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Show V" f THE KINGHAM NEWS, BINGHAM, UTAH : - Increase to - Balance Our Fleet and Make and Keep It the Equal of Any By EDWIN DENBY, Secretary U. S. Km. " - In my opinion the general policy drawn up by the navy general board is not only sound in the present circumstances, but useful for all times 'and under all conditions. The general board adopted this statement of purpose: "To create, maintain, and operate a navy second to none and in conformity with the ratios for capital J ships established by the treaty for limitation of naval armaments. "To make the capital ship ratios the basis of i buildina effort in all classes of fi w - 0 o "To direct the principal air effort on that part of the air service that is to operate from ships of the fleet. "To assemble the active fleet at least once a year for a period of not le6s than three months. "To maintain an active personnel afloat in conformity with the ratios for capital ships established by the treaty for the limitation of naval armament. "To maintain the marine corps personnel at a strength sufSnieni for current requirements. "To make every effort, both ashore and afloat, at home and abroad, to assist the development of American interests, and especially the Amer-ican merchant marine. "To create, organize, and train a naval reserve force sufficient to provide the supplementary personnel necessary to mobilize the fleet and all its auxiliaries "To make the naval reserve secure in its status and organization as a part of the navy and to guard its interests. "To cultivate a close association of officers of the active navy and of the natal reserve. "To give to the public all information not incompatible with military secrecy. "To have always in. mind that a system of outlying naval and com-mercial basts suitably distributed, developed, and defended is one of the xnof important elements of national strength." It is not my intention this year, having in mind the financial con-dition of the country, to make any recommendations for an increase in the navy, but I recommend that as soon as conditions warrant, con-gress be asked for such an increase as. will tend to balance our fleet and make and keep it the equal of any. few 5R ;M f JrrR fit I tR& til 1 Three or tue American destroyers now on duty in the IJosphorus. z Allied premiers wiu ure trying to determine Germany's fate; left to right: I'olnciire of France, Ilonar Law of Kngland, M issollnl of Italy and Theunls of Belgium. 3 Pope Plus strolling In the Vatican gardens with his private secretary. HOUSE MEMBER PROMIGES EVI- - DENCE ON ACCUSATIONS ' AGAINST OFFICIALS , ' i " .' Democratlo Solon Sayt He Vfas Seen Some of Our Prominent Men Raising "Devilish Bottle" to Lips j WtiBhlngton. The spotlight of boot-leKKin-g rumors and charges which has been hoverlns over Wnshinton hud shifted back to the cnpltol Wed-nesday with the declaration by Upshaw of Georgia on the floor of. the Iioubo that "bootleggers ply their devilish trade among too many public men In Washington." With opportunity for reply by house members to Representative Upshaw's speech, in which he declared lie would turn over to enforcement au-thorities nil evidence placed In his hands of liquor drinkink by govern-ment officials, Including members of the senate and house, cut off by ad-journment Immediately after he con-cluded Tuesday, this was the next development expected Wednesday. Outside of the membership of the senate and house, Representative Up-sha-declared, he had seen "some of the highest officials In Washington lifting the devilish bottle to their lips." In ths evldonee he was preparing to turn In he slid" ho would include the name of a "high official" (not a diplomat) who returned from abroad some time ago with more than a score of casts of foreign liquor marked "diplomatic." ' 172 Indians Face Death Advices from ' Lucknow state that the death sentence has been imposed on 17U Indians nccused of murder and frson ns a result of the non rioting at Chnurl-Chanr- a last February. Seven of the two hundred twenty-tigh- t per-sons who were orUrnally held on the barges died while awaiting trial. Two others received two-ye- prison ( , ' terms. Forty-seve- n were ncqulttcd. Soventeen native police were killed in the rlotlnu at Chaurl-Cbaii-which occurred on February 4 last