VILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY
*j' OLDEST DAILY ifo THfc STXTE. - i
Fair Friday and
Saturday >
FOUNDED a. D. 1867.—VOL.
Zii
i I
Of Sin,
on Spread
angelist
God is An Ever-Present Help t«
Those Who Seek Aid, He
Declares
SIN IS SIMILAR
TO DEADLY LEPROSY
jje points Out How is Usually
Has Small Start, Increasing
With Time
The audience at the tabernacle last
al^bt was one of the largest since the
revival began over three weeks ago.
LnV fair visitors were In the seats
‘ a their voices joined with the big
ehoir in singing, "He’s a Wonderful
saviour to Me.” The Rev. J. E. W.
,ook archdeacon of the Episcopal
,-hurch. offered the Invocation. The
Itev Purcell announced the prayer
meetings today. He said 183 men at
the Victoria theatre had a wonderful
lime at the noon hour, while Mr.
Smith was addressing business girls at
the Y. W- C. A.
Evangelist Smith opened his service
by asking every woman present to co
operate in making the home prayer
meetings a success. He SgMkth&t If
the work in Wilmington hifa fallen
down it was in the prayer meetings.
The Story of the leper
The lesson was from the fifth chap
ter of the second book of Kings. It
was a history of the Incidents that
preceded the visit of Naaman the
svrian general, who was # leper, to
Judea, where his soldiers had captured
a Jewish maiden, who told him Of the
cures being wrought by the prophet.
And of his unwillingness to accept the
simple formula offered—that he dip
seven times in the Jordan.
“He was a great man, but he was a
leper,” said the evangelist. "He want
ed some special treatment because of
his high standing, but there was only
one simple way, and when he ha^l
humbled his pride and accepted it he
was cured. ....
"I want to use this story as the basis
for What' I shall say tonight. All
through the Bible leprosy Is used as a
type of sin. And I know $£ lio better
comparison. ' r v. '““'Si '
“I don't just know how much there
j, in the analogy, but it is remarkable
when you study the pathology of the
disease to find how similar leprosy and
*in are First of all, It la small In its
beginning. Leprosy starts with a spot
no bigger than » pin’s hegd the
body and spreads until theTwdy he
conies 9 mass qf
lasf- stikge* W
ber'n to slough off. •
“Sin is just the same. It is imwtfl in
(he beginning. If the devil could show
us the end of sin, he could never get
us to take the first step, and society
today takes no note of the beginning
of ein. It will welcome the young fel
low into their parlors and let him
drink at their tables, and then, when
society hears that the young fellow ^is
about to become a muttering, stagger
ing drunkard, society, horrified, rises
up and shuts the door in his face. So
ciety takes no note of a girl who flirts
promiscuously with, any-Tom, Dick; or
Harry, until her name becomes %n easy
mark among the young fellows of the
town. Society waits until it hears that
she is about to become the mother of
an illegitimate child and then society,
horrified, rises up and shuts the door
in her face. Sin is small in ita begin
ning. as is leprosy.
"Secondly, leprosy separates. When
a person contracts that dreadful dis
ease. we have to separate him from his
loved ones and banish him for the sake
of the community. And sin always sep
arates. There is nothing in the “fforld
that can separate a young man or a
young woman from everything decent
ike sin.
Sin Like Leproey
Thirdly, it is aosoiuieiy iucuiao^
by man. So is sin. The great medical
societies of the world wait to wine and
dine the man who can prescribe a .per
manent cure for leprosy *J>ut as far as
I know, no man has beefc able to pre
scribe that cure. Sin 1s*aIso incurable
by man. You may try this an# that
and the other thing:, and you can rush
to the quacks of the world, but your
case is absolutely incurable by man.
"If God could save a man like that
be can save you. And he will if you
folk accept his simple formula, God
takes no account of your station |n
life. The Bible says that the, Syrian
general was a gTeat man, but it also
says he was a leper. As it is there, let
me put it here. .
