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little entente will waive their objec-
tions in the preferred payment of the
money due TO them by Hungary under
the head of reparations. and thus re-
move the obstacles in the way of the
great powers lending her a helping
hand by means of loans directly or
through the league of nations. or
through their respective money mar
kets. she will have to furnish salts
factory guarantee to the effect that
she will not lend herself to any
restoration of the Hapsburgs: that she
will abstain from any attack on her
the political frontiers of central Eu-
rope; likewise that she will vigor-
ously suppress and punish any border
disturbances; that she will maintain
law and order and protection to all
alike IN the country subject to her
rule, and that she will endeavor to
restore healthy economic conditions
in the kingdom.
Now, popular sentiment in Hungary.
in the face of the rapidly improving
conditions of industry and trade and
the consequent atmosphere of pros
perity, despite the downward trend of
the kronen and the vacuum in the
national treasury, does not appreciate
the necessity of sacrificing so much
of her independence to her hated
neighb borS of the little entente in or
der to secure their sanction and ap-
provaI of a Magyar loan by the great
powers
Violent Against Jews.
About the only subjects upon which
the Magyar reactionaries and the
radicals are united is in their hos
tility to the powers of the little en-
tente and their anti-Semitic preju-
dices. Jewish citizens are being
driven by violence and sanguinary
disturbances from schools, universi-
ties and public resorts, while foreign
Jews are being expelled for no other
reason than their creed and race. In
deed, the so-called white terror" the
feature of whose activities is the sup
preston of the Hebrews and their
elimination from every sphere of
Magyar life for the so-called pro
lection Of Hungarian patriots" is in
full swing. and just as bold in it's
defiance of the government authori-
ties as were the fascist in Italy: Yet
it is not while this anti-Semitism is
permitted to thrive and to plunder
and, terrorize in Hungary that the
latter can expect to find any cordial
response to her appeal to the money
markets of Paris, London or New
York.
Quite naturally. the strained rela-
tions which have lately developed be-
tween the Poincare cabinet in Paris
and the Stanley Baldwin administra-
ton in London on the subject of the
Ruhr have not contributed to help
matters with regard to Hungary. For,
whereas on the banks of the Thames
the conviction of the urgent neces-
sity of affording financial assistance
to the Magyar government is SO pro-
nounced that when the Czechos1o-
vakian foreign minister. Doctor
Bennes, visited London the other day
for the purpose of securing the second
insta1lment of the Czech loan, which
had been f1oated in England with the
approval Of the cabinet, he was Sc
verely taken to task at the foreign
Office by Lord Curzon, by Premier
Baldwin and by Lord Revelstoke for
the role assumed by the Prague gov
ernment In connection with the Hun
Eaytan crisis -
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name "Pekoe," the Chinese words
PAX ho" meaning white hairs"
This tea produces an orange colored
beverage, hence the name orange
pekoe." The small white pieces.
which look like stems, are not. stems
at all, but the very finest part of the
leaf, the tip, and tea made from them
Is very strong and has the most deli
cate aroma. The dried tea leaves are
graded by women who screen the tea
by placing it in a fiat tray made of
woven bamboo and throwing it deftly
into the air until all the lightest
leaves are on top. The lighter tea
is the last to come down and after
carefully working the tray load to the
point where all the leaves of the
same quality are on top, the tray is
quickly withdrawn from beneath the
light leaves. which fall into another
tray at the feet of the woman who
is doing the tanning. The heavy tea
is then tossed into the tray of the
next woman who submits 1t to still
further manipulation.
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as possibly the wealthiest man ever
to occupy. the White House. Virtually
all of his fortune will go to Mrs
Harding. The sale of the Star made
it necessary for the President to write
a new will just before starting on the
trip to Alaska. This act was in no
sense n premonition of the disaster
on the part OF the President. The
Harding estate should amount to at
least 100000. In addition to that,
Mrs. Harding has a personal fortune
of probably 800 900. left to her by her
father.
That father was Amos II. King.
who was reckoned in his day the
wealthiest man in Marion county.
Successful in business, he had taken
up banking and became the president
of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank,
later known as the Marion National.
