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QUAks IN GERMANY

co BERLIN, Jan. 20, [P-A vin- lent earthquake was felt in upper Selesia, through the katOwis iron mining district early this morning. The damage is believed to be com paratively light.
 The town of Hindenburg also felt the effects. The inhabitants were terror stricken but no reported GAS. ualties have been turned in from that place.
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MUSSOLINI APPRAISED

ROME, Jan. 30, Mussolini's feelings were seemingly assuaged by the official apology from the United States, over the speech made by Butler at Philadelphia. Mus solini is represented as consider ing that Buffers views are those of only one American and not the entire country.
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AlRPLANE NEWS

Pilot Robbins, Alaskan Airways Fairchild plane took off from Nome this morning for Nulato carrying Mrs. Grant Elliott as passenger. and mail and express. He expects to return to Nome today.
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NOME KENNEL CLUB

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Pilot Ross NAT No. 8 plane is expected to arrive Nome today from Fairbanks.
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GOOD MUSIC, LOTS OF FUN, AT EAGLES FRONTIER NIGHT,
 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9.
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T Q N I C H T
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Congress Unlikely to Be 'World-Minded'
In Handling Difficult American Problems

the Philippines modernistic and effec-
tive.
In these circumstances many of the
most pro-peace and anti-Navy Con-
gressmen are dubious Of the value of
having our Government get stern and
mandatory with the Japanese govern
nent regarding the transport Of troops
from Japan to Manchuria.
Such Congressman have taken the
relative shrinkage of our naval power
in the Far East as a token Of our COM
ing abstention from political interview
ton In that region OF the world. They
move more and more now toward de-
claring:
We've got out of there with the
Navy. Let's get out of there with the
State Department"
This resurgence of "isolationism"
among ordinary Capitol Hill politicians
shows equally regarding the affairs Of
Europe.
They note, with the help of the Navy
League, that France at this moment has
more naval tonnage building than any
other country anywhere has. Tonnage
building for the United States is
1880; Tonnage building for France
Is l04,904. Included in that French
fact which particularly strikes the
pocketbook nerve of the Federal legis-
lators is that the new French cruisers
and destroyers and submarines began
emerging from the French backwards
Immediately after the conclusion of
the treaty, whereby the French debt to
the United States was reduced more
than SO per cent and whereby the an
nuaI interest on the residue was cut
down to less than 2 per cent.
Capitol Hill now understands that it
mas been tentatively agreed between the
state Department and the French for
eign office that there will probably be a
further downward adjustment of the
French debt in case there is a down.
ward adjustment of German repara-
tons. 1t is possible that such a pro-
posal might have been readily accepted
by the Congress in the midst of the
burst OF world panic excitement last
June. Today 1t must be realistically re-
corded that no such proposal has the
slightest chance of going through the
Congress unless it is coupled with dras-
TIC French armament reduction engage
ments.
The outlook, then, for what is COM
monty called "beneficent participation
by the United States in world prob
lens is not, If the truth is told, bright.
The Congress is going to convene in A
mood dominantly both anti-foreign
and administration. The cues
ton uppermost in its mind will not be
How can we help the world?" It will,
on the contrary, be:
Why is it that we are so rich that
we can forgive foreign debts and so poor
tnat we have to add thousands of
american Federal employees to the
ranks OF the unemployed"
That Is the question that will pro-
duce the bitterest of all fights on Cap
itol Hill next month.
(Copyright, 1917
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no work a white man can do for sup
port between sllips." Again this eau
ton is given regarding Tsingtao, China:
Alcoholic drinks are likely to be Of
dangerous quality here; safest beverage
is beer, where bottle is opened in pres
enc of drinker." "Seamen should not
accept occupation on shore" at Yoko-
hama, warns the handbook, without
advice Of consul; this applies particu-
larry to offers Of employment with box
ing or wrestling concerns" Much ma
terial is packed into the small compass
Of this handy volume, which might
probably be used, indeed. by others
than sailors for their eficient guidance.
A point of interest about this work is
that its scope, dictated by knowledge of
the needs of American sailors on going
ashore, reveals the extent to which the
Stars and Stripes is now borne about
the world.
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Germany's Economic Stress

Now that French Premier Laval is
back in Paris after his momentous con-
versations in Washington, events seem
likely to move rapidly toward that re-
adjustment Of reparations and war
debts for which the way has been paved.
Within q few hours after his return to
the Quai dOrsay last week, M. Laval
was in consultation with Herr Won
Hoesch, the German Ambassador to
France, and explained to him the broad
outlines Of the Washington arrange
ment.
For Berlin the basic feature Of 1t Is
that the Germans must buckle down,
no matter how reluctantly, to reeogni-
ton Of the fact that the Young plan Is
the framework within which they must
seek relief from the burdens therein
undertaken. The fact has not been
emphasized, either here or abroad, but
perhaps the outstanding result Of the
LAval-Hoover conference was the tacit
acknowledgment by the United States
that this country, too, looks upon the
Young plan as the ironbound economic
law Of europe, Germany, because she
considers 1t an onerous and unjust law
would revise IT, II she cannot repudiatG
IL. But II does not look a. II abe car
expect any support from the American
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British POst.Election
Problems Are Difficult
BY A. G. GARDINER.

