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Show " ' ' 'jS, ' THE BINGHAM NEWS ' ' ' ' :': ::::V..'.'"-r.;.:;:- Home for Vice President Offered by Mrs. Henderson K&ocl r'tlr M ki-- r in It Wfc Thls In the handsome new house at Sixteenth and Fuller streets. Washington, which Mrs. John It. Henderson offers to the government as a residence for the vice preside!. t of the United Ktutes, as a memorial to her husband and son; and p recent portrait of Mrs. Henderson, who Is the widow of a former senator from Missouri. I IttJOlFITE 0FSHIPSUBS1DY I 'I SESSION NEARINQ CLOSE. BUT i PASSAGE OF THE MEASURE I STILL IS IN DOUBT. HOPE RESTS ON FARM BLOC There Will Be No Extra Session In the ,: Spring, So It Seems Certain the Sol- - dlere Bonus Bill Must Wait Another 1 Year. !By EDWARD B. CLARK few more weeks it will be over, the finale hav--I Ing as companions either weal or woo ! for the proponents of certain nntlonal legislation. There seems to have come additional Information that there will n0 extra session of congress In the tyring. Newspaper correspondents here KOmethnes wonder whether the coun-try gets tired of rending nhmit spe-cific pieces of legislation and of their tiiink that the reaction In trie public mind from war and mili-tary affairs generally has worked gross Injustice to oflltvrs who did fine things for their country during war. Everybody realizes that this land of uurs Is tired of hearing of war and of war's happenings, hut some Democrats rind some Kepub- - licans In lnw-makl- n places think that the mental attitude of the United States ought not to prevent proper recognition of t. e services of men who were willing to give all that they had ' to their country in time of need. There Is a proposal In con?res to confer the rank of lieutenant general on these officers on the retired list of the American army who have reached the ago limit : MaJ. fien. Hunter Lig-gett, MaJ. ien. Joseph 11. Hickman. MaJ. On Knoch I'.. Crowder and Ma.!. ien, Leonard Wood. After the war between the states congress honored by promotion to the rank of lieutenant general several off-icers of high service, and It did this largely on the urging of the people on behalf of the men for whom promotion was proposed. Today few people seem to care whether the men wti.i did nil that was In them in the World war receive any reward or not. Such re-ward as can come to them will be In a way only sentimental, but so far the reaction against anything which sag- - gests war or bono 4 Is preventing the American people from asking that their servants In the time of crisis shall he honored as other servants In like times have been honored before. Great Service ef These Men. Take the case of Major General Lig-gett. He commanded over one million men In battle, five times as many as were tinder the orders of onv one gen-eral of the Civil war. Liggett was a fighting soldier and a successful one. He commanded an army, a huge army, nr-- yet tcdny he Is on the retired !if of the service with the rank of thnt of a man who commands only a divi-sion. And there Is Major General Crowder, Judge ndvncnte renernl of the United States army, who Is about to retire after forty-fiv- e years of service. It was Crowder v ho framed and direct-ed the draft after the United States entered the war. The process of the draft was carried through wlthou. and without scandal. It was sifld to be the greatest perfoi ltiunee of like kind in history. Major General Wood was an apostle of preparedness. It Is not only def-initely said today, brt It Is definitely known that if Wood had not Insisted on the establishment of the training camps the draft army of the United States would have had no trained off-icers. Military men say that Wood saved a situation and saved the coun-try. As for Geners.l Hickman, It was ns a major general that he commanded the Third division which ht.rled the Ger-mans back over the Marne and turned the tide toward victory. Later lie com-manded the First corps In the Argonne and later yet the army of occupation In Germany. Why Some In Congress Object. There are a great many reasons why congress Is not anything like unani-mously Inclined toward the proposal to honor men who the records show deserve honor. The chief reason Is the mentnl attitude of the constituents of the congressmen toward war and military affairs generally. Washing-ton has evidences every day not