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ALVIN
dent of
passed” away,
COOLIDGE, former Presi
ihe United States, has
and the whole country
mourns his going. Thursday noon he
was found dead by
Mrs. Coolidge at thelr
home In Northamp-
ton, Mass. He had
not been serlously ill,
and his demise wus a
terrible shock to his
family and friends.
Swiftly as the wires
could carry them,
messages of condol
ence came from Pres-
ident Hoover, Presi
dent-Elect Roosevelt,
countless other men
and women of prom-
Inence, and the governments of many
foreign nations,
Funeral services, simple and unos-
tentatious, were held Saturday In
Northampton, President Hoover and
many other dignitaries attending, and
the body was then taken by automo
bile to Plymouth, Vt. and laid In the
Coolidge plot in the old cemetery.
The grief of the nation was ex-
pressed by the President In a proe-
lamation ordering 30 days of public
mourning,
Mr. Coolidge, who was sixty years
old last July, had been in the public
service nearly all of his aduit life,
advancing from councilman of North
ampton in 1800 to the highest position
in the nation In 1923, when he suc-
ceeded to the Presidency after the
death of President Harding. He was
elected President the following year,
and declined to be a candidate for n
second elective term. He first became
nationally prominent while serving as
governor of Massachusetts, ‘which
place he held for two terms; he was
then chosen Vice President on the
Harding ticket. Though never con
sidered “brilliant,” Mr. Coolidge was
one of the ablest and wisest of our
Presidents and was unflagging In his
devotion to his high duties. Since
leaving the White House he had en
gaged in the Insurance business but
also had found time to act as head of
the commission named to study the
problems of transportation, especially
the railroads.
Calvin
Coolidge
APAN has resumed Its ruthless
course against China, and the rest
of the world thinks It ean do nothing
about it except to express regrets. As
a matter of fact there
is little or nothing
that ean be done, Mil
tary Intervention is
out of the question
and financiers, mer
chants and munition
makers would make
loud and probably ef
fective wails if an
economlie boycott of
Japan were proposed
The league of Na
tions has already dem-
onstrated its compar.
ative helplessness in
such international emergencies.
lesumption of hostilities between
the two Oriental nations began at
Shanhaikwan, the gateway city be
tween China and Manchuria at the
end of the Great Wall. Marshal Chang
Hsueh-liang, former war lord of Man-
churia, according to the Japanese, was
gathering there troops, arms and
munitions and transporting them
theace into Jehol province, which Ja-
pan intends to add to Manchukuo.
Furthermore the Japanese econveni-
ently found two bombs In thelr gen.
darmerie station In Shanhaikwan.
This was enough excuse for them, so
they first bombed the city from alr
pianes and then occupied it after
making three assaults by sea and
land. Chang's troops resisted brave
ly but were forced to retreat after
losing from 500 to 1,000 men. Large
numbers of civilians also were killed
or wounded and the city was badiy
battered. Phe Japanese losses were
officially reported as eight dead and
13 seriously wounded,
Marshal Chang reformed his soldiers
at Changli under protection of three
armored trains and defied the Jap-
anese. He advised thelr commander
at Tientsin, General Nakamura, to ad.
dress all communications to Nanking,
not to him, rejecting the Japanese
contention that the Shankaikwan
fighting was a local incident that could
he settled by local negotiation,
Quo Tal-chl, Chinese minister to
Great Britain, announced In London
that the Chinese delegates to the
League of Nations would deliver an
ultimatum demanding a league verdict
on Japan's action. If this Is insisted
upon Japan may earey out its threat
to withdraw from the league.
vd
Chang Hsueh-
liang
N ILLINOIS, too, warfare long
smoldering was resumed, this con
flict being between the Unlied Mine
Workers and the rebel union known
ns the Progressive Miners of America.
The scene of the encounter was a conl
mine at Kineald, a small town near
Taylorville. A body of Progressive
miners met an equal number of United
Mine Workers coming from the shaft
and In the resulting clash a machine
gun, rifles and revolvers were used
freely. Two persons were killed, one
a United miner and the other a wom-
an. The wounded were numerous.
