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M THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINER SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1922
International Writers Review
European Outlook As Year Ends
I SEES EUROPE
I DRIFTING BACK
I JO WAR ABYSS
I Writer Believes America
Must Be Savior of White
I Civilization
I Bj (, ( H 1 1 1 I I '.
V Britain's t;rintcsi liberal 1 -III r
I (Copyright. 112, by Tho Standard
Kxamlncr.) LONDON. Dec. 30 The nr- year
opens With a spirit of mingled h-pe
und anxiety. What has tht flrt week
in store? Will Baldwin's mission to
America case the situation on ono
side? Will the Paris conference ease
it on tho othor? Taking' the latter
question first It cannot be said that
tho onions are good. It is Obvious thai
declaration by the reparations com-
mission that Germany b m default
over hi r timber d livt rles er at i o s
danCW The matter Iteell Is trivial,
but the decision is not trivial It : P"
resents a victory for WhlaL I'.-incuro
has worked ceaselessly. He has de
feated England on the eve of the crit
ical 1'arLs conference and Brill use his
J itdvantagu to tho utmost.
1 Coincarc's capture of Italian BUP
I port Is very significant.. Hitherto tne
! tendency of the Italians hW been to
nido with England on thfl .man
issue Now Mussolini ha i b inred the
current and now Polncare is H Mill id
of a thr.-o to ono majority Belgium
being consistently on gram e B side.
UP TO poincarb
With this tactical victory on Hand.
what will be Potncare's pi
He 1b unlikely to anticipate the cont er
ence by Independent s tlo iaUl
is it unlikely that England will dtS-
avow the a.-tion of its own rn mbi r
of the 1 ' '
is declared In default England U11
will be compelled to disagree to til
'l policy of force advocated by Franc
ij .specially anything in tho nature of
j occupation either military or ci onoml.
A of tho Ruhr. There can no re
M covery of Europe on such Lines But
'J Franco never has sum md I : PO "
1 ley of occupation as a means Ol Bt
ing the political disintegration of Oer-
1 mWe have now reached th- crucial
M issue which France and England have
jj dodging for four year,. Will
ffl Poincare take the plung- on th
m Btremrth of the reparations
M s.onV Ho claims the right to a. i alum-
According to the terms of the tree V
M aa in the case of the occupation of
Ml Frankfort. Franco then hoped Jg
"If stampede the allies In-.., con
:M failed Now tho problem assMinrs a
final character. If France acts alone
contrary to the English definition ct
the text of the reat and contrary t"
m the whole motive of Brifsh policy, tne
M entente cannot survive. 1 oincarc is
. 1 faUy aware of the gravity of tne -step,
'fli If he entertains any doubts tne ron-
M ference In Paris during th. next tr
m days will enlighten him. Hl plain
7 ' . w L-n.inn.i ami ! ranc a mean
diametrically different things i an d no
pretenses any longer COW U " ll
is so We want Germany to get on ncr
feet 'in order to pay and Tad-s. 1 rancs
wants Germany permanently disabled.
No diplomatic Ingenuity can reconcile
these conflicting policies. One must
yield or tho crash must com
E3TE8 i i K-N TO WEST
with this menace overahaqowlng
Paris, all eyes turn westward. Bald-
win's visit to Washington is Important
to us We hope terms will bo arrang- I
d which will make tho burden easier
for tho Britl.-h taxpayer. J ut this is j
not the main rnuiuii v.iiy alt. nli-n
centers on Washington. Despair Of
diverting French aim from the lltthr
are deepened by the significant action (
of Italy. If England Is leit alone to
oppose tho French policy, the pronp.-. c
is hopoless and all exportation of Eu
ropean recovery vanishes. That is
alarming enough for Europv but not
for Europo alone. If Europe r ".alters
back Into the abyss of war, America
can hardly escape being Involved. Is
tliat catastrophe to put tl e lasl nail
In the coffin of white ctvWsatlon 7 Is
the white man to confess that nil of
his genius for organisation ends In
failure becauBC ho cannot organize
peace with his neighbor?
That Is the lssu. th l1 ll bock of thin
life and death struggle. America can
not be indifferent. All hopes that the
new year will bring the world out of
tills bitter shamo centers in America.
She helped civilization from ruin In
the war. Can she refuse to help save
It from unalterable ruin In this dead
ly peace ? Heports as to the Intentions
of Washington regarding the calling
of an oconor. inference raised high
hopes here ihoy soon be fulfill
ed. Drowi men catch at straws
and Europe la uroWnlng. Throw us a
raft before It Is too laic
I PLUNDERING OF
I U. S. ALLEGED
(Continued from Page One.)
the war and stress under which he
government labored, particularly em
phasUInK tho Importance to the con
Mructlon program out of which grew
the great army cantonments. hugo
terminals, warehouses and hospitals.
