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Evening star., 1921-07-27
INTERNATIONAL BOMBS IN NEWS
AVERTED BY HUGHES PRECISION
Secretary Talks Freely, But Leaves No
Room for Garbling- g-Dynamite In Dis
Observation-Disclosures Messengers.

doorbell in person, attired in q striped
shirt and other essentials. the day
being warm. A gold-laced chamber
lain of the court met him:
"The queen" said the chamberlain.
desires your attendance at dinner
this evening"
"Doggone it," said the minister.
you tell the queen | can't come to-.
night. I got, some friends from home
During the Wilson administration
little was done by the ambassadors
and ministers in Europe except at the
suggestion and with the assent OF
Washington. Usually they were not
permitted to do anything. They were
merely expensive messengers who de-
livered state papers and inisted on
getting a receipt. This new-or very
old-plan of telling an ambassador
what it is desired to done, and then
permitting him to work in his own
way. comes close to being the old
style diplomacy as ever was. All the
Union ambassadors and ministers IN
Europe work that way. They spend
their lives going to country houses
for week ends and frustrating the
plans of pretty women and dropping
in at clubs and having their papers
stolen and everything.
Lacked Precise Information.
Now the conference has been agreed
to by every one. Not matchhead
has been infiamed. Every sharp cor
ner has been rounded. But just a
little less care on the part of the Sec
retary of State in selecting his words
might conceivably have made trouble.
There were some very tender national
sensibilities involved. The old report
ers here look back at Mr.. Hughes
predecessors. or some of them. Mr..
Bryan did not know or care much
about the work of his department..
Mr.. Lansing was repressed. Mr.. Colby
had hardly warmed to his job before
the AK fell. News of our interna-
tional relations was secured then
from other offices in the State Depart
ment. sometimes. and from embassies
and propagandists and lunches and
cable dispatches. A dozen instances
were recalled when reporters. with
the best intentions in the world. had
stepped on the international match
head through their failure to be pre- .
cise-or through their inability to Sc
cure precise information. Nowadays
it Is different.
Japan assented to the disarmament
conference. But she did not express
Evening star., 1921-07-27

herself on the proposition to discuss
the problems Of the Pacific, on which.
after all, the plan to disarm Is based.
Unless they can be solved by friend
ly mutual agreement we might as
we'll get ready to sell the old farm
and buy a few more warships. var nas
sibility that war might come is in
the offing. But the reporters who at
tended the conference at the Depart
ment of State in which the reply of
Japan was discussed did not come
away with any explosive theories
ready to illuminate. Or. If they did.
they erected those theories them
selves.
What they learned-thanks to a Sc
lection of words, the extreme delfcacy
of. which could only be measured by
micrometer-was merely that Japan had
said nothing whatever about the plan 10
talk over her own affairs in the Pacific.
Nothing else. That's all there was.
There wasn't any more.
The funny part is that while Mr..
Hughes Is discussing these affairs with
the reporters. be seems to enjoy him.
self. His eyes shine. His teeth glisten.
His we'll trimmed beard seems to ripple
with happiness. He never pauseS for a
word or hesitates or boggles or selects:
He is fluent and self-possessed. And all
the time he is master of the job. When
he gets through-when he has smiled
his last smile into the friendly faces
that smile back-the reporters go out.
Usually they go sadly. He hasn't mis-
placed one syllable or infection. He
has made no mistakes. There has not
been one tiny word or accent upon which
might be hung an excuse for a better or
a bigger or different story than the
one he proposed to give them. He can
not be trapped or coaxed or fuddled
His statement has meant one thing, and
one thing only and not another atom OF
meaning can be read into it.
1t Is fine piece Of work on the part
of the Secretary of State. But it GER
tainly does restrict the intellectual ac-
tivities of the reporters.
Evening star., 1921-07-27
CONDEMNS AUTO SEARCH.

