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The Washington times., 1921-10-30

trafficking which have cursed all
Peace Conferences time out OF mind.
But. independent OF whether the
sessions are open are secret, the
eyes or the people will be on the
writer's and reporters who interpret
it's proceedings and sideIights for
them. Rotund dellverances and set
speeches will convey less impress
sion OF what is going on underneath
the surface than the daily stories
which the distinguished writers and
less distinguished but more accu-
rate reporters VIII send out from
Washington. The first must tell us
what they think the conference
ought to do and why.
And. though they will have as
many diffeernt views as they are
high.brow correspondents, their ar
ticles will be interesting and illumi-
mating. The unknown leg artists.
with the gift Of seeing things as
they are without reputation to pre-
serve. will go everywhere and see
everybody and give us a daily pan
Drama. Between the two. and the
official censored reports, the aver
age reader may day by day have
some vague idea Of the progress OF
the conference.
Without responsibility to any min
istry and no fear Of recall, tho head
liners among the correspondents
from across the seas have already
opened their headquarters in Wash
ingtOn, planned their campaign,
sent out their ultimatum, sounded
the alarm Of new wars, and will day
by day with prophetic ken tell us
exactly what will happen unless the
regular conference adopts the plans
mapped out for them by the press
conference.
WHY SHOULDN'T WRITER'S
MAKE A PROGRAM!
That is a very distinguished
body-of the Disarmament Confer
ence-I beg pardon-The Conference
For the Discussion Of the Reduc-
ton Of Armament and For the
consideration and Settlement Of
the Pacific and Far East Problems
am 1 am ventHring to suggest
that while the selected delegates
embarrassed by instructions and
responsibilities. hold their session
in one chamber. the High Brow
Correspondents shall organize an
other chamber and undertake to
outline an agenda and policy and
proclaim 1t to the waiting world.
They would do IT long before the
official crowd had gotten through
the whereases and the receptions
and diplomatic dinners. That is
they would, II they could agree.
There's the rub Every news
paper correspondent is cock-sure
OF his position. but unfortunately
they find It hard to secure team
work.
Not even at Paris was the
Fourth Estate represented by more
distinguished writer's than those
who will report the Washington
gathering and that is why / pro-
pose two Washington Conferences
"a two ringed circus under a
single tent. I am sure-to men
ton only a few that the Corps OF
Correspondents have the world
knowledge and the brains to reach
a conclusion with as much wisdom
n. Root and Balfour and the other
Elder Statesmen. r4-.
Why shouldn't they organize and
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it's recent ships. Since 1904 the Ger
man navy had been plainly seen TO
be growing in notonly efficiency but
numbers.
Suddenly. in August. 1914, the
World War broke out with all the
precision and violence OF bomb cx-
ploded by clockwork: the war 80
clearly forseen by the statesmen of
Japan. but not foreseen at all by
the statesmen of Great Britain.
France and the United States: or,
II forseen by them. permitted ty
them, with criminal negligence. TO
catch their countries criminally un-
prepared.
France and Great Britain expiated
their folly In blood and anguish AMI
almost In irretrieval disaster. The
United States. with a levity un-
equalled In history. except In de-
. generate nations, danced on the
brink of the volcano Of war. and
made money out of the sale Of NUM-
tions Of war. unheeding everything
save the making of money; priding
themselves even on their failure to
prepare for war-until suddenly the
warnings of Roosevelt. Wood and
my humble self. reinforced later by
the National Security League and
the American Defense Society. woke
the nation to the facts
WHEN NATION AWOKE.
Then the nation saw--its men ana
women individually saw-the dan
ger which threatened all. Then
their was a wild rush to prepare;
then a rush to save Europe, to save
everything, before 1t was too late
"a race between Hindenburg and
Wilson," And thousands OF mil
lions were spent without knowledge
of how much was spent, or how
much was bought, or how much
was needed or why II was needed or
where. Never before In the his
tory of the world had there been
such an orgy Of spending.
Every official was safe so long us
he occupied his time and expended
his energies in buying things with
sufficient prodigality. The one
crime in an official was not to spend
enough money. Many a business
man" made a national reputation
and gained plaudits of his country
men land the contractors) by simply
creating and operating organiza-
tions that spent money by the ton.
One of the first results was an
oversupply of material OF almost
every conceivable kind. costing
thousands Of millions Of dallars, that
jammed the transportation facilities
of the United States and France.
The most conspicuous single in
stance, perhaps. was the aircraft
organization of the War Department
that is said to have spent more than
a thousand million dollars without
any practical effect whatever in this
winning of the war.
The final result was that. al
though the armament which the
United States provided cost immeas-
urably more than an adequate arma-
ment would have cost II provided
at the proper time and with a rea-
sonable degree of foresight-yet.
nevertheless American armament
added to the armament OF the Allies
did save the day for Europe and
the world.
In this article I have tried to show
that the United States reached her
present position by gaining wealth
by peaceful means and guarding
II with armament. In my next ar
ticle I shall try to contrast the arma-
ment methods of this country an1
Japan.
(Rear Admiral Ffske's fifth article
will be printed next Sunday.
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BvGEORGE AIDE
Art That Was Too Elevated
For Radigan Who Paid
the Bills

