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Evening star., 1922-01-08

Mr.. Hughes and Mr. Balfour would
continue.
Orderly Manner Maintained.
The Washington conference has
been proceeding in an orderly man.
ner, taking up the various questions
in the agenda prepared before the
meeting of the delegates, as they
were reached. A comparison with
the agenda shows, in q measure. what
has been accomplished and what
still remains to be done.
The agenda is divided under two
heads, Limitation of Armaments'
and Pacific and Far Eastern Ques-
tions." Under limitation of arma-
ments are three subheads; % limi-
tation of naval armament, (2) rules
for control of new agencies Of war
fare, CD limitation of land arma-
meats
The Limitation of naval armament
has been handled with much success,
despite the failure to get an agree
ment on submarines and other aux
iliary craft. The Limitation OF the
costly capital ships, of the size of the
auxiliary craft, of the size of guns to
be carried on both capital ships and
auxiliaries, the limitation Of aircraft
carriers, have been very great ac-
complishments.
Gas Ban Achievement.
The decisions of the conference to
han noiaop pas In rarforo ovid 70 40
bar the submarine from acting as a
commerce destroyer are distinct
achievements under the heading,
"Rules for control of new agencies
of warfare" 1t still has to deal with
the matter of aircraft and a code
of rules of warfare.
Limitation of land armament, aft
er the announcement of Frances po-
sition, was abandoned by the confer
ence. y.r
The Pacific and far eastern ques-
tions" in the agenda are also divided
under three subheads: % China.
(2) Siberia, and 90 Mandated is
lands.
Under the subhead China there
are two subdivisions-O principles
TO be applied. and (2) application (of
these principles). The conference
adopted the so-called Root resolu-
tions, -embodying the principles under
which China was to be treated by the
other powers. The questions of ter
ritorial integrity. administrative in
tegrity. the open door. have been
dealt with by the conference to a
very considerable extent. The ma
tons have agreed to respect her in
tegrity, to withdraw foreign post Of
ices, to withdraw their extraterrf-
torial courts and troops from China
after Investigations have been made
and have shown that conditions war
rant such action.
Revenues to he Increased.
The matter of the Chinese tariff
has been handled in a way which
viii increase the revenues of China
BY some $4,000, 900 silver. with prom
ises for still further increases. This
is far less than the Chinese hoped
for, but is as much as could be OBJ
tained in view of the. attitude of the
British, French and Japanese. The
United States would have gone much
farther in giving China a freer hand
in making it's own tariff.
But there appear on the agenda also
the following questions to be consid-
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PERSIA GETS BIG LOAN.
Government Obtains 1880, 900
From Unnamed American COMPANY

By the Associated Press.
Atl4AIIABAD, British India, January
THE Persian government, says q dis
patch to the Pioneer from Teheran to-
day, has obtained from an unnamed
against royalties payable to the govern
ment by the Anglo Persian Oil COM
pany. .s
Evening star., 1922-01-08

More than 1000 fowls have been
by poultry raiser in In
diana as q preventive against disease.
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FAR EAST TANGLE
HEADS QUESTIONS
LEFT TO NATIONS

CONTINUED from First Page.)
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Foreign Commerce Growing.

Per cent Of total. ...................,
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Questions-Answexs

@ When was tobacco first cultivated in
this country? r. +. W.
began in Virginia with the earliest settle
m men Of the colony. It is recorded that in
Streets of ei %ers and na even the
tobacco. which Immediately became not
only the staple crop but the principal
fobacco was into t G%fq Butch
colony of New York in 164S, tho it never
gained the same prominence there as far
Q. was "Rasputin" the real name of
the Russian monk who attracted so much
attention few years ago? L. z. B.
A. Rasputin is from the Russian word
rasputny, meaning dissolute. profligate,
brious nickname conferred upon the motor
ious Rus5ian monk whose real name was
O. How much money did Andrew Car
negie devote to library endowment? J.
A Carnegie endowed 2,s11 libraries with
total of $50. 364 SOS
O. What is meant by Saving wage?
A Secretary of Labor Davis in recent
wage discussions has distinguished -'sav-
ing wage" from Giving wage" by stating
that it is a wage which assures the worker
margin over and above the amount re-
in health and reasonable comfort.
O. Does the superintendent of a poor
farm have a right to open the mail of in
A. The rOstoffice department says that
the sealed mail of persons living in
lawful opening as the mail of any other
citizens The mere fact that the inmates
are so unfortunate as to have been COM
PEELED to seek shelter in an institution
maintained for the INDECENT gives the su-
perintendent no license to interfere with
their letters.
(Any reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau, Frederic J.
Haskin. Director, Washington. D; c. This
offer applies strictly to information -he
Bureau cannot give advice on legal medical
and financial matters IL does not attempt
to settle domestic troubles, nor to under
take exhaustive research any subject
Give full name and address and enclose two
cents in stamps for return postage. AL
Write your question plainly and briefly.
replies are sent direct to the tnoufrer-l
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pop sed, For Peet sake stop that IN
cessent ratteling of marbles.
WITCH 1 did, and ma started to nit
some hitting, saying to herself. Nit y
perl 2, nit 2, perl 2, nit 2, perl 2:
Now how am going to Tehearse this
speetch with you sitting there induls-
ing in that meaningless 5abber! pop
sed. Its nuthing of the kind. its this
hitting stitch and if 1 don't say It out
loud I get mixed up. nit 2, perl 2, ma
sed, and pop sed, How pathetick, well
IL 1 don't rehearse this speetch Ill
get mixed up and make a fine spec
tacle of myself and posserbly spoil the
intire bankwit, Mr.. Chairman, ladies'
and gentlemen, must confess.
Witch ma stopped hitting till pop
went to the bankwit. and went to bed
wen 1 had to, and after a vile pop
weak me up coming in and herd ma
call down stairs, Is that you, Wtllyum.
how did your speetch tern out?
I decided not to make eny. pop sed,
and ma sed, o deer. wat did you do
that for, Willyum? and pop sed. Well
If you must know all the insignificant
detales, I wasent called on.
And he went up to bed and I went
back to sleep.
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George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
LEAVE SOMETHING.

