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Evening star., 1922-02-24
WOODS PHILIPPINE
PROGRAM ENACTED
Island Legislature in Extra
Session Votes Measures
Crowded Out Before.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MANILA, p. l., February 20.-En-
actment of the entire financial pro-
gram recommended by Gov. Gen.
Wood was completed with the pas
sage today by an extra session of the
legislature of bills crowded out in
the closing hours of the regular ses-
sion.
These included concurrent resolu-
tion authorizing the governor general
to represent the Philippine govern
ment in urging upon President Hard
ing and Congress the adviSability of
| increasing the debt limit of the Phil
ippine government from S35,00O.000 to
! S15,OO0.O00. 1t was pointed out that
| the proposed maximum is less than 10
| per cent of the assessed valuation of
| philippine property and below the
limit of virtually every other govern
| ment in the world.
| Action PIeaSes Wood.
| Gov. Wood expressed satisfaction
! with the enactment of the financial
| program, saying it now would be pos
sible to put Philippine finances on Il
| sound foundation. The Legislation, he
said would also permit resumption Of
public works. including improv ement
| of the port of Manila.
\
| thorzing bond issue for the es-
| tablishment of a gold standard fund
/ with which to maintain the parity of
i the Philippine silver peso with the
| gold standard peso. Another bill an
| thorized bond issue to establish the
parity of treasury certificates with
| the silver peso.
| The gold standard fund is placed at
| Is per cent of the government money
| in circulation and available for cir
| culation, and the treasury certiflca tie
| fund at loo per cent.
| Other Measures Passed.
| Other bills authorized bond issues
| for public works and made available G
| funds to meet obligations of the
| Philippine government to the United
| States War Department and to re-
| lieye the exchange situation. The
| deficiency in the general fund is also
| provided for. The legislature also
! passed measure requesting amend
| ment TO the laws of the United States
respecting the leasing and exploration
| Of oil lands in the Philippines TO ma Ike
| them conform with laws applicable
| within continental United States.
Evening star., 1922-02-24
REJECTED SUITOR SHOOTS
GIRL AND KILLS FATHER
Mortally Wounds Self After
Tragedy as Three Are Rid
ing on Train.

WEST MIDWAY. Mass, February
24.-Kingston Jeffers of this town
shot and killed Percy Russell. seri-
ously wounded Russell's daughter
Grace. nineteen years old. and in
fficted a probably mortal wound upon
himself near the Clicquot station in
this town last night. Miss Russells
wounds We're not considered danger
Gus.
Russell was head bookkeeper for a
leather concern in Boston and resided
here. His daughter also worked as a
bookkeeper in Boston. AS the train
on which they were returning home
last night reached the Clicquot sta
tion Jeffers. who had been talking to
the two, drew revolver and shot
Russell In the head. Miss Russell
jumped off the train. Jeffers followed
and shot her and himself.
The police said that at Russelfs re-
quest a warrant charging assault and
battery had been sworn out against
,Ieffers and was to have been served
because of the annoyance which
Jeffers. a rejected suitor, had caused
Russell's daughter.
Evening star., 1922-02-24
REDS PROPOSE TO OPEN
PRISONS IF FOREIGNERS
WILL REMOVE INMATES
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. February 24.-"We shall
gladly turn over all the people in
our prisons to foreigners If they
will take them away" said Leon
Trotsky, soviet war minister, in
an interview with foreign corre-
spondents who asked If he knew
that prisoners were starving and
dying of disease in soviet jails.
1--WE have our own way of deal
Ing with prisoners" he went on.
"You in the United States electro
cute them. Well. we don't. Also
Americans who wish to realize
what happens to prisoners during
revolutions should remember their
own civil war" he added, referring
to Libby prison.
"As for freeing prisoners, we
haven't peace yet on our frontiers
Petlura, the Ukraine leader, is siS-
ting in hotel at Tarnov, Galicia,
plotting against us, and there are
many others.
Anyway, in or out Of prison,
people are dying of hunger. Our
famine on the Volga was partly
caused through the region being
ruined by kolchak and the Czechs,
financed by foreign powers"
Evening star., 1922-02-24
DITCHED AUTO KILLS TWO.

