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Evening star., 1924-06-22
HOOPER ANSWERS
RAIL UNION HEADS
Attack on Labor Board Chairman
Alleging Misuse of Post
Draws Sharp Reply.
BY the Associated Press.

Dy tne ASsof1ateu IfeSS.
CHICAGO, June 21.-Ben w. Hoop
er, chairman of the Railroad Labor
Board, tonight made public a letter
to Warren S. Stone, chief of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and d. B. Robertson, president OF the
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,
in reply to what he termed personal
and political attack on me" by them
Mr.. Hooper drew a distinction be-
tween Mr.. Stone and Mr.. Robertson
as heads of their unions and as lead
ers Of political movement in which
you are attempting to deliver rail-
way employees into an alliance with
socialism"
Il am fully conscious" Mr.. Hooper
wrote, that my views on these pub
lie questions do not detract from my
cordiality toward you gentlemen as
heads Of your organization nor di-
minish my sympathy for the railway
employees in all reasonable efforts to
enhance their happiness and pros
perity.
"One thing is certain, my desire to
obtain or retain public Office will
never be strong enough to motivate
me to surrender my right and forego
my duty to give free and temperate
expression to my views in regard to
vital public questions"
Mr.. Hooper said such expression in
my public utterances in criticism Of
the political movement Of which you
are leaders," had no relation to this
work in deciding railroad labor
board cases.
The letter was in reply to one from
Stone and Robertson charging MT.
Hooper with unfairness and abuse"
of his power in dealing with the rail-
road employees.
Charge Position Abused.
"Your action as chairman of the
Railroad Labor Board, your repeated
and inexcusable misrepresentation OF
legislation proposed by railroad en-
ployes and your constant misuse of a
public position to promote private in
terests have discredited the tribunal
of which you are chairman and di-
minished the confidence of organized
labor in the fairness OF public au.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Calendar Changers Find Greatest
Obstacle in Name for Ne,U Month
Call IL "SoP and Get Figla Under Way, Says Autl,or
Of PropOsed Ne,O Systena--One Big Holiday
in MitL1le o( Summer Is Asked.

What 10 call tbs thiytsas,b NINTH "a.
that In ons question which prevents the
Immediate calling Of M International
congress- to consider HHpIin,ssitDa ~
the calendar by composing ss<.s ysaf
OF thirteen months of twenty sight days
each. .H,
Prof. &. y. Marvin, et,isf F ihe
weather bureau. United sHai-s Depart
ment OF Agriculture, one Of the chief
exponents OF the idea. t,sIievss the aues.
tion has been solved,
Call 1t SOL" he rays and fnii the
congress now The United Etate. should
get busy"
And with that suggcstion before II. the
international FIXED Calendar League" /"
organized some months ago. probably
will issue Its call shortly.
Oae Big Holiday Asked.
The calendar by which we will ar
range our lives. II the congress sue
ceeds, will consist of thirteen months OF
twenty-eight days. or exactly four weaila
each and an extra day. Prof. Maryin's
suggestion is that the 365th or extra day
be given a special name, be made a
worldwide holiday and placed between
the sixth and seventh months to bring
1t in the summer when holidays are
most welcome.
The extra month could be called
by a number or just plain sol" and
placed in the summer between June
and July where it would least disturb
the existing months and the seasons
with which they have come to be
associated. Leap year day. coming
every four years, and placed after
the annual holiday. would make a
noble two days vacation.
DR.. Marvin and his associates have
collected reams of data on the -foilies
of the calendar" Among the Fea-
sons given for the proposed change
are these:
Evening star., 1924-06-22
UnspOke,, Remarks
From, Lawmakers
Cro,vding e" "Record''

