Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, March 30, 1922, Image 7
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
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WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING 1
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUNTRY
AND ABROAD
EVENTS OFJMPORTANEE
Gathered From All Parte Of The
Globe And Told In Short
Paragraphs
Foreign? |
The British submarine H-42 has 1
? been lost with all hands in the Med- 1
iterranean, says an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Gibralter. She 1
colleded with a destroyer during maneuvers.
The "open threat of revolution sig- ,
nified by the decision of the anti-free (
staters to hold the forbidden Irish republican
army convention, has created
a precarious position." the London
Times* correspondent here declares, in
*a K T r> no nor
a utofuivu ivs uio
The elaborate arrangements for the
capture or destruction of the anachronistic
creature reported to have been
seen in an Andean lake, have been
made by the expedition which left recently
for Patagonia under the auspices
of the Buenos Aires Zoological
garden.
Two members of the cabinet have
resigned as the result of differences
in the ministry over the government's
determination to eliminate three letters
from the Bulgarian alphabet,
which was announced several weeks
ago.
United States as well as central
Europe must be on guard against the
introduction of cholera and typhus
through immigration of Russian refugees,
says a warning issued by Dr.
A. Schlesinger, of the German Red
Cross. Hordes of theste refugees are
pouring into Germany over the Polish.
Letvian and Esthonian borders, and
many are seeking passports to America.
where they have relatives and ,
friends who are financing them for
the journey.
The conditions under which the reparations
commission will grant Germany
a partial moratorium were announced.
They include perfect autonomy
for the Reichsbank and new legislation
to prevent evasion of German
capital, the legislation to be
reaHv for annliratinn unon a fixed rate.
Ditpatches from Ireland reporting (
continued disorders on a wide scale
along the Ulster border continued to
pour into London, affording the house
of lords opportunity for a vigirous
debate on the Irish bill in which the
question of lawlessness and civil war
were frequently injected by both sides.
A Central News dispatch from Venice
says that a tidal wave recently inundated
the city, the water rising to
a depth of more than 3 feet in some
of the public squares.
Washington?
An investigation has been instituted
by the interstate commerce commission.
according to announcement into
the reasonableness of practically all
rates on coal in the western portion
of the United States.
Release of all war prisoners servirg
terms for expression of opinion
and not for overt acts was urged in a
petition recently presented the president
signed by fifty members of the
house of represeiitatives.
The United States Public Health
Service has just concluded a conference
of physicians and health workers
called to inquire into ways and
means by which public health teachings
can be better spread through the
country.
Striking an open switch near Alberat,
Va., 60 miles south of Richmond.!
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special was derailed recently, five!
sleepers leaving the track and 'urnlng
over.
The house, passed the $4,000,000,000
soldier bonus bill. Since no amend-;
ments were permitted under the nile,
the measure as passed was in the
same form as reported from the house
ways and means committee.
Despondent because of ill health,
Esther Davidson, 28-year-old office employee,
penciled a will on a piece
of scratch paper and jumped from a
twenty-third story window of The
Times building Broadway and Fortysecond
steet.
Radical reductions in the navy discussed
by house appropriations committee
members may result in naval j
abandonment of Atlantic waters and
concentration of the fleet in the Pa-1
cific some navy officials believe. Effic-;
ient training or war of the reduced !
establishment, it was explained by one
officer would require such action.
A nation-wide campaign, which has
been talked of for some time in Washington,
has been inaugurated to find '
"living" employment for the 700,000 <
idle war veterans. The movement is
sponsored by the American Legion .
The house gave its approval to a
provision of the army appropriation
bill which would require the reduc-'
Inn hv .Tnlv of the rppnlar nrmv on.
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listed strength to 115000 men.
Members of the senate agricultural
committee, after considering the request
of senate leaders that senators
not absent themselves from sessions
during consideration of the arms conference
treaties, decided to follow the
previously reached plan to leave
Washington for a visit in company
with house member to the Muscle
Shoals project in Alabama.
