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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-10
NORTH QUEEN ANNE p. n. A.

NORTH QUEEN ANNE PIT. A.
North Queen Anne PIT. a. will
meet Wednesday, May Ia. at 1870
o'clock. Mrs, Ellen X. Dabney will
be the speaker. The program will
include "A piano solo by Ada Sarchin.
vocal solo, Mrs Effie Naftzger. and
playlct on hygiene by pupils from
Miss Poole's room
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-10

Mrs. Albert j. Rhodes, who has
been abroad for several months, is
expected home In few days.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-10
SEATTLE FEDERATION

The regular meeting of the Seattle
Federation Women's Christian Tenn.
porance Union, viii be held Tuesday,
May 10. at 2 y. m, in the Plymouth
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-10
NORTHWEST KERAMIc

SOCIETY
The Northwest Keramic society
will hold its next meeting on Wed.
nesday, May Ia, at p. m, at the
Calhoun hotel. In addition to the
study in design. the president, Miss
Lavergne Woodward. will talk on
"Wedgwood China
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-10

Miss Jeanne Gordon and Miss
Anona Roberts will leave Monday for
Aberdeen to be gone for several days.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-10
BETA PHI ALPHA
MOTHERS CLUB

The Mothers club of Beta Phi
Alpha will meet at the home OF Mrs.
c. II, Cole, 1918 Il. 62nd ST.. Tuesday.
May 10, at 1870 o'clock.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-10

WOODLAND PARK AUXILIARY
The Woodland Park auxiliary TO
the Ruth school building fund, viii
meet with Mrs. Harry Leitch. $40 w.
s3rd. on Tuesday, May 10, at 10 Il. m.
Luncheon.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-10
.HAhMoNY homestead

Harmony homestead, No 1743.
Brotherhood OF American Yoomen,
will give dance and card party
Tuesday evening, May 10, at 1929
Third ave.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-10

QUEEN CITY COUNCIL
Security Benefit association, Queen
City chapter. No. 90i, will hold a
whist party Wednesday. May Ia. at
A. O. U. w. Hail.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-10
WEST SEATTLE

WEST SEATTLE
WOAfAN'S CLUB
West Seattle Woman's club win
meet Thursday, May Is. at p. m.
at 1923 45th ave. S. w. Officers
day. Mrs. d. A. Cartans. hostess.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-10
WEST SEATTLE

WEST SEAIIIlF
w. G. 4. U.
There viii be a meeting OF the
West Seattle W. c. r. u. at the
home OF Mrs. John Mathnes, A Iill
st. s. w. Wednesday, May II, ut 2
p. m. All arc cordially invi'cd to at.
tend.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-10

Mr.. and Mrs Harold Burchard are
receiving congratulations upon the
birth of n son, John Kenneth. May
g. at the Seattle General hospital,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-05-10

Mrs. r. ID. Merrill and daughters,
Miss Virginia and Miss Eulalie Mer.
rill who have been in New York
city for several weeks. will return
Sunday.
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# uEtWtEI 70 tIFu VtNoN
Mac Thompson.
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Corner in u. S. Oil
Is Investigated

The Federal Trade Commission
promises to make a, report to Pres
ident Coolidge within a few days, in
response to his request of about ten
weeks ago that the commission inves-
tigate charges that the crude oil of
this country has been "cornered" and
that there was profiteering in the
sale of gasoline. The commission has
made an extensive inquiry. both re-
garding the legal and commercial
aspect of the situation.
Schedules were sent to all the
principal oil refining and marketing
companies to obtain information re-
garding prices and financial results
of the business. The results have
been checked by accountants of the
commission. Meanwhile, agents and
attorneys Of the commission have in
the officers of oil companies
and others conversant with the situ-
alton as to the real conditions and
practices in dealing with petroleum,
gasoline. The books and correspond
ents of the companies have also been
examined.
Evening star., 1924-05-04

