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THE DAYTON DAILY NEWS fll Al.N Ir. jj ft THr Nation's Center PATENTS GRAVITY MOTOR, WILL RUN WITHOUT FUEL MM OHIO'S CAPITAL fe4l7 (PconlG. Affairs, (Ilk rrf? Gossip qrPress 0-1 BT HARI.K8 E. MORRIS loss in the passing of Charley of the consumer," with the further of government, or at least maintaining silence regarding them, the winter season, eoon to be upoi us. Thrifty rodents that they ara BV J.

W. FISHER DAILY NEWS BUREAU 207 Spihr Butkiin Columbui, bpt 29. Batteries of the Republican Edi XT il 1 ll Ik I I i I' .7 I a if ii iHiif' A I If mU I FUEL-LESS MOTOR. D. W.

COLVIN AND HIS WASTriKGTON. Sent. 29. D. patented a gravity motor which he claims will run for years without fuel.

The model, which was made In Washington workshop, is expected to develop eight horsepower. The photo shows Mr. Colvin Msner. Canton, Stark county, is giving evidence of an endeavor to duplicate the strenuous experience that resulted in the citizenry at Youngstown being divided Into factions for or against officials accused of failure to enforce the law. Accused and accusers in the Canton case have been before the governor, each with his version of the situation.

Remembering Youngstown and other places from which similar casea emanated, the chief executive is moving slowly. Just what it's all about, how it started and why, those who are most interested won tell, but it appears to be commonly accepted that it's the continuation of long existant political discord within the ranks of the Republican party. Whatever the merits of the situation may be, it isn't likely that Cantonians generally court an ex perience such as their neighbors over in Youngstown have had. Maybe the governor has that mind in a measure in moving cautiously in the premises. Echoes of sentiment prevailing in the hearts and minds of men and women in all parts of the state are heard from the lips of those who occasionally visit the capitoi irom other counties, even to the most remote.

Comment concerning the senti ment affecting the future of the League of Nations, so far as America is concerned, along the line of belief that this country must eventually enter and do her part, ia not surprising, since it has become general. It is a hopeful sign of the times too that heads of great church or ganizations are mingling their belief with educators and statesmen formerly opposed, that the esti mate of the league in the past, resulting in its defeat, was wrong and should now be righted. This city is the state testing grounds for sentiment on all questions, affecting Ohio and the nation. Reflections of the state of mind of the people of the common, wealth find expression here. Un, less all indications are wrong, Ohio is rapidly drawing near the time when a reversal of sentiment affecting the league will be seen.

Kindly disnoaed nerannn tmhnnl witn the sentiment of preventing cruelty to animals, have started a discussion concerning the best method of troinc shmit. it in nrmrida more comfortable quarters for the statenouse lawn squirrels during TEN YEARS FOR FIRSTDEGREES Statistics Show That Is Average Term Served in This State. COLUMBUS, Sept. 29. One hundred and thirty-two life term prisoners at the Ohio state penitentiary have been released since 1915, statistics of the parole book show.

Of this number, only one was convicted of a crime other than murder. A total of 36 of this number was convicted of first degree murder. More than half of the num-bor sentenced to the oenitentiarv for murder have been released dur ing that time. The average time served by the men released is about seven years for second degree murder and ten years for those convicted of first degree murder. The shortest life term recorded is that of the man who was sent up on a statutory iense and was released after serving two years.

"It is getting to the place where men are serving a longer sentence for robbery and other crimes than they are serving for murder and manslaughter," Warden Thomas stated when discussing the sentences of men sent up for life im prisonment. Iwenty-two years was the long est time served by any of the men who have been released from the penitentiary during the last eight years. This man was convicted of first degree murder. Several inmates in the penitentiary at the present time, however, have served more than 20 years on a life term sentence. Of the number whose sentences were either commuted or who were pardoned by the governor, 85 were released by Governor James M.

Cox, three were released by Governor Harry L. Davis, 35 were re leased by Governor Frank Willis. Nine have been given their free dom by Governor A. V. Donahey.

