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The Washington times., 1922-04-30
Delegates Arrive for
W0Inen'S Overseas
Service Convention
Local Unit to Enter
tain Visiting
Delegates.

MANY a young matron in Wash.
ington today can look back
upon a romantic. thrilling but
withal terrible experience in the
war zone when she was a helper in
the recreation hut or hospital. In
the three years that have passed
since the armistice great changes
have taken place in the lives of
some of the women who served
overseas. Husbands have ap-
peared on the scene and in some
cases a child or two. These wom-
en- are particularly interested in
the convention Of the Women's
Overseas Service League, which
will meet here beginning today and
extending until next "Wednesday.
Members Of the local unit Of the
league will entertain the visiting
delegates. Mrs. Larz Anderson will
have as her guest during the period
OF the convention the national
president Of the league, Mrs. Os-
wald Chew. OF Philadelphia, and
Mrs. d. Brayden Kyle. the chair
man of the national legislative
committee. This last office sounds
very formidable, but the only leg
islative work the league contem-
plates engaging in is the effort to
obtain a Congressional charter.
Miss Lena Hitchcock is going to
entertain Miss Louise Wells, the
president of the Chicago unit.
Mrs. John Van Schaick, jr.. will
entertain the Countess Helene de
Gobliel, OF Belgium. with whom she
was associated in war work in Bel
gium during the period when her
husband was Red Cross commits
sioner for that country. The coun-
tess will speak at the meeting
Monday night in he Central High
othoci WI diSO
be addressed by General Pershing
and the French and British ambas-
sadors. Girls who served over
seas during the war will act as
usbers. wearing the uniform which
they wore In the recreation huts.
have seen pictures of both Miss
Helen Day and Miss Catherine An
drews in these costumes and they
were particularly fetching.
THIS afternoon the members OF
the local unit hope that all OF
their friends will assist them at the
exercises out at Arlington over the
grave OF the unknown soldier.
Mrs. Chew. the president, will dec
crate the grave with the emblem
Of the league.
DIR. John Van Schaick will de-
liver an address at the grave.
On Tuesday the league will be re-
ceived by Mrs. Harding at the
White House and on Wednesday
the members will visit the
hospitals where the disabled vet
Grams "still remain with armistice
day three years behind them"
That is the main purpose of the
organization. to ameliorate IL possi-
BILE the condition Of these veterans.
The local league gives four parties
a month regularly. two at Mt. Alto
and two at st. Eljzabeth's.
The Washington times., 1922-04-30
Mrs. Lenroot To Be
At Home Thursday

MRS. IRVINE L. LENRooT,
wife OF Senator Lenroot. will
be at home informally on Thurs.
day afternoon. May 4, at her apart
ment in the Woodward and will
have assisting her her guest, Mrs.
John T. Murphy, OF Superior. Wis.
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STAR OF WOMENS CONVENTION, ~PLAYS" CAPITAL

THE pride of the legation of Guatemala IN Washington the
Elisa Matad Ed~ard Martha Robert u
This eleventh of series stories The Washington Times publishing
legations Washington readers.
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sequently became a part of the
present states of New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and
Wyoming.
The ink on the documents which
admitted Texas as a state of the
Union was scarcely dry when there
began a series of events which ex-
tended the area of the United
States from The western border of
Texas to the Pacific Ocean. A dis
pute between the United States
and the Mexican Government re-
garding the southern boundary of
Texas resulted in the war between
the United States and Mexico,
which began in 1916, and in which
the Mexican area then known as
New Mexico and Upper California
was over-run and captured by
American troops, and at the close
of that war was attached to the
United States on payment of $751;
100000 by the United States to the
Mexican Government, though this
sum was subsequently increased
by the assumption of about 49,
100000 of debts of the Mexican
Government to citizens of the Uni
ted States. By this absorption
of the former Mexican area of
New Mexico and California our
territorial area was extended to
the Pacific Coast. This great area
obtained from Mexico was sub-di-
vided into California which was in
1850 admitted as a state without
Territorial probation and the
remainder divided into the Terri
tories of New Mexico and Utah.