ment of treaty pledges, then little
could be accomplished by the allies
save in further military pressure in
at present occupied regions of the
Ruhr and the Rhineland.
However, France and England are
proceeding with the view that the
present government will prevail and
that when the new Reichstag is seat
ed it Immediately will effect ma
chinery necessary to the adoption and
carrying out of the Dawes report.
Should the German elections today
result in defeat for the nationalists
then the French, British, Belgian and
Italian conferences can procede with
some degree of definiteness in the
solution of the problems existing
among the allies themselves. At least
allied statesmen will have been given
some reason for ; thinking that the
recent German acceptance of the
Dawes report was made in good faith.
Under such circumstances the allies
will find it easier to deliberate, and
many of the obstacles which France
has raised to eventual agreement will
be dissipated and the real work of
putting Europe's house in order will
go on apace.
But unless Germany turns back
the nationalists today then anything
may happen. Europes. economic and
financial fioundering, not to speak of
the dangers Of actual conflict, would
continue Indefinitely.
Evening star., 1924-05-04

splendid thing in helping to secure
such provision"
The report of the council was COM
piled from data gathered from widely
different sources, including reports
of state departments of education
and state boards of health since 1907,
covering 100000 eye examinations.
and municipal reports since 1907 coy.
ering 3.50o,O00 examinations The
most recent statistics, it was ex-
planned, were obtained through a sur
vey of the public schools of 247
cities.
only a small number of school
children receive periodic eyesight
tests at regular intervals" the report
states
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Defective Vision Interferes
With Educational Progress

~ EFFECTIVE vision interferes
more with educational prog
ress than any other fac
tor in the opinion of United
States Commissioner of Education
John J. Tigert, and a member of the
board of councillors of the Eyesight
Conservation Council of America, in
commenting on a survey made last
year on 4,227,702 of the 24.o00,0 900
school children of the United States.
Extending over a period of sixteen
wears, the survey covers the results
of testing eyes of more than 10000
600 students, and discloses, 1t is as
serted, that the eyesight of children
in the public schools throughout the
nation is being neglected.
DR.. Tigert says that defective Wis
Ion is believed to contribute toward
retardation Commenting on the dis
closures of the survey, which is de-
cIared shows that even simple tests
20 detect the most evident cases of
defective vision are not made gen.
orally and that a very low percentage
of the total enrolment receives eye
sight tests of any kind. DR.. Tigert
declared "the establishment of con-
actousness of the need of attacking
physical defects among our school
children as q part of our educational
nrogram caa scarcely be over-em-
phasized.
'-rhis is peculiarly true with refer
ence to eyesight, because defective
vision interferes more with educa-
tional progress than any other defect
Of sensation. Experience has clearly
established that tests for defective
vision may be carried out advan-
tageously by the teachers. 1t is I'M
iportant to emphasize that suitable
provisions are not now made for
training teachers, school nurses and
health inspector in the methods of
making tests. The Eyesight Conser-
yation Council of America is doing a
Evening star., 1924-05-04

DO you see any peril to nationality
or to political and territorial sover-
eighty in the league as it stands to-
day?"
'Sotfar as 1 can see, the league, as
such, in practice, does not endanger
the freedom of will, the independence,
the security, of any nation. Great
powers, democracies, will avoid any
Evening star., 1924-05-04
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.
. ERMANY'S hour of decision

~ ERMANY'S hour of decision
comes today.
Throughout the reich cleo
tions will be held the result
of which may determine not only the
future courses of Germany but the
continent as well.
BY the ballot the likelihood of early
settlement of the reparations prob
lens and economic financial and So
cial reconstruction of a greater part
of the continent will be determined
for, it is generally accepted that only
by ending problems growing out of
the world war can there be either
peace or progress.
The issue is clear cut in Germany
Many parties are going before the
people. But few need be reckoned
with. These are those attaching
themselves to the left or Communist
ic thought, those that cling to moder-
ate or centerist principles and those
of the extreme right embracing as
they do all the principles of the old
nationalist school which would garot
the treaty of Versailles, wipe out re-
publican forms, and adopt a policy of
strict resistance to the demands of
allied governments.
The issue of today is largely
whether the German people shall elect
sufficient Reichstag members to save
present Republican forms or permit
the nationalists to gain sufficient
fnnfhnl6 d1of2fG
policies along old-time junker
courses Many internal questions are
involved but the safety of the reich
is the great thing to be determined.
Nationalists' Strong Stand.
The campaign in Germany has been
strenuous. Multiplicity of interests
makes it impossible to forecast def
mite trends. The nationalists are
making their strongest stands since
the kaiser fled and the government
became republican. InadeQuacies of
the present regime have been empha-
sized. The nationalists charge the
birthright for mess of political
pottage. The socialists, on the other
hand, cling to the belief that the
present regime will be continued it
being felt that the people of Ger
many, foreseeing foreign troubles, as
well as domestic ones. in any return
othe old order, will cast their bal
lots for the republic. Communists
are expected to make greater gains
Evening star., 1924-05-04
CERMANY'S VOTE TODAY
TO GUIDE HER FUTURE
Nationalist Victory Would Implant Junk
er Ideas and Null Efforts for
Permanent Peace.

