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ruuii let nm thy it THE AKRON BEACON JOURNAL Only One of Richard Croker's Children Will Be Benefited Under Will Left By Noted New York Leader in Politics Although advice and instruction have been coming from -his counselors that he should shun Massachusetts this year as he would avoid a pestilence, the Hon. J. M. Cox is not a whit persuaded. Duty calls him to that rockbound state to do his part toAvard the defeat of ra, Published by THE BEACON JOURNAL COMPANY PLAY FAIR.

WITH OUR OWN. Editor Beacon Journal: East Market Street Corner of Broadway Them ME. the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge for another term the senate. Not to C.

tt. KNIGHT Publisher By HAYDEN TALBOT. (Conyriarht. 122 ing at the foot of his bed, and added: heed the call will be to break the heart of the world all over again JOHN S. KNIGHT Referring to an article in the Journal, a few days ago wherein 1697 ONDON, May 3.

Only one of his Editor Manager "'Our maid told me that last night Political advisers tell Mr. Cox that if he must stand in his tracks, to W. H. BARRY and the poor thing hasn't had the I children will be found to benefit do the standing on the safe soil of Ohio, and let others risk the loss courage to look at me since. Vincent Stevens, secretary of the chamber of commerce, announced that the rubber factories must send by the will of Richard Croker of political prestige certain to follow the event that Senator WESTERN REPRESENTATIVE Story, Booka Flnley Peoples On, Chtcaso Hobart San Frtncnoo EASTERN REPRESENTATIVE M.

Watson 1 Fifth Nsw York City A. C. Bachtel and David resigned from the park" board- "As a matter of fact I guess I look That one will be the daughter who pretty bad. Most any man would Lodge pulls through to another precarious victory. Let prestige take care of itself.

The Ohio warrior will not desert humanity in its hour is now living In England. after 13 weeks in bed. and I suppose out of town to get 1,000 experienced tire builders during the next three me doctor Is right when he says I George Bates. Henry Klages and J. Martin Beck went to Hawkins.

of need. Lodge must be defeated for having made faces- at Mr. Wil can't last much longer." I am able to state this with certainty because ray intimacy with the boss, began in the early years of the SUBSCRIPTION RATES BT CARRIER Daily 1 yaar. S.OO: dally. 1 month.

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11.00; daily, 1 month, BOo. In Ad vane. weeks on account of the Increased business, it seems too bad for the son and his 14 points, and for having held out for reservations that prevented the quarrelsome powers of Europe from taking American sovereignty and the American treasury into full partnership in their Charles S. Heller was granted" century, and renewed at StiIIoran ii bright eyes caught the sudden II TELKPUO.VK DIRECTORY patent on a nipple ne bad invented. community In general that a great many of the 1,300 men who apply at the state-city free labor exchange tears that started streaming down the race of the woman who had this spring, caused my being taken Into his confidence on many matter.

schemes to exploit the Avorld. OHIO STATE PHONES rBKLL PHONE? ublnhar'a office (private tit rlvate Xfhm connecting all 6054 -S055-6056-S04 nursed him day and nieht and with May and Fieberger received an His two sons and the daughter now One would imagine that after Mr. Wilson's letter bluntly re each week cannot be used. order for four hot air furnaces from In America are excluded from all whom (so Croker later told me) he had known the greatest happiness pudiating the clumsy forgery of his endorsement for circulation at aaa Holiday Peking university. China.

legacies as a consequence of their at Publisher's off lea 1193 Buaineaa office 1345 Advertising department 1345 Editorial roam It also seems strange that right here in Akron we have, today, about 3.000 expert tire builders walking the streets looking for work, and 6056 605T ana contentment of bis whole life. titude In litigation of the past two an eastern banquet honoring Mr. Cox, the former governor of Ohio would have less political stomach for the business of bringing Mr. Quickly be turned to her and years. As a consequence of this A.

