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The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

suit foreign convenience or foreign
interest? 70 II
II foreign nations are ready now
as formerly to deliver nine-tenths
OF our goods. why not allow them
70 20 80 and cease troubling the
people with subsidy bills?
REASONS UNDERNEATH.
These suggestions have been
made by American citizens, testify.
ing before Congressional commit.
tees as regards the present shin
subsidy bill. They underlie most
OF the arguments made in Con.
gress against the bill. Why then?
For what reasons?
For reasons that go right to the
heart Of every mans welfare in
the United States. whether he be
farmer. manufacturer or shop.
Keeper. tenant, wageworker or
salaried clerk.
This country is the garden of
the hemisphere, the workshop of
the world. 1t produces a surplus
OF the things men need to live by
and enjoy Ufe-produced it before
the war. and produces 1t in greater
measure now. If this country
should work up to full capacity
for one year 1t would be smothered
In It's surplus.
FATAL TO PROSPERITY.
But surplus crops and surplus
manufactures that cannot be car.
ried away to market and sold are
fatal to prosperity.
They are the dead hand laid on
farmer and manufacturer alike.
They paralyze US all. Even though
foreign trade be only IL or Is per
cent Of our whole business, with
out it-yes, without a full measure
OF 1.-THE goods pile up at the
wharves, back up along the rail-
roads. accumulate at factory and
farm, and every man who works
for a living suffers in consequence.
We produce the surplus crops
and manufactures. Unless we deci.
mate the American people or let
them go half idle. we have got to
go on producing It, and unless we
market 1t overseas we cannot
prosper.
TO WATERS EDGE.
What then? We are spending
hundreds of millions to subsidize
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
Assets Are Frozen.

Germany is now in a state OF
financial paralysis, the official
stated. All of the capital formerly
held within Germany has been
moved out and Is used as a means
of borrowing marks within Ger
many. The assets are absolutely
frozen and are not being used.
Germany is unable to purchase
foods and raw materials.
Germany normally imports about
one quarter of her foodstuff, an
official pointed out. and Is now
unable to fill her requirements out
side. II a loan is negotiated. it
was pointed out, It would have
to be Of such proportions as to
avert an emergency in Germany
and provide a surplus to pay to
France and Belgium in reparations.
In any negotiations to float
loan for Germany the interests
of Mr. Morgan will play an i'm
portant part. it was stated. 1t may
require an early visit of the finan-
cier to France, Great Britain and
Germany. or the arrangements may
Be made when Stanley Baldwin.
British chancellor Of the exchequer,
visits Washington early in jan
uary, 1t Is believed
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
Ceremonies To Attend
Chancellor Inauguration

Ceremonies attending the inau-
guration Of Lucius Charles Clark
as chancellor Of American Univer.
sity will be held at Continental Me-
mortal Hall at 4:30 o'clock this aft
ernoon, after which an inaugural
banquet will be held at Rauscher's.
Addresses will be delivered by
Edward F. Colladay, Bishop Francis
]. Mcconnell, Of Pittsburgh: DIR.
John ]. Tigert, U. s. Commissioner
Of Education. The trustees Of the
university will hold their annual
meeting at 10 o'clock this morning.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
Tells countrymen Of Necessity
Of Making Sacrifice to Keep
Friendship of United States
GIVES INTERVIEW At SEA.
Words Fall Like Bomb in Paris,
Where "Tiger" May Make
Effort to Return to Power
By FRANK E. MASON.
International News Service.

