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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-26
Odds and Ends

See tables at foot of stairway
to the Basement. Turn to your
left, and find gowns, chemises,
petticoats, corset covers, etc.
Specially priced Tuesday.
Palais Royal-Bargain Basement.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-26

or pink and white Hn
Nainsook, lace and nSc
embroidery trimmed, wv
many dainty enough to cost more
than .00-Tuesday at 69c.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
Unite the Fleet Perfect and Air Forces and Build Long
Cruising Submarines Admiral Fuams Remedy for Present
Conditions of Defence
Conditions of Defence

we may. or should assume that our future
enemy has already provided himself with
such a weapon. At the first indication Of
war-long before war is declared-our
enemy would send these submarines across
seas to position one or two hundred
miles from the canal, there to await orders
by radio.
Upon the receipt of orders these sub
marines would advance cautiously, arriv-
ing unseen at a safe distance off the canal
shortly before dawn or before sunset, as
might be deemed best. Their bombing
planes being assembled on deck and armed,
would then fly over the locks and drop
heavy bombs upon them.
1t would be a desperate venture, per-
haps, but men can be found for such work.
A bombing attack can be made at night.
1t is not difficult. 1t might be complete
surprise. The defence would be at dis
advantage 1t could not repel such an at
tack, particularly at night.
Furthermore, with our small army and
naval air forces-and no airplane carriers
our enemy could send carriers to the
Canal Zone or to our coast, to follow up
the attack by submarines. knowing that
he could secure and maintain the command
Of the air.
Under these circumstances what would
we do? Would our battleships, cruisers
and destr0yers fight the enemy's bombers
and drive them away? Such a thing is
absolutely impossible. Ships would be USE
less in such a case
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

rupted power in the ordinarily piping
times Of peace with nothing but the com
mon brand of domestic politics to dig pit
falls in their path. Lloyd George has done
it, with the greatest war and the greatest
peace in history as side shows.
He is tremendous worker, yet not of
the spade working type. His routine now.
adays is something like this:
He is called shortly after in the morn
ing and all Of the newspapers that matter
and some people might be surprised il
they knew his list-are put by his bed
He gets through all of them in the hour
or so over his morning cup of tea. After
that he usually takes up any official docu-
ments that require his personal attention
and he is up and shaved and bathed and
carefully dressed by his valet shortly after
Q. He eats what most people out of Eng
land would call hearty breakfast, of por-
ridge and kipper and bacon and eggs and
tea.
And then he plunges into the routine of
the day. Ten o'clock is not an unusual
hour for the Cabinet to sit, and II fire.
quently sits until near noon. IL It Is not
the Cabinet, IL is the heads of separate
departments or other official callers. He
lunches simply but well--which is the char.
acteristic of all the meals in the Lloyd
George household And when Parliament
is in session he is in the House. IL not in
his seat, by 2:45.
Lloyd George has broken tradition In
more than one way as Prime Minister. He
is more than chairman of the Cabinet
Though he puts upon the shoulders of his
department heads perhaps more OF the
burden than any of his predecessors. he
gives them freer rein in developing their
own policies; those policies have at all
times since he has been Prime Minister been
Of such vital Importance to the nation that
more than ever before he has been called
upon to defend them and to assume re.
sponsibility for them as the personal head
of the Government
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
Keeps Many Secretaries Busy
With Work That Comes to Hin

He has split the Office in two by allo.
eating first to Mr.. Bonar Law and now to
Mr.. Austen Chamberlain the routine duties
of leader of the House." He does not at
tend the House unless 1t is particularly
important, unless there is general de.
mand for him to speak. Law had and
Chamberlain has all the routine work of
planning the Houses time distributing its
patronage and answering for the Govern
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
NAVY EXPERT WARNS AGAINST ILL BALANCED FORCE

