•jMioever would overturn tfe*: liberty of the nation fl&st begin by subduing freedom of speech." 9Tto> Neto>

-MOND.

Call r: H "Workers of Uw World,

unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains and a world to gain.*

SIXTEENTH YEAR. No. 1. DAILY Kntvrsft at wr-in-l C'IM nw'.tir, Po»» Office, New York. N. T. NEW YORK. MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1923. EIGHT PACES • * PRICE TWO CENTS 5 VOtK.

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BROADWAY DRY R e s u m e F i g h t f o r S a n e W o r l d , AS COPS WATCH

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Revellers in Public Places Few Because of Blue-coats, but Rivers of Spirits Flow in Apartments.

It was New Year's Eva for tha rest of the country—perhaps—bat it was ! only December 31 for New York.

Dry agents and policemen shuffled ! their mud-splattered shoes through the > cabarets of the bright light district, searched masculine hips and smelled breaths and bottles. Activities of the dry army turned Broadway into the crabbiest Main Street of Aridia.

Officers of the law, with stars, blue buttons and all, were stationed in the midst of most of New York's famous lobster palaces. Persons in whose pos­session liquor was found finished their "watch parties" in the precinct sta­tion house.

Amusement Placet Slow. Fewer turned out to places of amuse­

ment, managers stated, this year than any time in the damp history of the metropolis.

E. C. Yellowly, acting Federal pro­hibition agent, frankly warned the pop-ulaee to do its drinking before step­ping out to celebrate.

"You must keep within the law," he stated. "In those places where the national prohibition act is disregarded every recourse will be resorted to pun­ish the violators.

"The law was made for every day in the year and does not confer any spe­cial privileges nor make any excep­tions on the first day of the year."

Delmonko Reservations Low. At the famous Delmonico's, which in

the "good old days" was the center of hilarity and joy, reservations for tables were 50 per cent less than last year, and the percentage of business decrease in other cafes was somewhat similar. "Everybody is afraid of pro­hibition," was the explanation.

Down in Greenwich Village, the abode of the misunderstood, one could hear a dime drop; the spirit of con­viviality had departed. Policemen were stationed in "Wind Blew Inn," "The Cracked Tea Cup" and other such ren­dezvous of long-haired man and short-intimidated the Villagers, but they haired women. The uniforms at first finally accepted the presence of officers as part of the atmosphere and guxzled bottle after bottle of gingerale and «oda pop.

Hotels Do Good Business. The big botels, where "cheating" has

never been permitted, did a big busi­ness chiefly because there were no po­liceman on duty in the immediate vicinity of the "revellers."

"We get the crowd," said one botel manager, "because all the cabarets have cops in them. If people want to tee a flock of policemen, they usually buy a ticket to a cops* ball for $1. They don't like to look at brass but­tons on New Year's eve at any rate."

But—while Broadway slept, gay par­ties where rivers of spirits flowed and flowed were held uptown, downtown, and all around the town in apartments.

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FRENCH CAUCUS [ 9 2 3 D a w n s AGREES ON NEW

DEBT PROGRAM

Errand Boy.

JITH hope reborn and faith rekindled, the Social sts of the 1 world look eagerly to the events of the coming year.

Since 1914 we have been meeting every new year with apprehension and distrust, and dismissing every old year with j American Attitude Consid-a feeling of disgust. > , lLM 0 - -

Fratricidal war in the services of the ruling classes, em- j ered—May urant Mora­torium on Guarantee of Ruhr Valley Customs.

L I * t I ir feuds under the banner of proletarian revolution, division and demoralization in the ranks of the workers, blatar t triumph of reaction, chaos, ruin and universal hate—those were the grim features of the nightmare which oppressed the wo id in the last eight years.