ACCUSATION RECITED
Each of the seven defendant, tho
Indictment averted, "conceived tho
fraudulent scheme and plan of getting
control, for their own gain. profit
and benefit, and for the guln, profit
nnd lneflt of their past and future
clients and employers end their
frlen.ls, of the administration Ot the
Immense smergency construction pro-
Hi fwam of the I'nltcd States during tho
tar, including the determination of
Hj tho policy to be followed, the form
of contract grossly, unconscionably
And fraudulently favorable to th"
Hj contractors and In a like manner anl
to the same extent unfavorable to
the United States . .
J It was next charged that the de
fondants, "each knowing well all the
H' BremlSSS aforesaid. did unlawfully
and feloniously conspire, combine.
Confederate nnd agren together and
with divers other persons to said
grand Jurors unknown, to defraud the
United States by unlawfully and cor
ruptly delaying, lrnpedlnr. obstruct
ng. perverting, prejudicing, contra
xrnlng and defeating the admlnlstra-
i
Dialogue Between Mrs. Europe
and Uncle Sam Emphasizes
Justice of American Position
BY MAXIMlblW HARDEN
Germany's Poremoet Publicist.
(Copyright. by The Stand
ard-Examiner. )
BERLIN, Dec. SO. Mrs.
Europe today Is making Uncle
Sam a New Year's visit. It is
both material and social In char
.irtpr and tho dialogue between
them Is well worth the attention
of the whole world.
"What a terrible year 1922
was." she groans. "At tho be
ginning It seemed that the sky
over my house was brighter.
Threads of hope were 6pun at
"Washington, at Cannes and at
fjenoa, but they sonn broke Uko
cobwebs. Only from Washington
wa there something remaining,
and while It seems about to be
ratified after long hesitation, It
does me no good. From all other
summer and winter resorts no
useful plan has emerged despite
noisy enthusiasm.
"I had thought tho worst WM
over and I Imagined that the
world, which mu3t re.illzo our
worth, would help us back to our
old position nnd wealth. But to
day Is almost darker than a year
ago. John Bull complains of un
employment and Increased taxa
tion Marianne Paris bemoans
her money scarcity nnd the pos
sibility of rebuilding her devas
tated region. Where the Roman
Caesars fed the people with bread
and entertained th-rn with cir
cuses stands a civilian Caesar
who suddenly has .hanged his
red shirt for a black one and IS
endcaorlnr to force the Imag
ination of the masses back Into
a clean but narrow bed of patri
otic anti-foreign emotion.
"People aro trying to convince
me that things are getting better
to the oast where the bolshevik
(error has reigned for four years.
Property rights now are recog
nized and trade Is permitted".
This sounds scarcely credible only
a few months after the reportH
of a famine und cannibalism, but
even If this Is true what is th
good to me0 My old carcass,
covered with tho scars of the
surgeon's knife won't hold to
gether until order Is restored be
tween the black and white seas.
"New states are busy arrang
ing themselves while the old
people cannot buy or sell. Ger
many, with a groat Industrial or
ganization, could 6ell for a long
time because she offers goods
cheaper than her competitors and
can buy because she produces a
means of payment on a printing
press and pays her working men
one-fourth of what they would
get In America for the same
work But even this b.gar pros
perity 1b fading fast and thero la
a decline in all industries and
where formerly Germany had
much to export now .she is com
pelled to Import How much
longer will this be possible?
"The German harvest Is below
the average. Tattle cannot exist
throughout tho winter without
foreign fodder. The dollar a
year ago bought 200 marks. Bast
tlon of its laws and lawful regula
tions. . . .
COMPETITION KI1MIN ITEJO
Violation of fedora! statutes re
lating to tho procurement of services
of contractors for the building con
struction program of the war depart -ment
was charged In une count. In this
reference, the Indictment said the de
fendants caused all competitive bid-,
ding to be done away with in con
nection with tho administration of
substantially all building construction
which involved expenditure of hun
dreds of millions of dollars and in
cluded among other things, 16 na
tional army cantonments, Id national
guard camps, huge port terminals,
many warehouses, hospitals, aviation
fiei.ls, ordnance plants and fortiflra
tlons, c mprislng more than 500 sop-'
arate contracts.
ThO defendants, It was charged, ad
ministered laws and regulations of
th.- war department contrary to true
! intent and "In a manner not In the
best Interests of tho United States, but
In great part In the Interests and for
the unconscionable gain, profit and
benefit primarily of certain favored
contractors selected by defendants." i
The Indictment recited the names
of numerous army officers who. It
said, were deceived, misled and over
ridden by th defendants. causing
gr.-at waite of money appropriated by
congress and unjustifiable profits to
the defendants and their associates.
