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THE SFMTER WATCHMAX, Est! CONSOLIDATED AUG. 2,3 MW ? Pacts Limiting Navies , of Great Powers and Restricting Use of Submarines and Poison Gas Approv ed by Landslide Washington, March 29. ? The two arms conference treaties limit ing the ncvies of the gre? powers and restricting the use of subma ' rines and poison gas were ratified in a landslide of approbation today by the senate. "~~ To the naval limitation covenant declaring a naval building holiday and fixing a ratio of capital ship strength for the United States, Great: Britain, Japan, France and Italy,, ihe senate gave its final as sent by a vote of 74 td\. and then almost without debate it accepted Tl. to^O ibe pact designed to pre vent, submarine operations against merchantmen and to outlaw chem ical warfare altogether. No amend . ments or reservations were propos ed to either. The only negative vote was cast ?against the naval treaty by Sena ? tor France (Republican) of Mary land, who said he regarded naval reduction as a dangerous expedient . under present : world conditions. , Every other member of the "ir reconcilable" bloc who was present cast a vote in the affirmative al though Senator Borah (Republi can ) of Idaho told the senate he _ regarded the treaty as only a be ginning and SenatorrJohnson (Re publican) of . California declared he accepted the fortifications "stat us quo" provisions for the -Pacific wirh "grave misgivings.'.' \ A speech assailing Jhe poison gas articles of the submarine and gas ; treaty<was made on the senate floor by Senator Wadsworth (Republi can) of New Yoric, chairman of the military commktee, but before the ratification rolflie left the chamber . and did not vote. The New York senator"disagreed-with the state ment in the treaty- test that use of gas in -warfare had been "justly condemned by the general opinion of the civilized. worM/^argned that chemical warfare " had not proved actually more brutal than other ac cepted methods of destruction and expressed a fear that the treaty pledges would be violated in and ern ergency. As soon as the two pacts had been disposed of, administration leaders brought formally before the senate the general Far Eastern treaty. Debate on it will begin to morrow with indications pointing to opposition from a small group of ^senators who believe that China's -. interests were not sufficiently pro tected. It is the hope of the leaders, however, that *both this pact and the Chinese tariff treaty, the- last remaining covenant of the congress, will be ratified during the present week. SOUTH CARO LINA ON TOP Her Population is Nearly AH American Washington, March 29.?Eleven per cent of the foreign-born white population in the United States ten years.of age and older, according to the 1520 census, was unable to speak English, the census bureau announced today. The number was I,4Sg,94S, out of a total foreign born population more than ten years of age of 13,497,880. These figures compared with 2.953.01 1 ?non-English speaking foreign bora residents, or 22.8 per cent t?t the total, enumerated for the 1910 census. The bureau attributed the de crease to several causes, citing that many Immigrants who could not speak English in 1910 had since learned the language, died or re turned to their native countries; that the number who could not speak English arriving during the last decade was smaller than in the previous ten years, and that a majority of these had come t<> this country prior to August 1. 1914. and. therefore, had had time to learn rhe language before the cen sus was taken. In Texas, New Mexico and Ari zona, where more, than .two-thirds of the foreign white population were born in Mexico, the percent ages unable to speak English were, respectively. 51.7 per cent. 49.-1 per cent and 51.8 per cent. The next highAit percentages uhable to speak English were in West \ ir ginia, 11*.3 per cent., and Florida, IS.8 per cent, while the smallest proportions were shown in South Carolina, 1.8 per cent.: Georgia, l.S: Kentucky, 2.2; North Carolina. 2.7; District of Columbia. 