Subsequently Utah was transform
ed into three Territories, Utah,
Nevada, and Colorado and they
were later admitted as states. New
Mexico was later sub-divided into
the territories of Arizona, land
New Mexico and subsequently ad.
mitted as states.
simultaneously with this extern.
sion of our government over the
area lying between Texas and the
Pacifc-the Mexican cession-an
agreement had been reached be-
tween the Unired States and Great
Britain regarding our claims to
the "Oregon Country" and in 1S48,
the very year in which California
and New Mexico were acquired
from Mexico, the area lying north
of California was established by
the United States Government as
the Territory of Oregon" and the
single year 1848 thus brought us
our entire Pacific frontage. The
Oregon Country became the Terri
tory Of Oregon which was subse-
quently subdivided, into the Terri
tories of Oregon and Washington
and later admitted as states, the
eastern part having been cut off
and forming the Territory Of Idaho
and part of the Territory of
Wyoming.
In 1853 small area lying south
! of the Territory of New Mexico
was purchased from Mexico for
sum of $10,000,00O to settle
boundary dispute and attached
to the Territory of New Mexico,
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BOY USES KNIFE
AT WRONG TIME
Little Betty Hacker Hurt
at Playground Due to
Carelessness.
CAN'T USE THE PARK

A school boy of about fourteen years
of age, was brought into the police sta
ton this morning and given a severe
lecture as result of an incident that
occurred at the Sheridan road play
ground last Tuesday afternoon, when
little Betty Hacker, the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. ], W. Hacker, BAL julius
street, was hurt.
Betty was sliding merrily down one,
of the long slippery inclines, en-
chanting to a child of her age, when
the boy in question stuck a knife up
between the states in the slide AS
the child came flying with tremendous
impetus along the smooth boards, the
knife caught her at the intersection
and she was cut from knee to hip
along the thigh. The cash was not
deep, but deep enough to hurt and the
incident struck terror into the group
of children playing near by.
Boy Says He Meant No Harm.
Betty was taken home and the
scratch treated, but her indignant par
ents sought to find the boy who had
with such apparent wantonness caused
the child's injury. The boy was
found and ordered to appear at the
police station this morning where the
incident was gone over with him. The
youngster said that he had not in
tended to harm or brighten any child
using the slide, but that he wanted to
clean out the slat with his knife and
never thought of the little girl who
was coming down.
The matter caused such stir in the
vicinity of the playground, however,
that for the remainder of the season
the boy responsible has been denied
the privilege of the playground, and
warned to stay away from the other
children playing there. The parents
of the boy regretted the incident, and
the Hacker family stated today that
they were very willing to have the
incident closed.
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North and South Dakota, while no
Indian Territory" in greatly
reduced form became the present
State of Oklahoma.
This story Of our expansion ard
Transformation into the states
would not be complete without a
word about our non-contiguoR
areas, Porto Rico, the Philippine
Islands, Hawaii, the Virgin Is
lands, Guam, Tutuila, and the
Panama Canal Zone. Porto Rico
and the Philippine Islands fell into
our hands as a result of the war
with Spain, though we paid to
Spain $20,000,000 for full can
collation. of her claim to the Phil
lippines. Guam which lies east of
the Philippines and had been held
by Spain was taken over by the
United States in 1898 during the
war with Spain. Our little, island
of Tutuila in the Samoan group
fell to the United States. in 1899
after long years of joint admins
tration of the group by Great Bri-
tain, Germany and the United
States. It's chief value is in its
fine harbor which is designated as
the best in the South Pacific while
the harbors in the Philippines and
Hawaii are the best in the North
ern Pacific. Hawaii, which had
been knocking vigorously for adj
mission to the United States from
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more than q century, was finally
released by the Massachusetts
Legislature and in 1920 made a
state Of the Union.
