House of Commons Votes 368
to 121 Against Motion for -
“Suppressing of Capi
talism.”
BY JOHN T. BURKE
Universal Service Correspondent
London, July 16.—The House of
Commons Monday night voted down
Philip Snowden's motion for the
■“suppression of capitalsm. " The vote
was 368 to 121.
The bill, backed largely by the la
korites, was attacked by Lloyd George
in the House during the debate Mon
day. The former premier took the
■s'arul that the promoters of the
scheme had not proved tne present
system a failure or that their system
was an improvement.
“The situation is most grave." de
clared Lloyd George in warning the
government that it must end the evils
of the present system if it wished to
preent the workers takng up disast
rous experiments sue has Russia has
done.
He urged the appointment of a
■commission by parliament to inquire
Into the causes of the discontent that
Is urging the workers on to a social
order based on communistic princi
ples an dto outlne methods to remedy
the condition.
Lloyd George declared the settle
ment of the reparations problem and
the uhr occupation would open the
way for intensified international r<»m
petition.
COMMENT IN II.S.
■ FLENSES BRITAIN
Government Highly Gratified
Over Reception in This Coun
try of Baldwin Reparation
Policy.
BY JOHN T. BURKE,
Universal Service Correspondent
I.ondon, July 16.—The British gov
ernment expressed great’ satisfaction
Monday night on the support given
Chancellor Baldwin’s reparations
settlement efforts in the press of the
United) States.
In the House of Commons Monday
the prime minister made it known
that Washington has all along been
In close touch with the reparations
problem officially through the foreign
■office, and that a copy of the Allies
draft of a reply to the German note
■will be sent to Washington.
A spokesman for the foreign office
Monday night declared that the
premier was greatly heartened not
only by the support of the British
people, but by the American press and
public of his effort to effect a busi
nesslike settlement of reparations
and to bring order out of the chaos
In Europe.
The British press now does not
take Poincare's threat not to recede,
and to hold the Ruhr at all hazards,
as seriously as it did at the first
reading. It is the general belief that
lie will finally weaken.
It was announced Monday night
that the draft of the British reply to
Germany would be dispatched to the
allies Thursday.
MEANT NO HARM?
Paris, July 16.—Premier Poincare’s
address at Senlis Sunday was a mere
reiteration of the French govern
ment’s policy and was not intended
as a reply to the recent reparation
apeech of Prime Minister Baldwin of
Great Britain, it was explained in of
ficial circles here today. The entire
address, with the exception of a few
passages, was written before the
British premier spoke, it was stated.
NIGHT AIR MAIL BY
AUGUST 1 PREDICTED
Postal Official Points to Plans
to Issue Special Air Mail
Stamps.
Chicago, July 16—Night air mail
service will be realized by August 1,
according to First Assistant Post
master General John H. Bartlett who
arrived in Chicago Monday from San
Francisco, where he attended the
state convention of postal officials
with Third Assistant Postmaster
General W. Irving Glover.
That transcontinental all-air mall
routes with a night flying program
made possible by the depelopments
in lightisg and other features of night
aviation, would soon be in exect was
seen in the postofflce department’s!
order for 6,000,000 special air mail
stamps, Mr. Bartlett said. The|
stamps will go to the engravers soon'
and the first may be issued by Aug
ust 1.
The stamps will be in three de
nominations. Cost experts are now
working out the exact amounts to be
charged for the service.
A Bore.
From the Washington Star.
“When a man keeps talkin' ’bout his
self," said Uncle Kben, “ha gito to bo
about as < oir.panionable as a fiddle
player wif ony one tune.”
Still the Same.
From the Washington Post.
The American eagle bears no semb
lance to a fed bird.
Good Town to A vole.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Lew Dockstcder, the minstrel king,
explaining why be waf keeping out of
Ntw York said:
“I saw a beggar at Broadway and For
ty-seventh street holding out his hat.
He did not get a red cent, and soon he
was making a fearful row and calling
•Police.’ Somebody had copped hla
bat.”
Departure.
I have not known so still a day as
this.