2.S; Washington, 3.2; Oregon. :'?.:;; Ten nessee, 3.3; Montana, 2.4; Virgin ia. 3.7; Utah, 4.1; Alabama, 4.1'. Iowa, 4.3. Resignation of Viceroy Reported London. March 30.?It is rum ored, says the Pall Mail Gazette and Globe, that Lord Reading, viceroy of India, has resigned. Austen Chamberlain, arting head of the go\ ernment, says the report I 23 without foundation. ablished April, 1S30, 1881. [WORK ON I WILSON DAM j FAVORED Members of Senate and House Commit tees Express Senti-i ment Following In spection ? Florence, Ala., March 29.?Ef i forts will be made immediately to j obtain an appropriation to resume! j work within sixty days on the Wil- j son Dam unit of the government's j 1 Muscle Shoals war plant, according j j to sentiment expressed by mem- j i bers of the senate agriculture and (house military commitees who to I night completed a rhree days' sur- j j vey of the entity. "Opinion appears to have erys talized in that direction so rap- j idly since we inspected the uncom pleted Wilson Dam," said Senator j Norris. chairman of the senate com i mittee, "that we have not had time to think of details. One thing i is sure, however, the dam will be \ built if this committee can bring it j about and I want to see the gov- j ernment get in the river during low ; water this spring." Senator Xorris declared that I prospective purchasers or lessees > would lose nothing by the govern- | mnet "going ahead in the work ofi completing the project." 'There will be so much deterio i ration if we delay that I am ful- J iy convinced that we must get j i back on this job quickly since -it is j determined that nobody wants to! I see it scrapped," he continued. The i j committee chairman expressed him- i seuf in favor of the government spending its own money and doing i its own work in completing the ? one unit. I Representative Hull, of the House j committee, gave his opinion that; the government should start work I this spring "unless one of the pro posals now before the committee is j found to be acceptable." "In any event there should be no! delay." said Mr. Hull, "because at least this unit of power on the j Tennessee river must be developed, j I see no reason for delay. If there is no bid before us we can accept we should build the dam and while the work is in progress we can fmd a satisfactory and profitable way to dispose of the whole plant." A majority of the House com- j mitteemen in the party seemed to share the opinion that bids before j the committee should be disposed of before the government under took to start work itself. Representative James, Republi can, Michigan, expressed himself j as a Muscle Shoals convert, declar ing that he had always voted against appropriations for the project, but since he had studied it on the ground he would vote to complete the Wilson Dam, gjving first consideration to bids before the committee. While majority and minority members of the two committees were apparently decided on the j question of starting work, there I were widely divergent expressions of opinion as to whether a private corporation or the government j should finish the job. There were Democratic members who frankly j expressed a desire to lease or sell j the property to one of the bidders j and then ask for an appropriation jin conformity with such contract. I I Among majority members of both I I committees there was advanced the! j opinion that none of the bids be- | fore Congress would be accepted i without modification. The last day of the Congressional tour was spent in a study of Wil son Dam. the site for the proposed I dam No. 3, and the entire stretch j of river between the two dams. After a banquet given by the | Sheffield Muscle Shoals' Chamber of Commerce the Congressional party departed tonight for Washington. SOLDIER DEAD FROM FRANCE One Thousand and Sixty Sa-I luted by Guns of New York | Forts _. i New York. March 29?The last; I battalion of soldier dead to be ! brought home from the fields of j 'France?1,060 in all?were salut ed by'the guns of Forts Hamilton j I and Wadsworth when the army: ( transport Cambria passed through ; j the Narrows this afternoon with j her precious cargo. Flags of es-; icortlng era ft flew at half mast land were dipped in salute to the! j fallen warriors. FortigSfc'e thousand of those who j I made the supreme sacrifice over- \ j seas in the service of the United I States have now been brought back i |to their homeland, and only about ' 1"<> more bodies await shipment j from England and France. All j of the others who fell in battle or j died behind the lines will continue] t? rest in foreign soil, that t>ein^ i I the wish of their relatives,. ! Commemoration ceremonies for . those who died in uniform will be! i conducted Sunday in Brooklyn. . i where 'he Cambria docked today. I General Pershing is to lead a pa [ rade organized by war veterans. ; In the procession will be high j naval and military officers, groups! of senators and congressmen. May- I or Hylan and leaders in civil life. 1 "Be Jost and Fear DECIDE TO I CALL IN i EXPERTS I Congressional Com mittee Desire Techi nieal Advice in Re spect to Muscle Shoals Florence. Ala., March 2S.?The I foremost engineers of America will be called upon to appear in Wash ! ington before the senate agricul } tural committee to aid in solving I the