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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-02

We have 100000 men out of work in the
United States to-day, but we do not advertise
that fact from the street corners | have had
myself no enthusiasm whatsoever for the
Eighteenth Amendment, but each time that l
come to Great Britain I am struck with the
pitlless open poverty of her great cities. Few
of them, like Edinburgh, take the trouble to
mask even part of it with gentility. Our
poor have the general appearance of being at
least decently clothed, bathed and fed The
rickety children, the slattern women, the i'm
poverished and wretchedly clad men that line
the streets of London or Liverpool or Edin-
burgh are Engands own indictment of her
public house system. The common sense regu-
latory devices which she placed into effect as
an aid to national defense in the days of the
war-chiefy shortened hours for the sale of
liquors across her bars, as we'll as rigidly en-
forced anti-treating rule-have now been pracs
tlcally all removed. The immediate effect of
these regulatory devices was to greatly reduce
drunkenness in the United Kingdom. The
effect of their removal has been to increase it.
Yet to the handicap that the drink habit is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-02
THE SPY
WHO WAS TRUE
Continued from page tlco)


81 risked my life. If had been discovers
I would have been shot. Would you IKE
read the letters of congratulations thss
recived?"
81 have read them, mamma"
"The general himself gave me the Cron !
Guerre. My citation"
II have read it, mamma; have read II
"For four years / followed terrible y
fession."
eyes, mamma, terrible profession"
81 understand you. I am spy, ana -
Fendt and old Ulrich turn away their nv
when I speak to them. What did they 81
those who insult me-"
"Pere Fendt's two sons are dead and uaa
son-in-law was killed. And we've are i
Listen, mamma we must go away. We
give up this money, dishonesty earned. ~
who died with their faces to the enemy q
those who weep for them cast US aside. -
are not like the Boches. We don't hS' f
police; we don't like treason" 1.
"Do you blame me? Do you condemn 9
81 don't blame you or condemn you.
are my mother. You did your duty 49,
thought you ought to do it. But the 04s. 4
those who weren't old enough to risk desu,
friends and comrades in the village-thes = s
understand you. When / go among tneI =
whisper. And can guess what 1t IS =
They suspect you" 4
eyes, they suspect me. TO whom tns. -
she lie?' If made a mistake, am -
for it."
Don't grieve, mamma. 1t is so clear n,
at is too clear this morning, my son.
morning when the larks soar IN the " 80
Listen. fear that / wasn't true
woman, to do what ! cid" -
She was silent. Pere Fendts barre. ..s
bled in the distance. Old Ulricns = d
sounded in the smithy. The suns ray .,,s
into the soil of France and the lark nv
into the Blue. -.ss.
Mamma, we shall go away" tho yOu .es;s
said. eve shall forget. Look, how - c.,n
it is! Everything is pure and the ~
are conquered"
Copyright. 1928. New York Tribune =
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-02

mercial supremacy in Europe. The long, easy
hours at lunch, the late arrival at tho Office
in the morning, the rush to tea at O'Clock
and home to dinner at $50 may seem small
things in themselves; but added together and
to the mighty British propensity to indulge in
a holiday at the slightest excuse may vet
prove the business undoing of mighty ma
ton. The Germans are great eaters and
drinkers, but they do not permit eating and
drinkng-or holidays-to interfere with
business.
The World War apparently has failed to
shake England into a realization that she will
have to do real work and hard work--on the
part of all sorts and conditions of her citi-
sens--to regain the commercial prestige that
she was beginning to lose, perceptblv, before
the worldwide industrial slump that followed
the close Of its coming. Whether the war
will do it remains to be seen. 1T certainly has
rot as yet done it. And Great Bri;a.f's fate
to no small extent still is uron the knees o.
the high gods
copyright. 1922, by Edward Hungerford)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-02
ENGLAND
IN THE PRESENT
Continued from page four)

are to-day vastly poorer. The vested wealth
OF tins old Scotch town is still very great
Yet long ago these threw their pride to the
winds. Edinburgh holds to hers. Her the
alters, too, and her restaurants are but sliulv
patronlzed these days, despite prices which
seem to an American to be extremely low.
I'VE are not drinking so much now" \
business man told me up there. eve are
gong home to lunch, too 1t saves us money
and is good for us in many other WAYS as
Well"
Which is typical of Edinburgh. For there
poverty may-and often does-live in q grav
stone house, three stories high perhaps. and
certainly with bright ecru curtains at the
windows, but it is poverty none the less
shade more miserable than frank poverty. be-.
cause 1t is struggling so very hard to be gen
teel. That's Edinburgh. The stiff lin, the
courageous efe-and the empty wallet,
Gaunt and empty are the larders, too and
gaunt the faces of many of the men who stand
upon the street corners, not in twos and threes
but in ffteens and in twenties. 1t almost
seems if the Barnum circus were in town
and the parade about ready to come down the
High Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-02

