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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-21
HARDING GIVES 0. K.
TO TARIFF PROGRAM
Fordney Returns to Capital With
His Approval Of Temper
ary Measure.

President-elect Harding has ap-
proved a legislative program for the
next Congress which embraces the en-
aActment of an emergency tariff to
become effective by the middle of May
according to Congressman Fordney. of
Michigan, who returned here today
after a conference at St Augustine
with President-elect Harding.
After the temporary tariff legisla-
tion has been disposed Of the Con-
gress would then turn to tax revision
and finally permanent tariff revision
according to the progress outlined.
There will be further conferences
with Senate leaders over this pro-
gram" said Mr.. Fordney. "and posi-
bly, conferences with President-elect
Harding. The need of early changes
in both tariff and tax laws is de-
manded by the people"
In framing the temporary tariff law
the Payne-Aldrich rates will be fol-
lowed, although In some instances
these rates are too low because of
existing exchange rates." said Ford
ney. 1t is believed possible to correct
this condition. he stated, by requiring
the levying of tariff duties on Ameri-
can valuation instead of foreign valu-
alton.
1t is being urged by many tax ex-
perts that Congress should proceed
without delay to revision of the tax
laws, and to repeal the excess profits
tax, substituting some other form of
taxation for It. Fordney has insisted
that tariff legislation should precede
tax revision.
The emergency tariff bill, drafted
in the interest OF the farmers, was
practically agreed upon by the Repub
lican leaders in House and Senate in
conference this morning.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-21
ALLIES WILL ANNUL
BELCIUM'S WAR DEBT

LONDON, Feb. 21.-The Unit
ed States, British, and French
governments have agreed to ac-
cept German bonds in lieu Of
Belgium's war debt, il was an
nnounced in the House of Com
mons this afternoon by Austen
Chamberlain. chancellor Of the
exchequer.
II would appear from the
above announcement that the
American, British. and French
governments have mutually
agreed TO cancel Belgium's A.
nancial obligations incurred dur
the war.
This is the first allied war
debt to be annulled.
Congress will be asked TO
pass legislation permitting the
Treasury Department 10 accept
German bonds in lieu OF pay
ment Of the loans extended TO
Belgium by the United States
prior TO the armistice. Under
Secretary Of State Davis stated
this afternoon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-21
CLAIMS LEGAL
RIGHT T0LEND
Secretary Cites Second Liberty
Loan Law as Authority for
His Action.
BY ]. BART CAMPBELL,
international News Service.

Full responsibility for loans,
credits, and advances made by the
Treasury Department to European
governments was placed on former
Secretary of the Treasury William
G. McAdoo by Secretary Of the
Treasury David F. Houston today
when he reappeaerd before the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee.
Houston declared McAdoo "must
have been laboring under misap-
,prehension," when he stated recently
he had opposed the establishment of
further foreign loans or credits dur
ing his incumbency of the office of
Secretary of the Treasury.
FOLLOWED A PRECEDENT.
Houston explained whatever ad-
vances or credits he had made since
he assumed office on February 2, 1920,
had been the result of foreign fiscal
policies established by McAdoo. and
continued partly by Senator Carter
Glass, McAdoo's successor and Hous-
tons predecessor.
Upon commitments made during
McAdoo's tenure of office, Houston
placed squarely whatever blame was
to be attached for Great Britain,
France, and other European nations
being permitted to draw upon the
United States Treasury without the
knowledge, consent, or advice of Con-
gress.
Houston sought to show that under
a section of the second Liberty loan
act the Treasury Department was
authorized to assist financially the
associates OF the United States in the
winning of the war until the state of
war was ended by a proclamation Of
the President
QUOTES McADOO REPORT.
Houston quoted from McAdoo's an
| nual report for the period ending Mo-
| vember 10, 1913. to show that up to
| that time. while McAdoo was Secre-
| tary of the Treasury, there had been
| total of loans made and credits
established of S,1T1.916.666. He also
quoted from a later report to show
that during McAdoo's regime addi-
! tional loans and credits aggregating
81 ,s2s, 900 900 had been authorized.
''The credits established and the
| advances made grew out of the poll
| cies inaugurated while Mr.. McAdoo
was Secretary of the Treasury
Houston said.
Referring to, McAdoo's statement.
published recently, that he had op-
posed new loans. or credits, Houston
said McAdoo was evidently speaking
Of something not real" and was zap
parently laboring under a misappre-
hension that new loans or credits
Continued on Page 2. Column g.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-21
COUNC|LSHUNS
open POLICY
Secret Diplomacy to Mark Ses.
sions Of Great Import Begin
ming in Paris Today.

