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The Washington times., 1925-05-07

lifelong Warrington etghtysx ysGrS OF
and deeply interested all thG pertains to ns aeny
and importance Capital that hoping n9y
knOuOn all the civilized World
by that chean DISTRICT Of Columbia
GoUerned By COnRrsss Of COssiOneTs, h00e
Of our local affairs.
Of The time has come OhSn every
organized body Of citizens the D'Tct patriotic poHaed
a dem0nstv0tion
and demand the position to
STATE of Columbia With
Senators and O to
responsibility
shp and eon and respect Of foreign n0tfOns
The member Of Congress having the courage the Gey ana
to
faeoching magnitude, his inscribed the
81 Eistory Anneyicas stGtesmsn Wth d
fneve State flag beside Old Glory the
6";S6t of arr toweriuR ambition could be reached.
Huryah patriot uVhO lead our "Otss's hosts
THE stirring TO receive .
Tbr.e cheers for The champion uhO H dare,
Oar glorious Freedom GehieUs.
MRS NELLIE H. BRADLEY.
The Washington times., 1925-05-07
Queer Balkans
And Queerest Bulgaria.

Conditions Bulgaria, where many killed by a
bomb explosion inside the great cathedral at Sofia
plcated by that monks had share in
planning the outrage
sacrstan the cathedral confesses that he
ceped bride of 10000 levas for permitting destructive
bomb be the roof of the cathedral where it burst
bringing the roof the congregation Zadgorsky
fesses that he is Communist.
The Bulgarian situation fact entire Balkans Czecho-
sovaan Turkish problem is little too deep for the
average feeble American brain And it doesn't take much
Intelligence that this country ought keep out of
that mess crocodile seized the baby elephant by
the end trunk that baby pachydem remarked This is
too much for me-
That's how Uncle Sam feels contemplating Balkan
the Hedaz ZagonePasha Renal Pasha Lord Bal
The Washington times., 1925-05-07
ELSIE ROBINSON

casional child labor is not new in the world.
BUT FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE FOR
CHILDREN is NEW IN THE WORLD.
The boys and girls of 1890 liked pocket
money just as much as the girls and boys OF
today like it. Many of them earned it as
occasion arose. BUT OCCASION DIDN'T
ARISE EASILY OR OFT 1t was smaller
world, with cruder methods and far less
machinery. Women did little work outside
the home-girls practically none at all. The
Jobs available for boys were such as kept
them very definitely in a position of in
dustrial subservience. Dad and Society
quite literally kept the whip hand over
johnny and Jenny. We like to imagine that
homes were more stable in those days. and
children more respectful, because higher
state of morals prevailed. But, as a matter
of fact, this condition existed because Dad
The Washington times., 1925-05-07

"You say that the earth's
axis wobbles. through a radius
of about thirty feet. Has this
wobble a definite period; IL 80
what is the time?
rs it another wobble that
causes the procession of the
equinoxes? If so what are the
radius and period of this? Does
the earth follow the axis, or
does the axis move inside the
earth, as in the first mentioned
wobble.-M. M. Providence, r.. T."
A STRONOMERS call the Wob-
n bling Of the earth's axis
variation OF latitude This
The Washington times., 1925-05-07
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
~ DOCTOR FRANK CRANE.

u7HEN man has arrived At the age 2, a nns yso
w are apt to be interesting.
The Washington times., 1925-05-07

The disease of evil conscience is beyond the practice
all the physicians of all the countries in the
Affecation awkward and forced imitation Of what
should be genuine and easy wanting the beauty that &C.
companies what is natural
The Washington times., 1925-05-07

The resolution avoid evil is seldom framed till the
far advanced make avoidance impossible.
Virtue knowing base repulse, shines with unfair
nsh honor does she resign her embemS of
honor by the will Of some popular breeze-Horaca
The Washington times., 1925-05-07
Average Seal
Catch

ATEwFOUNDLAND'S sealing
IN fisheries in 1924 returned an
average catch. Ten steamers en-
gagged and secured 129,561 seal
pelts, while the inshore winds
kept the ice foes close to the
northern coast and enabled the
residents to secure another 10000.
which Is rarely done.
The Washington times., 1925-05-07
The Spirit of 10 in Washington
Women
By BILL PRICE.