The demonstration was ono eplsodo in a week-en- d of antl-P.rltis- h upris-ings in various parts of India. Tb mob at Chari-Chaur- numbering --009 Indian Nationalist volunteers, rein-forced by villagers, attacked the po-llen officers and billed the entire staff, Including the eight policomfla who were sent to reinforce t!ie posf. The buildings were burned. Chaurl-Chaur- a Is fifteen miles southwest f Ooral piir on the Jtengal Norihwest-er- n railway. . No More Attractive Field in the World Today for Woman Than Politics By MRS. CHARLES II. SABIN, Woman's Nat'l Republican Club. Go in for politics, make a career of it as you would of art or music. The opportunities are boundless. The United States has had only two women congressmen and has elected the third. The field of diplomacy has only just been opened up by the appointment of the first woman to a place in an American embassy. ' There is no more attractive field in the world today for a woman than politics. She needs only one investment her desire to be of service. And her returns in prestige, in influence, in the knowledge of service rendered are enormous. A woman must train herself for politics just as thoroughly as she would for any other career. And she must work from the bottom up.. This means doing the most menial things that come to her hand. I should say to the young woman wbo is contemplating a political career, first, take a course in elementary law. Study civics. Know all about your municipal, county, state and federal government and the persons taking part in it. Then run for the lowliest office there is. And from here if yon have demonstrated your fitnees thi be runs straight to the highest posi-tion you are qualified to take. i ' Alaskan Volcano Dying Down : Anchorage, Alas';a. Meager reports received h?ro from the Aleutian pe-ninsula indicate that the ernpttoi from Mount I'avlof, Alaskns newetft volcano, Is subsiding, but the mnm-ta'- n is Rtill emitting denso smoke and gases. Na;ips hesitatu (to ap-proach the vicinity, fearing repeti-tion of the eruption. , HEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Placing Germany in Voluntary Default Is Big Victory fcr Franco's Policy. PREMIERS IN SESSION MM Berlin 6ucgesta Four-Pow- Agree-nie- nt for European Peace Borah'a Plan for World Conference Moiul Oil Lands Question May Dicrupt Lausanne Parley. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 5 C t ft SENATOR BORAH, headina of mild reservation-Ist- s and Democrats, has offered an amendment to the naval ap-propriation? bill requesting the President to call a world con-ference to discuss economic questions and further limitation of armament. What ! your opinion of the advisability of this action? GEItMANY has been declared, hy coinmlsr.iun. to he In voluutnry default In part of her puymenta. imnicly the wood deliveries due in 1022. This In Itself doesn't 'seem to be of greut Importance, but the action of the commission rep-resents a decided victory for France, which has contended for it Ions time that Ormniiy could be placed In volun-tary dffnult by n majority vote of the commission. Great lJrltaln. hoMInc the opposing view, had been supported by Itelglum and Italy, but is now deserted by them on this Issue and her repre-sentative ciiHt the only vote against the action. Mussolini appears to have swnng to the French slde'in tne repara-tions dispute, and It may be that In the session of the allied premiers In Tails this week he und Theunls of r.e'plum will stand with Polneure, Iw Inj? Donar Law alone In his effort to restrain the Frenrn from taking rad-ical steps to collect from Germany. More thaa GO per cent of Germany's wood deliveries were made, but she said she could do no more und that tb deliveries for 1923 must tie greatly reduced. She also annouif she cim-no- t deliver the 00,000 tons of pure nitrogen due on reparations account beiose th German production of this commodity is already far below domes-tic requirements. France, according to seml-olIM- al statements, -- feels that unless she cruets forfcru from Germany sl e fHes absolute ruin, and consequently she In-tends' to pet th forfeits, even if pay-ment In full canot be obtained. How-ever, M. Toincare does not now I tend to seize the Ruhr valley by force of anus. His present plan Is to send In customs ofilcinls to collect revenues ond In this