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THE SUNDAY OHEGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 10, 1993 FOREIGN CAPITALS AND OTHER CITIES CONTRIBUTE GOSSIP HOWD TOU LIKE TO BE JUDICIAL STOCKING INSPECTOR? HERE'S ONE. SWIRL OF SOCIETY ENGULFS WASHINGTON OFFICIAL LIFE GREAT WOMEN RECOGNIZED AND ACHIEVEMENTS NOTED Heroine Worship.. New and Spreading Cult Statues and Monuments to Feminist Leaders Rising Everywhere. Visit of M. Clemenceau to Capital Most Prominent of Numerous Occasions Made Brilliant by Their International Coloring. 8 BT BETTY BAXTER. fCopyrieht. 19'2'J. by The Oreronian.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 9. Gracious, what a week it was! It was a regular three-ring no, more like five-ring circus, and it made one dizzy trying "to take in" all that was going on. There was the conference on Central American affairs, Clemenceau's visit and the lecturers' conference under the auspices of the International Lyceum Chautauqua association, which brought just -oodles of nota bles from ail parts of the country here. Any one of those three would have kept things in a whirl by Itself, much less all in one week. And they were not all, either. The Central American conference resulted in much entertaining, in dividually and in groups, most of the embassies and legations of the countries represented acting as hosts-. The president gave a large luncheon in their honor Monday, the first entertaining he has done of a formal nature since Mrs. Harding's illness, which is the best sign 1 Know of that she is far advanced on the road to recovery. Then that evening Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes entertained about 3000 of the social elect at a reception in compliment to the dele gates at the Pan-American Union building. The conference probably will last about two months perhaps more and parties galore are yet to come off for them. Secretary and Mrs. Hughes are planning two din ners for them soon. I think perhaps Clemenceau's visit aroused greater interest than any one thing. He stopped with the ex-ambassador to France, Henry White, and Mrs. White. Mr. White was also a member of the Paris peace conference. All our delegates and chief officials at that confer ence Woodrow Wilson. Robert Lansing, Colonel E. M. House, Mr. White, General Tasker H. Bliss and Admiral W. S. Benson greeted Cle menceau some time during his visit. It has been whispered to me that Clemenceau was the means ot bring ing Wilson and Colonel House to gether again; they hadn't seen each other since June, 1919, you know, until they actually did get together this week and I've been told that they did. " Then there was the reception last Wednesday which the Finnish min ister, Axel L. Astrom, gave to cele brate the fifth independence of Finland, another one of those birthday parties of various sorts which are always on the social cal endars here, it would seem. There were about 400 guests, mostly diplo mats and state department officials. Mme. Jusserand, wife of the French ambassador, dean of the diplomatic corps, assisted him in receiving. ' Another outstanding event of the week was the gridiron dinner to night; also the dance which Miss Aisla Mellon, daughter of the secre tary of the treasury, gave and then yesterday was the first of the win ter's series of junior league dances, as select an affair and as bril liant as they always have been in the past. Among, those receiving was Mrs. James W. Wadsworth Jr., wife of the senator and a daughter LIFE OF SENATOR CAMERON IS ROMANCE OF ADVENTURE Solon From Arizona Turns From Vocation of Seafarer to Merchant and Exploits Grand Canyon for Gold. HE natural impulse for adven- Xture makes the life of Halph M Cameron. Senator from Ari zona, read more like a book of fiction than one of facts. Unable to resist the restlessness that stirred within when a lad of 12, he shipped on a tramp vessel bound for Cape Horn from the little town of Southport, Me. Ex celling in the craf Js of the sea, even at that age, he was a valuable ad dition to the crew. His parents had reconciled them selves to the belief that he had been drown at sea, when one clear morning he appeared at the door of his home. The whole village turned out to welcome him. He was the hero of the hour. He turned his attention to the sea and followed the fortunes of a fisherman until he was 16. Then he went to Boston to find a higher type of work, and tried being a silk salesman for a while. But a rou tine existence was not his Idea of life or action. It was impossible for him to adjust himself to the Bilk-tinged atmosphere. He wanted to see tomahawks fly, hear bullets slzzin' round his ears. He longed for the war whoop of an Apache, so he resigned his position as a silk clerk and set his face westward. His money carried him as far as Kansas. At that time at Flagstaff station there was in full operation a big sawmill managed by Mr. Lord, now a ret'red multimillionaire. Young Cameron hired out as handy man in Mr. Lord's lumber camp, engaged In the making of railroad ties. When Mr. Cameron was "elected to the senate one of his first con gratulatory letters was from his