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Evening star., 1927-04-24
S25O,OOO,OOO FOR SHIPS
IS DALTON'S PROPOSAL
Shipping Board Policy Tends Toward
Keeping Merchant Fleet Under
Control Of Government.

getting the Government out OF the
shipping business.
Gen. Dalton's first move was to
obtain congressional consent to get
/ ting rid of the word emergency in
| the title of the Fleet Corporation. He
| regarded such a term as wholly In
| appropriate because of the tempo
rary' implication. So it is now the
Merchant Fleet Corporation" Next
he set about to effect operating econ.
omies. Take the red ink out of the
ledgers'' was his slogan. He perceived
that if he was to win the approval OF
Congress and the country to perma-
uenf operation of fleet, he must
demonstrate that it could be operated
economically and with a minimum OF
loss.
He points with pride to the fact
that though the gross business Of the
Shipping Board marine services this
year will aggregate approximately
$240, 900 900, Congress has only been
obliged to appropriate S1S,OOO.OO0 for
it's support this year. In other words,
on a quarter of a billion cash turn
over this year. the merchant fleet
under Dalton management has come
within SIS, 900 900 Of breaking even.
IS Cents Apiece.
Gen. Dalton says: "Our $1S,000,000
appropriation is not one.half of / per
cent of the total appropriations made
for the maintenance of the Federal
Government. Ninety-four million dot
lars is contributed by the Federal
Government this year for State road
building, and $75.000,00 has been ap-
propriated for rivers and harbors inn
provement. The contribution this
wear of the American people for their
Government fleet amounts TO only Is
cents apiece"
This sort of calculation disregards
the billion-dollar shipping investment,
and it allows nothing for interest,
taxes, insurance, depreciation and re-
placement. Government operation
never takes account of these items in
any kind of an enterprise in which
it may embark.
AS for the $3.50 600 900 for new ships
which Gen. Dalton declares ne pro-
noses to seek from Congress next
wear, he will ask for it on the basis
of a sound investment. He believes
that he can build and operate new
feet at a profit, at the same time pro-
noting American trade and providing
a first-line defense in time of war.
Meantime he is concentrating all OF
the operating management into his
own hands. This is the explanation
OF the changes announced last week
the transfer of the ship sales division
10 Gen. Dalton's direct control and
the abolition of the European division
as a separate unit and substituting
a plan whereby the various foreign
representatives report direct to the
president of the Fleet Corporation
Evening star., 1927-04-24
AMERICANS PLAYING BIG PART
in ESTABLISHING NEW PERSIA
Experts of u. S. Have Guided Country in Throwing
Off Outside Domination and Stabilizing
National Financial Policy.

Persia, with 5000 years of history
behind her, and for the past two CEN
turies a pawn in the hands of the big
powers, has recently embarked on a
great adventure. This far-away land
of romance has cast off her longtime
guardians-England and Russia--has
overturned dynasty, and under the
leadership of a Persian Mussolini has
set out to re-create a nation and to de-
'velop her own empire. The important
part which America is playing in Per-
sia's present-day rehabilitation is no
secret, but has been largely lost to
sight on this side of the world--over-
shadowed by events nearer home and
by concerns Of more immediate conse-
quence to our own country.
Five years ago an American finan-
cial mission went to Persia at her in
vitation. Its errand was not to nego-
tiate loans, not to safeguard American
interests, but to serve as a board of
managers in evolving and carrying
through comprehensive reorganiza-
ton of Persia financial structure for
her own benefit. Economic independ-
ence Persia has never known, and in
economic independence lay her hope
OF attaining the realities of political
independence, which she has had in
form, but not in substance.
Miracles Achieved.
The American mission, headed by
DIR. A. G. Millspaugh, formerly eco
nomic adviser of our own State De-
partment,s has been in Teheran since
1922. 1t has accomplished miracles,
not the least of which has been its
success in keeping in the good graces
OF the Persians, in outwitting foreign
intrigues set afoot to bring about it's
downfall and in maintaining it's con-
troll of the Persian purse strings. The
budget has been balanced and a cash
surplus, the equivalent of seven or
eight million dollars, gold, has been
accumulated. Now Persia is to con.
struct her own and her first railroad
from the Caspian Sea to the Persian
Gulf-financed without foreign capi-
tai, but planned and directed by Amer.
lean engineers.
Persia has her own Mussolini in the
person of the new Shah, Reza Pah-
levi. He was the big power behind the
throne for half a dozen years before
he seized the crown by the coup d'etat
in 1925, when the puppet Shah, who
preferred Paris to Persia, was deposed
and his dynasty overthroWn. Shah
Reza dominates Persia today. He has
the same intense nationalistic concep-
tions which pervade Italy and are
seething in China. But he is warmly
Evening star., 1927-04-24
Drug Found That Makes
Individual See Yellow

