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Evening star., 1924-03-08
ROBINSON DEFENDS
MEN IN PUBLIC LIFE
Majority Are Upright, Senator
Tells Arkansas Society, in
New York.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated PfeSS.
NEW YORK, March S.-Character-
tzing the revelations in the Senate s
Investigation of the naval Oil leases
as cause for anxiety for the per-
manence of American political insti-
tutions," Senator Joseph T. Robin
before the Arkansas Society last
night. launched bitter attack upon
the republican administration.
Just as the majority of men promi-
nent in business affairs are honest
and incorruptible," Senator Robinson
declared. so. as a rule, those who
nave attained to eminence in public
conduct
derelictions, incompetence and cor
ruptlon on the part of a number of
FEDERAL officers has given force to
the growing conviction in the minds
or many citizens that the govern
ment is corrupt throughout and
hardly worth preserving
The oil lease disclosures constitute Q
1he principal cause for the prevailing
SUSPICION of public men and mistrust L
OF the government as now admins
tered"
Questions Transfer OF Land.
senator Robinson summarized the
policy for conservation of national
resources under which the naval oil
reserve tracts were created and
questioned the late President Hard
ing,s authority to transfer the con-
trol or the tracts from the Navy to
me Interior Department. Senator
Robinson impugned both the methods
and motives of Secretary DENLY and
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt in
bringing about the executive order
which made the transfer He said
almost every officer in the NAVY,
other than the Secretary and Assist
ant Secretary Roosevelt. opposed the
transfer, and that Admiral Griffin
head of the bureau having jurisdic-
ton over the matter. vigorously pro-
tested the proposal.
The speaker condemned the secrecy
and mystery which surround the ne
gotiation of the leases to Sinclair and
Doheny interests.
Commenting on the slogan more
business in government and less
government in business" Senator
Robinson said this was correct in
principle, but quite impracticable of
application under existing conditions
and in the present state of public
mind.
Senator Robinson, in answer to a.
question. denied he would be g. can
didate for the democratic presidential
nomination.
Evening star., 1924-03-08
THE WEATHER

District of CoIumbia-Fair tonight
and tomorrow. but becoming un-
settled by tomorrow night: continued
cold; freezing temperature tonight
fresh westerly winds.
Maryland-Fair tonight and tomor-
row. becoming unsettled by tomorrow
night; continued cold; strong west
erly winds, diminishing tonight.
Virginia-Fair and continued cold
tonight: tomorrow cloudy, followed
by snow or rain in southwest por-
tion; fresh westerly winds.
West Virginia-CIoudy and con-
tinued cold tonight. tomorrow un-
settled, probably followed by snow
in south and west portions.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
Therfnometer-Yest 4 pm,
AZ; 8 pm, 38: II midnight, SO; am,
S5: am, 35: noon, 80.
Rarometer-Yest esterday. pm. 29.70:
IS pm. 29.Ss; IL midnight 1898: 4
am. 29.97; am, 1902; noon, 30.02.
Highest temperature, 81. occurred
at 3 pm. yesterday; lowest tempera-
tura. 80. occurred at IL pm last night.
Temperature same date last year
Highest SO; lowest, 2S.
!. Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition of the
water at am: Great Falls-Tem-
perature, 80: condition, very muddy
Evening star., 1924-03-08
Abe Martin Saws:

