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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-27
D. C. CLERGYMEN ATTEND.
Colored Ministers Open 1O5th Con-
ference in Baltimore

BALTIMORE, April 27-With min
listers from the District of Columbia
and Maryland in attendance. the 105th
annual session of the Baltimore
African Methodist Conference has OPEN
ed at ST. Johns A. NJ. E. Church. Lex
ington street near Pine street. Bishop
]. Albert johnson is presiding. Bishops
John Hurst and Levi j. Coppin are as
ISOLATED with him.
Following the opening services
Rev. w. H. Baker preached. Rev. j.
A. Young was elected chief secretary.
Reports from churches are in prog
ress this afternoon. One of the best
reports was made by Rev. c. NJ. Tan
ner of Metropolitan Church. Wash
ington, who stated that the congre-
cation had raised about $4,000 dur
ing the past five years and greatly
reduced its mortgage Indebtedness.
Speculation is being INDUCED in as
to who will succeed DR.. Tanner at
Metropolitan, his f1ve-year term be-
ing out. The five-year term of Rev.
c. H. Stephan at Allen Church, this
city, is also out. The conference will
adjourn on Sunday night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-27
FEDERAL PLACES FULL.
Civil Service Suspends Examina
lions for Laborers,

The Civil Service Commission an
nounced today. that it will not dis
tribute application blanks on May 1
this year for positions of charwoman
and male unskilled laborer, for the
reason that the registers resulting
from the last examinations held will
meet all requirements of the service
for the present.
When such examinations again are
necessary they will be duly an
nounced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-27
SUES FOR DIVORCE.
Alfred D. T. Peters Files Bill Max.
ing Charges,

Alfred D. T. Peters has filed suit
in the District Supreme Court for an
absolute divorce from Kathleen
Peters. They were married at Alex
andria, Va, March 13, 1918, and lived
together until October Is last when
the husband charges. his wife de-
together until October Is last, when,
and a correspondent named. Attor-
ney L. A. Bailey appears for the hus-
band.
More than 600 warships have heen
scrapped by the various nations
since the close Of the world war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-27
MIDDIEs NOT TO GO ABROAD.

The summer cruise of the midship-
men at the Naval Academy will carry
the squadron of warships up and
down the Atlantic coast and not
overseas, it was said yesterday at the
Navy Department. Three of the older
battleships of the fleet and possibly
the old cruiser Olympia will be used
for the purpose, sailing from An
napolis early in June for the three
months practice cruise.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-27
CONFERS HIGHER RANK.

Retirement of Capt. William Rees
Rush from the Navy with the rank
of rear admiral, recommended by Sec
rotary DENLY because of Capt. Rush's
service during the war as COM
has been approved by the Senate
naval committee in reporting favor
ably a retirement bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-27

ing where the information they seek
is to be obtained.
A citizen comes to the District
building to complain Of a nuisance
in his neighborhood. It may be
matter for the health department, or
it might come under the control OF
the police. Such a bureau. located
near the entrance to the building.
would be able to direct the citizen to
the proper office, without the annoy
ance Of going from one place to an
other in vain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-27

The Pope's daily average Of letters
is $4,000, and these are dealt with
by twenty-five secretaries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-27
BEACH SHOWS BIGGER.
Bathing Suit Contests to Be More
Attractive This Year.

The committee in charge of the
midsummer bathing suit beauty con-
test to be held at the Tidal Basin, to-
day perfected plans to make this
years exposition of bathing suit
fashions the largest and most at
tractive yet given. Invitations to
participate are being sent to the fol-
lowing stores, each of which, will be
permitted to enter four of its latest
STYLES:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-27
PLAN new D. C. BUREAU.
Commissioners May Provide Source
of Public Information.

