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EDITORIAL PAGE NATIONAL PROBLEMS SPECIAL ARTICLES EDITORIAL SECTION Sundy Star. .Society News Part 2—16 Pages A . WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1921 "WOMEN TO DEMAND A BILL OF RIGHTS Propose Amendment to the Constitution Placing Them on Equality With Men in All Legal Matters. ¥ BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. they are to go to school, whether UST because the American wom- | they are to go to a convent, etc. an has the ballot, under the|A Woman in that state canont accept nineteenth amendment of the [® gift or take an inheritance without Constitution of the. United |her husband's consent. There Is a States, it does not'follow that women | 12W, however, which allows a wom- have the same civil and legal rights [3n to make a contract with her fu- men. As a matter of fact, in|ture husband before marriage as to varying degrees, women are discrim- | the control of property, etc., after Inated against by law in all the|marriage. It is an old law coming states of the Union—not to mention [40Wn from the Napoleonic code, sel- the District of Columbia, the na-|dom called into play. But there was tional capital—with the exception of | & Tecent case where a man, himself Wisconsin, where an equal rights|4 lawyer and familiar with the code, law has recently been enacted. entered into a contract with the Now that the women have the suf- [ Woman he married whereby she was frage, they propose to make use of it [0 Pay all the bills. As it happened, o in their full rights with mer | the Woman had considerable wealth. undek the law. The discriminations! The marriage did not turn out hap- le particularly against married |PilY, and the man moved away, but women and in connection with the|Tremained in the state. He ran up control of property and of minor |Dills, and under the conttact, the wite children. was compelled to pay them, although v judgment was rendered against her St e without her having been notified. She Another * constitutional ~amend-|g;g no¢ reside with her husband, and ment—a bill of rights for the WOmEN. | 4 g pejq hat the notices could only it has been ‘dubbed—is to be ini- L Caled whei ‘the St vegiiar ssssion | & T lier hushand'sisealdericn. of the Sixty-seventh Congress opens Husband Paid for Injuries. in December. It is to be offered or.| In Mississippi & woman is discrim- rather, the resolution proposing the|inated against in many similar ways. amendment, is to be offered, in the|If a woman is injured, for instance, Senate by Senator Curtis of Kansas.|and damages are collected, they are and In the House by RepresentatiVve | paid to the husband, if the woman be Fess of Ohlo. The draft of the Pro- | married. posed amendment follows: In Massachusetts the state consti- political, civil or legal diSa-4y4i0n ‘s an obstacle to a woman's bilities or inequalities on account | o o B Pl S elature, | It of sex, or on acgount of marrlage,f ., iqea)y provides that only men unless applying alike “é ‘l“";’ ;::::; may be elected to the legislature. shall ""l:c:‘:"“";"e'c':em “n::n- Jurie.| The stite consijtution of Colorado :,’c:";’ B provides that no woman may serve - on a jury. Bestion, & C°'::l':’:n:;:"wh:x Out in California a married woman s oyt tioa does mot really own the money she ‘The women are adopting the same|earns she cannot will property so tactics they used in the fight for wom- |amassed. There is the case of a prom- rame.they are proposing an|inent woman sculptor who not long S5 el en since made a large sum from mural amendment to the Constitution of the n ; United States, and at the same time | decorations. She has children and de- i sires to leave a will giving them this seeking to have the individual states . enact laws giving women full legal)Mmoney. Her husband has no objec- helr borders. It may | tion. but under the California law, she HERGE wiHhn thels cannot legally make such a Wwill. seem strange, but they are having It 1 i s shvat thetr dificiliien 1 getting such legis- | ARSther Clifornin weinal. & PLys! Jation in some of the southern states. Their emissaries have attempted in recent weeks to get their bill intro- duced in the Louigiana legislature and in Algbama; But they have been unable to_find a man_to father the proposal in all its particulars, they #27 Wiseousin Firat ia Line. In Wisconsin, however, they were more successful. Their equal rights bill was put through by the legisla- ture of that state in June, just be- fore the adjournment. This bill pro- vides that “women shall have the same rights and privileges under the Jaw as men in the exercise of suf-| however. frage, freedom of contract, choice of residence for voting purposes, jury cian, has saved $75,000 out of her earnings, and she has found it im- possible to make a will leaving this money to her children because of the law saying that her husband shall control her earnings. These are only scattered instances of the inequalities of the law in deal- ing with men and women. There are very many others, and they are be- ing carefully collated by the women who are pushing for the woman's bill of rights. May Keep Her Own Name. One right the women have in this country, which is rarely assumed, That is, marries she may elect whether she shall bear her husband’s name or the service, holding office, holding and| name of her own