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Evening star., 1922-12-05
TEACHER PAY BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
Continued from First Page,


therefore, salary adjustment provi-
sions for the following groups of en-
! ployes Of the board Of education:
"Clerks and stenographers, medical
inspectors, dental inspectors. school
nurses. janitors. engineers and Gus
! todial positions.
Authorized standard salaries are
provided for activities which have
developed in the school system since
1906, such as junior high schools
community centers, administrative
principals and examining boa boards. ~.
mentary schools by session room
pay is abolished. Division of ele-
mentary teachers in salary classes
l, 2, 3, and Is abolished.
"The inadequate automatic increase
Of SIS. $40 and $40 per annum. ac-
cording to the salary class. is re-
placed by q uniform annual increase
Of 500 per annum for all teachers.
"The employment Of annual substi-
tute teachers il authorized
The effect Of the proposed salary
schedule will be to place Washington.
in regard to teacher compensation,
among the cities with the best edu-
cational systems.
The estimated cost Of putting this
proposed salary schedule into effect
in the first year is $230,025. This is
the amount Of increased pay. In the
year 1929 and 1880 the increase will
amount to ss90.515.
Proposed Salary Schedules.
The proposed salary schedules are
as follows:
Kindergarteners. elementary school
teachers and school librarians, group
A minimum. $1.400; maximum with
six annual increases. $4,000. Group
81. minimum. $2,1oo; maximum, $4,000.
Junior high school teachers with
elementary school equivalent, group
A. minimum, 1,40o: maximum, $4,000.
With six annus1 IL increases: Group p
mini mtnimnm. tsn !s.1oo:, maximum, $1,000,
Junior high school teachers with
high school equivalent-Group A,
minimum. $1,000; maximum, $2,eo0
with eight annual Increases. Group
B, minimum, s2,7o0; maximum. $4,000,
Normal and senior high school
teachers-Group A. minimum. $500:
maximum, $2.6o0, with eight annual
increases. Group B. minimum, Se,7Oe;
maximum, $4,000, with three annual
increases.
Elementary School Principals.
Principals. elementary schools
Four to seven rooms. minimum, 50, 100:
maximum. $4,000. with three annual
rooms. minimum. $4,000; maximum,
$2.50o, with three annual increases.
Administrative principals. elemen-
tary schools. sixteen or moro rooms.
minimum. $4,000: maximum. $4,000.
with four annual Increases.
Directors, heads Of departments, as
sistant principals. minimum, $S,100:
maximum. $s,400. with three annual
increases.
Principals Gunior hisha. minimum.
Evening star., 1922-12-05
EMPHASIZES AM|TY
OF j. s. ANDBR|TA|N
Geddes Says Leadership of
Democracy Is in Hands of
English Peoples.

Emphasizing the present relations
Ia nd as being the most cordial since
the colonial wars. Sir Auckland
Geddes. British ambassador to the
United states. addressing the Society
of Colonial Wars at its thirteenth an
nual banquet, in the Racquet Club
last night. declared he had no fear for
the continued good rela atoms between
the two countries. They may. he
pointed out. differ on some things, but
the fundamentals and things that
count" would find them in accord.
Sir Auckland. referring to the colonial
wars. in which the ancestors Of those
present fought and were then under the
British flag, said they marked Il mile
stone In the evolution of human thought
in that it was the first time since the
fall OF the Roman empire that people
of their own accord banded and fought
for their own ideas. He stressed the
fact that the leadership of democracy
was in the hands of the Engiish-speak
ing peoples.
Lieut.. Co. Frederick Carlos Bryan.
governor of the club. outlined the pur-
poses of the orga nzation. which is com
posed of the direct descendants of the
men who fought in the colonial wars
prior to the revolution. In referring 10
some of the histories of the United
states which have come in for criticism,
Lieut. Col. Bryan said that while they
dld not paint every EngIishman as
black. and every American patriot as
white. still anything tending 10 foster
cordial feeling between The TWO coun
tries was good.
Officers were elected as follows:
Governor. Lieut.. Col. Frederick Carlos
Bryan: deputy governor Mr. Frederic
Eutkeiey Hyde: lieutenant governor
Mr.. Samuel Herrick: secretary. Mr.
Frederik Atherton Fernald: treas
urer. Mr.. Francis Henry Parsons: reg
istrar. Capt. Robert Root Bennett
historian. Dr. Andrew Stewart; chan
lain. Rev q. c. F. Bratenahl; chan
cellor. MIR. Stanton Garfield Peellc;
surgeon. DIR. Lewis Harvie Taylor: as
sistant secretary, Mr.. William p Met
calf: deputy registrar, DIR. Charles F..
Langworthy: custodian of the colors.
Mr.. Frederick D. Owen.
Gentlemen of the council tterm ex-
pires December. 1925)-Lieut. Col.
Frederick Louis Huidekoper. l,r.
Steuart 8. Muncaster. Mr.. Ben de Mier
Miller.
Committee on membership-capt.
Robert Root Eennett. chairman: DIR.
Charles F. Langworthy. Mr.. Cyrus
Root. Mr.. Allen Richards Boyd. Lieut..
Commander Lewis Painter Clephane,
L. S. n. r. F..
Committee on historical documents
DR.. Andrew Stewart. chairman;
Commodore r. G. Davenport. L. S. ~;
DR.. Edwin Allston Hill. Mr. Alfred
BErne Horner, Dr. William S. Wash
burn.
New members admitted to the So
ceiety are: Edmund Hays Bell, Will
liam T. Fitzgerald. Frank S. Hight
and Albert Sidney Parry.
Evening star., 1922-12-05
DISAGREE ON RAILWAY.
Otherwise in Accord on Shantung
Agreement.