Cashier Wesley Moots of our
state bank has resigned while
theirs yit time.
Even if we know we're right
ever thing costs so much we
can't get ahead.
Copyright National Newspaper Service1
Evening star., 1924-03-08
ENVOY NEGOTIATES
TRUCE IN HONDURAS
o. S. Minister Able to Bring End
of Fighting at
Tegucigalpa.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Assocate ted Press.
SAN SALVADOR, March S.
Through the meditation of Frank G.
Morales. the American minister, fight
ing has ceased in Honduras. accord
ing to advices received here today.
Mr.. Morales went to Zambrano to ne
gotiate with Gen. Gregorio Ferrera of
rhe revolutionary forces for the
peaceful occupation of Tegucigalpa,
so as to prevent an attack on that
city by the rebels.
Gen. Rafael Lopez Gutierrez who
became dictator when his presidential
term expired February /, agreed to
the appointment of Ferrera as COM
mander of Tegucigalpa
american marines from the cruiser
Denver have established neutral
zone around American property
which they are guarding at La Ceiba
Evening star., 1924-03-08
WILLIS, IN ADDRESS,
DEFENDS COOLIDGE
Says 'Maligners Of Characters
0verstepped Selves in Tea.
pot Dome Inquiry.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
|: NE" YORK, March S-Asserting
that some of his colleagues in the
United States Senate are disposed "to
condemn men by mere rumors and
whisperings." Senator Willis Of Ohio.
IN a speech to members of the
League for Industrial Rights last
night, declared that "the maligners
or character" had overstepped them
serves when they attempted to bring
the name of President Coolidge into
the Teapot Dome investigation.
He said he was disposed to believe
there had been wrongdoing in one or
Two instances, but preferred to wait
until the facts come out before ac-
cuslng or condemning anybody"
1t has been said that there is a
species of hysteria in Washington at
present., he went on. Il do not
know whether that is the right char
acterlzation, but / do know that there
mas been a steady effort. through in
nuendo and suspicion. to drag down
those who have possessed and still
possess spotless characters"
Evening star., 1924-03-08

Would you let your wife be sick
in bed and not call a doctor?
OF course you wouldn't.
Do you realize that a business
enterprise not producing a profit is
sick?
Call L. A. Harris
Adams 356I-J or write z16 Spruce
Ave. Takoma Park, Nd and see
what he can do for you. !.
90
Evening star., 1924-03-08

Francis T. Homer, Baltimore law
yer, quoted by Major in one of the
easy access to the White House" AZ .
reason for installation of the Mclean
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Cites Striking Contrast.
A striking contrast was drawn
between Wilson's departure for
Paris and his return.
THE tired warrior for the com
mon good" he said, "who had kept
the faith, fought the fight and won,
instead of hearing well done, thou
good and faithful servant saw him
self ringed about with foes of mind
to rend and destroy him."
How much blame should attach
! to Wilson himself for this situation,
DR.. Alderman said he did not konw.
"but something less Of malice in
the hearts Of his enemies, and some
thing more of compromise in his
own heart, and there might have
been another world"
He quoted the last words of Will
son at Peublo, where he broke down.
They were to the effect that the
American people would yet accept
/ the League as an agency to lead
the world through "the quiet pas
lures" Of world peace.
1.-THE prophecy of the stricken
advocate of reason has not yet
come true" said Doctor Alderman,
land there are those who hope it
never will come true. It is not
seemly that / should here attempt
any controversial discussion, but l
should lack the courage of the man
seek to interpret IL did not cry
! out, even in this very chamber,
God grant that it may come true"
The Rev. James Shera Mont
gomery. chaplain Of the House, Of,
fered the opening praper. The serv-
ices closed with benediction by the
Rev. ]. j. Muir, chaplain Of the Sen
ate. AS an additional mark of re-
spect the Senate and House both adj
journed after the exercises.
The services were to be broadcast
by radio through a chain Of sta
tons which will include WRC,
Washington; WGY, Schenectady;
WIZ and WEAF, New York, and
others to be added at the last mo-
! ment,
Among the prominent figures dur
ing the Wilson administrations who
attended the services are William
Jennings Bryan, Robert Lansing,
William c. Redfield, Josephus
/ Daniels, William B. Wilson, Balm
bridge Colby, d. r. Houston, John
Barton Payne and A. Mitchell Pal
mer, all Of whom were members
Of the Wilson cabinet; Rear Ad-
! tniral Cary r. Grayson, Joseph p.
/ Tumulty, Colonel e. M. House,
Bernard Baruch, breckenridge
Long, Homer Cummings, Frank
Polk, Raymond T. Baker and Glenn
L. Shaver.
Arrival Of COolidges.
President Coolidge arrived at
1918 p. m. Mrs. Wilson rose with
everyone else as the Executive came
into the chamber.
| As soon as the President was
seated Senator CumnAAAS CRep) OF
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POSTAL RAISE
FIGHT ON IN
SENATE
Senator Stirling Leads Adj
ministration Drive for $6s,-
OOo,o 600 Measure

