The Syracuse Journal, Volume 16, Number 39, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 24 January 1924 — Page 3

Battleship Arizona Going Through the Canal PM- •• •JJBL.*’*l F~|L’ j ;i i ■ ■ 11 ' -a., ■k&» n\ ■ z.j .v ■' n^w^^-^wF z g / •— \ |HLk E / I i- _ \ Here is the U. S. 8. Arizona, one of Uncle Sam’s mighty fighting ships. in the Pedro Miguel locks, Panama canal, en route to the war games held off panama by combined ships of Pacific and Atlantic fleets. President Obregon’s Artillery Going to Battle ■ j vA.xhrtw£fw3H I.MW-001 I l ). ■ • t ~ ■ ' Artillery of the federal Mexican army entraining for the successful attack on the revolutionists at Puebla

“Recognized” as Czar of Russia MMWIW IWIH ,, 'WI£ L ;. uda^kTi e; \ s Ibl w 7/ Mttw Va. II HL 'jp At a family council of the surviving Romanoffs, held in,Paris, It was agreed that the Grand Duke Cyril should be recognised as the legitimate claimant to the Russian throne. The photograph shows him with the grand duchess, who Is a daughter of the late duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Can’t Tell Martha From Clarice ▼ iflk I Here are Martha and Clarice Sorgenfrei, nlneteen-year-old twins, who are employed tn the freight office of the Rock Island railroad at Blue Island, HL Clarice Is a telephone operator and Martha is a timekeeper. There are about 85 people In the office where they have been working for some years, yet pot one of them can tell which Is which when away from their desks.

FROM FAR AND NEAR

Wild rice which grows in Wisconsin must be harvested from boats. A stamp collection in London was ,i recentlj insured for >10.000.000. A machine that digs, sorts and sacks potatoes is now in use. Chicago has a law firm composed of mother, sen end daughter. It is the custom of French fishing veseaia to inform their owners by Ms«}to on the comoletioa of a catch.

Platinum was first discovered in 1741. The first labor union was organised about 1720. The first steamship navigated the MtoW in mt t No iron rails have been made in the United State* since 1811. The total dally water consumption <rf New Tart city la 73CNOUOOO garloss.

MISS CUPID OF KANSAS • H'■ ; L Xa / 1 I It iX/HL x iE ' * Miss Margaret Markley of Emporia college, in Kansas, has started a date bureau that already does a thriving business. Miss Markley advertises herself a*,"Mlss Cupid” and by .means of her bureau she brings timid coeds and bashful suitors together. A nominal charge of 25 cents is made for male students, vyhile tlw girls are charged 50 cents. Miss Markley vays she charges the girls more because the Investment Is a good one with them Any fellow who will pay a quarter to make a date, will spend at least two dollars to make It a good one. WOMAN IS A GENERAL A ■ * * ■•’• \ fc i » a k ' V Here is the Chinese woman commander. General Wong, who , commands a detachment of Honan soldiers. These troops are supporters of Dr. Sun Tat Sen. Lota of Binder Twins. Approximately 385,000 tniiqs of binder twine, sufficient to stretch around the world nearly nineteen times if it was all tied in one string, were required to bind Alberta's 1823 bumper crop. Alberta’s farmers used 35,000,000 pounds of binder twine in mm T«*. ______ Quite Different Many • man who walks miien ta reach the eighteenth hole had a grand father who covered the same distune* ! going to a country church.

THE SYRACUSE JOURNAE

Washington Sidelights

Child Labor Amend Washington.— Adoption &f the proposed child labor amendment to' tOe Consyitu- > . tlon. In the Interest of which are lined up practically-all the organized men and women of the country, wifi make possible for -the, first time the application of federal standahfs to rural child labor. .. . * ' *;'* This Is accomplished by the Inclusion in the next national chlljl labor law of provisions fixing at least a minimum age and maximum hours of employment of children in the'bard manual work of'.the farm. -.— .*,.. Neither of the, child labor laws parsed by congress and found unconstitutional by’the -Supreme court dealt at any point with employment of children in agricultural work, which has been regulated.. so far as it has been regulated at all. by the various Many state laws, however, specifically exempt agricultural' work from some If not all of the Qrovisioijs. Only four states jnake specific provisions regarding, the employment of children In agriculture.' Nebraska includes work In the beet fields, under the eighthour and night-work provisions of its child laboV laws. ’ :