Stocks of American cotton totaling
1.907,000 bales were consumed by
Great Hritain. France. Germany and J
Italy during the six months ending
January 31, according to a cablegram
just received by the department of
agriculture from its London representative.
This is an increase of 50 per
cent as compared with consumption of
1,275.810 bales during the preceding
six months, and an Increase of more
than 100,000 bales as compared with
consumption of 1.789,302 bales during
the six months ending January 31,
1921. i
Prohibition officials declare that
plans are maturing for a ten thousand
mile wall about the United States to
stop the flow of alien rum into this
country.
Stocks of potatoes in the hands of
farmers and dealers March 1 in the
fifteen leadine potato states are estimated
at 90,946,000 bushels by the department
of agriculture. Of this quantity
73,486.000 bushels were held by
farmers and 17,460,000 bushels were
held by local dealers. Of the holdings
in the hands of producers 30.935,000
bushels are expected to move off
the farm and 42,556,000 to be retained.
All naval vessels except combatant
craft arriving at the Hampton Roads
naval base from foreign ports will be
searched for "suspicion packages,'' unde
crders issued by Rear Admiral Rodman,
commandant of the fifth naval
district.
Business is gradually approaching
normal, according to figures compiled
by the department of commerce and
while the favorable movement among
the different industries has not been
evenly distributed the improvement of
those industries which "constitute the
backbone of American business,'' has
been "very marked" over conditions
of a few months ago.
Frank Piano, Sr., who killed his son
"to save his soul." was acquitted by a
jury at Chicago. The father testified
that his son was hanging aro lid
pool rooms with a gang of boys he
feared would lead his boy into trouble.
Domestic?
The Meyer commission of New York
City charges that New York City exceeded
its legal tax limit by twenty
million dollars in 1921 and is still running
into debt at the rate of $100,000
a day.
S. A. Keiler, president of District 19,
United Mine Workers (Tennessee), issues
an appeal for a congressional investigation
of the threatened eviction
of coal miners, their wives and children
of eastern Tennessee and southeastern
Kentucky. He states that notwithstanding
the union had a signed
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o&rcciiicui iu iuu iu xviaiuii oi,
the miners voluntarily, December, 1921,
accepted a reduction of $2.50 per day
in wages, and now the mine owners
want to make a further reduction in
wages.
It is stated in New York that hundreds
of railroads have instituted injunction
proceedings against the government
by counsel in connection with
the rate order promulgated by the interstate
commerce commission, effective
March 1, which the petitioners assert
is arbitrary and outside the powers
of the commission.
Because four young women in his
congregation giggled right out in meeting,
Rev. George Robertson, pastor of
a negro church has hailed them into
police court on a charge of breaking
up a church sendee. The magistrate
continued the case until he could
consult law and precedents on giggling.
Suspension of work by all union coal
miners at midnight, March 31, was
ordered by the United Mine workers
of America, recently, the call being
Hip first pvpr issued fnr hoth hitumi
nous and anthracite workers to walk
out simultaneously. Six hundred thousand
men will be affected.
Watch in hand. Warden Westbrook
of Chicago told prisoners threatening
to mutiny he would give them just
ten minutes to go to their cells. All
the mutineers soon disappeared, as the
warden was backed up with a sufficient
number of armed guards.
A government cutter will probably
be sent out to the wrecked sailing vessel,
discovered recently bottom up near
Isle Dernier, off the south coast of
Louisiana.
An electrical storm of severe intensity
recently struck Jacksonville, Fla.,
but did no great damage.
It is alleged that J. A. Pelt, a judge,
63 years old, has been kidnaped. He
is a justice of the peace.
A worthless check fbr $275, drawn
on the defunct Denver State bank and
signed "0. What Luck," was accepted
in Kansas City, Mo., March 3, in payment
fo an automobile.