OROW1 LL RJEP1 9
CLEVELAND. ".. Dec. 3 0. Cate
gorical denial that there was any con
spiracy or collusion In tho awarding
i I war construction contracts which
te had any knowledge of or oonnec-1
Ion with, was made by Benedict
Crowell, former assistant secretary of
war. when Informed of tho return of
indictments against himself and six,
t'fh.-r ' dollar a year'' men
"1 know nothing whatever about
the indictments and have oo Informa
tion regarding them," ho said. "I
have recently turned over all my rec
ords regarding the building of army
camps and cantonments to depart
ment of Justice agents and have co
operated wlt them In every way In
their Investigations."
Clemens Lundoff also of Clove
'Jjind, Is said to bo In Los Angeles at
tending a convention of general con-
tractors.
NewtOD P Baker, former secretary
i of war. when told of the Washington
Indictments, said:
"Not having seen tho indictments I
eanot comment on them. I have al
ways believed, howevor, that the cost
I plus plan was tho only possible way
the camps and cantonments could
have been constructed under the cir
cumstances" It Is news to me." Mr Crowell
said, referring to the allegations In
tho Indictment of daily meetings be
tween the alleged conspirators in con
nection with assignment of contracts
' There was a great amount of con
struction work to ! awarded during
the war," said Mr, Crowoll. cxplaln-
ng the mothod of operation. "As as
sistant secretary of war I had th--duty
of finally approving theso con
tracts. "A construction division of the
nrmy was set up and as each Jub came
up, tho division Investigated ail the
large contractor applying for tho Job
and picked out tho men they thought
most capable of handling that partic
ular contract.
"Their recornmendatb n was sent
to the council of national defense,
I who had to pass on it and snd the
.report to me.
I I made It an Invariable rule to
approve the contract when ths two
July it bought :00. now it Is
7.000. Honest trade Is Impossllo
With such fluctuations, wnicn
within a year have varied from (
168 to 9,174 Tho soundest and
most respectable business men
are forced to speculate.
"Now Uriels 8am. this is n pic
ture of our conditions You aro
t ie only one who can help us.
lias your tender heart turned into
hard metal amidst your heaps of
goldl Nobody here understands
how you have stood the sight of
this misery so long."
A short mocking laugh comes
from the mouth which releases
the pipe and then comes tho
answer:
"Bravo You have learned your
lesson very well, The only wonder
Is tlvat you can expect It Is going
to have any effect. You know the
story of Rothschild who when the
poor Russian told his sorrow to
him for a long time rang for his
servant and said: 'Throw this
man out, he is breaking my heart.'
"That's how wc feel about you.
I have given more charity to your
children than ever before was
given on earth. I never ask thanks
but I don't want to hear any more
about your debts, reparations,
low standards of living and de-
i v ..---..
If I 1 mm 1 1 CeiiuilK'". loui luiiiRam
beplng Is almost worse than your
old military trumpets and Midler
play. You Imagine you arc ln
dcspensable and believe Almighty
God Insured you first place In
the universe until the end of time
and reckon we nre polng to help
you with our money every time
you do something stupid which Is
very, often. You want us to
throw our peoples' wealth into
the bottomless pit
"We have claims for gold which
are being paid not In gold hut In
goods which we don't want be
cause we ate exporters ourselves
and must protect our Industries
with a tariff. For this reason wc
are most interested In the
younger industrial countrl n.
ronseruently what Interests us In
RUSSla is not the supposed
change of front hut the fact that
under communist rule many mil
lions of new farms and small
holdings have sprung up.
"I will help ou as soon as I
have a guarantee that you won't
begin new wars which as experi
ence shown ruins both victors and
vanquished ; thnt you will not re
gard now paper money us lncomo
Wl alth and that your business will
bo guided by economic reasoning
Instead of national Jealousy That
is all we ask In exchange for out;
help. Don't pout. Do you think
we have been spending weeks on
councils of bankers and diplomats
for nothing' Franco and England
agreed under Christmas mistletoe
to accept any reasonable repara
tions proposal from Germany and
they knew about what to expect.
That was our doing. Now see
What yr.u can do alone. ILappy
New Year'"
Mrs. Europe, slightly disap
pointed but full of hope, turns
slowly and leaves.
bodies, the council of national de
fense and the army construction divi
sion agreed on the firm most capable 1
of handling It "
Clement W. Lupdoff. another i
Cleveland man, cited In tho Indict
ments Ii Fald to l- In Los Angeles or.
Fan Francisco attending a convention
of contractors. Mr Lundoff was vice ,
president of a Cleveland contracting
firm In which Mr Crowell wa-s preel-l
dent until the latter's appointment as
assistant secretary of war.
Mr Crowell Is now chairman of
the Crowell and Llttlo construction
company and head of the Crowell and
Murraj company, chemists and min
ing engineers.