A bureau of information may be es-
tablished to aid citizens in transact
ing business promptly at the District
building.
Commissioner Oyster expresses the
belief that such a bureau would prove
OF valuable assistance to scores of
persons who call at the District build
ing daily on errands without know
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

bread and tea. The Department Of Public
Health will have to make propaganda for
better 'nutritive standard. Then, there is the
great problem Of Dublin, with its old houses
and it's singlc-room tcncmcnts. The magnitude
and the immedacy of these problems show how
we'll equipped the department that has to deal
with them will have to make itself.
Also there is the problem of labor. Irish
labor is militant. and it has control of a mill
tary organization the Irish Citizen Army.
The workers in the towns and the agricul
tura laborers arc now knit together through
the Transport Workers. Union. Irish labor
will probably be distrustful of Arthur Griffith
and of the free state that he will head. Later
on labor will be with the republican opposi-
tion; it's demands will be for the workers re-
public that James Connolly outlined
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Neu Needs Necessitote
New Style Police

Then there will be The problem OF creating
a police force that will fit the new needs and
the new temper Of the people. The policeman
in Ireland has stood for representation for
cig1l domination, The famous Royal Irish
Constabulary was really Il military force
partly an army Of occupation and partly a
protective force for landlordsn. it
armed; its barracks were fortified and were
placed in strategic positions. The new police
will have TO be of an entirely different char
acter. and they will probably have 10 take
OH as part Of their duties the collecting Of
information for the Land Department and of
sanitary inspection for the Department Of
Public Health. The Minister Of Defense will
have charge of the organization of the new
police force, and the organization, too, of the
national army. If Michael Collins takes
Finance. Richard Mulcahy. the chief of staff
of the republican army, will probably take the
Ministry of Defense.
The Ministry of Home Affairs, ] take 1t,
will be the most important ministry in the
government of the Irish Free State. If north
cast Ulster joins the Free State, or shows any
disposition to join, the Ministry Of Home AZ
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Home Affairs Portfolio
Contains Big Task

When the government of the free state be-
gins to function expect to see Professor Mac
Ncl at the head Of the Ministry of Home
Affairs. That will not be until the present
:: Dali, of which he is Speaker goes out of
existence. Professor MacNeill would fill other
posts admirably Education or Foreign AZ
fairs-but it seems to me that the free state
government would find him most useful in
Home Affairs. For one thing, he is trained
administrator. having becn before his appoint
mcnt to the National University, in the civil
service; as vice president and as president of
the Gaelic League he has been at the head of
a great popular organization; then he is an
Ulster man, belonging to Il Catholic family
of the north, and he has an intimate knowl-
edge of the tanglc that represents The Ulster
problem.
have forgotten how many time Professor
MacNei (Eoin or John is his first namc) has
been in prison. Hc was arrested after the in
surrection of 1916. Then he was tried by
secret court martial and Informed that he was
to be Immediately shot to death. lie was then
sentenced to a life mprisonmcnt---d during this
period lie broke stones in Dartmoor-but he
was released with the other political prisoners
at the time when the British government
thought it would be expedient to put Home
Rule act into operation. He was arrested
again with Arthur Griffith last year, and with
him was released when the truce came into
operation.
Eoin MacNeill has been for long time in
Irish public life. and for three years before
the instruction he was one OF the leaders Of
the people. 1t was owing to his prestige that
the Irish Volunteers, body Of which he was
one Of the founders, WAS kept together in very
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Professor John MocNeiu,
"The Man in the Gap"

But 1t was not because of his calculations Of
the pre-Christian history of the Irish people
that the crowds at the great volunteer review
in Dublin in 1918 acclaimed him as "MacNcill
the man in the gap That significant Irish
phrase celebrates the man who holds the gap
pass while the others make a retreat O.
prepare for a new rally. The tribute was well
deserved, for it was due to his initiative tha;
the volunteers were formed at the end ofl913
They were formed then to prevent destruction
at the hands of Sir Edward Carson of the
Home Rule bill that was then on its wa
Padrac Pearse wrote in the preface to hi
arousing pamphlet, From a Hermitage
when l wrote the article for November the
group of Nationasts with whom I was in
touch decided to found the Irish Volunteers
and we were looking for leader who would
command the adhesion Of mn less advanced
than we were known to be. When wrote The
article for December Eon MacNell had (quite
unexpectedly published his article The NORTH
Began in An Cleadheamh Soluis' and We
agreed to invite him to put himself at our
head. The rest is part of Irish history
From the winter of 1913 to the spring Of
the fateful 1915 Eoin MacNcll was chief Of
staff to the volunteers. He had the task Of
keeping their ranks intact and their morale
high. He succeeded And because of thai
success in that critical time he will be known
in Irish history as "The Man in the Gap"
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
MacNeili and the Dublin
Insurrection of 1916