LONDON. November THE an
nouncement Of the personnel Of Prime
Minister Ramsay MacDonald's National
cabinet has been favorably received
both by the press and the public.
1t was q difficult task allocating the
omcers among tlnee parties and 1t was
aggravated by an overwhelming pre-
ponderance If Conservative repre-.
sentation in the House of Comncns,
Dut MacDonaldS prestige enabled him
to disregard numerical claims and
choose his ministers on the grounds of
capacity. The result Is q cabinet which
includes the pick Of all parties, with the
Churchill and David LLOYD George.
whose attitude toward the new govern.
ment Is not Likely to be friendly. Both
are entirely ioolated from their former
4mnatlonS and are without a personal
following, but they still are the most
formidable debaters in Commons and
are ndisposed to accept the humiliation
OF exclusion with Christian resignation.
They will have abundant opportunity
Tor creating breaches in the eiephantlns
government majority, and doubts are
wioeiy expressed whether Macdonald
can long hold his composite team to-
gstner. He has temporarily stilled the
and the constitution of the new gov,
eminent is a guarantee of q cautious
poncy on the tariff issue Moreover
the immense gravity Of the inmediate
problems confronting the government
Is calculated to subordinate differences
ana Keep them united till the sky clears.
IN the next few days two momeiltous
T.0 WIN reach a critical phase.
Inc indian round-table Conference T;ue
TO close on November 81. has com.
pletely failed to achieve agreement be-
tween the Mosl1ms and Hindus on the
CruclaI question Of communal elections.
Inc government Is urged in some quar-
ters 10 accept The fact of the failure of
tne Indians 70 find basis of ACCOM-
mooatlon, TO withdraw the federal con-
Ss;.CuIion scheme and fan back on the
Mncial autonomy. They do not expect
macdonald to consent. Both he and
Stanley Baldwin are committed to a
policy Of federal Constitution and
though Sir John Simon Is now a MEM
per OF the government, IL Is extremely
unlikely that they will reveal on the
ground OF Indian disagree.nents,, espe-
wiser Indian delegates, like SaprrI
Sastri' are willing to accept arbitration.
y X y
Ing tnlro most pressing problem Is
the European financial crisis and the
perilous position Of Germany between
her huge foreign commercial debts and
her reparations obligations. It is rea-
Lied that If The French secure priority
Tor reparations Germany's short-tern1
credits from foreign banks and firms
VII! remain frozen, with consequences
winch must lead not only 70 the coll
lapse OF Germany, but also TO univer-
sal disaster TO the structure ~ U,ori6
finance. The London government,s aim
VIII De to secure prolongation of the
standstill agreement until the repara
IONS question Is finally disposed Of, but
the subord1nation Of commercial claims
70 war obligations would be fatal to any
hopes OF financial recovery in Europe.
(Copyright, lo31)
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Conference to Help
Builders of Homes
BY HARDEN COLEAx.

