Newspaper Page Text
iS*! kUncEe Sam’s “Shirt-Sleeve” Diplomacy ? ON. —Long strides to loving diplomatic posts for political service ade during President nistration, according to 1 by the committee on of the National Civil i league. says the first year ?ate that an earnest ef nade to retain the serv experience and to ap latic posts persons with n diplomacy.” ee reports that five of assadors appointed by president Harding were men with pre vious experience in diplomacy. Six of the thirty ministers now drying in the diplomatic corps, the Imrnittee found, were appointed on k basis of their experience and eight ■•e men appointed during previous as Uncle Forgotten He Bought ’Em? t) YOT? remember that Uncle Sam purchased of Denmark in 1917 125,000,000 the Virgin islands, with irea of v 142 square miles and a lation of 26,051 ? Well, if you do, s more than Uncle Sam does, ac ing to the Virgin islanders, i.vway, a delegation of three from Virgin islands called at the White se recently and arranged for a ?rence, at which they hope to get ittention of this country directed ie troubles of our newly-acquired ds. The United States purchased slands in order to keep them from ig into the hands of Germany, placed a navy officer in charge, seem to have all but forgotten the dors and their islands. The dele -3 who have come to get a hearing t that being under the Stars and tes is a hardship to them, instead privilege. ie original act of purchase pro vided that all residents of the islands would become citizens of the United States, unless they recorded their wish to remain Danish subjects. No pro vision was made for natives of the Islands who previously had come to the United States or moved to other islands in the West Indies. They are Where’s the Hay Fever This Summer? / HOPU I’LL IST HENEPR* VTtY-v HtMAU>ne comes a-*- 1 TTNCLE SAM’S experts In several of the bureaus of the Agriculture department and the bureau of public health service of the Treasury de partment and the various medical bu reaus of the War and Navy depart ments are puzzled over the momentous question: What has become of the sneeze artist this summer? Expert victims of hay fever, who usually count upon receiving the com miseration of friends and relatives about this time of year, are for some unaccountable reason pursuing the even tenor of their ways without the aid of a battery of handkerchiefs and nostrums. Of course, the disappointment is Sugar, Senate and Charges of Scandal MARGES of a two-sided scandal in connection with the sugar schedule of the tariff hill in the sen ate caused a furore that resulted in a general demand for an investiga tion. Senator Tat Harrison (T>em., Miss.), who provoked the row, first charged that the United States government had attempted to intimidate Cuba into restricting her sugar crop for the year to 1,500,000 tons, so as to protect American cane and beet sugar pro ducers from competition. He accused Senator Smoot (Rep., Utah) of writing a letter to Major General Crowder, in Cuba, “propos ing that if Cuba would reduce her crop to 2,500,000 tons, this country then would take under consideration the maintenance of a reduction in the present rates on sugar.’ - The Mississippi senator then read from a newspaper copy of a document purporting to reveal an agreement be tween certain unnamed senators and the sugar interests whereb/ in lieu - of on increase of four-tenths of 1 cent a pound in the duty on sugar, as de manded by American cane* and beet producers, they were to be paid a sub sidy of $14,330,394. According to the uliegeij pis: Giis money was to be administrations, but were retained by President Harding. Four ambassadors, sixteen minis ters, two agents and one minister resi dent and consul general appointed by President Harding, the report says, were persons without any previous diplomatic experience. “While many of the 23 appointments made of persons without previous diplomatic experience operated as a recognition of political obligations,” the report states, “the evil of such appointments is largely abated by the present administration and contrasts favorably with the records of the first year of other administrations. For this record, President Harding and Secretary Hughes are to be com mended. President Harding is fur thermore deserving of commendation in that he had selected for secretary of state a man of the highest qualifi cations and one devoted to the merit principle. The committee reported a still bet ter showing, “an unequaled record of adherence to the merit system” in Its examination of appointments in the consular service. There lias been during the first 15 months of the present administration, the report states, “not a single exception to the rules requiring appointments through examinations in the consular service.” citizens of Denmark, under the pres ent program, if they are citizens of any country, which some among them seem to doubt. They want that ques tion settled, so that those who wish will be granted American citizenship. The political troubles of the island ers are not causing them half so much worry as are their economic difficul ties, largely the result of extending the eighteenth amendment to them. Tiie manufacture of bay rum was one of the foremost industries of the is lands under Danish rule. That has been killed under prohibition, as