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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-08-05

Pacific. On that day the Pacific Ocean
became the seat of the worlds naval
power.
The most ambitious efforts of two
centuries to build up a new rule of the
seas failed when Germany handed over
her dreadnaughts. 1t is not to be ex-
pected that another European power
will again ever try supremacy in the
Atlantic. There will not be enough at
stake. But in the west it is different
The two shores of the Pacific loom up
in the mists of the future with such
tremendous potentialities that, if this
world is to continue to be vexed by
wars and rumors of war, at least
three nations must of necessity make
the waters of that vast ocean reek
with the smoke of their battleships.
Either we must have disarmament
and the probable peace that goes with
disarmament, or we Americans must
make up our minds to enormous ex-
penditure of treasure and human life
during the coming decades. 1t cannot
go on as now. If the United States
and Japan continue the present fever
ish preparation for war, it will be
war.
Declaration Of war between Ameri-
ca and Japan will be the mere touch
of the match. We will never give in,
and no more will Japan. The whole
world will be dragged in--white man,
brown man, yellow man, black, man.
Anglo-Saxon, Monaghan, Teuton, Slav
and Latin. And don't forget the huge
masses of humanity in Asia, masses
that can lose millions in the human
flesh every year and balance their
losses with the birth rate.
If it is fate that the fame shall be
kindled, America is not afraid. We
will go to the end for our rights, our
birthright and our honor.
But there is no need of it. The way
out is President Harding's interna-
tional conference. That conference
can stop the mad rush to arms if the
people of the world make it everlast-
ingly clear to the conferees that they
had better not adjourn until they find
the route to peace.
What can you do to back the Pres
ident of the United States at this crit
ical moment in the worlds history?
What can you do to save your chill
dren and your grandchildren from de-
struction?
At least you can lift your single
voice and you can urge your neighbors
to lift their voices for peace SO loudly
that they will be heard.
The people of every city, every
town, every hamlet, every countryside
in America should gather in meeting
and prayer for the success Of the COM
ing international conference at Wash
ingtOn.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-08-05
BRYAN CAMPAIGNING TO
MAKE EVERY STATE OF
FICE OPEN TO WOMEN

Intensive effort to arouse interest in
the passage of the Constitutional Con-
vention amendment and the one ena-
bling women to hold any state office,
is being made by both tie Missouri
League of Women Voters and the st.
Louis organization during the last
week before the election Augusta.
Sample ballots are being distributed
and $4,000 dodgers urging women to
"Finish the job and give the women an
equal chance" by voting ayes" on
Amendment No. /. have been sent out
from City League headquarters. Prom
inent League of Women Voters will
address meeting of the American Lee
gion tonight at tie Armory, Grand
Avenue and Market street. and
meeting of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce tomorrow at its headquar-
tiers, the Francis Lawn, Maryland and
Newstead avenues.
eve are concentrating our efforts
on the amendment making women
eligible to any state office and the one
calling a constitutional convention, be-
cause the women want hand in franz
ing the new Missouri constitution"
Miss Alma Meyer, executive secretary
Of the st. Louis league, said yesterday.
"Unless women are made eligible to all
state offices it will be impossible for
them to be elected as delegates to a
constitutional convention. We feel
very keenly that Missouri women must
be permitted to help Missouri men
draft the new constitution as part of
the accomplishment of centennial year
for Missouri"
Mrs. Jesse M. Williams, state presi-
dent of the league, reports an active
campaign throughout the state in be-
half of the two amendments. Motion
picture publicity is being employed.
William Jennings Bryan will be one of
the speakers at mass meeting in
Columbia in behalf of the special cleo
ton publicity.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-08-05
HYDE'S CONVICT CHAUFFEUR