Xarcotis drugs, imported whiskey
and automobiles values at almost $35,000
were seized by Memphis police
which resulted in a number of arrests
on charges of violations of the liquor
and narcotic laws.
Twelve were hurt, some of them
seriously, when a heavily laden Detroit
avenue trolley car crashed into
the rear of a Cleveland and Southwestern
interurban car in the downtown
section of Cleveland, Ohio.
Governor J. B. A. Robertson, of
Oklahoma, submitted to arrest at Okmulgee,
Okla., on a charge of accept
ing a bribe to permit operation of an
insolvent bank.
Convicted of stealing $31,000 worth
of assets in bankruptcy proceedings,
Jacob Harris and Joseph Weiner,
wholesale jewelers, were bound for Atlanta
penitentiary to serve sentences
of a year and a day each.
Williams Simmons and Homes Johnson,
sawmill workers, were burned to
death while asleep at Dierks' Ark.,
when fire destroyed the Westbrook
hotel.
The lugger World, together with her
crew of nine men and cargo of whiskey,
said to be worth $30,000, fell into
the hands of federal prohibition
agents on Lake Ponchartrain, near
Milneburg.
Miss Elsie Smith, 19, and Alphonse
Beyer, 22, were found in the trying
room of the Maple Silk company's
plan, each with bullet wounds in the
head, at Paterson, N. J.
Workers in some of the mills affected
by the strike were attacked by
strike sympathizers in the Fairlawn
district at Pawtucket, H. I.
"General" Jacob S. Coxey. of Massillon,
Ohio, who led "Coxey's army"
in the march on Washington in 1894.
in the interest of economic legislation
he sponsored, announced that he was
planning to gather followers for another
drive on the capital.
Gwendolyn Armour, 6-year-old
daughter of Philip D. Armour III.,
died fom a form of septicemia after
a week's illness, during which the millions
of the Armour family, the skill
of a dozen nurses and the resources
of entire city of Chicago proved unavailing.
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' ' ?"1IIEN the world wus
W young and civilization
was In tlie learning-to-walk
stnge of
'ts development prira't've
mnn rea^7-ed a
need for something
which would enable him to finish the
task arrested by darkness. Of that
need artificial illumination was born.
All through the nges they have come
together, civilization and lighting.
Every forward step in the progress of
culture lias been marked by an advance
in illumination. The way to our
civilization of today lies parrallel to
the way to better light.
A stick from the lire was no doubt
the first lighting unit, for when man
in the earliest nges made nocturnal
excursions into the surrounding gloom
and needed illumination, he snatched
up a piece of burning wood from the
camp-fire. Yet there is plenty of evidence
that crude forms of oil-lamps
came into use long before history was
begun. Shells and hollow stones, even
the skulls of animals, were tilled with
oil, extracted from olives, nuts or
vegetables, and this oil. burning without
a wick, furnished a feeble, flickering
light accompanied by an unpleasant
odor.
In the course of time some one
thought of a wick, and the eurllest
form of this Improvement in illumination
was a floating wick of moss or
fiber. In the Orkney islands the
stormy petrel, with a wick in its bill
is used as u candle today. The carcass
of an oil flsli is similarly used in
Alaska. Candles were preceded by
splints, but both were used during the
same period. Gas illumination was the
next step, uppearing less than a century
before the electric lump proved
commercially successful.
In the ruins of Faru, Babylonia,
3,000 B. C., was found the earliest
stone lamp of which there is any
record. This was merely a crude
saucer-shaped affair, about four Inches
in diameter, cut frorii alabaster. An
improvement over the stone lump was
the pottery lamp, which could be more
easily shaped, and specimens of around
300 B. C., have been found. A form
culled tlie "Virgins lamp, used in
Itible times consisted of a small hollow
vessel, with a opening In the top for the
wick, which could be curried in the
hand. Within the next half century,
nbout 200 A. D., these pottery lumps
bad been greatly improved in appearance,
for by then they bud begun to assume
regular forms, with handles
and some attempt at decoration. Two
hundred years later bronze lamps
made their appearance. A modification
of this type, known as the Florentine
lamp, which could be suspended
by chains, followed a few hundred
years later.