Muscle Shoals problem. Sena | tor Xorris, chairman of the eom j mittee, announced hero today after ! the government's nitrate plants had been inspected. Members of the house military affairs committee which with the j senate committee is inspecting the ! nitrate and water power projects. [ expressed the view that Muscle I Shoals actually and Mtfsele Shoals j on paper looked quite unlike and ! Representative Hull declared the i house committee would never eon ! sent to the plants being scrapped, j ?Mr. Hull said the plants might ! well he used in time of peace for I making fertilizer but that they i "must ever be kept in readiness in I case of emergency." I Chairman Norris did not share j the view of a few of his colleagues that the Muscle Shoals problem : might be speedily disposed of on return to Washington of the com mittees. He said he would invite the presidents of four chemical and technical organizations to appear before the committee at once. They are the American Society of Electrical Engineers, American So | ciety of Chemical Engineers. Amer I ican Society of Civil Engineers and j the American Society of Mechani | cal Engineers. ""We have a tremendous respon i sibility before us," asserted the j chairman, "and we are going to j endeavor to thresh it out along businesslike and sound scientific I lines." In saying that the visit of the committees had shown many new angles to the situation not covered by the hearings In Washington, Mr. Hull declared "v\f had a lot of evidence before .us which we have found here to he mere camouflage." It was his opinion, he said, that much of the ground must be gone over again. The entire day was spent in a tour of the two nitrate plants and other properties of the reser vation. Data before the eomrnit teernen showed that the govern ment spent $S 1,237.OSti on the ni trate plants and that the salvage value as scrap was estimated at $7.850.000. They were told that plant No. 1 was observed and that $4.000.000 would be required to make it modern. Members of the congressional party ended their day's program as guests of Edward O'Xeal, vice president of the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation, at a barbecue dinner at his country home near Florence. Alter an inspection to morrow of the site for proposed dam Xo. 1. seventeen miles east of Florence the parly will leave for Washington. Iii line with the announcement of Frederick E. Engstrum that he would modify his bid so as to ex elude Hie C.orgas plant, organiza ions here backing Henry Ford's offer telegraphed him at Fort My er. Fla., urging him to consider modification of his hid '"to conform to the federal water power act and divorce Gorgas?" They had re ceived no reply late today. The Aiahama Muscle Shoals As sociation, organized with the an nounced purpose of supporting the Ford proposal, stated through its president that a cou.mittee appoint ed to investigate trie legal and moral phase of the Alabama Power company's contract with the gov ernment had reported-t hat "the alleged option of ?he power com pany is void."' The committee making the Inquiry, according to the president's statement, held that the "army officer who sought to give this option to the Alabama Power company exceeded his au t hority. KENYON ON BENCH Judge Flays Violators of Vol stead Act Creston. Iowa, March 2S -Form er F. S. Senator William S. Kon yon of Iowa today presided here ever his first session of the feder al district court for which post he resigned his seat in congress. Judge Kenyon flayed the viola tors of the Volstead aet in charg ing a grand jury to investigate nu merous violations and urged thai the public take upon iiselt" some responsibility for the enforcement of the dry statutes. The "bootleggers," Judge Ken yon said, were today one of the greatest serial menaces in ih? count ry. -? - Princess to Marry Army Officer Copenhagen, March 30.- II is un derstood that Princess Thyra, n sis ter of King Christian, is soon to marry an officer of the guards, not of nobility. Not?Let all the ends Thou Aims't at Im* thy Country's, Thy God's and Sumter, S. C, Saturday, April 1, 1922 Lady Astor to Visit U. S. Lady Nancy Astor. first woman member of the British Parliament and a native of Virginia, will speak at the third annual convention of the National League of Women Voters at Baltimor e in Apr il. Here she I is with her husband and four children. FIRE AND THREAT OF BOMBS IN J CIVIL WAR IN BELFAST! IRELAND Several Fires Started Rioting' Members of This Morning andj Republican Army Bombs Throw into: ; Propose to Over Crowds throw Government ! Belfast. March 28.?Several fires j broke out early today and a bomb ? was thrown into a crowd watching ! a burning jam factory. Three j persons were wounded. Dublin, March 29.?The conven tion of revolting members of the Irish Republican army debated the question of declaring a military dictatorship, but deferred action, says the correspondent, of the j-London Star here. It is proposed i ro overthrow all government's op MARTIAL LAWii"***to th* ?