The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-02-14
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New York. No one can accuse
women OF taking their politics half
heartedly now that they are in. On
the very same day that the formal
openin 60 fthe National Women's Re-
publican Club was announced come
defy from the Women's Democratic
Political League regarding the party
politics Of Abraham Lincoln. A chal-
lenge to debate all-comers has been
issued by them on the subject. Lin
coin as Democrat"
The highwaymen among us are
more spectacular than the honest peo-
pie, but perhaps they don't outnumber
them, after all. Each morning five
men walk up Broadway nthe Thirties
each with bag of money on his
shoulder, taking 1t from a chain of
restaurants to the bank. Behind them
marches pugilistic guard on the
lookout for said highwaymen. The
other morning one of the men dropped
his bag at the corner of 30the street,
and coins clinked joyfully about the
pavement. No policeman was in sight,
But the crowd OF passerby stopped
and fastened to help gather in the
money, tossing it to the pile in the
center of the walk. The check-up at
bank found every penny and every
dollar safely there. "And this" MUIR
mered an unlocked while the money
search was in progress, is what New
Workers call a crime-wave."
Mrs. John Barrymore has written
her first play and it has been accepted
by Charles Frohman. Inc. clair de
Lune" is the title. Mrs. Barrymore
who was Mrs. Leonard Thomas prior
to her divorce and recent marriage
to the actor, was pronounced by Paul
Helleu the French artist. to he the
most beautiful woman in America. To
become playwright on top of that
seems almost too much of an achieve
ment for one woman.
The moot question of the demotiOn
of several hundred Regular Army Off
GERS has finally been projected into
a clear cut fight. officers have been
smarting under the results of an act
passed by Congress last June, which
many Of them insist is not carried out
as it should be- Nothing definite was
done about it, however, until Francis
NJ. Wilson, Vice President of the Bar
| bour Steamship Co., decided to take
his brother-in-law as test case and
go into action. Major John H. French
is the brother in question. Col. French
he was during the World War and I'M
til the newly-affected Court of Inquiry
revised those hundreds of titles down.
ward Mr.. Wilson has engaged attor
neys and declared he is going to have
the matte rthreshed out and settled
some way so that officers hereafter
will get a hearin gbefore being de-
NOTED. Whatever this effort accom-
plishes will affect, of course, not only
the case of Major French but the case
of those hundreds of others "The Off
GERS are placed in Class B, under the
present system, due to entries Of mere
opinoin," said Major French. what
these opoinions are basd upon is never
stated The officers can request the ac-
ton of the Court of Inqffuiry. Tht is
military tribunal of three to five
officers. AS it is now, it must act not
in accordance with the military laws
of the U. s. Army, but with the orders
and policies of the War Department,
and without any hearing whaterer
before the boards with power of de-
cision. We must have, instead a con-
ditto nwhere the facts are determined
by boards governed by law and be-
fore whom the officer, concerned has
the right to be heard. We desire that
questions of fact be considered by the
Courts of Inquiry and the falt placed
upon the guilty party regardless Of
rank" Major French entered the In
dian Service in 1891, and later, the
Regular Army. He saw eight years Of
service in the Philippines and four
years in Mexico. Francis NJ. Wilson
was one of the most energetic friends
of the service men druing the war, he
himself having ben rejected for serv-
ice because of defective eyesigbt.
One New York truck driver may
cease to be so cynical about human
events as the result of one scott he
enjoyed the other day. Louis Dino, II
years old, presented for his inspection
and opinion a bracelte of white metal
set with glistening stones, which he
found on the street and looked sort Of
pretty, like his sisters comb. where