THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1922.
By -Rvl -K S71 NN'ARD BAKER
Tha 8andy Journal bamrllh prasenta tb thirty-tdiith iattallmeBt of Bow Stenul Baker's
Starr. "Tb Peace," whicS an aHthoritatira urntin of bow the pwt af Psrta waa eoncladed.
Woodnw Wtiua r Mr. Bkr ice est to all hii praocal, nnpnblibed ppr. which an, the
nif reliable and uncontrovertible report of th facta, and which heretofore bay necx been
made public The special feature wiU b ptlbhshed In The Journal aerially throughout tba rate.
iCoprright, 1923, bt iJoubleday. Face at Co.. PnbUabed br Special ArraiHWiaeat with ,
n the McClnra Kawapaper Syndicate) .
TJ"CONOMIC problems at JParis were at'Urrt ruthlessly elbowed aside
or kept In the background. The European leaders were, first of all,
politicians and diplomats. The only systematic plan of procedure, that
- Stannara tf . th t federation, ha vine- few Aconomic imnli-
Baker
whole sordid business of economic rivalry .by declaring that America had
no selfish Interest to serve, "wanted nothing for herself." His chief con
cern,' at the peace conference, was to
The great war stopped so suddenly
that the newly organizeu economic ma
ehinVi controlled by the governments,
both In alHed and enemy countries,
which had been utd so powerfully for
prosecuting the war, began to break
down. The disintegration in Germany
and Austria was immediate and disas
trous: in the allied countries it took
place more slowly but none the less
surely. At the same time the old eco
nomic Institutions auJ relationships
which had sufficed the world before the
war had been swept awij. Labor had
been slaughtered by millions, capital
recklessly disslpatod. thousands of fac
tories blown to bits, railroads torn up.
coal mines destroy ca and even the soli
Jtself, over wide areas, had been rav
aged and .desolated. Hunger was
abroad in the land.
TWO CBTI3TO MtCESSlXTES
i Faced by such a gigantic catastro
phe, one might confidently have pre
dicted that the peace conference would
Instantly have met two obvious and
crying necessities :
. First,: that food would have been
rushed to the hungry, and clothing to
the naked in order to rettore as quickly
as possible, the brokci economic forces
of. the world. But those who attempted
to distribute food, even in charity,
found in - many quarters not only a
want of .interest in auch matters but
actual hostility. Chok.ag blockades,
that .tied off living parts of the eco
nomic organism as wil.i ligatures, were
maintained for month , , lood intended
for the starving was held up, rotting,
ia ports and on siu.ngs, while jealous
nations Quarreled, over boundaries.
Second, that there would have been
an-attempt to consider broadly the
present, economic state of society and
develop new, strong and clear in
ternational agreements or organisa
tions for dealing w'ih bread and butter
problems . which hao. transcended na
tional boundaries in the past and
would continue even mors to do so In
the iutnre.
But the Paris conference, in the be
ginning, did Its bert to avoid both the
Immediate economic problems of re
lief - and the permanent problems of
international economic cooperation.
Not that the importance of possession
Of economic resources coal mines,
railway: tinea porta industrial areas
was '- underestimated ; quite the con
trary, for the struggles over them were
bitter:
v But these things were coveted and
fought for solely in te.-ms of national
power and political prestige, and with
out regard for theTfact tLat the disrup
tions of the general system caused by
.their transfer mlgnt so Impair the gen-
f era! welfare that even the new posses
l sors would suffer from the exchange.
And none of the principal leaders at
Paris seemed to have any idea of at
tempting the control oZ this economic
Juggernaut, which had ..gone wild and
was destroying its makers, by the con
certed will of mankind. -i
Whether the political leaders at Paris
acted or not, hcwevei the . economic
realities existed, ttey were there, and
just as the politician, m the first days
at Paris, crowded tho soldier off the
stage, so the economist crowded the
politician but nver quite oft the
Stage.
Though the awakening was slow. It
Is Impressive in reading the secret min
utes of the four during the last two
months of the peau conference to dis
cover, the increasing absorption in eco
nomic problems sucli as reparations,
the treatment of the coai of fSilesia and
ihe JSaaT, the question ot blockades, the
feeding of Russia and the like. In' the
end the peace conference constructed a
treaty.' one half of whlco is devoted to
economic "provisions.. ; .
, It was probably eqjong the liberals
of the British delegation that the
greatest amount of clear thinking upon
the permanent problems, the economic
future .of the world, was to be found.
She rea son for this is simple enough :
Werere -a country," said Lloyd
George in the house of commons, April
8, 1923, "dependent more probably upon
international trade than any other
country In the world.
- British ships sailed every sea; the
British empire touched at some point
almost every other great nation, and
peaceful and orderly international con
tract was, therefore, neiessary . to the
very life of the nation. It was chiefly,
HO doubt, for this reason that the Brit
ish so strongly supported the League
ef Nations. The league was an in
strumentality for keeping political good
order in the world while ships sailed
and traders traded. But they went a
Step further; there were progressives
among them who wanted not only po
litical cooperation, but who had also a
vision - of tnternaUcnal economic coop-"
ration not. lndee 1. cot prehensive and
With limitations which will be present
ly noted, but where, it applied, substan
tial and practical.