friend, Mr. Lord, the text in part reading: "To be a tie king means nothing to me. but to be a maker of a senator is indeed a true honor." The lumber camp witti its few scattering houses, a couple of stores, several saloons, located in the toughest place this side of hades, was not to his taste. So Mr. Cameron decided to go on to "Frisco," which he did. There he acted as a store manager for a while. The manager had a sick wife,' whom the doctor had ordered south. Mr. Cameron agreed to stay six months, but as the wife of the man failed to regain her health he etayed on month after month until the time lengthened into six years. Eventually he purchased the store. But this life paled. The spirit of dverture claimed its- own and the then senator-to-be sold out and went prospecting for gold. He is one of the pioneers who de scended the Grand canyon with In dian guides and cowboys. The block and tackle was brought into use again and again to make this de ecent possible. The coveted gold pot lay buried 6000 feet down an untraveled abyss. It was just hole in the ground which no one knew about. It took two days to climb don or up the canyon. A gold mine is valueless and would be an idle find unless you can get your gold to the market. So without any schooling or engineer' ing ekill Ralph, Cameron eet to of John Hay, one-time secretary of ' state. ' 1 The first of the series of navy dances, given by a group of naval officers stationed about here, came off Monday evening. A number of boxes were filled with prominent persons, including Secretary and Mrs. Denby, thechief of naval op erations, and Mrs. Robert Coontz ami others. Monday was a strenuous dajy. There was the Hughes reception, the president's luncheon, the navy dance, several dinners, including one Mrs. Henry F. Dimrock gave for Secretary of War and Mrs. Weeks, and then a week of opera opened that night. ' a Oh, yes. Another important event was the opening of the Congres sional club for the season and its first Friday tea given yesterday. The club has those teas every Fri day during the season and usually has an interesting programme, but for the opening the members just "got together" and chatted, after being scattered for so long. There were a lot of good-looking gowns and jewels at the Hughes reception and none looked better than Mrs. Hughes, who wore a turquoise blue velvet gown, the front of the skirt of which was em broidered with crystal beads in an elaborate design of wheat. The gown . was made on straight lines, the embroidering ending at the waistline the only way it was marked. A panel train hung from the shoulders and the sleeves were of silver lace, elbow length and full bell shaped. Mrs. Sumner Welles, whose hus band is our delegate to the confer ence, was the only other North American woman in the receiving line, which, by the way, reached clear across the width of the wide hall of the Americas at the Pan American Union building, where the reception was held. Mrs. Welles' gown was of white satin, a draped model caught on the side with a jeweled ornament. She wore a scarf of chinchilla around her shoulders. Mine. Jusserand wore the best looking wrap at the Southern so ciety meeting. It was a fur cape with a deep, , wide collar and seemed to be a rather dark brown mink, the skins running in rows about the figure instead of up and down. Mme. George Maynard Minor, president-general of the Daughters of the American Confederacy who made an address that evening, wore a handsome gown of gray and light blue brocaded metal cloth with low decolletage, V-shaped back and front The dress was on princess lines and fitted close to the figure and was trimmed on both skirt and bodice with silver lace. The sleeves were elbow length and of gray chiffon, but slit their full length on top. . . The debutantes here have almost all adopted the latest fad for eve ning wearing bandana handker chiefs tied around their wrists. They do look so silly, but are the "very latest thing," you know. Another new "wrinkle" is to have your evening wrap match your eve ning gown. work to build Bright Angel trail. It took 14 years to build the first burro path. His capital at the outset of this venture was a shoestring and he was broke during the entire 14 years. His partner got cold feet and quit. The only time it was pos sible to work on this .trail was in winter, as it necessitated the use of water and . the only means of getting this was by meRing mow. He got some Mexicans and Indans who were willing to work for their "eats." It required tons and tons of powder to. blast out the solid rocks. After a struggle of 14 years it was ready. While it was not built for tourists, soon 50 burros were M,;J l If I1 MRS. PEARL KEAT1.XG INTERVIEWING RALPH H. CAMERON, SEN ATOR FROM ARIZONA, I; I - . fi -h: I-- r tt 11 Vv- vhvK? . SS2 f . J. v v i i Pacific-Atlantic Photo. SUSS RUBY ADAMS DISPLAYING HOSIERY 1ST QUESTION AND JUSTICE! OF THE PEACE THOMAS F. PRE1VDERGAST. During a lawsuit regarding the durability and proper fitting of filmy, elaborately patterned lace hose, Justice of the Peace Thomas F. Prender. gast of New York announced that he needed expert testimony. Following