume the time of the COM
mittee."
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
OneLonely Vote
Upholds Wilson
In Army Bill Veto

One vote only was cast for the
Presidential veto of the resolution
limiting the size of the army to
175,OoO men. when it was called up
for action in the Senate yesterday
afternoon during the discussion of
the sundry civil bill
Senator Joseph F. Kirby. of Ar
kansas, voted against overriding
the veto, while siXty=seven mem
bers of the body cast their votes as
in opposition to the Secretary of
War and the President.
The action of the Senate means
that the War Department must stop
Immediately all recruiting. Secre-
tar Baker has been attempting to
get the army up to a strength of
100000 authorized under the army
reorganization act and has refused
heretofore to make the size of the
army conform to the appropriation
of Congress.
The present strength of the army
is more than 220,0 men and the
maximum strength called for in the
Congressional resolution will not,
it has been estimated. be reached
before September of this year
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
KNIGHTED BRITON
TO TESTIFY HERE

Sir Philip Gibbs, of England,
who is in Washington on a lecture
tour of the United States, will ap-
pear before the House Naval Affairs
committee today on Invitation of
Representative Butler, the chair
man. Sir Philip will describe the
effects of heavy armament upon
European countries, the financial
exhaustion of y the countries, their
burdens of taxation and their de-
sire to see an end of war conditions.
Both capital and labor are taxed be-
yond endurance, he declares, ana
great hardships will result II COM
petitive war preparations are to
continue. He will have much to
say of the British army and navy
conditions and the inclination of
Great Britain to reduce its program
of armament. He has travelled eX-
tensively in European countries and
observed civilian as well as military
conditions.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
PACKERS SUBMIT
PLAN OF DISPOSAL
INDISTRICT COURT
Armour and Swift Out
line Holdings and Scheme
To Make Sale.

In compliance with an order dated
Stafford, of the District Supreme
Court, directing them to submit
plans for the disposal of their
stockyards, stockyard terminals and
stockyard newspapers within thirty
days. Armour & Company and Swift
& Company yesterday presented
their plans to the court for ap-
prOval.
long list of holdings OF the type
each of them.
The plans as submitted begin
with the appointment, with the ap-
proVal of the court, of sales agents
who are to be composed of various
strong trust companies and banks
located in the cities having stock
yards and market companies, the
names Of which are given.
Arrangements Made.
The court is informed that ar
rangements have been completed
with these agents. The methods Of
sales include the selling of the
stock in the involved properties
either for cash or on the instalment
plan for one-third cash, or one-half
cash, the certificates representing
such stock sold on the instalment
plan to be held as collateral Sc
curity.
The two packers also outline their
plans for advertising and submit
list of t he types of concerns to
whom they prefer their holdings
sold. The court is asked to fix the
time in which the sales agents shall
complete the Sale of stock and if
they fail to DO so within a time
set by the court, then the court
will be asked to extend the time.
The packers also ask that the
District Supreme Court appoint
three trustees to whom the packers
shall execute power of attorney, ir-
revocable during the time this plan
remains in effect.
The packers ask that the time
for the disposal of their interests
in the Jersey City Stockyards Com
pany, the Milwaukee yards, the
Brighton, Me. yards, the Newark,
N. J. yards. Kansas City, Portland,
Ore. Cleveland, and St. Joseph, Mo-,
stockyards be extended to February
IL, 1923, on account of their leases
expiring on or about that date.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
SURETTE GIVES
LECTURE RECITAL