The Administrations new pos
tai rate schedule, intended to
raise $6S,OOO.OOO from advanced
charges on second, third and
fourth class mail service, win be
linked to the vetoed postal sal.
airy bill, and introduced as .
joint measure in the Senate to-
morrow. Il was announced this
afternoon by Senator Sterling
Rep.) Of South Dakota, chairman
Of the Senate Postoffice Commit
tee.
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WILSON LAUDED
At MEMORIAL
Continued from First Page.D

Continued from First Page.D
American leadership the mighty
war would come to an end.
Long generations hence we shall
warm our hearts at the fire of the
glory that then shown about this
Republic, won for it by the genius
Of it's president, the unity of its
people, the Observation-Disclosures of its
purpose. and the valor Of its youth
unafraid to die.
OF the actual conduct of the war,
DIR. Alderman said mo democracy
in history and few autocracies have
even given such an exhibition of eff.
cient cooperation or earned such
triumphant success. And for this
he credited the iron determination
and resolve in Woodrow Wilson sthat
knew no compromise.
Paris Conference Doubts.
DR.. Alderman spoke with great
feeling about the Paris conference
Whether he should have gone at
all, or whom he should have been
accompanied, is a sea of fascinating
but futile conjecture, upon which !
shall not embark. 1t seemed to
him that 1t was his moral respon-
sibiliy under God to go to Europe
needless of the rocks ahead or the
whirlpools behind. 1t was a fearful
responsibility to assume.
Three underlying purposes, all
born of American daring and ex-
perience, guided his mind and drove
him on.
1.-THE first was faith in democracy
itself, faith in men, faith in the su.
premacy of spiritual force.
1.-The second was the essential
democratic idea of the right of men
everywhere to determine their own
affairs. The third was the idea Of
co-opertion of peoples.
mo man could have achieved this
program in its entirety or secured a
perfect peace of justice in Paris
The Versailles Treaty was shot
through with the fear and resent
ment Of suffering and illu-sed men;
a settlement corrupted by previous
bargains among the allied powers"
inconsistent with the high purpose
Of Wilson.
when the odium of nations and
races began to beat upon him be-
cause he could not perform a task
OG1QAAO AAOLl0A SANAAACNCAAAGAA@y A4SCh
saw himself confronted with the
alternative Of worldwide chaos and
disintegration or an imperfect
peace with the League of Nations, I"
In the end, Wilson took what he
could get, Doctor Alderman said,
land I am one who believes he
gained more than he sacrificed at
Versailles"
He had the heart to match the
moral hopes of mankind against
their passions. He sought to give
the twentieth century a faith to
inspire it and to justify the sacri-
flee of millions Of lives.
eff there was failure it was
humanity's failure. To make him,
the one undaunted advocate Of those
hopes, the scrapegoat of world
collapse is to visit upon him an
injustice so cruel that it must
perish of its own uhreason.
II envisage him rather as vic.
tor and a conquorer as he re.
turned to America untouched by
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SICK " 4 R VET
ASKS AID FOR
FAMILY
ExSoIdier Writes From Denver
Hospital to Good Fellows
of Washington
CONTINUED from First Page.)

