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A III FR rufcsfcly rain tonight and toulglil a-uT-terat? wluda. ihel on FINAL EDIT NUMBER WA8HINOTON. SAfUBDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1922. (Closing Wall Street Price?) THREE CENTS EVERYWHERE. LOW U.

S. WAGES BLOW TO MORALS a Tiger" Arrives To Foster U. S. Friendship WOMEN SOLONS REACH CITY Mor? Men. Irish, Italiane.

End of th? Siberia Now Bolshevist. AHTHUB BRI8BANB? mm of this country today lg restriction of Immigra. tiun. Every' san? American Join with Mr. Motion in stis demand for a change to ad' B-dt laborer? that th? country Railroad? steal men from itoel work and vie? versa I Fermera' next year will ho Unable to (ot help.

This try ahould have its pich of the hest man in Europe, the only real wealth. We out that human energy and pilo up trouble for ourselves. Our undeveloped poeeibilitiee, need another hundred millions of human being? to double our production, prosperity, and seoerity. TRE Baptiste of Kentucky have barred the Darwinian theory. No Baptist money for school where evolution it taught.

Earlier religious bodies did the same thing with the theory of a round earth going around the son. If he was right, Darwin can afford to wait. If wrong, congratulations to the Baptists. Error is a hideous thing. FOUR tuen, or your name executed by the Irish Free State.

The charge against them was unlawful possession of It had to come. Kill? ing must be met hy killing In the en-L But it Is pathetic to see the Irish exerting each In the name of Free Ireland, after fighting England for 700 years. Many a British Tory is chuckling over Irish ITALY has an absolute dictator in he laste. That to be what nations need, sometimes. England had her dictator in Cromwell, ablest ruler she ever had top to Lloyd George.

Trance, worn out with revolution, welcomed Napoleon'? dictatorship and then the imitation Napoleon Third. Perhaps we need something of that sort hire. We do not seem to be getting much action. MORE cautious than the murdered Ctar, Mohammed Sixth, Sultan of Turkey, kicked by Kemal Pasha, escapes with his head on British warship. There is a long drop, you say, between Suleiman, the Magnificent, and poor little Mohammed Sixth, who gets out when told to.

But royalties generally, and imperial majesties, are on the down grade. The difference between William the Conqueror or Richard the Lionhearted and the present English king is quite as great as the difference between Suleiman and Mohammed Sixth. THE sultanate ends and the House of Othman, of which Mohammed Sixth is No. 36 in a straight line, reaching back 600 years, falls into final obscurity. Siberia has decided to dissolve its "far eastern re? public" and unite with bolaherist Russia.

American statesmen that have done all they could to earn Russia's enmity for America might think about news over Sunday. THESE are bad days for Socialists. In Italy they have been hunted like wild animali by th? Fascisti. Husein Humid Bey, Socialist leader in Constantinople, murdered. It is moment of reaction.

PROFESSOR RICHTMYER, Cornell, says flowers have special rays, ox which we know to attract the insects necessary to floral propagation. Those rays are ultra violet, too short for human eyes to see. But insects see them. They also hear sounds that we cannot hear. Man is only one noto a great orchestra, of which he Imagines himself the leader.

put he is learning. FRANCE discusses for women. Som? senators fear of "surplus women." made surplus by the killing ef eo many men. Others object, they will control women's Vvtee." They said that In New but it did not hapThe Fr-mch also "We to our women that they donttSMd any -rote. ere The said about the but their women FIND.

CITY Civil Service Blamed for Race Suicide and Lax Relations By Mre. C. S. Taylor. Rece suicide, end general downward trend in the moral life of Washington, ia being fostered by the present system of civil service administration, Mrs.

Clara Sears Taylor, District Rent Commissioner, i'ejclared today. Mrs. Taylor is in possession of important and appalling facts regarding this condition. She gained them from the countless stories told her by men end women in the Government service who come to ber office 4a. to housing and renta.

Hornea Broken p. Married women In the Government service deprive themselves of the dignity of motherhood because of the low salaries paid. Married couples are living in separate rooms or apartments because of Governmental restrictions against married women. The women are retaining their maiden names and are living In secluslveneee. "This condition must Inevitably drive hundreds of people from the Government service and from Washington," said Mrs.