00
TWO FATHERLESS
CHILDREN LEFT
(Continued Trom Page One.)
In the plight we find ourselves, and
COUld hear their tiny babies begging
for their daddy their hearts would be
touched.
When men I believe are members
of the Ku Krux Klan picked Mr.
Rli i ' irds up just a week before he
finally dlsi.pp.-ared. llttlo Leola wo
with him. They carried him away
while she stood on tho road and
screamed her pleas for them not to
take him. I found her standing there
crying All night she was so fright
en ed and nervous she could not sleep.
Over and over she told me:
"Mama, these old Klu Klux KJan
got my daddy," but he camo home
after that time
My horn. )r- wreefced. my life is
Wrecked and my heart Is broken I(
trust to God to carry me through
! what now Is a dreary and lonely life.,
CL1LY NEAR
BY D. V. STTRDIVANT
IntCTTUUional News Service.
BAHTKUP. La.. Dec. 80. The lln
dividing members of the Ku Klux
! Klan In Morehouse parish and their
opponents Is growing sharper. Forces i
aro Joining either faction with the
ultimatum: "You are either for It
or agalnut It."
An 1 Just now. taking the parish a
a whole, the klan Is stronger than Its ,
opponents so far as actual numbers i
are concerned, even If tho antls do
; hold a preponderance of strength In
' certain othor respects.
The announcement from New Or-
leans that the boat of talont will bo
sent into Morehouse parish to prove
that tho Ku Klux had nothing to do I
with tho kidnaping and murder of I
Watt Daniels and Thomas F. Rich- j
ards drew the cord of tension tighter
tonight. It is near the breaking
point if surface Indications aro a ba
rometer. J. K. 8klpworth. exalted cyclopa
' when shown a newspaper statement
tolling of the klan's proposed lnvestl
gatlon, seemed to be somewhat sur-
i prised but refused to comment on
what knowledge he might have of
, contemplated moves.
CLIMAX IS NEAR,
"Jujrt ksep your eyes open." he
; said tonight. "This meeting Is draw
' lng near a climax and something may
j happen any minute "
No one Is mor Ignorant of the nV
move In the case than Sheriff Fred
i Carpenter of Morehous parish. It
TARED PUTS
BLAME UPON
LLOYD GEORGE
Statesman Declares London
and Paris Accord
Is Vital
Ry AMiKI T IBDIBU,
Formes1 French High Commissi oner bo
the i oite i states
(Copyright. 1922. by The Standard
Examiner. )
PARIS, Dec 3 0. Does the year snd
better than it began?
Neither for France nor for Europe
can the question be answered affirm
atively. Throughout 1 922 France continued
to borrow to repair the ruins caused
by German aggression. She already
i has spent In this way for reconstruc
tion nnd p.-nslons more than eighty
billion francs plus expenses of tho
larmy of occupation The debt ser
Vice absorbs over thirteen billion
I francs annually not counting our for
eign debt upon which wc have not
.vet paid nny interest,
All that we have collected from
Germany is 1,720.000,000 gold marks
These receipts which amounted to an
average of 63.000.000 monthly In
1920-21 fell to 22.000.000 during 1922.
'Reparations In kind, except coal are
going badly and as a consequence
I France must borrow continually while
! taxes have risen from four and one
half billion francs in 1913 to twenty
one billions In 1922. They cannot be
Increased indefinitely. Even so the
debt service shows a deficit in 1923
budget of over four billions.
SITUATION WORSE,
This shows our situation during the
past year grew worse instead of bet
Iter. Will the coming Paris confer
ence show improvement either finan
cial or political? It would be Yash to
say so. Tho discord between France
and Britain has been demonstrated
In tho reparations commission, where
I Bradbury the English representative,
j with strange partiality refused to
agree with his colleagues that Ger
many had failed In deliveries In kind
although this fact was obvluus.
Lioyii George, by imposing sacri
fices on France for two years without
offering tho slightest compensation Is
the prime author of the crisis In Anglo-French
relations. France, by her
jpro-Turk attitude In 1921-22 commit
ted similar errors which happily wore
somewhat retrieved at Lausanne.
I Novertheless London and Paris are
far from Intimate agreement which
ils an Indispensable condition to Eu
ropean equilibrium Considering this
dlsassot iatlon of the entente premier
Mussolini asked, not without reason,
wherein tho disagreement consisted.