Two great International con-
ferenees Of the nrst magnitude
In importance are being held In
London and Paris this week.
Allied Representatives met In
London to discuss Near East
problems.
The Council Of the League OF
Nations met In Paris to consider
mandates a.d proposals. to amend
the covenant Of the League of
Nations.
Some of the League delegates
held that this would he an aus
ptcious time to amend the cove
nant to conform closer to Amer
feSs idea that President-eLect
Harding will come into OfAce In
two weeks.
Another great allied confer
ence to discuss Indemnity and
other GermaO problems will
open in London . week from to-
morrow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-21

PARIS, Feb. 21.-The forces OF
secret diplomacy won today In the
Leaxue Of Nations council meeting.
Announcement was made this after
noon that the council had decided
that sessions of the League shall
be secret.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-21
TODAY

listing between north and south
Ireland.
Marshal F'och, a deeply religious
Catholic, as well as the worlds
greatest military strategist. is
naturally anxious to free Catho-
lie south Germany from the control
OF Protestant Prussia. The plan
would suit France, which would
gladly see Germany crippled by
religious strife. But II doesn't suit
England. She wants Germany, now
that her colonies and her war feet
have vanished, to get back to busi-
ness.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-21
Declares He Has No Idea
OF Granting New Credits
ten BILLIONS LENT BY
McADO0, SAYS HOUSTON

Secretary of the Treasury
Houston. appearing before the
Senate Judiciary Committee to-
day, placed entire blame upon
former Secretary Of the Treas
ury William Gibbs McAdoo for
the extension of loans to for
eign governments.
He declared that during Nc
Adoo's Secretaryship, loans
and credits of $S,171,976.666
were arranged. He said that
additional loans and credits ag-
gregating $1,S2S, 100000 were
authorized during McAdoo's
regime.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-21
FRENCH WILL INSIST ON
BIG GERMAN INDEMNITY

PARIS. Feb. 21.-The French dele
cation to the London conference will
stick by the Paris decision that Cor
many must pay $4,000 900, 900 war in
demnity. 1t was learned in authorita-
tive circles today.
The French will consent to study
the German counter proposals. but
will refuse to change the amount or
modify the payment II was declared.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-21
HOUSTON BLAMES M'ADOO FOR ALLIES LOANS
Secretary of Treasury Files His Anser Suit of W. Hears

FIRST PHOTOGRAPH Of nineteen ar-old Francis
/ J. Carey of Ottawa ILL.,. who was released after he
had pleaded guilty before Federal Judge x. M Landis
in Chicago Of having embesxed $4,000 from the Ma
tional City Bank Of Ottawa, shown with his
mother Senator Dial Of South Carolina, and Con-
gresham Wety, severely criticized Judge Lands for
his action
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-21
How Britain Grabbed Vast
Territory Through War

Ponsonby, British member
in this table acquired
tional 1,41S,029 square miles through he
Area In Square
Miles
formerly under Turkish suzeanty part Of
the Empire. 900
ditto 1854
German 5. w. Africa mandate held by the Union OF
south Africa 45o
East Africa mandate Great Britain 3S1S0
Togoand Cameroons, be
224Sso square 112415
mandate TO be held by 1850
mandate be held by Australia ............... 10000
Palestine mandate to be held by Britain 1000
mandate be Britain 14325O
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-21
Library Open Toomrrow.