MEMPHIS. Tenn. February 2f.-t'elix
Steele. nineteen. and II. y. Ramcy.
twenty, both of Memphis. We're Killed
and two other youths were injured
when IN automobile in which they
were riding ran into a roadside ditch
near Cra wfrrdsville. Ark.
The two injured. Ray Collins and
W. A. Seymour, We're brought to Il hos
pital here; both probahly viii! recover.
Evening star., 1922-02-24
Rid Yourself of Constipation
With Delicious Nature Food!

Constipation can be relieved
permanently in the simplest way
imaginable. If you will eat kel-
logg's Bran, cooked and krumbled.
regularly, you will find yourself
freed from this annoying and dam
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will indorse the use of kellog's Bran
for constipation. We guarantee that
it will give permanent relief piovid-
ed you eat at least two tablespoon
fuls daily. For chronic cases, eat as
much as is necessary. Besides. 1t
will free the breath from disagree
able intestinal odors and clear up
pimply skins.
You should know all about Kel-
logg's Bran, cooked and krumbled.
1t is not only wonderfully bene
fetal nature food. but it is a de-
licious cereal, eaten as a cereal
with milk or cream and sugar, or
sprinkled on your favorite cereal.
Evening star., 1922-02-24

tended for the detective bureau in an
effort to effect a Jail delivery.
The hallway of the three-story
building where the explosion occur
red was demolished by the blast. The
building is occupied by the l.. II. Cal
lahan Company, plumbing supplies.
and the Window Washing System. As
far as known there was no one in the
building at the time.
One theory is that the bomb was
connected with some labor disturb
ance, the headquarters of the Window
Washers Union being in the wrecked
building.
Evening star., 1922-02-24
ADVERTISEMENT

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Pills and cathartics are dangerous
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Evening star., 1922-02-24

ADVERTISEMENT.
Evening star., 1922-02-24
BOMB IN CHICAGO ROCKS
BIG OFFICE BUILDINGS
Many Windows Shattered by Elk.
plosion Near Central De-
tectiye Bureau.

CHICAGO, February 24.-Windows
were shattered and downtown office
dynamite bomb at s o'clock last
night. The noise of the explosion
was heard in all parts of the Loop
and alarmed guests in nearby hotels.
The explosion occurred two doors
from the central detective bureau. 1t
was believed that the bomb was in
Evening star., 1922-02-24

his representations that he, Percy
Rockefeller and George +. Baker had
nightly meetings to fix up the mar
ket" for the next days trading.
Rockefeller and Baker denied they
knew him.
Mrs. Arnold obtained an order from
Supreme Court Justice BLUR directing
the sheriff of Rockland county to
hold Lindsey's home and its contents
pending the outcome of her suit to
recover her money.
Evening star., 1922-02-24

Clean your liver and bowels!
You are dizzy, bilious. headachy,
Ind sick from constipation poisons.
\ ou need one or two Cascarets to-
hight to physic your liver and
bowels. then you will feel fine
when you wake up in the morning.
Evening star., 1922-02-24

The familiar term of "red-letter
days" originated in the custom of
the Bank of England of recording all
saints days, holidays and other times
when no banking was done in red ink
On the calendars.
Evening star., 1922-02-24
For Colds. Grin mr. Ypevepzo

and as Preventive tax" Laxative RROMU
oTlNfNE Tablets The genuine bears the six,
nature of L. W. Grove. ,i,. sure you gei
EkNMO.l Shr.-Adycrtiscmcnt.
The Washington herald., 1922-04-08
A Long Step Ahead.

