The Washington Post
January 16, 1926

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TWO CENTS.~ meee « POST-SCRIPTS| GEORGE nana ELL BROWN \ —" Fact is free—grab it! “That which is true,” says Sen- “is mine.” Here's ennggen§ ¥ ' eca, | Senator Coat Blaze warms Capitol with a heated semuncintion of the League of Nations, speaking of foreign Se eee what right has an Ambassador | to get tanglefoot on champagne when a South Carolina red-neck walks straight to jail for drinking 2 little moonshine, and as _ for the churches teaching evolution, no wonder the whole blamed coun- try is going to Geneva, dad fetch it! ’ id House Republicans put through the debt settlement with the well- nown Roman Empire on the ‘theory that half a loaf is better than no Italian vote. “ ¥ Scientist measures the distance between Corsica and France with a 10,000,000 candlepower beam, but ‘back in 1779 the distance was spanned by an even brighter light, by far the most brilliant that has ’ ever shone in Europe. Al Smith’s acceptance of the Democratic presidential nomination in 1928 ought to be convincing evi- dence of the sincerity of his an- nouncement that he is now defi- nitely out of public life. Editor Jimmy Williams;of the Boston American, that crime news ought to be played up on the front page, but what does he think in his capacity as former editor of the Boston Transcript? opines Speaking of the hazardous life, the Mississippi mule appears to be almost as deadly as the lynching bee. » * The foot-pad with his mail-order store gun doesn’t care how soon the Commissioners pass their bill to prevent citizens from arming. “Another county heard from’! It’s getting so at the Capitol now that a Senator who has signed up to vote for the League of Nations world court is afraid to open his mail of a morning. Speaking of putting crime news on the front page, look at the out- rageous manner in whieh Irving Berlin is being crucified with all this publicity. Judge Albert Barnes Anderson, with the jail key in his hand, was getting ready to go down to the Federal Court Indianapolis, when an all-night meeting of the mine union leaders broke up, and John L. Lewis, pale and haggard, walked out of the hall and said to the reporters, ‘‘Gentlemen, we can- not fight A Democratic had found a way to end a coal strike— but where. is that Democratic ad- ministration today ? = our government!” administration Wonder why Senator Copeland doesn’t get Miss Sophie Irene Loeb to explain to Congress how to end w& the coal strike? “@ Twenty-one entombed miners are saved at Fairmont. W. Va., as the bodies of 93 are recovered in Okla- homa. Here’s an industry badly in need of being rendered safer for workers and consumers. ? As the deluge of alleged histori- cal lore continues it is comfortin to reflect that nobody will ever be ~ able to accuse George Washington | of having been a bootlegger. The farmers, in voting against any legislation at this time dealing with surplus crops, leave Frank Lowden with- out a political toy to play with. * Pe & “ cooperative One gathers from his remarks to the Civil Service League that Pres- ident Coolidge hasn’t much more influence with this Administration than Frank Stearns. Let us hope that in publishing that complete list of all American treaties the League of Nations will not forget to include that super- treaty with the whole world, the Monroe "Dedizine, as an appendix. ‘ Goucher adltend adds__ the Charleston to the radio, garters of high visibility, and cigarettes, as things under the official ban, and apparently is getting ready to go in for education. That story published in Denmark that a daughter of the late Czar is alive in Berlin will be instantly be- lieved by everybody—the proofs-— as Doc Cook would say—have been taken to Copenhagen. Senator Fernald doubtless will be able to get considerable satisfac- tien from the reflection that in ing with his pa y on the world court issue he is standing by BLEASE DENOUNCES DRY ACT IMMUNITY GIVEN DIPLOMATS Assails Arrest of Girls, While Foreigners Go Free. EVOLUTION DOCTRINE DECRIED BY SENATOR Declares That World Tribunal Would Be Set Above Ameri- can Supreme Court. oe ee Memories of the old days in tb Senate when ‘Pitchfork Ben’’ Tili- man, Jeff Davis and Tom Watson shattered precedent in what so often has been characterized as the “greatest deliberative body in the world,’’ were revived yesterday. Cole L. Blease, of South Carolina, who, in his maiden speech Thurs- day congratulated himself on being the only senator from the South opposed to the world court, made a typical Blease address in which he brought from the ancient cobweb- covered closets of memory numer- ous picturesque denunciatory syno- nyms and applied them to the court as a whole, the League of Nations and the American law. The new senator was particularly bitter