You'll be much interested in the spirit Of this letter from
Washington woman eghyx Of age who keeny feels
the humiag position the people Of the District are placed In
through the refusal of Congress give them anything to
in their affairs:
The Washington times., 1925-05-07
SAP AND SALT
BY BERT MOSES

I--by BERT MUSES.
Love is harder on the eyesight
than wood alcohol.
Hez Heck says: THE orator
said we must widen our view
points, but my idea u - Wtden
The Washington times., 1925-05-07
TOMES now r. j., who doesn't agree
with all this agitation about the
Youn0er Generation

It's tommy rot!" snorts r. j., out of the
wisdom Of his fifty-five summers. ''Nine
tenths of it is an effort to make sensational
news out of commonplace facts. Children
haven't changed. They act now just as they
acted when was child. There is nothing
new about their escapades. We had petting
parties, too, and wild nights. Girls got
into trouble and boys ran afoul of the
police just as they do now. But for the
most part we were decent, law-abiding
youngsters just as am convinced most Of
the young people are now.
All this fuss over its misdeeds has made
the Modern Generation feel that it is very
bold and daring and that the preceding
generations were a bunch of 'fraid cats.
Evening star., 1925-07-23
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.

DAYTON, Tenn, July 23.-Not only
is there to be real anti-evolution bill
introduced in the next session of Con
gress at Washington, but 1t will be al
most identic with the Tennessee
statute. 1t VIII provide that all Fed
eral aid and financial support be with
held from any school or institution
which permits the teaching of any
theory of evolution Which denies "the
story of the divine creation Of man, as
taught in the Bible, or which contends
that man has descended from a lower
order Of animals"
If such a law should pass. it would
affect all 4he public school systems of
the District of Columbia, Hawaii
Alaska. Porto Rico and the Philip
pines, to say nothing of the Military
Academy at West Point and the Naval
Academy at Annapolis. II also would
withhold support from the Smithso-
nian Institution and the National Mu-
scum at Washington, both OF which
have been engaged in research work
along evolutionary lines.
Walter White, superintendent of in
struction in this district of Tennessee,
who was the official prosecutor of
young Scopes, already has drawn up
the bill for introduction in Congress,
and told the writer today that he has
arranged for it's formal presentation,
although 1t has been published that
one or two of Tennessee's Congress
men have declined 10 stand sponsor
for the proposed measure.
Mr.. White expects that other anti
evolution measures will>pour into the
Evening star., 1925-07-23
OFFICIALS DISTRESSED.
Incident Comes just as u. S. Was
Trying to Help China.

officials here were manifeStly dis
tressed over the killing of one Ameri-
can and the capture of another yes
terday by Chinese bandits. but there
was no indication that the develop
ment would interrupt negotiations now
in progress for a friendly effort by the
powers to help China out of her do
mestic troubles.
Formal comment on the raid on the
Palmer ranch was withheld pending
full official investigation. Meantime.
however, American authorities in
China are expected to take prompt
measures to secure release of DR.. How
ard, the American held captive. and
the punishment of those responsible
for his abduction and for the death of
Morgan Palmer.
Heretofore Americans in China have
been noticeably immune from the at
tacks directed against the nationals of
other countries, and the first impulse
here was to regard yesterdays Incl
dent as a detached display of banditry
and not an indication of any wide
spread move against Americans.
The killing of Mr.. Palmer and the
capture of DIR. Howard are looked
upon as the more regrettable because
they occurred just at the time when
the American Government was demon
strating again it's traditional friend
ship for China by remission of the re-
naming payments due under the
Boxer indemnity agreement. 1t is the
earnest hope of Washington that the
Chinese authorities will take prompt
and effective steps. not only to clear
up the incident of yesterday, but to
prevent recurrence.
Evening star., 1925-07-23
BIo,u to Research Here Is Seen
In Federal Evolution Statute
and National Museums and
Schools You'd Be Hit Hard by
Blu of Tennesseap.