his announcment, the court officially summoned Miss Ruby Adamsj a beautiful chorus lady, to serve as a commissioner of the court, or, in other words, official hosiery tester. kept busy traveling down and up that mountain trail with eagei sightseers on their backs. Mr. Cameron then conceived a broader vision. He wanted a rail road on that trail. While he was away trying to In terest some eastern capitalists in his scheme the Santa Fe railroad with its millions of dollars to back it, up, stole his dream away from him, securing the right to build the road. Not being content to build the road, they grabbed the land title that included his trail. For 20 years a legal war was waged, resulting in a compromise to the Coconino company. Mr. Cameron has mae fortunes and has spent them. He stands to day as the man who has done more to place the great scenic splendors of the Colorado canyon before the people of the world than any of his followers. It is said of him that he is loved by the poor and knows no enemy. One graphio anecdote stands out conspicuously in his struggles to hold his gold mine claim at the foot of the Colorado canyon. Returning from a trip to raise more money while he was huua;er the burro trail he got wind of two prospectors who had jumped his claim. He immediately set out on horseback and after hours of sleep less travel he came upon them sure enough squatting on his claim. He waited until they had put aside their guns and gone down to the stream to wash up. Then he slipped up on them ana oraerea, nanus up!' The surprised men turned to look into tne muzzie ot mr. Cam eron's pistol. He curtly inqured of them, "Where do you prefer to go, out of this canj-on or h 1?" The men did not choose the latter place. Mr. Cameron is still the owner of this coveted claim. He has ex experienced thrills that would make the moyie hero green with envy during his years of service as sheriff of Coconino county. He was known as the "go-getter" of the criminals. Today Senator Cameron bears all the earmarks of a polished lawmaker. FINANCIER BUYS $200 DOLL FOR CHILD AFTER CRASH Chicago Man Declares It Impossible to Explain to Daughter That Money Is Hard to Get. BY MARGARET NORRIS. Copyright. 1922. by The Oregonian.) CHICAGO, Dec. 9. (Special.) Mr. Jones of J. R. Jones & Co whose recent financial crash street," did his Christmas shopping today. It consisted of a single pur chase and was made in the toy de partment of Marshall Field & Co. a $200 doll house for little daughter Betty. "The world knows we are broke," Jones explained to his pro testing wife, "and that means a lean Christmas for you and me. But how are we going to explain that to Betty?" "This incident," declared R. C Gibson, toy buyer for Marshall Fieii ot&ic, "is merely one of hun dreds of its kind wirtch prove that In the toy department there is 'no such animal as a lean Christmas.' If there is any economizing to be done, it is the grownups who must do it, for no matter how tight money might be there always will be mil lions of dollars to buy toys for the little folk. , . "Volume of business which we do here at Christmas time is no barom eter' of the economic situation in general," Mr. Gibson said. "The Christmas of 1907, the year of the panic, exceeded the previous year in the sale of toys." For the' lean Christmas of 1920 we sold more toys than in the fat Yuletide of 1919, while the still leaner season ot 1921 set a new record all of its own. And this year, with prosperity back ahead of Santa Claus, the kiddies will find their stockings fuller on Christmas morning than they ever did hefore. The steady increase in volume of the toy business does not mean necessarily that the world is growing richer and more generous, Mr. Gibson explained, "but rather that toys are being improved and the public made to realize more and more their intrinsic value to the child. . 'Peace and contentment of mind are two-thirds of the battle. Pretty clothes, palatable food, moral com fort of life, the -average child takes for granted. But isn't a velocipede worth . $10 if through such a gift you can make a sickly child play out of doors? Right then and there doctor's bill is saved. And did you ever see the face of a little girl light up when she received a coveted doll?" The glittering child's paradise CHILDREN IN RED VIENNA TO HAVE HAPPY CHRISTMAS Tots Whose Faces Depict World War to Receive Gifts From Churches and Charitable Institutions. BY NORMAN H. MATSON. (Copyright. 1922, by The Oregonian.) VIENNA, Dec. 9. There are bright spots in the .story of fhrictTTinn nrenaratinnR in fed Vienna- By one means or another something thoroughly Christmassy will find its way into the shabby stockings of thousands of little war childrenr All the little children of Vienna are war children; their faces tell you without remembering that 1914 was eight years ago. Only those now grown beyond the age in which Christmas is the finest, most exciting day of the year remember how Kris Kringle came before the war; for many of the others, who have never see na penny, can sing the "Internationale" but know not a word of the old Austrian anthem and relate milk not to cows but to Quakers and municipal officials for many of these strange urchins of a strange world Christmas, 1922, will be better than before. Churches and charitable institu tions have arranged Christmas tree celebrations where tiny packages of candy, dolls economically impro vised, but appealing, and books will be given to the children. The skilled workers, whose wages, thanks to the stubborn policy of their unions, have kept pace with the cost of liv , known as "the toy room" is indeed ja miniature, world.