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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-01-14

Even the highest In the French Re-
public must bow before the cdicts Of
TIE French protocol. as Nine. Des-
chanel wife Of H. president, learned
when she objected To the presence Of
five white swans i'm the Elysee palace
ponds. The swans. Nine. Deschanel
admitted, were very beautiful but
nearly every morning early they dis
turbed the rest of the presidents
household and therefore she INQUIRED
whether tEey could not he removed
The chief of the protocol found that
sixty years ago clause was written
In the protocol which provided that
not less than fly" swans must be kept
In the Elysee palace grounds, for the
feeding of which The keeper of Tie
presidential gardens was responsible
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Their" is "a story to the effect that
n farmer in Westphalla laid a wager
that II bees If his released at II dis
lance of three miles from their hives.
would travel as rapidly as a like mum
her of pigeons over the same course
The first bee. properly powdered for
purposes Of identification, did rs n
matter of fact. arrive N its h We n
quarter of - minute before the com
Ing of the first pigeon to its cote; and
there were three other bees that came
In before the second pigeon arrived
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SALE OF PROPERTY.
Wenatchee, WASH, Dec. 20, 1920.

Wenatchee, Wash, Dec. 20, 1920.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
following described property, to-wit:
Beginning at a point 224.5 feet
N1*33 f, Of the NV corner of the
SEA NEA section S, township 90
north, range 10, E.W.M. Chelan Coun-
ty, Washington.
Thence same course 281.5 feet to
Great Northern Right Of Way.
Thence to right in southeasterly di-
rection and along said right of way
91.0 feet. Thence right and westerly
91.0 feet to point of beginning and
embracing Sc acres more or less.
Same being in the NEA NEA, said
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Hid Identity Many Months.

Miss GWcndollne Farrar, who in
herited fortune of several million
dollars from her father. Sir George
Farrar, the Rand millionaire. who was
one of those Scu,cured Ia death hy
BocrS for taking part In the jameson
raid is one young woman who can
keep II secret. For more than year
Mis- Fnrrar has been appearing on the
London stage. and only recently wa
her identity discovered by accident
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section S, township % north, range
10 E.W.M. Chelan County, Washing
ton.
VIII be sold at Public Auction by
the Sheriff Of Chelan County, in
front of the Court House, Wenatchee,
Washington, at the hour of 100 A.
NJ. on February 3, 1921. Said prop
erty will be sold for cash to the high
est bidder
Sale ordered by County Commis-
sioners.
A. V. SHEPPARD,
County Auditor.
(3t-Dec.31 ;Jan.7,14l
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Classified Ads.

PHONE 39S-as | wish to solicit
your livery trade. Can take care of
you at all hours. Prices reason
able.--Ralph r. Logan. (3-tf)
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The recent membership drive of the
Spokane county farm bureau result
ed in securing 1900 new members.
Organizations have been perfected n
10 communities.
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FOR SALE-furniture and house
furnishing goods, all in excellent
shape. See B. H. Bryan, Mgr. ]. C.
Penney Co.
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TAKEN UP-A stray horse, VT.
about 1900 was taken up by the
city authorities about Dec goth,
and turned over to me to be kept.
Owner may have same by paying
advertising and feed bill.-James
Buchanan. (43tpd)
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LOOSE ALFALFA and wheat hay
for sale.-Wm. Titus. (2-4tnp)
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FOR WOOD you can cook with,
phone 1859. (2t-pd)
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TAKEN UP-Two horses at my hay
stack Owner pay damages and
expenses and take them.-Eiley
Howard. (43tpd>
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Try the Echo Want Column for
results.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
Drawing Nearer