Comptroller Pleads for National Banks

HENRY M. 'of tike currency, made -an open appeal to the country In ■ '.» his annual report for the preservation and protection of the'naYimial banks? The national banking system, he said, deserves iriore conslderarton than Ittrecently nas received. -He insisted ft is now a -question for congress to decide whether the. several unfavorable factors bearing on the system shall continue or whether “we - shall sit idly by and apathetically watch its retrogratlon.” • ’ . One of.the principal influences cited by. Mr. Dawes was the “persistent suggestion" that tjie office (if comptroller of the currency be abniisired. The comptroller, Mr. Dawes assqjted. possesses ninny powers susceptible of arbitrary and right enforcement, but Tie declared it lx not . now the pulley and never has been to employ them in any wqy that would not'further-the banking interests of the country.

“To Raise Red Flag Over White House”

EVIDENCE that the soviet government had sent instructions to' the tVortcrSrs* Party of. America to "rftise the ted flag oyer the White led President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes to issue a statement rebukiitg the soviets for approaching' America “as Ji wolf in sheep’s clothing’,’ in asking recognittOn * . Secretary Hughes made public the text of Instnictloris recently given. by Zinoviev, president of the. communist international And' president; qt. the Petrograd sovtei, to the Workers’ Party of America, the communist organisation in the L’nlteji. States *hich. is seeking to 'undermine Americah in-' atitutlons. : .■ ’ ‘ ■ "The State department announcement declares “the soviet ’regime in Russia is the organ of. the communist party for the governing of Russia,? and. Atefclov, member of the Russian communist party and of the ailRusslan central executive committee and editor p| the Ixvdstia. official orthedsoviet regime; “The-dose ‘organic and. spiritual the soviet republic

War Prisoners Are Released by Coolidge

plea for amnesty which has offi,«.h»wn presented repehtedly to ’Jr ‘ three -national administrations . was granted finally, by l*resiifi commuting the seni h nee* remaining Imprisoned viulator? of war laws. j The .action of the President brougfi* about the .release of 31 men. serving sentence* fn the federal prison at Leavenworth. • Kan., for violation of the espioftage- art. Two of’ mm were convicted at Kansas oty in along with 24 ifher siteued members of Die I. W. W,;- nine of them were convicted In Chicago together with William D, j (Big Bill) Haywood, general iwcretarytreasurer of the 1 W. W| and the others were found guilty In Sacramento in 19W. ' Mr. Coolidge acted upon, receipt of a«recommnndati<m for amnesty from the special committee he appointed ' several weeks ago to make : a disinter- ; 'eMed stpdy of the question of Clemency for war law violator*. This com- i

First State Reception at White House

COMMENT In Washington is that when President and Mrs. Coolidge received members of the diplomatic ccffps and nearly 2MO additional guests at the White House. In the first state reception of the new administration. It was a function which for brilllnflee. and color seldom has been equaled In social events incident to the historic mansion. Promptly at nine o’clock the marine corps trumpeters, in their scarlet uniforms. sounded "attention." and to the martiff! strains of “Hal! to the Chief.” the presidential profession passed down the grand staircase and through the middle door to the bine room, where the receiving line was formed just within the door lending to the green room. The naval and mflftary aids of- the President, resplendent tn the dress uniform at the service, came first Then followed the President and Mrs. Coolidge, the President smiling kindly into the faces of the guests, and Mrs. Cbolidge. a graceful and youthful fig-

ment and tne Farm liOhU 1* thie only, state .according \o,tbe children's bbre&u, ?whjch has-' Mttempted directly to regutdte general agricultural employment, the passed- tn 1921 proMbltigg entirely.the employment of children under - fourteen at all kinds 'of work, including farm work, except In “irregular service" for not more than * four hours a day, While at least twenty states forbid the employment of children under fourteen during school hours in “any gainful occupation.” the tendency has been to ignore the application of these laws to farm work." California is the only state providing'special schools for the children of migratory workers. 'the result, reported by the children's bureau after investigations conducted in typical farming areas tn Illinois. Michigan. North Dakota, Colorado. Texas, Maryland. Virginia. Kentucky. . South- Massachusetts and Connecticut, is that children from six to sixteen .'ate workfrg in increasing numbers not only on home farms, but as hired laborers, the majority leaving school to do'this work, and dropping in consequence from one to six years belnqd their grades In school. ' ..