LXOTD GEORGE'S ATTITUDE
, Lloyd George, the politician, hew
ever, .was in ' the beginning neither
strongly for the League of Nations nor
for any real and frank: attempt to
grapple with the economic problems.
He had no vision ; . he was in his in
stincts a politician Of the eld school:
it was he who precipitated the first
political scramble at Parts, the de
mand la the second week of the con
ference - for division of the ; German
colonies as spoil' of war; and his
promises of huge Indemnities, made In
tie political campaign of December,
JS18. waa one ef the chief obstacles to
B. reasonable consideration-of the eco
nomic settlements at Paris.
Tet. it must be said, in all' fairness,
that Lloyd George had behind him no
lear or undivided opinion upon, eco
iiomio affairs in his own country. At
ene extreme .were powerful liberal ele
ments shading away into the radical
ism of the Labor Party and the So
eclats with advanced views of inter
of the French of Xovember, 1918. waa based frankly
upon the "precedents of. the congresses- of Vienna,
1814-15; Paris, 1856. and Berlin, 1878," and Questions
of political significance Inevitably came uppermost-
the French demand to control the Rhine frontier, the
British demand for the colonies, the Italian demand
for the control of the Adriatic the Japanese demand
for Shantung: and the islands of the Pacific.
Even Wilson's interest, though ; on a far' higher
plane, was primarily political. His Ideals were to
find fruition in a political instrumentality, a League
of Nations, modeled upon the glowing example of the
A n A .Ion rt etatu nr A KVa tVlA rT t I til
cations. He brushed aside at the very beginning: the
bind the nations firmly together in
national co-operation both m politics
and in economic arrangementa At the
other extreme he had the fieffcest of
Tories, who saw nothing but the imme
diate and selfish interests of the Brit
ish empire. As in politics he managed
with consummate skill to unite enough
of the diverse elements in a coalition
to keep the government going and him
self in power, so he contrived at Paris
to work with a kind of coalition of
economic advisers. He thus repre
sented British, diversity of economic
opinion with extraordinary agility. On
the one hand he had a group of clear
sighted liberals, such men as Cecil,
Smuts, Keynes, Montagu, Slfton, Llewellyn-Smith
and others, who were
awake in varying degrees to the eco
nomic problems confronting the world,
and who saw that the only hope of the
future lay in developing constructive
forms of international cooperation.
On the other hand, he had a group
of bitter old lords men like Cunliffe
and Sumner, who looked backward to
the old order of cutthroat economic
rivalry, and who were for a true "Car
thaginian peace" in - order that Ger
many, as the economic rival of Great
Britain, might be seriously injured, if
not utterly crushed. The wide differ
ence between these two groups is viv
idly symbolised in the estimates of the
amount of reparations Germany could
reasonably be required to pay,
Keynes, of the younger, liberal group,
who waa chief representative of the
British treasury at Paris, advised
Lloyd George in November, 1518, that
the utmost reasonable figure was a
capital sum of $10,000,000,000 to $15,
000.000.000, payable in 25 to 30 years.
Lord Cunliffe, on the other hand, an
ex-governor of the Bank of England,
informed Lloyd George that Germany
could pay $100,000,000,000. Lloyd George
won his election in December on Cun
liffe's figures yet took Keynes with
him to Paris! His record after that
was marked by nimble leaps from one
camp to the other ; and he used each
of the groups at the conference in turn,
as will be shown later; to prove the
contention he happened to have, in
mind at the moment. Whenr he wanted
a liberal decision, Keynes or Montagu
or Cecil or Smuts was there to argue
it with great ability ; , and when he
wanted to produce a contrary -effect
he summoned Cunliffe or Sumner.
Lloyd George did not awaken to the
seriousness of the' general economic
situation until April; and then it was,
characteristically, a kind of political
discovery that the people at home are
stirring upon these matters. As he
said, almost naively, in the council of
four (secret minutes, April 23) :
"He thought that the people as a
whole were more interested in eco
nomic than in territorial questions,
which mainly concerned the newspa
pers and special persons who interest
ed themselves In foreign politics."
The fact of the matter is that the
great economic interests of his coun
try the capitalists at one extreme and
restless labor at the other were be
ginning to stir powerfully. The war
was over; it was time to get back to
work. Industrial and commercial en
terprises must strike at once for the
recovery of their economic place in the
world, handicapped Indeed by the
losses of the war (especially in ship
ping), but with such' advantages as
would come, from the prostration of
their continental rivals.