DEAR ADMIRAL WILLIAM F. FULLAM u s. NJ author of the
II article the dvdng the feet IN
sderd of the mavys most brilliant He graduated from
the Naa Academy
several r6ook on infantry and artillery tactics and ordnance
that
Nava Academy Secretary
Daniels
his estimates of the recvd
BY w. RearA Adnia, S. N. etred).
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

than do our own people, for the truth has
not been made known to them!
The United States has large surface
fleet. But it has no long range sub
marines, and its air force is so pitifully
small that it would be powerless even to
defend the fleet from air attack without
these forces our fleet could not dream of
taking the offensive
In other words, our navy is powerless in
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

is grappled with the hoops of steel that not
only bind but sometimes chafe
Though he is fond of the society Of
pretty women, bright and cheerful women,
he is an admirable family man. Mrs. Lloyd
George is a country squiress great god
dess in the little community of Cricceith
in Wales. where she knows every baby by
all its names and it's weight every week;
where she knows the mental, moral and
material progress of every family in the
district and of every worthy social move
ment within reach, and where she fosters
them all, in common with her flowers and
her garden crops, with deft and master
full hand.
But she does not like The Great, either
socially or politically. At great functions
she always seems a little frightened and
much bored. 1t is only in the intimacy
Of the family table at Downing Street or
Crcceith that she shines in her affection
for her David and in his affection for her.
Sons Much Like Mother,
And Avoid the LimeIight
The two surviving Lloyd George sons are
like their mother. One is a Welsh farmer
and the other in a small business in Car
narvon. Their early. association with the
bitter end of politics during their fathers
early struggle hammered out of them any
ambitions they may have had to follow in
his footsteps, and If the Lloyd George
name is to be perpetuated into the next
generation IL will be on the distaff side
It is Megan, the only daughter, in her
early twenties. that inherits her fathers
qualities.
She is pretty in her feminine way, with
all the gifts of animation. good health
good figure, interesting features and fine
color that make her father most agree
able man to look at. And she inherits all
his charm of personality. She seems to
know II and is reported to be ambitious.
ambitious Of accomplishment for the State
as her father is. But she is not the type of
advanced" woman who believes that
woman should replace man entirely in
affairs.
The report is that Megan hopes she will
make a brilliant marriage-not brilliant
in the social sense, but union with some
man by whose side she can accomplish and
help him to accomplish great task.
And the affection between her and her
father Is one of the prettiest things in ali
the dull dirty range of buildings called
Downing Street II there Is a real animat-
ing sentiment about Lloyd George, 1t is for
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

IN HE writer does not believe for an
instant that foreign nations Sc
riously contemplate war with the
United States at present. They must
realize that they would have everything
to lose and nothing to gain by so doing.
But it is, nevertheless, important to con-
slider what strong naval Power could and
would do in the event of war with the
United States
In studying this subject there are GER
tain facts and principles which must be
recognized as governing the initial policy
Of any nation, European or Asiatic, that
might decide to make war upon u.s. And
:hese principles are perfectly simple The
lay reader-any intelligent citizen of this
,ountry-can readily understand the situa-
ion when it Is presented to him in plain
English. 1t is not necessary that he should
&c student of the art of naval warfare
lot at all.
In the first place it must be plain that
war overseas to-day can only be carried on
by navies. Great armies cannot cross the
seas in 1921. Air forces and submarines
have made this quite impossible The best
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

