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FOUR WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS. WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1922 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Registered in U. S. Patent Office by ROY K. MOULTON 'NEXT war; main TOPICJN EUROPE Despite Conferences England and Other Countries Are Fearful of Strife WJ.LMINGTON, DEI.

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M. WICKERS HAM. Advertising Mtr. was estimated at not much more than twice thirty billions, and it cannot now be as great as before the war by many billions. European countries owe the United States all told about ten billions, and they are not paying anything on that sum.

Perhaps there might be some occult way to get thirty billions, or a fraction of that figure from Germany, and the French financiers and statesmen would be wizards if they could get it. Lyrics of Life By DOUGLAS MALLOCH I'd fancy were her kisses, and A rose could substitute her lips. A lily white serve for her hand. Stars might impersonate her eyes, A flower fair suggest her charms, A zephyr imitate her sighs, And God's brest comfort like- Her arms. for In some way.

According to trustworthy estimates the bonus bill would add $77,000,000 to the indebtedness for 1923, and this sum would be very much increased for several years. The net outcome would be that the Federal Govern-ment would be forced to increase taxes, so that the ieopla of the United States would be paying higher taxes than they paid during the war. One silly thing is that the Senate measure neither authorizes an appropriation, provides any method for raising the revenue nor perfects any means for a sinking fund to meet the eventual liability. Why is Congress so cowardly in this respect 1 If the people at large really favor the bonus, as the supporters contend, they are, of course, perfectly willing to pay for it, so, therefore, why is Congress dodging, fearful of declaring how the bonus should be raised. Why could not, for instance Congress levy a special tax for the bonus and a per capita tax at that? In such a way everyone would be paying a definite sum for the bonus.

Congress, however, will do nothing of the kind. Happily, the opponents of this measure declare that President Harding will veto it, and that a two-thirds majority cannot be secured in the Senate to override the vote. Not long ago even the oppjr.enta of the bonus thought it could not be defeated because a two-thirds vote in the Senate could be obtained to override a veto. MA ON CLOTHES The way a man will run around, If he can git the chance, With some old coat and vest he's found, And prehistoric pant3, The way he seems to like to dress As ragged as can be, Is, I am willin to confess, A mystery to me. The minute we git home from town, Or church, or anywhere, Pa gets his faded jumper down, Finds some old hat to wear, Then hunts some bright and shinin place Where folks can see him good, Just like he wanted to disgrace Us to the neighborhood.

A woman's just the opposite A woman likes to dress, It isn't vanity a bit, Just common sense, I guess. The way you are inside, I say, I haven't any doubt, Depends a lot upon the way You're dressed up on the out. For ragged out, you're ragged in, And careless, just the same; And so, I say, poor clo'es are sin And Taggedness a shame. You state of heart, your state of mind, As every woman knows, Are very often, you will find, Exactly like your clo'es. (Copyright, 1922, by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Australia Needs American Swat (By W1LUAM H.

HILL) Freedom! There are so many drwrtic laws with penalties to fit, I dare nct take a step for fear I'll go to Jail for it. I try to carry all the rules, the book is large and fat. I constantly refer to it, but etiil, in spite of that, I know I break a lot of laws and by-laws every day When I just travel round In a most ordinary way. And when I have the new ones learned and added to my store The eolons get together and they pass a hundred more. The government my finance runs and I have not a care.

When I have hired some figure sharp to estimate my share. I take what's left and hand it to the landlord for his rent. My worries are all over and my weary soul content. The censors pick my movies and the health board runs my health. Reformers fix my future and the burglars guard my wealth.

My neighbors run my business In manner quick sure. The miners in the coal fields regulate my temperature. With everything attended to, I lift my voice in song. It isn't possible for me to go so very wrong. I'm regulated, standardized and fitted in my place, A tagged and licensed member of the so-called human race.

Girl claims $100,000 damages, saying she was the inspiration of one of the modern song writers. Judging by some of the song a sensible jury should decide that her inspiration was worth 6 cents. The proposition now seems to be to build a new Brooklyn 1o use the material in the old bridge in building the new one and to continue to tuse the oid bridge until the new one is completed. New York taxicab driver has turned poet. His meter probably la terrible.