fTAlS gratifying to note that the government ;s
i making real progress in its avowed purpose of
encouraging better methods in the despatch of pub
lie business -t
The war emphasized the fact that real mart
nership exists between government and business
and active steps taken by departmental officers
toward making the working arrangement between
the two constructive and mutually helpful are high
y commendabe a =.
The two departments which come into the most
intimate contact with the people, are the Treasury
Department with'it new and intimate tax laws and
the PostoHice Department whose business it is to
serve and, therefore, to help every individual citi
zen
The Postoffce Department is an educating and
business building agent. Accordingly its prompt
recognition OF the value Of labor-saving devices in
the more effective and more economic handling Of
the mall is most praiseworthy.
One of the most interesting of these devices is
the ePoch-makng postage meter machine the use
OF which the department has authorized 1t is now
in satisfactory use in many important business
houses and its indica is already familiar to large
reading public.
The first of these machines has just been in
stalled in the offices of the local telephone COM
pany
The postage meter imprnts directly on the
letter postage stamp and postmark in such form
dS 10 aVold the necessity OF stamp cancellation and
postmarking at the outgoing postoffice.
The general use of these machines BY import
ant mailers throughout the country will effect an
nual savings to the government running into many
millions of dollars. Similar savings will result to
the users of the machine. There will be other
equally important results such as the more rapid
despatch OF the mail and the protection to the
business men and the government against defaIca-
ton and other losses incident to the handling of
adhesive postage stamps.
The labor employed in the routine work per-
formed by this machine will be released to work
calling for superior mental activities and which is
more remunerative to the individuals performing
such service
This is one of the most noteworthy instances
OF the practical application Of business methods to
government operations that has yet marked the
progress OF the postal service. 1t recognizes the
value of active cooperation with the users of the
mails in the interest of better postal service for
everyone, at the minimum cost to the public.
The Washington herald., 1922-04-08
Hopeless for Mama.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
Anent your editorial of April )
on "Shifters.r permit me to advise
the worried mater familias that 1t is
Of no Use for she will have only
her trouble for her pains: that II
clever enough to manage her home
propcrly, she has done her duty well
and nobly. She Is only taking an
other view OF the question, What
is tie world coming tor which Is
ever with us
Joined the } shifters eighteen
years ago and helped to initiate one
OF ny law professors. He hesitated
about accepting our bid" so we
had to strong-arm him to get the
init ,tion fee and fasten the insignia
upon him. He thought what ls
the world coming to?'
Going back a little. further, the
TRANSACTIONS of the Inscriptions on
the Rosetti Stone disclose that it was
ch'seled to euloGize the King for
reducing taxes" inter ALA. during
his reign. Evidently they thought
in those b. c. times that reducing
taxes" was something modern and
up-to-the minute
So don't worry, mother. Your zeal
isc ommendable, but you won't
land. Remember that we were just
as devilish to our parents, and take
some consolation in the thought
that the next generation will be
so to theirs.
CHEF SEATTLE:
The Washington herald., 1922-04-08

are still inclined to distort the old
adage into Give us the luXuries
and we will do without the neces-
sites"
And we are not pulling together
as We should and as We will have
to do il VIC expect to bring order
out of the confusion and chaos
which is an aftermath of a struggle
born of hate. closely followed by
selfishness and now in a period OF
suspicion.
The damnable profiteers will have
to be lashed to the mast. The self
ish capitalists and employers Of
labor who would take advantage
of conditions and reduce the work
ing man to servility, must be
brought to their senses and be
made 10 see the responsibility they
are taking and their fate. when the
reaction which is bound to come.
removes from them the protection
which they now enjoy.
| am not a pessirlist from choice
but 81 would rather be a truthful
pessimist than an optomistic liar
to quote our esteemed President of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce, in a recent address, and
when we get down to cases and see
things as they are and not as they
are painted by the propaganda of a
selfish. self-centered. money-mad
band OF conspirators against the
public veal. we will find the rem
edy for the disease that has so
greatly threatened our body polite.
and just that much sooner will we
get back to normal, peaceful and
prosperous conditions for all the
people. and throughout the nation
and throuChout the world We will
have regained our right to proclaim
that we are a government of the
peoDle" and the foundation stone
re-dedicated to the only. cause upon
which civilization can survive-The
Brotherhood Of Man.
GEORGE TRAVERS.
The Washington herald., 1922-04-08
Kabat Comes Back.

