Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, June 29, 1922, Image 7
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT COUN*
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OFJMPORTANCE
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Foreign?
The British submarine H-42 has
been lost with all hands in the Mediterranean,
says an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Gibralter. She
colleded with a destroyer during maneuvers.
The "open threat of revolution signified
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 dispatch to his paper.
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 t&e expedition wnicn ten 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 these 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
ready for application upon a fixed rate.
Ditpatches from Ireland reporting
continued disorders on a wide scaie
8long the Ulster border continued to
pour into London, affording the house
of^lords opportunity for a vlgirous
_ deu\p 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.
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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 serving
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 representatives.
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.
the Seaboard Air Line's Midsouth
special was derailed recently, five
sleepers leaving the track and 'urning
over.
The house, passed the $4,000,000,000
soldier bonus bill. Since no amendments
were permitted under the rule,
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
abandonment of Atlantic waters and
concentration of the fleet in the Pacific
some navy officials believe. Efficient
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 reduction
by July of the regular army enlisted
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 Britain. France, Germany and
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,
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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 leading 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
orders issued by Rear Admiral Redmap,
commandant of the fifth naval
district.
Business is gradually approaching '
normal, according to figures compiled
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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 ex- J
ceeded its legal tax limit by twenty
million dollars in 1921 and is still run- w
ning into debt at the rate of $100,000 ta
a day. in
S. A. Keiler, president of District 19, A!
United Mine Workers (Tennessee), is- to
sues an appeal for a congressional in- E
vestigation of the threatened eviction oi
of coal miners, their wives and chil* vt
dren of eastern Tennessee and south- d
eastern Kentucky. He states that not- tli
withstanding the union had a signed
agreement to run to March 31, 1922,
the miners voluntarily, December, 1921, ln
accepted a reduction of $2.50 per day ex
in wages, and now the mine owners aE
want to make a further reduction in UI
wages. ca
It is stated in New York that hun- (le
A m rl o /~?f ro {1 A a hovn inaHtiitori in.
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junction proceedings against the government
by counsel in connection with ^
the rate order promulgated by the interstate
commerce commission, effective
March 1, which the petitioners as- j
sert is arbitrary and outside the pow- ^
ers of the commission.
Because four young women in his
congregation giggled right out in meeting,
Rev. George Robertson, pastor of J'
a negro church has hailed them into ^
police court on a charge of break- 1
ing up a church service. The magistrate
continued the case until he could
consult law and precedents on gig- c'a.
gl,ng" sp
Suspension of work by all union coal *"
miners at midnight, March 31, was S!l
ordered by the United Mine workers ^
of America, recently, the call being
the first ever issued for both bitumi- L
nouf- and anthracite workers to walk
out simultaneously. Six hundred thou- 3,t
sand men will be affected. Kt(
Watch in hand, Warden Westbrook re'
of Chicago told prisoners threatening sa
to mutiny he would give them just in
'ten minutes to go to their cells. All lni
the mutineers soon disappeared, as the ,l'
warden was backed up with a suffi- fn
cient number of armed guards.
A government cutter will probably cu
be sent out to the wrecked sailing vessel,
discovered recently bottom up near
Isle Dernier, off the south coast of
Louisiana. hj"
An electrical storm of severe inten- " 1
sity recently struck Jacksonville, Fla.,
but did no great damage. ar
It is alleged that J. A. Pelt, a judge, 611
63 years old, has been kidnaped. He
is a justice of the peace.
A worthless check for $275, drawn
on the defunct Denver State bank and (>n
signed "O. What Luck." was accepted ,
in Kansas City, Mo., March 3, in pay
| raent fo an automobile.
Narcotis drugs, imported whiskey ce
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 {r
and narcotic laws. nr
Twelve were hurt, some of them
seriously, when a heavily laden De- vt
troit avenue trolley car crashed into
the rear of a Cleveland and South- j0
western interurban car in the downtown
section of Cleveland, Ohio. ^
Governor J. B. A. Robertson, of ve
Oklahoma, submitted to arrest at Ok- of
mulgee, Okla., on a charge of accept- fit
ing a bribe to permit operation of an cj,
insolvent bank.
