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I~~~ rmmA _ TJjfl ~EUUWUKAU O~m w - atA doUM-,W W. O g hat Has the Disarmament ?. Conference Accomplished? RAT has the Disarmament Conlerence acoomplished? The conti nt of Europe will not disarm; the wars will not end; the rule of fore will not cease; peace will not reign. That is settled. eoantries of Asia will not be returned to their peoples; the ' of China will not be made good; America's prestige and sea in the Pacifo will not be restored; the Anglo-Japanese alliance not be abandoned That, too, is settled. V'alled to assure the peace of Europe by the elimination of great to establish the peace of Asia by the repression of Japan, to a te the peace of the Pacific by the dissolution of a warlike al , the conference has done none of these things, promised to do of them. The conditions to be established lest war come have not established; the foundations that were to be laid for an enduring have not been laid. What has the Disarmament Conference accomplishedI One thing, and thing only-it has committed the United States to the reduction of naval forces. It has obtained from the United States a pledge to uce the power of the American navy, to forego any opportunity for 'Val supremacy, to accept for ten years this country's naval inferiority its naval rivals in the Pacific. a'Only that and nothing more! Yet it is represented from Washington ama diplomatic victory. A diplomatic victory! Another such victory and tiis country will be sunk below the level of a second-rate power. T danger today is the same as during the Paris peace conference. ee started on a false road, how fatally the diplomacy of the nation ghps on toward the bitter end! How near once more seem those fatal *ors that were first committed at Paris! Fatal because diplomatic Airors cannot be repaired, but must always be paid for. Frustrated in Europe, defeated in Asia, flouted in the Pacific, his *aburteen deals in ruins and his ambitions slipping from his hands, Woodrow Wilson ventured all, sacrified all, for the mere appearance of totory. He put in peril the whole future of America, in order that he 3ight do whatt Go before the people with his League of Nations, as if it were a success instead of a surrender, a nation's glory rather than a people's sacrifice; a triumph of diplomacy and not a humiliating defeat. Like the covenant of the League, the naval agreement at Washington 3 for the greatest benefit of other nations at the greatest cost to the United States. When the American delegates offered to insure Japan and England against a dominant American navy, they gave away with jpen hands the cause of the American people. ''With this offer once made, the nations that came to barter simply Mirtered no more. We conceded offhand what they wanted. Their only kusiness then was to press our concession to the utmost, then accept it, ad in Europe, Asia and Africa proceed on their way with not a single feraign interest sacrificed, not a substantial American claim sallIsfied, not ve a sentiment, wish or preference of the American people seriously seesidered or effectively indulged. r- Thus far have we come up to this day. Thus far have we come, d no farther. So, if the conference adjourn with Europe's disarma mat deferred for future action, Asia's conditions accepted as accom fasts, Japan's alliance with England left for further discussion, md the naval inferiority of the United States the only signed and sealed act o the record, we shall wake up once more to find ourselves 4-stripped, compromised, humiliated people. mItis useless to mince words. The rest of the world already sees the faets. Unless the whole course of the conference changes, the Ameri .san people, too, will see them, even as they saw them after the Paris *nference. SNo mere pretense of victory will be accepted again, even for the giriod of a political campaign. The delusions of the day will be attered overnight. 6 The price proposed at Paris was too high. It was not paid. The jtce demanded at Washington is too high; even though pledged, it sill not be paid. 7Peace-yes, all Americans want peace. But peace at any price-at eprice of safety, at the price of sovereignty, at the price of pres 4g., at the price of power, at the price of self-respect-peace at such a roe the American people did not accept from Mr. Wilson and will not' ~cpt from Mr. Harding. SWhat has the Disarmament Conference accomplished? Nothing-so *ar; ibothing, except the American offer to restrain and control the 97nited States on its one line of defense, to lay' on the altar of the na ~1America's new opportunity to make herself unconquerable in the If, at the adjournment of the delegates, the sacrifice remains without ~mnor consideration in return to the United States, a great people will 'se again in protest as they rose in the fall of 1920. As God reigns, ia wrong will bring its reckoning. America will not go down to humil Tation again and hold her peace. The thunders of her protest will roll j ssthe world. Love Thy Neigh II CARIIM1q 1IR GUMS AoND WN US ANY MoR E .E CULD Nflt 94ARRL lt A NMWuWE 1A' AfINf DONT DONT TALK BACK To M.! THEY'RE HUMAN Wonm Atherton Du Puy If you should ask Senator James E. Watso 0f Indiana, who, in his opinion. Is the greatest chatterbox In the upper house of Congress, I will wager six to one he will never mention the name of Boles Penrose. The gentleman front Indiana has just had an experience with the gentleman from Pennsylvania which would Influence his verdict. It transpired when the ltter telephoned the former and asked him to go driving. Penrose was comfortably stowed away in his corner when Watson got aboard. The chauf four whisked them away through Maryland In dian summer weather and on and on in silence. Presently they arrived in the Monumental City. forty miles away, and Watson broke the silence. "Here we are in Baltimore," he said. "Where do we go from here?" "'hIladelphia." said the Pennsylvanian to the driver. A few hours passed silently and the chauffeur drew up in the City of Brotherly Love. "We have arrived in your own home town." chortled the verboes Watson. "Whither away?" "Washington." said Penrose. Just this much talk had escaped when, several hours later, they anched the door of the Indiana Senator. 