BIG "ANTI-DOPE" MEETING CALLED Conference Such as Suggested By U. S. Approved at Genoa Sept. 29. Negotiations by the United State with a view to the establishment of international regulations limiting the production and transportation of habit forming drugs have now reached a point where a world tnti-dope conference is the next thing on the program.

The state department announced tonight that a conference such as suggested by this government had been approved at Geneva, by of-licials of the League of Nations, concerned w-ith the regulation of the drug traffic. The plans of the league contemplate the holding of two conferencesone to discuss opium restrictions, and the other to take up problems arising from the unlimited production of morphine, heroin and cocaine. HUSBAND'S RIGHTS CHICAGO, Sept. 29. When Mrs.

Harriet Furlorg complained that her husband "used very bad language" to her, she was informed by the police magistrate that Furlong had that right. explanation that, "Commercially the restoration at European buying power awaits stabilization of exchanges," and that, "nothing can be hoped for in this direction until a composition of political difficulties is arranged." There is no question but that the United States can be admitted to the League of Nations an any reasonable terms laid down by this government. In the last assembly meeting but one dissenting vote was cast against amendment of Article and this without any indication of desire on the part of the United States government. And yet without amendments beforehand, league spokesmen have indicated that the United States might make such reservations as desirable, and that their acceptance by the league would make them valid as amend ments to the covenant so far as this country is concerned. Apparently, then, the question is one of domestic import to the United States and for decision by this na-' tion.

Former Secretary of the Trase-ury McAdoo, who like Senator Underwood is an avowed candidate, has not included the league pro gram in his list of issues, but like Senator Underwood he has ham mered away at both the domestic and foreign policy of the administration. Among others mentioned in con. nection with the presidency, for mer Governor Cox, the 1920 cham pion of the league, has been foro most in Insisting that the princi pies of that year be maintained in 1924. and in response to the defi nite question of his own probable candidacy he has replied emphati cally that he is more Interested In the position the party takes on the great international questions than in the candidacy of any man. Senator Copeland of New York has been making league speeches which have brought him attention, and William Jennings Bryan, though not for the league covenant as written, has publicly endorsed the position of James M.

Cox on international issues. Among other possibilities Gov, Neff of Texas, Senator Ralston of Indiana Edwin T. Meredith of Iowa and Gov. Silzer of New Jersey, hold pro-league positions but not vocal. If John W.

Davis of West Virginia enters it will be on a league basis. Gov. AI Smith is not a league supporter, though an anti-isoiationist. Senator Reed of Missouri, espoused bv Mr. Hearst, is the only out-and out irreconcilable among the Dem ocrats Typical of the feeling among the mass of Democrats who stood by the principles of 1920, and they are the Democrats who will declare the issues in 1924, is a letter from a leading Alabaman, who expresses his faith thus: "To what heights of advance ment the world would have been led, had it not been for the appalling trairedv of 1920.

no man can say, But many of us know full well some of the things which would not have occurred. Germany would not have been smothered beneath the avalanche, of worthless marks, France would not have been com pelled to take over' the Ruhr in order to collect her debts and safe guard her borders; the Balkan powder magazine would not have been left in cosition to continue to threaten the peace ot the worm; Greece would not have been de feated by the Turks; the Ottoman empire would not have been left to continue as a menace; Armenia would not have been denied her opportunity for security; Italy would not have been defying the power of world cooperation; and the United States would not be standing like an impotent giant answering the importunity oi a stricken and floundering woria with a contemptible 'I "Millions of our people too tne wrone course in 1920 simply from a sense of doubt and fear. Ameri can world leadership in the interest of peace was an untried experi ment, and one that naa every appearance of a step in the dark. Our people were 'on their nerves' from the effect of a world war, and looked with fear on the proposal, lest the experiment might fail, and thereby involve us more deeply in unseen dangers. This great block of voters were persuaded by smooth and plausible arguments to take the 'safe and avoid all These million well-meaning doubters added to the augmented hv the bvDhenates.

and the classes who are constitutionally and habitually Vein' things, fully accounts for the disaster. "The same doubters stand once more facing a national election but from the opposite angle. Instead of viewing the proposal with a sense of fear, they are looking to it with a ray of hope. They are sensing the fast approaching cataclysm under present conditions, and are only awaiting a leader of sufficient zeal and ardor to head them right." Even more emphatic comes voice from a leading Democrat oi another state, wielding Influence in Democratic conventions, wno sees the Democratic party cast in the world saviour, with issues clearly drawn with the Republicans. Says this leader: "While I approve tne movement, headed by Judge Clark, and his non-partisan association, it is absolutely silly to think of but bitter opposition from the admfhistration, or the Republican party.