in assailing the right given diplomats in Washington to import and use intoxicants—‘“likker’’—he called them. He attacked the Washington police for their action recently in arresting ‘‘American girls’’ for being in a local cabaret while turning loose their escorts, who had diplomatic immunity, and who had brought the whisky which, seen on the table, had resulted in the raid, Sees Injustice to Poor. “They say the right sort of American girls would not have been there,’”’ thundered the senator. “I am not so sure of that. Three girls who were at a nearby table were arrested, and they had not heen drinking. “But the diplomat got. immunity. Don’t forget that. Why hasn’t the cotton mill«boy, who works from daylight to dark six days in the week to bring prosperity to the Southern—yes, and the Northern —mill owner, the same privilege to have a little flask in his pocket as some little half nigger from a foreign country. No; if he has, he violates the law, while the foreigner goes free. ‘‘Where is there any international] law that lets these people bring). their booze to Baltimore, and then to their embassies in the nation’s Capital? They say we have prohi- bition here. We have—-only so far as it affects the poor fellow who hasn’t money enough to buy it. “These foreigners get drunk and they debauch our women. The poor old cab driver, out in the rain, wet and cold, gets a little money together. He buys a half pint and gods home. Wet and cold, he pours himself a drink. A nasty, dirty spy, calling himself a prohibition agent, looks through the window. He rushes in and arrests this hard- working man. The next morning he is arraigned ‘in court. He is railroaded to the rock pile for 30 days. “Alongside this the diplomat. He ed. The judge says: ‘Good morn- ing, you are immune.’ The dip- lomat drank liquor in a _ public place. It was a noted restaurant. He had riolated our laws and had betrayed our women, but he goes free under international law. But the cab driver and the girl who took a drink go to jail. ‘‘Good God! what a country! Nations Always Against Us. “If England didn’t want to use us, she wouldn’t have a thing to do with us. These foreign nations al- ways are against us, Don’t forget that. And their judges are not su- perhuman, and always. will be against us. “The churches are teaching fool doctrines like evolution and con- fusing the poor man. If they can not unite as one great body on what salvation actually means, how can they expect the poor man to under- stand? “I want to say right now that if ever I had been in the Senate I would have voted against the amendment to the conscription bill, which exempted senators and rep- resentatives, whise taking the boys of the, mothers of America. I honor the man on the other side of the Capitol who resigned and en- tered the army. Congress should lawbreaker i wasn’t arrest- — his party: lier CONTINUED ON FIFTH PAGE. | ASSAILS DRY ACT ] Underwood & Underwood. SENATOR COLE L. BLEASE (Democrat), of South Carolina, who yesterday assailed diplo- matic immunity from the prohi- bition law. of POLIGEMEN DRAG. RIVER SFEKING BODY OF MAN eee ne + ee ee Reginald Griffith Says He Saw Leap From Pennsylvania ere ereee. TO RESUME work TODAY Harbor police yesterday dragged unsuccessfully for the body of a man reported to have jumped from the Pennsylvania avenue bridge into Anacostia river yesterday afternoon about 1 o’clock. The search for the body is expected to be continued today. Police of the Fifth precinct were told yesterday afternoon by Regi- nald <Griffith,. of 703 Sixteenth street southeast, that he had seen aman clignb the railing of the bridge and jump off. Harbor police were immediately notified. The po- lice launch was unable to make the trip to the bridge because of the ice. <A squad of policemen with equipment was sent to the scene in a police automobile and, com- mandeering a small boat, began dragging the river. For two hours the toiled incessantly, but witlout avail. A brown slouch hat was found floating about 100 feet from the bridge. Because of the heavy ice, the efforts of the policemen were suspended until today. Mississippi Mules Kill 50 Persons ina Year policemen Jackson, Miss., Jan. 15 (By A. P.).