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Public Opinion
For Tax. Relief Legislation

I7HIs is National Tax Reduction
.' It's purpose is the marshal
ing of public opinion through
out the United States in demanding
taxrelief legislation at Washing ton.
Under the plan of the Citizens Ma
tional Committee in Support of the
Mellon Tax Reduction Proposal. in CO.
operation with civic and Industrial
organizations in every state, hundreds
of meetings for the discussion of the
tax situation will be held and thou
sands upon thousands of messages
sent to Congress. ;
Maj. Gen. John F. Organ, chairman
of the citizens committee, is in
charge of the activities, aided by pro-
fessional and business men and by
the large industrial associations
Every citizen should participate in
Tax Reduction week." Gen. Organ
states. "All can do So very simply.
Just send letter or kilograms to your
senators and representatives telling
just what you think of the delay in
enacting legislation on. this most i'm
portant subject Let Congress know
once more, and much more en,phat-
ically. what, the people are thinking"
The work Of organizing Tax Reduc-
ton week has been ananced by con-
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tr1butions from the public. .disburse-
ments being held to a minimum, Gen.
ORyan explained. Probably only
$4,000 has been spent in clerical hire,
postage and kilograms. so Gen. Organ
claims this week will set not only a
record for economy, but for results.
Among the cooperating organiza-
tions are the Retail Dry Goods Asso-
citation. several hundred chambers of
commerce, the National Association of
Life Underwriters, American Institute
of Accountants, real estate boards,
building associations, National Whole
sale Grocers' Association, the Retail
Grocers, women's clubs, National Fed
GRAFTON of Implement Dealers, en-
ployers' bodies, North Dakota State
turers and retailers, and a hundred
other representative agencies. The
subject of tax relief will also be
brought up at meetings of Rotary,
Kiwanis, Lions and Exchange clubs.
There are to- be addresses from the.
principal broadcasting stations of the
country. "
Ger. Organ has received within the
past two weeks letters from every
lection of the country, and said that
very writer advocated a readjustment
of national taxes, with sentiment
Overwhelmingly in favor of the Mel
lon plan. .,
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There was then, single outstanding fact
which could explain the whole exchange sit
uaton; that Is, no economic or financial fact
French production, exports were above the
pre-war figures Unemployment did not exist
Hundreds of millions of dollars were flowing
in annually as d result of the tourist trade
there had been very. good crop in the pre-
cedng autumn. And yet of sudden there
arrived situation which lacked little-just
a little--of developing into panic.
PouticnI Situation.
Now IL one undertakes to explain this
that is, save in terms of economic expert
it seems to me one must analyze the facts
which also explain the second of the crises
which have noted namely the political. In
May a chamber of deputies will be elect
ed and this election will decide not alone the
name of the next cabinet, but the character
of the next chamber. win II be conservative
or radical. nationalist or pacifst?
Oddly enough. you have the odd and to the
foreigner confusing fact that it is not Poih-
cares foreign policy which has brought him
to the edge Of defeat; nothing of the sort
The reason he has just managed to survive
up to the moment / writing lies in the
fact that, the whole. the country is not
ready to risk the effect upon foreign rela-
tions of getting rid of man whose domestic
politics and methods are desperately unpop-
ular and would, in any ordinary state of af-
fairs, insure his overthrow instantly.
Poincares foreign policy, then, still holds
the support of the French people, but, again.
there is a point of confusion in this. That
policy which the French people ascribe to
Poncare is not at all the policy which is
charged to him, either in London in Wash
ington at least among unfrendly critics. If
the mass of Frenchmen still indorse the
cupation of the Ruhr, it is not-perhaps 1T
never was-with any idea of permanent oceu-
patton, much less of wrecking Germany.
II Poincare cannot ultimately sell the
cupation of the Ruhr-that is, If he cannot
finally demonstrate that the occupation was
4 necessary step in the long series to bring
Germany TO terms-his foreign policy will be
rejected, for nothing to me more GER
tain today than that in their present temper
there is nothing in the smallest degree mill
taristic or imperiaiistic about the French
people. Frenchmen still believe that if the
Ruhr had not been occupied Germany would
have paid nothing, but they look upon that
occupation a seizure of goods, to be re-
leased when payment is made
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Governments Are Blamed
For Chaotic Situation in the Ruhr