Hibernated Let me seek out a mossy cave. Wedged In a still, neglected cove Aa solitary as a grave. Wherein I might dream of my love The darkness would my secret keep And hide my private dreams with care. And Morpheus in love's form would creep Into my quiet slumber there. Her vision oft I would embrace.

And kiss the shadows of her hair. And gaze on the dream of her face; For Fancy should bewitch my lair. The diamond dew that Phoebus sips HOLD NEGRO FOR COURT CHARGED WITH ARSON Daniel Kitchener, a negro, was held under bail for the upper court by Deputy Judge Lynn in the Municipal Court yesterday, when he was arraigned on a charge of at tempted arson. The negro is alleged to have set fire to the home of Eva Smith, colored, 815 Walnut street, at 3.30 o'clock the morning of August 5. Eva told of being awakened from bar sleep to find the door of her homo In a blaze.

The glass, she said, had been broken. Another woman testified that' Daniel had told her that if she went to live at the Smith home, which she later did for a short time, hewould burn down the house. Testimony brought out that Hitchens was seen a short distance from the house after the fire was discovered. Hi-tohena attempted to prove an alibi. i Eva.

said that when she called tb Hitchens at tho time of the Are that she "wanted to see- him," the negro answered, "You had better see me now. Cor I won't bo here tomorrow." WQMEff MYSTERY 'GONE' Critic Declares Her Most Important Asset Has Departed LONDON, Aug. 21. Modem woman is driving man to celibacy. This" indictment against the women of the "flapper ege" was made today by Francis Henry Grlbble, critic and novelist.

Modem woman, according to Mr. Grlbble. ia robbed of her mystery and therefore desire of man to marry her is lessened. "There is no question the mystery in which woman used to be wrapped was a romantio aRset and a provocative challenge which sometimes led men to propose marriage to women whom they certainly would not have wished to marry If they had known them better," said Mr. Grlbble.

The seriously domesticated man Will not have for his wife the type of girl who has made too free with the conventions In her 'desire to I've. Bhe haa set tongues to wagging by her indiscretions and no man likes his wife to be the subject of such gossipy recollections." Gribbla fears "emancipation of women" Already has gone too far for the good of the human race and argues that, if carried to tho logleal conclusion, "flapperism may mean depopulation." INVITE U. S. RAINMAKER Efforts to Be Made to Break Italy's Five Monti is' Drought By Tha Associated Press LONDON, Aug, 21 An American "rainmaker," Charles M. Hatfield, who asserts he brought relief to drought sufferers In the United States and Canada, has arrtvod at Naples, having been invited by the Italian Government to try to bring rain to that vicinity, parched by five months' drought.

If he is euooeasful at Naples the Government will engage him to repeat the process in ether districts suffering from lack of rain, He was quoted today as saying he was anxious to explain his secret process to Pope Pius and if the Pontiff agreed ha would try to induce rain to fall on the Vatican gardens which for come time have been withered Uy dr-Quht, Kntared hi second-clsss matter at uimngton unaer act 01 OF THB ASSOCIATED PKKSS. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication Of all news dispatches credited to It IT dot otherwise credited In this paper antt also to local news puoilsbed therein. 11EMBBBS OF AUDIT BUREAU CIRCULATION ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION Story, Broods A Flnley. representatives. New ork office.

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All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are reserved. THE CONVENTION TODAY rjEMOCRATS being unable to kick up any kind of rumpus in the Republican ranks or even to im agine trouble the Republican State Convention today -will be a. sad disappointment to them. Demo crats have been fondly hoping that the Republicans would be at sixes and sevens, and that the convention would be an expression of that discord. But on the eve of the gather ing at Dover the outlook is for harmony all ther way through, and there is no evidence of trouble of any kind.

All signs point to" the nomination of Senator Coleman duPont for both the long and short terms, and for the renomination of Congressman Caleb R. Layton. The latter action would break the custom for years, but the convention will doubtless think that the time has arrived for smashing a custom which has been detrimental to the best interests of our State. For the other positions on the State ticket there are several candidates and there may be some contests among the delegates. Sentiment with respect to these places does not seem to have centered upon any particular individuals.

