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TREASURY WILL FACE LARGE DEFICIT Sec. Mellon Brings Unpleasant Facts to the Attention o f Bonus Advocates 'Washington. Fob. 2.?Funds to finance a soldiers' bonus must bo raised by means of internal taxes ?as it would .be impracticable to depend upon proceeds from the refunded-foreign debt for this pur pose. Secretary Mellon declared to day before the house ways and means committee. Reiterating his objections to the rnactmejit of bonus legislation at ibis time the tr.easu t secretary said that in laying taxes congress would have ro tap mostly new ?Sources as the levies now in effect were abnormally high for peace times. He opposed a general sales tax, reenactment of the excess.pro fits tax. or an increase in any ex isting taxes except possibly those on cigarettes, tobacco and docu ments. ,if\fw sour?es of revenue suggest ed by the secretary included three cent first class postage, to raise $70,4*00,000; an increase in second class postage rates to produce $30,000,000; a two cent tax on bank checks to yield $30,000,000 and a license tax of ?0 cents per horsepower on automobiles. to produce $100,000,000. Mr. Mellon estimated that increased documen tary stamp taxes would produce $40,000,000 and that an addition al $20,000,000 could be gained from ait increase of r>0 cents per l.tHJO on cigarettes and two cents a pound on tobacco. Figuring that the bonus would cost-$-J2.">.000,00* a year for the first-two years, the secretary said congress could pick out other sources of taxes where the burden would fall with the least hardship 'hi order to make up the deficit of $122,000.000 as between the yield fro^n the specific suggestions he had made and the cost of the bonus. In .this connection he called at tention thai there had been sug gested .:^?nsump tion taxes on tea, coffee, sugar and other articles, but he did not approve such taxes. As to the use of any part of the proceeds from the foreign debt, Mr;'-Mellon said the time that re turns would be had from that source was problematical and that in any event the ultimate cost to J&e -government and the country would be greater than if direct tax?'werelaid. He explained that the interest were used the gov erntt^-nt would have to extend its domestic .debt-refunding operations that mueM fchger at a cost to the taxpayers, while if the foreign bonds were sold in the United States the government would have to guarantee the interest and the principal and even the securities probably could not be sold at par. To a suggestion that *ho treas ury issue certificates of indebted ness to raise the $S50.000,000 for the first two years and retire them out of interest from "the foreign debt. Mr. Mellon said this would Hinder the domestic debt refund mg^operations upon which the treasury soon' must embark. The amount to be refunded, he assert ed, was so large that no additional securities should be thrown on the market during the operations. He also called attention that the government was facing a deficit of ?300.000,000 in 1923 which must be made up. Asked by Representative Gard ner of Texas as to the imposition of a tax on light wines and beers as a means of raising the bonus fund. Mr. Mellon declared jhat with the "high tension" in the country on the prohibition ques tion it Was not feasible to de pend upon this as a source of reve nue. Cha'irm.'m Fordney suggest ed that there was a constitutional inhibition on congress in permit ting the sab- of beer and wine. - Brigadier General Lord, budget officer for the war department, told the committee that the department had estimated that if all the sol diers- took cash the total cost of the bonus to the treasury would be $1.0^2.400,000, but he declared that he* and other officers believed this otal too low. Members of the comn ittee agreed that the figure probably was small and Represen tative Longworth (Republican) of Ohio said it would be better for the committee to follow the $1, 500.000,000 estimate contained in the senate finance committee re port on the bonus lull. When a girl marries a man with a pass just for Iiis presents, she hasn't much of a future. ? ? ? The reason people accuse Fance of imperialism is because other vic torious nations are always so humble and unselfish. *'l can l ent my own wife," orates ? prominent divorce defendant; but he fails to say at what. "Wine, women and song." trans lated into the classical Fnglish ?>f our day. means hootch, chickens and Jazz. Princes?; Mary's presents will be largely plate and jewel.