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NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Peace Treaty and League of Nations Stir Up Lively Debate in the Senate. SHANTUNG AWARD SCORED Charge Is Made That Gift of Chinese Province Is Price of Japan’s Signature—Warning of Peril of War— What Shall Be Done With Mexico?—Daylight Law Saved by President. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. “Many people have thought that the mere signing of the treaty with Germany marks the ending of the world peril. The situation today is still serious. The world’s statesmanship will be sorely tried in the next few years. e “The peace conference (has been history’s greatest instance of a unified world statesmanship directing the moral and material resources of the world’s family of nations. To allow the spirit behind it to disintegrate at this moment of emergency, when united action is imperative, would-be fatal to all the hopes of permanent peace with which we entered the war. “Out of it all has come the most important international document ever drawn —the treaty of peace with Germany—a document which not only meets the issues of the present war, but also lays down new agreements of the most helpful and most hopeful character. The nations are bound together to avert another world catastrophe, backward peoples are given a new hope for their future; several racial entities are liberated to form new states; a beginning is made toward removing unjust economic re strictions, and the great military autocracies of central Europe are de stroyed as the first step in a general disarmament. “The treaty is, of course, not all that we had hoped for. Too many conflicting interests were involved. Nearly every one will find in it weaknesses, both of omission and commission. “I come home pleased, but not overcomplacent with the outcome of the last six montas; hopfeul, but not in the least unmindlul of the problems yet to be solved.” These *are the words of Robert Lansing, United States secretary oi state. They Sound like both fact and sense. Therefore they are welcome in diene topsy-turvy days. Admitting that the League of Nations is the hope of the world, is it one that America can accept in justice to herself? That is what the United States senate is trying to find out. It is the question of the hour. So many shades of individual opinion are held among the senators that acceptance dr rejection can hardly be said to be a party question. Anyway, the Republican view is presumably correctly set forth in the following official statement by Chairman Will H. Hays of the Republican national committee: “The situation respecting the league covenant is simply this: “There must be effective reservations. These reservations must safeguard the sovereignty of the United States in every particular; must guarantee the Monroe doctrine tieyond the shadow of doubt; must either eliminate article 10 entirely or so modify it that our own congress shall be morally as well as legally free after a specified period to decide when and where and to what extent our Soldiers shall be employed; must retain our full control of immigration, tariff and all other purely domestic policies, and must provide full right to withdraw hindrance or conditions of any kind, upon giving sTH table notice. “It is up to the administration to decide whether I* will or will not accept these essential guarantees of

BARRERE’S plea for unity French Ambassador to Italy Denies His Government Has Intention of Aiding Austria. Rome. — Considerable Interest has been aroused here, following the recent disorders between Italian and French troops at Fiume over a speech delivered by Camille Barrere, the French ambassador, on receiving the French eolonv on the occasion of France s national holiday. M. Barrere re-

