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The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Quick to Seize Opportunity

The abrupt termination of the Paris conference was
opportunity and they seized it with tnglng figures Until
violence could be founded Friends of moderation both
here and on the continent had seen to that
There had been reference 1esonS for the scrutiny
of experts and calming adonrnments await tner report
When arrived there endless suggestions and counter
suggestions to meet difficulties
In the end Europe saved from the catastrophe Of
handling its destines to the guidance of blind
force.
Unhappiy, WEAKNESS or mpatence induced the Paris
negotaors in few hours drop the which had for
the last four years held the fures from dasng along their
of destruction
many alternatives that might have been dis
essed There proposal to refer the whole question
% the league of nations 1t that when suggested
It in August last NJ. Poncare summariy rejected it. But
the allies also rejected Poncares proposals by majority
of four to at that conference.
That did not prevent his repeating them In January
and this time he succeeded winning majority his
view. little persistence and Less pessmsm might
have persuaded Belgium Italy and Japan aid England
appeals to France to trust rather the league Of nations
than the uncertainties of
What still nexplicable is the failure of the
ference to take note of Secretary Hughes New Haven
speech.
Neglected opportunities litter the path of this trouble
some question There the Cannes conversations broken
off just they reaching fruton. Had they been
continued another week helnfu
settlement which would brought PREPARATIONS to France
confidence to Germany and peace Europe They
of sunken reefs which bestrew political
SEAS and it viii not surprise to find that the whole
cargo OF PREPARATIONS disappeared then beyond salvage into
the deep with these shipwrecked negotiations.
Again Germany threw great opportunity Genoa
when all the nations Of Europe together for the first
time to discuss their troubles in spirit of equality and
amity true reparations excluded the instance
Of France from the program Of the conference
But tho spirit engendered by friendly settlement all
other outstanding questions would have rendered
Germany by the foolish staging of its Russian agreement
made all that impossible.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Mrs. Williams Elected
Steering Committee Head

Mrs. Laura c. Williams, chair
man of the education committee of
the League of Women Voters yes
terday was elected chairman of the
steering committee for the Citizens
Central Committee at meeting
yesterday at Franklin School.
This steering committee was
named by mass meeting of citi-
zens, which held a meeting ut
Franklin school recently for the
purpose of devising plans to gain
from Congress larger school ap-
preparations.
The committee by virtue of action
yesterday will send out circular
letter to civic organizations through
out the city, requesting them to
send delegate to a body to be
known as the Citizens Central Com
mittee.
Il Those at the meeting yesterday
were: John S. Beach, W. C. Bal
derston, Mrs. Laura c.. Williams,
Walter 6. Trey, and DIR. U. j.
Daniels,
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Lloyd George Sees
ReparatiOns Lost

standing who believes in its wisdom Now that
the credit of France involved in its they will sup
port it.
But French opinion a whole moving with startling
rapity from this policy The Partisan pulse was still
feverish the provinces had completely Gained down.
Vacancies occurring the Senate and the Chamber OF Dep
ties during several months had afforded opportunity
FOR testing French opinion and the results have been
sensational.
At election after election fought in typical constituencies
all France champions of Ruhrism have been beaten by
emphatic maorities The peasant in every land always
slowly there be doubt that the French
has had enough Of military adventures His sons
were numbered amongst the "exempts, and the
losses 10 the peasant homes of France appalling
Driving through the villages in agricultural France you
find yourself asking 'twhere the young menf The
invariably this village suffered severely in
the war" r. +
You will receive the in the next village and
the We wonder therefore, that byeections
in rural well in urban France display unmstakable
WEAKNESS Of plans which involve the marching of armed
Frenchmen into hostility.
The sorrowing people Of France have good to
shrink from of action haleads to further she'd
ding of blood
That why have steadily favored every scheme that
had the effect Of posponing decision to the Ruhr.
Delay meant ultimate defeat for the Chauvniss That is
why they hard rush their into this
precipitate action.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Another Lost Opportunity