Mr.. Killing became a power in the af
fairs, not only of Marion. but of all
that part of Ohio. His political in
fuence also was extensive.
and characteristics of the father were
reflected in the daughter. While not
inclined to be autocratic as he. she
has always possessed his aggressive
ness. ambition, forcefulness and
shrewd judgment
Probably her greatest inheritance
from her father was his remarkable
business ability. 1t supplied a quail
ity which was lacking in the edi-
torially minded Warren Harding as
he struggled to build up his little re-
publican paper.
Although married previously to
Marshall De Wolfe of Marion, her
friends did not believe that realslove
came to Florence Killing until she met
young Warren Harding in the midst
of his struggles with the weekly
newspaper of the village. Disappoint-
ed in her first marriage, the father
opposed a further early venture into
matrimony for his daughter, but here
again she exhibited some of the traits
of independence and determination
which had been handed down to her
by the protesting parent himself. She
married Warren Harding. and for a
time there was an estrangement with
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her family. But that was quickly over
and Florence King proved her own
good judgment. her own vision, by
marching beside and upward with the
husband who was to become the
twenty-ninth President of the United
States. Her life history is one of
Americas greatest romances.
Shortly after her marriage Mrs
Harding plunged into the affairs OF
her husbands weekly. She managed
it well and before great many years
the Star had developed into small
daily. It had successful democratic
paper to combat in the field and for
quite while the struggle was about
an even one. Then came the Spanish
American war 1t was Mrs. Harding
who had most to do with obtaining a
first ever received in Marion. That
was the turning point. Success came
in waves. The business was larger
than the Hardings had ever dared to
dream of Through all those years
Florence Harding spent her days at
the office, counted out papers for the
newsboys, directed the deliveries and
street sales, saw to the purchases and
saw that collections were made on
time. Many of the newsboys who
bought their papers from Mrs. Hard
ing are among those today whose
grief for her is greatest.
x X
An interesting incident took place
during the presidential campaign,
when the Florence Harding News
boys Association" visited the Harding
front porch. There was most en-
joyable visit and various group pic
lures were taken, with Mr.. and Mrs
Harding in the center. Then Mrs
Harding singled out three of the men
and laughingly insisted that she have
her picture taken with the boys" she
had spanked when they were Star
carriers and she was circulation
manager.
Although President Harding was d
Baptist and she attended services with
him. Mrs. Harding retained her men,
bership in the Epworth Methodist
Episcopal Church in Marion. She
was also member of the Twigs and
Advance Clubs of Marion Her
brothers are Clifford B. King and
NItalls H. King. the latter known as
Tai"
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CUBAN LOTTERY CAUSING
NEW INTERVENTION TALK
Gambling Institution Retained Despite
Gen. Crowder's Advice Compared
to U. S. Spoils System.

By FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.
X ORE than once since Gen.
MI Crowder went to Cuba in
January, 1921. the pos
sibility of a third American
Intervention in the island has loomed
as possibility. The acrimonious
circumstances under which Gen.
Crowder is now returning from
Havana are bound to revive the
thought, repugnant as it is alike to
the United States and to Cuba.
Article III of the Platt amendment
virtually makes us responsible for the
maintenance of sound financial sys-
tenn in Cuba and theoretically en-
powers US to resort to extremes. if
necessary, to impose it. A situation
might easily arise to justify a repeti-
tion of the so-called Roosevelt
Magoon intervention" undertaken in
1906 for the purpose of putting Cuba's
election system on an honest and
efficient basis
Lottery Causes Crisis.
The perpetuation of the Cuban ma
tional lottery. against the wish and
advice of the United States, was voted
by the Cuban congress because of
the lottery's Importance for purely
political purposes. The lottery in
Cuba is the great. traditional source
of patronage. Presidents of the island
republic distribute the numerous ad-
ministrative jobs connected with the
lottery much as Presidents of the
United States. by ancient custom, dis
pense federal plums.
The outstanding difference is that
in Cuba the lottery patronage is
honeycombed with graft. The So
called "colectoria" posts in every
nook and Granny of the island are
eagerly sought. 1t is not uncommon
for them to pay as much as $4,000
to $4,000 a year, which is princely
income in Cuba. Gambling in lottery
tickets is the national passion. The
patronage appointee. who controls
the distribution of a block or several
blocks of tickets. which are ordinarily
sold at big premiums, enjoys a certain
and substantial income.
hC SoiCStofid LII
the larger districts go to favorite
henchme nof the president-some-
thing of the sort of special favor
bestowed by our chief executives on
deserving partisans who are awarded
foreign ambassadorships The smaller
fry party hangers-on of the local
boss type or ward-heeler fraternity
get their share of the "coleotoria"
booty in the ratio Of their Importance
in the party machine.