Special Dispatch to The s,ar.
BALTIMORE. July 27.-The police
have no right tosearch any ones auto
mobile, even II 1t is suspected that it
contains whisky. This is the ruling Of
United States Commissioner Supplee.
who yesterday dismissed a charge Of
having whisky In his possession un-
lawfully filed againt Harry Bilson
of 113 Oakley avenue.
Bilson was arrested by a policeman
as he started to drive off in his ma
chine from in front Of hotel. The
policeman said he saw Bilson. come
nut of the hotel with package.
which he placed on the automobile
seat. The policeman said he opened
Evening star., 1921-07-27
AIR STATION TO CLOSE.
Secretary DENLY Sends Orders to
Big Plant at Cape May.

CAPE MAY, N. j.. July 27.-The
United States Navy air station here.
one Of the largest on the Atlantic
coast. has been ordered closed after
August l by Secretary of the Navy
DENLY.
Lieut.. Edward Wilder. commandant
Of .he station, today received tele-
graphic orders from Mr.. DENLY to stop
all operations except construction al
ready approved by the Department.
This move. officers declared. is in
line with .he general efforts of the
Navy Department 20 keep inside re-
duced appropria tiOns.
Evening star., 1921-07-27
FRANCE STAYS IN RUSSIA
Senator Prolongs Visit, But Will
Sail for q. S. on August II.

RIGA. July 26.-United States Sem
ator Joseph I. France has decided to
prolong his stay in Russia for few
days. He is expected to return to
Riga July 30. and from this city will
go to Berlin. He has sent a telegram
reserving a berth on the steamer Rot
terdam. which is due to sail from Rot
terdam for New York August II.
In his message Mr.. France said that
he was in good health.
Evening star., 1921-07-27

Doesn't hurt bit! Drop a little
'Freezone" on an aching corn, in
stantly that corn stops hurting, then
shortly you lift it right off with fin
gers. Truly!
Your druggist sells a tiny bottle
of "Freezone" for few cents, suffi-
cient to remove every hard corn, soft
corn, or corn between the toes, and
the calluses, without soreness or
irritation.
Evening star., 1921-07-27

the package because he suspected
that il contained a bottle OF whisky.
His suspicious proved true and Bilson
was arrested.
Evening star., 1921-07-27
The Cluck
Clucks Clan

W9794AU S T E R E,
ZAKN d i G nj fl e d
)&XAA hens t h a t
&S&S take the bus
mess of laying eggs
seriously, reside at the
WALLIS farm. But
the fact that we take
just as seriously the
rule of getting those
eggs before you at
table the day Mrs. Hen
consigns them to US, is
what makes breakfast
here a treat. QThe cof-
fee, too, adds it's tempt
ing share to the morn->
ing fare at
WALLIS
18th and G Streets NV.
Evening star., 1921-07-27

Commissioner Supplee ruled that no
poiiceman had the right to open any
package in any ones automobile aud
di snt ;ssed the charge.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
HOLDING A HUSBAND
Adele Garrisons New Phase of
"Revelations of a Wife"
Adele Garrison's New Phase of

bad news, dear?" asked quietly
Dick laughed unpleasantly.
Bad news" he reported with q
sardonic infection. That depends or
what you call bad news. OF course
nobody's dead, but l might as wei
be, in fact, I'd just as soon be dead
| if what this letter indicates is true
It's the beginning of the end for me
all right"
Deep Dependency.
Genuinely alarmed, l mechanically
slackened the pace of the car, and
glanced at him apprehensively, l had
heard similar speeches from his lips,
but never one with such real feeling
underneath it.
Wont you tell me about it, dear?"
| asked softly.
"Oh, for goodness sake let ME
alone" he exclaimed pettishly. III
that isn't woman all over! Give you
an inkling that there's trouble
somewhere and you're like a rabbit
dog-there's no getting you off the
trail until you've run it down. l
should think you'd learn after a while
that you can't butt into everything
that happens and he the sheerful
little Fix-it-up. There are few
things in the world that are beyond
your aid, and this happens to be one
of 'enl." 3
As he began this little TRADE I in
creased the speed of the car, trying
not to listen to it. | knew it almost
by heart, for it is form of letting
off steam to relieve the tension of his
own nerves in which he frequently
INDUCES. / know that he does not
mean hundredth part of what he
says, but it is that infinitesimal per
cent, which always rankles like the
tiny splinter lying at the base of a
tester.
As he finished l sent the car into
a burst of speed, which served two
purposes. 1t gave vent to my own
irritation, and it diverted Dicky's at
tention.
"What the devil are you trying to
do?" he thundered. DO you want
to have this thing turn somersault
or climb tree? Don't you know you
can't drive like that with this kind
of car? You're likely to kill both Of
us"
WE'LL" / drawled demurely-for
despite my irritation at his rudeness
l was secretely glad at the opening
he had given me-"Weren't you say
ing just now that you might as we'll
be dead? And, of course, I wouldn't
want to live on without you. What
would ever become of me if ]
couldn't have my character formed
by such interesting monologues as
you have just been giving me"
/ could feel Dicky's eyes staring
amazedly at my carefully averted
face. Then l heard a reluctant
chuckle.
Eyes. I suppose I ought to live
so as to improve your mind" he
said. Then with a quick reaction to
dependency which I had never
before seen in him, he added: "But
this is no laughing matter, I can tell
you! I wish you'd stop the car and
look over this blasted thing"
He picked up the crumbled letter
from the floor of the car and began
smoothing it out.
Continued Monday.)
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Common Sense
BY J. ]. MUNDY.
Your Brain and Your Body.


