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Show No Fairy Godmother Wand for Harding TX7ASHINGTON. President Hard- ing believes there is a mistaken idea, more or less prevalent in the United States, that the American government can wave a wand at the nations of Europe to which they will respond. It was made clear at the White House the other day that the President hopes this feeling will not grow stronger, because the Washington government is not going to wave any magic wand at Europe in the present reparations mess, and is going to make no proposals either to France or Germany until proposals for assistance are sought The administrations firm attitude against intervening in Europe noW appeared to be making an impression in the senate when the foreign relations committee, after brief consideration of reparations data furnished by Secretary Hughes, decided to take no action that might tend to complicate the delicate international situation Senator Borah (Rep., Idaho), however, is planning to revive his proposal for a worl,d economic conference. Another development was the introduction in the house by Representative Chalmers (Rep., O.) of a resolution requesting the President to call a, new world peace conference. The attitude of certain members of congress prompted a White House spokesman to discuss the Presidents attitude. It was easy for a senator or a representative, it was explained, to put forth proposals for world economic and peace conferences, but quite a different thing for the President or secretary of state to do so. When the latter speak, they sound the voice of America on foreign affairs. The President is convinced that there cannot be world conferences until the nations are ready for them. The President cannot understand bow, with the situation in Europe as it is today, any one can insist that the United States should attempt to pose as a savior. He does not comprehend how any one without super authority can say to Germany, You must yield to France," or say to France, You must come out of the Ruhr and collect your reparations, without resort to force. Picture Brides of Hawaiian Japanese sooner we wake up to a fuller appro-- ' elation of this imperative and immediate need, the sooner we will make the people of the Hawatln Islands feel generally a greater sense of security. Immediate remedial legislation by congress the commission said, was necessary, in the interests of national defense and the welfare of American citizenship In the territory. The commission was sent to HaCONTINUED importation of picture waii by Secretary Davis at the request brides Into Hawaii threatens to of the governor of the territory and with the approval of President Hardgive Japanese full control in the territory and menaces United States se- ing. The investigators included L. El curity. Secretary of Labor Davis was told by a special commission, which Shepard, chief of the order of railhas just completed an Investigation in road conductors; John Donlln, president of the building trades department the islands. The traffic in picture brides, of the American Federation of Labor; CL coupled with the present policy of O. R. Hartwig of Oregon, Fred H. L. Davis of and Keatley Pittsburgh has the defeated adoption, parental of the Department of Labor. purpose of the gentlemans The commission reported that the agreement between Japan and the labor supply in Hawaii is at present United States. The menace from a military stand- equal to the requirements of the sugar point, its report stated, can be fully and pineapple industries, the only apverified by referring to the records parent shortage being in the rice inof related federal departments. The dustry, which is dependent on Chinese question of submerges all labor. others into Insignificance. The Japanese, It was stated, control It these islands are to remain the building trades of Honolulu "as American, the assured control of the well as most of the small stores and islands must also be American and the business places." ' 4 By JOHN DICKINSON Jack Frost, you are no enemy of mine ; I rather look to you as friend In need. Tis true I love the outdoors all the year The recurrent miracle of the Spring And splendor of the good old Summer-Tim- e ; Rut more I love the Indian Summer days Whose drowsy calm Is charged with Autumns tang, Forecasting even then your coming reign. And most of all I love the world of white Of which you are the undisputed King Who shouts his royal message, Snappy ays!" And offers to his subjects royal sports That set red blood to dancing in their veins. That give to them a joyous appetite. That bring such slet p as money cannot buy. Ho, ho. King Jack ! It Is your reign of frost That hardens up the fiber of a man To stature full of body, mind and soul. ' Jack Frost, I know you for a wise old king! Jack Frost, I know you for a friend in need! SHERMAN WALK upon the city street. For so hath fate it writ ; Thoughts far away and bitter-sweBeguile with cheat my willing feet. This, this the trail I hit: et She Fern Lake Trail, where virgin snow Lies soft and deep the pines below. Away from road and far from rail, Snowshoe and ski to break, the trail (Toboggan's creak, the squeak of thong. A girls bright sash, a snatch of song, d A ear and quick snow rub, .The rest at noon for bite o grub). That winds and twists Its way to make From valley up to mountain lake. With 'cabin on its frozen edge And ski-ru- n down Its steep-hun- g ledge ' And campfire throwing yellow light That turns to gold a world of white A playground decked In brave array ' "Ho, ho, Jack Frost I Weve come to play! frost-nippe- Sport in the snow Its been the proper caper all winter and the American people are still at It all through the North from New England to Rocky Mountain and from Yosemite to Mount Rainier. Students of the times are commenting on it as