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The New York herald., 1922-11-16
FARMER-LABOR HEADS
CALL A CONFERENCE
viii Meet in December to
Discuss Congress Plans.

special Dispotch 20 THE NEw YORK HFsALp.
CLEVELAND. Nov. i5.-Railway labor
leaders and other labor and farm ele-
ments will discuss a legislative program
20 b. sought from Congress at a confer
cnco ~ Chicago December IL.
This conference Is being called after
the election In which were seated
twenty-three Senatorial candidates Of
the twenty-seven indorsed by the
brotherhood OF Locomotive Firemen and
Engineers and other groups in the poll
tical action league. The Senate next
year will be safely controlled by friends
Of labor, brotherhood leaders say. 4
check OF the House has not been com
plCted.
The Chicago meeting Is to discuss also
the advisabillty of forming a third
party. The conference was organized
in Chicago last February and has taken
an active part In the primaries and
elections In many States this fall.
The New York herald., 1922-11-16

"All through, DOCTOR?
Yes, doctor"
Very well, we will proceed
! And was gradually pushed through
the hall into the operating room. The
process there was lightning like.
was in torture.
Lift me up, lift me up"
tlL What for?"
Il have one of those angina pains
land I must ease 1t by getting up and
taking some nitro"
That had been my practice, but did
not reason that never before had the
pain come on my right side.
Give him a whiff of ether" The
tenderest arms stole around my head
and the softest possible voice-Ulysses
must have heard it long ago-"Now
do take deep breath" l resisted. 1
had been told that would see the per-
formance.
please do. breathe very deeply
Just one good deep breath"
! That pain was burning the side out
Of me- tried to get my hand up TO
my side. OF course il was tied down.
I swore.
''Oh Christ! This is terrible"
'It will stop II you will reach for q
big breath"-and l resigned myself.
Men who are given the third degree
have no stronger will than mine. l
knew I was helpless. ] must go
through. I must surrender to that
Circean voice.
/ heard the doctor in a commonplace
monotone say, This is an unusual
case--"--the rest Of this sentence
1 never heard.
There was a long ray Of gray light
leading from my bed to my door. ]
had opened my eyes. II had not died"
] had come through the Valley.
II wonder what he got
In the broad part of the ray VAS
my wife smiling. and stretching out to
that unreachable door were others
whom recognized. all smiling. Things
were dim, but my mind seemed definite.
what did he get?' | had expected
eternal mysteries to be unraveied.
Either I would know or not know. and
I would not know that l would not
know.
He got a gail bladder filed with
stones and bad appendix. and now
you are to lie still"
Then to this the drama had come,
the drama beyond all dramas--a hand
ful of brownish secretions and n couple
Of pieces Of morbid fiesh! All me.
j am doing well. cared for well as
happy as can be; have had none OF
my angina pains since the operation.
And as lie here contemplate tmak-
ingl frieze-a procession of doctors
and nurses and internes. of dlagnosti-
clans and techniciaus and experts and
mechanics and servitors and cooks
all. the great and the small. IN profile.
| They are to look like those who have
made their pretenses before me dur
Ing the last year-the solemn and the
stupid. the kindly. the reckless. the
offhand, the erudite. the practical. the
many men with tubes and the many
men with electrical machines. Old
Esculapius must begin the procession
but the Man with tho Knife, regnant
heroic size, must end II.
I What n great thing, what a pride
TO have the two men OF greatest con-
structive imagination and courage in
surgery In the world as Americans
DR. Charles and DR.. Will Mayo.
The New York herald., 1922-11-16
Two Democrats Among
First 3 New Senators
Special Dispatch to THE NEw YosK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.