You say the Einstein theory is too
scientific for you to try to under
stand which may be true, but it is
not also true that you refuse to think
about other theories which are less
puzzling but would require hard
thinking to understand.
Are you laggard when it comes
to applying your brain to any prob
lem?
Is it not equally true that you are
averse to concentration on some prac-
tical matters which need your at
tention?
And yet you wonder why you do
not make more Roadway in the world.
A successful man was heard to say
that certain person was a great
worker in a physical way.
IF he did not work SO hard and
did more thinking he would be bet
ter off," another man replied.
Have you ever realized that this
may be the trouble with you?
You spend lot of time in physi-
cal effort, get so weary that you say
YOU are too tired to think and prob
ably it is just this hard work upon
which you have rather prided your
self understands in the way OF your
advancement.
If you are capable OF thinking and
planning-ge. at it, and keep at it
and make the physical exercise just
enough to keep you fit to do more
thinking. -,
Copyright, 1921. Internationai Feature
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Jewel, Flower, Color
Symbols for Today
By MILDRED MARSHALL.

Blood-red is the mystic color
which prevails among the supersti-
tious today. The bloodstone is the
talismanic gem and the carbuncle is
the natal stone of those whose birth
anniversary this is. Both bear the
hue of blood and each is symbol
of strength and vigor.
The bloodstone is believed to pre-
serve the faculties and bodily health
of the wearer, bring him considera-
ton and respect, and guard him
from deception. The carbuncle, on
the other hand, should be worn with
care. 1t is heart stimulant, but so
great is its power that it is believed
to cause apoplexy. For that reason
it should never be worn by old
people. 1t is likewise an evil inhu-
cnce for those inclined to quick
temper, as it promotes the passion
Of anger.
Red, also, is the sacred color
which the orientals observed on this
date. Those who wear it will win
success through sheer strength and
dominance.
Heliotrope is today's significant
flower. 1t indicates great devotion,
a passion that is intense and absorb
ing. The flower is an enemy to
jealousy.
Copyright. 1921. Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.)
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
How Dicky Vented His Rage at the
Letter.


I furtively glanced at Dicky's
frowning face. wondering what bad
news was contained in the lengthy
letter from Marsden, an art editor,
and one of Dicky's best friends,
Then, as hastily as | could, l started
the car, and put the village streets,
with their good humored, kindly,
but inordinately curious people be-
hind us.
| knew better than to offer any
comment or question concerning the
letter, for the expression upon my
husbands face told me that in some
way the missive held distinct blow
to him. And | also knew that it
would not be long before he told me
about it. 1t is one of the most
precious perquisities of my marital
life, this habit of Dicky's, of bring
irg almost every real problem and
serious trouble to me for discussion.
| have always pitied the wives whose
husbands shut them away from their
business or professional worries.
A Quiet Question.
From the corner of my eye I could
see what he was doing, while ap-
parently every bit of my vision was
focused upon the road in front of
ME. Thus I saw that he read the
letter thrice through, his frown
deepening with each reading. Final
ly, with a muttered objurgation. he
crumbled the sheets of note paper
savagely in his hands and flung
them to the floor of the car.
If | had not been so worried |
should have had hard work to keep
a smile back at this action, so char
acteristic of Dicky. He had been
angry enough to destroy them ut
terly, but canny something in the
back of his brain had made him
crush instead of tear them and
throw them to the car fioor, from
which they could be retrieved again,
rather than to the winds. That he
meant me to see them later l was
as sure as l was of the fact that he
wished at this instant dramatically
to indicate his determination never
to look at the letter again.
1t was my cue, | knew. wonder
how many wives have studied their
husbands moods until they know
when it is safe to offer comment or
sympathy, or when it is wiser to
keep still. That Dicky might snap
his answer at me | was we'll aware,
but | also knew that he needed the
outlet which a question of mine
might give him.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
w WHY--
Do Sparks Follow the Striking Of
Stone With a Metal?

