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dollarsl--and in appropriations for
maintenance and further development
which now have reached a total of a
million and quarter dollars yearly.
No; the endowments are not TO relieve
the Government of its duty; nor are
they required because the Government
is doing little for the institution.
They come because the Government
has already done, and is doing, so
much. They are not TO subsidize the
Government part of the enterprise,
but to utilize this great establishment,
which the Government has created,
for the promotion of certain objects
with which the Government fully
sympathizes but to which it cannot
well apply the public funds. With
Mrs. Coolidge, the object was promo
ton of the appreciation and under
standing of music; with Mr.. BENJAMIN
it is promotion of studies in American
history-and the resources for them
with the Carnegie Corporation, promo
ton Of a sound understanding and
wider appreciation of the fine arts.
THAT this opportunity would be rec
ognized and taken advantage of was
anticipated by Congress when, two
years ago, 1t created the Library of
Congress Trust Fund Board-a quasi
corporation. with the Secretary of the
Treasury at it's head, with perpetual
succession, and all the usual powers
of a trustee--authorized to accept and
administer funds constituting endow.
ments for the benefit of the Library,
its collections or its service This
board is funCtioning, and even pre-
vious to these recent gifts had already
in hand three endowments; one from
James 3. Wilbur for reproductions
of source material for American his
tory, one from r. H. Bowker (for
photographic enterprises) and a por-
ton of that from Mrs. Coolidge.
Called Public Agency.
''The procedure with the board is
simple and it's action prompt, as its
authority for the acceptance of an Of
fer is subject only to the approval of
the joint committee on the Library;
exempt, therefore, from the slow pro-
cess of bill in Congress. 1t is a pub.
lie agency, officially responsible, with
the Treasurer of the United States as
its treasurer and custodian; and yet as
to investments it has the freedom-to
consider yield as well as safety-of
any trust company in the District of
Columbia. 1t therefore offers nlEny
assurances, some conveniences and
certain economies.
But it intends no competition with
the trust companies, where available
for such purpose, and many donor
having confidence in some such COM
pany and preferring that the corpus
of his fund shall remain in local Gus
tody may confide his endowment to
"a IL.
shall be paid over for the purpose
specified. In this case, under the act,
it is payable direct to the Treasurer
of the United States or to the IL
brarian who banks it with the treas
urer, and administered conformably to
the trust, and under the regular super
vision of the controller general and
the General Accounting Office. In
anv case, both principal and income
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SACCO-VANzETT|ST
STRIKE ADVOCATED
New York Crowd Listens to
Protest Speeches Made
in Several Languages.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 16.-Three
hours and half of speaking from
four platforms before crowds which
swelled at one time to $500 persons
ended late today in a burst of red
flags, the sporting of several hundred
red hats and the passing" by accla.
nation of a resolution favoring a gen.
eral local strike in further protest
against the scheduled execution in
Massachusetts, of Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo VanZetti.
The meeting, arranged by the Sacco-
Vanzetti emergency committee of
New York, ended with no outbreaks"
or violence" to necessitate stringent
action from 200 policemen, mounted,
on foot and occupying armored motor
cycles, who had been ordered to patrol
Union Square.
Policeman Is Rescued.
After the Union Square meeting,
however, police reserves were called
out to rescue a patrolman from a mob
of Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers who
organized an impromptu parade on
Second avenue. The patrolman, who
endeaYored to disperse the crowd, was
knocked down and trampled. 1ie-
serves, swinging night sticks from
department automobiles, rescued him
and dispersed the mob.
Speeches were in English, Hun.
garian, German, Italian, Hebrew and
other languages at the Union Square
meeting. Opinions ranged from those
advocating free expression, voiced by
Forrest Bailey, director of the Ameri.
can Civil Liberties Union, to those
advocating a general strike, as voiced
in pamphlets given out at the meet.
ing by the international anarchist
group.
Murder Witness Speaks.
Among the speakers was Frank j.
Burke, an eye witness in the South
Braintree murder, for which Sacco
and Vanzetti were sentenced to die.
Burke, who testified at the trial, de-
nounced their convictions as a grave
miscarriage Of justice.
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Rules to Govern
ID. A. II. Meetings
Are Announced

