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BEFORE “T”T‘ THY there should even be any discussion conIT IS \/Y / cerning cutting the salary of Dr. H. S. TOO LATE V f Hatch, superintendent of the Marion County Tuberculosis Sanitarium, is hard to understand. If the job is being made a political one, the county commissioners are making a great mistake.* If their object merely is economy, they are making an equally grave mistake. There are many places where economy could be practiced without endangering the welfare of the community. Dr. Hatch lias demonstrated his ability as head of the county institution. During the past six years he has built it up from almost nothing to a fairly large, and efficient hospital. He has demonstrated his ability to handle tuberculosis cases and to accomplish results. There are many jobs in Marion County which could be filled by fairly intelligent politicians with little training. The job of superintendent of the tuberculosis sanitarium is not one in this category. Such a place requires a skilled diagnosticia nand physician. Human life depends on it. Tubercular patients must have the best of care and money considerations should not stand in the way. There are indications the citizens of Marion County are in no mood to to-erate the salary cut proposed by the commissioners. It is hoped the commissioners will realize this. HARDING'S "TT'x RESIDENT HARDING, a Washington disGREAT L J pat ch says, desires to call a second arms CHANCE X conference. It would deal with aircraft limitation, the message said, adding that the President has not abandoned his association of nations idea. This is encouraging. It begins to look as if President Harding intends to tell the little band of moss-grown isolationists in the United States Senate just where it can get off. We would like to make one suggestion, and that is that the President make it an international conference for the advancement of world rehabilitation and peace, and include arms limitation in the program. It would be useless to discuss further disarmament with almost any European power unless problems out of which war might grow can first be satisfactorily settled. The Indianapolis Times has suggested a plan which has met with almost universal approval. The President appears disposed to go part of the way. Nation-wide investigation indicates the vast majority of the people of the country would be with him were he to go the whole distance. Never in history has the world stood in such desperate need of a leader. All mankind cries aloud for one. China, with her four hundred million, is in chaos, again threatening the world with anew war. not to mention the old Stand-by, Europe, across which “the four horsemen" somehow never cease to gallop. Destiny offers the American President an opportunity not, only to win a niche in the American ball of fame along with Washington and Lincoln, but to carve a place for himself in world history as another Moses. The world must have a great, disinterested, fearless leader or it is lost.

STRANGE TrT’S queer how our lives mvsteriously arc HOW FATE I linked to others, paths criss-crossing time DOES IT X and again. Spiritualists believe we travel through eternity in “circles’’ or groups. Near Rochester, X. Y.. a farmer saves a drunken man from drowning. An hour later, homeward bound, thp farmer’s auto hits and fractures the skull of the drunk as he unexpectedly Staggers out on to the road from the darkness. That is fate’s criss-crossing, with a vengeance. The victim is thinking it over in the hereafter. HUGO, |- yUGO STINXES is worth only a fifth as much JOHN AND I—l as Henry Ford, world’s richest man. figuring HENRI XX Ford’s fortune at $550,000,000. Ford really is richer, for his annual business income (before the tax man gets him) is equivalent to 5 per cent interest on 2.380 million dollars. The elder Rockefeller would still be richer than Henry if he. hadn’t given .away and endowed by hundreds of millions until today only $300,000,000 to $500,000,000 stand between him and the poorhouse. What charities will appeal to Ford when he begins distributing his wealth on a big scale back to its source?