-.. The young couple will have to 'supph their clocks and pictures of the "Stag at Eve"' themselves. St Paul Pioneer F*ress. A .Syracuse. X. Y.. nurse broke her neck white trying t>> comb a snarl out of her hair. Moral: "bob" it.? Peoria Tranftcript. Why Shouldn't France call i: a "pOlitcal debt?" It make-* her feel better, and it won't make it any harder for us to collect. I _ .?Meets Peking Delega tion Part Way on Request For Aban donment of 'Twen ty-One Demands Washington. Feb. 2.?Japan mot I China part way today on the lat tcr's request for abandonment of ? the celebrated "twenty-one do ! mands" program of 1915. Taking the center of the stage as I the final scene of the arms con ference began, the Japanese an nounced that their government , was ready to give up entirely Group 5 of the "demands" which China has held was calculated to j rob her of her sovereignty; and ito make further concessions re garding economic privileges and political and military preferences in Manchuria and Mongolia. Tomorrow China is to reply in a statement that is expected to bring the Far Eastern negotiations to an end. and on Saturday the Wash \ ington conference probably will adjourn sine die after a plenary ; session for formal adoption of the i Far Eastern treaties. Consideration of the "twenty one demands." the last topic re ; maining on the agenda of the con ference, began in the Far Eastern j committee after hope of an adjust - j ment of the Chinese Eastern rail ; way situation had been abandoned iand a resolution adopted merely declaring that arrangements for "better protection" of the road : should be worked out in the near future through the regular diplo matic channels. The powers other than China appended a joint dec laration of China's responsibility; for fulfillment of her obligations; j to foreign stockholders of the road. ? Japan's statement on the "de- j mands" was presented by Baron i Shidehara who argued that the i Chinese request for abrogation of the treaties and agreements re-j i suiting from the" 1915 program I could not be supported by a pica of invalidity, because the agree i meats made were entered into by ! China in the exercise of her full; powers as a sovereign state. To j j question treaties because they were made under duress, he said, 'would be to challenge the validity ! of many of the most important ! existing international concords j through the world. He excused the ; delivery of an ultimatum to Chi ! ra, just before her partial accept 'anee of the "demands," as an ex- j ipedlent to bring the prolonged ne gotiations to an end. Three concession were an ! nounced by Baron Shidohara. one j [relating to Group and the others to the situation in Manchuria and I ! Mongolia. Japan was ready, ho j isaid, to withdraw the reservation ; [attached to the Chinese-Japanese j ;treaty of lUlf?. under which she re- i j tamed the right to press further in j ; the future the unaccepted Group f>. j iOne of the other concessions will I ; open up South Manchuria and j Eastern Inner Mongolia to the I ^international consortium, and the j : other asserts that Japan has no in- i ttention of insisting that Japanese ( j advisers bo employed in these ter-| I ritories in political, financial, mili- j J tary nor police matters. ; The famous Group 5, thus cast j into the discard after it had been i : the center of the "dmands" con- | < troversv for the past six years, i j would have required China toem- j 'ploy Japanese political, financial j ' and military advisers in her cen- j jtral government, give Japan the ] ; right to jointly, police with China j certain important Chinese areas. ' [establish in China a joint Chinese- I Japanese arsenal, and grant to Ja- j pan important mining and railroad j concessions. These requirements, j the Chinese declared, would mean j the end of Chinese sovereignty. -?~? Senate May Act Soon On Ford's Offer to Lease j Muscle Shoals I i Washington. Feb. 4.? Arrange ments for house hearings on the offer of Henry Ford for the Mus cle Shoals. Ala., nitrate and power plants were made today and indi cations developed that the senate also may hold hearings. The house military committee, which has Secretary Weeks* re-, port on the Ford offer pending before it. decided at a meeting to day to begin hearings about the middle of next week with Secre tary Weeks and army engineers as the lirst witnesses and repreenta tives ol the Detroit manufacturer to be called later-. Southern senators, led by Sena tor Harris. Democrat. Georgia, who have expressed regret that Secre tary Weeks did not also send his report to the senate, said today that despite this they would at tempt to obtain immediate senate hearings. Senator Harris announc ed that when the senate meets Monday, he would present and ask immediate action on a resolution directing the senate agriculture committee to proceed with the consideration of the report sent to the bouse. -. CHAMPION WRESTLERS MEET IN NEW YORK New York, Feb. U.?Stanislaus Zbysjiko. the World's heavyweighi wrestling champion, whose -ly.