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Evening star., 1922-08-12
"GRADUALLY" TO CLOSE
CHARLESTON NAVY YARD
Made Following
Discussion of Plea to Rescind
Order of Abandonment.

The situation with respect to the
Charleston, S. c.. navy yard. recently
ordered clostd by acting Secretary
of the Navy Roosevelt, today was
that the closing orders would be car
ried out. but that the closing would
be executed in gradual manner.
This situation resulted from the
series OF conferences which Senator
Smith of South Carolina has con-
Quoted within the past few days with
Secretary Roosevelt and President
Harding.
The Navy Department today re-
ceiwed letter from capt. II. H.
Royal, commandant of the yard. say
ing that the establishment would be
completely closed ION or about Sep
tember l. The belief. however. was
expressed at the department that the
closing would be later than that
date.
Arrangements row are being made.
Capt Royal reported. to launch the
gunboat Tulsa on August 25. The lat
ter added that the vessel would be
towed to some other navy yard for
completion. The destroyer tender
Denebola also will leave the Charles
ton yard on September l and proceed
to another yard TO be put in full COM
mission.
Much progress is being made in clos
ing the naval hospital. and the num-
Der OF patients there have been de-
creased to less than 100. and several
doctors already have been detached,
the letter said.
Among the more vital activities of
the yard. Capt. Royal reported. the
ammunition depot and torpedo repair
shop are being numbered in the sub
fractions ordered by the Navy Depart
ment. The ammunition depot, where
more than 1000 tons of munitions are
stored, also is being closed, the ammu-
milton being transferred to lighters
for shipment to St. Julians Creek, Va
Evening star., 1922-08-12
Wanted - Internationalized Viii
lains.

The picture producer now is impaled
on the horns of a novel international
dilemma. He cannot afford to lose
the foreign market. nor can he sacri-
flee his American audience to retain il.
Right here the complication in viii
lains faces the harassed maker of
scenarios.
No English theater will accept
picture in which an English villain
fieures To attempt to sell filEl TO
the Japanese in which a son OF Nip
pom does anything that is not heroic
and inspiring would produce riot.
A German audience will have moth
ing to do with the perturbation of a
Teuton engaged in reprehensible acts
or plotting deviltry. Stories of black
hand atrocities or Camorra black
mailers are taboo in Italy. Paris would
howl down a picture wherein the sons
of Gaul fill any other but brave and
noble and yirtuouS roles.
Yet naturally American audiences
don't want all their villains to be made
in America.
How to fashion the new composite in
ternational villain is the big question Of
the moment. He must be found. A
film picture without popular villain
is a drug on the amusement market.
Will the picture villain of the future
have to be a man without a country !?
Los Angeles Times.
Evening star., 1922-08-12
MONTGOMERY DRY BODY
RAPS SENATE CANDIDATES
Prohibition Voters Urged to With.
hold Support From All Present
Aspirants.
Special Dispatch TO The Star

10 Inc Star,
ROCKVILLE, Md, August 12.-De-
claring that only wet candidates have
so far entered the contest for the nonni-
nations for the United States Senate to
be made AT the primary election in
September. the Montgomery County
Anti Saloon League. at its annual con-
vention a Washington Grove Wednes-
neSday, adopted resolution calling on
members of the league and other tenn
perance organizations to decline to sup
port any OF the candidates so far in the
field.
In full, the resolution is as follows:
Whereas. the Hon. Roy A Haynes
prohibition commissioner, who address
ed US last year. was given a gigantic
job by President Harding, and who. we
believe, has done good work and given
country. if not 10 the distillers and their
friends: therefore.
BE it resolved by the Anti-Saloon
League of Montgomery county, in an
nual meeting assembled, That We call
upon President Harding to hold up the
hands of Mr.. Haynes and give him all
manpower TO compel the outlawed
liquor interests 10 obey the law: that
to date none but wet candidates have
been named in both great parties for
the United States Senate. and We call
upon the Anti-Saloon League, the w.
c. T. L. and other leaders of the law
enforcement hosts 10 secure a candidate
who will be satisfactory to aw-abiding
dry voters of the state, and in the
meantime urge our friends to decline TO
support any of the candidates. so far an
nounced."
Evening star., 1922-08-12
Decay of British Music Halls.