The superintendent of the mine In
sisted that operations would not be
suspended, and the authorities were
expecting further trouble there and
at other points In the coal belt. The
new union is strong In that particular
locality, though it has not made much
headway In the southern Illinois con!
fields. The fighting broke out again
the second day, two men being wonnd
ed. The sheriff of the county ordered
picketing stopped and forbade public
meetings of the Progressive union
Five companies of state troops were
sent to the scene,
ADP’Ml rellef as conceived by the
Det: cratie majority of the house
was being hurried to a vote in the
house. It was in the form of the do
mestic allotment bil)
introduced by Marvin ©
Jones of Texas, chair
man of the committee
on agriculture, and
in plain language i
calls for a sales tax
on necessities for the
benefit of the farmer
and, according to its
sponsors, of the na
tion at large. Its four
main provisions are:
1. To levy on the
four basic farm com-
modities of wheat, hogs, cotton, and
tobacco, and on silk and rayon a man
ufacturers’ sales tax which, in the
case of wheat, will amount to 200 per
cent of the present farm price and
which, In the case of hogs, will amount
to nearly 50 per cent of the current
price of pork.
2. To give power to the secretary
of agriculture to fix the prices of the
four commodities by determining thelr
“falr exchange value” and to deter
mine the “fair exchange allowance"
necessary to restore the purchasing
power of the commodities to thelr
1900-'14 level,
3. To bring about Inflation by hand
ing to the farmer in the shape of “ad
Justment certificates” a negotiable cer
tificate of government Indebtedness
secured by the tax revenues and re
deemable by the government,
4. To give to the secretary of agri
culture power to control the produc
tion of wheat, hogs, cotton, and tobac
cv by granting bim authority to de
termine the percentage of production
required for domestic consumption; to
disburse adjustment certificates only
to those farmers who cut production
20 per cent; to decide how this cur
tallment of production shall be de
termined, and to decide what use the
i.
Marvin Jones
out of production.
the measure,
this was made
tional year.
known now, Is opposed to a genera!
sales tax, but the domestic allounent
bill suits him. The manufacturers af
fected have insisted that thelr Indus
tries cannot absorb the tax called for
and that It must be passed on to the
consumer and the farmer.
N R. ROOSEVELT, having turned
the state of New York over to
Governor Lehman, is devoting most
of his time to preparations for as.
suming the office of President. Thurs.
day evening he conferred in New York
with the Democratic leaders in con
gress and a program for balancing the
budget was decided upon, The Treas.
ury department figures fixing the 1023
deficit at 492 millions were accepted
and it was agreed to effect an addi
tional saving In the budget estimate
of 100 millions, to enact a beer bill
estimated to produce 125 millions, to
continue the gasoline tax 1 cent per
gallon to produce 137 millions. and
to increase the income tax rates to
produce 150 millions,
RESIDENT HOOVER'S program
for reorganization of the federal
government is belng absolutely blocked
by the house Democrats, who Intend
that Mr. Roosevelt shall be empow-
ered to make such changes as he
thinks fit nfter his inauguration. This
development angered the President and
on his return from Florida he told the
correspondents that all recent re
organization moves on the part of con.
gress were merely make-belleve and
the proposals of the Democratic lead.
ers a backward step. He asserted
that any real reorganization “sensibly
carried out” will sooner or later em-
brace the very executive orders which
he issued lately and which the Dem.
ocrats in the house planned to veto.
These would regroup 58 separate agen.
cles into nine divigions. Chairman
Cochraf of the house expenditures
committee was unmoved by Mr. Hoo
ver's protest. He sald It would be
“unjust and most unfair” to Mr. Roose
velt to make so many changes only
a few weeks before he takes office.
WIE! NTY- NINE of the distinguished
Spanish monarchists who were
exiled by the republican government
after the August uprising escaped
from the prison colony at Villa Cis
neros, Spanish West Africa, In a
French sailing vessel. Among those
who got away were Capt. Alfonso de
Bourbon, a distant cousin of the ex
king; Capt. Manuel Silvestre, Col.
Ricardo Serrador, and Jaime Arteaga,
INGRESS was asked by President
Hoover to provide another £150.
000 for the American delegation at the
Geneva disarmament conference. In
this connection it is
interesting to read, in
the current issue of
the Pictorial Review, i”
an interview with
Prof, Albert Einstein
had by Konrad Ber
caviel shortly after §
the famous mathema
tician had unexpect
edly appeared In Gen
eva. Einstein bitterly
denounced the con
ference as a farce and
as “the greatest trag
edy of modern times.”