Taylor. "Motherhood Is the greatest natural impulse of a woman. I have had not one. but many, In Oovernment service to me and say, 'Oh, I'd give anything if I could only bave a Is Dehunuuiiilng. "The dehumanizing grind of the Government service, which Is only being aggravated by the ever-multiplying number restrictive rules, and which Is aided in its soul destruction by the lowering of the bars of morality, will, if not sweep over the country and tsar down the barriers of carefully cultivated morals, the product of centuries, of.effort." According to Mrs.

Taylor, the conditions under which married Government employee Uve and visit other must In many cases be misunderstood. The retention of maiden names by married women cannot help but scandal when supposedly un? wedded are living together In an apartment, or when the secret husband spends the week-end In ble wife's rooms. Losing Morale Here. "But this only leads to a condition Immeasurably worse." said Mrs. Taylor." Waahlngton people are getting accustomed to think that nothing is strange in persons of oppeelte sexes and different names living together.

'Especially Is this true of Government employee to whom euch talea may come. They are beginning, in euch to whisper: wouldn't say anything about it if I were you. Maybe they're married. Whether euch persons are married or not, the conditions under which they live will reflect Its shadow upon the aociety In which they move. "If they are really married, they may live for years under an unjust stigma, and their Uvee during that period, I know through personal observation, la anything but happy." Urges Raise In Whene-er she has been before a Fedeml or a CHetrlct governing body, Mra.

Taylor has advocated more reasonable wages for Oovernment employee. Thousands of the Government vrorkers." said Mrs- Taylor, "are gentlewomen and gentlemen. A large percentage of them are students, and their native abilities) would command large outside of the Government service. "Tet they have become so Immersed In the deadly routine of the Gkrvernment shop, with Ita petty strictions and Its discouragement of originality, except for some notable Instances, that their minds have gone Into a rut and they cling to their Govawnment position as they would to a life preservar." Tbe moral cataclysm which now hau? engulfed th? asrvea l-ege I. Colutna :.) Hager-town Man Admits Fall From Grace, But Says He Repented.

Edward Fisher, "Thi Man Who Fell and Was Branded," today at his home in Hagerstewn, dictated for the readers of The Washington Times the following remarkable statement in which he relates how he has been forgiven by his wift after being kidnaped, beaten and left lying last Tuesday night on the outskirts of the city with three K's seared with acid on either cheek and en forehead. By EDWARD FI ER, -The Man Who FeU aad Wae Branded." HAGERSTOWN, Nov. 18. me a man who has never wavered from the beaten track. Some err in their youth, others in life.

I made my mistake only recently. I was sorry. I had a wife who understood and forgavo me. The other woman is the cause of all of this trouble and I believe that she is the one who put them tip to this. Admit? He DM I did no great wrong-.

I did not murder anybody or steal, and yet here la what my fellow-men do to It's wrong, wrong, wrong. This la how It all occurred: Nine months ago I fell from grace. I uaed to see another woman and I was finally brought to the realization that I waa doing wrong. I repented, went to my wife and she forgave me. I don't care what any man it takes nerve to do a thing like that, and I faced my medicine.

She understood and then everything appeared all right. It did not end there. When I did not go hack to the other the courage to stay and do the right came to me. She atopped me on the aeveral tlmea and said that If I did not come back ahe was going to "get even." I walked away from tier wltHbut saying a word. Then things began to get worse.

Prienda of mine came to my house and told me that the woman had told them that If I did not change there would be "something doing." That publicity waa enough, and It was hard on my wife aa well, rased As "Dry" Acenta. Thing? went from bad to worse until on Tuesday night I was standing on the sidewalk near the Western Maryland railroad when an automobile bearnlg a Pennsylvania llcenae number drove up beatd? me. One of the men leaned out of the car and aaid: are under arrest for bootlegging. Oet In this car and don't make any fusa." At first I thought It waa a Joke. until two of the men got out of th? car, picked me up bodily and threw me Inalde.

I kicking and begging. One of them aaid: "Choke him." They did, and I sort of loet track of what waa going on. They drove for what aeemed to me a long time until- we were out In the country. When the car stopped another machina drove In back of ua and four men got out; they took me into a field, laid me on the ground, beat and kicked me and then one of the men took a bottle from his pocket and with an Instrument aeared these mark? Into my fare. Then they left.