has been the manufacture of rum. They complain that the enforcement of our shipping regulations operates to bar Spanish vessels, and that the trade of the islands has been crippled. not hard to bear, but the reason therefor is perplexing. The fact re mains. however, that most of those who are every summer in the throes of hay fever and incipient asthma are strangely free from the universal ail ment. Many learned authorities have at tempted to explain the nature of the singular malady, but your real hay fever addict takes no stock in tech nical descriptions. He knows that It comes periodically and leaves period ically, and that while it remains it is violently and explosively in evidence. He has the consolation of knowing that relief is near in tiie higher alti tudes, but owing to the fact the neces sity of making a living interferes with his freedom of action, that con solation has no practical value unless he can avail himself of it. Some • hay fever victims fall heir to the affliction in August, hut vet erans of the art acquire it early arid lose it late. The dandelions start it and the frost ends it. This summer, however, unexpected relief has been vouchsafed and sneezing has not been at all popular. mho ah cyX*/ *-} ± raised by American refiners of Cuban sugar by arbitrarily adding one-fourth of 1 cent to every pound of Cuban sugar sold in this country. . The letter was signed for the “United States and Cuban Sugar Pro ducers’ Agreement Syndicate. Inc.,” by “Alfred Grover.” Grover gave his address as 17 State street. New York city, where. Senator Harrison said, he was in the office of Henry W. Pea body & Cos. Strenuously denying any knowledge of Grover, his syndicate or any such agreement as alleged, Senators Smoot, Lodge and Nicholson of Colorado. Re publicans, demanded tnnt there should lie an investigation. Senator Harrison “gladly accepted the challenge,” and introduced a resolution providing for an inquiry. NORTHERN WISCONSIN ADVERTISER, WABENO, WIS. g| - IB B 1 Porch FI W[ Mr • I ioVxir-6* I hoij' llixlmm 2 jew r_ -LM r| Living /feaM... g 27xi5' |y' k *—aa-o'l ——<?-6*^7l V Terrace . 1 Floor Plan. PLEASANT KOI 111 MODEST COST Neat, Graceful One-Floor Type That Has Strong Appeal. SUITABLE FOR SMALL FAMILY This Design Provides Weil-Built, Ar tistic Home That Will Afford Joy ous Spot for Any Family— Pergola Splendid Feature. By WILLIAM A. RADFORD Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and giv advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, For the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago, 111., and only inclose two-cent stq,mp for reply. One of the factors which has re stricted home building is the popular feeling that “a home of your own” is solely the privilege of the moneyed class. Now it is true that one can well invest $15,000 or $25,000 in a modern home. But it is equally true that a comfortable well-built home can lie had for far less money. Those per sons who are standing on the side lines and watching their neighbors ac quire a home of their own ought to open their eyes to the fact that they, too, can build a home which will fit their financial situation. In deciding on the moderately priced home there is no need to resort to shoddy construction. In fact, such a policy can never he considered wise. It is possible to have a home that is plainly stamped with quality and at the same time keep tiie investment down to a reasonable figure. A design that will appeal to all who want a home, but who are not able to build one costing a small fortune is shown here. There is no need to make any apologies for this really de lightful little home. It is well built, artistic in style and will afford a joy ous spot for any family. This style is of tiie ever popular and most frequently followed frame con struction. the preponderant material in all home building. It has been transformed from plain lines into a most pleasing contour by tiie curved window roof treatment, a type of hay window that is sure to please. This effect is accomplished by an over hanging roof, which adds so little to Jhe cost that it seems immaterial when the grace and beauty of the effect is considered. Another touch of adorn ment is given in tiie pergola effect at the side. Pergolas are iu vogue, very much so, and add a great deal to the pleasing lines of the home. Any woman will be delighted with the interior arrangements, which are compact without being crowded. The living room is a combination living and dining room of splendid size, meas uring 27 feet by 15 feet. The kitchen is well planned and the two bedrooms at tiie rear of the home are a pledge of quiet and convenience. Besides individual closets in the bed room, provision has been made for a rooiuy closet for which there are al ways a thousand use\ % every home. The pergola, of course, will be a pop ular spot during the outdoor weather, and there is also a useful rear porch. Those who adopt this style for their home will have a pleasant place in which to live, and one which may be built without excessive cost. ONLY MAN-POWER IN CHINA Human Lives and Labor About Cheap est Thing in That Vast. East ern Country. Life and labor are so cheap in China that men are still used for heavy work instead of machinery or beasts of bur den, writes Robert Dollar in The Na tion’s Business. “This