The prospects now are for a brief convention, as nothing particular seems to be stirring. And unless there is a radical change the indications at present are that the campaign will be of a routine nature with the Republicans "winning without trouble. The convention, however, will not be likely to act on that view, but will prepare for any eventuality, and the new State Committee will have an aggressive campaign in mind. BATTLING AGAINST THE BONUS fTflTH calm assurance, and rather dogmatic, something like the potentates of the East, Colonel MacNider, National CommandeT of the American Legion, informs the country that the Senate will take up and pass the "adjusted" compensation, otherwise known as the bonus bill, this week. Looks as If Colonel MacNider had Issued his orders to the grave and dignified Senators and as If those orders would be obeyed.

Lobbyists who are representing the Legion have for a long time been making a big fight to snatch several billions out of the Federal Treasury, and whack it up to the former service men, and In this vision of the spoils would share men not Injured at all during the war Iftft tha country. HI1U av And the amounts they receive would be so small as to do no Individual any particular good, but the aggregate would be so large that the business stability and enterprise of the country will be damaged. The latter is the reason why the President of the United States Chamber of commerce has renewed with much vigor the war the Chamber has been conducting against this measure. President Barnes in a letter to business organizations declares that If the bonus measure is enacted it will increase the liabilities of this country to a point never before reached In its history. During the world war the national debt was Increased 2200 per cent, and the bonus bill, Mr.

Barnes says, would add four and one-half billions to that sum, the figures of the bonus measure approximating the debt of the Uaited States some time after the clo of the civil war, and this country has not yet paid that debt in full. But this is not all of it. The deficit in the Federal Treasury at the end of the current fiscal year is estimnted at $500,000,000, wbict shortage piusij bj provided Press Features Predictions of Future Conflict and Demand Greater Protection By DAVID M. CHCItCII International News Service. Staff Correspondent LONDON, Aug.

21 Europe, and particularly Great Britain, is suffering from shell shock. The World War's effects have not worn off and there is a constant fear throughout Europe of the next war. Despite the League of Nations, the Washington Conference, and individual efforts to check war, all Europe talks of the next war, hoping against hope that it never will come, but firmly believing that it will. Lloyd George, Europe's super-optimist, even has his fears. Not long ago, in a speech to a gathering of churchmen, the Premier gave his views of the next war, declaring that it would be the most brutal in all history.

The Prime Minister was very careful to Qualify his statements about the next war with the phrase "if it comes," but he left no doubt with his audience that he fears that wars will again ravage the Old World. Lord Grey Fearful The words of -Lloyd George had not grown cold when Viscount Orey, another British leader who is not regarded as a pessimist, made a speech in which he gave warning that he, too, cherished grave fears of another war some time in the distant future. Predictions of war and rumors of war are given the greatest prominence in the European press. Perhaps the people do not become ex-Cited over rumors of war, but the press certainly does. When King Constantine makes a gesture against the Turks the European press becomes violently agitated.

If there are menacing motions on the part of tho Soviet -Government of Russia again the headline writers get extremely busy and trot out their biggest type. A single newspaper succeeded in working the population of London up to a war pitch by a campaign demanding greater aerial protection, pay after day this news paper dinned Into its readers that London might be wiped out of existence in a few hours time by aerial raids of the ever-expected next war. The newspaper not only succeeded in arousing London's population but it acfuatlv succeeded In arousing the British Government to increase the strength of aerial de-fences of London. Few Hope- for Peace The hopes against the next war in Europe sewn few and far between. A few clutch at the League of Nations as a probable war-preventive, but the majority believe that it can be and is of little use.

Some militarists are In favor of facing their fears and rebuilding large armies and navies. But everywhere there seems to be a verv deflnitn although nebulous faith in the United states to prevent the ever-threatening next war. No one seems to know Just how the United States can nre vent the next war Some argue that with the Unfted States in the League of Nations another war would be impossible, but this doesut satisfy rnanf. The net result of this fear of the next war and faith in the TTnrbed States is pretty apt to be a general pusn on the port of European governments to get the United States involved in European affairs, so that when the much-feared next war does oome the United States will be in, on whose side nobody knows, but every European wants the United States on. his side when the next war oome.