Plans of the Government to give
small homeoWnerS and proSnectiye
owners the aid Of the countrv's most
expert hnancierS and city planning and
construction authorities are taking fina]
shape. Two OF the committees Of ex-
perts who will make up the President s
Gonterencs on Home Building and
Rome owning to meet next month an
nounced today the results OF their pre-
paratory work for the conference
Dividing the country INTO sections
passed on climate or other pertinent
factors, the Committee on Fundamental
Equipment has determined what shall
be the costs of the heating, plumbing
ana local equipment for the typical
small home"-assumed to be one rang
ing In cost from $4,000 to $4,000. All
sorts OF data have been collected on
CIVIC equipment and systems for heating
and ventilating on fuel. plumbing
SanlIatlon, refrigeration and lighting.
Ln1S committee is under the chairman
snip OF Prof. Collins P. Bliss, dean
OF the College of Engineering of New
York University.
Inc problem OF securing stability for
the nome has been dealt with nv the
committee on City Planning and Zon-
ing Eeaded by FreGeric A. Delano of
rev YORK, director OF the National
Capital Park and Planning Commission
and the moving spirit in some of the
most comprehensive city SURVEYS vet
mace In this country. In the summary
OF the report which thisAcommittee will
present at the conference the opinion is
expressed that from the human point
OF view such sterilization will operate
70 1orestaH "one Of the tragedies Of
the pre-zoning period, which was that
neighborhoods became run down and
the people who had striven. often at
great sacrifice, to pay for homes for
tnelr old age, found them unsatisfac-
tory because surrounded by undesirable
conditicns through lack Of community
stability
X
The recommendations of the Plan
ming and Zoning Committee cover such
subjects as the regulating of sub
divisions, traffic and transportation
open spaces, school sites, Fairgrounds
and legislation affecting city blaming
and coming. The ccmrnittee STRONGLY
urges sterilization OF values through
proper building Of individual residences
Since land and buildings used for
dwellings constitute greater volume
and value than land and buildinss used
for any other purpose In our cities, the
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report says. ut would seem good bIsi-
ness to conserve the enormous invest
ment of the American people, through
the application. of coming, by prevent
ing the economic waste which accom-
panies unregulated use CT land and
buildings for dwellings,"
Another committee of the conference
is expected to urge home repairs as
a means of stimulating employment.
The low costs OF materials and the
availability of skilled labor make the
present time particularly favorable for
reconditioning the home.
x X y
In connection with the forthcoming
conference, financial aid Is also tn he
given. The plan to stimulate credit for
home building with hope of reviyinr
private construction throughout the
Country was discussed last week at the
White House, when q group Of building
and loan association directors called on
the president. Although no details are
as vet available Of the plan agreed upon
at this meeting, 1t Is understood that
the group, under the leadership of the
and Loan League, proposed the use az
building and loan societies throughout
the country, aided by the Federal land
Banks, as a system for easing home
The principle was laid down of max
inr the Federal Land Banks a sort of
national agency to rediscount the secu-
rites of building and loan societies.
This proposal would seem to At in with
the general plan OF President Hoover to
%thaw cut frozen real estate assets" and
thus make mortgages more attractive a.
(OopyTight, 1871
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Government in the realization Of that
aspiration.
On November S Chancellor Bruening,
addressing the executive board of his
own Centrist party, declared that "it Is
now necessary to open fully the books
of German economy to the world" The
Reich is required to do that when it
comes, cap in hand, asking for further
favors in the form Of more time to pay
reparations. That Germany will avail
herself Of that privilege, which is
vouchsafed her by the Young plan at
least as far as conditional reparations
are concerned, is hardly in doubt. It
Is, at all events, very considerably less
in doubt than the American end of the
bargain into which President Hoover
entered with Premier Laval, whereby
the administration will ask Congress to
remit war debts owed us by Europe in
proportion to such remissions as Ger
many secures from her European
creditors. The White House can pro-
pose action along these lines to Con-
gress and has pledged itself to do so.
Congress will dispose and, according to
various straws, may strenuously oppose
the procedure outlined to Premier Laval.
Chancellor Bruening says that an
ultimate bearable solution Of the repa-
ration and debt problem Is required. He
foreShAdows that 1882, even without
reparstion payments. will be the worst
for both federal and state finances in
Germany, though he indicates that the
Reich IS now on the right road to eco
nonlic recovery and will continue to
travel it II Germans return to sound
pre-war business principles. The Ber-
lin government has set It's face like flint
against any experiments of an tnfia-
tionary nature. realizing that such re-
courses would only postpone the process
Of re-establishing Germany's interna-
tional credit.
The fundamentals of business in the
Fatherland are sound. German export
doomed along and resulted in favorable
trade balances in various parts of the
world, including Great Britain. The
country's greatest commercial concerns,
despite intensive foreign competition,
have weathered the struggle. "The knife
of the surgeon" says Chancellor Bruen-
ing, will be radically applied to the
public household and private business.
to eliminate the sores that remain" II
the German people, he adds, don't lose
their heads and give up" the Reich
should be able, with the amelioration in
sight under the Young plan, to emerge,
II painfully and with long continuing
sacrifice, from the economic gloom
presently encircling it.
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An Armistice Day Suggestion
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D, IL. D,
Bishop of Washington.

