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Attacks Article on Mandatorics.

Senator Cummins then passed to Arti-
ele XIX providing for the government by
mandatories of the partially civilized
and partially developed areas of the
earth and having particular reference to
the one time dominions of the Ottoman
empire and to the late German controlled
African colonies He read the article
verbatim then squaring himself toward
the Vice Presidents desk he said
This article is not only bad in ana
of itself but it is the grossest violation
OF our powers under the constitution that
has ever fallen under my observation.
can best examine It by taking concrete
instance of what may happen under II
and I select this instance because 1t is
what the members of the league expect
will happen under it
1.-THE league is authorized to issue a
mandate requiring the United states
to take possession and administer the
affairs of Turkey with an indefinite terri
| tory both east and west OF Constantine
ME This mandate will command the
| United states TO undertake the tutelage
of the Turkish empire until the people
| who live In this uncertain territory are
| able TO stand by themselves under the
strenuous conditions of the modern
world
| This gigantic TASK IL 10 De heS"i'
| upon the theory that the well oelng ana
development of such peoples for1n
sacred trust of civilization This trus'
| teeship may be for years. may be for
ever. depending entirely upon the juds
ment of the league respecting our success
| In bringing these people UP to the hisr
standards which the league may deman nc
i for lf-governing countries I confess
| TO more amazement when I reflect upor
this proposal than ever filled my mlne
before.
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autocratic rule on one hand and for
violence OF Bolshevism on the other are
still at work. In fifty years the small
state OF Prussia SO organized central
Europe as to defy the world. In the
present disorganized state of central
and eastern Europe that can be done
again on a still larger scale and menace
all free institutions.
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Tried and Proved Failure.

Senator Cummins held that all that
Article y purported to effect had been
tried with failures in immediate conse-
quence from the seventeenth century for
ward. He said There Is no student Of
history. however dull of comprehension,
who does not know that the discord.
rivalry and wars of three great Euro
pean powers make 1t possible for our
beloved country to emerge from their
struggles a free and independent nation.
Il am thinking of tho first half OF the
nineteenth century when Texas. New
Mexico. Arizona and California became
parts of the United States.
1T matters not whether the Texan
war was justifiable or unjustifable II
matters not whether our war with Mex
leo was defensible or indefensible: the
decree OF civilization demanded this ter
ritory for the republic. Let the men
and women who inhabit these fair and
fruitful regions stand up and declare
whether they are willing to bind their
country to preserve the territorial integ-
rity and political independence of every
nation on earth as II shall exist when
the peace conference at Paris concludes
its labors.
81 am not advocating wars OF aggres-
sion and l fervently hope that when the
welfare OF humanity requires changes in
sovereign boundaries they may be peace
fully effected; but would hold myself
false to the interest Of mankind II ]
should vote to ratify "A treaty which OBJ
ligated my country. no matter what the
circumstances or conditions may be. to
send our men to death on the battlefield
In any and every land to maintain the
boundaries which are now established.
know and you all know that we would
not fulfil any such obligation and il we
were to enter into it We would be guilty
| Of worse than punic faith"
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SENATE TO DECIDE
SHORT LOAN PLAN
House Passes Measure for ST.
O00,000,000 Issue as
Glass Dictated.
TWO CALLS MAY BE MADE
War Finance Corporation Is
Attacked for Supplying
"Foreign Golfers"
Special Despatch to TIE sus.


WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.--The House
put squarely up to the Senate to-day
action on the bill authorizing the issu-
snce of 7,ooo,oOo.oOo in short term
notes in place Of the longer term bonds
previously authorised in the course of
the war. The vote on the passage Of
the bill which Secretary OF the Treasury
Glass had practically dictated was $40
ayes to noes, with only Representatives
Curry (Cal) and La Toilette owls },
Republicans, and London IN. W. So
cialist. against it
Representative Kitchin IN. c., Demo-
cratic floor leader and chairman of the
Committee on Ways and Means, stated
that while the Secretary of the Treasury
might limit the sale of the short time
obligations to $4,000. 100000 In April,
provided also that the Senate passes the
bill the issue of the remainder of the
authorization in all likelihood would be
necessary before the ensuing fiscal year
was well under way.
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Not Unconstitutional.

