Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 197, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1921 — Page 4

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Jrifcma Saits! Crimes INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday. 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—MAin 3500; New. Lincoln 8351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. _. i New York, Boston, Bayne, Burns & Smith. Inc. Advertising offices } Chicago. Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan I‘ayno Cos. IT OUGHT NOT to be hard to curb New Year celebrations under existing laws" and ordinances. # OF COURSE, the fact that the public wants peace will also have something to do with the limitation of any opposition to the Pacific treaty. AFTER the desperate haste of the present administration to get the proceeds of that $1,600,000 plaza bond issue into the city treasury how long will it remain there untouched and who will get the interest from the depositories? BUT, MR. DEBS, the c.tizens of the United States will continue to select their Presidents from among their own numbers as long as the Constitution stands. Hence, your running for President is one thing less to worry about. A Patriot In the death of William A. Ketcham Indiana has lost one of its leading citizens and patriots. By nature he was blunt and outspoken, expressing his opinions in a most fearless manner and regardless of consequences. This can be taken only as a mark of sincerity. Mr. Ketcham was a leading member of the Indiana bar, but he wiil ba remembered first as a patriot. During the Civil war he distinguished himself as a boy soldier. In later life he distinguished himself as a fighter for patriotic ideals. He trod on propaganda that he did not believe to be to the best interests of the Nation and he hit hard at the hyphenate. In the work of the Grand Army of the Republic he was always a leader and when he was honored with the office of grand commander filled it with distinction. His utterances against forces working against organized government will long be remembered. While he took an interest in politics he never became a professional politician. He held but one elective office, that of Attorney General of Indiana, and in that office he distinguished himself as a fighter. In fact, one of the liigiiest tributes that can be paid him is the statement that he always was a fighter for the ideals of patriotism. The Contrast President Wilson went to Versailles and negotiated a treaty in accordance with the authority vested in him by the Constitution. He was roundly condemned because he did not delegate to others this difficult task. President Harding remained in the White House while his delegates assembled in Washington and negotiated a treaty. There has been no public criticism of his method of procedure. But following the negotiation by President Wilson of a treaty the President returned to the United States with a complete understanding of the covenant and began explaining its terms to the people of the United States. And following the negotiation of a treaty by President Harding's delegates, the President issued a statement ,n which he placed an entirely different interpretation on the treaty than his delegates. President Wilson knew his own handiwork. - cadent Harding did not know the handiwork of his delegates. And as a result the citizens of the United States are befogged as to the meaning of the treaty their representatives will be called upon to ratify. Senator Borah expressed the situation when be asked how the Senators were to understand the treaty when the men who made it differed as to its meaning. Herein we have an answer to the Wilson critics with which they can find little fault. The Louisville Courier-Journal asks, pertinently: “If President Wilson had remained in Washington and headed h:s delegation to Paris with his Secretary cf S'ate, as President Harding headed his delegation to the armament conference with his Secretary of State, might he not have been in as great ignorauce of a hat Secretary Lansing’s delegation was doing as President Harding seems to have been of what Secretary Hughes’ delegation was doing? “And with Secretary Lansing's now well-known opposition to the principles on which President Wilson negotiated the treaty of Versailles, with its covenant of the League of Nations, is it not likely that the work which Lansing would have done at the peace conference would have scrapped Wilson’s principles? “The only reason why that would not have been the result is. that unlike President Harding, who sat in Washington and didn't know what was going on anv-ng his delegates in the same city. President Wilson would nev r have sat in Washington without knowing what was going on in Paris.’’