Unless there is gross laundering
or re-outbreak of the unreason
which has too often wrecked prom
ised settlements of the Irish question
it is probable that soon the long
story of British and Irish discord
can be turned over to the historians.
In his latest utterance Lloyd George
indicated that it is his firm purpose
to ignore the unbending Tories who
can't see that politics is not mathe-
matics and that life is seldom logi-
cal. Not to be outdone, De Valera
and Griffith have similarly put
their extremists in leash. Common
sense is at last to have chance to
take charge, and the Britons who
would construe every reasonable
doubt in favor of Irish aspirations
are not far removed in spirit from
the lrlshmen who recognize that
peoples who have been associated for
seven hundred years cannot be easily
torn apart.
The Ulster problem of course re-
mains. But if there is a guaranty in
the agreement that no artificial i'm
pediments are to be put in the way
of the six counties joining the twen-
ty-siX it is possible to look for it's
common acceptance. When feelings
aroused by recent events have quiet
ed many things will push Belfast to
union with Dublin. The impractica-
bility and the wrong of coercing
north Ireland have already bsen rec
ognized by De Valera, and if force is
not to be used what weapon other
than persuasion is left?
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
The Morrises

Conspicuous in news items pub
lishcd concerning the business en-
barrassmcnts Of Lewis Gouverncur
Morris is the statement that this
gentleman is "a descendant Of
Couverneur Morris, one of the
signers of the Declaration Of Inde-
rendence." The Tribune printed
this statement along with its con
tcmporalics. But the fact is that
Gouverneur Morris was not one Of
the signers of the Declaration. he
was not a member of the Cont
mental Congress at that time, but
of the Provincial Congress Of New
York, which became the Legislature
of this state. He had nothing to do
with the Declaration save very e1-
fectively to urge its ratification by
New York 1t was his much older,
but less famous, half brother, Lewis
Morris, who was a New York dele
gate to the Continental Congress
and who was signer OF the
Declaration.
We must confess certain degree
Of humiliation that the error got
past the copy-roader and linotype
operator and proofreader and all
the rest, not only once, but several
times; and though we might, from
one point of view, derive a certain,
consolation from the fact that no
readers detected and corrected il
we are inclined, on the whole, to
regard that circumstance with
added regret. While it does no,
speak well for the newspapers to
blunder so, it speaks still worse for
the millions Of readers that not one
Of them perceived the error, or,
percciYing it, took the pains to
correct it.
History learning should doubtless
consist Of something better than the
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
The Dominions at Wasn;ncton

1t is good news to Americans that
three of the British self-governing
dominions are to be represented di-
rectly in the Washington conference.
Australia and Canada and, appa-
rently, South Africa are to name
members of the British delegation,
which is to be increased in size from
four to six. The dominions will
have three voices to Great Britains S
three.
Canada and Australia are P cific
powers. South Africa s interests are
Eastern rather than Western. They
have all come to view the Pacific
problem much as the United States
does. They want to avoid trouble
over China and over vexed issues
like immigration. Americans would
be loath to see them without spokes-
men in council which, it is hoped,
will clear up situation as threaten
ing to their future as it is to ours.
Premier Hughes must have spoken
little carelessly when he told the
Australian House of Representatives
that Australia had been endeavoring
to name a delegate in her own right,
until America slammed the door"
The United States couldn't properly
invite the dominions to sit in the
conference Of their own right. Their
status with regard to other nations
is still somewhat indeterminatc. in
spite of Mr.. Lloyd Georges state
ments at the opening of the recent
imperial conference in London. The
British government hasnt yet mott
fed the world that so far as inter
national relations are concerned they
are independent states.
But on whatever footing they may
come to Washington they will be wei
come. They belong to that part of
the world to which the center of in
ternatlonal gravity is shifting. They
sense the difficulties there all the
better because they are home diff
culties. They will help greatly tc
promote settlement of Pacific prob.
lens which will respond to Western
and Far Eastern rather than tc
European needs.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
Australian Good viii

T the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | regret very much to sec in
yesterdays issue Of The Tribune sub
leader entitled "Unlovely America. u
quoting what may easily be understood
to be :. representative Australian opin-
ion OF this fine country and its kind
hearted rcople.
happen to know the source OF the
criticism, an Australian publication
which las made its reputation on its
ability to WELD sarcasm, sometimes
very far from the actual truth. | have
net been in this country long. but long
enough, sir, to have formed most
hearty admiration for all thinos Amori-
can, NEST especially her sons and
daughters
In NJ opinion it is most unfortunate
that these foolish criticisms ever ap-
pear in the press. They are far from
the trl'h and tend only to plant seed,
Of mi1trust and Ignorance although
the far.t in this instance does not lie
with The Tribune. AUSTRALIAN.
New York, Oct 3, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
Some Pumpkin

