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Evening star., 1925-01-17
BY ROBERT II. SMALL.

While Washington gossip generally
comedies that Bascom Slemp. secre-
tary to President Coolidge, has been
disappointed in not realizing his am
bition to become a cabinet member,
the truth OF the matter is that the
secretaryship to a President seldom
ever serves as a stepping stone to the
ofhcial family. Since President Cleve-
lands days there has been only one
such promotion. Most Presidents have
regarded their secretary as occupyin g
far closer and more personal rela-
tionship than any member of the cab
met, and this may account for the
failure Of the Executives to regard
tho door to their private Office as a
sort OF portal to the cabinet.
There is talk now that perhaps
Representative Everett Sanders of
indiana, who is to succeed Mr.. Slemp
at the White House, has been prom
ised cabinet rank later on. other
wise 1t is argued he would not have
turned aside from his purpose TO quit
Washington because of the meager
congressional salary, inasmuch as
the post at the White House carries
with 1t the same pay as that received
by Senators and Representatives,
namely, $1,000 year. At the White
House Mr.. Sanders will have an auto
mobile and chauffeur but whether
car In these days is TO be regarded
as an asset or a liability is some
thing else again.
Cortclyou Was Advanced.
George Bruce Cortelyou, who was
stenographer to President Cleveland,
assistant secretary to President Nc
hihley and secretary to both McKin-
ley and President Roosevelt, was ele-
waited by the latter to the cabinet
Mr.. Cortelyou not only went 10 the
Evening star., 1925-01-17
Place as Presidents Secretary
Is Poor Stepping Stone to Cabinet
SIemp's Case Recalls That But One Such Prom, Oton
Has Been Made Since CIeUeInrds Time-San-
ders May Get Portfolio.

cabinet. but he went almost through
II. He was the first Secretary Of the
new Department of Commerce AMI
Labor. since split into two separate
departments. Mr.. Roosevelt found
Mr.. Cortelyou so efficient that he
transferred him to the Postmaster
Generalshlp and then later gave him
the further honor of appointment to
the Treasury portfolio. There has
been no promotion of a private secre-
tary to the cabinet since Mr.. Cor
telyou.
President Roosevelt was very fond
of william Loeb, jr., who succeeded
Mr.. CortClyou as his secretary, but
appointed him collector of the port of
New York.
Taft Aided Three.
President Taft had four secretaries.
He made one Minister to Morocco, an
other chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee and later assisted
another to run for Governor of Ohio.
Mr.. Wilson remained steadfast to
Joe Tumulty, and Joe set a record of
eight consecutive years in the post.
President and he far preferred the
secretaryship to position in the cab
met.
Mr.. Slemp really has given more
social Importance to the position than
the secretaries who preceded him, be-
cause he has had unlimited means al
his disposal. being rated by his closer
friends as almost, if not quite, mil
lionaire.
Mr. Slemp had his eyes on the
Presidents official family for another
reason than that of social position, It
is said. lie cherished the ambition OF
being a Virginian in a Republican
cabinet-quite a unique position, 10
say the least
tCopyright 1921
Evening star., 1925-01-17
CAETAN| ATTACKS
FOES OF MUSSOL|N|
Tells italian Chamber of
Commerce in New York
FasciSm Need of Country.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 17.-Praise of
Premier Mussolini and the Fascist
government and criticism of the op-
position parties were voiced today by
Don GeIasio Caetini, Italian Ambas-
sador to the United States, in a speech
before the Italian Chamber of Com
mcrce.
The Ambassador said he was speaking
not as a diplomat, but as a man who Is
on the eve of entering into political
strife.
Pleading first FOR better under
standing of the Italian political sit
uatton, he said that Italy, unlike
northern nations, was not adapted 70
the parliamentary form of govern
ment.
There is one characteristic differ
ence in the psychic and intellectual
makeup of the Anglo-Saxon and the
Latin peoples" he said. The former
have highly developed political con-
science and great capacity for social
organization. The Latins instead are
eminently individualistic; endowed
with high intellectual creative power
they lack political and social Coales-
CenCe."
Lack of Party System.
The result of this. he asserted. is
that the Italian parliamentary body,
Snstead of having a two-party system.
breaks up in "a multitude OF blocks
and parties having widely different
political tendencies"
The same" he went on. can be
said of Free Masonry. Whereas IN
the United States and in England 1t
S. a high minded organization, with
noble detectives, in Italy 1t has de-
generated into a secret political So
t.iety, having for aim the protection
Of the pork barrel and the destruc-
ffon of the church"
The parliamentary regime In Italy,
be said. had always functioned more
or less badly, but after the war had
"degenerated into such a political
mess that Fascism. upheld by popu-
lar indignation, had to step in and
take in hand the rudder of the gov
ernment."
Charges Campaign of Lies.
Enemies of Fascism, he alleged,
stately. through majority OF the
Italian press, began an infamous
campaign of suspicion, of character
destruction and of wholesale lies"
This opposition the Ambassador char
acterized as "a riffraff of heterogene-
Gus elements having widely different
political and economic fnalities-in
other words, a political mtnce pi~
Giolitti, Nttu and GarlOa4ui ana al
those lame ducks the Ambassador
asserted, had brought Italy three
years ago to the brink Of the preci-
pice."
In conclusion he said:
Il am not going to finish this
speech with the usual hot-atr declara-
tion. My devotion toward Italy and
the United States is uuquestloned.
We Fascist prefer action to words
and my actions will be proof of my
devotion 1"
Evening star., 1925-01-17
DELAYS DECISION
ON TRAFFIC LIGHTS
Maj. HoIcombe to Visit Other
Cities for Data Before
Board Acts on Plan.

