Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1920 — WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

Washington, D. C., Feb. 5. Evidence has reached Washington that soviet propaganda designed to promote class antagonism, is still being sent oUt from Moscow despite testimony of Ludwig Martens, socalled “soviet ambassador” from Russia, who told a senate committee that such practices had been abandoned. —o— Increase of smoking by women has grown so _ alarming that the Methodist board of temperance, prohibition, and morals has issued a warning that if women don’t stop smoking there may be a bitter-end fight against tobacco launched. o The senate foreign relations committee was told 'by a New York mining engineer that recognition of Carranza was a mistake and that a firm American policy toward Mexico would be beneficial to the prestige of this country in Latin-Amer-ica. Surgeon General Ireland, reviewing the influenza epidemic in military camps, says the epidemic is not as severe as in 1918. Conditions at Camp Grant show that one in every eleven contracted the" disease whereas last year it was one in every four. —°” . House Democrats will hold a caucus on Monday to take a stand on the question of universal military training. Southern Democrats are attempting to put the party on record as opposed to it. Organized labor, it is believed, will fail in any attempt to prevent the approval of the conference report on the railroad bill. .. — /