“The office of the Comptroller of the Currency* has *to be organized forquick and suminary decision.” said Mr. Dawes. ‘“A mob of dep<seitors is ne.ver complacent enough to a.wait .the deliberatiops of a town meeting. “If we dre to fidve a national banking system over- which the government' exercises supervisory' controh that control jnust be' in the hands of an independent executive and not the Representative of -a preferential creditor. . The only fair and only logical thing to do’is either io continue the present system with an independent comptroller or abolish the system entirely. A man cannot serve two umsters. and -a. jrusteg"who will act fqr. two -conflicting interests Is ipso facto inlrotnpetent either mehtaUy or morally." . . Tjie ttranch' banktag. problem, the comptroller Said, presents a riron-cut as to whether the enuntify prefers a system of privately owned branch bguks a reserve system under federal conffof." ’ * ' <s ’ *

and The communist internatjonal can-not-bo-doubted." And even if this situation bud.not - been a’dmittiM|. niariy times’by bdttf-sides, it would be dehr to ever'ybnity<Ha an established fact. In the same degree as the**ex!stence and the stability of soviet Russia are of Bhpqrtaneg to, the Third Iptornationale, the "strengthening and the development of the communist international i< of* great mbnieht to sovfet' Russia-.X •• . The announcqnunt then quotes tn fyH ktu*’ “instructions’’ sent to the Worker's Party of America, .which thev refer tn as the "W: P. .t’the ad anqe guard of The revolutionary proletariat of the United States of North America.” and. expressing the hope that ft “will- now more su<*ceasfully conduct Jts- revolutionary work among tbetaiilUons of American proletarians.” \ The instructions then outline.a program tpr. “piore intensive revolutionary work?* endifig* thus: “We hope thht the party will step by step conquer (embrace) the proletarian forces of America and In the not distant future raise the Red flag ‘ oter the White House." .

ruittee- was .composed of Newton D. Baker, secretary of war during’ the war period: Maj. Gen. James G., IJari Hord, who served overseas as head of the service of supplies of the Amer lean army, and Bishop Claries H. Brent lOf the * Episcopal church, who was J wbief -of the Army chaplain service ■ during the war. ’- r: f ' *"' * The news was received with- gratifij cation by the American Civil Liberties league and other organizations which have carried on the fight for amnesty and also by ?L»nator Botah (Rep.. Idaho) and ©then members of congress who have held that inasmuch as the allies had released their war law | prisoners the United States should do . likqvvlse. . I The prisoners convicted at Chicago ! weae CI.J. Bourg. Harry Lloyd. Charles I H. McKinnon. James P. Thompson, I Alexander Courno®, Burt Lorton. ; James Rowan. . t t Big Bill Haywood, who jumped hl* bail and fled from the country, is tn * Russia, or was at last accounts.

ure in a gown of white brocaded satin, made on plain lines with a court train sweeping behind her some three' feet, and in her left arm she carried a huge bouquet of large white roses fled simply with white satin ribbon. Behind followed members of the cabinet and their wives In order. Members of the diplomatic corps who had been assembling In the state efining room passed before the recelv- # ing party, which was made up of Presidept and Mrs. Coolidge and Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes. The rest of the members of the cabinet teok up their station in the blue room, together with other specially Invited guests, from which vantage point they could watch the pageant of beautifully gowned women and diplomats in gorgeous uniforms present their compliments and greeting to the new President of the United State* of America. At the head at the diplomatic line appeared the familiar figure of the ambassador of Francei, M> Jweernnd dean of

