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Evening star., 1924-09-21
BY MONTROSE J. MOSES.

HAVE been down Plymouth ways
a-visitin'. Pennsylvania avenue
has become the Notch and the
i executive offices of the White
House are crowded into the spa
cious baroness of a dance hall over
the general store.
The natives are staggering under
the illusion of mistaken identity. The
postmistress, month in and month out
catering to a steady clientele of 20.
begins to feel some of the weight of
the Postmaster General. Farmers on
their way to feed their stock have to
dodge secret service men and prove
a right to be there after so years un-
questioned.
The Washington newspaper men.
out for news, find themselves playing
golf at the country club. Political
sap doesn't seem to be flowing in
Plymouth just now. But there's
plenty of wine in the Vermont air
and the President is drinking hard
these prohibition days.
:: = . =
Did / say President? Here's surely
a case of triple identity. Even the
Nations Chief finds it difficult from
the recesses of a hammock to tell
exactly who he is. What he wants
for the present is to be simply a citi-
zen of the home town. But when
he goes out on the porch, when he
stoops to pick a flower, he hears the
click of cameras, he feels the eyes of
secret service men and of tourists
upon him. 1t is my impression after
talking with Mr.. Coolidge that. he
believes the most sequestered spot
for a President is in me White House
grounds.
If only he could have shipped the
Vermont air to Washington during
the past sultry days he NIGH: have
stayed there. But then he rightly
wonders whether the Cal" of old
days hasn't a right to be neighborly
with his folks. And he. also wonders
whether the Republican candidate for
President shouldn't go about bit.
And then the President in him is a
quandary how far he should ,c: the
The great guide to the country up
here is the Presidents secretary, Mr.
Slemp; the air, the hospitality, the
green carpet of the State have gone
to his head. With one hand he
waves off all business from the Pres
ident so as to keep him literally free:
with the other he points eloquently
to the undulating hills. A set smile
comes over the Presidents face. with
a cold twinkle to the eye.
should be golf course" he says.
In the early morning Mr.. Coolidge
walks over those hills. clean-cut
against the clear sky. He has grown
up with the very trees around; no
President-unless it were Roosevelt
has ever had SO quick an eye for the
fight of bird. for the variety of tim
ber; with a glance he tells you who is
raising what hereabouts. And then
he goes back in recollections to crops
Evening star., 1924-09-21

Definite steps to solve the economic
puzzle involved in the electrification
of the American farm have at last
been taken. Investigations are pro-
jected in several different sections of
the Nation to discover the secret of
taking electric service to the farms
so that it will be beneficial both to the
farmers and the power companies.
Probably the most advanced of
these experiments has been under
taken in Minnesota by several CO.
operating agencies. Chief among
them are the University of Minnesota,
the Northern States Power Company
and a group of farmers living in the
vicinity of Red Wing, a town in the
southeastern part of the State. Sew
eral electrical manufacturing con-
Germs, such as the General Electric
Company, as we'll as manufacturers
of farm machinery, are watching the
undertaking.
Already a trial farm transmission
line five miles in length has been
buflt out OF Red Wing and Is farms
have been connected up to it A care
fully thought-out rate structure has
been set up, under which, after pay
ing monthly fixed charges, the farmer
is offered really low rates for energy,
which have the effect of making his
eleClrlC1ty cheaper per hliO"dll Houi
the more energy he uses. The aim
here is to establish such rates as will
invite the farmer to use energy in
quantity, thereby insuring for him
self cheap electricity, with all the
advantages that 1T gives him in his
work and his home, and at the same
time providing a profitable revenue
for the power company so that it be-
comes attractive for the latter to
handle the business of supplying cleo
tricity for farms.
In other sections of the country.
notably in Alabama, this whole broad
question is also under vestigataion.
In that State it is the Alabama Poly
technic Institute at Auburn and the
Alabama Power Company which are
cooperating to establish a basis upon
which farm electrification may be
carried out. The actual building of
power lines in Alabama is we'll under
way and instead Of merely one line
several are being planned for.
There will be, all told, four lines in
Alabama, of which one, at Hunts
vile, is thus far laid out. This is sin
northern Alabama, in what is known
as the Tennessee Valley. A second
Evening star., 1924-09-21
BY WILL Il. KENNEDY.