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but it is only when they are assisted by such tangible things as poisons, or, in a few cases, by the superstitious terror of the object, that death can be brought about. W ho was Coal-Oil Johnny* The nickname given to John Steele, a famous coal operator in the Penn sylvania oil fields, who amassed a great fortune and squandered it in riotous living. Is it ever proper to ser\o vegetables in saucers at a dinner as is done in hotels? No. Saucers for vegetables are contrary to all etiquette. What have been the greatest changes in international finance during the past ten years? When the World War broke out the people of Europe held American securities to the extent of $4.500,000,000. During the war $2,500,000,000 of these American securities were repurchased from Europe and the American government loaned to allied governments $10,000,000,000. In addition about $5,000,000,000 of foreign securities have been purchased by citizens of the United States. What is the increase in the use of the telephone during the last ten years? In the United States, the increase in the number of telephones since 1910 was practically as great as 'the total number of telephones in the country at that date. In 1910 there were 6.995,592 telephones; in 1920, 12,688.474. What is the proper way to address the President of the United States in a letter. The envelope should be addressed “The President of ' the United States." or merely—*The President, Washington, D. C.” The formal beginning of the letter is ■ Sir”; the informal beginning ia “My Deau Mr. President.”

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MOTHER’S HOPE DIES AS MOUNT DEATH MYSTERY BAFFLES ALL ATTEMPTS OF COURT INVESTIGATORS

DRAFT LAW FOR ‘NEXT WAR’ DOES NOT PROVIDE - OCCUPATION EXEMPTION Every Male Citizen Between Ages of 18 and 45 Will Be Registered Immediately Under Provisions as Proposed,

This is the second of a series of articles b.v Robert Ta-lley on *‘<iettin,c Reedy for the Next War.” ,

Washington, .tune 2.—-undtr the draft law to be used In the ‘‘next war" — Every male citizen between the ages of 18 and 4. r > will he registered Immediately, a total now estimated at 25,000.c>i0 men Those between 18 and 30 will be Yank Organizes AllAmerican Orchestra - HOWARD BARLOW Bv \KA Sm i ice NEW YORK June 2. An allAmerican orchestra! From conductor to drum mer, from first violinist to trombone player—Americans all. What is said to be the first orchestra answering this description, which will play on a national scale. Is now preparing to tour the country. The organizer is the condtictor — Howard Barlow, and it took him ten long years to fulfill his dream for an orchestra of Americans for Americans. By persistence and plugging away he finally gathered about him enough lovers of music with means to start. His finished orchestra is the answer. Recently he gave an initial concert. Only friends were invited, and the affair was supposed to be rather secret. But some New York critics to squeeze their way in, and their subsequent praise wan long and loud.

Around the World

Lidless Japan The Japanese have no hat of their own. Thp Chinese have something typically Chinese which they wear on their heads; so have the Koreans, Hindoos, Turks, Arabs, and even the American Indians The Japs, finding themselves lidless, are taking to western world chapeau x— caps, bowlers, silk dicers, straws, fedoras and the rest. In 1922 Japan importer] 13?,324 felt hats, mostly from Great. Britain and America. Funny Page Dolls The Germans are making dolls modeled after well-known characters in American “funny papers." There Is some talk of prosecuting them—for patent infringements, of course. Trade Willi China ' American imports front China for 1922 amounted to $163,891,630, or 24 pe,- cent more than for 1921. Raw silk headed the list, hut hair nets and squirrel skins were well in the running. Farmers' Inion Farmers in South Africa have bander! together to buy wholesale what they need and sell what they produce at a fair profit—not having to accept whatever is offered. The Farmers’ Cooperative Association, as the union Is called, has paid out in thirty-two weeks over $900,000 for purchases. They are making living cheaper. Polish .Movies American movies lead in Poland. During 1922 the pictures shown in that country were 218 American. 140 German. 59 Polish, 32 French. 47 Italian. 47 Austrian, 31 Danish. 9 Russian. 6 English and 6 Swedish. Amer ica led her nearest competitor, Germany, by kO per cent. And a Billion Tamales Mexicans consume about 2,000,000 barrels of tlour annually. About half Is made in Mexico, 600,000 barrels from American wheat. Soft Stuff Nicaragua does a considerable bus!ress exporting sarsaparilla. Information Is Costly By Timex Special LAPORTE. Ind.. June 2. —Fred Maehel knows today how fast his new motorcycle will run, but his knowledge caused him what will probably be a long visit to the Holy Family Hospital He was said to have been traveling seventy-five miles an hour on a road near here when he lost control of the machine.

