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Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
LODGE PUTS
SUBSTITUTE
up FOR VOTE.
Changes Form, He Says,
But Not Substance of
Reservation.

Washington, March IA sub
stitute for the Republican Article
X reservation to the peace treaty
was introduced in the senate today
by the Republican leader. Senator
Lodge, Massachusetts. In general
it follows the form of the draft
agreed on several days ago in bi-
partisan compromise negotiations.
Nearly Enough Votes.
When the reservation was offered,
it was declared among the Repub-
licans, that the negotiations had
lined up almost enough votes to
ratify the treaty on that basis, but
that final agreement had not yet
been reached. The Republican
leaders planned to obtain u vote
late today.
In presenting the substitute. SEN
ator Lodge said he did so in the
interest of compromise and not be-
cause the new draft represented
any substantial change in the mean
ing of the reservation.
Keeps Substance.
Il do this" he said, lin full con-
sonance with what l have stated on
the floor Of the senate several times.
/ do not feel that l should be JUS
tilted N 1nsfstfng on defeat Or the
treaty on a mere question of the
phraseology of any reservation. Ii
f'tAOugiif. the modification made any
change in the substance of the res
eryation not only should not offer
it but | should vote against the
treaty with it included"
Several Refuse Terms.
1t was apparent that the Repub-
lican leaders had failed to unite
their colleagues behind the new
reservation Senator Frelinghuy-
sen, Republican, New Jersey, who
voted for ratification last Novem-
ber, told the senate the modification
| had a weakening effect and that he
would not support any reservation
T, which did not go as far as the
| original. He offered a substitute.
The irreconcilable opponents Of
ratification also indicated they
would not vote to substitute the
new draft for the old one, but the
leaders insisted they would hold
close to thirty votes. Compromise
advocates among the Democrats
predicted that about the same num-
Der on either side would vote for
the substitute 1t takes 64 to rati-
fly, however.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
COURT ACTS AS COAL TERMS HANG fire
LOOK ASKANCE.
UPON BRITISH
COLONIAL NAVY
May Mean More Siren
uous Competition for
United States.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,
Especial to The Argus.)

Washington, d. c., March L.
The navy department Of the United
States looks askance at the plans
of Great Britain to stimulate the
building OF a navy in each Of her
colonial possessions, including Can
ada. Australia and New Zealand,
believing that thus the combined
naval strength of the British en-
pire will be greater than it has
been before and will virtually null
lily the public statements Of Sir
Auckland Geddes, tEc new British
ambassador, and other British Of
ficials, to the effect that England
is planning q reduction of naval
armament.
The discussion here is occasioned
by the completion Of a report by
Admiral Jellicoe, after trip around
the world. in which he advised the
British colonies on plans for naval
defense. Particularly did this
arouse comment here in cOnnec-
tion with Canadian naval defense,
for there never has been any feel
ing here that the two neighboring
countries needed any naval vessels
on the Great Lakes, and from this
fact it has been usually supposed
that special naval defense for Can
ada would never be attempted. On
| the other hand, it cannot be said
that the question has been thor
oughly canvassed and it is early to
reflect Washington opinion. Thus
far the project of enlarging the
British navy through separate CO.
lonial navies is coming in for a
good deal of adverse comment, and
Canada is not singled out especi-
ally. Indeed, coming upon the heels
of the controversy over the right
Of the British colonies to vote as
six units in the League of Nations
the question of building navies for
the British nations as well has al
ready been seized upon by persons
none too friendly to British cooper
alton as vehicle for further ar
gument in that direction.
What Daniels Thinks.
The sensitive attitude of con-
gress and the navy department
may be discovered in the steno-
graphic record just available OF
Secretary Daniels testimony before
the house naval affairs committee
Representative Browning: Die
you seen an article in this morn
ing's paper in regard to the Brit
ish navy?
Secretary Daniels: Yes,
"Mr. Browning: Saying that the!
7 did not expect it to be any largel
than the American navy?
Secretary Daniels: / saw that.
"Mr. Browning: Have you an.
comment to make on that state
ment?
Secretary Daniels: OF course.
would not like to make any com
ment on it as being official. Unless
l had an official statement from
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
BOND EXCHANGE
BEGINS APRIL |