BERLLX VXI MOSCOW;
Those conquerod in 1913 aro show
ing disquieting activity in 1922. The
Rapallo treaty revealed the closeness
of Moscow's relations .with Berlin
whereof a thousand new symptom?
are cuihiuk iuio HVIUOUOO, j ue re ait
Is a close relationship between th
KemallStS and the soviet and through
them with Berlin. Worse yet, the re
venge Idea which course ha3 animated
these three governments seems cap
ablo of practical realization since the
Turks effaced their defeat, reinstated
themselves in Europe, re-took . Con
stantinople and eastern Thrace and
eliminated effective control of tho
straits by the western powers
Russian and German Nationalism,
encouraged by tho Komallst successes
is awake. The German press Is fi led
with provocative paragraphs. Tchlt
cherln's attitude at Eausanne is equal
ly disturbing.
All this ll happening In an unor
ganlc Europe Only the llttlo entente
ccuntrles seem to understand that
safety lies In unlt and this unity en
ables them moreover to restore thom
' selves economically. On the other
hand the status of tho relations be
ll ween them and tho western powers,
England. France Italy and Belgium
ono Is undefined Wo have lived from
day to day without defining any base
for argument ani not preparing for
jany There Is no continental policy
any more than a policy between the
I continent and the Anglo-Saxons. In
1914. Europe, despite Its shaklness.
v.as bettor orderod than In 1922.
Thero Is urnplo room In this chaos
for great offorts and great results,
but there can't be results until there
le a will for thern. Will bring
If
Is believed hero hi will be among
those who have some explaining to 1
do when the open hearing convenes
Friday. He is alleged to be a mem
ber of the klan.
Mrs. Thomas Richards, widow of 1
ono of the men whoso bodies were
found In Lake La Fuurcho. declares
she received no cooperation from
Sheriff Carpenter in her efforts to
find her hubsand's body. A S. Far
land, chief of department of Justlc?
Investigators, who have ieen hore
several months, also declares coopera
tion was lacking In Sheriff Carpcn-
ter
Mayor Goodwin of Bastrop today
declared neutrality. He added, how
ever, tho belief that tho Ku Klux had I
'"done much good In this community
In reaching crimes that the law could
not touch."
BEMOANS PUBLICITY.
Mayor Goodwin also stated he
could not see the need for troops
here.
Tho mayor lamented that "one of
(the best towns in northwest Louisiana
1 is getting false publicity, leading out
siders to believe this to bo a regular
j incubator for revolution."
"It has come to the point wher.
we cannot bring In badly needed la
, bor," he said. "Laborers fear they
I or their families will be killed "
Just now this phase of the sltua
I tlon does not present a grave crisis.
! but later It may prove bad. according
to the mayor. Negroes aro afraid to
enter the parish while hundreds are
leaving as fast as they can.
Bastrop will begin Monday to mako
preparations for the open hearing that
will start Friday. The llttlo court
; room here seats only'COO persons anl
1 it Is expected the corridors of the
building will bo filled. Thousands arn
expected to cram themselves Into the
town.
Because of this state troops are
expected to take charge of the com
I munlty. although DO declaration of
martial law will be made.
OO
Brazilian ants build hills over eight
'feet high.
HARDING SETS
SENATE RIGHT
ON ONE POINT
President, Not Congress, To
Conduct Negotiations
With Europe
RY ROBERT T SM LL
(Copyright. lSt, by The Standard.
Examiner.)
WASHINGTON. Dec. 30 President
Harding has won his battle with bid
old colleagues of the senate, and tho
constitution still lives.
The senate has admitted that It is
In the province of the executive to
I conduct the foreign relations of tho
country and that the senate has no
right to Initiate policies or tO direct
the president to do so.
Students of history may hav
thought this principle of government
was agreed upon somewhere back In
the clghtleenth century', but ever slnoo
the armistice and the treaty of Ver
sailles tho government has been so
topsy turvy it became necessary to
fight the battle all over again.
All of which means that Washing
ton Is emerging from the last of't
war time madness and petting on an
even keel again. No matter how mucn
, senators may feel that they know
about foreign affairs and tho proper
way to conduct those at fairs, it Is ad
mitted now that the state department
do.-s have certain right and proper
functions to perform In dealing with
foreign governments. It Is also ad-
I mltt'-d that you cannot convoke an in
ternational conference with a brass
band. Soviet methods of approach ar
not yet the order of tho day.
51 N ATE PUT IN PLACE .
President Harding with Secretary
1 Hughes standing squarely and fear
I ISSSly behind him. has really put tho
senate In Its place. diplomatically
I speaking, and without being too bru
. tal about it has told that august bodv
I that It should not attempt to meddle
In International affairs until In the
course of human events It is called
I upon by tho executive to exercise Us
I proper function of ratification
And while tho president iias won his
, point that It Is not proper or seemly
for the senate to tell him when or
, why he should tako certain Intern Sf
1 tlonal steps, he still has a fight on his
' hands before he will be a free agent
to conduct the most important nego
tiations that lie beforo his admin
istration negotiations that may cany
with them the destinies of the world.