I. Spanton was elected presi Compostnr room Pusinaaa office Circulation department Display Advertlatna- Dept Classified Advertising Dept. Circulation department 1973 Wilson the belated vindication of a Lodge defeat in Massachusetts litigation, Croker retained his resent about 5.000 expert tire builders 6051 60oJ 6064 6066 asked gently: "Why the tears dent of the Young Peoples Christian Union of the Universalist church. ment against his children to the end News and Editorial departments. 13T4 working In our four largest rubber factories who do not get more than He stopped for a moment and then Not so, it seems.

In spite of tearful monition from friends and direct protests from the Massachusetts democratic organization, Avhich does of his days and made no secret of the fact that he considered that the continued addressing her. three days' work a week. Emil Gammeter complained to the Guaranteed the largest circulation of any paper published in Summit cAunty. Circulation records open to "Don we agree about death?" only one of his children who' had city commissioners that the parks Tnen the woman who had been Some one has certainly made a bad mess of figures. It may be that these men from Texas, South Dakota, were being neglected.

treated him fairly was his English daughter. born a Cherokee Indian Princess Entered at the Postofffce. Akron. Ohio, as second-class matter. smiled bravely.

not want the late candidate for the presidency to parade the discredited league of nations issue throughout that state, Mr. Cox insists upon ha'ing his Avay. He will speak. He will urge Massachusetts voters to repeal the nearly unanimous decision they handed down against the defunct league in the late great solemn referendum. Let him make the quest, and may his return be as jovial as his He carried his resentment toward Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Cross Good That's better," said the old boss West Virginia, make better tires than our local taxpayers who furnish WEDNESDAY. MAY 3. 1921. the others to the extent of enjoining as he turned back to me and said: rich issued cards for a tea to meet Miss Gellatly.

good schools for the children of nis wire not to sena any announce "This is the strangest part of this ment of his death to his children in these "foreigners." But I dare say whole business of dying. My wife. going, uetter nsK political ueatn than languish the aaricness or America. we have a very generous supply of all the servants on the place, the doc E. A.

Poole returned from Mas- I am also able to state Dositivelv the very best tire builders in the tor and even the good priest who glory obscured. A barbarian king complained to the SeA-en Wise Men of Greece that no faction or leader in Ireland world right here in Akron, and a sillon where he had made a sketch of the new state hospital for the In comes here and holds services in our little chapel all of them when I die will benefit under the Croker will. small advertisement in our local that a neighboring king had made impossible demands under threats sane. All of my information in this con papers will bring of the best will be so overcome that everything nection was obtained by me on a visit tire builders ready for work any will be at sixes and sevens. Richard Werner, son of Paul E.

day. "I realized this just night before of Avar. The last order Avas that the king should drink up the sea. "Let him agree to do it," one of the wise men counselled. "But let him tell the other king to first shut off all the rivers Avhich run into the sea, as being no part of the bargain, and then he will fulfill his Werner, a student at Media academy Our rubber shops would be glad last when the sacrament was admin to the Croker home several months ago.

immediately after the widespread rumors that Mr. Croker was dying. was tnrown from a bicycle and seriously injured. istered so I had to grit my teeth to run their shops so as to have a reserve of three idle men to every and pull myself together long enough It was then that he evinced his man at work, at all times, if possible. to get things straightened out and Considerable excitement was know of several Instances where unspeakable belief in his own pecu arranged for the good of all con part.

drinking up the sea as Avell as defeating Henry Cabot Lodge Avere a part of the adventure in Mr. Cox's Massachusetts undertaking, he Avould tackle the job undaunted, nor ask any wise man of Greece to counsel anybody to shut off the rivers. There is a rash caused when workmen discovered a liar philosophy to which he had cerned. saeieton the Ohio canal. The clung for years.

one of our large shops sent to Texas for help and when the men got here they were given three weeks work and then laid off. adding more skeleton was later found to be that of a dog. ffN the first place I realized that ness that is greater than courage. never having said anything BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST As details come in from that famous feast at Cleveland last Friday nigrht at which Kud Hynicka's machine candidate for governor avss the ''piece de resistance" the fun prows. The Hon.