While the newspapers are the nraise of Coolidge I expect no more from him than from Mr. Harding, ue win mui subservient to the organization than was his predecessor, and all his efforts will be to preserve outward harmony in all things, and no thought whatever for the sit uation in Europe." like these from men who are living with the mass, and who are neither politically ambitious nor professionally active, are coming more to the front each day, and are illuminating of the imme diate future in American politics. Conditiona within the Republican ramp are far from peaceful as the time approaches for another congress, developments in which will have much to do with political sway of the nation next year. Disregarding the major policies DAILY NEWS ni'REAl' 41 f'utt Iluildlng Washington, tutpi. 29.

The damage to the campaign of Senator Oscar Underwoid, who ia a candidate for the Democratic pres idential nomination next year, by ctatementa accredited to him in Chicago in direct repudiation of the League of Nations is not problematical, despite the fact that Senator Underwood emphatically denied the published expression. Before denial came, however, the harm had been done, and in belief that the Alabama leader was sacrificing principle to apparent expediency, support hitherto granted him was seen falling away. The personal popularity of Senator Underwood, and hia tried ability as a statesman would curry him far outside the southern states where he has long been an idol, but there the idol crashes if the senator seems to have rejected principles which the dominating voters believe in greatly. Of course, there are strong Democratic senators in the north, where opposition to the league was manifest in 1920. It is quite likely that Senator Underwood had the influence of these localities in mind when he gave his Chicago interview, and his intent rather than his words gave the meaning accredited to him in the published interview.

The fact is, however, Senator Underwood, a most staunch supporter of the League of Nations in the senate fight, is without present enthusiasm for that world or-Sization. When he returned lMn a European trip, and later when he delivered what is considered his announcement address, he avoided direct discussion of the league, while vigorously criticising the isolation policy of the administration. To friends, at the time. Senator Underwood said he felt sure that had the United States entered the league four years ago, the rresent and recent turopean troubles would never have occurred but he was not so sure the time had not passed when best purposes would be' served by America's adherence. Then when came the Italian-Greco crisis, and its settle ment bv ae-encies without the league, his feeling grew, and the Chicago interview was the result.

Whatever, the result may be affecting Senator Underwood's personal fortune, and it is deplored that he may have been misquoted, the statement accredited to him has served to demonstrate Dy its reaction that the mass of Demo crats are determined the league shall be endorsed by the next Democratic convention, and that a candidate shall be nominated who will stand four-square on the plat form. This feeling has been ex pressed from time to time, but the voice of the Democratic mass has grown louder since the Underwood recanting. Naturally Democrats everywhere, who believe in the ideals of world cooperation, and have seen proven its practical rCs in the disaster which has come to sericulture and to industry because a disordered world cannot advance, would turn to Woodrow Wilson if his health condition made possible his active leadership. As ft is they have shown the disposition to take a man dependable on the greatest issue and principle former rresiaent uson espoused. While there has been a disposition since 1920 on the part of nom inal Democratic leaders to direct Mention to domestic issues events have carried things out o' their hands, and so far, as policies of opposition are concerned have made the campaign base against hp Administration narty.

There has been no official Demo rratic espousal of the league Nations since 1920, but that there will be is certain as it i spn bow the mass of Demo crats are now responding to the call of leaders who assert tne integrity of the party of that issue. That the league might be a predominating issue in 1924 appears doubtful, but it will be present in force despite desires of those who think expediency and evasion the better political course. This has been disclosed in the unfortunate Underwood statement. Groundwork for the issue has been raised by the collapse of the American isolation policy, under which the manufacturing industry operates In hectic uncertainty, and agricultural activities are almost a total loss. Republican leaders recognize the dangers perhaps more than Democratic leaders realize the possibilities, and for weeks the Republican National Committee, and Republics" speakers, have been endeavor-1 ifto allay the general and spieading belief that a policy of isolation was responsible for the collapse of exchange and trade, because they know isolation is the exact antithisis of the principle of the league.