It was only the departing year that at last broke the dark­ness of the long night and showed the dawn of a brighter day, a waning of the power of reaction, a revival and coi solidation of the forces of labor and progress, an organized detc rmination to resume the interrupted fight for a sane world. The past year has witnessed the great political victories in England and Aus­tralia, the reunion of the German Social Democracy and a marked progress of the Socialist and labor forces e erywhere. This new year will probably bring further substantia advances —more Socialist and labor victories at home and abroad, the re­building of the Socialist International, and perhaps t ie definite beginnings of a general political awakening of Amer jan labor.

To The Call and its readers, to my Comrades in th•» Socialist and labor movement I wish a cheering and fruitful new year, a year of hope and faith, of struggle and triumph, a yea- that will ir ark a turning point toward victory.

MORRIS HILLQUIT.

TWO M E N H E L D B / i t i s , h L t o r I s , 'PROGRESSIVES IN YONKERS RUM To Growth in 1923

SHOOTING FRAY Anderson Demands Entire

Government Take Cog­nizance of Alleged Part

• Played by Army Truck.

Imperatve Need of Peace Abroad

and Broad Outlook at Home

Is occri-

SMITH SWORN IN AT NOON TODAY

Gigantic Civil and Military Parade to Precede Inau­gural Ceremonies.

ALBANY, Dec. 31.—At noon tomor row Alfred E. Smith will be inaugu rated the second tims as Governor of New York State. The inaugural cere­monies will be held in the Assembly Chamber, and will follow a gigantic military and civil parade, which will b» reviewed by the incoming and out­going governors in front of the execu­tive mansion.

Approximately 2,500 of the state's troops will be in line and as many civilians. The 69th Regiment of New York City wilt be the guard of honor for the new governor.

As be takes oath of office in the As­sembly Chamber a signal will be waved from the window, and in tha Academy Park, a half block distant, artillery will boom out a saluU of 19 guns to the new governor, announcing to the waiting populace that the formalities ef th* law hav3 been complied with.

The ceremonies in the chamber will begin at It o'clock, when John J. Lyons, retiring Secretary of State, will turn over the gavel to James A. Hamilton, Secretary of State-elect.

Tha two governor*, will be seated on a platform in the chamber, and with them will oe seated their military staffs and families, the judges of the Court ef Appeals, the state board of regents,

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YONKERS, N. Y., Dec. 31.—Two men are locked up in the city jail here charged with homicide and five are held as material witnesses as the re­sult of a gun battle over 18 cans of bootleg rum late last night at thl new Ritz Inn, on Nepperhan speedway, in which Stephen Pir&ino, 23, of 356 Eighteenth street, Brooklyn, was shot through the heart. The United States Army motor truck said by the police to have brought the illicit liquor to the inn was used to carry Piraino's body to the Bronx where it was turned over to the police.

The men ordered detained by Cor­oner Edward Fitzgerald following an inquest are James and Salvator Cas-taldo, proprietors of the inn, charged with murder, and Gerald Crystal, of

.43 Woodhaven boulevard, Ozone Park, Queens Borough; Angelo Par-abi, of 330 ltth street, Brooklyn, Pir­aino's cousin; Joseph Laker, an en­listed soldier from Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn; Frank J. Burghardt, of 3204 Deyo street, Glendale, Queens Borough, Charles Carlisiri, of 612 Crescent ave­nue, New York, held as material wit­nesses.

William IT. Anderson, state superin­tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, who lives in Yonkers, announced today that he will insist upon a Federal inquiry into a charge that a United States sol­dier and army truck were engaged in bootlegging that resulted in the murder of Stephen Piraino in Yonkers.

"We will assume that the Federal authorities will act," said Mr. Ander­son, "and if they don't we will see that they do. I mean the War Department, the Department of Justice, the Treas­ury Department and the rest, all the way down the line."

LONDON, Dec. 31.—Conflicting notes are struck in the new year's messages of three of the most prominent Labor party members of Parliament. J. R. Clynes, president of the Brtiish Union of General Workers, in a statement given to the press, declares that gov­ernments are "taking a narrow view of world interests," but that America and Britain, working together, could secure "the beginnings of world anions***

Unless peace in Europe is obtained the outlook for labor from the inter­national standpoint is dark, in the opinion of Philip Sn-owden. Only a League of Nations could establish and maintain peace, he declares.

J. Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the party in Parliament, takes the contrary view that the new spirit with which people are approaching their problems makes him "look upon the 1923 pros­pects with a hopeful heart1* The re­cent Labor party victory at the polls is a sign that intelligent work will be done by Parliament, he says.

George Bernard Shaw contributes a characteristic biting comment on the ability and intelligence of the admin­istration of Bonar Law.

Clynes* statement follows: "I would not describe world prospects

for the new year as bright. There is a lack of agreement and unity. The governments and leaders in many coun­tries are taking a narrow view of world interests, and common well-being suf­fers because of continued conflict.

"America and Britain acting to- j gether could do much to lead in secur­ing the beginnings of world co-opera­tion. Nothing can be worse than to return to the plan of alliances which existed before the war.

"America and Britain could destroy such a plan without excluding from their friendship other nations ready to join with them for world progress.

Snowden's statement follows: "The outlook for labor from the in-

68TH CONGRESS Little Evidence ii 1922 of

Party Solidarity—Insur­gency Expected of Com­ing Session.

By CLAYTON WHIT EHILL. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—An un­

wieldy Republican majo ity in both houses of Congress, post- lection skir­mishes, filibuster, blocs, a id the grow­ing consciousness that "pe pie are tired of having Congress in W shington for so long a continuous stre ch," have all contributed to "this desul ory and dila­tory congressionsl yesr ol 1922."

And those critics of ( ongress who analyze the situation thus are breath­ing epectantly in the thought that the new Sixty-eighth Congress will be char­acterized by an almost e en break be­tween the Republicans a 1 the Demo­crats, with the Progress ves in both houses holding the balarce of power, and threatening to wipe c at the labors of 1922 and the first thr e months of 1923.

1922 Analyzed. As verifying this ana ysis of the

closing year, critics poit; to the fol­lowing, incidents:

1. The action of the H use in over­riding President Harding's veto of the bonus bill. The Senate taved the day by sustaining the veto.

2. The Democratic filib ister against

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jYipsels Formally Unite Into National Organization

(Continued on pace 2.)

Babies' Mentality Can Be Tested,

Scientists Assert Investigators* Report at Science

Association Convention Cover

Many Fields.

PARIS, Dec SI.—The French Gov­ernment has formulated its program on reparations which is to be presented by Premier Poincare at the Allied prime ministers parley to be held here on Tuesday.

Poincare and members of his gov-; ernment held a two-hour conference j at the Quai D'Orsay Sunday at which j the groundwork of the conference was ] prepared and the speech of Secretary! of State Hughes was considered with j a view of bringing the French policy, as fsr as possible, in line with the' American viewpoint.

Officials Attending. These officials attended the csucus:

Louis Barthou, president of the Repar­ations Commission; Count De Lastey-rie, minister of finance; Yves Le Troquer, minister of public works, and M. Reibel, minister of the liberated areas.

It is understood that Marshal Foeh and General Weygand were also par­ticipants in the meeting. Foeh any Weygand were apparently called into consultation to detail plans of invasion of the Ruhr Valley in case drastic measures are found necessary.

The conference of the premiers on Tuesday is made necessary by the dead­lock that occurred in the London pre­miers* parley, when Bonar Law re­fused to accede to the program of Pre­mier Poincare, which included inter­vention in the Ruhr Valley to force reparations payments.

In ease there is an agreement on a joint policy to be pursued concerning German reparations—which many doubt—the Germans will be Informed of the terms at a conference to be held at Brussels after the Paris netting.

Allied Policies. On the eve of the conference, the

policies of the four allied powers may b« stated roughly, as follows:

Francs is willing to grant s mora­torium to Germany on condition that a program of customs guarantees in the Ruhr Valley be instituted. Poincare plans, it is understood, to insist to the last that there will be no trim­ming of the reparations bill against Germany. Belgium is solidly back of the French viewpoint.