classified first; the others later, it need arises. There will be no exemptions of men under 30 for occupational reasons; no chance for another try the slackers rushed to the shipyards. Exemptions Remain Same Exemptions on account of dependents will remain the same. Such is the gist of anew selective service act written and approved by ; the United States Army general staff i and now ready to be laid before Conj gress within five minutes after a I declaration of war. The proposed | law represents months <>f study by General Pershing, chief of staff, and his officers, not only' on the law itself, hut on measures for putting it into effect ifcith lightning speed. The draft system of IP 17, despite its crudity and hurried penetration of an untried field, finally' emerged as : America's outstanding achievement in the World War. The new law embraces all its best features, plus the benefits of experience. In a "maximum emergency," Army officers estimate, a registration of 25.000,000 men could produce 8,000,000 able-bodied soldiers. At least, 8.000.000 of these would come from the ISt O-30 age class. Tt Is not Improbable an effort will be made to pass this law through Congress within the next few year*, merely to get it on the books and have It in readiness. Under tei-ms now being considered, the draft law could be invoked without delay by proclamation of the President, hut the President could not Issue such a proclamation until after war had been declared. Draft Boards Planned It is not. beyond the dreams of the Army's general staff that a skeletonized peace time draft, organization will soon be working !n each of the 5,000 local draft board districts from Maine to California. But the Army's general staff sees these elaborate plans equally valuable as a preventive against war ns a

LLOYD GEORGE ON RUSSIA AND PEACE (Continued From Page Onel belong the discredit of initiating methods of pogromism. But let us not forget "hat beyond all these circumstances the revolution was rendered inevitable by the ineptitude and corruption of the old system and especially by the terrible suffering and humiliation which that state of things inflicted on Russia in the great war. Any one who has read “Memoirs of an Ambassador,” by M. Paleologue. will find a complete explanation in its pages of the savage hatred with which- the Russian revolutionaries viewed all those who were associated in any degree with the old order. He tells the story of how a gallant army found itself at the critieal hour without ammunition, rifles, transport, and often without food. No braver or more devoted men ever fought for their country than the young peasants who made up the Russian armies of 1314. 1315 and 1016. With little and often no artillery support they faced without faltering the best equipped heavy artillery in the world. They were mown down by shell fire and machine guns by the million. Their aggregate casualties up to September. I3lfi. even according to the Czarist generals of the day, were 5,000,000. In reality they were much heavier. Often they went, into action with sticks, as the Russian war office had no rifles with which to arm them. They picked up as they advanced rifles dropped by fallen comrades. There is nothing in war comparable to the trustful hero ism of these poor peasants. We know now why there were no rifles or shells or wagons. The wholesale corruption of the regime has heen exposed to the world by irrefutable documentary evidence.

Here are a few extracts from M. Paleologue's Interesting hook. One extract from his diary reads: “Lack of ammunition means that the role of the artillery in battle is necessarily insignificant. The whole burden of the fighting falls on the infantry, and the result Is a ghastly expenditure of human life A day or two ago one of Grand Duke Sergius’ collaborators. Colonel Englehardt, said to Major Wehrlin, my second military attache: ’We’re paying for the crimes of our administration with the blood of our men.’ ” Ahout the same date, talking abeut the deplorable state of things. Grand Duke Sergius, who was inspector general of artillery, said to the French ambassador: “When 1 think that this exhibition of impotence is all our aristocratic system has to show it makes me want to be Republican.” j Exhibition of Impotence When a grand duke talked like that early in 1915 what must the peasant soldier have thought by the spring of 1917 after millions of his comrades had been slaughtered as a result of the same "exhibition of impotence?" t recollect well our own military re ports from the Russian fronts. They filled you with compassion for the millions of gallant men who were victims of corruption and stupidity in high places. I recall one statement made to our general which betrays the callous indifference with which men in authority seemed to treat the appall Ing sacrifice of life amongst the loyal ; soldiers who were facing death without a murmur because the “Little ; Father" willed it. Os Men We Have Enough Whenever anxious inquiries were directed by our officer as to the gigantic losses in which which filled him with

