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OF
ECONOMIC MEET
TO b CONSIDERED
Mississippi Valley Association TO Con.
slider the ACCESSIBILITY OF IN
ScOnOmic Con-
ference

st. Louis, Mo. - A discussion of the
practicability Of requesting the pres
ent administration to call an American
Economic Conference will take plce
during the fourth annual convention
of the Mississippi Valley Association
to be held at Kansas City, April 1926,
it was announced recently by r. H.
Faxon, secretary-treasurer of the or
ganization with headquarters here.
Faxon stated that 1t would be one of
the detectives of the convention to
suggest to the delegates such connec-
ton between world economies and the
Valley as may lead to second World
Conference at Washington.
In speaking Of the feasibility of
such a conference and the ultimate
good to come therefrom, Faxon said in
an interview given out few days ago:
Since the Genoa Conference is DOOM
ed to failure because Europe has not
yet worked out in any measure its
own salvation; because Soviet Russia
in its uneconomic and unreliable con-
dition is to be a party; and because
the conference is hopelessly entangled
in political intrigue, why not an Amer
lean Economic Conference.
"This would nicely follow the recent
splendid Limitation of Arms Confer
ence at Washington. 1t would demon
strate American leadership. This pro-
posal and discussion will be intro
duced in the annual meeting of the
Mississippi Valley Association at Kan
sas City"
In discussing various other topics
Of national Importance, such as sales
tax legislation, taX-exempt securities.
and the American valuation plan,
which will be discussed at length dur
ing the convention, Faxon said
Bankers. farmers, and many business
men regard the sales tax in general as
uneconomic. 1t will be one fthe OBJ
jectives Of the convention to secure
concentrated thought and action as to
the future policy of the association
with regard to this matter" In this
connection, Faxon limited that certain
New York interests In favor Of the
salestax plan have formulated an
alaboriat campaign of nationwide
scope 10 secure the passage of this
He said in all probable
,ty that a special Mississippi Valley |
Warming would soon be put out by his
association to forestall this movement
rs tho general opinion OF the valley
interests seemed to indicate an ad-
yerse opinion as to the practicability
, fthe sales-tax plan.
"a special Mississippi Valley warn
ng will probably BIO put out in the
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sunshine, with an enclosed sun-porch
for them to play In when they aren't
busy at eating. The matron in charge
of the dining room will be something
of foster-mother to them all. When
the parents have IDEAS as to what
their little ones should eat, the ma
iron will confer with them and see that
the ideas are carried out. When they
have none the matron will use her
own ideas and they will be based on
considerably more expert knowledge
than that of the average parent. Two
hundred and fifty children seems d
large number to provide for in hotel
of $500 rooms. Visitors to New York
don't bring children with them in that
proportion. but the Commonwealth
thinks perhaps they will If they are
SO warmly encouraged to do H.
Ny
II the warm weather Of last week
had continued I: would have cost the
florists OF this city 81 100000 In Easter
flowers, according to the big flower
concerns here. Now dollhouse flowers
must be used instead OF those from
the gardens.
Ny
a play by Arnold Bennett. called
What the Public Wants." new at least
in this country. has been secured by
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TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY
WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME"
WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME"
WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME"
WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME"
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4 play by Arnold Bennett. called
What the Public Wants" new at least
in this country. has been secured by
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New York - The massive 9l9 piece
silver sett of great value, ordered by
Napoleon |. on his return to France
from his first exile, but delivered after
used by the French Royal family at
the Tuileries Palace from 1915 to 1880,
Is on exhibition in the Cartier gal
leries here Two bullet tholes in the
coup tureen bear evidence Of the revo-
lutions It has passed through Each
article beans the Bourbon coat OF
arms. which King Louis XVIII had
placed there when Napoleon was again
forced to abdicate and leave for st
Helena to end his days
Ny
Don't let anything ever again be
said about New York having no place
in it's life for children II Is the first
city In the country so far as know
TO build a hotel In which they are to
have a whole dining room, planned,
decorated and conducted entirely for
them and for their enjoyment. The
Hotel Commonwealth the big coop
erative enterprise. is putting in n
chlldren's dining room to accommo-
date $50. II isn't in the basement or
behind the backstairs. ether, where
children used Ia be relegated, 1t Is
on the eighteenth floor. flooded will
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near future, as soon as some pertinent
facts may be assembled, regarding the
propaganda from certain New York
security-house interests, in favor of
sales-tax,' said FaXon. Celebrating
more fully on this alleged campaign
Faxon said: Zone headquarters are
being established in the Valley by
these interests and speakers, data.
agents AN dother features at consider
able cost indicate the thoroughness OF
this movement to secure repeal o fthe
sales tax legislation"
In speaking Of tax-exempt securi-
ties FaXon said: "The spread of tax
exempt securities has become alarm
ing as to warrant discussion of it
again by the Mississippi Valley As
ISOLATION, which has several times
taken action thereon. The amount OF
capital thus withdrawn from active
use in business, and on which no Gov
ornamental revenue is derived, and
which points constantly to state So
cialism, is not in excess of $4,000
100000. An amendment to the consti-
tuition proposed by Senator Smoot and
Representative McFadden seeds to
rectify the evil in the future. This
Amendment, Will it cannot become
retroactive, it can at least establish
halt on the spread of tax-exempt Sc
curities. 1t is expected that the As
ISOLATION, during the convention, will
take definites stand in favor of any
measure designed to prevent the
spread of the tax-exempt security
evil"
Faxon said that the subject of
American Valuation would receive the
serious consideration of the conven-,
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ton delegates to the end that action
may be secured on a definite policy
which will provide that American un-
derwriters of foreign loans stipulate
IN the making Of all foreign loans that
a portion of each loan shall be expend-
ed in the purchase Of American-made
products. There will be proposed for
the consideration of the convention
what is considered a vital matter in
foreign trade" said FaXon in speaking
of the American Valuation Plan Con-
tinuing he said: This is to secure ac-
ton If possible among American I'M
derwriters of foreign loans an a defii-
mite policy whereby a stipulation will
be included that at least part of each
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WO'S EFFICIENT NOW9