New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, y. C., Nov. 10. }
w yHEN Congress cohvenes in
w extra session next Monday
three new Senator'S will
take the oath and assume their
duties at once. They are:
Smith Brookhart of Iowa. in
surgent Republican, who succeeds
Senator Rawson.
Walter F.. George of Georgia,
Democrat, who takes the seat
of the late Senator Tom Watson,
who died during the recess of
Congress.
Thomas +. BayaItl of Delaware,
Democrat, who succeeds Senator
T. Coleman du Pont, appointed
by the Governor of Delaware to
fill a vacancy caused by the
resignation OF Senator Wolcott.
Thus the Republican majority
will be cut at once from "a TO o.,
with SO Republicans and 81 Demo-
Gratis.
The New York herald., 1922-11-16
Nearly Resigned.
To ROBERT LANSING

10 ftOBEET lsANtlNg---
ROCHESTER,, Is MAY. 1921.
Ny Dear Lansing: T am disturbed
because you may be disturbed. As !
lie In bed / read ana am read to. and
some OF the papers do not treat you
decently. The very ones that were
loudest IN their declarations against
w. w. at every stage now suggest
that you might have quit his service
IL you didn't like It. hope IL will not
get under your skin.
What comfort you would have given
the enemy if you had resigned Have
they thought of that? | came TO the
brink when the President blew up my
coal agreement to save three or four
hundred million dollars for the people.
But was stopped by the thought.
"Give no comfort to Berlin" i.
Good night and good luck. L. *. i.
The New York herald., 1922-11-16
w. L. DOUGLAS STORE S IN GREATER NEW YORK

k85 Nassau street
S47 Broadway, near 14th
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1854 Third Avenue
kt452 Third Avenue
t22O2 Tbird Ave-, cor. 1s0th st.
t277O Third Av., bat. I4sth d,47h Sis.
347 Eighth Avenue
$3.50 West 12Jth street
tYonkers I'D N. Broadway
tHobOken --I2O Washington NJ.
Stores marked With az carry complete
The New York herald., 1922-11-16

BKOOkLTN
t5524 Fifth Ave., cor. seth st.
Mos Broadway, near Thornton ST.
t1367 Broadway, oof. 6alss Are.
t47S Fifth Ave-, cor. 1 1th ST.
1850 Manhattan Ave., GfssnpoIai
t440 Fulton Street
t4:s4 Knickerbocker Ave.
Jersey City-1S Newark Az.
tUnion Hill-278 Bergenllne Ave.
4 Newark i S31 Broad Street
es OF w L. Douglas Sheea for womsn
The New York herald., 1922-11-16
The Unfinished Thought.

Manuscript fragment written May
~. 1921. and found in his room.
Franklin. X. Lane died May rs. 1921.
And IL had passed into that other
The New York herald., 1922-11-16
CREDIT MEN DINE TONIGHT.

The twenty-eghth annual fall banquet
Of the New York Credit Mems Associa-
tion will he held In the Hotel Astor this
evening. The speakers Will be RI. V
kalterborn, editor OF the Brooklyn Ddily
Eagle. and Harold B. Wells, Judge OF
the Courfy Court. Pordentown, ". J.
Evening star., 1922-12-10

Classic. I've are much heartened BY
the public statements made by tha,
strong friend of the public schools.
Senator Capper. and by those staunch
friends OF the District. Representa-
tive Zihlman of Maryland and Walton
Moore of Virginia, and other public
men who know the exact situation.
They realize that we are not asking
the impossible. This is of neces-
sity a period of economy and re-
trenchment, but economy does not
mean cutting down every kind of
expenditure. When q man finds his
income diminishing, he does not cut
down his children's food supply: he
does not economiZe on milk and eggs.
On the contrary. he marShals his ex-
penditures in the order of their i'm
portance and cuts down those which
are of the least significance. He be-
gins his economies with the luxury
and display items of expenditure. Yet.
people in Washington demanding
new sites for parks. We, on the con
trary. ask for new sites for schools.
The slogan adopted by the commit
tee for its campaign was proposed by
Mr.. Nutter, who pointed out that ii is
the social right Of every school child
to have "a seat for full time through
out the school year"
Publicity will be one of the prin-
cipal weapons of the committee in
fighting for improvements in the
schools. Other means Of impreSsine
on Congress the necessity of granting
the appropriations needed to improve
the school system will be decided at
the next session.
Evening star., 1922-12-10
FIVE PERSONS INJURED
IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Five Automobiles, Street Car and
Bicycle Figure in
Crashes.

