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KATONAH TO HAVE RADICAL COLONY, BROOK FARM TYPE Mrs. 31. Tuscan Bennett Going There to Help Along Economic Evolution. TO LIVE IX LOG CABIN 81ie and Her Husband Will Sell Connecticut Prop erties to He Foot Free. ACT, WolfK, HER MOTTO Brooktvood School Will Get Family's Sparc Cash in Citizenship Cplift. Bvrrial DrKpalrli 1o Tfl* N'rw York Hmiai.d. Hahtforp, Conn., Pch. 8.?There art* any number of (Inn women up lmrc in Connecticut who cannot tret over feeling s little scared every titue they hear the name of Mrs. M. Toucan Bennett "My dear," flutters a !ady who wouldn't for the world be so mean as to stoop to carrying tales to another lady who Immediately would snub anyone so tactless as to offer scandal as a tea time polemic, "have you heard about Mrs. Bennett?" And right there the ultra-conservative brace themselves but trim their ears to catch every syllable, for they know they're due for a tingle. They know u win rx' a perrectly proper tingle; a good bracing tingle that will awaken in form; of tliern old. smothered rebellions that hud their, beginnings back on "the beach" when PYanpps, Day was the smartest, strongest, most atliletic, most defiant and altogether the most charming youngster in the Connecticut set. In those days she simply obeyed the healthy impulses of her clear, keen mln 1 and therefore rode a diamond frame bicycle as fast as a boy, pulled an our with lads who later made their crews, warn to the float or the island anil back without resting and dominated by the sheer force of her character and strcngtu of her young muscles. nrmme Socialistic. So the milder spirited girls, who were married Just about the same time Miss Day was married to Martin Tuscan Bennett and proceeded to become mothers ?of splendid families just as she did, have come along until this day depending upon her yet for no small amount of their excitement. She became socialistic in her political opinions. She became a militant suffragist und even was arrested in Warhlngton for participating In the burring, Just outside the White House grounds, of President Wilson'a speeches. She became a trades unionist and went about fighting for Improved working < ondltions and pay for wage earners of her own sex. She went Into sociology the same way she vised to ride a bicycle and swim and drive horses?with all the might of her mind and body. She preached peace when the meaning of the word seemed to have become a mockery. Finally she Joined the Labor Party of the United States and, later, the Farmer-Labor Party and ran for United States Senator last November on that party's ticket. "To save my soul." she said yesterday just before taking the train for Boston, where the Friends of Freedom for India, of which she is national secretary. Is holding a ways and means conference, "I can't see why my leaving Harford for the Brookwood School should arouse such interest. Mr. Bennett and I are going to Ketonah. N. Y.?that's where the colony or school really is situated? not to become recluses nor to participate in any freak movement or become members of any queer cult. We are going mere becuse we think we will there liable to do more to bring about or help bring about the political, sociological and economic departures from the existing order?in a normal, peaceable, orderl-' way. Rducatlon will accomplish It. and It Is in the interests of education that we are going to Brookwood." Will Live In Log Cnbln. M. Toecan Bennett, her lawyer husband. refused to have anything to say about it. They Intend selling their comfortable but not impressive Hartford house at 12 Forest avenue, and their country place over at Farniingtnn, and early in the fall take up their abode In a stanch log osNn -huge fire place, broad book shelves, unfinished roof beams and all?near the Brookwood School. Their two daughters. Katherine and Frances, already students nt Brookwood. will live with them. The cabin has yet to be built. "We are not disposing of our property because we think we shall be better citizens or more righteous without it," Mrs. Bennett explained to one of her friends. "The newspapers have made us rather absurd. What money we can afford to dispense with we shall devote to the education of youngsters at Brookwooo nd elsewhere?education that will make them better citizens; better fitted to take part In the new order which is coming through evolution, not bloody revolution. Look about you to-day and you can see It coming. It must come. The public wants It." Then she explained that she and her tin* band wished to he free of eneutnher Ing property that they might travel wherever they desired or to any place they n-lcht be railed or eee it field for their political endeavors. "Unencumbered by property we can go any plnce, any time, unfettered by tie* and unworrlrd br those little hontely thing* that sometimes mnke prolonged stays away Impossible." Her son. M. Toecim Bennett, Jr.. will not accompany the family to Bmokwood. Ife is Jurt out of preparatory school and enters ihe freshman c'as* at Wisconsin In September. He's a sdiale of a hoy with visions of making the varsity footbsll team?tackle or guard preferred* Sees Nnthlnu Freakish. "Good Lord.'' he laughed when asked what he thought of the family plan. "I don't see what folks find In our scheme to rau.