Some Democratic leaders, fearful to mention the league after 1920, have not hesitated to take advantage of the situation, to point out the disastrous results of isolation, to demand international cooperation, but without offering constructive thought, cr outlining any policy, yet evading mention of the league lest they offend those who have been irreconcilable. To this date the uncertain policy has won because responsibility is with the Republicans, but it is likely that the people will be demanding definite declarations, and constructive, in the next campaign. How it has been helped along by official reports is one of the things most vexing to Republican leaders. For example, a committee of economists under direction of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace reported that the cause of iim in agriculture was the economic breakdown in Europe, and recommended that "It is of the most vital interest to American tgriculture that the United States lend aid in every possible way to the settlement of reparation and other European problems. Then came Alfred P.

Dennis, special rjwentative of the Department oVJommerce with a report that "If chaotic conditions continue in central Europe we shall be under the obligation of financing our heat, raw cotton, leaf tobacco and rk products right up to the door and seeking only to eliminate per sonal opposition by solidifying party ranks, President Coolidge has been pursuing a conciliation policy from the very beginning of his administration. conciliation Is a word with a pleasing sound. It always seems feasible to the conciliator, but not necessarily so with the one who is to be conciliated. Compromise In volves a mutual yielding for the purpose of reaching an agreement. But conciliation means winning the other fellow to one a own viewpoint, mollifying him, pacifying him, or getting nim back into line.

And it is hard to do this with persons who differ vigorously from the one who is trying to do the conciliating. There are several groupa of Re publicans on whose amalgamation President coolidge has concentrated hia political efforts, with ao tar every indication or rauure Among the elements, Mr. Coolidge has apparently tried the hardest to conciliate are the "irreconcilables," utterly and unalterably opposed to not only the League of Nations but to any sort of international co operation on the part of the United States; the "farm bloc;" the fro gressives; the Southern Republi cana and the warring factional ele menta in the G. O. P.

in several states. Under the administration of President Harding many Southern Republicans felt that they were not getting the sort of recognition to which they were entitled, not so much because of lack of desire on the part of the president, aa because a Republican senate would not cooperate, and actually, rejected several important nominations. The most prominent case was the nomination or J. McNary of New Mexico, formerly of Texas, to be comptroller of the currency, which the president reluctantly withdrew on Mr. McNary'a request, when it was seen opposition had arisen to the appointment on the part of northern Republican senators in the finance committee, who charged the nominee with questionable banking practice in Texas.

Another striking example was the refusal of the senate to con firm the appointment of Joseph W.Tolbert to the United States marshal in North Carolina, on alleged grounds of malfeasance in another federal place, and only less notable was the rejection of Walter Cohen, a negro, to be col lector of New Ofleans. The net result was a feeling of aloofness to the Republican cause among southern Republicans generally, although President Harding con tinued personally popular wun them. Evidently honing to conciliate the southern Republicans, on whom so much always depends in the quadrennial selection of xandidates for the northern nepuDiicans io Kunnort President Coolidge, in the appointment of Bascom Slemp of Virginia, to be nis secretary, served notice on the Republican party that he proposed to recognize southern Republicans in a substantial way. The answer of the Republican national committee, within a very few days, was the cutting down of representation from southern states in the next national convention, and a more than corresponding increase in the representation from nortnern states. The Renublican committee, in making public this attack on the south, stated that it had been adopted by the committee back in June 1921.

