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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1922)
o o SECRET COMPACT CHARGED Far blast Republic‘Asks Investigation O F CURRENT W EEK Mary Todd Lincoln H o m s May Become a Museum • I ■OFHH NAVIES NEAR END - France and Japan Deny. Washington, D. C.— While practical ly all machinery of the arms confer Brief Resume Most Importan Daily News Items. ence halted for New Year's, the unof- * public took advantage of the lull to press charges of a secret French-Jap- Tonnage of Airplane Carriers Definitely Fixed. unese understanding for perpetuation COMPILED FOR YOU of Japanese contro' in Siberia. DETAILS FOR EXPERTS The far eastern delegates declared -4 proof of their charges, already denied Events o f Noted People, Government » by the French and Japanese delegates, Americans Withdraw could be obtained by examination of Objections and Pacific Northwest, and Other original documents in the archives of Japan’ s Flea to Claraify Thing» Worth Know ing. the far eastern government at Chita. Treaty on Pacific. to They suggested that such inquiry be Arizona federal authorities admitted Tuesday that there have come to their made by American consular officials Washington, D. C.— The arms con so that results might be known to the conference when it considers Siberian attention persistent rumors to the ef problems. feet that the execution of General To emphaslzze the French denial Francisco Iteyua in Nogales Monday made Tuesday, Albert Sarraut, head was preceded by irregularities. of the French delegation, notified Sec With $411,831 already collected, the annual revenue from automobile own retary Hughes, as chairman of the ers in Washington bids fair to exceed conference, that the charges were the $750,000 estimate set by the last wholly without foundation In fact. The legislature, which passed the law, ac French government, he said in a writ cording to Fred J. Dibble, director of ten communication, had entered into licenses. no commitments regarding Siberia ex The United States probably will be cept those of which the United States Invited to send official representatives was aware. to the international financial and eco In view of the French and Japanese nomic conference, which is to be called by the allied supreme council repudiation of the charges and the at Its annual meeting in Cannes early position of the far eastern delegates next year. as “ outsiders” sent to the conference The supreme court of Massachus by an unrecognized government, the etts Tuesday denied the motion of the inclination in muny conference circles trustees of the Christian Science Pub was not to take the development very lishing society for an Injunction to restrain the directors of the First seriously. A t the same time the ac Church of Christ, Scientist, from re cusations attracted widespread atten moving the trustees. tion. What Is said to be the heaviest sentence yet pronounced on a woman In federal court In Washington for violation of the Harrison drug act Tuesday sent Mrs. Kate Vletheer to the King county Jail for one year. Sentence was Imposed by Judge Ne- terer, who denied a motion for a new trial. Naval experts alone worked Tues day studying technical questions which remain to be settled in connection with the naval agreement. It was said their deliberations were at such a stage that all the loose ends of the settle ment probubly could be cleared away within a few days. If questions of policy raised by the submarine regu lation proposals can be settled In time the conference leaders believe that a five-power naval treaty ran be put into definite form this week. Deaths from cancer In the death reg istration area of the United States In 1820 totaled approximately 73,000, ac cording to a report by the census bureau, which on a basis of propor Panama Hit By Quake. tional population estimated the total deaths for the entire country at 89,000 Panama. — An earthquake lasting or an Increase of 6000 from the estim about a minute occurred at 1 o'clock ate for 1919. Monday morning, shaking up the city, Rear-Admiral Charles Henry Davis, but doing no damage either here or retired, brother-in-luw of Senator along the Panama canal. The center Lodge of Massachusetts, died at his home in Washington, D. C\, Tuesday. of the shock was about 60 miles dis He was a native of Iloston and 76 tant. years of age. Admiral Davis was a \ heavy flood due to rains was rog son of the late Rear-Admiral Charles istered In Gatun lake between 3 o’clock Henry Davis and a brother of Mrs. Sunday afternoon and 8 o'clock Mon Lodge. day morning. An Involuntary petition In bank ruptcy was filed in the New York fed Hambcrlaln, S. I). — A pronounced eral court Tuesday against Robert 11. earthquake, lasting about 65 seconds, lngersoll & Bro , manufacturers of the was felt here at 9:50 Monday morning. lngersoll watches of this city. Lia Many brick chimneys were tumbled bilities were set forth as $3,000,000 down, dishes were shaken from cup and