—While not as famous in his- tory as his cousin from Missouri, the Mississippj mule promises to make a name for himself. A check of the criminal activities of the ob- stinate animal completed by the State bureau of vital statistics re- veals that 50 deaths have resulted from his vicious traits in the past year. Dr. R. N. Whitfield, director of the bureau, has announced that most of the deaths for which mules are responsible resulted from kicks. Several persons suffered fatal in- Reports show that the lazy animal is seldom charged with running away. RUM RUNNERS SEIZE ESTATE; LAND LIQUOR Servants: Held at Bay While Trucks Are Loaded 5 Miles From Miami. Miami, Fla., Jan. 15 (By A. P.). Holding servants at bay with pis- tols, while they backed eleyen trucks onto the estate of J. W. Mathewson, of “millionaire’s row,” at Cocoanut Grove, five miles south of Miami, a party of 25 rum run- ners succesfully landed a cargo of liquor Wednesday night after hay- ing brought their schooner into the Mathewson yacht basin, according to reports made to county authori- ties late this afternoon. % Mr. Mathewson and his family were not at home and the servants, fearful of rpoageyn t violence, were tardy in making a report to authori- ties. Dances Charleston Hour and 46 Minutes Winona, Minn., Jan. 15 (By P.).—-Winona today claimed the world’s champion Charleston mara- thon dancer in Rudolph Peterson, proprietor of a furniture store, who lust night danced continuously for juries in attempting to ride mulesa@ |} hour and 46 minutes before " sank exhausted. PRESIDENT DENIES — “MUCH INFLUENCE” IN ADMINISTRATION Modest Statement Made to Delegation of Civil Service League. CALLED TO CRITICIZE PERSONNEL SYSTEM Dr. Ellery C. Stowell Reports Conversation at Dinner; - Lehibach Is Speaker. President Coolidge hasn’t ‘‘much influence with*the administration,”’ he told a delegation representing the Civil Service league, which called on him asking that he use his influence to bring reforms in the civil service. Report cf the President’s state- | ment was made to the league last | night by Dr. Ellery C. Stowell, president, at a dinner = in Women’s University club. On January 6, a league delega- | tion composed of Dr. Stowell, om | Mrs. | Lyman B. Swormstedt and fates’ E. Hill called on President Coolidge and presented a document which criticized’ Herbert D. Brown, chief of the bureau of efficiency; Sena- tor Smoot, of Utah, and the whole government personnel system, in- cluding the personal classification board itself. The delegation asked the President to use his influence in legislation revising ‘‘absurd illog- ical division of functions as exists in no other important § govern- ment.’ Repeated Lincéln Story. Reporting for the mission last night, Dr. Stowell, who is president of the’ league, said that in answer- ing it President. Coolidge told a story of a man who had carried a petition to President Lincoln and who Irad been referred by Lincoln to Secretary Stanton. When he re. turned to Lincoln, telling him that Stanton would not grant his re- quest. Lincoln replied, ‘‘You know, F haven't much influence with Stan- ton.’’ And Coolidge, according to Dr. Stowell, told the committee that | he hadn't much influence with the | lure was present administration. “We didn’t take this very seri- ously,’’ Dr. Stowell added, continu- ing: ‘But I think President Cool- idge has adopted the idea, policy, you might almost say, religion, that if the American people are to keep | their rights they must make known | . | Goucher Girls, Dancing, Shake Plaster Off Wall Baltimore, Md., Jan. 15 (By A. P.).—The Charleston today joined the radio, bare knees and cigarettes on the list of things banned at Goucher college. The latest ban was placed by Miss Elizabeth Mason, Midgard Hall mistress. Miss Mason followed her edict with an explanation that since the advent of the Charleston at Goucher, Midgard Hall's plaster was being jazzed off the ceilings, and pictures, too, were tumbling down. Midgard hall is one of the Goucher dormi- torics. Radios recently were ordered silenced by President William Wesley Guth as being responsible for the tired feeling in the morning,. and bare knees and cigarettes long have been out- Seta GAOUP FORMED 10 URGE OTATE BUILDINGS HERE Permnaent Organization Perfected at Meeting of Prominent Citizens. % Is ‘IR. N. HARPER IS CHAIRMAN The proposal to erect State build- ings in this city in which the States could maintain permanent exhibits of their resources and industries gained impetus last night when a group of prominent Washingtonians gathered in the Mayflower hotel and formed a permanent organization to carry the project through. Col. Robert N. Harper was elected chairman of the permanent organi- zation; Charles W. Darr, secretary; Frank M. Low, treasurer. and J. H. Cunningham, M. A. Leese, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan and R. P. Andrews, i vice presidents. A committee was appointed to draft a bill to be submitted to both houses of Congress which would authorize the Federal government to contribute the ground upon which the proposed State buildings would be erected. This committee is composed of ithree former members of the House of Representatives, Phil P. Camp- bell, Frank W. Mondell and J. H. Small; Isaac: Gans, J. H. Hanna, E. F. Colladay and Bishop James FE, Freeman. A committee on general proced- appointed and charged | with the task of familiarizing the what they want. And we went away | believing that if proper action is taken by us through |ira Ey our govern- | ment, President Coolidge will not GOV. SMITH ACCEPTS shirk in his duty.” Lehibach a Speaker. Representative Frederick R. Leh!