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Evening star., 1921-08-28
Closing Days of Congress
Bring Interesting Things
OF Social Life to Light
S+asnat;on of Events Here Means Quietus o
Only One Phase - Arrangements Beng
Made for Disarmament Conference.
ny SALLIE V. H. PICKETT.

of society Washington means
quietus phase OF the life here for without ITS
and lunheon interesting events OF
local constantly arising to keep
one deawak closing Congress- for instance brought
interesting social to light and the attend
Miss Harding the close
there The Presidents work IN the go
small dinner parties made principally
equally informal luncheon parties gave oma al
excitement they had time for
the housing and entertainment OF hun
burden resting the shou
ders Henry Fletcher, undersecreayo state wg
capital hospitality rests So far the e4ns
each have 400 and so tar the two
largest will share these favors
will have hundreds Another
panHed and there will be
inequalities continue all during the visit
THE President Harding entertain all OF the
delegates time perhaps with 1 huge % @ the the
the delegates really much difficult task with
definite fact that the
while the other members OF
represented will be close proximity possible for the sake of
convenience and expedition in their work
MRS HARDING arranging the official social
~ OF the White House pretty much as was done before the world
old list beginning with dinner the cabinet
Washington society hoe will once more be able to arrange their
The First Lady indefagable her duties
woman the executive serving while
Miss Harlem vacation
NOTHING delightful informa
OF the last OF Congress hosts gathered
formally the Capitol With members of Congress leaving Washing
oes feel pulse their and
for mucneeded seemed too bad the members of the
day. and their families staying in town with then
The will the effect of delaying
leave poponng his from the the middle September
Evening star., 1921-08-28
Miss Bales Hostess
At an Informal Dance

Miss Rosemarye Coleman Bales was
hostess at an Informal dance at her
home on Thursday. August 25. The
invited guests were Representative
Ladislaw Lazaro Of Louisiana, Mr.. NJ.
Marion Hargrove. DIR. and Mrs. Paul
Richmond. u. S. n; Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Waggaman. Mr.. and Mrs. Ross.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hasselbush. Miss Leah
Rabbit. Miss Eliot Peckham, Miss
Betty Douglas, Miss Margaret Bolen,
Mis-; Alice Morrison. Miss Hi!da
Fischer. Miss Florence Irelan, Miss
Elaine Lazaro, Miss Malina A Gilkey.
Miss E. Bartlett. Miss Elizabeth Teepe
Miss NJ. Viola Goodrish. Miss Julia
\. Walters. Capt. yenable. Capt.
Phillips, Lieut.. Paul Windham. Mr..
Ralph Childs. Mr.. George Provost
Mr.. Paul Reed. Mr.. Orville de Lash
mutt. Mr.. Paul Hasbrock, Mr.. Charles
Irelan. George Hirt. Mr.. Floyd
OBrien. Mr.. Wilbert Mcinerney. Mr
Fabean Cox, Mr.. John Mcinerney. Mr.
Jay Fuller Spoerri, Mr.. ]. Foster
Hagan and Mr.. Henri A. Bales.
Evening star., 1921-08-28
Notes of Foreign Diplomats
And i. S. Cabinet Members
Secretary and Mrs. Hughes at Suburban Home
Spanish Ambassador Returns to City.
Other Society Features
return Tuesday morning.