Y HEN Congress gets back
n and undertakes to fulfill
NN the long-promised reor-
ganization of the Govern
ment's working establish
| ment-the various departments, bu-
reaus, divisions, independent estab-
lishments. commissions, boards and
| other agencies-it will find that the
primary and principal purpose of this
legislation-to beget economy and
efficiency and eliminate duplication
and overlapping and working at
| cross -purposes-has already been ac-
complished in a practical, business
| like way.
So that it remains for Congress
administrative service around so as
to get a homogeneous entity-or to
get related work assembled.
The stockholders of the Govern
ments business are it's taxpayers. 1t
is the purpose and duty of the Gov
ernment constantly to advance to-
ward a higher plane of efficiency,
with increased savings to the tax
payers. To this end the President
has created by his own executive
order the office of chief co-ordinator
to supplement the Bureau Of the Budget,
created by law, in bringing about
supervision over the entire range of
the Governments routine business.
Routine Prescribed by Congress.
The routine affairs of the Govern
ment are conducted under laws enact
ed by Congress, and within the limits
thus prescribed the ordinary precepts
of good business judgment, as they
are accepted and applied in business
generally, are being SO applied to the
conduct of the business of the Gov
ernment
With the passage of the budget and
accounting act the President had for
the first time an instrument that
would enable him to perform with
greater efficiency his constitutional
functions so far as they related to
the routine business operations of the
Government.
Exercising his executive power,
the President added to the duties re-
quired by law of the director of the
Bureau of the Budget, making of him
general manager of the Govern
ment's routine business: giving him
by executive authority the necessary
machinery, in addition to the Bureau
of the Budget, that would enable
him to carry out his added duties
There was created by the Presidents
executive order the Office of chief CO.
ordinator, possessed of delegated in
herent authority and having direct
supervision over cooperative agen-
cies set up to bring the existing Gov
ernment business organizations into
close relationship capable of con-
certed and united action.
Briefly, the job given this chief
CO. o-ordinator, Col. H. c. Smither, was
to make possible to the greatest desir-
able degree an intelligently directed
cooperation wherever such might be
made to result in greater economy
with efficiency to the Government.
Hundreds OF Millions Saved.
AS a result of this new agency
hundreds of millions Of dollars have
already been saved to the taxpayers,
Evening star., 1924-09-21
BY EDWARD J. MEHREN.

w ITH signing OF the Dawes
n reparations pact now a
AN matter of history, the
v v three principal industrial
nations of Europe are
alert and watchful for the first steps
toward commercial rehabilitation. The
stage is set for the next act in drama
which has been all tragedy. Study
of the situation gives the observer a
sense of being behind the scenes,
waiting for the curtain to go up.
The question of markets is upper
most World trade must go on.
Manufacturers and workingmen alike
are impatient for the tearing down
of war-made barriers to their natural
and logical markets. Lorraine's fur
naces need the coal of the Ruhr and
that province can get it's cheapest
iron from Lorraine.
Industrially, Europe has been wait
ing for deliverance from a plague.
The spectres of unemployment ana
poverty have gone hand in hand with
political exploitation and experiment.
The workingman wants to get back
to the bench and the lathe. orders
for the great manufacturing centers
are necessary for the restoration OF
Jobs to those who want them. With
the worlds markets restricted as
they are now, these jobs are not 10
be had.
Three Features Seen.
Three features stand out in the
European situation:
First. and most striking, Germany's
remarkable recovery, following upon
her success in stabilizing the mark
without new revolution or disorder.
Second, the contrast in the attitude
toward labor in England and Germany.
In England, there is general COM
plaint against the worker for his
inefficiency and loss of self-reliance.
In Germany, there is no complaint,
but rather commendation. The con-
trast is significant of probable indus
trial development
Third, the fact that France now
realizes she must develop a friendly
relationship with Germany.
England Most Troubled.
OF the three leading industrial
countries Of Europe-England, Ger
many and France-England at pres
ent seems to be in the most troubled
condition. She has the largest un-
employment of the three; her public
generally, as noted above, complain
of the attitude of the workers; her
business and Industrial leaders are
troubled about the future.
Germany, Of course, is not out of
difficulties. She has tremendous
Evening star., 1924-09-21