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
A writer to the Open Court has
written a letter in which he tries
to convey the impression that he is
a hardboiled Westerner. and to
show how tough he is he signs his
letter Cactus Bill" He agrees
with everything have written
about fiappers, but raises the qucs-
tion that since l know so much
about cake-eaters I must associate
with the F street boys. He implies
that am not aware OF the fact
that there are still some regular
men left, and insinuates that any
of the two-fisted men he knows is
capable of beating me up.
Must / again tell this wide but
narrow world that one does not
necessarily have to he a member OF
class which he critiCises? There
is Billy Sunday. the eccentric evan
Eelist, who has many enemies, yet
I have never heard any of his critics
assail his character despite the fact
that he is so thoroughly familiar
with conditions of vice and evil in
the United States. ...
Cactus Bill must be a cake
eater hiding Hnder tough nom de
plume. because he takes so many
pains trying to emphasize the fact
that the refined and Eentlemanly
men he knows are no less men new
ertheless. H tells me to put that
into my pipe and smoke it. AS ]
don't smoke a pipe I can't comply
with his request. ] smoke ciga-
rettes. but you, won't find an F
street long cigarette holder sepa-
rating me from the smoke pSoper.
/ don't like his insinuations about
his two-fisted men, and l am both
willing and eager to meet any of
them at any time and any place. l
prefer to meet Cactus Bill" him
self.
I am not a hard-boiled person,
but do not back down with any
one who thinks he is so tough that
every time he takes a shave he has
to smooth his rough skin with EN-
cry paver. .
HARRY KARAT
The Washington herald., 1922-04-08
Brotherhood of Man."

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
-Four years ago the greatest ma
tious of the earth were pitted
against each other in mortal. COM
bat, on one side those which stood
for domination of the world and
on the other those who justified
their participation in this awful
conflict by rising to the defense of
Christian civilization. Every nerve
string of this mighty nation was
keyed to the highest pitch and every
eye and ear was turned toward
what was then known as the Great
Spring Offensive"
With the British forces fighting
with their backs to the wall" and
the French determination voiced
in that historic slogan, they shall
not pass" the manpoweT and the
soulpower of our America was
thrown into the breech and the
German hordes were crushed and
civilization saved. IS
But at what a cost, and what has
the sacrifice and the resultant VIC
tory availed us? Are we taking ad-
vantage of the opportunity offered
us and our posterity to live in
peace and the pursuit of happiness
which We had hoped and prayed
for during that awful period Of
distress? I am afraid not. II IS
true that we have been soberes
somewhat from the drunken orgy
of extravagance and It's attendant
consciousness, but too many of us
The Washington herald., 1922-04-08
Buying an Empire.

IF ONE MAN controlled all the newspapers in
the United States he would be the most power
full individual in the world.
1t is a situation impossible of realization but
interesting to speculate upon. His command Of
public opinion would be absolute. The power of
despotic monarchs would be feeble thing COM
pared to the force in his hands.
In Germany this is exactly what has happened.
The German workman farmer reads only home
foreign news which has been predigestcd by the
apparatus OF This has done
many interesting things in the last few years.
Without much aid from the press he secured his
position as, without much doubt, the most powerful
human being in Central Europe.
Hugo SHINES has spent some time obtaining
strangle hold on the German press At last ac-
cording to the Manchester Guardian correspondent
at Berlin, his mastery is accomplished fact.
There 400 newspapers in Germany,
without counting trade journals or magazines, we
learn from this writer. Hardly fair-sized village
but has its newspaper-many of them two or three.
Postwar conditions have made the existence
OF individual publishers almost impossible. The
highest obtainabe circulation and advertising rates
barely cover the cost of print paper. Into this
situation SHINES stepped with his characteristic
thoroughness.
He purchased seventy of the largest publica-
tions outright. His next step obtain mastery
OF all the stereotype factories, placing under his
indirect control all but the smallest provincial
papers. His latest step has been to buy up all
the telegraph agencies. British correspondent
says that small agency still remains independent
The smallest village paper hardly can print a
line, with the exception of strictly local news,
without the consent of the Rhenish ironmaster.
As newspaper after newspaper goes into bank
ruptcy SHINES purchases them.
Perhaps the most interesting point is that
he loses money on all of them. He considers the
influence he wields public opinion worth the
price. What visions of great empire hover in the
brain Of the busy, shabby little man? He buys
power regardless of cost-to what end2
The Washington herald., 1922-04-08
HOW DID SCORPIONS GET
IN NORTH DAKOTA MINES.