LONDON-The decay of the music
hall as popular entertainment is
largely due TO the dearth of good
music hall songs, says the Daily
News.
Many of the leading star artists
of the day have apparently only two
strings to their bow. the old songs
with which they first won success
wears ago. and modern puerilities
which audiences find tiresome. What
is the reason for this dearth OF fresh
material?
at is not that the right songs are
not being written" Mr.. Frank Leo.
one Of the best known writers of
music hall songs. assured Daily
News man yesterday.
Mr. Leo, who has written songs for
a great many music hall favorites,
and has had thirty years experience
of this work. is frankly depressed at
the prospects Of the popular song
writer.
"The position is impossible" he
said. Good songs are being written
by people with talent. but it is hope
less to try to place them.
"The reason is that the majority OF
artists today take their songs from
publishers who do not charge them
ANYTHING for the right of singing
songs. but actually pay them well for
doing so. A publisher is glad to pay
a well known artist considerable
sum in order to push some inferior
song which he has brought out.
"In the old days writer took his
lyrics to an artist and sold them or
their merits. The other day l showed
a song to a variety artist. who agreeu
that it would suit him very well. but
he was being paid &c a week by
publisher to sing some quite poor
pallad"
Evening star., 1922-08-12
ROCKVILLE.

ROCKVILLE. Md. August 12 tSpe-
ciaD D.-The funeral of c. LIE Roy Cis-
sci. who was drowned in the Eastern
branch of the Potomac river, at
Washington, last Sunday, took place
yesterday afternoon from Pumphreys
chapel here, Rev. J. w. Lowden. pas
tor of the Presbyterian Church, at
jamestown, this county. conducting
terry at Beallsville, Md. Mr.. CisseI
was son of the late Humphrey Cis-
sci of this county.
Miss Edna E. Colvin of Washington
and Lester l.. Erhardt of Benning
road. ID. C.. were married in Rockville
on Thursday. by Rev. p. Rowland
wagner, pastor of the Baptist Church,
at the home of the minister.
Licenses have been issued by tho
clerk OF the circuit court here for the
marriage Of Miss Olive u. Osborne
and Harold d. Cross. both of Takoma
Park. Nd, and Miss Ida f. Vinson,
and John T. Dove. both Of this county
The annual lawn fete and festival
Tor the benefit of the Henderson
Smith Edmonds Pest, American Legion
OF Rockville, which was to have been
held Thursday evening, was post
poned and Will be held next Friday
evening on the lawn adjoining the
courthouse here.
The Maryland State Poultry Asso-
clation has offered a handsome silver
media! as a premium to the member
or the association exhibiting the best
specimen Of poultry at the annual
ialr to be held here August %, %,
"a and 25
Mrs. j. Somerville Dawson, who will
be in charge of the women's section
at the fair. has announced that the
Judging of flowers by z. u. Blacki-
stone Of Washington will commence
at o'clock the first day.
DR.. George F. Lewis. superyisor OF
school property for the county, has
given notice that bids for the erection
or an addition TO the public school
building at Sandy Spring, will be re-
ceIVed until noon on August Is. at the
Office Of the board of education at
Rockville
Evening star., 1922-08-12
indicate when it will arrive at its
destination.
INCREASE PRODUCTION.
Four Mines in Pennsylvania Grad
ually Overcoming Difficulty.

PITTSBURGH. Pa. August 12-The
four mines selected by the Pittsburgh
Coal Producers Association for oper-
alton without an agreement with the
United Mine Workers were said by
operating officials to be producing
about $50 tons each day. as compared
with less than 100 tons when the
start was made. They gave as their
position that no attempt had been
made to fill the workings with strike
breakers. but they had started with
few men, and. according to pro-
gram" were gradually adding to the
force from miners formerly employed
in the western Pennsylvania district.
All roads and villages in the vicinity
of the mines are patrolled by cavalry
men of the Pennsylvania National
Guard.
Union leaders insist that none of
their members has gone back to work.
Evening star., 1922-08-12
ASKS D. C. AID IN LONG
WAR ON PUBLIC WEEDS
Grounds Along Soldiers Home
Provide Luxuriant Growth, Year
by Year, Says Resident.