Restore the Family Circle The fact that a girl and hoy in Passaic, X. J., were enabled to enter into a secret f act and to snuff their own lives as well as an unborn third out of the world without the knowledge of their parents leads one to wonder whether the old-fashioned home cirrle has disappeared. In this case a boy of IS and a girl of 17 were allowed to become infatuated with each other and when they were unable to set up the little home they had planned they sought to take up their lives again in the hereafter; Why was it not possible for that girl to go to her mother and pour out her troubles and receive the sympathetic advice that only a mother can give? Why could that boy rot go to an understanding and friendly father, who would have pointed the way out of his difficulty? Why are countless other children, just like those two unfortunates, deprived of the companionship, the friendly counsel, the needful advice of their parents? Many a young life could be set aright by an understanding word from an older person; many a wreck could be avoided, or if that is too late, many a derelict could be salvaged, by a bond of comradeship between father and son, or between mother and laughter. Perhaps if the parents would pause for a moment In their mad whirl of business or social affairs and sit down by the fireside and listen to the childish problems that daily confront their offspring; if they would give the time to hear their plaints, their ambitions, horrible things like that New Jersey affair could be avoided. The old-fashioned home where the family circle gathered about for a oniet cheerful evening at home is the solution. ,et us have more of a spirit of companionship in the home. An Expressive Word Among the new words which are constantly being added to the English language is the term “bloc,” as applied to groups in our Congress. The word is defined by the Evansville Journal as follows: “It 13 appropriated bodily from the French. It isvidentical with the English word ‘block.’ It signifies block or group. “Primarily the word was Celtic and was appropriated by the French from the English. Its use in the legislative sense is original with the French and other continental European languages and supplies an interesting evidence of legislative histdry. “Political parties in Europe and, for that matter, even in Great Britain, have been more fragmentary than in the United States. In France and in Germany partisan divisions have been numerous and no party has had a clear majority in national legislative bodies. Majority votes have been obtainable only with the coalition or working union of small parties. This legislative union was designated by the French as a bloc, or solid group, for working purposes either on pecific questions or throughout a session. “The word was adopted from the French by the English years ago, but appeared in American legislative terminology only last spring when the agricultural bloc was formed. “The use of the word illustrates the habit of living languages of appropriating new forms when ever the need appears. The word may have only a passing vogue or it may become permanently imbedded in the language to denote the idea of legislative unions. In any event, it is more expresrive than any other word we have in English. ‘Block' has its own established family of meanings now, and ‘bloc’ is segregated, to a new and distinctive use."

IN THE REALM WHERE WOMAN REIGNS

Keeping- House With the Hoopers

[The Hoopers, an average American family of five, living In a suburban town, on a limited Income, will tell the readers of the Dally limes how the many present-' ay problems of i the home are solved by working on the budget that Xli ;. Hooper has evolved am) found | actical. Follow them daily in an i ceresting review of their home lite • ml learn to meet the conditions of he high cost of Living with them.] WKDM S'DAY. Roger had come into the living-room before Helen, who had asked her mothers permission at lunch time to spend an nour with one of her schoolmates. Mrs. Hooper brought in the ten from the kitchen when it seemed certain that she would not be back in time to have it with them. Betty was playing with her new (bdl on the big ro'itny c ..•:i 1" king bright and well again. Henry had not yet come home from his quest of a job in the city though Mrs. Hooper had begged him not to exhaust liim-e f ;i' he had done the day betorc, walking great distances to see tt possible employer and then waiting sometimes an hour before an opportunity came to speak with the man he had come so far to ask if taere might be- some vacancy in b s organization that he was qualified to till. "I’ve made up my mind to quit school and go to work if father doesn t -d a .job," said Roger quietly setting down his cup. “The man in the drug 'tore told me 1 could start with him any time 1 wanted to." i “Leave school!” exclaimed Mr . Heop- r with her tea cup susp-nd -d :n .-■••r ::n- rthat trembled slighMy. "Why. wh'-v.-r hoard of such tt thing! Not gra-Pta:- from high school. Why, llogi-r, what an y.vi thinking aboutV •It really doesn't matter whether ! graduate or not.' Roger went on. “and in t h(*so hard times evey e:.e ho- to work who run." -Oh, Roger," said Mrs. Hooper, and her voice shook. “It would hr. ti; mv In irt if you didn't tinih b'gh seho-d, and no Ye TOVVNE GOSSIP Copvvtgtit. JO?L bj S<tnr Comprvuj By K. C. 13 I KNOW a woman. • • * WHO ALT, h-r 1 !f* HAS HAD no thought. BI T or herself. AND WHO. • * • stiver SHE was tits’ a child. ll\s CONK her v. AND T IKF.N a! • • • Tl! \T ( OIK *i her. and i:n\ m o • M il XT TIM V h: * • • \M> NF.VKII i • • • IF IT mi-'ti he. TII I.lt I! WF.KI! - WITH I.EnS t’ fin h-r. W HOM sIIF might ’ P XNJ> SIIF ran If ;glt. • • \N I) BIN lh -if. • • • IN PF.RFFIT 'th. \\ II IIOFSV T V ■ v XVII XT SD K N ESS - , ■ NOR D Us In ted. XX ITII DRAWN Binds. nor QI F.sT of sleep Til XT WILL not <■. no. • * * NOR WAKING : WHI N XLI. else s! • s. SHE DOESN'T ’*■ TIIF.KF Xlltl stl h t' lug XND Till N. I KNOW another w n. KIND AND av.v' XX HO XIX her life. II Xs HAD no thought. 111 T OF the good. Til XT SHE might (!(. XND OF tho Joy. TIIXT s||k. might bring. TO THOSE she love '. AND THOSE* in ! e, AND I lIRISTM Is | IDF. TIIKOFI,HO! T IM It life. * * * II XS ItELN to her. • * • X HATTY time. • • • AND ST RANG FLY. * i • IT HAS been to her. .THAT FATE has come. * 4 * AND BROUGHT its Ills. AND DARKENED room. WHII/K SKUI^HMaS. r.OKS ON its wav * * * AND f s!t h^rr*. * * + AM) VFONDKR why. • ♦ * I THANK you.