in his grandfather day. These shape
ly hills have shaped him; they cradle
the memory of his boyhood; and now
they cradle his own boy resting in a
little cemetery, to which he makes
daily pilgrimages, a bare four blocks
away-down the road piece.
Plymouth's main square is stirring.
The country store was sold some time
since. It's owner moved to Ludlow in
the hope of seeing more than one
automobile every hour or two. Now.
there's congestcd traffic on the main
square, with Vermont motor police
directing il. Official mail wagons
Evening star., 1924-09-21

dash past, Army cars speed down the
road unmindful of the cows in
the pastures and of instability of
wooden bridges which. as they pass.
rattle like musketry; the stuffed owl
on the piano above the stove, near
Mr.. Slemp's wooden-horse improvised
desk. almost blinks in establishment.
Times for twelve days have changed
in Plymouth and, as matter of fact,
times have changed forever in Ply
mouth since they gave their son to be
President.
Around the porch outside the post
office hovers the Presidents father
host to hosts He's on his home
Evening star., 1924-09-21
EUROPE SEEN ON BRINK
OF INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY
Dawes Plan, Put in Operation, Turns
Eyes of Nations Upon Early
Commercial Revival.

handicaps in the loss of important
industrial areas, in the disappear
ance of her merchant marine and
foreign trade connections and in the
shortage of her credit facilities. But
she has regained her confidence and
her people believe Germany again
can become an industrial power.
They are working at more nearly
pre-war efficiency than are the work
ers of Great Britain, and their en-
ployers have no word of complaint
against them. There are only 100000
unemployed (June figures), as against
more than 100000 in Great Britain.
Incidentally, Germany has not pau
perized her workers with unlimited
unemployment doles. Unemployment
relief in Germany comes from the
insurance funds. and to obtain relief
one must have worked within a year.
The great turn in Germany came
with the stabiliaZtion of the mark.
Until then, the government doubted
its own strength. But the stabiliza-
ton was put through without revolu-
ton or disorder. That established
the fact that Germany had returned
to respect for authority and that the
possibility of revolution had disap-
peared. With the sterilization of the
mark the orgy of spending was
terminated; the incentive to save, to
return to Germanys traditional thrift,
was restored.
In that one act-of stabilization-
Germany turned from disease to
heath, from the downward to the
upward path. With the exit of the
worthless mark went out at the same
time undernourshment and its attend
ant ills of fnefficiency and discomfort.
Germany is not in perfect health.
financially or industrially. but she is
distinctly better than she was, and Is
improving steadily. The credits under
the Dawes plan will greatly acceIer-
ate this improvement.
French Plants Busy.
France, the third of the Industrial
nations. is busy; she has no unem-
ployment. In fact. in 1923, 100000
industrial and agricultural workers
came into France, with the assist
ance, be it noted. of the ministries of
labor and of agriculture. But the un-
employment situation may change.
Government payments for reconstruc-
ton have ceased; that work which
gave employment to so many in
France, not only in the devastated
regions, but elsewhere (through the
manufacture of building materially, is
drawing to a close. That gives some
concern for the immediate future.
Again, France has a serious difficulty
in her unbalanced budget, unbalanced
because she has been obliged herself
to raise the enormous sums required
for reconstruction. If the payments
materialize as expected under the
Dawes plan, the budget situation will
be relieved.
The political situation on the con-
tinent-as contrasted with the in
dustrial-has greatly improved in
recent months. France realizes now
that force is ineffective to secure
reparations. At the same time she
has seen the rapid German recovery
in the face of all handicaps. Recog-
nizing these facts, her policy toward
lContinued on Third Page.l
Evening star., 1924-09-21

Editors Note-Mr. Mehren. for
merly editor of Engineering News
Record, is noted industrialist.
Four years ago. he studied Europe
as it faced the new reconstruction.
His sources of information were
unusual and authoritative. Just
back from an extended frst-hand
tour and study of England, France
and Germany, he presents in this
report on industrial Europe facing
readjustment under the Dawes
plan the intimate last word on
conditions overseas.
Evening star., 1924-09-21