To The Editor of The Star:
In The Evening Star Of the 10th
instant l read that Commissioner
oyster had inaugurated 1S22 Of
fensive to drive high weeds OF the
vacant lots of Washington and
coupled with that was the announce
ment that Heauth officer Fowler was
..on the trail of violators of the act
of Congress which provides that
weeds shall not be permitted to grow
more than four inches high in
thickly settled section of the city.
For twentythree years, beginning
with 1899. ] have lived at the corner
of 9Th street and Rock Creek Church
road, Petworth. For many years after
| moved there l had no neishbors. 1t
is different now. for the region where
l live is "thickly settled" l am in
clined to the opinion that the act OF
Congress applies to my neighborhood.
Across the street from my place
lies the western end of the Soldiers
Home grounds. On each succeeding
year weeds have fiourished where the
sidewalk ought to be alongside OF these
grounds.
Thinking that former governor
of the Soldiers Home should exer-
else supervision or control. Of these
weeds, | called on him one day to
tell him about them. He curtly IN
formed me that the weeds were SUD-
lection of the Commissioners OF the
District of Columbia.
Then 1 complained to the Commits
sioners and after the last WINDS OF
summer were permitted to blow the
seeds from the weeds all over the
District they were cut down. me
following year 1 cut the weeds down
myself. When 1 began to cut them
down the next year l was Informed
by an official that l was violating
the law, so I abandoned my weed cut
ting exercises.
Every year since then, with the ex-
ception of last year. I have written
the District authorities on the sub
iect of weeds that bloom in spring.
summer and fall alongside of the
Soldiers Home, and my communities
tions have been duly acknowledged
| think they were all acknowledged
by the same man, for the same Ian
euage was employed in all of the an
swers 1 received. 1t ran like this:
"Yours in relation to weeds is hereby
acknowledged and will receive atten-
tion in due time
Sometimes the weeds were cut be-
fore frost came, but never before the
that the due time" for the District
authorities to cut weeds over four
inches tall is after they have ripened.
I know that it must be considered
highly improper for weeds subject to
the jurisdiction. scrutiny and destruc-
tton of the District authorities to ex-
ceed the limit of four inches. but
there they are, some of them are four
feet tall, none of them less than
twelve inches in stature, and all of
them unsightly and insanitary. They
are growing unmolisted by those who
have inaugurated 1922 offensive to
drive high weeds off the vacant lots
of wash{nRtOn"
Please, Mr.. oyster, get ION the trail"
Of Health Officer Fowler, and, Mr..
Fowler, get ION the trail Of the
weeds that grow so promiscuously,
numerously. luxuriantly, but not un-
ostentatiously alongside of the Sol
diers' Home. Come out and look them
over. anyway-you can't miss them.
Come before they grow so tall that
you can't see the fence.
Evening star., 1922-08-12
ALEXANDRA.

ALEXANDRIA,, Va, August u (Spe-
ciaD.-The financial statement of the
city, showing the receipts and current
expenses of the schools for the years
ending July /, 1921, and July l, 1922
has just been issued by the city school
board. The report this year shows
small balance instead of a deficit.
The state appropriation for the
schools has increased steadily each
year. $32. 900 for last year and $4,000
for this year. The city's appropriation
for the past two years has been un-
changed because the state appropria-
ton was greater. However. the city has
been most liberal to the schools, hav
ing appropriated the sum Of $4,000 for
the erection Of a new school building
which is now under construction on the
lot of the Alexandria High School build
ing.
council and city school board have ex
pended about 100000 for buildings
and school purposes
Mrs. Bessie Silverstein, forty-seven
years old, who rooms at Ills King
street was found on the sidewalk
in front of her home at $40 O'Clock
this morning by her husband and
H. W. Hall. who rooms at the same
house. She was taken to the Alex
andria Hospital and treated by DR.
Llewellyn Powell for slight bruisc
on her face and arm.
Oliver Grayson, colored, sentenced
to serve ten years in the peniten-
tiary for attacking twelve-year-o
colored girl, was taken to that insti-
tuition yesterday afternoon
number of candidates will be
initiated by Alexandria Lodge. No.
1853, Benevolent and Protective Order
OF Elks, at meeting of the lodge Mon
day night.
During the past month there were
forty-ffve births and sixteen deaths
in the city. according to the report
OF ur. l.. E. Foulks, city health
officer.
Evening star., 1922-08-12
FIVE PRINCE GEORGES
TEACHERS WIN SEA TRIP
Popularity Contest Victors Will
Take Boat at Baltimore for
Boston.