Billy Boyd led off. but his usual eloquence was hitting on three cylinders. However. Billy really did talk eloquently about himself for 23 minutes. Then he got in five minutes about the candidate and during that time demonstrated that they both were just alike.

Having thus settled the question and satisfactorily demonstrated that Bill and Carmi were coal miners, the procession proceeded until the candidate was reached. By that time a third of the' audience had departed, leaving unsigned the Thompson pledges, and another third was asleep. Carmi tried to wake up the crew of the becalmed ship by doing a trapeze stunt holding on the presidential coat tail. More of the deck hands went to sleep. Then in a grand burst of oratory he said, "All America loves a soldier and nothing Ave can do for them is too good.

I was a soldier in the Spanish Avar," etc. The bid for the soldier vote Avas rather strong at this point even if the estimable colonel did not say that on the bonus he stands Avith the beloA-ed president also. But Ave Avonder at his shrinking modesty. Why confine his heroic exploits to a conflict so far removed as the Spanish Avar? The colonel was in the thick of the conflict during the World Avar, and if the information the democrats say they have is true he took enough government contracts to desolate Germany. lfoweA-er, eA-en a hero must sometimes live by the sweat of his broAV and Ave hold that the Avicked and unmannerly democrats are going far beyond the mark Avhen they assert there are no risks as a Avar contractor or CAen in laying up a million or two in Avar profits.

There are the inAestigation committees that might pounce upon one, and IffHAT a childish thing it is to try beat the Almighty," he said to me. "And yet I could name clients for our great charity organ about it before, nobody would THE WATCHDOGS START SOMETHING Senator LaFollette's charge that rich priA'ate interests haA-e The town was suffering frr. know my wishes about my place of ization "The Better Akron Federation' epidemic of dead dors. Thwa w- among my old time friends in Nw burial. I had visions of being carted We certainly need a well financed found on Mill one at Bartges and across the Atlantic, maybe down to turned up Avith fa-orable leases on the A-aluable oil lands of.

Wyoming that had been reserved for the future use of the navy, has started York dozens who went to their death struggling and protesting, and ac charity organization hare in Akron, Florida or to some other place that ri on h. Jiain and two on Washington st. not for our Akron taxpayers but for tually thinking they had something a merry scramble at Washington. I had loved. the.

whims of our New York rubber to say about it. The LaFollette claim will be investigated. A dispatch de "So I told this little woman here that this place is plenty good enough Lymann Triplett. a form- "To my -way of thinking it is about clares that the investigation that has been ordered does not represent the same as admitting that you are for me out under' the paddock Ploye of the Akron and Cuyahoga Falls Rapid Transit sued tha a retreat before the shout of scandal raised by the isconsin states afraid to answer the greatest call a stock barons. They advertise all over the United States for help, even when their shops are cut to one-third production, because they must have an army of idle men in Akron, In reserve.

where the sons and daughters of Orby could always come and be man ever gets and when God is company for 50.000 for injuries re- man. but that the inquiry Avill reveal the rather anomalous fact that wnen ne -was thrown f.nm close to me. by farming out these valuable leases to private interests is the na- good as he has been to me, I cannot see any reason not to welcome the the platform of one of the cars. "Then naturally there were many ion very best Avay of conserving its natural resources. No other other things of a business nature interpretation can be placed upon the Avords: "In the forthcoming A new suburb of tha tn that I had to arrange many, many nvestigation the administration hopes to place before the nation its details but it is all done now.

praise God. policy toward the natural resources of the country, believing 'the public Avill endorse it as sound business policy." Garden City in Copley township, which Its promoters thought would be incorporated in a year or so. It was laid out in celery fields which were to be cultivated by the I glanced at Mrs. Croker whose the democrats know just little enough eAen in the heat of a political I face was now radiant with pride as she nodded her confirmation of this Harry Sinclair, the cleA-er oil operator Avho obtained the 3'6m- summons. Boss Croker was then abed in his palatial mansion.