was brought home to me very forcibly in the handling of the big tim bers which I donated for the rebuild ing of the famous Ling Ying temple near Hangchow. This temple was first built in 336 A. D. Marco Polo tells of it. There are caves and shrines of all descriptions. “His excellency Sheny Rung Pao, learning that Americans were planning to erect a college nearby for the edu cation of Chinese boys, decided to re build the central hall of the temple in all its former greatness and splendor— in its day it was the most magnificent of all Chinese temples. For this pur pose he ordered 28 of the largest round timbers that could be found in America. I donated these timbers and sent them over on the deck of the M. S. Dollar. They ran in size as long as 125 feet, and 48 inches in di ameter at the butt; they were perfect ly straight, and as fine pieces as ever left America. “At Shanghai the timbers were put on a raft and taken up the Grand canal to Hangchow. From there they were carried by coolies over the five miles to the site of the temple. . Two hundred and fifty men, 125 to each side, handled these great logs. A bam boo pole for each man was tied to the timber by a small rope, the poles angling slightly to permit the man on one side to carry on his right shoulder, and his associate on the other side, on his left shoulder.” Youngster Knew All About Him. My sister and her young son, Wal ter, came home for a visit. Shortly after their arrival my sister began sounding me out on the subject of my matrimonial prospects and pleaded the cause of a young man who had been paying me considerable attention. I admitted his virtues, but always came back to tire significant fact that he had been without employment for some time, a fact which I felt reflected upon his ambition. My little nephew was playing about the room apparently ob livious to our conversation. Later in the week the young man in question called to see me, and said to Walter, "Well, I’ve heard a lot about you. My name is Joe, but I don’t suppose you ever heard of me before, did yftu?” To my amazement the child an swered calmly, “Oh, yes, I know all about you. You want to marry my aunt and you haven’t a job or any thing.” —Detroit Free Press. Troubles of th® R : ch. Mrs. Gramercy—My husband can't sleep on account of the business de pression. * Mrs. Parke—Just look at me. I have to ride around in an old car and Fide is two breeds out of ttyio-- -Life. AMERKAM mmm (Copy for This Department Supplied by the American Legion News Service.) POLICE CHIEF LEGION MAN Guy R. Molony, Superintendent of New Orleans' “Finest,” Will Call Legionnaires to Aid. Confronted with the task of handling a crowd of 150,000 visitors to the American Legion et Guy ItTlolo ny will call his I brother Legion naires into action. j?| Superintendent pi Molony, an active . ' w ;/ Legion member, has anriouneed that 1,000 uni* A- formed Legion naires will assist his police force in regulating the large crowds thronging the convention parade route and w T ill serve as provost guards in the busi ness district. During a recent trip to Kansas City Superintendent Molony investigated conditions prevailing in that city dur ing last year’s American Legion con vention. He discovered that city and police officials had no criticism to make concerning the way in which the 150,000 visiting ex-service men conducted themselves, and stated that Kansas City officials would welcome the opportunity to have the organiza tion again choose Kansas City as their convention city. BUNKS FOR THE LEGION MEN V. A. W. Steger, Chairman of Nation* al Convention Housing Committee, Has Completed Plans. Every man to his own taste in “bunks,” says V. A. W. Steger, chair man of the hous- 11 . ing committee of the American Le- f gibn national con- | ||| held in New Or- A leans next Octo- *# ber. Convention visitors will be housed in a van- While the bulk .||ff /Jy. JB| of the crowd will wgm choose the hotels jSm. (s*W{ and rooms in New **“““■ Orleans homes, there will be an op portunity for a substantial percentage to remain on the Pullman cars and the steamboats and ocean liners which take them to the cohvention city. Mr. Steger has obtained a hotel rate of $1.50 a day without bath and $2.50 a day with bath. More than 14,000 visitors can be housed in the Pullman cars, which will he provided with all - conveniences of n modern hotel. A special arrangement with railroads will enable the convention guest to live on his Pullman car for about $2 a day, and a uniformly low rate will also pre vail in rooms in New Orleans homes. Those doughboys who prefer to re turn to the barracks life for five days may be quartered in New Orleans’ $15,000,000 army supply base and in various halls and lodge rooms. reservations for rooms, Mr. Steger ha* announced, must be made through the \ isitor’s American Legion state ad jutant. who will confirm them with the convention housing committee. HAVE ARMY ON SHORT NOTICE Government Could Provide Ample Mil itary Protection in Any Emer gency, Pershing 3ays. An army large enough to guard every important bridge and railway terminal, all important industries and coal mines, as well as governmental buildings, could be placed in the field on short notice by the United States government, Gen. John J. Pershing de clared in a statement recently issued, telling wdiat could be done if this country were invaded. Eighteen regular war strength in fantry divisions of reserves, composed of 600,000 men, an expanded National Guard with 500,000 men and regular army units, augmented by volunteers to approximately 175,000 men, could be made quickly available, the gen eral said. “The national defense act of 1920,” Pershing’s statement declared, “pre scribed that ‘the organized peace es tablishment, including the regular army, the National Guard and the or ganized reserves, shall include all of those divisions and other military or ganizations necessary to form the basis of a complete and immediate mobilization for the national defense in the event of a national emergency declared by congress.’ “The evident intent,” the statement continues, “is that the system of na tional defense shall be definitely or ganized, that the military units re- ] quired for service in any emergency 1 shall be constituted in time of peace, I and that each of them shall be pre- ! pared to undertake its initial missio/i j in time to meet the requirements of i the situation.” I HOMESICK FOR THE ARMY Ah Han Kook, Korean With Honor able Record in the U. S. A., Returns to the Service. Born in Korea, taken to Hawaii when a child, without any trace of relatives, an hon orable record in the United States jlinii army behind him. All Han Kook, a JSK v little brown man, y called at the / American Legion J headquarters in jt : . \ Indianapolis the other day and de " dared his inten f ~ .-r&j tion of “going f , J W vCTiJ back home” to the ~ A army. “I was a dental officer s assistant in San Francisco,” Kook, private first class and specialist fourth class, medi cal department, said, producing an honorable discharge to prove it. “Ilie officer was Dr. H. C. Feyler, now of 822 Gay street, Portsmouth, O. He asked me to come to see him when I got out of the army. He is in private practice now. So when my enlistment expired in San Francisco, I got on a train and went to Portsmouth. The officer said he would like to have me work for him. He treated me very good and I had a pleasant visit with him, but I got homesick, The army is the only home I know*. I am a mem ber of the American Legion, Schofield Barracks, H. TANARUS., post No. 6, and I heard a lot about Legion headquar ters in Indianapolis, so I thought I. would like to see them.” Kook was shown about the offices at Legion headquarters and the vari ous phases of the work explained to him. Then this little brown man, now an American citizen, who first entered military service in the National Guard at Hawaii in August, 1917, and con tinued the service through the na tional army and the regulars until May 26, 1922, departed for Fort Ben jamin Harrison, at Indianapolis, to re enlist. “Sure, he was homesick for the army,” the recruiting officer at the fort said later over the telephone. “We welcome him back.” WOULD BE SECOND TO NONE James Shelley, Phoenix, Sent to West Point, Wishes to Be FirstClLis Officer. President Harding has appointed another World war veteran to West Point. James Shel ley of Phoenix, A •■?AyCl|u Ar i z., told a “white lie” and f. at sixteen was en- f listed as a regu- y ifljik L lar in the army. % . || He served nine A Jf months overseas |> ". with tiie artillery. He is now a A 1 “plebe” at the SL academy where jjgfim 4% #J|f after four years’ J jf lp|| hard work he will be graduated a second lieutenant. The stuff that is Shelley’s and which made him enlist when under age evidencecl itself when he an swered the telegram ot West Point officials who asked: “What is your ambition?” Shelley had to make his answer in seven words, hut it was to the point. He said: “I want to be second to none.” FOR LEGION POST IN KOREA Application for Charter Is Made to the Legion’s National Organi zation Department. An application has just been re ceived for a charter fov an American Legion post in Korea by the Legion’s national organization department in Indianapolis. There are 15 persons eligible for membership in Korea and the application hears the names of those 15 persons. The local post will have its headquarters at Kwangju, Chosen. The post in Korea is being organized by M. L. Swineheart, treas urer of the South Presbyterian mis sion in that country. In his letter accompanying the application for a charter, Mr. Swinehart said: “Please have the application acted upon as quickly as possible as we have good reason for wanting to get busy and get the post organized into a going concern.” It is unfortunate that some World war veterans in the United States, where it is harder to stay out of’ the Legion than it is to get into it, don’t get some of this enthusiasm mani fested b„y their erstwhile comrades In arms in far away Korea. Carrying On With the American Legion A.. _ _ ,^ iell shock caused Thurman K. Williamson, Lincoln, Neb., World war veteran, to forget the girl he was en gaged to and marry another. The District court has just annulled Wil lamson s marriage, leaving him free to carry out his first pledge. * * * 40 I emmts and 8 Chapeaux” is e name given a fun-making,.purely social organization, formed by mem national executive com °L ° Amer ican Legion Aux t • K ! nevv corresponds to Jie Legions “Forty and Eight” or ..iii.zt , some months ago. which now nVa°‘l chaptera in all Parts of the Lnited States.