only that the people want to forget 'he war. but that they are perfectly willing to forget the men who served them during the war, barring only of course those who suffered from Its huMc's and Its physical hardships. The friends here of the army that served and saved urge that the country can-not afford to forget the men who brought success to American arum, and In a sense mnde war on war, for It will be remembered that even the advanced pacifists of the country de-clared that the last war might after all be right because It was to make war Impossible in the future. Some time ago congress refused t honor a certain navy official because It was said he talked too much. This officer served his country with grent distinction In high place. He did tulk gome but be talked ith the courage of a sailor and he paid the penalty. What he said was generally believed to be tnto by the men who objected to his saying It, but the argument of some men Is that the truth should not always be spoken. Some of the army men say they hope one day tho people will remember that the honoring of a man who served them well does not necessnrlly carry with It an Indorsement of war. chnnces for success or failure. When one realizes, however, that such a measure as the shipping bill is one upon which congress has fought for s years on years, It seems likely to men o the ground that the country must have not only the Interest of economics and politics in the. thing but the Inter-est of curiosity as to what Is going to happen. One day It Is said here that the ship-ping bill has no possible prospect of passage; another day and one or two f Its leading proponents say that they mse something more than a gleam of light of hope coming through the win-dow In the wall In the future. Luck-ily for the reputations of the local soothsayers, not one of them has dared to sr.y definitely that It Is to pass or that it Is to fall. Now that rural cred-its legislation has been allowed to udse the shipping hill off the floor of the senate, temporarily at least, the hope of the friends of subsidy Is that thete will be kindly recognition on the part of the agricultural credits phalanx Of the favor shown In giving the farm era' needs first place, and Hint In grat-itude ship subsidy will be given a place In court with a chance of a ver-c- t. Bonus Must Walt a Year. Only a few weeks before the end comes, and seemingly there will be neither time nor, so to spenk, room for any legislation of nny kind except rur-al credits, subsidy and the supply bills. Adjusted compensation for the veter-ans of the World war, otherw Ise known as the bonus, must wait for another year. President Harding has declared thnt he will sign a bonus bill If congress will pass one coupled with legislation which will enable the government to raise the money to meet the require-ments of the mensnre. There Is noth-ing yet to promise that such legisla-tion can be agreed upon. It Is known that the administration still prefers what Is known ns a sales tax to meet the bonus cose, but a sales tnx has Its opponents In congress In both pnr-tie-s and they are numerous enough probably to defeat the project. It seems likely also thnt all con-gressional attempts to propose some-thing which the administration enn do to help out matters In Europe will be abandoned until the new congress shall meet. Washington Is watching with Interest and something like fear the results of the French Incursion Into the ,v Huhr. If France, acting without her allies In the Inst war, shall succeed ( In making an nrrangement with Ger-many satisfactory to both countries, It may be that the French will get what they wnnt and that the Ruhr in-vasion will prove a success Instead of the failure which freely was prophe-sied. Story Tells French View. A grent Frenchman has been In Washington recently. He explained the French viewpoint better than It could lie explained otherwise when he told a little story of his age mother. n said that she nsked him why It was difficult to get Germany to pny France what was owing her, adding that In t 1871 the French paid Germnny the In demnity money In short order. Tne son tried to explain that huge J sums were Involved this time, that Germany says she cannot pny and thnt f - the various countries of the world are at variance as to whether Germany can or cannot pny. "Well," said the old lady, "France paid and Germany