* ) ported to have had a boyish love vestigations following the finding of written, saying he would net see her

Doris Fuchs (above), with whom Leighton Mount (lower left) is re-

preparation for vvaF What foreign nation, the staff asks .would be so bold as to attack the United States if it knew that this country had its man power so well organized that it could mobilize an army of 8,00ft,000 men without changing a line in a plan already made?

dismay as well as horror, the usual reply was: “Don’t worry yourself. Thank God of men, at all events, we have eno ugh.” An answer which sends a thrill of horror through you when you read it. That is why at the end of two and half years the patient men in the field at last mutinied. That is why their parents and brothers In the fields supported them. The “Little Father” had failed them and his minions had betrayed them. It is a sordid and horrid tale of peculation, maladministration and cruel treachery. Millions of British and French money went in shameless and open bribery whilst soldiers in the field, for need of what money could buy, were opposnig bare breasts and uncovering brave hearts to t.he most I terrible a.rtillery In the world IF THE REST OF THE MONEY HAD BEEN WELL SPENT, THE ! MONEY LEFT AFTER PROVIDING FOB PROFUSE GRAFT WOULD STILL HAVE SUFFICED TO SAVE THAT GALLANT ARMY FROM DESTRUCTION. BI T UNHAPPILY NO REAL INTEREST WAS TAKEN IN ANYTHING BEYOND THE AMOUNT AND PAYMENT OF POCKET MONEY. THAT SEE.MEI) TO BE THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE TRANSACTION. Nothing was well managed except the inevitable bribe. There were honorable and upright men who dkl their duty by their distracted and plundered country, hut they were helpless in a torrent of corruption. No wonder a great Russian industrialist In the ministry of war, in dwelling on the said failure of Cijarism and Its probable results, in June, 1915, pre-

ported to have had a boyish love a,ffajr. was questioned during investigations following the finding of his skeleton. A letter Mount had written, saying he would net see her again, formed the basis of her entrance into the case.

dieted a revolution with "ten years' of the most frightful anarchy.” "We shall,” he added, "see days of Pugatchev again, and perhaps worse." a striking prophecy, verified with appalling accuracy. “Faithful Unto Death” It is not pleasani to recall these dreadful episodes which reveal a betrayal of a devotion faithful unto death. But this story is essential to a right appreciation of events. There is no savagery like that of a trust-j fill people which finds its trust was being imposed upon the whole time. Here the retribution has been hideous I in all its aspects. But the provocation i was also revolting from every point | of view. To judge Russia fairly that ■ must be taken into account. I THINK THE BRITISH GOV EKNMENT IS THEREFORE TAK IMi THE RIGHT VIEW OF ITS B K S P ONSIBII I TIES WHEN. THROUGH THE FOREIGN SECRET \RY. IT OPENS NEGOTIATIONS WITH A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT IN THIS (Ol NTRY. YOU CAN EASILY EVOKE RESOUNDING CHEERS IMONGST THE THOI GUTLESS BY DECLARING MELODRAMATICALLY T H A T YOl WILL NEVER “SHAKE HANDS WITH MURDER.** IN PRACTICE THIS POLICY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A FAILI HE. If you decline to treat with Russia as long as its present rulers remain in power, then you ought to ptuco Turkey in the same category. The military junta that governed Turkey has i been guilty of atrocities at least as vile as atiy Committed by the Bolshevists. But at Laussanne we ostentatiously stretched the friendly hand of Britain to the authors of the Armenian massacres. And France and Italy—yes, and America—also tendered the same warm handshake Off Your Visiting I.lst I am not criticising the offer of amity mad'' as a condition of peace. We must make peace in the world, and you cannot do so if you put whole nations off your visiting Itst because of the misconduct of those who govern them. In these cases the innocent suffer most. A refused to trade with Russia would not deprive the Soviet commis i sioners of a single necessity or com i fort of iife. The communists are quite I strong enough to take care of them j selves. But the peasants—who are not communists—would continue to suffer, and their suffering would increase as their reserves of clothing and other essetv tials became completely exhausted. And the people of this country who need the produce of Russia for their own use would also suffer to a certain extent. America can afford this exalted j