The President soae his racaion Vermont receiced
Among
Star and the North American Newspaper
Presidents the United
here
This the leading
presidential candidates and their running ngmaes.
Succeeding be published The Tuesdays
and include M
Charles G. Dames Charles " Bryan and Burton K heeLer
Evening star., 1924-09-21
Farm Electrification Study
Begun on Definite Lines

line will be built in the eastern part
of the State at Five Points; a third
north of Birmingham, a dairy and
crop section, and a fourth in an area
of large farms, known as the block
belt.
Evening star., 1924-09-21

w ITH signing OF the Dawes
~ reparations pact now a
NN matter of history, the
three principal industrial
-ot;one of E,rrono
Evening star., 1924-09-21

w Y HEN Congress gets back
and undertakes to fulfill
wv the long-promised reor-
ganization of the Govern
Evening star., 1924-09-21

CONTINUED on Eleventh Page
Evening star., 1924-09-21

AS result of this new agency
hundreds of millions Of dollars have
already been saved to the taxpayers,
Evening star., 1924-09-21
By FRANK II. SIMONDS.

. HE declaration of the German
government with respect of
war guilt, which accompanies
i the German acceptance of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-17
MRS. HART WILL.
Be BURIED IN
ARLINGTON
Widow of Army Major to Be
Laid to Rest Tomorrow
Afternoon

Funeral serviced for Mrs. Eliza
Aiken Hart, widow Of Major James
Paxton Hart, u. S. A. and mother
Of Rtnggold Hart, Assistant Corp
Grafton Counsel of the District, and
David H, Hart, Assistant District
Attorney, who died while visiting a
daughter in Williamsburg, Pa. Mon
cay night, will be held at the East
ern Presbyterian Church tomorrow
afternoon. Burial will be in Airing
ton Cemetery beside the body OF
her husband.
Mrs. Hart was a resident of
Washington for. forty-three years
and during the time was an active
worker in District fraternal and
religious circles.
Her death was caused by a severe
case of double pneumonia, which
she contracted last Wednesday.
Ringgold Hart and three of her
other Children were with her when
she died.
Mrs. Hart was born in Washing
ton county, Pa, January 2, 1o4S,
and was graduate of Washington
Seminary. She came to the Dis
trict in 1881.
She was a past regent of Month
cello CHAPTER of the D. A. r., past
national chaplain Of the D. A. r.,
past departmental president of the
Women's Relief Corps Auxiliary u
the Grand Army of the Republic,
and a member Of the Eastern Star.
She also was for many years presi-
dent OF the Ladies' Aid Society Of
the Eastern Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Hart is survived by three
sons. Ringgpld Hart, David A.
Hart. James Paxton Hart, Of
Williamsburg; five daughters, Miss
Annie c. Hart, of Washington; Mrs.
William Way. of Los Angeles; Mrs.
2. W. Andrews, Mrs. Hayward
Griffen. Of Williamsburg. Pa, and
Mrs. James Bell, of Washington,
and one sister. Mrs. c. C. Cam
pagna, of Washington.
Her home for many years before
her death was at 428 Eighth street
northeast.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-17
PERSH|NC JOINS
D. c. BALLOT
FIGHT
General Is Elected Member,
and Paid Other Honors by
Local Chamber

The first fall meeting of the
Washington Chamber of Commerce
at the Willard Hotel last night,
turned out to be General Pershtng
Night" General Pershing was the
principal speaker, was elected to
membership in the Chamber, and
the chamber appointed a commit
tee Of twenty-five to urge Congress
to properly recognize the Generals
service to the country.
Isaac Cans, president Of the
chamber proposes the General s
name for membership and it was
unanimously passed. He then read
q letter from Bishop Freeman, Who
wrote:
Il have known few men In public
life more entitled to the honor and
affection of the people than this
great soldier. To me, as a citizen
OF the Republic, 1t is source of deep
personal sorrow that he is to retire
from his place under the age limit,
when he is so largely equipped,
physically, mentally and in every
other way to serve the Govern
ment."
Joins Franchise Fight.
Saying that he is now private
citizen looking at things rom a
new light, General Pershing in a
short address good naturally Joined
the citizens of Washington in their
fight for the franchise. He also
bantered Mr.. Cans on his oarlia-
mentary methods, saying he had
been called hard boiled and nigh
handed, but acknowledged that If
all high-handed individuals, "Mr.
Cans deserves first prize
If could do business like that :"
he said, II wouldn't have been re.
tired. wish I had attended some
Of your meetings before and learned
from him. It's too late now"
Judge John Barton Payne, chair.
man Of the American Red Cross
spoke about the work of the Red
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-17
Of PHONES
CANNOT BE
CUT NOW
President A. e. Berry So De-
clares, Showing Heavy In
crease in Expenses