People of the state who have any
regard for the enforcement of the law
and punishment Of criminals will re-
sent the action of Governor Hyde in
using a bandit with police record
and his picture in the Rogue's Gal.
lery to drive his car. Governor Hyde
may think the use of life-term con-
vict for this purpose is all right, but
he occupies a position of honor, whe-
Their he honors it or not, and owes a
duty to the people of the state.
Charles Fromme was sentenced to
life Imprisonment in the state peniten-
tiary for the murder of Frederick H.
Soller, who was killed in cold blood
after having been robbed of $1,000 he
was carrying to a manufacturing
plant in st. Louis for the purpose of
paying tie employees there.
Of course, Frommc is a model pris-
oner. 1t pays him to be, for he wants
to secure parole or pardon, and
there is no other way for him to get it
than to be good and obey the prison
rules. We hold no brief against
Fromme. We are as sorry for him as
we are for any man who is weak
enough to commit dastardly crime,
but we do not think he should be given
the freedom of the Capital City. He
should be confined in the prison like
any other convict.
Let's think for moment of the
family Soller. They are grief-strick-
en- over the loss of husband of three
weeks, son with every promise. He
is gone and will never return while
the man convicted of Staying him fol-
lowing a robbery rides around in the
automobile Of the Governor of Mis-
souri,.
We may condone the murder of a
man in the heat Of passion for some
great wrong. but SO long as red blood
flows through their bodies the people
of Missouri will always resent Govern
or Hyde's use of payroll bandit as his
chauffeur.-Missouri State Journal. o..
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-08-05

your daughter keeps or what time of
night she turns in, your roar, when
gossip gets busy, will sound about as
pathetic as the wheeze Of jewsharp.
"The girl who insists on spooning
with everybody in the corporation
limits ought to be relieved of her ov-
erfow of affection with No. IL slip
per laid carelessly across her hiplets.
1--WE had sooner see girl kiss a
blind shoat through a barbed wire
fence than have her change partners
six nights a week in the front parlor,
with the light turned low. 1t is hard
err to marry off girl who has been
paved" over by every boy in the
community than it is to fatten sheep
on pineapple ice. You can't gold-brick
a sharp-eyed sutton with secondhand
goods, any more than you can fit a
bathrobe on a goat"
And we believe ne hit the nail on
the head.-Harirsburg Register.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-08-05
GOVERNOR HYDE AGAIN USES
CONvICTS TO FURNISH MUSIC

A fine spectacle was presented for
the ed;fcation of tie citizens of JEFF
ferson City Tuesday, fine, clear,
but hot summer evening. An enter
tainment was given on the grounds of
the Executive mansion--the property
of the people of Missouri. Seats were
arranged upon the corner of these his
toric grounds, wherein the great of
Missouri have heretofore lived and re-
joiced in the dignity and traditions of
the state. Guests attended to receive
the hospitality of the states Chief
Executive.
At an appropriate hour in the eve
ming, procession marched down Main
street, from the east end of town. 1t
was a splendid parade-the main per-
sonages in its rank were in immacu-
late white, acquired at state insti-
tuition, and Numbered at the expense
of the state. The parade was escort
ed in front by two husky. armed
guards, and on each side by guards,
and the rear was manfully brought up
by similar guards. The persons in
white were convicts of the state, SEN,
fenced in the courts of the state for
the commission of felonies, possibly
burglars, murderers, safe-crackers,
footpads, and the like. They constitut-
ed the State Prison Band. They were
to entertain the guests of the Govern
or, upon his residential precincts pro-
vided by the state. He considered them
entirely fitting, evidently, TO offer the
proper hospitality and amusement to
his guests.
There are other musicians in the
Capital City OF the state. but they
were not good enough to entertain the
Governors guests. Besides it was
cheaper. Having a cheap Governor,
we offer cheap entertainment, at the
sacrifice of the respect of the people.
We can easily conceive feeling of |
genuine disgust for the chronic office |
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-08-05

terested in the said dope. And we i'm
ply no Hypocrisy, either.
1t isn't that we favor fighting
matches. We do not favor them in
the slightest degree. We wish there
was not such a thing as fight on
Gods green earth. But men are men,
and no matter how gentle they are in
their daily life, the battle strain still
courses, biologically, through their
veins. We may squeeze the animal
out Of their blood in few millions Of
years, or perhaps in a few thousand
years-but not in the twentieth CEN
fury. And the editors who crusade to-
day against the fighting spirit are
merely breaking their lances against
concrete walls a league thick.
But from all we can hear of that
other great fracas between fighting
men-the late war in Europe-it was
far more disgusting and far less ro-
mantle than the recent scrap in Jer-
sey City. Ask any soldier. And as
for the newspaper "dope" that came
from the former, it was just as cheap
as from the latter. We read thou
sands of columns of it ourselves, and
we know!
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-08-05