The District Traffic Board will not
decide what types Of traffic signal
lights should be installed in Wash
ington until after Maj. w. II. Hol-
combe, chairman Of the Traffic Board,
makes his contemplated visit to other
large cities to study various methods
of control.
Maj. Holcombe said today he had
expected to make the trip 10 days ago,
but that he has been detained to as
sist in submitting the five-year school
building program to Congress.
The major said he is not yet con-
vinced that synchronized lights, under
which traffic moves simultaneously
at each intersection on a given street,
would be the best thing in the down
town congested section.
Maj. Holcombe added, however, that
nothing is to be decided until after he
visits the other cities. In addition to
the synchronized lights, Maj. Hol-
combe plans to consider the three
colored semaphore for individual
crossings downtown. The third light.
i'll between the red and green, would
be flashed as a warning both to mo-
torists and pedestrians before chang
Ing the flow of traffic.
Evening star., 1925-01-17
DAVIS RESUMES LAW
PRACTICE, HEADS FIRM
Democratic Candidate Becomes
Senior in Legal Group In
GLIDING Polk.
By the Associated I ress.

BY the Associated ress
NEW YORK, January John w.
Davis, who was the Democratic can
didate for President, has become the
head OF the former law firm of Stet-
son. Jennings, Russell & Davis. An
nouncement was made yesterday that
the firm had been reorganized and
hereafter would be known as Davis,
Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed.
Mr.. Davis, who joined the firm after
he ceased to be the Ambassador at
the Court Of st. James, severed his
connection on July is last, after he
had become the Democratic nominee e
for President, 10 devote all his time
TO the campaign. His return to the
firm was announced on November 13.
Charles MacVeagh VIII be counsel
TO the reorganized firm, whose mem
hers. besides Mr.. Davis, are Frank
l.. Polk, Allen Wardwell, George H.
Gardiner. Lansing p. Reed, William
c. c. Cannon, Edward X. Greene, Hall
Park Mccullough, J. Rowland Auch-
incloss. Edwin s. $ Sunderland,
Thomas Garrett, jr., Lee McCanliss
and Theodore Kiendl
The late Francis Lyn6e Stetson
founded the professional association
of lawyers which until today bore his
name One of Mr. Stetsou's early
partners was Grover Cleveland, In
the interim between Mr.. Cleveland's Is
first and second terms as President.
The firm has handled legal business
for J. 2. Morgan & Co. and for many
corporations, including numerous
railroads, and has figured in cele-
brated litigations over a long period.
The largest clam bed in the United
States lies off the southwest coast of
Florida.
Evening star., 1925-01-17
LAW TO CURB RENT
ABUSES SEEN NEEDED
Guide Thinks Such Legislation
Might Make Rent Body
Unnecessary.