European aoldSer tn tho Wtorld War didn't love tho Amort oan doughboy, hut they respected him, ana tho whole of Europe wants to iave the doughboy as his ally the next time tho call oome to go over the top. A Kansas) Doubting Thomas A liar Is any correspondent who sends out a dispatch stating that a ten or fifteen year old girl fluently speaks five languages. Also, adds E. E. Keller, any newspaper correspondent who telegraphs to his paper that a boy of seven or a girl of eleven "filled the pulpit last Sunday morning and preaohed an able sermon.

-Atchison Globe. Pocket Picked In PhOadalphta Several paper bills, some coin and his automobile titling card and operator's license were "picked from the pockets of former Oounollman Charles Forwood of Twenty-first and Boulevard, while he was attending a baseball game at Shibe Park, in Philadelphia, Saturday afternoon. Mr. Forwood reported his loss to the Philadelphia police, but thus far has not recovered the money and stolen articles. as the minimum eharge.

To send a picture postal card two blocks or more right here in Sydney 1j costs three oents. The postage for letters is four cents for the city and tho entire country. One of the big wool growers of Queensland a man whose paper wealth runs into millions of dollars related that after he had paid his many taxes thero was comparatively little left. Strikes and labor demands stand in the way of eteady business and an effort is being made to adjust those retarding agencies. There are many idle men hero and the government agencies are Jcept busy looking after them.

The returned soldier problem is also a factor, Australia, as one of the residents here remarked, "was put on the map by the great war." What the Anzacs did in Turkey and elsewhere made them known the world over. Back of it all there is evidence of a growing and well-developed desire to make Australia a great country and within the next fifty years or less this isolated country will be playing a greater commercial part in, the world's affairs. Frederick Schenck Schlesinger. When a housemaid calls at an employment bureau nowadays tnoy do not give her a permanent engagement, but en itinerary. Some cheap literary shysters are saying things about Lord North-cJiffe personality now that they would not have dared say while ha was alive.

Do You Enov That Pedro Gutierrez and-RedrigtJ Sanchez of Segoviah sailed with Columbus when he discovered America? That Leonardo da Vinci, the great Italian artist, was born near Florence-in 1452T That Desiderlus Erasmus, the Dutch scholar, was born in Potter-dam, Holland. October 28, I46T That Ignatius Loyola founded tho order of Jesuits? That Alfonso the Wise was king of Castille from 1252 to 1282? That the battle of Otterbourne was in ine year 1-iBS If you don't what's the difference? Marcel Stelnbrugge. We hope it is not asking too much to request that new restaurant dictator to use the skillet and kettles for culinary Instead of musical purposes. Well Mayfoo Ho Wasn't Dea.r Roy: While serving on the Jury during the entire month of July, the judge, district attorney and various lawyers insisted on lnnulting our foreman. Their opening wors in each case invariably were, "Fores-nan and gentlemen of the Jury" What do you make of that? Harry Kirschbaum.

Liquor has been restored in Russia, but it will never ruin that country. It is too late. As to working or loafing, we hope the miners will take their pick. About the cheapest auto to own, is an autobiography. It seems safe now to predict very cool winter.

Driver Intoxicated. Charge The case of Elmer Fisher, accused of operating an automobile while Intoxicated, was continued until Friday, when the defendant was arraigned in the Municipal Court, yesterday. Fisher was arrested Sunday night by Motorcycle Officer Oarey. HAVEJPERATION A Neighbor Begged This Lady to Try Plant Jufce Firct Now Says-It Completely Relieved Trouble; Had Suf- fered Untold Agony I felt so bad that I was Just ready to give up and go to the hospital for an operation, but I heard Plant Juice and started taktng It and I want to say that this roraady has completely relioved my said Mrs. Fannia Finkle, S8 Bar) 5, 7 i.