A drug that makes an individual
see yellow is the subject of expert
ments by a Scottish scientist, Wilfred
Marshall of the University of Aber-
deem. The drug is known as santonin
and is prepared from the dried flower
heads of the European wormwood.
In his experiments, reported i'm the
Journal of Pharmacology and Expert
mental Therapeutics, Mr.. Marshall
administered doses Of santonin to an
elderly man experienced in discrimi-
mating colors. Doses of a half gram
or more caused objects to appear
yellow to him within half an hour
after the dose was taken.
The yellow vision was most notice.
able on coming from darkened room
into daylight and was best seen
through the windows viewed from a
dimly lighted room. In diffuse day.
light its intensity quickly diminished
to greenish-yellow veil. Artificial
lights viewed In the evening seem a
deep yellow In hue.
A chrome yellow color examined by
the subject under the influence OF the
drug appeared to be deep orange, q
light lemon color in shadow had ths
appearance of a dirty white suffused
with a tint OF violet.
1t has not yet been determined Just
how the drug accomplishes its peculiar
effect.
Evening star., 1927-04-24
Vanderlip Condemns Foreign Loan Policy

work. If we want better Nation,
better protection to life and property
better politics, better all around condl-
tions of national happiness, we must
have better men and women. we
won't have them if we continue to let
our slums and tenement sections grow.
Another point our investors must
we'll consider is what are the factors
Of continued prosperity. A main one
is continuous new domestic develop
ment. Every fresh dollar of capital
invested in home enterprises puts
American laborers to work and gives
more goods to go around the national
table. We must remember that the
migration of American dollars abroad
is not Just migration of dollars. 1t
is. also, a migration Of jobs, of Oppor-
tunities for a livelihood for those of us
who live in America. 1t is to the in
terest Of American people TO keep
their dollars at work at home.
"One final question, Mr.. Vanderlip, ?"
I said, as ] gathered up my notes.
What do you think about the hu-
manitarian side to our foreign invest
ments? After all, haven't we the
greater part of the worlds gold sup
ply? Wouldn't we be selfish not to
lend Europe money to build up her
fallen fortunes?"
Yes if by that question you mean
10 build more armies and manufacture
more military supplies" replied Mr..
Fanderlip But suppose Europe were
really using American capital to build
up her peoples economic happiness.
John Randolph of Roanoke was one
day sitting in his committee room in
the Capitol. A group Of Christian la.
dies were urgently besieging him to
contribute to a business enterprise
that planned to build schoolhouses in
Armenia and Greece and to help the
POOR of those countries. In the back
row of the seats in the committee room
sat four little pickaninnies. Their
clothes were in rags. Their shoes
were soIeless. They looked even hun
CRY and they couldn't read or write
a line of their mother tongue. Ran
dolph, spying the little darkies, turned
to his callers: ladies' he said. the
Greeks are at our doors and pointed
to the forlorn little biack faces.
II am sure that If Randolph lived
today he would poiht an accusing
finger at our city slunis."
lCopyriEht. 1874
Evening star., 1927-04-24

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On the west side of John Marshall
place midway between G and D
streets stands the First Presbyterian
Church, the corner stone Of which
was laid April 10, 1927. Among the
distinguished attendants have been
Presidents Jackson, Polk, Pierce and
Cleveland; Vice President Colfax and
Gen. Grant. Rev. T. De Witt Tai
madge, the famous Brooklyn preach
er, was once pastor of this church.
This church was organized in 1888.
The congregation worshiped first in
the c1rpenter shop of the White
House and later in the Supreme Court
room In the basement of the Capitol.
In 1868 this church received the first
charter granted by Congress to any
church in the District Of Columbia.
Opposite this church is the site Of
the home of Carlo F'ranzoni. one Of
the first sculptorsaof the Capitol. who
died in 1919. The front Of his house
was elaborately carved with busts
Evening star., 1927-04-24
GREATER EFFICIENCY is CALLED
BIG FACTOR TOWARD HIGHER PAY