family. This is a conveying property. care and custody | relic of the customs in England, from of children and in all other respects.” which country came most of the laws. The National Woman's Party has In England if a woman of noble taken the initiative in this fight full ‘equalization of women with before the law, and at the open of the next session of Congres: formally present the proposed consti- tiational amendment to Senator Curtis ind Representative Fess in the Capi- tpl with considerable ceremony. ! Discrimination in Capital. or | family marries a man of less degree en | she keeps her own name. ing| But the choice of domicile and resi- s will| dence is left to the man, the wife having nothing to say—legally. Dur- ing the last political campaign women' in the District of Columbia desiring to vote in their homes states endeavored to register and vote by mail in those cases where the state The women, it is probable, will have | laws permit. Some of them, however, a bill introduced which will deal spe-| found that they were ineligible to ! cifically with the District of Colum-| vote in their old home states be- ia. For {iT are discriminated against in clvil rights just as they are in the states, women in the National Capi- |cause they had married while here men from other states or from the District of Columbia. One former Massachusetts woman had a sad ex- though to a greater or less degree ac- | perience. She went home and regis- ' cording to the state. For instance, no Washington woman can ‘'serve on a jury. Minor children are in the control of their father, not of the mother, in Washington, when it comes to decid- ing ‘whether the to work. They are in the control of their guardian, if there be no father, before the mother. The money earned by the children is the property of thelr, father, not their mother. 1n the matter of inheritances in the Distéict of Columbia, women are dis- criminated againgt. the going to the male line, and excluding the mother’s 1ine, unless there are no relations on the father's side. This is carrled back even to the great-grand- father and his descendents, It applies, of course, where a person dies with- out having made a will. The father has the control, in the District, of any estate or inheritance that may be left to his children, and the mother has no say in the matter. No married woman can act s surety or guarantor under the District code. Thees are instances of the discrimina- tion against women in the District. There are others. Variation in the States. Tn some of the states the discrim- ination is even more marked. “Many children shall be put | the tered and sought to vote, and then was on, the brink of being locked up becabse she was about to vote il- legally. She had married a man from Kentucky, and her legal residence, it was held, was in Kentucky. American women who marry for- elgners lose their nationality under existing laws. This is a matter, too, which the women are desirous of_rectitying. Out in Michigan there recently hap. pened an incjdent which would indi cate that the law sometimes works 1o the benefit of the wife, although it may be a legal discrimination against her as a citizen. A woman was caught “bootlegging” and convicted, but the penalty was inflicted upon inheritance | her husband, although he had no part in_the bootlegging business. Returns to Direct Drive For Sale of Irish Bonds | | when a woman| praclas B SRPRE Rt American Program for Arms Parleyf “To Form as Conference Progresses| BY N. 0. MESSENGER. RESIDENT HARDING took occasion the day the American delegates to the arma- ment limitation ,conference held their first meeting gently - but firmly to ad- monish the overenthusiasts of the _country against millennial expectation; gently, because the admonition was gddressed to a woman, and firmly because of ovelwhelming evidence of the existence of superbellef in the obviously impos- sible. That word millennial is the President's, which he uses in private conversation as de- scriptive of the widely pervading spirit to count too heavily upon the ideal in the face of facts. His kindly and gracious phraseology, like a silken mitt Inclosing a steel gauntlet, did not obscure the logic of his reasoning in setting forth what may be expected and what should not be looked for In the results of the confer- ence. As the statement from the President was being given out at the White House, just across the narrow street, filled with’ October sunshine flooding up from Potomac Park, four serious- visaged statesmen sat in the State Department building—the four American delegates—ponder- ing a few of the practical aspects of the com= ing conference and outlining a course of policy. * k ok % What will be the American policy? s asked. Well, Secretary of State Hughes has made it plain in response to that same question ad- dressed to him that the policy will be developed as the conference progresses and not announced in advance. For the present, the only policy of this government toward the conference in gen- eral is the “open door” of invitation to all the nations concerned to assemble in-a spirit of sincerity and amity and seek by agreement to accomplish a purpose believed by all to be salu- tary to the world's peace—If it can be encom- passed. This does not mean that the United States government is lacking in suggestions to propose—at the proper time—nor