Five public school teachers OF Prince
Georges county. Md. winners or tne
popularity contest conducted by the
Hyattsville, Nd, Independent. ie1t
Washington yesterday afternoon ior
Baltimore. where they will board the
steamer Ontario for a sea trip TO Bus-
ton-the prize offered by the !nde-
pendent for the most popular quintet.
The best-liked teachers in the coun-
ty, as brought out by the contest. are
Miss Elizabeth Baden. Bowie Schooi !.
Miss Caroline l.. Stewart, Seabrook
SCHOOL, Miss Ethel Hand, BladenS-
burg School: Miss Susie [. Beali'
Beltsville School. and Miss Nora l.
Baldwin. Collington School. The IN
structors were accompanied by Miss
A. Marjorie Zug of Bowie as special
representative of the Independent.
The contest. which was conducted
by the publishers of the newspaper,
+. A. Fuller and his son, +. A. Fuller,
jr., was begun in the early spring.
and concluded July 20. The judges
in the competition were Nicholas
Orem. superintendent of county
schools: DR.. Charles A. Wells, presi.
dent Of the First National Bank OF
Southern Maryland and of the First
National Bank of Hyattsville, and
State Senator Lansdale q. Sasscer In
round numbers. Miss Baden received
100000. Miss Stewart $4,000, Miss
Hand 1lS.000, Miss Beall lll,eO0 and
Miss Baldwin $1,000 votes.
Evening star., 1922-08-12
WILL HOLD CONVENTION.
Colored Woman's Federation to
Meet at A. M. E. Church.

The Northeastern Federation of
Women's Clubs will hold its twenty
sixth annual convention here at the
Metropolitan A. NJ. E. Church, NJ
street between 18th and 10th streets.
August IA. Is. 16 and Il. The or
ganfzation of colored women, headed
by Elizabeth c. Carter, president, will
be entertained during their conven-
ton by the District of Columbia
Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.
Monday night August IA. will be
"Citizen's night" and Col. Charles
Keller. Engineer Commissioner of the
city, will deliver the address of well
come. Rev. Charles E. Stewart.
Bishop l. \. Ross. Rev. ]. Milton
Waldron. Rev. Q. f. Jones. Rev. E. ].
Scott. John w Lewis. president of
the Industrial Savings Bank, and Mrs.
Julia Mason Layton will also speak.
Marie Madre-Marsball is president
of the Colored Federation of Women's
Clubs of Washington. 2035 18th street.
Evening star., 1922-08-12
SLAIN MAN INDIAN
AND LIKELY VICTIM
OF BITTER OIL WAR
Continued from First Page.)

school in Washington. She recently
went to Chicago to visit friends, how
ever, and her fathers presence here
could not be ascribed to a desire to
see her.
Willard Martin, a lawyer, of Musko-
gee. guest at a local hotel, knew
Mcbride intimately. He not only iden-
titled him. but confirmed the fact that
he owned rich oil lands. He received
telegram yesterday from NJ. B.
Arbuckle. a title lawyer of Muskogee,
which read as follows:
''Go to police and identify Barney
Mcbride. Murdered. Wire me-"
Later he received word from the
lawyer that he was coming to Wash
ington Immediately to start an in
vestigation. His entrance into the
case doubled the police suspicion that
Mcbride was murdered as a result of
enmity arising over his oil holdings
Evening star., 1922-08-12
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The big stick or the calm voice of
reason? President Harding has let
it be known that, despite the critl-
cism of his forebearance in the two
strike controversies, he will not use
threats or coercive tactics.
AS members of Congress drift in
for the reconvening of the House on
Tuesday this very phase of Mr.. Hard
ing's temperament is discussed al
most above everything else. The last
few weeks admittedly have been
crisis in Mr.. Harding's public career.
Neither strike is, as yet, ended, but
the friends of the President expect
results to carry more WelSht thdh
the processes by which these results
are achieved. All of which is an
other way of saying that the politi-
clans hope the critics will forgive and
forget Mr. Harding's slow-to action
policies in the industrial crisis ana
agree with him ultimately that pa
tience was its own reward.
Deplores DictntOriai Spirit.
Mr.. Harding has unbosomed himself
to the extent of deploring threats ana
dic,atoral language with either strik-
throughout his conferences with all
parties a disposition not to ofend
ANYBODY or aggraVate u painful STU
alton His whole personality reoeis
at the idea of strife in anything. ana
it is an open secret that the re-
snonsibilities OF the presidency have
weighed more heavily on Mr.. Harding
in the last month than at any time
since he took office.
Torn on one side by desire TO sat
isfy those big business elements IN
the republican party who 90 not van.
Il. TO do
might be remotely construed as
trucking to labor and faced on
the other by a knowledge that strikes
cannot be ended quickly unless com
promises and concessions are mace ps
both parties to a dispute. Mr.. HARD
ing has tried one eXpedieht anu Lnei
another, only to find his critics arsu-
ing that he isn't firm enough. that ne
doesn't threaten and bluster ana get
results like It. r. did
It's one of those odd phases of po-
Iitical psychology that Mr.. HARDING
finds himself contrasted, just as Ml.
Wilson was. with the RooseveltIan
,yne of President When Mr.. Wilson
was slow to action. calm and deliber-
ate in some of the critical moments
before the United States entered the
war. the cry went up that a iTeSioent
like Roosevelt would not have hesi-
tated to act. -
Somewhat the same tenor of criti-
c;s,u runs through the undercurrentS
of talk at the Capitol whenever the
strike situation is informally us
cussed. II was, more or less. IN re
sponse to that kind of gossip that
President Harding was prompted TO
answer that he would not be STAN
peded into big stick tactics.
In nutshell. the demand that mas
been coming from governors OF states
as we'll as from trade bodies and busl-
ness men generally is that the fresi-
dent take over the mines ana the
railroads and operate them for the
public benefit without dallying fur-
Their with any of the disputants. feei-
ING outside Washington, and, to some
extent. inside the National Capital,
is that somehow the chief executive
of the United States can become, all
powerful IN an emergency. brush aside
constitutional obstacles and gain the
Evening star., 1922-08-12
Origin of the Word Cop"