In the early part of the fifteenth
century, about the time that Columbus
was discovering the Americas, the
Venetian stand lamp was widely
used in the Mediterranean countries
of Europe. Its graceful nnd
artistic utility is characteristic of the
Kenalssunce during which it was in
vogue.
The Flemish oil lamp, 1,600 A. D.,
forms as sharp a contrast to tne > enetiun
lamp as does the Reformation
period, of which the former was a development,
to the Renaissance period
of the latter. Lamps of this type may
still be found In use among the poorer
classes of continental Europe.
The candle Is reully a form of oil
lamp In which the oil or grease In
solid form Is melted by the flame as
It is used. It was formerly made from
animal fats, hut is now inude of wax
from berries and paraffin. Whale oil
waB the chief nominating oil for tmjiy
jears. Benjamin Franklin discovered
that two wicks gave more than twp*e
the light of one, and this led to tne
Franklin double-burners. Camphene, a
patent fluid used about 1850, was a
HATBANDS 1
In the story of the plain little band
that circles the crown of a man's hat
lies an interesting fashion of bygone
days. Luring the I'luntagenet period
in Englund the head covering for men
wus a hood, from which was suspended
the dlrlpipe or long tippet.
I'icture our men walking down Broadway
or Main street with sashes on
their hats! In the reign of Henry
vitt tho t>nt snnerseded the hood
CREDIT ACCORDED LUTHER
One story ascribes the Oft Chrlstmas
tree to Martin Luther, who conceived
the rather pretty idea that the
dark branches of the young spruce,
gayly illuiniiiated with colored candles
and hung with its bright ornaments
and gifts, would suggest to the children
the dome of heaven with it.' Innumerable
stars, ana, perhaps,
thoughts of praise and gratitude to
Him who Is the (tlver of all .food
things around them.
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: mixture of turpentine nnd alcohol. It ' i
gave a much brighter light tluin whale i
oil, but was dangerous on account of 1
Its explosive nuture, nnd consequently : t
wus never very popular. j *
Kerosene was first procurable in
commercial quantities about the time
of the Civil war, and the ordinary kerosene
lamp Is still the chief llluminant
In territories where electricity and gas
are not as yet available.
I In 1879 came the "Incandescent"
electric lamp Invented hy Thomas A.
; Edison. In the uutumn of 1877 Edison
J announced his Intention immediately
to devote himself to the problem of
i producing ;i commercially practicable
! electric lamp.
Ills triumph came on October 21,
. 1879. On that date, after persistent
! labor, Edison succeeded in carbonizing
u piece of cotton sewing thread bent
i Into a loop of horse-shoe shupe. This j
; be sealed In a glass bulb which had
| been exhausted until a very high vacuum
was produced. For forty hours ;
| after the circuit was closed, the bright- j
ly Incandescent filament remained ini
'?? ;
Not being satisfied with this form of 1
filnment Edison began to carbonize
everything in nature that he could ;
ihink of. He wanted a material that, j
when carbonized, would he uniform
and homogeneous. As he looked i
| NEW MEMORIA
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APRIL 27, 1822. Ulysses Simpson oni
mont county, Ohio. The one hundi
observed In Washington by tlie unveiling
There will he elaborate ceremonies. Vic
clpal speaker. The photograph shows th
In the background.