way wring reparations from Stlnnes and the other rich Industrial-ists whose resources the German nt hns so far refused to draw Upon. These magnates have steudtly opposed all plans for payment of wiir obligations, nnd nt the same time have been piling up vast fortunes in a coun-try that claims to be poverty stricken and s'arvinu. Naturally the French are bitter nsnlnst them, nnd iMturnlly. too. France cannot stomach the Hr'tisli policy which calls nmlnly for gentle trcntinent of Germany so that l!rirl,:h trade may benefit. While Polncare's program does not Involve a military Invasion of tins Itulir, It provides for the une f the army to protect the civilian oll'.clals to be sent Into that region. Jm!;'Ing by Hie past, such protection will be necessary. GKitMANY has Just made a sugiro. tlon to the United Slates which moy possibly meet with the approval of Prciddent Hardin?. It Is that our government sound the Kuropenn pav-ers bs to tlielr disposition to enter Into o four power nvveenie' t to pr--ur-vc Ihe pcue fctoi'.hir ft; the 1 i i ? treaty. The four nations would be Great Ilrltaln, France, Italy and Ger-many, and the United States woufd be only an intermediary. Tlio peace term for Kurope might lie set at thirty jvups. It is argued this agreement would guar-ante- o France npilnst aggression by Germany and enable her to reduce her big standing tinny, und also would guarantee Germany agnlnst further seizure of territory by the French. President Harding nnd Secretary of State Hughes are disposed to move very carefully In matters relating to Kurope, but It Is known that Mr. Harding believes some such pact, by which the natioi's will agree to consult one another before resorting to war, will prevent warfare more surely than will any league to preserve peuce. SENATOR P.OUAH'S resolution for conference on economics and urmatucnts. alluded to nt the betid of tl e column, not only hns caused u lot of discussion in Washington, but uiso has disrupted the young alliance between the farm and radical blocs In congress. The Idaho senator has seemingly broken away from the group of "Irreconcilable" nnd Johnson of California already has loudly an-nounced his opposition to the Ilonih plan. He says: "An economic par-ley, of necessity, murt consider not only present conditions In Europe but the debts due t us. nnd, of course, the reparations due from Germany. Were we to Invite the interested nations to dlflciirs these subjects in order to ar-rive at understandings nnd agreements, with a mental reservation to take no part In the ultimate solution, we would bo guilty of a species of bad fnlth, of which America has never bevn guilty nnd which Americans never con tol-erate. "If we brlnjf the nations of the earth here to Washington for such a conference we'll dump Into America's lap the economic ills of Kurope und the reparations muddle. If, olildally. we sit down with the other nations who meet ot our lnvitution. and reach an understanding and ugreenient. we ' are in honor bound to carry out nnd execute thut agreement, and the very instant we undertake to curry out an agreement to enforce reparations, that instant we nbundon the traditional policy of America. We become n part of the Europvan scheme of things and we enter upon that course from which we have so recently exenped and which our rc"ll) so overwhelmingly repudi-ated." Mr. Rorah Insists there Is nothing inconsistent In his program, muinlnln-lu- g thut It Is to the United States to point a way ti stability und peace in Kurope but that U Is not necessary for this nation to enter Into pledges to curry out agreement. Rei aune the l'omh plan looks to the restoration of the European market for American agricultural products, It is regarded with favor by the members of the form bloc. ( of the Mosul oil fields CONTROL wreck the Lausanne pence Conference, Ismet Pushu noti-ced the P.rltlsli delegates that Turkey would maintain her claim to ownership of the Mosul viiajet und could not accept the Htitisu contention that it Is a part f Iraq and therefore of Meso-potamia over which there Is a British mamlute. In reply Murqul Curzon the Turks thai Great Itritaln never would abandon the Mosul vllu-je- t nnd thut no prolongation of the conference would lulhienie the British goveriu..eot to reivde from its posltlou in tlds mutter. Lord Curzon said the