aloofness. She does not need Russian grain and timber. She is exporter of those commodities. Bnt.we cannot do as well without them and we also sadly need Russian flax for our linen industries, which are languishing for want of it. Last year there were quite considerable imports of Russian ■produce into this country. Imports Greatly Needed This year, owing to the prospects of an improved harvest, these imports will be much larger. They are greatly needed here for our own consumption and they pay for exports of machinery and textiles which the Russian on his part badly requires. Beyond and above bJI these material considerations the world needs peace. It is time we ntftdo up our minds that the Soviets have come to stay, whether we like it or no, and that one or other of the formidable men who rule Russia are likely to rule it for some time to come. The sooner we have the courage to recognize this fact, the sooner will real peace be established. Armed Bandits Get $5 Harry Shipman, 961 Indiana Ave., told police two negroes jumped on the running board of his automobile on Blake St. and at the point of a revolver, took $6 and ran Friday night.

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Beacon Light Burned in Window for Nearly Two Years, By GEORGE BRITT NEA Service Writer Evanston, hi., June 2.—The light that burned for love is out. Leighton Mount is dead. Moaning out all alone along the wooded lakeshore campus of North western University here, his skeleton pleads for someone to interpret the mystery of its w'eird story'. For nearly two years, a brokenhearted mother, wasting away with worry, kept a beacon light burning for her missing hoy. For nearly two years she kept his room in order. Put his shhool books on his desk. Kept his clothes mended and neatly’ pressed. Night after night she stole into that stilled room to see that the light still burned. Night after night, she knelt beside the bed. For Leighton was coming back, she said. But fate ruled otherwise. Boy Found Skeleton Early this spring, a school boy playing pirate along the lake shore crawled through a hole in the pier near the Evanston hreakwater. a mile south of the university campus. He reached a point about twentyfive feet from the opening. There, half covered by' stones, washed over by waves, lay a human skeleton. Every indication pointed to the fact that the bones were those of Mount, 21-year-old freshman, who disappeared on the night of the annual class rush in September, 1921. With the bones were a piece of rope such as students used during the rush to tie their captives, pieces of cloth similar to the clothing Mount had worn and a. tarnished belt buckle bearing the initials “L. M.” An Evanston demist testified the teeth corresponded to Mount's. And medical authorities added to the corroboration of the missing lad's I mother there could be no doubt but death had at last ended her search. The beacon light sputtered and went out. Grand Jury Fails Authorities set to work to solve 'he riddle. But after weeks of investigation the Cook County grand jury had "nothing to report.” Two theories were followed: That Mount met death at the hands of hazers. That he took his own life. Doris Fuchs, a nursemaid w-ith whom he had a boyish love affair, told of a note Mount had written. It said he would not see her again But later Miss Fuchs declared the suicide theory untenable. Official Inquiry proceeded for nearly I two months. More than 300 students participating in the class "rush" were ! subpoenaed. J. Allen Mills, leader of j the freshmen was brought from | Akron, Ohio. Arthur P. Pet-singer, rescued by j fishermen after he was tied head i downward to a breakwater off Calvary j cemetery during the “rush.” was grilled. So were Mount’s parents. Doris ; Fuchs. President Walter Dill Scott j of the university, trustees and alumni. Took Part in Hazing Only one fact stand® out today. ! That is Mount did take part in the hazing activities. j But now the grand jury investiga- | li°n has failed, just as police and I coroner’s Inquiries did. authorities | admit they are no nearer a solution ! than they were when the lake gave up its secret. Meanwhile a mother is praying to know how her only son spent his last moments. "I want the world to know my boydid not kill himself." she whispers. “But I hold no vindictiveness toward any' one." Campus social functions are barred at Northwestern. Collegiate seclusion is disregarded. A volume of loyal pledges has poured in from alumni, renewing devotion to tie purple colors and promising help in arriving at an answer to the question on thousands of tongues: "How did Leighton Mount die?" The Summons By BERTON RRAT.EY WHEN your feet bexin to itch For the lon* and dnstv road Anri you're sick of quarter* which Are your present-day abode; Then it s time to pack your kit And it s time to up and blow. And there s no use fightm it. For you've simply gotta go Ain't it so’ You must go. Start to tramp it to and fro. Take your blanket-roll adit dust. Go you will and go you must When the fever a in your veins You must go! OH. T ve settled down a lot Ands ve sworn I wouldn't stir. Hut would buy a little cot, Find a girl and marry her. Then my feet began to itch And m.v life at home was slow. And m.v nerves began to twitch. So I simply had to go Ain't It so? Von must go. Quit your home and job and blow. Take your blanket-roll and dust. Hit the rovers' endless track: When the fever’s in your veins You must go! (Copyright, 1023. NEA Service. Inc 1