(Continued from First Page.)
Fellow to attend to their fulfilment.
With only nine days remaining
before Christmas, it will be neces.
sary to increase the enrolment of
the Good Fellow Club considerably.
Fill Out Blank.
Elsewhere on this page is an APP
plication blank for enrolment in
the organization. All that is neces-
sary If one wants to become one of
the Good Fellows is to fill out the
blank, mail 1t to the Good Fellows,
care of The Washington Times, and
the names of the needy persons will
be sent at once.
III 1t is toys that are to be given,
there are many children who write
that their Christmas is to be toy.
less unless a Good Fellow comes to
the aid Of Santa Claus.
If 1t is clothes, there are still
many persons, young and old, who
have asked for clothing that they
are unable to buy.
And there are hundreds Of Wash
tngton homes In need this year.
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final rites in Sleepy Hollow Gene
terry, Thursday.
The headquarters of the Central
Labor Union, 1905 E street north
west, will be draped in black dur
ing the time the body rests in
Washington.
A Lodge Of Sorrow at Elks Hall,
will be held by the Washington
Lodge of Elks at $50, before the
service at the casket.
"A special police detail will be
at Union Station tomorrow, when
the funeral train arrives, and will
accompany the cortege to the labor
building.
In the procession win be the
members of the Gompers family,
members OF the A. F. Of L. execu-
tive council and other department
leaders, international union repre-
Labor Union and the fraternal
escorts.
The Masonic escort win come
from Dawson Lodge, No. 16, and
from the Scottish Rite Masons. AS
Mr.. Gompers was q member also
Of the Woodmenl of the World and
the Eagles, both of these orders
probably will provide representa-
tives.
Arranging Complete Details.
Complete plans for the final
services are to be made at meet
ing Of A. F. Of L. leaders, today.
Earlier arrangements were dis.
cussed at a meeting in the labor
building yesterday.
The body win lie in state in New
York all day Wednesday. in Elks
hall, and services will be conducted
Friday morning by Rabbi Stephen
s. Wise, Doctor Felix Adler, the
MasoIls and the Elks. The citizens
committee Of pallbearers includes
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FUND
Still S12,112
SHORT
Thirteen Opportunities" List
ed-Gifts Received by
John Joy Edeson

A total of $12.1l2 is still needed
to care for thirteen OF the four.
teen needy families listed by the
Associated Charities as the most
deserving opportunities for charity
in the District, it was announced
today
One Of the families has been com.
pletely cared for by the Kiwanis
Club.
The publication of the details OF
the opportunities for charity was
made Saturday by the Associated
Charities after full Investigation
OF the unfortunate conditions Of the
families.
Gifts may be sent to John J.
Edison, treasurer OF the Associated
Charities, 1922 Eleventh street north.
west
Thirteen Opportunities"
The following are the thirteen
opportunities" and the gifts received
for each to date:
OPPORTUNITY NO. Living FOR
HER CHILDREN. Husband hopeless
Y III In hospital mother and five
2. G B.. 5000; M. g. s.. $500; Miss
g. 3. H., $500, and Miss G. n. M.
$500. Amount still needed. 1888
OPPORTUNITY NO 2.-No END
OF WORRY AND TROUBLE. Widow
ana seven children. Amount asked for.
$3.50.
OPPORTUNITY NO. s.--1F DADDY
HAD ONLY LIVED. Widow and two
children. Amount asked for, 1915. Miss
*. A. f.. $500; Miss A. r. b., $500.
Major G G. E., $1,000. Amount still
, OPPORTUNITY NO. 4.-THE SUN
BEGINS To. SHINE. Widow and sIx
children. Amount asked for. $500.
!. W. + 500; NM Mr.. h H. and .,6 Ma e
Mrs H. p, $500: Mrs C. G. NJ, $500
and Mrs. @. G. E., $500 Amount
OPPORTUNITY No. 5.-Taksn by
| Kiwanis Club and closed.
OPPORTUNITY No sATHREE GEN
! ERATIONS. Widow, grandmother and
four children. Amount asked for,
M,os2; H n J.. S.: Miss J. t.. IS;
9: 7. NJ. 81, and e. r s., $40 Amount
still needed. N$1.o OBS.
OPPORTUNITY NO, Z. -tCoIored.)
REFUSES TO GIVE AWAY HER
CHILDREN. Deserated wife ami three
children. Amount asked for. $500.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 8; A BUSY
Amount asked for. 37so. w. H. C.. So;
D. s. W.. $40; z. c., $2s. Amount
stili needed. s74s.
| OPPORTUNITY, NO s-ILLNEss
ExAcTs HEAVY TOLL. widow and
three children. Amount asked for
| 81 $50. Miss f. r. H.. 500. Amount
still needed, SI,46O.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 1o.--AMRITIoUs
| TO BE SOMEBODY" Widow and six
children. Amount asked for, 1896.
| OPPORTUNITY NO 11.-(Colored).
A LITTLE MOTHER. Widow and four
children. Amount asked for. $728.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 12.-FIGHTING
TUBERCULOSIS Widow and three
children. Amount asked for, $l,465.
Miss NJ. j., IS. Amount still needed,
$1.451
OPPORTUNITY NO. 1s.-(Colored)
HANDICAPPED WITH NEAR BLIND
NESS. Widow and five children.
Amount asked. for, $1.144 H. w. f..
$40; Mrs g. F. c., $40. Amount still
OPPORTUNITY NO. 14.-oNLY
| ASKING A CHANCE TO MAKE GOOD.
Deserted wife and two children. Amount
asked for. 341s. Miss H. c. B.. So; G.
r. c., s.; Miss N. N. ", 81, and R.
w, H.. s.. Amount still needed, 1899.
Total amount asked for, SfSS8s
total amount received. Sl,276; total
| amount still needed. &12,112
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15