What was to be done T ,
TWO COURSES OPEJT
Here, as In the political settlements,
there were two courses, one that of the
Old Order of seizing at once upon
every possible immediate advantage
In this case, ships, cables, access to
raw materials, reparations; and nail
ing them down firmly as items in the
treaty; the other that of the New
Order, arguing , that the only ?rure
basis of economic- recovery of Great
Britain lay in "restarting Europe" ;
and that this restarting of Europe de
pended upon reasonable economic set
tlements, a reasonable let-live policy
even to enemy peoples, and. new co
operative arrangements for the control
of international rivers, railroads and
the like. It was not enough, argued
these , supporters ef the New. to get
ships; raw materials, cables, and oaah
for Great Britain : for they were use
less without a stable world in which to
use them. But the New in the eco
nomic field had no Wilson ; American
idealism had failed to hitch Itself to
economic reality.
. Faced by these two courses. Lloyd
George characteristically chose both;
with the result that Paris ended in, an
economic muddle Whfch no conference
since, neither Genoa nor The Hague,
has been able to solve. ? As Wilson said
of the political settlements. "You can
not go forward with one foot in the
Old Order and the other in the New."
It. was even truer of the economic
settlements which were throughout
marked by a disastrous double mind
ednesa. -
Even more clearly than fa the strag
gle for ships and raw materials the
double-mindedness of th Srittsti ap
peared in1 the most urgent economic
pxooiem at rans. that of reparations.
Here the two opposing groups of
opinion, the old and the new. came
most, violently into opposition.1 The
difference here, vast as It appeared,
was not merely one of Judgment as
to what Germany could or should
pay It was a fundamental difference
of principle or theory almost as wide
as that which separated the' old
diplomatists from President Wilson.
Lord CunllfTs ; opinion k must. - of
course, have . been .based upon some
sort of estimate f of Germany's eco
nomic capacity, bat we are probably
not-going too far in saying that his
figure which was more than three
times that of - the highest American
estimate really represented his, esti
mate of the demand that would crush
Germany's power of economic recovery
as a rival, of Great Britain. ' Ilia
process of thought was quite different
from that of the liberals - at Paria.
Ha " was r for pusing-: the - British - em
CHARTER
39 I
pire forward . by the . rulnatioa of Its
rivals, . while the group represented
very well by Keynes looked forward to
a new world of 'competition, in which
the welfare of Great Britain jwas to
be sought to the. Increased welfare of
all ther nations. It ; was precisely
Wilsons argument In the political
sphereS. '- ' ;. ;
'Unhappily, the fist brandishing doc
trine ef the old fire-eaters made much
better election propaganda daring the
post-armistice slump ia idealism than
the cool reasoning of the younger men.
Lloyd George, in December, 1918, even
jumped Lord Cunliffe" estimate to
120 billions ; - and then.' after winning
bis election, found he -could not repent'
of his rashness if , he would. When
he showed signs of doing so bis
majority dragged him back by the
coattails. Consequently, in this re
spect he kept his back turned pretty
consistently upon the Keynes group.
On ' the important commission on rep
aration he appointed a galaxy of re
actionariesHughes of Australia. Lord
Cunliffe i himself, and . Lord Sumner,
a dried-np jurist of similar views and
temperament. The advocate of the
hundred - billion indemnity became
chairman of the subcommittee ' on ca
pacity to pay. What was to' be ex
pected of .British policyv in : this re
spect? Nothing but a course of action
that must 'annul all ; efforts at can
structive settlements In other fields.
I2TCO"!f SI8TEKT POLICIES
Of course, Lloyd George did not ad
here to the logic of Cunliffe's doctrine
throughout, any more than he proved
consistent in any other course of pol
icy. He thought he could play the
reparation game both ways. While
allowing the extremists to fix a sum.
he turned round and listened to the
moderates on the subject of building
up Germany's power to pay. He did
not perceive nor care for the fact
that these two policies ' were incon
sistent. If a" "crushing" indemnity
were adopted, then coddling in other
repects was wrong and foolish; If
damage to Germany . were the object,
rather than 'receipt by the allies,
there was no sense in trying to help
Germany pay. On the other , hand,
if an all-round scheme of reconstruc
tion was to be sought for, a reasonable
reparation settlement, beneficial to the
allies and not destructive to Germany,
was an essential feature, without
which the whole scheme must col
lapse. Yet Lloyd George rode or tried to
ride both horses ; and the further the
peace conference developed and the
more difficult loomed the economic
problems, the more furious his riding.
On April 23, he came into the Council
of Four with one of his characteristic
announcements which so often
seemed to be the result of a sudden
shock of discovery. He. declared:
"No trade is at presenCmovlng any
where in Europe4
This, of course, was disastrous to
Great Britain.
And this, as he said, brought him
"to the question of a scheme for
restarting Europe." .