HaRse and Senate before the session
is a week old next December, but he
believes by that time the appellate
courts of this State will have upheld
the Tennessee statute, and that it
will be taken as a model for the pro-
posed Federal legislation. Mr.. White
said he had not consulted William Jen-
nings Bryan as to his support, but that
he expects 1t. Mr.. Bryan purposes to
devote a great deal of attention to at
tacking the evolution conspiracy"
prior to the time that he leads his pill
grimage to the Holy Lands next Feb
ruary. to spend Easter on the Mount
of Olives.
Among the anti-evolutionists here
the move at Washington to stop sup
port of the District of Columbia schools
under the existing statute, which
withholds payment to any person who
teaches disrespect for the Bible" is
regarded as a symptom rather than a
forceful step against the "evolutionist
propaganda" which is sweeping the
country. The clause in the District of
Columbia statute Is not regarded as
comprehensive enough to reach the
theory of evolution.
The anti-evolutionists place great
store by the phrase in the Tennessee
law which forbids teaching that man
descended from a lower order of ami
mails" There are many things in the
many theories of evolution which the
antfs admit they cannot put a finger
on, but they can say that the children
OF the country shall not be made to
believe that man descended from q
Evening star., 1925-07-23
CLAIM LOADED DICE
USED ON RIVER TRIP
''Potato PeeIer" Defrauded
= Guests, Say Boosters"
Sued for Assault.

George White, fiofist, and John S.
Blick, ice dealer, who, with Henry c.
Hanford. were recently sued for
$4,000 damages for alleged assault by
John S. Simmons of 1919 Kenyon
street northwest, as the result of an
encounter on the recent boosters trip
of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, today filed pleas in the
District Supreme Court denying any
assault on Simmons, but admitting
that they acted as a committee to
recover property of members of the
association and of their guests which
they said Simmons had improperly
taken. No force, violence or threats
were used, the respondents declare,
and no property was taken except
that to which the members and guests
were rightfully entitled.
Mr.. Hanford was not served with
summons in the suit until a few days
ago. and the time for filing his plea
has not expired. Attorneys Joseph A
Rafferty, and Michael NJ. Doyle appear
for Mr.. White, while Attorneys Alvin
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Evening star., 1925-07-23
POLE REMOVAL PLAN
is BEING CONSIDERED
Connecticut Avenue Problem Be-
fore Commissioners-Gas Ex-
tension Also Up.

Decisions may be reached this aft
ernoon by the Public Utilities Commits
sion on the removal of trolley poles
from the center to the sides of Con-
necticut avenue and on the question
Of whether gas mains should be ex-
tended along the Conduit road to
serve the residents of Potomac
Heights. Both matters have been
pending for some time.
The commission members will not
decide until they meet this afternoon
how far out Connecticut avenue the
removal of the poles should be or
dered.
One point to be settled is whether
the trolley poles should be moved from
the center to the curb only as far
out as Klingle Bridge, or all the way
to Chevy Chase Circle.
1t is probable that the decision also
will call for the placing OF wires of
the Potomac Electric Power Co un-
der ground on Connecticut avenue as
far as Klingle Bridge.
The residents of the Conduit road
section appeared before the commits
sion about two weeks ago and made
a strong plea for the extension of gas
service to their homes by the George
town Gas Light Co.
Evening star., 1925-07-23
FRENCH DEBT BODY
GOING TO ENGLAND
Funding Negotiations Will
Start at 0nce-NeW Plan
Studied for u. S.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
PARIS, July 23.--The French cab
met has decided to send forthwith a
commission of officials of the treasury
to England to start execution of the
war debt funding question. 1t Is likely
that Finance Minister Caillaux and
Foreign Minister BRAND will go to
London early in August for the pur-
pose of connecting the question of war
debts and the security pact on the
same lines as were decided last year
between Ramsay Macdonald and Ed
Guard Herriot.
Plans for funding the American war
debt are less definite. For the time
being the French cabinet believes 1t
better to approach the American Gov
ernment unofficially. 1t Is proposed to
send to Washington a commission of
Frenchmen in business and politics to
start negotiations with the Treasury
and State Departments.
New Plan Studied.
French treasury experts are begin.
ming to realize that the suggestion of
long-term moratorium cannot be
well received in the United States and
are working out now a plan which
they believe may be found more ac-
ceptable. The general lines of this
plan are, according to a reliable
source, as follows:
France does not pay at present any
interest on her political debt, but
pays some $25,000,000 interest In
amortization for the commercial debt
contracted during and since the war
This amount decreases yearly in pro-
portion with the reduction of the debt
1t is calculated that the commercial
debt will be wiped out in 10 years
and France proposes to transfer To
the account of the political debt the
previously mentioned interest, which
will gradually increase whit economic
rehabilitation of France.
Two years hence transferrab BILE
amounts from the commercial debt
will decrease by some $5,00a,000 and
France intends to pay this difference
as the initial payment for political
debts, thus not requesting too long a
moratorium before starting payments
Copyright. 1925. by Chicago Daily News Co }
Evening star., 1925-07-23
AutOists' Pet AIibi,
"Card BIe,v A,Uay,'' -
FoiIed by Stickers

