Show R Reformers Sup pressers ress rs And Cranks Pes Pester Peste te i and Harass Poor Delegates Wild Men Is Name Given by Journalists to Bevy of Men and Women Who Invade Geneva to Advance Their Causes Statesmen Afraid to Refuse Them Audience I By By WILLIAM BIRD Special Dispatch to The Standard Standard Copyright 1926 Consolidated Press Association GENEVA G ENEVA Oct 2 Everyone 2 Everyone has gone except the wil wild men The wild men as they have been dubbed by face face- facetious journalists arc the permanent floating population of Geneva Geneya They are arc the local representatives of a hundred or more international humanitarian social and universal so- so societies societies so societies leagues brotherhoods sisterhoods unions clubs and companies companies for the advancement of this the suppression of that and the amelioration of t the e other e thin thing Whatever is wrong in III sac world there Is a society represented represented represented at Geneva with a program all ready to set It right Geneva Gene Geneva at least this Is the impression of the casual Is visitor visitor Is the the international International international busybodies busybodies headquarters Ll LIST T IS 13 LONG The writer has not compiled complied 8 a anit fist of the organizations perma perma- permanently permanently represented here Probably Probably ably no such list exists fend and if It It does it cannot be complete for every day brings some addition But it can be bo certified d that there Is no thinkable cause for human betterment no matter maUer h how w chi cM chimerical merical which has not Its author author- authorIzed authorized authorized representative nay ready ready anxious to to take up th tho th time lime of anyone who will listen to him and preferably of course an of- of official of official tidal delegate to the league o oZ nations What are these causes Let us not stop to the most obvious ones It Jt goe goes saying that every op- op oppressed oppressed op oppressed pressed nation every minority and every enslaved people has as Its advocate and very often orten Its Its Its- highly paid secretariat and preta bureau at at Geneva Gene lid A-lid hero are societies for tor the suppressIon of the opium traffic Perhaps this Is all right The writer has never tasted opIum and Is torn between the o opinions of reformers who also have ha never tasted lasted it and who Insist that it Is a great source of f comfort In inthis troubled World But let the sup opium go STANDARDIZED STAND DRESS On One meek but persistent In- In Individual In Individual was pointed out as the permanent secretary at Geneva for tor a kind of league that alms aims to standardize dress He lie rejoices that the Turks have ha made it n a capital offense to wear a fez Just what kind of hat his league would pre pre- prefer prefer pre prefer fer whether derby or fedora flor is not clear but It Is certain c that he will not be bo content until all nations have made it o y to wear nothing else There are numerous societies against the consumption of or alco alco- alcohol alco- alco alcohol alcohol hol all varying among themselves as to the definition of ot the word Intoxicating Some arc for wa- wa water water wa water ter some for tor beer some for wine and a few dont don't object to though they look askance at mixed drinks On the other hand there Is an prohibition prohibition anti asso association association which has vowed that whenever any of the temperance societies waste an hour of o a stateman's It will waste watte two MORE CHILDS CHILD'S FLAY Y And that 18 is the main thing that statesmen from all alt corners of the earth have to busy themselves with when they get to Geneva Th The remote reader render may have lve sup sup- supposed supposed sup supposed posed that their time Is taken up with serious parleys about dis disarmament armament or vacant seat seats scats In the council or the handiest way to tomake make the United Stiles States feel teel ashamed that It hasn't joined These matters are mere childs child's play however hoever compared with ith the duty of ot of receiving every morning from 10 to 12 and every after after- afternoon afternoon afternoon noon from 2 to 5 the wild men who ho with long locks float float- floatIng floating floating ing In the breeze arrive bearing letters of oC Introduction from people Continued on Page I AND CRANKS BUSY Continued From Page One hosp V ill will it were better not notto notto to cultivate too studiously And that is 1 why although the of ot tho league ot f nations meet at nt Geneva the tho council doesn't meet hero here unless It has hasto hasto hasto to Gen Geneva va Is I'S Is a lovely city but there ought to be one more morr 1 league for tor the tho suppression of ot all 1111 the others othel's |