Convicted of stealing $31,000 worth ln;
of assets in bankruptcy proceedings, g0
Jacob Harris and Joseph Weiner, tt
wholesale jewelers, were bound for At- nr
1 lanta penitentiary to serve sentences fr(
of a year and a day each. w
Williams Simmons and Homes John- -e
son, sawmill workers, were burned to 'j,
death while asleep at Dierks' Ark.,
! when fire destroyed the Westbrook p,
j hotel- pa
The lugger World, together with her
( crew of nine men and cargo of whisk'
ev, 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 ,n
plan, each with bullet wounds in the W|
head, at Paterson, N. J. ^
Workers in some of the mills affect- pi
ed by the strike were attacked by wi
strike sympathizers in the Fairlawn th
district at Pawtucket, R. I. VI
"General" Jacob S. (fexey, of Mas- ?
sillon, 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 an- ul!
other drive on the capital. ce
dn
Gwendolyn Armour, 6-year-old p,
daughter of Philip D. Armour III., (1I]
died fom a form of septicemia after
, a week's illness, during which the mil- ,]r
| lions of the Armour family, the skill m
! of a dozen nurses and the resources th
; of entlrd city of Chicago proved un- h
j availing. ' th
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"HIIEN the world was
W young and civilization
was In the learning-to-walk
stage of
its development prlmitlve
man realized a
need for something
hich would enable him to finish the
sk arrested by .darkness. Of that
>ed artificial Illumination was born.
II through the ages they have come
gether, civilization and lighting,
very forward step In the progress of
ilture has been marked by an adiwe
in illumination. The way to our
villzution of today lies parrallel to
e way to better light.
A stick from the tire was no doubt
e first lighting unit, for when man
the earliest uges made nocturnal
cursions into the surrounding gloom
id needed illumination, he snatched
? a piece of burning wood from the
mp-fire. Yet there is plenty of evince
that crude forms of oil-lamps
me into use long before history was
gun. Shells and hollow stones, even
e skulls of animals, were filled witli
i, extracted from olives, nuts or
getables, and this oil, burning witht
a wick, furnished a feeble, fllckerg
light accompanied by an unpleast
odor.
in the course or time sume uue
ought of a wick, and the eurliest
riu of this improvement in illumina>n
was a floating wick of umss or
er. In the Orkney islands the
>rmy petrel, with a wick in its bill [
used as a candle today. The cur- j
ss of an oil fish is similarly used in j
aska. Candles were preceded by
lints, but both were used during the >
me period. Gas illumination was the 1
xt step, appearing less than a eenr,v
before the electric lamp proved j
mmercially successful.
In the ruins of Fara, Babylonia,
HX) B. C., was found the earliest
me lump of which there is any
cord. This was merely a crude
ucer-shaped affair, about four inches
diameter, cut from alabaster. An
iprovement over the stone lump was
e pottery lamp, which could be more
sily shaped, and specimens of around
0 B. C., have been found. A form !
lied the "Virgin's lamp," used in ,
hie times consisted of a small hollow |
ssel, with a opening In the top for the
.ck, which could be carried In the
nd. Within the next half century,
out 200 A. D., these pottery lamps :
id been greatly improved in appear-1
ice, for by then they hud begun to as- j
me regular forms, with handles I
id some attempt at decoration. Two
indred years later bronze lamps
ude their appeurance. A modifica?n
of this type, known us the Flortine
lamp, which could be suspended t
- chains, followed a few hundred t
tars later.
In the early part of the fifteenth
ntury, about the time that Columbus j
as discovering the Americas, the
>nptian stand lamp was widely,
ed In the Mediterranean eoun- 1
ies of Europe. Its graceful and
tistlc utility is characteristic of the
?naissance during which it was in
?gue.
The Flemish oil lnmp, 1,600 A. D.,
rms as sharp a contrast to the Venetn
lump as does the Reformation
triod, of which the former wus a delopment,
to the Renaissance period ,
the latter. Lamps of this type may
ill be found in use among the poorer
asses of continental Europe.