In telling the senate what It should
j not do, Mr. Harding has very plainly
1 Intimated that there aro certain things
1 which It can and should undo. Theso
I things were done whllo the senate
still seethed in its wrathfulneas to
ward tho Wilson administration and
was still drunk with Its doslre to dic
tate to the executive at least what
that branch of the govornment might
not do.
II 1VDS STILL TIED.
Tho president plainly feels that in
some respects his hands are still tie I
by the senate and he Is anxious that
1 he should bo unfettered. The presi
dent did not object to 'the fettering
when it was done for his mind at thai
'itlme was Inclined to go along with
jthe senate's and he did not then b
lleVS that America at tho end of 1132
would bo moving In the direction 0?
extending a helping hand to I2ur-v
However, the tlmo to help Europe h.ci
! arrived If Europe herself will permit
us to help her and the president
l finds himself hampered by senate llm
1 ltatlons.
As matters now siana rne prwiaen
can do nothing In tho matter of repa
rations dispute as the senate in rati
fying the treaty of peace with Ger
many made a resolution that tho
Cnlted States should not have a rep
resentative on the reparations com
mission without tho consent of con
gress. That consent, the president poln'
out. has not been given.
Furthermore In calling or entering
an international economic conference!
President Harding would find him
self cramped and embarrassed by th
legislation which restricts the Amer-
lean debt refunding commission to
explicit terms of interest and ultimate
time of payment. As tho president
pointedly says. If congress really
means to facilitate the task of tho
i government In dealing with the Eu
ropean situation, the first practical
step would be to free- the hands of
tho commission so that helpful nego
I tlatlons may be undertaken.
HERE IS SITUATION.
Hero then Is the International situa
tion In a nutshell:
President Harding, thoroughly ac
customed to the menace of conditions
of Europe which havo been going
, steadily from bad to worse durtn-r
the last four years, is anxious to do
something now to help
Ho finds himself hampered on this
side of tho water by certain legisla
tive re-strlctlons. and he finds hlmseif
, confronted abroad by a truculent
I France. France and Enpland aro near
the breaking point. They resume their
conferences In Paris on Tuesday, but
; as there has been no chango of heart
on the part of France since tho ro
j cent meeting in London little Is ex
pected from Paris. If an open break
comes, tho I'nlted States will try to
heal It. But France knows that Am
erican sympathy, or American good
1 judgment as you will, calls for a mod
erate policy toward Germany, not a
policy of destruction. It remains now
to be seen whether France is willing
'to break with England and America.
I The situation unquestionably Is tense.
OO
MELLON LIKES
CAPPER'S BILL
(Continued From Tai- One)
31. 124. This would adapt our pres
ent banking system to tho needs of
! agriculture and Include tho best fca-
ture of tho various plans, upon whlcn
I there Is virtual agreem nL
"I would admit to discount In tho
' federal reserve banks. agricultural
j paper with a maturity up to nln
I months, secured by commodities In
! prOOOSS of orderly marketing or by
; livestock which Is being fattened for
I market. To this thero can bo no sub
stantial objection. It is safe, and the
, testimony before your committee
I shows that It will bo helpful. ...
PL N IS PK USED
"A rural credits program like that
I embodied In nuuatancu In th Capper
bill, would draw capital and cred.t
i from available sources for use wtaro
needed by the agricultural and live
stock Industries, and would accom
plish this on a business baml without
depending on government money or
tax exemptions. At the same time. it
would enlarge the facilities of tho
fdTal reserv e system to provide (
further for agricultural discounts, and
1
PASADENA MILLIONAIRE KNOWN f
TO POLICE AS BILL THE BRUTE i 1
Contest Over Will Begun as Former Criminal
Leaves Thousands to Masons, Elks, .
Friends and Acquaintances.
By STFTMI1 N .U Ml M
(Copyright, 192:. by Tho Standard
Examiner.) PA S A I 'EN A. Cal.. Dec. 30. Easv
dollars havo an uneasy way about
them. Like poker chips they seem
to havo no regular abiding place or
specific direction.
Th easy dollars of Clark Parker,
late Par-adena millionaire, are now
Invented In a contest filed In the pro
bate court of Los Ansjalss county by
Ir. Frederick P. Gay. a Berkeley pro-
: feasor, a nephew of Parker who seeks
to have set aside the two score and
more requests and legacies made by
his uncle In the four documents pur
porting to be his will and codldla
Dr. Gay. as the Dearest of kin. sues
for th entire estate of Parker on tho
ground that the will Itself and tho
I codicils are Illegal, and that the testa
tor was unduly Influenced In maklnst
his numerous bequest. The result of
,the content begun by Dr. Gay may b
a long and bitter right over a largo
fortune, but whatever the outcome,
the story behind the ntt is one prob
ably without parallel In court annals
(or as a modern and modified version
of the romance of the Count of Mont
Cristo.