in the Reichstag and these may be
at the expense of the moderate and
majority socialist parties, but there
always is chance of coalition between
the communistic elements and the
socialists sufficient 20 control the
Reichstag. No unity of effort is pos
sible between the nationalists and
the more radical elements of German
political life and as a consequence
the nationalists' one chance of win
ming back Germany for junkerism
lies in a sweeping election victory.
There are those in Germany who de-
clare that such contingency is i'm
possible at any time.
Pan-German Outbreak.
But the die is cast and France
and England are doing nothing to
furnish ammunition for the ma
tionalists, for 1T is well realized that
should they gain control any and
all efforts of the past to bring about
agreements with Germany and re-
establish system in economic and po-
litical relationships between Euro
pean nations will have been voided.
This theory is confirmed by the en-
trance of the old panGerman ele-
ment into the campaign. One of it's
most recent manifestos betrays the
thought of nationalist minds in the
present campaign. when it says:
"The object of the coming elections
is to create majority enabling a new
government to pass from the policy
of patience and yielding to a policy
of action. German productivity must
be increased to the highest point, not
as heretofore for the purpose of max
ing payments to Unsuitable foes nor
to serve Mammon, but to encourage
efforts toward freeing the German
nation. This is only possible through
national dictatorship. No matter
how favorably the Reichstag cleo
tions may result, government bound
by parliamentary chains can never
save the father1and.
I'VE hail the rapid and powerful
awakening of the 'Vo1kisch' move
ment which is sweeping through Ger
many like a spring storm. To it be-
longs the future-the very near
future, Germany for the Germans"
Would Null Settlements.
Should the nationalists win the
Reichstag, an event to be inevitably
followed by general governmental
Reorganization with a possible dicta-
tor who would resist not only the
Dawes. report, but any other thesis
of Germanic reconstruction and fulfill
Evening star., 1924-05-04
BY EDWARD PRICE BELL,

IN ERLIN.-The following is a
- report of conversations held
by me with the German
- chancellor. William Marx, at
the chancellery, Berlin, March and
April, 1924:
What are republican Germany's
chief anxieties and problems?"
All center in the reparation ques-
ton. Speaking quite non-rhetorically,
| this question is pregnant with life or
| death for Germany" said the chan
| cellor. IF We be freed politically and
economically; If our definitive burden
be one We can bear; and, if we re-
ceive the foreign financial counte-
nance essential to our solvency, We
can erect a stable democratic state
and bring back to our people the
prosperity vital alike to them and to
| those producing and distributing ma
tlons that stand in relation Of inter-
dependence to them. Denied the ad-
vantages l have enumerated we can
look forward to nothing but the dis
ruption of our state and the prostra-
ton of our economy, with the meas
ureless misery they imply"
safety of the republic and the safety
of European peace?"
II regard the republic as a power
full influence for neighborliness, rea-
son and justice in Europe-that is to
say, a powerful influence for peace
here and everywhere. If the republic
went down before a nationalistic
movement, produced and fostered by
unrelenting pressure from abroad,
such radical developments, whether
in the direction of the extreme right
or the extreme left, obviously, would
- fatal to any sort of fulfillment of
the treaty of Versailles. We have
met and subdued indescribable diff
culties. Our efforts-efforts to cope
with the concrete and the unavoidable
have provided, 1 think, an incom-
parable field for the study of history.
political economy, finance, and every
major problem of organized hui
man life, beset with the most griev-
Gus conditions that can afflict a
people. Radical dangers, from the
extreme right and the exereme left,
have been put down. Republicanism
is rooted in the convictions of the
storms that may break over it from
abroad"
Loyalty OF the German Army.
Your army is loyal?"
I'm every crisis before the war
during the war and since the war
our army has been loyal"
How does republican Germany
look upon disarmament"
I'VE have accepted it in principle,
and regard it with favor if it be uni
versal. Internationally, Germany
already is disarmed. We have neither
army nor navy of international mean
ing. Thus Germany has everything to
gain and nothing to lose from the
advance of this magnificent ideal
We live encircled by arms and fmpo-
tent upon the seas. Our frontiers are
open-no rivers or mountains to
shelter us, as Italy has, as Spain has,
as France would like in the Rhine;
no command of the air; no protecting
waters such as those ridden by Brit
aims fleet. Germany stands as the
worlds sole great example of dis
Evening star., 1924-05-04