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TOM SIMS SAYS: 1 THESE are ticklish times for the June bride whose future husband has a mustache. * • • Several prominent murder and divorce cases need a little more oblivion. * * * The smallest thing on earth is the atom. The biggest thing on earth is the up and fttom. * * * Try to fall back on vour friends and you may miss some of them. You don’t hear much about the monkey gland business these days. Maybe it needs some new glands. • Woman’s place seems to be in the autb. * * * Among the books with wrong endings are check hooks. * • ¥ Motoring perils are the pedestrian’s. • • * Air castles seldom tumble down unless they are hot air castles. • % m Never jndsre a man’s religion by what he says when he finds his wife had another hat charged. * • * The school of experience never gives out any diplomas. • * • The man who thought up red shoes /or women is still at large.

BOTANICAL FIND HITS EVOLUTION '< Bv United Press CHICAGO. June 2.—Scientific theories of evolution are antedated and revised by discoveries of prehistorical fos?*!s of -bontarueal life jn midwestern coal mines. Prof. Adolf C. Noe. a professor of paleobotany at Chi- ; cago University, announced. Fossils in Indiana "Fine lines and tracings in ‘coal 1 halls' [from mines in Illinois. Texas. lowa and Indiana show flowering plants of high development existed on earth when, according to present scientific theories, only low forms of moss grew.” A fossilated line of a plant similar to a corn stalk was found in an Illinois coal ball. Noe claims it existed j millions of years ago. j “The discovery shows that plant j life in highest forms existed hundreds I of millions of years before the time | science credits it with starting," said i Professor Noe. Earlier Than England "The types of ‘coal balls' found in ; this country show a much earlier plant development than those found I in England, where it was first discovj ered that such formations held the j secret of prehistoric growth.” j The whole scientific theory of life j may he revised by the discoveries, j Professor Noe asserted. D’ANNUNZIO SEEKS NEW ADVENTURE Tty United Yews BRESCIA. Italy. June 2.—Gabriele [D'Annunzio, poet and warrior, announced Wednesday that he is preparing for a last exploit "in which I ultimately hope to die.” Fifty-nine years old. the hero who has defied death and sworn eternal youth, told young men taking part in a regatta on Lake Garda that he is prepared to lay down his life, going out in a last fierce burst of glory he has sought and won. Simultaneously it is rumored, on the eve of the new and mysterious venture, he has become reconciled with Ida Rubenstein, the beautiful Russian actress, who in earlier days claimed his affection. Before daring death he has gone back for a moment to th dream of love that has dominated the later years of his life. Sensationalist, publicist, hero—admitted philanderer among women and fearless leader of men. D'Annunzio's life has been a crescendo of color and drama. New Tax Investigator O. W. Smith of Martinsville has been appointed by Governor McCray a field inheritance tax investigator for State tax commissioners. Flo succeeds Sohulyer C. Mowrer, who becomes a member of the office force.