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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
U. S. GERMAN TREATY
MEETS OPPOSITION
Shipping Board Declares Favored
Nations Clause Will Hamper
American Merchant Marine.

A Shipping Board resolution oppos-
ing the most favored nations clause
of the commercial treaty between the
United States and Germany on the
ground that it would hamper devel-
opment of the American merchant
marine was placed yesterday before
the Senate foreign relations commit
tee. which has the treaty under con-
sideration. Vice Chairman Plummer
of the board appeared before the COM
mittee to urge it's views on this sec
ton of the treaty.
In opposing the provision which
would prevent the United States from
imposing discriminating customs. du-
ties and tonnage dues in favor of
Anne rican ships the board took the
position that it would be unwise for
the United States to enter into a
treaty which would restrict it lin the
complete and full authority to enforce
or put into effect any or all of the
provisions of the merchant marine
act" Section "a of the act provides
for such discriminatory duties.
sertion that shipping is an industry
entitled to protective legislation
without asking the permission of
any other nation" Mr.. Plummer was
said to have told the committee that
any provision in the treaty contrary
to that principle should be eliminated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
ADVERTISING THEME
| OF AID CLUB ADDRESS
Col. Heron Cites Newspaper
Columns as Means of Reach
ing Customers.

Three ca rdinal points influencing
newspaper advertising of today in its
relation to the ultimate customer of
the advertiser were outlined by Col,
lie Roy w. Heron, advertising man
ager of The Star. addressing the Ad-
vertising Club at the City Club this
afternoon.
The three essential points in mod
ern newspaper advertising were de-
clared by Col. Heron to be: Truth
fulness in advertising, in order to
maintain confidence: proper prepare
ton of advertising copy, and fun CO.
operation with the customer, in.
order that the ultimate end OF adj
vertising-a sale-may be consum-
mated.
Founded on Public Confidence.
Col. Heron declared a great news
paper is primarily upreared on
foundation of public confidence The
reason a newspaper is great he said.
is because of its policy of maintain
ing and never overturning this con-
fidence of its readers.
To maintain this confidence. lie
added, it must not only pay particu-
lar attention to the news it prints.
but must also pay special attention
to the advertising it accepts In
other words. the readers confidence.
he said, must extend not only through
the news, but also through the ad-
vertising columns.
AS an example of this, he pointed
out the care with which the news and
vertising columns of The Star are
protected by editing.
Lands Better Business Bureau.
Col. Heron said excellent work is
being done by the Better Business Blu
reau in promoting truthfulness in
newspaper advertising in Washing
ton. On the point OF proper prepare
ton of copy he recommended that
merchants employ expert advertising
writer's to prepare their advertising
copy. as often merchant is too close
to his business to get the angle of the
customer.
Closing, Col. Heron pointed out the
necessity of establishing confidence
lin the mind of the customer. in the
personnel and confidence in the goods
it advertises and sells as the neces-
sary adjunct to successful newspaper
advertising.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
Public to Get O,Un Prices on Art
Put on Sale at London Exhibit
Sealed Bids VIII Be Received for Pictures and Left
Unopened Until CIose-Noted Artists
to Offer Their Works.

absolutely at their own price and
without any reserve.
Offers in sealed envelopes will be
accepted by the secretary for the
various works exhibited until the
close Of the exhibition, when the en-
veiopes will be opened by special
committee of the council and the pic
lures will go to the highest bidders.
Many well known and distinguished
artists have offered works on these
conditions, and a sign Of the interest
aroused will be the placing of a red
seal on the work for every offer
made. This. il is explained, should
give a definite indication Of the popu-
larity of the individual works.
To protect the interests of the pub
lie. a responsible and competent jury
will select the works to be exhibited
SO that they shall be of the highest
possible standing. At the close OF the
exhibition the selling price of the
works will be announced, so that both
the public and the artists will be able
to realize the money value placed on
each work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
Conan Doyle Predicts Calamity
Unless World Spirit Is Changed
UNFOLDING His Belief in Communications From,
Departed He Declares Var and Earthquakes
We're Sent as Warnings.