Like Our Spoiis System.
1t is because of the all-pervading
character of the national lottery that
the Cuban congre ess-filled with poll
ticians like our own Congress-in-
sisted that the system should be
maintained. In a way, the political
existence of members of the Cuban
congress depends on the "colectoria"
institution. To ask them to put 1t
out of business would be equivalent
to asking our Congress to 1egislate
federal patronage out of existence.
If Americans will imagine the hue
and cry such revolutionary proposal
would evoke throughout the United
States they will be able to under
stand why the congress Of Cuba re-
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enacted the lottery law over the veto
OF President Zayas. Senior Zayas.
who has at all points co-operated
with Gen. Crowder in the effort to put
Cubas financial and political house in
order. was undoubtedly Influenced by
the American Ambassadors views on
the lottery.
There are many Cubans-among
them was President Zayas himself at
one time-who favored retention of
the national lottery on legitimate
budget grounds. Senior Zayas was
anxious to maintain it, after putting
it on a clean business basis. in order
that Cuba might continue to derive
from ticket sales the considerable
revenues, from which schools, hos
pitfalls. sanitation and other public
utilities largely were financed.
Hoped to End Graft.
Zayas hoped that graft could be
eliminated and the lottery operated
without remaining, as it long has
been, the chief source of political
corruption in Cuba. Evidently both
the liga nacional, to which Zayas
and his cabinet belong. as we'll as
the liberal opposition, combined in
congress to re-enact the lottery law
after Zayas. presumably under Ameri-
can influence, decided to oppose it,
Gen. Crowder first was sent to Ha-
vana on his present mission in the
last months of President Wilson's ad-
ministration. Thirteen years pre-
vious, in 1908, he went there, at the
direction of President Roosevelt. to
put into operation the new so-cal1ed
Crowder electoral law, by which the
islands election system was purged
and modernized. A year or two ago
both political parties united to nullify
the wholesome effects of the Crowder
law by passing an amendment cloth
ing the party executive committees
with power to override the will of
One of the principal arguments
utilized by the pro-lottery parties is
that if Cubans are denied the oppor-
tunity to invest in domestic lottery
tickets they will buy them abroad,
thus depriving the Havana treasury
of vast revenue. But the real attrac-
tion of the lottery is its value to the
professional politicians and corrup-
tionists, who, crying American in
tervention," use that slogan as
means of perpetuating Cuba's ma
tional gambling institution.
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When Mrs. Harding Leaves White House
She Will Go Into a World of Emptiness


valiantly for her stricken husband
when he died.
1t was characteristic of Mrs. Hard
ing'that she should have said at San
Francisco: II will not break down:
don't worry about me-" There was
still a duty ahead. Warren Harding"
there was still the solemn pomp and
pageantry of state funeral to be
gone through with. There was still
something to be done for Warren-the
last that mortal hands may do. The
fight was not ended for the duchess"
When it is all over. however: when
the last rites shall have been conclud-
Marion, what, then, will "the duchess
do? What will be her state of mind?
What will be the plans of probably
the most lonesome widow the world
has ever known? She has friends
aplenty, friends who are devoted to
her in an unusual degree, for Mrs
Harding was a woman's woman. just
welcome in the society of the Presi-
dents own circle of pals"
The future life of Mrs. Harding is
difficult to speculate upon. Her life
ambition was the success of her hus-
band. With his career ended, she may
go back to the little home in Marion
and spend the rest of her allotted
time among the old friends and the
associations of the front-porch cam
paign, which carried Warren Hard
ing to the White House. On the other
hand. Mrs. Harding has liked Wash
ington immensely. She liked il be-
cause her husband liked il, and il was
understood that both OF them had
planned to spend most OF their time
here when the White House term was
oveA Mrs. Harding has many Wash
ington friendS-friends that did not
come with the prestige of the White
House. but who date back to the days
when Mr.. Harding was in the Senate.
1t is easily within the range OF pos
sibility that Mrs Harding may reside
here Probably she has given no
thought to a future which does not
include him whom she loved best.