But it had been held back, probably with a view to rescinding the order, until the Slemp appointment brought forth the announcement that the representation of the south had been cut. It lid anDear. therefore, that the efforts to conciliate the south had brought forth a reaction worse in its ettect man tne ongmsi uu tinn hud been. In hia effort to conciliate tne Progressives, the president permitted Gov. Gifford Pinchot of vlvania.

to undertake a set tlement of the anthracite coal strike. Pinchot persuaded the local operators to yield to the de mands of the miners' organizations, which means the highest retail price for anthracite coal during the coming winter the country has ever known, and his reply to the president's efforts at conciliation is his own candidacy for the pres idency. no ma candidacy upon nn "settlement" of the coal striKe, Pinchot is seeking the support oi the Progressives, and the point has been reached where the two Republican senators from Pennsylvania, have felt compelled to with hold their support from him, lest he precipitate another nooseveis-Taft split upon the Republican party. Not only has Gov. Pinchot undertaken to prevent conciliation of the progressives, but the attitude of Senator George H.

Moses of New nia, had become ao aggressive that Senaotr George H. Moses of New Hampshire, a former champion of Johnson for the presidency, felt compelled a few days ago to admonish him that a Johnson candidacy for president in opposition to Coolidge, on whom the party hoped it mio-ht be able to unite, would be ill-advised, selfish and in opposi tion to the best interests oi tne party. And the regular and hopeful Senator Watson predicts that Johnson'a candidacy would defeat both President Coolidge, and the Californian. When President Coolidge rejected the plan which had been formulated under the Harding admm- i.tration. to tfet John T.

Adams out of the chairmanship of the Republi can National Committee, Decause of his bitter opposition to the United States becoming a party to the world court, as proposed by Mr- Harding, it was regarded as another step in his conciuauon program. If it was ao intended, it. ueml to have failed aa disas- Jtrously as other, attempts to bring discordant elements back into party unison-Even before the Republican National committee issued its notice of the cut in southern representation in the next national convention, it issued a statement from public generally that "the people of the United States are not going the bushy tails probably have th box houses poised in the treel partly filled with provender foi the dreary season. Removed from their natural state, the equirreli have not the opportunity to garnel mast to be laid away against thi proverbial "rainy day," sava to tht extent they husband the aurpluil of daily offerings of peanuts and other dainties. Those whose hearta go out ia sympathy for the atate-owned peti have not in mind the danger of a food shortage for the frisky folk! in the trees, but rather they feai tney wia not oe comiortaDie wnen the cold blasts come.

Here is a ,1 proDiem ior someone to aoive ana in addition to applying literally the injunction of aiding in the prevention of cruelty to animals, may also attain a certain amount of fame among his fellows and have stored up for him the gratitude of those who find enjoyment in spending hours in watching the antics of the nimble pets. ll iuii ni iitinrn ntiVI BLUNUtri INVESTIGATION aA HIIAIIMM I Lift. I UUIII.LS Thirteen Defendants Face DisciDlininor From a tmW TRAGIC EVENTS BEING DETAILED Even Providence May Blamed For Honda Rocks Deaths. Be BV EDDY OBCUTT. Copyright, 192S, by Th Dart on Daily Vtwt.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 29. Thirteen defendants, facing stoic-, ally the most severe discipling the United States navy can mete out, and without a single pleader of "not guilty" among them that is the situation before the naval, rnnrt nf inmiiw har whi.K 4 ioaV. ...1.,, BO DH ing to place the blame for the destroyer disaster on the Honda Rocks three weeks ago. Like the finger of suspicion in a mystery drama, the hint of guilt haa been in turn placed upon agencies ranging from Divine providence to the judge advocate of the court itself.

Currents caused by deep-sea earthquakes, faulty calculations at the Point Arguello signal station, the carelessness of this officer, the coucksurednesa of that one, all have been blamed in turn. At no time during the Inquiry, 6ince the defendant officers aisre-grarded the advice of counsel and went upon the witness stand, has any one of them sought to shield himself or to evade responsibility for the wreck of hia own ship or division. Capt. Edward H. Watson, commander of the ill-fated squadron that lost 20 men and seven of the navy's finest destroyers, was the first to come out openly in asserting his own responsibility.

The other 12 defendants followed his lead. Capt. Watson's attitude is typical. "I hope," he told the court, "that the responsibility for this disaster, which I consider entirely my own. may not descend upon able ana loyal subordinates who have supported me on all occasions, and whose actions in saving their men and reducing the number of ships stranded exhibited initiative skill and decision of which any navy might be proud." Had Capt.