AZ Ia LAM ooAI, tulee DAYS before | came
into Edinburgh for the first time and right
after | had stepped off my steamer from New
York, | was struck by the unemployed upon
the streets of that old seaport town. standing
idly upon the corners or begging for aims at
the curbs. There was plenty of this last
Apparently begging carries no stigma in Great
Britain to-day Sometimes it takes the form
CT al awkward toying with some musical in
strument and at other times group of ex-
service men, wearing the silver badge of King
tieorgc '~ll form themselves into an itinerant
Ereet band. strangely reminiscent of the little
German bands of yesteryear. Only recently
in Oxford Street here in London / saw an
aged man in the habiliments of a Noncon-
formist preacher-with his snow-white beard
and his decent suit Of black he might have
posed as Father Time himself-bearing sign
reading, Jesus said all men are equal. For
Christs sake, brother, give me help
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
TAKOMA PARK GIRL
REPORTED MISSING
Anna Pinck. Slim Brunette OF
20, vanishes While On
Way to Market.

Anna Dorothea Pinck. 20 wears
old. of Geneva avenue, Takoma
Park. Nd, was reported missing late
yesterday.
Her sister. Mrs. Nellie II. Corey.
with whom she lives. told police Of
the Tenth precinct that Miss Pinck.
who is bookkeeper. left their home
early Sunday evening to go down
town to procure a turkey. She never
returned.
Mrs. Corey, who is an attorney
and senior partner of the real es-
tate firm OF Corey & Wood. with
offices at SIG Fourteenth street
northwest. and who is leading the
search for her sister. told the po-
lice that Miss Pinck had never be
fore stayed away from home with
out first informing her.
The missing girl is described as
being five feet ten inches tall and
of slim build. with dark hair. eyes
and complexion. When she left
home, she wore a gray satin dress.
brown coat. and a black velvet ha:
with blue trimmings and a blue
feather.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
BRITISH IMMIGRANT
To GET NO FAVORS
BY Universal Service.

1t has been found impracticable
to segregate British from other i'm.
migrants at the Ellis Island sta.
ton, as requested by Sir Auckland
Geddes, British Ambassador here. if
was learned at the Department Of
Labor yesterday.
Secretary of Labor Davis will
leave tonight for New York where
he expects to meet the British en-.
voy and, In a two-day inspection Of
the immigration station, show him
why the British will have to subj
NIT to the same regulations as
other immigrants.
He also expects to satisfy critics
of Ellis Island that there is no ius.
tfication in the complaint that
British subjects are treated with
"harshness."
The only way to segregate The
British from other nationals would
be to provide separate accommoda-
tions for every SRce and national.
1t was stated. This would require
the construction of hundreds of ad.
ditional buildings.
Secretary Davis will make a sur.
vey to determine if any changes
can be made to increase the gen.
eral accommodations, it was an
nounced.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
HARD|NCS ENJOY
QUIET CHRISTMAS
By Universal Service.

President and Mrs. Harding had
a family Christmas dinner at the
White House last night with a
small group of intimate friends.
Mrs. Harding left her sickroom to
preside.
For the first time in many
months. the President enjoyed a
complete holiday free from his Of
ficial duties. He arose early, and
by 8 o'clock was on his way to
the golf links, where he remained
until after one.
Returning to the White House,
he had a simple luncheon, and then
passed the afternoon with Mrs.
Harding. He distributed five-dollar
gold pieces to some thirty White
House attaches.
Both the President and Mrs.
Harding were occupied with the
reading Of holiday kilograms which
flooded the White House from all
parts Of the world.
Official Washington, except. for
the necessary guard about Gov
ernHent buildings. practically sus-
pended business. Cabinet officers
and their aides remained at home
or made trips into the countryside.
Guards at the entrances to Gov
ernment office buildings reported
"the smallest Of the year" in the
number of callers.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Cornelius g
Vanderbilt, Jr. says
Says:
Platform for Peopls's Party Being Draftsd.
Seek to Form Bloc Of ProsyessiOes.
Driue for Direct Primary to Start at Once.

