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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

Senator Reed, In hls
Reed Runs EN- maiden speech, in when
be assailed the bonus
and refused to pass the buck TO the Pres,.
dent, disappointed American Legion pohh., or.
ticians. Jared the bonus seekers, broke .sS Va
unwritten laws Of the Senate. and outrase
all precedent. That's quite lot to accY~
plish In four minutes, and we're prouu
him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28
Today's Anniversaries

1TS4-Fnther Junipero. the missionary
founder Of San Francisco, died at Monte
rey., Born In the Island Of Min6rca No.
vember "a. 1713.
1S1G--Treaty signed between England
and Algiers, by which Christian slavery
was to be abolished and all slaves, Of what.
ever nation, to be delivered up.
1823--James ii. Oliver. famous as an In.
ventor and manufac urer of agricultural
Implements, born In Scotland. Died at
South Bend, Ind, March 2. 1908.
1S28-Count Leo Tolstoy, the greatest d
Rusia's philosophers. born in Poliana.
Died November 20. 1910. ~
1S68-President Johnson, accompanied By
General Grant and Admiral Farragut, left
Washington for Chicago to attend the un'
yelling Of the Douglas monument.
1910--Director General Hines ordered
railroad strikers in California, Arizona and
Nevada to resume work under penalty Of
dismissal and prosecution.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

xkaiser Wilhelm is TO marry n
widow. The elder Weller must have been
devising punshments for him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

As the Department Of Justice sees IL,
the Reds are trying to coal -scuttle the Ship
Of State.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

Stockton. Calf, man has found $40
worth Of small gold nuggets in the crop OF
hen killed for dinner, according TO a dis
patch. II must be the climate
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

John \. Stewart. 10O-ye old tinan
c!cr, remembers Broadway as a dirt road
PAY dirt.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

Democratic booths in county fairs are
70 be- placed in charge of pretty girls. We
can forcSee delightful possibilities in future
political campaigns.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

Stage melodrama pal,s its Intellectual
fires before the dope ring revelations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

De Valera is said to be ready to make
another big drive. He is going to overwork
that mule team il he isn't careful.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28
Kindness
May Win

"You're not bad - yoS
Kindness only think you are,
May Win said Judge walsh, as 10
nut a ''boy burglar on
probation. All the chances are in favor q
this being a good guess, and it may wen
be that the world has won a good citllen cea
when there was danger Of bad one being
foisted upon II.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28
SHORT CUTS


1t is apparently Mollas aim to run
counter TO what Helen Wills.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28
And There
You Are!

Cabinet took a certain important step
which may have a bearing on the next
presidential election in the United States.
though the fuCt was not mentioned. What
they did was to sample the new bread, made
of a combination flour, which is to sup
plant the white pure wheat loaf on Sep.
tciwaer !. France aims TO reduce wheat
imports. American farms have crops Of
unprccedentcd size. Perhaps they will be
consumed largely by our own people. Per-
haps not. IL not and foreign markets, for
one reason and another, are closed, II 10
conceivable that the farmer Will blame the
tariff and ----.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

When Lloyd George gets his little
$500, 600 for his book he will have to hand
half Of it 10 John Bull as income tax. And
h" can't complain. He did it with his
ntlir LDtCbct
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

New York designer returning from
Doauville, France, says Of the bathing suit
there, that there Is not enough Of il to
Justify design. The lady should study
the wing Of butterfly.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28
What Do You KnoiU?
QUIZ

1. Who was Levi p. Morton?
2. Where was the first lighthouse In the
g. What is antirnony?
4. Who wrote the humorous poem. Darius
Green and His Flying Machine?
8. What were the names of the three
daughters Of King Lear?
s. Why is a cats cradle 80 called2
Z. What ls brummagem?
8. What Is meant by a cousin german?
8. What is the CHIEF country In which the
Portuguese language 10 spoken?
10. What is the game Of knucklebones?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

When prohibition enforcement officers
insinuatc that Philadelphia is steeped in
liquor, can 1t be that they, refer to the
be sinking in the port OF Naples?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

While discussing lunch
con and German rep
aratiOns the other day.
Hrnnnhun Dnhnn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-28