Most of the joys of this life come
from things that someone else has
left behind.
The painted masterpiece, the great
stone or nodded bronze, the long rows
of trees in our cities and parks, treas
ures of art hundreds of years old.
The rug under my feet. the stand
beside me, the typewriter on which
these words are typed, the bookcases
and other pieces about me, everything
with which we come in contact, hui
man hands have touched and fash
something left behind by a worker or
thinker who put his heart into his
work.
A dozen men are building q wall
about my yard. 1 have been watch
ing them a great deal One man in
particular has attracted me. He works
so intelligently and neglects nothing.
He takes great pride in his work.
Soon he will be gone. But the wall
will live for hundreds of years. That
and I shall often think of him as
I look into the beauty of the stones
he placed so carefully and well.
Every moment you are performing
or you are not. Every time Won do
perform, and put love and Interest
into your work, you put yourself into
something that is going to nve-hOw
long, no one knows.
But II Is not for us to worry about
the length of time our works shall
live, but how well we can do them so
that they shall live.
Work to leave something worth
while behind you each day.
I was showing a friend thru the
home of Edwin Booth, the great actor,
the other day. 1t is now the home
OF The Players club in New York City.
All about the rooms and walls are
! records and pictures and books and
costumes and mementoes of days long
gone. AS looked at the costumes that
BOoth once wore, l imagined great
crowds applauding and all the ad-
miration that high art deserves Booth
left these things. but more than these
he left a wonderful character.
Leave something behind-each day!
Copyright, 1922, George Matthew Adams.D
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The Literary Digest" continuing
its poll upon the question OF the bonus
for soldiers of the world war and on
the modification, repeal or enforce
1nent of the prohibition amendment.
announces that it has so far tabulated
more than 1000 votes. The result
to July shows 1851 in favor of the
strict enforcement of the Volstead
act, S5,151 in favor of a modification
so as to permit light wines and beer.
and $4,000 in favor of the repeal of
the prohibition amendment, so that,
on the whole, there are 1854 in IA
vor of strict enforcement and 13O,797
aga: inst it. The mind of the public, or
that part of it in touch with the ''Di-
Eest," as to the bonus is more evenly
divided for 102,97S favor a bonus and
1O2, $40 are opposed TO it. The value
OF these figures probably is no greater
and no less than that of the average
straw vote on any other subject. The
poll is a good source of advertising for
the paper but means little or nothing
to the country.
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ment more heavily than it does upon
either the strikers or the employers.
The government has lent encourage
ment to both sides by interfering be-
tween them in the past. 1t now finds
Itself confronted by q peace making
task larger than it ever before has
undertaken.
Meantime, both sides await federal
action, resembling in this regard the
boy who yoked himself with a calf
The calf ran away. dragging the boy
with him. Unable to set himself free
or stop his companion, the boy began
to yell: stop US. somebody! We're
running away"
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THE POLICE BUDGET.