"Glencairn." Two nights previously the last rites of the church had been administered to him, and his physician. Dr. Lennon of Dublin, had diagnosed his condition as hopeless and declared death would be but a matter of a few hours. But when I was ushered Into his bedroom the octogenarian was prop-, ped up with pillows and literally buried under Sunday newspapers, one of which he held in his hand. story or the ola cnieitain un Any man who gives to a charity organization in Akron is a poor "simp" because he simply helps these "four flushers" to continue their game.

If these interests continue to bring men into Akron and increase idleness as they have been doing, and are doing right now. we should stop this charity business and the idle men will leave town in a hurry. If they don't leave they will starve, and I am in favor of starving them out as fast as our rubber barons bring them in. L. J.

MAINE. paralleled return from the brink of the grave. Beacon-Lights From the mistress of Glencairn. later I obtained further details of Croker's acuteness which included attention to such unimportant de tails as making specific bequests of Jack bo nimble; Jack be cr a casing: your ribs will stick. In The old gleam was in his eye as personal belongings to tne lodge 3 4 Wooster Kenmore he cordially welcomed me, with the keepers and their children and the Another thing the British Hon' hostlers and their families besides cubs seem to be short of i- filial REPROVE CARELESS MOTORISTS campaign to ask Avhere did one get it.

Ibo these moving accidents by flood and field should not be minimized and the colonel should have gone to bat and shoAvn that the American army must haAe surrendered if it had not been for his Avar contracts. Far be it for one to criticize but a great opportunity for strengthening a jnilitary record Avas there OA-erlooked. Aside from the orator- there Avere other mishaps too. The famous dollar dinner which by the Avay cost $2.50 a seat, not to the diners, of course, but to the candidate, did not set Avell. Whether it was the oratory or the fish the doctors haA-e not j-et decided, but most everybody got seasick.

It could not have been the Avine that spark-leth Avhile it is red, for Carmi is dry and can prove it by Brother Waj'ne Wheeler. notAvithstanding the former's close alliance Avith liud Hynicka Avho is not and can prove it by everybody. So it Avas either the fish or the oratory. But either Avay it Avas too bad. Indeed it Avas bad enough for the political deck hands and OA-erdraft of federal nepheAvs to be sick at all and a good deal worse to ha-e the damp and cheerless atmosphere at what Avas to haA-e been a joyous feast admonish them hoAv much sicker they are going to be next NoAember.

devotion. caution: "Don't say that I am looking better." As he thus addressed me, he winked at his solicitous wife, stand- minute instructions regarding the wording of the message which was to be sent to one of his children by ing lease in a most mysterious Avay, Avas until yesterday at Mexico City, accompanied by Standard Oil officials, negotiating with President Obregon for big leases of Mexican oil lands. He left on a spe-s eial train for New York when notified of the illness of his son, his associate officials continuing the negotiating. It will be an excellent thing for the country to have the senate investigators get to the bottom of this oil scandal. The furtive manner in Avhich the Avhole Wj-oming deal Avas put through, giving a feAv iuside oil interests an advantage not shared by the general public, puts a blanket of suspicion upon the whole proceeding.

The im-esti-gation will be broadened to include the transfer of the timber resources of the nation from one department to another, suggesting that plans Avere under way to exploit the remaining government timber supply in the same manner that the Wyoming oil reserA-es Avere throAvn open to priA-ate manipulation. Senator LaFollette's outcry Avill be good for another boost to the campaign fund that is being raised by priA'ileged interests to retire him to private life in the approaching primary election. It will also have the effect of adding to the number of Wisconsin citizenship Avhich is sagacious and interested enough to keep him on the job. If there Avere no independent Avatchdogs in the senate seme of the inside syndicates enjoA-ing administratiA-e faA-or Avould be or Editor Beacon Journal: Kindly permit me to say a few As the small-fruit wasnn his wife after his death. thirsty gentry see a star of hope in the yeast.