The central building of the Public
Library will be open on washington's
Birthday at the usual hours, o a. m. to
p. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-21

Have You Answered Your Latter Frsu the
y. W. c. Af-Advt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-02-21

TIC VHy OF uVHty Ts nVt 1Ho
biggest problem OF the new Ger
man republic. Or. Simons, han
ding the indemnity question for
Germany, knows II. The idea OF
Marshal Foch, backed by the
French militarist party, is to
separate south Germany, which Is
Catholic, from the Protestant
north. thus creating for Germany
q problem like the antagonsm ex-
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01
This Is For Patriots
Who Do Thinking

We doubt if the average either
realizes the tremendous growth that
the Boy Scout movement has made
in America of recent years.
Do you know that there are sew
enteen thousand, seven hundred OF
these troops of boy scouts in this
country, so that there is not a city
and hardly town or village with
Que one or two troops9
And do you realize that the mum
Der of uniformed Boy Scouts in good
standing in those troops is now well
over four hundred thousand.
Wherever you find a Boy Scout
you also find manly, reliable, self
reliant boy who is anxious to dc
good deeds in this word. Judge
Daniel B. Trude, of Chicago, says
that of the thousands of boys who
have been brought into his court,
not one has been a Scout. Juvenile
judges all over the country make
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01
ESQ Bushels an Acre
From Good Spud Seed

That the use of high grade po-
tato seed is a profitable practice,
and one which results in larger
yields than those obtained from home
grown, bin selected seed is shown by
results which have been obtained by
Western Kentucky farmers who CO.
operated with the extension division
of the College of Agriculture in
showing the advantages of good
seed. Pedigreed Kentucky and
Northern grown seed was used in
the demonstration in comparison
with home grown, bin selected tu-
bers which represented the type us
ually left over from sales and sown
for seed. The pedigreed and the
Northern grown seed yielded at the
rate of $50 bushels an acre while
the yield from the home saved seed
was only 30 bushels an acre. Farm
ers in that community are expected
to import more seed in 1922 as re-
suit of the demonstration.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01
Many Soils Need
Phosphate Supply

The majority of Kentucky soils
outside of the Blue Grass secticn
are much in need of phosphate fer
tilizcrs. according to soils special
lists who have made a study of the
subject. The heavy clay soils of
the State in particular, are in a
condition to respond to phosphate
treatment as are also MANY of the
loan soils. Pbosphates with clover
and manure TO furnish nitrogen and
organic matter are the principal ele-
ments of successful soil building TO
be used in the State, the specialists
say.
Poor farming, soil erosion and the
safe Of crops off the farm has re-
suited in many of the soils being de-
pleted Of their PHOSPHORUS, accord
ing TO members of the soils and crops
department Of the College of Ag-
riculture. Because lof the source
from which they we're derived, many
OF the soils which are now in need
of PHOSPHORUS have always con-
tanned a small amount. Of II.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01
Hay From Soybeans
Is Good Stock Feed

Sow bean hay, when cut at the
right stage Of growth and properly
cured makes an excellent iced and
one that is relished by all farm an
imals. As compared with hay from
other leguminous crops soybean hay
is superior to any and can be used
TO reduce the amount Of high priced
concentrates which it is necessary
TO purchase in order TO balance the
rations fed farm stock.
The beans may he cut for hay and
successfully cured at any stage of
growth from the first bloom TO the
time of falling leaves, according to
Ralph Kenney, crops field agent OF
the College of Agriculture. Hay
from early-cut beans is small in
quantity, but is more digestible than
that from beans cut at later
stage. The greatest yield of digest
ible feed is obtained by cutting the
crop when the lower pods are well
filled and plump, but not ripe. Con-
dition of the leaves at this stage
will vary according to what the
weather conditions have been during
the growing season. In season of
drouth many of the bottom leaves
will have turned yellow and dropped
by the time this stage is reached.
Soybean hay requires from two to
five DAYS to cure provided no rain
falls after it is cut. Curing should
be done in the windrow or cock since
curing in the swath is apt to result
in the loss of many of the leaves.
Many farmers are finding it profit
able to bale soybean hay, according
to Mr.. Kenney. Straw from the seed
crops is generally baled in seed-pro-
ducing sections of Kentucky and il
makes as satisfactory feed as av-
erage clover hay.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01
Is This Why Prices
Are Going up Again?

Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale, who
is so versatile that he is an author
ity on economics, on longevity of
humans and on prize fighters, is best
known for his exhaustive and deep
studies of gold as money.
1t is Fisher who advocates sta
bilizing the American gold dollar by
fixing its value rs it grows plenti-
full or grows scarce.
He contends that when gold be-
comes plentiful, prices of commod-
tiles ascend. When it is scarce,
prices go down.
Please note what is happening
now. All prices we're going down
the first of the year like a lead
sinker. But around about spring
time floods of gold began to pour
into the United States from the
whole world To date, in 1921. we
have grudingly accepted more than
four hundred million of it.
And pricesl They stopped falling !
Bradstreet'S shows that commodities
at wholesale advanced over 3 per
cent in July. The Department of La
Dor says retail prices were up from
3 to 6 per cent in nearly all the cities
on August l. Cotton is going up
again. So are sugar, coffee, tea,
hides, canned goods, textiles and
silver.
Maybe Fishers right.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01
What Sovietism Has
Proven to the World

In brief, this is the history of
communism in Russia.
First, every man to work for his
needs and nobody to hold property,
That worked out this way: With
nothing to work for-not for a
home, or surplus, or luxury, all bus
mess and manufacturing went to the
dogs. Labor had no work, no prod
nets were made that the cities could
exchange with the farmers for food
and the money was worthless.
The farmers wouldn't give their
SURPRISES of food away and so the
Soviet armies marched out and took
it away from them. Whereupon. the
farmers of all Russia stopped rails
ing any more than they needed for
themselves. Drought fell in one sec
ton of the country and instantly the
people of that section began to
starve: they had no reserves.
In orderly states, where one part
of the country is foodless the re-
serves of the other part save them
until the next crop. But the unaf-
feited sections of Russia had raised
only food enough for themselves be-
cause Of the Soviet armies.
And so Russia must beg the world
to please feed her.
The test of Communism has been
thorough, the dullest can see that it
does not work in city or farmside.
SO long as Sovietism exists. Rus
STA will be a beggar, plucking at the
skirts of the world.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01

Solid silk hose for women in new
fancy garter top to be worn turns
down or up. Solid black, only, with
Kelly green, burnt orange or heliox
tops. Silk from top to toe, regular
IS quality, cut to $3.50. Only a
limited number of pairs to be sold.
The Walsh Company, INCORPORATED.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01

Every now and then a man who is
safe and sane about other matters,
will fall in love with a woman who
is already married to another man.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01

BY using a little sandpaper on
your elbows YOU will find that that
hardwood looking finish viii readily
disappear.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01

If "A man has money to burn he
can easily find a woman with a
match.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01

The man who is always proclaim
ing that he is in the right is intol-
cradle; the man who admits that he
has been wrong is charming.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01
the same report.

The same report.
Boy Scouts graduate into Ameri-
can citizenship in a few short years
and fine citizens they are, a most
heartening fact to patriots who
think.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01

The cook doesn't get many kisses
in the homes where friend wife can't
afford to hire a cook.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01

Treat some girls with common
politeness and they will act as
though they had an option on You.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1921-09-01

Compare our prices and qualities
on Boys School Shoes. The Walsh
Co., Incorporated.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-05-06
C6o
AMERICAN
0I-I:;GN)nG O.
tIupl iot 4uts Depatsl4t,u, 80. purr %.
the American Legion New Sar>tce.I
IN BEHALF or DISABLED l.. :
Bentley Post at Cincinnati Regarded
as Model for Sy~rcmap,c
Program for Work.