least such communications wore
sacred. The information was elected
however. that such developmen;
would be psychic as well as physical
and that after it no doubt would re-
main in the human mind regartine
the truth of the spiritual reveal ton
He spoke freely of some communi-
cations from his Guide Phineas."
How often do you get in touch
with him?" was inquired.
About once a week. My wife takes
down the messages at great speed in
large bold handwriting. / copy them
afterward in notebooks of which this
is one. They not infrequently con-
tain details which are quite beyond
my wife's knowledge"
@Rsu4h Treatment.-
DR.. Doyle 'read from it some advice
about his own health and general
physical wellbeing, received from
Phireas, in which the guide said, HE
works too hard, l will make him
rest"
"Three days la:er," Sir Arthur re.
marked dryly, II was knocked down
by bicycle and laid up for a fort
1iight-roCgh treatment, but effec.
tive" he added. with grin.
He chose another passage. INV two
HI.
about to go back to school after the
holidays last week, and this is what
Phineas told them He read a feu
hundred words of advice to school.
boys which was of such fine feeIine
and real beauty. besides being useful
that it would have been difficult MOI
to believe it was inspired.
ut is inspired he answered with
conviction-"you felt that he-you
felt that he meant, 1t came from
heaven That is what we get from
over there which helps US to be hap
pier and better. We need the teach
ing to increase our knowledge" he
went on. The lessons we learn teach
us how our future life in the spiri,
is Influenced by our conduct here
eff this is distinct from religion,
confess 1 do not know what religion
is. 1t is religion to me. i trust tina
it will not crystalline into a new re
ligion but rather permeate all tn,
old ones. But IL the teachings from
beyond are accepted, then the hu
man race has made a long strid,
toward religious peace by virtue O
common knowledge and avoided tn,
calamities which otherwise are in
evitable. We then should have ,
creed which might be reconciled t,
science. defy all attacks and carr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
WANTS TO GIVE WORLD
SLEEP SICKNESS CURE
German Colonial Society Head Re
pudiates Statement of
Bremen Branch,
By the Associated Press.

BERLIN. February 20.-The Ger
man Colonial Society has refused to
back up it's Bremen branch in the
stand taken by the latter demanding
the unconditional return of Ger
many'S colonies as the price for the
sleeping sickness remedy discovered
by German scientists. according to
DIR. Heinrich Schnee, a member of the
societys board.
DR.. Schnee, former governor of
German East Africa, contends that
scientific discoveries such as this
should not be made the subject of
commerce or barter in connection
with the question of Germany's lost
colonies.
This remedy is one of the greatest
discoveries for benefiting mankind
DIR. Schnee says, land we want to give
it to the world. This is not only my
opinion, but also that of the German
Colonial Society, the German govern
ment and the German people"
The slogan, mo Colonies, No Rene
dy," broadcast by the Bremen section,
is purely local and does not repre-
sent the views at all of the German
Colonial Society as whole, DR..
Schnee asserts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
PUBLIC CORRUPTION
FLAYED BY M'ADOO
Worse Than Bolshevism, He Says,
in Address at Kansas City
Station.
By the Associated Press.


KANSAS CITY, Mo, February 20
Betrayal of trust oy high govern
ment officials presents greater
menace to democracy than bolshe.
vism or any other Of the alleged evil
influences. William G. McAdoo. can
didate for the democratic nomination
for President, declared in an address
on the train platform at the union
station here today.
There can be no government with
corruption in high places" MIR
McAdoo said. This is a question OF
the life of the American nation. We
must bring honesty back to govern
ment."
The investigation must go on, he
said, until all of the facts are brought
out, adding that he did not wish to
see any attempt to "whitewash" any
one.
Mr.. McAdoo reaSserted his stand for
a soldier bonus and declared that the
government had been unfair to those
in the war.
"Money stolen From Bey.."
1.-THE Veterans Bureau, whose Sa-
cred duty was to protect and care
for the disabled and sick, stole money
from these boys" he said. What
can be said of a government SO bad
as that?
The democrats didn't debauch the
government. Through the eight years
of Woodrow Wilson's administration
and in the eight years that Grover
Cleveland was president. there was
no such corruption. 1t remained for
the administration which promised
the people that the best minds would
rule 40 betray the government.
Regarding the approval of demo-
cratic tax plan by Congress, Mr.. Nc
Adoo said: Yesterday new and
fresh break Of cleanliness and pa
triotism came out iof Congress. The
republicans, who would refuse our
service men bonus, would have re-
duced the taxes on the rich and made
the burden of the poor man harder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
Correspondence of The Star and Philadelphia
Public Ledger. Copyright. 1924.