In the spring of 1916 the Dublin insurrec-
ton, from which modern Irish history dates
took place. Professor MacNcill did not coun-
sci that insurrecton. On the day before the
outbreak he issued this order:
"Owing to very critical position, all orders
given to Irish Volunteers hereby rescinded,
and no parades, marches or other movements
of Irish Volunteers will take place. Each in
dividua volunteer will obey this order strictly
in every particular.'
The publication of this order had the effect
of contining the instruction to Dublin The
leaders fully understood the motive that led
the chief of staff to give the momcntous order
II have done my best for Ireland and Eoin
MacNeill has done his BEST Padraic Pearse
wrote before his surrender. At the Sim Fein
congress of 1918-thc congress that organized
the republic-Countess Markievicz moved that
Professor MacNeill should have no place IN
the Sim Fein executive, as his order to the
volunteers had shown a certain wavering.
Then Eamon de Valera declared: II know
it was not hcarsay evidence - ] know what
happened better than any living man. There
was tr buna that, understanding what
took place, would do other than acquit Eoin
MacNei of anything like cowardce Or dis
honor" He elected to the Sim Fcin e&-
ccutivc, and in the first Irish Ministry was
given the Department of Home Affairs and
Industries.
Professor MacNei brings to Irish govern
mcnt d new idea of the state, a new conccp-
ton of international relations. He was the
first to use the phrase which has often been
used since. "thc ntcrdcpcndcncc of states"
AS far back as 1917, in an article contributed
to "Thc English Review he pointed out that
what The world was being forced to agitate
against something that was not medieval,
but very recent--thc conception Of the soN-
crcign, independent state that was built up by
the jurists of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Another conception must take tho
place of this dangerous and outworn onc--ths
nterdependcnce Of states. In the realization
of this thought lies the hope of the world.
stood near Eon MacNell upon historic
occasion. 1t was in the last week Of July,
1914, and Austria had sent her ultimatum to
Serbia The Irish Volunteers had marched
into the little town of Howth, had taken pos
session of the harbor and were landing
cargo Of rifles from a yacht that had just
crept in. Eoin MacNei was in command.
saw him OH the pier doing quietly the sinple
and necessary things. He stood in the mid
die Of all that enthusiasm and excitement with
his blue eyes like steel and his face otaody
as dint.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

And every elder and every youth that is
dislodgcd from this distcndcd service will have
to bo given compensation. And at the same
time places will have to be found for some of
the young men who have done such admirable
work in the republican organization.
So there will be temptation to keep the
civil service distended. AS the Minister for
Home Affairs will have to compensate the man
who is dislodgcd from his job, there will be a
temptation to keep him in it and find work
for him. There will be a temptation to move
the young republicans into the Offices Of the
Dublin Castle officials who have reached the
period of retirement. But if these tcmpta-
tols arc yielded to unnecessary Offices will be
kept open and scmi-uscful people will be given
scmi-,sefu successors. The economic thing
would be to pay them to 20 and then shut down
the offices.
department that was not in existence
under the British administration, but which
came into existence under the republican adj
will be given powers that will enable it to
function. This department is tremendously
important for Ireland. No department is more
needed Rural Ireland, the Ireland Of the vii
lagc and the small town, has to be given 'salli-
tary outfits; tuberculosis and an2ma
frightfully prevalent, and SO far there have
been only slight efforts 10 cope with them.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

troublous tlrnes. After The insurrcction. tbs
Volunteers we're organized into the Irish re-
publican army.
Tic has had two carecrs-A scholarly and
political onc-and both arc Of great signih-
oancc to the ireland Of our day, lido not know
when George Moore struck up with him. but
somewhere in the prolixity Of Hail and Fare
~cll'' there is reference to his brown beard
aud his honest eyes (thc beard has been shaken
off lately, by the way. Ifc was then vice
president Of the Gaelic League, and like its
PRESIDENT Douglas Hyde. Eon MacNeill wa
known for his tolerance and his tact. Born in
Belfast, he was not an Irish speaker, but he
made himself fluent ono, and for quite
long time now he has had place as one of ths
half dozen Celtic scholars of the world.
The first scholarly work Of his that reached
a wide public was his edition of "Dunarirc
Finn in which he made the great body Of
"Ossianlc' poetry accessible. In his introduc-
tlon TO this collection of poetry he stated
theory of early Irish history and of the growth
of this body Of poetry and romance that wa
quite startling. Lately his book "Phases OF
Irish History" has been published, and wc can
say of it that it is the first really authoritative
work on carly Ireland. Moreover, the apters
OH the Celtic history of Ireland help TO euci-
date good deal in the origins Of Europeap
culture.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Plenty of Work A,Daits
4 Health Department