-e no muoli excitement. My two sisters are awfully glad to he down In Katonah. They wanted mother and lather to come down too and they r? - olng. Personally. I'd like to go. but /in booked fsr college for a few years. ?e-? V.Tiy. or course, J share mother's and father's political opinions In as far as I'm able. I'm pretty much of a kbl, > ou see, and my education is very far from a fang hie thing. I wk?h you felV.w would eef |t out of your heads that there's anything freakish about this." "I don't tnlnd the publicity provided It helps ihe school," Mrs. Bennett told her friends. "But you can hardly rdame us for resenting the sll'y insinuations thit we are dolrg something farvttleal. Nor i'" we gulpc In for some dllVantte fad. We ,jre dolnr the most natural thing In the world following our own Inclination' Personally I believe It would he ,m Ideal World If people cou'd follow their own Inclinations. Maybe 1 had bet V ter call It conviction*?follow out their | own convictions, that's it. "The moat reactionary champion of j the existing capitalistic system will ad{ mit that there must be a "revision of our human relations. The employer cannot i continue fighting the employee and the i employee cannot go on working unwillingly for a man whom he considers his natural enemy. I speak in general terms, j you understand. We find that it will be more compatible with our own con! scienlces if we devote our time to doing what can to bring about this i?veea- ' sary and wholesome readjustment, and ' that Is what we intend doing?that's t all." Mrs. Bennett would not admit that | either she or her husband would Join (lie active faculty at Brook wood School. . The chances are that both will take n I hand at teaching, however. Thus far | the school, although founded in 1919. | t>as not passed the experimental stage ' There are no fixed tuition fees; parents j or friends of the children contributing ' u hatever they may to the maintenance. The self-determination theory of gov iiiiiiirui jm"vhiis, auu uinr nit- nu iwii vents. Everybody?students and fac! ulry?contributes work. The Rev. William Flncke, formerly pastor of a Presbyterian church in Man1 hattan, Is head of the_ faculty Nnd of I the organisation In so' far as such a loosely tied organisation may be ac- i : cused of hivlnt a head. Mrs. Flneke is j : one of her hu?ban<l's assistants, and she j eomts of a wealthy family. Her sister , is Mrs. Seth EIlss Hunt, wife of the treasurer of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Charles Garland, the young man who recently achieved fame by refusing a ; legacy of $1,000,000 or thereabout, is one of the supporters of the school. His . two sisters are students there. There, is a pretty well defined impression I list Mr. and Mrs. Bennett are only two ot a j number of prominent sociologists who > Intend inhabiting a i-olony to he planted near the school. Tt Is rumored that Mi and Mrs. Garland will follow the Ben-' nett example. As far as may be learned just now. the colony will partake of fea- ; turrs of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Brook i Farm and of the various liberal colonies , I established from time to time in New Jersey and Delaware by such lntelleci tual forces as Upton Sinclair, the Fran| cisco Ferrer School. Single Tax enthnstI asts and so on. Until recently the Rev. Nevin Sayre, brother of Francis Bowes Say re, President Wilson's son-in-law, lived at the Brookwood School. "So we're going to dispose of our Connecticut properties as soon as we can," said Mrs. Bennett. "I shall not (to joyously, because T love my friends here and my associations here have been very sweet. My associates In the Labor party movement, in Connecticut are very dear ; to me. I am not fond of the social affairs or what Is generally known as j society?that Is, of any set of people who devote most of their time to enter- ! mining themselves and their particular friends. That Is a wicked waste of; time. I want to work hard and I hope j to help somebody, I have always worked hard at those things I believed neees- j sary. "Probably Mr. Bennett will find It a I trifle harder than I. He was always : more settled than I. But he Is fjulte as j zealous as I am in this move we are making. You can see that there's noth- i ing truly remarkable in what we ore doing. As for my own political and economic