P.ritlsli hud expelled the Turks from lite Mosul region nnd bad occupied nnd admin'Murcd It; thut they In-- promised to free the Anihs from Turk-i- h fulu and to establish Liie govern-ment of Ir:ii. und hud given their sol-emn p'edge that no foreign cower should be allowed to tke miy of this tetrltory. To tliee pledges, be said, Rrituln would steadfastly i.dhere. Cm .n, however, agreed to have Brit-ish experts meet with Turkish experts to (lctino tlio northern boundary of Iraq. This statement by Marquis Curzon is loo fiat to bo take!) as a bluff, and it (.rein certain that If the Turks do not wish to have tin; conference break up they must . lc! 1. The Ti:r!.s tuive inrreM that t!e non- - ,Io:-l- i in minorities In Turi.ey en-joy frcdinii timler Turkish laws with-out rs to untii-u- , ill'y re-- i llglon or language. They are also will-lu- g to allow the Greek patriarch to remain in Constantinople, but purely In a religious ctipuclty. The straits question. It Is believed, Willi be settled on the basis of un International com-mission that will supervise the passage of ships bu will have no control over the fortified uones. LOUISIANA'S great sensation the two men by u mushed mob, the finding of tlielr decapitated bodies nnd the urrest of a fo. iner dep-uty sherllT und a former mayor of the town of Mer Rouge begins to look like u tempest in So far no evi-dence has been mude public that proves the crime wus committed by the Kit Klux Klan, und though the Klan It strong in thut part of the state, (here does not appear, nt this distance, to be any real need of the state troops which were culled out by Governor Parker. The bodies were brought to the surface of Lake La Fourche by u mysterious dynamite explosion whose authors have boon sought hy state nnd federal au-thorities. The former mayor of Mer Rouge, Dr. B. M. McKoln, wus arrested In Baltimore nod charged with mur-der. He denies guilty knowledge of tlw crime and also denies having been a member of the Kliin. though he de-fends Its activities In his town. Both McKoln nnd the Klan were uvowed enemies of the bootleggers and moon-shiners who flourished In that part of Louisiana, and thta fact explains much of the row. PROHIBITION and other reform some of which have been classed us obnoxious purltunlsin, have lost one of their stuuiK-hes- t work-ers In the death of Rev. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts, who for twenty-eigh- t years has been superintendent of the Interna-tional Reform bureau In Vuslilngton. With almoin fanutlcnl zeal be fought the liquor and narcotic evils, Sunday amusements, prize fights and other things he thought subversive of morals, and he wus a familiar figure In legisla-tive lobbies and committee rooms in the national .capftul. More liberal-minde- d persons objected to lilm as ixild reformer nnd to his uppnn-a- t In-fluence on congress, but he always fought buck at them wfth vigor and frequently with success. Doctor Crafts, who was seyenty-thre- years old, suc-cumbed to pneumonia. SENATOR CAPPER, hend of the says the ship subsidy bill, If enacted into law, will leud to raids on the treasury by all sorts of Industrie. "The losses a ship sub-sidy in uli probability would bring on Ibis country cannot be figured," he hays, "bill I cannot see bow the suit-sid- y can do anything more than to pile up a lot of costs ngu'iisl the govern-ment, and start an International sub-sidy war w1Ht circles of International subsidies und a tery harmful series of ruld-4- , or attempted raids, on the treas-ury by Industries here et homo. Why throw good mcney after bad? Haven't we lost more than $3,000,000,000 of public money in a merchant murine that cannot operate? It seems to me onie other way out must b found." THE Workers' Party of America has held Its second annual con-vention, in New York, iu the course of which It declared for "the dictatorship of the proletariat nnd the supplanting of the existing capitalist government with a soviet government." They did not ut this time accept openly und un-qualifiedly (he principles of the com-munist Internationale at Moscow and It 4 program of nnued revolution, but tlio speakers made it quite plain that this was due not to lack of full sym-pathy with the liiternatlona'.e but to fear of prosecution and suppression by the federal government. The conven-tion sent u message