Then there is the wide problem Of checking
a tendency on the part Of the people toward
The use Of less and less nutritlve food Two
generations ago racial vigor preserved
through the use Of dairy products-nlilk, but
ter and buttermlk, with potatoes and oatmeal
porridge and oatmeal bread. Dairy products
have almost gone out Of the Irish bill of fare.
The people subsist on potatoes, cabbage, low
grade American and Canadian pork white
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Principle of State Rights
To Be Determined

70 begin with what sort Of system Of gov
crnment will the Irish Free State contemplate
federal, qussi federal or unitary? We're it
not for The organization of northeast Ulster
Belfast and its hinterland-- that problem
would not present itself in any pressing way.
but il is obvious that to northeast Ulster must
ke left the control Of it's education, it's com
|nerco its police That is to say, whatever
|terrltorv aaheres to Belfast will have state
rights. How. then, will northeast Ulster be
knit to the remaining three fourths Of Ire
land ~ 4 delegation to Dali Eireann? Or
as \ unit among other units--thc other units
,cing parts Of ireland with like rights?
One would bc the quasi-fcderal, the other
would be the federal solution. Many of the
ntcllocuals favor the federal solution. They
lnclnt out that the provinces Ulster, Munster,
)Lcinster and Connaught are natural divisions
in the Irish territory. There would have to
he two listers, Of course East Ulster at
present Craig's government, minus, perhaps
Tyrone and Fermanagh, and West Ulster, com
.rrising the moro Nationalist region. There
hen would be fvc divisions in Ireland with
ta'c rights
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

ANING accepted the status provided
II for Ireland in the Anglo-1rish
j. treaty, the Dali Eireann, as at pres
ent constituted, will 60 out of eN
<.uee. Tho new Dali will be mado up OF
..ubers who have taken the responsibility
:, soverning Ireland in terms Of tho treaty.
s,.rs will be no republican opposition in the
40. .ssenbly-only those who have sub
...;h.d to the instrument signed by the Irish
- p,;tish representatives will be eligible for
Lotion to Il. In the assemblies that succeed
!. .hsya will be, of course, republican oppo-
sition.
Tho immediate task Of the new Dali Will
:. .he making Of a constitution for the Free
s..+s If ireland. This will be a task no
,oss IN Importance than the task Of making the
,.,tv between Great Britain and Ireland. 1t
r5u call for all the resource in craftsmanship
that ireland possesses. 1t is unfortunate,
then. that statesmen like Erskinc Chlldcrs
and Famon de Valera will be outside tho
,enhlv that will have the framing of it, and
hat. as things stand, they cannot be included
~, +1o Cabinet
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
|lnteliectuais Propose
FThe Gaelic State"

This division into fths would be in har-
nony with Irish tradition, "Cug.' meaning
'tifth' is the Irish for province. "Cuig
scugdhc," the five -ffths,' is the old polit-
|"ho favor the liberalization of Ireland do so
with the avowed object of promoting the re-
|iacllczation Of The country Men like Oar
|fcli tlggis, author of THE Gaelic State" de-
Ic'are that decentralization belongs to the
"aellc genius as Capitalization belongs to the
roman Norman and English genius. They
frge the Irish people to get back to the Gaelic
ftate. which was really federation of tiny
Felf-suficng states-Tuatha. They would or
game the state on the basis Of the Tuath,
which would correspond to the modern parish,
Iederaize the Tuatha into provinces and then
Avc national assembly for the five prov
nccs
l This s the extreme federal demand. 1t
not merely literary, for the cooperative ag-
fcultura organizations have laid the base
Tor the self -suficing unit of the 1uath. De-
Helop the cooperative idea to it's fullest cx-
sntin any particular parish, and you have the
|uath. It IS then only question of giving it
ecal political powers and linking it up with
Ike organizations. Besides, the republic, in
frder to carry on the guerrilla warfare and
eprlye the English administration Of local
powers, had to give a great deal of power to
'Fie districts, These districts would be re-
Fc'ant now TO give up the organizations that
Fey apontan ncously created--thcir own police,
felr own courts, their own military COM
Pnd
No extreme federal claim would leave what
Hsr parliament was in Ireland merely a CO.
fahatlng body. Tho Irish then would ap-
E'ach the Swiss type Of democracy. Switzer-
H. It is said, oves It's peruliar constitution
Hceltic sur1iYals.
0ut this extreme federalism is an ideal
"ss1 than political prospect. Modern Ire
~ Aks every other European country, is
soseSsed by the idea Of centralized govern
Two ADOPT 1T now. Says F,rskine Childers,
y lss made 4 study of the constitutional
'ss'on; We are. furthermore, by tempera-
~ conservative nation, like all nations
Evch!ef business is agriculture and whose
~ tor the most part in the hands of
ano'r Of small proprietors, or prospcc-
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