Great Britain is against any kind of interference in the Ruhr Valley and is favorable to giving Germany "an­other chance to make good." England is also willing to scale down the rep­arations account of Germany.

BRITISH DELEGATES LEAVE FOR PREMIERS' PARLEY

FRANCE REFUl TO JOIN GERMANY IN PEACE PACT Proposal Made to Paris

T h r o u g h the United States Turned Down, Cuno Reveals.

re-

GEORGE HARVEY American Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, who arrived here yesterday with some inform mation. on the European situation

for President Harding.

HARVEY HERE AS MESSENGER BOY'

ON REPARATIONS ill I.I HI! * " H W M i l l . —

Envoy to St. James Court Has Little to Say—His Information Is All for Harding.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., 1 »ec 31.—The discovery of new tests v. lich are said to reveal to scientists the tental status of children as young as three months was made known at the annual con­vention of the America Association

TODAY'S WEATHER

having been rather recent. But with I for the Advancement of cience. the seating of delegates and giving an • The men who are inve *tigating this additional vote to Max Wagner, tbe | branch of psychology h pe within *

short time to be able o gauge tbe capacity of all children >r both work and study, soon after H ey are born.

By W1LLL4M U FEIGENBAUM, (Staff Correspondent.)

FITCHBURG, Mass., Dec. 31.—The Y., , . . P. S. L. at two of the busiest sessions I w a l busmess was on. of the current convention year, laid the j History of Organization. foundations of a great Young Social- ! Weisbord's report was in effect tbe j During the course of the meeting, ist rao^enk JJ * " ™ 2 ? *clVe c lo*e* ' «c«nt ***** of the yoking Socialist j which closed last night, * great many

allied witn tbe Socialist party, when j o r f a n ization, its integration from a j discoveries were deserib J which will

LONDON, Dec. 31.—Bonar Law and the British delegation have left for Paris to attend the Allied premiers' conference which opens on Tuesday.

The prime minister's party included the following:

Sir Eyre Crowe, permanent under­secretary of the Foreign Office.

Sir Philip Lloyd Graeme, president of the Board of Trade.

O, E. Niemeyer, Controller of Fi­nance.

J. C. Davidson, Bonar Law's private secretary.

Sir Maurice Hankey and T. Jones, of the secretariat of the cabinet.

Sir John Bradbury, British repre­sentative on the Allied Reparations Commission.

George Harvey, "messenger boy," is back home. The American Ambassador to the Court of St. James arrived in the imperial suite of the Berengeria yes­terday. m

Harvey, anticipating the question that was on tbe lips of every reporter who went down the bay to meet him, said with a smile, "No, gentlemen, I have nothing to say on reparations or the European situation, but I'll be glad to talk informally."

"What are you here for?*' was the first query that was shot at him.

Here as "Messenger Boy." The Ambassador, apparently taken

somewhat back by the bluntness and directness of the question, paused mo­mentarily and then declared, "I am here as a messenger boy merely to convey to my editor-in-chief and man­aging editor any such information that they may desire.**

He supplemented his declaration by adding that President Harding was his editor-in-chief and Secretary of State Hughes the managing editor.

Questions concerning the mission of Stanley Baldwin, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, who is en route here to discuss tbe Anglo-American debt with the American Debt Funding Commission, were then asked.

"I do not know that I shall sit in *.he session between the British and Ameriesn officials,** he stated. "As 1 said before, I am here merely as a messenger boy."

Britishers Landed. Baldwin and N. C. Norman, governor

of the Bank of England, who is ac-j companying him, were lauded by Har­vey as men of the highest type. "If they can't do anything regarding the

BE RUN, Dec. 31.—France has fused to join Germany in a peace pact.

Announcement of this fact was made this afternoon by Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno in a speech at Hamburg. The effort on the part ef Germany to in­duce the Paris Government to join in an anti-war pact was msde recently, the government head revealed, toe pro­posal having been made to France through a third nation, the identitv of which the chancellor did not state.