During the D. A. r. convention
here the coming week the follow
ing rules will be in effect:
THE insignia shall be worn only
on the left breast.
Roberts Rules of Order, re-
vised, will be used.
Reports of standing and special
committees will have a definite
time limit, which will be rigidly
adhered to.
Seven vice presidents general
and one honorary vice president
general are to be elected.
I'm nominating candidates for
national offices the nominating
speech shall be limited to three
minutes, which may be followed by
one seconding speech Of one min
ute.
"State regents will be given three
minutes in which to present to Con-
gress the outstanding work of the
State for the year, and they are re-
quested to hand at once to the re-
cording secretary general a concise
and complete typewriter report of
their State work for the proceed
ingS. In case both State regent
and State vice regent are absent,
the report shall be filed without be-
ing read. Additional time will be
allowed for the presentation of
gifts.
'All State delegations can hold
meetings If they desire to do so,
but, in order to comply with the
constitution and bylaws, those
States which do not have State con-
ferenceS must hold a meeting in
Washington to elect their State re-
gent and State vice regent.
Notices will be read at the close
Of each session.
IAN sessions tomorrow and all
evening sessions open to the public.
THE registrar general ana the
treasurer general will hold a keund
table for State and chapter fegis-
trars and treasurers at the Wash
ington Auditorium, 9to 9;45 O'CLOCK.
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RED CROSS RUsHEs RELIEF.
Appeals for Aid Increase, With 5000
Reported Homeless.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The American Red Cross head
quarters has decided to administer
relief TO the flood-stricken Mississippi
River areas through the local Red
Cross chapters. The relief plans were
announced yesterday after a lengthy
conference Of the organizations Off
cials.
Local Red Cross units are organized
in every county in the 600-mile
stretch from Cairo, ILL.,, to Baton
Rouge, La, affected by the flood, the
headquarters said. Local Red Cross
committees are feeding the refugees
and the headquarters here is ship
ping tents to the region through the
cooperation of the Army to house
the refugees. The officials here said
that lit is hoped local relief funds
now being raised will be sufficient to
finance the work"
The War Department announced
that it has made available 500 addi-
tional tents, to be turned over to the
Red Cross at New Orleans for relief
work in the NatcheZ, Miss, region.
5000 Repo ed Homeless.
Mai. Gen. LasR&f at Chicago, COM
vised the department that he had dis
tributed 500 tents through southern
Illinois. Arkansas and Missouri. Gen.
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confined to an area above Canal street
and between st. Charles avenue and
Lake Pontchartrain.
Members of the New Orleans base
ball team, many of whom resided in
the flooded section, We're forced to
tourney to the base ball park in
wagons. The thousands who We're
expected to attend the opening game,
however. were waterbound and only
about 1900 were present.
Levees i'm Good Condition.
The lower Mississippi River levee
system came through the rainfall in
splendid condition, engineers reported.
Weaknesses which developed in
spots along the line above New
Orleans were quickly strengthened,
sandbags were used to fill threatened
breaches and they still were holding.
The river rose A of a foot at New
orleans during the last "a hours. 1t
had reached 20.2 feet today, still
almost two feet below the expected.
At Lutcher, the banks are being
topped with sandbags.
Water was trickling over the rail.
road embankment which. since a break
in the main levee, has protected st.
Francisville. An all-night watch was
being kept as water had reached the
lower part of the town.
Theater Is Flooded.
Probably the greatest damage here
was sustained by Loew's State Thea
ter located directly across the street
from the Saenger Theater at Canal
and Rampant streets in the center or
the business district, the theater was
flooded with two feet of water and a
large pipe organ was practically ruined.
No estimates of damage throughout
the city that in any way could be
regarded as accurate or comprehensive
were available.
Observers said that half Of the city
was inundated by water from
inches to 10 or Il feet deep at some
time during the rainstorm.
st. Charles street and Canal street
were miniature rivers into which
creeks streamed from side streets.
were submerged beneath
several inches Of water which flowed
doorways into business
houses.
Many Wade to Work.
Many persons obliged to report for
work donned old clothing or bathing
suits and waded through water TO
sucn car lines as were being operated.
Wagons were called upon to aid in
the rescue work, as hundreds of auto.
bile motors stalled when submerged
by the water.
One man, due at his office at 7
o'clock this morning, reached it at
8 80 O'Clock this afternoon, after pay
ing an enterprising boatman $3.50 TO
row him some two. and one-half miles
residence streets. Then, wad-
ing for some distance, he caught a
wagon which carried him the remain
ing distance to a street car line which
was operating.
Another man appeared at his office
at the usual time, attired in hip boots
and old trousers, surmounted by
white shirt and well-pressed coat.
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GREATEST FLOOD THREATENED
Thousands of Refugees Cared For in
Mississippi Valley.

