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Evening star., 1924-08-13
CLAIMS MINE WAGE
PACT UNDER FIRE
Union Journal Tells of Efforts
to Avoid Abiding by Jack.
sonviI|e Scale.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. August "a
The United Mine Workers Journal.
official organ of the United Mine
Workers of America, in its issue of
August 5 will say: !.
There appears to be we'll defined
movement among certain class of
coal operators and coal companies
throughout the country to force a
revision of the Jacksonville agree
ment. which would mean reduction
In the wage structure in the bitumi-
nous coal industry. Such a move
ment has been under way for the last
several months. 1t has centered, in
and around West Virginia and GER
tain parts of other coal mining fields.
Attack Sure to Fail.
THE attack on the Jacksonville
agreement and the present wage
scaleof the mine workers of the coun-
try will fail America will not per-
nit anything of the kind to happen.
There is not going to be any reduc-
ton in wages. The Jacksonville
agreement Will stand until the day
of its expiration, without change or
amendment.
ut is but fair to state that, as far
as is now known, the operators who
are parties to the Jacksonville agree
ment are taking no part in the at
tempt to discard that document The
effort is being made by coal com
panies in outlying fields and not by
those of the central competitive field
who are now under the Jacksonville
agreement.
"Presidcnt Lewis has stated many
times that there Will be no reduction
in wages in the union fields. He has
said, and everyone has become fa-
miliar with his statements. that the
United Mine Workers of America will
take no backward steps. He regards
the Jacksonville agreement as a
sacred binding agreement for a
period of three years and he proposes
that it shall be lived up to in every
particular. Coal companies. coal
papers and others may as we'll take
notice"
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INSTITUTE NEAR CLOSE.
International Cooperation Confer
ence Ends Principal Business.

CLEVELAND, August 13.-The In
ternational Institute of Cooperation
Conference completed it's principal
business at yesterdays session with
appointment Of committees to outline
plans of financing and preparing courses
of study. Tomorrow the conference
is expected to name the date in 1926
when the first international institute
will be held.
Sessions of the conference will con-
tinue throughout the week, but meet
ings will be confined to sectional dis
cusSions.
Evening star., 1924-08-13
RUM FLEET RECRUITS
CALLED INTO SERVICE
Four Hundred Ordered to Report
at Philadelphia for Active
Duty.
Bt the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, August 13.-Four
hundred of the 1000 men recruited
to man the new dry fleet of 257 ves-
sells to be commissioned for action
against rum runners, drugs and
aliens, have been modified in this
city, according to announcement by
Coast Guard officials.
Preparations for the offensive,
which is said to be scheduled for
some time in September, have been
in progress at the navy yard here
for more than a month. Destroyers,
mine sweepers and speed boats are
being reconditioned and outfitted.
Twenty-four section bases will be
established and three new receiving
stations will be opened for the train
ing of recruits.
Evening star., 1924-08-13

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FOURTH FLOOR, LANSBURGH & BRO
Evening star., 1924-08-13
20 FORMER DESTROYERS
TO BATTLE RUM CRAFT
Mine Sweepers and Fast Motor
Boats Also Included in Dry
Armada.
Ry the Associated Press


NEW YORK, August l3.-Twenty
former Navy deStroyers, being recon
ditioned in Philadelphia will soon be
ready to move against liquor snug
Cling craft. coast guard officials said
yesterday. In addition to these boats,
the new dry armada when fully
asSem bled. will consist, it is said. of
two former Navy mine sweepers, 900
fast motor boats and more than 1000
experienced officers and men.
According TO reports, 24 section
bases for supervising the activities
of the anti-rum boats will be organ
lied. and three additional receiving
stations for the equipment and train
Ing of recruits will be established.
1t is the aim of coast guard Off
cialS TO Starve out the rum vessels
within six or eight months.
Evening star., 1924-08-13

Ivory Cribs, S1z.50-27x52.
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Folding Nursery Chair,
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FOURTH FLOOR,
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Perhaps it is just as we'll to be
known as a many sided man. The
successful money maker is seldom a
good spender.
Evening star., 1924-08-13

The matriarchal system holds good
in Cochin, SO that women there hold
most of the property.
Evening star., 1924-08-13