II do not assert that in the ordinary
sense this article is unconstitutional.
Within its sphere our Government has
all the attributes of sovereignty and
making treaties with other nations is one
of these attributes; and moreover the
right to make treaties Is specifically rec
ognized in the Constitution.
alliances. offensive and defensive.
have been common among the Powers
OF the world and while I do not recall
a single instance OF that character In
our own history have no doubt OF our
constitutional authority TO enter into a
| treaty OF that kind.
IT have some doubt with regard to
our power to enter into the treaty pro
posed In the Paris constitution. a doubt
arising from the universally and dura;
] ton Of the obligation We are asked e
/ assume but do not rest any objection
to the article upon our lack OF power L
enter into the obligation"
The Senator's condemnation OF tn,
tenth article was bitter. "I am opposed
to It," said he. because II Ia the mos
destructive. unjust and reactionary pro
posal which was ever submitted to ;
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-15
PET PEEvEs or PREACHERS
Men of the Cloth Have Their Trou-
bIes, Just as Have Their Lower
Placed Brethren.

I have met number Of types In ny
ministerial meanderings. Let ne
quote you a few:
Those hard-headed gentlemen who
call upon me to display my backbone
by giving them my active support in
their pet quarrels-
The backsliding member who fears
lest I be not religious-minded enough
for his people.
The loud and insistent propagandist
who thinks I am insincere because 1
do not shout our common beliefs from
every street corner.
The man who never attends serv
ice, who wonders If my sermons are
up to the mark.
The person who sees me only during
meals. and who therefore. assumes that
| have nothing to do but eat
The fastidious critic but sIoven1y
dresser who objects to the shape of
my shoe and the length of my coat
Those who believe they have the
right to give me orders, on the ground
that they supply some of the money
that pays my salary.
The mothers who think it undigni-
fed of me to seat myself near girls
other than their own daughters
The near-f1atterer who thinks my
sermons good-and wonders where
got acknowledgements Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-15
WAS ONCE "WAsTE LAND
Present Site of Great Bank in New
York City So Described in
Kings Grant

In the Office of George F. Baker. in
the First National bank of New York
city, there hangs on the wall the origi-
nal patent from James II, king of Eng
land, dated February 4, 1855, for the
land which the First National bank
now stands, therein designated as
waste land outside the city gate of
New York. It was issued to one Thorn
as Dougan, Tate governor and now
ADMIRAL of New York.
There is attached a small sketch of
the property, showing Wall street with
it's fence, and the city gate, through
which leads Broad way
When one considers that this waste
land" now represents one of the most
valuable spots in the world one real
ICES what changes q little more than
two centuries have wrought in New
York city.
What would Thomas Dougan have
said if he had been told that this
waste land would one day stand a
banking institution returning its stock
holders over 80 per cent year?-
Wall Street Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-15
KANSAS BOYS TO HELP WITH
BUMPER CROPS