One of the primary laws of ma
ture, as translated into everyday
language under the name of the
Principle of the Conservation of
Energy" is that nothing in the uni
verse, either energy or matter, is
ever really wasted, that it is trans
formed into something else or some
other force of energy. In the ma
jority of cases connected with force,
this energy nanifests itself in the
form of heat which may or may not
be used to form other types of force.
In striking piece o. metal against
a stone, therefore, the energy ex-
pended is not lost, but is changed
into a certain number of heat-units
depending upon the amount of force
exerted. Owing to the great friction
between the two surfaces this heat
is developed fairly quickly-as may
be noted by the difference in tenn
perature in the head of hammer
which has been used for driving a
number of nails and one which is
lying idle-and, also because of the
friction, tiny particles of the metal
or the stone are clipped off, and,
red-hot from the heat, manifest
themselves as what we cali Sparks
1t was upon this principle that the
old flint-lock guns used to work and
the same idea underlies the fint-box-
and-tinder fashion OF kindling a fire
which antedated the invention OF
lConyright, 1921. Wheeler Syndicate Incl
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Romance in Origin
OF Superstidions
Dropping the Dishcloth.
BY L. /. KING.


If a woman drops her dishrag it
is Sign that company is coming"
This superstition is general in the
United States and Canada. In GER
tain sections of the south they add
that some one is coming hungry"
and in Maine they say that if the dish
cloth spreads out upon falling the
visitor will be a woman, if it falls
in heap, man. But these are "frills''
to the general mystic meaning of the
dropped dishrag. This superstition
is analogous to that regarding the
dropping of a knife which has the
same signification-a feminine YER
sion of it, as it were.
The knife superstition has already
been dealt with in this series. Our
barbarian ancestors of northern
Europe personified their words,
named them and came to regard
their weapons upon whose faithful
ness their lives daily depended, as
something in the nature of super
human companions. Thus the self
unscabbar sword or dagger
warned of the approach of ia strang-
er, and all strangers were "prima
facie' enemies in those days. From
that we get the superstition of the
dropped knife and have progressed
so far in civilization that we say
visitors" instead of "enemies."
In the conception of our ancestors
and not such very remote times,
either-the dishcloth was to the wo-
man what the sword. was to the man,
constant companion and main
standby affiliated to its owner by the
sympathetic magic of contract. In
SCOTS Lady of the Lake the
sword Of Douglas fell crashing to
the floor at the approach of King
James. Had Dame Margaret Doug
las dropped her "dish-clouth" the
signihcation would have been the
same.
This belief of warning of the ap-
proach of strangers conveyed by the
self-unscabbarded sword or dagger
of which the dropped dishrag STU
perstition is an offshot-retained its
original form in scope down to COM
paratively recent times and is today
widely diffused throughout Europe
and America in the modified form of
popular superstition.
Copyright, 1921 by the Mcclure News
paper syndicate.)
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
The Housewives Helper.