Slavery was not abolished totally
In Brazil until 1855.
Evening star., 1924-09-14

blessin' to 'em both. That's my rec
ord, God. an I hope it's strong
enough TO leave me stick around
these heavenly parts a spell an meet
my folks that's somewheres around
here that l won't be lonesome for,
no more That's what I'm up to,
Sam Hod. and l ask you sincerely
not to hinder my alibi for my pres
ence m Paradise"
"All right Pott--fi that's the way
you feel about it. OF course I'm
not one to stand in your way"
THE next morning the charge
against young Robbins was with
drawn. He had a good room in Mrs.
Mathers' house. and the news that
his wife and baby would be with
him by the end of the week was
greater than any physicians medi-
cine. He began to mend.
And the next Saturday the boys
wife arrived. The old man had rent
ed the furnished bungalow belonging e
to Fred Osgood on Cedar street and
had it ready for them.
The girl got off the train with the
baby on her arm. She was thin,
enaciated, pretty in a pale, starved
way. and her baby showed the effects
of poverty and malnutrition. But
you'd have thought that little red,
weaZenedup worm was worth a
hundred thousand dollars the way
the half-blind Robbins boy acted
Mr.. Potiphar Buss saw them safely
housed in their bungalow and then
he fed.
Il got TO hustle back to the Office
and set an adj" he declared huskily.
But Mr.. Potiphar Buss had told a
little white fib. He did not have to
hustle back to the office and set
an ad.
Mr.. Potiphar Buss went home in
the early evening to his boarding
house. Slowly he mounted the steep
narrow, creakinS stairs and opened
the door into his stuffy little cham
ber
Having reached his n,om, ne sat
down on the edge of the bed. He
took off his dented derby hat and
laid it beside him. Finally came a
sigh, a long drawn sigh that rr.m-
bled with pain. He moved across the
room to a cluttered closet beside the
chimney. He felt around until he
located an out-of-date telescope
valise. He went slowly back across
! the room to the west window and
ran the curtain to the top, SO that
all the light from the afterglow of
the sunset could illuminate what he
Evening star., 1924-09-14

envious looks the soldiers cast after
the empty trucks. Hating in front
of the colonel of the regiment, PERISH
ing severely reprimanded the officer
for not ordering the regiment to ride
as far as the trucks were going, at
least
Few men living today have been
decorated as many times as Gen.
Pershing. He wears the highest
medals for vaIor offered by virtually
every nation in the world-the Grand
Cross of the Legion of Honor of
France, the Grand Cross of the
order of the Bath, of Great Britain
the Grand Cross of the Order of Leo
pold, the highest honor within the
gift of Belgium: the Congressional
Medal of Honor. and the Order of the
Rising Sun, of Japan.
Some of his other decorations are:
Grand Gordon Order of the Pau
lawnia, Japan; the Croix de Guerre,
Czecho Slovakia: the Order of Saint
Savior, Greece; Grand Cross Order of
st. Maurizio e Lazzaro and Military
Order of the Savoy, Italy: Grand
Gordon of Prince Danilo / and Obi
hitch Medal, Montenegro; Medal of
La Solidaridad, Panama: several of
the highest Chinese decorations and
also the highest military medal Of the
new government of Poland, the last
three having been conferred within
the past year.
He holds honorary degrees from
leading universities of both the Old
and the New World-LL. d. from the
University of Nebraska, the Univer-
sity of st. Andrews. Scotland, and
Cambridge, and D. C. L.. from Oxford.
He Is a 32' Mason and a member of
the Metropolitan and the Army and
Navy cabs.
Gen. Pershing retires from the
Army as one of the seven men in the
history of America to attain the rank
of q full general. Washington was
the first, Grant and Sherman were
the next, and then came the appoint
ment Of Pershing and Tasker HI. Bliss
during the World War. Payton c.
March was the seventh. The last two
were emergency appointments.
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RECORD OF u. S. SERVICE
Continued from First Pa<e.)