clear, in my opinion. that adequate
financing for the carry-over of the old
crop and for the orderly marketing of
the new crop may be counted on"
Thomas j. Caldwell. vice president
Of the Federal International Banking
Company of New Orleans, discussed
with Meyer today proposition for
financing the export of 25.0O0 bales of
cotton. Caldwell said that his COM
pany was preparing to take up with
the corporation plans for financing the
expectation of large amounts of cot
ton from all parts of the South.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-08-05
500, 200, 900 COTTON
IMPORTATION PLANNED

Washington, July 23.-The War
Finance Corporation has under consid-
Grafton proposals for cotton exports
involving about 100000 bales and
500, 100000, Director Eugene Meyer
announced today.
The export financing, he said, con-
templates shipment of 100000 bales
from Oklahoma and 100000 bales
from Texas.
With the 100000 bales and about
$40, 100000 worth of cotton business
already done by the corporation, Mey-
er said. the completed and proposed
operations of the corporation at pres
ent amounted to 100000 bales and
$50 100000.
Meyer in statement Endorsed the
action of the Federal Reserve Board
in ruling that loans may be made in
directly to non-member banks, on the
ground that this procedure would af-
ford great relief in the South.
"This relief to the small non-mem-
Der banks in the agricultural dis
tricts", Meyer said, "and the assur-
ance conveyed by Governor Strong Of
the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York that in case of need cotton
loan fund, to whatever amount the sit
uation may demand, will be provided
through banking channels together with
what the War Finance Corporation al
ready has done, and the business now
in process of negotiation makes it
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-08-05
PRAY GOD FOR DISARMAMENT

On November 81, 1918, the German
High Sea Fleet sailed gloomily over to
English shores and surrendered. On
that day the supremacy of the Allan
tic Ocean as naval sea ended,
In August, 1920, the powerful new
Pacific feet of the American nation
sailed through the Panama Canal and
plunged into the waters of the vast
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-08-05
DO YOU KNOW WHERE
- YOUR DAUGHTER is?

While in conversation some days
ago with one of our citizens, this is
what he said about counterfeit sports,
automobiles and girls:
The mother that allows her girl,
aged from IL years up. to float around
the country in an automobile after re-
spectacle people are in bed, with a
counterfeit sport with weak paws and
weaker morals, merely opens the door
to grief and disgrace. He further
said
eff you don's know what company
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-08-05

We are quite in sympathy with the
man who wrote: "Fools may be grad
cd as follows: First, plain, ordinary
fools; second, - fools; third, ad-
vocates of armament as a means of
preventing war"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-08-05

We can easily conceive a feeling of
genuine disgust for the chronic office
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
GERMAN EX-EMPRESSIS
BETTER, BUT STILL ABED
Former Kaiser and Coterie Lead
a Quiet Life at
Doom.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1921

BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright. 1921.
AMSTERDAM, Holland. February
5.-The condition of the German ex-
empress is slightly improved, but she
still keeps to her bed and few are
admitted to the sick chamber. Only
the former kaiser visits his consort
several times each day and, sitting
near the bed, he tells her the main
political news.
The exiled Hohenzollern court is
now quite isolated. and the liveliness
of the first few months has been
succeeded by great monotony. The
former kaiser never leaves the Huis-
te-noorn, but confines himself to
walking within the limits of the
he receives visits from old Berlin
friends, but only small part of his
former admirers and courtiers take
much interest in him.
The Village of Doom, however, now
looks upon the former kaiser as a
welcome guest. owing toy the fact
that the tax upon his residence has
increased the town income by 1926.
which is % per cent Of the entire
municipal tax receipts.
The recent sensational stories
about the kaiser planning to return
to Germany are unfounded. More
over, the Dutch government has
never expressed a wish that the for
mer kaiser or his son at Wieringen
should leave Holland. 1t is under
stood. however. that the number of
detectives and guards watching the
Doom residence has been reinforced
considerably in order to prevent the
Hohenzollerns from misusing the
right of asylum by taking part in
any revolutionary plot on Dutch ter
ritory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
BUDAPEST zoo ANIMALS
DYING OF STARVATION
Food Necessary to Keep Them
Alive Is Reported Needed
for Humans.