“a travesty of justice and of
of the peoples of the world,
Pret, Einstein
the will
It is not
these
the
but that
here under
foster war"
a failure,
have
peace to
delegates
come guise of
continued, “then
Europe,
workers to refuse to manufacture and
transport any
also to refuse to
you must
serve any military
organization, Then we will have no
more conscriptions; we will have ne
more war! Governments could go on
talking from now to doomsday. The
miitarists lay any plans they
wish,
“I have absolute information that if
a war should break out today any
where In Europe so many conscien
tious objectors would throw away or
refuse to shoulder arms that one-half
of every army would be busy putting
down the revolt of the other half be
fore going to fight the enemy.”
Dr. Carlos Armenteros. (‘uban
gate to the League of Nations, has
report! to his government that the
disarmament conf is & complete
failure, for the present at least.
could
dele
erence
EVERAL hundred angry farmers of
J Plymouth county, lowa, gathered
in Le Mars and by force prevented a
farm mortgage foreclosure gale, seiz
ing the judge and sheriff and threat
ening to hang an attorney who was
bidding In the property as representa
tive of the New York Life Insurance
company, holder of the mortgage The
mwyer had offered only $30.00, eon
giderabily less than the total debt of
the owner of the farm but saved his
life by obtaining from the insurance
company authority to Increase the hid
The judge sent to Governor Elect
Herring a message urging that the leg
islature ennct laws to remove fore
closure suits from fown juris
diction until measures for relief ean
be taken.
conrt
FTER three years of therough in.
vestigntion the President's re
search committee on social trends has
made its report, and Americans found
that its conclusions
re not widely differ.
‘nt from
technocracy that
ave caused such ar
lent debate, though
the committee
wt predict the
ollapse which the
‘oresee,
sees no imminence of
wimass 4 ratlure of civilization,
Dr. Wesley C.
Mitchell
new scale of living.
racy has advanced at such an alarm-
ing speed that the development of so-
cial and cultural factors has been left
nite remedies,
ills are attributed
“cultural lag” or
changes In economic
government, religion and sclence to
move forward at the same rate
‘n the report to a
the fallure of
up with the machine,
New Inventions, the committee
eves, are at hand that will be fae
tors in creating employment ;
may duplicate the part played by the
automobile, the radio and the movies
a few years ago In making jobs for
workmen,
On the other hand, the committees
declares that there is no assurance
that “violent revolution and dark pee
riods™ can be averted “unless there
ean be a more impressive integration
of social skills and fusing of social
purposes that is revealed by recent
social trends.”
Dr. Wesley C. Mitchell, professor of
economies at Columbia university Is
chairman of the committee, and Dr.
William F. Ogburn, professor of socl.
ology at the University of Chicago, is
its director of research, The commit.
tee had the ald of more than 500 in-
vestigators,
RESIDENT ALESSANDRI of Chile
has fulfilled expectations by order
ing the liquidation of the Cosach nl
trate combine, a 375,000,000 concern
that controlled the world's largest ni
trate plant. The principal private own.
ers of Cosach are the Guggenheim in.
terests In the United States. It Is un.
derstood they agreed that the liquids.
tion was necessary.
©. 1913, Western Newspaper Union,
————
7 ‘8 fringe on this and fringe on
that in the style parade this
season. To live up to the fashion
pace set by smart Parisiennes some.
Af to just how many yards of fringe
is no limit. Some frocks are literally
covered with fringe, yet withal, han
died that artfully one does not feel
they are getting too much of a good
thing. Iustrating this point, we re
fer to the handsome fringe lnden dress
in the picture. It is black crepe with
A satiny sheen. The row upon row of
fringe on the skirt subscribes to the
diagonal moveme which is so char
acteristic of tri 8 treatments st
present, The 4 ed capelike scarf
achieves a high ect as it
should to dictates
of fashion that
the ends of the scarf are brought to
the back instead of the front
approved manner. This same
repeated in white is perfects
ing
neckline eff
with the
Then, observe
conform
fon,
in latest
frock
charm
woman
Here is a suggestion for the
@ evening
who formal
dress do duly for many occasions
Suppose In order to give a concrete
fllustration, your gown is of velvet or
crepe In one of the rich tones of red
which are so beloved this season or
black or white, If you prefer. It is
made will say, the
skirt cut on the bias lines which make
it snug fitting, slenderizing tall and
The bodice Is sem! form-fit
ting and extremely decollete with sim
ple straps of the velvet over the shoul
ders. In such a frock there lurk
untold possibilities In the way of in
terchangenble effects, the
of a de
must mak one
very siniply, we
one of most
material as the dress,
lines of the one which graces the black
fringe trimmed model pictured.
which depends on
distinguish it and which ean be trans
formed into a dinner gown of less for
the fringe bordered capelet.