"You are a moral man, a#good father
to your children, and a good husband
to your wife, and that the men in toitin
look up to you and respect your word,
but in the final analysis, if you ,*re
outside of God and of Christ, you are
a leper. As it is there, let me put it
here. Granted the wome^T of (the city
vie with each, other in opening their
homes to you, but if you.ar^ out of
';0d and out of Christ yu arei in the
final analysis, a leper. Educated? Yea,
j ut an educated leper. Winsome? Yes,
but still a leper. !rr -•;•••■&
Gets Mad at Conditions
"And when Naaman heard the condi
tions for cleansing, he got mad. Some
times it is a very healthy thing to get
mad. Some of you came here nigbt
«fter night, and you never got mad,
glad, or sad. You are like an old ditch
Puddle, There is no rifle or fall. Naa
man lost his temper and said, #
bought because of my* position, he
surely would have, come out and healr
;‘d me.’ And he turned away in a rage,
but his servants went to him and ask*
rd, ‘Why, he hasn’t asked you tor a
nickle, and you have brought half a
million dollars to give him if he want^
f-d it, and you have come 1|0 miles to
Bee him. Why not do it* Then Naa
inan lost his pride and said, “Why not?
^nd he went down into the river, and.
having lost his temper, and lost his
pride, then'he lost his leprosy, and
1 bat’s the way God healfl. His flesh
-ame back again, not as the flesh of a
full grown man, but as the flesh of/a
• ittle child, pure, wholesome and
fiv» eet. ; ■?'. V *’ *
"Naaman was an enemy-^jof God's
diosen people, yet God' was. willing £0
<»eal him if he would obey Hi% condi
tions, That ifl. ofceujJC tfc# ma|Velsvof
fbe gospel of Jesus Christ.., It doe?n t
matter how far down -a; mjan get$, God
(Continued on.Pip Two) ,
r
High Lights From
The Gypsy’s Talk
cleanse. “Though your alig, £
scarlet, they shaU be nmdejg'? site
as snow.”
All through the Bible Wmfe*' Is
used as a type of sin. V,- Karts
snail like leprosy, but j'MSp-eads
. until the body- becomes of
sores. Sin acts the sa;i"'^,-*^,*|y. It
Is incurable. So Is sin.-1 p;
Big doors tom on &^<Uage«,
Of myself I can do little, but I can
preach a. Gospel that will cleanse
W1 lmlBarton from center to circum
ference.’If followed. The prophet
1 sngtered. JfaauiUn. If I could ’anger
WllmlngtonSf could get you to think
and If I could set you to think fire
minutes I could win you to God.
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TRAPP TAKES OVER
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
ON COURT DECISION
Judge Chambers Declares Wal
ton is Out, Pending Final
Legislative. Action
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Oct. 25.—
Lieutenant Governor M. E. Trapp vas
declared' acting governor Of Oklahoma
TARHEEL CONTRACTORS
MET IN THIS CITY FOR
THEIR ANNUAL SESSION
Meetings Will Be Held Novem
ber 8-9 With Number of
Delegates Attending
The North Carolina chapter of the
Associated ' General Contraptors of
America, Inc., will hold its annual
meeting: in Wilmington, on Novem
ber 8tlh> and 9th, and preparations are
being: made to entertain all . leading:
architects, contractors, engineers, sub
contractors and others interested in
contructlon work.
The program is now being prepared
and will be furnished to the press and.
members within the next few days.
Non-members interested in . the in
dustry are also invited to \ attend.
There will be an attractive program
for te entertainment of the members
and others who attend, consisting of
music and several prominent men will
deliver addresses alt the meeting. The
annual election of officers will . taka
place and the next matter of import
ance will be. largely to exchange idea*
and discuss various subjects consent
ed with the industry in the hope of
helping one another and of rendering
better service to the profession and to
the public whom they serve., Further
announcement will be made' through
the press. : '
The following are the officers of the
association: ,. . _ . . rl
J. W. Stout, president,Sanford; ,17.
Underwood, vice president, Wilming
ton- D. M. Wilcox, vice president,*Bes-,
semer City; Nello D. Teer, vice presi
dent, Durham; ' K. H. Halyburton.
treasurer, Hamlet; O. Max j Gardner,
general counsel, Shelby. , ,
Enormous Throngs^
See Cape Fear Fair
(Special to The Star)
FAYETTEVII-DB, Oct- 25.—With am
Lttendaace Which exceeded that. • of
ast year’s big day, the Cape Fear
’air today witnessed the climax of Its
ive-day session. The crowds in town
odav were the largest seen here in
rears, and the Atlantic Cdast Dine was
impelled to put «*tra coaches on some
if the afternoon trains" to get the
Measure seekers out of town. The
Pickpockets working aaR?hg the t hr png
were a ^little more ac«Y« than usual.