Chicago, March 1.-THE Chicago
federal reserve bank today issued
instructions for the exchange of
temporary. Liberty bonds for per-
manent bonds. The final interest
coupon on $4,000, ,OO0, 900 third Lib
erty loan bonds falls due Monday,
when holders may begin making
the exchange.
After April l, first and second
Liberty As and first and second
Liberty AVS may be exchanged at
banks for permanent bonds. OF
the four issues approximately
$5lS,O0O,000 is outstanding in the
Chicago district, according to the
bank.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
Find 1920 Schools in
Country Closed Due to
Scarcity of Teachers

Washington, March 12.-The
country is faced with a serious
shortage of school teachers, chief
ly through failure to provide ade-
quate salaries, according to re-
ports to the United States bureau
OF education. Conditions are be-
coming slightly better. however,
the report states, in some sections.
Based on returns from state
school officials. the reports show
that on Feb. IS. last, there were
1929 schools closed because OF
lack of teachers and 41.900 being
taught by teachers characterized as
below standard, but taken on tenn
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
ARE 100000 TONS
OF UNITED STATES
SHIPS NOW BUILT

New York, March 12.-The United
states shipping board has 1887
steamships totalling more than
e,soo,oO0 dead weight tons, of
snich l,179 were in actual opera
,'on Feb. l, it was made known
uere today by the director OF
operations, John Gushing.
Inese ships are being operated
from lS American ports and are
@rnng 40 trade routes. virtually
one-half OF the tonnage being as
''ened 10 northern European trade
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12

porarily in the emergency" Great
er shortages are shown to exist in
southern states.
Average Pay Low as 1906.
Salaries paid teachers in 1918,
statistics show. were on an aver
age of $606 for elementary teach
ers and $1,031 for those teaching in
high schools.
A. O. Neal OF the bureaus divi-
sion of rural education. said today
there is an increasing withdrawal
OF men teachers from the prOfes-
sion. the percentage Of male teach
ers in 1918 being only II per cent
or one in every six.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
INVESTIGATE ONE
FEDERAL BOARD
AT OWN REQUEST

Washington, March 12-The fed
eral board for vocational educa-
tion has asked for an, investigation
of charges that it had instructed
its agents to be hard boiled" in
dealing with soldiers seeking edu-
cational rehabilitation.
Chairman Fess of the house edu-
cational committee announced to-
day that the inquiry would be
started by his committee tomorrow
night and that members of the
board and others would be called
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
The Weather

Fair and cold tonight, with the
lowest temperature about 20 to 25
degrees. Saturday and Sunday, fair
with rising temperature.
Highest yesterday, IS; lowest
last night, 30.
Wind velocity, 16 miles per hour.
Precipitation, Sc.
12m. 7p.m. Z a. m.
yester. yester. today
Dry bulb temp. ...55 So So
Wet bulb temp. SO So 81
Rel. humidity ...S7 81 100
River stage. 81; rise OF s in
the last "a hours.
]. n. -SHERIER NsteoroaoGist,
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
LOUISVILLE AND
ST. JOSEPH JUST
ABOUT HOLD OWN

Washington. D. c.. March 12.--
The census bureau last night an
nounced the following 1920 popula-
ton figures and increase.
Louisville, Ky, 234,S91, an in
crease of 10,963 or 40 per cent.
St. Joseph, Mo-, 77.735, an in
crease of 1872, or 0.4 per cent.
Chambersburg, Pa, 1911, an in.
crease Of 1871. or 1l.6 per cent.
Alexandria. Va, $4,000, an in.
crease Of 1881, or IFS per cent.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
F0rdney Resents View
That Votes Cut Figure

Members of congress are in
fiuenced by the will of the people
and rightly so." said Representa-
tive Garner. Democrat, Texas.
Il consider it an insult for any
person to say that | would spend
two billion dollars of the public
money to be elected to congress-.
declared Chairman Fordney.
Representative Henry T. Rainey,
Democrat, Illinois, told keech he
did not consider his remarks an
insult and that "he would appeal tC
the committee to overrule Chairman
Fordney's effort to suppress free
dom of speech among witnesses"
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12