Megan. 1t is she who sits on the arm OF
his chair when he is loafing and chatting,
no matter who the guest may be. She, 80
'tis said, Is the confidante of some of his
inmost thoughts. She is the single per.
sonal touch In a machine designed for
perfect functioning in politics, cast, har-
dened, finished, polished, assembled, lubri-
Gated with but one end in view accom-
plishment in his chosen field. She is the
polished brass bright work in the engine
room of the destroyer-the single note of
brightness that seems to find no place Of
purely utilitarian purpose in a nest of
flashing purposeful steel.
OF his cronies there is Lord Riddel
proprietor of weekly newspaper with
circulation of over 100000. But Lord
Riddell would probably be the first to admit
that his close association with the Prime
Minister is based more on the knowledge
of how popular opinion is trending implied
in circulation of 100000 than on any
other stirring or inspiring or amusing
characteristic in himself. He is typical
of all the large circle that spend week ends
with the Prime Minster-Sassoon, Baron
Dalziell, Lord Lee of Fareham Sir William
Sutherland, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Hamar
Greenwood, Sir Eric Geddes. Sir Alfred
Mond, Mr.. Montagu-nearly all of them
members of his official family and nearly
all of them contributing to Lloyd George,
in return for his own geniality, some ele-
ment OF the mixture that will next week go
into the machine.
Perhaps the one exception to this rule
was Bonar Law. There was an indubitable
tone of affection in Lloyd Georges voice
when he called out, "Bonar, how about
this?" No two men could have been more
widely dissimilar in outward traits. But
somewhere down deep there was senti-
mental connection between them. There
must have been.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

modern war--both defensively and often
sively. 1t lacks modern weapons. With
out these it is menaced from above and
from below. 1t must remain at home.
Moreover. our fighting fleet is scattered,
disrupted and disorganized-sep into
two parts, five thousand miles distant from
each other, with the Panama Canal be-
tween them! During the years since Japan
smashed and destroyed the scattered navy
of Russia no sensible nation has permitted
it's main fighting fleet to be divided! It
has been recognized that such a policy
might be fatal. Admiral Mahan con-
demned it as the one unforgivable blunder
in naval warfare! But he has been ignored
by his own country! Other countries re-
spect him!
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

There is but one remedy:
1. Unite the battle fleet In the Pa
clfic.
2. Stop spending money on more
battleships for the present.
3. Spend money on modern weapons,
without which battleshlps are help
less, extensively and defensively.
4. Provide strong army and navy
air forces as quickly as possible.
). Build airplane carriers without
delay.
6. Build long range cruising subma-
rines for duty overseas.
z. These are not aggressive acts;
they are defensive measures.
The money in the United States Treas
ury and in the pockets of the taxpayer is
limited. This money must be spent judi
ciously as far as the army and navy are
This cannot be done until the
United States Government realizes the
limitations in waging war overseas. This
cannot be done until modern weapons are
provided
Waste must stop. Conservatism must
ments. Common sense must have an In
ming. Otherwise our navy, helpless to-day,
will remain so. Our enemy will take ad-
vantage of our weakness.
We must wake up!
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
Emotion for Bonar Law
More Than Mere Politics

For the political loss to Lloyd George in
Bonar Laws sudden physical breakdown
last spring could not have accounted for
the genuine emotion he showed In an
nouncing to the House of Commons his
yokemate's resignation. Lloyd George had
faced political misfortune before then and
since, but not with that break in the voice.
Down deep in the man is the elemental
function Of emotion, and IL is the strong
est note in his character. Hence II is the
note he has seized and bridled and bitted
and saddled and ridden to success. 1t was
his vehicle in the old days at Limehouse
and it is his vehicle to-day when he has
swung the British people in two short
months from calling the Irish murder
gang to backing to almost the last man
his efforts to shake hands with De Valera
He is emotion, Celtic emotion but bitted.
bridled and saddled with cold Anglo
Saxon precision. Kipling says England
has been conquered by the foreigner par
ticularly the Celt, before this. and absorbed
the Celt and all his worth. Perhaps Lloyd
George will yet be smothered in the English
mediocrity of success
But whatever the future may hold for
him il can never take from him the glory
of six years at the helm OF the Empire
when the Empire has never been more
magnificent.
Cold. precise machine that he is at
almost all times, cold and precise despite
the warm. flexible basis of emotion on
WHICH he works. there is one time when he
breaks loose. He comes into one of the
secretaries rooms and sits in the middle
with his hands and his brain idle. Secre-
tares and intimate visitors gather around.
and gay personal chaff flows back and
forth. This happens about once in three
weeks
Lloyd George is sitting in the middle OF
the room, with a white sheet ceremonially
beneath his chair. 1t would be ceremonial.
indeed except that one of the intimate
friends" the one closest to Lloyd George
at these times is--the barber.
That hair is being cutl
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
Our Enemy's First Move
Would Be Against Canal