PARIS, Dec. 14.-"Keep out of
the Ruhr" was the warning sent
to France today by former Premier
Georges Clemenceau, who is on the
high seas aboard the liner Paris,
returning from the United States.
SENT IN INTERVIEW.
This warning was contained in
an interview. wirelessed by Fran
co.'s Crucy, correspondent Of the
Parisien. from the liner.
NJ. Clemenceau suggested that
President Harding arbitrate the
questions that have arisen between,
France and England. chiefly over
reparations and war debts.
There were indications tonight
that the Tiger will throw his hat
into the ring upon his arrival next
week. re-entering active politics.
He comes just ten days before the
resumption of the allied premiers'
conference.
TO HECKLE POINCARE.
Close adherents of NJ. Clemenceau
are getting busy in the Chamber
Of Deputies. They promise a warm
reception for Premier Poincsre
when he appears in the chamber
tomorrow.
Clemenceau's warning may speed
up French ratification of the Wash
ington armament treaty for naval
reductions. He urged that this
pact be approved without further
delay. This treaty is at present
pending in committee of the
chamber,
CAME LIKE BOMB.
THE Tigers" sensational state.
ment came like a bombshell in po-
litical circles. 1t threatens to
destroy party alignments.
Il am opposed to occupation of
the Ruhr," said Clemenceau. Per
haps there was a time when a policy
of force would have had useful re-
SUITS, Dut II Is 100 ldte now. SuCn
a policy has lost its effect in view
Of the concessions already made to
Germany. Occupation of the Ruhr
causes me worry and apprehensions.
Consider the consequences of
miners general strike.
Most Of Germany's coal mines are
in the Ruhr basin.)
CANNOT AFFORD MISTAKE.
AN American friend suggested
that President Harding arbitrate
Anglo-French differences and to try
and cOnciliate the two viewpoints.
This is an excellent idea. 1 approve
Of il. We have reached the extreme
limit of committing faults. We can.
not afford to make another mistake,
such as occupation of additional
German territory in opposition to
British and American opinion. In
other words. Anglo-American friend
ship is worth making sacrifices to re-
tain.
Ratification of the Washington
conference treaty would not incon-
venience or injure France. 1t should
be done"
Before going to the United States
Clemenceau was the leader of a
group demanding a strong army
policy" Now his views are just the
opposite.
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TODAY

Continued from page one)
Too bad men don't devote more
time to developing the earth's
resources, instead of trying to
rob each other through war that
impoverishes everybody.
DONAR LAW tells England
ID that Germany is very near
the point of collapse. He also
says that the plutocrats of
Germany have shown cowardice
in not paying the reparations.
With what money could they
pay the reparations? And
what security could Germany
give them? We know by ex-
perience that very rich patriots
always want security.
And what, by the way, hap
pens when a nation collapses
financially? We haven't seen
that yet. Will German money
lose all its value, so that it
will be necessary to trade po-
tatoes for hats and stockings
for butter? That will make
commerce difficult. Will a wild
revolution be started? That
won't help Western Europe to
collect indemnities.
THE FRENCH suggest that
l. women be allowed to vote
when thirty years old. There,
as here, MEN vote at twenty
one. The French idea seems to
be that a woman must live
thirty years to have as good
judgment as a boy of twenty
one. The FACT is that a girl
of seventeen on the average is
older mentally by ten years
than a boy of twenty-one.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
Veterans on Clutches
Protest Hospital Closing

Fort McHenry Hospital. some on
crutches, called on Director Charles
r. Forbes. Of the Veterans Bureau,
yesterday, to protest the closing Of
that hospital January 1. Represen.
tative Joseph H. Hill and officers Of
several women's relief organizations
accompanied them.
Major r. W. Bliss, assistant In
charge Of hospitaliation. explained
that the expense to keep up the Fort
McHenry hospital made Il essential
that Il BE- closed.
There are only s7b patients in the
hospital and we have vacant beds
enough in any one Of the local hos
pitfalls to take care Of all Of them" "
said Major Bliss.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
No Burglars Required
To Set off this Alarm

Here's a gilt-edged opportunity
for an enterprising burglar.
The burglar alarm in the United
States Savings Bank, Fourteenth
and U streets, has ceased to func-
ton. Oft in the stilly night. so
to speak, it just breaks loose. Ex.
citement lovers, tired business men,
jazz hounds, and everyone else in
the vicinity-but policemen-rush
to see gun-play and everything!
Last night was no exception. The
gong sounded shortly after o'clock.
A huge crowd gathered. A hustling
reporter found a blue-coat. "Oh,
yes" He knew all about it. There
just couldn't be any burglars in
there. The burglar alarm is an
alarm all right. But, burglars!
Pshawi
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
Guarantees Needed.