Chief Leonard has taken an ad-
vanced step in his next years budget.
just announced. His plan to add to
the force of motorcycle police is ac-
copied with genuine approval by the
citizens of Topeka
He has made a test of his ideas in
the last few weeks. He has taken pa
trolmen in the residence districts,
placed them on motors and covered a
wide territory efficiently and with
speed In addition to their ability to
patrol many more blocks in their dis
trict they have watched motorist law
violations and have been subject to
immediate call to any part of the city.
The taxpayers never will complain
of increased fire and police budgets if
the city is given proper protection.
To guard the home and the family
against fire and attack is the most i'm
portant feature of any municipal ad-
ministration.
Chief Leonard now has been given
a free hand by Mayor Corwine and
the city is watching with intense in
terest his ability to handle the situa-
ton. Thus far he has shown unusual
capacity in organization and enforce
ment
He need not fear increased expen-
ditures in his department budget il he
brings about results.
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JUST FOLKS
THE BALLADE OF DENTISTRY
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

AtALLADE OF
Whenever l sit in my destist's chair
And that is regular task with me-
Before 1 open to let him stare
l know right well what he's going to see
know the phrase he will spring on me
When he's probed and pried and peered
about,
This he will utter most gleefulIy:
There is Il tooth that is coming QUIT"
Others with courage may venture there,
Others from pain are forever free;
Men and children and women fair
Come and go without surgery,
But ever n victim / must be
OF his forceps strong and his muscle stout
This is the burden of his decree:
There is a tooth that Is coming outr'
have his lecture by heart. I swear,
l can Iecite it from A to q:
"Pyorrhea will gray your hair,
FIJI your body with misery;
rheumatism will swell your knee,
Grave neuritis will follow govt
Gas or local. which one?" says he.
There is a tooth that is coming OUT"
L'envoi.
Prince. willing pay his fee,
Never his Judgment wise doubt,
But few times more may he say to me:
There is n tooth that is coming outT
Copyright. 1922, by Edgar A. Guest.)
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Dorothy Dix Tails
ACQUIRED Charms.-.
Ell DOROTHY DIX
wesa4's Highest Paid Woman wr4ee

There are times when I think that
what the world needs more than any
thing else is a social Luther Burbank
who can change a wall flower into the
sort of a rosebud that a man in
stinctively plucks, and pins on his
breast.
At any rate. there isn't a day in the
year when don't get from one to d
dozen letters from girls asking how
they can make themselves attractive
to men, and secure the masculine at
tention that is necessary to their hav-
ing a good time.
"I am pretty. I dress we'll Ny
mother entertains for me. 1 cannot
girls that men flock around" wall
these disconsolate ones, yet no man
ever comes to our house unless he is
specifically invited there. When I go
to a party, no man ever dances with
me unless my hostess makes him, and
when he does he looks like a lamb
being led to the slaughter. Why am
l what is popularity called a 1emon?
And is there any cure for lemon
ness p -
Why some women attract men.
while others repulse them is a mys-
terry that no one has ever been able
to solve. It isn't the matter of beauty
nor brains, nor any of the standard
lied virtues that you can put your
finger on, and say, Acquire this or
10 IAI' anu JOu Will appeal "
men.
For we all know living pictures that
are left hanging upon the home walls,
and homely ladies who have had three
husbands already, and still have a
waiting list We know vivacious girls
who never have a beau, and tongue
tied ones that men swarm around like
bees around a honey pot. We know
viragos whose husbands worship
them, and household angels who are
deserted wives. And so it goes. and
the masculine fancy bloweth where it
listeth. and no woman knows which
way to set her sails to catch it.
For a woman to be really attractive
to men-to be the kind of a girl that
men rug after-she has to be born
that way. Nature must have endowed
her with the come-hither look in her
eye to which every son of Adam in
stinctively responds. but even when
this has been denied a maiden, there
camouflage her lack of attractions for
the opposite sex, and to prevent her.
self from having to sit among the
chaperons at parties and acquire n
face ache trying to look as If she liked
1t.
There is one thing about men for
which women have to be grateful to
a merciful providence, and that is that
they are not analytical abour
women. Their attitude is the Doctor
Fell one. They eitherzlike you or they
don't like you. but the reason why
they cannot tell and they never seek
to find out. That is why a girl who
lacks real attraction for men can put
over a side line of make believe at
traction If she is clever and energetic
enough to do it,
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Mary. have you found that-what did
you call it-that other life-yet?"
mo, Ralph, not yet. One must
sometimes seek thru all the world for
that-and you-have you found-hov
did you phrase it-'that other girl
yet?''
''Oh. Mary said Ralph. there's
only one girl in the world for me
and you know it"
Mary gasped and then, after a mo-
ment's silence. laid her hand gently
upon Ralph'S arm and said in a low
voice: Well. Ralph. perhaps Uncle
Alexander knows best. after ALL"
With a cry of delight Ralph-but
why proceed? The moon itself hid
behind a cloud just then
Copyright 1922, by The Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
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Senator Cummins of Iowa, one of
the Joint authors of the transportation
act, declares the government can COM
pei obedience to the decisions of the
railroad labor board, Notwithstanding
there are no penalties for violation.
That is undoubtedly true. The gov
eminent can compel strikers to per-
nit the operation of trains. and the
trains can be operated under the wage
schedules fixed by the board. OF
course no man can be forced to work,
regardless of the wage paid him, ex-
cept in time of war. and Senator Cum
minis does not mean that he can, but
other men willing to work can be pro-
tected by the full power of the gov
eminent. But the government SEEM
ingly is reluctant to adopt this course.
Already it has got into deep water by
Interfering in the matter of wages and
working rules. Doubtless 1t would
prefer to get out instead OF getting in
deeper.
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THE NEARING CRISIS.