convictions?well, I hope you will 1 not be Injured too much If r Insist that i | they are my own affair and that I can- ! ! not understand that a review of them In j the newspapers would be of interest to I the public." The Hartford home of the Bennetts j stands in u neighborhood distinguished by the houses once occupied by Mark j Twain, Harriet Beecher Siowe, Charles J I Dudley Warner and Isabella Beecher ] Hooker. JURY DEADLOCKED IN - MINE LYNCHING TRIAL No Sign of Verdict in Alabama Guardsman's Case. Hamilton. Ala., Feb. 3.?Reports of an even division between acquittal and conviction pervaded the court house tonight. where a Jury was deliberating on testimony produced at the. trial of Sergeant Robert Lancaster, one of the nine members of Company M. Alabama Na- | tional Guard, charged with murder in I connection with the lynching of Will 1 | Balrd, a coal miner, at Jasper last month. The Jury retired last night about 8 1 o'clock. and no evidences of an agree- I mcnt were apparent twenty-four hour? j later. ? The Jury was ordered to bed to-night I at 9:20 o'clock by Judge So we II. with j instructions to continue Its deliberations ! i to-morrow. The Jury at that hour had j j been locked In Its room for twenty-nine : hours, and the foreman reported Just ! before retiring that no agreement was In sight. The trial started last Monday and was < one of the hardest fought legal battles | \ in the history of Alabama criminal procedure. lacncaster and the other Indicted guardsmen are members of Com- i pany M of Tuscaloosa. who were sta- j tioned at Townley, Walker county, on | the date of the lynching. Hairri was in Jail at Jasper. Walker county, held . I as a suspect In concctton with the kill- I ing of Private James Morris of Com- j pany M. who. it In alleged, had slain Adrian Northcutt. preacher-miner, and father-in-law of Baird. The mob over- : powered Jailer Sides, took Balrd from prison and filled his body with bullets, i Walker county lias been the storm centre of the Alabama coal fields since | ; the general sttlke was called, September 7 last. Baird was the ninth man slain In that county as n result of the strike, : , directly and Indirectly, State officials ' have stated. immediately after the lynching of Balrd Investigation by State and mili| tary authorities resulted In Company M being ordered to barracks at Tuscaloosa. After a special Grand Jury had ' returned indictments against the nine I Guardsmen separate trials were de[ mended, nnd T.ancaster's case cams I first. A change of venue was granted to tliin county. -? The trial of Sergeant Glenn T,. Stephen* ha* l>een set for February 21. BABY FARM SUPPLIED HUNDREDS OF 'MOTHERS' 800 Waif a Entered Atlanta Hospital in 25 Years. spmal Pr.patrh tn Tub Nrw Tom llmum. ' Atlanta. Feb tt.?Out of the aenaa. ! tlona created In Atlanta hy the re (elation that Mrs. K. E. A. South, a woman of I R2. had for fourteen veara deceived her , huahand. making him believe hlmaelf to be father of eleven children, Including triplet* and two pair* of twin*, there ha* been treated a demand In Georgia for the pisaagc of a law for the protee] tlon of Illegitimate children to prevent ; them from being given away "Just like ] *o many puppies." Thla law. to he fathered hy the State j Public Welfare Board, will forbid the reparation of mother and child for *l'< J j month*. "You denied tne the privilege of j 1 motherhood for twenty year*." Mr*. , ' SouthAnld her huahand when naked why ; he had decrtvd him. "I haven't done j anything unusual." ahe added. "Many 1 women In At'anta have done the name , thing and their husband's don't know It." ' Mr*. M. It. Mitchell, from whose maternity hospital the children came, amid *he had cared for K00 children In her i twenty-five years of practice, unfortu- I nate 'mother* coming to Atlanta from j every part of the t'nltcd State*. Her ! practice waa within the law. though frowned upon by soclefles caring for ! I bnblea. THE NE EAGER FOR TEST OF AIR DUEL WITH SHIP Army and Navy Circles What Controversy Settled by Experiment. THE IOWA MAY BE USED Some Maintain Action Would Be inconclusive, jiacKing Defence Guns. Washington, Feb. 6.?Army and navy circles are clamoring for the proposition that the controversy as to the relative superiority of battleships iinii aircraft be settled through actual tests. There is a strong likelihood, naval officers said to-day, that the old battleship Iowa, already fitted with radio control gear and capable of a speed of more than ten knots and of being manoeuvred with no one on boaiajL will be used ?s a target for aeria^ bombs after experiments now being conducted on the control device arc completed. Another suggestion going the rounds of the Navy Department now is that large lighters he towed at high speed behind destroyers or cruisers and used as targets. Many officers believe that no test of the ability of the aviators to lilt naval Vessels would be conclusive unloss the' target were moving at least twenty knots an hour, pointing out that all modern cruisers, battle cruisers, battleships and destroyers and the proposed airplane carriers have more speed than this. If the lighters were used. It was said, u constructive area equal ot that of the capital surface ship would be allowed the aviators around the lighter In' which all hits would bo counted. Ilelleve Hits Vnllkel*. No test event under these conditions VkUUlU IPU l-lll.li.