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Smyrna times., 1927-04-13

Charles F. Harper, aged SO, grand
father Of Mrs. Harry p. Jones Of this
town, died at his home in Leipsic, Fri
day, after brief illness. He is sur
vived by ten children, seven daughters
and three sons, as follows: Mrs. Noble
T. Jerman, Leipsic; Mrs. Edward
Clothier, Lansdowne, Pa; Mrs. John
Slaughter, Wilmington; Mrs. d. II.
Boyce, Cheswold; Miss Ella Harper,
Leipsic; Mrs. John Wright, Of Mary
land; Mrs. James Lafferty, Wyoming;
William Harper, Philadelphia; Q.
Frank Harper, Jr., Dover; Edward B.
Harper, Leipsic. The late John Harp
er, another son, father Of Mrs. Harry
P. Jones, died a number Of years ago.
Funeral services were held from his
Evening star., 1927-10-23
FOUR DAYS. SEARCH.
FOR WOMAN FUTILE.
Wife of Visiting Minister Still
Missing Despite Ex-
tensive Search.

The fourth day of the search for
Mrs. Ann Ramsey Forbush, 33 years
old, wife of Rev. Dascomb L. For
bush, pastor of First Congregational
Church. C4nandaigua, N. Y, who dis
appeared Wednesday night while at
keith's Theater, victim for the third
time in eight years of an obsession to
isolate herself, began this morning
without a clue having been developed.
Despite the unceasing vigilance of
her husband and his brother. Bliss
Forbush, secretary of the Quaker
Meeting, Baltimore, who have been
assisted in their quest not only by
the police of the District of Columbia,
Virginia and Maryland, but by nearly
1000 Boy Scouts and scores of in
terested individuals, every lead has
proven fruitless.
No fear is entertained by those ac-
quainted with Mrs. Forbush and the
peculiar nature of her obsesSion that
she has been subject to any impulse
to take her own life. On both pre-
vious occasions on which she has dis
years ago and again from Canaan.
dargua three weeks ago. she has been
found hiding in a thicket within a
few hundred feet of water
Searchers are handicapped by the
tendency previously manifested by
Mrs Forbush to stay always in one
place. which would make it possible
for them to pass and repass within
a few feet of her place Of conceal
ment without catching a glimpse of
her. 1t is possible, Rev. Mr.. Forbush
pointed out, that she is hiding in
thicket or grove in one of the parks
here. Rev. Mr.. Forbush. almost fran.
tic with grief and physical WEAKNESS,
clings to the hope that the love of
a mother for her children may intlu-
ence his wife and drive away her
strange obsession, impelling her to re-
turn to her friends and seek her chill
dren the oldest of which is and the
youngest IS months.
When Mrs. Forbush left the theater
she wore a snug brown hat, brown
coat with raccoon collar, a brown
dress. and hose and shoes to match.
She has light bobbed hair and gray
eyes. Rev. Forbush has offered a
reward of $500 for her recovery or
leading to it.
Evening star., 1927-10-23
ELEVEN ARE RESCUED
FROM BURNING SHIP