American independence, which would unquestionably be promptly accepted by the other nations.” Curiously enough these several questions—distinctively American and therefore presumably of the highest importance to this country—have temporarily been Iqst sight of in a burst of senatorial indignation over the action of the peace conference by which Shantung—probably China’s richest province, with 36,000,000 people, the birthplace of Confucius —is given to Japan. President Wilson presented the treaty to the senate July 10. He said that the treaty was nothing less than a world settlement and it was not possible for him in his address to summarize it; he would attempt only a general characterization of its scope and purpose. He offered to be at the service of the senate or the foreign relations committee. He did not mention the Shantung provision, or the Monroe doctrine, or our obligations under article N. Typical expressions of opinion regarding his address follow: “The address,” said Senator Swanson, Democrat, Virginia, “is magnificent, able, eloquent and inspiring. The reasons presented for the ratification of the treaty, including the League of Nations, were strong, cogent and unanswerable.” “Soothing, mellifluous and uninforming,” was the comment of Senator McCormick, Illinois. Taking its stand on President Wilson's principle of “open covenants openly arrived at,” the senate committee on foreign relations to consider the peace treaty met Monday. Senator Johnson, California, brought forward a resolution embodying a demand for data of every character relating to the treaty and its formulation. It called for the suppressed plan for a League of Nations submitted to the peace conference by President Wilson, which the president admits was rejected in favor of the British plan, and also called for the stenographic reports of the peace negotiations. It was adopted Tuesday by the committee. Tuesday, after a heated debate, the senate, without a record vote, adopted Senator Lodge’s resolution calling on President Wilson to submit to the, senate the text of the secret treaty negotiated last year by Japan and Germany and all other data showing overtures made by the mikado's government to the central powers during the war. Throughout the debate the fighting revolved about the Shantung incident. Senator Lodge. Republican leader, charged that the Shantung peninsula was “the purchase price for Japan’s signature to the League of Nations covenant.” Senator Moses of New Hampshire, a Republican member pf the foreign relations committee, called it a “bribe,” and Senator Norris of Nebraska, Republican, denounced it as “an outrage” and “a betrayal.” Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska undertook to defend JtfV&n’s right to Shantung, but Senator Williams of Mississippi, Democratic member pf the foreign relations Committee, frankly admitted that if President Wilson had not yielded in the Shantung affair Japan would have broken off from the allies and negotiated a separate treaty with Germany. Realizing the close relations between Senator Williams and the White House, senators attached much importance to the Mississippi member’s statement that Japan would never give up Shantung again without a war. “If that’s the challenge we might as well settle it now,” said Senator Borah of Idaho, Republican. Thursday was marked by lively senate proceedings. Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, called upon the league supporters to join him in securing a referendum. Senator Sherman, Republican, Illinois, made an address warning the danger of war with Japan and pointing out that such a war would be “Great Britain’s opportunity to regain commercial and financial supremacy from us.” The senate adopted Senator Borah’s resolution demanding the text of the United States protest at Paris against the Shantung award. President Wilson, seeing the league making no headway, and receiving no invitation to appear before the foreign relations committee, began issuing invitations to Republican senators to

called that this was the first time in five years that the French had celebrated July 14 in peace, but that now it was being celebrated with a peace restored by victory. The great soldiers of the Allies, he declared, were passing over that avenue in Paris which has been renamed the “Avenue of Victory.” The ambassador added that he rejoiced with the Italians over the disappearance of that power, referring to Austria, in which the Italians “justly saw hereditary enemy.”

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visit hhn at the White House to discuss the treaty. Senator McCumber, North Dakota, an outstanding supporter of the treaty and the league, was the first caller Thursday. Senator Colt, Rhode Island, was the second. What shall be done with Mexico? This question almost rivals the League of Nations in interest. Nobody seems ready with a complete program, but official Washington is guessing that something will be done soon. Reports come from abroad that the administration is pledged to intervention. This is officially denied. Wednesday Mrs. John W. Correll, whose tragic experience is well known, arrived in Washington with her fatherless son. She hopes to meet the president. A list of 179 Americans murdered in Mexico since 1915 was made public by the National Association for the Protection of American Rights in Mexico. Mrs. Correll said she was leading the ghosts of the 500 Americans who had been murdered in Mexico since 1910. The exclusion of Mexico from the League of Nations was based upon the ground that it had been unable to give proof of intention to observe international obligations. Aside from the murder of foreigners —human life is cheap these days-—money matters will probably force action. Americans have about $655,000,000 invested in Mexico; Great Britain about $670,000,000; France about $285,000,000; Spain. Holland and other countries about $265,000,000. Great Britain and France hold the United States responsible for the Mexican situation, under the Monroe doctrine and under the policy pursued since 1910. They want Mexico put In position so that this property will not be confiscated and payment will be resumed on national and other debts. In short, every indication points to a probable intervention by the United States, acting as mandatory for the League of Nations. The alternative —which is unthinkable —is that foreign nations will be allowed to- intervene, in spite of the Monroe doctrine. President Wilson has vetoed the agricultural appropriation bill, giving as his reason the fact that included in it was a section repealing the daylight saving law. . Debates in congress indicate that the farmers were all against the law, and bombarded congress, while the rest of the country favored the law —and did nothing to support it. Aside from the actual merit of the law, students of government approve the veto on the ground that legislation of this kind is vicious. Legislation by rider is never necessary, and ia favored only by legislators who want to avoid responsibility. The house failed to pass the bill over the veto. Proceedings tn congress seem to indicate that the present “dry” spell will be prolonged and unrelieved. There are several preliminaries to the termination of war-time prohibition—and they all take time. First the treaty must be ratified. Then peace must be proclaimed. Finally complete demobilization of the army must be achieved. Apparently the length of the dry spell depends largely upon how Germany and other countries behave. Don’t think for a mdtnent that’the high cost of living is not receiving its share of attention these days. The federal trade commission has reported an approaching domination by the packers of all important foods In the United States. The department of justice has begun the investigation of a “$160,000,000 food combine” among the canners. Several resolutions have been introduced in the house within the week calling for congressional investigation into prices and the cost of living. People who moved out rather than submit to an increase in rent, have found all the furniture storage warehouses full, with waiting lists. In 47 leading cities In 27 states 89 per cent of all the household storage si pee is occupied. And finally, “the apex of our woe, It now costs more to. save our dough”—-which is to say that a r least one bank has raised the price of safety deposit boxes 50 cents a year. In the meantime. If anyone lacks exciting reading, the newspapers are full of every possible variety and size of strike, with more in prospect.