DRAPERY sewers and finishers
wanted.
@ st. N. W.--6everaI new APART
ments, $50 to $125 month.
MEAT cutter and grocery clerk;
permanent position.
DOG-Part collie and airedaIe, lost;
constant companion to invalid;
reward offered.
G ST. N. 1.-TWO nice rooms;
housekeeping; So week.
SUITCASE lost. containing ladies
apparel. Reward offered
RADIO 6-tube set; in artistic cabi-
net.
BOY wanted, white; chance for
advancement; IS week.
14TH ST. y. w.-single 'front.' room.
s12 month.
LAYOUT man wanted; apply at
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
With The
Abb Artists
IA Cross Section Of the
Daily Grind in Judge
Schuldt's Court.
Read EN- and Weep.
A Grave Case. =,

-
II chased him at forty.five
miles an hour from the District
line to Mt. Olivet Cemetery, your
honor. He had sixty gallons of
corn liquor in his carr
Cant understand why you
were driving at forty-five miles
an hour out there with sixty gal
Ions of whiskey in your car,
young man. That stuff'll land
you In the graveyard quick
enough without wasting all that
gas"
You have to stay when whis-
key takes you there, your honor.
/ wanted to come out again.
II see. Fifty dollars"
II haven't got $50, your
honor"
'You can come out again in
thirty days"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON,
International NaYEa Service.

An administration drive for a
sos, 100000 increase in postal
rates to pay for wage advances
to post office employees will be
started within ten days by the
opening of public hearings, it was
announced today by Senator
Sterling (Rep.l of South Dakota.
chairman of the Senate Post Of
flee Committee.
The new rate measure, Senator
Sterling said, will be drafted to
conform with the recommends
tions Of Postmaster General New,
which called for sharp increases
on second and third class matter,
the parcel post, postal insurance,
money orders, registered letters,
special deliveries and C. o. D.
service. The bulk of the raise.
however, would fall upon news.
papers, magazines and othec
periodicals.
Conferences Arranged.
Sterling planned to confer today
with other Administration leaders
to map out a program of procedure.
The rate measure either will be
introduced separately or it will be
linked with the postal salary bill,
which President Coolidge vetoed last
spring.
The salary bill, meanwhile, re-
manned before the Senate with its
authors seeking to postpone a vote
to override the veto until after the
rate measure. has been considered.
Opposition to the proposed rate
increases was being organized by
the American Newspaper Publishers
Association, which condemned the
new schedule as certain to 'abso.
lutely prohibit the circulation of
newspapers in the mail"
The association objected particu-
larry to a 100 per cent rate in
crease urged by New on second
class mail in the first and second
zones
Other Critics Appear.
This-rate would affect every news.
paper, because of the distribution of
country circulation in the mails.
The schedule also found critics
in the Senate, where Senators con-
demned the Administration for "at-
tempting to defeat the pay bill by
linking it to revenue measure"
This attitude was taken by Sen
ators Dill CD of Washington and
Reed (R) of Pennsylvania.
They served notice on their col
Leagues that they would not coun.
tenance a lengthy postponement of
the vote on the Presidents veto
of the pay bill.
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Cites Striking Contrast.