*p?m?? IRELAND NEEDS London. March 27.?The possi bility of establishing martial law in a part of Belfast was foreshad owed by Winston Spencer Church ill, secretary for the colonies, in the House of Commons tonight. He declared-the situation in Bel fast was fair worse than in all the rest of Ireland and. that the gov ernment was prepared to consider martial law with the m?tary au thorities. London. March 2?.?Official cir ! cles of London today centered on j the efforts to pacify Ireland with I the opening of the conference, j called by the imperial government j to-consider situation resulting from i the recent, disorders. The war ring elements in Belfast have call ! ed a truce, pending the result of \ the conference, according to the j Evening News correspondent. Refuse to Qbey Orders. Dublin. March 27. (By the As sociated Press.>?-This brigade staff of the .Irish Republican army at l Atholne' today left the military barracks there after having re i fused to obey orders from general [-headquarters. The men declared that they recognized only the new executive committee chosen Sun day in the meeting her?-. I'p io tin- present time the men of tin- ranks of tire brigade are re maining loyal to general headquar ters. . London. March 29.?The threat ened breach in the* cabinet over Premier Lloyd George's program for the Genoa conference has been averted, in the opinion of politi cal, correspondents irr today's news papers. Everything has been smoothed out for the premier's appeal to the house of commons Frida v. London, March 29.?The engi I neers' employers federation has j posted notices locking out six. hun ; dred thousand members of forty i'seven unions, effective within one ! week. State Bill Passes , - March S7.-BV the A TOBACCO I .ondon. sociated Press).?-The Irish Free! State bill passed its third and final j reading in the House of Lords to day. MARKETING i Richmond Man Joins Forces of Tobacco Growers Protestants Threatened. -Frank D. posteti j w irnarns or rcicnmonu, whose skill near the town hall irr Dundalk, j in handling the suneured pool of County Louth. a strong Sinn Fein I Virginia brought the first success to center near the northern border ?f I organized tobacco growers of that Belfast, March 27.?(By the As-j Raleigh, March 28.?F ?oeiated Press.)?A notice posted ! Williams of Richmond, wl the Free Slate territory, calls at tention to the absence of any reso lution by the non-Catholic body of County Louth against murderous ans. and culls upon the Protes tants to act immediately, failing which we are determined to use the same means as they in Belfast used to our fellow Catholics. '?On ana af>er March 20," adds the notice, "for every Catholic man. woman, boy or child murdered or maltreated, so also shall the same quantity of helpers of the malic murder of our- fellow olios meet ihe seems fate." The novice concludes: "Signed by order of the but sure messengers/' syste < 'at h silent News|>aiH?r .Man Arrested Dublin, March 27. By the As soeiateo Press). The correspond ent of the Freeman's Journal al Charlesville. County Cork, has been arrested. Apparently. says the newspaper, ihr Irish republican army authorities there were offended b> his repori of an at tempt t<> break up :t pro-treaty meeting ti Charlesville. The Freeman's Journal adds lhai. whip ii makes no d< maud for special privileges for the press, ii ? bnsidei's the ar jresl pari of a scheme by the "treaty-wreckers" to stifle free expression of public ? mintop and t<> intimidate individ ual journalists. stale, was today chosen manager of the dark leaf department of the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative i association, with headquarters at j Richmond. Mr. Williams is an ex-president of the Richmond i chamber of commerce, a director of the First National Bank of Rieh [ mond and leaf dealer- with ex perience covering many years in which he has been eminently siioressYul. .Mr*. Williams will be called upon lo handle no: only all problems re-' luting to the dark leaf in the mar keting association, but his wide experience in the tobacco world will prove invaluable in helping t.? guide the policies of ihe organiz ed growers in the Carolinas and Virginia. Recogntzed by ihe trade throughout Virginia for unques tioned integrity and fair dealin::-. Mr. Williams' initial success as a pioneer and leader in profitable co operative