committee members. planks are be-
ing drafted dealing with conditions
Of the coal industry, Federal pro
vision against child labor. amnesty
for political prisoners. safeguarding
civil rights. definition OF the rights
Of organized labor and opposition 20
financial imperialism"
Practically two-thirds OF the State
legislatures viii begin sessions early
In the new year. An intensive drive
viii be begun by the new alliance In
the States I'm which organization has
been perfected for a direct primary
law. n one does not already exist.
Aggressive steps win be taken by
alliance legislative adherents to bet
ter existingg primaries.
MUST SHAKE OFF BOSSES.
The voters must have q greater
voice I'm the selection of candidates"
said Chairman Johnston. This
should be true. not only in local
politics, but in national as wen,
The sooner the President and Vice
President are selected by the peo-
pie, the sooner we will shake of
boss domination and obtain the
progressive legislation needed in
this country.
One of the planks adopted by
the conference at Cleveland calls
for this action. an dthe extension
of direct primary laws in All the
States is the first major fight for
political reforms our alliance can
be counted upon TO make. am
confident that this movement 10
the most encouraging assurance ~
obtaining and maintaining a saf.
and sane government"
The methods TO be used in per
fecting the Organization on a ma.
tion-wide scale has not vet been
divulged.
Copyright. Isss CIV Newspaper s~-vic..
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Farm Bloc Program May Mean
Billions in Increased Taxes and
Chaos in Finan ce, Writes Hinman

tries. and. when the next crash
comes. of prolonging panic. de-
preston, unemployment and bank
ruptcy TO an extent never wit
messed outside of the present in
solvent nations of Europe
Why has this country recov-
cred so rapidly from the devasta-
tions of war finance? Largely
on account of the surpluses piled
up by Industrial companies be-
fore and during the war. Com
panies that had $4,000. 600 or even
s2O.00o,000 surpluses four wears
ago, have seen them melt away
TO nothing. But by the use of
these surpluses in the panic and
depression, these companies have
saved themselves from bank
ruptcy, have saved their vast
army of stockholders terrific
losses. and have been enabled to
resume operations and push ahead
as they are doing today. With
out these surpluses to carry
them through, these companies
would have been PROSTATE. Yes,
they would still be PROSTATE. Mil.
lions Of American workers would
be still walking the streets and
the farmers would be as badly
off as they were at their worst,
with a home market for their
products more demoralized than
any foreign market in Europe
today
ON WRONG TRACK.
As a sober member of the farm
bloc said to the writer:
This sort Of thing won't do:
we are on the wrong track here.
What we want is to construct and
build up the farmers, and not
to tear down the rest of the
business Of the United States"
But then, this man was a real
farmer who when at home worked
the soil for a living. and not a
political farmer who worked other
farmers at home for his political
life.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Let Fat Get Thin
And Thin Get Fat,
Is COpeland's Idea
Senator-eIect Says Restaurant
Menus Should Carry Mes
age of Education.
BY Universal Service.

NEW YORK. Dec. 25.-"Francois,
how is my waistline today?"
"Ah, monsieur, it is that it .
the embonpoint, fear, that which
you might call to be getting fat.
| would advise you to keep to
number 36 for couple of weeks" 4"
This dialogue is likely to be quite
the thing in restaurants from now
on. since it will be fashionable as
sponsored by a United States Sen
ator from New York.
DIR. Royal S. Copeland, Senator
elect, has suggesed that restaurants
would do much to aid the human
race If they would print menus
properly marked to help the fat
get thin and the thin get plump.
Some of the restaurants now
print caloric value of foods, but
that actually has nothing to do
with the shape of the human figure
and the knowledge of food value
is not sufficiently advanced to
make this Of real merit" said Mr..
Copeland.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
1922 Tags Get No
Time Extension

Drivers Of motor vehicles who at
tempt to operate without a 1928
license tag, on or after January /,
will be Immediately arrested, ac-
cording to an announcement yes
terday, by Commissioner James F.
Oyster.
Believing that sufficient time has
been given motorists to secure their
tags, Commissioner Oyster declared
that he would not grant an exten-
sion of time. Distribution of the
tags was started several weeks ago.
Wade II. Coombs, collector of
taxes. has made preparations for
the last minute rush, which he ex-
poets will begin with the opening
Of his office this morning and con-
tinue until the zero hour" next
Saturday afternoon.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
INCREASE OF TAXES.