Continuing, the ambassador declared that contrary to reports that had been circulated, the French government never dreamed of the revivification of that power in any form; that French diplomacy had not lent Itself to any act against which Italians would have a right to feel offended. The liquidation of the defunct AustroHungarian empire was going ou and would continue, he said. It has ceased to exist as an empire and its dismemberment would be rapid. « .

wonurs events IN SHOUT FORM BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LIMIT. ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE Notes Covering Most Important Happenings of the World Compiled in Briefest and Most Succinct Form for Quick Consumption. Sporting Jimmy Wilde, the British flyweight champion, won a decision against l*al Moore, the American bantam, on points in their 20-round bout at London. • • • Washington Approximately three-fourths of the 4,000,000 officers and enlisted men in the military forces who obtained government insurance policies through the war risk insurance bureau at Washington during the war have failed to continue their payments. « • • Resignation of Herbert Quick of Berkeley Springs, W. V„ as a member of the farm loan board was announced at Washington. • • * Carrying increased appropriations for the rehabilitation of disabled soldiers, sailors and marines, the $613,000,000 sundry civil appropriation bill was passed by the senate at Washington. * * * By a vote of 165 to 123 the house at Washington struck out from the remodeled agricultural appropriation bill the rider repealing daylight saving. • • • The Borah resolution calling upon the president to furnish the senate with a copy of a written protest against the Shantung settlement which Secretary Lansing, General Bliss and Henry White, as three of the JHheriean peace commissioners, were said to have signed, was adopted by the senate at Washington without a record vote or any discussion. ♦ * * Resumption of international parcel post service with Germany effective immediately, was announced by the post office department at Washington. Packages up to 11 pounds will be acvepiad. * * • President "Wilson at Washington to the senate the name of Otto A. Labudde to be collector of customs at Milwaukee, Wis. * * • Representative Lever (Dem.) of South Carolina was nominated by ITec-ident Wilson to be a member of farm loan board at Washington. Approximately 175 ships with tonnage of 500.060 will constitute the newly organized Pacific fleet, it was stated at the navy department. The fleet starts on its voyage from Hampton Roads. * * • President "Wilson at Washington signed an executive order increasing the guaranteed price for the 1919 wheat crop to $2.30 a bushel at Galveston and New Orleans. Prospects for a vacation by the house of representatives at Washington about August 1 is seen in the program of legislation mapped out by the Republican steering committee. » « * President Wilson at Washington has decided to invite Republican senators to call at the White House to discuss the peace treaty and the League of Nations, Secretary Tumulty announced. • • • Final plans“for the reorganization of the National Guard on the 16-divislon basis, with divisional areas following the same limits as did those from which .Guard divisions were organized for service against Germany, were approved by Secretary Baker at Washington. « * * One officer and six enlisted men w»ere killed in the destruction of the American mine sweeper Richard H. Buckley by the explosion of a mine in the North Sea, according to a Washington dispatch. * * * Foreign ’ The Irish Nationalist association of Dublin, composed largely of followers of the late John Redmond, who fought during the war, decided that Its members wonld not march in the Victory parade in London. * * ♦ Bela Kun,; head of the Hungarian communist government, has been ousted, according to dispatches from reliable sources in Vienna received by the peace conference at Paris. • • • The Interallied council at Paris refused Italy’s request that the Xustrian concession- at Tientsin, China, be transferred to her. • « • In a vote in the chamber of deputies at Paris, following interpellations on the high cost of living, the government was In the minority by 14 votes. * • • The national assembly at Weimar rejected the socialist motion to abolish ranks of nobility, but declared In favor of a constitutional proviso decreeing the equality of all men and women. • • « Proof positive of the death of the Russian czarina is said to be contained In a secret official report tn the archives at Moscow. < • • • All Serbia is under martial law. Belgrade and other cities are scenes of clashes, with many casualties, says a Vienna dispatch. a' <