words regarding the conduct of some autoists and the way they Elmer Dover New Plan To Collect Income Tax in Zones To Be Established in If Lenine ever is assassinated abuse the property of others in the rural and suburban districts of the he'll probably take it for another of those darned rumors. Various Sections To Obtain Quicker Results I live on a much traveled road Xobody knows Just what the rnal strike will cost, but everybody knovs concerns have been kept on the anx-Jwfco win pay for it and near several cross roads just below our place, and these cross roads are designated' with large signs. However, our drive being the first The packers might be forgiven much if they could arrange to place the road-hogs in cold ious seat over long periods of time because of uncertainty whether they have calculated their taxes correctly. The new plan would speed up the auditing and especially would make available In a day information which takes months now to ferret out. one reached after passing one of these cross roads is used by drivers who have discovered, too late, that Ry DAVID LAWRENCE.

(Copyright. 1922. by Beacon Journal) WASHINGTON, May 3. "We will send the government to the people instead of making the people come to the said Elmer Dover, assistant secretary of the treasury today in outlining the plan he has in mind whereby every taxpayer The bald-beaded man always detects a note of sarcasm in the barber's sen-tie query: "Tonic, Will Test Out Plan ir. uover estimates that 95 per they have passed the cross road they Intended to turn into.

We have no objection to any one using the entrance to our drive as a means of making a turn in order to return to the cross roads, providing, of course, that they use care. But there are many who are so In A surprising number of boys turn out well In spite of the restraining influence of their parents. cent, of the income tax returns of in the United States will be able to ascertain immediately the exact the country can be audited and status of his income tax return. handled at regional headquarters Under the present system, a trip without being sent to Washington. different to the rights of others that they drive across our lawn in order ganizing a scheme to enrich themseh-es by stealing the dome of the national capitol.

A BOSS AND A LEADER Some of the democratic newspapers, striving to do their best to give to the late Dick Croker, a former boss of Tammany hall, a feAv shreds of respectable memories to coA-er the barrenness of a niisdi-, rected life, haA'e pointed to Croker 's victory OAer Henry George as indicating that "Avith all its strength the hand of Croker Avas not AA-ithout cunning." In the first year of Croker 's leadership of "Tammany, Henry George yielded to the entreaties of his friends that he become an independent candidate for mayor of New York. There was no prospect of his being elected, but he thought the country might profit if he should register a protest against the two political machines that had no inscription upon their banners except corruption and spoils. Mr. George's physician told him that the adventure Avould be fatal to him; that he could not survive the campaign. His ansAver Avas: "Well, I cannot die in a better cause." One of the candidate's admirers Avrote that "at that moment Henry George stepped into the A test is to be made on the Pacific to Washington is necessary in order to learn how far the income tax bureau has progressed in auditing back returns.

American business Our own opinion is that eventually prohibition jokes will cause more In sanity than hootch ever caused. You see, it is necessary to oppress the better classes in India to keep them from oppressing the lower classes. coast. Mr. Dover hails from that sections and knows the viewpoint of the taxpayers of that region, many ol whom nave had to pay expenses to and from Washington several European countries are placed economically on a solid base.

With this idea fixed in their minds For all our boasted Inventive aenlna. to make a loop to get back. Women are just as bad as men, and some are even, Five women in a sedan! drove in our drive recently and being unable to make the turn on the front lawn drove to the rear which had bean freshly sodded. They drove over the rear lawn and across flower beds, and from their laughter I judged that they enjoyed the incident. Would they grant me the privilege of turning my auto around on we nave never coined a word satisfactorily to describe the male flapper.

times to transact business which the government could just as well handle by a branch office on the Perhaps you have noticed that tha coast. Because it will take time to find chap who invests In bogus stock blames his subsequent poverty on world conditions. it would seem natural that the delegates at Genoa would be ready to give as well as to take. Yet, so far aa it looks the first predominates. Especially is it noticeable in the case of France which seems to be the chief obstacle in the conference work.

