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Evening journal., 1923-01-09
HICKMAN MAY BE
NEW WILMINGTON P. M.

Special TO The Evening Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Leroy
W. Hickman. Frank u. Wilson and
Charles \. Rudolph have been found
AS the three e'iSitles for appoint
ment as postmaster Of Wilmington
De-. by the. Civil Service Commits
sion.
II is generally understood here and
in wilmington that Senator l.. Heis-
Ter Ball of Wilmington will recon-
mend Mr.. Hickman as his first
choice for the appointment.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
ACCUSED OF GETTING
GOODS BOYS STOLE

William Woods. who conducts a
saloon at u East Second street was
held in $1,000 bail for a hearing on
Friday on a charge OF receiving
stolen goods, consisting OF Cigarettes
cigars and candy that are alleged
to have been stolen by three boys
from the Union News stand az
French street station. The thres
boys are now in the custody OF tbs
Juvenile Court.
Woods was also arrested yesterday,
together with his bartender, Charles
II. Emmons. charge OF selling
liquor on a warrant sworn out BY
Frank f. Haley, special agent for the
Law and order Society. They wers
held for a hearing before Magistrats
Black.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
Captures Large
otter

Special to The Evening Journal.
MILFORD. Jan. 9.-Charles
Stormer caught a large otter on
the bank OF the Mispillion
river yesterday The animal
was found in a muskrat trap.
Otters are scarce In this Sec
tiOn. but Mr.. Stormer had the
luck TO catch one last year in
the same locality.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
PENNA. AUT0ISTS
FINED BY SQUIRE

Robert r. Watson. o235 South
Seventeenth street. Philadelphia. and
Joseph Leayesly. Of Mckinley,
Montgomery county. Pa. were fined
$40 and SIS. respectively. with costs,
by Magistrate Black yesterday after
noon. for operating motor vehicles
with 1922 tags. They were arrested
by Lieutenant McVey. Of the state
highway police. These were the
first fines imposed for that offense in
this city this year.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
WOMEN JURORS FOR
SUICIDE INQUESTS

Coroner Charles A.. Taylor has
summoned three women jurors for
tonight 10 hear evidence in the
three suicide cases scheduled for
.that time. The inquests are on the
deaths OF Charles II. Mason, Joseph
Laughlin and Isaiah Wilmer. all be-
lieved 10 have been suicidal.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
ReU. DR.. Robert Watt TO
Ciue Up Work For Year

. The Rev. DR.. Robert Watt. closing
. his second term as superintendent 70
the Wilmington District of the
. Wilmingto VI. r. Conference. max
, ing fhirteen years in all. has upon
,he advice OF his physician decided
o. take a years release. The strain
-of the past few years has made great
drafts upon his nervous system and
decision. is based upon this fact and
the advice Of competent physicians.
Or. Watt has had some nattering
Evening journal., 1923-01-09

PAIR ROBBED
Of JEWELS
$500 Gems Left in Room
Disappear While Couple
Dine
SUSPECT ANOTHER
GUEST OF THEFT

While A. luncheon Yesterday in the
Hotel DUPONT the room Of Mr.. an
Mrs. Harry OhermsA. Troy. y Y,
guests az the hotel. was rob5el of
jewelry valued al Sl.500.
The robbery was not discovered
until later in the afternoon. when
The Bureau of Police was notified.
DETECTIVES assigned 10 the job sue
ceeded in recovering several piece
Continued on Page Fourteen)
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
SEE THE MOVIES TOMORROW.

Invitations to the Movies are ex-
tended 70 six persons today through
our Classified Advertising Depart
ment. Look through the classified
advs. and Il your name is there come
to the Journal office and receive free
tickets for two (war tax paid) -
see the special production, Clara
Kimbau Young in The Hands Of
Nara at the Majestic and THE
Pride OF Palomar" at the Queen.
night. See page IL today.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
IRIsH-ANIERICAN
HALL OFFICERS

Francis f. Lynch was elected
president Of the Irish-American As
sociation, at its annual meeting in
Irish-American Hall. Sixth and
French streets. last night. Other
officers elected were: Nice-president.
James Hayes: secretary, Edward
directors. Patrick Null
rooney; Thomas =. Brennan; Ed
ward l.. Kearney. James Hayes.
Neal r. Kelly and Frank NJ. Sewer.
,tuna.. Rrns seu EnrnItnre.-Adr.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
vICrROLAs REPAIRED