that it will g0 into the meeting without being fully sup- plied with data upon all Subjects that may come up. * ¥ ¥k X 1t is evident that the country has been look- ing forward to the conference mainly in its aspect to limitation of.armaments, whereas the most important feature is likely to be the de- cision upon Pacific and far eastern questions. This s explainable, perhaps, because the plain people can better grasp the idea of reduced ex- penditures for war purposes in their bearing upon lessened taxation. There has been a veritable avalanche of propaganda upon this subject—the word propaganda employed in no disparaging sense. The churches have taken it up, welfare organizations have joined in, or- ganized labor has risen in a body for limitation of armaments. The moving picture houses have thrown upon the screen easily understood dia- grams showing the appalling disproportion of governmental expenses for civil and utilitarian purposes to those growing out of wars of thw past and preparation for possible wars in the future. . But the cool and far-seeing statesmen of this and other countries réalize that the diplomatic questions which are to come before the assem- bly are far more intricate, delicate and impor- tant than the altruism of lessened armaments or the dollars and cents involved therein. Fail- ure to compose satisfactorily these difficulties precludes any reasonable hope of agreement for material halting of military and naval programs now outlined in stupendous bulk by all the nations participating in the conference. The country now recognizes the logic of President Harding and Secretary Hughes in holding that the diplomatic settlement must precede the military curtailment, but it is doubtful if the country has fully visualized the extent and seri- ousness of the Pacific and far eastern questions. * %k % % L4 Officials of this government have sought to" impress the fact that upon the writers for the public prints rests a serlous responsibility in the coming weeks; the necessity, in the con- servation of the world's welfare, of cool think- ing, dispassionate and calm expression and the avoidance of bellicose or jingoistic sentiments. Fortunately, discussions of the conference's labors as they proceed are likely to be entirely dissociated from domestic political tinge or animus. The distinguished democratic leader of the Senate, Oscar Underwood—and he is a great man intellectually as he is & sincere patriot—has sounded the keynote in this respect, which other partisans will echo. * * % . No such division of opinion upon any of th questions coming up is deemed possible, com- parable to the honest differences of sentiment about the league of nations which arose during the progress of the Paris peace conference, and later in this country when the treaty of Ver- sailles was submitted to the Senate, to be finally rejected on votes that were bi-partisan. The outlined scope of the questions to be discussed does not at this time disclose any vista look- ing to entanglement of the United States in the problems, territorial or political, of Europe. That the vision does take in, however, trade and economic questions invelved in territorial spheres of influence is beyond doubt, but it is pointed out that there can be no division be- tween republicans and democrats upon these questions, all-American in their bearing. * % k % When it comes to politics, there is enough in the present domestic situation to furnish food for thought for the most ardent politician. The important question confronting the repub- lican party at the moment is whether the re- publicans in the Senate will be able to hold to- gether in’a tangible political entity or will dis- integrate under the operations of the agricul- tural and other blocs now so much in evidence. Senator Watson of Indiana, who at this time stands as one of the militant republican leaders in that body, tersely described the situation in these words: “We talk about agricultural blocs, and manu- facturers' blocs, and mining blocs. What I want is a republican bloc in the United States Senate, and when they organize it I shall stay with it, for while the republican party may be wrong in some instances it is almost univer- sally right, and it is more nearly right all the time than the democratic party ever {s.” Mak- ing allowances for the boast of the superior intelligence and patriotism of his own political organization, he certainly voiced the heartfelt prayer of his colleagues and uttered a senti- ment of profound political significance en he said: “What I want is a republican bloc.” . * % k % « For, as the cards fall now they disclose very little semblance to a republican bloc or a bloc bearing any party semblance. Some of the old- line party men among the republicans in the Senate and their brethren in the House who are looking on with anxiety in their hearts are dis- mayed at the tendency to break away from party lines in the Senate, and wondering what is the cause. How can republican senators, they ask, have the temerity to disparage party ties and contemplate union with a political enemy to accomplish a legislative purpose, knowing that its effect will be to weaken the republican administration in Congress and the government. How will they answer to their republican con- stituents when they go back, if their party and administration are disrupted? - * % % % One