On account of the size of the
loan It was suggested that prob
ably Mr.. Morgan and other Amer
lean financiers will bring European
bankers into the arrangements.
The proposed loan. officials point
out. would have the immediate eff.
feet Of satisfying France and check
ing the pressure to occupy the
Ruhr district. which France has
threatened. 1t is added. however.
that before the international bank
ers will underwrite the issue they
must have guarantees of stability
and an end Of imperialistic ges-
lures. which must be furnished by
responsible governments.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

turers and wage-earners OF any
other land on earth.
For these purposes Great Britain
has subsidized her merchant fleet
and for these purposes she subsi-
dies and operates II today. For
similar purposes, France subsidies
her merchant vessels, as does also
Japan: as does also Italy: as did
also Germany when she went out
under Bismarck to take her share
T.. ,he worlds markets, and as she
is doing again. Every one of these
''a'ions knows that 1t can not mar
ket its surplus products. keep its
people busy and maintain national
prosperity as long as II depends
on rivals and competitors to deliver
its goods across the world.
EGYPTIAN COTTON.
Much has been made of the Brit.
ish shipping policy at Alexandria.
because British ship owners refused
to let Egyptian cotton. bought with
American money, be transported on
American ships directly to the
American markets. but insisted,
with threats, that the shipments
be made on British merchantmen,
though at higher cost and by way
Of Liverpool.
daily at the harassments inflicted
pean ports where British officials
have either influence or authority
at the delays in the ships mails.
patches. the determinations at the
dnrkC nA erara.aI t.%
with the ships business, all for the
purpose of hampering American
commerce and promoting British
commerce at Americas expense.
BUSINESS AT SEA.
The Indignation and resentment
are justified to a certain extent.
But every other foreign power
would do the same things under the
same circumstances. Business at
sea is as keen as business on land.
Would the steel corporation go out
of its way to yield markets to a
new competitor? Would the Chi
cago packers exert themselves to
surrender markets to a young rival
in Sacramento or Cincinnati? Such
ideas are childish.
In the shipping Of the world for
centuries all other nations of the
world have recognized things as
they were and are, have known
they could market their surplus
goods overseas only by delivering
those goods on their own ships.
and therefore have subsidized the
ships and built up their own sys-
TEN of ocean deliveries.
DELUDING OURSELVES.
II we imagine that by any other
means we can get the world trade
that our farms and factories have
got to have for their continued
prosperity, we are deluding our
selves. II we refuse to maintain
our present fleet and throw our.
selves again on the mercy Of our
chief competitor, we do worse-rob
ourselves. To imagine anything
else is to imagine q lie.
Not all the world are fools, and
we alone the wise ones. In this
case. the reverse has been true.
II we go on as we have gone, 1t
will continue to be true.
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BONAR LAW ATTACKS
FRENCH RUHR PLANS
Declares Against Policy Of Fur
ther Military Force in
RhineIand.
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Britain must lower their expects-
tions substantially.
Reparations must be very small.
There must be q moratorium and
q long one. France must be made
70 understand that the minds OF q
great many OF the British people
are bent upon a final settlement
the closing Of the old chapter Of
war and the opening Of a new one
Of peace. insuring better economic
and political relations.
Unless France joins Britain In
this stand there is no solution pos
sible.
LAWS HAND FORCED.
Ramsay Macdonald. speaking for
labor. warned the government that
II must not concfliate France by the
surrender Of British rights or coun.
tenancing the French invasion of
the Ruhr.
There 10 no doubt thai the effect
OF the Lloyd George expose OF the
militarists which 10 stin the leading
topic OF discussion in the press,
forced Bonar Law to disclose his
stand. which all parties agree make.
for the preservation OF peace.
DENIAL By LLOYD GEORGE.
An interjection by Labor Member
Morel. attacking France for intro.
ducing black troops IN Germany and
accusing Lloyd George Of winning
the election Of 1918 on the cry Of
TRY the Kaiser-Msl<e Germany
Pay For the Whole War" brought
from the former premier q sweeping
denial.
Lloyd George said that IN his only
election speech on indemnities he
stated that Germany should pay &c
the utmost limit OF her capacity.
The commons, sensing the hit
achieved by Lloyd oeorFs through
his exposure OF the plotting French
chauvinists. roundly chesrsd him.
Lady Astor evoked cheers and
laughter when she interrupted No
rsl's attack by shouting:
what DO you know about wary
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
Trade Highways of World Vital
to American Life, Says Hinman