Work guaranteed. Called for and
delivered shorts. W. Fourth st.
Phone 4426.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
TODAY,S TENPTRATrnT
SIN AND TIDE
LOST

LOST-About November %. rabbit dog
black. white and tan. Reward II re-
turned TO ifos Riverview Ave. ian9-2t.
Continued on Page Seventeen)
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
THE WEATHER

: WASHrNGTON. Jan. 9-United
. Press Weather forecast: Delaware
Il Maryland:
n Rain this afternoon partly cloudy and
colder tonight with freezing tempera-
ture Wednesday; fair and colder fresh
and strong northwest winds
Evening journal., 1923-01-09

For Glover Dairy safe Mix phone
1540-1541.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
FIND GERMANY Nv
DEFAULT: FRENCH
TROOPS ADVANCE

Britain Casts only Vote in Preparations
Commission against attitude Of France.
Mighty Var Machine NdSsed Along
RhineIand Awaiting Poincdre S An
nouncement of Nation s Plans Thursday
Evening journal., 1923-01-09
FRENCH INVADERS MARCH CLOSE TO ESSEN;
DEMOCRATS AT DOVER PLAN PARTISAN RAID
DEMOCRATS SCHEME
RAID ON OFFICES
REPUBLICANS HOLD

Plan 10 LegisIate out 7ar Commission, Re-
duce Salaries Of Workmen S Compensation
COmmissioH-Would Cut Pay Of County
office Holders and Abolish Coroner
Wipe OHt State Detectives, Highway Po-
lice and Create Constabulay
WOULD CH4NGE HIGHWAY
AND CITY ELECTION BOARD
Evening journal., 1923-01-09

a perfectly definite way. through the
regular official diplomatic channels.
BERLIN. Jan. o. United Pressl.
An advance guard Of French
troops. under General Degouttc. has
arrived at Kcttwlg. near Essen. ac-
cording TO n dispatch from the lat
ter city. Citizens of Essen were sur
prised that the French did not enter
last night. Railroads and hotels
were ready to receive them.
PARIS. Jan. Q. Omitted Press -
France held the most modern war
machine ever known ready for ac-
tion today. as Germany was found
guilty OF default, In delivering coal
~ part of It's rcparations 10 France
Censorship almost like that OF
wartime shrouded troop movements
along the Rhine. but it was impos-
sible To conceal the cavalry. artii-
lery. infantry and an Immense ar
ray OF tho most up-to-date airpianes
and tanks which for several days
has been pushed up TO the Rhineland
borders
Silently. speedily and with 40
much secrecy as possible, the French
guaranty-sei forces have heel
concentrated. one hundred French
engineers besides Belgians aud ltal-
tConiinued on rHge Fourteenj
Evening journal., 1923-01-09

Mundy Bros. Sell Furniture.-Adv.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
"Tickets, Please I"

So far as the republicans are con-
cerned, the demand Is easily met.
There is today but one ticket fin sight
tho old ticket. Harding and Coolidge
look good for denomination. They have
been working well together, and are in
full agreement as to the present and
the immediate future. The considera.
tons that dictated yoking them in
1920 are still persuasive, and now
there are others favoring keeping
them in harness together. They make
a likely pair.
The democrats are not so fortunate.
Their recent successes have quickened
their pulses, and a small forest Of
presidential lightning rods may be
plainly seen. Ambitious men are on
the alert.
But presidential candidate must
have running mate. Who for second
place on that side of the line?
Two points enter into the equation
the geographical and the fractional.
Geography, like youth. will be
served. II the first man is taken from
the east, the second. according to Gus
tom, should represent the west or the
middle country, and vice versa. In
1920 the middle country headed both
OF the national tickets, and the east
furnished both of the vice presidential
candidates.
Factions inhere in vigorous parties,
and will have recognition. The demo-
cratic party at present. and likely still
to be next year, is part Wilson and
part anti-Wilson. II the Wilsonites
draw first place, the anti-Wilsonites
will claim, and secure. second, and
vice versa.
Booming a man for first place, there
fore, is not enough for a democratic
boomer. Whether he mentions him or
not, now or soon, he should have in
the back of his head man for second
place. meeting the two requirements
mentioned, and otherwise strengthen
ing the ticket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
Russian Blasphemy.