When we consider spiritual waste
we deal with values which are most
sacred and precious. We cannot est:-
mate their worth or appraise their
importance. The success of industry
requires the maintenance of a high
morale and the sort of spirit which Is
inspired by zeal and enthusiasm
for service. Management should 1r-
spire and encourage the development
of the moral and spiritual powers of
the workers by paying high wages.
creating opportunities for leisure and
recreation and by consultation with
the workers, through their chosen rep
resentatives. Low wages, intolerab BILE
conditions of employment, excessive
hours of labor and autocratic man.
agement dull the intellect, break down
morale, crush the spirit and chill the
interest of working people.
Decline i'm Values.
Treatment accorded workers by a
management which classifies them as
mere machines and which bestows
upon them certain benefits in a pa
ternalistic way tends to bring about
a decline in spiritual and moral val
ues. Management should recognize
the right of the workers to develop
their spiritual, intellectual and moral
powers. They should be accorded the
fullest and freest opportunity to do so.
If all the elder as well as the newer
problems arising out of industrial ac-
tivities are to be dealt with by en-
ployers and employees, the machinery
of collective bargaining must be more
universally utilized and strengthened.
MANAGEMENT can do a great deal to
prevent waste and further the elimina-
ton of waste. On the other hand,
Ia abor can assist management not only
in dealing with the problem of waste,
but also in dealing with other indus'
trial problems if given an opportunity
to do So Labor is willing and ready
TO do its share in the performance of
this important work. The Trade Union
lis an agency through which this char
acter of service can be rendered.
(Copyright. 1922
Evening star., 1927-04-24
Saber-Tooth Tiger Head
Found in South Dakota

The saber.toothed tigers that
roamed California in ages past and
were trapped in the La Brea asphalt
pools as though on gigantic fiypaper
sheets have q new cousin from South
Dakota. A complete skull Of one OF
these giant cats with dagger-like eye
teeth, known to scientists as eusmilus,
was found in Dakota by the Prince
ton University expedition last sum-
mer and has been subjected TO crit
ical study during the past year by
Prof. w. J. Sinclair, who reported TO
the American Philosophical Society in
annual session in Philadelphia. The
huge curving upper eyeteeth of these
animals, projecting downward past
the lower jaw, were much too large
to permit ordinary biting and 1t Is
believed that they must have been
used for slashing and tearing at the
throat or other exposed vital parts OF
the prey. This particular genus OF
the saber-tooth tigers has hitherto
been known only from few scattered
fragments and the Princeton skull has
afforded the first real chance for
complete examination.
Evening star., 1927-04-24
CITY Plans to Reclaim Area of Avenue
Once Famous as Center of Social Life

and bas-reliefs which some years ago
were destroyed in enlarging the en-
trance for business purposes.
North of the church on the west
side of John Marshall place the house
adjoining the corner was the resi-
dence of Rear Admiral Dahlgren for
IS years prior to his death, in 1870.
The corner house is the old Masonic
Hall, the corner stone Of which was
laid in 1926. 1t was occupied by the
City Post Office for year after the
Bledgett Building was burned, in 1886.
During 1849 to 1870 it was the home
of Joseph H. Bradley, prominent
District lawyer.
James Hoban, architect of the White
House, made his home for several
years prior to his death, in 1916, at
458 Louisiana avenue. a few doors
west of John Marshall place. Fur.
ther west, midway between john Mar.
shall place and Sixth street. lis the
site OF the second oldest theater in
Washington. 1T was built before 1920
and two inaugural balls were held
there.
Evening star., 1927-04-24
BY HENRY w. BUM.