Senor Maura, whose cabinet resigned earlier in the week, was charged by the king at Madrid to form a new cabinet, combining in it all the conservative elements. * • • The electoral committee of the senate at Paris decided to report unfavorably the bill adopted by the chamber of deputies giving the vote to women. * * * Three soldiers were killed and ten soldiers and six civilians injured in the explosion of a large munitions dump at Le Bourget, seven miles northeast of Paris. Several buildings were damaged. • • • Dispatches reaching peace conference circles at Paris from Budapest Indicate that general demoralization has struck Bela Kun’s army, which is straggling back from the different fronts with utter lack of discipline. • • * Count Michael Karolyi. former president of the Hungarian republic, has arrived in Italy after several attempts to leave Hungary, and will go to America, according to a Vienna dispatch. • • • A Buenos Aires dispatch says new snowslides on both sides of the Andes mountains have resulted in furthef landslides of large proportions, adding to the difficulties of repairing communications over the vrountains. ♦ • • The last of the German prisoners interned in Switzerland will be sent home -shortly. The Swiss government at Berne has arranged with the alites to repatriate the Germans, who number about three thousand. •♦ » • The British airship NS-11. which left Pulham in a 48-hour flight, was struck by lightning arid its crew of 12 men lost, according to a London dispatch. The NS-11 was engaged in mine-sweeping. ■• • • Notwithstanding strong opposition by the government, a house of commons committee at London approved by a vote of 15 to 12 a clause in the alien bill restricting the employment of aliens in Great Britain. • • • Domestic Fire following a head-on collision on a sidetrack close to the Standard Oil company's warehouse near the Grand Rapids (Mich.) ci>y limits destroyed the big warehouse and entailed a loss estimated by company ofcials at more than $200,000. • « • A referendum at the election in November, 1920, of Michigan's ratification of national prohibition is assured, according to officials of the state Hotel Men’s association at Detroit. « • * James A. Hart, for many years president of the Chicago National League Baseball club and a life member of the National league, died at his home in Chicago. • • • A dispatch from Spokane. Wash., says nearly 1,000 men are fighting 12 forest fires in northern Idaho and western Montana, which are threatening at least two towns, numerous farmhouses and much valuable timber., • • « The Alabama state senate at Montgomery refused by a vote of 19 to 13 to ratify the federal woman suffrage amendment. • • « J. L. Roberts was shot to death and Mrs. Sadie Thomas probably fatally wounded when they were fired on from ambush by unknown parties while motoring near the Dalia? (Tex.) city limits. • • • Car service on the street, subway and elevated lines at Boston and in 12 adjacent cities and towns was tied up by a -strike of 8,000 union employees of the Boston elevated rail way system. 4 ♦ * • Lieut. Charles G. Mauzy of Fowler, Ind., an army aviator from Rockwell field, San Diego, was killed at Los Angeles, Cal., when his airplane caught fire at a height of 900 feet am' fell into a tail spin. • « * Carrying with them wealth estimated by immigration’officials at $24.000.000, almost 8,000 Italians sailed from New York on three Italian liners —the Caserta, Giuseppi Verdi and Re d’ltalia. • • • The Calumet and Hecla and the Mohawk Wolverine Mining companies announced at Calumet, Mich., the restoration of war-time wages, allowing an increase of 15 per cent in the wage* of 12,500 men. ♦ * • A jury in Judge Brentano’s court at Chicago found Mme. Vera Trepagnler guilty of killing Paul E. Vollaud It fixed the crime as manslaughter, carrying a sentence of from one jear to life in the penitentiary. * ♦ * Four thousand employees of the International Harvester company, the McCormick harvester, tractor and twine works, and the Weber Steel company at Chicago, went on strike. • • • The Chicago fire department engineers quit at eight o’clock Saturday looming. It was not a strike, they say, but a wholesale resignation. • • • By an overwhelming majority oi approximately 100 to 1, Chicago street car and elevated employees voted to strike. • • • Twenty-six men are reported by London to have been killed in an explosion -on board the American oilcarrying ship Roseleaf at Cardiff Wales. The vessel was in drydock at the time. • • • Fred Dawes, sheriff of Vernon county, Missouri, was shot and killed and his slayer, Lee McCormick, was fatally wounded in a running battle with deputy sheriffs, after McCoy mlck and an accomplice were found robbing an office of a grain company at Nevada.