By the Associated Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, October 22.-
Eleven seamen were rescued by the
British steamer Sythian. Rotterdam
to Jacksonville. Is miles north of the
ST. Johns bar this afternoon when
fire OF undetermined origin suddenly
enveloped and destroyed the four
masted schooner Elizabeth Freeman,
bound from Jacksonville to Boston
with cargo of 1.250.000 feet of creo
soted ties.
The fire was discovered little more
than an hour and a half after the
vessel had left it's tug tow at the
mouth Of the st. Johns River, Capt.
M. c.. Decker said. 1T seemed as If
the ship became afire all at once" he
said. "It was not 90 minutes after
the blaze was detected that the sails
were flaming and the IRE was sweep
ing the boat from forward to stern"
Dense smoke hindered efforts made to
fight the flames, he declared.
The Sythian was passing southwark
in ballast from Europe and picked up
the seamen who had put out in
life launch.
1t was Capt. Decker's second dis
aster in his q years of following the
sea. the other. he said, was off Central
America. in 1906. when his schooner
was capsized when struck by a water
spout.
Evening star., 1927-10-23
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK. October 22.-Demo-
cracy is a failure, and liberty, equality
and fraternity on economic grounds
have vanished from the United States.
DIR. Will Durant, author of THE Story
of Philosophy" said tonight in a de-
bate in Mecca Temple with Bertrand
Russell, the English philosopher, con-
Quoted under auspices OF the discus
sion guild.
THE original purpose of democ-
racy" he said, was government of
the people, for the people, by the
people.
But If there is any one here who
thinks that the people rule in this
country-that they decide war and
peace, agricultural policy and tariff
rates or nominations--such a person
belongs to a different country from the
one in which l am living"
Best Held Disqualified.
Mr.. Durant maintained democracy
not only had failed to give US govern
ment of the people, but that 1t dis
qualified the best and most educated
people from public office by exacting
the price of life-servitude to political
machine, to which no thinking person
would submit.
Mr.. Russell was more optimistic.
holding that democracy had not failed
and that proof of this lay in the fact.
which he asserted, that the averaee
citizen Of democracy today was hap
pier than the acreage subject Of older
times.
DR.. Durant said in part:
ut is conceivable to me that some
form Of democracy should be sue.
cess, but our question is whether
democracy has failed of its original
purpose to establish government OF
the people by themselves. In various
degrees and places it exists. but in the
large any tyro, any sophomore, knows
that the Government of America is
not the people.
Fails to Get Able Meh.
'If democracy had even given us
not a government by the people but
a government by the best, then we
might have forgiven it great deal.
But If there is any form Of govern.
ment in history that has failed to ut.
tract the best into office-failed to
bring men of ability and integrity
into public places-it Is democracy.
Such men have got into office In the
100 years through epochal accident
only.
What / see before me as the funda-
mental reality Is that the economic
freedom of the individual has disap-
peared: that the equality Of opportu.
nifty has disappeared; that even eco
nomic fraternity and brotherhood
have disappeared. That smells to
heaven. And with the decay Of democ-
racy has come a growing complexity
of government.
"A government is a laborious and
clumsy mechanism for the adjustment
Of thousands of disputes among hun
dreds of warning groups. Yet we de.
liberately disqualify educated people
for Office by arranging that nobody
Evening star., 1927-10-23
Red Cross Denied
Right to Solicit
Funds i'm Navy Yard

by tnb ASSuCiotSo iS9o'
NEW YORK, October 22.-De-
claring the solicitation of contribu-
tions would be IAN imposition" on
the 5000 low paid civilian workers
in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Rear
Admiral Charles p. Plunkett, com.
mandant, has barred the gates of
the yard to the Red Cross Annual
Roll Call.
When informed today that the
Brooklyn chapter had asked John
Barton Payne, national chairman.
to appeal to the Navy Department
from Admiral Plunkett's refusal,
the navy yard commandant said
he would lay his side of the CON
troversy before Secretary Wilbur
Admiral Plunkett explained that
he had given an emphatic no"
when q Red Cross representative
made "peremptory demands" that
he permit the roll call to be taken
in the yard. He would not sane
ton 1t. he said, because yard work
ers are paid lower wages than out
siders doing the same work and
because he felt that most of them
contributed to the Red Cross out
side of the navy yard.
Evening star., 1927-10-23
RED CROSS PRIZE
|SAWARDED HERE
Woman's Police Bureau First
to Win BraSSard for
First Aid Work.

Discussing the all-year health build
ing program of the American Red
Cross. the annual report. made public
yesterday. reveals that the Women's
Bureau Of the District of Columbia
Police Department probably has the
distinction of being the first women's
group to win the special first aid bras
sard, which was presented by the Red
Cross for completion Of an intensive
training course.
The Red Cross itinerant public
health nursing service to aid smaller
communities unable alone to finance
their own programs. is proving in.
creasingly popular, the report de-
clared.
Reserve Nurses Help.
Maintenance of reserve of Red
Cross nurses from which needs of the
disaster relief service can be met en-.
ables emergency field nursing serv.
ices to be maintained, the report,
which is for the fiscal year ending last
June 30, said. The nursing reserve
was placed at 45.242. and 731 Red
Cross public health nurses were on &C.
tive duty throughout the year aiding
the betterment of health conditions
over the country.
A group of 1,10S nurses served as
instructors in home hygiene and care
of the sick. and 60.S50 were so in
structed. 43,422 being school students
A total of 39.440 certificates for com
pletion of the course were issued.
Turning it's attention to the nutri
ton feature of Red Cross work, the
report said that 1886 classes, instruct
ing 131 ,426 school children. in addi
ton to adults, were conducted.
Payne Urges Enrolment.
Through it's first aid service the RED
Cross trained 24.S12, who qualified by
examination for certificates. Since
1914. the report recalled, 134.5S2 have
been trained in life-saving service
with 80 SOC additional admitted during
the past year.
In making the report Chairman Johr
Barton Payne urged Nationwide en-
rollment at the coming membership
roll call, November IL to "a, inclusive
saying that an enrolment of 5,0O0.0Ot
is the objective.
Evening star., 1927-10-23
DEMOCRACY FAILURE. DURANT.
AUTHOR, DECLARES IN DEBATE
English Philosopher Combats Idea, Claim
ing Proof of Negative Lies in Happi-
ness of Average Citizens.