BY the Associ1 ted Press.
LONDON. December 5-An Official
statement issued by the foreign office
at Toxic last Friday prior to the
actual signing of the Shantuns agree
ment says that China and Japan are
in accord on all matters covered by
the treaty except the details concern
ing the transfer of the Shantung rail-
way.
The statement. received by the
Central News. said that it had been
decided to effect today the transfer
Of the administration of the Tsingtao
leasehold and the withdrawal of the
japanese garrison there.
Negotiations will be continued
concerning the Shantung railway"
the statement added. land it is en-
pected that an agreement will soon
be reached thereon. so that the trans
fer OF the railway may occur long
before March. 1924. the date fixed in
the treaty"
Evening star., 1922-12-05

army officers. l took a photograph of
the unloading and could send it to
you If you wish
Greeted ON Arrival Here.
NJ. Clemenceau arrived in Washington
last evening at 4 80 from Baltimore.
following a tour which had taken him
west to st. Louis. He was greeted at
the station by representatives Of the
French embassy and the State Depart
ment. and went by automobile imme-
diately to tn. home of Henry White.
former American ambassador to France.
with whom he is to reside during his
stay in Washington.
At the station to greet the French
statesman were: Mr.. White. Ambassa-
dor and Nine. Jusserand, Jules Henry.
secretary Of the French embassy, and
Robert Bliss. third assistant secretary
of state.
There was crowd in the concourse
at the station, awaiting the distinguished
visitor, and but for few cheers, they
stood in respectful silence as the party
entered the Presidents room. posed for
a picture and entered automobiles.
Evening star., 1922-12-05
PRESIDENT DELAYS
ANNUAL MESSAGE
uon,inued from First Pase.)

such others of pressing importance
as reasonably may be dealt with in
the short session l shall invite your
then the question of rural credits leg
islation has been discussed in detail
by the executive with Senator Wat
son of Indiana and other leaders. and
it was suggested today that the de-
lay in transmitting the annual mes
sage might be due in part to a desire
to perfect beforehand q comprehen-
sive program for aiding the farmer.
Wilson First to Address.
President Wilson established the
custom of appearing before Congress
in person on the second day of the
session to deliver his message. For
many years prior to that time pres
idential messages had been sent to
Congress By messenger and read OH
the opening day. except in cases
where the House was unable to COM
plete it's organization.
The most noted instance OF delay
in receipt of the annual presidential
message occurred in 1855. when the
House was forced to take 1873 ballots
to elect a Speaker. President Pierce.
because of the inability of the House
To organize withheld transmission OF
his message until the last day of De-
cember.
Evening star., 1922-12-05

enthusiasm for NJ. Clemenceau's pol
icies. while the republicans who are
still of the opinion that the election
Of 1920 was verdict against Ameri-
can participation in European affairs
have still less interest in what NJ,
Clemenceau advocates.
The attitude here, therefore. i, one
OF tolerant courtesy. The visit is
more of an historic novelty than an
affirmative influence. If NJ. Clemen-
ceau had come three years ago and
answered concretely the questions
then being asked about European
standards of international morality,
If he were here today as the OFFICIAL
spokesman of France with power 20
make agreements and understandings
with respect to land disarmament, re
duction of Germany's reparation bill
and readjustment of the American
war debt. there might have been a
different story to tell. Reduced to it's
finest point. however. the most tina.
can be said of the Clemenceau visit
is that it has helped to revive dis
cussion of foreign policy and hat it
will contribute to the sum total of
influences which are seeking posi-
tive program of cooperation with
Europe, either through the league of
nations or Mr.. Harding's association of
nations.
Copyright, 1927
Evening star., 1922-12-05
ENTERTAIN NEW GOVERNOR,