-.| bach, chairman of the civil service | committee, House of Representa- | governors of the country with the project. The bill to be presented to Congress will invite the governors to come to this city for a confer- ence. This committee is composed of C. Brandenburg, E. C. Graham, Bennett, Breckinridge Long, Moses, Joseph P. Tumulty, CONTINUED ON FIFTH PAGE. je 82 1928 “NOMINATION” tives, told how the bureau of effi- | Called Next President After ciency chief, Mr. Brown, had op-' posed the reclassification plan, and |, Charles P. Messick, chief examiner and secretary of the New Jersey Civil Service Commission, explained how that system was working somewhat’ satisfactorily through proper classification, compensation and service-rating principles. Henry W. Marsh, national secretary of the Civil Service Reform league, prom- ised the support of his organization in the struggle. John J. Edson, league honorary president, was an- other speaker. Light Beam Is Used To Measure Distance Paris, Jan. 15 (By A. P.).-—Ex- periments in the use of light for measuring distances have been made between the French coast and Corsica with what the experi- menters consider successful results. A ten million candlepower beam was used. Paul Heilbronner, a geodetic ex- pert, succeeded in sending the beam cross the 160 miles between rance and Corsica at an altitude of 8,400 feet and obtaining accur- ate results by mathematical com- putation involving the curvature of the earth’s surface. He claims his system is accurate to within a few inches in a hundred miles. Quakes Cause Alarm 60 Miles From Rome Pizzoli, Italy, Jan. 15 (By A. P.). A strong earthquake shock lasting several seconds was felt here today, A. |causing many peasants in the Ab- ruzzi mountains in this district to abandon their homes. The shock followed a series of slight quakes which have continued throughout the last three days. No may has been reported. Pizzoli is 60 miles northeast of Rome. " | He Declines to Run Again in New York. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 16 (By .A. P.).—After Edwin Corning, chair- man of the Albany county Demo- cratic organization, was unanimous- ly elected chairman of the New York Democratic State committee here today, Gov. Smith formally served notice on the committee that he would retire from public life at the end of his present term and return to New York city, and said: “The Democratic party in the State is in better condition now than in many years,’’ he declared, ‘“‘whereas the Republican party is worse off than it has been for 256 years past.’’ The governor was introduced by Mr. Corning as “The greatest gov- ernor of the Empire State, and I hope the next President of the United States.” The executive laughingly accepted the ‘“nomina- tion’’ and then launched into the address in pratse of Democratic programs and policies. Mr. Corning succeeds Herbert C. Pell, jr., resigned. Langley Off to Begin His 2-Year Sentence Cincinatti, Ohio, Jan. 15 (By A P.).—Former, Representative John W. Langley left here for Atlanta penitentiary tonight to begin his two-year sentence on a charge of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition law. He was accompained’ by Oscar Flannery, his nephew. At Lexing- ton he will be met by Roy B. Will- iams, United States district attor- ney, who will escort the former rep- resentative to the penitentiary. Mrs. Langley also will meet her husband’ COOLIDGE UPHOLDS PEROHING IN RULING ON CHILEAN APPEAL Declares Sovereignty Not Involved in General's Interpretation. PRESIDENT RECALLS ASSISTANCE PLEDGES Military Officers Reported to Tacna Outbreak. (By the Associated Press.) The interpretation placed on the Tacna-Arica arbitral award by Gen. Pershing was sustained by Presi- dent Coolidge last night in his de- cision on the Chilean appeal from actions of the plebiscitary commis- sion, over which he presided. The President reiterated that Chilean sovereignty was not dn- volved in the interpretation of the award, and emphasized that both Chile and Peru had’ pledged them- selves to use their resources and authority to bring about a fair plebiscite. The actions of the commission, from which Chile appealed to Presi- dent Coolidge as arbitrator, De- cember 9, had to do with the de- termination of dates and prepara- tions for the voting, which, under his award, is to determine the sov- ereignty of the two provinces long in dispute between the two nations. Authority Is Sustained. The general’s stand that the award gave the commission ‘all authority necessary for determina- tion of the prerequisites of a fair plebiscite,’’ was sustained