The drowsy moments, fraught wit
memory,
Steal to the borders of departed
bliss—
And come no - more. As vessels
put to sea,
'Witdv sails half-durtled, reluctant of
__ forego
The well-loved curve of friendly
roof and hill,
J.azy with dreams my quiet thoughts
move—slow
As wings that lift, and flutter, and
are still.
All day I have not spoken—but my
lips
Are tremulous with somethin more
than sighs.
Guarding a last word that forever
slips
Farther Into the silence; and my
eyes,
Hungry with hope, turnoften to the.
door—
Seeking a- shadow that will fall on
more.
—Helen Frazee-Bower in Content
poary Verse.
TROTZKY’S BOMBAST.
From the Chicago Tribune
"If an ultimatum is presented uv
said Trotzky to an all-Russlan coa
gress of metal workers, referring ti
recent British demands—which bj
the way, despite Trotzky’s roaring,
have been yielded by the soviet—“let
us create a detachment of airplanes.
If a coup d’etat occurs in Bulgaria let
us build another detachment of air
planes, and if there is a coup d’etat in
Persia, build- more planes.”
A terrific picture, this, of the prole
tarian dlstatorship filling the heavens
with its aerial fleet and raining revo
lution upon the shrieking bourgeoi
sie scrambling ingloriously into cel
lars and caves to escape from fiery
hail.
But tt is one tning to taia aoout
filling the sky with airplanes and
quite another to fill it. We discovered
that in 1918. Trotzky would do better
with a fleet of balloons. He could
supply the gas. As for building air
planes to defy or deliver ultimatums,
we would suggest that Trotzky and
his proletarians try their hand first
at repairing their railroads and build
ing some locomotives. It takes the
highest order of skill to build air
planes, and Trotzky’s government has
done its best to destroy the skilled
Russian in the name of proletarian
equality. Since then experts have
been invited back, but the notion that
the soviet government can build air
planes ad libitum is one of Trotzky’s
most bombastic bluffs.
And what may be said of this talk
of airplanes is true of the whole sub
ject of soviet Russia’s military pow
er. The Red army has not yet tackled
a modern army of first grade. The
nearest to that was the Polish army,
which was hastily rallied and com
manded by French officers at the
gates of Warsaw. Then the Red ar
my was soundly thrashed. If it had
met a French or German army it
would not have escaped.
Modern warfare is supported by a
high Industrial organization, and
calls for not only military skill but in
dustrlal science and system. The Bol
shevist have not created n^r are
they creating a high form of econo
mic society. They have reverted to
communism, a primitive form, and
until they have built up a modern
state, modern warfare on any consid
erable scale is out of their reach.
Trotzky’s talk of building airplane*
is buncombe.
Contentment i* e.
lovely thin^ •
The more I ^row the
more 1 .jee
Thet when I liUe my
lot in. life.
Im rich •*.$ anyone,
cam be. __
WASHINGTON HAD GOOD
RECORD AS BOOK AGENT
Chicago, George Washington is
one of the great Americans who have
given the business of selling books
from house to house a historic back
ground. The Father of His Country
was in early life a “book agent.”
This little-known fact was recalled
at a meeting of subscription book
published here in an address by R.
S. Branch of Chicago.
"When Washington was 20 years
old” said Branch, “he sold a book
known as Blydell’s ‘American Savage.’
The year before, ht had carried mili
tary messages from Richmond, Vir
ginia, to Fort Duquesne on the site of
modern Pittsburg, and it was because
of interest‘in the Indians that his
experience had awakened In him that
he started out to sell this book. It
cost him $2 a copy and he sold It
$3. His diary shows that he sold
more than 500 copits, riding long dis
tanceh to deliver the beeks himself
in his saddle-bags.”
Those who would safeguard the
psychology of the nation by modify
ing the Volstead act so that one might
get a drink without breaking tlfftt
law, seem to forget that it would still
be necessary to break the eighteenth
amendment, een though the enforce
mnt act were modified. The gusicion
persists that there is raCVa **.ncern
felt in these quarters about making
it possible to get a drink than in
keeping the nation’s psychology on
the right track.
i
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THE l-AHMER-LABOR SPLIT.