marketing will inspire confidence in ihr thousands of or ganzied growers who are members of live marketing association in three stales. , Providence. Mai ih Andrews) Mill, at North Sinithfield. was! clo-ed h\ walkout due to a ten per] ?ent wage cut. 1 nvest i "AW will win." says the miners. "We will win." say the operators. "We won't," ?ay the consumers. Washington, March - gat ion by the federal trade com mission into the cause of the [ires en t depressed pi ice of cotton and into operation of cotton exchanges was ordered under a resolution by Senator Dial of South Carolina and adopted by the senate. Truth's.' MARKETING j ASSOCIATION ! GOING STRONG _ ! j Orangeburg Clearing j House Association i Endorsing the Movement ? C a 1 - j houn County Signs: ! UP I - I Columbia. March 20. ? The; Orangeburg clearing house associa- j tion. at a meeting this morning, i unanimously passed a resolution ; endorsing cooperative marketing of cotton. While in very nearly all j of the cotton growing counties of i this state the movement has been j endorsed by all of the banks, this is the first clearing house assoeia- j |tion to officially endorse the move- ? [ meat. The banks in Orangeburg, I also individually pledged their full support in putting the campaign over in that county. A telegram from St. Matthews ' this morning said that over 10.-' 000 hales had been signed in that I county and tha campaign has been in progress in that county less than three weeks, Calhoun county only j produced 39,000 hales in 1920. The campaign committee in that I county wired today that they would positively sign 30.000 hales. : This would indicate that Calhoun | county will lead the entire state in j percentage. I Dorchester county came to the : front today when contracts came ' in from over 7?i farmers in that j eountv. A report from Denmark j says that practically every farmer \ who heard Dri D. W. Daniels" ! speech at Denmark yesterday after- ! noon, signed the contract immedi- ; ately '.hereafter. Over 3.000 bales; were signed in Bamberg county i yesterday. Among well 'mown ? farmers signing contract;' yester- j day were James D. Anderson, of Anderson county. D. F. Efird of Lexington county. If. L. Watson.' ? ditor of the Croon wood Index- " .Journal, and president of the ? National Loan and Exchange Bank \ of Greenwoorl and others. AGAINST PLAN TO ! CUT RAIL WAGES Jewell Savs Worker's Familv Needs $2,636.97 a Year as Barest Minimum I* Chicago. March 28.?Industries] j should use the same principle in supplying energy to the r employes j as in supplying coal under their! boilers, 15. M. Jewell, head of the | shop crafts unions, told the Hail- f road Lahor Board today in pre-) senting a budget requiring $2,636. '.'7 a year for sustaining a working' man's family. ?"America, with stich productive j power and such natural resources, should afford all her workers more j than a shabby existence." he de-) dared in continuing his tight j against wage reductions sought by 204 railroads. To secure what his budget provides, however, he said | railroad mechanics must earn 4 ? ! per cent more than at present. "But the railroads propose to j cut wages again."' he said. "In stead of 70 per cent of the budget which railroad mechanics are now j ?ble to purchase, tinder the cut they will be able to buy only about i one-half of the budget. Do the' railroads propose to put their em- ; ployes on the blockade ration of, Germany during the war".'" Mr. .Jewll's budget, he said, was! based on' an average railroad me chanic's family. It provided, he as- | serted. no more than a "sane sup-! ply of food and only the baresi j minimum in other respects." The; j food menus would furnish the wage; |earner 4.140 calories a day. The! [ $2.630.97 family budget, he said, j was about $300 more than the de-j partment ot". Labor's budget. "l.'nder the <;? 1-2 cents an hour J rate which the railroads propose. ia mechanic can make. ?1.651.40 a: I year, $1,000 less than the amount, [necessary to purchase {h>- essen tials listed in the nudget." he said. "Then there is the rate of 40 { I cents an hour proposed for helpers. j With no; an hour of regular work - j ing lime missed this means an nual earnings of $9.7!?.20. The al lowance for food of $383.20 pro-1 vides I?i cents a meal for the man, land <; oerifs (laity for the youngest ! I child. Tor clothing $1S0 is allowed. ] J "Every article of clothing must w'ear from two to three times as ? long as is contemplated in the budget prepared by '.he economies j for tie- railroad workers. Three summer union suhs must do about Sfbree years' service; The man's j suit must wear eight years, his winter overcoat ten years. <>at [meal, potatoes and coffee prevailed in the menus because coffee acts ;is ;i stimulant in place of ade j rpiate nourishment and oatmeal and potatoes a re itllitig." ? Washington, March L".?. ? The house passed the army appropria- i ! tibn bill, carrying approximately j twO hundred ;md eighty-eight mil* ! lion dollars. Pine lluist. X. c. March 29.? Miss Olenna Colett of Providence,! 