BRINGING UP FATHER.

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Mem Yon May Marry By ETHEL R. PEYSER Has a man like this ever proposed to you? Symptom®. Slender, medium t ill, always so merry yet alxvays tells the truth to his own disadvantage. You think In company he will not give his mistakes and foibles away yet out he comes with them. You love him too much to let him give the wrong impression of the REAL chap that he is, yet you always witness people sneer a bit at his honest out! ursts. He wouldn’t hurt a fly. He is gentle and a good fellow and the chaps that know him and the girls that know him know there’s none better. IN FACT: He goes ’em all one better and that’s the trouble. Ijfj Prescription to his bride: xJ\J, f ew hawsers to hold him down from his own / knotting up. Absorb This: THE WIFE WHO IS A REFUGE NEED FEAR NO ILL. • <Copyright, mi.)

such sacrifices n.s that will be heee.-sury. I'm sure. Vour fatlnr will get om,-thing (•is.* to do before there is any danger of our -uffering.” ' Mr. t’hapin and Mr. < \\• :i tv-re talkDaily Fashion Minis A l\ k £■[ it- ■ TvU,iD 4u)(J By AGNES A VIM S. '■tar l:; Paramount Pictures. I' re •• •- noxv a 1 I lrre • tide < nt fr . l'..r fall. I how Iclb-ve it. |.,ve at t'r -i.-h*. for (ha* Is when 1 bought lb b ; ' •■;•••.I to me sham-less: • t ■■ jade, with all of Its up to the minute details, making us- of an of my xxenkeat points *0 a- tr y in me any thought of thrirt or economy. L(—:k at its little cape! Gottld yon or anyone else resist It, and with that !>••;-, (in.iint i 'Bar a eofoir that would If. 1./ a G-eley fashion plate I -.k new'; Then o'c-rve its lines, those long, straight, waistb s-i lines that dr- s the slim woman in lk* grace of a leopard, and the fat woman • And its black satin girdle, hung Just as low as it can be and ’till have Jt possible for the wearer to walk. 'I hen its huge, soft bow on one side, giving a bouffant touch to an otherwise peroctly straight silhouette. Last, its neck line is. the übiquitous V, o low tliis time that It must In* filled (11 with a vest of gay yellow satin, .tost right with the lodge and brown cheeks of the cloth and the plain brown satin of . oiPir and girdle. With it 1 wear u brown scratch felt, frJr.iio (I with brown lacquered ostrich dripping from Us brim. Speaking "f capes, there is something new under the sun a frock that has cither a cape or a tunic, but never both at once. It Is a brilliant French Idea to have a small and graceful tunic which snaps on your skirt, or masquerades as a cape when unsnapped. There tire evening, afternoon and morning frocks designed to fit this sumo idea.