NEVER porhaps in the history o|
the world has one gathering rep<
resented so many, so various, ant)
so discordant political ideas as has
the so-called farmer-labor convention
at Chicago. The delegates ran from
the mildest of "progressives" to the
reddest of the reds. The only tie
that bound them together—and that
a rather effective one—was that they
are all "agin the government,’* all
oposed to the order of things which
exists in this country today
Thaf the more radical ones should
leave the others, as they have in the
newly formed "Federated Labor
Party,’’ was only to be expected. Tho
probable course now Is that the more
radical ones In the “federated" party
will eventually split off and go their
way that the process will continue ad
infinitum. That, somehow or other,
is the way with radicals in Amer
lea. «
A cursory reading of reports from
Chicago gives the impression that
labor unions were represented at the
motley gathering. In this connection
it should be noted that the American
Federation of Labor stands officially
opposed to separate political action,
that its policy has been to try to
gain its alms through existing parties
not primarily founded upon class dis
tinction. In this the federation is
both wise and patriotic, for to em
phasize class lines would be extreme
ly harmful to both workingmen and
the nation. The labor leaders con
nected with the federation in evi
dence in Chicago were there in a
private rather than an official capac
Nationally it seems, the farmer
labor movement is doomed to futility.
In some states, however, it has en
joyed a measure of successj but in
nearly all of such instances, it is to
be obseredved, th9 movement meant
something quite dieffrent from what
it means nationally. Shiprtead’s elec
tion to the United States Senate in
Minnesota for instance, does not indi
cate a radical revolt of Minnesota
farmers. All that it represents is an
uprising against the republican old
guard in that state.
As General Hancock said of the
tariff when campaigning against Gar
field, the farmer-labor movement is
in its essence a local one, strongest,
it seems, in agricultural localities and
weak to the vanishing point elsewhere
When the local issues which arouse
it are settled, the movement stops.
And whin radicalism enters and con
trols the fanners drop out. The
movement is a failure.
GE1 $ NO ROYALTIES.
IN an article commendatory of J.
E. Kirkham's bridge work in South
Dakota, The Tribune said a few dayai
ago: "Mr. Kirkham gets small royal
ties on some of his bridge patents
and certainly is entitled to them."
The statement was based upon a
very common understanding in
the state that Mr. Kirkham had
been getting royaltlee on some
of his construction designs, ad
ditional to his salary. It seems,
however, that this is erroneous.
The misunderstanding as to the
small royalties received by Mr. Kirk
ham on technical works, written by
him before he went to South Dakota.
Mr. Kirkham says in a letter to The
Tribune:
“I will apreclate It very much
If you will mention that I receive
no royalties whatever from the
people of South Dakota for my
invention; neither do I Intend to
charge the people of South Da
kota any royalty on my inven
tions. I simply receive a salary
paid to mo by the state high
wav department.”
It vrill be noted that Mr. Kirkham
is not even looking for an opening
and is not afraid to say: ‘Neither do
I intend to charge the people of
South Dakota any royalty on my in
ventions.” That's typical of his
square-shooting methods.
Whea a public official puts in his
time trying to give service to the
public, in contrast to the very com
mon practice of working continually
for personal perquisities, the results
are little short of startling. Mr,
Kirkham need not feel surprised if
the general public is a little slow in
understanding him.
Anyway, when Mr. Kirkham says,
that thing* are thus and so in any
phase of bridge building it’s a fair
guess that he knows what he is talk
ing about.
There’s Only One Method.
From "Black Oxen,” By Gertrude Ather
ton.
When a woman has something to say
and la determined to say It, the only
thing to do is to let her talk. Words to
a woman are as steam to a boiler, ana
no man can control her /Mind until she
has talked off the lid.
Irish Debate Different?
From the Christian Science Monitor.