Watson ordered the fatal change of courses only seven minutes later than he actually did, on that tragic night, evidence indicates that the destroyers would have cleared the reef. Capt. Watson has admitted that he disregarded radio compass bearings in favor of dead reckoning which he had failed to check up. He admitted that he had given no notice of the intended change of course no chance for other navigators to "check up." He failed to allow for a northerly current, failed to take soundings, failed to slow down in the fog. Yet each of the other officers has taken the stand to accept full responsibility for his own actions.

Each has praised the seamanship and personal courage of his immediate superior. Each has rendered a seamn's tribute to the enlisted men who fought the pounding surf and the confusion and the darkness that night after the crash. Owing to the "follow the leader" policy in the formation, which the U. S. S.

Delphy headed, it appears that the most serious charges now rest against Lieut. Com. Donald T. Hunter, commanding oficer of the Delphy; Lieut. Lawrence F.

Blodg- ett, his navigator, and Capt. Wat-" son. What the results will be it is still too soon to say. The inquiry will perhaps last another ten days. Through the tangle of evidence and behind all the cold formality of a naval court runs an undercurrent of tragedy and a certain terse courage.

There is no hardihood-no defiance. One young officer, reading on the stand the list of his dead, broke down and cried like a boy. Unwise they may have been, but there was not a shirker or coward in the crowd. ARE VERY DRY Reported Hard to Get Liquor in the Quaker City PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29.

Little good liquor can now bs found in Philadelphia, according to William J. MeClure, supervising prohibition agent for eastern Pennsylvania. In a series of raids lasting thirty days. 640 gallons of liquor were seized by dry agents here. Twenty gallons that were seized was inferior liquor, bu.

not "death-dealing hooch," while CIS gallons were poisonous. torial association, trained on State Highway Director L. A. Boulay and his work, have apparently been able to make little or no impression, of a kind or character to their liking. "Taking hia pen in hand" or rather seating himself in front of his trusty typewriter, Boulay proceeds to make answer to his critics within the ranks of the opposition party, anent his road building policy.

With the approval of Gov. Donahey, Boulay has announced the appointment of a Republican, Raymond Smith, former surveyor of Champaign county, to take charge cf the construction of gravel and stone roads in the state, concerning which he has been subjected to no small amount of criticism. Figuratively speaking, Boulay ia "killing two birds with one stone." Choosing a Republican to direct the work about which the political enemy is doing a treat amount of complaining, and dis closing the program now under same spot. Gov, Donahey is accredited with having made pre-election promises of the construction of gravel roads at $5000 to $6000 a mile. This has been thrown in the teeth of the ad ministration at various times.

Boulay now declares that the governor's estimate was too high entirely too high; that the work is being done for an average of $2000 a mile and that agreements have been entered into for 140 miles of this type of work, with 200 more milea projected. To drive home his answer to criticism concerning alleged failure to perform, Boulay points out that only occasionally do contracts for atone or gravel roads appear in period lettings. He invites those nterested to visit his office and scan tne lettings. That appears lair. "A mortcace which once at taches is never released until satis fied," is an apt illustration em- pioyea Dy vv.

w. uurDin, chairman of the Democratic stat pciitive Committee in comnmntinir nn thu election of Judge Sam B. Hill for congressman in the ruth district oi me state oi vvasnington, over Charles E. Mvera. RpnnViliran Durbin declares in a telegram of congratulation addressed to Cordull Hull.

I National rismnnrHc chairman, that it "shows the trend is Democratic in the country and proves tne lailacy of the Republican idea that they can take Credit for all pood of Kardinir'a administration and be relieved of ail the bad things." The Washington congressional election is the first inro Prosidcnf Coolidge came into office and is accepted by Durbin as meaning that the death of a president and the accession nf nnnthcr in hia place has in no manner changed 011.ua1.1u11, aiiecun i.ne immediate present and the future. One cannot help being impressed by a situation that is apparent in the matter of the election of justices of the peace in townships of Ohio. An analysis shows that in townships where there are rich pickings from fines levied on boot leggers and auto speeders there is the liveliest sort of scramble for the elective positions. On the other hand, in units of the commonwealth where there few violations and consequently few prosecutions, the number of candidates for justice of the peace is negligible. In fact, in many places there are none at all.