1 Some years ago there camo te
Pasadena an aging couple, the mar
upward of CO, and the woman abrenst
.f three scores, she wasted and falling
In health. As Mr. and Mrs. Clark
ParkST, from one of tho New England"
Mates, there was nothing about them
to attract attention except that they,
appeared to bo In easy circumstances,
retiring in disposition and In search
of a comfortable home.
B s fin 1 HOME
If there was any one thing to no
tice it was the unfailing courtesy and
consideration of the gray-haired hus
band for his wife. Parker purchased)
a beautiful home at 681 South Madi
son avenue, and lived there In virtual 1
'retirement with his wife, except when
I they appeared at some large social
f unctions, usually those given for
charitable purposes When the frail
little woman, gradually growing whit
er and weaker, finally passed away,
("lark Parker had the sympathy of
; neighbors and all who knew them,'
.even casually. He mourned his dead
alone, but seemed to find a solace in1
his Interest In the welfare of the
lodges an.i fraternal orders of whiOO
ho had becomo a member In Pasa
dena, and in civic and charitable en
terprises to which he contributed lib
erally In time and money,
j While it was known that Parker
was certainly to be olasssd BS well-to-do
and possessed of a liberal Income.1
an absence of all display and his re-!
I tiring manner did not stamp him ns a
I man of great wealth, and gave no
hint of any great surprise In store
for those who knew him as a pleas
ant acquaintance.
THEN PARKER DM 9.
Iate la.st January Clark Parker,
like his wife, weakened and died In
his beautiful . home. His passing was
regretted. It was the topi, of a day.
Then the will of Clark Parker was
made public and was a real sensation.
He had scattered a great fortune- eas
ily a million dollars, in princely fash-1
Ion. Thero was a long list of bene
ficiaries In Pasadena some of them
more than acquaintances, none to re
ceive less than five thousand, and
most of them ten thousand. Among
inOSO Iiuunjia n ciw Duiiiu K ,w"" I
men and women of the city. Another!
I long list named beneficiaries In New
York and Ma.achusetts and the lega
cies were of five and ten thousand
dollars each. Ills final and largest;
'bequests were 5225.000 to three lodges
1 1 1 Musona In Pasadena, and f 1 50,000
to tho Elks. It was so proved that
; there was nothing fanciful about thi
fenerous scattering of wealth for Par-j
Iker's California holdings exceeded a
quarter of a million dollars and his
'papers revealed that tho bulk of his'
'estate was back In Massachusetts. I
Months after the death of Parker, due;
perhaps to over-anxiety on the part
of some legatee In Pasadena, Inquiry
was directed to his life and fortune
back homo. The shock can probably
'bo Imagined when word camo back
that Parker was well' known In the
east, In fact was famed for his name
was listed In "famous criminals of
history' " an authentic work by a po
lice commissioner of New York.
bill Tin; lmiTE.
In police and criminal circles Par
ker was better known as "Bill the.
Brute." In 185S ho began his criminal
; career by killing a deckhand aboard a
sailing vessel. For this crime he
served a term In the Massachusetts
P- n. Aftor that ho took up a llfo of
, daring crime and gradually led up lo
ihii grand coup, a dramatic robbery In
188.', of tho Bank of Franco of J247.-
!600. He eluded the police of Europe
and fought off a hordo of man hunt
ers In America until ho had forced a
compromise whl. h left him free of j
threat of prosecution and with th".
greater part of the loot still In his,
hands. That was the real founda
tion of his fortune.
As a confldcnco and bunko man
"BUI the Brute." now turned gentle
I In his art, was really the artist at his!
calling, and added to Qls fortune
I hops so as to encurogo larger
membership among eligible bank In
the agricultural districts, and would
extend up to $25,000. the limit on
loans by federal land banks. Alto
gether. It presents a comprehensive
plan of permanent relief on practlcali
lines" '
'without definite conflict with the law. 1 ft0
His broth, r. who had alo ac-umulat-i fach
ed a fortune, nut by legitimate means, fi c
ill I and left his estate to the control ori
. f M.irk Parker There v as a con-1 E
test, but Parker won out and dlsap-; El
peered from the place that nce knewfl K
him. Qt
Even the police lost track of him. g&
It was then that he came fro Pasa- fa
d( n l fl'
It Is not of record that after the - i
'diath v.i L amed that any of thsi mm
beneficiaries of thi vvin served nothw
that they would decline their be--MR
quests, especially when It was shown Egjf
that the estate was well abl to pay Wj
every penny bequeathed. .t
Now on. d In the v. dl rjg;
I Of Parker for a blrtlv 1 nt" of i yf
$100. Intervenes and the fight Is on.lC
Dr Gay fought Parker over tho es-l R
lt of his oth. r uncle nnd Parker did . lL
' not forgot or forgn. It Is l n.-vod ..(
that other relatlvi 1 over light- .1 W.