Washington, March 12-Members
of congress will support soldier
bonus legislation in order ito get
votes" Frank P. keech of New
York, a former lieutenant in the
inspector generals department, de-
clared today before the house ways
and means committee, which is
holding hearings on relief legisla-
ton.
Il consider that an insult to MEM
bers of congress-" declared Chair
man Fordney.
Il didn't mean it as an insult, but
it is true" keech replied.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
MOTHER FIGHTS
FOURTEEN FOR
ADOPTED CHILD

enicago, March 12.-Mrs. Mayme
h.Hiey of Denton. Texas, today
.sa possession Of her 2-year-old
saopted daughter after she and two
Men had fought for 80 minutes with
persons at Rockford, ILL.,, and
saa evaded 10 policemen who pur--
y. saso her to the Rockford city lin
~ ~ otto Gnewuch, a deputy sher-
-. and Martin C. Koebel. an attor-
, accompanied Mrs. Bradley to
sOsi ssckiord and participated in the
,s 1snt The child had been placed in
s.e nome Of Alfred G. Bachelor,
,ao'ner-in-law Of Mrs. Bradley, dur
~, G inc iatter's illness. The Bach
.uers refused to give up the child,
oFclng to Koebel. and neighbors
Lsue0 ta-their assistance
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
CONCEDE SOME
TO OHUNCARIANS

London, March ia new Hun
garian peace treaty has heen defin-
itely agreed upon by the peace con-
ference and placed in the hands OF
a drafting committee, which has
gone to Paris. 1t is expected that
the treaty will be completed within
week.
The territorial terms against
which Hungary protested so Wig
orously remain unchanged, but va
rious economic concessions have
been granted.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
JAPS CLOSE u. S.
KOREAN MISSIONS

Toxic. March 1.-Two American
Methodist mission schools in ko-
rea have been ordered closed by
the governor as a result Of partic-
ipation of students in celebrations
Of Korean independence day.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
FLIES TWICE OVER
ANDES WITHOUT A
SINGLE LANDING

Buenos Aires, March 9.-Captain
Parodi, an Argentian flyer. has
crossed the Andes twice without
landing. He piloted his plane from
Mendoza. Argentina to a point over
Santiago. Chile. and returned to
Mendoza without having touched
ground during the entire trip.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
Continued ON page four).
SYRIAN CONGRESS
CROWNS NEW KING

Beirut, March 12.-The Syrian
congress at Damascus declared
Syria to be an independent state,
and it is reported Prince Feisal
was crowned king.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
DOGS HUNTING MEN
WHO BROKE PRISON

Bismarck, N. D., March IL
Bloodhounds today are searching
for four convicts. who escaped last
night from the state penitentiary,
near here, by tunneling through q
wall Of the prison building.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-03-12
FRENCH WILL NOT
RENEW RELATIONS
WITH THE

Paris, March ia bill intro
auced in the chamber of deputies
by the government reestablishing
relations between France and the
Vatican was tabled.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-05-01
Florida's Old SUGAR Mill.

The old sugar mill ut New Smyrna,
Fla, about - miles down the coast
from Daytona, stands amid moss hung
trees. as a picturesque and legend
haunted relic Of the Inflated colonizing
enterprise that in 1863 brought 100
MinOrcunS, Greeks and Italians to that
region. and for Il few brief years
thereafter transformed seven miles Of
vine tangled swamp land, along the
coast into orderly little plantations
where grew Indian corn, cotton. rice,
indigo plants and sugar cane. And it
was probably for the crushing of this
cane, a plant NJ longer grown in the
vicinity, that the ~ColoniStS built the
old mill. The walls and machinery
beds they made of coquina, a soft,
whitlsh stone formed of broken shells
and c%orals, cemented together by ma
ture. The iron crushing machinery It.
self probably erected at a later period
70 replace the Colonists' cruder appa-
ratuS. is nevertheless remarkable for
fits century long resistance TO the fierce
COrrOsiOn of the trOpic damp. which
quickly consumes implanted lronwork.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-05-01
Nc Flirting in ELL Islands.