Duchouquet township. Auirlaize county, affords an example of this character. No one seeks the 'office there and no one will be elected unless a candidate is drafted. A newspaper in the same county tells of the death of a citizen who had served 25 years as justice of the peace and who felt it was his duty to adjust cases of misunderstanding among citizens rather than permit them to come to trial. i Commercialized prosecution of 'leggers played no part in his re gime.

Intended as a boost fnr si innnrt of the constitutional amendment, eliminating open liability from the worxmen a compensation law of the state, T. J. Duffy, chairman of the State Industrial commission, in an address at Mansfield advantaged the opportunity afforded to lambast what he terms "amhulanr-n chasing lawyers of Ohio." ine iignting friend of labor has been connected with the adminis. tration of the workmen's compen sation iaw ior many years and knows perhaps more about its benefits to those who labor than most any Other nersnn in thn state. Duffy was in the thick of me iignt, witn former Uox.

Cox in strengthening the law in the interest of workers. In support of the pi iminfttinn nf open liability, Duffy points to a case where the dependents of a man killed received hut srwnn in suit, whereas under the compen sation law tney would have been given $5000. Open liability has been one of the most effective weapons for insurance mm against the compensation law, uuny declares. He is pleading W'ith the neonle in evorv miMi address he delivers, to support the amendment by their ballots. Death of former auditor of Auglaize county' wuitn occurred during the past week at Minster, removes from that Part of the Ohin wealth one of the most active citizens of WanikonptA and nnc ardent advocate nf th V.o terests of his home community and iiib AveinucrBiic party.

Those who lrnxur him but say that in laboring for the i-ause vi ine political party to which ha gave devotion, no task was too great, no demand too neavy. Always uneellishly sealous in the cause for the benefit of others, it wn rnmnirttiv.l. life before his party rewarded him in a measure. Cheery and amillncr. alu-ava was at times misunderstood to the point of severe criticism, but he kept hia life sweet, refusing to become emhittered Tha rcmr.

cratic party and hie community generally nave sustained a heavy W. Colvin of Philadelphia haa National Committee, through its official organ said "A Socialist by any other name would smell as sweet." They are branded as Socialists at a time when President Coolidge is using his best efforts to induce the progressive Republicans of this list and others of similar views to join forces with the administration in urging legislation along progressive lines. The Republican National committee dares not attack the president, but it does the next thing to it when it attacks as Socialists those who confer with the president regarding action which may be of benefit to agriculture and and labor, and thereby to the entire nation. All in all, it would seem that the president is on the wrong track in trying to conciliate. The Progressives do not seem to want to be conciliated, and the "Old Guard" does not propose to permit them to be, even ii tney snow wiuing It looks as though Mr.

Coolidge would have to join one side or the and lead a fight for party supremacy. As a conciliator, ne is something of a failure to date, and those interested in, national rather than party welfare, have yet to see a first helpful movement on the part of the executive. President Coolidge's friends and followers in Massachusetts have begun a campaign to discredit Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania, whom they regard as a rival for the Re publican presidential nomination in 1924. Gov.

Pinchot's chief claim to public notice, his recent stoppage of the coal miners' strike, is the object of sarcastic comment in a report made by the joint special Coal Investigating ommitteo of the Massachusetts legislature. This committee takes pains to belittle Gov. Pinchot's "settle ment" and recommends that Massachusetts boycott Pennsyl vania anthracite. "Of course the operators, since Gov. Pinchot has recommended that they absorb ten cents, will pass on the remaining 50 cents, ot the tu cents wnicn iv is estimated will be the increase in the cost of mining a ton of coal under the terms of the settlement, if the consumers will permit it," savs the report.