thC w diiS
"Those are Florentine Lam
terns," she replied, "and they are
very Razmataz even if they
don't give any Light"
Next she started in on the
Dining Room.
Rule No. for making Home
more Cheerful is to put in a
Shelf wherever there is room for
one. After which the Shelf is
loaded down with Etruscan
Growlers and Antique Jugs.
The low-browed Husband could
not tell the difference between
High Art and Junk.
The female Futurist covered
the Walls with about 400 Plates,
each with a Blue Curly-Cue on
it. They looked very Cheap to
him until he received the Bill
and then he learned that they
were certified Antiques and came
to $l1 apiece.
In fact, after his Wife had
been haunting the Secondhand
Places for a while, he learned
that any Article which happened
to be old and shopworn and
cracked was the one that put a
crimp in the Check Book.
She never let up until she had
made the whole House thor
oughly Artistic.
Her Women Acquaintance
would come in and she would
show them the Dark Oak Eff
fects and the Sea-Green Fres-
Goes and the Monastery Settee
with the Sole-Leather Bottom in
it and the corroded TEAPOT that
she had bought for sos, and the
Table Spread made from Over
all Material with just one Yel-
low Poppy in the Middle, and
they would have 81 different
kinds of Duck Fits and say that
it was Grand and that her Taste
was simply Faultless- After that
she wouldn't care what Husband
said.
He was a fairly patient Man
and all he complained Of was
that when he sat down he dis
located his Spine, while the Brass
Knobs wore black-and-blue Spots
on him; and the dining-room
Table should have had couple
of Holes for him to put his legs
through; and he couldn't find a
Place in which to stretch out:
and he needed a Derrick to move
one of the Chairs; and at Night
when the Moonlight came into
his Room and he saw all the
silly old Bean-Pots lined up on
the Wall and the instruments Of
Torture staring at him from
every corner of the Room, he
would crawl down under the
Covers and dream of his Child
hood Home, with the old-fash-
ioned Sofas and the deep Rock
ing-Chairs and the big Bureaus
that were meant to hold Things
and not to look at.
However, he has been unable
to arrest the reaching-out after
the Beautiful, for only last Week
she purchased a broken-down
Clock-price s115.
MORAL: There is no Place hike
Home, and some Husbands are
glad of it.
/Tz.~.ubx 1907 h., fbr Rail SDn-
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~ ONOR bright. now. which
delegation at the disarma-
~ ment conference will contain
delegates best known to the world
those who have the big seal ap-
pointments from the countries
which accredit them to sit In the
conclave, or the men now In Wash
ingson or en- route TO our National
Capital TO write for the press OF
the world about the conference,
what IL ought 10 do, and what Is
going on behind closed doors-that
is II the delegates are unwise enough
TO initiate the Paris mistake and hold
secret sessions. They ought TO have
vision and breadth enough to re-
solve in favor of open covenants
openly arrived at"
OPEN COVENANTS
OPENLY ARRIVED AT.
In Paris. President Wilson In
sisted upon open sessions. Some
Of the British delegates took the
same position. But ancient and
antiquated diplomacy. with a big
d. were scandalized at the thought
that the populace would look on as
the most important conference In
history carried on it's proceedings.
Why? There were two reasons
against "open covenants openly ar
rived att
/. Certain countries had pre-
pared agendas Il use that word to
affect high-brow manners) to pre-
sent to the conference which asked
some slice of territory or some
special advantage which they
feared world public opinion would
contemn and condemn SO fully as
to endanger securing the things
their hearts were set upon. Get
ting something had more driving
power in Paris than giving some
thing for the common veal. Pub
lie sessions would compel making
demand in the open and kill log
rolling and trading and trafficking.
2. Peace conferences attended by
tewigged and solemn looking person
ages. had always been held away
from the gaze of the vulgar herds.
To be sure most Of them had been as
mean and Intellectual as the Vienna
Conference after the Napoleonic
wars. But there Is an air of impor-
tance and dignity and mystery about
a Star Chamber.
1t gives an impression OF the Elder
Statesmen debating ponderous ques-
tions far beyond the ability Of the
man in the street to comprehend.
Suppose, the doors were opened!
Heavens forfend! The people would
see with how little ability the world
is governed and lose reverence and
the supposed infallibility Of the titled
ones would fly out of the windows.
More than that: They would find
how very human the reputed great
are. During the Battle Of Jutland,
when you would suppose that every
man engaged in that titanic struggle
had his mind concentrated on great
deeds. two OF the gunners were over
heard talking between the intervals
OF firing the big guns. i've always
believed" said one to the other.
that he ought to have married her"
Puplic sessions might disclose such
irrelevant conversation taking the
place OF popularity supposed grave
discussion of grave problems. 1t
would never do, in the eyes of the
diplomatic branch. to turn the peo.
pie in to observe the tenders OF "Tll
give you this II you'll give me that"
in the dickering and trading and
rWnN ~NNNYr II
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Human Heart Found.