There is a lot than can be done
with white paint to make things
more attractive and more easily
cared for, and now when windows
may be left opened freely is good
time to apply this inexpensive reno
vator.
There is no way OF finishing
kitchen and closet shelves in so sani-
tary a way as with good coat of
white paint, followed, if you like, by
a coat of white enamel. This is in
finitely more sanitary than shelf
papers that afford crevices for dust
and that cannot be wiped off with
water as can shelves covered with
white paint. White paint not only
makes closet shelves more attractive
than the plain, unpainted boards, but
renders them waterproof SO that they
may be washed readily. In fact. all
that need be done to keep them per-
fectly clean is to wipe them occa-
sionally with a cloth wrung out of
warm water.
If you have any old tin or other
trays in your house that have peeled
or become rusty get them out and
paint them white. A second coat
makes them appear more even than
the first.
II you have wooden knife and fork
boxes for silver or kitchenware,
wash them thoroughly. then let them
dry and paint them white.
The kitchen table may be painted
white and then finished with good
grade enamel. This gives as good a
finish as oilcloth and has the advan-
tage that it cannot wear through,
leaving openings where water and
dirt can collect. Some housewives
finish one kitchen table with a good
coat of white enamel and save this
to use as moulding and rolling
board. 'a
Tin cracker boxes may be washed
thoroughly inside and out and then
painted white or enameled outside to
make excellent receptacles for stale
bread and various dry groceries. If
you like, you might paint the name
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
French Dressing.

So many guess at the proportions
for French dressing instead of meas
uring them that the concoction is
often sad one. The following re-
cipe has been tried and found de-
licious:
6 tablespoons salad oil.
2 to 4 tablespoons vinegar or LEM
on juice.
4 teaspoon salt.
q teaspoon mustard.
Paprika.
Mix the dry ingredients and add
the acid and the oil. Beat the mix
ture until it is of creamery con-
sistency. The dressing must be well
mixed before using.
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Men Emotional
Says Woman y
Leader.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait presi-
dent of the international Equal
Suffrage association, has a theory
that men are more emotional than
women, in illustration of which she
tells the following story, according
to the New York Sun:
Il once visited a small village in
New England which was bordered
by small river, so that farmers
coming into the village from either
way had to ford the stream.
Year after year the town meeting
debated laying a bridge over the
stream. but it was always decided
that local finances would not stand
the additional strain of the necessary
tax, and that the farmers would just
have to wait until the stream got low
in the spring and then ford, as usual.
Zone year, shortly after this an
nual decision, an elderly village pau
per died. He was a veteran of the
civil war, but the village folk had
never paid any attention to him in
his life. They had never tried to
find out what they could do to help
him to a better way of life nor con-
+tributed in any way to his well-being.
However, as soon as he died the
town began to have tender con-
science about the manner of his bur-
ial. They were unwilling that the
man they had neglected all his life
should have a pauper burial. So they
tried to hire a hearse from a nearby
town to give him what they called
Christian burial. Not being able to
hire a hearse, they decided they
ought to have a hearse of their own,
and consequently they bought one
costing several hundred dollars.
Then they said, What good is
kearse without horses?' And SO they
bought horses. And then they said,
Now that we've hearse and horses
we must have place to keep Them,
and so built stable and carriage
house for the horses and the hearse.
Altogether the expenditure was very
much greater than would have been
necessary for the bridge, and all be-
cause they had emotionally decided
that they must give what they re-
garded as a fine burial for man
whom they had never helped to hap
plness while he was living"
If there are any men present when
Mrs. Gait relates this instance of the
emotional qualities OF men she al
ways smiles agreeably and adds:
"Although l am quite convinced
that men as whole are more emo
tional than women, of course there
are executions"
Omaha daily bee., 1921-08-06
Fourth Community Concert
At Hanscom Park Sunday

The fourth of series of band con-
certs under auspices of the City Con-
cert club will be given Sunday at 5
in Hanscom park, Arthur E. Smith
directing.
The program follows:
March, "Hippodrome' '............. .Sousa
Overture. "Orpheus" ............ .Offenoach
Grand Selections From Faust. .Gounod
Waltz, "Espana" .............. .Walteufel
Dance Of the Hours" "............:
,......... La Giocanda- -Ponchielli
Intermission.
"Polonaise Presidential" ........... .Sousa
Selection, 'Firefly". "................F .Frtml
Sextette From Lucia" ......... .Donizetti
Medley, Songs of the Nation. Lampe
"StarsSpangled Banner"