suggestion put forward is that the seven-million majority by which that party and organization are in power comprises democrats as well’as repyblicans, and that the senators think the legislative objects to be paramount to party success, so that they will receive their reward from the voters of both parties. It can be well imagined how: horrifying such a propo- sitlen is to the dyed-in-the-wool organization republican, who balieves still that this is a gov- ernment by parties. * % X % Some politicians in Congress apprehend that this new-fangled ‘‘bloc” system is rapidly as- suming the character of a political Franken- stein and that: the men who set it a-stalking may wake up some fine morning to discover it a monster of frightful mien and destructive powers. But the men who started it going are still cranking-away at the motive power, and apparently do not care how Frankensteinish it becomes so long as it does their bidding and “brings home the bacon.” (Copyright, 1921, by The Washington Star.) HOUSE IS IN NEED OF NEW COMMITTEE Budget Legislation ,Held to Make Neces- sary a General Committee on the Executive Departments. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. 8 a final clean-up in its pro- gram of reorganization to make the budget system effi- clent, economical and expe- ditfous, the House is now considering the organization of a new major com- mittee to be known as “the commit- teen on expenditures in the executive departments.” In the present organization of the House there are eleven committees on expenditures for various federal departments, the first of which was established in 1816, and the others added as new departments were cre- ated. These are supposed to be audit- ing committees for the departments, but this function has lapsed into the inde- pendent office of controller general, who is In effect, as was originally written into the budget bill, an officer of Con- gress. Confusion Over Jurisdiction. There is no budget committeo to which proposed legislation regarding the administration of appropriations for all of the government departments, such legislation as the director of the budget and the controller general are required by law to recommend, can be referred, and in consequence there is much confusion over proper jurisdic- tion. To remedy these conditions the for- ward looking men of the House includ- ing Speaker Gillett, House Leader Mon- dell and other prominent members on both the republican and democratic sides, are seriously considering the es- tablishment of the new committee on expenditures in the executive depart- ments. The Senate has already taken simi- lar action. The rules of the House give exten- sive powers to these existing commit- tees on expenditures, providing that “the examination of the accounts and expenditures of the several depart- ments of the government and the man- ner of keeping the same; the economy, justness and correctness of such ex- penditures; their conformity with ap- propriation laws; the proper applica- sach of the expenditures committees has jurisdiction only in one particular department. Cross-Legislation Results. Not only that, but as regards the Navy and War departments, it often happens that a duty will be given to @ naval officer when the administra- tion should apply equally to an Army officer. This has resulted in consider- able cross-legislation, and the House leaders argue that there would be a general administrative system apply- ing to all officers. With the establishment of the budget system, the fact has been em- phasized that there is no committee on the budget in the House. It will be one of the duties of the director general and the controller general to submit recommendations for legisla- tion. There is now no committee to which the Speaker can properly refer these recommendations. So the new committee would not only expedite the settlement of war claims, but would view the administrative needs of the government establishment gen- erally. A great deal of legislation of this character—practically all of it, as a matter of fact—has heretofore been carried in riders on appropriation bills. That is, legislation affecting the administration of moneys appro- priated has been carried in appropria- tion bills. Such legislation is very often hurriedly drawn, is vague and often fails to accomplish the purpose for which it was enacted. Powers Already Great. But since the jurisdiction over all appropriations has now been lodged in the appropriations committee necessarily, the House leaders say, it will no longer be permitted that this committee will include items of leg- islation, no matter how small or un- important they may be relatively, on an appropriation bill, or by special bills fathered by the appropriations committee, Considerable friction was caused in the last Congress in handling appro- priation bills - becanse the chairmen Appeal of Starving Russia for Succor Aff_ords Chance to Cure Soviet Evils BY FRANCESCO NITTIL, Former Premler of Italy. HE whole world has been moved by the desperate appeal addressed by bol- shevist Russia to Europe and America. Moscow no longer threatens to impose its sinister systems which, born of violence, have resulted in famine and ruin; Moscow begs for help, for bread food, medicines, clothing. Millions of men, women and children are in the throes of the direst hunger and in