Staten Island, urban and at the
same time bucolic, has produced a
pumpkin weighing 112 pounds. The
author of Pumpkins and Politics"
claims that this is one of the biggest
ever grown. Pumpkin specialists
have travelled miles to see it, and
the head Of the pie trust has made
an effort to have the specimen em-
balmed.
To those who may not know it will
be interesting TO learn that the
pumpkin, according to the Encyclo-
p@dia Britannica, is "a useful plant
to the American backwoods farmer" :"
1t belongs to the species called
Cuc9ubita pepo, and, as the Century
Dictionary somewhat crudely puts
it, is "a coarse, dccumbent vine"
It's origin is thought to be Asiatic,
although the American Indians grew
it in their cornfields, and it has been
known IN Engllsh gardens since
1870.
The pumpkin is to be distinguished
from the lowly squash, its cousin by
propinquity. 1t is more sizable
fruit Cor vegetable-which is it?)
often weighing from corty to eighty
pounds. The Staten Island specimen
which has aroused SO much enthusi-
asm is therefore nearly twice the
average size.
But as the purpose in life of the
pumpkin is the pie, it is necessary to
know one all important factor before
properly estimating the true signifi-
cance Of this vegetative monstrosity.
How many pies to pumpkin?
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08

ago, when billion dollars was an cnor-
nous sum of money compared 10 what
it is to-day in the minds Of the people
the United States government had out
standing nearly a billion dollars worth
of bonds which carried with them 100
per cent circulation privileges, 80 per
cent vi which was held by a.onsl
banks; that the Roosevelt Administra-
tion and the country at large congratu-
lated itself upon the magnificent success
of this financing and that the circulation
privileges on the Panama Canal per
cent bonds, which carried with them
100 per cent such privileges, were
so valuable that IN times Of tigh.
money they commanded pr.ce Of $3.50
for $500 worth of face value.
Impetus was given to the establish
ment OF the Federal Reserve system
by the panic of 1907, when there was mo-:
enough circulation existent to meet tho
Legitimate demands Of our country's
business and the clearing houses had
to come to the rescue and issue its
checks TO meet the situation Now the
Federal Reserve system issues and
witbdraws its elastic currency as occs-
sion rcOulres
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08

due to strictly preventable causes
amounted to $1,520,S55. In 1919
the total was $2,223,641. Losses due
to "partly preventable causes" in
1916 amounted to S4,337, $50, while
in 1919 they had increased to $685.
645.
If the fathers and mothers of
school children wish, they might
with propriety address themselves
on this subject also to Mr.. Charles
Francis Murphy, of Tammany Hall,
and his political partner, Mr.. Will
liam Randolph Hearst. They are the
Mayors mentors and manipulators.
Mr.. Murphy lives at Good Ground
Long Island. Mr.. Hearst, when in
New York, resides on Riverside
Drive.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
Black Sheep Of Trade
How Our Standing in South America
Has Been Injured by a Few


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: | have read recently numerous
letters published in your columns and
elsewhere in which the writer's seek to
explain why certain European nations
have succeeded in recovering a great
part of the trade with South America
lost by them during the war
Low rates of exchange and long
credits have undoubtedly played great
part in carrying South American trade
back to Europe; but there is another
element (and one we have little cause
to be proud of which has initiated
against US more, possibly, than any
other factor.
On a recent trip to the Amazon
region Of Brazil, q region I am
thoroughly acquainted with, due to my
having lived there for seven years, |
found a favorite topic among importers
and shopkecpers to be the lack of COM
mercial integrity among Americans.
Before the war American firms held
a high place in the opinion of South
American merchants. During the war,
when all the countries south Of the
Isthmus were dependent, almost cX-
clusively on importatons from the
United States, a few unscrupulous firms
lost US cur high place; and while they
benefited materially by unclean meth
DDS, their action has made it difficult
for upright firms to do business in
South America to-day.
Scores Of instances have come under
my personal observation where goods
not ordered have been sent and re-
dress denied
One importer waited for months for
an invoice Of dress goods. The price
on these goods went up 15 per cent
while he was waiting. lie found them
finally il. competitors shop, marked
with his (the original purchasers J
trade mark. He received neither re
dress nor goods.
European exporters are not slow 20
take advantage Of these irrcguarities
and they exploit them to the fullest
extent.
Isolated cases of commercial dc
pravty may, by the unthinking, be
considered of small Importance but
! that is not the fact with respect to
South America, where commercial cen
tors arc far apart and word Of mouth
communications arc still among the
! important sources Of news. When one
considers that there arc ten European
travellers engaged in damning Ameri-
can commerce to every American
/ Traveller interested in praising it, he
VIII soon realize that the rehabilita
tion OF our reputation is not matter
OF easy accomplishing
II. S. DICKEY. NJ. D,
Ncwburgh, N. y, Oct. 6, 1921
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
Changes for the Worse