-. Here lovely ' laales of the doll tribe, gowned like i debutantes, with wardrobes custom m'CT?-ete fT 8"t1? UDdeI" elry, live in doll houses with ele vators, electric lights and running water in every room. They sleep in beds fitted with real sheets and pil low cases and lie in drawing rooms on gilded Louise Quinze divans. "Who buys all these glittering and luxurious toys?" I asked. "Surely there are not J..R. Joneses enough." "There are two classes of custom ers for toys," answered Mr. Gibson. "Tn the first p.lnfis In thi nriRtl-J mother And father'" " "elect a gift f rv - t- at-tlll, LUC UUC HULL Will IttOL the longest before its ruins will grace the attic or the woodbox. "In the second class is the young man who wants to get in strong with big sister; the aspiring busi ness man who hopes to close a deaj with father, the uncle Billies and grandmas, bless their hearts who just like to spoil the children and don't care how much they do It. "It is this latter group who buy Betty the French doll that walks, talks, though she would be just as happy with raggedy Ann, which she can love to death and hurl against the wall in her childish rage. It is these who buy the junior the miniature- six-cylinder car, though she would have Just as much fun riding a kiddie car around the block. "One devoted Uncle Bill-came to me the other day with tears in his eyes, leading a 4-year-old nephew by the. hand. The only thing he wants in the store is one of those palatial doll houses," he moaned. 'I am perfectly willing to pay the price but think of how they will kid hlra about it when he grows up.' " t Many and odd are the experiences of this kind in toyland. "What is the highest priced toy you ever saw or heard of?" I asked, my curiosity still unsatisfied. "It was a fully equipped merry-go-round with elec tric driven horses and automatic music. It was made in Germany and was bought by "an American de partment Btore for display purposes. It cost $1500. Since the Germans have been too busy making bread and butter to duplicate such a toy there are a number of toys to be had today on which the price tag is as high as J700." ing, will manage to make the day a pleasanter one than others for their kinder. The middle class, the men and women of fixed incomes, will find the day almost as difficult as will the poorer workers and the growing armies of unemployed, ex cept that many of the middle class still have damask table cloths, silver candlesticks or furs to pawn. , Grownups Not So Gay. For the grownups generally, ex cept the millionaires and the hand ful of foreigners, it must be a drab Christmas with thoughts of the bit ter winter just begun, coal piled high at the railroad stations, but in price out of reach of the ma jority; and thoughts of that prob lematical foreign credit Dr. Winter, former mayor of Vienna and now head of the Chil dren's Friends organization, is the originator. In the past, he Bays, and particularly since Vieifca joined the international breadline,, the children of the poor' have been made to feel more than ever like paupers on Christmas. . They have been used, says Dr. Winter, to touch the hearts of egotistical grownups. They received only, and were "made to feel that they gave and could give nothing. Things should be arranged so that they could give, too, lest the spirit of the day be lost. Moreover, the parents should be enabled to give. Fine Presents to Be Given. . These are the outlines of the new democratized Christmas; each of the many children's groups organ ized by the Children's Friends will have a Christmas tree. One group will co-operate to, buy presents for other groups. Presents will be given and received by the group in com mon. By this method it will be pos sible to put under the trees of these poor kids present of value and truly unheard of splendor a bobsled, for instance, a box of tools, modern building blocks, electrical accessor ies, the universal "express wagon" and as Dr. Winter says, "Books, books, books." Little personal presents will be given and accepted, too. Dr. Win ter's programme makes what con cessions that are economy possible to individualism. l Even if Santa Claus yawns or in dignantly exclaims over tb to use Christmas - "?? nckt-in- i runs Tn equality and co operation, the kids won't have to gpeafc-. any pieces or say sacred "thank yous" to grand strangers, will doubtless vote it fun and dance around their Christmas trees almost as merrily as will the youngsters in America where there are still pennies and oranges and striped candy .canes. Clicking Noise Explained. NEW YORK. Bessie Barriscale, a queen of the movies, is now in vaudeville, but she