By their con ver aatton am sure that they ar? membera of the masked organisation that rloos thia sort of thing. If I have done anything wrong, let the law take It? course. The men who branded me are prohahly In their dally or have heen at aome period of their life, no worse than I am. The Bible enmethlng about "Let htm who la without caat the flrtrt atone." They aay that they live by Ihe teaching? of Chrlet. Why not forgive when a man Is truly repentant, aa I was.

That seem? to tha right and tha Juat thin? to do. Tory BeaU Wells, Novelist, For Seat In Parliament Bt LONDON, Not. C. Wells, famous historian and novelist, ran a poor third in the parliamentary election in the London University constituency, it was revealed today by official count of votes. Sir Wells, a Tory, won the House of Commons seat with 3,833 votes; Prof.

Pollard, a liberal, was second with 2,180 votes; Wells, who stood for election on the Labor ticket, was third with 1,427 votes. U. 9. IS WARNED miri 11 ini Must Fortify Pacific Coast Because of Menace, Says Senator Harris. By Velhmnmt Sta ATLANTA, Nov.

that the United must fortify heavily her Pacific coast and Island possession? because of the "menacing position of Japan," was sourided today by Senator William J. Harria, just beck from a survey of the Pacific fea a member of the Senate Committee on Kortlficatlons In a speech before Emory University students. Senator Harris dared the "chancea of war with Japan are greater than with any other country." "Although th? majority of Japanese do not want war, there la a strong party In that country which makes Japan the greatest menace to America." th? Senator aaid. Sees Serious uatlon. "There an element that hatea the United and th? faci that the Japanese Emperor has th? power to declare war furnishes a serious situation.

"In caae of war between the United State? and Japan the possession of the Hawaiian Island? probably would decide th? conflict," Senator Harria Telling of hla trip through China and Korea, he aaid th? improbability that th? and Japanese ever would work together prevented the yellow race from being the greatest menace to whit? civilisation. Koret-na Are Mistreated. treatment th? Korean? receive at th? hands of th? Japanese is disgraceful. Jananes? guarde would not let the Korean native? com? within 200 yard? of the train which bore the American It waa a pitiful alght to ae? them lined up for striving for a chance to tell th? Americans of their persecution." BLOODHOUNDS FOILED AS BURGLARS BOARD AUTO FAIRMONT, W. Nov.

12 Thevea hoarding an automobile foiled bloodhounds brought to trail the persona who entered the residence of Dr. C. Sturm, 200 Maple avenue, and carried away a gold watch and other articles valued at 270. The robbers gained entrance by jimmying a rear window. Bloodhound? of former Sheriff were rushe.1 to th? scene of the mhhery.

They followed a trail out Maple avenue to Pennsylvania and tt believed, th? thieve? met by an automobile. MAN WANTS $5,000 FOR COLD CAUGHT IN PULLMAN BOSTON, Nov. United State? dlatrtct court will decid? how Nathan Jaaem caught a oold. says got It while asleep In a Pullman berth In th? wall of which was a Th? Pullman ctrmpany aay? ther? waan't any and If had heen. no draft could eoot? through the ot the ear.

wants SENATOR TAKE SEAT Mre. Felton Will Fight If Need Huck Arranges For Offices. Two new women members of Congress, Mrs. W. H.

Felton, who probably will be the first woman Senator, and Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck, former Washington woman and newly-elected Congresswoman from Illinois, arrived in Washington today prepared to take their seats when Congress convenes Monday. sn On Floor. Is graie doubt, hewever. In Congressional circles whether MrsJ Felton can be offiijlally seated.

Borne authorities hold that Mrs. Felton ceased to be a Senator from November 7, when Judge Walter George was elevted to succeed the late "Tom" Watson. Others hold that Mrs. Felton is entitled to her seat until Judge George preeents his credentials and takes the oath. It appeared today that Mrs.

Felton probably will be permitted to take her seat Monday unless George presents his credentials and demands to be seated. It Is understood that he will waive this right for at least a day In order to permit Mrs. Felton the honor of being seated. Mrs. Felton, whether officially seated or not, can appear on the Senate floor, at any rate, as a "former member" of the Senate, having served ad interim from the time of Senator Watson's death until November entitling her to the courtesy of the floor.