Five persons We're injured in a
series of traffic accidents last night.
in which IL street car. five automobiles
and a bicycle figured,
benjamin Staub Of apartment o.
20 Rhuue Island avenue northwest.
was knocked from his bicycle about
80 o'clock when an automobile Saia
to b,. owned by II. II. Proctor, 2lZ'
West Lexington street, Baltimore.
and occupied by three unidentifed
white men. colIided with his mount
and failed to stop after the accident
The. collision occurred while Staun
was prdaliuG north on y p" Jtr''L
avenue near the intersection or ,
street northwest. Although his back
was injured Staub refused hosp,Iii ,!1'a
treatment and went t" his home. The
uolica are looking for the occupants
of the machine. ',
Clarence Rutledge. thirty years Old,
of lli9 9Th street northwest. and Gsois.
Hicks. thirty-four Years old. OF ~ ~
street southwest. We're treated at
Emergency Hospital earlier In the even
ing for injuries sustained when the au-
tomobilr in which they We're riding co..
iided at 3D. street and Indiana avenue
northwest. with street car OF the
Washington Railway and Electric Com
their homes The automobile, which was
owned by Mrs Alice Hicks, also of II
H street southwest. was badly damaged.
Louis Magarity of Mclean. Va. re-
ceived cuts about the hand as re-
suit of a collision of the automobile
he was operating with another car.
operated by Ashton Frazier OF al9
Sth street southwest. at the corner
of 9th and r streets northwest.
Magarity was given first-atd trea, :
ment by Charles y. Mckay of l229
Maryland avenue northeast. Both
automobiles We're slightly damaged.
Charles A. Lally. twenty-five years
old. who gave his address as Casualty
Hospital, was struck and knocked
down by an automobile truck of the
Palace Laundry as he was crossing
10th street between l street and New
York avenue early last night. recelV-
ing a fracture of the right foot.
Lally was taken to the office of his
brother, DR.. William ]. Lally. Tudor
Hall. The truck was operated by
Edward Howard. colored. Of 81 De-
catur street.
Evening star., 1922-12-10
TO ATTEND
SESSION OF RED.CROSS
Will Call Board Meeting to Order
on Wednesday and May
Deliver Address.

President Harding. as president of
the National American Red Cross, will
call the organization to order and
probably deliver short address at
the annual meeting of the general
board Of the National American Red
Cross at the national headquarters
in this city next Wednesday after
noon.
Robert w. de Forest of New York.
one OF the vice presidents of the Red
Cross. will preside over the formal
sessions Of the board. and Vice Presf-
dent Coolidge will make the princi-
pal address.
Two members Of the central COM
mittee will be elected to serve for
three years on the general board. FILL
ing the vacancies due to the expir-
atfons of the terms Of Cornelius "
Bliss, tr., and Charles d. Norton, both
of New York
The same day. the annual meeting
Of the national committee on Red
Cross nursing Will be held at the Red
Cross headquarters Standards and
further development Of nursing SER
vice and activities Will be the prin-
cipal topic of the gathering.
Evening star., 1922-12-10

position of the Ottoman debt, de-
scribe the attitude of the Turkish
representatives participating therein
as recalcitrant. The question at is-
sue before the former subcommission
today was the position of foreign
property holders. and two young dep
uties. who recently arrived from An
CORA. adopted an attitude which
seemed to augur intransigeance when
the vital question of foreign ports is
to be considered later. No advance
was made at the session.
At the meeting of the subcommis-
sion on the Ottoman debt the Turks
said they would refuse to accept re-
sponsibility for the entire Turkish
debt contracted during the great war
and insisted that it should be divided
pro-rata between Mesopotamia, Syria
and those parts of Greece, Bulgaria
and Jugoslavia, which formerly be.
longed to Turkey.
The allies have announced that they
cannot accept this view and a dead
lock exists on the question.
When 1smet Pasha was asked to-
night about the Athens report that
the Grecian army would attack the
Turks in Thrace if Greece was un-
fairly treated in Lausanne, he re-
piled: THAT makes me laugh"
Evening star., 1922-12-10