The committee further declares that Pennsylvania will eet a lareer tax on the higher cost of anthracite, and continues: "Thus, under Gov. Pinchot's compromise, the miners, who are citizens of Pennsylvania, will receive a substantial increase." To press the point that tiov. Pinchot's "settlement" of the strike is a gain to Pennsylvania and a loss to Massachusetts, and apparently also to stir animus atrainst the people of Gov. Pin chot's state, the report says: The burden of these increased benefits to Pennsylvania will be imposed on the consumers, if the consumers will permit it." A boycott against Pennsylvania coal is proposed by the committee, which says that "The remedy is to establish in New England a competitive market for domestic fuels by turning from an thracite to other fuels and, ahould there be further increase in the price of anthracite, by instituting a boycott or buyers' strike against anthracite." It is the belif of some observers that the plan of boycotting Penn sylvania anthracite is recommenaea more as a political than an eco nomic measure, having for its a notification to the big interests of Gov. Pinchot' state that if they favor or further his candidacy in opposition to President Coolidge they will be made to suffer heavy financial losses.

These same observers expect that Republican backers of President Coolidge will attempt to spread hostility to Pinchot throughout New England. The price of anthracite, it is predicted, will become a political issue among Republicans oi that section. The Pinchot contingent will attempt to win votes for the governor by representing that he deserves credit for insuring a supply of fuel at any price to New Eng land while the supporters or president Coolidge are busy creating the impression that Pinchot has made coal dear in an effort to improve hia political chances in the Republican national convention. and his invention. to join the Leaue of Nations, directly or indirectly, or any other organization which would get us into the political entanglements of Europe.

While an attempt was made in some quarters to regard this as a mere assurance to the people that whatever Presil nt Coolidge has in mind regarding membership in the world court would not involve the United States in the political entanglements of Europe, outstanding events have made it apparent that it was an attempt to head off the president and prevent him from pursuing his own course in recommending world court membership. And this was the net result of the president's efforts to conciliate by maintaining John T. Adams in his place as chairman of the Republican national committee. But most vitriolic of all the attacks following the president's efforts to bring wanders from the conservative ranks back into the fold is that made in the National Republican, an official adjunct to the Republican National committee, edited and published by Gorge T. Lockwood, secretary of the Republican National committee.

This publication is sponsored by the Republican National committee and its utterances must be considered as expressive of the views of the committee. The president had been working on some of the so-called Progressives, in an effort to line them in party regularity as a part of his conciliation program. Senator Capper of Kansas, had been called in as a representative of the Progressives and the farm bloc, to discuss agricultural conditions, while Congressman Florian Lampert of Wisconsin, had also called to discuss federal patronage in Wisconsin. The president and Senator Capper were getting along wonderfully well, and the congressman had been given to understand that the selection of postmasters in their districts would be left to Republican congressmen in Wisconsin, the same as in other states. This meant that the LaFollette element in the Badger state would be recognized as within the Republican party, which had not been done previously, only Senator Lenroot having been adjudged worthy of trust.

It also meant that the way was being paved for a friendly understanding between the president and both the LaFollette element and the farm bloc. And then came the National Republican official organ of the National committee in a bitter editorial evidently intended to head off any attempts to get the Progressives back into the Republican party. Under the heading "Socialism, open and Camouflaged," the committee said: "Socialism as an acknowledged dogma and organized party force, has declined in this country. But if frank, honest, straightforward Socialism has declined in this country, the camouflaged kind is flourishing as never before, and in a lar more dangerous and sinister form than as an organized political force flying its own flag. Socialism, con fessing Its own unpopuiamy oy declining longer to operate under its own name and style, is working in the two old party organizations and in one or two new ones under such high-sounding names as 'farmer-labor and 'conference for progressive political Men who are Socialists at heart have seized control of the Wanhine-ton headnuarters of most of the important national labor and farm organizations, and are trying to gain control of both the old narties and to dictate the program of government.

These camouflaged Socialists preach the same gospel of class connsciousness and class hatred as the old-time Socialists. Unlike Eueene Debs and others frankly avowing their fealty to Socialism, they pretend to be 'liberals' rather than radicals. 'Pro gressives rather than Socialists. But a Socialist by any other name would smell as sweet. Senators Capper of.

Kansas; or ris, of Nebraska; Borah, of Idaho; LaFollette, of wisconsini croox-hart, of Iowa; Owen, of Oklahoma; Sheppard, of Texas; and Ashurst, of Arizona, are among those who have met in "conference for progressive political action." They are tha men of whom the Republican.

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