Women a Fight. Mrs. Felton arrived in Washington early thia morning greatly fatigued by the long trip and immediately retired to a hotel, where she haa denied herself to all callers, leaving word that she is Indisposed. Leaders of the National Woman? Party today urged that Mrs. Felton claim the seat Monday and.

If denied, to fight for It. Vice President Coolidge and Senator chairman of the Rules Committee, would not hazard an opinion today on the case. Asked how he would greet the Lady from Georgia If she came to the Senate door, "Can tlous Cal" said: "Like an old friend." Mrs. Huck slipped Into Waahlngton quietly on the 9 o'clock train from the West and immediately went to the office of Mrs. Felton to greet her.

Mrs. Huck accompanied by her husband and her secretary, Miss Gladys Burns. Following breakfast at the stellen, the party went to the office of the superintendent of the House office building and made arrangements for the Congresswoman's office. By a curious coincidence she tees given the same number In the Houae office building as was Mrs. Felton In the Senate office building.

The number Is 129. Mrs. Huck wHI be the guest of honor and principal speaker at the third anniversary banquet of the Woman's City Club tonight at the new City Club, street, between Thirteenth end Fourteenth streets northwest. The new Illinois Congresswoman la well known In Washington, having spent her childhood here. She is a graduate of Western High School.

Mrs. Felton was not Inclined to be Interviewed at first, explaining that she was Buffering from throat trouble aggravated hy the exhausting railroad Journey. Hitherto unknown generally. Mrs. Felton Is Just out of a sanatarlum.

where she spent two weeks recuperstlng from a severe cold snd head trouble. "I'm too tired to talk," she ssld, "hut just say I'm here. I have com? here to take my sest in the Senate, but, whether I am permitted to or not." and her kindly eyea lit up with enthusiasm, "I sm a Senator today and have hleeed the trail for the of the nation. "For the sake nf the blessed women of thla eountry," Senator Felton continued. "I hope to be recognised on Monday.

I have 'fit the MRS. WINTRINGHAM, Member of Parliament, ON DIVORCES TI Marital Unfaithfulness Is Only Cause for Action, Bishops Decree. BALTIMORE, Nor. Methodist Episcopal Bishops In executive session here insisted today upon a literal interpretation of the Church law in regard to divorce. District superintendents were warned to watch "with earnest solicitude," for violations of tlie law, and offending ministers will be brought promptly to trial.

Have Igne-red Rule. The Methrdlat Book of Discipline, which is invested with canonical authority, permits marriage of a divorced person in one Instance only; that of the Innocent party In a for adultery. Methodist ministers have been ignoring the law. A oommittfe composed of Bishop (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Three Women Win In British Election Capture Seats In House of Commons ter Hard Battle. LADY ALDERTON, We? ted to Parliament.

LADY NANCY ASTOR, Re-elected to Commons. TWO FIRES IN CHICAGO CAUSE 9200,000 LOSS CHICAGO, Nov. spectacular fires broke out In Chicago early today. One swept Armour A hog killing factory in the stock yards, causing damage of $150,000. The other partially burned two buildings In the manufacturing district, downtown, entailing a loss of $50,000.

SAWS OFF HANDCUFFS I ST. LOUIS, Nov. B. M. Church, of Nevada, was enroute to St.

Louis this morning to regain custody of He Harper Knehling, twenty-nine years old, of Washington, while still handcuffed jumped from a train enroute to the state penitentiary from Eldorado Springs, where he was found guilty of an attempt to kill his bride of ten months, and who was captured here early last night. Patrolman Clemens Lampe, sta-' tloned on the outskirts of St. Liouls, discovered Kuehling seated in a vacant lot sawing through a pair of handcuffs on his wrists. At Lampea approach Kuehling started running. In passing a sewer opening, Kuehling threw a shiny object Into the opening, l.sm'pe caught up with Kuehling and took him to the police station.

