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Evening star., 1923-03-27
SCORES EXECUTIONS
ORDERED IN RUSSIA
Polish Premier Speaks for Civ
ilised World Condemning Soviet
Action Against Catholic Clergy.

WARSAW. March 27.--Whcn Pre-
micr xikorski learned that Arch
bishop EepIail<. head of the Roman
Catholic Church in Russia, and the
sixteen priests to he tried with him
had been found guilty by the Mos
lensky. soviet minister to Poland,
and informed him that the Polish
government and population observed
with anxiety the soviet attitude to-
ward the Catholic Church and the
Polish minority
The premier asserted that repre-
sentatives of the Russian government
had assured the Polish minister at
Moscow that the trial was only q
formality without Importance.
The soviet judicial authorities he
continued. left the condemned men
at complete liberty for an entire year
arresting them only ten days ago.
Then they pronounced the death SEN
tence. to be executed within seventy
two hours. The court arguments
showed the trial to be purely polit-
tcal.
Acting not only as the head of
the Polish government. but as the
spokesman of the civilized world
which Indignantly condemns this un-
precedented act of fragrant violation
OF liberty or conscience and the ele-
the soviet governments attention to
tn" responsibility it would assume by
execution OF the sentence
Premier SikorSki asked NJ. Obo-
lcnSki 10 convey this declaration to
the soviet government Immediately.
Evening star., 1923-03-27
BONAR LAW PLANS
EASTER VACATION
Health Good, Despite Throat At
fection and Rumors of I'm
mediate Resignation.
BY tho Associated Press

BY tho Associated Press.
LONDON. March 27.-Premier Bonar
Law is suffering from Il mild throat
affection, which interferes with his
voice: otherwise his health is good.
+, However, he intends TO take ten days
complete rest from political affairs
during the Easter recess.
RumorS of the retirement of Mr..
Bonar Law as prime minister have
been repeatedly current since he as
sumcd office, because of his uncer-
tain health and because of the pOSSi-
bflity that he might be unable to
stand the prolonged strain of Office.
But the premier was in his place in
parliament today answering questions
and there is nothing to show any
Immediate likelihood of his retire
ment
Evening star., 1923-03-27

Every garment Of soft pile fabric bolivia
eaand beautifully lined with Some have decided sleeves
and that resembles the fitted Styles but for the
they oone dapy outandout Choose
the shades of black reindeer and kit with har
monizng trimmings of stitching tasses and cabohon
Sizes for misses and women, II to 46
Evening star., 1923-03-27
Silk Batik Handbags, S2.95

Beautiful 5atik designs with tops Of fiji
gree metal in various attractive designs.
The bags are all nicely lined and equipped.
First Floor.
Evening star., 1923-03-27
Easter Cards and
Booklets

Cards, folders and book
lets expressing the Easter
message in various ways.
\ large assortment, appeal
ing to both old and young.
Reasonably priced.
Evening star., 1923-03-27
Easter Baskets and
FaVOrs

Baskets filled with eggs, bun
nies and chicks-just the things
for gifts or Easter iavors.
Baskets. .10C to 2Sc
Chicks and Ducks. ... SC to 25c
Glazed Basket Grass. Sc box
First Floor
Evening star., 1923-03-27
Girls Goats for the Easter
Vacations, $14.98 and $16.98

They are particularly smart for
the Easter season, yet many of them
are so practical they will serve
several seasons beyond.
Goats or Capes in Youthful Styles of
Unrivaled Becomingness.
Camers hair polaire cloth, bolivias and
. large overplaid materials are fashioned
into coats and capes of unrivaled becom-
ingness. Some are q combination of two
fabrics, making long side panels, collars
and intricate facings and trimmings of
the contrasting material. Sport coats,
dressy coats and jaunty capes, in host
of different styles. Sizes for the girl of
to 10.
Fourth Floor.
Evening star., 1923-03-27
Stationery is all
Easter Gift

High-grade writing paper in
a pretty gift box. containing
paper, gilt-edge cards and en-
velopes to match. soc.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
Two Years Of Coal Peace