The changes being made in the tax
revision bill are a sacrifice to poll
tics. They postpone sound revision.
They do not promise the relief which
the country expected.
The Senate Finance COMMITTEES
wisely fixed the maximum income
surtax at 32 per cent. That, in the
judgment of experts, is the satura-
ton figure-the point above which 1t
is profitable for large taxpayers to
divert their capital into exempted
state and municipal securities. This
capital is much needed in business
and in productive industry. Surtaxes
above 32 per cent are an obstacle to
economic recovery, just as the excess
profits taxes are.
The revision made by the Finance
Committee and the "agricultural
bloc" allows a repeal Of the excess
profits taxes from and after Janu-
ary / next. But it provides for a
maximum income super-taX rate of
so per cent, which will apply to in
comes in excess of 100000. Inheri-
tance taxes are also increased, the
present maximum rate of 20 per
cent being raised to 40 per cent. This
enlarged levy on inheritances will,
of course, mean fewer estates passed
by death.
These changes for the worse in the
Senate measure are not offset by the
abolition from January l of all the
transportation taxes and most of the
so-called nuisance taxes. The trans
portation taxes are also burden on
trade; but the broader reconstruc-
tive purpose of the committees bill
IS being frustrated. Sound taxation
principles are being departed from
at the behest Of political expediency
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08

The people in this country who pass
portion Of their time in reading
books are a somewhat definite body
Even at this their time is limited.
If a very popular book comes along
most Of them will read it, and while
they are doing so they have no time
for another Thus of two books,
both issued at the same time and
both readable by the majority, one is
likely to be sidetracked just because
Of the limited time at the disposal
Of readers.
The real revelation is not that
only 10 per cent Of the books pub
lished are interesting, but that as
high as 10 per cent are. 1t is
sad to feel that we are miss
ing something in every book out of
ten. At rough guess, we should
say that only one book in thou
sand ought to be worth while. With
an average OF twenty thousand books
in year, we should then be forced
to read book about every two
weeks. And the "average" reader
might feel that even this task is
too onerous.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
Letting Susan Do Ii
too Ollerous

Says the voters number of the
Women's City Club Bulletin:
"After the election the defeated
party is probably going to say gloom
lily: What's the good of woman suf-
frage? If the women had come out
and voted for US we would have
won.' And the victorious party will
probably express its gratitude,
though it may be perfunctolily, to
the women of the city for their
splendid stand And women will
be proud of themselves, or ashamed
of their sisters, or cynical about the
whole business, according to their
temperaments."
In other words, as Mrs Carrie
Chapman Gait remarks in another
article in the same publication,
there is a survival Of an instinct
which took it's character in the ages
when women stood apart from po-
litical life. The mans assump-
ton that as to public matters the
woman voter is mere appanagc
and does we'll or i'll according as
she conforms to his ideas dies hard.
But truth is neither masculine
nor feminine. Genderless are the
issues to be passed on in the ap-
preaching election. There is no
male or female about such oues-
tions as whether or not a wrecked
school system is to be restored, or a
corrupt Police Department purified,
Or work is to begin on the subways,
or the general graft which has al
ways marked Tammany rule shall
be brought to an end. Sexless are
the problems which face the city,
and no good is done in discussing
them in terms of sex.
Men, alas, alone have not made q
striking success of the art of gov
crnment. Politics has become a
mere interesting game to some and
a source of profit to others. That
public officers are no more than a
committee appointed to perform
designated tasks is obscured. Con-
slant is the talk which implies that
government creates, whereas it
does not-only distributes what
others have already created, dis
hurses what it has previously COL
lected. Perhaps with fresher eyes
the women next month will see the
simple truth more directly.
If they do the new electorate will
vindicate the Nineteenth Amend
ment by making stronger the gen
cral sense Of citizenship. The man
voter tends to forget he is citizen.
Perhaps the women will disclose
the same fault, but at least they
have chance to approach their
! obligation with fewer confusing
pressures. Letting George do it is
not good principle, but something
can be said in favor Of letting
/ Susan do it at least once, f she
will There is little danger Of
! lapsing into the political matriar-
chatc which Mrs. Gait mentions.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
The Bayern Welcome