William f. Guide. business man and
member Of the Rent Commission,
today stated that if an effective law
was passed for licensing and to curb
trust pyramiding he did not think
there would be any need for a Rent
Commission.
Mr.. Guide stated that up to several
weeks ago, when the Rent Commits
sion practically ceased to function,
he felt the necessity Of such a body
to control the situation.
If proper legislation. however, drove
the sharks and gougers from the
realty field and prevented improper
financing of building, Mr. Guide
amplified, so far as he knows the
situation now, there would be no need
for Rent Commission.
Mr.. Guide, however. is still confident
that there is dearth of reasonable
habitable apartments, and expressed
the opinion that much of the trouble
was caused by the shark and gouger
Evening star., 1925-01-17
DENIES FRICTION
IN BERLIN CABINET
Luther Says No Differences
Exist and Explains Delay
in Address.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, January 17.-Chancellor
Luther today assured a conference Of
German editors that there We're no
differences OF opinion or other points
of dissension among the members of
his new cabinet, Postponement OF the
governments inaugural statement to
the Reichstag was due solely to his
desire to have his cabinet completed,
which ne hoped would be the case be-
fore Monday.
DR.. Joseph Frenken of Cologne has
accepted the por:fnHo Of justice, 1t
was announced. He is q retired jurist
and a member of the GIarical party.
The new chancellor is still most
urgently in quest of an occupant of
the post of minister OF finance, the
Importance OF which is stressed in
view of the tangled state of Ger
many's present negotiations for COM
mercial agreements with various ma
tions, chiefly because OF the impor-
tance attached to the enactment of
legislation providing for the prelimi-
nary revaluation OF war loans, gov
ernment bonds and saving deposits.
which were wiped out during the in
fiation era.
81 am primarily a civil service off,
cial and no party man, and purpose
conducting the office of chancellor on
that basis" DR.. Luther told the press
representatives
Evening star., 1925-01-17
FLOGGING CASES PR0BED
Three Men Abducted and Beaten
by Unmasked Band.

GADsDEN, Ala, January 17.-Coun
ty officials are considering special
session of the grand jury to investi-
gate activities of an unmasked band
which abducted George Ramsey, Sim
Morgan and Will Ross, the latter a
negro, from their homes Thursday
night and logged them. State law
enforcement officers are assisting the
sheriff in working up evidence.
News Of the alleged whippings
reached Gadsden when Ramsey re-
turned home in a dazed condition
with black marks on his back. Nor
gan also has returned to his home,
hut the negro is reported missing.
Ramsey reported that he was TAX
en- from his home by the men, who
claimed they were arresting him or
a charge of violating the prohibition
law. He stated that Morgan and
the negro later were picked up and
all three taken about Is miels from
Gadsden, where they were whipped.
Evening star., 1925-01-17
WOMEN HOLD ELECTION.
Auxiliary of Engineers Institute
Chooses Mrs. Callbreath.