I ONDON, Oct. "a human heart
preserved in alcohol and en-.
closed In bronze vsse bearing the
date January, l743, and a Latin In.
scription, You are dust: you return
to dust" has been discovered In q
tomb In a convent at Geneva.
The Washington times., 1921-10-30
Bv JOSEPHUS DANIELS---

(Secreary
"Why Not Set Up Rival Disarmament Concence7" Says Former Cab
net Mcmber"he Corps of Press Correspondents More Distinguished
Than the Delegates to President Hag Talk Fest They Wouldn't
Stand for Secret Sessions Will Lloyd George Change His MdIsn
H C. Wells as Brilliant and ManySed as the British Premiere"
The Washington times., 1921-10-30
LONDON TO DISCHARGE
WOMEN'S POLICE CORPS

One Hundred Guardians of the Law Recruited
From Gentler Sex Will BE Dispensed With
as Unnecessary by British Officials - Say
Ordinary Policeman Cam DO Work That They
Have Accomplished i'm the General Rum of
Daily Duties.
The Washington times., 1921-10-30

He would walk around an anger
Cake any Time to get action on
Farm Sausage. He was not very
strong for Roman Salad or any
Speckled Cheese left over from
Year before last, but he did a
very neat vanishing Act with a
Sirloin Steak and he had the
Coffee come right along In a
Bowl. He refused to daily with
the Demi-Tasse. For this true
American the Course Dipner was
a weak Invention of the decadent
Foreigner. When he squared up
to his Food he cut out all the
Trimmings, Didoes and Parsley.
He simply Et.
He was the kind of Married
Person who peels his Coat in the
Evening and gets himself all
spread out in a Rocking Chair
with a fat Cushion under him.
The Variety that loves to wear
old Velvet Slippers with Pink
Roses worked on the Toes and
the Heels run over.
Give him about two Cigars
that pull freely and a Sunday
Paper and he is all set for . long
Session.
Along about 1890, if he can
connect with a Triangle of Desic-
Gated Apple Pie and Goblet Of
Milk, he is ready to sink back on
the Husks, feeling simply I'm
mense.
Now this Husband had Fire
side that suited him nearly to
Death until the important half
of the Sketch began to read
these Magazines that tell how to
fix up the Home.
Her first Play was to take out
all the Carpets and have the
Floors massaged until they were
as slick as Glass, so that when
the Bread Winner stepped on one
of the Okra or Bokhsra Rugs he
usually gave an imitation Of q
Player trying to reach Second.
He told her that he did not care
to live in q Rink, but what he said
cut very few Lemons with the Side
Kick. She was looking at the half
tone pictures of up-to-date Homes
and beginning to realize that the
Wallpaper. Steel Engravings and
the Enlarged Photographs Of Yap
Relatives would have to 60.
One Day when the Provider
struck the Premises he found the
Workmen putting Red Burlap on
thssWalls of the Sitting Room.
"Why the Gunny-Sack?" he
asked. "Can't We afford Wall
Paper?" ,
Love Of Art is the True Essence
Of the Higher Life" said the
Aesthetic. and she began to read a
booklet bound in the same Paper
that the Butcher uses when he
wraps up a Soup Bone.
"Come again." said the Wage
Garner. who was slow at fielding
these William Morris Twisters.
"This is Art Burlap and not the
kind that they use for sacking
Peanuts" explained the Disciple of
Beauty. "Above the Burlap will be
a Shelf of Weathered Oak and then
above that Frieze Of Blue Jimp-
son Flowers. Then when we draw
all of the Curtains and light one
Candle in here it will make a Swell
Effect"
81 feel that we are going to be
very Happy" he said, and then he
went out and sat behind the Barn
where he could smoke his Pipe and