CORRESPONDENCE of The Star and Philadelphia
Public Ledger. Copyright, 1924.
LONDON, February 1.-THE world
today is too material Too much
eating and drinking. 1t is forgotten
that the sole object of life is our
spiritual development. There must
be a great change or there VIII be,
I am assured, some great lesson
given to us within the next few years
which will sweep away shams and
force US to face the facts"
So Sir Arthur Conan Doyle declar-
ed behind the closed doors or his
study in the course of long talk
on the object to which he some
seven years ago decided to devote
the rest of his life.
IT was a shock to his admirers in
England and America and alarmed
some members of his own family
when the novelist, who had first been
a practicing physician. ayowed his
belief in communication with spirits
of the departed.
His intimates knew that he reached
his conclusions only after many
Years of skeptical research. He was
not to be COMPOUNDED with those
who took up Spirituallsm Tor gam,
for publicity or from curiosity. He
is respected, even by those who do
not agree with him, as man OF
clear sincerity and a force for good
whose entire career has been above
suspicion and without reproach.
Speaks of Warnings.
There was nothing threatening or
intolerant in the way he spoke of
what he feels so deeply:
"The war was a warning. The
TOXIC earthquake was another. There
will be. more. But unless we become
less material and more spiritual and
unselfish there will be so plain an
indication by some great world
calamity that there will be no doubt
How do you know" he was asked.
81 have received information
"From over there
Yes
Sir Arthur did not tell the full
revelation, but he explained that 1t
had been received in the form of
automatic writing taken down by
his wife, who helps her husband most
whole heartedly in his crusade.
This message had come apparently
from "his guide or guardian angel"
and one surmked that in detan at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
BY Cable to The Star and Philadelphia Public
Ledger. Copyright, 1874.

BY Cable to The Star and Philadelphia Public
Ledger. Copyright. 1874.
LONDON, February 20.-London is
going to have an art sale, at which
the purchasers will set the prices Of
the pictures they will take home.
This will be an even greater innova-
ton than the recent sale, at which all
of the pictures offered were of the
same price-a half a dozen Royal
Academicians ofYer ring canvases along
with lesser known artists at the uni
form price of $50.
To discover exactly what value the
public places on pictorial art the
faculty of arts is sending out invita-
tons TO its members for the submits
sion of one work in any medium for
exhibition at it's gallery in April and
May. The special feature OF the ex-
hibition will be that the public will
have the hitherto unheard-of oppOr-
tunity of acquiring the works on view
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
! ONE DEAD IN PITTSBURGH.
Telephone Service Cut Off Eight
Hours During Night.

; PITTSBURGH, Pa, February 90
Snow, sleet and rain pouring on ice
covered streets and roads combined
TO give Pittsburgh and surrounding
territory its worst storm of the win
ter. One death has resulted. mn
perous injuries to persons from falls
and automobile collisions have been
reported and traffic generally is at
a standstili as the precipitation
which began yesterday afternoon
continues undated
: For more than eight hours last
night the city was out of telephone
and telegraph communication with
territory as far as fifty miles away.
although cable lines to more distan [
points held up. Trains are hours
behind time and interurban trolley
schedules have been delayed for the
first time this winter.
Is INCHES AT FRoSTBURG
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
u. S. MAIL TO BRITAIN
WILL BE EXPEDITED
Importance of Prompt Service Con-
ceded in House of Commons
by Minister.