-ijr rvar.uo.,1, " V naval officers maintain, because all of the elements.of defence would he lacking, including anti-aircraft guns and protective aircraft. It was generally conceded, however, that such experiments would give a good Idea of the ability of the aviators to actually hit a vessel moving on the. water. "I am so confident." said one! high naval officer to-day, "that neither army nor navy aviators can hit the lowa when she Is under way that X would be perfectly willing to be on hoard her when they bomb her, providing that they were kept at the altitude they would bo compelled to maintain In battle." Army uviators maintain that any surface vessel In existence to-day can be destroyed by airplane attack, citing the tests on the old battleship Indiana with dummy bombs as proof of their ability to hit the target. Navy officers assert that It Is one thing to hit a battleship anchored in a bay and another to hit the same ship moving at sixteen to twenty knots an hour far out at sea. Challenge to Nnvy. Hrig.-Gen. William Mitchell, assistant chief of tha air service, recently told a Congress committee that developments In aircraft had spelled the doom of the present day dreadnought. Other air service officers are understood to have Issued a virtual challenge to the Navy Department to permit theni to prove their contentions. The Navy Department is a firm believer in the superiority of the capital ship and, naval officers believe, will accept the challenge In the hope of settling the controversy, at least for the time being. Oeneral Mitchell has asked his superiors In the War Department to send a formal reauest to Secretary Daniels that two torpedo boats, two supply vessels and one battleship be designated for the tests. Naval officers express the belief that surh a request, even if made, would be refused beeause of the large amount of material Involved and the eost of fitting the five vessels with distant radio control apparatus. KAHN INSISTS ON LIGHT ON BERG DOLL ESCAPE Hopes to Force Action by War Department. Sperigt Despatch to Tub Nbw Yosk IIeiuld. New York Ifrruld Iturrim, I Washington, I). C., Feb. fi. I Congress will force the War Department to take additional action in the ease of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. draft evader, If there Is any power in the legislative branch of the Government. Feeling a sense of humiliation for the American ' Army as a result of the fantastic Incident* In which Bergdoll has figured, to which the War Department appears to be oblivious, members of Congress Hre determined that more light nhall he shed on .the manner In which Bergdoll effected his escape after a series of amazing legal contracts preceded by equnlly nmazing War Department orders. In spite of the detailed statements made from his point of safety in Germany. Secretary of War Maker remains unmoved and plainly intimates that en far as the War Department Is concerned the Incident Is closed. "We -will force this matter into the light," Representative Kahn (Oal.). chairman of the Mouse Military Committee, said with emphasis to-night. "The good nante of the army is nt stake. There is much In this case that has not been explained, much that ought to be explained, and. In the light of Mergdoll's statements, ought to be explained. We purpose to see that an explanation is forthcoming." Mr Kahn will press his resolution asking for papers In the case and an 111 vat I Ration will follow. PERSHING PORTRAIT TO BE HUNG IN INVALIDES It Will Bm Part of A ~.cr lean War Exhibit. FM11.APKLPHIA, Feb. Upon the request of tha War Department anil the French Government, Supreme Knight .Tames A. Flaherty announced to-day that the Knlghta of Columhu* hat'e darldad to hava a apaclal portrait painted of t>eii. John J. Farthing, commanderin-chief of tha A. K. F.. to ha hung In the Invalided. Faria. which contains tha tomh of Napoleon I. The jalntlng. Ufa sl*e. will ha the central feature of an American war exhibit to ha present^ to Franc# hy fhe United States. The exhibit will <ontaln trophlea of all arma of the service and of all welfare organisations. A detailed battle scene, showing K. of C. motor kltohena In action In the Argonne Fores# and the original K. war poster In the, latV Balfour Karwtll, with Gen. Fcrshlng's