Topeka, Kans., May 1O.-Although
government support to the work of
the U. S. Boys Working Reserve has
been withdrawn from all but twenty
eight states, Kansas is in the list of
those states where the U. S. Boys
Working Reserve will be kept going
full blast in order to utilize every
ounce of efficient labor to care for the
record-breaking crops now in pros
pect-
Under the direction of C. w. Green,
member of the State Utilities Com
mission, who is Federal Director of
the U. S. Boys Working Reserve for
Kansas, and F. L. Pinet, Secretary of
the Kansas State Teachers Associa-
ton, who is Assistant Federal Dir
ector for the Reserve in Kansas, an
organization is being perfected among
the high school principals, county sup
erintendents and farm agents for the
purpose of enrolling in the Reserve
the largest possible number of Kan
sas boys between the ages of 16 and
FL The officials of the Reserve be-
1ieve that hundreds, and perhaps
thousands, of high school boys will be
enrolled for this service and that their
help will be factor in the harvesting
of Kansas crops this year
Enrolment in the Boys Working
Reserve is entirely voluntary. The
boy applies to an enrolling officer of
| the Reserve in any high school OF
public library in the Nation, to his
Federal State Director He fills out
an enrolment card, obtains the con-
sent of his parents takes the oath OF
service, and receives an enrollmen.
| badge and certificate bearing tx
/ great seal of the United States. He /
| then privileged to put the Militia
National Reserve uniform with tbs
arm cF1evron- IF he enters the Agri-
cultural Unit he should study the
IFarm-Craft lessons in school or In
the library during the winter. In The
spring, after the conclusion of school
! he may be sent to a Farm Training
i Camp, or its equivalent, to study
farm practices under expert instruc
| ton He is then assigned to a farm
| Federal Director Upon the satisfac
tory completion of the period of ser
| vice for which he enrolled, the min
inum limit of which six weeks of 81,
days a week, of eight hours a day, b.
receives the Federal Bronze Badge
bearing the Great Seal of the Unite,
States In addition, he may be award
ed the Honorable Service Bar 10
especially long and meritorious ser
vice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-15
4Trompen


The old French word .trompe"
meant a pipe or tuba, and the term
trompe was applied to the apparatus
by which the blast is produced in the
Catalan forge. It is simple, effec-
tive and ingenious contrivance for
producing continuous and equab1e
blast, but its use is restricted to To-
ca1ities where a fall Of water from a
height of several yards can be OBJ
tanned. The principle is that water
can be made to fall through a pipe
in such way that it will draw in
through side openings a considerable
amount of air. which by a simple and
ingenious arrangement can be utilized
a constant current or blast, and
which has the merit of costing almost
nothing. It has been utilized to linn
tied extent elsewhere than in the de-
partment of Ariege, in the South of
France, where it was formerly very
generally employed Iron has been
made in that district for more than
600 years, but the use of the trompe
blast was not Introduced until the end
of the seventeenth century.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-15

the Secretary of Agriculture for his
approval. This must all be done be
fore the federal government will set
aside the funds for the project.
Contracts will be made in the name
OF the county with the approval of
the State Highway Commission. The
work may be done by day labor, if it
has been shown to the satisfaction of
the Secretary that adequate means,
either by advertising or other devices
appropriate for the purpose, were en-
ployed, prior to the beginning of con-
struction, to insure the economical and
practical carrying out of the work
On account of the failure of the
legislature to make a sufficient APP
preparation for the State Highway
Commission, the cost of this inspec-
ton and of any resident engineers
required on the work will have to be
paid by the county and made a charge
against the Improvement. The cost
of the engineering supervision given
the work by the regular force of the
State Highway Commission will be
paid by the state No part of the fed
era1 governments engineering and
inspection can be charged against the
county or the Improvement
The Secretary of Agriculture and
the State Highway Commission may
Jointly determine at what times and
in what amounts payments, as the
work progresses, shall be made
Claims due from the federal govern
nent must be submitted by the State
| Highway Commission to the Secretary
of Agriculture, and payments viii
then be made by the Secretary Oh
| the Treasury, upon warrants drawn
/ by the Secretary of Agriculture tc
| the county treasurer.-Publishe By
the Kansas Highway Commission
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-15