General Hartshorn announced in the
house of commons today that the
government was taking the neces-
sary steps to insure smooth working
Of the postal service and the removal
By the Assocfa ted Press
LONDON, February 2o.-Postmaster
of American mails without delay.
The announcement was in answer
to a question as to what step the
government was taking to protect
the transport of malls and pointing
out the great detriment to industry
and employment caused by the hold :
ing up of American mail. MFR. Harris
horn said he was fully alive to the
Importance of the matter and very
much regretted the delay which had
occurred in the removal of mail from
Plymouth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
VALUATION Of BUS
LINE TO Be MADE
Utilities Body Will Not Pass
Upon 10-Cent Fare Until
Figures Obtained.

The Public Utilities Commission
will not pass on the application of the
Washington Rapid Transit Company
for 10-cent fare until the property
of the company has been valued and
depreciation rules fixed.
This was announced by Maj. Bell.
chairman of the commission, at the
public hearing at the District build
ing today on the companys petition.
The decision to value the property
first was reached after William NICK.
Clayton, representing the Federation
Of Citizens Associations. objected to
proceeding with a rate hearing until
the valuation has been determined.
Conxults COnnissioners.
Maj. Bell went into consultation
with Commissioners Rudolph and
Oyster and it was decided to proceed
with the taking of testimony today
on the present financial condition of
the bus system. The chairman made
1T plain, however. that no decision
would be reached on the rate of fare
until another hearing is held to de-
termine the valuation.
Mr.. Clayton and Conrad III. Syme,
counsel for the bus company, engaged
in spirited repartee over Claytop's
contention that no rates should be
liked without a valuation having been
determined.
{. V. Darby, certified public ac-
countant. gave detailed testimony as
TO the earnings and expenses of the
company since it's organization three
years ago and concluded with the
statement that it has been demon
strated the company cannot properly
exist on an Scent fare.
Replacement CharxeS.
Setting forth that the return on
fair value should be 10 per cent and
that the company will have to re-
place fourteen busses at a cost of
$4,000. the witness said the COM
pany would have to earn a total OF
$44S.201 this year.
Assuming the buses again will
haul 100000 passengers this wear.
he testified the Scent fare would pro
duce only $4,000, or SI2s,OOO less
than the required sum.
A fare OF 10 cents cash would pro-
duce 100000. or $4,000 short of the
amount needed. A proposed rate of
10 cents cash with six tokens for
so cents, would yield $345,479.l6, the
witness said.
IL is expected the commission will
announce in few days the date for
the public hearing to determine the
value or the property.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
Is INCHES AT FRosTBURG.
Cumberland Struggling Out From
Under Thirteen Inches.
Special Disratch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
Z CUMBERLAND. Md. February 20
The snow plowS are out on the
National highway. battling with the
deepest snowfall in many years,
which ceased here this morning after
almost thirty hours. 1t measures
thirteen inches. At Frostburs the
fall is the greatest IN many years
running about eighteen inches and
still coming down. The railroads re-
port a fall of eighteen inches in the
mountain districts. where the snow
had turned to rain this morning
Heaviest Of Winter.
PHILADELPHIA. February 90. -
Rain, following the heaviest snow
storm of the winter, left this city
struggling today in slush, which made
many thoroughfares impossible.
Blizzard Hits Toronto.
TORONTO. February 20.-The worst
blizzard in years was sweeping over
Ontario today. Incoming trains were
several hours late. Those leaving the
city made little Roadway against the
huge drifts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
ANNAPOLIS GRADUATE
SCHOOL MAY BE MOVED
Report Out Glasses Will Be Trans
ferred to University of
Chicago.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 20.-A report
that naval board had recommended
removal of the graduate school at the
United States Naval Academy to the
University of Chicago reached the
latter institution today. Prof. James
II. Tufts, acting president of the
university, said such an addition to
the university would be welcomed.
1t is reported here that announce
ment of the boards recommendation
has reached all naval officers through
a department dispatch. The board
is said to have been composed of Rear
Admiral w. r Shoemaker. Capt. J. r.
Blakely, Commander William Sex
ton and Lieut.. Commander G.. II.
Emerson, and to have been appointed
on recommendation of Rear Admiral
II. G.. Wilson. The proposal is said
to have been to remove the graduate
courses to a university where strong
work in astronomy and physics is
done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
P0INCARE is READY
FOR CONFIDENCE VOTE
French Premier Willing to Stake
Office on Electoral Bill in
Senate.
BY the Associated Press.