hnsn't paid, nnd thnt Is the whole story and that Is all I wnnt to know ', about It. Let her pay." Congress hns been having someth'ng to Interest It which has nothing to do with legislation. Intlmntlons were " t lmt a Georgia representative Intended I to make public a list of the offlcinls 1 of the government who be declared were violating the law by having Jq- - il uor and consuming large quantities I of It. It Is probable that for some little time certain officials of the gov-ernment trembled n hit, but so far ns certain "wet gentlemen" were con-cerned the threat of publicity took n curious turn. The wet ones nsked the mnn with the list to make it public and also to tie sure to give the name and address of one official of the who he had said bad some-thing like fifty cases of liquor In his possession. The thirsty ones tire anxi-ous nppnrently to find out where this man lives. Recoanition Asked for High Service. There are certnln members of congress, meo t both pnrtlea, ho FIRE DESTROYES ARMOUR PLANT SUFFERS ESTI-MATED LOSS OF $2.C00,0OO IN CONFLAGRATION " 1 ; Cold Weather and Low Water Pressure Hamper Battle; Men Frozen to Hosa Lines As They Work Omaha. A firi fiercely burning and which Is declared by veteran packing men to ho the most destruc-tive fire In the history of America's packing industry, Wednesday des-troyed the nino-btor- y buildings, 17, IS and 111, in tho Armour, & Co.'a plant in South Omaha, causing an es-- , timated loss of and throw-ing more than 1000 men temporal Hy out of work. Thursday morning twenty-on- e fire companies, under the direction of Fire Commissioner Hopkins, who has been on the scene since 8 o'clock Wednes- - day morning, were concentrating all offoits o:i the brick fire wall protect-ing building No. 20, one of the lard refineries. O. V. Wi'lis, general manager of the plant, declared that the fire started In the ninth story of building It), from a detective elevator motor, early Wed-nesday morning. When the firemen reached the scene they experienced great difficulty iu making water Jiecati3e ' of the sub-soer- o weather, It was said. 1xw pressure further kindred them in fighting the flumes, the streams barely reach-ing the sixth story at times. Huge st icks of lard, which melted and ran over tho buildings H';e liquid, nulli-fied tho efforts of the firemen. PEACE riPE TO FRANCE Miss Iter.e (iaines In s.n here smoking the pipe of peaci sent to Premier I'olncure of Fruti"e by the National Hoard of Tobacco Salesmen. The tobacco exiHsltlon wan opened In New York with the sending of two pipes, one to President Kbert of Ger-many, and one to Premier Potncnre, with the message of hope that they would be able amicably to settle their disputes without resorting to wnrfure. In Jewelry School for Service Men tj fa- r- trfk r ; f-- ( l(rCT5 14' (If " ' yw i "i n ,v y Ms-'- )' r -- S ! ri i i The Lulled States veterans' bureau has opened a Jewelry school In Wash-ington and already several score of nien are being taught the trade from the ground up. The school Is considered one of the best Jewelry schools in the country. Blizzard Causes Heavy" Damace Chicago. I euth tolls and property damage from the coldest wave of the . were Increased and the onTy relief predicted in the storm areaf extending from tho Canadian North-west to the northern portion of Flor-ida and from the Atlantic seaboard to the l'ncine toi'st, was abatement of . nhnormully high w inds in some seo-t;on- s. The worst blizzard in five-yea- r was sweeping Ontario Thurs-day, with no indications of abating. It was accompanied by subzero tem-peratures, snow nud a sixty-mile- - tin-ho-wind. PRESIDENT OF LIONS l V ' , ' ? --' Here is Ed S. Vaught of Oklahoma City, president of the International As-sociation of Lions Clubs, photographed at an Important meeting of the organ-ization In Chicago. Philippines Seek Freedom Wi'.shintloit. Congress was urged by Jaime C. de Veyva, the Philippine delegate, to grant the Philippines the right to hold a constitutional conven-(- I n as the next logical step to be tak-en in the direction of their promised and complete independence. "You have promised," I'e Veyra declared la an nddrcss to the house, "on one pre-tense or another that freedom has been denied us. We most earnestly and solemnly beseech you not to add to this delay. We have carried out our part of the contract. We beg yon to carry out yours." Germans