ST. LOUIS, April IS CP).-Wet and
weary men tonight continued their
struggle to strengthen Mississippi
River levees against what threatened
to be the greatest and most damaging
food in the history of the lower
valley.
Other thousands Of men, women and
children, driven from their homes by
food and threat of flood, were refu-
gees under the care of Red Cross and
other organizations. Five hundred
refugees were being cared for in the
courthouse and churches at Charles
ton, Mo.
215,O0O Acres Threatened.
Breaks at Dorena, Mo, opposite
Hickman, KY, threatened to flood
175,000 acres in MiSsippi and New
Madrid Counties, while four breaks
between Aldridge end Gale, Ill.,,
threatened to spread over 100000
acres, much of which already was in
undated from flood waters of the Big
Muddy River, a tributary.
The river here rose slowly at the
rate of 3 of a foot each a hours.
The gauge late today stood at 34.1,
with a crest of 35 feet forecast by
Tuesday. Flood level is 80 feet.
At Cairo, ILL.,, with a stage of 55.7,
the highest on record, a further rise
of from l to 1I2 feet were forecast.
providing remaining levees hold. The
Cairo levee gives protection up to 60
feet.
Families Leave L0wlands.
At Metropolis, ILL.,. 80 miles east of
Cairo, on the Ohio River, the rise was
Is inches in the last "a hours, and
families were moving from lowlands.
The receding of the White River
at the power site dam, so miles south
west of Springfield, Mo, relieved
flooded conditions at Forsyth, Hollis
ter and Branson in the Taneycomo
region Of the OZarks, where many
dwellings were surrounded by water.
Four small dwellings and a canning
factory at Forsyth were swept away.
Railroad service to the south and
southwest continued to be hampered
by foods and washouts and numerous
trains reached here several hours
late today. Highways throughout the
flood area were blocked at many
places.
1t was impossible to estimate total
property damage in flooded portions
Of Missouri and Illinois.
SlyUUVJVVO DdudSc w RoduS'
The state highway department es-
timated, however. the damage to state
highways in Missouri would approx
mate $1,000,000.
The United States Weather Bureau
at Columbia tonight predicted the
Missouri River from Boonville, in CEN
trail Missouri, to it's mouth would be
in "high flood" by Tuesday. Gauge
Of of Ia
Tuesday and 26 at Herman by We'd
nesday, were expected. Flood stage
of each place is 21 feet.
Central Illinois today was submerged
| over an area of about $4,000 acres
in the Kaskaskia River Valley and
| farmers took to the highlands with
their stock. Streams normally
| small, were today from one to two
| miles across. Levees are reported
| broken in many sections.
| Pana. ILL.,, shipped 100 gallons of
milk tonight to Carlo in answer to
urgent appeals.
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SAYS CHINA NOW
HATES AMERICANS
Boyd Carpenter Describes
Changed FeeIing-U. S. Citi-
zens Called "Red Eyebrows"