BUDAPEST, February 5.-Eighty
per cent of all the animals in the once
famous geological garden of this city
have died from starvation. for the
food necessary to keep them alive
is needed for humans. All Of the seals
have persisted. They depended on
salt water fish, and when the supply
ran out few weeks ago the seals
became i'll and died, one after another.
Every cage has been thinned OF Its
inmates except the monkey cage, but
compare lively few of them having died.
This tribe is still lively and its men,
bers manage to act natural on what
is thrown to them by the few people
who have time from food and fuel
worries to visit the place.
Budapest's dying zoo is only a re-
hinder of what is happening all
in which it stands is neglected. The
sidewalks are full of holes and the
trees and shrubs are untrimmed
Budapest's finest monument at the
mark entrance. from which the COM
munists, during their occupation of
Hapsburg kings. shows evidence of
decay. The statue of George WASH
ineton, nearby, erected by Hungarian
patriots. is intact: .
Hundreds of splendid buildings in
Budapest's broad streets have lost
their old-time brightness and there
are great gaps in the walls left by
the falling soft sandstone decorations.
The streets are muddy and seldom
cleaned and all of the vehicles which
pass through them. except the motor
cars of the foreign missions. have
ala pidated appearance. The street cars
are poorly lighted and weather-beaten
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
CANADA IS UNLIKELY
TO SEND ENVOY HERE
Believed Australia and New Zea-
land Would Follow, Stirring
Disintegration.
Special Dispa tch to The stor

Specini 10 ne Stor.
OTTAWA. February 5.-Canadian
politicians are limiting that the talked
OF appointment of Canadian enyoy
to Washington seems "off," and that
chances are against the item of $50
600 to provide for this step, which
appear in the estimates.
Imperial reasons may postpone in
definitely, If not for good, the pro-
posal of appointing at Washington q
Canadian minister plenipotentiary.
Some of the ministers incline to the
view that Canadian minister at
Washington would be followed by one
from Australia and New Zealand and
the eventual influence might be to-
ward imperial disintegration. Not
improbably the whole question may be
discussed at the imperial conference.
1t is thought that Canada will soon
receive the first payment upon her
snare OF the German reparations.
These will not be drawn from the in
demnity sums fixed upon in Paris. but
will be part of the proceeds from the
sale of German ships in England IN
curry reveals that a considerable sum
already has been realized through this
channel and is now in the possession
OF the British government. and that
Canada will receive a portion of it.
Inc next payment in which Canada
will share will be for expenditures
in connection with the Dominion's
portion of the army of occupation on
the Rhine. which will be a first charge
on the German indemnity payments
after allied advances in connection
with German coal shipments have
been met.
While cabled messages hint at a
sum of $500. 0OO, 900, it is thought here
that $1O0,000,000 will be the outside.
at least as regards first payment
Thls matter may be referred to when
parliament meets.
Another interesting political intima-
ton Is that there is a scheme on foot
whereby the British government will
lend money to the dominions to as
SYST immigration and thus relieve I'M
employment conditions in Great Brit
ain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
u. S. SOUGHT RUSSIAN BASE
IN CASE OF WAR. LENIN SAYS
Red Leader Ready to Lease Kamchatka
for Use of Navy Against Japan-Van-
derlip Named as American Envoy.