A strike that perhaps was a little
"u«AVrent” in some respects from
the ordinary run of walkouts was
staged recently in Dublin. Ireland,
when the parliamentary reporters re
fused to work any longer unless due
attention was paid to certain griev
ances under which they felt they had
been laboring long enough. Anyhow,
the reporters obtained an uncondi
tional surrender from the government.
Some debates we have known would
be none the worse off for not being
reported, but presumably the Dail
feels that this would not be true of
theirs.
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Miss Dorothy Watson, of St. Paul,
Minnesota, pretty seventeen-year-old
telephone operator, has been ac
claimed most beautiful girl in St.
Paul and is proud pssessor of a huge
silver loving cup. She will be sent to
compete in a national beauty contest
to be held In New York. The winner,
according to present plans, will be
given an opportunity to enter th*
movies.
SIX-SHOOTER PROPAGANDA
From the Milwaukee Journal
Wisconsin has, for the time at
least, escaped the attempt to make
the public a walking arenal. The
legislature killed the bill to legal
ize carrying of firearms by per
mit. But the merry propaganda
continues. It has all the earmarks
of an organized movement to create
a demand for revolvers and pistols.
The movement is the same in all
the states and the District of Col
umbia. The bills read the same—
they must have a common origin.
They are put In under the guise
of a solution for gun-toting. They
would create licensing authorities,
who would issue permits to citi
zens who have, or think they have,
reason to carry pistols. And these
same licensing agencies Would be
obliged to honor permits issued
in any other part of the United
States. The model bill makes a
great show of safeguards, but keen
analysts, like Chief Laubenhelmer,
say that this is a camouflage.
Could anything be neater? One
man arms and then another feels
compelled for his own safety to
carry a gun. Hoop-la, the sale of
revolvers goes by leaps and bounds.
The revenue from sales, no doubt,
is a prize worth fighting for. And
fight, they do. Chiefs of police,
editors and others are being de
luged with literature.
Here is a movement which the
public will do well to watch. We
don’t want more, but fewer revol
vers. The whole tendency has been
toward their limitation.
Corn Good, As Usual.
Only a few weks ago there seemed
to be more than the customary en
couragement for people who Indulge
In annual worries about the Iowa
corn crop. There was not enough
rain in some parts of the state, too
much rain in other parts of the state.
This pest and that pest was menac
ing the situation. But the time-hon
ored test says that the Iowa corn
condition now is well up to the ave
rage and getting better under the
stimulation of first quality corn
weather. It’s only a few days after
the Fourth of July and the knee
high standard has been exceeded.
The weather and crop service* says
that two thirds of the corn has been
“laid by” as too high to cultivate.
The cheering crop news is accom
panied by activity in farm sales In
various parts of the state—practically
the first real show of activity in that
line since the collapse in the early
part of 1920. While prices paid are
somewhat below the 1919 peak, they
rae high enough to show that farm
land still is considered a good in
vestment. Crawford county newspa
pers tell of three recent farm sales
thre—one southwest of Denison for
$250 an acre, one near West Side for
$325 an acre, one near Schleswig for
$400 an acre.
Scattering reports or farm sales are
becoming fairly common not only in
Iowa, but in Nebraska and South Da
Kota. if may be some time before
these activities reach the “boom”
tggaasain, but extra values now are
not going begging.
Th’ world prob’ly is a lot better
than It used t’ be, but th’ ole times
when we could git an umbreMer fer
a dollar wuz good enough fer us. Miss
Mertie Bentley, classic dancer, is
confined t’ her home from steppin’ on
an acorn.—Abe Martin,
Fifty-fifty.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Still we can’t see that long skirts in
combination with bobbed hair are any
more incongruous than a bald fat
man in golf ants.
*
THE RACE HAS BEGUN.
WHEN the other day the Brit
ish government made known
its Intention of establishing an air
force powerful enough to protect
Great Britain from possible attacks
frorv overhead, it did not' take obser
vers long to point out that the pos
sible attacks euphemistically hinted
at must needs inu3l come from
France. Peace advocates the world
over were frankly worried by the
outlook.