7 RECEIVED in today's mail the notice
Of another contest inaugurated by the
Society Of Little Gardens; this time II IL
to be a Photographic contest. with n chance
with houses to n modified degree.
Particulars may be had from the presi.
dent of the society Mrs. Charles Davis
Clark, 2215 Spruce street, Philadelphia.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Calling cut soldiers for their
honorable discharge

year in the army expenditure, it was
something which called for much seri-
Gus figuring. And the Army Depart
ment's experts have been doing great
deal of that of late.
The first program they drew UP was
entirely satisfactory TO the army
circles. 1t leaked out at the beginning
Of July-a mere preliminary draft, AS
the War Minister, General Yamanashi,
said of it: THAT which was made
public should never have been pub
lished." This first scheme proposed
the reduction of the personnel by o.
900 men and the total saving of $780,
100000 yen in the ordinary and 29o00,-
00o yen in the extraordinary expendi-
lures within twelve years to come, and
after that period, an annual reduction
Of 20,000,000 yen in the military expen-
citures compared with the current
budget.
Practically the entire press of the
country and q lot of politicians howled
their displeasure at this first program.
They were SO noisy and so insistent
about 1t, that even the autocrats of the
General Staff had to lend their cars.
The army reconsidered it and revised
lit. Nothing tells more eloquent tale
Of the changed spirit of the times than
this simple fact.
On August the War Minister in
vited the leaders of the Seiyu party to
look over the final program, which had
been approved by the Supreme Military
Council, as we'll as by the Cabinet.
This final program seems to have sat
isfied the gentlemen of the party in
power. Also it seems to have satisfied
the press and the people in much
greater measure than was first thought
possible.
The final program proposes to re-
duce the period Of compulsory service
by eighty-seven days. The War Min
lister gave the impression, in explain
ing this phase of the program, that he
thought the military authorities were
straining point in shaving off The
period of training to this extent lust
to show the army's respect for the
judgment of the Diet and to meet the
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
" omen Help i
Make Army Unros' !,
ular by Ref,siin,
to Marry Soldier

brokerage house and gsmbIi,s ].
The soldier said to mr. T,s,.'@. -.
kano' the master Of the TaEs..pa..s IVA
"osore irimasuga, will you pIss.. ..''n''
me inside information as to ~. On =
young women in general nova =
think about marrying n,iliss,v n.' a'''
There may be-" answered r.
"one or perhaps two out Of o.. ,sa' =
dred girIa who would say. = .s.,s s'''
even to military man. r.. "
their case there is some hidde. 49,. :
back Of such decision--disso.o,,.s s.'''
in losing her former finance ,pd -'a
for sort Of lefthanded reqsnss ~ >
haps it is a result Of all this dI,,,r.
me"t sentiment in the couatr .'' =
hap' it is because the young ssa., ),
day are running msdly t, =. :.
axury Of life and are sntir.lv :, = :.
he patriotic spirit of tAln1in, - ~. :,
the country first Of ailp
Whether this is 50 or not tt. ,,.t
stands.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10

wishes of the gentlemen of the govern
ment party. Eighty-seven days are
not exactly the eight months which the
Seiyukai bill called for, but it was q
step in the right direction. Even poll
ticians had to admit that much. The
really meaningful thing about it all is
the simple fact that the army men are
actually trying to meet the pleasures
of politicians And they are trying to
meet the wishes of the politicians in
military matters and are going out of
their proud way to do 1t. AS a curtain
raiser, this is astounding, dramatic and
eloquent.
In the matter of reduction of the
personnel Of the army, the final pro
gram calls for the discharge of 1900
officers and $4,000 men, together with
1900 horses. In the number of Off
GERS to be stricken off the pay roll of
the army, this represents reduction
equal TO about six divisions
In terms of money this final pro-
gram WIZ Spell Ihe saving, according
to the judgment Of the War Minister
and tho gentlemen of the army coun-
ellis, of about 40O,o0o,oO0 yen in the
course of ten years to come That is
at the average annual rate of 100000
yen just the amount which the Sejyu-
kai bill Introduced into the Diet called
Tor, This does not mean that there
viii be the saving Of 4O,0oo,0oO yen
regularly every Year. The fiscal year
CT 1928 and 1929, for example, will not
net more than 23,00o,OoO yen in The
reduction budget.
According TO the explanation of the
War Minister, The army reduction pro-
gram was framed by the army bureau
heads and their counselots, with the
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10