return Tuesday morning.
The minister of Rumania. Prince
Bibesco, is expected to return tomor-
row from New York, where he has
been for ten days.
The newly appointed minister of
the Netherlands. DIR. ]. A. e. Ever
wtjn, will sail for New York Tuesday.
and on his arrival in port Will come
at once to Washington.
The minister OIL sweden. Capt. Axel
of the legation. Maj. Count Nils
Bonde. will return from Newport at
the end OF the week.
The secretary of the legation. Mr.
J. de Lagerberg. also will return at
the end of the week, after spending
The minister of Poland, Prince
Lubromirski, will return at the end
of the week from Newport. where he
is spending several weeks with Prin-
cess Lubomirska and their children.
The minister of Bulgaria. Mr.
stephan Panaretoff. left Friday for
New York, where Nine. Panaretoff
met him. and with him sailed yester-
day aboard the American for Europe.
Mr.: Panaretoff will be one Of the
Bulgarian representatives in the as
sembly of the league Of nations at
Geneva.
During the absence of this minister
the first secretary of the legation,
DR.. p. Lessinon, will act as charge
danaires of Bulgaria.
The new minister of Persia, Mira
Hussien Khan Alai, arrived in Wash
ington Friday from Spain, where he
has been minister representing Persia
| for some time. He succeeds Mira
Abdul Ali Khan. who sailed from
New York Friday for his new post in
Madrid, Spain, where he will succeed
| the new minister of this country.
The counselor of the Italian en-
bassy. Signor Sabetta, has returned
from a fortnights visit in the Thou
| sand Islands.
The secretary Of the Swiss Lega-
tfon, DIR. Conrad Jenny, returned yes
terday from New York, where he
/ spent a few days.
The commercial attache of the
Cuban legation, Mr.. P. A. Bonet, has
i returned to Washington and is al
the Hotel Washington. Nine. Bonei
is spending few days in Philadelphia
\ and will join him the middle of the
week.
Evening star., 1921-08-28
Miss Marjorie Aeker~
Is ENGAGED to Artist

Mrs. Charles E. Acker Of Ossining.
n. Y, announces the engagement of
her daughter Marjorie Acker. to Mr..
Duncan Phillips, son Of Mrs. D. C.
Phillips of Washington.
Hiss Acker is an artist. whose paint
ings are to be exhibited in New York
during the coming season. Mr.. Phil
lips is q writer on art. author of THE
Enchantment of Art" and a collector
whose paintings recently have been
incorporated in Washington for public
benefit as the Phillips Memorial Art
Gallery" He graduated from Yale in
1908. He is a member Of the Yale.
University and Century clubs Of New
YoFk city.
Evening star., 1921-08-28
Miss Lesser Engaged.
Her Parents Announ

Mr.. and Mrs.. Joseph Lesser an
nounoe the engagement Of their
daughter Faanye, to Ir. Dave n.
Lessner Of this citR
Evening star., 1921-08-28
Mrs. Giddines Back
From Mexican Tour

Mrs. Madeleine Giddings has Just re-
turned from an extended and inter-
esting visit to Mexico City and other
parts Of Mexico, where she has large
business interests. While in Mexico
Mrs. Giddings met q number Of the
leading people of the republic.
Evening star., 1921-08-28

The Secretary Of Labor, Mr.. Davis,
left Friday evening for New York,
Boston ana Wsllesley HILLS ana will
Evening star., 1921-08-28
Miss Mildred Potts
To We'd Mr. Alhr;sb,

Mrs. Eppa Hunton Potts OF Chase
City. Va, announces the engagement
OF her daughter Mildred to Mr.. John
Garden Albright of Manassas. Va,
and Washington, d. c. The wedding
will take place the second week in
October.
Evening star., 1921-08-28

The marriage took place at . O'Clock
yesterday afternoon OF Miss Sadie c.
shuckers, daughter of Mr.. ana MIS-.
w. g. Shuckefs, to Mr.. J. Harry Good
rich. the Rev. @. R. Humphreys ofna
ciating.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Scandal at Camp Johnson.

ssShocking disclosures are made in connec-
tissn with conditions prevailing at the Johnson
Civ home for tubercular soldiers Such laxity
ok absolute lack of discipline as is indicated by
tie reports is incredible This may be cleared
nE however, by investigation, by removal OF the
Incompetent or dishonest persons who are re-
sbpnsible for the scandalous lack of control that
his converted the hospital into national dis
sFace. A more serious fact is that the Sweet
b6h which was hurried through congress, lies
oS. the table in the vice presidents Office, wait
itx for some one to sign it. The president and
vie president both are in New England, the
president pro tempore of the senate is at At
lantc City, and the law is held up, while the
ck-service men who are to be benefited by it
afe dying Soon, within week or two, the
4a<Als will be at their places, and the relief
MEASURE will get the signatures that are required
tdmake it a law. The hospital at Johnson City
csh be cleaned up. but the soldiers that are
dying because of the delay at Washington will
nit care great DEAL Our great and generous
government does some things in very pecul-
lar Way.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Russians Must Be Fed.