France has the largest military
air establishment in the world. Ap
parently she was content with main
taining it at its present strength, for
the government had asked for an ap
propriation of only 86,000,000 francs,
an amount Just about large enough
for that purpose Now, however, the
government has requested that the
appropriation be Increased to 211,
000,000 francs: and, what is more, the
chamber of deputies has approved.
It seems obvious that this last
minute boost is a reply to the British
announcement. That this was so was
was charged by a deputy on the
floor of the chamber. But govern
ment spokesmen were not to be out
done in euphemism by the British.
They denied the charge, and assert
ed that the move was necessitated
by Germany’s activity in building
commercial airplane crafts which
could be made ready for war in a few
hours.
And so a new armament race has
begun. Britain must now make her
afr force a little stronger than she
had Intended, and when she has done
so, it will be for France again to in
crease her own aerial fleets. It Is a
somewhat dlsheatening spectacle.
Here is Europe, still down from
the effects of the late war, already
preparing for a new one, and going
about It, too, In an airy sporting way,
veiling real intentions so lightly that
only a passing glance is needed to
reveal the true situation. Surely this
is no way to win American aid, no
way to arouse American pity for the
devastation of 1914-18. The interna
tional jumble called diplomacy still
needs a lot of rectifying.
REMEMBER
THE DAYS OF OLD
Remember the days of old.—Deut, 32:7.
There are two ways of showing attach
ment to the pf.st.
One Is by sneering at the present,
finding fault with every new effort,
holding back from every new enterprise,
and making odious comparisons an ex
cuse for Inaction.
There have always been some people
of this kind in the world.
If there were very many of them the
world would probably cease to revolve.
They are the old men of tho eea, tho
heavy weights whom the workers have
to carry along with them.
But the other way of honoring the
past Is kind and generous and beautiful.
It pays grateful tribute to the beauty
that haa faded, and the glory that lives
only in remembrance.
It preserves the good things of for
mer days from oblivion, and praises the
excellent of earth by keeping their
memory green.
It is faithful and true, willing to learn,
but not willing to forget.
Fortunate Is the community In which
this spirit prevails; for there the old
and the young are in harmony, though
not In unislon, and the bright hopes of
the future are mellowed by contact with
tho loyal memories of the past.
(Copyright, 1923, by The Republic
Syndicate.)
HUNGEH AMU LOVE
- ♦
New York American. 1
What causes the world go? H
What Is the motive power -i
that causes the myriad ac- H
tlvltles of men?
There are two power sour- A
ces—hunger and love. •*
Watch the hurrying crouds •<
► In the city street, the work- "
► man in a huge factory; ob- ■<
► serve the preenlngs of the *
► dandy and read the ravings ■>
► of the poet; all hunger and -
► love. "
► Some bodily exertion is un- *
► dertaken merely for exer- «
► else, but most of it for some- «
► thing to eat.
► Some wars have been wag
► ed, some ambitions followed
► through storm and flame,
k some tender verses written,
k possibly, from other motives
k than love, but not many.
k How small and unstable all
k the Intellect has accompllsh
k ed compared with the mighty
k works of these two wants!
k They are as eternal as men.
k They moved the barbarians
k in their damp cave dwellings
k before the daybreak of clv
k ilizatlon; they will control the
k race a thousand years from
k now more than any other
k factors. Schiller’s lines are
k true:
k “Meanwhile until Phllosl
k ophy sustains
k The structure of the
k world,
k Her workings will be car
k led on
k By hunger and by love.”
RESERVE .OFFICERS AT
DES MOINES, AUGUST J
Reserve officers and officers of th
regular army In (he Seventh Corp
area are to hold their second annua
convention at Des Moines, Thursda
and Friday. August 2 and 3, whe
matters of vital interest to reserv
officers and to the entire reserv
organization will be discussed. It i
expected that either General John .
serve officers has been aranged. Th
j convention will close with a militar
| tournament at Ft. Des Moines.
FIR Mf
Dakota County Officials Seize
100 Gallon Still and Quan
tities of Liquor in
Roundup.
Dakota County, Neb., officials ar
rested four men In a series of liquor
raids Monday.