by the President. The decision stated that Chile and Peru were bound by their pledge to give assistance in every way to the commission and upheld its application of the award to con- ditions which it justly had a right to evaluate. The decision was handed to the Chilean and Peruvian diplomatic representatives here, and cabled to Gen. Pershing at Arica, where the comniission is sitting. — Pershing’s Report Withheld. According tg information from reliable sources in Arica, Gen. Pershing’s difficulties have been in- creased by the fact that Chilean military authorities were partici- pants in recent disorders in which Peruvians were injured. The riots which broke out on January 6 were carried out in the presence of the police, and military elements took part in the disturbances, according to these reports. The State Department has not given out any statement regarding the report said to have been for- warded by Gen. Pershing, in which he is said to have given expression Have Shared in Recent '|., Index to Today's Issue. Pages. ; 1—Flays Diplomat Dry Immunity. President Denies Influence. ITALIAN DEBT PACT Coolidge Upholds Pershing. Hlouse Approves Italian Pact. 2—-Law May Halt School Strike. $1,200 Top Annuity Foreseen. ' 5——Vatican May Go to League. Jazz Symphony Welcomed, 4——-Court Opposition Grows. May Finish Tax Bill Today. 5—-Briatd Makes Concessions. Berlins Reach London. §6-—Editorials. 7-11—-Society Events. 8-9-—--In Washington Churches. 10—~-Weather and Vital Statistics. 12—-Women's Features. ~ 3-14-19—-Financial. 15-16-17-——Sports. 18—Radio and Comics. 20—Treasure Island. 20-21—-Classified Advertisements. 21—Legal Record. ~The News in Pictures. AEOGUERD FIND 21 ALIVE, TO DEAD IN MINE BLAST eee ee eee ee ee All Workers Trapped in Farm- ingham, W. Va., Disaster Are seria For. —-2 owe + NEGLIGENCE Is nbieoiend Fairmont, W. Va., Jan. 15 (By A P.).—-Twenty-one miners, entombed 18 hours in the far underground workings of No. 8 mine of the Ja- mieson Coal & Coke Co., were brought out dlive late today, hav- ing been spared the fate of 19 of their fellow workers whose) bodies have been recovered. been in the workings. Virtually no hope had been held out for the rescue of any of the men. Word that all had not per- ished came when a rescue crew far back from the elevator shaft, dis- covered the men bratticed in a niche which protected them from the deadly fumes. Rescuers at the top of the shaft embraced the saved ones as they stepped from the ele- vator. Tonight rescue work was com- pleted after 21 hours. The first. bodies were brought from the mine this morning. A few found later were 200 feet from CUNTINUED ON FIFTH PAGE. Mussolini’s Five Posts Rome, Jan. 16 (By A. P.).—Pre- mier Mussolini’s ad interim tenure- ship of the ministries of war, navy and aeronautics has been changed into permanent conferment of these portfolios upon the fascist chief, who noweholds five permanent posts in the cabinet. The significance of this develop- ment, which was officially an- nounced today,is the defacto crea- tion of a ministrv of nationa! de- fense since all three military port- folios now are vested in one person. Soap Magnate, 89, to caustic criticism of the Chileun authorities.-of Tacna and Arica for | ‘maintaining a reign of terror.’ | Officials of the department did not deny that such a report had been received. Poison and Powdered Glass in Gift Candy Chicago, Jan. 16 (By A. P.).— Investigation today had failed to re- veal the sender of a Christmas box of candy which nearly cost five lives through its contents of poison and crushed glass. Edwin L. Briggs, a clerk, who re- | ceived the package, passed it to | three young women and a man em- | ployed with him, but before any | had eaten an entire piece of the | candy, discovered its coating of' powdered glass. The tiny portions they. had swallowed caused serious iliness. Each piece of candy con- tained sufficient poison to cause death. Opera Tenor’s. Wife ‘|! husband, Ralph Errolle Smith, Met- Jat Lexington and bid wi poas-bre. ‘im his apartment. Names Chorus Girl New York, Jan. 15 (By A. P.).— With a chorus girl named as core- spondent, the divorce action of Mrs. Strella . Wilson Smith against her ropoiitan Opera company tenor, was heard today before Supreme Court Justice Tierney, who reserved de- cision. i oe Mrs. Smith, prior to her mar- riage a well-known singer in Aug- rtlia, said their marital troubles began when her husbgnd met a chorus girl named Mabel Waody in St. Louis. She said that on Thanks- giving eve, she and detectives found ber husband and the chorus girl ciety is getting here this season. _where the inimitable Ziegfeld pro- Begins Honeymoon Chicago, Jan. 15 (By A. Allen B. Wrisley, of Lombard. W., 89-year-old founder and president of the Allen B. Wrisley Soap Manu- facturing Co., set out today on his Company officials said just 40) men are definitely known to have} Are Made Perminaent Papen! TEAMS APPROVED - ~ BY MOUSE, 20/1 V7 Republicans Unite With 113 Democrats in Opposition. 