again so easily. In the old days when
bomb hit in one spot and killed
only few people, war meant little.
Today, when airplanes can carry gas
bombs over Paris in a few hours. war
is another matter. 1t is absolutely
necessary that we be prepared. In
my opinion our forces are not as
strong as they should be.
U. S. Cannot Understand.
You cannot understand that state
ment, perhaps, because you do not
understand our point of view J did
not understand yours until l went to
the United States. L heard you say,
We live peaceabIy with Canada along
a border 5000 miles in length. Why
cannot you do the same?' l began to
see this point of view, and it has
helped me in my work since 1 re-
turned. It is point of view as for
eign to us as ours is to you.
There is a great deal in this mat
ter of the point of view" NJ. Schnei-
der continued thoughtful1y. II got an
example of 1t the other day from my
boy who is in school in England. a
French boy, if punished by a whip
ping, would consider it such a dis
grace that he would leave school.
But according to the English code of
honor, the boy who has done wrong
must and should submit to a cane,
and recently when it was put to a
vote the English boys decided to re-
tain the cane as their form of pun
ishment. There you see the English
and French boys each have different
code, but each is correct, from his
own point of view.
so it is natural that such a distant
country as the United States cannot
understand our point of view. and we
cannot understand yours. In. such
cases it seems to me necessary that
we should trust each other. These
are times when mutual trust is most
necessary"
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BY FRANK. T. SIMONDs.

HAR1S.--Never in tho various times have
- come to Paris, during and since the
war has the political situation seemed =
more obscure apd less. easy to grasp
Actually, France is.ipsthe presence of three
acute crises. any one Of which would of itself
be sufficient to concentrate national interest
and effort. These three crises are, quite OBJ
viously. that of the exchange which isqfinan-
cial that of domestic, politics, which is due
to the approach of a general election and,
finally that OF international affairs, which
must come even more strongly into theslight
with the Dawes commission reports.
In some way the exchange difficulties are
the most serious for people in their direct
consequences. The tremendous fluctuations
OF the franc in the first and second weeks of
March brought sense of insecurity and of
apprehension which recalled of the worst
days of the Literally.
where he stood whether 1t was the smallest
purchaser of the necessary food supplies or
the largest exporter or importer. Moreover,
bad was the fall of the franc, it was. in
a sense. less serious than the remarkable
rises and falls which kept everything in un-
certainty.
There was nothing which one could quite
call panic, but there many evidences
many signs that go with actual pancs. Thus.
all of a sudden, the dealers in precious stones
found business hitherto undreamed Of
People of every sort began suddenly to invest
all that they could collect in diamonds and
pearls. This, of course, is wholly familiar
phenomenon which was noted both in Russia
and in Germany when the ashes in cur
rency came.
Blow mt France Seen.
The mass of the Frcnchmen believed that
the whole exchange episode was more and
no less than a carefully and deliberately or
ganf8ed plan of the Germans to weaken
France economically in the presence of the
approaching election and thus insure the de-
feat of NJ Poincare OF course, this theory
found far less support in informed circles, al
though there common agreement that
much of the speculation was traceable to
Holland Germany and Switzerland, with the
suspicion that much charged to the two
smaller nations was really German in disguise.
Taught by the press and the leaders that
the whole exchange matter was in reality
new attack upon France-a Verdun, as
the press daily announced-the mass of the
French people stood firm There was little
to suggest popular excitement, although
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Awesome i. S. Desert Areas
ParadOxical i'm Their Charm