If put into effect to anything
like the extent here advocated.
these changes would increase the
tax receipts Of the government
and the tax burdens Of American
business from $1,000, ,O00. 900 to
$4,000 100000 Possibly. they would
. build up even greater receipts and
burdens. for some of the proposed
tax elvies would be beyond any
thing suggested during the war.
What would such taxation mean?
First, such taxation would
mean a transfer of property, ap-
piled in times of peace, to collect
vast sums in excess of Govern
ment needs. The taxes would
have little or no connection with
the ordinary purpose of ordinary
taxes which is of course to pay
for the necessary operations of
Government. They would simply
be the means of taking billions
lawfully from one group of
Americans in order to give these
billions to the rest of the Amer
lean people in extravagant official
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
MASKED AssA|LANT
TERROR|zES FAMILY
Southeast Home Upset BY
Assaults, Mystery Notes
and Face At Window.

I'VE didn't get you the first time
but you won't he so lucky again.
Look out
These words. written in an
obviously disguished handwriting
with a pencil are but one phase
in the reign of terror which has
stricken the family of Harry Hall.
nineteen years old. who lives with
an aged grandmother, an aunt. and
his fifteen-year-old wife, at 7o4 c
street southwest.
Young Hall is employed at the
Seed Division OF the Department
Of Agriculture.
A week ago Saturday he re-
turned home after dark and was
blackjacked inside Of the front door
of his home by a single assailant
who had been hiding in the shadows
of the hall Falling unconscious,
he was found by his aunt, Mrs.
Minnie Shelby. who called the Emer-
gency Hospital ambulance and the
police.
The bad bruise the young hus-
band received was treated bv the
ambulance physician and his fam
lily doctor. and he remained at home.
Police Of the Fourth precinct in
vestigated the affair but were un-
able to throw any light on it.
FINDS NOTE.
Nothing out OF the ordinary hap
pened until last Saturday night,
when Hall opened the front door
on returning home and found the
note, which was enclosed in
sealed envelope addressed simply
Harry Hail."
The youth said nothing about the
note at the time. Early Sunday
night. Christmas Eve. Mrs. Shelby
walked into the front hall from
within the house and found there
man whose face was masked by
a large handkerchief wrapped
around his head.
She screamed and the man
calmly walked out Of the front
door. Mrs. Shelby rushed to the
door and locked and bolted it and
then rushed to the hack to lock the
kitchen door. Glancing through a
window, she saw the same man in
the rear yard.
MASKED FACE AT WINDOW.
Last night the family reached
the limit of its endurance The
head Of a masked man was several
times seen at various windows. The
little family had arranged a Christ
mas party but the spirit was lack
ing and the party was a failure.
Against the wishes of young Hall,
who is very reticent about the en-
tire affair, he was prevailed upon
to tell his story to detectives at
Police Headquarters. He told De-
tective Sergeants Thomas Walsh
and Ira Keck that he had no
known enemies and had no idea
what was behind the obvious
threats on his life.
ATTACKED WHILE COURTING.
Hall was married on August Z,
last, to Violet Alvey. While he
was visiting the young girl. who
is extremely attractive. at her
Southeast Washington home. he
was attacked a number OF times
by youths of the neighborhood
who were jealous Of his attentions
to her.
With his marriage the attacks
ceased and he lived in that same
neighborhood for some time with
an uncle Of the girl. He moved
to his old home on c street about
two months ago. Athletically in
clined and a member of Linworth
and Park A. c. baseball teams,
Louis etaoishrdl etaoi hrdluuunli
young Hall is very widely known
and universally liked In South
Washington.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Settlers In Southwest
Africa Fear Uprising

CAPE TOWN. Dec. 25.-Com-
pulsory vaccination of natives in
southwest Africa is causing alarm
among the tribes. German settlers
at ONTO, where the whole white
farming community has trekked
into town for purposes of defense,
fear an uprising.
The negro chief says that the
reason for the unrest is because
they recall the vaccination exper-
fence of 1904. At that time the
natives, who were on the verge
of starvation. were concentrated
and fed by the Germans. who
seized the opportunity to vaccinate
all of them
The many deaths at that time
were attributed by the natives to
vaccination.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Unfavorable Weather
Causes Shipping Delay