the highways that carry the goods
from factory and farm to the rail-
roads. We have spent hundreds Of
millions to subsidize the railroads
that carry the goods to the waters
edge. And at the waters edge
what does the American manufac-
turer. the American farmer, find?
He found. before the present fleet
was created, as he will find again II
that fleet is allowed to fail. that he
was no longer in the hands Of this
country's common carriers, no
longer dealing with Americans in.
terested in American prosperity and
American progress. but in the
hands Of foreign competitors and
rivals. the promoters Of their own
farm interests, their own industrial
enterprises, their own home and
foreign markets as against those Of
America and Americans throughout
the world.
BOER WAR CASE.
At the time OF the Boer war. and
again in the world war. Americans
with a surplus of crops or goods
to sell found themselves subject to
all the whims and necessities OF
foreign governments. One Senate
committee estimated that American
farmers and manufacturers then
paid enough In extra charges to
British ship owners to cover the
total amount Of an American ship
subsidy for twenty years. And the
Boer war Is only one case in point.
1t is the great American delusion
Of the day that foreign nations
are as friendly to us-to our bust
ness and to our national welfare
as to their own people; that they
do unto us as. under the Golden
Rule. we ought to do unto them
but don't; and that somehow, by
some super-power that we can not
define, they feel compelled to handle
Americas foreign trade without
discrimination.
KEEP BRITISH TRADE.
Such conditions do not exist,
never did exist. never will exist.
British ship owners for instance,
are ~" common carriers for the
world. They are British carriers.
Their first allegiance. political and
commercial, is British. The more
they promote British trade at the
expense of American trade, the
more capably are they supported
by their government and the larger
are their commercial profits. 1t is
fatuous to imagine anything else.
For what has Great Britain spent
her money ever since Queen Eliz-
abeth's day, if not to make a fleet
that promotes British business with
out regard to other nations? For
what, after centuries of mastery
at sea. does Great Britain still
pay s10,000,000 a year to keep her
merchant navy in control Of the
worlds carrying trade?
NO REGARD FOR OTHERS.
For the benefit of British pro-
ducers as against the producers in
other nations. for the extension of
British sales and British markets
to the exclusion, where possible, of
other nations from these sales and
these markets. for the enrichment
Of British manufacturers and the
occupation of British wage-earners
without regard for the manufac-
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
RObber Clubs
Man Insensible

Clubbed into insensibility by a
robber who attacked him last night,
in the branch store of the SALIVA
ton Army at 643 P street north
west, Joseph Martin, sixty years
old, manager of the shop, who lives
at the Reliance Hotel, 116 Penn.
sylvania avenue. Is in q serious
condition at the Emergency Hos
pital. It is believed his skull is
fractured.
The thief obtained IS from the
cash drawer.
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war debt Is not and cannot be
involved.
THAT nothing can remedy the
situation but a settlement Of the
reparations question.
s-That this Government can
not contribute to a large loan
that appears to be the solution
of the problem.
THAT the United States Is
willing to volunteer its good Of
fices in the economic adjustment.
BY the same source 1t was stated
that Germany is standing at the
brink of a precipice and that un'
less there is an immediate move
to relieve the situation another
great revolution is imminent.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
Badge Won't Get
Free Car Ride

A rookie cop" boarded q Lincoln
Park car at Sixth street northeast
yesterday and flashed his police
badge pinned on the inside Of his
coat. but the conductor said, Moth.
in doing. Fare pleasev'
Whats the big idea?" asked the
rookie. I'm a policeman. Don't
we ride free?"
"Yes, but only when you are in
UNIFORM" rejoined the conductor.
Il suppose you've got it in for
us fellows" said the policeman. a.
he dropped n token In the box.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

dering whether our personal gym.
pathy for the Tiger" wfn BE-
strong enough to destroy certain
preconcstved opinions and. indeed,
certain pre1udices. which have to
be taken into account In considertng
American opinion.
RsynaJd says II would be foolish
either to ignore or to deny the ex-
istence Of these prejudices. He con-
tinued:
France 10 on trial I'm America,
and stands some chance OF being
convicted, IL not careful. The
least that can be said 10 that
France faces a serious .misconcep-
ton. which 1t i4 indispensable to
clear UP. II she lis to preserve q
friendship that is dear TO her.
Our first care should be 10 dis
abuse the United States OF the
thought that we are less friendly
to them than we were, or that we
have forgotten the great help
which they gave US. For them to
believe that would be the greatest
possible mistake.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