The completed memorial is the rest
signer and sculptor, Henry Merwln Shr
Gebrge F. Shra.ly attended President Gr
The work ts pyramidal In outl.ne, v
sweeping up to the central character, G(
In the center 0/ the memorial. A: the
' cuvulry detail going Into action, and the 1
j Each group fuces the central figure
and the long tippet took the form of <
the hat band. This was wider than j
those now In vogue and was gradually (
! narrowed down. In fact, the bunds {
| which men now wear on their hats (
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cal with the very first Imtbnnds. (
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Giant's Causeway. t
The most Interesting wonder In the t
world Is Giant's Causeway, which t
si retches for four miles along the I
coast of County Antrim In Ireland. It s
is a collection of huge rocks which go t
LAZZARONI OF NAPLES ;
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The lnzznroni were a class of vagn- I
bonds In Naples, Italy, which formed c
a distinct caste in the Seventeenth v
and Eighteenth centuries. They an- t
Dually elected a chief, called Capo e
, I.nzznro. who was recognized by the n
| authorities and frequently took an ac- Jj
tlve part In political affairs. In 1(517, <1
headed by Masanlello, they overthrew ^
tlie government and held possession of r
j the city for u few days. In 17'JS, instl- 4 u
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iround his laboratory one day, he saw \
in ordinary palm leaf fan upon a ta- u
>le. After a study of the texture of
he binding, he asked one of his as- t(
dstants to carbonize filaments made t,
'rorn the rim. He was so impressed n
vith tlie result of this experiment that ^
ie sent men all over the world to se- r
ure specimens of bDinboo. A certain g
urlety of Japanese bamboo was final- ?
y adopted, and for nearly nine years jj
ill Edison lamps had bamboo fila- ^
nents. b
In 1007, the pressed tungsten lamp
vas placed on the market, but sclen- 31
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ists uiu not stvp iicic, me gvui ??*luctlle
tungsten. Tungsten Is not n 1
are inetal, but It was not largely used J
>\vlng to the fact that no method had
)een discovered by which Its naturul
lard and brittle state could be changed.
Tungsten Is no<v produced In a ductile
'orm and can be drawn Into a wire
vhlch has a tensile strength varying
rom 400,000 to 500,000 pounds a square
noli.
In 1911, the wire-drawn lamp with
vhlch we are all familiar made Its
ippearance. This lnmp, which gives
liree times as much light as the car- !
ion lamp, contains a filament of drawn
ungsten wire within a bulb of clear 1
rlass from which the air has been e.xlausted.
In 1914 the gas-filled lamp v
vas produced. e
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int was oorn in point Pleasant, Cler- s,
edth anniversary of his birth will be rc
: of a statue In the botanical gardens, j,
e President C'oolldge will be the prlne
Grant statue, with the eapltol dome
lit of twenty years' effort by the deudy
of New Yorli, whose father, Dr.
ant up to the time of his death.
I'lth all the minor figures and groups J(
?nernl Grant sitting astride his ho/se n]
opposite ends are two groups, one a o;
other a field buttery going Into action.
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3own into the sea, and many reach p i
lelght of 30 feet. Legend says thai *
he stones were put In such a neatly
ir?anged posltlou by an Irish giant Iri
n*der to Induce his enemy the Scots
rf?.it to come over and fight him. Anitner
belief Is that giants hurled these
luge stones at one another. The Idea
L..i /?/* tt Hoallv HIH nilCO OY.
iiui nit; luuacM uj ?va??j u*u vuw v?
end to Scotland Is strengthened by 4
he fact that in Flngal's cave. In the
sland of StafTa, off the Scottish coast,
(tones esnctly similar in appearance
ind arrangement are found.