FANNIE FINKLX1 avenue, William svort. ln recent conversation with The Plan. Juice Man. "I suffered untold agony tuid is seemed that nobody was able to- -dW agnoee my trouble. I had a peculiar" smothering feeling that would start ln my stomach and before long would feel like I was going to choke to death.

My appetite was poor and my digestion was simply terrible, i kept losing weight and got so that the least exertion would put me ln bed. I was told that only -sin, operation would relieve my trodbie, and had tried so many dlfTerent medicines and treatments that I el-moat bfiiieved this, was so and about ready to give up and go eoxtha hopital when one of the neighbor told me about Plant Juice. "This neighbor had taken Plant Juice with wonderful results and she Just begged me to try at least one bottle I submitted to am operation. I did not have any faith, in Plant Juice because I had triad so many medicines without benefit but I started takl-ng it anyway (and I want to sayjthat I have now tjrften, four bottles tk Plant Juice and liawe been completely relieved of my trouble, I feel better than I over felt in my life. All my friends are talking about how much better I look.

I think Plant Juice Is simply, wonderful and -I'll never be able ta reoommend It strongly enough." Plant Juloe is sold in Wilmington, at the Miller dreg store, 404-40 Market street; in New Castle by -32 Challenger Bon; in Newport hy C. B. White; in Kewark by 7. EL, Brown. Adv.) Premier Poincare says that France will force Germany to pay those reparations and that France knows how to compel Germany to pay.

Perhaps so, and the world will Jiope that France can devise some i means of getting the money, but some are inclined to think that about twenty-five years from now the French Premier at that time will be thinking of lines similar to the utterances of the present Premier. And when Germany pays the United States is expected to get something owed this country. But our nation has not yet begun to worry about what to do with the money which, of course, is to be forthcoming some time. Wonder what Lloyd George is saying about the German reparations and the Allied debts? He is doubtless willing that France should go it alone in trying to get the huge exactions. All kinds of freak car fare arrangements are in vogue in different cities, that in Chicago being a type of many.

This plan is of a $1.23 ticket, transferable, good for a week and for as many of one's friends as want to travel during the week. The meat of the cocoanut is that the roads needs more money. In this connection it is an interesting psychological fact that many persons the last six years would stand almost any other kind a lift in prices better than a jump in car fares. Less independence will be manifested in the Senate for a time by one Robert LaFolJetta. The defeat of Senator McCumber for renomination puts the chairmanship of the Finance Committee in the hands of Senator Smoot, and Senator La Follette comes next in oVder.

And the Wisconsin Senator is wise enough to know that he can not serve two masters. Too much straining at the Republican leash and the Republican leaders might upset the seniority rule. At the Democratic Senatorial primaries in West Virginia Mrs. Izette Jewell Brown, though not nominated, polled 40,000 votes, and she is not discouraged. We do not see why she should be discouraged, for she received a handsome vote.

SCATTERING SHOTS Jud Tunklns says so few efficiency experts are now traveling the- country he guesses they must Have gone to work. Washington Star. Announcement by physicians that people don't drink enough water sounds as If we've been libeling: the hootchmakers. Washington Post. "You don't have wine with your meals since the advent of prohibition.

"No, all my wife and I have with) our meals now are words." Cincinnati Enquirer. Let us 1)0 thankful to lawyers. Think: what other lawyers would do to us If we couldn't hire one to pro-toot ii. Birmingham News. Lota, of people travel flrat-olaes who evidently are not -Altoona Mirror, Egotistical Author Of course.

you are lanxiuar witn my dookst Clubman- Noj I have merely a nodding acquaintance. Boston Transcript. Many a man working- for peaee gets hurt in the struggle. Springfield News. In August Heat urges secret odors from the grass Blunting the edge of silence, crickets shrill.