They are getting in under the
wire with purely campaign
speeches in the Congressional
Record. The last issue of the
daily Congressional Record for the
first session of the Sixty-eighth
Congress will be printed not later
than June "a.
In the Record out yesterday, date
OF June 20, there appears extension
of remarks" being a speech no
part of which was delivered in the
House, by Representatives James
V. McClintic of Oklahoma, which
occupies sixty-eight pages of the
Record, with about a dozen pages
taken up with tables of figures in
The title of this speech is "The
Republican robber tariff takes ap-
proximately $4,000, 600, 900 from the
taxpayers pockets each year,
while the Treasury gets but half
billion in revenue; This condition
At the government printing Of
flee they have figured out that it
costs about $26 perpage to print
the Congressional Record, so that
this speech of Representative Nc
Clintic cost the government $1,768,
as nearly as can be inquired out.
But Representative McClintic
need not fiatter himself that he has
made a record by a long shot.
Some eight years ago Senator La
Toilette set up a record that prob
ably never will be equaled, He
had a whole Record to himself
an entire special edition, contain
government from $13, 200 to $4,000.
1t was made up principally of
copies of files in the Interstate Con,
merce Commission.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia and Maryland
Fair and cooler Sunday; Monday
fair and slightly warmer; moderate
northwest winds. becoming southerly
Monday.
Nirginia-Generally fair and cooler
Sunday; Monday fair and slightly
warmer; moderate northerly winds,
becoming variable.
West Virginia-Fair, with moderate
Temperature Sunday, Monday partly
cloudy and somewhat warmer, prob
ably showers Monday night.
Temperatures.
Midnight, so; > am, TT; am. ii;
@ am, "A; s am, 10; 10 am, SIS: u
noon, 90; 2 pm, 80; pm. So; pm,
s2.2; lowest. 1874
Relative humidity-S am, rs;
pm, .45; s pm. go.
Rainfall (S pm. to p.m), trace.
Hours of sunshine. 9.6.
Per cent of possible sunshine. 64
Temperature same date last year
Highest, 9S; lowest. IS.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States coast
and geodetic survey.)
Today-Low tide, $50 am. and 7:0S
pm; high tide, 1900 am. and 1929
pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide. 1887 am. and
SOL pm; high tide, :O5 am. and / IS
pm.
The Sum and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 4:42 am; sun sets
1877 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 4 :43 am; sun
sets, 1887 pm.
Moon rises, II so pm. sets, 10 40
am.
Automobile lamps to be lighted
one-half hour after sunset.
Weather In Various Cities.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
200 BANKS GIVEN LOANS.
Credit Corporation Also Aids Farm
ers to Buy Cattle.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. June 21.-
The $1o,o00,o00 agricultural credit
corporation has made loans to more
than 200 northwest banks, which
have aggregate deposits of more than
s3000o,000, it was announced today.
officers of the corporation said that
its activities have had the effect of
increasing deposits throughout the
northwest to a marked extent.
The corporation today shipped two
cars of carefully selected dairy ami
mails from Barron. Wis, where they
had been collected by it's buyers. to
Bisbee, n. D., for distribution TO
farmers of that vicinity. to whom the
corporation has contracted to sell the
cattle on longtime payments.
Another carload was started from
second buying center of the COM
pany. Thief River Falls, Mimi, to
Mantador, ". D.. to assist farmers of
that district in their efforts to get
away from one-crop agriculture and
make start toward more profitable
dairying and mixed farming.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
BEATEN BY "KNIGHTS,"
Man Victim of Riot Following
Klan Conclaye,

NILES, Ohio, June 21.-One man
was severely beaten tonight and sew
eral American flags were torn from
automobiles by a crowd calling them
selves knights of the Flaming Cir
Gle" in series of outbreaks, the
elimination of a tri-state conclave of
the ku klux Klan. No arrests were
made. The disorders occurred while
streets were lined with people wait
ing for a klan parade, which was
abandoned an hour before the sched-
uled starting time on adviees from
state khan headquarters. Meanwhile
the conclave was held at DeF'orest,
west of here. Large delegations at
tended from West Virginia, PennsyI-
vaaia and Ohio.
Bricks were thrown at automobiles
returning from the conclave about
midnight, six windshields bein shat
tered. Later the attackers gathered
in the high school yard, lighted a
flaming circle and sang the Star
Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Smiles Cover Shut-In's
Face at First Music
From Air.
Boy Scouts Install Ap-
paratus at Home in
Northeast.