portrait, constitute the K. of C. contribution to the exhibit. The allied Governments will present portraits of their chief commanders. This honor from the French Government la the highest ever awarded iin American, as only portraits of France'* greatest notional figures arc hung In tha Totalities. , W YORK HERALD, M MAN THROWN INTO FIRE WITH SKULL CRUSHED CrmWMOmm Discovery Is Mad in Louisiana. Monro*, Iae, Feb. 3.? An unidentified man. nude und dying, his skull crushed | : nd his flesh burned from his waist : down, was found to-day in the woods near here. The man, believed by local officers to have conn- here from Houston, Texas, died without regaining consciousness. Evidence that conl oil had been poured I on his body wus found by officers and a smoldering fire near where the man was found indicated that he had been thrown on it. Tattoo marks "W. L. J." and the name i "L. J. Coleman." a Houston hatter, on the hat band, were the only marks of Identification that could be found. i CLOTHING WORKERS ! ANSWER BIG SUIT Affidavits by Educator, Writer and Labor Leaders Defend Organization. Affidavit* extolling the purposes and ' practices of the Amalgamated Clothtng ' Workers of America have been filed in | the Bupreme Court by Samuel Seabury ! and associated counsel to lay the foundation for the defence which the union will make in the $500,000 damage suit and injunction proceedings instituted against It by the .1. Friedman Company of till* city. The suit brought against the union asks that the Amalgamated he dissolved j because It Is "an unlawful combination and conspiracy, organized and existing solely for preventing the plaintiff arid I others from exercising a lawful trade; } that the union and its agents be perpetually and permanently enjoined and restrained from picketing the plaintiff," j and that $500,000 be awarded for dam! ages suffered by the plaintiff. Though the papers filed by the plalnI tift' charge the union with Communism, i with a desire and Intention of destroyj ing private property arid with outspoken ! sympathy for the principles of the Third I Internationale, these charges, which really form the basis of the suit, are referred to only casually In the affidavits. Most of the affidavits discuss at length the theory of collective bargaining. Among the authors of the affidavits are Professors Kdwin K. A. Sellgman and Henry R. Seager of Columbia Unl! versity, Ray Stannard Raker, John ! Fitch. George Soule, Mrs. Florence Kelj ley, Allen T. Rurns, Jacob M. Moses of Raltimore and many labor leaders. Pointing to the important reforms in 1 the administration of the clothing shops, ! the affidavits declare that the dlssolu| Hon of the union would be a public misfortune. They .see the return of ] the sweat shop and the other "evils of j an antiquated Industrial system." Prof, i Sellgman is quoted as saying: "I should like to characterize the mere attempt to put them on the level of the T. \V. XV. or to cause their disruption and disappearance as a most short sighted^ regrettable endeavor, fraught with hazardous consequences to the future of American Industry and to the progress of industrial peace." ' Ray Stannard Baker says in his affidavit: "If the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America were des-royed and broken up to-day, it would be a catastrophe resulting in the huge growth of radicalism in the clothing Industry." A statement given out yesterday by the union quotes some of the more important parts of the affidavits ami says that the charges of radicalism, failure to carrv out agreements and contracts I and l^ilarlty to tin; I. \V. W. are I thereby "effectually punctured." The suit by the J. Krledman Company | was filed after the fight between em| ployers and the Amalgamated had been ' going on for several months and most i of the clothing shops in the city had been at a standstill. It wus cnarged that the workers had resorted to violence j and that the sole purpose of the union I was to gain control of the clothing Industry In this city. /The leaders of the union were charged with open advocacy of Communism and with the intention I of destroying the property of the manufacturers. Specific Instances were cited. The allegations by the rlaintiff were similar to those in the famous Danbury hatters' case, which resulted in the defeat of the union. SLUMP IN TOBACCO PUTS END TO UTOPIA Bagby's Profit Sharing Plan !_ *_ IS A. 1 r am in nciuuLn^. | Sprcial Dc*potch to Tin New York Hnum. Lexington, Ky.. Keb. 6.?Announeej ment was made to-day that 'Ohuuncey C. Bagby of I>anvllle will make a volimj tary assignment for the benefit of hie creditors. More than $300,000 la involved in the crash, which shatters dreams of a (Treat Inland empire, to he conducted on Utopian principles, which had been the a4ne of Bajfby's life. Sev1 eral years ago he began buying land* 1 In the poorer parts of Boyle, Casey anil Lincoln counties. Kentucky, and finally icrpiired 5,000 acres. This lie populated with tenants on the profit sbarlngjdan. 