3ne Of their victims had Just drawn
4ve hundred dollars frojn a lecgl hank
it luckily decided at t^e last moment
o take 1400 of it in'a cashier’s check,
illlltary ^police arrested:, one mam who
£as not identified by the loser. . ..
HARVEY'S FAREWELL 1
SPEECH IS SENTIMENT
OF COOLID6E REGIME
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France is Nation Which Closes
Door to Any American Aid
on Continent
SO-CALLED HUGHES
PLAN IS ONLY HOPE
Indications Are That the Next
' Request Must Come From -
France Herself
By DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright, 1923, by The' Star)
WASHINGTON, Oct 25.—Ambassa
dor George Harvey’s farewell speech
telling Great Britain informally' that
the United States is anxious to help
Europe but that the door has been
closed by Europe herself is exactly in
line with the feeling of the' Washing
ton administration and be re
garded as an answer to all She pleas
for American aid which lStSily have
been directed toward this c(Wjtry.;..
Former Prime MinisteSy* IJoyd
George, Premier Smuts of ; -'Sfcuth
Africa, and publicists galoretftspfsv'e
been continually saying that the'ffftlgtrt
States could help Europe and^BWbt
help. But the revelation by Ambassa
dor Harvey that the door has been
closed and no invitation for American
help issued is the t truth of a situa
tion no less enjoyed by the American
government than the Europeans who
want the United States to help.
France is Responsible ■
The government which closed the
door is France and the individual re
sponsible! is Premier Poincare. Practi
cally all of Europe may ask for Ameri
ca to interfere in arranging the repara
tions problem or the economic situa
tion generally, but uninvited by the
I principals the United States will not
heed the request. For the fact is that
the desire for American aid Is today
almost pnanimous in Europe but the
single dissent Is sufficient to keep
America _ away. That dissent comes
from France, the most powerful mili
tary country in Europe.
So while appeals may come from all
quarters of the globe, the United
States, will w'ait for an invitation from
France. Except for the publication
of speeches like that *>f Ambassador
Harvey, which In itself is a significant
event, the United States government
will not renew its' proffers °f
The speech made by Secretary pfffffiie
Hugfiea,
the plan proposed therein now J*r oujt
of date and needs, modification oh
whether some other plan which will
be more effective is proposed, nothing
will be done by America until an ex
plicit request for intervention comes
from all the principal powers.
Administration Policy
The position of the Coolidge admini
stration, i as outlined by Ambassador
Harvey who, it will be remembered,
spent several days in Intimate confer
ence with the new president as his
personal guest at the white house, is
that America respects the underlying
principle of a Monroe doctrine applied
to Europe, namely that while the
United 'States would brook no inter
vention from Europe unless Invited
so Europe can hardly ■ expect ! the
United States to take the initiative in
Anything in the old world unless in
vited. . .
The opposite viewpoint is ; held of
I course by the democrats who contend
that America" .doesn’t have to be in
vited to engage actively in plans for
the rehabilitation of Europe because
.American commerce is directly in
volved . and because America became
partner in the allied and associated
power gi’oup in April 1917 and retains
the-.privileges of a principal/ The
United' States is ■ still Insistingupon
theexercise of legal rights derived
from mat partnership agreement and
the co-operatlonists say this imposes
on America the • obligation ■ of using
her diplbmatlc influence for the set
tlement of all problems that " may 'be
located in Europe but' which like
Germany reached * beyond the 'Atlantic
and dragged America into the' great
est war of all history. Ambassador
Harvey’s speech Is an accurate reflec
tion of the cautious policy of ‘ the
present administration here : but ■ it
(does not necessarily give the viewpoint
of the opposition party In America."