The statement Of our naval weakness
will make plain to the lay reader what the
first move Of our enemy would be-he
would seek to block the Panama Canal
and thus prevent the mobilization of our
feet.
And how would he do this?
The answer is evidently the use of
long range submarines carrying number
of bombing planes.
1t is perfectly possible to so design big
submarine that it can carry one or more
dismantled bombing planes In fact we
know that this is being done to-day! And
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

William Freeland Fullam, Rear Ad-
miral, u. S. NJ, retired. who sounds a
warning about our national defence
system.
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

The British Premier in a moment of
relaxation; an informal snapshot taken
by Arthur Abplannap. First publica-
tion in America
The New York herald., 1921-10-02
Naval Men Should Know
The Nations Weak PointS

Miss Megan Lloyd George is her
fathers favorite companion and his
confdante. She, too, possesses much
of his ambition
The New York herald., 1921-10-02

naval and military minds in Europe recog-
nize this fact-as do the best minds in the
United States also. In this connection it
is important to note that the minds" re-
ferred to are those that are unshackIeu by
the restrictions imposed upon them by the
War and Navy departments.
There has as yet been no official or pub
lie utterance emanating from any depart
ment of the United States Government,
civil or military, which would indicate
recognition of the limitations imposed
upon armies and navies in war overseas!
This is an amazing fact Our military and
naval policies appear to ignore these
limitations We spend hundreds of mil
lions in defiance of these restrictions, and
we withhold appropriations for the only
weapons that can possibly be used in over
seas war, extensively or defensively-air
forces and submarines! 1t is a perilous
situation!
Naval Men Should Know
The Nations Weak Points
Now let us come straight to the point.
What would we do if we We're in our
enemy's shoes? Naval men know, or
should know, our naval weaknesses And
our enemy knows them too-far better
The New York herald., 1921-03-05
SENATE SWIFTLY
CONFIRMS CABINET
President Harding Presents
Names i'm Brief Speech to
Former Colleagues.
Special Despatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,

Special Despatch to THE NEW YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. c., March 4.
At the first session of the Senate over
which President Coolidge presided
President Harding's Cabinet was unani-
mously confirmed this afternoon in ac-
Harding presented in person In executive
session. All the machinery for confir-
nation had been arranged. The com
mittees TO which the nominations are re-
ferred had been polled In advance, their
favorable reports prepared in advance
and the form of referring them to the
committees and obtaining their favorable
reports was gone through with as a
matter of routine.
President Harding made a short ad-
dress in presenting the list of names OF
his official family, which he read TO the
Senate in the following order. accord
ing to their constitutional rank:
Secretary OF state, CHARLES z.
HUGHES.
Secretary OF the Treasury, ANDREW
w. MELLON.
Secretary of War. JOHN W. WEEKS.
Attorney General, HARRY NJ. DAUGH-
ERTY.
Postmaster General, WILL II. HAYS.
Secretary Of the Navy, ED WIN
DENLY.
Secretary OF tho Interior, ALBERT B.
FALL.
Secretary OF Agriculture, HENRY c.
WALLACE.
Secretary OF Commerce, HERBERT G.
HOOVER.
Secretary OF Labor. JAMES ]. DAVIS.
The substance OF President Harding s
speech follows:
IT feel no hesitancy In coming to you
at this time. feeling assured OF the close
friendly and personal relations that
exist between us. Therefore 1 have
taken advantage of this opportunity to
appear personally and communicate to
you the list of the nominations for the
Cabinet. 1t is list that appeals to my
judgment and desires. and / hope that II
will make similar appeal to the Judg-
ment and desires of the Senate"
Just before ad journment until to-mor-
row Senator Underwood referred to the
special session OF Congress still to be
convened by President Harding and ex-
pressed hope that it's date be deferred
long enough to permit some Senators
who wish to go home TO do so.
The general opinion Of Senator'S is
that the extra session will be called
about April 4, although it is still un-
reveals his Intentions.
Before adJourning to-day the Senate
adopted its usual rule TO meet at IL
o'clock Adjournment was taken until
tomorrow at 10 A. NJ
The New York herald., 1921-03-05
CHARITY BALL ENDS
MAZE OF FUNCTIONS
Host of NOtables in Official
and Private Life Listed at
Inaugural Dance.
Special Despatch TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. O., March 4.