Wings veer; inane needles of light, and pass, Laced pools; the warm wood-shadows ebb and All, The wind is casual, loitering to erush The sun upon his palate, and to draw Pungence from pine, frank fragrances from brush. Sucked up through thin gray boughs as through a straw. Moss-green, fern-green and leaf and meadow-green, And broken by the bare, bone-colored roads, Less moved by stirring air than by unseen Soft-footed ants and meditative toads Summer Is passing, taking what she brings; Green scents and sounds and quick ephemeral wings Babette Deutsch in the Bookman. BELLE A. WHITNEY DEAD Boston Woman, Decorate for Fmnoe for Wair lork, Succumbs By- The Associated Press BOSTON, Aug.

21. Mrs. Belle Armstrong Whitney, fashion "expert and a former newspaper woman of ths city is dead in Paris, according to a cablegram received here today. Mrs. Whitney was decorated by the Franqh Government for her work during the war.

Bhe was the widow of Dr. Charles A. Whit- FEDERAL OWNERSHIP ACCORDING to the investiga-tions of a special writer for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the coal miners are turning to Federal ownership as a cure for the ills of the trader This is one reason why they are opposing arbitration. The so-called affluent experience of the railway workers under Federal management during the war has stimulated among the miners a de sire for government control. Such proposals as they are now making have often caused answers pointing out the difficulties of Federal ownership, one of which is that there is no method of finding out the real value of the properties that would be taken over by the govern ment under this plan.

Then again. and this has in our country always been a strong argument against Federal ownership, such ownership would create a huge political machine which could regiment all the employes of the railway into one way of thinking and acting politically. The country certainly is as yet in no humor for Federal ownership. It has the example of Russia and of other lands before it. The revolution in Russia has served one use ful purpose in that it has demon strated what radicals would do, how cruel, for one thing, they would be if they bad the chance.

Russian tyrants do not hesitate at putting their opponents to death for trivial offenses. They are not satisned with disfranchising them. Murder- ins- them under the guise of law is an easy way for the Russian ruler3 to get rid of persons disagreeable to them. There has been much suffering and distress among the lower classes of Russia especially, but these were the very ones that the guttersnipe government of Russia was to ac complish so much for. GETTING MONEY OUT OF GERMANY -lONFERENCES with other allied powers having failed, France mow considering how she shall deal directly with Germany, and.

strange to say, an influential element among the Germans welcomes these direct negotiations, though they will probably be severe. The French leaders have believed that Germany has been prompted more by unwillingness than by lack of ability to pay. But the French program has not been mapped out, or if it has, the public has not been authoritatively informed. France is not at all anions to take up the proposed pro gram and does so only because of necessity. There are, of course, various rumors, one of which is that under certain conditions the German reparation bill due France would be eut in half, but this is said to be contingent on the cancelling of the Inter-AUied debt and the holding up of payment of the debt Fiance owes to the United States as long as possible, There have been all kinds of suggestions back and forth between England and France about the inter-allied debts, but these suggestions have led to nothing tangible, and are not likely to de so.

Another report is that the French, dealing directly with Germany, will put the full bill for reparations at thirty billions, and will formulate a scheme for payment. This report is hardly erjedible. France will be "whistling for a long time before she cets any serious fraction of such a cum cot ki Germany. Before the war iJig fidWe pf Gariuanx smoker from the States. Car fare is paid by sections, and each pas senger is given a slip of paper as a receipt, after the fashion of the English busses.

These recepts are to be held by a passenger until he leaves the car. with a request, print ed, to throw the receipt in a can by the wayside after alighting. Naturally there are many features of a business and a domestlo character which appear odd to those from elsewhere, and the first lesson to learn is to disassociate all home ideas and fall in line with he "customs of the country." In respect to the tendency of the visitor from the "United States is to mentally associate dollars and cents with pounds and shillings and pence. When the car fare to "tuppence" It means four cents In the money "back ftome, and is at first confusing. Store goods are marked in pounds, shillings and pence and the visitor is often interested In tha rapidity with which a shopkeeper or a bank clork counts the two shilling, ten-shilling and one-pound notes and the shilling, florin, half-crown, penny and ha'penny pieces.