never replied to any Of his letters. |
do not know him in any way whatever,
except from these letters, which have
never answered, do not even know
him by sight"
Whatever the rights and wrongs of
the story may be, there is no doubt
that Scotland Yard was induced to
move in the matter at the instance or
the society lady in question. Police
headquarters has refused to make anv
statement, for the good reason that it
tends to focus public attention on a
department of its work which it is far
from wishing to advertise.
On the Continent it is a fairly IA
miliar procedure for people against
whom it is inconvenient to make any
specific charge to be given forty-eight
hours notice to quit the country. but
England until the war, at least, was
very shy of these explosions by admin
istrative order, There are on record
of course, some notorious cases where
persons of aristocratic birth, but evil
life, were offered the alternative of
quitting the country or being prose
cuted, and they mostly accepted the
former; Oscar Wilde was offered this
alternative and refused it before he
was publicly pilloried by the late Mar
quis of Queensberry at his club. Most
~, however, expulsions were for no
litical reasons.
Under the aliens act the British eoy-
ernment had powers to deport certain
classes of offenders, but they could only
DC deported after conviction. and it
was not until the war that there came
tremendous extension Of the powers
of the police in this direction. There
were German spies of various national
tiles, like the Javanese dancer Matadi.
whom it was not always possible to con-
vict, but who could not be allowed to
remain. Though domiciliary visits
mostly have ended, Scotland Yard still
handles certain delicate situations n
inc with the methods Of the war wears
Thus when the Japanese crown prince
was IN this country it was rumored
that some Korean refugees planned his
assassination and they were warned
that unless they kept indoors on tbe
days Of the princes public progress
they would be deported.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10

batteries, and will stand at eight regi.
merits, =
Heavy artillery will be increased also
by four batteries, which will have three
regiments and eight independent bat
teries
Engineering corps will stand at
twenty-onc battaIions, showing the loss
Of seven companies.
Railway corps will show an increase
of two companies and will have two
regiments. The telegraph corps will be
increased by four companies, bringing
it to two regiments. The aerial corps
will be increased by two companies,
bringing this branch up TO six bat
talions. Balloon corps will be un-
charged at one company, while tho
commissariat corps will be reduced TO
nineteen battalions, showing a loss of
nine companies.
Surveying the various items from
which the reduction Of army expendi-
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Duke Ordered Out of Britain;
Mysterious Love Tangle Barred
spanish Crandee Deies Police and Says He Was
Engaged; Society Woman Tells of An
noying Letters Sent Her

Yard further before he quit--or the
equivalent thereof in the best Gas.
lillian.
No reason for their suggestion was
assigned by the dukes visitors, but it
soon appeared that here was a case of
'cherchez la femme" A beautiful and
distinguished young society woman,
whose name was kept out of the news
papers, was learned to be the influence
which had set Scotland Yard in motion
to secure the withdrawal from the
country of the Spanish grandee.
AS to the exact relations between the
duke and the woman there is consid-
cradle Of clash Of evidence. Accord
ing to the duke. he WAS Engaged to
well known English society lady" be-
fore the war, and was to have been
married to her, but the war came and
be had to return to Spain,
After a time" added the duke, "the
engagement was forgotten, and heard
no more Of the lady. When I returned
to this country found she had been
married. Apparently she resented my
seeming inattention, and have reason
to believe she has been showing my
love letters, numbering fifty or more,
TO many people'-incIuding, appar-
emily, Scotland Yard.
The nameless lady's version Of the
affair is quite different She has au-
thorized London newspaper ID give
an emphatic denial to tho story told
by tha duke Of his friendship with her
= have never even met this person y
she says, much less been on terms OF
friendship with him or quarrelea with
him. lie has written letters to me for
the last eight or nine years. / have
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Battle of Languages Is Waged
LIN French Chamber of Deputies
Shall Living or Dead Tongues Prevail? is Subject q
Long Debate; Thorough knowledge
of English Urged