Earnings of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company do not
warrant any reduction in rates for
telephone service, A. Z. Berry,
president Of the corporation, de-
clared today.
1.-THE earnings of the company
were no higher than usual" Mr..
Berry said. He continued:
NET telephone earnings for the
first half OF 1928 were $644,157 and
for the first half of this year were
$712,023, an increase for the first
half of this year over the CORE
spending period Of 1929 of SCI, SEQ.
This is accounted for by the in
crease in the number Of telephones
during the period. On July l, 1928,
there were 104,753 telephones in
service. and on July of the pres.
ent year 111,915 telephones, an in
crease Of 1882. This increased bust
ness necessitated unusually large
additions to the property.
THE average book cost of the
property for the first six months
of this year is $1S,59S 900, which is
higher than the same figure for
1928 by approximately $1,000, 900.
What Books Show.
This gives an idea Of the ad.
ditional property required to han
die the increased volume of bust
ness.
The rate of net telephone earn.
ings to book cost of property for
the first six months of 1924" Mr..
Berry continued, was practically
the same as for the corresponding
period Of 1923, being 1855 per cent
this year as against 40 per cent
in 1923.
while according to Mr.. Berry,
this would not be unreasonable
high for a telephone company, the
fact Is that the first six months Of
the telephone business in Washing
ton is usually the best half of the
year.
"In 1928 the net earnings per-
centage of TO per cent for the
first six months was followed by
net earnings of 6.43 per cent for
the latter half of the year, making
the per centage for the whole year
1903 per cent. The reason for this
Is that the quiet period Of July,
August and early September occurs
in the second half of the year.
Mr.. Berry does not think that this
years, percentage will be any higher
than last year.
All Expenses Higher.
Looking to the future, Mr.. Berry
pointed out an important direction
In which it would be increasingly
| difficult to maintain this rate Of
earnings with the present rates,
| namely, that all additions made to
the property and all new property
to replace old parts which are worn
out or in one way or another be-
come untitled for service, involved
labor and material costs which are
very much higher than those at
which the older property was con.
structed.
"The result of this is that the
amount of dollars of telephone
property back of each telephone in
service Is, on the average, increasing
from year to year.
This higher investment per tele.
phone means proportionate increases
in fixed charges, such as taxes,
depreciation and interest which tend
to increase expenses and cut down
net revenue"
Mr.. Berry stated that In his
opinion the present. rates were very
reasonable. He saw no possibility
Of any reductions under presen
conditions and the future outlook
Of the business.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-17

Tine furniture Offered i'm this sale has been designed to
inject the modern day requirements to still retain the
cham and appeal of the early English masters The prices
are surprisingly low.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-17
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS IN
DENMARK MAKE GAINS

COPENHAGEN, Sept. 1.-THE re-
suits of the first Danish elections
were declared this afternoon to
have been indefinite, though the
Social Democrats appeared to have
gained some seats which were lost
by the government forces.
1t was reported, however, that the
net. results of the changes will not
affect the voting strength Of the
parties in the Landsting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-17
D. Q. MAN BREAKS WORLD
22-CALIBER RIFLE RECORD

Word was received here today
from Camp Perry. Ohio, that r. H.
McGharrity, of this city, has
broken the worlds record for hit
ting the bulls eye with .22-caliber
rifle at prone position.
McGharrity ran up a string OF
100 consecutive bulls eyes on the
200-yard small bore rifle range.
The worlds record was 36 bulls
ewes
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-17
William /. Douglas Dead

BOSTON, July 17.-William L.
Douglas, former governor of Mass.
achusetts and owner of the w. T..
Douglas Shoe Company died at a
hospital here today, following an
operation, Douglas had been iii for
some time. He was eighty-one