11. I., won the north and south wo men's golf championship, by de feating Mrs M. J. Scham mell of i UniontoWn, Fa.> four and two. THE TRUE SOU BONUS BILL REALLY A GOLD BRICK Republicans Put Over a Scheme That Bur dens the Countr. and Skins the Sol diers BY WALLACE BASSFORD (Special Xcws Comv-pondenr.) Washington, March 25.?The house has at last passed another bonus hill, though almost identical in form with ihe one passed two y?-ars ago and which the senate laid on the shelf at Hardihg's re nnest, it remains to he. seen what will be done with the present bill, with nil of Wall Street opposing it. The bill itself is satisfactory to no one. The soldier whose "adjusted compensation" entitled him to less than sr.o can get it in cash; the others have to rake a certificate of indebtedness which finally becomes due in 20 years. Meanwhile, if he wants to get money, he has to bor row it ar a bank and pay a larger rate of interest than the certificate bears, though the certificate is as much the obligation of the govern ment as is a Liberty Bond and should entitle the owner to the lowest rate of interest at which money can be borrowed. It is dif ficult to understand why the sol dier should be allcwt d to borrow on!" 50 per cent of the face value of the certificate: almost any bank will lend ??"> per cent of the mar ket value of a certificate of stock in a railroad or industrial corpora tion if the stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, though these stocks at times fluctuate wild ly, and. of course, have much less stable value than the obligation of the Tnited States government. Senator Lodge insists that con gress has mane a great and glor ious record of constructive legisla tion: the average man on the street thinks that congress has done practically nothing, and has done it very badly. The Republicans made a great deal of noise, about a year ago. over the question of reorganizing the governmental departments, cutting out much duplication of work and thus saving the taxpay ers many millions of dollars. A most excellent congressional com mission was made up for the work, but some time ago the president insisted that he be allowed to place a personal representative on this commission, a suggestion which was opposed by the two Democrat ic members. Senator Harrison of Mississippi and Representative R. Walton Moore of Virginia. Nev ertheless, the president appointed j Walter F. Drown of Ohio, and the i commission mad.- him chairman. Up to that time the commission was making excellent progress and gave promise of saving many millions, but Brown served as an anaesthetic of the most powerful sort and the suspicion is very strong that this was the purpose of his appointment. Since that time there has been absolutely nothing done: reorganization is chloroformed. Xo meetings are being held and work is at a stand still. Thus the administration es capes two embarrassments, 'many hundreds of jobs are saved to the party and a number of inter-de partmental wrangles are hushed up. Agriculture and interior were ready io fly at each other's throats over tiic question of which should con-i trol the forest service: interior and i commerce were at daggers point over Alaska: treasury and justice both striving to ger control over prohibition enforcement: commerce and agriculture divided over the packers' control legislation: and so on down the list. The department al chiefs are as jealous of each j other a^ a bunch of opera singers. Each is constantly striving to ex- 1 rend his authority, his dominion! and the number of his appoint ments. Rather hard on the poor taxpayer. There seems to be no end to the Xewberry money: it is now the gos- j sio that members of the family,! who seem to be mostly million-j a ires, intend to contribute liberally j to the campaign funds of all Re publican senators who have to-Hght for their seats by reason of having) supported Senator Xewberry in his contest to hold his seat. There are lively tights now on against Town send in Michigan. Pepper in rVnnsyivani. . Poindexter in Wash ington and Frelinghuysen in Xew Jersey, for the nomination, and other lights yet to begin. Then at the general election the Democrats will go after ever} scalp that is still in place after the Republican primaries. This should pur a heavy strain on the Xewberry barrel, for j tin- buying of one seat