When in August, 1922, the hard coal
strike was settled on the basis OF q
new contract beginning September I.
that year, and ending on the same
date a year later. anxiety was ex-
pressed regarding the possibility Of a
recurrence of the same trouble just
on the eve Of the heaviest coal-using
season. This anxiety was justified in
the strike that was called short time
ago and that has just beer settled.
In the first stagesof the finally sue.
cessful negotiations 1t seemed likely
that the new contract. when written
in settlement OF the strike, would run.
for one year only, like that just com.
pleted, This would mean the recur-
renee OF the trouble a year hence. with
onFy twelve months respite for the
public In the matter cf anthracite sup
plies. 1t would. furtherniore, mean
that the controversy would be renewed
just on the eve Of the presidential elec-
tion, with the consequences that it
could not be handled by the public al-
Evening star., 1923-09-10
Tammany's Attempted Grab.

Politics in the Empire state this fall
will be enlivened by the drive which
the Tammany organization will make
to capture the lower branch of the
legislature, in order to gain complete
control of the state government and
Of Greater New York as well. With
Tammany Hall politics and business
go hand in hand, Or, to put 1t another
way, business" 10 founded on poll.
tics, contracts, franchises and the like,
passed out to the faithful, through
control Of the political machinery.
Senator James W. Wadsworth,
Speaker Machold Of the assembly and
other republican leaders are apprised
of the plans of Tammany to take over
the assembl., an5 they will concen-
trate efforts of resistance in those as.
sembly districts where it is known
Tammany will exert unusual efforts to
win them and to hold those recognized
as close. The republicans are said to
have canvassed the state, and claim to
be confident of gaining some seats in
Brooklyn and several upstate which
went democratic on the big landslide
for Alfred e. Smith for governor last
year.
Fate seems TO be taking a hand in
the coming back Mayor Hylan was to
have been used by Tammany to SPEAK
in close districts, which prospect was
disconcerting to the republicans, who
recognize his influence with the vot.
ers. Now his doctors say he cannot
do so. on account OF his impaired
health and the necessity Of rest and
recuperation. This win throw the
burden on Gov. Smith, and if the
democrats should lose it would be a
blow at the governors prestige in his
possible presidential aspirations.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
The Naval Disaster.

Following the extraordinary naval
disaster on the Pacific coast, in which
the United States Navy loses seven
destroyers, with twenty-three seamen
dead, will, of course. come an invessi-
CATION to determine the causes of this
tragedy. Apparently the fiotilla was
steaming at rapid pace along the ccGst
when it ran into fog, and in short
time the seven destroyers were piled
up on the rocks, total losses save per.
,haps for some slight salvage of ma
terials.
1t will be necessary to ascertain
just why the destroyers were so close
ly hugging the coast and why they
maintained their high speed when fog
was encountered. Evidently the navi-
gators were not aware Of the nearness
Of the shore. They were, then, off their
course. The question is raised whether
there was any reason for haste to
send the fiotilla ahead at high speed
in dangerous conditions without pre-
else knowledge of the conditions.
Inquiry will not, of course, restore
the lost lives or the wrecked ships.
But it will, perhaps, elicit facts that
will serve to lessen the chances OF
further sacrifices. These present losses
would seem to reflect seriously upon
the naval administration.
Evening star., 1923-09-10

thorities with as great freedom OF &C,
tion as at other times.
But fortunately this anxiety is al.
layed by the announcement that the
fvleW contract will rs,n for two ye1rs.
While not as long q period as the pub
lie welfare demands, as far as the
strike menace is concerned. it is much
better than the one-year term. And,
moreover, 1t may be better for the pub.
lie interests that the contract should
run for two years than for the even
longer period asked by the operators.
For there is still chance that In two
years conditions may have changed SO
as to permit a reduction instead Of an
increase in the cost OF mining anthra-
cite, reduction of which it may be
expected the public viii get some
benefit.
At any rate, there is now the pros
pect of hard coal peace for two years.
That will permit the accumulation of
stocks sufficient to put thrifty con-
sumers in possession Of sufficient sup
plies to tide them over the next period
of idleness and non-mining, If it should
come in 1925 as a result of another
strike.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
Latin America Should Accept
The Hughes Statement on Merit
Copyright 1921