PARIS, February 2e-Premier
Poincare, intervening in the debate
on the electoral bill, today informed
the senate that the government could
make no compromise on the question.
The senate, he declared, must pass
the bill as 1t came from the cham
Der Of deputies.
The bill as reported from the senate
committee on suffrage differs widely
from the measure AS it passed the
lower house, an entirely different
system of voting. based on ward lists
instead of departments, being recon-
mended by the committee. Premier
Poincare has stood against this sub
stitute and declared his intention of
stalking the question Of confidence on
the measure rs the chamber passed
it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
NEW YoRK's WORST SNOW.
City Has $4,000 Men at Task of
Clearing Streets.

NEW YORK, February 20.-Rain
and Sleet today turned the nights
snowfall into slush that made brooks
of streets and sidewalks and i'm
peded elevated and surface car
traffic.
1t was the winters most serious
storm for the metropolitan district
Four hundred snow plows and $4,000
men were clearing the streets today.
what.
Buffalo was buried under the heav-
Test snow fall of the season today
Main highways were impossible in
many places because of high drifts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20

mittee adjourned Chairman Lenroot
issued this statement:
The committee yesterday and to-
day held an executive session, at
which certain witnesses testified. The
only testimony so given was relative
to what books were kept and the
manner of keeping them, and this
was for the purpose only of aiding
the expert accountants of the com
mittee in the examination of such
books. No other testimony has been
given in secret session and I am sure
that the committee has no intentio
that testimony of any other charac ter
shall be taken in secret session.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
FIUME PACTS RATIFIED.
Belgrade Reports Deputies Confirm
Agreements With Italy.
nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BELGRADE, February 20-After a
speech by Foreign Minister Ninietch
and brief debate, the chamber of
deputies yesterday voted ratification.
of the agreements with Italy on thr
Fiume question. The vote was l2S,
to "a, =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20

Two years after China invented
bank notes the currency OF the coun-
try became so inflated that a 500 note
would buy only a pound of rice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20


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Ortrait
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-20
ELKINS is "SENATOR"
ON BROKERS' LISTS

CONTINUED from First Page.)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-03-23
CORN AND OATS UP,
BUT WHEAT LOWER

CHICAGO, March. 22.-Rapid fading
away of corn receipts, together With
protracted delay to seeding of oats has
brought about higher prices. for corn
and oats this week, despite setbacks In
the value of wheat. Compared with a
week. ago corn was Nc to sc up this
morning, and oats unchanged to 1%c
advance, with wheat ranging from 1c
decline to nc to Nc gain, and provi-
sions from SC off to rise of 10c.
Although rough weather had evident
ly much to do with the shrinkage of
corn arrivals, signs were also apparent
which afforded a good deal of ground
for belief that a permanent falling off
in the crop movement to primary CEN
ters was well under way. Whether or
no, thiA belief had solid baais, recent
heavy sellers seemed to be considerably
disturbed over the outlook, especially
as predictions were current that corn
deliveries In the country would vir-
tually cease altogether as soon as farm
ers could begin field work.
Some export business in corn tended
further to strengthen confidence among
promoters of higher prices for that CO.
real, and SO, too, did assertions that
more profit in the feeding of live stock
was at hand, definite forecasts being
nduS lndt p1U mugs anu 9lo cattle might
be locked for. Slowness of shipping
demand here for corn, however, acted
plete halt in export demand.
Widespread sn0wfalls, assumed to be
of great benefit to the winter wheat
crop, deprived the wheat market OF any
aggressive support. Prospects that
much wheat would be delivered on May
contracts here acted also as a weight
on values. Besides, there was a com.
plete halt in expert demand
Gossip about improved inquiry ex-
pected from the south helped to sus-
tain the provision market.