ing treaty which was proposed to
us. saying in particular that the
United States wanted to have an
Asiatic base against the eventuality
of war with Japan. This million
aire says that il We will sell KAN
chatka to the United States he will
guarantee that there will be great
enthusiasm for US in the United
States and that the United States
will recognize the soviet power, but
II we merely bind over Kamchatka
for a certain time the enthusiasm
Will be less great.
This millionaire has now gone to
tell the United States that soviet
Russia Is not what the people over
there have thought. Up to the pres
ent We have triumphed over the
bourgeoisie throughout the world be-
and because the treaties of Brest-
Litovsk and Versailles disintegrate
1t. The hatred which separates japan
and the United States is growing. We
are profiting thereby and are pro-
posing to rent out kamchatka in
Japan already has taken a large
piece of territory from US by mill
tary force, and. instead of running a
risk. it is much better for us to cede
kamchatka on lease and receive
in return a part of it's products. the
more SO as we ourselves can neither
dispose of nor utilize Kamchatka.
agreement Not Yet Signed"
Our agreement with the United
States is not yet signed. but the
Japanese are already talking about
it with fierce hatred. By such agree
ments we can aggravate the discord
which already exists between our
enemies. Concessions do not mean
peace for US. They mean war. but
war under another and more advan-
tageous form. Concessions are :,
continuation of war on economic
grounds. Our path is fixed steadily
toward international revolution. This
path is not straight: it proceeds by
zig-zags. We have weakened the
bourgeoisie and it will never con-
Quer US by arms. Formerly they
even forbade US to engage in COM
munist propaganda, but today this
Is simply ridiculous. They are in a
state Of internal decomposition and
this makes US even stronger"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
PRINCE OF WALES FINDS
LINE OF TYPE is HOT
Royal Visitor Is Shown Through
the Plant of the Lon
don Times.

LONDON. February 5.-The Prince
Of Wales has just been initiated into
the complexities Of modern newspa-
per production by visiting the Offices
of the Times and following a piece of
copy from an EDITORS desk through
the composing. proofreading and
stereotyping rooms. Then he pressed
the starting button of a mammoth oc-
tuple \press and saw the article re-
produced in print.
The first folded paper which came
from the roaring machine was handed
the royal visitor, who smiled as he
saw on the front page picture OF
himself with a caption stating that
he had started the machinery which
printed it.
Throughout his inspection Of the
many departments Of the great news
paper office, the prince kert up a
rapidfire of questions which showed
his keen interest in the art VI news
paper making.
He marveled at the ability of
makeup" men to read type upside
column "cut" Of himself In the form
he was endeavoring to read. In the
composing room he picked up a slug
of type as it came from a machine,
but found it too hot to hold.
The prince is the second heir 70 the
throne to visit Printing House square.
In 1863, the late King Edward. then
Prince Of Wales. m ,1e a similar ia-
spection Of the Times plant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06
BY PAUL SCOTT MowRER.

BY PAUL SCOTT MO"RER.
BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1921.
PARIS, February Allow the Rus
sian soviets have been trying to ne
gotiate through an American mil
lionaire." presumably Washington
Vanderlip, for the sale or lease of
Kamchatka to the United States as a
base for the latter in case of war with
Lenin at the end Of last December be-
fore the secretaries of the local sec
tions of the communist party in Mos
COW. A copy of this speech has been
received through underground chan
nels. Its authenticity is vouched for
by Gregor Alexinsky and NJ. Bourt-
self.
Discusses Concessions.
II have been asked said Lenin.
what 1 think OF concessions. Let
me say a few words on this subject
John Spargo. who is an American So
cialist, of the same kind as our
hating the boisheviki flu
that concessions demonstrate the fail
ure Of bolshevism. Our menshevists
say the same thing. Let US state the
problem as it really is. Who caused
this failure? We or the western bour-
geoisie? The world revolution has
not been realized as yet, but we nave
not been conquered, either. Militarism
Ia falling to pieces while we are get
ting stronger all the time. 1t is not
we. but they, who have caused this
failure. They are trying to tame US
now by means Of commercial treaty
So long as the world revolution IS sun
nnrealized bourgeois capital can be
useful to us. AS we are poor coun-
trv economically we can hasten the
development of our production oy
means Of bourgeois capital.
Quotes 1American Millionaire"
"At present there are two conces-
sion projects. one concerns the I'll
An American millionaire came to US
and spoke to US very frankly regard