The candle is reully a form of oil
mp in which the oil or grease In
lid form is melted by the flame as
Is used. It was formerly made from
limal fats, but Is now made of wax
am berries and paruffln. Whale oil
is the chief nominating oil for immy
ars. Benjamin Franklin "disco\eted
at two wicks gave more than tw^c?
e light of one, and this led to tne
anklin double-burners. Cnmphene, a
itent fluid used about 1850, was a
HATBANDS
In the story of the plain little band :
at circles the crown of a man's hat |
'8 an interesting fashion of bygone j
ys. During the Plantagenet period
Fnirliind the head covering for men
18 h hood, from which wus susnded
the dlrlplpe or long tippet,
cture our men walking down Broadly
or Main street with sashes on
elr hats! In the reign of Henry
[II the hat superseded the hood
CREDIT ACCORDED LUTHER
One story ascribes the flr'-t Chrlstus
tree to Martin Luther, who conIved
the rather pretty Idea that the
irk branches of the young spruce,
yly illuminated with colored candles
id hung with its bright ornaments1
id gifts, would suggest to the cliil- \
en the dome of heaven with It; In- !
unernble stars, and, perhaps, I
oughts of praise and gratitude to'
im who Is the (,-Iver of all ,<ood:
lugs around theai. J
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mixture of turpentine nnd alcohol. It |
gave a much brighter light than whale
oil, but was dangerous on uccount of
its explosive nature, and consequently
wus never very popular.
Kerosene was first nrocurable in
commercial quantities about the time
of the Civil war, and the ordinary kerosene
lamp is still the chief illuminant
in territories where electricity nnd gas
are not as yet available.
* In 1879 came the "incnndescent"
electric lamp invented by Thomas A.
Edison. In the autumn of 1877 Edison
announced his intention immediately
to devote himself to the problem of
producing a commercially practicable
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Ills triumph came on October 21,
187!*. On that date, after persistent
labor, Edison succeeded in carbonizing
a piece of cotton sewing thread bent
into a loop of horse-shoe shupe. This
he sealed in a glass bulb which had
been exhausted until a very high vncuura
wus produced. For forty hours
after the circuit was closed, the brightly
incandescent filament remained intact.
Not being satisfied with this form of
filament Edison begun to cnrbonize
everything in nature that he could
tiiink of. He wanted a material that,
when carbonized, would be uniform
and homogeneous. As he looked1
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APRIL 27, 1S22, Ulysses Simpson or
mont county, Ohio. The one hunt
observed In Washington by the unveil In
There will be elaborate ceremonies. VI
olpul speaker. The photograph shows t
In the background.
The completed memorial Is*the res
signer and sculptor, Henry Merwln Sh
George P. Shra.ly attended President G
The work is pyramidal In ouil ne,
sweeping up to the central character, (
In the center 0/ the memorial. A: the
cavalry detail going into action, and the
Each group fuces the central figure.
and the long tippet took the form of |
the hut band. This was wider than I
those now in vogue arid was gradually
narrowed down. In fact, the bands
which nien now wear on their huts j
when they are in mourning are identical
with the very first hatbands.
Giant's Causeway.
The most interesting wonder in the
world is Giant's Causeway, which
stretches for four miles along the
coust of County Antrim in Ireland. It
is a collection of huge rocks which go
LAZZARON! OF NAPLES
The lazznrnni were a class of vaga-!
bonds in Naples. Italy, which formed
a distinct caste in the Seventeenth j
and Klgliteenth centuries. They annually
elected a chief, called Capo
Lazzaro, who was recognized by the
authorities and frequently took un active
part In political affairs. In 1047.
headed by Musanlello, they overthrew
the government and held possession of j
the city for u few duys. In 17LjJj instl- A
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around Ills laboratory one day, he saw
an ordinary palm leaf fan upon a tuble.
After a study of the texture of
the binding, he asked one of his assistants
to curbonize filuments made
from the rim. He was so Impressed
with the result of this experiment that
he sent men all over the world to secure
specimens of bamboo. A certain
variety of Japanese bamboo was finally
adopted, and for nearly nine years
all Edison lamps had bamboo filaments.
In 1907, the pressed tungsten lamp
was placed on the market, but scientists
did not stop here; the goal was
ductile tunasten. Tun'gsten is not a
rnre metal, but It was not largely used
owing to the fnct that no method had
been discovered by which Its natural
hard and brittle stute could be changed.
Tungsten Is now produced In a ductile
form and can be drawn Into a wire
which has a tensile strength varying
from 400.000 to 500,000 pounds a square
Inch.
In 1011, the wire-drawn lamp with
which we are all familiar made Its
appearance. This lamp, which gives
three times as much light ns the carbon
lamp, contains a filament of drawn
tungsten wire within a bulb of clear
glass from which the air has been exhausted.