big tog-they ju th- drug -tore rind tiny drill’ cc nu- wh-11 1 . .:! nf* in,” - :!! k'.g-r ►•-.• ting tip a till putting !•-' arm us t• ••• ti*>imt■ Iy around hix m. hi t's shoulder. '•‘U(l 1 beard Mr. Chapin say that ilieiwasn't a chance in a buiciivd that father would get a Job tit many a lojig and y athere was mulling to do now at the ul.v , J-b In* Jiii- w. So wtn-a they wen? o • 1 Just askeu the draggi-t f-r a Job am; he -i ''i ii*l go \vvrit r.g I aft-r .New 1 Year's for live dollar- a week.” | "But. Roger.” urged kin mother. “!iv•dollar' a V.e. I; Wouldn't h- !;> .-u!k< !-.a': v ‘in a financial way to warrant y ! wag your chance to finish s. bool properiy.'* "Rut I'd at. least be tuk.ug care -f my self, mother, and t.of jt;-.t bo adding to t f * expetw-e,” insisted K"ger. “No, lli not consent y-ur doing at. Ml-h tiling,” Mr-. II op-r 'aid fir- Ay. wlMi t-c I- sltivc tom- h*r chit lr- , kti -w foln.itt' and no argument, "if your fa'her do- -n't. get any positl n ana if '.t’:>*re seems tiotlipg (.sc t.. I-- ib,:a • relievo the :s cat'ott I'll >e willing to tail; ationt your leaving school at the end of the term in June, but there is • ng '■> I • sai-1 a! .nit tii ' iiic now ■ ' • Is certain to kapiieti before very long ■perhaps today." Rut when Henry appeared Just before (dinner time p was way evident licit lahad been us 111,.' ess fill as cut in h. search tor w.,rk. Tile menus for the tkr-c m-ai Thar , (day arc: UREAKFAST Ft.-Wed I\. .lie s Cereal V. ?, ■ li. ■. - 11 French Ton -: C-r-e i.rviikoN B.lked S','..ig!;-!t: with t’ll' and T u -ttti*s Lett u-e ' in-tv. bee Hot < : 1! r-ad M'k I>! N N f!R Cr. ant of B 1 Soup ?■ uffed Gr-- n B pt.-s (with lef ov r B. —f 1.-as• Bal'd Point x'.’g"' ab:. Sa’ ' Apple Betty - I'.-pyright, B'-’l. >!t 1 "I t K I f> I (.(O. Put a table .poonful of butter B • - ;> hot oimdot jam, aid brown ns m icy . .'-g.•n you wish, adding butter as you n< >* ’ !'. Turn egg - wbll" - king B •. a !.ot to use • "I :a. . !l ’eater. < II t I -I I ONDI F One cupfitl .if S. ' ! . ruu 1 •■!.•• . npftt! Os "a!de.l milk : Ino tl ir-t t•mi i (of rh—s. ut in suin'! pi. : y-di • -t . I hr- ; w 1 : t-s of : hree ( taldespoouful . f butt-r; two pinch-, of salt. Mix milk, bread crumbs, cheese, but--and salt ; add volks beaten until the k .; ■, 1 ! ieinotl eolor. 1 1(1 ill xvllites b-.d-H s' Iff Hake ill a inndel'eto ovetl in a ( buttered baking di.-li : >r txv nt.v lultiut-s. IT KM Is lII’ ' Wash, j.ar- anil in boiling salted v • r until tender, smuU oirnips -t m 1 size Drain, at.d with M-on, rii. >vi. the inside to form 1 cup. Dlj> , e.i"|| cup into ere.ulll Klllei* t ■ give ttoui. a gla/.-d appearance and also to .sea ‘ son them. Fill with cubes of boiled and seasoned carrot . or p as In ei'her <-as" the di-ii is tiiyrc sightly if the peas or carrots nr" se.isotie.l with cult, pepper and butter from tlm fact that the color, i ; better. MINCIT) lAMB ON TOAST. Remove dry ami gristly parts from roast lamb. Cut fine, and In-as in a little butter in a frying' pan. Season with silt. pepper and 11 little cayenne. ! Sprinkle with flour, and add enough) stock or cream to make a nice gravy, and j s.>rve on toast. XITt.E Dl XI BUNG. Prepare crust with a good plain pic j crust recipe. Select apples of uniform size, pare and core carefully. Fill lic cavity with sugar and one fourth lea- ' spoonful of butter; mix cinnamon with! tie* sugar, if liked. Roll pic crust thin. ■ and cut into squares large enough to cover apple well; phono fipplo in confer i of each piece. Moisten tin* edges of the ■ crust, draw the points together on the) loji and j*re-s the edges together. Turn j over and place In pan, smooth side up. I Add one and otic half cups of sweetened 1 waier to pan in which you bake them. Dumplings must have steam to cook tin* fruit, and to keep crust from burning, j Buko in slow oven forty live minutes. |