Shocking things come often in the
news from Russia, but it Is doubtful
If any item from that mad land has
given a tenser sense Of pain and re.
vulsion to many millions Of Americans
and other peoples than that which
The Star lately published under the
heading "Ehigies OF the Deity Are
Burned In Grotesque Moscow Carni-
VAL" The second bank" Of the head"
was Communists Launch Attack on
Heaven With Great Public Burlesque
on Religions OF the World" 1t was
set down that 1.-THE climax Of the cele
bration came when the young people
gleefully tossed into the flames straw
and paper figures representing the
deities Of the Christian, Mohammedan,
Jewish and Buddhist religions" and
"Flaring stars Of red, burlesques OF
the star Of Bethlehem. were held aloft
at the head of the parade, followed by
posters and banners on which were
daubed cartoons Of deities and saints"
Such a wantou show Of monstrous
impiety and sacrilege has not been
seen or heard OF since the French
revolution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
The Peoples Savings.

For some days past the United
States government has been redeem
ing war savings certificates purchased
by the people during the period of
wartime loans. Many millions Of dol
lars have been turned back to their
owners in the form of savings. While
some Of this money has been applied
directly to the payment Of bills, for the
purchase Of luxuries, maybe for auto
mobiles. or possibly homes, large
percentage of it has sought invest.
ment. Nobody knows at this time how
much Of 1t has gone into bad invest
ments, shrewd schemes that sound al
Turing but will never pay dividends
and will probably never return the
principal.
In anticipation Of the day of refund
ing the government officials sounded
warning, and bankers throughout the
country carried the word through
their communities urging holders Of
these certificates TO beware of I'M
principled promoters who would sure
ly seek these funds as quickly as they
were available. Probably these warn.
ings had very good effect. But il is
difficult to persuade all inexperienced
investors to beware Of high.percentage
proposals that are without substantial
foundation.
In yesterdays Star was printed
letter from the director of the United
States government savings system re-
peating this warning, which is season.
able, inasmuch as a large sum re-
mains yet to be repaid to the holders
o certificates, and probably q con-
siderable part Of the money already
paid in redemption is still awaiting re-
investment.
There is no lack of good sound in
vestment opportunities. They do not
pay or promise to pay high rates of
interest, 10 or 20 per cent. They are
not likely to make the investor rich
quickly. But at 5. and even per
cent they are reliably productive of
returns. Moreover, they represent
substantial productive industries or
business enterprises. Investment p in
them is a contribution to the general
prosperity. Any reliable broker or
banker can be trusted to recommend
such investments, or at least to point
them out without specific recommends.
tion. Any such adviser may surely be
depended on to point out the faulty
and dangerous schemes for which the
money OF the people is now being
sought.
1t is doubly calamitous for the peo-
pie to be fooled into making bad in.
vestments, for they not only lose their
money. but they lose faith. The war
loans taught a valuable lesson in
thrift and savings. It will be most un-
fortunate if that lesson is now forgot
ten and the certificate redemptions
are wasted in the purchase Of worth
less securities, for enrichment only of
scheming promoters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
Washington's Bow Scouts,

It Is estimated that there are 10000
boys in this city Of Boy Scout age. OF
these 400 have been enrolled during
the past year. This leaves nearly
$4,000 boys yet to be brought into line.
Every one Of them should be added to
the ranks Of this organization, which
is one Of the best schools Of citizen.
ship.
In the country at large there are
100000 members of the Boy Scouts,
and a nationwide roundup is to be
undertaken to add 100000 to that mum.
Der. The President has Endorsed the
movement and offered American flags
and remnants to the councils and
troops that succeed in raising their
quotas.
Washington should win one Of the
Presidents flags. It has to get but
small percentage Of the 100000 new
members in order to do this, and with
5000 availables here surely it can
win a trophy.
To be a Boy Scout means a good
deal more than wearing a uniform on
occasions and doing stunts at exhibit
tions and occasionally going on hikes.
It means service in all matters. con.
alteration for others, attention TO the
work In hand. whether It is at school.
at home or IN business. The truA scout
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
0ld-Fashioned Winter.