BA HENRI W. DUNN
T lie following is a brief sum-
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended April %:
u * x
The British Empire.--The Liberals
are much cockered-up by two recent
Liberal victories in parliamentary bye
elections. In the view of many. Sir
Herbert Samuel is now well-nigh, as
important a Liberal figure as Lloyd
George himself,
On Good Friday pious Briton,
using a shotgun, plugged full of holes
a plane being flown in an air race, by
way of protest against such desecra,
ton of the day. On the same day
the Trade Union Council Of Moscow
promised cooperation with the Anti
God Society in efforts TO spoil the
celebration of Easter by the benighted
orthodox. 1t is various world.
Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia,
Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan
have renounced prohibition and sub
stituted sale of liquor under this or
that form of government control. 1t
was generally thought, however, that
the maritime provinces-Prince Ed
wards Island. Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick-would stick" would con-
tinue the experiment. But now we
hear that New Brunswick has adopt
ed the Ontario system.
X x y x
Italy.--On April p there was a
joint celebration in Rome of the found
ing of the city 2,6S1 years ago and of
Fascist labor day. At a special meet
ing of the Fascist grand council the
Duce promulgated a so-called charter
of labor which is said to define in
80 articles, with precision somewhat
lacking to previous legislation and
pronunciamentos on the subject, the
relations between capital and labor
in the newly constituted Fascist-Syn.
dicalist state. The fundamental idea
is replacement of the class struggle
by cooperation between labor and
capital under state control and, If
need be, coercion,
The same day there was a celebra-
ton at Mantaa to commemorate the
BIRTH 1000 years ago, in a village
near there, of the Poet Virgil. Few
events in the worlds history better
deserve commemoration.
y y *
Russian agreement has been
signed at Berlin by representatives of
Soviet Russia and Switzerland ending
the controversy which arose out of
the assassination of Vorovsky, unin-
vited Soviet representative at the
Lausanne conference in 1923. The
killer of Vorovsky was acquitted by
a Swiss jury. and Moscow put Switzer-
land on her black list and declined all
league invitations to conferences in
Switzerland. The Swiss government
now expresses regret for the assassina-
ton and promises monetary compensa-
ton to Vorovsky's family 1T is
hereby declared by both governments
that the conflict between their. two
countries is liquidated and that
mutual restrictive measures are abro-
gated" It will be recalled that the
slayer of Vorovsky pleaded sufficient
provocation for his act in the fact
that several members of his family
had been killed by the BolsheVtks.
The reconciliation is important. Per
haps Russia viii participate in the
economic conference and
further disarmament discussions.
Evening star., 1927-04-24
BY WILLIAM GREEN,

q
The desire of Labor to interest itself
in the problem of waste in industry is
ba sed upon its wish to secure higher
wages and to enjoy improved condi-
tions of employment So long a s in
du~try is only partially efficient Labor
believes that the wages paid can be
substantially increased through an in
crease In industrial efficiency and the
elimination of waste. By the same
process the cost of manufactured ar
ticles TO the public can be materially
reduced.
Waste in industry may be divided
into three classifications - material
waste, human waste and spiritual
waste Labor has given most careful
thought to each of these qualifications,
putting emphasis upon the human
and spiritual rather than upon the
material classification.
Material waste in industry, how
ever, greatly affects the economic life
OF the workers. AS waste detracts
from the earnings of industry so it
detracts from the wages Of employees.
The value of the services of employees
may be completely destroyed through
the opera tion Of wasteful processes
and the experience of an industry
may De cflanSe0 from q loSlHS NSH-
tire, because of waste, to an earning
enterprise, because of the elimination
Of waste.
Basis of Success.
The difference between industrial
sticcess and Industrial failure Is many
times found in the unwarranted de-
struction of raw materials, natural
resources and finished products, the
unecononlic use of means of produc-
ton and negligence in the care Of
machinery and mechanical devices.
Furthermore, Labor realizes that in
defensible waste takes place when
IAbor's industrial efforts go for
nauRht or are unnecessarily dupli-
Gated. A joint study supplemented by
ioint efforts can overcome this de-
stra1sftve evil.
Evening star., 1927-04-24