'Good-night," he smiled from the pavement. The Pennsylvanian grunted. John Campbell Merriam, who writes himself down as a paleontologist, although he is an edu cated man and everything and should have been able to say. simpler-like, that he studied fosils, asserts that there is a bull market on psychol D.Meerrlam is head of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, which occupies an imposing home right on Sixteenth street. and being the bead of which is to the scientist what getting your name in electric lights on Broadway Is to the thespian. The businees of the Carnegie Institution Is to de velop Information which did not exist In the world before. Dr. Merriam baa not been Its head long, but he produces the fact that psychologists are in demand. The colleges cannot hold their psychologists. The advertising agencies are bid. ding them all away. Every well-regulated adver tising agency nowadays baa its psychologist whom It bought away from some college which could not meet the wage competition. Uncle Joe Cannon was telling the other day of the frankest man he ever knew. This chap lived out in Illinois and served several terms in the legislature, after which he came hack to his na tive town and built himself a very handsome and imposing residence "That is a nice house you have got," said an old friend who had come down to the village to visit the legislator "Yes," that individual admitted, "It Is a nice house." "Where did you get all the money for It?" the old friend asked. "Down in Springfield," replied the legislator. e'I tell you, my friend, there are a multitude of 'Yeas' and 'Nays' wrapped up In that house." (CoprIght. 1991.) A Pited View. The ihrmer's field all through warm months Was rich with verdure green; And there his cattle, sleek and fat, All summer long were seen. I said to him, "You must be proud; This field Is all delight. There's nothing lackadaisical In such a thrifty sight." The farmer leaned across the bars; Hie saw but harmful weed, And aedacross where star-eyed flowers adlong since gone to seed. laid he, "If you should see this place Uach spring, you'd know, old pal, That I prefer to have my field More lackagisy-cal" bor r tKe LT CA jou 407 NEEND N4I VW4?CR AND IT OVEM. Mr. B. Baer TMHE BAL NOT PASS. L A B E L L E FRANCE'E Bltuebeard had his whisk wre trimmed by expert tow timony. Seems that gent with levender chin tapestr Is guilty of killing too many wives. T HAT's serious offense; even in Parts. Where they think one or ' two murders may be accidenta]. but six or seven gives you the habit. Therefore. Lan dru gets bras" ring that entities him to extra whIrl on freshly painted guillo tUna. THAT razor ain't made by Gillette. When Blue whiskers steps forth to his private cutlery clinic, more than one thousand flancs will be disappointed. Solo nion was annoyed by moth ers and relatives of only seven hundred brides. Ian dru had twice that many and his career is Caipped short In first bloom of Its duplex gentleness. H Eliked his wives wall scooked. Women scabedfropotnt tospn thi. hnymo in winstes Hewa kote ine byurning fece wit waenretr hi taety brs helt o ld be mand handes o lfahoe TIoup kte.eiu ohasek theynevernksed.chrmney mrdr mleatoy The acnta butoi onrnces. Hg iveso usthe m btTrfore an SEEM gead brastn thigrat olng fryhul paindgil oTA rauch buring mdevo tinr stepusdberhwarded. prae nuAerc clinic yoe thn one husand whoawoued gemon noed byrnotgs rand eakete of fonl den har twre thatriotic aId his arern c lipe shoting fihe bo Fcts HW e d' heisv wthe werld csgookedws. Woe ar tisrbe fnin outpabut Intswinkednes. H a Prn forH sh.00 yerandu pro e galtadnica cithe ofhmt lectri ye.dotu, mknthole. in burinencph. andldepste on clptueshe for. elvr.0 Thi Snt By T. E. POW ER n thq0r BS E.ACe I 7b MTN S3s.1I. I~m*1 S~~8 NoTRI'mNI 7w Yl3 e WN1OSI LAK E~ -am CZ -o nessesse .... w.ma.ae PAN ~C .ow! I~ I WISHI 7 Ole 14A MY lye TOWNE GOSI By K. C. "Mle. Lenglen in a woman. a Prench woman, and while we do not believe she could have beaten our Molla that day, tomorrow or next week, let us not los our sense of proportion. "Let us, no matter what M. de Joanais, the ungallant cuss, says of her, include Mme. Lenglen in the toast: "'To the ladies, God Bless 'em!'" -Damon Runyon in the N. Y. American. MY DEAR Damon. IN YOUR motor car. WHERE 'A ya' bee. AND ALLat once. THAT YOU don't THE WHISTLE know. blows. 0 0 0 0ace IT ISN'T done any AND YOU throw out more. the clutch *. S. ee THAT THE good old' AND JAM on the toast. brake "THE LADIES, God AND A woman comes. bless 'eml" 0 * 0 l0 wy WITH BRIGHT bras. HAS BEEN put away buttons. ' e 0 WITH THE blushing AND A uniform. youth. 