Continued from First Page.)
neighboring states on the Black sea
the question of demilitarizing that
water.
Some of the correspondents re-
marked that Turkey. weary of war,
had natural desire to establish
durable peace in the near east, but
NJ. Tchitcherin emphasized that it
was great mistake to put trust in
the European powers.
The correspondents withdrew and
sent long dispatches to their news
papers in Constantinople. Angora and
elsewhere. Some of them appeared
deeply distressed, as they said they
did not want to embarrass their dele
gates.
There are indications that the boil
sheviki are inclined to believe that
some of the members of the Turkish
delegation are dissatisfied with Ismet
Pasha's conciliatory policy on the
straits problem and that the Russians
were trying to play upon this senti-
ment to their own advantage.
European delegates, who attended
the meeting of the subcommittee de.
voted to discussion of the treatment
of foreigners in Turkey and the dis
Evening star., 1922-12-10

committee on education of the Feder-
ated Civic Associations.
Betterment Program.
Active steps toward the drafting of
the school betterment program were
undertaken with vim by members
of the committee at the first meeting.
which lasted for nearly two hours.
Another session will be held either
Wednesday or Thursday afternoon, at
which it is planned to arrange the
improvements needed in the schools
in the order OF their urgency. Mean
time, each member of the committee
will analyze the school budget for the
next fiscal year and the annual re-
port Of Superintendent of Schools
sBallou and draw from them the vital
needs as outlined by the school
authorities. The data assembled by
each of the members will be used in
framing the program which the civic
bodies will be called upon to push
through Congress.
Before formulating the program,
however. the committee expects to
AAoAA lAO SAllLCHS dSSOClaIlOnS,
trade bodies and other organizations
interested in public education reports
on the conditions and needs of the
schools in which they are especially
concerned. 1t also is the intention
of the committee to personally survey
the conditions in some of the schools
In order to become thoroughly IA
milfar with them.
The committee adopted a resolu-
tion pledging to stand for the pro-
gram of the board of education, en-
tire and complete, as a minimum pro-
gram, undiminished both with respect
to buildings. salaries and every other
item" 1t also adopted another reso-
luton pointing out that "the adult
population must stand for such hard
ships and inconvenience during this
period of retrenchment and economy
instead of placing them upon the
children.
At the outset of the meeting Chair
man Classic declared that 1t is the
purpose of the committee not to orig
inate anything. but to marshal the
necessities in support of the school
board. and to find ways and means of
bringing Washington's necessities ef-
fectively to the attention of both
houses of Congress.
In beginning this work." said Mr.
Evening star., 1922-12-10
BURCH AT LAST FREED
INLOS ANGELES MURDER
Tried Three Times for Staying
Broker Kennedy. and Faced
Investigation on Sanity.

Dy the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. Calf. December 9.
Arthur c. Burch had his freedom to-
night after standing trial three times
for murder and once for insanity. The
juries of the murder charge all disa-
greed and the alienists at the insanity
hearing did likewise. but the weight Of
expressed belief of the latter was that
Burch was sane or harmless, II insane.
80 his freedom was restored to him.
Burch said he did not know what he
would do. The action today completed
long chapter of trials. all based on
the murder of ]. Belton Kennedy. a
Young broker. who was shot down on
the steps Of his summer cottage. in Bev-
erly Glen, seventeen months ago. Burch
and Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain were
indicted for the crime. Burch was tried
three times to disagreements. Mrs.
Obenchain was recently freed when the
district attorney dismissed the murder
Indictment Burch was held for an in
sanity hearing on the petition Of his
attorney, Paul w. Schenck.
Evening star., 1922-12-10
FOR PLAN TO CUT
OFF 18TH Street
Mount Pleasant Citizens
Would Facilitate BuiIdinq
of New School.

