Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1921, Page 3

FOR ARMS MEETING QSefiators Harrison and Bo- rah Drafting Resolution to Admit Press. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. % The fight to have the press admit- 1<d to the forthcoming conference on the limitation of armaments and the discussion of far eastern questions has begun. Senator Harrison of Mississippi democrat, and Senator Borah of Idaho, republican, are working together over e draft of a resolution to be in- roduced in the Senate when Con- Eress convenes on Wednesday, call- ing upon the-American delegation to use its influence to have the news- paper men admitted to the big con- Terence. Indications from the White House heretofore have been that the confer- ence would be secret, and that the’ ‘various governments concerned would give out their own versions of what Arrangement of Plant Materials for the Home Grounds Prepared by the planting com- mittee of the commiitee om civic art of the Washington Society of Fime Arts, Miss Mabel Boardman, chairman, The small plot of ground which sur- rounds the average city home is one of the hardest problems of the land- scape gardener; a fact that is seldom realized by the citizen himself. The reasons for this difficulty are several The owner, if he is a lover of plants and flowers, will want all his favor- ites included in the planting list, re- gardless of space, style or suitability. This naturally ténds toward a crowd- ed and spotty condition and defeats at once all possibility of making a simple, coherent effect. Another difficulty with the small area is the fact that its entire extent comes under very close personal in- spection. This necessitates a more or less highly polished finish to the planting groups, which, unless skill- fully handled, will develop into hard, cold, mass plantings and lose all the artistic value of the free and bolder treatment of large and more distant plantations. This close and minute inspection leads to the bad practice of the continual trimming of shrubs and evergreens until they lose all takes place. The resolution, if adopt- ed by the Senate, would pledge the American delegation to work, not only for the admission of the press, but for the keeping of a stenographic Tecord of everything that is said at any meetings at which the business of the conference is discussed. No Such Record at Paris. No such record was kept at_ the Paris conference when the Big Four met and there are disputes today which probably will never be settled @8 to what was <ajid by each of the Tepresentatives of the governments involved. When the Council of Ten Was in session, secretaries were pres- 4nt but they only took notes and Wrote a condensed summary after- wards of what had been said. In no Sense was ti a complete record of the proceedings, nor was it offered as such. The entire Yap dispute has £TOwWn out of the faulty record kept Sn the meetings of the Council of Ten when it was averred President Wilson gave his consent to the Japan- ese proposal. The minutes of the meeting fail to present the entire qconversation in which Mr. Wilson in- sists that he explicitly dissented. Not a Partisan Fight. Senator Harrison declares that his fight for the admission of the press is not a partisan affair and that Sena- tor Borah as well as other leading republicans are just as much inter- ested in seeing the newspapers admi: ted as are the democrats. It is realiz- ed, of course, that the rules of the conference will be made by all the DPowers when assembled, but on the other hand, the aim of the senators behind the Harrison resolution is to have the American delegation at least champion the cause of open diplomacy. Then if the conference is a failure, it will not be said that the United States delegation was to blame for failing to keep the conference in the open. so that public opinion could prevent the representatives present from taking such arbitary positions » a9 _blocked agreement. The whole trouble about publicity in cconnection with every inter- national conference is that when the press is excluded, the blame for failure or the reSponsibility for obstructive tactics is never disclosed. The abilbis are still being offered for various agreements reached at the Versailles conference. Thus far there s every indication that the Washing- ton conference will be managed on!} exactly the same lines as the peace conference. that is, the press will be ! excluded and the officials of each government will tell the prees after- | wards what they ought to print in order to assist each national interest.' The European governments have always had a hold op their press. and have been able to inspire the writing of editorials as well as reports so as to influence public opinion. U. S. Delezates at Disadvantage. The American delegation at Paris never participated in such tactics and was often at a disadvantage for that reason. because the other delegations permitted secrets of the conference to leak through their reporters so that more prominence was given to what the newspapers of other coun- tries were saying than to the Amer: «can viewpoint. Domestic politics was also an important factor. One of the premiers insisted that if a certain thing was made public, he would lose his political power at home. In the interest of that individual's political fortunes, the other nations agreed to keep mum. There is nothing to pre- vent the same thing from happening at Washington in Xovember. nor is there anything to prevent the head a delegation from announcing in ecret that the public opinion of his country would not permit his agree- ing to certain propositions, which if posed to view, might be fully ac- pted by the people of his country. ‘ubjic opinion” is a much abused ord"in international conferences and vit usually has a great deal to do with Sdomestic politics. ator Harrison intends that there shall.be no undue influence exerted over.the press during the conference and_he has incorporated a paragraph in his resolution calling upon the American delegation to see to it that censorship of every kind, direct or indirect, is tabooed. (Copyright, 1921.) R — niong Welsh miners it is a super- ion that when a new man is taken at a mine he is never to be al- Jowed to go down with the first shift. Je must go down with the last shift, otherwise misfortune will follow. ) | .1 SPECIAL NOTICES. NDED—CHILD, COLORED, TO ADOPT childless couple: excellent home. Address x.2f-L, Star office. 