To tn, Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The writer read with astoaish-
ment sn account Of the "offic.al reeep'
ton terdcred she first Gar1'an liner
(Bayerr) to arrive in this port siacs
1914. The awful war is ever and We
al agree that it is best 10 forget. II
that is possible. but must we drown
our sorrcwfui memories in the music
Of brass bands hired 20 welcome Ger
man liners to our shores Hettsr
that the money so used be spent on
some of the victims of Germsnys
cruel warfare
A 100 PER CENT AMERICAN GIRL
Woodhaven, n. Y, Oct 6, 1871.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
4 Stable Medium,

The proposed bank IS designed 70
do for foreign exchange what the
Federal Reserve system does for do
mestic exchange. In other word,, the
oank stands in the breach aad SAYS TO
the world. for example: Nc will buy
all pounds sterling commercial bills
offered during the next three months
at So Merchants engaged in foreign
trade viii thcn be enabled 10 buy and
sell their goods with = stable medium
Of eXchar~e, snd at the end Of tho
commercial transaction, three months
hence, this bank, which has bought the
commercial bill, will be reimbursed the
money which it paid for the bill by the
foreign or American merchants. and
that money may be deposited in its own
vaults Or IN the vaults Of the federal
Reserve system. to take up ar oquiys-
lent an cunt Of It's outstanding currency.
Those decrying sterilization Of exchange
and the elimination Of unresulated ex-
change manipulations must remember
taat Congress taxed out of existence
the moneys issued b. The several
states the fluctuations Of winch nearly
wrecked the political, commercial and
financial structure of this country and
went so far as to make il crime to
discount the national dollar What IS
good for the United States in deal
ings with themselves is certainly good
for the United States in dealings with
the opies cf the rest CT the world.
This plan will not cause initiation IN
the United States and it VIII, 70 the
extent that exchange is pegeed up
cause deda.ion in foreign countries
and continuing. self-adjusting tariff
II defation was proper principle to
apply 10 this country and benefit to
us. certainly al the more SO should II
be beneficial in foreign countries where
it is SO much more needed.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08
Veteran of a Thousand Books

A man who has read one thou-
sand novels and still lives to tell the
tale has published the result of his
labors. AS the editor of paper
implicated more or less with the
book trade, his object was to dis
cover, if possible, why people do not
read books. He says:
"My lowbrow opinion is that about
one hundred Of these books THE one
thousand deserved publication, and
that the remaining 90 per cent were
valueless. The present trend in the
book business is to publish books
for what may be termed the high
brow literary cult and very dis
t'nctly against publishing books for
the common people the big major
ity. When u publisher does put
forth book for the common peoD1e.
he is extremely apoogctic about it.,
and sometimes promises the critics
not to let it happen again"
An ingenious theory, but weak,
for it assumes that the object Of Il
publisher is to cell as few books as
possible. The reason why publish
ers too often issue books that don't
sell is becausc they cannot tell be-
forchand what people want to read.
Another feet apparently escaped
the attention Of the investigator.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-08

mere memorizing of names and
dates. Yet this incident suggests
that it is time for Americans
to know a little more concerning
their country's history-especially
the beginnings of the first great
modern republican experiment.