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Show I All Comers I of the Earth t ,...,... y Complete History of the Past "J Weei Told m Paragraphs a Prepared for the Busy Reader WASHINGTON. Approval of .172 advances for agricultural agri-cultural and livestock purposes, aggregating aggre-gating f lli.O.'S.iKK), during (lie woci' ended December 31, was niuiouneed by the war finance corporation. ... The national agricultural conference suggested by President Harding lias been called by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace to begin in Washington Mon. danl, January 23. 1 Election campaign expenditurc-sf candidates for the senate wuiild be limited to ?25,000 and thos'of candidates can-didates for the house in no case could exceed $4000 under a corrupt practice bill introduced by Representative Cuble, Republican, Ohio. General increases in salaries of officials of-ficials of the Philippine Islands govern ment are provided in a bill introduced in the senate by Senator New, Republican, Repub-lican, Indiana, under which the governor gover-nor general would get $25,000 instead og $18,000. Soviet Russian newspapers almost universally regarded the appropriation of $20,000,000 by the American congress to relieve famine conditions In Russia as primarily a political or economic, rather than a humanitarian, movement. While denouncing America as capitalistic capital-istic and bourgeoise, most newspapers express eagerness for recognition of the soviet government.' Senator W. H. King of Utah introduced intro-duced bills calling for the reduction of the navy to a 50,000 man basis and the army to 75,000 men, these figures to Include both officers and men. In presenting these bills, the senator said our army and navy together on their present basis' are costing the government govern-ment nearly ?SOO,000,000 a year, which is $500,000,000 more than Germany, In her palmiest days ever spent in one year on her combined army and navy. Secretary noover says "The commerce com-merce of the world is obviously dependent de-pendent on international confidence, and I know of no greater demonstration demonstra-tion of the importance of confidence than the recent rise in international exchange rates as the result of the conference in Washington. There was no movement of money or commodities that warranted such a rise. It was simply and solely a movement of confidence." con-fidence." Twenty thousand school children of Washington, D. C, are eligible to take part In an educational contest for prizes totaling more than a thousand dollars, to be given for the best essay upon "The Arms Conference and Its Significance." Washington school children child-ren are urged to devote as much time as possible to a study of the developments develop-ments of the conference so they will be able to write intelligently on the subject. sub-ject. FOREIGN. Announcement is made of the death of William Volgt, 71, picturesque shoemaker shoe-maker of Tilsit, who became famous several lears' ago under the name of Captain Coepenick, by his Impersonation Impersona-tion of an officer of the German army. Disorders which have been prevalent for several days spread to Royal avenue, Belfast's busiest thoroughfare, where snipers fired at tram cars. Police replied with machine guns and one man was wounded. Mine. Marie Devos of Bordeaux, France, was sleeping late when the floor of her bed room collapsed and she was deposited plump on the counter coun-ter of the grocer's shop below in her robe de nult. She was exceedingly embarrassed, but was otherwise unhurt, un-hurt, though her bed was wrecked. Chilean fruitgrowers are beginning to find a market for their fruit in the United States. Shipments of Chilean peaches, grapes, melons, cherries, plums, strawberries and chlrlmoyas. a kind of custard apple, have been disposed dis-posed of in New York at good prices, says F. Rojas Huneeus, director of agriculture. ag-riculture. 