Robert L. Bentley Post Of the Amer.
lean Legion at Cincinnati O., has at
tracted national attention because wi
its activities I'm behalf OF sick and dis.
ablcd veterans Of the World war. Its
systematic program Tor work is regard
eel by Legion officials as model to
posts.
he work has been assigned to four
committees: for disqualification and
compensation, hospital entertainment,
sick members and employment.
The disqualification aud compensa-
ton committee takes care of all cases
in which eX-Seryice men seek to obtain
their rights from the government. Its
duties are to direct the applicant to
the proper federal authorities and To
follow up the case. The Red Cross has
aided the post committee by stationing
Il worker at the club rooms at all times
to handle emergency cases.
Visits to each Cincinnati hospital
where veterans are lodged are made
at least twice a month by the hospital
entertainment committee, which notes
the general condition of the hospitals
and provides entertainments for the
patients.
The sick committee visits all eX-Sery-
ice men in their homes as soon us the
cases are brought to the attention OF
the post members.
A free employment bureau for all
veterans is operated at post head quar-
ters by the employment committee.
The Womens Auxiliary of the post
has assumed large share of the work
This organization has a general chair
man of hospital work with sub-chair
man for each hospital.
At the General hospital u complete
dinner Is set once month Cigarettes,
candy, fruit and cakes are provided
weekly at all hospitals, as are maya
zines and books. AT Rockhill the men
were supplied with piano and vlctrola,
a motion picture protector, knitting
machines, pajamas, sweaters, caps,
socks and other comforts. The Auxil-
iary women have made sheets, pillows
and bed sacks for the patients. Each
man is interviewed at each visit and
personal favOrs are executed whenever
possible.
For the benefit of those men who are
vocationally handicapped the Auxiliary
conducts a shop in the post club rooms
where disabled men are employed In
the manufacture of wicker, bead and
mat work. The articles are marketed
by the women and the proceeds are
turned over to the veterans.
All caskets of ex-service men pass
ing through Cincinnati have been deco
rated by the Legion women. Families
of Cincinnati men who died in the serv-
ice are visited and sympathy extended.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-05-06

CARNATIONS must be limited by the
prevalence of belief on the subject
Tor which the organization stands
Inc American Legion, drawing its
members from every type of organiza-
ton and from practically every fam
lily in the United States, has the back
ing of the whole nation"
Mr.. Dawes was born and educated
In Wisconsin. When he was gradu.
ated from high school he went West
ana finally settled at Wrangel. Alas
Na' as proprietor of a weekly news
paper Later he sold his newspaper
ana attended Valparaiso University
Law school, finishing the course in
1918. -
As a member of the artillery par,
unit OF the First army, Mr.. Dawes
served in France After his discharge
from the army he returned to Alaska
and entered the practice of law at
Juneau. He is a charter member If
Afford John Bradford Post No. OF
the Legion and is now vice commander
of the department Of Alaska as well
as national committeeman.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-05-06

they are covered with blankets. There
Is disease everywhere and the smell is
terrible. I'm glad we didn't stay long.
as l couldn't stand it, and you know
when l can't stand anything there are
few that can. l am sorry for these
refugees, but we can't help any. They
don't want money though they would
sell their lives for some clothes and
food. They don't stop praising the
Americans.
"Trebizonde was another Arme-
Man town, but 1t was completely
wiped out by the Turks, who are now
In control of it. The Turks massacred
all the Armenians over fifteen wears
age and kept all under that age
to bring them up as Turks. The cit
looked as If it was shot TO pieces.
Samsoun is the same as Trebi-
zonde, so you can see what kind
of country we are travelling through.
| am sure glad that we are leaving
Russia and Armenia because am sick
of what | have seen. l think that these
tourists who are trying to see ravished
Armenia will be sorry they ever came
over. These relief workers are nearly
dead from work They are the people
who can tell the L. S. something about
rhls country"
The Near East Relief, / Madison
Ave New York, is now appealing for
funds to continue the work so graph.
ca''y described by the young American
sailor.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-05-06
COB DESCRIBES
ARMENIAN HORRORS

"You can't realize what a sight It Is
to see the refugee camp at Batum,"
Petty Officer George Porter, of Racine,
Wis, writes his family, telling of the
work of the Near East Relief In the
ports along the Black Sea.
THE people are dying off little by
little. There are workers of the relief
organization here, but they don't seem
to be able to take care of them all.
They were the ones that made the
camp, The families all live in grass
huts. just high enough to sit up In, and
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-05-06
seattIe Has Veterans, Ant.l

veterans Hotel" n three-story struc.
lure with accommodations for $50 Sc.
attle unemployed ex-service men. Is
me result of The activities of Seattle
fost No. Is Of the American Legion
and committee Of prominent citizens
OF that city Any veteran in need ri
temporary shelter Will be housed IN
Tue ho'el Tor a reasonable length of
uIne regardless Of Legion membership
The project was financed ny the L.
sion and popular contributions.