We have not had any "old-fashioned
winter" this season, but 1t lie too early
for congratulations. Students Of me-
teorology, with statistics at hand, say
that taking into account @ long term
Of years there Is no downward trend
in the average winter temperature
nor upward trend in summer. There
have been and are to be winters of
unusual length and cold and summers
OF extraordinary heat and length.
Many an old.timer carries In his mind
thoughts Of an exceptional winter
when Washington was snowbound and
the Potomac ice.locked for weeks. Fl
would require a most extraordinary
"speir' OF weather to bring that about
now. Communication by steam and
electricity is harder to tie up than
formerly. Trains are heavier and more
more effective. Fifty years ago snow
that would block the streets is pound
ed into slush by traffic, and sleigh bells
on the Avenue get no chance. Per-
haps a greater tonnage of traffic
passes UP and down the Avenue in an
hour now than passed in week fifty
years ago. Perhaps more people pass
the intersection Of 18th and + streets
in a day than lived in Washington
fifty years ago. One cannot be exact
about these things. Motor plows. mo-
tor sweepers and gangs OF men attack
the snow now. In the matter of the
ice.locked river there are no doubt
tugs passing up and down that are
stronger ice.breakers than the Pilot
Boy. George Law, Lady Of the Lake,
George Leary and the other steam.
boats Of long ago, and 1t would be ice
OF most unusual thickness that would
hold up the government vessels and
the Norfolk boats that ply the Poto-
mac now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14

type, though 1t lie certainly at no dis
advantage in this respect to the center
entrance two-man car, where both en-
trance and exit occur at . single
point. and without any provision for
separating incoming and outgoing
passengers. The one.man car is not
materially slower in operation by rea-
son Of the fact that the motorman
must take the fares in addition to
operating the mechanism. No car can
be started until the steps are cleared
and the doors are closed, and the fare
taking process may be as slow at the
conductors end as at the conductor.
motorman end. The two.man car has
perhaps slight advantage on the
one-man cars OF the latest type, in
that the conductor can give the start
ing signal after closing the doors be-
fore he has taken or supervised the
taking Of the fares OF all those i'm
pounded on the rear platform, while
the one-man operator cannot start his
car until the last fare is in the box.
WV ObJCStAOil dSuliloI luc ollC'iIldIl
car is that the single operator is SUBJ
Ject to a much greater strain than
either operator on the two.man car.
The one-man operator Is constantly oc.
cupied. with the running Of his car
while in motion, watching every traffic
signal and all street conditions beside
his mechanism, and attend.
ing closely to fare collections. transfer
issues and change-making while the
car is at a standstill. Conductors and
motormen on the two-man cars have
their intervals OF comparative rest,
and it is a question whether this con.
slant strain on the one-man car is not
too great, whether it does not make
for accidents.
All these matters will be discussed
at the hearing, and the commission
will then consider whether this type OF
car, which is a means of company econ.
omy. is suitable for the public service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
0ne-Man Cars.

On the 21st Of next month the Pub
lie Utilities Commission will hear argu-
inents for and against the one-man
cars now in use in this city on certain
lines. That date has been set for a
hearing on the subject, which has al
ready been considered by the commits
sion. with the result Of a ruling to
the effect that the cars are perfectly
safe for public use. Since that ruling
been felt and expressed on the part Of
the people in the sections in which
these cars are operated. Numerous
citizens associations have recorded
their disapproval, and the hearing now
ordered has resulted from these mani
festations Of dissent.
Since the first one-man cars were
put in use in Washington marked i'm
proyements have been made in them.
The first cars Of this type were trans
formed old cars. Now special ap-
pliances have been perfected which in
these cars of the new type devices are
provided by which 1t Is impossible for
the operator to start while the doors
are open and, moreover, the car stops
automatically when his hand is re-
moved from the controller. This pre-.
vents the premature starting Of the
car while person is entering or leav.
ing, and it is claimed that this type Of
car is actually safer In point Of the
possible injury to persons entering and
leaving than other types Of cars in
which operation is governed by both
conductor and motorman.
Still the public, so far as expressions
have been made of feeling on the sub
1ect, regards the one-man car as an
inadequate vehicle. 1t has the disad-
vantage, even despite the provision Of
ratings at the front door, Of requiring
entrance and exit at the Same point.
It n believed to be slower in operation
than the fwoNaan car OF the usual
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
The Buckeye Trio,