All along he had been following for
the most part the advice of reaction
ary leaders. But he now turned avidly
to the liberals. He sprang upon the
council the famous financial plan of
Keynes and recommended its immedi
ate adoption. He was suddenly as keen
for restarting Europe as he had been
passionate shortly before in demanding
that Germany "pay to- the last farth
ing." The Keynes plan, whatever its de
fects or implications, was at least a
genuine attempt to grapple with a real
problem and to do it on a broad co
operative basis. It provided, in brief,
for a huge bond issue by the enemy
and new states, guaranteed by the al
lied and neutral powers, of the pro
ceeds of which four-fifths, should be
applied to payment of reparations and
one-fifth be left available for the pur
chase of i raw materials. These bonds,
moreover, were to be acceptable at par
"in payment of all Indebtedness be
tween any of the allied and associated
governments." Here waa a joker so
far as America was concerned, which
the American advisers at once per
ceived : for, passed from hand to hand,
these bonds would wipe out a large
share of the inter-allied debts, leaving
the ultimate creditors (mainly the
United States), creditors directly of
Germany !
While this would accomplish, aftei
a fashion,- the project the British had
constantly in mind of getting rid ol
this huge burden of international debts
as a hindrance to the resumption of
normal conditions Of International
trade it would leave America "hold
ing the bag." Outright cancellation of
these debts they hardly ventured to
advocate at the time. Hints to the
United Slates government in Decem
ber, 1918. had been promptly discour
aged and were not revived in express
terms until toward the close of 1919.,
But this question of the debts hung
constantly over the conference as it
has hung over the world ever since, as
one demanding a bold solution if the
financial rehabilitation of the nations
was to be at all thoroughgoing. But
the 'Keynes plan.' which will be more
fully considered elsewhere, met - with
no success. In any event, it would not
have worked tf the other elements of
the economic settlements had not been
dealt with upon sound principlea For
how expect a liberal solution of the
debt problem with America ultimately
assuming the chief burden when at the
same time the British and French were
demanding - reparations -t that would
practically - make it Impossible for
Germany ever : to :'pay.. those debts?
Lloyd George would not accept the
plain logic of the situation; Keynes'
plan for the debts must be accompa
nied by Keynes low estimate of repar
ations. "
"While this' fatal double-mindedness
was paralysing the British position on
the economic settlements at Paria the
liberals were - nevertheless pushing
their ideals wherever they s could
struggling Just as President ! Wilson
did in the political field, though with
less power and less comprehensiveness
of vision. - ;: -.
For "example, , they had , enough influ
ence to get a commission appointed by
the Council of 10 as early as January
21, through a British resolution, "to In
quire into the question of the interna
tional regime of ports, waterways and
railways.1 The British ; members tf
this commission were the -Hon. Arthur
L. Slfton (minister of customs and in
land revenue of Car ad a) and Sir Hu
bert Lleweltyn-Smith, (Permanent sec
retary ef the Board of Trade.) . Both
were able and persistent men with a
clear Idea In view ef the situation and
the Issues at stake. 'Their program
was expressed in a resolution . sub
mitted in the second meeting of the
commission, on Febraary 10. of which
the first paragraph read : -
"The .high contracting parties de
clare themselves. In favor of the prin
ciple of - freedom of transit for per
sona, goods. . ships (and aircraft)- by
land, water (or air) across territories
belonging to or controlled by them."
- This was assuredly . an . advanced.
even n. radical, economic position' to
take, but to the face of all opposition
the British maintained It throughout
the conference.. On June 4 Balfour
said eloquently- "that, the conference
was trying to rebuild the world. One
of the methods was to open all natural
waterways to the world... (Council of
Five. June 4.)
These . sweeping , statements were
among the most liberal economic pro
posals ever brought before this or any
other conference. They would go far
toward annulling the economic hin
drances of political frontiers. But it is
necessary to : note their limitations.
That they 'would confer : a great gen
eral benefit upon the world may be
taken for granted, but they implied re
unuciation of rights by , the Continental
nations without- any corresponding
sacrifice en the part of the British em
pire. Europe would be thrown wide
open to British commerce and would
at the same time be held tributary in
large measure to the British empire
through Its - control of shipping and
raw .materials. The fitting complement
to equality of treatment on the water
ways and railways of Europe would
have been equality of rights in. utili
Lardner Solves'Fuel
Turn On Fan
'Surest way to keep warm is to run
get In it and stay in it and the
the warmer it is and the time can
tog craps with cork dice.
By King W. Lardner
To the editor: - n , " "! ''
The chief topic of conversation
amongst grown ups. these days
seems to be. what is going to-, be
' - done about 'the
fuel situation and
how are we going
to keep warm
this winter on
acct.' of the coal
shortage. Every
body . I set close
to on trains and
etc lately has
talked about
nothing only that
subject till I got
so sick of hearing
about it that I practically give up
Ieaveing home, but even in the
home' the children and women
folks keeps pestering you with the
same old story what are we going
to do to keep warm.-
Personly the subject taint never
give me a minute's trouble as I
seen all along that they would be
plenty ways to keep warm if a in
telligent person put their mind to
the subject and I been confident
from the outset that they wouldn't
no members of my family freeze to.
death no matter if the mines stays
closed all through lent.