A 100-gallon still in operation, six
gallons of whiskey, 400 gallons of
corn mash, and 70 one-gallon Jugu
were found in the basement of Sebls
tiano Campagniano’s home in South.
Sioux City early Monday afternoon,
raiders reported. Charges of hav
ing liquor in his possession and op
erating a still were placed against
Campagniano. He was sentenced to
serve 30 days in the county Jail on tha
first charge and Is bound oer to the
grand jury on the second. Police
Chief Herman Stadlng conducted the
raid.
Sheriff O. O. Miller and J. Hock
well, federal officer, arrested Tommy
Jones,"'Willis, Neb., farmer, and John
Carpenter, Willis retail wtore pro
prietor, on charges of illegal posses
sion of liquor. About 25 gallons of
whiskey were seized from Jones and
two gallons of moonshine liquor were
taken at the Carpenter store, it was
announced. The officers also found
four gallons of liquor In the Billy.
Hicky soft drink parlor at Jackson,
vNeb., they said. Hicky was charged
with illegal possession of liquor.
The four men captured are beng •
held In the Dakota county jail.
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DOZEN AT FULLETON
Fullerton, Neb., July 16.—Officers
working under the direction of State
Sheriff T. W. Carroll arrested an even,
dozen offenders against the Volstead
act In this vicinity In the roundupj
that was concluded Monday.
Approximately 2,000 gallons of
mash, 30 gallons of the finished pro
duct and throe stills were taken.'
Women violators were treated the
same as men. ^
Commander to Spend Five
Weeks at Citizen Training
Camps—Coming to Iowa
August 20.
BY FRAZER EDWARDS.
United Press Correspondent.
Camp Meade, Md., July 16—As the
bugles sounded revlelle here Monday
General Pershing, the only command
er of the world war still In active
service, packed his old kit bag and
set out to inspect America’s citizen
army.
A review of the citizen-soldier
units here and of the Pennsylvania
national guard later Monday at
Mount Gretna, started his strenuous
five weeks tour of the country.
Still hale and sound at 63, Gener
eral Pershing told the youths train
ing here and at a score of other
camps, that he wanted them to know
how to handle modern arms if con-1
filet ever again comes to America.
Unlike other army leaders in the
great war—Foch, Haig, Diaz, Hin-1
denburg and Ludendorff, Pershing
refuses to retire and rest on hla
laurels. Presidential rewards which
have been given to all American
commanders In other great wars
have not attracted him. He told
brother officers recently that his
greatest ambition Is to see a citizen
army capable of coping with any
foe before he reaches the retirement <
Rge limit a little more than a year
hence.
His tentative itenary includes:
Camp Knox. Louisville, Ky., July 28
and 24; Fort Des Moines, Iowa,
August 20, and Camp Custer, Mich.,
August 22.
NEGROES PROTEST
GARVEY CONVICTION
Washington, July 16.—A united
protest from many negroes through
out the country against the recent
convictiort In New York, of Marcus
Garvey, head of the Universal Negro
Inprovement association, was voiced
in scores of telegrams addressed to
the Washington office of the Asso
ciated Press.
Each of the messages reported sen
timents said to have been expressed
at a negro mass meeting Sunday.
They came from nearly every state.
Garvey wa« found guilty recently in
federal court in New York on con
spiracy charges growing out of a plan
to establish a negro republic in Africa.
If Woodrow Wilson goes through
with his reported Intention to buy a
250 acre Virginia farm for $125,000
and then starts In trying to make It
pay its own way the “farm bloc” may
look for quickly augmented interest
In their program on the part of the
former president.
REPORT ANTI-BRITISH
MOVEMENT IN INDIA
Washington, July 16.—A new and
menacing anti-British movement has
broken out in India, according to of
ficial reports reaching here through
the British censorship Monday.
The indorsement of the newly
adopted Indian national fleg, or
•‘swaraj,” by the congress of Indian
nationalistic elements which con
veneed at Nagpur July 7, is reported
to have stirred India as it has not
been stirred since the imprisonment
of Ghandi, the leader of the non-co
operatlonists.