imminent danger of death. It is necessary, as far as possi- ble, to help Russia. When human suffering assumes such tragic shapes, political 'distinctions and social prejudices disappear. Our differences cease before the grandeur of suffering and the majesty of death. The help in foodstuffs which continental Europe is in a po- sition to render must naturally be very limited, for Europe, too, is in terrible difficulties, as a result of the war and also in consequence of this so-called peace which, in proclaiming the rights of victory. has sanctioned every violence and deeply disorganized society. But all who are able to do so will help willingly, and also those nations which are themselves suffering will conltribute something to the common fund. * % ¥ % Russja’s desperate appeal con- tains the implicit admission that the communist regime has brought about in a few short years more ruin and misery than century-long oppression. It proves, if any proof were still necessary, that the com- munist form of production is not only harmful, but not lasting. Economists say that it is funda- mentally absurd, but given the collective folly from which some nations are suffering, nothing is absurd except the hope of their speedy recovery. 3 N If there was a country gpen to a communist experiment, that:coun- try was Russia. Imperial Russia represented the vastest continuous territory. ever occupied by one state. Twenty-two millions of square kilometers, about eighty- damental condition of success for a governntent which was to regu- late production despotically, there was another not less important. Russia is the only country in the world which, like the United States, China and Brazil (the four largest countries on the earth, without taking {nto consideration the British dominions, which are too scantily populated) possesses in its own territory everything which is necessary for existence. Nay, given a country on the basis of an isolated economy, namely, living exclusively on its own re- sources without trading with any other country, Russia has the pos- sibility of realizing the most pros- perous and comfortable conditions af existence. Her territory contains everything: Cereals, textile fibers, combustibles of all kinds, metals. Russia is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, reserve of the world. In spite of this privileged condition the communist organization has succeeded in stop- ping every form of production. Rus- sia, who was first able to give lav- hly to all, is herself dying of hun- ger; Russia, who could provide Eu- rope with coal and mineral oil, can- not keep her railways going; Russia, who had abundance of hemp and cotton in the Caucasus, {s unable to clothe her soldiers and the employes of the bolshevist state. The stimulus of personal interest having ceased, few care to work. The peasants alone continue to produce barely enough for the maintenance of their own families while the city workers waste their time in endlegs talk and political meetings. Everybody wishes to live at the expense of the state, and production, autocratically. or- ganized, dries up and withers from day to day. * %k % ¥ If we read the collection of laws issued by the bolshevist government, we find many. institutions which ap- pear not only reasonable but full of interest. Many laws of the autocratic governments of past regimes like- ‘wise appear animated by an intelli- gent and noble spirit. But laws do not, contain in themselves any crea- tive power: they regulate human re- lations but are powerless to’create them. ‘Fhey can deprive some one in most Arian languages the word wealth is synonymous wilth dominion and power. The Russian experiment has been extremely useful to the whole of Europe and ‘America. The Red International. of Mos- cow has revealed itself in its true color of “the International of Famine and Peath.” Communism has proved its incapacity to guar- antee, in practice, even that min-- imum of production which might suffice for an inferior race. If a whirlwind of madness, coming from Russia, at one time threat- ened to submerge the world, Rus- sla herself no onger menaces, but begs for help and pity and has made the very confession which we expected from her.” The frank admission of her ruin can- not, of course, be expected to come from her fanatics and from the violent upholdérs of com- munism, but that recognition comes, from facts and has no need of further confirmation. ce e But what is now happiness in Russfa must not induce the west- ern states to repeat the errors which they committed during and after the war. . A long time must necessarily elapse before the Russian people slowly resumes Its international life, and even more slowly its way to progress, but to begin with it must choose a different road. The peasants, who form the vast majority of the population, look back with terror to the ancient regime. They have taken posses- sion of the land and mean to hold it against all comers; they cannot for a moment think of permitting the return of the great Rudsian landowners, whose estates were ae large as provinces, and who often did not themselves know the full extent of their possessions. One of the causes which has rendered it possible for bolshevism to keep on its legs 8o long has been the at- titude of the entente, which has always shown the greatest sym- pathy for the men of the ancient