1 He had parctlcally a city of his own. Tile tenants raise! tobacco. Hundreds of people forced money on Hagby for stock in the enterprises and he borrowed i heavily from others. Then came the slump In tobacco prices, and with It the Collapse of Hagby's plans. He has consented to turn over $134.i.000 In life insurance policies to cred| Itors. who will keep up his premium*. AID FUNDS LOST IN EUROPE. Hotrod I'roseentor deceive* Many Complaint* from Relative*. Hp'rial f?r?|iof'S In Tub New Vobk Hbraip. Detroit. feb fi ?More than tt,000.000 in cash, forwarded to relatives of Detroit residents, In different parts of Ruranc h i i br?n lost or embecsied with In the last year, according to an estimate by member* of the prosecutors' atafT. Almost every day for many month* persona have been appealing to the prosecutor for ai'l In recovering money went into the famine and war torn ?n?trlcta of the t.?ld World, hot which never o delivered Many of the*.. peraona hlame the trnubli to certain asencle* tn l>etrolt which make a specialty of forwarding money to Kurope, hut In mo*r caaea tlieae agencies can show by record* that the money was forwarded na directed. Many time* the nhlpment can bo traced to Rurope, and there It la loat. COLLECTION PLATE BARKED. Dunkirk Baptist Church tn Depend on Free Will Offerings. Sprrinl DfupHfh tn Tnr Nrw York llsaon. IM'NKISK, N. v., Feb. * ?Relieving that the passing of the collection plate ' In chtirch hordera on commercialism, the congregation of the First Rriptlst Church at a meeting last night voted to dlrconj tlnuc the papains of the plate during aervlcea In the church. Free ? ill offering boxe* will he placed near the door*. The Rev. Willi* Howell*. pi*tor of th' chtirch, *nld the dlsrontlnunnce of the plate passlnr practice was to abolish ' all evidence of commercialism H eon | nectlon with religious service. \ ONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, INDIAN NATIONALS DECLARE POLICY Boycott of British Business and Schools Will Bo Tried to Bain Peoples' Sovereignty. | _ Ill-tails or the debates in tne session of the Indian National Congress lield at Nagpur, Central India, In December, : have just been received in the mails by the India Information Bureau of New York, with the texts of resolutions, addresses, Ac., at the congress, which have been briefly referred to in cable advices. . Twenty-twp thousand delegates from all parts of India, including several thousand women, assembled at the congress, and decided upoii extension of the movement now in progress, including nonpayment of taxes its an extreme measure. One of the resolutions adopted amended the constitution of the congress, so us to secure "the attalpment of 'swaraj' (national sovereignty) by all peaceful and legitimate means." A significant omission from the resolution waa the clause referring to the use of "constitutional I methods for the attainment of self-government within the British Empire." Other conferences held at Nagpur took the general attitude expressed by the .congress. The All-India Students ConI ference passed a resolution in favor of "immediate and unconditional boycott j of the Government and tin- Government I aided schools and colleges." Dajpat Itai presiding at a conference held for tinpurpose of protecting entile against slaughter and export, declared that the ! cattle question could not be settled un til national sovereignty was obtained. The opening speech of the presiding officer of the congress outlined a plan fior the immediate boycott of British trade. In order that the ruling power may be "gradually exhausted" lie advocated a- plan by which Kngllsh planters, merchants, traders and manufacturers in India may be faced with a scarcity of labor. This, he maintained, would produce national strikes of unskilled workmen in the railway, postal and telegraph departments. M. K. Gandhi, leader of the movement, in moving the resolution to amend the constitution of the congress declared "if India's wrongs are not redressed, and if elementary Justice is not done, we have no wish to retain the connection with the empire, but if the connection moans the advancement of India wc do | not want to destroy It." i Bajpat Hal. In supporting Gandhi's resolution said the latter "gave India the free choice of determining her own destiny and of no more depending upon British statesmanship, which had proved a failure," and it meant "giving notice that India's remaining in the empire would be of her own free decision and free will." I Under another resolution unanimously adopted, parents are to be called upon at a later time to withdraw their children under age from state-aided and