style. II deals with the difaslen :
Esperanto. Maybe you do not n'
what Esperanto is, but yen sna's
know, if only for the sake Of aune
Esperanto is a kind Of Russian gag
which was invented some tTenss'as
years ago. and which is formed ny II
amalgamation OF all the natural
guages of the globe. 1t contains 8
English words in juxtaposition g =
Spanish words, and Russian syiis',
arranged with Dutch or japanese
tables. 1t is kind of monstrous Z
NAL having lions body. the w'as'
an eagle, horses head and 9 8
made with fish bones. The CLAIM =
inventors of Esperanto was thss s
language, containing 4 particle = s.,
the Languages, would please ail uss.
and would finally impose Itself g
nations ike universal Iangasge
That Finns or Albanians 'ssss q,
such propaganda is ccsaprel1sass.. i.
Their dialect has no chance q 81 &
ing itself on the universe, Ihes r,s
4 second language. just as wss s,
peranto as any other. But thar f'ss 81,
people, or English, or Gernsns III Il
have let themselves be alsurea = 81
linguistic boEshcvism, that IS =, I
extraordinary! II is neFertnsssa a,,s
fact that Esperanto which We ..s
twenty FIVE years aeo and wilsa 81 81.
TO have died through ridlculs s...s.
tinues to have disciples 10 ss il
Every year, in different capl'ss !. i
hold 3 congress, at which tass 500 .,,ssl
very numerous, but where sass ..,i
great noise. They get e - 1
that quite recently the A'n'ss. as..s
Public Instruction had 70 aaas ...,s
circular to ali the French edassS, d.
resorts to warn them against ~
ger of Esperanto.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10

trip in each direction, it is evident
that the income would be quite insult
ficicnt to cover the cost of maintain
ing the service and of providing in
tercst at 6 per cent on capital
The report therefore proposes that
the operating company should be given
a state subsidy, which would assure
return on the capital invested and give
The company sufficient inducement to
effect economies in management and
operating charges. Aside from this ex.
renditure the report estimates in addi-
tion for 100000 for laying out the
Bagdad-Karachi section of the route,
and 100000 for adapting the Cairo
Bagdad section for operation by civil
machines. 1t recommends besides the
expenditure of S1,o0O,000 for techni-
cal and scientific investigation of the
most suitable types of machines and
engines.
AS condition of the proposed state
subsidy the report lays down that "in
Nr''N3St " IN Peii"A SiHSi GSuGy IHc gov
ernmcnt should have the call upon all
the aircraft, equipment, pilots and per-
sonnel of the operating company
The chief cause for spending money on
a service which would not yield
commercial return is that if success
fully established it would materially
shorten inter-imperial distances and
thereby strengthen the British Empire,
and that the material and personnel
used would have a certain value in
time of war, 1t is for this reason that
the civilian effort is to be confined TO
airplanes, since airships are not Off
cially supposed to have any military
or naval future. This argument is not
regarded as vers strong, since the pre-
ponderance of expert opinion here
considers civil aviators and airplanes
10 be useless in time of war. so that
the gain really might be limited to
that Of having larger airplane- manu-
featuring industry.
Tho board responsible for the report
held itself TO be bound by Premier
Lloyd Georges statement in Parlia-
ment July II, when, basing himself on
the decisions of the Committee of I'm
periai Defense, he announced that "no
money should be expended in develop-
ing an airship .service.1
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10