Daniels Declares
.. Big Navy Essential
... , ... .>';
! Should Be Second to None in
World He Says ' % :
ASHEVILLE, Oct 25—"So long as
[there Is no world-wide agreement
through the league of nations or some
other organization, it is imperative
duty of the United .States to make its
navy second to none in the world”
Josephus ‘Daniels, "secretary^-of the
navy during the world war said tonight,
issuing a Navy Day statement,
i • “The Navy,” continued Mr:' Daniels,
“to be strong and useful must be safe
ly anchored in^the hearts of the people.
"Its gr^at record during .the'world
war,” he said ‘brought it close to the
homes and hearts of the American peo
pled More than 600,000 men paving serr
ved in the navy during the'Vworld war.
The more- the'.pedple know about the
navy and its work,-, the more they will
understand the -national obligation to
keep it safe and'-strongr
During the War‘the navy transported
2,079,888, men /to- France without the
loss of a single man by enemy Submar
ines or other vessels on the way over.”
here is a record
, • ASHEVILLE, Oct; 25.—Postal- author
ities here are* claiming the record for
the .“Christmas mail early” campaign,
having, today, forwarded a package to
Memphis, Tenn., marked “Do not open
until Christina*.” „ ’
GOOD NEWS
" .1
Secretary of Navy Denby, hla frlehds
iare g:lai; to kndw, is: again outj- til
the' hospSaX.”. He suffered with a tbriv
tendon ItfcSfehh ffeel, and still ntust;
use the japph, 1m.: the •; photo shows.
Snapped '^phe c^irje 'fyom the Ortho
pedic hospital, Jfew York.
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WARRANTS ENTERED
Ml
WINSTON B
4
Disappearance Re
tery; Finn Part
no Stateme'
Hr*
WINSTON-SAIjFM, Pet. V&B-jFive
warrants of attaqiiijneht werevtoiteped
in the Forayth eoftnty court antStthree’
were entered In the superior courlshere
today against T^uIb A.iMayhew, u%ose
tron
Tufty aftei:: tiiercceTpt’dT ,»if
inquiry 'ffiijm "Bassett, Va., relative to
the finding of ah abandoned car there.
The missing . man was .associated
with the brokerage firm of Mayhew and
WJmbish, and has been in business
here for about two years. He is
thought ttr have'left here for Greens*
boro. Sunday night on a business trip.
His continued: absence did not cause
any' investigation until the inquiry
came from* the . Virginia authorities.
The car bore a Winston-Salem .license
plate, and this, with the state license
identified■. it as: belonging to bouts
Mayhew. The finding of the car in
Virginia and the belief that Mayhew
left here on the: 8:50 o'clock train Sun
day night have raised-a question that
has not yet been solved by. those In
vestigating the case, r
The warrants of attachment were
entered against * property owned by
Mayhew in the city. The warrants In
the superior court weie made against
Mayhew and the firm of Mayhew and
Wlmbish.
John G. Wlmbish, partner inr tlje
firm,, hast not made any statement as
to the disappearance of his partner or
as to the state of affairs the business
was left in. .The warranto were made
by clients of the firm. He told the
local press yesterday,that he would not
make any statement for a. few days, at
least, until he Is certain-that his part
ner does not intend to return.
■ ' ■ ’ General ••
Freak j-esolutlon almost disrupts
boll weevil' conference. .' ; ’ ' ■ ?
Starved mobs in Germany clash with
police in raids. <*■„ ’’V 1 ,
I,t.’gfov. Trapp, of Oklahoma, is de
clared In: charge by' judge.
Harvey’s' farewell, speech in London
suits administration. ."
Llyod beorge visits Washington for
the day, calling on Wilson..
State
Christian. Endeavor delegates, ready.
(Or conference. '. ■( - - jk v ■
Architects-flip report on. Fayetteville,
court house. , < ^
Winston-Salem, broker Is mysterious- j
ly missing while Warrants are en
tered against him. , -
Secretary Daniels declares, in Ashe
ville, speech, for bigger navy. "1
Fayetteville fair registers record
breaking crowd.. V;
.. ., , i 'Local ,! .'/ ! ' 1
U. S. 8. Cjfse arrives at Southport,
and -will arrive here today.