Continued from First Paxe)
and the appointment was duly con-
firmed on December s. 1906.
The same year Gen. Pershing was
sent back to the Philippine Islands to
break up q serious insurrectfon Of the
Morcs. He succeeded in the course
of a severe three-year campaign and
returned to America to become COM
mander Of the Department of the Pa
cific. with headquarters at the Pre-
sidio. in San Francisco. Once more
his leadership was to be sought in
the active field, however. for trouble
with Mexico began to roll up over the
southern horizon and Gen. Pershing
was ordered to assume command of
the sth Brigade, with headquarters at
Fort Bliss, Tex.
DERSHING'S ability to prepare for
l. action in a minute was never bet
ter demonstrated than on the occa-
sion of his arrival at Fort Bliss.
Scarcely had he completed an inspec-
tion of the forces that he was to COM
nand and sized up his men quickly.
but carefully, when he tersely an
nounced:
II am ready TO take the field on
five minutes notice"
Gen. Funston, who then commanded
the Department of the Southwest,
gave Pershing charge of the border
patrol. Pancho Villa and his army
of bandits roamed the broad State OF
Chihuahua, across the Rio Grande, at
will, and 1t was q hard assignment,
for runners were trying desperately
every night to cross the border from
this country with guns and ammuni-
ton.
It was while Pershing was in the
midst Of this work that the greatest
tragedy Of his life crushed him mo-
mentarily. He was called to head
quarters and informed that his wife
and two Of his children, for whom he
had already prepared q home At Fort
Bliss and was only awaiting the
coming Of Fall to occupy it. had los,
their lives in q fire at tho Presidio.
With heavy heart Gen. Pershins
went back to San Francisco and took
wyoming for burial. One son, War
rem, had been rescued, and he Per.
shing intrusted to the care of a sis
ter living in Lincoln, Neb., realizing
that soon after his return to Fort
Bliss he probably would be Obliged
to take the field again.
His presumption was soon proved tc
have bcCn well 1ounoeo. with q force
of $4,000 picked men and suf1cient
supporting batteries OF mountain and
field artillery, one of his cavalry regi.
ments incidentally being his own Ole
10th, PershinG crossed the border and
pursued Villas followers to the noun.
tains Of Chihuahua. Although he
never succeeded in capturing the vii,
bandit chieftAin himself, he did com.
| pletely smash the force that had fol-
lowed villa, and restored peace and or
der along the border for the first time
| in years.
While Pershing was in the mids1
| Of these operations he was advanced
| to the rank Of major general, thu
youngest man In the Army to hole
that coveted Grade. Confident thai
he had Smashed the power Of wills
| once and for all, Pershing returned
! with his force to the United States
Evening star., 1924-09-14
u. s. NATIONAL ANTHEM
ITO YEARS OLD TODAY