There's crippled woman on 9Th
street northeast whose life has been
made a bit brighter through the me-
dium of radio. A special squad OF
Boy Scouts went to her home yes
terday and installed one of the cFys-
tai sets donated to The Stars Radio
Shut-in Fund" The smiles that
beamed on her face when she heard
the first strains of music from the
ether were indicative of the SEEM
ingly magic transformation n"that had
come into her lonely life.
Six years ago the old woman fell
and broke a hip bone. She's been
using crutches ever since. Her ad-
vanced age, coupled with her ever
failing strength. prevents her from
leaving the confines of her home.
And radio will now bring to her
much of the pleasure in life that has
been denied her for the last SIX
years.
Alone Most of Day.
The woman is a widow and lives
with her daughter and son-in-iaw.
She's alone most of the day, with
nothing to do except to benoan the
fate that took away the use OF her
legs and shut her in from the great
outdoors, it's recreation and nature
beauties.
The crippled woman is but one of
the many "shut-ins" in the District
who have received the radio sets
donated to The Stars fund. Boy
Scouts have been working assidu-
ously throughout the week installing
the apparatus, and will continue un-
til every deserving invalid has a
crystal set.
Cause Forgotten Yesterday.
The torrid wave and the half holi-
day for government employees appar-
entity resulted in an exodus for the
beaches around Washington, and the
cause of the shutting was forgot
ten yesterday afternoon. A dona-
ton of IS and crystal set with head
phones and antenna wire were the
only additions to the fund yesterday
afternoon. The cash total stands
now at s56s.75. The equipment fund
has reached a total of 158 sets, 3s
pairs of head phones, crystals, pipe
for 80 ground connections, antenna
and lead-in wire and other essential
apparatus for installation.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
GATE-CRASHERS FACE
DIFFICULT PROBLEM
System Devised to Keep Tickets
in Hands Of Rightful Owners
at Convention.
EXPERT sPoTTERs ON JOB
12,2OO Hold Seats to Sessions,
$500 Are New Yorkers.

BY the ASSOCIATED frehr.
NEW YORK, June 2l.-Madison
Square Garden will be 80 tightly
guarded against gate-crashern dur
ing the national Democratic conyen-
tion that a burglar will not be able
to Jimmy his way in.
As a first precaution, George f.
Mars, convention director, has had
the tickets prepared with stubs de-
tachable for each session, and has
kept the name of the printer and OF
the final distribution point secret
known only to himself. The tickets
will be passed out the day before the
convention opens.
Each of the nine public entrances
to the Garden, as well as the flumer-
Gus secret passageways for commit
teemen. newspaper men, convention
officials, house employees and police
Will be heavily guarded by uniformed
officers and police detectives. Spot
ters,' veteran party workers who
know by sight most Of the 12,20(
ticket holders. will help the authori.
ties detect imposters.
Identification Aided.
An identification system has been
devised by Stanley J. Quinn of the
local citizens non-partisan conven-
ton committee as insurance that the
$500 tickets for New Workers who
to the entertainment fund will not
fall into scalpers' hands. To each
OF his prospective ticket-holders, Mr.
Quinn will forward a receipt in the
form of a certified bank check, tc
be signed and retained by the re.
I'll n f0r 1 sGa~ -
signed and returned to Mr.. Quinn, will
accompany the check.
On the day the convention open!
the New Workers will present theil
certificates at place whose location
| viii be kept secret until then. Sig.
satisfactory, tickets will be issued
Only forger could beat this system
and he would have to be well dis
guised. too, for most of the con
tributors TO the convention fund ART
men and women prominent in ioca
Democratic or Republican circles.
Veteran Crashers Hit.
According to Mr.. Mara, the detach
able session-stub tickets will abolish
form OF gate crashing that has beer
common at previous national conven.
tions. II will be impossible. he said
for a bona-fide ticket holder to gair
his seat in the auditorium and ther
oiS pain iiS tttAEt Ds d HltSSeuStE u
a friend, or customer, without tn,
gates
AS a final precaution, the 100 hawk
ers to be employed by concession mel
will be barred from the main audito
| rum and confined strictly to the res
taurants and clubrooms with which
the vast arena will be encircled. Mr.
Mara recalled that a conceSsionair,
was arrested at the San Francisco
session when it was discovered h,
was collecting his ha WkerS' admiS
sion pasteboards and sending then
outside to be scalped to highest bid
defs.
Madison Square Garden employees
who number 100 or more, will bt
obliged to stand muster before eact
convention session. 1t is intended
that there shall be no visiting of tht
proceedings by proxy this year.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
WILL DISCUSS HEALTH.
d. C. Group to Attend Meeting in
Cambridge.