Uncle Sam may owe arsphenamine
(salvarsan) to Germany but he has
improved 1t lot since he took over
its manufacture some years ago. To.
day, says the U. s. Public Health
Service, it and its fellows pass tests
that are twice as rigid, which means
that the drugs themselves are twice as
safe as they ever were before.
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loan shall be expended in the purchase
Of American products.

io"n sudil De expended IN the purchase
Of American products.
American money in foreign loans
heretofore has been used to purchase
from our competitors products and
supplies which have weakened our
market. 1t has had an effect upon our
entire economic system, including, of
course, unemployment. European
banking houses in foreign loans re-
quire such an agreement as proposed
II probable investors who are CUSTOM
ers Of bankers and bondholders would
form the habit of inquiring and insist
ing upon such stipulation in foreign
loans, 1t would ondeniably have good
effect"
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1.-THE Theater Guild. No date has been
set for its opening, however, because
Back to Methuselah" is increasing in
popularity and the Guild does not
know when the Garick Theater will
be free.
NY
New York City does more tlephon-
ing than any whole country on the
ether side of the Atlantic - or Pacific
or Panama Canal, excepting Great
Gritain and Germany. More than l.
100000 phones are in use here.
N.Y.
Ministers sons seem to be making
regular community home out of
1.-THE Rose of Stamboul,' light opera
now being produced here. There are
three Of them in the cast: Marion
Green, whose father was a Methodist
preacher and became bishop Of do
cese in Illinois,; Hapley Holmes. son
Of New England clergyman with
hatred OF the stage; and John V. Lowe
whose father is rector in England.
Ny
Did you ever notice homes in New
York with two lights always burning
in front OF them That IS one OF our
rights Of honor granted by tradition
and old custom to the homes Of our
mayors and ex-mayors. Grammercy
Park, that least changed old residence
section OF the city, is proud Of the dis
iinction OF having two such homes in
the hollow square facing It The fam
ily of an ex-mnyor may retain the
lights so long as they live in the old
home.
Certain churches in this city are
said TO be planning a campaign
against some of the speedier cabaret
and dance restaurants which will have
more punch" in II than the mere gem
cralities hurled against them rom the
pulpit They are making I'D lists and
will issue an edict that a member who
frequents any place upon tht list shall
cease to be members of that church.
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Manifest interest in the perform
ances of Kentucky Derby candidates
is another sure sign of spring.
The Washington times., 1922-07-24
NOISES OF THE CITY.