When the basis of discussion at the Genoa conference was laid down out how a branch of the revenue bureau shall be equipped and what charmed circle of the Avorld's heroes. A readiness to give up life for i The metropolitan districts a-ava mora daylight than tha ru rails ts. but they are mora prodieal in the use of moon. shine. at Cannes.

France insisted, and Eng- the problems of administration will be, it has been thought best to use the Pacific coast as a laboratory and when the system has been perfected, the same plan will be applied to the whole country so that before March next year the income tax returns will be audited and settled without reference to Washington In nine-tenths of the cases. iTirf had to aeree. that a discussion their lawns, assuming they have lawns? i And I wonder if they enjoy driving through the country and viewing rubbish thrown to the roadside. The rubbish consists mostly of tin cans which the autoists strew along the road instead of bringing it back to the city with them, to the place Justice may be a little blind, bnt It of revision of treaties should be elimi is always a good Idea for tha ae- cused to wear her most becoming nated, there should be no tampering with the sacred indemnities and no discussion of disarmament. The frock.

A At present tnera are no tnsa words great majority of the delegates, no In the Japanese langnae-a: but loaf doubt, are most anxious to pacuy and reconstruct Europe, but how can wait until tha reformers arat srotnar a principle is the highest form of heroism knoAvn to man. Remembrance of the fight he made for clean politics remains. He stressed the necessity of rescuing American institutions, particularly the cities, from the defiling hands of the corruptionist. The American people looked on in amazement. This one earnest man with his assistants was stirring the nation's greatest city 1 to its depths; the people were arising and flocking to him.

There seemed to be a political ground SAvell until Avithin a few days of the election, when suddenly a hand reached out from behind the great curtain and took him away. The chapter closed, and Henry George was dead. Now after all these years the eulogists for the political boss re-viA-e the George campaign to shoAV that Croker 's cunning encompassed the defeat of the great reformer. It was not the hand of the boss; it was death. Henry George and the eternal truths for which he fought, Avill lh-e in the regard and affections of men for centuries after the self-seeking and time-serving boss Avho opposed' him has come to sleep in a forgotten grave "which the kindly grasses hide from a deceiA-ed and betrayed people." well over there.

they pacify Europe without remov ing -th threat which large arma Men seldom waste breath praying ments create against the security of where they and the rubbish belong. This" thing has become a regular practice with some. For the benefit of the city folk who drive out into the country I want to say that we "country jakes" as we are sometimes called enjoy having pretty and well kept homes and lawns as much as city dwellers do. E. M.

W. to be delivered from a temntation less armed nations? until they get a firm grin on It It And how can they reconstruct can't get away. Europe without cutting off the in Defines Bureau Dudes. Mr. Dover said he would let the Pacific coast bureau handle all claims for refunds or tax controversies involving 125,000 or less.

This, he said, included at least 95 per cent, of the returns. As for those in excess of that sum, the national bureau at Washington would continue to handle them except that by relieving the Washington office of returns, persons with claims above $25,000 will get much more rapid action, and will be saved time and money. It will be the policy of the treasury department to establish a corps of fectlon which the running sore of FREE WITH OTHERS' MONEY. A learned doctor Avho claimed nine years' experience as American commissioner to Turkey came to Akron to address a group of business and professional men on "Avorld problems." He lost no time recommending that the United States should cancel all the debts owed to this nation by European countries, and "then offer to loan every available penny Ave can to them to aid in general rehabilitation on condition that they cut down military programs, reduce armaments end cease all A-arring strife." This beneA-olent man has missed his calling. He should be in foreign missionary Avork.