The Women's Auxiliary, District Of
Columbia section of the American In
stitute Of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers, held it's annual election
Tuesday at the Pen Women's Club.
officers who were elected fo- the en-
suing year were: Mrs. J. F. Call
breath. president; Mrs. H. A. c. Jen-
nison, secretary, and Mrs. S. NJ. Green
idge, treasurer. The organization is
composed of the wives of the men
who are members of the association.
The committee chairmen elected are:
Educational. Mrs. c. c. Griggs; mem
bership, Mrs. y. II. Darton; library,
Mrs. J. r. Roberts; welfare, Mrs.
Richard Franchot; arrangement, Mrs.
r. r. Sayres, and courtesy. Mrs. G. s.
Rice.
Evening star., 1925-01-17

infiict such punishment on any one,
whether he was involved in the traffic
of liquor or simply happened to be
caught with a flask OF liquor in his
or her possession. This. Mr.. Coolidge
thinks, would be excessive. He feels
that there are many violations of the
dry law which when compared to
others are not so serious. He sup
poses, for instance, that the possess
sion of a flask might not be serious,
whereas undertaking to make money
out of the sale of liquor would be
more serious.
Both are violations OF the law and
are strongly disapproved by the Presi-
dent, but for the first class of offense
the Judges are vested with a certain
discretion and they can impose jail
sentences wherever they think the car
rying of a flask of liquor is part of an
organized system Of transportation and
sale
The Government cannot afford to hire
enough prohibition agents to search
the persons of individuals suspected
of carrying TASKS At no time has
such a policy been contemplated. The
Governments program has been to stop
the smuggling of liquor. the Illicit
manufacturer of the same and the
traffic in intoXicants by "bootleggers."
Cut on Liquor at Source
If the supply at the source can be
reduced the Government hopes that the
effect on those who are engaged in
minor violations Of the law will ulti-
mately be TO reduce that number con-
siderably.
Mr.. Coolidge really hasn't given much
consideration to the detailed provisions
Of the various bills pending in Congress
with respect to prohibition enforcement,
and the expressions given as to his at
titude by a White House spokesman
were in the nature OF curbstone opinions
which may or may not be changed after
Congress has had an opportunity to act
finally on the proposals before II.
Roy 4. Haynes. the head Of the pro-
hibition unit, has contemplated re-
signing for some time, and made
preparations many months ago to
wind up his affairs here on the 4th
Of March. 1t always impairs enforce
ment to have it known far in advance
that there are to be changes in the
management of the Prohibition Bu
reau, so relatively little has been
said about il. 1t can be said with
certainty that Mr.. Haynes will be
succeeded by man who is no less
Jealous in enforcing the law.
Evening star., 1925-01-17
Dead AUTO Victim,
4 Times Identified
And Yet UnknO,Ur,
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch TO The star.
BALTIMORE, January 17.-Four
times the body of an automobile
victim at the city morgue has
beer identified, and for the fourth
time the supposed victim prompt
ly turned up alive.
Three policemen said they were
sure the body was that of Nicho-
las Bovas, taxi driver. They
called up his hotel and Beyas
answered the phone.
Four persons said the body was
that of Paul Bradys. A couple
of hours later Bradys appeared at
his lodgings, to the amazement
of his landlady. Funeral arrange
ments We're being made when
Bradys turned up. Dalton Holly
said the body was that OF his
father. The father, George, said
1t was that of his son-in- law,
George Brewer. who later turned
up at his home. a heart tattoed
on the right hand. between
thumb and forefinEer, is the prin-
clpal mark of Identification.
More than 1000 persons have
viewed the body.
Evening star., 1925-01-17
U. S. ASKS COURT DROP
LIQUOR CASE CHARGES
Has Insufficient Evidence Against
D. C. Attorney and Others,
Attorney Says.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, January IA mo-
ton to nolle PROSE- indictments
against John II. Daley, former Pitts
burgh councilman and safety depart
ment director; Adelbert d. Sumner,
Washington, d. c., attorney; Vincent
Schonhardt. Johnstown, Pa. brewer,
and Maurice 7. MCGrath and Orville
r. Stiffler, former Federal prohibition
agents. all charged with conspiracy
to violate the prohibition laws, was
filed in United States District Court
here yesterday by Warren H. Van
Kirk, special assistant United States
attorney. The motion was taken un-
der advisement by Judge r. NJ. Glib
son.
The motion, signed by Benjamin II.
Littleton, special assistant to the At
torney General. who had been as
signed to the case, declared the Gov
ernment had insufficient evidence to
obtain conviction.
Evening star., 1925-01-17
NEGROES ELECT THOMAS.
Dunbar Teacher Named Race Ad.
vancement Body Head.