The fourth Of five lecture-recitSlf
by Thomas Whitney Surette under
the auspices Of the Society Of Fine
Arts was given in the High School
auditorium last evening. hr. Su-
rette's subject was romantic com
posers. who came into being early
in the nineteenth century, and
whose greatest exponent was Rob
ert Schumann.
A romsnticist is an artist in any
division OF the arts who breaks
away from tradition. uses what Nj.
Surette styles a new idiom" to eE-
press his ideas, and is more or less
fancifuI or mystic, leaving some
thing to the Imagination Of his
hearers. Unlike most composers.
Shumann did not take a theme and
develop it, his musical compositions
were rather mossics Of fragments
woven together into music.
The works Of Schumann were de-
lightfuIIy illustrated by Mrs. Howe
and Miss Hull Mrs. Howe played
the Novelette," an andante from
one OF the sonRtas and two etuoes
symphoniques, then with Miss Hull
at a second piano they played the
andante and variations f-cr1 Or %
26 and as an encore --ren.ss
waltz WHICH was the most popular
number Of the evening.
The closing number was a chorus
for women's voices by Rimski-Kor-
sakoff, a modern Russian composer,
sung by twelve ladioS under the d.
rection Of Mrs. Howe and repeated
in response TO encore.
Mr.. Surette, as is his custom.
recommended several books for bis
hearers to read, emphasizing The
Ultimate Belief by ClUtton- Brock
as especially valuable. The subject
Of his final leCture-recitsl will Be
Brahms
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
WILLIAMS SEES
PERIOD OF SOUND
PROSPERITY AHEAD
Comptroller Says Steel,
Iron and Coal Must
Come Down.

Although values in the United
States shrunk between $4,000, 900,
900 and $4,000, 100000 during 1920
the country is now on a sOunder
basis economically than it has been
for years. This statement is made
by John Shelton Williams, Comp
troller of the Treasury, in his an
nual report made public yesterday.
The precipitate decline witnessed
in so many leading commodities en-
courages the belief" declares Mr..
Williams, that in most cases we
are near the bottom. The fall in
some instances having been already
excessive, abnormal, and not justi-
fed by actual conditions.
"A serious shrinkage in values
was foreseen and predicted more
than a year ago by those who stud
led conditions and considered the
history of past wars. But it has
come faster and more violently than
heretofore.
Adjustments Needed.
When conditions abroad become
more settled, and when at home
much needed adjustments are eff
fected in the cost of iron and steel
products, which are still about twice
their pre-war prices; and when coal,
for which the government itself has
paid in recent months four times
the pre-war price, gets back to nor
NAL level, our country will be pre-
pared to enter upon a new and en-
during era of prosperity"
Profiteers are unsparingly de-
nounced by Mr.. Williams as the
cause of many of our recent busi-
ness troubles.
The tendency to maintain ex-
cessive profits was particularly seen
in the steel, iron and coal indus
tries" declared the comptroller.
by closing down mills and mines
the output of steel and iron, fol-
lowing the armistice. was reduced
approximately one-fourth for the
purpose of enabling maaufacturers
and miners to obtain the exhorbi-
tant profits realized during the war,
instead of the more moderate prof
its they would have had to accept if
the MAXIMUM output had been
maintained
Lack of Production.
While the profits of steel manu-
facturers and coal operators were
swollen the country became poorer
from the lack of production brought
about by the unnecessary closing
down of mills and mines and the in
cidental idleness of labor.
"As steel and iron are so largely
at the very foundation Of industrial
CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN,
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
RED SCHOOLS FAIL
TO help CHILDREN
SoYiet Falls Far Short of
Welfare Results, OBJ
server Says.
By Special Correspondent to
The Mashinkton Herald.

RIGA, Jan. 17.-Whatever their
other shortcomings have been, it is
generally admitted that the Bolshe-
viks have made some attempts to
provide for the welfare of Russian
children. The report of the Soviet
Education Bureau shows how far
short of their theoretical standard
they have fallen through the fail
ure of their government to main
tain production and to supply the
population even with the necessi-
ties of life.
This report estimates that the
number of children entering school
for the first time, which under the
Soviet regime is at the age of 8,
will be in 1928 not more than SO
per cent of the number of children
of that age who are entering school
this year.
The department for the care of
children has received reports from
districts in all parts of Russia from
the Caucasus to the Baltic, and out
of twenty of these reports only two
state that the condition of children
is satisfactory. The others report
that their condition is most alarm
ing.
1t is said that tho number of chill
dren in institutions cannot be in
creased because there is not enough
food to provide for those who have
already been admitted. This food
shortage is causing a good deal OF
thieving on the part OF, the chill
dren and the general conditions un-
der which they are forced to live
during the most impressionable pc
riod of their lives are most deplor-
able and disquieting. This is, an
other evidence of the total failure
of the Communist regime, but inthis
case the full effect of this failure
will be felt more acutely by the next
generation than by this.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
Od0r Ruled insufficient
As Liquor Evidence