DIR. S. Josephine Baker, consulting
director. childrens bureau, United
States Department of Labor will be
among those who will attend the
conference of health education spe-
cialists in session at Cam bridge,
Mass, from tomorrow to Saturday.
Others from Washington who will
attend are: DR.. Taliaferro Clark.
United States public health service,
division of child hygiene; Mrs. Ella
d. Fleming, Junior specialist. bureau
of education, Department of Interior;
Miss Margaret Sawyer, director of
nutrition service. American Red
Cross; Miss Mary Spencer, depe rtm en-
of education. National Catholic We'll
fare Council; Miss Louise Stanley,
chief bureau of home economies,
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, and Miss Harriet Wedgwood,
formerly junior specialist school
hygiene, United States bureau of edu-
cation.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
TRAFFIC FATALITIES
CUT In HALF BY DRIVE
Westchester County, New York,
Also Reduces ALI Accidents rs
Per Cent in Week. Eg
BOOSTS SAFETY MOVEMENT
Record Made in Section Marked by
Heavy Travel.

Reduction of the number of deaths
by SO per cent has just been achieved
by a public safety campaign in West
chester County, an area about 400
square miles just outside the city lin
its of New York.
The campaign started May 1. Dur
ing the preceding four months an av
erage of eighteen persons monthly
had been killed in accidents, during
the preceding year an average OF
fourteen persons per month had been
killed, and during May of 1923 six
teen persons were killed
On May 81, this year, it was found
that only eight persons had been
killed in accidents during the month
| in the entire county of forty-one sep
arate communities, a reduction OF
one-half from the record of the cor
| responding month of the previous
year.
All Points Unite.
On June 1 the forty-one commu-
| mites in the county jointly started
Safety week campaign"-a short,
| intensive driye,sthe purpose of which
was, first to attract the attention of
every resident and transient in the
county to the opening of the permA
nent safety campaign; second. q
4
| in the county that accidents can bk
prevented, and TO convince them of
| this fact SO strongly that they would
show the same enthusiasm for acci-
dent prevention throughout the year
| that they did during Safety week
| The result of this one-Week cam
paign was even more striking than
that of the first month Of the year
round campaign.
The record follows: Week of June
1 n
juries: weekly average first four
months, 1924, As deaths. Week OF
June l to Z, 1924, / death, 6 serious
| injuries.
shows as Per Cent Out.
A reduction of Is per cent in deaths
and serious injuries in the face of
steadily increasing population and
automobile registration was the re-
| suit. This becomes all the more sig
nifcant when it is known that West
chester County is criss-crossed with
| fine roads, over which all the auto
! York State, Connecticut and points
| farther north must pass TO get to
New York city, and that nearly 100, 600
| transient motor vehicles pass through
the county each day on their way TO
| and from New York
| Not one out of the hundred thou
sand children in the county was
killed or seriously injured during the
| week. There was not a street car
| or a railroad accident anywhere in
the county during Safety week.
though the forty-one cities, towns
| and villages are connected by more
| than a hundred miles of street and
interurban electric railways, and a
| thousand trains of the New York
! Central and the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroads speed
| through the county each day Not
one of the 1000 commercial vehicles
| in the county was involved in an ac-
cident of any sort in the week
Evening star., 1924-06-22

We earn and pay by the month,
but have not an equal monthly meas
ure-ezcept for prisoners jailed to
serve thirty or sixty days. They
are the only class who know what
d month really is.
Our months wary from twenty
sixht 10 thirty-one days long-a diff
ference Of IL per cent. yet the same
monthly salaries and rents are in
eauitably paid.
The shifting range of weeks
through months burdens business
and social life with many tiresome
references. limitations and troubles
seiected days having to be described
az the FIRST and third Wednesdays
and "the Friday nearest the TWEEN
tieth," etc.
Five Saturdays are listed this year
in March, May. August and Novem-
her. compelling housewives to buy a
NTH weeks meats. groceries and
such out Of equal monthly incomes
Copyright, I924.)
Evening star., 1924-06-22
HOMEOPATHS GATHERING
FOR CLEVELAND SESSION
DR.. Sawyer Among Speakers Sched-
uled to Address Convention
of Physicians.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, June 21.-Physfcians
began arriving here tonight from all
parts of the United States for the
eightieth annual convention tomorrow
of the American Institute of Homeo-
pathy, the oldest national medical
organization in the country.
Discussion will include water sup
ply and sewage disposal, plastic sur
gerry, some phases of appendicitis'
neutritional problems of school chill
dren and the therapeutic use OF
radium.
Among the speakers scheduled is
Brig. Gen. Charles e. Sawyer, personal
physician to the late President Hard
ing.
The convention ends with a banquet
Thursday night. Omcers VIII De
elected Wednesday.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
THREE TAKEN IN RAIDS.