1 After a week's Imprisonment at Riga, luring which time they were not per-uttted per-uttted to communicate with outsiders, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman ind Alexander Shapiro, the deportees 'rom America who recently came out f soviet Russia, started a second time 'or Reval, Esthonia, on their way to Stockholm. . An impersonation of Christ has been lennltted for the first time on an Eng-ish Eng-ish stage In the production of Strind-lerg's Strind-lerg's symbolic play "Advent." A 14-ear-old girl appeared as the redeemer. Dramatic critics are inclined to take :he view that the English stage cen-sorship cen-sorship is broadening in regard to eligious plays, probably owing to the Viet that representatives of Christ have ippeared often In the films. Germany's flag hns re-appenreil imong those of other nations In New fork. It was unfurled from the same lagpolo, atop No. 11 Broadway, from vhich it was hauled down in the spring if 11117. and marked the local ion of the established consular offices of the lew German republic. ... Extensive military preparations long the frontier between Rus-ia and 'Inland are known to be under way iy both llie Russians and Finns, and liplomntic tension is high. INTERMOUNTAIPC A tannery to cost $25,000 will be located lo-cated In Eugene, Ore., if the citizens will give the promoters a site free. Forty years after their sweetheart days in a little Finnish schoolhousc, John Helnkaman, 52, and Anna Kousa-men, Kousa-men, 52, were married in Aberdeen, Wash., a few days ago. A friendly suit for the purpose of getting a uniform ruling through court decisions on disposition of forfeited ball money, will be instituted in the near future probably In Humboldt county. Duriug the past few years an attempt at-tempt hns been made to restock Carson Car-son Valley with quail and the results have been most gratifying. In all parts of the vulley large flocks of the game birds were reported during the past Summer. Eric A. Sommers, who says he deserted de-serted the United States navy at Mare Island more than a year ago, surrendered sur-rendered himself to the Roseburg, Ore., police officers recently. He was destitute des-titute and hungry, he said, and asked to be returned to the navy yard. The officers there have telegraphed the navjf-yard for instructions. A happy New Year is in prospect for Portland, with a building program estimated officially to exceed that of , this city's banner 12 months of 1010, .when more than $20,000,000 was the 1 figure expended, in homes and other structures. Permission to conduct an extensive recruiting campaign over the inter-mountain inter-mountain territory was received by the commandant of the Fifty-first infantry, ( stationed at Fort Douglas, from the 1 Ninth corps area headquarters at San Francisco. Lieutenant T. J. Tulley 1 leaves soon en a recruiting trip ' which will Include Evanston, Pocatello, Boise, Logan, Brigham City and Ogden. Later he will tour the soutrern part of Utah. GENERAL Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves retired as an active officer of the United States navy. In relinquishing his post as commandant of the Boston navy yard, he ended 48 years of service. Thirty shipping hoard steamers anchored an-chored In James river are to be made ready for sea at once and placed in the Russian relief service. Shipping board officials understand that the ships are to be used to carry grain to the starving Russians. 9 James Grimes, a barber of Ottumwa, la., ran himself to death following au altercation with Walter Hadie, also of that city. Grimes and Hadle quarreled at church and when they met later in the evening Grimes started to run. He did not stop until he foil dead from exhaustion In front of a rooming house. We dont disarm our civil population wo simply don't arm them. The way for nations to prevent war Is to have no weapons with which to fight. If no nation had a battleship "for protection" no other nation would need a battle- 1 ship. The idea that we must have 1 battleships to protect us from naval aggression falls flat If there are no , battleships to do any aggressing. If ' 5-5-3, why not 0-0-0? The United States Bureau of Educa- , tion has been conducting a quiet In- 1 vestigation into fhose mushroom edu- 1 cational Institutions which spring up 1 overnight and enjoy a short career of j commercial success aided by the lavish giving away of "degrees." A leglsla- 1 tlve campaign to make it illegal for such Institutions to function may be started by the bureau. ... , "New liquor" put 40 "patients" In 1 the emergency hospital In San Fran- 1 Cisco Christmas Eve. Many were 3 picked up from the confetti-covered 1 streets. Most of them were said to be I out of danger the next night. Six f were poisoned hy wood alcohol, while 1 -synthetic gin bowled over others. It i was said. ... More than COO disabled soldiers nt Fox Hills hospital, Staten Island, ' adopted a resolution asking President 1 Harding not to sign the senate bill designed to reduce the size of the i medical reserve corps of the public c health service. 1 ... r A young woman gnrhed as a mon entered en-tered a restaurant In St. Lnnls leveled a revolver at the proprietor and or- :i dered him to hand over the iontems I of lho cash drawer or get "plugged." t She got $27. ' c |