Sparring for points with the soviets is not
going to solve the real question that confronts
the world. 1t is important, to be sure, that we
have assurance that the irresponsibles who
make up the present substitute for govern
ment in Russia mean to respect engagements
they enter, and to keep promises they make; it
is far more important, however, that no effort
be spared to get food to the starving millions
who are now facing horrible death. Authentica-
ted news coming from the interior of Russia tells
of more than 25,00O000 people, men, women and
children without food; of broken down and en-
tirely inadequate methods of transportation, so
that even when supplies are landed at the sea-
ports means must also be provided to take the
food to the interior. Accounts are given of
march of six millions from the famine district
towards the capital, where Lenin sits, impatienty
ordering the famished people to remain quiet,
threatening with military extinction if they ap-
proach Moscow. Unless these can be cared for
they must die of hunger. German estimates set
down 100000 tons of food grains preliminary
requirement Secretary Hoover is organizing to
give relief. Doubt is expressed as to the SINGER
ity of the soviet government in its promises to
release American prisoners, but this doubt should
not keep us from sending food and doing what
we can to lessen the misery in Russia Millions
will die in spite of what the world may do, be-
cause of the physical impossibility of getting re-
lief to them. There should be no politics in our
share of the work of salvation that must be done
without delay.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Sergeant York's Farm.

A note for little more than $4,000 will fall
due on the farm of Sergt. Alvin York in Novem-
Der, and unless it is paid the land will be sold
out from under his feet. Although his corn
crop is good, his income will not be large
enough to meet the payment. Other farmers
have been in this situation, but Sergeant York
is one of the heroes of the world war, and his
case is attracting an interest that is larger than
that usually devoted to the vcissitudes of agri-
culture.
Instead of going the stage or CONNER
calizing his military reputation, this Tennes-
sean came back to his native state to buckle
down to useful labor The Nashville Rotary
club bought farm in his native county, at
$250O0, fand announced that it was to be given
to him. The first payment of some $4,000 was
made by the club, and the first note for about
$4,000 was likewise taken up last year. 1t has
been the belief of the club that York should
make enough this year to meet the next note.
This represents IS per cent on the invest
ment, and it may come as surprise to some OF
the Nashville benefactors to discover that such
profits are not made in one year nor in two by
agriculture. The farm, which is on the Wolf
river, near Pail Mall, Tenn, is fine one, but
not even in the capable hands of farmer born
and bred can it be made to pay. There is re-
ported considerable sentiment in Nashville to
meet the obligations on this place. That would
solve the problem for Sergeant York, but not
many other farmers in this condition will find
such an easy way out.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
axSz4ee;: {:::z:zzszz64Iz9oe To

the Penrose bill. Wall street and
THE Morgan interests. always true
to themselves, are pleased with the
proposal. That measure, though II
may defeat the payment OF the
$40, 100000 Of principal and
$500, 100000 annual interest owed
the American people. will assure
the collection Of lesser sums owed
the banking house Of Morgan and
company.
Why should Wall street and the
Morgan interests, the American
financial agents Of England and
France, worry over so favorable a
proposition as that? II payment of
the $4,000. 100000 is deferred the
American people will in the mean
time carry the load; II reduced, the
American people will pay the diff
ference; IL remitted, the American
people will pay all. The respective
naval and military programs of
England and France can then be
brought more readily and easily to
completion.
American business men, farmers
and workmen, not favored by the
tax exemptions designed for Europe
in the Penrose bill, may shortly ask
of congress the reason why, and
Wall streets sophisticated evasions
will not be accepted in reply.
LOUIS d. KAVANAUGH.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
America an
Associated Power
(From the New York Herald. J