shall get into Office except by life
long servitude to a machine, and no
educated man will pay the price, and
the result Is visible right here in New
York State. Only those who follow
the machine can advance themselves.
Mr.. Russell countered by saying
that the democratic countries were
happier, more intelligent and progress
sive than the undemocratic ones.
"If you are going to say democracy
Is a failure" he continued. you must
not compare 1T with some remote
ideal. When one looks at the govern
ments which have been in past times.
the undemocratic systems that have
existed, ask yourselves, have they
been wise men who have governed the
world? / think not.
Sees Great Educational Merit.
Democracy has certain great mer-
it's which to my mind make 1t well
worth preserving. 1t has in the first
place the educational merit. and that
educational merit Is an enormous one.
Do you suppose that il in this coun.
try you had a government of the best
people, and by the best people,
mean the 5 per cent who have the
most money, because this is what will
always be in practice--well. l say, do
you suppose if you had government
OF that sort, there would be anything
like the money spent on education
that is now spent upon 1t?
1.-THE second great merit is that 1t
prevents certain forms of gross cruel
ties. In all the cases that history has
ever shown us at the present day.
where one set of men has the power
A. .,Dk 80
who will have power will exert the
grossast cruelty they can use.
"If you are going to have people
with self res pect, who are not viewed
with contempt, you must endow them
with their share of power, for power
is the one thing which in the long run
brings the respect of others in the
mass; and any class which is destitute
of power will be despised and accused
Of every kind Of crime and harried
and illtreated and subjected to cruelty.
"There is third reason which /
think in the present state of European
world is very visible and obvious. and
that is that democracy, when you can
get 1t established in my country and
your country, makes a more stable
form of government and more easy
to put up bulwarks against civil war
and strife than any other form of
government. In any other form of
government the minority has the
power, and In this case IL there was
an appeal to force, the force would not
be found on the side of government.
I'm undemocratic countries you get
instructions, revolutions, all sorts Of
change of government by violent
means, and the only way / know Of
to prevent change of government by
violent means is to have a rule that
the majority shall have the law-mak-
ing power, because then If you do
have an appeal to force. then the vic
tory would go to the constituted
authorities.
Evening star., 1927-10-23
SEPARATE ACTION
ON FLOOD CONTROL
House Committee Agrees to
Oppose Tying of Other
Bills to Program.

By the Associated Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn, October 22.--
Agreement to forestall any efforts that
might be made to tie up other prof.
ects with that of flood control at the
coming session of Congress was
reached today at a conference of
three members of the House flood
control committee.
The Representatives, Frank r. Reid,
of Illinois. chairman of the committee;
w. j. Driver of Arkansas and w. J.
M. Wilmington Of Mississippi, agreed
that the greatest danger to the achieve.
ment of genuine food control legisla.
ton was the possibility that persons
interested in other projects might try
to capitalize the favorable public senti-
n1ent to flood control.
Official Aid Promised.
Leaders of the House and Senate
have assured me of their desire to
hasten flood legislation" Mr.. Reid said,
but we will get nowhere if other in
terests such as navigation, reclama-
tion or irrigation are tied up with it,
After leaving Memphis, the commit
teemen will tour the Mississippi and
Louisiana flood areas.
Total damage to the State of Mis-
sissippi from the Spring flood was
placed tonight at $45,931,294 by the
Mississippi River Flood Control Asso-
citation. following an extensive survey
of the 81 counties affected.
Similar data will be obtained from
Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Tennes-
see. Kentucky and Louisiana and be
submitted TO Congress at it's coming
session, F. d. Beneke, secretary of
the association, said.
Crops Hardest Hit.
Heaviest damage in Mississippi was
suffered by this years crops, the Asso-
citation report listing crop losses at
$23,117, 829. Eight hundred thousand
acres of crop land were flooded and
the cost of replanting was estimated
at $1,654,950.
Property damage was estimated at
SIS ,23S,965, including the destruction
of 2.726 houses and the damage to 49,
$40 others. Business losses were
listed at $3.220,0oO; hardwood lumber
industry, AZ mills affected, $1,165,0 900;
| damage to school buildings and equip
| ment. 100000. and damage to high
ways and bridges. 100000
Losses Of live stock totaled $1,031,-
| $50, it was shown.
Evening star., 1927-10-23
Sergeant Liked
First Shake With
Summerall Best
By the Associated Press.