The coal situation steadily grows
more serious. If it be permitted to
continue it is certain to bring en-
forced idleness on a large additional
number of industrial workers.
1t is the sincere wish of the presi-
dent that the coal operators and
miners shall adjust their own differ
ences with proper regard for the COM
mon equities of the public. The gov
eminent is ready to help at every
stage, but if satisfactory terms can
not be arrived at by the parties i'm
mediately in interest, the government
probably will step forward in the
name of the people, and for the sake
of their welfare, and see that coal is
both produced and distributed where
it is, or Will be. imperatively needed to
avert a general injury.
Essentially the same policy and
principle may be expected to apply
as to the railroads, altho under exist
ing laws the relation of the govern
ment to the railroads is more specific
and authoritative than its relation to
the coal industry. In either case
dire emergency may be met with
emergency measures, and for these
emergencies a simple law of necessity
may control.
Neither of the strikes is likely to be
permitted to go to the point of calam-
itous effect on the public welfare. To
avert such disaster the United States
government will assert its authority in
whatever measure and by whatever
means the circumstances may call for.
President Harding has given that as
surance directly as to the coal strike.
and Ben w. Hooper. chairman of the
railroad labor board, has given it as
to the railroad strike.
The authority of the president to
act in an emergency is not challenged
from any source. The authority of
the board Mr.. Hooper represents is
questioned from one source, but Pres
ident Harding has been represented as
saying that in the railroad case the
voice OF the railway labor board is
the voice of the government. It is
safe to assume that Chairman Hooper
would not have said some things he
has said about the body of which he is
the head if he had not been made sure
of his ground in advance
These strikes have brought heavy
losses to all parties concerned. includ-
ing the public. Continuation of these
strikes or interference by the govern
ment can but add to these losses, with
no corresponding benefit to anybody,
except in the matter of supplying the
needs OF the public. These facts must
be apparent to the workers and the
employees and II the government were
out of it they probably would get to-
gether.
There is little room for doubt that
up to this time the government has
been q hindrance rather than a help
to industrial peace. particularly as re-
CARDS the railroad situation.
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WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE

WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE?
In its weekly review of business and
industrial conditions, Bradstreet's
says:
Industry is lire irregular, with the
railway strike, and, thru 1t the coal
tie-up throwing deeper shadows upon
manufacturing interests. whose need
pressing. The refusal of the coal
miners unions TO accept arbitration
has been a big disappointment to the
country, and this feeling has been ac-
centuated by knowledge of the fact
that the railway shipments strike has
been so conducted, by delaying both
loaded and empty cars in transit, as TO
deprive essential industries of badly
needed fuel.
Coal trade authorities report some
thing like a scramble for fuel, with
accompanying feverish price bidding
for supplies. which has proved too big
a burden for some of the less favor
ably situated consumers. So far the
iron and steel trades, it Is said, have
been hardest hit. especially in the
neighborhood of the most strongly
unionized mines. To date, probably
10 per cent of the country's active
furnaces have been forced to close;
many steel mill operations have been
slowed down; some OF these are re-
ported turning to oil as a fuel; large
quantities of English coal have been
engaged for import. and prices of both
coal and coke have been further
lacked up.
THE strikers apparently" says
Bradstreet's, do not shrink from the
strangulation of industry as a means
of winning. with a fine disregard
shown OF the ultimate effect on all in
dustry. and therefore upon labor itself,
of the consequences of this"
But is it entirely fair to place the
whole blame for existing conditions
on labor? Is not the other side also
out TO win?
For whatever either party to the
controversy gains it will pay a price
much beyond what such gain is worth.
But this will be small IN comparison
with what the public must pay.
However. responsibility for the ex-
isting situation rests upon the govern
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

Pop went to a bankwit last mite, and
after suppir before it was time to go
he started to wawk up and down the
setting room tawking to himself say
ing, Mr.. Chairman ladies and gentle
men, I must confess it is a crate ser
prize to me to be called on for a
speetch this evening
o Willyum are you going to make
a speetch? ma sed, and pop sed, I tx
pect to be called on, wy yes. And he
kepp on wawking up and down tawk-
ing and making motions to himself
and 1 started to count my marbles to
see if 1 had as meny as I thawt, and