dress should do much to silence eriti-
cism and to clear up any misappre-
tensions that may have existed with
respect to our present intentions un-
der the Monroe doctrine. That doc
trine is not menace to the liberties
or the interests of the Latin Ameri-
can countries. It does not challenge
their sovereignty or undermine their
Independence. On the contrary it is
a source of strength to them, and as
it has been for a hundred years is
stfli a bulwark against bullying and
aggression" So far as the Louis
vile Courier-Journal is concerned 1t
does not sympathize with the all-coy-
ering statements with which the Sec
retary concluded his address, insist
ing oecretary hughes may be CON-
petent to define hfs attitude, or any
number of his attitudes, or world re-
lations, but he has no authority tn
define the attitude of the American
people" 1t also shoulS be remem-
bered, the indianapolis News points
out. that the trouble is the Monroe
doctrine, has been defined so maay
times in so many different ways.
Some of the definitions bear only the
falntest resemblance to the doctrine
as originally promulgated. Many men
have interpreted IL in many ways and
there will be still further interpre-
tations. A doctrine may thus be very
handy but it has Its inconveniences.
The Minneapolis Tribune, however.
feels that Mr.. Hughes was right and
choose the right moment TO make his
statement and that eventually the
day will come when the noble words 8
so spoken will be accepted by Latin
Americans in the same spirit of sin
cerity that they were uttered"
Evening star., 1923-09-10
Traffic Problems.

The Merchants and Manufacturers
Association isas petitioned that the
one-way rule in downtown business
streets be abolished. The business men
say that the rule does not facilitate
the flow of traffic and operates against
their interests. They also petition for
a time limit on parking care on bust.
ness streets. Traffic in downtown
streets became so congested that driv-
ing was difficult and dangerous. The
lot of pedestrians was hard.
one-way streets have been adopted
in many cities. but many of these were
made one-way streets because they
were actually narrow and two-way
traffic could not well pass through
them. When preparations were max
ing for the Shrine convention, and it
was estimated that 100000 strangers
and $4,000 outside cars were coming.
it seemed necessary to make certain
new traffic regulations, and several
streets were designated for one.way
traffic. Though the crowd was not so
great as had been predicted, the new
regulations worked well. The Com
missioners decided to continue one
way streets, but changes were made
in the designation of those streets
which caused confusion. All drivers
could not learn the new rules prompt
ly nor did they heed the arrows.
Very recently the direction of traffic
on a number of one-way streets. has
been reversed, and there is q good deal
of confusion, and 1t will continue un-
til the drivers learn the new rules. AS
the Merchants and Manufacturers As
sociation says, the one.way rule has
not brought all the improvement in
traffic conditions which was hoped.
North Of the avenue the southway
streets are jammed in the morning
and tae northway streets carry little
traffic. In the evening conditions are
reversed. 1t seems, though, that a
majority of motorists believe that the
one-way rule is working successfully,
and will work better as time goes on.
The one-way rule Is experimental, and
should be given full time for try-out.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
Protection for Elder
Government Employees

