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Show side with tlie French look upon It likewise. Lodge and the World Court. What action will the senate committee commit-tee on foreign relations take on Pres- : Ident Hurdlng's proposal for American membership In the International Court of Justice? ' .The answer to this questlou perhaps Is more vital to the subject matter of the President's proposal than Is the result of the President's appeals as they make themselves manifest In the attitude of the people of the country. Every politician and every student of the world court matttf Is looking ahead to next December, and In the meantime Is trying to learn something in advance of the possible action of the senate committee which will have In charge the work of making a report on the plan to the greater body of the senate. MEMORIAL DAY PLANSPREPARED AMERICAN LEGION IS RAISING FUND OF $100,000 FOR GRAVES IN FRANCE. POPPY THE OFFICIAL FLOWER Blood-Red Blossom of Flanders' Field Will Bo Put on Resting Place of Every American Who Died In the Service. By EDWARD B. CLARK Washington. In Washington In this mouth of Muy the soldiers of our wurs are preparing for Memorial day. In Arlington, the national cemetery, lie thousunds upon thousands of soldier dead. Within the last three years the bodies of 8,000 comrades of the World war have been laid to rest under the trees shadowing God's Acre on the Vlrginiu hill which rises from the bank of the Potomac within sight of the country's capltol. This year members of the American Legion are trying to raise a fund of $100,000 to be set aside to hear Interest which can be used to purchase flowers for the decoration of the graves of the dead In France. In addition, an attempt at-tempt Is being made by the Legionnaires Legion-naires of tho District to ruise another fund, the Interest of which is to be used through the years for Memorial day purpose In Arlington and In the smaller cemeteries of the capital city. The preparations for Meinorlul day In the capital this year are on a Inrger scale than ever before. Thousands upon thousands of ex-service men die during every year, and never can there he a lack of names on the soldier death list until war for ail time shall pass away. No grave Is neglected, whether It be that of one who fought In the Revolution, or of one for whom taps was sounded after he had laid down his rifle as a soldier In the regular reg-ular army of today. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, the chairman cf the foreign relations committee, already has Issued a statement on the court plan generally. The senator did not commit himself definitely one way or theother, but he said enough to make It known that If he continues to feel as he feels today he Is likely to favor some changes In the President's proposal pro-posal when the matter goes before his committee for consideration. Senate Committee Will Be Changed. The foreign relations committee will not be the same body next winter that It is today. The committee still exists, because senate committees have continuous con-tinuous life Just as the senate has, but severul of Its members dropped out of congress as a result of the last election elec-tion and their places must be filled as soon as the new congress convenes In December. Poppy the Memorial Flower, Some time ago the largest organization organiza-tion of ex-service men of the World war voted to supplant the poppy of France with the daisy of America as the Memorial flower of the Legion. Quickly after this action was taken u was reconsidered and the poppy baa come back Into lta own. It Is difficult to find any man who served In the war for civilization who does not hold to the poppy aa the proper floral emblem cf an order whose men fought In the fleldsvhere the blood-red flower grows. In Washington today popplea are being be-ing sold for the benefit of the Menio-rlal, Menio-rlal, day fund for the graves of the soldiers of the World war." Possibly It Is not generally realized how many The administration, because of lta advocacy of membership In the world court, of course desires that Bonators favorable to Its plan shall be given places on the committee which Is to give the plan consideration and to make report thereon. The administration, administra-tion, however, cannot appoint senate committees, and neither Is It fcupposed to exercise any Influence In the appointment ap-pointment matter. Senators are extremely ex-tremely Jealous of their prerogatives. The new Republican and Democratic members on the foreign relations committee com-mittee will be appointed by the senate, sen-ate, the Republican majority picking Its men and the Democratic minority picking Its men for the vacant places. These three Republican senators on the committee were defeated for reelection re-election at the polls last November: MeCumber of North Dakota, New of Indiana and Kellogg of Minnesota. Two Democratic members of the committee, com-mittee, Pomerene of Ohio and Ultch-cock Ultch-cock of Nebraska, were defeated for re-election, while Senator Williams of Mississippi, also a committee member, declined to be a candidate to succeed himself. Compromise la Expected. So It will be seen that there are six vacancies In the committee. Every one of the Republicans