| (FrOm the New York Herald.)
The State departments announce
| ment Of the recognition by the allies
| Of American rights and powers in
| respect of the League of Nations
and treaty of Versailles mandates is
Illuminating in the matter Of our
rights and relations with Germany.
The very essence of our position
| with regard to the Island of Yap was
that no allied council, no League Of
Nations, no treaty Of Versailles, no
anything could deprive this country
OF what rights we possessed in Yap
before the war and what additional
| rights we acquired, along with those
powers associated with us in the
war, by,the defeat of Germany and
the separation from Germany of it's
Pacific territories. And this conten-
tion Of the United States, if we un-
derstand the State department an
nouncement, is now conceded by all
the allies.
Our position as to the Mesopo-
tamia oil fields rests on the same
fundamental principle. 1t is that
what we gained in Mesopotamia
through the war by the principal
allies and associated powers, we be-
ing one of those principal associated
powers, was not gained for one of
them but was gained for all of them.
What belonged to all of them could
not be appropriated by or allotted to
one Of them with the equal claims
and rights therein of another or of
others of them ignored or denied
And this contention Of the United
States, II we understand the State
departments explanation, is also
now making for acceptance by all
the allies
What is sound doctrine as to Yap
and Mesopotamia cannot be unsound
doctrine as to Germany.
Then, If what rights we had before
the war and what rights we gained
through the war are inseparably
ours as to Yap or Mesopotamia, fail
ing our consent to part with them,
no matter what the allied council
or the League of Nations or the
treaty of Versailles or the lot of
them together might mediate or at
tempt--if that is so, how can it be
that rights and relations with Ger
many which were ours before the
war, or which we gained through
the war, are now or ever could be
separated from US without our ap-
proval and consent, no matter what
the allied council or the League of
Nations or the treaty Of Versailles
or the lot OF them together might
contemplate or decree?
How can it be that any treaty of
peace that the United States may
negotiate with Germany is now or
ever could be dependent upon the
authority and sanction of the treaty
OF Versailles?
The United States no more needs |
to go to the treaty Of Versailles for |
license and permission to negotiate |
and establish new treaty relations |
with Germany, provided in so doing |
we stay within our rights, then the |
United States needs the license and |
permission of the treaty of Versailles
to be free and independent
sovereignty.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Concerning the Bonus Bill.


Council Bluffs, Ia, July 29.-To
the Editor of The Bee: BY his atti-
tude concerning the bonus bill Pres
ident Harding has taken the place
of heroic craftsmanship and is
found to be far above the level OF
the ordinary politician. With 4,000,-
600 voters, each having direct and
personal interest at stake, and with
every reason upon their side, If the
country were in a normal condition
it required courage and honesty OF
the highest type for the president,
in the face Of all these considera-
tons. to oppose the measure. A
bankrupt national treasury and the
attendant dangers to all the peo~
PIE which the measure would i'm
pose made 1t necessary that he take
the position which he has assumed.
What a contrast is afforded by
his action. With the election of a
very few years ago only two weeks
III the future the railroad workers
( demanded from the people an ad-
vance Of $3.50, 100000 in their an
nual wages. In the belief on the
part Of Mr.. Wilson and Mr.. McAdoo
that this bribe, for bribe it was
and nothing else. made with your
money, this stupendous sum was
given for the purpose, as they fully
expected, of carrying the coming
election. 1t was supposed that the
railroad vote would form a balance
of power sure to bring the desired
result, and the people had been pill
laged and looted for two years
without a protest. which led them to
believe this stupendous piece of po-
ntical corruption would pass un-
noticed. but it was the beginning Of
the awakening, which had reached
its fuller proportions with the
100000 majority for a change in
management registered last Novem-
ber.
Were it possible to do this every
person must favor added pay for
the soldiers far in excess of that
proposed by the bonus bill, but on
account Of the legalized piracies
against our national treasury this
worthy action is now impossible.
Senator Capper of Kansas, in
whom all people have confidence.
has stated that at least $1,000. .OOO-
600 of dollars were stolen from the
oond buyers and taxpayers Of Amer
lea during the last four years, and
that the, actual amount is conserva-
lively in his Judgment more than
S1o,00O.O00,000, in the most profit
gate combination of wastage, graft
and lootage which ever pillaged a
patient people. No such financial
saturnalia and debauch< was ever
before staged on earth, and history
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Feeble County Government.