19 CLAFLIN OPTICAL CO., Glasses to Rest Your Eyes. 907 F STREET. their grace and character and become unnatural, grotesque shapes whose only place is in a toplary or a highly developed formal garden. Still again, it is true in gardening. as in the other arts, that it is usually the little things that count, and which are often neglected or poorly exe- cuted because of their manmy limita- tions. Small things can be so easily overdone that it takes a master to create a new and Interesting work of art with the use of only two or three elements. He must decide first the ones "best suited for the conditions and then they must be applied in cor- rect proportion and relation. Hence, the small plot of ground in front of a clty residence, or the back yard, as it is commonly called, can only be de- veloped effectively after the problem has been sifted down to the last de- tail. When it is then executed it will be a pleasure to the owner and an asset to the community. The two principle elements in the arrangement of plant materials, Wwhether they be for city plots or country estates, are simplicity and unity; without these there can be no real composition, First, the planting list shuld be simplified as far as pos- sible, without monotony, however, or lack of variety. The materials should be chosen for their special fitness to meet the requirements of the prac- tical problem, whether it be light or shade. soil conditions, seasons at which the best effect is desired, or other numerous conditions which may play an important part in the de- cision. Hand in hand with the selection of the plant materials must go their dis- position. Unity in the arrangement can only be accomplished by having a | close relation between the planting masses, whether they are individual specimens or a series of mixed groups. A general rule for informal planting is to keep the center of the area open, and mass the corners and borders of the property. This treat- ment tends toward the unity by leav- ing a large open central lawn, which dominates and unites the planting and gives a restful and dignified setting for the house. When this has been accomplished its simplicity should not be destroyed by the introduction of a conventional flower bed of cannas, scarlet sage. or other gaudy flowers in the center of the lawn. Such geo- metrical beds are necessary and ef- fective in our civic centers and formal public parks. but are entirely out of place in the home grounds. Simplicity in the selection of ma- terials does not apply only to the number of different plants used, but also to thelr types and characteristics. Quantities of vivid blues, yellows and variegated leaf specimens, or the un- usual shaped and clipped freaks of nature which man has taken and em- phasized, should not be used. They only tend to make the planting con- fused and restless, taking on the character of an arboretum or a mu- seum, rather than that of a setting for a home. Therefore, in order that we may be capable of deriving more pleasure ourselves, and that we may help in the general beautification of the city, let us give more serfous thought to ! the development of the small plots of In doing so »ut effective, d-mands of than as an unusual ar- ground about our hom let us keep them simp! in harmony with the civ our neighborhood ratk : individual display of a few specimen plants thoughtlesly ranged. —_—— HANGED BY A [10B. Negro Reported Found in Boom of Sleeping Girl. GREENSBORO, N. C.. September 19. —Ernest Danie ung negro, was taken from the Pittsboro jail yester- day by a mob and hanged to the limb of a trce five miles from that town. It is alleged that Daniels was found in the room of a sleeping white girl Friday night. He escaped from the house when the alarm was given, but was apprehended by officers Satur- day and, it is alleged, confessed that he was the negro found leaning over the sleeping girl. -The negro was placed in jail at Pittsboro and yester- day morning about 2 o'clock ‘a mob overpowered Jailer W. H. Taylor and, taking the jail keys from that officer, An auto- d to hang took Daniels from the jail. mobile tire chain was uses the negro. SPECIAL NOTICES: LAWN FETE y, the 20th, at 7:30 p.m., Argonne ter- race, 16th and umbia rd. n.w. Mt. Pleasant . r. Free admission. Be sure to come. ‘Auspices of the Spiritual Sclence of the com Chureh ‘of Christ. ""The Shade Shop 2 W. 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(Copyright National Newspaper Service.) —_— BANDIT CONVICT -KILLS ONE IN EFFORT TO ESCAPE Wounds Two Trusty Guards With Rifle Smuggled to Him From Outisde Prison. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., September 19. —Tom Slaughter, notorious Oklahoma. bandit, yesterday added another chap- ter to his long list of crimes, when in a sensational attempt to escape from the Arkansas penal farm he killed one man and perhaps fatally wound- ed two others, all trusty guards, with a rifle smuggied to him by some one on the outside. Bllu_s Adkisson, draft resister, serv- ing eighteen years for murder, com- mitted when a posse tried to capture, him and other resisters in the moun- tains of Claiborne county, was killed. James Morris and Dewitt Garrett, the other guards, were shot through the body and are not expected to live. Lil- burn Taylor, a convict, was wounded in the right leg by a guard, but is not dangerously injured. Slaughter was brought from Tucker, where the farm is located, to the penitentiary here. Preparations are being made to try him for murder in Jefferson county, it was stated. Slaughter, who with Fulton Green, was convicted of the murder of Dep- uty Sheriff Row Brown of Hot Springs about a year ago, was wanted in Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Ken- itucky and Pennsylvania, according to officers, for bank robberies and mur- der. He had escaped ‘from the Texas penitentiary just prior to the Hot Springs - shooting, after striking a fellow convict over the head with a shovel and seriously injuring him. Slaughter and Green were captured at Independence, Kan. According 1o the reports from Tucker farm Slaughter early yester- day obtained the rifle smuggled into him from its hiding place in one of the large bathhouses, where they | were more than a hundred convicts at | the time. He ordered the conviets to lie down and through a window be- gan picking off the guards. Morri-| son was shot first and then Garrett’! 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