The word cop" originated in
London. being derived from the
three initials of constable Of po..
lice" This interesting bit of
Information comes from Police Com
missioner Enright of New York city.
Chief Enright's theory of how the
word "cop" came into being has ex-
perience, precedent and probability
to back it. 1t has experience, be-
cause Commissioner Enright is con-
versant with police affairs. 1t has
precedent, because when the words of
a phrase happen to have initialswhich.
taken together, can be pronounced In
one syllable, there Is tendency to
lump them in one. and so form a new
word. 1t has probability, because the
etymology suggested is simple and
natural. Cop" is an abbreviation
which any English-speaking public
would like to make of constable of
police"
Nobody knows all about word un-
til he has looked up its origin: To
do that Is one of the best of helps
toward fixing the meaning of words
much longer and far less familiar
than "cop" lastingly in the mind
Buffalo Times.
Evening star., 1922-08-12
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb.. August 12.-Pelham
A. Barrows. lieutenant governor of
Uebraska and for the past week act
ing chief executive during the alb
sence Of Gov. McKelvie. also is work
ing as a IS day strike guard for
the, Chicago. Burlington and Quincy
railroad
Being lieutenant governor has hon
or, but no remuneration" he said,
adding that he took the new work
when he and Mrs. Barrows found we
had S3.40 in the bank and | had sl.6O
in my pocket. with not another cent
in the world"
II had to take this work" Lieut.
Gov. Barrows told an Associated
Press representative last night after
he had returned from Alliance, where
he had escorted a crew of non union
workers. Il could not get work else
whre. and j and my wife were down
and out"
State Lacks Funds.
Under Nebraska law. the Office Of
Lieutenant governor as such is nom
remunerative. although that official
draws $1,000 as presiding officer of
the state assembly in its biennial
sessions.
Under The constitution, the lieutenant
governor. when acting in the absence OF
Evening star., 1922-08-12
JOHN FARLEY INJURED.
Son Of Former Ship Board Official
Hit By Auto.

Word has been received here of an
automobile accident in Chicago
Thursday when John Farley. five
year-old son of Edward P. Farley,
former vice president of the United
States Shipping Board. was struck
while playing in the street. and sus-
tanned fractured skull. The boys
condition was reported to be serious,
it being stated last night that he was
still unconscious.
Mr.. and Mrs. Farley were well
known here. They resided for a time
at 1908 New Hampshire avenue and
later at Wardman Park Hotel. Fol-
lowing Mr. Farley's resignation from
the Shipping Board he moved to his
home in Chicago.
Evening star., 1922-08-12
Acting Governor of Nebraska
Rail Strike Guard at S. Daily

the governor. should receive "the emol-
uments of that Office" but. because the
last legislature rejected an appropria-
ton bill providing for that. there is no
fund available to meet Mr.. Barrows
claim for $500 for serving as chief ex-
ecutive.
Mr.. Barrows said Gov McKelvie did
not object to the lieutenant governor
working for the railroad, and that when
SO informed he had withdrawn his res
gnation drawn up for presentation to
the G, B. & O.. had there been execu-
tive disapproval.
Ex-Head OF s. v.
While an opinion from the attorney
general declared that the lieutenant
governor attains all the powers of gov
ernor when that official leaves the
state. Mr. Barrows said work OF the
governors Office actually is carried on
through the secretary of state during
the governors absence.
Ii is not known just when Gov. Nc
kelve will return from Denver. where
he went the first Of this week to ad-
dress the Colorado republican conven-
ton.
Mr. Barrows is former national
commander of the Sons Of Veterans,
having been succeeded in that office
two years ago by Clifford Ireland. con-
gressnan from Illinois. He was de-
feated in last months primary for the
republican nomination as congressman
from this district.