remaining In the committee Is bitterly or almost bitterly opposed to the League of Nations. From what one learns from Senator Lodge's recent statement on the court matter, and from what one or two other of the senators sen-ators have Imparted quietly to the party managers, it Is evident that there is a likelihood that most of the Republicans on the committee will ae cept the President's court plan but will urge some reservations or changes. Concerning the Democrats on the committee, it Booms likely that most of them will be favorable to the court proposal, but a committee which Is domlnoted by the Republicans would much prefer that the body make a report backed by Republican totes rather than by a bare majority made up of committee members of both parties. Therefore It seems llktly that the Republican majority will attempt to reach some finding which can receive re-ceive the votes of all its members. No one knows yet definitely what Republicans will be nppolnfed to fill the three committee vacancies, nor for that mntter is It known what Democrats Dem-ocrats will be appointed to All the Ieiiiocratle vacancies. It can be said definitely that the hopes of ;he friends of the administration's court plan are that opponents of the proposal not be chosen for committee membership. If the country shall show an unmistakable un-mistakable npproviil of the administration's administra-tion's court plan the senate committee will give Its approval, for It probably would not care nor dare to oppose the nation's will In (lie matter. women there were who actually entered en-tered Into the armed service of the United States. Many women were enlisted en-listed for seml-mllltary duty. Some of these duties Involved personnl danger to the enlisted. This month In Washington Wash-ington the ex-service women are engaged en-gaged In the work of making popples. It Is dllllcult to tell without the use of the sense of touch that the flowers which they are making are not the popples of Plunders' Field. On every grave of a veteran of the World war In France and In the United States on Memorial day poppies will have a place with the flowers of the homeland. In France the greatest Memorial day exercises will be witnessed at Romagne, where nbout 20.000 American soldier lie awaiting the reveille. The French gave to the United States forever the great tract where the majority of the American dead lie burled. From n height near Romagne can be seen Mount Faucon and the shadowing outlines out-lines of the Argonne forests with all the fields of battle which He In between. be-tween. There on mountain, on hillside, on plain and In valley Americans gave up their lives for liberty. Most of them lie virtually where they fell, nnd on May 110 of this year nnd on May 30 of all the years to come they will not be forgotten. His Shop Always Open. A Greenwich village shoemaker has devised a method for receiving shoes for repair when his shop Is closed. Ills innovation consist of a large hole In the door on the principle of a letter let-ter slot. "Since I nd"pted the scheme," he said, "my repair work bus doubled No matter wbnt hours you keep your shop open there Is onie one who can come only at another time. "Now these people drop their shoes through my duor slot with written Instructions fur the repairs. They also tell me when they will call for the shoes, and I can get them reudj accordingly." New York Sun. Fund of $350,000 Is Needed. It Is understood that the sum of $350,0U0 will be necessary lo Insure thnt on every Memorial dny (lowers of America and France will be placed upon the resting place of every American Amer-ican soldier of the World war. The fund will remain untouched, the Interest Inter-est only being used. A liberal computation compu-tation has been made, and It Is believed thnt If the sum of fifty cents for each grave be set aside It will be sufficient to remember worthily the dead of the World war. It has been said that there Is satisfaction satis-faction In the ranks of the veterans of the World wnr that the poppy of Finn, ders' Field, and all Europe for that matter, mat-ter, has been reinstated In Its place as the memorial emblem of the American Legion. It Is the poppy of Flnmlers. J of the valley of the Marne and of the Moselle, and of the fields bordering tho stretches of the Mmise iiml the forests of the Argonne. For centuries In France the poppy has been regarded ns the war flower, or, perhaps, rather n the (lower of war's aftermath. Its color Is significant signifi-cant of sacrifice, nnd ns It grow a,uil. dnntly on virtually all of the hntfle-fiel'ls hntfle-fiel'ls of France, nnd ns the whole country nt one time or another has been a battlefield, the poppy bus come to be looked upon ns a fitting memorial of the dencl heroes of the hmd. The French soldier looks upon tho poppy ns n symbolic flower. Todnr Anierlcim soldiers who served side by Leniency. "I'll make un example out of you. Thirty days In Jail." "I)o you meun to sny, your honor." protested the speeder, "thnt for 30 days I'll be separated from my motorcar?" motor-car?" "You will, sir. Put If It will console con-sole you during your period of confinement con-finement I have no objection to your wearing a complete outfit of motor togs." Plrmlnghnui Age-Harald. |