But it don't do me no good to feel
sure of my own wellfares and those
of my family if people is going to
keep harpering on the subject be
cause personly I would just as leaf
freeze to death as have your family
and friends bore you to death talk
ing ejbout one subject so it looks
like better come out in the open
and loosen up and tell people how
to face, the situation in the hopes
that it will silents them on this sub
ject and give them a chance to talk
about something else.
The 1st. thing for people to real
ise in' regards to this situation is
that their bodys won't get nowheres
near 1-2 so cold If their minds does
their share towards keeping them
warm, in other wds. the fight we
have got 'to make vs. Jack Frost
will half to be a mental fight as
well as physical.
People win half to cultivate their
imagination and pretend like they
are comfortably warm and use all
kinds of tricks to help their Imagi
nation along, like for Inst, suppose
that it Is a bight in Jan. with the
thermometer i below zero andjthey
aint a drop of fuel In the . house,
why instead of setting there with
your, teeth gnashing and complain
ing about "the cold, the right ldear
is to turn on the electric fan, open
up all the windows and keep say
ing to each other if they was only
a breeae- . .. . . , ,. ..
' Once In a wile it would be & good
scheme to give yourself or the little
woman a whack on the limb with
the remark there goes another mos
quito. That makes the 10th of the
little fellows whom I have killed
tonight."
vl People that is blest with, out
' ' ' ' ' - - -isrii '
rnrrn in')miiamii',im nniiaiiiui iii)int
i fiplgg 38s?-"-5
sation of the British merchant marine
and In aeess. to- the natural resources
of the empire. Such propositions, how-,
ever, would have found no favor even
among the liberal elements 1 of ' the
British delegation- . ; . 4
"While there were thus these 'cham
pions of the New among the British
delegation at mparts and more- truly
awake than those of any other delega
tion their, efforts were offset and neu
tralised by the reactionaries. But as
compared . with ' the - economic policies
of certain other countries at Paris,
that of Great Britain stands .out as a
shining example. , If her policy sought
too markedly , to .increase her own
power in the economic field, or to im
prove" the general situation for her own
benefit, there were other nations which
seemed actually to strive to make the
general . altuationworse to '. order to
improve their own ', relative positiona
The policies of ail the Continental. Al
lies were nsore or less of this nega
tively selffSh character as will pres
ently be shown.. ; ' "
CopyrUht. 19Z2. by Doubledaly. Pat A ' Co.
All Rights Reserved. "
To Be Continued Next Sunday. ;
Problem
and Fool Them
the bath tub full of hot water and
more people that can crowd in, why
be spent chatting, reading or shoot-
'
doors porches and . balconys can
hesp the game, along by, - setting
there winter evenings with their
coat off make tag the remark now
and.then? that it ain't so much the
heat as the humidor.-.
These idears applys only to peo
ple that lives jrp north or who ain't
got the money to go south for' the
winter. Of course millionaires -and
folks all ready liveing in warm cli
mates don't half to worry as, they
will be took care of by the warmth,
of old Sol (the sun). - As for the
others for who these idears is sug
gested, why if they can't afford to
go south at least it" won't cost, them
nothing to pretend like they was
there and the best plan is to go
right through with the trip like
for Inst, pretending some night that
you have just got on a train and
the next couple days try and forget
you are in your own home and talk
like people traveling; for example
you can play like you was passing a
river and say to your wife that
must of been the Swanee or look at
them cotton fields or here we are
Lindy down amongst the . sugar
canes. -
Along. about the 2d. or 8 d. eve
ning you can" pretend like you have
reached your terminus and get up
off the couch or where -, ever you
was setting and say come on old
woman this is Palm Beach. ,Or
maybe New Orleans or Los Angeles.
I bet them people up home. wishes
they was us.
Under this system they"s no limit
to the time you can stay south and
"Right ldear Id to torn on tbm elcc
' trie tan, open" up all the windows
'and keep saying to each other if
they was only a hreese. .'-.415.
If you get tired Of Florida' for' Inst,
why ' you can move into the' next
rra. and pretend like its CubswKeep
scratching all the time like the .in
sects was drivelng you bugs. !
- Of -course they's a great many
people who ain't got the imagina
tion or mental strength to keep up
this kind of a game and these, poor
souls must really hare some way. of
sLt"1 a.-iii- i i . ' 'it
actually keeping warm and tn their
case' the 1st-, thing- Is to find them
a substitute for coal to burn In their
furnaces and stoves. -,
Amongst - the ' best fuel stuffs ; In
the average home Is books and car
pets and a specially carpets as they
generally always contain a certain
amt. of coal which has been ground
into therd by people who have came
In from the coal fields without
takeing off their shoes.