The Alabama delegation in Con-
gress gave q dinner in the Speakers
private dining room at the Capitol to-
day to Gov.-elect W. W. Brandon of
Alabama, who came to Washington to
familiarize himself with the legisla-
tive status OF measures affecting his
state. Mr.. Brandon conferred during
the morning with various members of
the Alabama delegation and expressed
keen interest in the prospective de-
velopment of Muscle Shoals.
Evening star., 1922-12-05
CONFESSES AUTO DEALER
WAS KILLED IN ROBBERY
Man Tells Story Of Chicago Mur-
der After Woman Gives
Tip to Police.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. December 5.-The mys-
terry surrounding the Staying of Jo-
seph Lanus, wealthy automobile deal
er. whose body was found in the rear
of his garage November "a, was
solved today. the police announced,
by the confession of Lawrence Hef-
fernan. one of seven persons under
arrest, that the victim was shot and
killed in an attempted robbery. Lanus
shot one of the robbers.
Heffernan. four other men and two
women were in custody in connection
with several fur robberies, and the
police admitted they were without a
clue in connection with the Staying
until. they say. Julia Hartnett, one
of the women held. made a statement
involving Heffernan and other mem.
bers of their band. After lengthy
questioning Chief of Detectives
Michael Hughes said Heffernan sds
mitted that Lanus had been shot in
an attempt to rob him. The robhers
fed. however. without any loot.
Evening star., 1922-12-05
100 TRUCKS IN PARADE.

One hundred trucks Of the Washing
ton city post Office passed through the
streets TO-DAY in the annual mail early"
parade. Officials OF the Post Office De-
partment reviewed the PROCESSION as It
passed 11th street shortly after noon.
Carrying q Santa Claus and thirty
buGlers and drummers Of the Marine
Corps. the trucks wended their way
through the downtown streets. then pro-
to Columbia road. thence to 18th street
thence south en- route to the city post
Each truck carried the slogan .AIail
Early, the parade being put on to forci-
ply bring home to the people of the city
gifts into the mails as early az nossihis
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Continued from FirS: Paga)
with absolutely scrupulous honor. and
am very pleased with it ALL" Mr..
Healy is quoted as having said.
'Ninety-nine per cent of the Irish
people are with us and half of the
remaining minority against US SIM
ply because of the boundary partition
with Ulster. The Free State parlia-
ment undoubtedly is acting in the
best interests of the country.
TT only the people would settle
down. Ireland would be a very pros
porous place. l am looking very
hopefully to the future. The only
formidable thing with which we must
contend Is rowing armed parties That
element is only one-half of per
cent Of the population. and they will
be settled very quickly now
Evening star., 1922-12-05
HARBoRs MEN TO MEET.
National Congress Will Open Her.
Tomorrow.

The National River and Harbors
Congress will meet in the Willard
Hotel tomorrow and Thursday. The
congress this year is expected to have
portant developments of interest to
shippers and ports throughout the
country.
Evening star., 1922-12-05
BAVARIA SCORNS APOLOGY
AS DEMANDED BY ALLIES
Premier, in Berlin. CcnferriEg
With Cuno, Resolved Not to
Sign Letter.
By the Associated Press.

By the Aasocia ted Press
BERLIN. December 5.-The Munich
correspondent of the Lokal Anzeiger
says it is certain that. as far as Ba-
varia is concerned. the demands of
the allies in their ultimatum OF No
vember so for apology and indemnity
for attacks on officers of the inter
allied commission of control will not
be fulfilled to the extent stipulated.
a Munich dispatch TO Norwarr: :
says the Bavarian premier. DR..
kncllinG, who arrives in Berlin today
for conference with Chancellor
Cuno, is resolved not to sign the let
ter of apology which the allies re-
quiIe.
Evening star., 1922-12-05
BANDITS GET ss,77o.

WEST NEW YORK. n. J., December
5--Three bandits today attacked the
cashier Of the Public Service Gas
Company and policeman who guard
ed him as they left the comnanv's
omces. felled them with pistol butts
and fed with a bag containing $s.7S0
$4,000.
Evening star., 1922-12-05
REGENTS REAPPolNTED.