mediate on the Uncertainties Of
Life.
Next Day he discovered that she
had condemned his Rocking Chair
and the old-style Center Table on
which he used to stack his Reading
Matter and keep a Plate of Apples
handy.
When he entered the improved
and modernized Living Room he
found himself up against a Job
Lot Of Beauty and no Mistake.
All the Furniture was straight
up and down. II seemed to have
been chopped out with an Axe
and was meant to hold up Mem
bers of the Rhinoceros Family.
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of The Washington Tmes)
Famous Naval Expert Tells How Armament Made United States Free
and Strong and Then Because internal Affairs Engrod Govern
menrs Attention Great Britain Was Able to Establish Successful
Blockade of American Ports and Capture and Burn National Capital
in 1919
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1921-04-06
FARMERS JOIN IN MARKETING
Columbia County Farmers Making
Money by Cooperation.

Magnolia, April All cooperative
marketing in Columbia county is car
ried on under the supervision of the
county farm bureau, according to the
county agent, Charles A. Overstreet.
On March II the farm bureau received
one car of cottonseed meal, which has
been purchased comparatively and
loaded two cars of cowpeas for CO.
operative sale from Emerson. Over 60
farmers took part in this marketing
demonstration and all have the spirit
of cooperative marketing, reports Mr..
Overstreet. The columbia County
Farm Bureau has recen:y shipped a
car of cowpeas from Magnolia and
bought car of hay. They have an
other car of cowpeas readily for mar
ket. The bureau received so cents
more per bushel for the cowpeas than
was offered by the local market and
paid $15 less per ton for the hay than
was asked by the local market.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1921-04-06
$50 TEACHERS in ASSOCIATION
According to March Issue of Educa.
tiOnal News Bulletin.

Little Rock, March 29.-Six hundred
and fifty school teachers in Arkansas
have enrolled in the Arkansas Educa-
tional Association up to the. present
this year, according to the March is
sue of the Educational News Bulletin
published by the State Department OF
Education. The members represent
forty-eight of the seventy-five coun-
ties.
BY the time of the last meeting OF
the association in Little Rock last
fall, the enrolment, which is on an
annual basis, reached more than 1000
and J. L. Bond, superintendent of pub
lie instructions, predicts tnat this fig
ure will be exceeded greatly this year.
Monroe county leads all others in
the number OF teachers enrolled this
year, with forty-siI to ito credit.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1921-04-06
WILL SEND ENGINEER
Department VIII Send Engineer to the
State to Confer Over Roads.

Washington, March 30.-A decision
has been reached to send e. w. James,
assistant chief engineer of the Bu-
reau of Public Roads, to Little Rock,
to confer with the Governor over the
road situation in that state.
Bureau chief Macdonald said that
only one hundred and thirty-six of
Arkansas seven hundred road dis
tricts comply with the Federal Aid re-
quirements.
He called attention to the efforts
which the bureau has made to have
the Arkansas road laws amended and
said that the suggested changes would
enable greater use of the Federal
fund.- Only half million dollars of
the four and one-half million dollar
fund available for Arkansas has been
thus far used.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1921-04-06
LEASES ADVANCE
Prices Doubled Following Birth of the
Taylor No. 2 Well.