Other possible fuel is chairs and
tables and'- last but : not lease the
floor, itself which can be . chopped
up but will also- keep your ft. warm
if set fire to where It lays. - ,
y "When books, carpets, furniture
and floors has; all been burned up
X; would recommend' for the' family
i buy one . of these " here public
phone booths and set it up in, the
house and-: when you feel chilly
shut yourself up in there and try
to get San- Francisco. Another way
to get net is bring your car Indoors
and drive It around amongst the
brick ; and back and pretend like
you are drlvelng through the'hust
ness dlst. But the surest way to
keep warm is to run the bath tub
full of hot water and get in it and
stay, in it and the more people that
can crowd in why the warmer It is
and the time can be spent chatting,
reading-or, shooting craps with cork
dice. ' . -J- : ".
People that ain't got a bath tub
or no fuel or nothing will find It a
comfort to keep a layer of hot bis-
THe World's
Home
Then $6 or More Monthly
pis " ' 'l ""
Over 400 Unparalleled Piano and Phonograph Propositions
Our Piano Factory Clearance Salehave become famous. Nowhere else on the Coast are
pianos of such quality and at such value-giving prices ever of f ered. )
GROUP 1
, $395 to $975
232 New 1923 Models
SS PEE CEITT LOWEB PKICJPS
First Carload
Reg. Sale
Price Each
4 style 29, antique mahog.
...J1150 $861
... 1300
l style n. orown manog. . . .
8 style 20, brown mahog. . . .
800 SS
675 48S
8 style Z19, antique manog..
4 style 222, mahog and wai. . . .. 675 i
Second Carload
4 style 219, brown mahogany. . $575 t43f
4 style ziw, antique manog. ....
6 style 218, players, walnut ... 675
4 style 218T, players, mahog. : 900
m
4i
7
Third Carload
4 style 219. antiaue mahog..... 325 CS9S
4 style 219, brown mahog....... 625 195
1 style zo, antique manog suu t
4 style 219, wamut and oak... 625 St
4 style 219, antique mahogany 550
t style 218, players, mahogany. 800
Mi
. - Fourth Carload
4,style 22. golden oak... ....7.1800 55
4 style 219. brown mahogany.. 695 41;
1-4 style 219. mah. and walnut. . 625 195
z style zis, antique manog.. .. .iiou oss
6 style 218, walnut and oak... 675 46
Fifth Carload
2 style 21, antique mahog . ..$1000 ,75s
4 style 219, brown mahog....
4 styleO!19T, brown mahog...
2 style 219, Circassian wai. .
1 style 218, mahog. and wai.,
3 style 219, brown mahog . . . .
Sixth Carload
4 style 216T, mahog. and oak.
4 style 216. mahog. and oak..
2 style 222, mahog. and oak..
4 style 219T. brown mahog.
675
Ai
675
675
800
525
li;
485
695
896
.$650 $487
. 625 489
. 675 496
. 675 486
.800 695
Z style 218, mahog. waL, oak.
Seventh Carload
2 style 22 golden oak. 800 lS
2 style 27, antique mahog. . . 1300
1 style 29, antique mahog.. . . .1150 863
4 style 218T, mahog. and , wai.. 900 675
6 style 222, antique mahog. .. . 675 4i
5 style 218. mah., wai. oak.. . 800 Mi
Eighth Carload '
4 stvle 219T. anticrue mahog. ,.$575 titl
4 style 2 1, brown mahogany... 625 - 1S
l styie za, antique manog lisu ess
4 style 219T, mahog. and wai.. 675 4
4 styie 219. antiaue mahog; ... . 625 895
2 style 218, brown mahogany.. . 800 515
Ninth Carload
4 stvle219T. antiaue mahosr...S575 $485
4 style219, brown mahog. ..... 525 IJ
6 style 218, mahog. and wai..., 675 49S
4 style 21 8T. mahog. and wai. 900 475
Tenth Carload -
4 style 22, golden oak... I 900 $675
4 style 23, anuque manog,... 11 o sea
X style 21, fancy walnut. ..... 1000 75
4 Style 219. brown mahog. .... . 575 4S5
4 style 219. mahog. and oak... 625 816
2 style 218. mahog. and oak.. . 800. Ui
TERMS) 4 TEARS' TIME
$16 or $25 Cash, $8 or Mors atoataly.
Yon can afTord to pay $5 to fl5 cash, $3, $6.-88 or $10 monthly. Ton can, therefore, afford to buyt now. Tour
bonds, old piano, organ,-- phonograph or city lot taken as first payment. Your boy ..or girt working can save
86 monthly and secure a-musical education. ?.!-";--.,:-o:a - ..- V'-;r;-li j -.-:"."--i,. .i';-.