armament, waiting Tor other.powers
to come up
You feel that the worlds supreme
need is peace?"
That certainly is my feeling"
do you know of a better way than
through a league of nations to get
peace?" -t.@.
= NO"
Evening star., 1924-05-04

Editors Note-What the condition today the German
public and the German people?
To obtain a reliable this The
Chicago Daily News Edward Price Bell member
with the German chancellor Dr. Wilhelm
and whose
soey been markedly beneficial
sented the those
written has the approval of the chancellor shown by
from him Mr. Bell, which, in translation, part
follows:
THE kindly submitted by rendering
of the
that thoroughly
based the spirit of the fullest mutua confidence"
Evening star., 1924-05-04
BY BEN McKELwAY.

~ ERTAIN rough and salty
sailor men who go down to
the sea in ships in daily pur-
suit of the elusive rum run
ner give vent to boisterous, uncouth
laughter indicative of unrestrained
mirth when asked by some unsophis-
ticated and illusioned landlubber
about the potency of the infant rum
treaty, designed ostensibly to prevent
the smuggling. of intoxicating liquors
into the United States, but actually
to allow Great Britain and other ma
tions to respect such ancient and hon
orabIe traditions as carrying liquor
on board ship for the use of pas
sengers and crew.
With all due respect to the State
Department, which framed the treaty;
to the United States Senate, which
ratified it, and to Wayne b. Wheeler,
who sanctioned it, these same salty
sailor men allow as how none of the
above named, is "seagoing outfit"
whatever their other qualifications
may be. and that none of them has
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Hopes and Aims of All Germany
Are Revealed by Chancellor Marx

organization that threatens to wrest
their destiny from their own hands.
Preservation Of the democratic prin-
ciples presupposes the operation of
local knowledge and control. Peo-
pies are not ready for world federal
ism-for national autonomies related
to an overriding central authority,
as, for example, the American states
to Washington or the German states
TO Berlin. The league of nations, as
1 understand it, would enthrone rea-
son, justice and peace, not by the
crude and Intellectual instrumentality
of compulsion, but by a peace-breeding
voluntarism based upon international
understanding and desire"
How Germany Would Join League.
will the German republic join the
league?"
1T will join as soon as it may be
permitted to join consistently with
what it conceives to be it's rightful
position among the nations. other
wise it could not join with any pros
pect of serving itself or mankind"
What would be the effect of Amer
ica's joining?"
Without presuming to suggest to
America what she should do in this
or any other matter, 1 should say that
American ideals and moral authority
cannot be spared from any movement
destined to dignity and gladden. the
world with confidence and tranquility.
Reciprocal trust and peace will be
hard enough to get, even wiz. every
great nation helping to the limit of
its power. 1t is indispensable to any
successful peace movement that it
embrace all the principal constituents
of human strength in the world
Then you would wish Russia to
join?"
Il should wish all nations to put
their shoulders to the wheel in this
superlatively importanttmatter."
Good Understanding.
You perceive no way for mankind
to progress harmoniously without
some kind of body in permanent ses-
sion functioning for the nations some
what after the manner of a national
government in a system of federated
states?'
Il am convinced that the problems
common to the nations demand an
international body for their regular
study and systematic accommodate
ton
what is the housing situation in
Germany"
1T is a situation involving bad liv-
ing conditions, economic difficulties
and political perplexities. We suffer
from a great lack of housing accom-
modation. with its inevitable physi-
cal discomforts, moral evils. social
detriments and anxieties for govern
ment.
"Unhappily, our housing troubles
have not yet gone. Rents are rising
rapidly and the cost of living is fol-
lowing them. Higher costs of living
call for more wages, an dmore wages
bring back the threat of initiation
Nevertheless, we have taken our de-
cision in favor of trusting capitals
tic principles to resuscitate the build
ing trade, and we shall stand by this
decision. There is not sufficient
capital available on our money mar
ket to produce a building boom. Still
we hope the mere fact of housing
Continued on Fifteenth Page.)
Evening star., 1924-05-04
FOR RUM TREATY
ENFORCEMENT FORECAST
Seamen Chuckle When Visioning Diff
culties in Baking Liquor
Smuggling Efforts.