Resentment and suspicion more equipped with
lash, and they used it relentlesy drive all good
Will for Germany from the purieus of that
Another lost opportunity.
Then the bankers committee appointed to consider
the question OF raising international loan help
finance the repair of her devasted and
Germany restore her demoralized currency remember
how eager Rahenau was float that loan and how
sanguine he it would succeed.
He confident that German nationals who have in
vested their gold in other lands could induced to sub
scribe heavily to the loan.
The bankers concerned-al the highest reputa-
ton IN the financial wordwere confident that If German
reparatons were fixed at reasonable sum investors
throughout the world would gladly put money into
great international loan which would help to restore Eli
rope The French government testify declined to consider
the essential conditions indicated by the bankers
Another lost opportunity and Europe more numbered
along Its dreary way to seek another.
came with Mr. Hughes famous speech It was clearly
the result or prolonged consideration For there had
been rumors OF much consultation Washington on the
state OF EUROPE and we were encouraged America
meant business. ~
The result Secretary Hughes offer Il was made
four days before the Paris conferences and was
intended to be discussed by the allies there
An endeayor has been to minimize the innortanoo
OF thus American approach to Europe.
But 1T lncomprehensble to how momentous nro
nouncement has been treated the casual
uterance OF politician who had find some topic Of
more or less interest with which illuminate discourse
Another opportunity lost-perhaps the greatest-per-
maps the last Never has luck strven hard to save
stupidity But luck loses its temper easily and then
is apt to hit hard " ~ -
Copyright the United States Reserved
ls Gn nssA F.ssar. Syndicate.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Belfast Under Spell
of Religious Revival

BELFAST, Feb. 24.--Political gum
men training to become religious
workers; thieves returning their loot
voluntarily; drunkenness vanished,
and crime almost unheard of-this
is the state Of Belfast tonight in
the grip Of one of the most re-
markable religious revivals in the
history of north Ireland.
The revival is being conducted by
the Rev. o. II. Mackentosh, who for
many years was in the United
States, and Mrs. Booth Clyborn, Sis
ter of Gen. Ballington Booth Of
the Salvation Army.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
DEFENDS
FARM HOME WORK
Waste and Partisan Appoint
ments Charged by Repre-
sentative AsWeII Denied.

Charges OF inefficiency, waste and
political partisanship In administfa-
ton Of the home economic and
farm extension work were made by
Representative AsWeIl Defn.l, Louis
lana, and denied by Secretary Wal
lace, Of the Department Of Agri-
culture, in letters made public last
night.
Southern women workers In home
demonstration and farm extension
have complained Of curtaillment of
the work through lack Of funds for
field workers and employment Of
too many OF high-priced specialists.
Secretary Wallace Indignantly de-
MED the charges made by AsWell,
but the latter came back with b
demand for specific statements.
Let us get down to the facts,
said ASWell, in his letter 10 the
secretary. 1.-THE country and Con.
gress would like to know what is
to be your future policy in this
matter.
II stated that in the reorganiza.
ton Of the extension work, not q
single man or woman associated
with Dr. S. A. Knapp in establish,
ing and building extension in the
counties was properly recognized
or placed in responsible admins,
trative position. Cite me the frank
statement explaining why these
people were thus ignored.
Il stated in substance that o. b.
Martin, /. w. AIN and g. L. Cham.
bers. distinguished educators and
agricuIturists. but Democrats. for
merly in charge Of all the club
work in the South, were displaced
by Mormon of less experience and
less success in club work. is this
true or not? Where is that frank
statement to the public on this
point?"
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
WARNS OF NEW WAR
IF HATING KEEPS UP
Philip SnoWden Sees Farley
OF Nations Only Hope of
World Peace.
By International News service.

-
LONDON, Feb. "a. - Another
world war within the next ten years
unless the nations quit hating each
other and get together In aInity,
was the forecast tonight by Philip
Snowden, M. p, intellectual leader
of the British Labor party" in an
exclusive interview with Interna-
tiOnal News Service.
The nations, !" declared SnOwden,
must band together in friendship.
They must settle the PREPARATIONS
problem by arbitration or face an
other war within the next ten years.
II France does not join In a
world conference for settlement of
these problems her purposes viii be
exposed in all their nakedness to
the entire world. France will be
morally isolated. But do not think
1t will come to that.
France today 10 undoubtedly the
richest country in Europe. / doubt
il even the United States is so rich
as France.
Devastated France. which is de.
handing reparaticns In gold, has, in
four years, saved 400. 1000, 900 pounds
sterling NEARLY $4,000, 200. 00Q) year.
~. France has no unemployment
problem. She has recovered her
foreign trade.
IT don't know what, Germany
would have done if she had won
the war. but / know that IL Ger
many had won she could not have
inflicted upon her enemies a peace
more brutal and indefensible or
more dishonest and more provo
cative than did the allies, who pro.
fess such high ideals.
''Such a brutal policy is an out
rage on the men who gave up
their. lives. They did not sacrifice
their lives to destroy the economic
life OF EUROPE. They died not hat
ing any one nation, but hating
war and its Methods
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
House Bandies
Poker Terms
In Dry Debate
~ Unlversal eervice.