sexes seldom meet in any form of So
cial intercourse in the islands of Fiji.
The boys never firt with, nor even
seem to notice the girls. In public
there IS a never diminishing distance
between them, giving the island an APP
peHrance of being a world without
love-making, and portraying primitive
life as unromantic. The girls are shy,
ana manifest a timid reticence.
Sydney Greenhie, writing i'm Harp
er's Magazine, says the male Fiiian is
extremely timid, but, for all that, none
the less f~astidious. The care with
which he trains and curlS his hair
would put to shame any impatient huS-
band of the vainest of white women.
The Fiiian is particular about his hair
without being necessarily girliSh in his
ways. Curls are made by a fine sub
stitute for soap. made of a mixture of
burnt coral with water. This is left
in the hair for n day or two. When
washed out and dried the hair Is
curled and combed and anointed. It is
excellent from the point of view Of
sanitation. and makes the Fiiiau proud
of his hair.-ENchange.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-05-01
BARONESS BEGS
U.S.. CITIZENSHIP

fund of her grandmother, Mrs. Louise
Bigelow, was $4,000 IA year. and this
amount was paid by the Northern
Trust company of Chicago until the
alien property custodian took charge
of the funds.
about February, 1919. riots and rev
olution broke out in Budapest" Mrs.
de Haven told the committee. "On the
day of the outbreak an immense mob
was resisted by the police near the ho-
tel where I was. After the conflict
some so dead and many wounded lay
in the street near my hotel, The dead
were brought into the corridor of the
hotel and then the mob came in and
seized everything in the dining room
that could be eaten or drunk. The dis.
turbance lasted all night.
"In this situation | decided to accent
n German passport. l did not 20 my
self to the German authorities to ask
for it.. but | sent a friend who obtained
it for me. Arrangements were made
for a train to take the German refu-
gees back to Germany.
Borrowed From Dressmaker.
"The train took - hours to reach q
point on the outskirts Of Vienna. The
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-05-01
LIFE is
RULED BY LIGHT

the day is too long, or by ~lengtheninG
the day by artificial light if the day is
too short.
Flowers That Bloom in Spring.
Spring flowers and spring crops
happen to be spring flowers and spring
crops because the days at the season
of their Towering and fruiting have
the proper number of hours of day
light"
The discovery may be of the highest
importance in the future planning of
cropping systems for different regions.
Eventually it may he found, accord.
ing to w. w. Garner and II. A. Allard,
scientists in the bureau of plant indus
try, who conducted exhaustive expert
ments, that the animal organism also
Is capable of responding to the Stimu.
lus of certain day lengths. They be-
lieve that the migration of birds may
be an illustration, on the ground that
direct response to such n stimulus
would be more in line with modern
biological teachings than theories
which that birds "go south"
as n matter of instinct.
Experiments were conducted with a
large variety of plants. 1t was shown
c~Onclusively that too little sleep" or,
in other words too many hours of day
light, would prevent many plants from
even reaching the Towering and fruit
ing stage.
1t was found also that plants would
not reproduce except when exposed to
a favorable length of day, although too
much daylight for Towering and fruit
ing might stimulate profuse vegetative
growth. A length of day favorable
both to reproduction and growth re-
suits in the "ever-bearing" type of
fruits.
BY employing dark chambers the sci
entists shortened or heightened the
life cycle of plants and forced some of
them to complete two cycles in one sea-
son. Violets, which naturally bloom
only during the comparatively short
days of spring. when covered with
light-proof boxes for a time were made
to bloom again during the summer,
Biloxi soy beans exposed TO the light
for only five hours a day Powered e
ly three months earlier than plants left
In the light all day, but attained only
about one-eighth of the height.
Temperatures Effect Slight.
Temperature appeared to exert no
influence in the tests. A striking H.
lustration of the relative unimportance
of temperature was given in the fact
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-05-01
MERELY "oLD MAN JONES"
Ordinary Citizen, But He Drew Some.
thing Of a EuIogy From California
Newspaper Writer.