-' is nearly fifty. ;vill defend the title tonight against the former cham pion. Ea rl < "addock. Alimony woo tplay with the chil iFormer Stenographer, Enters Suit Fori Hundred Thousand! Dollars By the Associated Press. I Jackson. Miss., Feb. 6.?:Gover ! nor Lee M. Russell, of Mississippi, i j has been made defendant in a I hundred thousand dollar damage I I suit by Miss Frances C. Birkhead, i his former stenographer, who has charged the governor with seduc ! tion under a marriage promise. ? j The bill charged that the girl's I j reputation, character ' and health i were ruined. The governor said j I the charges were a damnable lie j i and only an attempt by his ene- j ; mies to blacken his character. I Troopers Clash With Strikers - ! Men on Strike and Sympathiz ers Attack Truck Load of Employees Newport, Ky.. Feb. 5.?Another j series of clashes between Ken tucky state troops and strikers and their sympathizers growing out of the labor disorders at the plant j of the Newport rolling mills oc j furred on thost roots of the city to ; day. Numerous shots wer?- tired, j but so far as could be learned no one was struck with bullets. Sev | era! persons, however, are reported ! to have been beaten. While none of the (dashes was! : as serious as those oh the preceding I day. when two men were shot and j at least a score of others beaten, i Including both union and non-un ion men, the state troops were eail [ ed on to repulse two attacks ?against their tanks and one against 'a truck. Several members of the attacking party were arrested and j taken to the temporary guard | house at the military headquarters i inside the plant. In eaeh ease it I was announced the soldier fired j only after being tfred upon, i Among those arrested was Jack Xiemeyer, Former president of local No. 1T> of the strikers' union! Xiemeyer. with several others, was arrested when the sol diers rushed a molt which had at tacked a truck guarded by the j troops, convoying mill employees j from the plant. He is being held) j on suspicion. j Outside of the clashes between. j the guardsmen and the strike sym- j ! pathizers the principal development j of the day was the ',uest toning by! police ?>f the authority of the sol-', diers to override them in the en- j foreement of the law. and the send- j j ing of an appeal to Washington! and to Frankfort asking that a: [stop be put to conditions that are j [.said to exist in Newport since the; military occupation of a part of j ?the city. The letters cited several! leases of alleged "outrages" com ? mitted by the guardsmen. ! Several families tonight left their j homes in the mill district and j sought shelter at the city building. ; Atlantic Fleet at Gunntanimo Guantanamo, Cuba, Feb. 3?The; Atlantic fleet steamed- into Guata- ? namo Bay today and anchored off the naval base that for more than) a score of years has been the win- j ter playground and training camp j for Yankee sailormen. Here the \ gobs and their officers will remain : until April, working a bit and hav- ! ing tin* play that keeps Jack a,; bright and snappy boy. None of the sailors had put foot ? on land since January :> when their ships went to sea l'or ihe annual j cruise in southern waters, until I launches came chugging to shore today. Admiral Hilary P. Jones, commander of the fleet, was wait- \ ing aboard his flagship Columbia in the, harbor when the lighting! i craft plowed into the Bay from the; Guancanayahb Gulf, lsu miles I westward, where sitter January 10 j j everyone has been busy with gun ! nery exercises, engineering trials I and torpedo tiring. The commander's aim to key up ; every man to the highest pitch of i efficiency and fitness will be carried j [out here by torpedo practice, spot ting, turret drills and night fire re . hearsals aboard ship, while on shore baseball and other sports will give the sailors plenty of recrea j tion. j Every gob is a man among men ! and men only from now until April : The station embraces :"') square miles in the Guantanamo valley j along the Southern coastline of j Cuba m?t far from the eastern tip ' of the island. Liberty does not mean ja trip "to town." tin* cafes and j theatres, but freedom t<> sport and j piny at outdoor games beneath a I balmy sky. There is no "town" to ^o to. Manzanilio is the nearest [sizable place of habitation und it is I too far away for the Sailors to visit i ; while on liberty. 1 Led by the Wyoming flagship of -the battleship force, the war vessels ' I that trrived today were the battle ships Delaware. North Dakota. Florida. Is destroyers, eight sul? i marines and their tenders. the ships of th?- train. Olympia. Bra- ! /os. Bridge. < 'outoeook. fuka. Pro rnet hens. Proteus. Belief. Robin, j Y'irco. I .a i. r a so uadrou of air planes will come from Pensacola, Fin. Nea i !'.' all of ihe era 11 u ere tin - dermnrmed. The remainder of the de>troy?