Latest Design for Blouse .” .' Ji; Styles in Winter Coats Vary L

T-NTENTLY blouse designers have * watched the-weather vanes of sashfor they had te determine the direction of. the wind 'before they launched their new creations for the demi-season and for spring, tn styles there Is a strong, unswerving blow from the' east —fabrics and colors, garnitures and lines reflect again the Chinese influence. In all kinds of blouses another fully established fact is the predominance of the overblouse. Plaitings are. scheduled to play an tynportant part In tailored and sectailored styles as well as. in dinner blouses, and this is important to know, because "It is In the air”, that the best-

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dressed women are going back to iler ! first fove—the. strictly tailored twopiece suit —for street wear. Crepe_de chfne, printed silks and pussy wlßdw’-'tnffetit - just about’monopolize the field of fabrics—they areused for the-several classes of blouses. Strictly tailored look- to • pin ttieks oc; pla,iteo frills fbr their embellishment. whlle\ semi-taOkired models suppler'nent these withcomhjDatiohs of printed and sIHtS or of two colors, as in the biouse pictured. Decorations are simple; poinfs and scallops.! much featured, often with outlining of narrow bgaid. ‘ Buttonholing and wide hemstitching are aatd for qntllnihg collars and cuffs and for decorative purposes. The personal monogram .lb

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Two Stunning Coat Models, even more approved than ever as an embellishment, and Is variously placed, jmt usually near the corsage. Speaking of hip bands, they appear to be of two main varieties —the plain narrow band and" the crushed or draped kind. These are supplemented by occasional models with peplums. Sleeves are long and there is a flair for collars and cuffs of plgin silk, link cuffs and very narrow tie* of aiik at the neck. - - Smart and Artistic. A black satin table scarf can easily be made by binding a rectangle of heavy material with' grosgrain ribbon In an old coral tint. This ia applied with liquid glue. A dashing design cut from cretonne 1* placed near one end and the completed gift is very smart and artistic. Monogrammed Towala Imported towels have a wide berder »f gray blue woven Into the material. Ijslf a do’en skeins of floss of tb*.

In the winter- garden of fashions, nothing has flourished so luxuriantly *as coats.' They have never been presented in more varied styles or‘is such distinguished and beautiful designs jwitbin the memory vs the oldest fashion reporter. One can choose a long, slim model, a long flaring model, a wrap-around, a straight Or an- un- • even hemline, or turn attention to -short coats with almost as ..gregi, variety to choose among. Fur or .fab--" rics are equally good .style—or combinations of the two—afid fur-Jfe every- . where' present in collars. »uid cuffs Fur bindings,, often outlined ’with nare . roti Silver or gold braid,' afidcl - .■ i i »-■

fto the richness of handsome material Nothing is too gorgeoqs for coats thil season. Besides lustrods pile fabribs, there are luxurious' - wool brocades. Even regal jslmwls have been' resurrected fnup' sedar dh'ests *nd Trap a formed into short cotfts or long wrqpa .Now is "the dp’tib Seuson, for coats bargain hunters. 1 After.the holiday* are past —In the yare-inventpry period, mercbairts ail .for turning their ready-to-wear stocks into “cash. Tht more*stunning and unusual the coat, j the more necessary to move it from rack to wearer and*-txmte cu» on straight and ample lines are B*od styl« for more than one or two seasons and it is good business to buy now.

Two handsome examples, that insnrt long service and general dependability, are shown in the picture. The model at the left. mridlk of a fine pile fabric, and handsomely embroidered 1b self color has a collar of dyed squirrel. The stunning short coat is made of a paisley shawl and finished wide collar and cuffs of black fox fur. Wool brocade might be used for this model ■ • <©. 1914. Western Ntwtptpet Union.) same shade of blue accompany the towels in order that the owner*! Initials or monogram can be carried out in the exact shade. Rich Beaded Coetume. A rich beaded costume consists oi a dress and knee-length coat of black velvet lavishly trimmed with rows and rows of small steel beads. The upper part of the dress is completely covered with the beads, as is the entire coat. Bands of black fox complete Ihf ensemble.