Neval II. Thomas, Instructor at the
Dunbar High School, was elected
president OF the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People at the annual meeting held
last night In the auditorium of the
Twelfth street Y. NJ. c. A. to succeed
Archibald H. Grimke.
Mr. Thomas takes the office held
by Mr.. Grimke for the past IL years.
who has resigned. The newly elected
president is well known In the as
sociation. The association requested
Senator Phipps to give Superintend-
ent of Schools T. w. Ballou oppor-
tunity to present phases OF the build
ing program not listed on the ap-
proved items Of the budget at the
hearings before Congress today.
Evening star., 1925-01-17
PENN CLUB TO DINE.
Annual Gathering to Be Attended
by Many Officials.

The annual dinner of the University
Of Pennsylvania Club of the District
Of Columbia will be held at the Uni
versity Club this evening at o'clock
with many prominent men and otfi
cials of the Government present as
guests.
Among those who will be present
are Secretary OF the Interior Hubert
Work, Senator George Wharton Pep
per, Senator L. Heisler Ball, Repre-
sentative Charles Browne, Repre-
sentative George F. Brumm, George
8. Graham, Everett Kent and James
NJ. Magee; Rear Admiral Edward r
Stitt, Warren f. Martin, Edgar c
Snyder, DR.. Leo s. Rowe and Owen
J. Roberts.
Among the guests will be William
c. Miller, controller of the university
Louis A Young, Judge Oscar Lesser
and President William Mather Lewis
Of George Washington University.
Evening star., 1925-01-17
PARIS RAPS CABINET.
Press Condemns Luther Ministry as
Reactionary.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 17.-"Reactionary'
is the favorite term applied to the
new German cabinet by the French
newspapers.
The Temps says It IS impossible to
expect from the Luther government a
loyal effort toward the execution Of
the Versailles treaty and the entrance
of Germany into the League of Ma
tions.
The Germans themselves the
newspaper adds, have brutaIly de-
stroyed the illusions, to which SO
many persons naively lent themselves.
that they were ripe for true demo-
cratic evolution"
Several OF the new spapers question
whether the new cabinet will be sin
cere in the application Of the Dawes
plan.
Evening star., 1925-01-17
.Deposed Bishop
Rejects Call to
Mr.. ZerO's Church
By the Associated rrs.s.

By the Associated rress.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, January II.
before leaving for his home in
Gallon, Bishop William Montgom-
cry Brown, who was deposed from
the ministry after being found
guilty of heresy at church trial
here Thursday, said that he had
received a telegram from Urbain
Ledoux (Mr. Zero) in New York
inviting him to become pastor of
Ledoux's Church of the Cata-
combs" in New York. The church.
man said that, while he felt Mr..
Ledoux 'is doing an important
work among the unemployed, l
do not believe ! could be of any
service to him, although / sympa-
thize with him."
Ledoux's telegram of invitation
to Bishop Brown read:
"Doubly cruciffed. you can now
be doubly blessed within the
Church of the Catacombs. Take up
thy cross and drop in"
Evening star., 1925-01-17
$12,843 is OBTAINED
IN Y. M. C. A. DRIVE
Addition of $5,046 Toward $45,000
Fund Is Reported at Noon
Luncheon.