of a long letter from Chief Justice
Taney of the L. S. Supreme Court,
who was brother-inlaw OF Key.
This letter, penned in 1856. sets forth
in full the circumstances originating
and attending the composition of the
most famous of Keys songs, for he
was the author OF several.
In 1914. when the song was writ
ten. Mr.. Key lived in Georgetown and
Chief Justice Taney in Frederick.
Soon after the British troops retired
from Washington a British fleet an
chored off Alexandria and caused its
capitulation. Key, who was a mem
Der of a volunteer artillery company
commanded by Maj Peter of George
town, believed a water attack OF
Washington was imminent. and, of
course, refused to leave. Mrs. Key
remained with him. and Keys parents.
who were in Frederick with the Tia
ney's. became alarmed for them. MIR
Taney then went to Georgetown to
persuade Mrs. Key and her children
to depart. The water attack never
materialized, however.
On the evening of the day the
enemy vessels disappeared. says Judge
Taney, Mr.. Richard West came to
the Key home and told him that as
the British troops had passed through
Upper Marlboro. DR.. Reanes of thai
place. at whose commodious house a
number of the British officers had
quartered themselves, had been com
PEELED to accompany the invaders,
and carried as a prisoner on board
the British feet. After the British
left town this physician had aided
in capturing some strasglers. Their
officers considered that he had in
some way bound himself not to take
up arms against them and they
therefore sent back A detachment.
which released the prisoners and
seized the doctor, who was the fam
lily physician of Mr.. West and an in
innate friend of Mr.. Key. West
asked Key to obtain the sanction of
the government to board the British
admirars ship under a flag of truce
and see if he could not negotiate DR..
Beanes' release.
This Key readily agreed to do. Or
ders were issued to the little United
States vessel mentioned before, which
was then in Baltimore. Key hastened
thither, boarded her. and met the en-
emy fleet at the mouth of the Po-
tomac preparing for an attack on
Baltimore.
He was courteously received by
Admiral Cochrane," Judge Tapey
writes that Key told MIN some Ten
days later, "but when he made known
his business, his application was re
ceived so coldly that he feared il
would fail. Gen. Ross, however, com
| mander of the British army, who was
so soon to meet his death. as a rel
turn for kindness shown by DR.
Beanes to British troops finally said
that he would release him. but Nj 4
Key was at the same time INFORMED 4
that neither he nor any one els1
would be permitted to leave the fed
| for some days and must be detained
until the attack on Baltimore wa
over. He was assured that they woul
| make him and Mr.. Skinner, the Unite
States official accompanying him,
| comfortable as possible.
| Admiral Cochrane, with whom the
dined on the day of their arriva
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"And you'll take him back?"
"No! i couldn't do that.
Then 1 quit you-I quit you cold,
Samuel Hod.''
But Potiphar-I-
81 amt much use in this world, Sam
Hod. won't never set the world on
fire-now. All my life's gone by.
Amt got no FOLKS t mind when I'm
gone, Sam Hod. saved a little money
to go round the world. but l might
as well use it t help some one make
success Of his life If l amt made
much of success of mine"
Sam was fully awake now and
staring at his old printer, aroused as
he had never seen him aroused and
never dreamed hh could be aroused.
I'm goin' to send FIR his wife and
little baby. Samuel How. I'm goin'
T. loan him the money to furnish a
moren / got, I'm goin' t send him
away an see If them city doctors
can't take that fuzz off his eye. When
he comes back l want you should give
him a regular job in the ad alley.
Not an apprentices job-not a boys 8
job-but a mans job at real mans
wages"
To Sans questions then Potiphar
Buss told the boys story and pro-
uuceu the iclLcES III pTOOi ne
concluded by declaring:
"Ye see, it's this way, Sam Hod.
I'm old and played out an my life's
gone to seed. I'm nothin' but an old
tramp printer who's wasted his sub
stance in riotous livin'. l allus been
sorry / amt got no folks to care
about me or that / could do things
for. Figgered it out as ! sat by his
bed last night that it's a sort O. duty
I owe the old world to take young
ster like him and make a man of him.
to take my place-only a better
place-in society, when I'm gone.
when ! come to stand up fore God
Almighty and He says to me: 'Poti-
phar Buss, what did you ever do in
life that entities you to a place in
Paradise?' l want t be able to say:
There's a young chap I've left back
on earth, God, that's CROWN into the
stature of a real man, good father
and an honest citizen. There's
woman back on earth. God, who's
been saved from going wrong, sat
isfied, happy young mother in little
house where love is. becos l butted
into their Affairs. And there's a little
kid back on earth, God, whose life !
saved with the substance I'd been
selfishly hoardin' f'r worldly travel
CROWN up to be a comfort and a
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held in his hands. Then in an ocean
of time che united the strings.
They were letters he held-letters
be dimmed by the musty hand of Time
and perfumed with the saffron scent
of Long ago. Mr.. Potiphar Buss
opened them. One by one he read
them. And in doing so. as he had
done on countless nights in other
years, he counted his rosary.
For the letters which he read were
penned in womans hand. They were
love letters-written in time when
Potiphar Buss was not old and gone