SAVE $119 TO $400 BY BEING YOUR OWN SALESMAN The Schwan Piano CoJ makes
it easy for you to boy and own a new Improved quality piano by its organised method of distribution. It considers as
unnecessary, for instance, great numbers of city or traveling salesmen and you benefit by these fully 20 to 25.
savings. We are not interested in your name and address if our 25 (lower than market) prices on newand stiy.
lower prices on .special factory rebuilt anl used pianos do not seU. you. - -.-,
ORDER -YOUR PIANO BY 1MAIL Read, study and compare '. our quality, prices and easy
terms, as advertised, and you will understand why we hsTS tboweuids ttt mail-order truyera We prepay freight and
make delivery to your home within 200 miles, besides the piano will be. shipped subject to your approval and subject,
to exchange within one year,. we allowing full amount paid. This virtually gives you a one-year trial of the plane
you may order. Every piano Vor player piano purchased carries with it the Schwan Piano Co.'s guarantee of. satsfac
tion. also the usual guarantee from the manufacturer. - . ; , , ., , . ;
ScJbwaiini-; Flainio! I Co,
161-168 Testh St,
at Washlsgtea
and Stark fits.;
Some News Facts: About Mars
' ' j '
Midsummer Modes for Milady
FT many (respects Mars Is similar to
the Earth. Its year is "not quite two
of our years, and its day. haU-an-hour
longer j than -r our - day. , Observations
made-at; the Lowell observatory have
established what was long doubted, the
existence of an atmosphere with water
vapor.- The? mean temperature has
been calculated to be far below , that
of the freezing point of. water, but on
the other hand Lowell himself, taking
idle account the probable existence of
a . rare atmosphere, believes tt to be
much . higher, . probably about 4 S de
grees' Fahrenheit,, the temperature of
a. comfortable winter dayir
''The diurnal and the annual varia
tions, however, must ; depart widely
from the mean; in the noon-day' Jtun
the temperature may rise to a great
height, and in .winter, lasting from
eight to 12 of our months, it must fall
nearer the . absolute sero than . any
temperature known on the Earth.
When either polar region comes into
view, after having been away from
cults next to their'' skin.
Speaking about biscuits the above
scheme of-course don't take no
acct of fuel for cooking as it is pre
sumed that pretty near everybody
these days cooks with gas or 'elec
tricity,, '".-
i! But they may be some who still
cooks on a coal range and will be
Largest Factory -Clearance
GROUP 2
295 to $862
67 Demonstration
1921-1922 MODELS,
(SCt Sehroeder Broa mah..,'.'..S295
S625 Thompson, mahogany. .....293
1656 Thompson, walnut y ........ S295
6650 Thompson, mahogany...... 2?
$706 Singer, oak .. .8395
8S25 Sehroeder, walnut........ J. 8395
8525 Sehroeder, mahogany.;. . . . .8395,
fi75 Gaylordrwalnut. . .'. .S395
$575 Franklin, oak. ,.8395
$700 "W ood Son, mahogany. ..8395
$5$ Thompson, , .walnut . . . . v. . . . 8395
$25 Sehroeder, dull mahogany.
$556 Arion, Circassian walnut.
8395
8395
liit Kimball, mahogany..... ...8395
$575 Thompson, mahogany.:..., 8395
$675 Thompson, oak.....
$675 Wood & oa, mahog..
cse Wood a Soa, oak.,...
Thomvson .........
:..8395
...8395
...4r;
7SS Thonn-oa.
colonial...
B7im ptiBcer. oaic. ..........
IVil Red A9SoBWoax,t' ""' '"!
ansa ThitnniMi. Aarir nVfc"! ' 'A !4AS
$676 Wood Rob. mahoeany....84N
S7S6 Heed a Sob. oak. ...849K
6SS Halses Bros- mahoeanv: ..84K
STS Wood A Hn. mahonjiT...a4n.
7o Tdonsui. manonnr wvt."
$625 Halaes Bros, mahogany. 895
$766 Keed Sob, oak ....849f
$969 Steger. oak....... .....8495
$7M Reed A Soa, plain otk..i..MK
7S Reed ae Soa, dull oak. ... ...8K2K
nee Reed A Son, plain walnut.. KS!
Steger. plain mahogany. ..."Mf
IftAS Reed A Sob. plain oak......KA2
$ Stager, plain walnut,. ....8K95
686 Reea A Sab. nlaln mahoe...8KK
$990 Stecer, Circassian walnut-.859R
$166$ Sieger, walnut S675
A -i ' ,
$ 676 Artemis, mahogany.. , ..... 8495
t 676 Sehroeder, walnut 8495
$ 966 Thompson, mahogany, ; 8795
$ 9i6 Thompson, mahoRanyt.... .?