The Senate today adopted a reso-
luton offered by Senator Lodge pro-
viding for the reappointment Of Hem
ry White and John B. Henderson as
members of the board of regents of
the Smithsonian Institution. Their
present terms will expire early in
lsea
Evening star., 1922-12-05
PORT IN SHANTUNG
seized BY BANDITS
Japan Was to Have Return
ed Control of City to
China Today.
PEKING POLICE ROUTED
100000 Ransom Reported De.
manded for Delivery of Govern
ment Officials Held Captives.
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
TIENTSIS. China, December Re
ports received here say that Chinese
bandits have taken control of Using
tao. Shantung. the Kiaochow por,
whose stormy career in war and di-
plomacy was to eliminate. today in
it's return to China after "a years
of alien rule. the first sixteen under
Germany and the last eight under
Japan. The population is reported
fleeing from the city.
Refugees Flee.
Trains from Tsingtao are said to be
crowded with refugees. Chinese po-
lice sent from Peking to take over
the city are reported to have been
driven out of their barracks
The bandits. according to the tele-
grams. demand 100000 ransom for
the delivery of government officials
and police in their hands The out
laws also hold out for the appoint
ment of their chief as governor OF
the port.
Shops and residences are being loot
ed nightly, the dispatches say. The
10000 japanese who remain in Tsing-
tao. unorganized for defending the
city. apparently are impotent in face
OF the menace.
Evening star., 1922-12-05
Seized by Germany.

This was the day set for the actual
delivery of the kiaochow territory
from Japan to China under the terms
Of the Washington armament confer
ence. The region was seized by Ger
many in 1898 as indemnity for losses
in the Boxer uprising. At the out
break OF the war Japan captured it
and was awarded it at the peace
treaty of Versailles. but in converse
tions with China at the Washington
conference agreed to turn it back this
winter.
Evening star., 1922-12-05
DIFFERING VIEWS GIVE
CLEMENCEAU ODD WEI.
COME IN U. S. CAPITAL

Continued from First Page !
Evening star., 1922-12-05
IRISH FREE STATE
COMES INTO BEING
z AS TREATY EXPIRES

Continued from Firs: PageD
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-04-27
"YoU DARLINGI"

SYNoPSIS.-Occupying n dilapi-
dated shack In the Silent City, a
sQuatter settlement near Ithaca,
New York, Polly Hopkins lives
with her father, small Jerry, and
an old woman, Granny Hope. On
an adjacent farm, Oscar Bennett,
prosperous farmer, is a neighbor.
He IL secretly married to Evelyn
Robertson, supposedly wealthy girl
of the neighborhood. Marcus Mac
KeRzie, who owns the ground the
sQuatters occupy, 10 their deter
mined enemy. Polly overhears q
conversation between Mackenzie
and a stranger, in which the former
avows his intention of driving the
squatters from his land. The Etran-
ger sympathiEes with the squatters,
and earns Polly's gratitude. Evelyn
Robertson discovers from her moth
er that they are not rich, but prac-
tically living on the bounty of
Robert Percival, Evelyn's cousin.
Polly learns from Evelyn that the
sympathetic stranger 10 Robert
Percival. Evelyn charges Polly
with a message to Bennett, telling
him she can give him no more
money. She already bitterly regrets
her marriage to the ignorant farm
or. Polly conveys her message and
Oscar makes threata He insists
Evelyn meet him that night. Polly
has her father and Larry Bishop,
a squatter, take an oath to do Mac
Kenzie no injury. Evelyn unsuc-
cessfully tries to get money from
her mother with which to buy off
Bennett and induce him to leave the
country. giving her her freedom.
She and Mackenzie avow their
love. At the arranged meeting that
night Bennett threatens Evelyn
with exposure unless she gives him
money. Polly meets Robert Per-
cival, and they are mutually at
tracted, Polly's feeling being adora-
ton. Oscar kills Polly's lamb and
Percival thrashes Oscar.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-04-27
Robert Drew One Hand Across His
Brow HelpIessly.

won't be anything to catch in season
or out, If the squatters keep up their
Internal poachiug. Hunting and fish
ing are for gentlemen, my dear Bob
Don't forget thatl"
Gentlemen be id" calculated
Robert, and then the curtains swayed
so that he got to his feet and started
toward the door.
Mare" he continued, perhaps we
can't agree on this matter at all, but
/ really. do want a heart-to-heart talk
with-you about it. But not nowl The
fact is was busy when you came
in"
Thinking up a few more pleas for
the sQuatters, eh2" the other man
teased. -Well, old fellow, just remem-
Der this. I've got at least twenty-five
men watching everything that scamp
Of a Hopkins does, and when get
something on him, there won't be TWEEN
ty-four hours between that time and
his arrest"
Robert almost showed the speaker
out Of the door; but Marcus only
.chuckled good-naturedly as he went
away. When Robert turned the key
in the lock, he stood quite still, breath
Ing hard.
From behind the curtain, Polly
thrust out her head, her small face
wrinkled and tears standing thick In
her eyes.
"rm a-gOin' after that pup an swat
him. she bissed stOrmily. 'He lies
when he says my daddy's a scamp
PercivaI lifted precautionary hand.
''Not too loud" he warned. "Come
here" She went slowly forward. her
head hanging: but when he he out
his hands she snatched them and bent
her curly read over the strong fingers
and kisseG them passiohately.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-04-27
A Prominent Nurse
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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-04-27