-r squadron, with 50 per-! cent complements; will remain lhrough the vvintei .it ih?- Charles ion base. No, Aivthusa. it is not If. f:. : Well's ' Outlyin' History. ' AN EPOCH IN HUMAN PROGRESS Pres. Harding- Lauds Achievement of the Arms Conference in Address at the Final Session Washington, Fob. 0.?President Harding, in addressing the final session of the arms conference, de clared that the conference had wrought a truly great achievement und if the faith plighted here Is kept in national honor it will mark the beginning of a new and better epoeh in human progress. "Xo new standards of national honor have been 'sought, but in dictments of national dishonor have been drawn. You have writ ten the first deliberate and effec tive expression of the great pow ers, in consciousness of peace, or war's utter futility and challenged the sanity of competitive prepara ration for each other's destruction. "You can have halted folly and lifted burdens and revealed to the world that the one sure way to re cover from war is to turn human energies to the oonxtructiveness of peace." "Xo intrigue, no offensive or defensive alliances, no involve ments have wrought your agree ment, but reasoning with each other to a common understanding you have made new relationships among governments and peoples and new securities for peace. It may be that the naval holiday hen* contracted will expire with treaties, hut I do not believe it. Torches of understanding have been lighted and they ought to glow and en circle the. globe. in tlie. assembly hall of the Daughters of the American revolu tion the delegates of nine nations marched in turn to the table and affixed their signatures to the trea ties and agreements to lift the bur den Of excessive naval armaments, promote peace of the Pacific, give a new hill of rights to China and re move from the far east, parti cularly the clouds of war." RUSSIAN MONASTERY DESECRATED Sergiyevo. i^usc-.a. Jan. 11.?The .$300.000,000 treasury of the Ca thedral of thf* Trinity monastery of St. Sergius, has disappeared. fled soldires now use as barracks the buildings of what was once regard ed as the richest and most famous eonveut of uU the Russias. save possibly that at Kiev. There..art hut live monks left In the mon astery. Fifteen others have remov ed a mile arid a half distant to the Church of Gethsemane, at Chernl govskaya (Mother of God), where they have founded an humble com mune and till the soil. The other monks who lived at this vast religious mecca. to which yearly came l-00)0'<Mf pilgrims, have been scattered. There are but few pilgrims now to pray before the ikon of St. Ser gius, the miraculous powers of which was supposed by Russians to have saved the monastery from destruction by the French army of invasion in 18 i 2. The very jewels of the open sil ver sarcophagnes of St. Serguis have been removed or replace*! with false ones, it is claimed. Many of the vast treasures of church ves sels, mitres and croziers. made of solid gold and inlaid with precious stones of itnmen.se value, are miss ing. It is claimed that the loot from the monastery equalled in value the treasures of gold and silver and stones of St. Peter*s, in I to me. The monks remaining at the monastery show the churcb.es to few "visitors. The monastery is classed as a national Soviet mu seum. Xo service is held within tlie celebrated churches. This city, which in pre-war days permitted neither Jew nor soldiers to camp or dwell here, is now full of both. Many of the big mer chant stores were burned in July, IS*W, as in other cities of Kussiu. as part of a counter-revolutionary movement. At the same time por tions of the lofty outer walls, built in the Middle Ages to defend the monastery, were damaged. German Public Utilities w lie Gov ernment Controlled. Berlin, Deo. 2 0.?Germany prob ably will contine to own and oper ate her railways, posts, telegraphs and waterways, despite efforts by certain industrialists and political leaders t.? induce the government to sell these public utilities to pri vate interests. Government ownership of rail ways appears to have become a stable policy following this cam paign and it is staunchly support ed by socialistic, democratic, liber al and labor elements. The campaign against govern ment ownership followed the pil ing up of enormous delictis by :ill tie- railways and the pressure ot entente creditors for payment ol Germany's.war indemnities. It w as argued tha' the roads could be made to pay a profit under private ownership and would thus be :i ma t eri j 1 help to the eation in it * financial dilemma. Uuliroads of Germany alw?y. have been under government con trol but until the revolution the properties ivVrr vested in several s-itate?. The systems. howt-vcr. were consolidated nnd*r th^ central gov ernment when i hi- Socialists came into j?