In 1914 the gus-fllled lamp
was produced.
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ant was oorn in point Pleasant, ClerIredth
anniversary of his birth will be
ig of a statue In the botanical gardens,
ce President Coolldge will be the prinhe
Grant statue, with the capltol dome
suit of twenty years' effort by the derady
of Ifew York, whose father, Dr.
rant up to the time of his death,
with all the minor figures nnd groijps
JenernI Grant sitting astride his ho.-se
i opposite ends are two groups, one a
other a field battery going Into action.
down into the sea, and many rench e
height of 30 feet. Legend says that
the stones were put In such a neatly
arranged position by an Irish giant in
order to Induce his enemy the Scofs
gl?ot to come over and fight him. Another
belief Is that giants hurled these
huge stones at one another. The Idea
that the causeway really did once ex1.1
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the fact that In Flngal's cave. In the
Island of Stnffa, oft the Scottish coast,
stones exactly similar In appearance
and arrangement are found.
gated by Cardinal Ruffo and led by
Mlchole Sforza, they successfully resisted
the attacks of the French. The
lu/.zaroni had no homes nor regular
occupations. They wore ragged clothes,
were filthy in their habits and slept 'n
the open air. They got their name
either from Lazarus, the beggar, or
more probably from the hospital of
Sr. Lazarus, which served as a place
of refuge for the destitute of tha city.
Some- authorities sav the word iJ de
rived from the Itulluu lazaro (leper
or pauper).
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Why Congressional
WE MUST
HAVE THE
PUBLICITY
TX7ASHINGTON.?There Is Just
"" enough justice In the complaints
heard In Congress from time to time
of the failure of the American press
adequately to report Its proceedings
to justify them as a matter of abstract
truth. That the newspapers do
not tell what Is going on In congress
Is a statement which cannot he sustained;
that the newspapers do not
tell all that occurs at the capltol day
by day Is a self-evident fact. Substantially
a cross-section of the processes
of legislation In the making Is
presented to the country with every
?* -? 1 e a
rising sun, una mere are iunuuinunitii |
Supreme Court Upho
CONSTITUTIONALITY of the worn^
an's suffrage, or nineteenth,
amendment was sustained by the
Supreme court In a unanimous decision
rendered by Justice Iirandeis.
The challenge came from the state
of Maryland, where Oscar Lester and
others sought to prevent the registration
of two women as qualified
voters in Baltimore. Lester and his
associates contended that the constitution
of Maryland limited suffrage
to men, that the legislature of Maryland
had refused to ratify the woman's
suffrage amendment and that
the amendment had not become a
part of the federal constitution. The
Mnryland state courts sustained the
amendment.
The contention that an amendment
to the federal constitution relating
to additions to the electorate cannot
be made without the consent of
the state, the court disposed of by
reference to the fifteenth or equal
suffrage amendment, declaring that
"one cannot be valid and the other
invalid.", It pointed out that the validity
of the fifteenth amendment had
been recognized for half a century.
The suggestion that Several of the
36 states which ratified the nineteenth
Economy May Stril
"CREAKS that "attempts to curtail approprlatlons
for the remount service"
may be made in congress are
expressed In communications received
by the War department from horse
breeders. Work formerly done by the
Department of Agriculture in connection
with Improvement of the farm
horses Is now handled by the remount
service, and the farmers' representatives
have tiled protests with members
of congress against any slash of
the military budget which would interfere
with this activity.
The remount service has 200 stallions
valued at more thun $500,000,
and has mapped out a program for
their employment in 40 states during
Naw Is Getting Dc
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SECRETARY DENBY ordered SO
additional destroyers and nearly
three-score auxiliary naval craft placed
out of commission to conserve fuel.
The destroyers are In addition to the
100 ordered out of commission recently,
and will leave In the navy 76
destroyers In full commission and 40
with heavily reduced complements
aboard.
Among other vessels besides destroyers
ordered out of commission are
five oil ships and one collier, two
store ships, four mine layers, six
mine sweepers and Eagle boats and
14 tugs and towing vessels.
Secretary Denby said the ships ordered
out of commission today and
the hundred destroyers previously re|
tired as an economy measure were In
addition to 92 other ships of the navy
placed out of commission since he
took office a year ago. The department
In that time, he added, has sold
257 obsolete or auxiliary naval craft
and now has on sale 62 additional
ships.