rated by Cardinal Kuffo and led by ^
illchele Sforzn, they successfully re- m
isted the attucks of the French. The sc
uzzaroni had no homes nor regular
ccupatlons. They wore ragged clothes, 'n
core filthy In their habits and slept hi
he open air. They got their name
Ither from Lazarus, the beggar, or
nore probably from the hospital of 'n
5t. Lazarus, which served ns n place
f refuge fur the destitute of the city Tl
>onie authorities say the word Is de cfl
Ived from the Italluu luzaro (lepet
r pauper). ni
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X7ASIIINGTON?There Is Just Ir
* * enough justice in the complaints n
eard In Congress from time to time ci
f the failure of the American press v
dequately to report its proceedings ei
) Justify them as a matter of ah- u
tract truth. That the newspapers do tl
ot tell what is going on in congress
i a statement which cannot he sus- II
lined; that the newspapers do not d
?11 all that occurs at the capitol day f<
y day is a self-evident fact. Sub- n
tantlally a cross-section of the proc- n
sses of legislation In the making is n
resented to the country with every e
[sing sun, and there are fundamental bl
supreme Court Uphol
"* ONSTITUTIONAL1TY of the wornnil's
suffrage, or nineteenth,
mendment was sustained by the
uprenie court In u unanimous decision
endered by Justice IJrandeis.
The challenge came from the state
f Maryland, where Oscar Lester and
thers sought to prevent the reglsrntlon
of two women aS qualified
oters in Baltimore. Lester and his
ssocintes contended that the consti- A
*tion of Maryland limited suffrage
) men, thnl the legislature of Mary- a
ind had refused to ratify the worn- si
n's suffrage amendment and that tl
he amendment had not become a n
art of the federal constitution. The b
iaryland state courts sustained the tl
mendment. f<
The contention that an amendment a
o the federal constitution relating b
> additions to the electorate canot
be made without the consent of ri
lie state, the court disposed of by V
eference to the fifteenth or equal c
uffrnge amendment, declaring that tl
one cannot be valid ami the .other h
lvalid." It pointed out that the va- c
dity of the fifteenth amendment had r
een recognized for half a century. n
The suggestion that several of the tl
8 states which ratified the nineteenth b
Economy May Strik<
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^EARS that "attempts to curtail ap- o
* proprlatlons for the remount serice"
may be made In congress are "
xpressed In communications received r
y the War department from horse tl
reeders. Work formerly done by the s
lepartment of Agriculture In connecion
with Improvement of the farm a
ryses Is now handled by the remount li
ervlce, and the farmers' representa- a
Ives have filed protests with mem- tl
ers of congress against any slash of
he military budget which would In- t!
erfere with this activity. $
The remount service has 200 stal- f
ions valued at more than $500,000. c
nd has mapped out a program for F
heir employment in 40 states during F
Navy Is Getting Dot
SECRETARY DENBY ordered 50
^ additional destroyers and nearly
hree-score auxiliary naval craft placed
ut of commission to conserve fuel,
'he destroyers are In addition to the
DO ordered out of commission reeentr,
and will leave In the navy 76
estroyers in full commission and 40
ith heavily reduced, complements
board. '
Among other vessels besides destroy
rs ordered out or commission are
ve oil ships and one collier, two
tore ships, four mine layers, six t<
line sweepers and Eagle boats and a
1 tugs and towing vessels. 0(
Secretary Denby said the ships or- r<
ered out of commission today and si
le hundred destroyers previously re- h
red as an economy measure were in
ildltion to other ships of the navy p,
laced out of commission since he a]
>ok office a year ago. The depart- 0(
lent In that time, he added, has sold w
>7 obsolete or auxiliary naval craft ai
ad now has on sale 02 additional sj
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\ National Theater
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YOU HEED A j bi
RATIONAL THEATER jjj
17ASHINGTON should have a; cI
great national theuter such as ("
ost of the European capitals possess,! er
i says Grattan C. Kerens, of St.!
Mils, a visitor. He says "Washington vc
this respect does not compare with
her world capitals. There Is no W|
enter In Washington that can be I el
en remotely compared to the opera | he
l'nrls or to the state theaters In sn
prlln, Vienna or even I'etrograd. <,fl
Ills situation should not exist in the ,ie
ipitnl of the richest nation on earth. K*1
"Representatives of foreign govern- 'n
ents coming to America on dlplo- te
atlc missions, us during the recent | of
^H'orv
Record Has Beats
>asons why considerations of relavity
of Importance must he borne la
ilnd. It Is no longer possible for the
ewspnpers to give full reports of the
roceedings of senate and house, and
le operations, Investigations, Inquiries
ad conclusions of their various committees.