by Universal Service.
THEY know how TO play
poker hi Congress.
Here they sit, three Of 4
kind. You can draw TO that
hand until eternity and never
ill IT," said Representative
Blanton. pointing to Repre-.
sentative GalIivan and Think
ham, 81 Massachusetts,. and
Hill, of Maryland, the "wet"
spokesulen Of the House, dur
ing tho liquor debate in the
House yesterday.
1--WE expect to draw d fun
house to this three in the next
Congress" HlII replied. to
which BlantoI1 rejoi6ed:
''YOur grandchildren will be-
eighty years old before you
DO that"
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Khan Outrages Theme
of Governor Parker

BATON ROUGE, La, Feb. "a
Gov. John M. Parker, of Louisiana,
will leave here tomorrow for Chi
cago, where. on Monday night, he
will deliver an address denouncing
the Ku Klux Khan doctrine, &C.
cording to announcement made by
him today.
Governor Parker stated in this
address he will express his opinion
of the sensational Morehouse Par
ish hooded mob" outrages, that
eliminated in the abduction and
Staying of Watt Daniel ard Thomas
Richards last August %.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Farm Discussion Closes
Institute of Government

The last session of the Institute of
Government, held at the Willard
yesterday, was devoted to agricul-
tural topics. The opening address
was made by T. c. Atkeson, Wash.
lngton representative of the Ma
tional Grange. He was followed by
Samuel Adams of Chicago, presi-
dent of the American Agricultural
Editors Association. In the after.
noon session Mary Weeks Atkeson,
a woman writer for agricultural
papers and magazines, urged in.
clusion of farm women in national
movements by women.
The convention was brought to q
close with the address of the presi-
dent, Mrs. HaViland H. Lund, who
discussed the work of socialist
groups.
The delegates were received by
President Harding at the White
House.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Cutter Speeds to Aid
Of Stranded Schooner

NORFOLK. Va, Feb 24.-With
eleven men on board, the four-mast
schooner Norris A. Holden is hard
ashore near Currituck, N. G. The
vessel struck during a northeast
blow early this morning, and ac-
cording to reports is in danger of
breaking up.
Coast guards reached the vessel
soon after she struck, but her crew
refused to come ashore. Late this
afternoon the crew were displaying
distress signals The coast guard
cutter Manning is rushing to assist
the vessel, and expects to reach her
tonight. The Holden's home port is
Philadelphia.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
TODAY
CONTINUED from First Page,

Continued from First PagA.D
Whoever does run must have
something to say besides II
should like very much to be Presi-
dent, if you please"
MIR. HARDING will be renomi-
AVA mated, Of course. He will be
able to show that he kept the
United States out of European
complications, barring the Pacific
deal. That will seem more i'm
portant even two years from now
than today. He will also be able
to show that he has reduced the
public debt, cut down taxes, made
the two ends of the budget meet
and provided a tariff that pro-
tects labor and business in this
country from the absolutely i'm
possible competition of foreign
lands with money worth a cent
or less on the dollar.
IL IS possible that before the
end of his term the President
may succeed in weaving the rail-
roads that now hang so closely to
his breast and he may come to
see the coal and railroad strikes
as not merely the mistakes of
workingmen, but the arrogance
Of employers, confident that the
Government machinery is theirs
and totally Indifferent to the
public welfare.
THE railroads, neglecting to
Il keep their roads and roll
ing stock in repair, the coal
mine owners, by their con-
temptuous indifference to newt
able public suffering, put their
own selfish interests, profits,
and overcharges ahead of the
public welfare. If the Presi-
dent adds to his other record
proof that he understands the
railroad and coal situation, if
he takes action, it will need
more than a gentleman with
an itch for the Presidency to
defeat him.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Great Britain Alone Solvent,
Observer Writes - Even
United States Tax Burdened
BRITISH BUDGET BALANCED
Other Nations Face Large De-
fiCitS and Frenzied Finance
Shows In inflated Currency
By LUTHER A. HUSTON.
Copyright. 1898 by International
Maze cnw,,fcn