j PUSS IN BOOTS JR. 1 !D Psvld ( uri The Ark was an exceedingly good sea craft. It rode the waves and breasted the gale without a mishap. Some of the animals became sea sick. But this, of course, was to be expected. Even Captain Noah himself felt rather queer at times, and as for little Tom Thumb, he kept to bis tied fir almost a week. Buss Junior proved to be a very tine sailor. Not once did he feel the least bit queer, and was aid- to help Mrs. .Noah attend to some of the sick passengers. The ole; bant was tho most ill of all the animals. Os course, it had to be the biggest animal!” said Captain Noah at breakfast one morning. "Too bad, my dear,” turning to Mrs. Noali, "that you have such an unwieldy patient on your hands," Mrs. Noah only smiled. "lie does very little complaining," rcpl'ed Mrs. Noah, "and that is one thing to be thankful for. Now, take the little black ant. Bl.c docs nothing but coinliin all the time. Cd rather attend to th- epphaut ten times over than to that little complaining ant.” Captain Noah laughed heartily. “Well, mother, you always had something to he thankful for at the Ark Hotel I’m glad that on board the Ark you still keep your cheerful disposition!" But. oh dear me! Pretty soon Puss .Junior and Torn Thumb wondered If the forty dais and forty nights would ever end and if the rain would ever stop. At list, one day. it seemed as if the sun \x r.. trying to break through tho clouds. And th-a, nil of a sudden, the rain c.ased. and In the distance the dim outline of j, mountain appeared through th.j in is t. And tiic" al! the animals began to sing: ■Wo lidti't k .w where we wer- at, One wbie river, T'ntil we bumped on Arrarat, One wide river to cross.” An if in-obedience to the w-rds of the > in : tho Ark grounded, the sun came o.it from lb- clouds, and every one knew the v .ya ■ was at an end, for "The A-: she Id high and dry, On- wide river, And tl- tuc'd'ce the cow goodby, One wide river to cross." Ia few ni i-ut-s the gangplank was l-ov r-d .1 tl animals landed. Cap'ait: N-uli v s the last to leave. "Well.” : "w. have pasa-d through au awful 1 • But we’re safe on land . gain Hurrah'" shouted all the ani- • its. ■ w-'re - fe at last!"—Copyright, nig]. To Be Continued. Ford to Start Auto Factory in Germany DETROIT. D-.- '> -Tim Frd Motor ( ... ; II y ;■!.(■ g t . 'tart a fa-toty .. - • :a ' tir- * f auto- : - th" i}-r:u:in. Russian and 1 -r i : ■'( " Bur. ;oa:t fit ids, U is re-r-ortf ! ! : in usually reliable circles. c:...r!-s 1.. S rcns ui ic- now In I.unit ■ • : !".■.... f-r to rtri 1• v in a few in . lie •• -ary arrangement*. it Is said. !':■ nt plans f-r buying a pHiitin I nr ■ D-t plans st v • ' end the number of t ready for Thief Makes River Fort, but is Shot PARIS. D*>- S' - -All uindre V diet, an A, t h.> v.’ is .1 to: .- pr -on r-'ord. xv r d-d . ... ■ S• until it vv. ■ up to his xv wli -n c-r: rcil I . •! . police • Argot.t" ill l r.ua U < wf-.'-iy fortress he '• -ft ! arr.'t tor two sir' shooting up tv. 0 boats tho• tri-il to approach him. .'arknc" v.as api'r-:o'b;ng be wax .-A •> ! • al -pj.i'i't'ir.ty I- 'urr-nib r 1 and ■:i kb- r-1 -il t! pfilicc tired, fa- ' ailv woviding hit". IP "ti while dying ’ • r-v : . h - captor ■ ■:::■! so and he h-ped b" W' tid survive to kill tlt-tu all.