62 YEARS TO MEET _ OBLIGATION PROVIDED Se ee ee Resolution Goes to Senate, Where Committee Has Reported Its Mate. a ee. (By the Associated Press.) By a vote of 257 to 133, the House yesterday adopted a resolu- tion to authorize acceptance of the Italian debt settlement as recommended by the American debt commission. The resolution now goes to the Senate, where a similar one already has been reported by the finance committee. | Voting against the agreement, which was severely attacked in the House during nearly four days of debate, were 113 Democrats, 17 Republicans, two independents and ome socialist. Twelve were paired |against the proposal, and seventeer tailed to vote. Cancellation Charged. war i | The agreement provides for the funding of the obligation over a 62-year period with annual pay- ments beginning at $5,000.000 and gradually increasing to $80,000,000. For an original debt of $1,648,000.,- 000, the United States will receive a total of $2,407,000.000. Opponents of the settlement cona- tended that the interest rate to be paid over the 62-year period will be so low as to amount to virtual cancellation of the debt. The Mussolini government also was assailed in the debate as a dic- tatorial institution that was throt- tling the libérties of the Italian peo- ple, while the premier himself was described by Representative Rainey (Democrat), Illinois, as a ‘“‘cruel and vicious’ dictator. ‘ To Concibes Other Pacts, Others leading the attack on the settlement included Representative Garrett. of Tennessee, the Demo- cratic leader; Representative Rath- bone (Republican), Illinois, and Representative Hull’ (Democrat), Tennessee. Friends of the settlement. how-. ever,® warmly defended its terms. Chairman Green of the House ways and means committee, which re- ported the resolution; and Repre- sentatives Burton (Republican). 'Ohio, and Crisp (Democrat), Geor- gia, members of the debt commis- Sion, leading the fight for its ap- | proval. The House plans to take up. to- , day five resolutions to authorize ad- | ceptance of the funding agreements inegotiated since the last Congress ‘with Latvia, Belgium. Czechoslo- vakia; Roumania and BEsthonia. There is no announced opposition to any of the agreements. | ! | \ honeymoon with his bride, formerly Miss Elizabeth Ludwig, 50, of Chi- | in the, cago. They were married home of one of the bridegroom’s grandsons here and will spend their honeymoon at Asheville, N. C. FLORIDA RIVALS PARIS, BUT GASPS ABQUT IT ‘Night Club Show Prompts Judge Would Duck Short-Skirt Critic Philadelphia, Jan. 16 (By A. Pi ——-Hoopskirts or ducking stools were suggested by Magistrate O’Connor today as a means of end- ing, a neighborhood controversy be- tween women, who were divided as to whether skirts should remain at knee shortness or drop to the ankle. Mrs. Mary Tinkleman faced a Wives to Keep Their Husbands Home. Special to The Washington Post, Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 15.—-The dazzling lights of gay Paree are but candle flickers to the show high so- At the club de Mont de Marte. duces his wanes, a stately, scholariy. wealthy and withal a fashionable gathering yawns as befits one blase. The curtain goes up—-and behold: A beautiful girl, attired in| naught but a sweet disposition, | walks smilingly across the stage. The yawns give way to gasps, be- | jewelled dowagers finger their lorg- nettes uncertainly; mere man toys nervously at his tie, while there mayhap escapes a snicker from thé younger ‘set. .Palm Beach folk are accustomed to taking their play as it comes, but as yet it doesn’t know whether to be shocked or not by Ziegfeld’s offering. Wives, however, gre be- ginning to give home entertain- ments where their husbands are re- guited to bs pial ¢ charge of disorderly conduct for al- _leged remarks about her neighbors whe championed short skirts. ’ "You should go to Harrisburg and have a law enacted making it ~ compulsory to wear skirts that trail on the pavement,’ O'Connor ad- vised. ‘‘I’m sorry I can’t send you to a ducking stool as a scold or compel you to wear hoopskirts, so that you might appreciate the com- mon sense of short ones.” French’ Die of Cold; _ Snowfall Is General Paris, Jan. 15 (By A. P.).—The extreme cold with a heavy fall of snow which has come to France th the wake of a spell of warm weather and floods has caused the death ofa number of persons, and ‘untold suf- fering to many others. The snow is general throughout the cou t La Rochelle, in the southweste part of France, for the first £ in nine years is under a white” ket, while Douarnepez, in the western section, is covered tor first ries’ in ten years, 2 Myce