a new phase In the evolution of the nation. These winter sports have been growing in popular favor for several years. This winter, however, their vogue Is such as to make sociologists sit up and , take notice. Now there are winter sports and winter sports. For example, on a January Sunday 45,000 spectators gath red at the Garfield park lagoon to see a thousand or more Chicago boys and girls compete In a series of skating races. On the same Sunday 80,000 spectators attended an international ski tournament at Cary on Chicagos outskirts. That Is not what I mean by winter sports. Wht I mean by winter sports, by sport in the snow, u the people turning out to do the playing themselves, not to watch somebody else do the playing. And the people are doing It this year. A generation or so ago the students of American life were complaining that the American people did not know how to play, took no vacations and all that sort of thing. Then the people did learn to play and did take vacations in the summer. The next change was that a class of vacationists was evolved who took vacations all the year round. They played in the North in the summer and followed the warm weather South to Florida in the winter or West to California, or abroad. Now the eocletv visitors to the South have been Joined by the "Tin Can Tourists, who "travel in flivvers more than 3,000 held the fourth annual convention of the Tin Can Tourists of the World In De Soto park, Tampa, early In January of this year. The latest development of this recently acquired appetite for summer and winter play on the part of the people is sport in the snow. It has been evolved since the war. Perhaps the young felllows who came back from "Over There In such fine physical condition that they must let off Steam through real exercise have been in part responsible. Anyway, the idea has become widespread that coasting, tobogganing, skiing, snow- shoeing, skijoring, hiking and all the other winter ports easily within the reach of the average Amers fun. The complican jn the North are ementary idea Is that a real tussle with Jack Frost In his native wilds Is more conducive to red blood and rosy cheeks and a good appetite than less strenuous exercise under warmer skies at home or broad. An enthusiast might put it like this: ' ' all-ye- To Take Teeth Out of Railroad Act of a bill PREPARATION the transportation act of 1920 for introduction during the present session of congress has been begun by Senator Brookhart (Rep., Ia.), who was elected on an platform last November. Reduction of the net valuation of the railroads to approximately as compared with the valuation of $18,900,000,000 tentatively fixed by the Interstate commerce commission, is probably the principal object of the Brookhart bllL ' It would also abolish the United States railroad labor board and wipe out the section of the transportation act directing the interstate commerce commission to prescribe rates that will yield a fair return on the value of the property devoted to transportation. The fair return" is now designated by the commission as 5 per cent, but the railroads have never earned but slightly In excess of 4 per cent in any year since the act was passed in 1920, and that was last year. Senator Brookhart would reduce the valuation on railroad property by emas-culatin- g all-ye- ar anti-railro- . squeezing the water" out of railroad capitalization. "The Brookhart bill would not only break the hold of Wall street, says the Railway Review. It would ruin countless institutions which hold larga amounts of railroad securities and dividual Investors who have put their savings Into railroad stocks. The bill would settle the rate question for the farmer by wiping out freight rates: Railroads would go out of business and the farmer would not any longer need to worry about rates. The Brookhart bill is as truly Bolshevistic in spirit and theory as any measure of the l(lnd ever Instituted In soviet Russia. National Guard to Be 250,000 Strong p ECOMMENDATION that further development of the National Guard should be predicted on a minimum peace strength of 250,000, is contained in the report of the special committee of National Guard and regular army officers appointed by Secretary of War Weeks last November. The report, approved by Secretary Weeks, also approves the present plan of national guard organization and indorses the work of the War department and militia bureau as satisfactory, considering limitations that have 11-1- first-clas- A self-defen- all-ye- all-ye- ar -- , scouts. Campfire Girls and their friends Theie were ample hotel and camp accommodations and sport programs. So much for winter sports in New England and the East Now for a jump across the continent to national parks of the Scenic West Right here, however, it is well to note that our t national park system, containing nineteen reservations, offers attractions to the tourist aside from the question of winter sports. , Three of our national parks are resorts Grand Canyon, Hot Springs and Hawaii. Yosemite, Mount Rainier and Rocky Mountain are the three Western national parks where the winter merrymakers most do congregate. They are all three easily accessible. They all three offer magnificent scenery. They all three offer natural playgrounds unsurpassed in the world. Enthusiasts believe that a very few years will see them as full of visitors in winter as In summer. national park under Yosemite is now an f the auspices of the national park service. There Winter sports this season In New England are w'ere 4,182 visitors from November 1, 1921, to March 1, 1922, and the attendance this winter has really on a big scale. About the middle of December a Boston Sunday newspaper felt warranted In been mych greater. Most of the merrymakers stick to the floor of Yosemite Valley, which Is sheltered. getting out a Special