Neglect by policemen VINO helped
in the arrest and conviction of
Peter Lotus on a charge of selling
liquor, was responsible for the
Court of Appeals yesterday sending
the case back to the Police Court
for a new trial.
The defense, in it's appeal, con-
tended that proper care had not
been taken of the evidence, the con-
tents of a bottle alleged to have
been found on LOTUS not having
been automatically analyzed. or
opened and corked again in the
presence of the proper authorities,
thereby, it was claimed, leaving an
opening for the bottle to be tam
pered with. The fact. that the bot
tie smelled like it contained wnis-
ky. the defense held, was not suf-
ficient evidence on which to base
a conviction and the APPELLATE Court
so ruled.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08

Secretary of the Navy Daniels
last night accepted the. challenge
from Brig. Gen. Mitchell, assistant
chief of the army air service, to
determine whether or not the air
plane is superior to the battleship
as a fighting machine.
Within ninety days, Mr.. Daniels
announced, test will be made un-
der conditions Stimulating actual
warfare and with vessel more
modern than the Indiana, on which
the experiments which proved the
present controversy were carried
out.
Use Real Fighter.
He has suggested that the Ost-
friesland, a former German battle
ship awarded to the United States
in the distribution of the enemy
fieet,be used. The Ostfriesland is
a first class vessel of $4,000 tons.
Under the terms of the peace treaty
is must be destroyed by this govern
ment within a year.
Plans for bombing were made
public by Mr.. Daniels in a letter to
Secretary of War Baker. He. sug-
gested the army should join in the
test and that the conditions be
drawn by the joint army and navy
board.
The eirplane versus battleship
dispute between the two services
reached the boiling point yesterday
when Secretary Daniels declared
that II Gen. Mitchell cant throw
bombs any better than ne can throw
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
Daniels Accepts Flyers Def;
Plane and Warship to Battle
Former German Battlecraft and Army Bomb
ing Machines Will Stage Real War
Of determination.

logic. would be willing to get on
battleship and let him shoot
bombs at me all day long"
To Meet Conditions.
Officers of the army air service
retorted that the proposal was not
prepared to state whether the army
and navy board will regard his Ian
guage of stimulating actual war
fare" in accepting the challenge as
demanding that she ship shall carry
a arcrew and attempt to fight off the
bombing planes.
The idea of the air service is that
when the navy picks up the battle
gage it should make its own ar
rangements and let the army meet
the battle conditions in its own
way. All the air service wants, il
is Contended. is for the navy to SET
the battleship afioat and the comb
ing planes will do the rest.
I'VE would even be willing olet
them shoot at us" said one high
officer of the air service.
Baker to Assist.
Secretary Baker indicated he will
work harmoniously with the navy
to settle the controversy. The joint
board will meet Thursday to con,
slider the conditions under which
they will recommend that the test
be made.
Secretary Daniels refuted an I'm.
preston which he says has gotter
out that he is opposed to further
development of aircraft. The navy
constantly is making experiments
for the development of this arm OF
the service. he declared
Il do not. however, favor doinG
away with a proved weapon for ar
improved one" he added.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
Houston Admits That One
Nation Asked Treasury
For Clean Slate.
TELLS INTENTIONS
TO PAY ADVANCES
Hints Further Revela
tions During Commit
tee Hearing Today.