regime. The czar of Russia was an insignificant man, and his court and government mainly com- posed of unscrupulous, thieving, ent states and a return to the previous form of government. * K % % It Is certainly not an easy mat- ter to talk about Russia, where no free press any longer exists and where all the people can do is to try to keep themselves from dy- ing of starvation. But the west- ern states must find some means of making it quite clear that in no_case do they wish to re- instate the ancient regime, that they are ready to recognize all federal forms of government and that they have no power to pre- . vent orin any way to retard the transfer of the land to the peas- ants. They must also explain that their full ~recogmition of the de facto government or governments of Ruesla is only subordinate to the respect of international laws, and not to ghe admission of in- debtedness ®ward certain states of Europe. To put it briefly, the states of democracy must once and for all give up assuming the outer aspect of a Bayard, while having the soul of a Shylock. The communist fllusion through- out the world burst like a bubble when the government of the so- viets sent out its S. O. S. appeal for the starving millions of Rus- sia. But the mission of succor and help should be also the beginning of a reconstructive work. We are not in a position to give Russia all the things of which she is in need. But we can give her the assurance that we do not intend to help in the restoration of the ancient regi- me, and that we honestly wish to co-operate toward the resurrec- tion of the Russian people. (Oopyright, 1921.) —_— PRESIDENT IS INVITED. Accepts, Provisionally, an Invita- tion to New Orleans. March 15. President Harding has accepted pro- visionally an invitation to visit New Orleans, La., ‘during the week of 1922, when the Southern Commercial Congress will be in an- March 15, nual session. Dr. Clarence J. Owens, director gen- eral of the congress, who extended the invitation, said that the President’s tion of public moneys; the security of the government against unjust and ex- travagant demands; retrenchment; the enforcement of payment of moneys due the United States; the. economy and accountability of public officers; the abolishment of useless offices; the reduction or increase of the pay of of- ficers—shall all be subjects within the jurisdiction of the standing commit- tees on the public expenditures in the several departments.” and ranking members on some of the erstwhile departmental appropriating committees resented the loss of this authority to the new, enlarged ap- propriations committee. Some of the apropriation bills were shot full of holes when they came into the House, through points of order being made against legislative items. Subject to Polnts of Order. But the fact remains legislation /df this sort has to be ‘ — = Sanecta enacted. If it is not put on in the They have reported bills relating to House It must be put on in the Senate b- |28 an amendment. If it is put on as an amendment it usually does not | meet with much consideration in the House. Such items of legislation put on by the appropriations committee are always subject to points of opder in the House. So, if such legislatidp is to receive proper consideration, it is necessary to have a committee on'ex- penditures in the executive depart- ments in order to round out the bud- get system and make it efficient, eco- nomical and expeditious. To give & good example of how this :;lor:s out—the Navy pay bill included e Army, Navy, Mari; with a great deal of authority, but mm,fla can:t &'fiflfifi.fi’.‘c this has simply lapsed, except that|oMcers. The House committee o: that some | the efficiency and integrity of the pul lic service, leaves of absence of offi- cers and clerks, creation and abolition of offices and fees and salaries of of- ficers and employes. They may make investigations without specific direc- tion from the House, but authority must be obtained from the House for compelling testimony. Even before the establishment of the budget system, House leaders believe it would have been wise to establish such a new committee as is now pro- posed. Each of the existing commit- tees, as has been said, is intrusted once in a while some particular com- | nava) affairs got Jjurisdiction by in- mittee will report a bill for adjudica- | troducing 2 bill for naval officers, and tion of an account for the particular|when the Senate got this menu‘re it department it has jurisdiction over. |tacked on the other officers. The re- Right now, as a result of the war, | sult was that the entire matter was there are thousands of claims—not |handled by the conferees for the maval particularly claims of individuals, but | committee. of governmental officers, and in that| Take also the proposal for the es- way they become not private claims, | tablishment of a general purchasing butef agents of the government, which | agency for all the government estab- have arisen through acts not within | lishments. Such a bill has been in- their own control. It will require com- | troduced by Representative Will R. mittee consideration of each particular | Wood of Indiana. There is no com- case, or some general legislation cov-|mittee to which it can be properly ering all these cases and leaving it tojreferred. It has been sent to the ap- propriations