To the Editor Of The Times.
Some action should be taken on the part
Of the city government to curb the making
of loud and unnecessary noises on the streets
and byways Of our city
am not thinking OF myself or other well
persons: am thinking OF the sick. Prac.
tically everyone knows that one Of the es-
sential requirements to the speedy recovery
of the sick and sickly is duietude. Neces.
sary or unavoidable noises must be tolerated
by those unfortunates but unnecessary, or
loud noises and unnecessarily loud or pro-
longed sounds when lesser volume or
duration of sound would suffice should be
prohibited by regu atoms. or, II now pro.
hibited, the regulations governing the same
should be more strictly enforced.
l will endeavor to refer to only few Of
the causes of unnecessary noise. The "toot.
ing" Of auto horns Is oftentmes over indulged
in or totally uncalled for. The blowing Of
whistles, or bug es and the ringing OF bells,
in some instances to indicate the time, is
somewhat overdone. Loud and boisterous
noises in streets and alleys should not
be permitted. Children should be taught to
avail themselves OF the public Fairgrounds,
whenever available and II the number now
in existence in this city do not suffice, a
larger number located at convenient points
throughout the District should be gradually
provided to take care Of the youngsters.
r. r. d.
The Washington times., 1922-07-24

w in life by our silly fear of
w looking foolish while we
learn.
Notice how a child learns. He
stumbles, totters, falls, picks him
self up and goes at it once more.
At last he acquires that co-ordina-
tion of balancing and motor mus
cles which enables him to walk up.
right like a man.
He learns to talk by an endless
method of trial and failure, by the
imitation of sounds which he at last
comes to pronounce correctly.
The child doesn't care if you
laugh at it. 1t laughs with you, but
keeps right along trying and learn
ing. How many grown-ups do we
know who will not learn to dance
because beginners look so ridicu-
lous"; or who will not learn to
play tennis or golf for fear some
one will make fun of them. Afraid
to try.
How many Americans take a
smattering of French or German
abroad and are afraid to talk it to
foreigners until it has been cor
rected into shape. SO they spend
their time over there with fellow
Americans and hotel servants who
speak English, and never estab-
lish communication with the ma
tives. Afraid to try.
How many of us miss the social
and intellectual improvement that
comes from associating with our
betters. That involves humility,
the willingness to stumble and
make mistakes and learn from
them. Easier, of course, to sit
around in shirt sleeves with the old
crowd and talk shop or gossip.
Afraid to try.
We miss half the information
that could be ours through simply
asking questions.
Ask, try, learn. Never mind
those who laugh at you. You will
laugh later and longer.
Don't be afraid to try.
The Washington times., 1922-07-24
Let ALL Wars
Be. Ended
ntTILESS is the penalty of war,
levied not only upon the gen.
l. Grafton that fights, but un-

nlIlLESS is the penalty or war,
levied not only upon the gen.
l. Grafton that fights, but un-
born generations that come after.
Consider England. On the bat
tlefield she paid the lives of over
a million Of her best and bravest.
Today two million of her working
men and women are unemployed,
her foreign trade 63 per cent of
its 1913 volume, her domestic trade
cut in half. Out of a national in
come which is 65 per cent of 1913
Great Britain's taxes have in
creased five times, not counting
interest on her war debt. Today
"a cents out of every dollar earned
in England is taken in taxes.
And France. After her war
losses, she has pension list of
100000 to provide for, an internal
debt of As billion dollars. an exter-
nal debt of 7 billion and ten of her
richest departments are devastated.
Frenchmen fight valiantly and die
gloriously for their country, but
French millionaires refuse to pay
taxes on incomes imposed else
where.
Germany has been stripped of
$4,000 miles of area in Europe,
aside from the loss of all her over
sea possessions. She has lost 80
per cent of her coal production,
twenty million tons of iron ore,
4,5O0,OOO tons of shipping. She
has had to give up 5000 locomo-
tives, 10000 freight cars, 5000
motor trucks, one-eighth of her
railroads, most of her oversee in
vestments, banking and commercial
business.
AS to ourselves, we lost only
100000, men, but accumulated a
debt of $4,000 million dollars,
which imposes on us an annual
Federal budget of 1000 million.
The war dislocated our industry.
At this moment our millions of un-
employed are swelled by over a
million coal and railroad strikers.
who may any day bring industrial
paralysis upon us.
No. war doesn t paint a cheerful
picture.
This war hasn t made any one
free. 1t has plunged all the ma
tions Of Western civilization into
economic slavery.
The Washington times., 1922-07-24
HOT
ARGUMENTS
BY BUGS" BAER
Copyright. 1922. by Star compsn!