< >\\ er. The Socialists ohjeet l>> vesting ownership ol public utiliti. ; j:. pri vate hands. Laugh and the world laugha wit I you; don't and it laughi at you. A Number of Import ant Measures To Be Debated This Week ?Income Tax Bill on Senate Calendar Columbia, Feb. i?.?The week ahead promises to bo full of "pep" in both branches of the general as sembly, and while inueh will prob ably be. done., ihe session will hard ly ho completed within the forty day period for which members are paid. Some important measures are to | be debated this week. In the I house the luxuries tax measure and j the railroad commission bill are to! eome up lor debate, and there will j likely he a fierce battle waged over! each. The. luxury tax bill would pui :i tax on movies, drinks, tobacco, silk j stockings, ammunition. playing! cards, perfumes, chewing gum and) furs. This is one of the six big rev- j enue bills introduced by the ways and means committee. The railroad commission bill, by Senator Miller, already voted by the upper branch, would enlarge the railroad commission to seven j members, each to receive a per diem, to be elected by the legisla- ! tore. The hill was debated long] and fiercely in the senate and it I will draw steel in the house. The "bad check" bill, by Repre sentatives Barnett und Sheppard. ? to make it a ''rime ro utter checks : on banks where there are no funds on deposit to cover, will :il<a? be up for debate this week, being set as a special order. The gasoline tax bill, passed by both branches, comes hack to the. house for concurrence in the sen ate amendment eliminating kero-' sens and providing that half of the proceeds-shall go to the counties for roads. The tax on gasoline is ; tixed at two cents a gallon. In the senate the corporation Ii-; cense tax is scheduled for hot de- ; bate this werk. An effort to kill I It last week \v;is lost. The final j vote will be taken Wednesday.. It i has a hard row ahead in the sen- ; ate. it has already pased the house. The income tax bill, already: parsed by the house, is ou the sen- j ate calendar for second reading.: It has met some opposition already. Resolutions to allow the legisla ture to fix Just and equitable sys tems of raising revenue, and to re-j duce land assessments twenty-five i per cent, are on the senate calen- : dar. scheduled to draw debate. The timber tax bill has been! withdrawn by the author, Senator) Wells. Senator Crosso.i. of Lex-: ington, has withdrawn hi* hill to abolish the tax commission. The] revenue measures arc the most important on the calendars. The annual appropriation bill has not j been 'int rod need, and it is said th?i ways and means committee, where! this- originates, is waiting to sec' what is to be ?Jone with the reve- j ntse measures. The financial pro- i gram is thought by many to be all that is in the way of adjournment.! and the progress made on these will determine whether <>r not the end comes within the forty-days-?j though the probability seems un likely. The hydro-electric tux bill, an-] other of the revenue , measures] which will bring forth long and, heated arguments, is still with thej finance committee. Two of the big! revenue bills ha\\ passed both: branches, the gasoline tax bill and ; the inheritance tax bill, neither of them is in final form.- Differences brought about by amendments are yet to b<> worked out. Portraits of Washington Hartford Conn.. Feb. 3? Discov ery of a long lost portrait of Cieorsre'l Washington by the American artist : Gilbert Stuart, in New York re cently directs attention to thej IStuart portrait of Washington that! hangs in Memorial Nail in the; State Library Building here in the I ly every artist w ho comes to ibis; icity makes an effort to see this 'Gilbert canvass. It was bought di- \ reot from the artist by virtue of a resolution of the General As sembly in May I-S0?. The under-, standing was that it had been paint-' ed by order of a committee from South Carolina and was then de-j (dined, on the ground that it was, not a portrait of General Washing ton, j ' A com mil lee from Connecticut, consisting of .James Hillhouse.' w hose acres in New Haven are now the property of Yale Fniversity. Chauncey Goodrich of New Haven and John Trumbull of Lebanon,] conferred with Gilbert as to a Washington portrait and purchased the one he hud painted for South Carolina. It was hung in the sen ate chamber of the historic; stale house in Hartford and after about: seventy years it was taken to the] Senate chamber <>f the present cap ital. A few years sine,- it was plac ed in the state libarary. A copy <>f a Washington after I Stuart but not by him hung fori many years in the state house it New Haven when Connecticut had two capitals and two state houses, and i-. now in the Hartford High School. A not In r Washingt on, also a copy; is in Wadsworlh Atheneuni here do c by a picture of Farragut in the rigglnM of the 1' S, s Hartford iti t!:.