We are entering ArmiStice week.
Thirteen years ago on November IL at
IL o'clock on long battle front the
guns were siienced and the long, titanic
struggle was brought to its climax. The
silencinR of the guns was designed to
restore order and peace to war-torn
world. For Is years now nations have
been struggling out of the wreck and
ruin and endeavoring to establish them
selves upon newer and flrmer founda-
tons. Peace treaties and pacts have
been growing in number. A League OF
Nations has been set up at Geneva and
more than ever before In human history
statesmen and diplomats are effecting
new and better terms Of comfy and
good will. There are signs on the
horizon, in spite of all that is said to
the contrary, that the new machinery
is effecting better relations and serving
larger ends than secret diplomacy
yielded through the preceding genera
lions. The very fact that the world,
through modern agencies and mecha-
nisms, has been so compacted that inter-
course can be had without respect of
space makes more urgent and necessary
an understanding sympathy and good
will as between nation and nation. An
ideal situation has not as yet been
reached, but the drift is in the right
direction. Proud isolation Is no longer
possible and 1t may be that We are at
the dawn Of a new and better age whore
the settlement Of disputes may be
effected without recourse to armed con-
fiict. While we register all this with
grateful hearts, we are conscious Of con-
ditionS in the present world situation
that need our most careful and serious
consideration and demand our best
efforts for their easement and solution.
There are shadows that must be
dispelled. crooked paths that must be
made straight and rough places that
must be made smooth. Here within our
own borders the President in eloquent
words has recently reminded us that
there Is a responsibility laid upon us at
this time to which we must give serious
heed and to which we must respond
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with generosity. Millions Of our people
are affected by industrial dislocation
with all Its Accomplishments of enforced
idleness and stern privation. We are
called upon now, perhaps as never be-
fore, to recognize the fact that the ills
and burdens of one group must be
readily shared by those who are more
fortunate. In every hamlet and village
and city an appeal is being registered
for fresh expression of brotherly kind
ness and good will. 1t was said of old
that THE whole body fitly Joined to-
gether and compacted by that which
every joint supplieth, according to the
effectual working in the measure of
every part, maketh increase of the
body" This Is only another way Of
saying that a building, whether of men
or brick and stone, grows in stability and
symmetry and orderliness only in so far
as each several part assumes its ade-
quate place and strain. This literally
means that nothing is unimportant or
inconsequential. Unwillingness to do
our bit, whatever that bit may be. and
to do it gladly and readily, affects the
whole structure of society. 1t is only
in times of crisis that we come to real
ize that no man liveth to himself"
and that the maintenance of an ordered
and orderly world is conditioned by the
willingness Of every individual to con-
tribute to the veal and happiness Of
his fellows.
OF late we have grown a bit insular
and have recognized too widely the old
fallacious dictunn, Every man for him
self" 1t is only as we lend our aid
and support according TO our means and
opportunity that we shall effect better
and more wholesome conditions. 1t is
conceded that we have both the genius
and the resources in this country to
rectify the situation that now confronts
u.s. it is largely question whether we
have the will and the courage to do
so. 1t must be clearly evident to all
Christian men and women that the
opportunity is at hand to give practical
demonstration of the value of that
which they profess to believe.
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suggestion to him, and that either Mr..
MacVeagh or himself was very ignorant
Of the law; for according to his reading
Of the United States statutes it was
made the express duty Of the Attorney
General to engage assistant counsel in
any case where in his Judgment the
interests Of the Government required 1t.
Mr.. MacVeagh said that he took q diff
ferent view Of his duty and did not con-
slider himself bound to take any part Ia
the trial Of Guiteau or to procure addi-
tional counsel for that purpose. The
President said he was determined that
the Government should have able coun-
sci and he would himself direct, II Mr..
MacVeagh declined to do so, that Judge
John K. Porter of New York and
Walter Davidge Of Washington be en-
ployed as additional counsel in the
prosecution of Guiteau. Mr.. Mac
Veagh then said that IL the President
desired 1t to be done he would employ
the gentlemen named.
1T Is said that at the close OF this
scene the President remarked that the
Attorney Generals knowledge Of the law
would be greatly improved by reading
the statutes Of the United States which
deemed the duties Of his once"
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When Jack Goes Ashore.

Seamen who leave their ships at
strange ports or sometimes at familiar
ones often suffer from their inexperi-
ence with the customs of these places
Of visitation. They have difnculty in
finding their way about. They are the
victims of sharpers and charlatans,
They are bled by false guides. Some
times they overstay their shore leave
and are stranded. If they become Ill
they are at a loss to find succor. If
out of funds they suffer seriously from
need. To guide them whenever they
cross the gangplank, to keep them out
of trouble of all kinds and to make
their time ashore as interesting and
profitable as possible little guidebook
has been compiled by Mrs. Henry
Howard, who is the president of the
American Merchant Marine Library
Association, book that deserves wide
attention and faithful use. This, the
fourth edition of the "Seamens Hand.
book for Shore Leave" has just ap'
peared, bringing all the data up TO the
latest possible point Of completeness
and accuracy. 1t gives q list Of thu
hotels at several hundred ports, Amer
lean and foreign; it contains informa-
ton about seamens institutes anc
homes and about banks and seamen''
agencies, unions, legal aid, physicians
hospitals, clinics, amusements.
briefly notes the points of interest anc
possible excursions within the scope o.
the sailors opportunity. In some in
stances 1t offers advice, such as the fol
lowing in respect TO Nagasaki, Japan
for example: "seamen should take car
70 avoid being left here or in other out
ports In ne orient: there Is ahsolvrel!