FORTY MILLIONS FOR AIR SERVICE CONGRESS GRANTS ENOUGH TO I KEEP UP EQUIPMENT AND RECRUIT PERSONNEL. NOT ALL AIRMEN ASKED FOR Vast Sum Was Needed to Put Aircraft Manufacturing Industry on Production Basis, but America Was Ready When Armistice Came. By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington.--Congress has appropriated $40,000,006 through the army supply bill for the use of the air service. This is not as much njoney as the airmen asked, but it will enable the service to keep up its equipment and a fairly strong personnel, and will enable the United States probably to have airplanes enough for an ordinary emergency. People have been wondering what became of all the money that was voted for the air service in war time. It seems likely that some of it was wasted, but there has been perhaps no proper appreciation of the enormous initial cost which the government had to stand in order to get the great aircraft manufacturing industry started on the basis of production that seemingly was necessary. Brig. Gen. William Mitchell, who is in charge of aviation operations in the war department, was in command of the American aviation service in the St. Mihiel drive. He has just testified that when the drive was started more airships were concentrated in the immediate vicinity than ever had been brought together within a like area since the war began. During the drive 1.500 planes were sent into action. General Mitchell was the first American officer to fly over the Hun line. It is said to be necessary that the airplane service of the United States should be reconstructed. As General Mitchell put it: “The personnel which has been trained as a result of this war is largely scattered throughont the country. We have a wonderful basis of personnel returning from Europe, but they had to go home. A great majority of them would not stay in the service because it looked like a hopeless future for them, as very little encouragement for an air service of any importance in the near future was held out.” Air Forces Were About Ready. It is pretty generally agreed that when the armistice went into effect the United States, so far as its forces were concerned, was just getting ready “to do business” on a proper scale. It is true that the St. Mihiel drive took place two months before the armistice went into effect, but the concentration of flyers at that place left some other places without proper Americas air equipment. Not many planes were lost in the St. Mihiel engagement. Later in the Argonne the losses were, heavy, but no heavier and perhaps not as heavy as it was expected would be the case in hard engagements of that kind. Os the 1,500 machines at St. Mihiel 550 were American and operated by Americans. It is understood that the airplane service of the United States with the Army of Occupation was on a basis of efficiency, one that would have enabled the Americans to conduct operations in Germany, if they had Keen necessary, on a proper scale so far as the air service was concerned. Along the Mexican border today there is a considerable number of airplanes, but not enough, it is understood. to meet even the minor warfare which it is possible may have to be conducted there within the near future. With its $40,000,006 it is probable the air service of the United States can he put on a strong peace basis with sufficient additional strength to meet any small war in which this country may be compelled to engage. "Archies" Seldom Hit Planes. While on the western front in 1915 and again in 1918 I witnessed considerable air action. The thing which as early as 1915 was the most striking feature of air service was the seeming impossibility, or almost impossibility of destroying an airplane by fire from the ground. Another striking thing was the apparent inability of the bombers in the airplanes to hit any specific object on the ground at which they were aiming. Toward the end of the war the bombers were getting more accurate, but there was little change in the situation so far as it affected the accuracy of fire of the anti-aircraft gunmen. War Brings Out No Candidates. Politicians in Washington have taken note of the fact, and are interested in it, that the front line of battle in the great world’s war has produced no candidate for the presidency of the United States, and this thought takes cognizatree of the truth that both Generals Leonard Wood and John J. Pershing are mentioned in connection with the nomination of the Republican party. So far as one can determine, there is no active campaign in behalf of General Pershing, and thus far the politicians seem to think he has little chance of the nomination. In fact republicans in Washington of all kinds of views seem to believe that Pershing will not seek the nomination and that no active effort will be made in his behalf. So far. as Leonard Wood is concerned the feeling is that, while he is

Cynicism. We are reminded that resentment, doubt and cynicism are so easily mistaken for the wisdom of disillusionment that there is double reason to guard against them. Many a hurt soul fancies it is growing wise in the ways of the world when in truth it is only growing hard and bitter. An acquaintance with mankind does not mean merely learning humanity’s seamy side and being on guard against it A wider study will bring a far different and more hopeful knowledge.