NOWS COTVlC0.1
LONDON, Feb. 24.-Europe is
plunging headlong into bank
ruptcy, if she is not already
bankrupt, financiers declared here
today in an urgent plea for
Great Britain is held to be the
only solvent nation in Europe.
Even the United States, rich in
money and resources, is over
burdened with taxes.
BRITISH BUDGET BALANCED.
Since the war Great Britain is
the only European power able ia
balance her budget. Other nations.
notably France, are piIing up def
cts running into billions Of dollars.
British statesmen frankly express
fear that French seizure of the Ruhr
viii complete Europe's financial
ruin. Britain, the financial Glib.
raltar OF Europe" held aloof from
Ruhr invasion because Of fears that
1t would bring about an economic
collapse.
The smaller powers, such as
Greece, Austria, Poland and others,
are in so deep financially 1t win re.
quife generations to set them on
their feet. The national deficit OF
Austria, reckoned at the pre-war
value OF the krone, is more than
$4O0. OOO, 0OO, 900.
F'renzied finance is best exempt.
fled by the way the German and
Russian governments print paper
money by the bale, with nothing to
back up its value.
POSITION OF GREAT BRITAIN.
Great Britain has a budget of
910,O69 900 pounds sterling (nearly
ed States about $4.747 100000. This
is twelve times the size of the 1914
budget.
Inc British internal debt is g.
Ill, 121,473 pounds sterling. British
accounts payable are estimated at
2,141 ,243,764 pounds sterling.
Although industrially stronger,
France is financially weaker than
she was year ago. At the present
time the French finance ministry
has requests for 1915, 900 900 francs
normally $2,623, 0OO, 900 at the pre-
war value OF the franc.
France owes the United States
$3,S45, 100000 butt has made no
move toward paying it. The French
deficit is estimated at about $780,
100000. a per capita deficit OF near
1y so cents. More than half of the
French debt is internal.
GERMANY'S ENIGMA.
Germany's financial position Is
enigmatic. Her deficit is estimated
at more than $500, 900 ,00O, 900 with
paper marks computed at pre-war
value Of "a cents in American
money.
Italy is striving with might and
main to get on her feet financially
under the vigorous hand of Premier
Benito Mussolini. The italian deficlr
Is put at 1926, 600, 900. Italy owes
the United States and Great Britain
more than $4,000. OOO, 900, which
the Italians will attempt to pay.
Advices from Rome quoted Pre-
mier Mussolini as saying that Italy
will not try to evade payment, al
though she is not in a position to
do anything at present. Hungary,
being an agricultural nation, is not
so bad off as her neighbor. Austria.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Musical Recital
atJngram Church

Jeanette Mccartney, soprano SOLO
list, and Kathryn Mccartney, pian-
list. of York, Pa, took part in the
musical recital given last night at
the Ingram Congregational church,
Tenth and Massachusetts avenue
northeast. The event was under
the auspices of Mrs. Henry Hunt
MCGEE, church organist.
"Minuet," Paderewski, and "Melo-
dy in F." Rubenstein, were played
by Kathryn Mccartney. "Sing,
Smile, Slumber and Springtime"
was sung by jeanette McCaffrey.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Convict Sends
Note Of Thanks
To Trial Judge
ATLANTIC CITY, Feb. "a.
FUDGE WILLIAM III.

ATLANTIC CITY, Feb. "a.
FUDGE WILLIAM III.
Smathers received . letter
from Glenn Swami, ) former
magistrate, whom he sentenced
to serve q year In the State
prison, thanking the court
for placing him behind the
bars. Swami was convicted
Of extortiOn.
II want to thank you for
having made . real man Of
me-" wrote the former magis.
trate from his cell. II fully
realize that ] have made .
mistake, but at the same time
! have tried to !, do good in
many instances"
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Mary Garden Sets Sail
for EurODe and Her ZiZi

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Mary
Garden will soon hold "Zizi" in her
arms and be happy. ''Zizi" ID her
dog in Monte Carlo. He is "a little
better than chow and no worse
than a. poodle" she said.
Miss Garden sailed today on the
Adriatic for Monte Carlo and
"home."
Hamlet" she said, sis the most
immoral play of the season. Moth
ing could be more immoral than
killing a man, especially by drop
ping poison in his ear"
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Elevator Crushes
Two Men to Death