Since the recent sale Of the Marion
Star. President Harding was rated
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Silver Threads in Tea Considered
AS Source of Strength, Consul Saws

Silver threads among the gold
mean good tea. The tiny, silvery
hairs in your orange pekoe tea and
the small white pieces which look
like stems are not something which
should NOT be there, but are really
the things which give orange pekoe
it's delicious flavor. The tea plant
constantly throws out new shoots at
che end of Zach twig and the leafbud
which is jusE unfolding, together with
the small leaf next to it, produces the
finest quality Of tea; the leaf at the
end Of the small branch being the
best of all, and the quality of the
leaves Of the lower twigs of the
branch becoming poorer in proportion
to their proximity to the trunk, says
Consul c. l. Hoover. Batavia, in
report to the Department of Com
merce
These first two leaves are covered
with fine hairs, which. when the leaf
il dried give a siivery appearance to
EhA-tsa from this comes the trade
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Bonaparte Still Fascinates
From the New Haven JournaI-Courier.

From the New Haven Journal-Courier.
An electrical engineer of Char
1ottesville, Va; who recently, died,
left to Princeton University a collec-
tion of 5000 volumes having to do
with the French revolution and Ma
poleon. There is an era in nearly every
mans life when he reads this chapter
in world history intensively. The
fascination of Bonaparte is persis-
tent. The Yale senior class recently
rated him at or near the head of their
favorite characters. 1t is presum-
ably the dramatic quality in the man
just as people troop to the playhouse,
so they divert themselves in reading
of a great actor. The emotion can
not be called admiration-men su-
premely admire Washington and Lin
coin. but none ever called them "ac-
tors"
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COLLAPSE In HUNGARY
BELIEVED THREATENING
Internal Prosperity and Surplus Crops
Offset by Mad Race of Currency
to Low Levels.
BY r. CUNLIFFE-OwEN C. Il. Il

BY F. CUNLIFFE-OwEN. C. Il. e.
aster. In Hungary her various
industries are showing every
where signs of the most won
derfuI revival. Her harvests give
promise of proving the very largest
in twelve or fifteen years. and over
and above the grain which she needs
for domestic consumption she will
have at least 10000 tons for export
as well as $4,000 tons of sugar for the
foreign markets. while her oil re-
fineries are working day and night
and doing a splendid business.
Under ordinary circumstances this
condition of affairs would be re-
garded as of nature to promote
peace at home and abroad and to in
spire credit in the stability of the
government. But quite the reverse is
the case. The state finances are in a
shocking condition. The Magyar kro-
men seems to be running a neck-to-
neck race with the German marks as
to which can reach the lowest ebbt
and Lord Curzon made it clear in
parliament the other day that unless
the great powers were willing to go
to the assistance of the Hungarian
government with foreign loans, such
as have been accorded to Austria
with such advantage through the
league of nations, Hungary was in
danger of a complete collapse, the
overthrow of her government, and
probably a revival of that red terror
ism of the communist Belax Kun. to
whose boIshevist regime Count Mich
ael Karolyi surrendered the dictator
ship when he realized that he was
powerless in the face of the execra-
ton of his low-countrymen to
maintain himself in the position of
supreme authority, to obtain which
he had contributed, more than, any
one else, to the downfall of Emperor
Charles.
Necessities Are Pressing.
Hungary's necessities are. of the
most pressing character. Her govern
ment has reached the end of its re-
sources, her treasury is empty. and
as the international commission of
reparations, organized by the en-
tente, has, by virture of Article $50
of the treaty of Versailles. the first
charge upon all her assets and reve-
nues. no one is willing to loan her
any money. Her preferred creditors
are Roumania, Poland. Serbia and
Czechoslovakia, especially the first
three, who suffered cruelty through
the devastation wrought in their re-
spective territories by the Magyar
troops in the great war.
The fact of the matter is that until
now all the powers of the little en-
tente have looked upon Hungary as
a standing menace to their. exist
ence. as reactionary. as aggressive,
and as bent on recovering her former
territories at their expense. They
are convinced that if placed once more
on her financial feet Hungary would
take advantage thereof to re-estab-
Iish the monarchy, which. de jure,
has really never ceased to exist, since
Hungary claims to be still subject to
the sacred crown of ST. Stephen, and
Admiral Won Horthy, the actual ruler.
is merely the temporary regent of
the kingdom in the absence OF his
sovereign.