1t will take high wind in future
to blow away the little cards police
men place in automobiles that are
parked overtime
The next shipment of these no.
tice cards will have a coating of
mucilage on the back of them and
theofficers will paste them on the
inside of the windshields, where it
is expected the cards will safely
await the return of the driver.
Heretofore the police have been
attempting to fasten the notices to
the levers on the steering wheels.
Acting Superintendent of Police
Evans said today that SO many
motorists complain that the cards
blow away before they receive
them that he has decided to try
sticking them to the windshields.
Evening star., 1925-07-23
MARYLANDERS WAR
ON BELT RAILROAD
PLAN FOR SUBURBS
See Hindrance to Regional
Development of Greater
Washington.
BY WILLIAM j. WHEATLEY.

F'oreseeing a destruction Of the
regional development of a beautiful
metropolitan area in Maryland ad-
jacent to Washington, with the con-
sequent marring of residential area
by the strides of commerce through
the laying of railroad line, citizens
today to make q formida bic attack
against the Washington and Lough-
borough Belt Line and Terminal Co.
The fight will be waged before the
Maryland Public Service Commission
at Baltimore, by the citizens Of this
territory, led by Maj. E. Brooke Lee.
Secretary of State ft Marylnad, and
a large landholder.
The railroads petition asks the
Maryland commission to grant per-
mission to the company to exercise
its franchises, rights and privileges
granted to it under it's certificates
of Incorporation and the laws of the
State of Maryland.
Could Seize Land at Will.
With the granting of such a petit
ton, it was pointed out, the company
would have authority to condemn
lands not only for it's railroad line
mediate right of way for the purpose
of building terminal facilities. There
would be nothing to prevent 1t from
causing the erection of great terminals
and warehouses, and the lack of a
zoning law in this territory, coupled
with the great right of eminent
domain, it was added, would greatly
aid in turning this section into COM
mercial development.
Toj hoS At nr
with the commission pointing out that
this is not commercial area, but en-
tirely devoted to extensive residential
development.
A strong and united fight will be
waged against the granting of the
petition, according to Maj. Lee, who
pointed out that the company had
obtained charter from the Tax Com
mission of Maryland, and the effect Of
the granting Of it's petition would be
to give 1t the right of eminent domain,
a power enjoyed by the Government,
and a power which few private cor
porations have.
This section has been built up as
large residential area by people who
have erected fine homes because of
the environment and secure in the be-
lief that 1t would always be residen-
tial, according to Maj. Lee. Should
Utility Commission, it would have the
authority to go through this rapidly
developing residential territory, locate
it's line wherever it wanted 1t, and II
the owners would not sell, then con-
denim and take the land at price
fixed by a condemnation jury.
Would Destroy Home Values.
The mere laying of a railroad line it.
self is not serious, it was added, but 1t Is
the consequences of such line. There
would be nothing, 1t is argued. to pre-
vent the railroad company cutting
through a fine estate, or laying its
line close up to the front doors even
of some of the fine homes being erect
ed in this territory, now the center Of
a most phenomenal growth and de-
velopment. 1t is distinctly resi-
Dental section now. but those who
have examined the petition point out
that the power which would be given
the railroad would practically amount
to its destruction as such, and what
Evening star., 1925-07-23
Morgan Palmer of New York
Dies While Defending
Ranch Lands.
u. S. TO DEMAND PROMPT
RELEASE OF DOCTOR
Comment Here Withheld Until a
Full Investigation Is Made
of Killing.
By the Associated Press.