to the Moscow In-ternationale reporting that It had "de-voted Itself to the constructive work of building a powerful revolutionary move-ment In America." Resolutions adopted urged ull workers In this country to Join In n movement to compel the gov-ernment of the United Srates to recog-nize soviet Russia and grant a long-ter-loan for Russia's reconstruction, attacked the Ku Klux Klan and the American Legion nnd Indorsed tie Bus-sii- Ameii' an Industrial eotyn.' nth a. Body In Bathtub Reveals Murder London. Iondon police Wednes-day broke Into the house of .lames Malthy, a tailor, to which they had laid sieg.? for four days, lacking a search warrant, una found In a bath-tub the body of Mrs. Alice Mlddleton, missing since August lo. Malthy committed suicide by shotting him-self as the police crashed In. Only Safe Solution to the Jumble Is a Unifonr, Marriage and Divorce Law By GENEVIEVE PARKHURST, In the Pictorial Review. For some years, now, men and women of intellsctnal tad soda! en-deavor have talked and exhorted th public to action, the lawmakws to legislation. A few feeble efforts htm been made to put through some sorl of national law by which the marriage and divorce laws of the different states coold be adjusted. Bat thflj have fallen by the wayside of commit-tee dilatorineas or have entirely failed of consideration. Some states have adequate laws, but their wisdom 0in bear only partial harvest if they do not receive the recognition of other states. For in a nation still in the making, and where there is sncb vast territory to he set-tled and cultivated as there is in this owntry, population oattirally shift ' from one place to another, and if one state's law is to broome anothet state's crime, confusion must be the eventuality, and ia, . . . liooking all these facts squarely in the face, the only safe and san solution to the jumble, therefore, is a uniform marriage and divorce law, tnd one that will do justice to every citizen, rich or poor, male or female, young or 6ld, amt, above all, to the children, who are the most importaul Y constitnests of true marriage and of paramount concern in our. national integrity. Girl Names Leader of Raiders Rar.trop. Addle Mny Hamilton, d dared o:i the witness stand In the open ItfarSc? Inves'lgathm Wednes-day Into the si yln.r of Watt Puniel and Tlionmi III hards, she was forc-ed to leave her homo near Mer Hours and whs doported from the state by 'the Ku Klux Klan." She named . Dr. P.. M. McKoln, former mayor of ..lor Rouge, nnd "l'lnk" Klr'patrlr't jw two of the of mon wbo testified, camo to her mother's home one nbhr, took her awny and put her abroad a train for Little Rock, Ark., the home of her sister. Exhsusted Man Dies In Tamee Seattle. After seeing th glow of Ills burning home while a mile from it Tuesday niht, Atleo lid:ing"wo;-th- . a plasterer living nour RuthU, north of this city, hurried to the l.osrj, Htaggered in and was burn d to death. His son John, .". y : r.H old. also died and another son. t'lrr-'ace- , was critically burned. Would Hang Their Heads in Shame Ove- - the Action of Their Ancestors By SENATOR PAT HARRISON, of Mississippi, Filibuster Speecn VThut if s hundwl years from now your should look over the Journal of yesterday and discover that no mention is made of the fact that there wa prayer yesterday in opm-j- n this body, and they then shonld take the proceedings of the following jay as they will appear in the Journal tomorrow, and should read that their voted against my motion to anicml 'the Journal 'so that the prayer might be incorporated in the Journal? Why, thoFe children of tomorrow would hang thoir heads in shanu over tha action of their ancestors. So we must change this policy, if it has been a policy, and rtarf a new one today, so that the record of this body that is to be handed down to future generations will reveal the fact irat we fcad prayer ir opeiing tliw august body. t Motor Caravan Crosses Sahara ParN. A new kind of crravan, composed of five little Frcntfi crier-- pillar automobiles, h"s cr f;ie-- the Sahara desert from Ali'e.i ei tho no-t- h coast of Africa, to Krem-- rt Africa, making the two tlio .s: d miles from Tugurt to Thn'mcton m twenty one days. Camel caravans rciulro a minimum of thr u; months ! to make the journey. Thcso wcra thi first automobiles to rnot tlio Great desert. |