TO the Editor OF The Star:
VIII thank you very much IL you
can md space in your paper to help
along the cause of the elder govern.
ment. clerks One of the best resolu..
ttons OF the National Postal Clerks
Association that should be brought
to the attention OF every government
employe is the thirty-year optional
retirement. 1t will give the younger
#enes tho opportunity to reach better
grades in salary and keep the gov
ernment service full of younger en-
ergy and greater efficiency in taking
the places of some who might fesl or
have disability ard. could retire on
the annuity rather than go cut on
disability. and be examined every
year, with the fear of not being re
instated II they should regain their
health, as their age Will be very
much against them in many cases.
1t must be remembered that those
having served thirty years range In
various ages For the most part
nearly. If not. all, will have reached
over fifty years and from that 10
seventy years Some will be. fifty.
fifty-five. sixty. sixty 1--we. sixty eight
and even seventy and over to have
reached the thirty-year service.
j. ERWIN LATIMER.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
SHOOTING STARS.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Trifiin' Along.
Just trifiin' along with sigh or a
song.
The wind in the tremulous trees
Brings never thought that the world
can go wrong.
Each hour lightly floats at its ease.
The butterflies shift 'mongst the bios
SONS that lift
Their radiant smiles to the sky,
Where the clouds are like ships that
viii lazily drift
To the land of our dreams by and by.
There's a task to be done, there's a
race to be run
And sorrow that calls for tear.
The prize that we sought seems but
little when won
Compared to the effort severe
The reward that seems best for the
wearisome test
Which calls for the struggle SO
strong
Is the day now and then when the
world seems at rest
And we simply go ''tritiin' along"
Evening star., 1923-09-10
Spread of Mob Spirit
A Menace to Nation

To the Editor of The Star:
Your recent editorials on mobs and
the Klan and lynching the wrong
man can but arrest the attention of
our entire country and give us ap-
probation of the destiny toward
which we are going, Lawlessness is a
contagious affiicton; it knows no
bounds. Lynching was designed to
punish one race and one sex for one
crime- but, leaping beyond the de-
signs of its creators, 1t Furnishes fifty
crimes and mo crime" both sexes in
all sections, and nearly every one of
the many races that go to make up
our composite population has fur
nished its victims.
The K1an' Is at once the result and
cause of our unchecked mob spirit,
1t was born of the lawlessness of
iynching which government has toll
Grated, and is the breeder OF greater
nation. Perth Amboy, New Castle
and Carnegie are impressive evidences
Of spread Of the mob spirit which is
challenging. government and civili-
the whites OF Alabama who have
made 1t unlawful for a white teacher
OF missionary spirit to teach in ne.
gro institutions. inconsistently de-
manded that their physicians and
nurses care for negro veterans in a
segregated hospital in that state, and
when the government began TO con-
slider the nationwide protest of the
colored people. the Khan paraded
with sheets belonging to the govern
ment and defied this great nation to
send competent negro physicians.
Does not the government invite de-
iance of it's laws by temporizlug
with mobs? Men will oppose the gov-
eminent only when they think it
safe to oppose II.
Lynching and It's offspring, the
Khan. are heading us toward anarchy
in which no man., white or black,
will be safe. The people who in
fiicted these harbarous institutions
upon society have created hideous
FFsukenstein which viii some day
destroy its creator. IL is up to the
law-abiding elements of all the races
here to wipe out tkis stain upon our
honor which causes foreigners to
even doubt our civilization.
NEVAL II. THOMAS
Evening star., 1923-09-10
The American Merchant Marine.

The merchant marine fleet owned by
the United States government is val
ned at s226,7s3.315, it is announced by
the Shipping Board, a valuation based
on world market conditions. The fleet
ss composed of 1894 vessels.
OF particular interest Is the state
1nent OF the board regarding the mum
her OF vessels now in operation and
those laid up. 1t appears that 365
cargo vessels, valued at $s1, 1,s90, ,410.
are in active operation, and that 802
Eargo vessels, valued at $75,56S s296,
are inactive. Thirty passenger vessels,
ineiud.ng the great Leviathan. valued
at s4s,3so, ,oo0., are being operated by
the government, and three, valued at
81, ,40e, 900, are inactive. Nineteen tank
ers are in operation and twenty-six
are inactive. Two Of the fourteen re-
fa.igerators owned by the government
are in operation also.
The Shipping Board feet was con.
Htructed and purchased at tremen-
dous cost under war conditions. It's
value today necessarily shows a huge
loss in dollars and cents. But let
there be no mistake regarding the
value of the merchant fieet, II is to-
day great asset. 1t carries a large
share Of the trade OF this and other
countries. 1t is competing with the
vessels Of other maritime nations on
all the seas. American producers are
safeglarded and assured means of
Transportation 1t is Of great value to
fhe nation as q measure of prepared.
ness should war threaten.
President Coolidge has before him
now for approval plan devised 10 in
crease the efficiency OF operation OF
the feet, End at the sane time to
Enaks II possible eventually to place
Evening star., 1923-09-10