PEKING, July 23.-Morgau Palmer,
an American. has been killed by
bandits at his ranch. on the Sungari
eye specialist, attached to the Rookie
feller Hospital, was captured at the
same time.
Consular advices from Kalgan state
that Palmer was killed on July 20
while defending his property against
bandits.
Mr.. Palmer and his mother, DIR.
American trader named Baldwin of
Kalgan, Chihli Province. together
with his wife and child, were visiting
Palmer's ranch, which is in the Man
churian Province of Kirin, when the
attack was made.
Still i'm Captivity.
The consular advices say that DR..
tivity; the others are safe for the
present" but their whereabouts is not
known. The American consul at
Mukden, Samuel Sobokin, has gone to
see the military government of kirin
in an effort to effect the release of
DIR. Howard.
The Rockefeller Hospital has been
advised that DIR. Howard's son, James,
is safe on a customs launch at Flu
chochen.
Mr.. Palmer was connected with the
salt administration In Peking, but re-
tired some time ago to conduct an ex-
peri Mental farm.
Evening star., 1925-07-23
ADMIRALTY STAND
FOR CRUISERS WINS
Cabinet ECONOMY Group" Is
Routed and Sea Lords
viii Not Resign.
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, July 23.-Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin announced in the
House Of Commons today that the
British governments naval construc-
ton program included two cruisers
to be laid down in October, two next
February and three yearly thereafter,
making four cruisers to be construct
ed this financial year and three next
The British government also has
decided upon the annual construc-
ton of nine destroyers and six sub
marines, together with certain auxil-
larry vessels, beginning with the finan-
cial year 192627, this program to be
continued during the normal life OF
the present Parliament, Baldwin an
nounced.
Some of the new cruisers will con-
form to the existing 10,000-ton type,
and the remainder will be smaller and
less expensive, of type approximat-
ing 5000 tons, to be designed by the
admiralty.
Saving Is Planned.
The additional expenses this year
which Prime Minister Baldwin esti-
mated at f527,170 sterling (about $2.-
600,e00) above the present navy esti
mates, would be met by the admiralty
oy savings under other departments
and by funds which are likely to ac-
crue by not spending money appro-
priated
Concerning the cost of the program
in future years, the prime minister
explained that the admiralty would
make every effort by effecting sub
stantial reductions in maintenance
nd or on, no aSfi-
mates in order to diminish the cost of
the new construction.
A new committee of three persons
not connected with the government
would be appointed as soon as possi-
BILE to examine the costs of main
tenance in all branches of the British
fighting services, he said.
If the morning newspapers are cor
rectly informed, the threatened resig-
uiiralty have been averted by the sur
render of the economy group of the
tabinet, headed by Winston Churchill,
chancellor of the excheQuer, to w. Q.
Bridgman, first lord of the admiralty,
end the sea lords.
Il Admiralty's Stand.
Mr.. Churchill. as guardian of the
treasury, had insisted that the coun-
L. Coulu IlOI 70 idy LO"1
than two new cruisers this year and
three next year. The admiralty, after
modifying its original demands, took a
stand on the building OF four cruisers
this year and three next, and, accord.
ing to the newspapers, has won its
battle.
1t is stated that the admiralty, hav-
ing won this point, is willing to cut
naval expenditures in other directions
and essay the closing of the Chatham
Pembroke and perhaps the Gibraltar
dock yards to offset the cost of the
cruisers.
Difficulties arise, however, over the
question of employing thousands of
workmen engaged at the dock yards,
for whom occupation would have to
be found. How this is to be met is
not stated, but 1t is assumed that the
premier will make an announcement
on the subject today.
Evening star., 1925-07-23
RAIL HEADS INCUR IRE
OF CHICAGO DRY AGENT
Private Police Prevent Search for
Carload of Beer in Yards, En-
forcement Chief Complains.

By tho Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 23.-Railroad
trunk line presidents would be sum-
moned to the United States district
attorneys office here to explain their
attitude on prohibition enforcement
by Charles w. Vursell, chief enforce
ment agent in the State prohibition
directors office. His plan to sum-
mon the rail heads resulted from all
alteration his men had last night
with New York Central Railroad de-
tectives.
The railway police intercepted the
agents when they went to the rail-
road yards in an effort to find a car
load of beer reported to have been
shipped from New York. Vursell
said his men were shown a letter
purporting to have been. written by
the president of the New York Gen.
trail lines instructing the railroad po-
lice to prevent prohibition agents
from making seizures on railroad
property.