"Chinese resentment at the enforce
ment of the doctrine of Christ by
Western gunboats" and the many
misconceptions of the culture and
material progress of the Orient, which
he declared are prevalent in OAl-
dental countries are breeding trouble
in the Orient, Boyd Carpenter, writer
and lecturer, said yesterday afternoon
in an address before the Political
Study Club, at the Washington club.
THE belief of Western nations that
China is decadent politically, wretched
socially. and is a nation of low
morals" was termed by Carpenter as
"a heritage from the Crusades. and
arises from our colossal ignorance
and conceit" In amplification, he
enumerated the modern conveniences
of life which China possesses in com
mon with Occidental countries and
said their public school system was
instituted at the demand of is
provinces long before the Christian
era.
Mr.. Carpenter told of the antagon.
ism aroused in China by the intro
duction of modern customs and the
erection of cities built on the west
ern plan typeffed by Shanghai. which
represents to the Chinese a criticism
OF lneir DdtlN6 Architecture e
Extends TO Government.
This spirit of unfavorable criticism
extends into the fields of government
also, Mr.. Carpenter said, in telling of
the resentment which the Chinese
feel when they are attacked for try
ing TO establish in their own land the
forms of government which their
thousands of students have brought
back from other lands.
There has been an entire change in
the attitude of China toward America
in the last few years, Mr.. Carpenter
said. Although formerly accorded
the greatest respect of any foreigners,
Americans are now referred to as
"red-evebrows" and the school child
rem of China are taught that the
westerner speaks TO you fair and
treats you dishonesty" he said.
Suggests Consular Plan.
A partial solution of this unsym-
pathetic feeling, Mr.. Carpenter said,
could be effected by the consular serv-
ice. The ideal plan, he stated. would
be to inaugurate a new system in
which the world would be divided into
districts to which consular members
would be detailed for life. thus ena-
bling them to acquire a thorough
grasp of the problems and needs of
one region.
A musical program was rendered,
consisting Of songs by Mrs. Dorothy
Nef Tyler and Mrs. Walter X. Will
son, accompanied by Miss X. H.
Rawls, and a solo by Mrs. Charles n.
Riker, accompanied by Mrs. Horn
back.
Mrs. Fred bennett was chairman of
the committee on arrangements, and
Mrs. E. R. Aitchison presided.
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are, under the act, exempt from all
Federal taxes.
Other Chairs Needed.
''One may, therefore, foresee many
such funds; some applicable to the
acquisition of material--the material
Of distinction to which Government
appropriations cannot reach; others
for the endowment of chairs; since,
besides the three chairs now provided,
many others are needed for bIbiology,
for cartography (complementing that
for history, for sciences (pure and ap-
pliedl. for law, for economics, for So
GEOLOGY, for Semitic, Slavic and Ori-
entail literature three distinct chairs,
corresponding to our notable collec-
tions in these three fields), to mention
only some of the major subjects.
The result, a faculty-not a teach
ing faculty, as in a college, not a re-
search faculty, such as Mr.. Hunting
ton is providing for in the research
staff attached to his library at San
Marino. A faculty of men competent
perhaps to teach, and in fact serving
specific studies by their advisory re-
lation with advanced students accred.
tied to Washington from the univer-
sities-but whose method of service
will be Interpretation of the collections
and guidance in the use of them. Com
petent to do research, but foregoing IL
for the sake of aiding others in IT,.
Concerned, not with the accumulation
Of personal repute for scholarship, or
connOisseurship, but with service 10
the public of the results of scholarship
or connoisseurship.
Where, as in the three chairs al
ready nrOVfHpA the ap6ou-ryarT a..
taches to an existing position invOly-
ing also some administrative duties,
the honorarium will read as to the in
cumbent of that position; and, as 1t
supplements salary already provided
by appropriation, a fund of S75 900,
whose yield may be about $1,000 an.
nually, will suffice. Where there Is no
such existing position or stipend,
$780, 900 will be needed. for the com.
pensatiOn as a whole should be equiva-
lent to that paid to the higher group
in the faculties Of universities.
''In any case the chair NAV fitIy
carry the name of it's donor-or any
name selected by him. The chair of
American history. for instance. will
naturally be entitled The William
Evarts Benjamin Chair Of American
History. And it is peculiarly fitting
that it should be, in view of Mr.. Ben
jamins proved interest in American
history, his special familiarity with
the sources-especially the autograph
sources-and his long association with
them as a collector and for many
years as merchant of them. In this
endowment he has brought to a fine
fruition the knowledge and the en-
| thusiasms gained from these expert
ences."
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REVOLT REPORTED
FROM CHIHUAHUA
Gales Refuses to BELIEVE
Almeida Is Opposing Him,
Dispatches Say.
By the Associated Press.