~ UR merchant marine. in so far
as it is affected by the policies
OF the Shipping Board and of
~ the operating management Of
the Goyernment-owned feet,
has entered upon new phase-or
rather, has returned to d former
phase. 1t is the phase of permanent
Government operation, not only of the
present ships which are fast wearing
out, but of a new merchant feet, the
building of which Congress is to be
asked to finance. Plans are afoot to
Beek $3.50, 100000 as a ship-buiidinS
fund to be expended over five-year
period and to start next year.
The Shipping Board policies have
heen radically altered during the past
six months, but the transition mas
been so gradual and unaccompanled
by any loud blasts of trumpets, that
# has taken place without attract
ing much public notice. The ldea OF
getting the Government out OF the
shipping business speedily and regard
lass OF consequences has been wholly
discarded The endeavor to transfer
Shipping Board lines to private man.
agement on any old terms has been
abandoned. Instead. plans are now
well in hand for the indefinite con-
tinuance Of Government operation OF
the present merchant fleet and the
gradual creation of a new fleet.
Permanent Operation Sought.
Government operation Indefinitely
n the way Gen. Dalton. president OF
Che Merchant Fleet Corporation, puts
It. He shys away from the phrase
s'permanent" operation. He realizes
that neither Congress nor the Presi-
dent has evinced any enthusiasm thus
far for a permanent operation policy
and that the country is not yet "edu-
Gated" UP TO the idea. But perma-
nent Government operation, neverthe-
less. is what Gen. Dalton and his
teammates on the Shipping Board are
now driving for.
This complete aboutface with ref
erence TO the American merchant
marine problem really dates from the
appointment of Gen. Dalton as head
of the Fleet Corporation. He took
Office as a "liquidating agent but
soon started Off at rapid pace not in
the direction of closing up the bust
ness. but rather of building it up.
A great believer in a strong merchant
marine, he is firmly convinced that
this is impossible to maintain without
Government aid. and that the way to
extend this aid is for the Government
to stay in the business.
Some Of Gen. Dalton's predecessors
in office held the same view, and
this view has always been represent
ed. though it has not always been |
dominant, in the Shipping Board. 1t
is a. view which Mr.. Coolidge has not |
vet subscribed to. He has been for
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on American politics to rattle the
saber OF threat to all foreign govern
ments whose politics do not look after
our foreign investments the way we
want them to. Foreign governments
on the other hand win sooner or later
begin to try TO throw off the economic
yoke Of American capital-will begin
to try to emancipate their railroads,
their public utilities, their corpora
tions from American domination and
control-and an explosion point may
be reached somewhere. Our foreign
investments might make this country
the worlds greatest meddler.'
IS X =
"There is still good work for the
American dollar to do here" contin-
ued Mr. Nanderiip. III we invest the
American dollar at home we can make
II pay both business dividends and
social dividends The great problem
looming up on our social horizon is
TO clean up our cities. We are living
in a. city age. That is an age that all
great civilizations have experienced.
When a civilization has been highest
il has always been marked by an eX-
odus from the farm to the city, But
cities become highly dangerous to
progress If slums multiply and Hel's
Kitchens are ignored. Our cities are
becoming swollen with population.
Babylon had over two million when
ID fell. Rome had over two and a
half million But both Babylon and
Rome reeked with the filth of under
worlds, rotten politics and the garbage
OF degenerate humanity.
"I say one of the best investments
that the American investor could
make would be 10 put his money into
enterprises that plan TO build better
homes for the poor in our cities. Such
an investment viii pay fair interest
and there won't be the danger of loss
that there is when our dollar goes
abroad.
'Tnstead of stirring up wars abroad
let US direct our efforts to putting
down social strife at home. And one
way TO do this is TO improve living
conditions in our great cities. This
is only one outlet for the American
dollar at home There are many
others. There is no need for the
American dollar TO go abroad to find
Evening star., 1927-04-24
New Algiers Station.

Construction of large radio station
in Algiers is to begin soon in accord
ance with a contract recentl5
awarded by a society of amateurs,
which functions under the approval oil
the government. The new station will
take the place Of a smaller one
which the society installed aboutaR
year ago in the post Office at Algierf
and which has been operated by thf
postal authorities.
Evening star., 1927-04-24

so readily. A British protectorate for
Persia was her first after-war move.
This failed. Elimination of the Eng
lish ascendancy In Southern Persia
has been laboriopeg process, and is
not vet complete A But the trend OF
events Is toward ID completely ma
ti0nalfstic ennpre.
Evening star., 1927-04-24

DE AEAAANANN W A"0+FAF"
. HE following is a brief sum
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended April 30:
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Evening star., 1927-04-24

Life Not Dull One.
"Our new border patrol of the I'm.
migration Service is a live.wire outfit, ;"
said their leader, and is engaging In
an exciting and intriguing war with
the organized gangs of stnugG1ers,
matching wits with wits and force