The anti-war agreement was aimed erpecially to apply to the Rhine and it wss to lsst, according to the Ger­man suggestion, for a generation.

Incidentally, the chancellor's speech, without indulging in figures or details, confirmed previous reports of Ger­many's plans to float loans through an international consortium as a means ot meeting the reparations payment*. Also thst sll possible guarantees—with the backing of the German Industrial­ists—are to be offered.

Demand Evacuation.

The latest German plan also cslla for a decrease in the occupation of the Rhine ares in sddition to the evacua­tion ef the towns of Ruhrort, Duisburg and Dusseldorf.

Despite previous German and Ameri­can denials that a mediation effort had berri made between Germany and France, it is lean ed on unquestionable authority that tha proposal wss made through the Ameiican Government end that the French Government replied in substance thai; it weuld-oiot satisfy the requiremenii jsf tbe^Paris of­ficials.

Denial "DtpJomatlc." The denial of the American State

Department, It Is held here, apparently was "diplomatic." It was based, ec-cording to the Information In the Ger­man capital, on the fact that the original "leak" did not square exactly with Germany's proposals.

As Cuno revested the j.lan today it called for s third and uninterested power to hold the Rhine ares against any war amongst the interested nations for a generation.

The plan did rot call for the hold­ing ef any plebiscite!

TURKISH TROOPS MASS TO ATTACK Open Break With Alliei

Near as Army Moves tc March on Mosul.

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Debt or Ruin; War or Its Perils, Describe 1923 Europe

few scattered circles that had weathered the factional storms of recent years and the disruptive drive ef those who fought the party. He was selected I national director by the national or­ganisation of the party ia the spring of 1921. His first job, he said, was to gather up loose ends here and there

have an enormous effe t upon the everyday life of the v» .»rld. Among these was the announo nent by Dr. Ray Nelson that he ha located the cause of the mosaic disc se, whieh for years has destroyed ove 30 per cent of the country's potato c op, and large quantities of other vegetables of every \

they formally organised their scattered circles and leagues into the Young Peoples* Socialist League of tbe United States. 4

The day's sessions were given over to I a report of Albert Weisbord of Cam­bridge, Mass., national director of young people's work of the Socialist. party, and the adoption of a national constitution. The delegates ad­dressed themselves to the task with a rim, an enthusiasm and an understand? ing of their problems that was remark­able.

Weisbord was chairman of the day's session and he conducted the meeting, defended the draft constitution sub­mitted by tho national affairs com- , _ . ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ mittee of the new defunct Eastern {*•«• * » * » favoring a national Y. | j ^ t^s£^cl7g force' ifl^owkdge, >

I on his | **• &- ** organisation. . j tte ^frm^^ gai<L 0 v , p ^ ^ a o J •^BBm^Bi B^mml

and to get into correspondence with j description. tha circles in the various cities. ^ m ga T e j u n t a s . .-T h '"* £ y!ff •5°*J

th< JtjIlllirllilllMjfc The discovery of the m erescopie ani-New ,ork. Maryland and Pennsylvania j m a l w h i c h „„„, t h e d b „c w i U M v e circles organized the Eastern states | m i m o „ o f d o l l a r s e v r / y e a r f o t

Federation, to serve as the nucleus of | A m e r i e m n fmnnera. and indirectly to the national organisation? Last sum-1 t h e i r customers, Dr. N« son declared. • • r „ T ; ! ™ ! * * * , * ?9 **_f*5 ^ r The mystery of the at at is " - . ^ " ^ ^ l *!? . -5! . - £ ! I ^ T ' J ? ! *•*"*« * * t ** i»aauaUy"; Ting* way he- j

States Federation, ani reported work.