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No, it doesn't look much like money, an l we'd certainly hate to carry our "jack” around In this fashion, but Warren cerbe of Tyrone, Pa., owner of a fifty million-,lidlar collection of coins, inuk-s sticlt things a hobby. This par tictllar piece weighs six and a quarter pounds and measure ten and a half Inches square. It is an old Swedish copperplate ilia and is worth in exchange for good American money .ft. Mr. /.erhe lias spent forty years in acquiring ids collection, which consists cf more than 3'MKIO pieces, and is famous internationally as an expert on moneys.

By GEORGE McMANUS.

PRESIDENTIAL BOOMS 808 U? IN CONFERENCE Hughes’ Prospects Keep Administration Press Bureau Busy. NEW HARDING BOOSTER By RICHARD LINTMK l XL WASHINGTON, Dec. ZS.- M itaout ref- ' eretice to the merits or the demerits of the four-p:.\ver maty, the competing in - : ierpretations placed upon it by Cre ideot Harding on the use ham; and hecre.a y Huglies and the other American delegates on the other serve to recall some outstanding facts In Hie history of tne •'conference and the making of the treaty i wh -It are of present interest and may be i fraught with great political significance. When Secretary of State Hughes announced the concrete American proposal for naval limitations In hnttb'S .ips there was a chorus of approval throughout the country .including much eulogistic eumment on Secretary Hughes statesman- ‘ ship. Within a day or two this assumed the proportions of a presidential boom for Mi*. Hughes. Supplementing this was an undercurrent of expiessiun from per- . sons of prominence gathered in Washing ; ton, mainly from the West, to the effe that President Harding was a “one-lei President." Then the Administration publicity bureau, which appears to be large enough to take rank as a department with a ( Cabinet portfolio, got busy. An “inside story” appeared in the leading Washington Administration organ given the dra- : rnatlc setting of the presidential stateroom on the Mayflower, in which the : I’re-bb'iit had locked himself, after giv- ( lug orders that ho was not to be disturbed and therein had worked out the (call I'-r the Armament conference, later calling In one by one the "best minds’ who m.'i'Orupanied him and -howed them vva.it he had written “with frequent cor- ; ructions and interlineations,’’ which they . read with "amazement." It was the In- | citation to the nations to atteud the arms conference. NFXV AND lit Tkl.lt Gl\ E OFT STATEMENTS. In addition to the work of the writers ol' the "inside story. ' Senator New of Indiana, one of the political strategists of the Administration, ami liep.-esciitative Butler of I’ensylvania, gave out state- ! meats saying Mr. Harding and not Secretary Hughes was responsible. A press association, which. < f course, was let lti on the "Inside story,’’ said: "It was carried into execution by the American Rig I-'our, which Secretary Hughes heads, but the 'big Idea’ on which the plan is built, according to the ‘inside story.' came from President Harding." Naturally tho Hughes b-om for President received a sudden check, but only temporarily, when it again proceeded tinder reduced speed. The iext publication calculated to anesthetize the Hughes boom appeared in another Administration organ under the headline: “Harding 1' Strategist of Arms Farley." with Secretary Hughes reb gated to the position of “tactician." The -elaftve sratns of President Herding and Scire:arv Hughes is thus de-s-rib-d in th- story referr-d to: "Rut wh-11 the ‘zero hour’ came and our confer, rice 'A. IB F.' had to go over th- !••;.. Mr Harding sent Churl, s Evans Hughes into the breach, panoplied in the unqualified trust that has to be re-p-'-d in a field marshal. On Nov. 12. the President went to Continental Mein. rial Hall, surveyed the field of operations, gave the signal f-r the attack with soldierly brevity nud modesty and. then left the scene." j In tliis story it was developed that the scheme for the reduction of battleships was drawn by the Navy Department. but as the story said. "President Harding approved the limitation program, it<m by item, as the program eventually was submitted to him." KVTKXI r INTERESTING 111 'XX TIM LEAST.