ly In th will may J in with Pr. Gay R
in his contest. The principal specific H
chargi .11 the attack m be that! R
bxul repr. .-ntatlves, a Bo 8-1 H
: ton firm f lawyers, headed by for- :
Governor Batos of Massachusetts j M
Induced the millionaire to provide. jJJ
.'munificently for certain persons, this1
jam
1 1 constituting the alleged undue lnflu-,'
1 1 ence. :At
oo nfo
ss
WEBER CLUB TO i
ELECT OFFICERS
IK
Balloting to Be Held on jj
January 8; C. C. Election jSn
January 16
w
The annual election of officers and fi
directors for the Weber club will be p
held Ionda January : ling tO'Wvl
an announcement made last nltht by
Secretary Arthur Kuhn. The n 11- rV
datl 1 for the various positions aro: pfl
For president. Jam inn, JoseplH
.1 Parker, W H Shearman, l-'r.'d j. ' J
Taylor and Gus Wright.
For vice president, u V Vdaius. gt
II a. Banning, W II R.cder JrJ H
John L Taylor and Jim Scowrr.dt. j Esj
For treasurer. 11 1'. Barton, I E. k
Davla B. Q Dye, H. W. Hlnlcy and ti
W ii Ixios.
Six dlr.-ctors will b'1 scloct 1 from Sit
th- following. J. T. Abbott It. B. f
m. ' ! M Browning ("hirles P.j
Carlson. J. rson Douglas, 11 W.: TI
Dunn. J F. Kills, T S Be-.n-y Jr.,. M
J P PowlSS, B. E. 'Jery, J F SI
( ;,. s and I red ' Smith. til
Th-- annual ..tl.ui for director
of tho Ugden chamber of emu . ice '
trill be h. id January 15 with l ". uf tho fej
0 candidal i n i tors. I fvt
Tho president and i i r I nt -fa
named by th-- Weber 1 I u l will hold I
similar positions with the chamber. ji
hi i indldates for dli tors I
i ; R. Alton. '! . - 1 1 l t..n. rj,
William J. uiacK iui ii, jaiuca ni lu-M
nan, J"hn Culli y J n I v me. rj,
Bmpey, Jos b i . Abo Krl
t;iaHiii.it.i. 1 1 .'ii ry OH
Gwllllam. Ileri.-Tl 1 1 i rlngton. FranSB
B ii-.. . an B HolllngsCfc
B J m. '. org.- J. 'c
Kelly, b i Kirkendsll John M
l.ewi-. Ambrose P. Merrill. It Tl
Ml?, hell, Char!, h Mur - i ' ' t(t
SU ii ds. Fn d M N )fe, J ' Bead. VJ
John Spargo, Frank J. Stevens. Cl
Henry Turner. B F Whlth.ck. Bredl
E. Williams. Gus Wright. Jr j
rn
Sixth Annual
Dinner Tonight
For Carrier 6
la
i
The sljth annual banquet and JoH N
Ilflcatlon of The Ugden Stundard-EsdMl
aminer carriers organization will bfjM
1 1 i i thll ' v. nlng .it Wi i lni' n oP I
the oorld hall with M n Brandon.
circulation manager of Tho ' 'g leSSS
! Lrd-ExaznlnSX a.i master of '-ere',
monies. Jl
John Slater, the whbdv knowjpj
, h. :' ha-; l- . n I tallied to J.i , n thSl
turkey repast which Is to ! one 0B
the prlr I , features of the occaslesB
program calls for music. resdH
lng!. addresses and games. I
1WI
SALT CO. CASE
SET FOR TUESDAY
Hearing of the petBI-.n to dlssoldH
the Ifontsllo Halt company w.il osJ
beard by Bulge OeorgS R Parker ISA.
id district court. TuesdsM
ranUBJ Petition for dlas'ViutlolM
was filed by directors -f the coBSV
Opposition to th" dlsolut: n tSH f
and oth-r "tOfH
holder who ohjct to th- dissolutlOSMI D
the appointment a rj
(Ogden's Finest Homes I
Are of Brick I
Those large substantial homes, those cozy bungalows do- I
lightful cottager, modern apartment buildings the best I
Btructurea m Ogden are built of brick. There is a real M ,
reason. Brick is not-only substantial, it also provides a M fj
home warm in winter, cool in summer, with it a BlOrtfJ I f
tractive structure can be erected. Besides, brick build-
ings are cheaper, for their maintenance cost is so low.
When you build, build of brick. JJ
ASHTON BRICK L
& TILE CO. I
Yards and Offices: Twenty-ninth 11 Jefferson j