, Belgian > steamer Gand.brings huge
cargo of fertiliser here. . , ,
Good weather brings,, good crowds to
Southeastern' fair. v '. '5| £ ■!
Tarheel -contractors i will meet here
in November.' - A ‘. ‘ / ’
, Editorial - ■■ , ,
Efficient porta a national' need.
Furniture. manufacturing and
importance to *North Carolina.
X
its
Rep; Thomas Takes ' ’
on
WASHINGTON," pet. 25.—Represen
tative Thomas, democrat, 6f ’Oklahoma,
who recently visited Mpecle Shoals, de
claredtin a statement fo’day that.if the
present)’administration did pot adopt
a pofldy ■ of acceptance of;1 the' Ford
proposition ,.foir the, disposition of Mus- -|
cle :Shoals, congress - should declare
against-the policy of-private exploita
tion of wafer power-development and
should declare In, favor, of . altpollcy, of
developing,valuable water'power sites
for the “benefit ;»f the publla.
. WkMM’t > v.'
JOKER PARAGRAPH IN
RESOLUTIONS ALMOST
ROUTS WEEVIL PARLEY
Would Have TJken Contro
: From Conference and Made it
dy Wind jamming?'Body
SENATOR RANSDELL
HURRIES TO THE RESCUE
Resolutions Coiq|
to Session to-:
Repc
►ittee Goes In'
$ng in Full
lay
NEW ORLEANgglpct. 25—An inno
cent looking paragraph in the length;
report of the cofflagSttea in vestlgating
the scientific sj^gcf killing the bol
weevil almost bt^gght the national bol
weevil menace-jSSnference to an enc
late today. (W
Its adoptiop^would have taken th»
forming of sSlfermanent organization
out of the kjrijfgfjr of the conference and
left that body with nothing else to dc
except to listen to persons who desired
to .talk on almost any subject the;
miglit bring up Gusiness men :who had
coipei long, distances in response to in
viiatfbns to participate in the confei
efrqe eventually awakened to that fact
and made a fight against it, but they
put up only a iheak showing in face oi
the scientific .and non-scientific weevil
killers, it ivas not until Senator Joseph
KaSsldeil of Lcmisiana, took the lead in
a jBjifceful sally' against it that the par.
agtafch finally was stricken from the rt
port. The paragraph follows:
This Is the Bill.
"We recommend that the president
o fthe- convention and four other repre
senting various.'interests in cotton pro
| duction and- consumption serve with
him" as a committee ‘on .perfection of a
pefrmartent Organization which.commit
tee shall l?e empowered' to cortfferwith a
Kttrtiiir committee,- proposed by the as
st'MjMion.- of southem agriculture- work.
,er's iwltk a view to bringing into exi
stence apermarnent organization which
drill provide the co-ordination, coreia
tion and augmentation of plans and
facilities for weevil control investiga
tion and for the adoption of the best
practices -throughout the cotton belt
and further to secure the fullest posfble
cooperation, intellectually and finan.
cialiy among all interested parties in
this final solution of this surpassingly
important weevil control problem.”
The association of southern agricul,
tural workers, it developed in the.dis
cussion, will meet November, 1. This or
rganization is said to be composed ot
agricultural college professors and
workers of the various government re
seftjkjr-ptKtlons.
graph. C. G. IWvds, Jr., chairman ap
pointed the resolutions committee,
which went into session immediately.
This committee has instructions to re
port tomorrow morning with sugges
tions for a permanent organization.
The resolutions committee is com
posed of H. M. Royce, vice president of
the New York, Cotton exchange; Dr.
J. W: Lea of Jackson; La., one of the
sailers of the conference; R. D. Bowen,
of Texas; Dr. W. D. Hunter, of the
United States department of agricul
ture; W. R. Scott; president of th.e
■Southern Pacific railroad of Texas; H.