committee, but the pros- Dects are that committee will not dare to report it out. the controller general of departments to settle these clalms. No committee of Congress has wide enough jurisdic- tion to consider general legislation for settlement of these claims, because Seek No Further Powers. Chairman Madden and the members of the appropriations committee have no desire or inclination to intrude or trespass on the grounds of depart- mental legislation, because they feel they have a big job of their own. The attitude of the House is that now that power over all appropriations has been passed to the appropriations committee, If power over legislation affecting all the government estab- lishments is also passed to that com- mittee it will be one of super-power and the rest of the House organiza- tion might just as well be abolished. So much of this sort of legislation has come to she House in the past, and more than ever is in prospect now, that the proposed new commit- tee would undoubtedly be one of major importance, ranking with the appropriations and rules committees. ‘The House leaders feel that it should Indian Believed to Be Oldest Man in the World ‘| acceptince was with-the understand- ing that he would go in the event nothing of an emergency nature arose {to prevent. i° The invitation was presented on behalf of Gov. John M. Parker of Louisiana. President Harding is ex- Ppected to address the congress. It is understood that the President on his four times the size of Italy, almost three times the size of the United States, were occupled by a popula- tion accustomed to the most abject slavery. Under the regime of the - czar a handful of ‘men lorded it despotically over more than 180,- 000,000 men spread over an im- drunken and violent men. Who can wish for a return of those conditions? | All the men of the ancient re- gime, from " Koltchak to Deni- . kine and Wrangel, have received from the entente, and especially fyom France, arms and financial be made up of twenty-five members and divided into subcommittees, each with jurisdiction over some particu- lar department. . This committee would be a sort of balance to the appropriations com- mittee—the committee on appropria- tions having jurisdiction over all ap- of wealth and give it to others, but ' they cannot create.wealth. When personal interest is eliminated, work, ‘which s labor and suffering, gradu- ally slows down and ceases to pro- duce. Even shorter hours, in which all attempt at efficiency is avoided, at last culminate in the incapacity of the discriminations are due to the old common law. In Louisiana, how- ever. where the Napoleonic code was in force when the United States made the Loulsiana purchase, there are discriminations against women that are peculiar to that state alome. A woman's earnings after her marriage in Louisiana belong to her husband, mense territory. All obeyed mOSt [ fbr any effort and in the compl help. The Russian people never . if he lays claim to them. necenuyl submissively. roas ol Tk e aaient Piete | ‘had any sympathy with those en- |return to' Washington will stop at j p_l:opl{l‘ll;ltlonl n’nd ::: comm[llttee e > ok x - da 1 truth lies in th terprises and often openly opposed |Baton Rouge to participate in the éxpenditures in executive de- mentalitruth glies, fn itho) iact thet ceremonies incident to . the public partments having Jurisdiction over the case of a woman milliner came up. Her husband was away at sea. A them. I have had occasion to Centralishtion had been brought } .in all Arlan languages the words In- | ., o,y with the representatives of |dedication of the new. Agricultural and the mariner of expenditure of such KA-BE-NAH-GWAY-WENCE She worked hard and laid up money. He returned some four years after he had left her and lald claim to all her savings and his claim was sus- tained. 4 3 In Lonisiana the father has entire esntrol of the children and decides what is to be done with them, where . HARRY J. BOLAND, Member of the Irish dafl eireann and private seeretary to. Eamon de Va- dern, who went to Ircland three months ago, returmed to New York Treceatly, l 1 to such a degree and obedience to the central power was so great, that no hostile manifestation was lastingly tolerated. The commun- ist regime was therefore able to count not only on the apathy of --the Russian people, but-also -on.its blind: obedience. . Besides this fun- dicating labor have the same root as those which mean pain. The great majority of men only work because compelled by necessity or in their own interest: after the elementary needs of existence have been met, self-interest is the only stimulus to the . acquisition.of. .wealth. In fact, .| the suppression-of”the-independ: the new states, especially of the Caucasian - states, -in: Paris and London -during the sittings of the conference. They "all. agreed in saying that the action of the men of the old regime, and especially - that of DenSkine, had for its‘object Mechanical College of Louisiana. RECALLED FROM ENGLAND. States-for assignment to-other duty. Lient. ‘John B. Lawrence, who has Been on special duty at Howden, Eng- 1ind;“Hs ‘Béen ordered to the. United appropriations. (Wrinkled ‘Meat), known to teurists plain hn Lake, ORDERED T0O ANNAPOLIS. Lieut. Commander Granville B. Hoey, attached to the U. 8. 8. Tarbell, has been ordered to Annapolis for duty at-the Naval Academy, -