has not lost her Interest in the silent film. While playing in Philadelphia the little blonde actress went out with How ard Hickman to see a new film. She was annoyed by a constant clicking. That operator should do some thing to his projector," she com plained. "Don't you hear it click ing?" ' "That," Mr. Hickman explained, "is not the fault of the machine. Just back of us are a couple of flap pers chewing gum." MERCHANT PRINCE WHO IS SERIOUSLY ILL. H Im h'WMi II Photo by Underwood. , JOHN WANAMAKER. This is a recent and chara6teristic photograph of John Wanamaker, oldest of America's living merchant princes, noted for his daring innova tions in advertising and merchandising practice, who Is seriously ill at his home In Philadelphia. He is a former postmaster-general. BY CAROLYN VANCE. (Copyright, 1922. by The Oregonian.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 9. Heroine . worship is a new and spreading cult. 'More incense is being wafted in the names of women of achievement than ever before. And the -votaries are women. Reverently they are picking out batches of great women a dozen to a batch; they are erect ing statues and monuments to great women and they are hanging pictures of feminist leaders all about. The long-heralded list of the 12 greatest living women soon is to be announced by the Joint congres sional committee, with Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt leading. The Women's Universal alliance has just pur chased a million-dollar estate in Washington upon which it proposes to erect an "Acropolis to woman hood," honoring particularly the great dead of the feminine sex. The General Federation of Women's Clubs is now engaged in furnishing its new headquarters in honor of Julia Ward Howe. The Women's Democratic club of Franklin county, Ohio, has sent for Mrs. Emily Newell Blair's picture to hang upon its walls. These are the leading items that indicate a growing fad. "Rubblnh" Swept Away. The Franklin county club flatly refuses longer to entertain pictorial reminders of mere males on the walls of its clubhouses. These rub bishy "leftovers" of a day that is past will no longer confront and af front the democratic clubwomen. With calm and certain gesture "the lady with a duster" of the club brushed them like cobwebs from the walls. She writes to Mrs. Emily Newell Blair at the national demo cratic headquarters: "We have removed all pictures of noted (?) men who decorate our walls. We are anxious that the pic tures of our representative national and well-known women be hung in those spaces and write to ask you to send your picture that' we may claim you among our first women." Our reply from the woman's bu reau was embodied in a tactful rhyme, "Be gentle, ladles even though firm don't step too h&ru on the poor male worm." The picture of Mrs. Carrie Chap man Catt occupies a bit of w-all space on a line with that of Abra ham Lincoln in the Cleveland, O., headquarters of the League of Women Voters, says Miss Belle Sherwin of that city. Women Must Re Shown. Lucretia Mott and Susan B. An thony have Bpaces aUo. "I don't think women will go so far in their heroine worship as to carry 'The Women of the Hour' about on their shoulders as men do their heroes," said Miss Sherwin. "They have too much sense for that. But they are very loyal to SOFT DRINK MEN ORGANIZE TO RESIST "HICK" RAIDERS Cincinnati De-if-r "rT-.T" Tt P?- Tr,ibute to ViUagcs Who Detail Agents to Make Arrests. BY NAIN GRUTE. (Copvriellt. 1022, by' The Oreronlan.) CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 9. (Spe cial.) The worm has turned, in .this case the worm being the Cincinnati proprietors of "soft drink" establishments in Cincinnati. They organized today to resist the constantly increasing tax on their nocketbooks by raiding country magistrates. These "have been in the habit of Bending deputies into Cincinnati to find violations of the anti-liquor laws. Where the dis covery is made the offenders have been dragged into the courts and fines imposed. Throughout Hamilton county, it was revealed today, magistrates have engaged in this lucrative busi ness. From their little courts in such villages as Milford, Loveland, Terrace Park, Montgomery and North Bend, they send their rep resentatives into the city, from (WHICH LI1CJ OClULMll icium cmjrij. ni great a pest have they become that proved leadership. The woman who would be a leader among women must not be too theatrical or dra matic. She has to show ability in the truest sense before women are willing to put her on a- pedestal." There was a time when women even admired beauty in others oV. their sex above all other qualities, said Miss Sherwin. ' "Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas was one of those supremely beautiful wom en. In the days before the civil war the doors of Perry's, the prin cipal drygoods store of the capital, -would be closed in order to keep crowds from following her about while she did her shopping. . "Women do not worship mere beauty in that way now," she con tinued. "They demand the same qualities in women that men de mand of other men. But of course, beauty still plays a part, as was