The vice squad last night made two
raids, in one of which $50 quarts of
liquor were taken and in the other
an arrest was made on the charge of
handbook making.
The liquor was taken from the
home of James Whittingham, jr.,
nineteen years old, colored, at 943 T
street Whittingham is a waiter on a
dining car of the Southern railway.
The charge of possession of liquor was
placed against him. His mother
Esther, also was arrested and a
charge of possession and sale placed
against her.
Charles Thomas, forty years old.
colored, is held on the charge of TAX
ing bets on race horses, following a
raid on his place near 7th and
streets.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
NAVY GIVES CALENDAR VIEW
Opposes Any Alteration in Years
Length-Should Begin Jan. /.

Tho Navy Department is opposed
to any change in the calendar which
would lead to an alteration in the
number of days in the year. Secretary
Wilbur said yesterday In a letter to
Secretary Hughes regarding a pro-
posed a calendrical conference recently
suggested by the league OF nations
No days should be omitted or in
serted to make the year begin other
wise than on January /, as under the
present system, he said. Navy De-
partment scientists believe that
while the beginning of the year at
the winter solstice might possess GER
tain advantages, it is believed that
the resultant confusion In historical
and scientific matters would impose
unending disadvantages"
Evening star., 1924-06-22
nority in the settlement of labor dis

thority in the settlement of labor dis
putes," the letter from Stone and
Robertson said. You have objected
to the political activities of organized
la Dor and yet no one person has done
more than YOU to convince the rail-
way employees of the necessity for po4
litical action.
I'VE are aware that universal dis
satisfaction with the board has left
IL little to do" the letter continues
I'VE suggest, however. that your
present effort to use the board for
creating controversies in order to JUS
tify its existence exceeds the impTo-
priety OF your previous action.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
Farmers May Run
Grain Trade Board
If Merger Is Made

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, June 21.-The signfi-
canee of the proposal of leading
Chicago grain elevator interests
receiving and shipping houses, to
turn over their elevators to the
farmers co-operatives is that
business has fallen off. due to
competition of the farmers market
ing organizations. There are pros
poets of a further slump.
If the farmers organizations
should take over these funda-
mentals of the board of trade, they
would take over the board of
trade itself. for il is on grain re-
ceived by these combined compan-
les that most of the trading on
the board is based.
Evening star., 1924-06-22
MESSAGE FROM PLANE.
Successful Broadcast Test Made in
New York.
specia, Dispstch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. June 21.-Lieut Ken
drick Mobile and Sergt. Irvine Devils
of the 27th Division, air force, con-
Quoted a successful experiment in
broadcasting from an airplane this
afternoon at MiIler's Field. Staten
Island
From height of 5000 feet they
sent out by radio the announcement
of the aviation meet at Miller's Field
next Saturday.
A three-tube set picked up the
messages clearly on the ground at
the 5,0O0-foot elevation and also at
1000 feet, and from a distance of
twenty-five miles. The experimenters
believe they were heard throughout
the metropolitan district and in Penn
sylvania.
Evening star., 1924-06-22

Raw milk is hard to digest.
Scalded or boiled milk is
easily digested and does not
constipate-
Milk poor in fat is best
for babies. Pour off some of
the cream when milk appears
very rich.
Every b "a by should get
small doses of orange juice
or strained canned tomato
Juice, diluted in some water,
between bottles, once or
twice daily. These substances
contain quantities of vita
mines which help the assimi-
lation of food.
Give the baby plenty cool,
boiled water between bottles.
Evening star., 1924-06-22

group capital and group distribution
are normal lines of endeavor in COM
merce and industry. Farming has
been the last to recognize its value.
but it is now thoroughly alive to 1t.
"A knowledge of the market, recog-
milton of the need for quality and
standardization, marketing contract
permitting business relations and ac-
QUESTION of necessary storage faciii-
ties and finance and the elimination
of the speculative element, make for
success. The farmers own organiza-
tion permits unity of purpose which
will go a long way in the meFchan-
dising of the products from agricul-
lures $4,000, 900 900 Investment"
Evening star., 1924-06-22

Crystal sets and equipment received
yesterday afternoon follow:
Previously acknowledged-155 sets
81 pairs of head phones, 60 aerial
posts, crystals, pipe for 30 ground
connections, antenna and 'lead-in wire
and other equipment
Miss Pauline Murrell, Chevy Chase,
ID. G., crystal set, pair of head phones
and antenna wire
Total-l56 sets, ss pairs of head
phones. 60 aerial posts. crystals, pipe
for 80 ground connections, antenna
and lead-in wire and other equipment
for installation.