Maybe you didn't know Old Man
Jones. He was n printer, and he died
last week, and there was n piece about
him In the paper. The piece was four
lines long and It was on the thirty
sixth page Of the paper in the lower
right-hand corner under an advertise
ment about soap or something.
Maybe you didn't see the piece in
the paper. No? Well, It is no wonder,
There is so much IN the papers, and
old Jones didn't amount TO anything,
anyway. At least, he was of no i'm
portance, You could not expect the
paper to give him any more room when
he died. That same day there was a
big scandal I'm high society, there was
a revolution in Germany, seven people
were caught drinking liquor. a movie
"yamp' said her diamonds were stolen,
and a lot Of other very important
things happened. Old Jones was lucky
10 get even those four lines in the last
hidden cOrner of the last page.
And, besides all that. we are very
sure that old Jones didn't and wouldn't
give a whoop if the paper never wen
mentioned that he was dead. He had
left the country and was I'm another
country far more to his liking. He
was with Socrates and Homer and the
old gods and fighting men that he
knew and loved in greasy books that
he found in cheap secondhand stores
and garbage cans where they had been
discarded.
Many Il sunny hour have we spent
with old Jones. learning from him
things we never knew before. For 80
years he had read books that opened
mp Paradise to him. His life was
spent happily. Death meant to him
merely another journey which, at the
last, he "a eager to take. He was
very wise and always very kind, and
usually poor.
Now, he is with 10000 yesterdays
and as quickly forgotten as though he
had been a king or a millionaire.
Good-by, old Jones. Give u kind
est regards to Socrates and all the
other fellows ont yonder I'm the Shad
ow Land-Los Angeles Times.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-05-01
Oh. Don't Mention Il.

A number of the neighbOr women
lust stopped in 10 have a little gossip
and one of them said: "Who do you
think ] saw downtown yesterday? He
was buying some strange woman a
soda and I'll bet he never said a word
about 1t to his wife" She then told
the name of the woman.
1t was not until the last ~neighbor
was zone that little four-year-old Ruth
said: Mother, ! don't think Mrs. So
and So (mentioning the name of the
woman who had told the story has
any room TO talk about other women's
husbands. l never told you, but one
day last week Mr., So and So bought
me a soda. And when / said, Thank
you to him, he said, oh, don't mem
ton it, And | ley would have told
1t if his wife did not think she was
so smart"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-05-01

that plants kept in the dark for a part
of the day underwent in midsummer
the changes that in nature come in the
fall and that, heretofore. have been at
tribUted to lower temperatures. This
was tru even when the dark houses
registered Il higher temperature than
the outside atmosphere.
The length of the day" the depart
ment's announcement said, sis proved
to be the most potent factor in deter
mining the relative proportions be-
tween the %vegetative and fruiting parts
of many crop plants. Indeed, fruiting
may be completely suppressed by a
day too long or too short. This new
principle undoubtedly explains the err
ratio behavior which has been observed
with many crops when they are shifted
to different attitudes"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-05-01
U. S. Experts, After Experiments,
Advance Principle That Is
Revolutionary.
TEMPERATURE is NEGLIGIBLE
Flowering and Fruiting Period of Prac.
ticalIy Any Plant Can Be Controlled
by Lenethening Day by Arti-
fetal Light.

Washington, d. C.-Government ag-
ricultural experts have discovered that
plant life seems to depend on light,
rather than temperature, for pouriSh-
ment and may be controlled by regu-
lating the hours of light and darkness.
The principle is revolutionary but
it rests on actual experiments, in which
1t was demonstrated that plants sub
jected to alternate periods of light and
darkness in carefully determined. pro-
portions could be brought to maturity
at any time of the year.
Greenhouse experiments" says an
announcement by the department of
agriculture, 'prove that the Towering
and fruiting period of practically any
plant can be made 10 take place at any
time of year by darkening the green
house in the morning and evening, II
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1920-05-01
keeplnn herolsm In Check.

F~ive-year-old Harry was almost sure
that his mother would not give him
a spanking for it now, for the ice had
long ago disappeared, so he said to
his mother: did You know that my
brother Jim is a hero?"
"How's that?" asked his mother.
Jim, who is seven. spoke up: ooh,
II was nothing much, mother" and his
chest swelled with pride. 1--WE ran
off and went skating one day last
winter, Harry he gets out on some
thin ice and is afraid to move for he
was sure that the ice was going TO
break. I just skated out to him, picks
him up in my arms and skates to the
bank with him."