American peo-
pie be content
to remain suffi-
cient and COM
placent. as the
British advise?
w h y should
not this nation
be willing to
produce mostly
for its own wants
and, W h e. n 1t
produces more,
let foreign ships
carry its surplus
crops a n d sur
plus manufac-
lures across the
sea and market
them aS n, n a,
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
Highams Lauds
Lloyd George
And MIR. Hearst

Special Cable to Universal Service,
LONDON, Dec. IA.
CIR CHARLES HIGHAMS,
~ former NJ. p. and director
of the recruiting campaign dur.
ing the war, commenting on
the exposures BY Lloyd George,
says:
II there be ono compenss-
tion for the loss to this
country Of David Lloyd
George as premier, it is that
he Is able to express himself
freely In his articles on the
Franco German problem.
He Is the greatest living
European statesman, and
when he says that the occu-
patton by France Of the left
bank Of the Rhine inevitably
would lead to war, 1t Is suf-
ficient, I think, for the peo-
pie Of the British Empire and
the United States to support
him TO the full.
I would take this opportu-
nifty to compliment William
Randolph Hearst on his cour.
age In presenting these arti-
cies to the American people.
That they viii do . world Of
good In clearing the world Of
misunderstanding there Is no
doubt.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

Georges Roy
nah, member q
the French SEN
ate, and French
delegate to the
League OF Ma
tions, as an
w@ed that ques-
ton for m o.
From Paris he
sends word that
France has every
reason to be
grateful to
Clemencean.
Criticism of
Cenenceau by
the mite d
Sta ties Senate
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
NAMED TO IRISH CABINET.

DUBLIN. Dec. III. J.. Walsh
was appointed postmaster general
and p. ]. Hogan, minister Of agri.
culture. in the Free State cabinet
this afternoon.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15
By GEORGE w. HINMAN.
Universal Service.

Why should the United States
have a great fleet of merchant YES
sells at sea? Why should not the
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

What 10 the reaction In France 70
Georges CJemenceau's mission IN the
United Statea just endedf
The Washington herald., 1922-12-15

What then? We are spending
hundreds of millions to subsidize
Evening star., 1922-07-09
fc,ontinuea from Seventh Pase.)

MsIinski. Naonai. No. 1: punch. Emma
p. Belt. Ruth, No. 2: fancy articles.
Mollie E. Edmonston, Martha wash
ington. No. 5: peanuts and candy, Ella
fancyWork' Susie Eckloff. Esther. No.
s: candy. Maude Rhoderick. Miriam.
NO, 6: watermelon. Nettie r. Mettler;
Fidelity, No. Z; candy. Pearl Herbert;
Friendship, No. 8; fancywork ana
No. .: cake. Hattie M. sparshott'
Schuyler colfax. No. 10.
Officers installed at Naomi Lodge
last meeting were Shirley Malinskl.
noble grand: Sarah Campbell, vice
grand: Alice Thomas, recording secre-
tary; F. Mae Raitz. financial secretary:
Emma T. Strobel. treasurer. Past
Noble Grand Sarah NJ. Sanderson pre-
sented a jewel to the retiring noble
grand. Emma J. Shea. A piece OF
cut glass was presented to the in
stalling officer by Past Noble Grand
Emma T. Strobel.
Mithras Sanctorum. No. 100, accord
inE to announcement by Grand Hyas-
rytee William +. dement,. has LIS IN
terest centered on the twentieth an
nual session of the Supreme Orient at
Providence, r. l., August 10, IL and
IL. Elaborate arrangements are De-
ing made for the comfort Of all who
attend. The Washington delegation
will include several grand lodge off1-
GERS. The Oriental Order of Humility
and Perfection Is the playground OF
odd Fellowship.
Saturday. August rs. a chartered
steamer will leave Baltimore for a
port unknown with officers and mem
bers of Mithras Sanctorum and Jahaza
Sanctorum of Baltimore and more
than 1000 candidates. When out at
sea two hours sealed orders will an
nounce the destination on arrival at
which degree work is scheduled. The
candidates will include The. Governor
of Maryland, the secretary Of state OF
Maryland, the mayor of Baltimore
and several members of Congress. In
connection with the event joint
committee meeting was held at Balti-
more last night, at which Grand
Warden Lawson was present.