By the AS9Oclateu fTebe.
CHICAGO, October 2z-For the
second time in his life, q regular
Army sergeant shook hands today
with Mai. Gen. Charles p. Sum-
neral. chief Of staff of the United
States Army and commander of
the famous First Division in the
World War.
Sergt. Eugene Hickey shook
hands the second time while pos
ing for a picture with Gen. SUM
neral at the 1st Division reunion
here. The first time was just 10
years ago today when Maj. Gen.
Summerall vistTd hospital in
France where Sergt. Hickey lay
wounded.
THE first time was the best"
remarked Sergt. Hickey. because
after he shook hands he told d
medical officer with him to give me
plenty of bread and gravy. He
didn't say anything about eating
today
Evening star., 1927-10-23
w. E. RODERICK ENDS LIFE
WITH GAS IN BALTIMORE
Former Chicago Tribune Core
spondent in Capital Found Dead
in Home From Fumes.

Walter E. Rodericlx, 80 years old,
formerly of the Washington staff of
the Chicago Tribune, was found dead
from gas poisoning at his home in
Baltimore yesterday. DR.. j. S. Potter,
Baltimore coroner. gave certificate
of suicide. Roderick, who was em-
ployed by the Baltimore Sun, had
been Ill for some time.
Several years ago Roderick drove
an automobile onto a street car load
ing platform at Twelfth and Pennsyl-
vania avenue and killed a man.
Roderick was born in Washington.
the son of Capt. Edmund Andree Rod
erick, u. S. N. For many years ne
was on the staff of the Chicago Inter
ocean and the New York Tribune.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Eleanore Roderick and an adopted
son, Walter. An aunt, Mrs. Helen NC
Leod, resides in Washington.
Evening star., 1927-10-23
FOUR GIVEN C0R0NET
BY MASONIC COUNCIL
Body Concludes Yearly Session
Here After Weeks Meet
ing at Temple.

Four new active members were
coroneted by the Supreme Council.
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite OF
Masonry, Southern Jurisdiction, at its
session here yesterday. They are
Charles A. Moffett Of Montgomery.
Ala: Albert F. Pray OF Minneapolis;
Walter r. Reed of Fargo, N. D.; and
A. u. Thomas, of McAlester. Okla.
The supreme council concluded its
annual session yesterday afternoon at
the House of the Temple, 1873 Six
teenth street. where 1t met all last
week. The 1928 meeting will be held
next June in Portland, Ore.
Many prominent Masons from TINS
country Canada, Mexico and several
European countries attended the
sessions. 1t was reported that
Masonry is making progress in every
country, except, Italy, where Premier
Mussolini opposes the order.
Evening star., 1927-10-23
ROBINS 1.-THE KISS"
REPORTED UNEARTHED
Long Search by Owner, Who Lost
Bronze Years Ago, Ends at
French Home.


BALTIMORE, Md. October a.
The Baltimore Sun will say tomorrow
that the second casting of Robins
famous bronze, 1.-The Kiss" 'lost" for
some years. turned up here today,
when Meyric r. Rogers, director of
the Municipal Museum Of Art, an.
nounced that Jacob Epstein, its owner,
had loaned 1t to the museum for ex-
hibition.
Mr.. Epstein, who, through his
agents, had conducted a search for
this treasure for some time, located
it in a French home, the article says.
When that estate was distributed
the Baltimore collector acquired the
bronze and quietly brought it here last
August. The price paid was not an
nounced.
This casting of '"The Kiss" is the
only bronze replica. of the original.
now in Luxembourg, Paris, the article
continues. Many other copies were
made in marble, however. The bronze,
which is three feet high, was modelled
at about the same time as "Eve." I"
Genius of War" and "Danaid." and
several years before the famous
Thinker"
Evening star., 1927-10-23
PYTHIANS PLAN
HOME DEDICATION
Virginia Body to Gather at New
Market, Where Work Has Been
in Progress Year.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


RICHMOND, Va, October 22.--
Pythians of Virginia are to gather at
New Market next Saturday for dedi-
eating the Pythian Home for Orphans
at that place. The property was pur-
chased MOI than a year ago and since
that time it has been in the hands Of
the contractors. The property com.
prises several acres, and is declared to
b ideally situated.
The home has been remodeled and
made fireproof, ele trically lighted.
heated by steam, with school rooms,
a medical department and playrooms.
The furnishings have been provided
by the Pythian Sisters. they having
been given representation on the
board. and they proceeded to take up
their part of the work of caring for
the homeless by gathering up the fur
niture that was needed for its COM
plete equipment.
The dedication and formal opening
will be attended by officers of the
Grand Lodge of Virginia and others.
Roanoke will send a large delegation,
and there will be a band Of 40 pieces
for the ceremonies.
Evening star., 1927-10-23
DELEGATES TO GET
CONSULAR REPORT
Pan-American Commission to
Receive Standardization
Draft Tomorrow.