witnessed by the reception Lady Astor received on her recent visit to this country. American women simply went crazy over her, because she possessed both charm and brains." Statue to Women Few. Some women have received little recognition for their achievements by being limned in everlasting mar ble. The statues that have been erected to women In this country could probably be counted on the fingers of one hand. Out in Gales burg, 111., Mother Mary Bickerdike, the civil war nurse, has a memorial to her memory. The statue of Hannah Dustin stands "somewhere In New England." She vis the pio neer woman, the heroine of a story as thrilling as that of any modern hero. The Indians killed her baby and captured her and another worn- , an, carrying them off to their camp. ' In the dead of night she killed 13 of them, scalped them, escaped and reoeived a bounty for the scalps in Boston. There is only one woman in the Hall of Fame in the capital, Frances Willard. The statues of the three suffrage pioneers that the national woman's party presented to the capital were relegated to the base ment in an ignominous dark corner. The city of Washington is clut tered with statues erected to the glorification of the male sex. with practically no" honor for women. The Women's Universal alliance promises to remedy this unfair con- f dition. It is planning a great acrop olis to womankind. The site upon which the planned buildings and monuments are to be erected is re puted to be worth ?1,000,000. "We will honor the great women of the past," said Mrs. Clarence Crittenden Calhoun, president of the Women's Universal alliance, "by inscribing their names in marble in these memorials. I don't think women could ever agree upon the greatest among living women, but women have never obtained their fair share of honor and glory In ' the past." no soft drink proprietor nowadays sees his front door open without visions of a raid coming before him. Business Proves Lucrative. Statistics compiled at Columbus indicate the lucrative nature of this business. Take the village of Mil- ford. Situated on the line dividing j Hamilton and Clermont counties, it enjoys peculiar natural advantages. Should Mayor Scott desire to aug ment the town's revenues he moves his chair across the room and se cures Hamilton county jurisdiction. As judge of the police court in this village of 1800 people, he last year Imposed fines on liquor violators totaling $88,000. of which $58,000 was collected. This is exclusive of costs which are added to his ex penses and that of the constable. Most of ihe money came from Cin cinnati cafe proprietors who have been caught in possession of in toxicating liquor. i As a result of the windfall rep resented by the constant flow of funds into their coffers as the re sult of liquor raids, the villages which have embarked in the, new enterprise are enjoying unprece dented prosperity. Streets that formerly were mere ruts are now bravely paved thoroughfares, while town halls put on airs in fresh coats of paint and other village adjuncts show similar evidence of opulence. The convicted men say that they would not care so much if Cincin nati, the city which supports their industry, were getting the fines, but they do hate to see the money going to "hick burgs." They are abundantly fortified with hard cider and white mule. Legislation to Be Sought. It is that feeling of resentment rather than any hope of being able to escape regulations, that has prompted organization. The new outfit is called the Hamilton county protective league. The league has 234 members, all of them proprietors of soft drink cafes and restaurants. They have engaged counsel, John B. Molloy, ex-judge of the Cincinnati police court, and announce that they will combat in the courts to the last technical ditch every raid upon any of their members pulled off by a county magistrate. "lf we must be pinched, we insist upon being pinched in Cincinnati where the fines imposed will do the city some good in its present poverty-stricken condition," is the mot to of the ' league. Restriction of the issuance of search warrants is one of the things for which the league is to fight, ac cording to its constitution. The organization will try to have laws passed, making it - much more dif ficult than now to search one's home or place of business. It will ask that search warrants shall be decreed void unless served within 24 hours after issuance. It will also ask for the repeal of laws au thorizing mayors and other magis trates to try cases from jurisdiction other than those of their own municipalities or townships and for a law requiring that dry officers shall be residents and electors of the township in which they serve. Bulbs Ready for Distribution. WASHINGTON, D. C The season for congressional distribution of bulbs is at hand. It is something that isn't talked about a great deal. But somewhere there is tucked away in an appropriation bill a tidy sum to be used in the shipment of narcissus, tulip and other bulbs for fall planting. The bulbs are done up in neat rectangular package ready for shipment by members of congress. They send them out to admiring constituents.