The Y. NJ. c. A. campaign to obtain
$4,000 for the years expenses reached
a total of S12.S43 yesterday afternoon,
when S5,046 was added, workers an
nounced at the noon-day lunch at
the Ebbttt House.
The woman's division contributed
S606, leading all male teams. Merritt
o. Chance. former postmaster, who
has carried off all honors since the
beginning of the campaign, dropped
back yesterday, when he reported but
$507 collected. while Charles +. Crane
came to the front with 3597 There is
keen rivalry between Chance and
Crane. Mrs. Arthur Middleton was
awarded first prize for the greatest
number of successful calls. She re
ported IA calls and 9 pledges.
Homer J. Councillor, director Of re-
ligious education of Calvary Baptist
Church, was the principal speaker.
He stressed the value of the J.. N.
G. A. Is a community asset.
Evening star., 1925-01-17
Women Fight One Slashed.

Eleanor Darlington and Lenore
Cole, both colored, the former re-
siding at 1914 Seventh street and
the latter at 2024 Eighth street, en-
gagged in row at Seventh and )
streets about Pas o'clock this morn
ing The former was seriously
wounded. She was taken to Freed
mems Hospital. Lenore Cole sur
rendered.
Evening star., 1925-01-17
WORKMEN ROUT BANDITS.
Use Celery, Knives and Pitchforks
to Save Pay Roll.

NEW YORK. January 17.-Three
robbers who attempted to hold up a
celery cleaning plant here last night
as the pay roll was being distributed
were routed by bunches of celery,
knives and pitchforks in the hands
Of the workmen, and one of the three,
Antonio Greco, is in a hospital suf-
fering from knife and pitchfork
wounds. The others escaped.
Giuseppe Lobocchiaro, a celery
cleaner. who started the offensive
against the holdup men, also is suf-
fering from bullet wounds in his neck
right chest and finger. His condition
is serious.
Evening star., 1925-01-17
Judge J. P. Kellogg Dies.

WATERBURY, Conn, January IL
Judge John p. Kellogg of the state
Supreme Court died suddenly at his
home here OF acute indigestion last t
night. He was 81 years old. He had
been reappoiuted yesterday BY Gov.
Trumbull
Evening star., 1925-01-17
PHILIP F. LARNER.
Secretary

OFFICE OF THE MUTUAL FIRE INSUR-
ANCE COMPANY OF THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA, Washington. January 4. 1925:
The annual meeting Of the MUTUAL FIRE
INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA will be held on the first Mon
day in February tthe md proyimol at the
Office Of the company, corner 18th street and
New York avenue northwest, commencing at
10 o'clock an.
Ry the charter Of the company. the cleo
tIou of seven managers to conduct the af-
fairs of the company Is required to be held
BY the sizth article of the bylaws OF the
company, it is provided: AT the annual
meeting Of the company, the first business
in order shall be the appointment OF chair
Inan. S. no shall conduct the meeting and cleo
ZION in accordance with the oct Of incorpo-
ratlon. between the hours OF 10 o'clock m.
sn] pm.
Amount If premium note ........S Sc, 1870 30. 10
Amount Of cash on hand. u .933. A.
Securities ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2o4. 500. 90
heHl estate b0.uiU.S 81
Gnlcc furniture and iytures..... 800. 90
Losses 10y fire. adjusted and paid
in 1q2. ..................... 9T31.9l
The annual statement will ba ready for
distribution at the Office OF the company about
January 81, 1928.
BY order Of the board ot managers:
+, PIERCE ROTEIFR, Secretary
Evening star., 1925-01-17

Many hundreds of women in south
ern and midland England spend their
lives in driving and steering canal
bcats
Evening star., 1925-01-17
SPECIAL NOTICES.

%HE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SHARE
holders of The Crawford Company will be
bold at its office. 1856 X street NV. Wash
!ngton, D. c, at II O'Clock an. Tuesday,
January 20. 1925. FOR the election Of directors
for the ensuing year and the transaction of
such other business as may come before the
meeting j. II. CRAWFORD,
President.
H.. s. HoUGHToN,