- Rattle of Mobil,. Raj Government employes stand a, civil ???r\!'-, examination and can l ?> civil when they will. -? ? ? I .o\ <? is blind. e.;pei ialiy iOVe of Honor -so i.-. the kivet' after drink ing so nie of u. The uji.- bird qatches the suci-ei Los Angeles' Murder Mysterj Police Searching For Clue to Slayer of William D. Taylor Los Angeles. Feb. G.?The police: are reehecking the papers of Wil liam Desmond Taylor, the slnin motion picture director, in an ef fort to tind a new clue. An un named motion picture actor, whose automobile was seen near Taylor's hone.- on the night of the murder, was taken ro the jail for question ing, hut he was later released. The police have received a report that a woman's silken lingerie i ? miss ing from the Taylor apartment. The garment bore the actress' initials. William D. Taylor, movie director and president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, who was coup.d shot 10 death in hia Holly* .vuJ bungalow Feb. 2. Ford Buys Motor Plant Representatives Bid $8,000, 000 for Lincoln Holdings Detroit. Feb. 4.? Henry Ford formally caipe into possession of the Lincoln Motor Company of Detroit, late today, when Judge Arthur I. Tuttle, in the United States District Court, confirmed sab- of the property, oireciPd at public auction this morning. There was no protest to the confirma (ion. Mr. Ford, through his repre sentatives, lad $8,000,001 tor the Line, m holdings. being the only one to offer a bid. The price was the lowest that could be accepted. Judge Tuttle had ruled previously. Expected opposition to Mr. Ford's plan to purchase the com pany failed to develop, two other bidders who had qualified failing to offer bids. Buying and Selling. Moscow. .Ian. 2.?"Skolka" (How much?) has become a gen eral term of salutation in Russia. Everybody is buying and selling. There is practically nothing which cannot be bought if sufficient money is offered. Trade is nor. confined to the .market places. It is carried on everywhere in the streets. It isn't bad manners to stop a mart on the street and ask him how much he wants for his beaver cap, <>r his astrakhan-trimmed overcoat. No woman takes it as affront to be asked how much she will take for her sable stole <>r silver purse. There arc many well-dressed persons moving about the street in finery which doesn't belong to them, but is being shown in the hope that they may get an offer for it and have a chance to earn a commission. Improvised cafes which arc springing up everywhere under the direction of members of the former bourgeoisie are frequently furnish ed with elaborate upholstered chairs and divans from some once grand drawing room. The walls are lined with oil paintings and tapestries. The porcelain fre quently bears the crests of famous families. It is all for sale. The cultivated waitresses aiv fre quently money-changers who will buy foreign exchange <>r undertake any sort <>f business commissions. Ileeently. a party of Americans, including several women attended mass at one of the famous churches in Moscow. When the priests in their gorgeous gold gowns march ed through the mass of standing worshippers one of the men warn ed the women: "When those priests pass you don't take hold of their robes and ask 'Skolka'?" -? o- -? SAVANNAH RIVER IS RISING Auguta. Oa.. Feb. fi ?Tlie Sa vannah river is expected to inun date the lower country on Carolina saie as :i result of the heav> rains recently. -? m - Japan ought to be satisfied. She goes to hod while we are net I i n?; up. '*\imm ?. ? ? ?? Fvangeline Booth s:i\s it is dis honest t" powder the nose. Yet it . eel. ly a hit le \\ Int.- li<- <'Idea Tile world survives in spite of a broken heart, but statesmen arc warned thai it probably won't sur vive a broken back. Human Skeletons Mark Path in Snow Hundreds of Thousands of Men, Women and Children Die From Hunger as They Press on in Search of Bread Ufa, Volga Region, Russia, Feb. "..? (By the Associated Press) ? When the snows melt next spring the Russian steppes will be strewn with skeletons. They will resem ble the high prairies of the Ameri can eow country in tin- rtays when big cattle outtirs had insufficient hay to carry thier stock through a hard winter. But among the skeletons of cat tle and camels there will lie hones of hundreds of thousands of men, j women and children who fell ex I hausted in their quest for bread; I wln> lived the simple lives their j peasant ancestors lived for cen I tttries and hud little conception of j the political upheaval which made j this famine more terrible than that Of ISO I. They wanderen, and millions of : them are still wandering. There was nothing to