His suggestion that Uncle Sam forgive the Kuropean nations eleA-en billion dollars of their debt to us is generous enough in its way, butthe added proposition to smother them with billions more of American loans to persuade them to quit their fighting, giA-e up their standing armies, and abate their hatred of one another is too exalted a conception to haA-e come from any mortal. It must have been inspired by saints. These belligerent nations that Avould be so swift to repudiate their debt to Uncle Sam do not scruple to collect from Germany, with a sixth of the population, Avealth and area of Europe, yearly installments on a sum much larger than all Europe OAAres us. It is a simple proposition that if the European debtors do not repay these loans, the American taxpayer must. Benevolent propagandists who are so free to forgiA-e other nations their debts are neer at all considerate of the American taxpayer.

One of these taxpayers Avrites: Europe has had hundreds of wars. It is their most honored profession. They are always preparing for a 'greater and grander it comes shall we 'finance and cancel' again An expert in world problems, with seven years' experience as commissioner to Turkey, might ansAver this blunt question to the satisfaction of all taxpayers; if he does he Avill haA-e to use a different type of argument than that employed in his Akron speech. Farmers are complaining that their property is being sold for taxes and that they can make no profit on their crops. Laborers are idle, enterprise lacks capital, trade is unprofitable and consumers are economizing to the limit.

There is complaint everyAvhere against taxation. Taxation and its exemptions are dragging too heavily upon the forces of industry and production. These are the sacrifices America has had to make to help finance Europe's Avar. It has been sacrifice Let the nations that want to keep big standing armies begin to pay the cost of them and they Avill not be so eager for more war. So long as generous nations like Uncle Sam can be beguiled into paying their bills there will be no end to the destructive game.

THE DAILY CRISIS It is an off day in international politics when some issue does not come to the fore which may decide the fate of Premier Lloyd George. There have been more dramatic turning points in the career of this able statesman than there are lives to the proverbial cat. If the premier survives the Genoa conference he will go home to face the uncertain favor of a populace demanding a reduction of income taxes, and loAver taxes on beer and tea. The ordinary American statesman, faced with as many vicissitudes as have bobbed up in the seven-year leadership of the Welsh statesman, would tell the populace and the country to go hang. He would retreat to private life and let some other fellow take up the burden of worrying over the nation's fortunes.

Perhaps this is just what Lloyd George will threaten to do when goaded to the end of his patience. In doing this he will be playing his trump card, for his country needs him worse than he needs the nation's faA-or. THE OLD AND THE NEW At the official opening of the New York flying season at Curtiss field, Sunday, the latest devices in airplanes were revealed. One of the machines established the speed record of 208 miles an hour. Although all sorts of stunts were engaged in by the aviators, there Was not a crash in all the day's exhibition, showing the degree to which safety has come to dominate the flying craft.

One of the features was the flying of an old type of Curtiss pusher the same machine in which Glenn Curtiss won the first Gordon Bennett race in .1909, attaining the then record speed of 45 miles an hour. The old plane was not only flown, but "stunted," and stood the treatment as well as a 1922 ship. This is interesting as revealing the I6ng life of airplanes. What motor car of an output antedating the 1909 model would cut respectable figure being operated in contrast with 1922 carit reparations is communicating to the THE YOUNG LADY ACROSS THE WAY whole body or Europe? nut wnen ever they refer to the two questions FRANCE STANDS IN THE WAY Editor Beacon Journal: which are inseparably connected with the errand which brought them As the delegates of the 32 nations assembled at Genoa to find a way out together at Genoa they are promptly Informed that the French govern of the economic and political difficulties troubling Europe get deeper into discussions the darker is the ment has forbidden them to raise these anxious and most critical trained men from the national capital in the offices of the four collection districts, namely, at Tacoma. outlook for a successful outcome Portland.

San Francisco and Los topics, and if the delegates would dare to raise these discussions France would resent by withdrawing from Although the invitations from the Angeles. All these districts will be Italian government were enthusias under the direction not of the local tically received and accepted by the the conference. different governments the outlook, temporarily at least, looked bright. France, though, is anxious to with Russia about the former The press of the European govern collectors of Internal revenue, but under what is known as a revenue agent in charge. officer already is provided for in the income tax administration.