these merchant vessels In private own
ership and operation. It calls for the
creation of number of subsidiary
corporations to operate the vessels,
The corpcrati14Is 70 own the terminal
facilities, the business and the good
will OF the lines they operate. These
are TO be government corporations.
It is the contention of the pro-
ponents OF the plan that under the
proposed system going business con-
Germs win be built up, concerns that
the government may dispose of even
tlIally to American citizens, with as
surance that the merchant marine
business of the country will continue.
Under the present manager-agent
plan the government owns the ships,
but the terminal facilities, the bust.
ness and good will belong to the agents.
The government pays all the losses of
the operation Of the vessels, and also
pays to the agents certain percen.
tage on gross receipts of the business
done. There Is no incentive for the
agents to purchase the vessels.
President Coolidge has called upon
the Attorney General for an opinion
as to the legality OF the plan for the
subsidiary government corporations to
operate the lines of vessels. A minority
Of the Shipping Board is opposed to
the plan, and efforts are being made.
it Is reported, to have action delayed
until Congress shall assemble in De-
cember. If the plan is held to be legal,
however, and a preliminary decision
was recently given by the Department
Of Justice to the Shipping Board Of
ficials that 1t is legal, President Cool
idge may be expected to act in the
matter with promptness.
Evening star., 1923-09-10
Pinchot's Performance.

An immediate reaction from the
success Of Gov. Pinchot ia securing a
settlement OF the hard coal strike
brings his name into the political dis.
cussion for 1924. That name, it is
stated, is certain TO figure at the re-
publican convention. possibly for first
place, almost certainly for second
place. He will, it is urged. surely be
presented to the convention as Penn
sylEania's ttfavorite SON."
It is inevitable that political valu.
ation should be thus placed upon the
governors achievement, which is of
great worth to the people. Probably
he has not himself regarded it as hay-
ing any bearing upon his political for.
tunes. President Coolidge placed in
his hands the direct negotiations with
tbs contendfng factors i'm anthracite
production. He went to the task with
yigor and sagacious persistence. He
accomplished the result of effecting a
settlement, and coal will be mined,
with only few days of idleness.
In one respect Gov. Pinchot's ac-
accomplishment has had a marked po-
.litieal value to his party. He has Sc
cured the writing Of two.year con-
tract, which will carry the period of
mining over until September 1. 1925,
nearly year after the election. Had
the contract been written for a single
year the issue would have been re-
precipitated just on the eve of the vot-
ing in 1924.
Gov. Pinchot has an important work
to do in his own state. He is serving
the first year of a four-year term.
There are vital problems TO be solved
there. There is no suggestion that he
does not regard this as a task of the
first importance, and he has given no
intimation of desire to be taken
from it TO the federal field Those who
know Clifford Pinchot are aware that
he regards a public Office as a trust.
He sought the governorship of Penn
syIFania in order to correct certain
faults of state administration. He has
only just started that work. He is
doubtless the last man to think of
lSdNllS II until II - uHlSHeO'
But these considerations will not
stop the speculation about Pinchot
and the 1924 nominations. Nor will
the fact that Pennsylvania is not g
promising field for presidential as
pirant hamper the discussion. The
normal prospect is that IL Mr.. Cool
idge is named by his party to carry on
the federal administration, as the sur
sviving partner of the presidential firm
chosen in 1920. the second-piace nom-
inatien will go to the west, where
there are political conditions calling
for direct attention. But that element
viii not deter the coupling Of the name
OF Pinchot with the 1924 ticket. 1t is
"a familiar phenomenon, and, of course.
it is certain to be agreeable as com.
pliment to the man who is just now
so strikingly in the public eye as one
who has turned in a valuable bit of
work for the peoples beneht. Yet it
is hardly more than a form of ap-
praisal of a good job we'll done.