Magnolia, April 2-Taylor Well No.
2, which came in Thursday night with
a flow of between 1000 and 5000
barrels of oil, has caused rapid ad-
vance in the price of leases and roy
alites in Columbia county and north
ern Louisiana. The we'll is % miles
south of Magnolia, two miles over the
state line.
An official estimate of the capacity
of the wells today was 4,600 barrels.
The oil is of high gravity, and the
well is said to be one of the best in
north Louisiana. 1t is about Is miles
from the nearest producer and the
Homer field
The Calhoun we'll, eight miles east
of Magnolia, abandoned three months
ago at 1000 feet, will be drilled deeper,
it was announced today Several
eases in the vicinity OF this well were
said to have brought fancy prices to-
day, bdt the reports could not be veri-
fed. The Calhoun we'll is in line
with Taylor No. and the Ell Dorado
field.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1921-04-06
REPUBLICAN C0NvEM-
TlON HELD AT FOREMAN
Recommended POstmasters for Ash
down, Foreman and WinthrOp;
Had Brass Band.

The Little River county Republican
convention met at Foreman Saturday,
and from all account the attendance
was record breaking Something like
so were present from over the county,
and if any enthusiasm was needed
to be added, this was supplied by
brass band 1t is recalled that be-
fore the election hardly corporal's
guard could be mustered for conven-
ton, but Friday they sprang from
everywhere. The convention was
organized with j. o. Livesay of Fore
man as chairman and Sylvester Matte
son as secretary.
The main object of the convention on
this occasion was to endorse candi-
dates for the leadi g postoffices of the
county as postmaster. Only three
positions were acted upon, that Of
Ashdown, Foreman and Winthrop.
The Endorsements for the respective
offices were:
Ashdown-Roy Stephens.
FOreman-John Reed.
Winthrop-W. B. Huchel
The Ashdown delegation had for
their candidate for the local Office,
B. V. Hunter of this city. They report
that Mr. Hunter met with small con-
sideration and that his recommends
tions were not read before the con-
vention. They claim that Roy Steph-
ems, the man indorsed, had only re-
Gently moved to Ashdown, coming here
from Dierks or some point outside the
county on advancing from county Re-
publicans outside of Ashdown that he
would be given the postOffice here II
he would move here and become a
citizen. 1t is understood that Mr.
Stephens has recently moved here and
has bought property. Some local Re-
publicans state that they were told
that there was not enough Republican
activity shown in Ashdown prior to the
] election to now claim any of the re-
wards of victory.
bent, D. D. Draper, has two more
years to hold the office under his ap-
pointment, unless the civil service fea-
lures of the Department are abolish
ed for political purposes The admin
istration has made no public ennoun-
cement as to it's future stand on this
matter, though its actions would in
dicate that the present plan would be
followed requiring applicants to stand
examination and appointments made
retrospective of party. This plan
was put into effect by the last admin
istration by an executive order. 1t
is said that under it there were at the
close of Wilson's term more Republic
can postmasters than Democrats.
The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1921-04-06
POTATO ASSOCIATION
SHIP OUT POTATOES
Car Shipment This Week Cleans Out
Curing House for this Year;
VIII Grow Plants.

The Ashdown Potato Curing ASSOC
1at1on has sold all the potatoes held
in their curing house here and are
awaiting car to make shipment this
week. The potatoes brought $1.50 per
bushel. A large amount of the pota-
toes kept in the house since last fall
have been taken out for home con-
sumption, and large amounts have
been taken out to bed out for seed. 1t
is expected that large number of
farmers will grow potatoes this year
for their own use and to be cured for
the markets.
To insure enough plants for all the
association put out 24O bushels of seed.
The plants will be sold to members
OF the association and to others as
we'll. The seed have been bedded out
Oh the H. P. Haizlip farm in the edge
OF town. Mr.. Haizlip announces that
fight will be made against the black
rot, and that all their seed have been
dipped. Chas. H. Park is the manager
OF the curing house and will clean it
out thoroughly as the potatoes are got
ten out. The potatoes went through
the winter in fine shape, and the cur
ing house has proven a success. 1t
has capacity of II 900 bushels and it
is hoped that it will be filled the COM
ing season