Testimony in apparent contraven-
tion to his letter of Saturday tC
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. chair.
man of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, was given yesterday
before the Senate Committee on Ju.
dietary by David F. Houson. Secre.
ary of the Treasury.
Houston Informed the committed
that one foreign nation had asked
for a cancellation of it's debt ant
that the treasury would continue tc
advance money to foreign nations
under commitments already made
N Hearings Postponed.
This testimony brought about Z
situation in the Judiciary Commit,
tee, members of which had inter,
preted his letter of Saturday in d
different way. which forced post,
ponement of further hearings unit
Friday.
In the meantime, Houston will ap.
pear before the Committee on For.
eign Relations today and he init.
mated that he would give the name
of the foreign nation which asked
for cancellation and also a contract
between this country, Great Britain
France and Greece by which an ad.
vance of $750, 900. 900 was made. The
Secretary refused to place the con-
tract before the judiciary Com
mittee.
To Makc Advances.
Houston said that, as he had
stated in his letter to Senator Lodge
he would not make any further
commitments" for advances to
foreign governments. He said that
he did intend. however. to make
further advances to foreign govern
ments where commitments" had
been established, if called upon to
do so.
do you mean that you will pay
out more money! asked Senator
Kellogg. What is the total OF
these further payments?"
Possibly $75.OOO,O 900" replied
Houston, but none to Great Brit
ain. Houston added that Czecho-
Slovakia, France, Greece and Lii
IBERIA still had outstanding commit
ments.
That loans had been made to the
representatives of the Kerensky y
government after it had lost con-
troll of the situation in Russia was
developed in the testimony of Mich
olas Kelley, Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury.
Kerensky Advances.
Kelley told the committee that
these advances had been made or
the advice of the State Department
in order that American firms could
be paid for materials furnished to
Russia and avoid bankruptcy. At
tine same time, it was shown. the
Kerensky government still owed
this government many millions.
I'm other words" said Senator
Reed, the United States govern
ment saw fit to take care of con-
tractors instead of taking care OF
itself
Kelley said that there were sat
isfactory reasons for this. that Rus
sia was then our ally, and that the
course pursued was to our interest
'Jf it had not been done" he said
"it would have been a serious blow
to the conduct of the war
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
SLEEPING SICKNESS
FATAL TO WOMAN

NEW YORK, Feb. sleeping
sickness caused the death Of Mrs.
Lena GelleT, 80, in Gouverneur Hos
pital here today.
Mrs. Geller first felt the effects
of the ailment three weeks ago,
when she complained of constantly
feeling sleepy. She was forced to
take to her bed a few days later,
and a week ago lapsed into a deep
slumber from which she did not
awake.
Neighbors sang and danced and
played her favorite tunes on the
violin in their efforts to arouse her,
but their attempts were unsuccess-
ful
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
URGES CITIZENS
TO GUIDE ALIENS

Cooperation of the community to
make good American citizens of
aliens was advised by Thomas B.
Shoemaker, deputy commissioner of
naturalization, Labor Department,
speaking before the Federal Bar
Association at the Interior Building
last night.
The average alien is a child at
heart" said Shoemaker. He wants
to do the right thing. and IL he is
a good man fundamentally, even
though he is unacquainted with
American institutions, he can be
made into a useful citizen"
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
Producer Ends Life
By Leap in RiUer

NEW YORK, Feb. "a man iden-
5hed as Theodore Stuckey, 48 years
lid. of 341 West Forty-seventh
treet,- from cards found in a wallet
an a bench on the greensboro
sridze, committed suicide last night
" Ieaptng over the railing of the
,outh roadway of the bridge into
ne East River. His body was not
recovered.
<Iast fall. according to Frederick
.arter, superintendent of the build
- at 34I West Forty-seventh
Teet. Mr.. Stuckey, with another
formed the Cercle Dart Fran
sis opera Company. They pro-
IIcsd the comic opera La Mas
cite" The company was unable
. engage a theater here, he said.
nd played In the New England
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
Says Germans Will Resist,

MUNICH, Feb. THE allies will
be resisted by the German people IL
they attempt to enforce their repara-
tions demands, Rudolf Won Lander
told $4,000 persons in a demonstra-
tion here.
There's only one answer. to the
demands" Won Lander declared. at
is mo- If the enemies come they
will feel the peoples fists."
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
Women on Federal Jury.