One Of the first questions which
arose after the cession by .the
colonies Of their territory lying
west of the Alleghenies was as to
the method Of it's government. A
Congressional Committee was APP
pointed to consider the matter
with Jefferson at it's head and the
result of It's labors was the pres
entation of a plan of which JEFF
ferson was understood to be the
author by which the area in ques-
ton should be divided into ten
new states, some of the names be-
ing drawn from the Greek and
Latin and others from Indian
phraseology. The peninsula ly-
ing between Lakes Huron and
Michigan was to be called "Cher-
onesus," that bounded by the Wa
bash, Ohio and Mississippi "Poly-
potamia," that between the Upper
Ohio and the Great Lakes Metro
potamia," while other parts of
the area were given the names of
"Illinoia," "Assenissippia," mich
dgania," "Sylvania," Saratoga"
and Washington"
The above measure devised and
recommended by Jeffersontwas ac-
cepted by Congress and put upon
the statute books but before steps
had been taken to carry it into
actual operation it was repealed
by the celebrated Ordinance of
1887" establishing the Territory
Northwest of Ohio" of which Gen
eral Arthur st. Claire was made
the first governor, in 1888, and the
first Territorial Government,
which was to prove such an i'm
portant factor in the development
OF the western area, put into oper-
alton. General st. Claire estab-
lished the seat of the government
of that enormous territory at the
little village of "Losantiville"
which he renamed cincinnati" in
honor OF the Society of the Gin
cinnatip of which he, as an officer
of the Revolutionary War, was a
member. In 1890 an act was pass
ed for a similar form of govern
ment in a part Of the area south
of the Ohio which was to be desig-
mated "The Territory South of the
Ohio" the provisions of that act
! being similar to that which estab-
lished the territory northwest Of
the Ohio except the omission for
the southern territory Of the pro-
viso found in that for the northern
territory with reference to slav-
cry; the act establishing the Ter
ritory Northwest of the Ohio ex-
cluded slavery while that proviso
was omitted from the terms under
which the Territory South of the
Ohio was established. This Terri
tory South of the Ohio did not,
however, include the Kentucky
area which remained under the
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By OSCAR P. AUSTIN
StOtisH clan. The National City Bank Of
New York.
= TH+E STORY OF TH1E STATES

1.-THE difficulties which accom-
panied the transformation of the
twenty pre-war countries of Eu-
rope into the thirty which now
appear on the map of that conti-
nent recall some interesting
features of the process by which
the territory Of the United States,
which is now about equal to that
of all Europe, was enlarged, adj
justed, and readjusted into the
fifty political divisions which now
appear upon the map of our own
country.
/ We have been busy, very busy,
in this big country Of ours in the
comparatively short period since
the Swedes, the Dutch, the Span
ish, the French and the English
were stalking out" their respect
I've claims upon the Atlantic
frontage from the southern tip Of
Florida to the frozen north. But
when we recall the steps by which
that area was united, enlarged,
populated and then divided and
sub-diVided into territories and
states, we find many interesting
and almost forgotten incidents.
How many Of the twenty million
people living in the states of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and
Wisconsin, recall the fact that the
area which they now occupy was
att time a part of the province
Of Quebec? 70
How many Of the nine million
people in the states of Wisconsin,
Iowa, Minnesota and part of the
DakoCas realize that the section
which they now occupy was once
q part of the territory of Michigan,
whose area in 1884 was eight.
times as much, as that when the
territory was established and six
times as much as that of the pres
emit state Of Michigan?
The Territory of Missouri once
included the area forming the
present states Of Iowa, Nebraska,
North Dakota, South Dakota,
Arkansas, Missouri and part of
the present area of Minnesota,
Wyoming, Montana, Kansas, Okla
hOna, and Colorado.
The Territory of Indiana in 1904
included what is now Minnesota
and a part Of the Dakotas.
Texas, which is now nearly
twice as. large as any other state
Of the Union, is at the present
time only about two-thirds as big
as when admitted, and a part of
herr original area now forms parts
Of five other states, New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and
Wyoming.
The area relinquished to the
Common Union by the thirteen
original states after the close of
the Revolutionary War now forms
part or all of thirteen other states
having combined area greater
than that of the present area of
the original thirteen which gave
their western area to the Common
Union.
/, The Nations Beginnings
The first permanent settlement
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mainder was renamed the Indian
Country"
While this "Indian Country" was
slowly being transformed into ter
ritorial and state divisions, there
came the second addition to the
area of the United States in the
purchase of Florida from Spain to
which country Great Britain had
re-ceded it in 1888. The considera-
ton of its purchase from Spain
was to be the payment by the
United States of various claims
by American citizens against the
Spanish government, which
amounted when paid, including in
terest, to $6,500,000 and the terri
tory thus purchased subsequently
became, in 1926, the State of Flor
ida.