S. Mobley, of the Illinois Manufactur
ers Association; J. W. Arrington, of
Sreenvljle S. C., O. E. Bradfutte of the
American Farm Bureau; L; K. Nichol
son, editor of the Times-Picayune, of
New Orleans; Dr. Tate Butler, of Mem
phis; J. W. Fox of Scott, Miss, and Miss
Duncan of Oklahoma.\ '
Calcium Arsenate Keconuncnaci
Calcium arsenate appjied’-either as a
syrup mixture or In the form of dust
before the blossoms form was recom
mended to the conference by the. special
committee of investigation, as the pro
per weapon to be directed at the cottpn
pest. .
The recommendation was embodied
in the report of the committee which
suggested there should be one treat
ment with the poison, and possibly two.
It declared that when dusting was re
sorted to there was better control of he
weevil after the plants had reached
the blossom stage and it urged that the
dusting be done early in the season.
The Florida method, developed at
the Florida experiment station 3t
Gainsviell, the committee said, result
ed in good control of hibernated wee
vils and'reduces the attack in the ear
ly part of the season, increasing th'e
yield, but this treatment sometimes
leaves the field subject to re-lnfesta
tion, causing a shorter fruitage period.
The Florida method involves removal
o fsquares from the cotton plant in
conjunction with the dusting- —
Reeves Is Permanent Chairman
The general session of the-conference
began today with the election • of Mr.
Reeves, president of the ■ Louisana
bankers association as permanent chair
man and the appointment of J.- C. Ber
ry, secretary of the ! association, as
secretary of the conference. - * ■ '
The speakers included • Governor
John M. Parker of Louisiana; -former
governor Frank O. Lowden,- of Illinois,
and Senator Ransdell. .
Mr. Lrowden, declared that • American
farmers during 'the -last- three years
had had a more trying time -than ever
before in the country's history, - urged
greater cooperation in marketing- or
ganisations, which would enable them
to . work in greater unison-on-produc
ing methods and measures to eliminate
insect pests. ■'••••.
Steel King Urges
Better Co-operation
NEWYORK, Qct. 2 5.—Doubt. that
America can' now. be of much , asslst
ance iif restoring European equilibrium
and faith that prosperity wlll/tAntlnue
in the United States if busings . men
co-operate with President Cooiidgei to
day waS expressed iby Elbert. B. Gary,
chairman of the board o-f the -United
StatesfSteel corporation in an address
before' the American1 Iron and Steel in
stitute; of which he is president;.’ :r
-“It would not be appropriate for us
to take sides in European controver
sies nor 1 to ’ condemn individual, atti
tudes or conduct.” he said, .“hut - - we
know' •the/ gt’eat seas are not wide
enough to‘separate us from the.itifhi
ences otdisaster in Europe." \
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■Sil$&*S£feS
^British Invitation toU. S.
Catches Publicby Surprise:
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Press i4fco Found NappiMg
j Lloyd George Has
Big Day at Capitol
1 WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (By
soda ted Press)-—Daiid 4
George came to Washington tod^ay
to find a friendly handclasp await
ing him at the official thresholds
he crossed. There was almost ho
ceremony about this first visit of
the sturdy little Welchman to the
American capital. He spent the day
making new acquaintances among
the men who now guide American
destinies and in an hour’s fireside
chat with an old friend and col
league of the trying months at Ver
sailles.
Mr. Lloyd George met President
Goolidge,. all cabinet members and
other high officials of the the Wash
ington government during the day
Both during his calls at the white
house and the state department; and
at the white house luncheon, he lat
er, attended, conversation was gen
eral in ^fts scope but It could, not
^ help'but be tinged with the color of
world events in which he men with
whom he talked are participating,' l
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HUNGRY MOBS SACK
GERMAN SHOPS; MANY
CLASH WITH POLICE
A Thirteen-Year-Old Boy is Shot
!; v to Death;. Little Girl is
Injured
BERLIN, Oct. 25.—(By the Associat
ed Press).—The pillaging of shops and
potato fields and the inevitable san
guinary clashes between the hungry
; mobs and police continued to be the
outstanding feature of the news pub
lished in Germany. Today’s reports
ffrom more than 50 points throughout
Germany yield an impressive cross
Bectional cataclysmic' social 'situation
in which all classes of the population
apparently, are' being graduaiy en
gufed. , »
The recurring dearth of bread and
; andsuph^elief
ernment hastily devises ; lavaflablj
founded on. the price confusion caused
hy .the rapidly deteriorating currency.