Delegates from the 81 American
republics comprising the Pan-Ameri-
can Commission on Simplification and
Standardization Of Consular Procedure
will reassemble here tomorrow. to re-
ceive the report on which the draft
ing committee. appointed by the COM
mission at the close of its prelimi.
nary sessions, October 13, has been
at work during the interim.
Adopted in Principle.
The commission adopted in princi-
pie a number of resolutions tending
to bring about a uniformity in the
practice Of consular offices so as to
facilitate an easier flow of trade be.
tween the American republics. Some
Of these resolutions deal with a
standard form of consular invoice
and other features of consular docu-
mentation, the question of consular
fees and practices, and facilitating
conditions of shipment and reducing
fees on parcel-post packages.
Practically all the differences which
threatened at one time to disrupt the
sessions have been ironed out, and a
points that still remain to be threshed
out.
The report, which the commission is
expected to adopt. viii be transmitted
through the Pan.American Union to
the governments represented at the
conference, which in turn will issue
whatever instructions they deem ap-
propriate to their delegates to the
sixth international conference of
American States, generally referred
to as the Pan.American Congress,
which will meet in Havana, Cuba, be-
ginning January 16, 1928.
Attended by Attaches.
The delegates to the present con-
ference consist In the main of the
commercial attaches in Washington
and the consuls general in New York
of the different American countries.
Frederick T. F. Dumont, consul gen.
eral of the United States, will preside
over the sessions.
Evening star., 1927-10-23
OWNERS SEEK TO EvICT
27O STRIKERS FAMILIES
Coal Company Applies to Court for
Right to Dispossess
Miners.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, october 22.---
Eviction of 270 families of union coal
miners from company houses in Bel
mont County was requested OF the
Federal Court here today by the Clark
son Coal Mining Co. and the Atlantic
Contracting Co. The court Will near
the application November 10.
In applying for peremptory order
of injunction to compel evacuation or
their houses by former employees. the
companies, which heretofore had OBJ
tained injunctions against officers and
members of the miners union prohibit
ing molestation in the companies ef-
forts to operate their mines on a non
union basis, charged refusal OF the
union miners to vacate the property
constituted a conspiracy to prevent
operation Of the mines.
Evening star., 1927-10-23
Shaw Goes to Convention.

Edward d. Shaw, secretary of the
Merchants and Manufacturers ASSOC
lation, leaves today for Columbus,
Ohio. to attend the annual convention
of the National Association of Com
mercial Organization Secretaries Oc.
tober 24'26. The association Is COM
posed OF the secretaries Of more than
900 commercial and trade organiza-
tions throughout the United States and
Canada.
Evening star., 1927-10-23
DANGERS HUSBAND HELD.
Arrest Recalls Hasty Wedding to
Fawn Gray.

BALTIMORE, Md, October % (p).
Hamilton J. Smith of New York,
husband of Miss Gladys M. Brown,
known as "Fawn Gray" a dancer,
was held by police today for the In.
dianapolis, Ind. authorities on a
charge OF jumping bail there.
Mrs. Smith petitioned the courts
here last month to annul her. marri-
age to Smith. She claimed she was
intoxicated and did not know what
had happened. She won a similar
suit here last year from Theodore
Mcfarland, Philadelphia, whom she
marTisa during q party. 4
Evening star., 1927-10-23
CARNIVAL AT TUXEDO
OPENS FOR SEVEN DAYS
Baby Show to Be Held Monday.
Governor May Speak on Last
day Of Weeks Fete.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
TUXEDO. Md. October ga car
nival to aid the fund to pave the
Tuxedo road from River road to the
Beaver Dam Golf Club opened here
tonight and will continue until next
Saturday night.
Gov. Ritchie and other State and
county officials are scheduled to
speak on the closing day. when a
tournament will be held, for which 80
riders. record number for Prince
Georges County. have been entered.
On Monday night baby beauty
contest will be held. The proposed
road will give a direct route from
the District of Columbia to the coun-
ty seat by way Of Tuxedo and Land
over
Evening star., 1927-10-23
Alien Defeats Deportation.

NEW ORLEANS, October 22 R).-
Violation of prohibition and narcotic
laws does not constitute a sufficiently
grave display Of moral turpitude to
warrant the deportation OF an alien.
the United States Court of Appeals
decided in the case of Nicholas
Skrmeta Of Savannah. Ga. The de-
cision was announced here today.