NEW YORK, Feb. 24-Two NEIL
were crushed to death today when
they were caught in an elevator be-
tween the first and second story OF
a loft building in Brooklyn. They
were Samuel Kaplan, president of
the Kaplan Knitting Mills, and
Frank Washer, an employee.
1t was found necessary to rip
hole in the shaft and remove iron
work from the elevator with an
acetylene torch before the bodies
could be recovered.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25

Mr.. Davis is
president Of the
American Lawn
Tennis AsSoclA-
ton and dona.
tor of the cele-
brated Da v / s
cup for which
champions c n.
tend. He was a
colonel with the
overseas forces
during the war.
His home is in
st. Louis.
He is director
of the Security
Building Com
pany; secretary
of the Davis es-
49, c. Tn1,ic.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Debate Lausanne Pact
in Secret at AngOra

CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. "a
The Lausanne peace treaty was de-
bated by the Turkish national as
sembly at Angora for thirteen hours
in secret today without a decision
being reached.
The members also discussed the
contents of the note which the cab
met Is sending to the allies.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
HELD IN SOLDIERS DEATH.

George Hall, colored, a soldier at
Fort Myer, yesterday was held for
action of the grand jury by the
coroner's jury. Hall is alleged to
have shot and killed Adam Caine
colored, also a soldier stationed at
Fort Myer, during an alteration in
the basement of 1904 q street north
east Friday night.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25
Davis To Be War
|Secretary's Aide

Dwight F. Davis. head of the
War Finance Corporation Of the
Treasury. has been selected to sue
coed J. Mayhem Wainwright as AS
sistant Secretary of War, it was
learned yesterday. Mr.. Wainwright
retires March to become a Rep
resentative from New York.
The Washington times., 1923-02-25

LdIG1 OI' IOUIo3 UII OOVOI U1 CIIC
State National Bank, Mortgage
Guarantee Company, and the Mort
gage Trust Company. He has been
actively engaged in recreational and
social work in st. Louis.
The nomination has not been
sent to the Senate for confirmation,
but will probably be included in a
number of nominations the Presi-
dent will make within the next
few days, 1t was said.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-01-25

Closing of deals on. royalties on
10000 acres on the Kevin-Sunburst
structure for the Sunburst Colsolidat-
ed Royalties was announced by L. c..
Stevenson, head of the company.
These purchases are for royalties
of from 1 to 1914 per cent, he an
nounced, and the average holding is
5 per cent. The deals were made Ell
Their on deep or under purchasing
agreement.
In addition to these, the COM
pany has purchased royalties in A.
600 acres in thesWmy-Loma struct-
ure, being drilled by the $40 Bill
and Hager-Stevenson COM
pany; the Midwest operations near
Conrad, the Observation-Disclosures
holdings near Geraldine, and the
Bears Den operations Of Kenneth
Frazer and associates. In each of
these cases, he said, the royalties
were under the drilling wells.
The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1923-01-25

gers, molding clay into wares, cups
pitchers and pots, and baking them
in their little kilns under the sides
of the river banks"
Catlin also mentions the fact OF
their having a secret art of manu-
featuring a type of blue glass
beads, which curiosity was men
toned by Lewis and Clark "at a
time when no traders or other
white people had been among them
or could have taught them SO Gu
rious an art" Catlin infers that
the Mandans must have warred
their way against the Sioux to
their location on the Missouri river.
Huts of the Mandans
La Verendrye, the first white
man whom history credits with
having visited the Mandans and
describing this tribe, stated that
they we're very crafty in trade and
all other relations" that they we're
also finer leather dressers than any
other tribes, "and do very fine
work on furs and feathers"
The younger Alexander Henry,
who was familiar with the Man.
dams in the days of Lewis and
Clark, wrote the most complete
early description of the huts in
which the Mandans lived. He says
in part:
"a Mandan's circular hut is spa
cious. I measured the one I lodged
in and found it 90 feet from the
door to the opposite side. The
space is first dug out about
one and one-half feet below the
surface of the earth. In the center
is the square fireplace, about five
feet on each side, dug out about
two feet below the surface of the
ground flat. The lower part of the
hut is constructed by erecting
posts about six feet out Of
the ground at equal distances from
each other, according to the pro-
posed size of the hut as they are
not all of the same dimensions. Up
on these are laid logs as large as
the posts, reaching from post to
post to form the circle. On the