Before the powers Of the so-eaIlsd
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ny ROBERT r. SMALL.

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rem 6. Harding will go out
into what will be for her an all but
empty world. OF near relatives she
has left only two brothers. who live
in Marion, and two grandchildren
Jean De Wolfe. aged fourteen. and
George. aged eleven, the children of
her first marriage.
The world will be empty for Flor
ence Harding, because her chief mis-
sion in it is gone. There is nothing
more that she can do for Warren
Harding" as she always referred to
him. While Washington feels the
loss of President Harding with keen
est grief. it's heart goes out to the
wife, who played her role of help
fulness unto the very end. 1t was
more than fitting that Mr.. Harding
should have died as the duchess"
sat reading to him. That was the
final touch.
Warren Harding leaned on the
duchess" as he affectionately called
her, AS no President ever has de-
pended upon his wife. 1t has seemed
to Washington that Mrs. Harding was
an integral part of the presidency. of
the entire Harding administration
For thirty three years Mrs. Harding
had devoted herself to the upbuilding
of her husband and his interests. Just
she seemed to be part of the
presidency here. so in Marion her
life was as much intertwined with the
history of the Marion Star as was
that of the late President himself
t'of some eighteen years she labored
in the offices of the Star. giving up
the task only when frail health made
Ii absolutely necessary.
Few persons who have marveled
at her wonderful energy. her never
tagging enthusiasm. her power of
will, have realized that for fifteen
years she has been in condition of
health which would have sent "A
woman of less courage, of less de-
termination, to an invalid's bed. But
Mrs. Harding has been fighter-all
her life. And she was lighting
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Romantic Forest Goes.
From the Los Angeles Times.

One by one the picturesque haunts
of romance are falling before the
needs of a mercial- minded world
Who will not heave sigh to learn
that Sherwood Forest, where Robin
Hood and his merry hand abided. is
tingham county is rich in coal de-
posits, and it is estimated that TO-
100000 tons year can be taken from
this historic locality.
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w HEN the brief period of her
M mourning in the White
" House is ended, Mrs. War
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SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1923-01-06

kryou nade re by tam svymi aerick5m zkusenost
mi" mohi sta ministry skoro bychom radi znsati Anne
rce kde jim nehrozf nebezpet 5e BY oh bt povolan ma
kresa.
Zajmave sveto pozadavek sloyenskou autonomii
vrh Hobza clanku Na Dobe kde Doiednava pfl-
nach Sovensku Prav vsude ma vefenos Sc
roztahuji Mad'af Nemci, pokracuje:
"Pro darske drednky nepati jazykoyy zAkon a ne
uvedomeli sovens obcane 81 nedoyedou vaxi sovenseo
dfednho azyka. Soyaci nizsch vrstev znaji asky
jazyk, oblibou jim mluvi vefejngstil
"Mensiny ktere jsou toko zbytky byvaych majorit a
ty drvesch prvegi stavajise nastroem irredentisti
ckych snah Nejlcinnejs heso kteym sve prot rep-
bce je heso auonomie zadny zagtance nedoysl dsled
kd Auonomie je svezakonnost pod vys svrchovanos
cstecne pocke osamostaeni uprosred vyssho
deho organismu Sovaci vsak jsod cas satnho naroda
statni vadnou sam sobe suverenne
ch rec je rec sn nkde nepfchazeji state pom6ru
neake minoritn skupny Kde e to ciz nazene prostre
d? Myslenka autonome Sovakd e 1zasnou absurdnos Tee
by il rozumela okanf samosprava nebo duasus Ten by
by en prac Madary Polaky okain samospravu
ners mre postarano zupnm zzenfm Kdyz Sdyac sta
spoluvladnou, proc vastne cht9 autono2 BOZ lp6
rovnopravne zastoupen Wade vsech stnich radec
nsucch kazdy lehce pochopf ale boje suverennf ozky
sttnho naroda autonomi nkdo nepochop? Komu tady
heso auonomie? Kazda trhlna ceskosovenske jed
poskozuje ODE vetve naroda. Teno enotny - Cecho
slovaci -narod dosta cd vemoc suverenu jest mem
ably dokaza zvotaschopnos satotvornou u bez mig by
podle zasad svete nynejsm patnyeh meme nroku
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