MEXICO CITY, April 16.-While de
sultory fighting continues between
scattered bands of rebels and detach
ments Of Federal soldiers in severa
States, notably Jalisco, new trouble.
have developed In the State Of Chi
huahua, where the Madero revoh
ton which overthrow Porfrio Dia.
and paved the way for the presen,
regime first gained ground and thu
picturesque bandit revolutionist Pan
cho villa. long held sway.
only developments can determin,
whether Chihuahua merely is induig
ing IN a local political fraCas. al
President Gales believes. or whethe
this State Of a turbulent past hal
again initiated revolutionary move
ment o. serious importance.
Gales Believes in Almeida.
Despite newspaper dispatches from
Chihuahua that Gov. Jesus Antonio
Aimeida and Mayor Socorro Garcia o.
Chihuahua City had proclaimed a re
bellion and with their followers are
in the nearby mountains pursued by
Federals, President Gales clings Il
the belief that Almeida is his per
sonal friend and casts doubts upoI
the reports Of a rebellion.
Likewise prominent Chihuahua poll
ticians in Mexico City expressed the
opinion that Almeidas alleged rebel
lion Is only a local row between the
governor and his political opponents
Gen. Marcelo Carayeo. military
commandant of the State Of Chihua
hua, is a candidate for governor and
a political feud exists between Al
media and Caraveo and groups oi
their respective supporters in the
State Legislature.
Group Names Governor.
The legislators opposing Almeids
have declared him ousted from Office
and have appointed Manuel Masca
renas. jr., governor in his place. The
reason they give for this action is
that Almeida was already in rebellion
Almeida's friends in Mexico City
declare the charge Of rebellion against
him untrue and characterize the ap.-
pUintment of new governor as an IL.
legal political coup.
Evening star., 1927-04-17
Invalid Travels by Plane,

Advised by her doctor to get to Lon
don as quivkly as possible, a woman
who had been injured at the Winter
sports in Switzerland. reached Paris
by train, thence flew to London on an
improvised cot on an airplane. She
made her will before starting.
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the accumulation of which special at
tention has been focused. There are,
among a great deal of other material,
the State papers and great numbers
of the personal letters of all the Pres
idents and the letters of men promi-
nent in public life from the establish
ment of the Union to the present.
This division has been in charge tenn
porarily of DIR. Charles Moore, chair
man of the Fine Arts Commission.
who has added extensively to the col
lection, but consented to hold the
place only until a permanent arrange
ment could be made.
The holder of the chair of fine arts
will be in charge of the division of
prints, which includes not only 500.
900 items, but q great number OF
books on the fine arts. This division
has been without a head since the
death in 1925 of Prof. Richard A. Rice.
The income from the endowment
will be paid to the holder of the chair
each year, in addition to his salary
from the Government, thus assuring
him an income comparable with that
of the heads Of departments in the
larger universities.
DIR. Putnam yesterday outlined as
follows the nature of the evolution
which is at work Transforming the
Library of Congress into quite a diff
ferent organization than it has been
in the past with a different position in
the fabric of the national life:
"The idea of chairs in the Library
of Congress may seem novel, but it
has evolved naturally from the situa-
ton. 1t fully recognizes the efficiency
of the present organization which Con-
gress has enabled us to develop. The
organization covers competently the
needs of ordinary administration and
the apparatus is, or in regular course
will become, as effective as apparatus
can be. But something further and
quite distinct is necessary.
Collections Growing.
Here are these great collections.
comprising already over six million
items and still rapidly enlarging and
embracing every field of recorded
knowledge. There is the great inquir-
ing public-the student, the investi-
gator, the groups organized for re-
search. the organizations requiring in
formation as the basis of some partic-
ular operation, the man-of-affa for
SoillS pdILlCuidI DuSlllSSS, AHS OLuIIldlS
inquirer seeking more exact knoWl-
edge or aspiring to some further cul-
ture. The response is somewhere in
this mass of material; but the mass is
huge, it doesn't speak for itself. and
the apparatus which attempts to
speak for it has a language of it's own.
The need is for some one who knows
both the collections and the language
of the apparatus, and knows also the
problem and language of the inquirer,
investigator or connoisseur. and can
serve as interpreter. There are also
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Planes to Hunt Minerals.

search Of copper and other min
erals, thousands of square miles in
northern Rhodesia are TO be explored
by airplane, says the Dearborn Inde-
peudeut.
Evening star., 1927-04-17

Nursing is hobby of Queen Mary
of England and she has been reading
many books on child welfare.
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POWERS TO TAKE
n ACTION TO ENFORCE
:. NANKING PROTEST

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TWO $4,000 GIFTS
FOR CHAIRS IN NEW
LIBRARY PLAN HERE

Continued from First Page)
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Other Chairs Needed.

are, under the act, exempt from all
Federal taxes.
Evening star., 1927-04-17

CONTINUED from First Pagel
The Washington times., 1927-03-31
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