fairs would be the department that would
be most directly in touch with the northeast
government. And if northeast Ulster re-
fuses to come in the Ministry of Home Affairs
will be the department. that will undertake
the rcctification of the frontier
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15

tive propretors, as under the recent land pur
chase schemes. Though we have hated and
resisted sngliczation paradoHicay, VIC tend,
by sheer conservatism to uphold the fat ac
compli and suspect revolutionary schemes
New-York tribune., 1922-01-15
Harn,onizing Dublin Castle
With Republican Rule

Erskine Childers is for a quasi-federal
schemc-an Ireland in which northeast Ulster
or the counties adherng to Belfast, would
have some practical but constitutionally i'm
perfect relation TO central government and
with the ideal of a untary Ireland. This, I
think will be The scheme that will commend
itself to the constituent asscmbly-to the Dali
that will come into existence when the Anglo
Irish treaty is ratified.
The next problem would be the problem Of
administration. Two systems now exist in
Ireland the improvscd but extraordinarily
efficient republican administration and the DID,
cumbersome Dublin Castle administrations
When the Minister for Home Affairs in the
Irish Free State begins to consolidate The two
systems and the departments he Will have
most difficult problem before him.
suppose no country in Europe has had so
disastrous civil service as ireland has had
under the British rule II was-and it SO
remains huge and enormously expensive
It's business has been not to get things done,
but to keep things as they were and to provide
Jobs for men who had to be given some bribc.
The British government III Ireland had no i'll
terest in economy, and so the civil service was
distended into board after board. department
after department. A measure of the problem
is in the fact that the Irish civil service billets
100000 persons OH small and struggling
community and credits itself with $20,000,000
in pay and pensions.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-11-18
CHINA IN GRIP
Of BOLSHEWSM

Washington, Nov. iS.-Bolshe-
vism is rampant in China and
seeks control Of the east as a wea
pom against the west, according to
reports received today by agencies
Of the government.
Widespread growth of influence
by the Russian soviet in China
was reported, together with the
formation there of numerous as
sociations OF Chinese students and
intellectuals under such names as
the anti-Christian society" "the
new tide society" the anti-religi-
GUS society" and "the principles
Of Karl Marx society"
Under the eastern program of
the bolshevists, as reported to the
government, China and Korea
would provide seeding ground
for communistic thought and in
stitutions, later developments to
give Japanese social revolution
and finally, after the collapse of
Japanese Imperialism in the Pa
cific, bolshevik Asia of the pan
Asia soviets aimed at the obliter-
alton OF the capitalistic civiliza-
tion of the oceident.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-11-18
washington IS
PRIME FAYOR|TE

San Francisco. Cal. Nov. 1s.--
The game at Stanford stadium to-
day between the University OF
washington and Stamford football
eleyens loomed as one Of the clos
est contests OF the football season.
The Washington squad was a
shade the favorite in view of the
showing made by the visitors
against the University of CaHfor-
liza team Last week.
Stanford was expected to be on
the offensive and show more fight
in today's game than it did in the
losing game against Southern
California last week. The boys on
the farm have been drilled to keep
a weather eye on Leonard Ziel,
the star northern backfield man,
who scored almost single handed
against California.