ever set out on a dark and stormy
night to patrol Rum Row" For, they
say, this rum treaty is as full of holes
as a rusty colander, and it's effective
ness must depend altogether upon
what attitude Great Britain will take
regarding its enforcement, and not
upon the United States, which must
enforce. it
Rum Treaty the Solution.
Those who follow the news of the
day must remember the ticklish stu
alton brought about by the recent
Supreme Court ruling which held that
foreign ships could not transport
liquor, even under lock and seal. for
the use of their own crews while in
United States territory And thew
remember the wild casting about by
interested officialdom, which had TO
find way out of enforcing its own
laws to avoid International commit
cations. The now famous rum
treaty" ratified by the Senate and
awaiting ratification by Great Britain
was the solution offered, and the i'm
preston somehow got abroad that
the treaty was SO framed as to give
foreign nations the right to bring
their liquor into United States waters
in return for certain privileges grant
ed the United States
These privileges cause the SALTY
laughter of the sailor men. They
consist, as the public has already been
informed, in the right to board and
search British vessels suspected of
carrying liquor for Importation into
the United States, and to seize them
if they are-provided that the search
be exercised within a distance from
shore which can be traversed in one
hour by the vessel boarded When
ship is suspected of sending liquor
ashore by another vessel the distance
from shore at which she may be
boarded will depend upon the speed of
the boat which conveys the liquor
ashore. and not upon the speed of the
vessel boarded. .
Evening star., 1924-05-04
Theoretical Case cited.

Sailor men, who were not consult
ed beforehand concerning the treaty
complain that the United States has
thus relegated a hard and fast limit
of three miles and substituted a vague
and underlined distance from shore,
which may be made the subject for
endless dickering and quibbling in
the courts They cite the theoretical
vessel which has anchored just be-
CONTINUED on Third Page.)
Evening star., 1924-05-04
by GOULD LINCOLN.

::: IS: :: !; &: !: :;: &:
in Wa Oh
Evening star., 1924-05-04
WILL FIGHT TO MAINTAIN
SPOTLESS GOVERNMENT
Research Bureau Will Keep Every
Branch Under Constant Scrutiny if
Plans Eventuate.

mandatory and which includes many
letters from those who have informa-
tion of corruption to convey to the
bureau.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-16

year brought an increase from the
council, and now the community
of Thetford Mines has been able
to take over the center as a COM
munity project and will support it,
except for the salary of two nurses
which will be continued by the
Metropolitan for six months.
Under the Provincial plans, four
of the centers will be in the region
Of Quebec and four In the MoE-
treal region, and in addition to in
fant welfare they will seek to COM
bat and prevent tuberculosis, it is
announced.
Methods used by the Maternity
Center Association III New York
City were followed by the four
nurses connected with the Thetfor1
Mines demonstration, and lessons
in mothercraft and baby welfare
were given to the mothers accord
ing to the best methods used here.
Sick babies were visited, in CO.
operation with local physicians.
and a constant caC1paign of edu-
cation brought the demonstration
such fame that mothers bring
their babies from places from five
to fifty miles for advice and help.