No 30476
Market Master Junior is a pure
bred French draft stallion, black with
small star. Age, 3 years
VIII make the season of 1918
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at
the s. l. Powers farm, one mile
east and two miles north of OgaIIah.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at my
farm one-half mile east and two and
one-haf mile south of Oga1Iah
Terms-S15-00 to insure colt to
stand and suck Mares disposed of or
removed from the neighborhood will
be considered in foaI and service fee
viii be due. Mare and colt to stand
good for service of horse Care viii
be taken to prvent accidents but will
not be responsible should any occur
Carl A. S. Anderson
Io-5tp- OGALLAH, KANSAS
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filed with the board of county com
nnissioners. It is then necessary for
the board to declare the construction
of the road prayed for to be of public
utility before making application to
the State Highway Commission for
federal aid. Blank forms for applica-
tion for federal aid will be furnished
by the Highway Commission to the
board of county commissioners
Special Election Plan
Whenever twenty percent of the
resident landowners within county
petition the board of county commits
sioners to construct thirty miles or
more of roads within the county, the
board shall call an election, and if
majority of the votes cast favor the
proposition the commissioners will
proceed to construct the road prayed
for and charge the entire cost, after
federal and state aid donations
have been taken out, to all the tax
able property of the county at large,
and pay for same by tax levy or by
| the issuance of bonds. When special
tax levy is made the board shall cause
only 50 much to be constructed each
year as can be paid for by the special
levy for that year.
General Road Fund
Whenever the general road fund of
a county is of sufficient amount to
construct road, the board of county
commissioners may make applica-
ton to the State Highway Commits
sion for federal aid in the construction
of the road The eounty's portion of
the funds must be on hand before
| favorable consideration will be given
How Funds Are Secured
L L
and declared the Improvement to be
of public utility. it must enter into
contract with the State Highway
Commission, agreeing that the con
| struction work and labor on said i'm
provenent shall be done under the
| supervision of the State Highway
/ Commission, required in the feder-
al act, subject to the inspection anc
approval of the Secretary of AgricuI
ture and in accordance with the pro
visions of the federal aid road act anc
the rules and regulations adopted b1
him
The State Highway Commission vii
then prepare a project statement fol
the proposed Improvement and sub
nit it to the Secretary of Agricultur,
for his approval.
!. If the project is approved by tn,
Secretary, the surveys must be mad
J and the plans, specifications and est
mates for the improvements prepare,
by competent engineer under tn
direction of the State Highway Com
mission The cost OF such surveys
: plans specifications and estimate
must be paid by the county, but ma
be charged against the Improvement
: when the assessments are made. N
/. part Of the expense OF making sur
I veys. plans, specifications or estinaa te
incurred prior to the beginning of til
. construction work can be paid by tn
E federal government
The plans, specifications and est
: mates must be approved by the Stat
i Highway engineer and then subnai1
G ted by the Highway Commission i
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-15
HOW TO SECURE FEDERAL AID
The Government Will Pay One-Haf
The Cost of Constructing Roads
OF Amy Type in Kansas

The State Highway Commission
IL, for the present, contribute out
the federal funds, SO per cent of
the entire cost of the roads in Kansas
already designated to receive federal
aid This SO per cent shall not exceed
$4,000 per mile; or, in other words,
Federal Aid of one-half the entire
cost of construction viii be given, but
the government will not pay over
$4,000 per mile.
The following kinds of roads viii
receive aid: Dirt roads, sand-clay,
gravel, water-bound macadam, bitun-
inous macadam, concrete, bitunninous
concrete and brick on concrete base
1t should be remembered that this
SO per cent aid includes all grading,
culverts and bridges of whatsoever
kind, and the Commission also calls
the attention of the people to the
fact that this aid will apply on dirt
roads as we'll as roads of more per-
manent character.
All disputes between rival petitions
should be settled by the board of
county commissioners before applica-
ton is made for federal aid.
The amount of federal aid now
avai1able for Kansas is ST $50, 692.32,
and may be secured by the several
counties through any of the following
plans.
rs 1-Beneft District
Especial Election.
3=Genera1 Road Funds
Benefit District Plan
Should TIE people wish to have a
road improved under the Benefit Dist
riot plan, they should proceed in the
following manner:
designate the road to be con-
structed, which must be road OF
general public utility and connecting
market centers.
Play out, by metes and bounds
the Benefit District, showing tbs
lands owned by the citizens who are
presumed to petition for the consruc-
ton of the road The size of the pro
posed Benefit District is entirely II
the hands of the petitioners.
3-Prepare the petition covering the
requirements of chapter 265, Laws
1917, and amendments according t.
House bill No. Ga, Laws 1919. TIL,
State Highway Commission will fur
nish blank petitions to any citizens
desiring same. Petitions may call TO
) choice between several types o
roads and several widths of roads
leaving the final choice and the mum
Der of assessments for the paymen
thereof with the board of count,
commissioners. subject to approval 0
the State Highway Commission. TIL
petition, after having been prepared
should be forwarded to the Highwa
Commission, along with map show
ing the proposed Benefit District, t
be checked over before signatures ar
secured
4-After the petition has been ci1
culated among the owners Of the Ian
IN the Benefit District, it should b
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-15