$11 & Reed A Soa. mahogany.., 8 T5
$ 966 TnesBpsoB, plain walnut. . -8TK
g 9S TkOBiMi. Diain mahoer...iKA7C
6 Thompson, dull mahog. ...Tf
615 Sine-er, dull w41nut. ..SATFi
9 Thompson, dull walnut. ..!! 7 1
$1156 Reed A Sob, plain mahog. .RfS5
$196 Steger, plain mahogany 8 79 5
$1866, Steger. plain mahogany. ,.8862
New Reduced Columbia Phono
$32.56 STodel,' oak or. mahogany. i 83 O ;
. Mosei, oaa or manogany.-.fS'Sn
$756 Model, oak or mahogany;. 8 60
?1S6 Model, wai., mah. and oak. .8R5
144 Medeu, waL. mah. and oak 8100
156 Modek,waL, mah. and. oak. 8125
$166 MoHrl, wai., man. and oak.81.3o
$226 Model, wai., man. and oak.8150
$275 Model, waL. mah. and oak. 8175
'5756 Model, oak or mahogany
Terms, f 5 Cash, $$ or More Monthly
the sun for nearly one .of our years. It
is seen to be covered with a great
white cap,, which gradually contracts,
and, may almost completely disappear
during the year of summer,- .There Is
no reason to doubt that these caps are.
chiefly "or wholly a form of water
condensed Into ice by the cold of
winter, disappearing with the warmth
of summer.. ,
"The general surface of Mars is
much flatter- than that of our earth,
high . mountains and deep ocean beds
being apparently absent. There are
seasonal i changes in color following
some ' time after : the -melting of the
polar caps. . These, as Is well known,
have- been attributed to vegetation,
and it-has even.' been urged that the
straight lines, sometimes a thousand
miles long, are due to artificial irri
gation, .-''V-: ' . ,
up vs." It to know what to? burn,
when they can't get no coal. - -,
- All I can say to these folks , is
that our own cook here in the house
has had good success burning pie
oxust, potatoes, and. even soup.
. RING W. LARDNER.
- Great Neck, Long Island, Sept- 22.
(OopyrifM. 1922. by Ball Bysdieats, Ine.)
Sends & E3
Phonograph fY
Home tV
Then ; $3 or More Monthly"
GROUP 3
" , $75 to $6951
42 Factory Rebuilt
i and Used Pianos
$256 Bord Co. upright. ........ 8 75
1275 TJaloR Piano Co- square:,. 8 fix
$375 Moiart, upright
.10O
..8145
..8165
..8195
$85$ Emerson, upright."... . . .
$425 Ballet Davis..........
$476 HaUet Davis..........
$476 Sterling,-: mahogany. . . . .
8195
.8195
.8235
.8245
$475 Marshall A Weadel
$4 76 HaUet Dam ......
$875 TaUey Gem.jak.i...
$476 Howard, mahogany, . . . .1 . .82 65
$475 Singer, mahogany. ..8265
$450 Smith ft Barnes... .i..S265
till Estey, mahogany... 8265
$476 Sehroeder Bros........... j.8295
$426 SteUhaser Dreher....i..S295
$676 Thompsos, oak ...... ...i.. 8295
$625 Henry DItmors, oak..... .. 8295
$526 Emerson, walnut. .......i..8295
w t mw albilh m, x.ta,
$756 Xranlca A Bach......... i .S29S
-,S,S Er1' ml'OKany...4,.8295
?' Sehroeder, mahogany. .. , . . 8 29
V?BeoM' ?hogany.....4..829f-
ZZZZ SF'VLI?P 5
ZLTZ &""Pi2:
Z1ZZ avmm. .......
$96$ SUger, oak..... ....I. .8495
USED PLAYER PIANOS ,
9 tee Thompson ......I. .8395
f fff iPWV eti...... ...8495
9 864t Sehroeder. mission..... .4. .8495
$ 966 Thompson, golden oak.i..ft49'
"It? 5? mahogany. i.,86 05
xiaaoia jriaysr. wamut. .. 35
. " ' Terms 1 6 "Tesrs Time
$16 or $16 Cash, $5, $ or More Most
i'cw unu uscu Mraoaosrupas
' Inelndiag 5 or 16 Beeordt '
VtX Grafosola, golden oak...82Q
664.ee SoBora, golden oak. ..83S
ssw.es uoinmeia, manogany .....
.835
$85.66 StradlTsra, nahogany.:
sss.se steger, goiaen oak
"$126 Grafosola, mahogany...
$125 Colambla, walnut.
.75
$165 BrBBSwick,mahogany..
$126 Grafosola, golden oak.
$165 Emerson, golden oak.... ...kg
6166 Stradlvara mahogany. j..t.ft 90
Sis sirsoif srs, maBogwr. . c 90
r. ...... .atU
....... ft loo
.8oo
'.. .8115
ie. t.rmienoiK. miwiuj,
6146 ColnntMa, mahogany.,
8175 Grafonoie. mahogany.
$225 GrsfeBols, walnut. ...... 4. .8115
$176 Coismbia, wamut, ......;,.8125
$176 SoBora, mahogany,, . ...... .8130
$269 Brsnswiea, mahogany...;,. 8 135
$206 Steger, mahogany. ...... i,. .81 65-
$856 "Vletrola, mahogany.-. .4. -.8195
83M Edison, quite new. ...... j.,8235
$875 Sosora Grand, mahogany. .8265
Terms, $5 Cash, $8 or More Monthly
' ' 'PertTads
I.srfrest Plane
.DisUIhatoxs,
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