"You've got to cit down." he said
grufiy. II want to talk to you"
''In a minute, them" returned Mar
Gus. "Ill get the book frst."
Very white, Robert walked before
Mackenzie to the bookcase. Then
with one sweep of his arm he moved
aside the curtain and with it-Polly
Hopkins. He could feel beneath the
thick material the slender, Quivering
body. And there, as the two men
stood facing the shelves laden with
the masterpieces or the world, and
Marcus was running his eye up and
down, Robert felt that first wonder
full protective love that comes to a
man when he Is shielding a woman.
Evelyn said 1t was here" observed
Mackenzie carelessly. LET me look
A-B-C-Here's D. II ought to be
on this shelf"
He read aloud the names of the
books under his eye while still the
strong hand Of his companion held up
the curtain and the girl.
"Ah, here 1t is" came in exclama-
ton. "Therel Thanks, Bobl Now
I'll sit down a minute"
He walked back to the table, and
Percival carefully dropped the drap-
cries. Keeping his eye on the other
mans back, he ran his fingers over
the curtain until he came to the curly
head Of Polly Hopkins. Two tender
pats fell upon 1t. Then he. too. crossed
to the center of the room.
you're a hospitable chap, Bob"
laughed Marcus. "Heigh-hol but to-
day I've been some busy. I'll bet you
quarter of dollar 1t won't be three
months before l get every squatter off
that shore. The fact Of 1t is, I've only
got to catch Hopkins, and the rest'll
be easy. He's bad actor; and that
girl of his is saucy baggage"
"She's a very good girl" Robert In
terposed in deep tones, "and very pref
ty, too"
The bookcase draperies moved ever
so little. Polly Hopkins almost burst
with Joy when she heard those words.
pretty enough, suppose" Marcus
conceded, "but not good. She's like
the reSt-bad clean through"
The curtains moved a little more;
and Robert caught the sway of them
out Of the tail of his eye. He felt that
If Mackenzie did not go soon, he would
throw him out. What the girl would
do If Marc started TRADE against her
father, Robert did not dare contem-
plate.
Look here, Marc" he burst forth,
you're all wrong about those people,
all dead wrong. They don't harm any
one, as can see. Why can't you live
and let liver?
His eyes flashing, Marcus stood up.
mo harm, no harm, you say" he
fiared. "Why, they steal everything in
sight. and in few more years there
won't be a fish left in the lake. There
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-04-27

Nominated For COLLECTOR Of Cuotonl0.
Washington. IA. r. Noble, Of Annis-
tts,. Ala, has been nominated by Pres
idsnt Harding to be collector Of Gus
toms district NO. 10. with hesdquar-
ters at Mobile. Ala.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-04-27
'Look at me, dearie. love
you, little girl"
(To BE coNTINuED.l
rraded PIpss for LAND.

The clay pipe industry Of Bristol.
Eng, which Is now entirely closed
down, dates back to the Seventeenth
century, when large quantities Of
BrIstol-made pipes were exported to
the American colonies. English clays
were 80 much preferred by the Indians
to their own rudely fashioned pipes
that they became ;OluabIe as objecta
Of barter or part purchase value IN
exchange for land. Three hundred
pipes figure In the list Of articles
given BY William Penn IN exchange for
q tract Of land In what Il now Penn
sYlvania, and another record Of early
colonial days shows that IN 1917 12O
pipes and 100 jews harps were ex-
changed for a plot near Timber Town,
Nj.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-04-27
Weboter,a WORK On Dictionary.

Noah Webster began his prepare
tion for his American dictionary Of the
English language In 1907 and pub
lIshed II In 1928. Previous to 1907 he
had published speller and "A Com
pendlous Dictionary both OF which
we're probably helpful In the new I'M
dernkIng. The American dictionary
contained 1900 more words and
about 10000 more definitions than had
appeared in any English dictionary pub.
Iashed before hiA