Winter Resort Edition conThe hardier spirits climb to Glacier Point on the taining page after page of display advertisements of winter resorts In Vermont, New Hampshire, heights above. In a year or two there will be a motor road into the Maine and Massachusetts. It appears that over model winter hotel, an 100 hotels and inns are open for winter sports in valley and maybe a mechanical lift to Glacier Point these states, as qgainst 60 last winter. The Yosemites Christmas tree Is a living Sequoia, 60 chambers of commerce In many cities have adver' feet high. tised liberally ll winter. The New England railMount Rainier haB unusual spOrt in the snow be--, roads have made substantial reductions in fares for cause of its topography and climatic conditions. winter tourists. Enterprising cities have estabThe mountain is 14,408 feet high and, with its lished municipal recreation grounds and arranged slopes, covers 100 square miles. Its lower slopes elaborate winter carnivals; some even advertised are heavily timbered. Then there is a flower zone. community Christmas tiVes, and a special program Then comes the everlasting snow and ice. 'So visfor Washingtons birthday. itors bent on winter sport can have It the year round. The big hotel In Paradise Valley (5,400 eleAmong them all they offer a long list of sports, snowshoeing, vation) is close to the snow and Ice. The season skiing, skljor including tobogganing, officially begins June 15. The international ski ing, skating, sleighing, coasting, curling, ski bobtournament Is held in July each year. So you can bing, hockey, Ice boating, mountain climbing and even offer Some Ice the have winter sport one day. and summer sport the fishing and through hiking. a to f next. sugar camp. Scores of sugaring-ofparties offers absolutely winter carnivals were staged during December, Rocky Mountain National park in the way of play in the snow with with nnd sort real of enterthing every the February, January Jack Frost. Fern Lake (with Odessa Lake close tainment In keeping with the season. selected for winter sports nnd is a The news columns of the Eastern newspapers reby) has been natural playground tucked away In a deep valley flect the activity in winter sports. They set forth on The east slope, right under the giant peaks of the winter migrations of various city clubs. It also columns news the that society Is dothe Continental Divide. Its ten miles or so from appears from score clubs too. the that ordl by Estes Park, the east entrance to the national park. Country It, ing automoseason the with close golfing You can get part way from Estes Park by their opened narily to hit Then road youve got the quits. Hundreds of to Then bile doors gay parties. country estates were kept open nnd were crowded with guests, the trail on snowshoes or sklis, and youve got to whose names were recorded at great length by the haul In your 'duffel by toboggan. Why? Because travcommissioners county the snow is too deep for a packhorse; youre society reporters. Sleepy And trees. the of branches the pine tractors to clear the roads had to wake up and buy eling up among live In log cabins. for sleighing and skijoring. when you get to Fern Lake youll in of Maine started in early to arrange a program and And theres the lake (8,500 elevation) ski-ru- front beand slides toboggan to natural become Intention the St. Moritz von and proclaimed its of America. The plans called for carnivals as folhind yon and snowshoeing everywhere. Magnificent cenery is all around you. lows: Waterville, January 25, 26 and 27; Portland 1 visitors to the na16 15, and 17; Ban Though there were ,044,502 American January 27; Augusta, February the summer, people are last tional parks gor, February 22; Bar Harbor, February 22, and know something about these the University of Maine February 8, 9 nnd 10. Laonllv just beginning to nubile playgrounds. For example, the average fayette National park, the only one east of the Mountain American assumes that because Rocky Mississippi, is well adapted for winter sports and National park is perched on the Continental Divide Its use for that purpose Is encouraged by the nathe report of the tional park service. It is terribly cold in winter. Well, the seven days, for bureau weather . In New York the Adlrondacks were perhaps the States United 1323. shows these maximum temper center of winter sport. Lake Placid has hnd throngs January 44 47, 40. 37. 48. 50, 50: minimum temperaof merrymakers all winter. Plnttsburg had many tures, In 19. 25. 17. 23. 14. 32. carnival 30. a January. visitors qnd Saratoga visitors have had the 2.000 took over The active. Recreation city Nearly Springs was Lake and down again fun of getting up to Fern Field, made many improvements and had an elaborate sports program for a week late In January. this winter to say nothing of the playground Joys The Interstate Palisades park on the Hudson was The climax of the fun is the two weeks at the end visited by thousands, including boy scouts, girl of February and he beginning of March. 1 been Imposed on congress. Before submitting Its report, the committee received the written views apd recommendations of corps area commanders and the adjutants general of several states. Adjutants general or representatives from the following states appeared before the committee : Illinois, Alabama, Connecticut, Colorado, District of Columbia, Georgia, Missouri, Minnesota, New Jersey, Michigan, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Texas. i The strength above Indicated, 250,-00- 0 men, will permit of the maintenance of the following organizations at peace strength within the United States which should be developed In the order of priority stated : Eighteen Infantry divisions. Four cavalry divisions. One hundred and thirty companies harbor defense troops. Twelve Infantry regiments, special allotments. |