A National Theate
YOU NEED A
flAT/CNAL THEATER
TX7ASHIXGTON should have a
V? great national theater such as
most of the European capitals possess,
so says Grattan C. Kerans, of St.
Louis, a visitor. He says "Washington
In this respect does not compare with
other world capitals. There Is no
theater in Washington thnt cun be
even remotely compared to the opera
In Paris or to the state theaters In
Berlin. Vienna or even Petrograd.
This situation should not exist in the
capital of the rlrhest nation on earth.
"Representatives of foreign governments
coming to America on diplomatic
missions, as during the recent
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Record Has Beats
reasons why considerations of relativity
of Importance must be borne In
mind. It Is no longer possible for the
newspapers to give full reports of the
proceedings of senate and house, and
the operations, investigations, Inquiries
and conclusions of their various committees.
In the Sixty-sixth congress no less
than 16.239 public bills and 481 joint
resolutions were Introduced in the
legislative grist mill of the house of
representatives, and more than 5,000
In the senate, of which 401 of the former
and 69 of the latter class became
laws. In addition to the 124 private
bills and resolutions which were
enacted. Not even congress Itself Is
able to visualize at a single sweep of
the eye n labor go vast In scope.
A follow-up system of federal publicity,
probably through the executive
departments, to keep the country Informed.
might be desirable. No single
newspaper can report adequately every
new act of congress and every Inter- ?
mediate step taken in the process of
converting the twenty-odd thousand
bills into the five hundred-odd laws.
ilds Woman Suffrage .
amendment had' provisions in thelt
state constitutions which prohibited
the legislatures from ratifying, could
not he entertained, the court stated,
because the state legislatures derived
their power In such matters from the
federal constitution which "transcends
any limitations sought to be imposed
by the people of a state."
i The remaining objection that the
ratifying resolutions of Tennessee and
West Virginia were Inoperative, because
adopted in violation of legislative
procedure In those states, maj
have been rendered "Immaterial," the
court declared, by the subsequent
ratification of the amendment by Connecticut
and Vermont. The contention
was disposed, however, on a
broader ground.
ce Remount Service
the year In co-operation with farmers,
as It has been found that the most
desirable type of horse for army use
Is exactly the type best fitted for
farm work.
A message to Col. F. S. Armstrong,
chief of the # remount service, signed
by representatives of more than 40
horse breeders' organizations in the
New England states, New York and * )
Pennsylvania, said the work carried
on by the service Is "of incalculable
value to the horse-bn^dlng Industry '
of the country." i
"We especially protest," It said,
"against the proposal to abandon the
remount depot at Front Royal, Va^
the only remount depot In the east or
south."
The Utah Cattle and Horse Growers'
association transmitted a resolution
Indorsing plans of the remount service
and urging congressional support of
this work.
The service was allowed $1150,000 In
the current army bill, a reduction from
$250,000 the year before, and plans
for the coming fiscal year contemplate
continued operation of three depots?
| Front Royal. Fort Robinson, Neb., and
I Fort Reno, OUla.
>wn to Brass Tacks
The American navy will continue
to function, effecting all the economies
already instituted until and unless a
congressional mandate is received, directing
otherwise, Secretary Den by
says, in connection with action in the
house on the navy's fuel estimate.
Without a record vote the house
passed and sent to the senate a bill
appropriating approximately $108,500,000
to meet deficiencies. A provision
which would limit to $0,300,000 the .
amount the navy department would
spend for fuel during the next four
months remained In the bill.
r for the Capital?
international conference, are likely to
base their opinion of American culture
and civilization upon what they seo
in the capital of the nation. They are
accustomed In their own countries to *
the magnificent structures for the production
of the drama, and If they do
not find similar facilities for the encouragement
of art In the United
States, they can hardly be blamed If
tM&y give some credence to the old
slander that America's 16 a 'dollar
civilization' and that Americans excel
only In the mechanical arts and sciences.""
Mr. Kerens believes that the development
of a national drama Is one
of the best possible forces tending toward
the Americanization of the varied
elements of our population. It can
be made a medium through which the
salient. Inspiring facts of our history
can be brought home to the consciousness
of the foreign-born citizen. The
government would be Justified In taking
up the project of a national theater
as a means of combating the spread ^
of Insidious radical doctrines.