WHY are telephone booths
w steam heated in July and
oven cooled in August?
EOUR minute calls are like
eggs. Hard boiled.
WRONG numbers are fried on
w both sides. Right numerals
are broiled. Person trying to
get some nonsensical education
from central. comes dashing out
of booth ike Welsh rabbit that
has run gauntlet of hostile chat.
ing dishes.
DRESIDENT HARDING is sure
Of another spasm in White
House II his platform is open
work telephone booths.
ONE minute in booth Is guar
" anteed TO conquer any col.
lar. No Cannibal ever roasted
any tender missionary better
than phone company cooks its
vegetarian subscribers.
WHY commit arson on feeble
w birds who want to talk to
somebody. even II it's only their
wives or husbands?
TN L E s this long distance
cremation stops, they'll have
to put shower baths in booths
and hand out towels with each
call.
reason why folks lose their
~ tempers in booths is that
they've got to make their con.
versation fireproof or II will
burn up.
FIVE MINUTES in booth Is
like weekend on hot stove.
IF you make longer call than
= that, telephone company will
deliver your body within twenty
miles Of city,
NEW telephone exchanges are
~ Oven, Sheol, Furnace, Fire
and BiaZes.
YOU look for your numbers In
Brides Cook Book.
GOT TO put on fireman's hat
before entering booth. and
you come out feeling like entree
in New England boiled dinner.
COMPANY ought to either put
~ fans in booths or take out
telephones.
PIGHT kind OF July booth
would be family refrigerator,
Use cake OF ice for Morris
chair and have Eskimo centrals,
A NYBODY gets irritable when
n his ears start to slZzle and
smoke pours out of his dollar
watch.
BOARD those booths up for
summer or let us do our
telephoning in bathing suits,
The Washington times., 1922-07-24
Harden's Proposition
AZ AXIMILIAN HARDEN. who
M was recently attacked by
xvx ruffians in Germany be-

Xx ruffians in Germany be-
cause he is not friendly to the
Kaiser and his Junkers, made a
proposition some time ago which
is one of the few sensible sugges-
tions bearing on the strained rela-
tions between France and Ger
many. 1t is that what France and
Germany both need is an economic
and customs union between the
two countries.
In other words, if both nations
could exercise a little common
sense and self-restraint and agree
to some reasonable compromise it
would be infinitely more profitable
for both of them.
The statesmen of neither country
realize that persistence in obsti-
macy is simply prolonging the war.
The war will never be over until
reasonableness and compromise take
the place of hate and vengeance.
The Washington times., 1922-07-24
WAYSIDE WISDOM
FOLLY CLAIMS ATTENTION
Copyright. 1921
BY S. E. kiser

tOLL1 CLAlMS A Elm llON
WHEN a reckless plunger blunders.
w And is ruined" overnight
Bankers gasp. the public wonders.
Other plungers quake with fright:
No one hears about the many
Who continue right along,
Working hard for every penny,
Being honest still. and strong.
WHEN a preacher lets temptation
w Lure him from the narrow way.
Gracious, what a wild sensation,
And what gossip and dismay!
Other preachers are forgotten,
Though they serve as best they can:
People think the church is rotten
Ruined by the misled man.
WHEN a rich mans son lets Folly
w Coax him into filthy slime.
All the world, il seems, is jolly
Well astounded in no time.
Other rich mems sons obeying
The Comm andments pass unseen;
People are so busy flaying
Him who has been found unclean.
WHEN a man Is bravely going
w Forward where his duty lies
People have no time for showing
That they think him good or wise.
Well. it's fine that fair endeavor
Is too common to be praised;
That the public. now, as ever.
Gasps whenever hell is raised.
The Washington times., 1922-07-24
COLLEGE TRUSTEES.
r of The Times:

To the Editor of The Times:
why is It necessary for the trustee boards
of our colleges and universities TO be com.
posed Of bankers, real estate brokers, trac.
ton magnates, etc?
Isn't It a fact that these men take with
them into their trustee meetings their bust.
ness psychology?
Would really be guilty OF a crime II
suggested that our trustee boards might also
include bricklayers, mechanics, carpenters and
Government clerks as membera7
Why not make college boards more
democratic rather than aristocratic?
PHILIP EBERT.
The Washington times., 1922-07-24
The March
ofEuents
~ ENATOR BORAH says that the
. bonus and subsidies and other