In whatsoever way these stories may have indicated or reflected the political attitudes of the two men with relation to each other, tliis extract from the second story, at least Is interesting. "Statesmen like Balfour. Rriaml. Vivian-. Beatty. F<'dl ami lesser conference light- wh • saw Woodrow Wilson in 1 action at the Peace Conference frankly are amazed at the invin. ibte seclusion j in which Warren G. Harding is holding | 1 :ms,lf. Many ~f them fancied that as j th- White House literally is across the ■ str-ct troth the Conference, the figure ami personality of the President would at least be visible if not. paramount. They have hardly been able to account for the conspicuous absence . the Hard tag note in conference affair'.' The next conference achievement was the Pour Power Treaty, which again I.n-iight Mr. Hughes into the liiielight politically. Again the press rally began to comment upon Mr Hughes’ statesmanship and great credit was given him in ninny quarters, although Senator Lodge was permitted to air his literary erudition in announcing it at the (denary sessb n: nl'o, despite the fact that current news reports were to the effect that Great Britain was the fir-' to suggest n three power arrangement in the Pacific. A few days later, comes tho lending Administration organ in Washington with another “inside story" under the headlines “Harding Sketched Four Bower Pact Formula Last Winter.” It is set fortli therein that months ago! President Harding nt a conference of . th- “best minds" at Marion outlined the' "leading light” theory on which tin* ( new treaty is based. The leading light theory, by the way, is thus explained in the latest “inside story.” “It is the President's theory that the town meeting is idealistic democracy, but the town meeting can act effectively only through a small committee of its leading ; lights.” ANOTHER LATEST INSIDE STORY. Referring to the report that the four- i power plan originated with Great Britain. this latest “inside story" says: “It cun be stated xvith authority that ' such a suggestion would not have teen considered tier, l except for tho fact that it happened to coincide xvith the Presi-