States arc included in a great tri-
angle. whose base, 500 miles long,
rests upon the Mexican border in Ca1-
ifornia, Arizona and New Mexico and
Texas, whose apex is, in north central
Oregon.
For. many years the geological sur
Yey has been carrying on investiga-
tions of the water resources of this
arid part of the United States Most
Of the water in this, as in other dry
regions, lies below the surface. A
reconnaissance survey of this charac-
ter las been made in the Salton sea
region, covering about 10000 square
miles in southern California The.
Salton sea region, more than any
other area in the United States, has
the features of a genuine desert
a hot climate, great tracts of drift
ing sand, palm tree oases-all typical
Of the deserts of the old world
This great area lies far. below. sea
level in a closed desert basiu that
was at one. time q .northward con-
tInuation or the Gulf of California.
In this region also is the famous
Imperial valley, one of the largest
irrigation diStricts of the country.
Here man has made one of his most
impressive encroachments upon the
desert The valley is bordered on the
east by the Colorado riyer, which fur
niahes water in abundance TO the I'm
perial valley. but which in 1905 broke
through its barriers a nd far a fti,5,a
poured its great mood into the Salton
basin with disastrous results.
Construction of various projects
along the Colorado river. designed to
furnish water power to the territory
adjacent to it, will at the same time
control the floods of the river. which
have caused great losses tn the past.
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q oLITARY, and silent, a land of
bright sunshine, of pure brac-
ing air, wholesome and con-
genial by day and awe-inspir-
ing by night, the desert of the south
west yet bears within it's charm a
terror and mockery that becomes
stern reality to the traveller lost with.
in its wide expanses or the wanderer.
depending upon water who comes to
a dry water hole.
When all goes we'll the desert
seems so wholesome and congenial
Il place that the visitor almost laughs
at his prcconcsiYed fears, says the
geological survey. But if at the end
of a long day he and his tired, thirsty
team of horses come to an isolated
watering place that has gone dry or
:, Ills automobile breaks down miles
from the nearest water or human aid,
or, worse still, If he loses his bear
ings, the delightful panorama that
had impressed him so much becomes
strange and bewildering. The in
spring scenery and CHEEKY sunshine
become a monstrous mockery. Then
be realizes why the sandy stretches
of the southwest became names OF
terror to the overland travellers of
the middle fifties.
Features that impress the tender
foot become commonplaces to the
man who has lived long in the desert
region, and fear OF the desert appears
aosssrd; yet the experienced desert
man always takes precautions that
would not occur to the inexperienced,
and If the tenderfoot intends to make
a trip into the desert without ad-
equate information and equipment
the old timer will be quick to warn
him of its dangers. sS
The desert 6reac Of the United
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~ Can France and Germany ever live
together as the United States and
Canada do?" interrupted.
Canada and the United States are
young countries" M. Schneider re-
piled fhoughtfully. They started
without prejudice and grew up to-
gether.
France and Germany have fol-
lowed separate paths through many
centuries. France has been invaded
three times during a. not very long
period OF years. We can be invaded
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!: A young Austrian. is given credit
for having invented a device that will
enable women to have their hair
waved by wireless. The invention
will do away with the need of heat
ing and waving machines by electric
wires, and as the wireless wave used
will never reach so high a tempera-
ture, even dyed hair can be waved.
1t is maintained they will be safer
also than the machines which use
the ordinary electric current.
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suredly obtain International Co
operation. -
The chief difficulty in the Ruhr
has been that our government. has
made the mistake of forcing a mass
agreement. 1t has lined all the Ger
man business men on one side and
marshaled the Frenchmen on the
other, waved the flag over each side
and commanded, Come to terms. :"
NJ. Schneider paused Significantly, and
then concluded. Business and politics
don't go together like that"
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r. ufacturers could establish
mutually profitable combine
which would bring peace to
the Ruhr were it not for the meddle-
some interference of governments.
This was the verdict given me by
Eugene Schneider, Frances steel
king, who controls French industry
as SHINES does German. Schneider
was until recently chairman of the
comite deS forges, or committee of
steel manufacturers His main plant
at LIE Creusot is the oldest in France
and has supplied her armies with mu-
nitions and ordnance since the days
of Napoleon. Moreover. the war left
him with shipyards at Cherbourg.
torpedo works at Havre, cartridge
factory at Bordeaux, an electrical
machinery plant at Champagne-sur-
Seine. At one time a total of 1s2
plants were found to be under his
control.
Within a week after the armistice
these factories were being converted
to a peace-time basis, and the plant
which had been turning out the IA
nous French seventy-fives was max
ing one locomotive per day.
But postwar prosperity promised
even greater possibilities, and Schnei-
der pushed on to- central Europe,
where he engaged in a titanic con-
test with Hugo SHINES for no less a
prize than the industrial control of
the continent.
Duel with SHINES.
Schneider bought the control of one
of the greatest steel corporations in
Upper SiIesia, and SHINES practically
annexed it's rival. The same thing
happened in Czechoslovakia, Austria,
Hungary, Rumania, Jugoslavia, Po-
land and even in Turkey. AS fast as
the French magnate obtained control
of some big Industrial plant his Ger
man competitor snapped up another.
Probably only the two men themselves
know the real extent of their hold
ings, but it can hardly be an exag-
geration to say that they represent
total of Industrial equipment such
as never before has been controlled
by two individuals.
The occupation of the Ruhr dealt a
smashing blow to German industry,
and started a widely circulated story
that Schneider had backed the occu-
patton as a desperate means of crush
ing his German opponent In the in
ner circles of big European business
this is not credited. 1t is pointed out
that Schneider resigned as chairman
of the comite des forges as, soon as
the French troops began to march,
and it is declared that at that time
SHINES and Schneider had practically
reached an agreement to suspend hos
tilities and effect a combination.
Now, keeping this in mind, come
back to M. Eugene Schneider's spa
cious Paris Office, where before an
open fire he answered my question,
Gould not French and German steel
men get together without govern
ment interference and settle the trou-
BILE in the Ruhr?"
German Pact Possible.
YES was his frank reply, IT think
they could have done and still may
be able to do so. 1 have said that one
Frenchman should get together with
one German and work out business
agreement by which there would be
mutual profit. without mutual profit
there could be no lasting agreement.
If enough individual business men
could get started working together In
this way; -we should gradually bat as
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Tungsten filaments used in electric
light bulbs and radio vacuum tubes.
says the Popular Science Monthly, are
coils Of almost invisible wire only
one-thousandth of an inch thicI,
wound on core, of steel or brass only
four one-thousandths of an ilch
through
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Eugene Schneider, king
dozen onarchs who today industrial
the Schneider
his German rival Hugo
of the steel and coal of eastern Europe
holdings these only to them
selves believed that they dwarf the
greatest business magnates.
has rumored for that
the big French
looking which would
in stabizing In the interview M
intimates that these without foundation
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Continued on Third Page.)
Evening star., 1924-04-06
By DREW PEARSON.