N ENATOR BORAH says that the
bonus and subsidies and other
~ "extravagance" will keep this
country in debt for a thousand
years. That is nothing to worry
about. All healthy governments
and working individuals are in
debt. AS Joseph P. Day says, 80.
P. M."-other peoples moneys
the great modern motto.
BY borrowing wisely, you can do
in a year what would otherwise
take a hundred years. If we can
keep out of WAR and avoid
GRAFT, debt for thousand years
needn't worry us.
They say the former Kaiser has
become a weather student. He has
complete outfit, watches the
weather. and sends his observa.
tions to Berlin. Ii might be wiser
for his family and himself if he
had some reliable person watching
Berlin and sending the observations
to him.
Benjamin F. GraveIy. of Martins
vile, Va, suggests that France
knows better than anybody else
what Germany can afford to pay.
France has shown rcasonableness in
recent negotiations. Neither France
nor any nation or individual knows
what Germany could pay in the
way of SOLID GOLD. The propo-
sition is new. Germany is ordered
month by month to pay out
total amount of gold greater than
all the gold there is.
She must buy the gold and pay
it out, buy it back and pay it out
again, and continue, as originally
planned, up to 162 billion gold
marks.
The arrangement. hardly started,
has done to Germany money
what would be done TO ours if our
dollar were made worth less than
one cent.
War is painful. but a wonderful
ant Prime Minister of Bulgaria. ad-
dresses to Boris, the young king, a
blunt speech that shows Bulgaria
has had about all she wants of au-
tocratic kings. Sire. says Siam
boulisky, the peasant with rough
boots, to the nicely perfumed king
"you shall reign, but you shall
not govern. On this day there
begins the government of the farm
ers.
Bulgaria got an education in the
war, the king knows it and is most
polite about it.
Mr.. Taft tells the English as he
leaves England, II go home with
unbounded admiration for the coun-
try whence my ancestors came.
England DESERVES admiration
for what she has accomplished.
However, we should remember that
the American of Italian descent
leaving Italy, of Irish descent leav-
ing Ireland, of Spanish, Dutch,
German, etc, descent, can all say
the same thing.
This country is made up of peo-
pie of ALL natiOnalities. Those
that 60 to England and sometimes
apologize for the American Revolu-
ton DIP not make up the whole of
America.
The Washington times., 1922-07-24

Taking our tandard of development and
progress, China is making giant stridess In
1918, there were 100000 persons In factories
and 1000 900 children In schools. Our com
mercial attache at Peking predicts that In
a few decades China will have 40. 0.000, ,000
factory hands and $4,000 900 school children
these figures being proportienate to the
present statistics Of the United states
The Washington times., 1922-07-24
Stars and STRIPES
VACATION NOTE,

VACATION NOTE.
New York woman went away for the
summer and left a sign for the mi.kman.
reading: Don't leave anything" Bur.
glars came along and after they were
through left another sign: I'VE didn't
Most couples who are married In air
planes get back to earth eventually.
The Washington times., 1922-07-24

Lloyd George Is becoming very impa.
tient with France but what does PoIn.
carer
Conan Doyle says there are ghosts OF
animals Sure. Haven't you gotten those
spirit roast.beef sandwiches In the one.
arm restaurants?
The Washington times., 1922-07-24
Easily Explained.

One OF the reasons why most
OF our philanthropists are men Is
that n man can't marry a Greek
prince or an English duke.
The Washington times., 1922-07-24
Do You Read Norman
HapgOOd's Editorials?
You Ought To-They Are the Best Written just
Now.

TvVERY month Norman Hapgood, editor of Hearst's
International Magazine, writes editorials that in
- telligent readers of this newspaper should read
and think about
Mr.. Hapgood has travelled the world, has studied
it, in his lifetime and in its past history. He knows
pretty nearly everybody and everything worth while
And he has managed thus far to go through his
young life without borrowing mental color or opinions
convictions from his human surroundings. He really
thinks for himself.
AS sample of what call good editorial writing
we offer you the following from Hapgoods double
editorial page in the July number of HEARST'S IN
TERNATIONAL MAGAZINE.
W will observe that in very short space Hapgood
is able to DISCUSS eight different subjects, every one
important. He knows what few know-WHERE
to begin and WHEN stop.
Norman HapgOOd on Russia. New Germany