dent's previously expressed views. These views should have been known and probably were known in London as early as last January. The Britisn proposal for a wider treaty to supplant the AngloJapahese alliance was not made until last summer.” This disposes of the British end of the controversy. Secretary Hughes, with whatever credit he may be entitled to in tin* matter, is disposed of as follows: "Further light on the President’s purpose is shed by the fact that in Florida last winter he told a number of hl-s closest advisers, including Charles Evans Hughes, that he felt one of the first great I 'oleins of his Administration would ; have to do with the arrangement of better relations with Japan.” it is also staled that iu dealing justly with China, Mr. Harding holds It is necessary that Japan, Great Britain and the 1 niied States be in complete accord. The . “ins de story” then continues: “This accord he (President Harding) believes he has arranged.” With the President given full credit for nil the achievements of the conference to date and Secretary Hughes placed in the perfunctory position of spokesman, ; with his presidential boom deflated by the punctures of the Administration press pens, the President took the initiative iu Interpreting the four-power treaty, which, according to the principal Administration organ here, he is said to have sketched winter. This interpretation, it seems is jm direct conflict with the interpretatcu placed upon it by Secretary Hughes and the other American delegates. Under Mr. Harding’s interpretation the guarantee of the insular possessions and dominion of Japan does not apply to the main islands constituting Japan proper. The American delegates construe the treaty , 0 apply to the Japanese homeland; that is to say, to the Japanese empire. What effect if any this conflict of view w.H have from a party political point of view upon the relations of the President and his Secretary of State remains to be s.but in view of what Isas preceded Jt. its set forth herein, it has created a situation which will cause much speculaticn and conjoruire and the development ot xv)u"!i will be watched with national interest. Legion Notes .Teutons of the “honors" bestowed on i L Rcrgdo!!. n man describing ...in.'. ~ as 1 . L. Naylor. Genncssee, Idaho, is '" .ting official recognition of nis seif-' Imposed title of "super slacker of the I titt,-<l N’atcs. He has written Governor line. Washington. asking that his name be place,t at the top of the slacker list. 1.. v moving from city to city and ■ ' lotnging his name, the man declares he laughed at the draft. By purchasing a ; soldiers discharge and war medals, ho adds, he lias enjoyed all tho glory of an ~1 iv F ' he l o ’ “ Vou ou Sbt so hear me -Il th- girls about the battles I was In. he writes. Federal agents and America ti Legion men of the West are searching ior him, to bestow additional hon- ; ors. Pekingese dogs wearing expensive coats wlule ex soldiers sit shivering on Park benches aroused the ire of the Kev. s. Barkes Cadruan, Congr-gationaiist minister of Brooklyn, during the American Region's attempt to get overcoats t-d- needy ex-service men. Rev. Cadman advocated taking the coats off "these overdressed promenaders with poodle dogs on a string and wrapping them around the half frozen backs of . our boys." To liven tip the town"? long winter evenings, the American Legion post of Kfrutheona, Minn., challenged the to a whist tournament. The Anal gams ot the series ms and until 3:30 a. the ex-soldiers winn.ng. 1 hr n aeitig of .• “trained, svmpathetic war mother" at Ellis Island to aid "omen immigrants to get suitably located in the I nited States, is being consbb rcc by the American Legion Auxiliary. A gold star mother, 100 years old. Is being taken care of bv the American Legion iu White Plains. N. Y. Her son her only support, was killed in France. The government check, paid for her son's death, merely covers her rent. She is : a .Southern negro. if a pending ordinance allows the em- ; ployincnt of ”(M additional policemen in Bos Angelos, Chief of Police Jones will : till the vacancies with ex-service men, he has inf-rmcil the American Legion, seeking the organization's cooperation iPi obtaining candidates. Cabot Word, vice commander of the Bari- 1 France) post of the American Legion, has been elected first vice ((resident of the Interallied Veterans Federate 1 In his second annual congress In l'cris. A Briti'h veteran is second viee--1 r- and a French veteran heads the organization. Every rural school center and village in Oklahoma will have a detachment of American Legion members. Small communities which cannot maintain i hart--"d posts will be organized Into outposts. Many 'i"k and xv. litded ex-soldiers who traveled far to obtain treatment in the army and navy hospital at Hot Springs. Ark., arc in destitute circumstances after they have been refused admission to the hospital, according to national headquarters of the American Region. Only the surgeon general of the Army or the B. n Veterans Bureau •an admit men to treatment there. Asa part of its Christmas program, the American Legion of Omaha, Neb., sent Mrs Marie Anderson, tv*, to Leavenworth. Kim., to visit her son. The boy is serving a sentence for an offense committed after he ran away from home at sixteen yours to join the army. He served during the World War. An order issued by the Secretary of the Navy, and construed as affecting adverse!) 1 the retention of disabled men working in government shipyards was protested in a resolution passed by District Lodge No. 41. International Association of Machinists, in convention at Washington. I*. O. The American Legion’s ’ national headquarters has thanked the labor organization for its cooperation "in obtaining a square deal for sick and disabled former service, men.” Amounts received as compensation, family allotments and allowances under the war risk insurance and vocational rehabilitation acts, or ns pensions from tlic Government for military or naval service in time ot war may be exempted from income tax returns of ex-service men. Tile exemptions were obtained following an appeal made by the American Legion's legislative committee. The tax exemption also extends to “contribution of gifts for the use of the posts of the Legion or the Women’s Auxiliary units thereof.”

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