After three hours of discussion. in
which virtually all members Of the
organization presented their views.
the Mt Pleasant Citizens Associa-
ton went on record last night in
doTsing the proposed plan Of the Dis
trict Commissioners to close 18th
street north Of Newton TO vehicuIar
traffic in order to make more conven-
lent the erection of the new public
school at that corner.
Included in the resolution. which
was presented by Maj. A. Nj. HoIcomb.
was clause calling for the erection
of suitable steps leading from Ingle-
side Terrace to the Piney Branch
park and also vote Of appreciat ion
to the Commissioners from the asso-
citation in their efforts to beautify
that section of the city
Model and Maps shown.
Before the decision was reached
George Burnap. landscape architect,
working in conjunction with the
Commissioners in solving the intri-
on the site, which is pierced by n
deep ravine. detailed the plans by
means of model and maps.
Maj. Holconh moved TO suggest to
the board of education and the Com
miSsionerS thar the school be named
for former United States Senator
John Brooks Henderson. instead Of
for former District Commissioner
Hine. as now contemplated by the
authorities.
1t was stressed by Maj Holcomb
that Senator and Mrs. Henderson had
section, and in naming the new school
for the former the appreciation of
the neighborhood would be shown
Mrs. Henderson.
c. T. Consaul presided and. in de-
falling the forthcoming Imperial ses-
sion of the Mystic Shrine TO be held
here next June. asked the member
ship 10 aid as far as convenient in
housing visitors expected.
The association also went on record
as indorsing course OF health in
struction be given all children in the
public schools. as now being consid-
cred by Supt. Ballou.
Two Nights OF School.
Following an appeal by Thomas A.
son-Powell community center permit
them the use of the building on Fri
days instead of Saturdays. as is now
the custom. the association signed a
petition and voted to urge the au-
thorities to keep the school open two
nights during the week, instead of
one. and that Mrs. Edith Hunter be
kept there. The secretary of the COM
munity now divides her time be-
tween the school and Chevy Chase
community center.
DIR. c. b. Campbell read a paper
from the District Medical Society, in
which its offices We're offered for the
prevention of diseases in rhe neigh
borhood.
New members admitted tn The or
ganization last night included J. E.
Hamilton. Miss v Clear. Miss AIable
Dill. Miss Emma Dill. w H. Allison
Miss Emma NJ V. Triepel. Miss Mae
H Gotwald. Henry H. Gibson. Rob-
ert c. Howard and DR. Riley D.
Moore
Evening star., 1922-12-10
GEN. HAINEs TO RETIRE.

Brig. Gen. Henry C. Haines, ad-
tutant and inspector. United States
leave Of absence. will be transferred
to the retired list January / on his
own application after more than
forty-seven years. service. Col. Rufus
H. Lane, assistant adjutant, who has
several months nrobahiv will he rror
NOTED to the prospective vacancy in
the grade of brigadier general.
Col. Lincoln karmany of the Ma
rine Corps. who has had more than
forty years service, will go on the
retired list February next, also on
his own aDplicaioR
Evening star., 1922-12-10

ton of positions and employees Is
urgently needed. Desirable as such
reclassification would be, from the
standpoint of more appropriate and
more uniform salary ranges, il would
prove also to be in the interest of
more economical administration. one
reason for this is The fact that ther"
would be uniform designations for
positions having uniform duties. and
the bureau of the budget IL C"nSi!-
ering estimates for appropriations
would have exact and comparable
knowledg" OF the numbers ard kinds
of employees engaged in all activities
This knowledge would be of service
aminations and TO the government
generally in seeking, for example.
trained employees for transfer to
positions requiring abilities beyond
those ordinarily called for on en-
trance to the service"
2O6,OO7 Persons Examined.
The report shows that during the
fiscal year 206.0o7 persons were given
examinations under the civil service
law and rules and that 62.4SS were
appointed to the classified civil serv-
ice: that The numbers of persons ex-
amined and appointed during the year
were smaller than for either of the
TWO preceding HScai years, tnat. not =
WithGtandinS the large number of
appointments, the civil service was
actually reduced by more than $4,000
during the fiscal year and by more
than $4,000 since the armistice was
signed. 1t is stated that on June so.
1922. the end of the fiscal year. there
were 69.9S0 federal civil employees in
the District OF Columbia and 490SS3
outside the District of Columbia. max :
ing a total in the entire civil service
of 560,S63. as against 39442 in the
District Of Columbia and 39S.615 out
side the District of Columbia. making
total of 43S.o57 on June 80, 1916. and
as against 117.76O in the District of
Columbia and 100000 outside the Dis
trict of Columbia, making total of
917.760 on November il. 1918, the
height of the war expansion.
An interesting feature of the re-
port is table which shows the num-
ber Of federal civil employees in GER
tain years as far back as 1916 One
hundred years ago there were fewer
than 10000 employees in the entire
civil service of the United States.
Evening star., 1922-12-10
WILL CONSIDER LAWS.

Legislation pending in Congress af-
fecting mothers, will be considered by
the executive committee Of the District
Congress of Mothers and Parent
Teacher Associations at meeting in
the home of Mrs. Virginia White
Speel. 1855 n street Tuesday afternoon
aS $40 o'clock ---.