cost $200, ooo.. When the Republican senate seated Xewberry .it placed the seal j of its approval on the purchase; it remains to be si en if the voters will endorse the decision of the Xewberry family to go into tin ; wholesale senatorial toga market, j WVhy not list the Republican senatorial seats on the Xew York Stock Market and thus make the THRON, Established June 1, 1&66. VOL. LIIL NO. 14 BAN ON WOMEN SMOKERS New York City Passes Law Prohibiting the Women Smoking in Public Resorts New York. "March 27.?Police Commissioner L'nright tonight-is sued orders for members of the po lice department to arrest any pro i prietor or manager of a hotel, oaba j ret or other place of public enter I tainment who permits women to smoke publicly in their establish ments. The commissioner's ordex-s were issued pursuant to the text of an ordinance adopted recently by the board of aldermen and signed last week by Mayor Hylan. Groups of detectives and- police men immediately started on tours of amusement places and resorts, whfrc bine halos or cigarette smoke have been curling around the heads of women smokers. They passed news along to the resort keepers and its announce ment brought boos and groans. There had been no warning of such an order and it was taken as a joke by many. The skeptical were no tified individually by policemen, however, and they joined the oth ers in dropping their fags under foot. ??Goodbye, sweet dreams,' sigh | ed one bob-haired young woman j as she blew a smoke ring into t he face of a detective and flipped her j cigarette over his shoulder.s "What joy killer is responsible for this".' And me with a new gold fag case worth $25." In the luxuriously furnished wo men's smoking room of a theatre on Broadway the announcer of the order received what the flappers call "the raspberry." The loung ers blew smoke in his face, gave him three round? of sarcastic ha, ha's and chased him. He brought tfaek a policeman and the manager and the women were convinced. Everywhere the announcement raised a storm of indignation. The I r-ry of VAlllhor^.author?who's the author? - or" this * blue law?" 'was raised..^ The ordinance provides that "no person, firm, partnership, corpora tion or association of whatever character owning or controlling, either as proprietor or maim, >r any hotel, restaurant, place of public entertainment or other public re sort in the city of New York In which people meet and congregate whether for the purpose o.. jt-e freshments or entertainment shall allow any female to smoke in such place." Violation of the ordinance is punishable by fine of from $5 to $20 or by imprisonment of not more than ten days, or both. Proprietors and managers of wo men's exclusive smoking rooms, newly opened in fashionable, ultra fashionable and unfashionable sec tions of the city seeing in the or dinance the ruination of their bus iness intimated that they would carry their fight against it to the highest state courts. Xew York, March 28.?Folice Commissioner Enright lifted the ban on smoking by women in pub lic places as suddenly as he clamp ed it down last night upon learn ing that /Uderman McGuirinoss/ an ti-smoking bill had never been pass ed by the Board of Alderman or signed by Mayor Hylan. Some people have 305 April Fool days every year. trading public and under respon sible supervision? A Washington paper called La bor, devoted tf the interests of the workers, thinks that Wilson. Billy Sunday and Harding should be added to the lisrs of the immor tals, "because Wilson kept us out of war, while Sunday is keeping us out of Hades and Harding Is keeping us out of work." Harding could not control the house on the bonus proposition: the members of that body have to answer to the voters <in November. The president can only control the house when he asks it to do some thing whic'-. the people desire. President Wilson was called a dictator when he put one meri torious measure after another through a Willing congress, co operating with him day after day for m\' years, until the Republi cans got control of the house. Then Wilson said: "Those who call me a dictator should wait un til 1 propose to congress some thing opposed to the interests of the people. Then they will real ize how little power 1 possess." .loo F?rdney, high tariff corpora tion congressman, has been back home and felt the pulse of his con stituents and returns to Washing ton a member of the farm bloc. Joe put a tariff on sugar, so that every sugar user in the 1'nited states should pay tribute to his beet sugar industry in Michigan. The Republican candidate was elected to congress in the third Maim- district by 6,000 majority; his predecessor was elected in 1920 by almost 20,000,