RENCH and German steel man
r. ufacturers could establish
mutually profitable combine
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1NAR1S.--Never in hnlvarious times have
- come to Paris, during and since the
1 war has the political situation seemed
Evening star., 1924-04-06
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.

ERMANYy is. headed straight
for a. monarchica form of
government - constitutional
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of the Importance of Memorial day
services, and especially OF the serv-
ices conducted by the Spanish War
Veterans at st. Elizabeth's. The
camp has authorized the purchase Of
new flag, which will be dedicated
for Memorial day.
AT me citing of the entertainment
committee of Gen. Nelson A. Miles
Camp, No. /, held at department
headquarters, 921 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. southeast, plans were made for
the observance of the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the organization of
the camp, which will be held May 23.
After the meeting the members visit
ed Gen. Henry w. LAwton Camp,
which was in session. and listened to
an interesting account by Maj. Joseph
w. Heller of the march of the losS
battalion through the Island of
Luzon. A buffet luncheon was served
Junior Vice Department Commander
Clarence A. Belknap also gave an ac-
count of his fifteen years in the
Islands as superintendent of schC OILS
Past Department Commander Weber
spoke OF the members in ST. Eliza
beth's and requested all of the MEM
bers to be present at the memorial
exercises which are to be held in
Hitchcock Hall the Sunday preceding
memorial day. Past Department
Commander McCaffrey invited all
present to the anniversary celebration
of Miles Camp May 90.
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WooDMEN OF THE WORLD.