tossed and bald as an egg. Shadows
and night had closed down on the one
who had penncd them. Yet through
the years the man had kept them.
treasures which were sacred. over
the years they had been solace when
the cares and disappointments of life
had weighed too heavily upon him.
Letters once-now whispers from the
dead.
The snarled old printer read again
those faded pages which had been
written by one who had loved him in
life's Springtime. And after while
he came to a photograph which he
knew when he opened the packet he
would come upon. From the faded
old print there looked up at him the
ltdluiS SS Cl puuS "oihdii- -Hho AZ
the hollow of her arm there lay a
little child.
Mary. Mary" he whispered in an
guish. IF some one had only done the
same for me-.
Mr.. Poitphar Buss works each day
in our office. Yesterday, having taken
his cob pipe from his toothless gums.
removed his spectacles and washed
up at our sloppy old sink in the cor
ncr. he remarked, from force of habit:
| Well, amt always goin' to do this.
Some day I'm Goin' to take trip
around the wor-" But he stopped
| in the middle of a word. He took
down his coat. He put it on and went
ont
"Oh. WELL he mused 1T really doR't
matter. The parts i wantnA most 10
see has all been shot TO pieces, amy
how"
Down In Boston now there is
young man with a good pair of eyes,
| a commend ambition, a resolute
determination to make good an old
printers altruism. A girlwife with a
song in her heart is helping him to
make a success of his life, mad ten
| thousand dollar child binds them
both.
Copy right. 1921
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1t wat not long after that that he
received his call to the biggest as
signment of his whole career-the
command OF the American Expedi-
tionary Force in France.
On May s, 1917, he was ordered to
proceed from Fort Bliss to Washing
ton, supposedly to take an active part
in the training of the Army America
was raising to send to Europe. war
having already been declared. Imme-
diately upon his arrival in the Ma
tional Capital. however. Pershing was
informed of the Governments secret
plans. and on May % he was on his
way to England
THE story of his arrival in London
= will live. He was received at
Buckingham Palace by King George,
who greeted him with this statement:
see the two great English-speaking
nations more closely united. Ny
dream has been realized. 1t is with
the utmost pleasure that / welcome
you, at the head of the American con-
tingent. to our shores"
In Paris his reception-was even
more inspiring. Acclaimed by multi
tudes that cheered themselves hoarse.
Gen. Pershing was escorted to the
vested with the sword and cross of
the Legion of Honor of Napoleon. No
man had ever before even held those
sacred relics of Frances history in
his hands, and the scene of the Ameri-
can general, standing in the dim, half
light of the sepulcher, surrounded by
the commanding marshals of France
and the French President himself, in
vested for the moment with the most
sacred bequests of the great Bona
parte, was tense and awe-inspiring.
The story Of Pershing's ,overwhelm-
ing achievements in France has been
told too often to need repeating here.
1t might be said, however, that sew
eral Of the stories that have been at
tributed to him by well meaning per-
sons were not altogether correct. For
instance, he was not the author of
that now famous sentence Lafayette,
we are here" Pershing himself dis
claimed credit for that statement,
adding:
About the only thing that I've
been credited with saying that I ever
really did say, is my statement that
Germany can be beaten, Germany
must be beaten, Germany will be
beaten"
DERHAPS one Of the reasons for
l. Gen. Pershings success and per-
sonaI popularity with the soldiers
who fought under him was his genu-
Inc regard for their comfort That
all must fight and some must die he
accepted as inevitable in warfare
But he always went out Of his way
to see that their comforts were as
many as possible. An instance of
this is cited to have occurred when
the Americans were on their naro
march upon the fortress Of Metz.
An American colonel had ordered
his regiment to stand aside while
train Of empty trucks thundered past,
On route in the same direction the
men were going. They had marched
long and hard that day and Gen.
Pershing, who happened to be coming
right behind the truck train in his
own car. could not help notiting the
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llTHIEE IER. STAR xss srANGLnn wl;,;sn BASo 10
years ago last night-the
night of September 1874,
1914. Perhaps no famous
song was written so ION the spur of
the moment" and it eaualed, il it
did not surpass the degree of instan-
taneous popular favor which was ac-
corded the "Marseillaise-
Its author, Francis Scott Key of
Georgetown, u. c., in whose memory
a beautiful new bridge over the Po-
tomac has recently been dedicated,
wrote it while an eyewitness to
bomba rdment of Fort McHenry, one
of the defenses of Baltimore, Md,
during the war of 1872. He did not
write it, however, while on the deck
of a British man-of-war, as has been
asserted, but on little vessel called
a cartel" owned by our government
and employed in Chesapeake Bay by
an official having to do with the ex-
change of prisoners. Thus it pos
Sessed a neutral status.
All this is brought out in an old
clipping from newspaper of the sos
owned by Charles G. Glover of this
city and through his courtesy made
available for The Star. 1t consists
Evening star., 1924-09-14

"And you'll take him back"
.Eot couldn't do that"
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