Ohio holds on to the spotlight. She
still has three democratic sons con.
sidered Of presidential size in connec.
ton with next year. MFR. Pomerene
has dropped out. but A. Victor Dona-
hey has taken his place.
The latter was inaugurated governor
on the 9Th instant-Jackson day. He
is of the Jackson school. No frills. BY
his order, the ceremonies were of the
simplest. After taking the oath of Of
flee he delivered an address covering
only ten minutes, and then went to
work. Jackson, wearing his carpet
slippers and smoking his corncob pipe,
could not himself have been more
democratic.
Mr.. Donahey, it will be remembered,
made the race for governor two years
ago. and was buried under the repub-
lican landslide. In presenting him for
nomination this year his friends took
the ground that the elections Of 1920
had been held under abnormal condi-
lions which no longer existed. Give
him a chance for his white alley, and
he would win. He got the chance, and
won handsomely.
This is the argument in use by the
friends Of Gov. Cox. He, they claim,
was another victim of the abnormality
Of two years ago. Give him another
chance under the changed conditions,
and he will win. The present Cox
boom rests largely upon that conten-
ton, and Mr.. Donahey's election, the
Coxites assert, proves the case.
Gov. Donahey is in office, while Gov
Cox and Judge Clarke are in private
life. This is at once for and against
him. His office gives him pull on the
party organization at home, but his
actions-whatever he does-will sub
ject him to criticism right along.
First thing. though, he must estab-
lish. for use away from home, the
proper pronunciation Of his name. No
uncertainty should exist on that point.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14
Demand for Greatest Law Book

revision OF 1S74-7S is the longest tha.
mas ever elapsed In any jurisdiction
except Illinois. In this state. owing
20 the small compass and the biennial
appearance or one-volume private
edition. with the session duly inter-
spersed, the bar has suffered no in
convenience. But in the federal laws
the ouIk and contents OF the inter-
vening legislation has now piled up
into a mess which is a terror to the
practitioner and a shocking waste of
time. The state of things has now
become fntolerable. Since the com
pletion of your draft revision the
IA failure tn TO act has become a disgrace
OF leaving the federal laws in this
condition is no longer excusable on
any ground"
AS an illustration Of how senator's
feel. senator Nelson, chairman of the
Senate judiciary COMMITTEES, thinks
very highly OF the work done hv
Representative Little and thinks that
the recodification law ought TO be
passed without delay. Senator Ernst
mas promised many members in both
bill favorably Tong since. but so far
his committee has not even met to
consider it..
At present if one wishes to ascer.
tain what the law is on any point. in
order to be accurate he must examine
thirty-six great law books. Much of
the law is hidden in appropriation
acts and is as difficult to locate as a
needle in haystack.
The ink was scarcely dry on the
first print OF the old Revised Statutes
of 1874 when Congress had to pass
another law to correct thirty-four
mistakes and this second law was
made an appendix in the same book.
Now. while the Senate has been
refraining from action upon the
Little bill. Representative Little has
been busy preparing two new bills,
which he introduced in the House
last week. one to correct some slight
errors that have been found In his
recodification during the intervening
twenty months, representing all that
could be found after careful scrutiny
by all departments of the govern
ment and the best legal research
plementtng his work with annota-
tions.
Representative Little shows that
besides the thirty-four mistakes cor
rected In the 1874 compilation, 242
more mistakes were corrected again
In 1877, and in 1878 a second cor
rected edition was published. In pre-
pairing his code Representative Little
found sixty omissions that have for
forty-eight years been absent from
the Revised Statutes, and put them
into the code. Yet all the lawyers
concede that the Revised Statutes is
the greatest law book in the world
Since his bill passed the House Rep
resentative Little has found s!xty-six
mistakes in it. mostly slight mistakes
in the wording. AS his bill is three
times as long as the Revised Statutes,
If 1t contained the same percentage
OF errors as has been found in that
greatest of al law books, It would
now contain 1908 errors instead of
sixty.six oligAA changes.