One of Tom Hood's notes of a visit to the Continent of Europe, was that "evro the children fa. France speeJe French. Ta tbat this tr an English city end that la all there Is to be said. The one great desire of the enorgetio Australians la to have this great country developed fully. There are.

they claim by statietios, no end of possibilities. On the other hand, so they admit, there are too many obstacles. The dominating thought is to keep this a "white-man's country," by keeping out all manner of Asiatics. Very few Chinamen are seen and those who come have to pay am entrance fee of one hundred pounds. While an outsider may look upon the people here as "too conservative," the fact remains that they have to be conservative in view of existing conditions.

Tet so much has bean done that Australians are justified in feeling proud of their country. Eager they are for business with the United Srates, while at the same time disposed to criticise that great country upon which- they seem inclined to lean. Isolated by thousands of mT.es of sea from both England and the United States, the situation is a difficult one to master. While public work has been done here to a marked and surprising extent, it remains evident that what is needed here is more stable and intelligent and just legislation backed by "American snap." The field is here for great business, In this particular section shipping being the leading feature. There is sheep-raising and wool-growing, as everybody who has heard of Australia knows.

Woolen mills are being erected and the raw product, instead of being shipped to England and brought back in cloths, is worked here. There is an attempt made to grow cotton, that has not developed yet. TJiftJa are some minerals in addition 0 gold and coal, and altogether Australia has much wealth to turn into cash. There ought to be wonderful future awaiting this country, atthough there must coma a closer touch in the way of respect for tha views of other people to advance the progress. Aa an aftermath of the great war Australia Is hampered by its burden of taxation in every form, and stamps are required to be placed upon bills rendered by hotels and boarding houses when payment is received.

Postage rates are eight cents from here to the United States SYDNEY, N. S. Australia, July 18 Should an Australian who had never before been in the States land in Baltimore, for instance, and remain there a fortnight and then be asked what were bis impressions of America it would be difficult for him to put them in words. It In just so with a resident of the United States who hae spent only a fortnight In Sydney, the big elty of Australia. In area this island Is, as has been noted before, about the same size as the United States, yet the population Is perhaps only six millions.

Of that number it may be taken that nearly one-half live in the towns and cities along the great coast line of the continent. There are six states In Australia, one of them, Tasmania. separate Is land, being separated by a wide stretch of sea from the main body. The other states are Queensland, to the north of New Bouth Wales, the state of which Sydney is the capital; Victoria, to the south, and. then South Australia and West Australia, the latter being almost as distant from this side of the continent as California was from (the Atlantic Coast prior to the days of the Civil War and before the rarflroads began to cross the plains and the prairies.

Thirty or fifty miles west of etydney are the. Blue Mountains and beyond them a vast bit of country similar to the unexplored districts of the UWted States west of the MifwiKaipi many years ago. Each one of the states has Its) own peculiar characteristics, and Queensland 1 in tropical section, where bananas, pineapples and other similar fruits are rrown; even in the western part of New South Wales there are orange groves. The temperature varies In the several states and each one of them has its special features to be praised or ridiculed by tha residents in other states. There is a marked spirit of Jealous rivalry on the part of the residents of each state for the residents and methods of the other states.

Take the matter of railroads, all of them controlled by the Australian government. In New South Wales the railroad guage Is 4 feet, 8 inches; Victoria and South Australia, 5 feet, 4 inches; Queensland, West Australia and Tasmania, 3 feet 6 inches. This makes continuous trains impossible through the continent at large. In addition the distances are great in view of the fact that one who wishes to go by rail from Sydney to Freemantle, for instance, on tha westVoast, has to go by a roundabout route to the south and then to the west. The cars are of the English type and such a thing as a comfortable sleeping car like a Pullman, is unknown.

As near as can be learned, as statistics appear difficult to obtain, tha railroads for the most part show a government deficit annually. This is true as well of the electric or tramcar system in Sydney. The street cars are of what a visitor would call a unique character. They are open at the sides with from five to seven sections, some open and some closed, the seats running across the car. Many of the care have peven doors and each compartment will seat about ten persons, although during the busy hours half a dozen more will crowd in to stand on the feet of the sealers.

In each car there are two or more compartments for smokers. Smoking is a part of the living- of the Australians and the English residents practically the same and the quality of the tons of expensive tobacco is, rather -discouragiDs to a.