state-owned schools and provision is to be made for training in national schools. .Students of 16 are to be called upon to withdraw from state-sided and state-owned institutions arid either to devote themselves to to the non-cooperation movement or continue their studies in national institutions. Merchants and traders, in order to make India economically Independent, are j also to be called upon to carry out a gradual boycott of foreign trade and to oncourage native hand spinning and hand weaving. BRITISH BUSINESS BECOMING NORMAL Greater Cheerfulness Apparent to Visiting Banker. Frederick C. Harding. New York agent of the Anglo-South American Bank, r.td.. who has lust returned from a pleasure trip to Kngland. says that although the feeling in Kngland during the last two months of 1530 was by no means one of cheerfulness us regards business conditions, there seemed a general tendency toward greater confidence with the advent of the new year. "It Is true that 1921 inherited a legacy 1 of many unsolved problems, inadequate ! housing, unemployment, surplus stocks I and reduced purchasing power," said Mr. Harding, "but nevertheless the de! termination to do something seems to I have already had some effect in disI polling the gloom and relieving the stagnant condition into which commodity markets had fallen. In the minds of I many that stagnant condition was the i most serious aspect of the closing months of 1M0. ' "The solution of the difficulty lay in , manufacturers and dealers boldly taking the losses incurred on overbought I positions, getting track to a liquid con| dition, with balance sheets much lin' paired In comparison with previous I years, but yet in most cases still eub1 stantlnl enough to permit the earning of future profits?smaller, hut less ephemeral than those of the war tjeriod. I "Several export credit schemes are being considered In Kurope, as In the I'nitcd States, for the rehabilitation of Impecunious states, hut so far nothing tangible seems to have resulted, and as a permanent remedy of the situation they aro of doubtful value. The true remedy lies in energetic measures In the countries concerned to set their own financial houses In order by curtailing expenditures ami reducing note Issues." CANTON ABANDONS CLAIMS TO CUSTOMS Diplomatic Body at Pekin Opposed Measure. Peking, China, Feb. 6.?The Canton ' Government, in the face of the firm stand taken by the diplomatic body here, has abandoned Its announced intention to seise the customs of South China, i No nctlon will l>e taken bv the Canton authorities pending an answer to a formal petition to the members of the diplomatic corps that they sanction the release of thirteen per cent, of the sur| plus customs forrm rly remitted to the I southern military govertmient. j 'A 1'eking despatch of January 27 an1 nounced that the diplomatic corps had replied In the negative to a request by the Canton Government that the por! tlon of the customs revenues formerly I aiinttn.i i? the guilt).erti Government of Canton he released The reply declared , th? diplomatic representative* would p?rmit no lnlfrf?rni? with the collection of custom* ravenucs. the Canton 'Government having Intimated that It Intended to divert the portion of the enstome claimed beginning February I. [ AFGHANS ORDER MOTOR CARS. BoMflAT. Feb. 5.?Ufa In Afghanistan la speeding up. writes a frontier correspondent. of the rimes of India. Three i cartloads of motorcycle* have recent |i arrived at .Tcllalabad for Frlnee K telr , .tan. the Director of Commmih ath na who Intenda to oraanlxc a despatch rider service throughout the country. Orders have been Issued by the Atnir'? j 'Government for contracts to construct macadamised road* through the country to the capital and.for the Importaj tlon of automobile vehicles. Firms are j also Invited to establish woollen ntlllr ' and attgar refineries at Kabul, the cap I Ital. _1921. JAPAN WILL KEEP I" SIBERIAN PEACE Serifs of PolitieaUChanges Kxpeeted in Maritime I'rovinees, Says Admiral. tC'on-rapondence of Ataociated I'rr**.) | Tftvm Tleo IX.?l:i the event of tlio ; maritime province of Siberia becoming j insurrectionary Japan is prepured to repeat her strong measures of last spring when the Bolshevik: were forcibly disarmed, said Hear Admiral Kawaharu. j who has Just returned from commanding the Japanese naval flotilla at Vladivostok, In an Interview with the Tokio A'kfii Vic/ti. "A series of political changes, expected and perhaps unexpected, will take place," said the Admiral, "before political stability Is secured .11 Russia and in the Far Eastern provinces. The Chita I Government is all right so far as Its professed policies are considered. Whether such policies will bo faithfully pursued ; remains to bo seen. Kusslan Government must be based on real democracy, and It Inspires one with a great deal of