sordiness and dishonor, unsurpassed
in moral devotion.
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Thousands Will Take
Part in Rites Here;
Train Due Tomorrow

Samuel Gompers, viii lie In state
in Washington, tomorrow, in the
American Federation Of Labor Build.
ing. The funeral train is due to
reach Washington tomorrow after
noon at 2:45 o'clock, and will be
met at Union Station by labor and
fraternal associates Of Mr.. Com
pers'.
Services BY Masons.
These men and women, who
worked side by side with the grand
old man Of American labor through
the necessarily active years OF his
middle life and old age, are to es-
cort the cortege to the A. f. Of L..
Building, where Masons and Elks
will be congregated for ritualistic
services over the bronze coffin of
their dead brother.
Mrs. GOmpers and the three sons
are in this city, awaiting the ar
rival of the train.
High officials Of the labor fedora.
ton are to leave tomorrow morn
ing to meet the funeral train at
Martinsburg, w. Va.
A large fraternal delegation, in
GLIDING representatives OF the
Shrine, The Grotto and the .Elks,
viii meet the train at Washington
Junction
Burial at Sleepy Hollow.
From o'clock tomorrow after
noon until 1890 tomorrow night, the
body of Mr.. Gompers will lie in
state. 1t win then leave for New
York, accompanied by members Of
the bereaved family and various
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
TRoTZKY IS cHEERED
AS HE QUITS MOSCOW

VIENNA, Dec. 15.-Private
dispatches from Moscow today
commented on the first public
demonstration Of Soviet opponents
on the occasion Of Leon Trotzky'S
departure for the Crimea.
His adherents cheered him on his
leaving for virtual exile, despite
the efforts Of the Cheka, or red
secret police.
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Governor Smith, Mayor Hylan, AL
ton B. Parker, and Bernard Baruch
The last procession will leave by
automobile for Tarrytown, after
the services, and the body will be
laid to-. rest in the historic old
cemetery near the grave of Andrew
Carnegie.
On Thursday night. the labor
men will meet to choose the sue.
cessor of Mr.. Gompers as president
Of the American Federation Of
Labor.
Services in New York.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE body
Of Samuel Gompers will lie in state
in the Elks clubhouse here follow.
ing the arrival Of the funeral train
from Washington Wednesday morn,
ing, Services will be at 9 o'clock
Thursday morning. Interment will
be in Sleepy Hollow cemetery
where there will be Masonic COM
initial services.
James Duncan, u4rst vice presi-
dent Of the federation, who has
worked beside the dead labor leader
for thirty years, will deliver the
eulogy. The Elks' ritual will FOL-
low. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of the
Free Synagogue WIN conduct the
services.
The honorary palEbearers viii in.
clude Governor Alfred E. Smith,
Mayor John F. Hylan, Alton B.
Parker, Bernard NJ. Baruch, Ralph
Easley and Samue1 Untermyer.
The executive council of the fed.
Grafton will serve as active pail
bearers.
The funeral c0rtege will pass
along Fifth avenue on its way to
the burial.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-15
FOUR CONNECTS KILLED
WITH GUARD IN REVOLT

HONG KONG, Dec. ia Portu-
gNse guard and four Chinese convicts
were dead today after an outbreak Of
convicts employed on small island
near Marcoa.
The Chinese broke loose, over
powered their guards, seized arms
and ran amuck. They surrendered
on arrival of a Portuguese gunboat,