Texas and the South West.
The third addition to our terri
tory came in the form of the State
of Texas which had in 1886 seced-
ed from Mexico and established
itself as an independent republic
and Immediately made application
for admission to the United
States. This application was, how
ever, rejected by Congress when
made in 1887 and again in 1914,
but in January, 1916, Congress
passed an act giving its consent
that the territory properly includ-
ed within the Republic of Texas
may be erected into a new state
to be called The State of Texas"
and in December of that year the
joint resolution admitting Texas
as a state oe the Union passed
both House and Senate, the area
being thus admitted as a State
without preliminary probation"
as territory. Subsequently Con.
grss purchased from the State Of
Texas part Of it's original area,
paying $10,Oo0,0O0, and the $4,000
square miles thus purchased sub
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STRANGE INJURY
CAUSE OF DEATH
Mrs. Frances Terry, Paris,
Dies After Long Baf-
fling Illness.
IS RESULT OF FALL

Death came to end battling illness
on Wednesday night just before ten
o'clock when Mrs. Frances Terry. aged
81 years, the wife of Frank Terry and
one of the leading women of the town
OF Parie, died at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. Henry Terry, located about
two miles southeast of the st. Johns
church in that town. The deceased
was taken Ill more than three months
ago at which time she became par
alyzed from the abdomen down as the
result of an injury many years ago.
physicians declared that in some I'M
known way she must have fractured
vertebrae several years ago and that
this had crumbled, destroying the
nerve. She was taken to the St. Cath
crimes hospital TO treatment and re.
moved to her sisters home only a few
weeks ago.
OF Pioneer Family.
Mrs. Frances Fonk Terry was born
in the town of Paris January 25, 1885,
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Philip
Fork, pioneer settlers in the town. She
attended the parochial school at the
St. Johns church and had lived all of
her life in the Paris community. She
was a member of the Ladies' Sodality
of the church and had taken an active
part in its work.
Surviving the deceased are a hus-
band, Frank Terry, and two children.
Wilbur, aged eight years, and Marie,
aged six years. She is also survived
by her father, Philip Fonk and by
eleven brothers and sisters. Her moth
er, Mrs. Susan Fonk, died at the fam
lily home on Dayton street in Kenosha
two weeks ago.
The funeral services will be held at
the St. Johns church in the town of
Paris on Saturday morning at nine
thirty o'clock, standard time. The
funeral procession will leave the home
of Henry Terry at nine o'clock Satur-
day morning, standard time. Inter
ment will be in the family plot in the
st. Johns cemetery.
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of Europeans on the area now
known as the United States was
that of the Spanish at St. Angus
tine, Florida, in 1866, the English
at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1907,
the Dutch at the mouth of the
Hudson in 1881, the Swedes on the
west bank of the Delaware in 1887.
while the French who made their
first permanent settlement in
Quebec in 1903 soon extended
their claims southwark by ex-
ploration and settlement, and by
1850 were claiming all of the area
i drained by the Great Lakes and
the st. Lawrence. By 1866, 'New
Sweden" had been taken over by
the Dutch; in 1864 the Dutch ter
ritory. of ''New Netherlands" was
taken over by the English. The
French meantime had extended
their explorations down the Mis-
sissippi to its mouth and were
claiming all of the area drained
by that river as result of "orig-
inal explorations" of the valley.
This claim, however, was resisted
by the English who assumed that
their colonies fronting on the At
lantic were by their charters to
extend across the continent to the
South Sea-" as the Pacific was
then called, and in the war be-
tween France and England over
this question the French were de-
feated and ordered to transfer
their territorial claims to Great
Britain, which they proceeded to
do, secretly, however, ceding to
Spain their claims to the western
section Of the Mississippi Valley.
which, however, was subsequently,
re-ceded to France by the Spanish
Government.