ture is to come, one finds that there
is the abandonment Of the Tsingtao
administration in Shantung, the with
drawal OF the railway guards along the
Shantung line, withdrawal of the petty
Japanese garrison at Hankow on the
YaHgtse, in Central China, and along
the Corean -Manchurian border. The
abolition Of the Tsingtao administra-
tion is expected to yield 20,700,oO0 yen
and the doing away of the Hankow pSst
about 100000 year. The reduction cf
the army personnel by $1,000 men and
1890 officers is expected TO save about
2o,o0o,o0o yen and the shifting or aboli-
ton of number of bureaus is to save
100000 yen. In the light OF these
items, the most natural query is, What
prevents the army from saving more
than 2S,0oo,o0O yen in the financial year
1923-'24?
The chief answer for that is that
something like 100000 yen must be
paid cut to the officers and men to ne
discharged, as sort Of retirement
bonus. And then there are the ex-
penses OF bringing back the men from
China, Corca and Siberia, which are
by no means small BY and large, the
final program of army retrenchment is
a substantial tribute to the public
sentiment in Japan against military
dominance.
All this, however, is the govern
mental end of Japan's reaction against
militarism and the militaristic regime.
1t is sawdust and dry bones compared
to the change of heart which the people
of japan are undergoing at this time.
Ard the vital drama is not enacted in
government Offices and within the walls
of the Diet, either.
One day. early in May OF tslis year,
a soldier stepped into the reception
room Of Takasago-sha, on Aisurni
Street, in Yotsuya, in the City of Toxic.
Now Takasago-sha is one of those
amiable and vitally important institu
tions in the life of modern Nippon
which might be called matrimonial
bureau. Yet it is vastly and radically
different thing from what the average
American understands by a matr;.
monial bureau. There is about as much
difference between the two as there IS
between reputable stock exchange
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10

in peace years to the neighborhood Of
200,000,000 year.
When this reduction program will
have been put through, the Japanese
army will be composed of eighty-six
regiments and six Independent batta
lions of infantry. This means a de-
crease Of 22o companies from the pres
ent force.
There will remain twenty-nine regi-
ments of cavalry, which will mean the
loss of one battalion.
Mounted artillery will be composed
of one battalion, showing the loss of
one battalion from the present strength,
Ten regiments of field artillery will
remain, which shows decrease of los
batteries.
Mountain artillery will be reduced
by eight batteries, leaving four rcgi-
ments and two independent batteries.
Heavy field artillery viii be in
creased, instead of decreased, by eight
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10

following five cardinal considerations
in view:
Ito reduce the size of the army, as
far as possible without seriously Grip
pling its efficiency.
2-To make the period of reduction
and discharge of officers and men as
short as possible. This was done to
prevent the prolongation OF : period of
uncertainty among the officers and men
over their future, which is bound to
wreck the morale of the force.
3--To bring about the saving in army
expenditures of something over 10000
900 yen a year and so meet the pleas
ures of the Diet
Ito combine or transfer such bu-
reaus as can be transferred to other
departments of the government, which
may be able to conduct the business in
a more economical way.
5-To reduce the army expenditures
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
War Department Tskes Soss
Of Women's Manifesto

It is fact also that there h.. b..
quite stir within the very y,,,4.
walls Of the war building about !,
very thing. The War Department i.
a very grave view Of this attjtus.,
the young women Of Japan ot h.s
toward marriage with a soldier h.
a vita! bearing on securing sbiE., (,
talent to man the higher posai,., !,
the army,
A quarter of century d, &.
fewer OF Japan's young n.,s,,s
rushed to military academy Or .,,.r
college, SO much so that the suss.,
lies were compelled to make the s,,
dard of entrance examinations e.e,,a
irgly high. They had all the vsv.,
men they wanted at the time. ng
could afford to pick and choose. Tie,
were ten times more young men sa.
there were the school facilities th.,
All is entirely different now.
That the military men themselves m
keenly aware of the sad financial star.
ing and of all the embarrassing detail
Of life whick fall to the lot Of nil.
tary man is made quite plain in L,
action of such shining lights a. Al.
miral Togo and General Kuroki. Nj
one daughter Of either Of them is rr.
ried to military man.
Il cannot bear the idea Of Haryirt
my daughter to a military man. hsn
too much affection for her." is On. i
the commonest comments among d.
soldier fathers. AS for the mcshsn
of Japan. about the last thing ter
wish to see is the marriage Of thaI
daughters to soldiers.
Nine. sugi, one OF the directors si d
association composed of the wives Il
daughters OF the army and nd
officers, came out point blank in puS /
and stated that she would decline j
give her daughters to military nsn 4
marriage.
1T makes small difference how wiH
they may be as mothers or how sss'
and true as wives, it is impossible n
them TO maintain their social staadirs
and self-respect on the messsriscsns
of their military husbands
Here, then, is a social fact ID l,paH
which is infinitely more pcSsnu
than the Washington conferences sE'i
dreamed of being in booming niisI
tarism and its dominance in japan iss|
an everlasting fare ye well.