New York Herald Bureau.
Washington, ID. O., March 4.
Although denied an official inaugural
ball, Washington brought Inauguration
day TO a brilliant close with numerous
dinners, one big private dance and a
charity ball at the willard Hotel. which
In great measure took the place OF the
historic function of other inaugurations.
Given for the benefit OF the Child Wei
fare Society, members of the outgoing
Administration were actively Interested
In Its success and they rubbed elbows
there with officials OF the new Admin
istration while the world and his wife
looked on.
The President and Mrs. Harding dined
at the White House as they had
lunched, with only members of their
family about them. But practically
every other member OF the new Admin
istration, from the Vice-President and
Mrs. Coolidge down, attended one of the
two big dinner parties of the evening.
many Of them going afterward TO the
ball. The Coolidges were present. ar
riving rather late, and joined the retiring
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall, who
were with Mrs. Thomas f. Walsh IN her
box after they had left the receiving
line.
Mrs. Coolidge looked girlish and
charming in a gown OF rose and gold
brocade made on modsh lines and
gracefully draped with a modest decol-
letage and short train. She and her
distinguished husband were met with
The New York herald., 1921-03-05
Plain Woodrow Wilson,
After the Ceremonies

WASHINGTON, March A.
" After Mr.. Wilson reached
his home Admiral Grayson, who
accompanied him from the Capt.
tol, addressed him as 'Mr. Presi-
dent"
"No," Mr.. Wilson interrupted,
smiling; plain Woodrow Will
son now"
The New York herald., 1921-03-05
HARDING'S ADDRESS
PLEASES WALL STREET
Constructive Action Looked
For From NerU Regime.

Pleasure and satisfaction with the in
augural address of Warren G.. Harding
were expressed unanimously in banking
circles from officer TO clerk and In Wall
Street business headquarters OF all sorts.
A feeling was abroad that a new era
in governmental administration had got
ten under way and Wall Street was dis
posed to expect action Of constructive
import az soon as the new broom got
into its stride. The features of the in
augural address were read long before
the close of business hours and particu-
lar attention was paid to the ending of
Government experiment in business, the
promise of thrift and efficiency and the
tightening of tax burdens.
Comments OF Importance may be sum-
married. as follows:
Thomas w. Lamont, owner OF the New
York Evening Post and member Of the
firm of j. p. Morgan & Co.-"President
Harding has touched admirably upon
many matters that are OF great moment
to the whole world to-day. His declared
desire to have this Government confer
with other leading nations on present
problems that are pressing for solution
his expressed belief that taxation and
trade matters must have prompt atten-
ton will all serve to inspire confidence
both here and abroad"
Blbert II. Gary, chairman United
States Steel Corporation-'I have just
finished reading the inaugural address
of President Harding 1t is able. com
prchensive, clear and convincing. So
far as 1t refers to matters contained In
his previous speeches II is entirely In
harmony with them. IL will have re-
assuring and decided effect upon the
general commercial, financial and in
dustrial affairs OF this country. If the
people of the United States will do their
full part toward reconstruction. read
justment and restoration In accordance
with the invitation OF our President
we ought to witness a marked and pro-
gressive Improvement in business from
this very day"