^Berlin today again: was the scene oi
boisterous rioting, crowds storming the
bake shops and public markets in va
rious sections of the capital. About a
thousand men, women and children this
morning invaded the municipal potato
fields in the eastern suburbs and when
these Were exhausted, proceeded to loot
private premises. The police were
forced to intervene and in the ensuing
disorders a boy of 13 was shot to death
and a little girl seriously wounded.
Reports from a half dozen mining
centers in the Ruhr indicate that, the
food situation there is daily becoming
more chaotic, continually calling for
armed intervention by the local aU
fhnritioR tn nnt down the outbreaks.
MISS BLAIR RAPS
REPUBLICAN MOVES,
DECRIES MR. SLEMP
Civil Service is Much Abused,
Democratic Committeewo
J man States .
■WASHINGTON, Oct. '26,—Women
voters were urged to investigate the
“abuses of , civil, service by the repub
licans," by Miss Emily Newall Blair,
vice-chairman of the democratic com
mittee, in a. statement today. She
Charged that the .‘‘republican adminis
tration has returned;; outright to -the
spoils system, a®& ;i8;. clinging to the
service'in name- only/*
Mrs. Blair called attention to re
marks of f.ormer Postmaster General
Work and postmaster General New oh
postoffice appointments, in which she
-declared “they ignored efficiency rat
ings to -give jobs to policy henchmen.”
Dozens of cases have been cited, she
said, and hundreds of others have not
been written ‘into the records. i
“I know that no womah,” Mrs. Blair
said, “will fail to see the injustice in
the treatment of A. P. Davis, scientist
and expert engineer, 36 years in the
government .‘employ, who was ousted
as director of reclamation by Secretary
Work in order that his job might go
to D. W.. Davis, of Idaho, a politician
and grocer. There’ ate other equally
vicious acts."
Mrs. Blair' referred to C. Bascom
Siemp, secretary .to President . Cool
idge, as "secretary of patronage,” and
declared continuation in office of Mr.
Siemp "and his type of politicians
means the turning of. hundreds of
thousands of office appointments and
other jobs now Under civil service,
oyer to the highest bidder . .
Deficit is Reported.
NEW YORK,- Dot.' 25—The American
Cotton Oil company -reported a deficit
of 65,717,609 for its fiscal year ending
August 31, 1923, according, to the cor
poration's annual-report made public
today: . ‘ A? • ■
Referring- to tile company's policy
at curtailing the cotton seed Oil endt
President George K. Moyrow said the
corporation had decided to decentral
lie on soap and washing powder pro
ducts.
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pondence of Foreign
Shows London
Of<
Anxious
American Participation
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fUaZON WANTS NATION’S
HELP WITH REPARATIONS
f No Official Opinion, However
Can Be Gleaned From For*
eign Office Attaches. ,
LONDON, Out. 25.— (By tlie Associa
ted Pres?).—Correspondence Issued by
the foreign office tonight showing
that the British-government had seis
ed the occasion of the first public
statement'by President Coolldge' of the
■situa^jfth in/. Europe to send another
formal invitation to the Washlngtor
. government^ tty .co-operate In a new
conference in, an • effort to settle the
reparation difficulty, came almost as
a coniplete-surprise to the public and
newspaper*;, , ,*% „ , - ; . , • 4 ■
The Bechet had been well kept, es
pecially considering the presence In
. London, of, all the empire representa
tives. who must have been aware bi
the .move,, which undoubtedly whs
discussed in the confidential debates in
the imperial conference on foreign af
fairs. ’ '
Lord Curzon’s request is for Amer
ican participation, in any form, either
official. or unofficial or alternatively,
to participation in an Inquiry by a
‘special commissioh appointed by the
reparation commission. Whether fhe
government’s move was prompted by
General Smuts or whether General
Smuts’ famous speech was intended to
lend weight to’ the government’s move
is not khdwn, 'but it will be noted that
' Geiiebal Smuts' proposal was for a
conference of all tile powers including
the neutrals, not merely, those inter
ested in reparations. : '
emphasise Three PAlnts
In his reply, to Lord Curzon, rieerg-'