The Boosters Club degree team has
been engaged to initiate a large class
at Fraser Camp May 26. The building
committee reported to the convention
last Friday night on available sites
for a temple. Chairman w. O. Scott
was authorized to proceed with the
committees plans. Chairman j. c.
Mcconnell announced circus under
the joint auspices OF the Masonic
Fishing Club. the Red Men and the
Woodmen of the World. The enter
tainment committee will handle de-
tails for the Woodmen of the World.
Sovereigns of Elm Camp furnished
the talent at an entertainment and
smoker held at the last meeting.
Next Thursday evening Hickory
Camp will receive visitors from
Washington and vicinity. Consul
Commander Norson will provide a
novel feature of interest. Sovereigns
Tennyson and Tupper Will report on
the Baltimore visitation.
Mai. Ben b. Smart has been trans
ferred from command OF the I'd Bat
TALON to command of the 1st Bat
talon. 103d Regiment of the Uniform
Rank. Woodmen of the World. This
unit of the order is in the District of
Columbia
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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS.

Keane Council Thursday evening,
May 8. will exemplify the first degree
to large class, to be known as the
Burns class.
Keane Boosters Club is still boom
ing its sixth annual outing to Allan
tic City, July 81 to August 3.
Washington Council this afternoon
at o'clock, in the ballroom of the
hall, will stage an exemplification of
the third degree to the anniversary
versary banquet will be held at
Rauscher's. Those who received the
degree this afternoon will be guests
of the council at the banquet. Past
State Deputy Leo Rover is chairman
of the committee on arrangements.
picture entertainment will be given
in the hall, followed by dancing and
reEreshments, for members of the
council and their lady friends. Ad-
mission will be by card only. Prep
arations are being made for the
vaudeville and supper dance to be
held by the council at Wardman Park
Hotel the evening of May S. Many
tables have been reserved
D. T. Ryan, grand knight of Carroll
council, appointed the following COM
mlttee to assist with the councils s
social fete which will be given at the
Raleigh Hotel May /: William Walsh,
WlIIlam Amann, c. J. Montgomery,
=. DeSnan L: j. Hughes, Albert Nc
Sarthy, }. E: Lynch, Thomas E Petit,
Francis L. Weller, Charles l.. Madden
j. T.. Pruett. S. b. Myers. Dan j. Nee.
NJ. Marymann, J. E, Marymann and
h. has F; cbarGs bRsismbe5; a3 r, T,tmas j. Hughes
Potomac Council tomorrow evening
VIII exemplify the first degree Grand
Knight (Ham) Clipper, Advocate Bill
Feeiy. Walter Plant, financial secretary ::
Ernest j. Smith, warden, and Ben
Myers made trip TO Forest Glen on
Wednesday, April IS. and assisted in
the eXempiiication of the first degree at
the Knights of Columbus clubhouse
there.
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MASONIC.

LODGES
Monday Dawson. No. 16. +. A.
Hope; No. 20. NJ NJ, special at
7:3n pm.
SianSbury, No. II. Grand Vista
tinn. pm
Joppa, No. 81. f. A.
Hiram, No. 10, ladies' night, City
Club
Tuesday Potomac. No. =, NJ. NJ,
Lebanon. No. I. NJ. NJ, special,
Wednesday, Hiram. No. 10, f. A..
special. 7;30 Pm
East Gate. No. "a, NJ. NJ, special,
80 pm.
:. JoPpa, No. -, joint reception with
Joppa Chapter, Order of the
Eastern Star
Warren g. Harding. No 20. NJ NJ,
special, 7:30 pm
Thursday-Naval. No. T. T.. A.
H.ram, No. 10. l.. A.
La Fayette. No. 10. Grand Vista
tion, pm.
VIM. X. Singleton. No. 30 NJ. NJ
Masonic Board of Relief
saturday School Of instruct on
ROYAL ARCH CHAPTERS
Monday Mount Vernon. No 3. Mark.
Hiram. No. 10, Marx.
Friday School of instruction.
Saturday-High Priests Association.
KNIGHTS TEMpLAR
C0MMANDERIES
Friday Columbia, No. 2. Red Cross
and Malta.
ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED
SCOTTISH RITE.
Tuesdar-Robert de Bruce Council of
kadosh, 2lst and 22d degrees.