a candidate, his candidacy is tn nosense a produet of the present war. Politicians say Wood’s name would have been mentioned for the nomination, more than mentioned,. probably, if there had been no war. No other war in which the United States has been engaged has failed to produce its presidential candidate. Reason foe the Condition. There is a reason for the failure of this war t<» produce presidential candidates. The general officers who served in France did not come into close personal touch with their men, except in the cases of one or two major generals, and quite a number of brigadier generals, none of whom, however. have been considered as constituting presidential timber. In previous times the soldiers themselves have not always been the prime means of securing honors for their leaders. The civilians of the United States nominated and eleetwl Grant. Roosevelt's following in the Spanish war was only that of a regiment. He was not elected president, of course, immediately on his return from Cuba, but his record there made him governor of New York and vice president of the United States, an office which, of course, carried with it the possibility. and in his case, the certainty of his becoming president. The instant the United States entered the war with Germany the policy of the suppression of the names of commanding officers went into effect. Pershing’s name was the only one mentioned except that of the commanding officer of the first division which went to France. His name got into the papers frequently through no fault or desire of his own. It was printed because his division was the only American outfit in France, and the newspaper correspondents then had just one unit of American troops to write about, and naturally they “broke bounds” and had considerable to say about the commanding officer. Not long after this this major general commanding the division was ordered back to the United States, and there are then who think the fact that his name, without his consent, got into print, was the only reason why he was ordered to return to this country. Why Names Were Suppressed. The deeds of men like Liggett. Dickman. Bundy, Edwards, Ballard and some others were of high enough degree to arouse the enthusiasm of the American people and to insure; their plaudits if the deeds had been allowed .to appear in print with the names of the men who, with their divisions, had accomplished them. The genera’ officers who commanded armies, corps and divisions in France are some of thefit Democrats and some of them Republicans. They are divided between the two parties about equally, in fact. , Yet today no one seemingly cares whether Bullard, for instance, is a Republican, which he is not,- or a Democrat, which he is. Dickman also is a Democrat, so it is said, while Bundy and Edwards are said to be Republicans. An inquiry has failed to disclose the polities of Liggett. It is taken, for granted by the politicians that Pershing is a Republican. although he seems to have been silent on the subject of his affiliations. Possibly the American people do not understand thoroughly why it was supposed to be necessary to keep the names of the general officers out of print. The Germans, long before the war began, had a perfect system of study and espionage. They knew the characteristics and the bent of mind of every high ranking officer in the American army. It was thought It would be an advantage to the Germans to know just what general officers of the American forces were on their immediate fronts. It was taken for granted that the Germans, if they heard this man or that man was on the Moselle front, for instance, would adapt their tactics in accordance with their ideas of the opposing general’s temperament and experience, or lack of experience, in the field. Diplomats May Shun America. When several weeks had gone by and no one had, been appointed to take the place of Lord Reading as the ambassador of Great Britain, to the United States, wonder began to grow in Washington. “Why the delay?” A jocose answer to the question was given by a member parliament who suggested to the brethren that it was possible the fact that the United States had gone dry was responsible for the disinclination of any Englishman of high rank to serve his country in Washington. Now, British humor is sometimes past the fathoming. There were-peo-ple in these good United States who thought that the member of parliament was serious when he unburdened himself of his reason for the lack of ambassadorial material for the Washington post. Probably the truth is that it was a case of dry humor. However, let it be said that it is a pretty safft assumption that no Britisher, no Frenchman, and nobody else who lives in a foreign country and who has some chance of representing his nation in this land of the free, is entirely happy over the prospect of a dry time in the capital of the U. S., “S” in this case, as some put it. standing for Sahara. Jap Industry Increasing. The plateglass industry in Japan has greatly expanded since the world war. Before the war about 550,000 boxes of glass were consumed annually. 420,000 boxes of which were imported from Belgium and Germany, the remainder being of home manufacture. During past year 850,000 boxes were manufactured in Japan, of which 600,000 boxes were consumed at home, and the remaining 250,000 boxes were exported-

But They Are Always There. There are chords in the human heart which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. —Dickens. t Dilemma. A woman novelist is bemoaning that if a woman holds onto her opinions she loses her husband’s love—and if she holds onto his love she loses her identity.