SCRANTON, Pa, Feb. 7-For the
first time in the history of the
United States Court in this State
women were today drawn to serve
on a Federal jury. Nine women,
seven from Scranton, were selected
to do jury duty at the session of
Federal Court to be held in this
city for four weeks starting March
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
DAWES LANGUAGE
BEFORE CONGRESS
WINS WIDE PRAISE
'Cursing Brigadier Hits
Note Popular With Peo-
pie, Results Reveal.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

by FREDERIC "bsIlhn '" liz
Political and business leaders Of
all shades Of opinion believe Charles
G. Dawes outspoken language be-
fore a House investigating commit
tee last week is destined to have
far-reaching influence on the con-
duct of national affairs. Friends Of
Dawes say he is being overwhelmed
with commendation from all parts
Of the country.
The burden. Of the pIaudits is. it
was high time a courageous and
unambiguous word was spoken in
an exalted place in favor Of the
American whose sole crime is ~
selfish devotion to public service.
Many Of Dawes oongrat ctstors
opine he has done more than any
man in contemporary times to de-
pOpularize undertaking.
Seeks No Place.
The former purchasing agent Of
the A. E. F. appears to be definitely
out Of the running for a place in
the Harding Cabinet. Yet accord
ing to reports OF the nationwide
glory Dawes has won, the PresI-
dent-eIect could hardly select an
executive adviser whose appoint
ment would arouse greater en-
thusiasm.
Washington got wind yesterday
Of an eleventh hour drive against
Andrew W. Mellon for the secre-
taryship of the Treasury. Stories
seeking to identify the Pittsburgh
banker with "RockefeIlerism" and
financing OF the Republican National
Committees S1.5OO,OOO deficit are
seen as a desperate rearguard ac.
uon TO defeat Melons appointment,
Fight Developed.
! II is an open secret the President
elect, as narrated ten days age. has
been the center of no fiercer Cabinet
night than that which has RACED
around him in connection with the
I treasury portfolio. Dawes was all
but fixture for the place. Then
the Pennsylvania organization and
certain bankers, who never forCayr
I Dawes support of John Skelton
Williams confirmation as Currency
Comptroller, cleared for action on
behalf of Mellon.
Dawes Cabinet prospects. how
ever, have been relegated into a sec
ondary place by consideration OF
! the national service he has rendered
| in most peoples opinion, by straight
talking to Congressional war in
vestigators- It is the consensus
| Dawes has revolutionized both the
tactics of Congressional probers
and the attitude toward them OF
the public.
Starts New Era.
The view is hazarded Senators nd
Representatives, on their part. will
henceforward be more circumspec,
about "bully-raggfng" a witness
while witnesses will be inclined to
take their courage in both hands
| and speak out in meetingt II is
not feared the strong-arm. language
introduced by Dawes will either be-
come popular or be necessary, but
the fighting spirit he exhibited, II is
thought, will in all likelihood not
be missing from future Congress
sional hearings.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
Explosion Kills Fire
Pupils and Teachers

LAwRENCEVILLE, Ill. Feb. =
Emmett Bunyan, school teacher, and
five of his pupils were killed out
right today at the cross roads school
house two and one-half wlies west
of here, when can OF nitro-
glycerine exploded. Another pupil il
expected to die.
The Washington herald., 1921-02-08
Tires of School, Ends Life.

old. Walter Warner told his play
mates that II he had to keep on go
ing to school he would kill himself.
They thought he was joking. Today
his body wasl found hanging from
a rafter in TIE attic of his home.