Protest the Invasion A scene In the Parlser Platz, Itcrlln, showing Geimnn police holding back the thousands of Germans thai gathered In protest of the French Invasion of the Ituhr. Ships Wrecked In 6torms Seattle. Five ships met disaster In a storm that raged Wednesday in the Pacific ocean off the coasts of Washington, Crcgon, and Prltish Co-lumbia, recording to reports received. The P.rltish steamer Tuscan Prince went ashore near Kstevan, Vancou-ver Island and the last report by wireless was that a number of lives were lost. The same advices said tiio vessel, which carried a crew of mon, would be a total loss. The last radio message from the vessel read: "Ship breaking up; we are go-ing to drown." HEROES HOME AGAIN World wur heroes, who died In France, were brought to their homes in Milwaukee, where community funer-al services were held In the great audi-torium. The collin? were arranged In this glunt star faihlon. British May Withdraw Troops London. I'.ritish and French cabin-et m'nislers met here Thursday In a conference which, if it fails to evolvrf a program for I'.ritish cooperation with the French and l'.elglans in solv-ing the Ituhr transportation problems, is considered likely to result in the early withdrawal W the ltrlllfh troops from the Cologne area. Mushers Get Ready for Big Dog Race ! I J ' .slf i I J A 1 MhrnSHSSi 'U'V IB J ' --.2 v- - .'- - AVJ . If d iI; - r ' vV l ! - f?. A.' .' ""ii"" k x 1 i V r,tw 7r 1 , 'j S I This year's Aineiican don u mii ho c wl.l be ran nt Ashl'-tt- , bialm. mi I 22 and the drivers of the Unite d States and Canada ate busily preparing for the event. The Illustration shows Miss "Lyd" Hutchinson, famous girl musher, with some of her dngs. and "Tud" Kent, the present champion who will defend his title. Destroyer Rammed In Practice Norfolk. Tho destroyer Farquhar was rammed by n battleshlu while engaged In battle practice off Pana-ma, according to a wireless message received at the naval station here. The ivp'.it said the destroyer was In a s'nl.in:: condition and w,i being convoyed by the U. S. Arctic. Bunko Men Fleece Briton Denver. Henry J. Gray of Kxeter, F.ngland, a merchant, testified Thurs-day at the trial of twenty-tw- alleged confidence men here that he was b'lked of $J.'.,000 In September, 1021, after making a apodal trip to li home In Knland for funds. Mirages of the North. Similar In origin to the mirage of thtr desert tie- - the mock suns of the Arctic circle. As the long winter night of the polar region wanes, once every 24 hours n light glow Is seen nt some point on the horizon. Often accompanying this glow Is seen the phenomenon of the mock suns. Up in the heavens as many as five of these spectral orbs Imve been seen at once. Invariably they nre all connected In n geometric figure, the suns seemingly being bound together with circles and arcs of light. Ofien when only one appears It la mistaken for the real sun. and natives rejoice at the early end of the long winter night only to be disappointed as the Image disap-pears. The explanation of the phe-nomenon Is given by physicists as re-fraction and rolled Ion of light from the real sun below the horizon on the mists In the upper atmosphere. Juvenile Sheik Exposes Past. When, In course of the Instruction !n F.njtlish, the assignment was the writing of autobiographies, ohe young-ster In Technical high school, after enumerating the place and time of his birth, the Sunday school he attend-ed and the sports he liked, unfolded I few more Intimate details. Among these was the following cob-- : esslon : "When I was in grade school, I had 11 girl all of the time. In fuct, I was a regular sheik." The teacher marked his paper, It ia rumored, with a question mark in red after this parsgrap;-ndla- n apolls News. Air Mail Delivers Medicine Ileno Nev., The air mail solved the problem here oednesdny of ret-ting medicine to a sick baby snow-bound on a ranch fifteen miles from Iteno. The father, Snmuel Fames, traveled eleven hours to rcftch lte.no, and then after three unsuccessful at-tempts to return with the medicines, bad to give it up as Impossible. Ma-jor A. o. TomUnsen, in charge of the local 11 ir mall field, appealed to dis-patched Pilot J. L, Katon. who drop-- ' ped the medicine near the door Laok Discrimination. A grocer says that some people who buy on time don't seem to know whm time leaves off and eternity bcglna |