NORFOLK. Dec. IS. - Unfsvor-
able weather conditions in northern
ports have held up a number OF
vessels arrived yesterday and others
cording to reports reaching Nor
folk As quickly as fair weather
sets il, affording opportunity of
releasing the ships. a rush may be
expected here for few DAYS for
bunkers
Scandinavian vessels have been
somewhat, delayed. Barber steam
ship lines had two vessels in port
yesterday. both bound for the Far
East. The Bolton Castle 0Britishl
loaded general cargo here. while the
Havana Maru Japanese loaded
bunker coal. Two Shipping Board
vessels arrived yestreday and others
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
,ct with wisdom. prudence and

ct with wisdom, prudence and
foresight.
Senator Mccormick asserted that
n the governments Of Europe can
not agree upon "a sound and real
liable program for the definite
and final settlement of the total
sums of reparations which Ger
many shall pay and can pay. II
they can not agree among them
selves and with bankers and In
vestors upon a plan which will
stabilize German currency. we
may expect the franc and the
Ira to start down the declivity In
pursuit Of the mark. the crown
and the ruble."
According to Senator McCor-
mick, the reparations settlement
should include the following:
Priority of payments for the
reconstruction of ruins OF north
ern France.
2-Amoratorium to Germany for
several years, conditional upon an
adequately secured bankers loan
to stabilize the mark, to balance
the current German budget and to
contribute to French reconstruction
for this year.
3-Prompt withdrawal of the
barbarous and emi-barbarous Mo
hammedan troops from the Rhine
and the progressive withdrawal OF
other troops as the terms of the
I'D
ment are fulfilled by Germany.
OPPOSE RUHR SEIZURE.
Senator Mccormick declared that
sentiment in Europe. outside of
France, is Overwhelmingly opposed
to the proposed occupation of the
Ruhr district by French troops. He
said such a movement would bring
injury to England, France, Belgium,
Italy, Scandinavia and the United
States through the injury to German
credit and trade, and would inevita-
bly, result in sabotage to industry by
the population of the occupied dis
tricts, thereby diminishing and post
poning the payment of reparations.
Officials throughout Europe agree
there will be hunger riots in Ger
many this winter, the Senator add
500. .00O. 900 worth of American
wheat which she has no present
means of buying.
More important than anything
else. the Senator added. is the ne
cessity of driving out the spirit of
hate which animates governments
and peoples abroad. Unless the peo-
ples are moved by "a Christian will
to peace, there can be no real peace
In Europe" he declared.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26


Under the supervision Of the ma
tional committee, headed by William
III. Johnston, president Of the Inter
national Machinists' Union. efforts
will soon be under way to effect
a working organization In all the
States.
Plans are also being formulated
to seek substitution Of a peoples
bloc in the Senate and House for
the combined farm and progressive
blocs. Active work in carrying out
this problem will be undertaken as
soon as the new Congress con-
venes.
DRAFT NEW PLANkS.
Although the Cleveland confer
ence adopted platform of six
planks. the national committee of
the conference was authorized to
add TO the platform. Today. under
the guidance of Johnston and other
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
Men Inherit Vagrancy,
British Report Shows

LONDON, Dec. 25.-A statement
made by member of the Mans
field Board of Guardians during a
discussion of scheme for new
powers to deal with vagrants, dis
closed that the fathers and grand
fathers of many of the men now in
the institution were also inmates in
their time.
Boards of guardians in Midland
towns are uniting in an effort to
obtain statutory powers to deal
with hereditary" or perpetual
vagrancy.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

progressive politi-
cal action are be-
ing drafted here.
Already partly
o r g a n lied in
thirty-two States,
but really func-
tioning in only
eight, the new
political conbi-
nation, banded
together to sup
port progressive
ideas in govern
ment. is conf
dent IL will exert
a powerful innu-
ence in the 1894
Presidential cam
naion
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26

Most of the
! a WIN a X e r )
who especially
represent the
farming inter
ests wish TO
bring back the
tax on excess
profits. to in
crease heavily
the taxes on
the higher in
come, and to
Law a stiff tax
on business
surpluseS.
The Washington herald., 1922-12-26
By GEORGE WHEELER HINMAN
nfx
nlyersal Service.

Much is written about the farm
bloc program. Strangely enough,
little is written about the part
on This program that is most
threatening to American busi-
ness. That part concerns new
taxes