In the Sixty-sixth congress no less
ian 16,239 public bills and 481 Joint
esolutions were Introduced In the
jgislative grist mill of the house of
jpresentatlves, and more than 5,000
l the senate, of which 401 of the forler
and 69 of the latter class beiime
laws, In addition to the 124 prtnfe
bills and resolutions which were
nacted. Not even congress itself Is
hie to visualize at a single sweep of
io ovo n lni.or so vast in scone.
A follow-up system of federal pubcity,
probably through the executive
epartments, to keep the country In>rmed,
might be desirable. No single
ewspaper car. report adequately every
ew act of congress and every lnterlediato
step taken In the process of
onvertlng the twenty-odd thousand
Ills Into the five hundred-odd laws.
ds Woman Suffrage
mendment had provisions In theft
tate constitutions which prohibited
le legislatures from ratifying, could
ot be entertained, the court stated,
ecnuse the state legislatures derived
lelr power In such matters from the
?deral constitution which "transcends
ny limitations sought to be imposed
y the people of a state."
The remaining objection that the
ntifylng resolutions of Tennessee and
^'est Virginia were Inoperative, beause
adopted in violation of legislate
procedure In those states, may
ave been rendered "Immaterial," the
ourt declared, by the subsequent
ntlfication of the amendment by Conecticut
and Vermont. The conten
[on was disposed, however, on a
roader ground.
i Remount Service
tie year in co-operation with farmers,
s it has been found that the most
eslrable type of horse for array use
i exactly the type best fitted for
irra work.
A message to Col. F. S. Armstrong,
blef of the remount service, signed
y representatives of more than 40
orse breeders' organizations in the
iew England states, New York and
'ennsylvanla, said the work carried
n by the service is "of Incalculable
nlue to the horse-breeding industry
f the country."
"We especially protest," it 6ald,
against the proposal to abandon the
emount depot at Front Royal, Va.,
lie only remount depot in the east or
outh."
The Utah Cattle and Horse Growers'
ssociation transmitted a resolution
tidorslng plans of the remount service
nd urging congressional support of
bis work. /
The service was allowed $150,000 in
tie current army bill, a reduction from
250,000 the year before, and plans
or the coming fiscal year contemplate
ontinued operation of three depots?
'ront Royal. Fort Robinson, Neb., and
'ort Reno, OUla.
Am to Brass Tacks
a tk
The American navy will continue
) function, effecting ull the economies
Iready instituted until and unless a
angresslonal mandate Is received, dl?ctlng
otherwise, Secretary Denby
lys, in connection with action in the
ouse on the navy's fuel estimate.
Without a record vote the house
assed and sent to the senate a bill
pproprlating approximately $108,500,X)
to meet deficiencies. A provision
hlch would limit to ,$6,300,000 the
ruount the navy department would
lend for fuel during the next four
lonths remained in the bill.
for the Capital?
ternational conference, are likely to
ise their opinion of American culture
id civilization upon what they sea
the capital of the nation. They are
customed in their own countries to
e magnificent structures for the pro1
of I on t\f thn /Irn mo nn/1 I# thoo si /\
IVltUll VI llic Ui UiUU( UIIU II liicj UU
it find similar fnclllties for the enniragement
of art In the United
ates, they can hardly be blamed If
fey give some credence to the old
under that America's is a 'dollar
vlllzaiion' and that Americans excel
ily in the mechanical arts and sclices."
Mr. Kerans believes that the de'lnpnient
of a national drama Is one
the best posslMe forces tending to[ird
the Americanization of the varied
etnents of our population. It can
made a medium through which the
Dent. Inspiring facts of our history
n be brought home to the consclous ss
of the foreign-born citizen. The
vornment would be justified In taker
up the project of a national thear
as a means of combating the spread
insidious radical doctrines.
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