For Sa1e-A National Cash Regis
ter and a large refrigerator suitable
for store. Mrs. L. E. Wurst, Ogal-
lab, Kans. Adv. 52tf.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-15
Chinese Lanterns

Particularly gay and attractive are
the shops of the lantern vendors in the
Chinese cities. All varieties of Ian
terms are to be seen-the large si1ken
ones three and four feet high, COR
geous1y painted with variegated coIorS,
embroidered in gold and silver or dec
GRATED with deep fringe of the same
material. costing from 500 to $500 and
used by the wealthy mandarins and
others; and common small horn and
paper lanterns, used by the coolies,
which cost one-sixteenth OF dollar
The mode of making horn lanterns is
very ingenious; the horns are cut into
remarkably thin slices which, by means
of heat and pressure. are Joined to-
gether and formed into various shapes /;
round, square, hexagon, octagon. and
some shaped to resemble an hour glass
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-15
The Piston

1.-THE piston is in the form of a
solid iron rod that enters the cylinder
through a hole pierced in the middle
OF one Of the ends" writes Henri
Fabre, "and just large enough to give
free passage to the rod, without let
ting the steam escape This rod is
bound to another iron piece, called a
crank, and finally the crank is attached
to the nei ghtroring wheel. The
piston, advancing and retreating in
turn in the cylinder, pushes the crank
forward and back, and the crank thus
makes the great wheel turn On the
other side of the locomotive, the same
things are taking place by means OF a
second cylinder Then the two great
wheels turn at the same time and the
locomotive moves forward
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-15

We do high class job printing of
every description
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-05-15

the Secretary of Agriculture for his
approval. This must all be done be
fore the federal government will set
aside the funds for the project.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-08-02
DE CONERIO

Ialgunos Sc negaban a dar una pc
seta ounce centayos y 81 los
Idaban decfan que ESQ era mucho
No, no es mucho para el que
tiene ESQ de sObra, darselo de vez
en- cuando a la desgracia que LA,
ma su puerta. cTodOs los dias.
todas las nOches no gastamos en-
ell Casino, ell un cine, en- cualquieI
parte una pequeiia cant;dad
Pues ella puede salvar, a veces,
la vida de un semejante. Mire-
mos con mas frecuencia hacia
nuestrO pr0gimo dolorid6. Para
que vamOsy acumular riquezas,
.si las riquezas son miserias de es-
te mundo, que nuestra alma no
podra llevarse a la eternidad?
Dios mira Y toma cuenta. Y
algdn dfa puede que la dessracia
nos acose de cerca, que sea .un
familiar nuestro, que seamcs no.
sOtrOs, los que necesitemos lamar
a las puertas de un asilo de la
carload, y entonces :no sera ma
yor humiliation la nuestra, 81
cuando pudimos ayudar a leyan-
tarlo, tuvimOs una repulsa para
quien nos tendi0 una mano en- de-
manda de auxilio?
PerO, a pesar de la falta de coo
peraci0n de algunos, Sc levantara
Ia santa casa del dolor, en- Ia que
unas dulces manos de mujer ten
dram una caricia de consuelo pa
ra todos los desvalidos.
Las entusiastas se1ora ,fuana
Longo, Pepita Sariego de Espina,
Maria Llabres de Lavanderc, eff
cazmente auxiliadas por las seno-
ritas Carmita V Feliciana Longo
y otras damas de la meior socie-
dad, dierOn un bale para recau-
dar fondos para la obra benefica