Puzzle-Who planted poisonous
scorpions in North Dakota" Speci-
mems Of scorpions ordinarily found
only in semi-tropicaI or tropical
countries. which. were rCCsntI 4
found in a Ignite mine in Wester
North Dakota have been thu oaUs
Of widespread flights of imaEin
tior in local communities and
serious speculation by entomn
gists Il the State during the "a
few weeks.
Three specimens Of these Crd
tures-UrOCtonus mordaN Thor
be eNact-are declared by Dr.
l.. Webster. entomoloEist az
Agricultural College here. to
the FIRST ever found in the stat
Authoritative dopesters believe ths
the scorpions may have bee
brought to North Dakota with thl
lumber used in the Ignite mined
while other people interested in
the find suggest that they may be-
relics Of byEone aEes-th8t thcirI
families may have been living
closely associated with the liEuitel
for centuries and more.
The Washington herald., 1922-04-08
SAYS HUMAN RACE
HAS NOT IMPROVED

Prof. Edwin C. Conklin, of Prince
ton University, created a mild SEN
sation at Yale when in a recent ad-
dress he predicted that two or three
generations will see the extinction
OF the best stock of the human race
so far as America is concerned
That is, unless society takes dra site
steps toward artificial selection
among the uppe- strata of mankind
in the near future.
Prof. Conklin lecturcd on The
Future of Evolution" and pointed
out that race suicide is imminent
among the wealthy classes owing to
social taxes on the raising of chill
dren. while tho laboring classes are
multiplying at an enormous rate
America, he added, is also faced by
the problem OF race amalgamation
which is going on between whites
and negroes. Mulattoes already
number one-fourth as many as pure
blacks in this country, he asserted.
and are increasing 1t double the
rate of the latter. The result. while
raising the standard, of the negroes.
is detrimental, he said. to the best
strains of blood on whose p-eserva-
tion the future of the country de-
pends.
Most people think" said I'rof
Conklin. that man is far better
physically and Intellectually than
centuries ago. AS a matter of fact.
there is no good reason to believe
there has been any material change
in the human race since the last &C..
age. about 10000 or 10000 years
ago. So fa- as mans cranial ca
pacity is concerned there has been
no increase during that time.
"All the signs point to the con-
clusion that man has reached his
greatest development along phys
ical and INTELLECTUAL lines. II there
are any changes they will be minor
ones. unless, indeed, there be such
another secular change as an ice
age.
What progress man has made in
the last 10000 years has been social
rather than biological. knowledge
has increased and bee npreserved
and transmitted. but can see no
reason to believe the intellectual
capacity of man is any greater now
than it wasNin the time of Socrates
and Aristotle"
The Washington herald., 1922-04-08
Prohibition a Success.

To the Editor The Washington Herald:
Replying to Grant Tarrs letter In
which he asserts that prohibition is
failure and recommends that we
try government ownership and con-
troll of the liquor trafic: wish TO
express my objections to both state
ments. First the legalized liquor
traffic was an evil. and the only
right way to deal with an evil is
to outlaw II.
If the enforcement of the law Is
not as it should he. this does not
prove that the law Is a failure. but
that some officials are not doing
their duty. also that some citizens
who should give their influence to
the enforcement of this grand law
cry out. 1T cannot he enforced" ."
As some one has said: "One vio-
lation of this law attracts more at
tenticn than 100 places that have
been blest by IT."
Consider that there are thou
sands Of children who are better
fed and better clothed than in the
old days of the legalized saloon.
Thousands Of families have saving
accounts in the bank that never
had one when the saloon got the
most of the weekly wages. Best
of all. there are thousands of youns
men who are growing up without
the downward pull of the open
saloon to start them toward a
drunkard's grave.
AS about nine-tenths Of the drink
ing of "moonshine" liquor is done
by those who formed the abnormal
appetite in the saloon. when this
class has passed away the new
generation will get a new vision
Of life and will not put a thief
into the mouth to steal awary their
brains" Again we DO not condemn
law because it is frequently
broken. Think of our traffic laws
Last month there were over 1000
violations of these laws in the Dis
trict OF Columbia. Shall We repeal
them because they are broken
every day? The laws against steal
ing are also broken every day.
Repeal them? No! Enforce them.
As to government ownership and
control both wholesale and retail
of the business, / most strenuousIy
object. II / am not mistaken, this
plan was tried out in South Caro-
lima and was a failure. I do not
Shink that Uncle Sam will ever con-
sent to become a wholesale and re-
tail liquor dealer.
As President Harding recently
said on this subject: The liquor
trafic was destructive of much that
was most precious in American life.
in another generation I believe that
liquor will have disappeared not
only from our politics but from our
memories"