confidence that the present tendency is toward that direction. ' "The Vladivostok Assembly Is no . longer reliable, viewed from the Jupanesc standpoint, on account of the open declaration of the loading members that the establishment of a buffer state was not essential to the reconstruct I oti of Russia. The Communists are growing in Influence and there Is every npason to believe that in the near future the whole maritime _ province will also be com-, pletely Bolshevlzed. Should thn Chita uovsnuiieni attempt w im?n? regions where the Japanese troops are I stationed, tlio probable consequence will he a repetition of the commotion caused (" , In the vicinity of Vladivostok some time j . ago, when compulsory disarmament of j the Bolsheviks was carried out by the I : Japanese troops. < "J^o long:, however, as the Russians _ refrain from any attempt to upset the _ position now held by the Japaneso troops at Vladivostok and the vicinity. Japan will stand aloof from Russian Internal j events, for she. believes that the reconstruction of Russia will be realized with ' j less difficulty by leaving Russian affairs to Russians." | GRAFT ISCHARGED ! IN FAMINE FUND ! I Situation in Lnirgo Arras Said to Br Worst Ever Experienced in China. 1 .Sha.nuhai, Doe. 15 (Correspondence j of the Associated Press).?When people ,were dying by thousands and the full 1 horrors of wintertime famine began to | be felt in the great belt of seven prov! lnces In northern China, where no harI vests have been gathered this year. Ohlj nese newspapers that are printed in the i international Settlement of Shanghai ! openly published the charge that mimi?> > was being made of famine relief funds by Peking Government officials. | One of these papers, the Si a Wan Pan. 1 ' asserted thut famine relief funds were ! being diverted to the uses of a political j I clique at l'ekiug. and the paper urged | that the strictest foreign and Chinese su' pervislon he 'Imposed upon distribution I of funds. It was after these charges hail been made public that the Shanghai Famine Relief Association and the Shanghai j 1 Missionary Association telegraphed ntes- j sages to Peking In connection wSUi famine relief work, Jn the messages of the Shanghai Famine Relief Association addressed to - ivssiaeni. linn emu-" nans m- vjr?>?i_ mcnt was asked to announce without delay a definite policy for carrying out famine relief work The telegram emphasized that the < harit.ihfe public, both Chinese and foreign, require a cleur statement from the Government as to what steps it Intends to take to meet present conditions In the north, und it was made plain that immediate action was cxpeeted. Measures the Peking Government adopted to obtain fumine funds included surtaxes of certain kinds and Increased railway fares on Government lines. The message that was forwarded by ! the Shanghai Missionary Association was addressed to the British and Ameri- 1 1 can ministers and requested them to urge the Chinese Government to issue' an early report on famine relief surtaxes, and Intimate how and when the funds will he employed. . Before the message was authorized a report on renditions in famine areas was given by Bishop .1. W M.imliuth of , the Board of Missions of the Methodist ICplseopal Churcli. Me said that not . only are the people trying to subsist on gr.is- and roots, having denuded the trees of leaves and bark, but in places they scraped up growing thtngs to such an extent that tie Ids are left torn up behind them. Chlhfron. lie said, have vanished from many villages, as they have been sold or killed, and added that i so many have been thrown Into wells ; that many of these sources of water supply have become polluted. Whole populations, ho assorted, will perish bofore May unless Immediate aid is forth' coming. Reports that have come to , Shanghai front Widely separated districts (five basis to the belief that the present famine i? the worst China lias ever ex] porienoed. JAPAN. HAS 'DON'T' LIST AGAINST CRIME WAVE Citizens Warned Against Wiles of Thieves. Corrrtttondcnre of th Associated Press. ToKlo. l>eo. JO. ? At liio itt'l Of tlie ; year the police issued tie ir customary j warn In if to the cltlfem These consist * of ten "Don'ts," and the police advise ! thst on arrount of "hard times" more ' than the usual attention should be paid i j this year to their iidmottiiIons. Tlie following are the polios "Iton'ts": 1. If no mombor of the faintly remains j at home, don't go out without seeing that your house Is tvell Incited. 2. I>on't neglect to lock up early. 3. When In the tramcars or In the ttildst of a crowd do not fall to see that I your purse is safely ensconced In one of your Intisr poo Vets. 4 When making any payments, don't show those around vou how much you i have In j*nur purse. 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