Kuehling today admitted to the police that he threw the handcuffs snd hacksaw blade Into the sewer. He had purchased the saw blade tn a hardware store here. He bought hacksaw bladea from Blrcherer and tried to conceal his wrists by putting his shirt sleeves down over his hands. Blrcherer reported the incident to the police. When he escsped Thursday afternoon the sheriff wss said to have been asleep and did not misa his prisoner until he sriived at Boonvllle.

where he left the train and organised a poese. Kuehling told authoritlea he would never be taken to Jefferson City alive. I log his confinement, while he waa awaiting trial, trie? te saw through tbe prison bars. Knehling waa arrested In Washington about two years ago, following the drowning of hla first wife In a canoe accident on the Potomac. TURK SULTAN REACHES MALTA FOR A8YLUM MALTA.

Mohammed VI of Turkey, who f.ed from Constantinople on th? British warship Malaya, arrived here this afternoon. Malta will be his temporary asylum until hi? future la fixed by tho Near East peace TAXICAB DRIVERS STRIKE A0AIN8T COMMISSION CUT NEW YORK, Ntrv. hun dred taxlcab driver? and 400 me. chanlos of tb? Black and White Taxlcab Company left their cab? 'n th? company's garage? and walked out on strike agalnat a reduction In wage commissions. The cut, which waa ordered by a new ae? of company waa from 40 per cent of oollectlon? to per osmi.

Surprise Appeara in Preeence of Representative of U. S. State Department. By HARRY L. ROGERS, Internati I News NEW Nov.

Georges Clemenceau, aged French statesman and- "war premier," who arrived here today from France, came to the United States as the result of a secret understanding with Premier Poincar? on a mission to foster FrancoAmerican relations for the ultimate salvation of France, Information as to the real abject of Clemencean's visit was obtained by International News Service from high and author neutles? for Twenty-five Teasers. Clemenceau and Poincar? had been bitter political enemies for twenty-five years. Bat under atreee of the international ertala which threatens Europe, they decided to bury the hatchet for the good of their native country. Clemenceau was transferred from the liner Paria to the tug Macon and landed at pier A at the Battery, where he received an enthusiastic ovation. There a police guard of honor met the former premier, and he waa taken up Broadway in a motorcar to city hall, where Mayor Hylan greeted him In the name of the city.

The trip to city hall wae a con tlnuous ovation, with crowds cheering and Unes of ticker tape flowing from the office buildings. City Hall plaza was Jammed with people when the "Tiger" arrived there about 10 o'clock. The ceremonies at city hall were brief. Hermit Since War. For nearly three yeare following the Paris peace conference Clemen ceau has lived the life of a hermit.

He has refused to reveal any of the secrets of the conference, or even to defend his course during the negotiations. He has refrained from taking any part whatsoever In French public affairs. As conditions grew from bad to worse, owing to the problem of German reparations and the general political, financial and economic crisis of Europe, Poincar? and Clemenceau decided to put their personalities aside for the future salvation of their country. It was obvious that. Clemenceau have come to America as a simple French citlsen rather than as an official of the French government.

France could not officially plead her cauae with the Amerlean people, especially with an administration tn power which Is on record aa opposing most of the things that Franc? stands for. There a marked absence of official attention when the erar premier embarked for Amerh'a at Havre on Armiattce Day. While all France was celebrating the Armistice, which Clemenceau, perhaps more than any other man. made possible, not even a subordinate official of the French government was at the dock to bid the fighting atateeman God speed. afnsaerand at Dork.

In America, however, the situation wss different. Ambassador Jussernm! was msster of ceremonies. He was the first to greet welcoming him aa a great cempatrlot. himself talked freely and wittily, but be carefully refrained from giving any Inkling of the real put of hie visit. "What Is your message to the United States?" he was asked on hoard the cutter Macon as he cams up th? harbor.

"I have a meaeage, snd on Tues dsy night at the Metropolitan Opera House I will give it to you privately," he aaid. M. Jusserand, who haa Just returned from Kurope, admitted that he had been to ths of the League of Natlona at Geneva. "Is It contagious?" saked M. Clemenceau amidst a general laughter.

Despite the unofficial character of the visit of great Frenchman, the American Government was officially represented on the committee. Robert Woods Bliss, Assistant Secretary of Stete, smong the first to go aboard th? liner Parie and to greet Clemen.