One Of the noticeable things about the mat
ter of the Lincoln highway paving is the agility
with which blame is shunted from one official
to another. There is no central authority to
whom the various county officers are RESPONSE
ble Each one goes his own sweet way, hav-
ing been elected by the people and secure in the
tenure of his Office.
No business could be successfully run in that
way. Warmers used to try to conduct cooper
ative ventures in a loose fashion such as this,
but now they hire managers who are response
bic for the carrying on of the enterprise. A
similar tightening up of administrative affairs
is seen in many cities. In Nebraska as whole
responsibility is now largely centered in the
governor, thing displeasing to many poll
ticians but on the whole satisfactory to the peo-
pie. ,...
County government, through the nature of
its organization, and not through any fault of
the men filing its posts, is quite generally in
effective and laundering. There are too many
elective officials, each independent of the other
and often quarreling between themselves over
questions of public or partisan policy. Blame
can not be fixed nor efficiency assured
1t is time the people bega: % examine this
situation. The natural solution would then be
plain The only county Offices that need be
filled by election are those of the commits
sioners. With them sitting as board of di
rectors, county manager should then be
chosen to organize the county business on
practical plan, under civil service.
1t is nothing in the life of an average citizen
that he is afforded opportunity to vote for the
numerous minor county officials. He does not
know them and can not judge their qualifca-
tions. Considerable technical skill is required
in many Of these positions, and this is quality
that does not often take men on the stump or
propel them into public Office. With the county
commissioners sitting as an advisory and direc-
tive body, and with manager in con-
troll of the entire executive end completely
responsible for the actions of his subordinates
the business of county government might be
put on an economical and efficient plane such
as is demanded by public opinion.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
To Avoid Coal Shortage.

y Household consumers are not the only ones
who have been slow to lay in winter supply OF
coal, and government officials and others familiar
with the situation are advising the larger con-
sinners to buy now. If these business concerns
delay their fuel purchases much longer the only
thing domestic coal users can do to avoid a
shortage is buy now.
r Anthracite prices are said to have declined Is
DER cent from the peak, while bitumnous is down
8p per cent. High freight rates have absorbed
some Of this advantage, but no immediate pros-
pect of smaller transportation charges is seen.
,Ofieers Of the United Mine Workers Of Amer
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06

has no parallel for such a dispoil-
ment of any people.
We have at last begun to learn
that public treasures are not mex
haustible. and with this enlighten-
ment many things which are in
themselves worthy and desirable
must be omitted. This is the fact
concerning the bonus bill, and Pres
ident Harding has justified the con-
tdence OF those who voted for him,
and OF our whole nation.
J.. Ii. MONROE.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
MAKING CHILDREN PERFECT

In a lecture before the New Yorl
Medical society DR.. L. F. Barker o.
Johns Hopkins university told thu
physicians lot about how to avoit
spelling the child. all of which
would have been better told to par
ents.. -
To begin with, he advocated a lit
tie spanking. One good spanking
given before the child was 2, year:
of age, is about enough in mos
cases. Given at this age, it will es
tablish the parent in the mind OF the
child as disciplinarian and serve
as a basis for system of rewards
and punishments to be hencefortf
carried out.
He advocates the use of an allow
ance chart. On this chart there is
a list Of habit forming acts on which
the child scores himself on the basis
of performance. If his conduct is
above a certain figure in given
week he gets a certain allowance
If below that figure and above
another figure he is given a smaller
sum as an allowance.
Children should not be permitted
to be capricious about food. Par
ents should know what Is good
diet for a child, should provide 1t,
and should. see that the child eats
what is provided. To begin with,
parents must not start their children
wrong by being themselves capri
. cious about foods. a general and
psychic hardening of children is
another important matter. 1t is
wrong to coddle a child physically.
mentally, emotionally, or socially.
Children must not learn that they
can have their way by emotional
outbreaks. To permit them to do so
Is disastrous policy to pursue. The
rewards must be given for self con-
troll and never for lack of it,
Consistency in attitude and policy
on the part of parents is essential
il the child Is not to be mislead and
confused. If in early childhood an
order is once given one should see
to it not only that it is obeyed but
that obedience is prompt.
The parents should set their chill
dren examples of cheerfulness and
good will. Parents who complain
of their own Ills, such as their head
aches, their pains and their lack Of
appetite, before children may plant
the seeds Of hypochondriasis in the
minds of their children. There is
danger of psychic contag1on.
Parents, at least in the presence
of their children, should learn ito
consume their own smoke" as Prof.
Barker puts it. That is. they should
learn to bear their aches, pains, and
ills without talking about them.
A child never should be permitted
to use invented physical symptoms
or nervous symptoms to escape from
duties.
If he wants to stay at home from
school on account of headache let
him stay in bed on restricted diet,
restricted companionship, and re-
stricted activities until the headache
is better. If he is fabricating the
headache he will not have many Of
them if handled in this way.