He scrutinizes returns and acts more or less as a czar's debts in oraer to recogno ill iuih the Soviet government, forgetting ments in one accord exclaimed that the time finally arrived when all the thereby the expenditures In lives and nations, the conquered as Well as the victorious would at least meet on check on the work of the collectors. If he is in doubt be will refer the equal terms, join hands freely and return to the main office of the In openly to reach an ternal revenue in the national It looked for awhile that each gov ernment realized the crippled 'eco There are 64 collection districts in the United States and It is not known nomic conditions of Europe ahd resources it caused the Moscow government when it backed Kolchak, the Archangel government. Denekln and Wrangel to fight them! Naturally then the Soviets had a moral right to the counter claims for billions of damages from the allies for their aid to the counter revolutionists. The Soviet government will probably agree to pay something, not because It has any moral obligations to the governments which carried on war acainst It. but it is worth while seemed to know that in order to put A WIDELY-DISPERSED NOBILITY New York papers carried a sob story of a middle-aged couple who had been evicted from their apartment in a NeAv York tenement.

The tearful narrative was based upon the reputed discovery by a court interpreter that the couple Avere not ignorant peasants but a former grand duke and grand duchess of Russia, who in their better days had been holders of vast estates, extensive oil fields, palaces, jeAvels and other forms of negotiable and moA-able property, all sAvept away in the Russian revolution; It is more than passing strange how these shabby remnants of Russia's derelict aristocracy are coming up for a good publicity airing in the most remote sections of the world. They have only the memories of their former estate to comfort them, but the narrati-e of their distresses serve to drive another nail into the institutions set up by the revolutionists who dispossessed them. There is a grand duke motorman in the vestibule of many a metropolitan trolley car, while dowagers and former duchesses are great helps to the American restaurants and dressmaking business, if all accounts are to be believed. They are so numerous, according to the newspaper reports, that one does not wonder why the Russian populace came to distress trying to support so many parasites. If Uncle Sam will take care that thousands of his own people are not unjustly dispossessed of their homes and the grand dukes and duchesses may be trusted to look out for themselves.

Most of the latter are more occupied with plotting to restore the throne of the czars than they are to dodging landlords. A New Yorker has sold several thousand" shares in a wireless "perpetual light" bulb without even demonstrating the bulb. Bar-num's estimate seems to haA'e been very, very conservative. About the only way a girl can get her shape in the papers noAv is to invent a way to attach a radio outfit to her bathing suit. And if wrestlifig doesn't prove a better defense than boxing, perhaps some professional will get Dempsey's goat in a foot-race.

yet how many regional bureaus of Europe back on Its feet they would internal revenue will be required to have to pave the way for a better make the system effective. The ex understanding of each other's diffi perience on the Pacific coast will teach the treasury department how culties. A neraon need not be a student many -branch offices will be neces sary. There are other advantages of decentralization besides convenience to pay something for. trade and recognition of which they are in dire need.

to the taxpayers. It is felt that the Unless the assembled delegates will of economical, to know that Europe resembles sick person whose body, composed of different organs, cannot functuate properly unless they are all In a normal condition. If one member of the body is crippled or injured In any way the rest of government will be able to maintain its personnel better in branch offices than In Washington where the constant changes and shifting have im get down to the very bottom of the situation with only one thought ia mind that Europe has to be recon peded the work. Assistant Secretary them must suffer. structed and in order to accomplish this each one of them will be willing to make concessions and even sacri Dover has made up his mind that his Europe and, to a certain extent, America are in a similar condition.

job in the scheme of things hers Is to simplify the Income tax auditing. fices If necessary, the outcome of the The young lady across tls says daylight saving ought to to Into effect early enough in tia t-v-son to give the home gardcxa benefit of aj the suuhlss rz: tx Genoa conference is doomed to fail Some of the victorious countries such as England and France may be in a better economic condition Russia and Germany yet they can ure He will go to the Pacific coast soon to supervise In person the new regional operations of the Internal revenue bureau. MAURICE SLUTZ. 500 Wooster a v. not continue.

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