eat in their homes, so they started on the trek for bread. Some drifted Westward to thc.Volga and found death in the typhus-ridden railway centers, or among the horrors of refugee camps along the Volga: others started for Turkestan: still oth ! ers moved Eastward toward Siberia, the land of gold end wheat which has always been so aluuring ot the Russian moujik, who heard little of its easiness, its hardships and its heartlessness. The peasants knew nothing of modern ways. They were ? unable to ger. rides on the trains i burdened with the Bed army and food for Moscow and Petrograd, j When their animals dropped dead : the families walked on always : hoping that food lay over the next knoll. But the country districts have no grain, or if peasant families i have a small supply they conceal it ' in the oi'iovt to prolong their own ? lives until another ^rop is har j vested. In the larger towns there J is food for sale at fabulous prices but the starving refugees have j neither money nor goods to ex change and can only sit down to await death or trudge on until they sink of exhaustion. The hodie.s that lie along the railroads are collected on cars and j hauled to centers where they are ; idled in frozen, snow-covered heaps to await burial. Freezing refugees j remove all garments from the i dead, so the frozen bodies are nude I when the scavengers collect them. ; Families drift apart and wander aimlessly on to their inevitable I fate. Human instincts are lost and j rhey become little better than beasts. The cities and town pop ulations are so hardened to suf ? fering that they are little moved .by the misery which lies all about them. Death seems more merci ! ful in the country for the refu gees; /they sink into the white cov ? e.ring of the endless plain, and J wolves strip their bones. From Perm and Ekaterinburg to I the Caspian Sea death is stalking ; over the steppes. Russians, Cos jsacks, Kalmucks. Kirghiz and Tar j tars alike are meeting their end i with hopelessness and patience be : gotten of centuries of unequal struggle against political extortion and unfavorable climatic condi tions made worse by ignorance of scientific methods of tilling the soil. American corn will be too late rto save many of these wanderers ! through the steppes as well as the families who have elected to make their fight in their villages remote from the railways rather than en jdure the hardships and death their neighbors have suffered along the ! main lines of transportation. Entire village populations have i died in the provinces East of the ; Volga and the animals which sur vive are so weak it is impossible to Ket adequate horsepower to de liver food to rhe thousands of ? snowbound destitute settlements far from food stations. Mortality of Poles Returning From Russia. - j Warsaw. .Jan. 3 ?Covernment in spectors say there is much typhus : among the thousands of Polish tuen, women and children who are 'being repatriated from Russia I through the camp at Baranowlcze, ; near the Polish-Russian border. The disease, they assert, is be iComing tnoii' widespreal as it does each winter us the cold weather j Sets in. Repration of the Polish popula tion which was withdrawn by the Rusian armies in IU15 in their re treat si scarcely half finished. It began lust July. Estimates of the number to be repatriated vary from fiOO.000 by the Polish Commission to I.oOO/trtO by tin- Russian evacu ation commission. It is estimated tint more than SOO.OAo already have passed through the Barano* wicze camp alone und that the to tal number returned ;<? date is ap proximately 450.0?0. The care of these people is in Ihe hands of the Polish government aided h\ sever al welfare organizations. These refugees have been dying in such numbers at the Barano wicjce camp that the authorities have found i: necessary to bury the victims in ^rewt trendies, 0? ?;:!..o.oft who passed through the station in November, it is estimated by Polish health authorities that I.."iiHi died after reaching the camp. Doctor.-, attributed the majority of deaths to disease contracted en route and brought about by expos ure and lack of nourishment. IIay> may make an impressbm on the films, but as to leaving his stamp on ihe postoffce depart men! tlmt's an honor accorded oul\ to Washington, Lincoln and other g i eat A merit ant. ? Pitssburg h Sun. Let the Dairy Cow Help Out, Do Not Depend Entirely on Cottpn For an Income The pom ing of the cotton boll weevil does not mean that we cannot raise cotton profitable long-* (??.. but it docs mean that we can i not safely depend upon the cotton j crop as the only source of cash in come There is no line of livestock pro duction which fits so well in the cropping system that should be ? worked out under boll wevil con- 1 j ditions as the dairy eow. During i the past several