Other ideas for little capelets and
shoulder fancies which
with fringe are shown In the tiny
sketches, The cape in the upper right
corner is particularly Interesting. 0
is made of white transparent velvet
(It can just as well be In any pre
ferred color or black). As you see,
rows and rows of narrow white silk
fringe cover If from neckline to hem
line. Little evening muffs and bags
are also very cleverly ornamented in
this way.
To vary the theme some designers are
using two kinds of fringe in alterna
ing rows The black
would be very effective trimmed in al
ternating rows of beaded jet fringe to
gether with the usual silken type
fringe treatment for the evening cos
tume shown to the right. Here the
creator of this stunning model
achieves a high waistline by means of
a scarf and girdle combination made
of red crepe in contrast to the white
crepe frock. The long fringe Is hand.
tied. Often very sever»
are relieved by sections of long knot
ted and tied fringe which Is worked
in panels or sections here and there
® 1822 Western Newspaper Union.
CROCHET IN VOGUE
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Many of the cholcest Paris frocks
are trimmed with crochet, perhaps in
the form of a yoke done In mercerized
cotton either in contrasting or match.
ing color or possibly insertions or
crochet motifs or bandings and other
equally as attractive ideas, The vogue
for lingerie collar and cuff sets which
are crochet-edged is reflected through:
out neckwear sections. The edge on
the set pletured is done in mercerized
cotton. This smartly clad young wom
an carries a pockethook erocheted of
bright-red mercerized cotton, Note the
cunning sailor hat with its shallow
crown. It Is up-to-the moment in chile
The senrf pietured is crocheted in lney
stitch of mercerized cotton. Smart
specialty shops display scarfs of this
type among thelr newest style items.
ODD NEW FEATURE
IS VELVET JEWELS
As far as the Paris styles go,
away with fashion.
in Paris for dresses, daytime or eve
ning, and for wraps and suits. But
that is only half of it. The shoe match
ing a black dinner dress may be vel
vet; the muff worn with a winter en
semble may be velvet:
scarfs, even bracelets, all may be vel
vet
“One reason for the dominating po
sition of this fabric is the challenging
variety of new weaves,” sags the Com
tesse Tolstol in the Woman's Home
Companion. “There are dull mat vel
and corded. Augustabernnrd's after
noon dress is in the rough crinkled
‘peasant velour,” and it Is smart with
one of Descat’r velvet caps bordered
in handmade cording. Molyneux’s
white evening gown is ribbed and he
uses the material effectively with the
ribs going np and down, around and
diagonally.”
Velvet jewelry might seem odd If it
weren't done in Paris, and attractively.
A set of three bracelets in bright vel
vet, rolled like a cigarette, is perfect
for sleeves that fit tight at the lower
arm.
Plump Figured Ladies
Adopt Two-Piece Dress
The sculptural lines have evidently
been too great a tax on the figures
of many women, or rather the figures
have taxed too greatly the nerves
of dress sculptors, because of a sud
den now, one is discovering a good
many smart women wearing two-piece
dresses. This is a great break after
the past seasons of trying to look like
a plaster relief, And those whe aren't
adopting the two-piece news are al
most gulping down the lowered walst
line,
Warmth in Color
This is the season of the year to
select warm colors for frocks and
coats. So avold steel graye and cer
tain colorless, chilly tones of green.
Burgundy is a fashionable colar and
it is becoming to blonds, brunettes and
between shades,
Cherry Trees Gift of
Tokyo to Washington
In November, 1000, the m inicipal-
ity of Tokyo, Japan, presented to the
city of Washington 2.000 Japanese
cherry trees as a token of the kigh
esteem which was held by the people
of Tokyo for the people of the Unites ad
Btates. ‘The vk arrived in Wash.
ington In January, 1910, but upon
careful Inspection by experts in the
United States Department Agri.
culture were found to be i ected
with the rootgail her
Insect pests and with ceria Ings
diseases :
ing destroyed, which
burning. In Febru:
shipment of
Tokyo to repiace those
This shipment arrive
ton In March, 1012
in splendid
medint planted
was pl d by Mrs
in the presence of the
bassador. At the invit
Taft the
the second tree,
Worms
this necessitated
trees was
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