tary Hughe? declareathat th.e United
States is willing to take part' in1 an
economic conference, in which all the
European allies chiefly concerned itf
German reparations participate, for. the >
purpose of ascertaining Germany's ca-,
pacity to pay and an appropriate* plan -'
for payment. He emphasizes tlirea
points, however, ‘ first, thatthe
United States has ho desire to.see Ger
many relieved, of her responsibilfty^dri
just obligations, , regard must be had
for Germany’s capa,city to pay and for
the fundamental condition Sf Germany’s
rehabilitation; second, that such con
fevemte. should be ji;SVbiory.an4 tKitfc
Wipe#*\of :fcbei,thter-amV ;
debt Is entirely separate fro'm’the. ques
tion of reparations. •" ? -
N^official opinion could be gleaned
at the foreign office tonight, but the
general, view seems'to be that there ,
is not sufficient, evidence in Hughes •
attitude as revealed -by the correspond-i
ence, as to warrant a very strong hop?
that the suggested conference'will ma- ’
terialize.
fjrunve may uppose
It is feared that France still will
oPP0se any such suggestion, mors es
pecially as Mr. Hughes so firmly main
tains, the position that the question of •
the inter-allied debt must be treated'
separately from that of reparations,
j confirming that the new President has
no more intention than his predecessor
of forgiving the allied debts.
The publication of the correspond
ence was clearly planned to synchron
ize with Premier Baldwin’s state
ment of his government’s policy- a*
regards . the reparations question apd
to attract some of the lightning likely
to strike the government on the reali
zation that part of this new effort to
secure American • co-operation, ‘ .the
British government’s policy is still that
of waiting for France to move.
The telegram from Marquis Curzon
secretary for foreign affairs to the
British, ’charge d’affaires at Washing
ton, October 12, says:
"The information. w(hich reaches
America will have acquainted the'Am
erican government with the extreme
critical economic position that has
arisen in Europe owing to failure to ■
find any solution for the reparation ■<
problem, which’ daily becomes'. mJrh
acute as the financial and political
condition of Germany grows worse. '
There does not appear to be, among
the European powers, that unity of
thought which either renders common
action feasible or will be successful in
fixing an early solution. His majes
ty’s government has, during the past
nine months, made a series of propos
als to the#*<*11168 for meeting these
difficulties, none of which ■=' has been
so fortunate as to meet with a measure
of acceptance^ sufficient to bring about
common action. -And yet, without such
action, not merely Germany, but Eu
rope, appears to be drifting into eco
nomic, disaster.
“IiythesfcdJKmmstances his majesty's’
govern mawr, have for long entertained
the belief that the co-operation of th*
United States government is an essen
tia1 condition.-of any real advance tow
ards a settlement. America, by reason i
of her position and history, is more
disinterested than any of the European
powdrs; at the same time she is di
rectly and vitally concerned with the -
solution of the European problem, -If
1 for1 no'other reason ’because in It '1s
involved the question of the inter-al
lied debt. * - • - 4. A
Assistance Welcomed
“When Mr. Hughes made his declara
ition in December last; both Great Brit
ain and Germany made It clear that
they would warmly welcome proffered
assistance. And whenever the sugges
tion has been revived it has met with
the hearty approval of his majesty's
government. ; - ' •• r > j
"The French’ government , hitherto
has taken a different view. This lack '
of unanimltyjs, so far as his majesty's
government are .aware, the sole reason :
why the proposal has not been proceed
ed with. * t ... 1 ,ifi
‘‘Hhr majesty’s government wCre al
ready engaged in formulating, an In'- ,
quiry to the United States as to the
manner in which, in the opinion of the
latter-united action, which is the' com
mon desideratum, could best be brought
about, when they read Jn the press
yesterday morning a- declaration re
ported to have,been mad*.by President
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