months farmers of : the cotton belt have given more se rious thought to ways and means ' j of placing their business upon a cash basis and freeing themselves i from cotton as the sole source of ) cash Income than e/rr in the I South's history. The milch cow has ? practically taken her place in the 1 minds of most farmers as being the oasis upon which such a change ! may be made as to meet the sit - j nation. With the reduced acreage of cot ton and the greatly increased pro duction, of feedstuff this year the milch cow has also been cosnidered j as the one safe marketing agency ? as she will consume corn and for j age and return payment quickly in j the form of a cream check. The j splendid and practicable way in { which this cream check may be 1 ! supplemented by sales of poultry, J eggs and hogs fed ttpon the skim : milk has likewise appealed to the I farmer as making even more safe ' j this means whereby he may place j his operations upon a cash basis I in so far as current expenses are I concerned. The keeping of a few cows on every farm, the sale of cream to j a creamery and the feeding of ' skim milk to poultry and hogs will not only meet the requirements for a steady income from month to month throughout the year, but will in a most effective way meet ! the condition with reference to j soil improvement, making It pos j sible for farmers to enrich their , soils so as to realize larger yields I of the. staple crops, besides it will enable them to successfully pro Iduce many fruit and vegetable ! crops that cannot now be produced 'profitably upon the average farm ? because of the eroded and general j ly thin condition of the soil. j Federal Road Funds Shared by Na i tional Forest States j Fifteen million dollars has been ? apportioned by the Secretary of j Agriculture among 27 states, Alaska, and Porto Rico for tho j construction of National Forest roads and trails. Of this sum $0. ! 500,0.00 known as the "National j Forest Highway Fund" is set aside I for roads of primary importance jto states, counties, and National ? j Forest communities; $5,500,000 ! constituting the "National Forest i Development Fund" will be used I for the construction of roads and , 'trails needed for the administration I and utilization of the forests them ' selves. These appropriations, forestry j officials state, will give a new im : petus to the work of opening up ! vast tracts of valuable timber and ' areas of scenic beauty for the use j and enjoyment of the American I people. I The development of roads and j trails throughout the forests will aid materially in fire protection. "At present there are large areas i of trackless wilderness within the I National Forests that can not be , reached by trails. When lightning storms sweep over those inacces ! sible areas, heavy fire losses of i public timber often occur. I Speed in reaching a forest fire, j foresters say. is just as important in protecting the country's forests [as is speed in city fire protection. Tut high speed within the forests j means -t or 5 miles an hour over a I mountain trail. If no trail exists i it is often impossible for the fire j fighters to average more than one | fourth a mile an hour. In the past, construction of many ! urgently needed forest roads has been deierred for lack of sufficient j funds. Much of this work can now ; go forward. The Forest Service 'estimates that eventually over [$100,000,000 will be required to supply a thoroughly adequate , i transportation system throughout the I56.0fto.o00 acres within the ! National Forests. Popular Pamphlet. Creonvtlle. Feb. 4.?Translation into the Chinese language of an other book. "The Course of Chris tian llist^rv." written by President W. .1. McGlotblin of Furman Uni , versity, has been completed. The volume is nod as a textbook al ready in Wake Forest. Mercer, tleorcretown and Furman. and the translation into Chinese is for ?he. purpose of using it as a textbook in Craves Theological Seminary, in Canton. China. This is the fourth one of Hr. McGlothlin's books that has been translated into Chinese. Tin- English edition of "The Course oi Christian History" wa? first pub lished by The MeMillian Company >i New York, in IMS. and has at tracted wide attention both in the Fnited States and abroad. For Miss Watson. A pretty tea was given Thursday ! afternoon by Mrs. C. L. Stubbs at ; her residence on Hampton Ave., in honor of Miss Louise Watson, a bride-eleei of the city. The house was beautifully decorated in pink J carnations. The thirty-five ladies I present at the tea expressed them j.selves as having spent a most en joyable hour and many good wishes were made for the happi ness of the guest of honor. The trouble with passing too many laws is die people Mso pass them. "George Harvey in Cannes." No, thanks. We'll t^ke salmon.