0 0 * . e AD AWLS* you OF YEARS ago. ou AND FRANK admis- ADYUg s sion.a a OF RIPENING years. ** AND ROCKINGtaas. chairs. AND PAISLEY TATYUesnd shawls. S AND THE mwet bes m! content. CS OF WOMAN'S faith. Dmn IN WHAT onceW WOL YUdo6 THE STERNER mar. I ASK fou, Damon. TO JUST suppose. dys YOU ARE on your WE H als way. Gdbes'm *. S C TO A banque board. WR IE n AND YOU'RE ami blingOfi.AND ANLOTN oe. Tflq .ADI3J ~ ee eL ANDTYUANhrwyeu Undernourished 80,19"1 -Children of Washingn By BILL P 103. More than 30 per cent of the school abildren of Wash ington are underweight, ahneot whely due to undes nourishment fron improper feeding and improper health hsbits. This startling fast has been asstaned thrpagha careful survey mad. by Dr. MURPHY, of the local health odies, .and It calls for the immediate and en cessing attention of parents and school authorities. The Parent-Teachers' Ansooiatlo= of the city has foud that in one public school nearly 50 per cent of the pupils are underweight. When we realis, that more than 25 per cent of the young men of the country were rejected for physical defects during the last war, we should be impressed with the duty we all owe to the boys and girls who will be the nation's future reliance in war or poseeful pursuits. In four public schools ia the wealthiest bsection of Pittsburgh it was found that 20 per cent of the children were underfed, and consequently unfitted for proper mental development. Among the poor of many great cities the children are underfed because their parents are unable to give them the food they need, but in Washington poverty is not the main cause of 30 out of 100 children fighting the battles of life without the chance they should have. In this beautiful Capital of the Nation poverty is not as widespread as in many other places, but there are little boys and girls who do go hungry to their studies in out public schools., Congress and the municipal govern ment should see that this is not so and that every boy and girl who needs it should have hot soups, milk, bread and other nourishing foods free at the noonday recesses. Five groups of causes for undernourished Washin ton school children explain a situation here which de mands the most serious attention from parents and school authorities, who may be able to conduct an edu cational campaign that will bring improvement: 1. Retarding physical defects such as adenoids, ton sils, or defective teeth that scatter poisons through the system, pulmonary or glandular affections, eye strain, etc., all interfering with nutrition. 2. Improper health habits, the most dangerous of which are insufficient rest and improper ventilation. Instead of going to bed at reasonable hours. at night and getting refreshing rest, hundreds of young are out late at the movies, at dances, parties, or other activi ties, or possibly reading to late hours. Thousands sleep in stuffy rooms that' are unventilated. 3. Improper food habits, which include the overuse of candies, coffee, tea, etc., and either failure by parents to give the proper food or their inability to compel their children to eat what is best for them. 4. Overfatigue from varying causes, generally due to lack of home control. 5. Poverty, where children do not have the foods that are essential to their physical and mental growth. Improper health and food habits, with overactivities and lack of rest, send boys and girls to their schools with nervous systems upset and unable to cope with their studies-so far from normal that they slump down in their seats, do abnormal things, and are plainly unfitted for the mental efforts they must give to their school duties. Outwardly they do not appear to be ill, but it is impossible for them to make educational head way in competition with husky boys and girls who are so nearly physically perfect that they are ready for all As to proper foods, the chief insistence of health officials is that children should have more pure milk than they get; more green vegetables; more substantial foods such as hominy grits, old-fashioned meal mush and milk, rice, soups, hean, peas, butter and fats. INew Prescription Doctor| DOCTOB8, in divers ways, help or interest their patients. Wen you see a pole painted red and white in front of a baber shop you remember that the barber used to be also tk# surgeon. The white on his barber pole repre sented lather, the red represented blood. In Africa the rain doctor sometimes cures the chief and gets rid of an enemy in this way. He tells the sick chiet. "Your enemy has bewitched you; he has put a little alli gator in your stomach!" He first puts the little alligator in a convenient sacred spot, gives the chief an emetic, takes him to that spot, and lo and behold, there is the alligator. The chief feels better, the enemy is killed. Polo according to the Indian legend started in this way. A Rajah was too fat, too lazy, not well. The wise men told 'him, "You must absorb through the palms of the hands, perspiring, the magic remedy in the handle of this stick." IThey gave him a polo stick, put him to playing polo until he perspired, and the real magic remedy, EXERCISB,~ cured him. All this is about Mr. Drummond, of Nebraska, who went up ten thousand feet in a flying machine to improve his hearing. Soon you will have doctors giving flight prescrip tions, as they now order patients to the mountains. At a certain height all germs are killed, so they say. A future good-by, "Excuse me, I'm going up to cure my cold."