It was when the English Gov
ernlnent found itself in full pos
session of not only Canada but the
entire eastern }haH of the Missis-
stppi Valley that its parliament
attached to the Province of Que
bee, for temporary government,
the area now known as Michi-
gam. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wis
consin and part of Minnesota,
and this. action by the British
Parliament proved the ''straw
that broke the camel's back"
with certain of the colonies which
claimed that their original grants
extended to the Mississippi River,
and increased their willingness to
Join in q movement for Indepen-
ldence, then pending among the
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United States. In the Virgin Islands
the governor is also designated by
the President of the United States
and the legislative functions are
vested in a colonial council The
governors of Guam and Samoa are
naval officers of the United States,
designated by the President for
that service, and the Governor of
the Panama Canal Zone is an army
officer designated for that service
by the President. The population
of the Philippine Islands is about
10,500,000, Porto Rico 100000,
Hawaii 100000, Alaska $1,000, the
Virgin Islands 10000, the PAN
ANA Canal Zone $4,000.
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was transformed into the State of
Tennessee. The western section
Of Georgia, ceded to the Common
Union in 1903 became the Terri
tory of Mississippi and later the
Territories of Mississippi and Ala
bama until they were finally adj
mitted as States of the Union in
1917 and 1919. The transformation
OF the western front of Virginia
into the new state Of West Vir-
ginla in 1923 was an incident of
the Civil War.
The louisiana Purchase.
Meantime had come the first
great addition to the area of the
United States, the Louisiana ,Pur-
chase. The area west of the Mis-
sissippi which had been originally
claimed by France as a result of
exploration and been secretly
coded to Spain in 1852 prior to the
expulsion of France from the con-
tinent, had subsequently been
again secretly transferred and re-
coded by Spain to France in the
year 1890. The complete control
Of the mouth of the Mississippi
River by the United States was
extremely important to its people
and the commercial interests,
controlling as it did the exit from
the Mississippi Valley to the Gulf
Of Mexico, and when the cession of
the area west Of the Mississippi
to France in 1909 became known a
commission was sent to France by
the United States Government to
negotiate for the purchase of the
area adjacent to the mouth of the
Mississippi and including the city
of New Orleans. The French Gov
eminent, however, fearing a loss
of the entire western area to Great
Britain offered to sell it all to the
United States for $15,000,000, of
which $11,250,000 would be in six
per cent bonds of the United States
Government and the remainder to
be paid to citizens of the United
States having claims against
France, and when this treaty
reached Washington it was quick
~ ratified, in October 1903, and
the area Of the United States thus
doubled by a single stroke of the
pen.
This Louisiana Purchase" thus
completed in 1903, which as above
indicated more than doubled the
area of the country, included $685.
600 square miles, while the total
area prior to the purchase was
only $4,000 square miles. The
entire new area was given the title
of the Territory of Louisiana"
but in 1904 the southern tip was
cut off and established as the "Ter-
ritory of Orleans" and in 1912 the
Territory of Orleans" was admit
ted to the Union as the State of
Louisiana and the remainder of
the purchase given a new title. the
Territory of Missouri" with it's
capital at the city of ST. Louis.
Later, after the States of Arkansas
and Missouri had been cut off from
its southeastern section the re
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it had also become apparent that
these claims in many instances
over-lapped each other; and with
the magnanimous spirit then pre-
vailing of fealty to the new gov
eminent the legislatures of those
seven states one by, one coded. to
the Common Union all of their
western claims, the area thus ced-
ed to be formed into new states
with individual privileges and
powers equal to those which gen
erously relinquished their claims
upon the territory in question.
The area thus ceded to the Com
mon Union by the seven states
above named, lying between the
Allegheny Cumberland range on
the east and the Mississippi on the
west, exceeded in area that retain
ed by the Original thirteen" ag-
gregating about 100000 square
miles, while the present area of
the Original thirteenp aggregates
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DIDN'T LIKE HIS PICTURE.

When J. P. Carnes of st. Paul was
sentenced to sixty days in the work
house for petty larceny, after he had
admitted his identity when Bertil-
lon photograph taken six years ago
was shown him, he was asked if he
had anything to say.
Eyes, judge, I have. That picture
there is me all right, but can't you
take another one? I'm lot better
looking than that"
His wish was not granted.