Eastern Jisw York: Probably

a

Today we have 27 circles,** said t ie j, tagraphs of the atom's tracks were. shown.' Tbe atoms at m at a rate 30.000 times faster than a rifle bullet, »Kd so as yet no close-a; has been oh- }

However, two terns in eel

The day's sessions started with the j director, "more 'than twice as many seating of delegates from Circles 1 i as we had a year ago. These circles and 4, Brooklyn, and 9, Manhattan,; are actually functioning. Within a few

{'about whose seats there had been a : months we expect to see new circles . tained. (little dispute, the graduation of tS*J ——— ,

circles from the Junior Y. P. S. L, • (Continued eu page 2.) | (Continued"-on p. je 2^ » 1

By MILTON BRONNER, (By NEA Service.)

LONDON, Dec 81.—Europe five years after the war is afflicted with financial, economic, territorial and racial trou­bles.

Some Americans looking at the Old World think these troubles may b* cured by America's help. Others thiuk it wiser for Uncle Sam to keep hands off.

Whatever you think about it, here is a tabloid picture of Europe at the beginning of 1923:

England—By h|gh taxation has succeeded in making its budget bal­ance. Its currency is well on the way to rising to par with tbe dollar. But there are still about 1,300,000 persons out of work, through whose unemployment doles added taxes bad to be raised. The number of jobless is a good Indication of how heavily her export trade has fallen off and how hard her great industries have been hit. i

France—Her devastated rekiens are •till largely unrepaired. Shfe is still being taxed to maintain a h ing army. Having drawn eom few eash payments from the her budget shows an imm Her currency is way below

birth rate is still showing a danger­ous decrease, i

Germany—Bankrupt at home and abroad. There is a deficit of about 800 billions of marks in her budget. She faces reparation demands from the Allies thst she says she cannot pay. The markets of a great part ef the world are closed to her. Her imports exceed her exports snd she is getting deeper into debt all tbe time. The existence of her republican form of government is threatened both by Bol­sheviks and Monarchists.

Italy—' ^ced with a papulation tbe care of which trxes the ability of the farms and the factories beyond their means, the country is troubled by the immigration laws of the United States.

LONDON, Dec. 11/-Tbe siiawtioi M the Near East took an ominous tars today ss the conference at Lsussnae remained deadlocked.

Reports from Athens ssid Turkisi Nationalist troops of Mbstapha Kemai were concentrating to attach Cottstan-* tinople and the If ess! oil region!, fel lowing refusal of the Allies t« *&ty. tho Turkish pos*t» a em oil eoace sio.M and judicial capiti lations. o t f l

One Kemalist force arrived at Djissmsrt, another was advancing toward tha Tigris sad s third wss pre­paring to concentrate at Adabasar for the purpose ef converging toward tbe Beiphoma.

The British Government took cog* nixane ef the threatening developments by ordering tho battleship Empeer of India to steam at fell speed from Ply­mouth to Constantinople. This aug­ments the fleet ordered from Malta to the Byzantine capital Friday to "in­duce" tho Turks to aeeept the allied viewpoint an capitulations.

Make Bros* With Allies. Reports from Constantinople were

[equally discouraging. Kemai sum­moned an extraordinary session of tho

immigration laws of the United states. T _ : '

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preciatioTi of tbe lira with tls cense quent difficulty to buy raw materials for the factories, and by the huge debt in whieh the s t r involved her.

Belgium—Like France, she badly needs the reparation.; from Germany.] Her currency remains depreciated- Her industry suffers f romjtbe general busi

and hear Hassan Boy's rapo/t on tho Lausanne conference. It is understood the moderate Turkish leaders antici­pate difficulty In preventing the Asftost-hly from declaring dissatisfaction with the progress made at tho Near Eastcrh parley, and a vote to break off nefotia* tions with tha allies is looked for.

The British eoleay ia Constantinople t a a u j t i ; »n* .w*» .*.•»»» » • « » • • * • » • • • i • • , ACS O r i U S C B O i C S y I S %^ed oess depression in Enrope. Interna- U * , f#P t h # t W r f &m€ in tix mmtk* tionally abe suffers from tbe contesft la^ warned to prepare to leave at 24 between the French-speaking Walloons aoU t g . s^tiee. n » B J rtjp, M s standing and tbe Flemish-speaking Flemings, 1 u , M i a t B u u t g 0g British goods

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