assets, exclusive of good will, as board shelves and house plants thrown $2,000,000. The concern admitted its to the floor by the tremors. Inability to pay its debts and ex pressed willingness to bo adjudged Hays May Yet Quit Job. bankrupt. New York. — Postmaster ■ General Changes in soviet governmental poli lays started back to Washington late cies, recently made, or indicated as Tuesday to resume his duties after In prospect, may eventually bring about a resumption of trade relations three weeks of rest. He said he still between Russia and the United States, was considering an invitation to be come head of a group of motion plc- It was said Tuesday at the White House. Reports received recently by ure producing and distributing cor the American government, it was add porations. and probably would give ed, were most optimistic as to the them his unswer at a conference In course likely to be pursued by the Washington January 14. He is report ed to have been offered a three-year soviet authorities. ontract at $150,000 a year. Attired in their tribal robes. Chief Red Feather of Muskogee, Okla., and Hope Seen For Farmer. Princess Atuletaah of Davenport. Ia . Washington, D. C.— The farmer can were married in the parlors of a Salem hotel at noon Tuesday. The enter the new year In a spirit of hope chief signs his name ns Edward De- fulness and good cheer. Secretary of moss, and has been engaged In the Agriculture Wallace said Monday in message to farmers. theatrical business for a number of “ I see nothing which Indicates boom years. He Is an Indian and ns a soloist has appeared In many of the times for the farmers In the near fu leading theaters of the country. His ture.” he continued, ' but there does bride, who Is an Indian, has been seem to be a promise of better times acquainted with her husband since both for the farmer and for those whose business Is largely dependent childhood. upon him.” The people of the United States ference has virtually reached the end of Us efforts to put a curb ou naval armaments. Iho t « i U I ship m tlMMs l was added Friday an agreement for limita tion of future tonnage in airplane carriers, and then the naval commit tee adjourned indefinitely, leaving de termination of various problems of detail to a sub-committee of experts. Some sort of declaration with re gard to the use of submarines and an agreement not to construct any auxil iary vessels hereafter with a tonnage of more than 10,000 are expected also to be added to the accomplishments of the conference before the final cur tain is rung down. A five-power treaty embodying aii the points of which there is agreement now is in process. of drafting. There are growing Indications, too,' that the four-power treaty to pre- serve peace in the Pacific, which al- ready has been signed, will be in some way further clarified before the con ference quits. The American dtdega- tion is understood to have withdrawn any objection to the Japanese pro posal that the treaty's scope be de fined as not including the major Jap T |,e old T»dd st 074 West Main street, Lexington. Kjr., where Mary Todd lived from her early childhood m t .i r marriage to Abraham Lincoln, la on the market foe the lin t ttmo In jo n n , u d the .....la sought M r bn ness purposes. Dut a group of public-spirited citizens of Lexington is planning to purchase the old structure ut. I use It as a museum for Lincoln relics owned in Lexington. The Illustration shows the Todd home and un old por. trait of Mary Todd Lincoln. Europe Home of White Race ! Habitat 5,000 Years Ago Was in Lithuania, Declares Profes- _ . , _ , sor Bender of Princeton. ____________ . HONEY BEE SEEN AS FACTOR Indo-European Language Indicates An. clent Home in Common Word for Insect— Traced Through Com parative Philology. Princeton.— Where would your home anese islands, and the plan for an ex- be if you had''lived 5 , 000 “ years »go? change of clarifying notes or for The search by ethnologists und other amendment of the treaty text Is ex- scientists to find Just where the first pected to take definite form within white peoples lived, before splitting a few days. up Into "'hut are modern nations, Is The Japanese request for a clari- described by Prof. Harold H. Render fi. ution of the tn.it> a terms is said h t Pr,n'-pfon university, who declares tlrnt our ancestors of the cuve man to have been based largely on the jierlod lived In what is modern Lithu development of a difference in view ania. on the subject between President As a student of languages und pro Harding and the American delegation. fessor of Indo-Germnnlc philology at This development has been a topic of Princeton Professor Render’s Investi such widespread speculation in con gations have led hint bnck to the or ference circles that the president Fri igin of all white races, before the dawn o f history. His conclusions, together day took occasion to characterize us with a description of the methods by "silly’’ published reports that Secre- which lie came to them, are embodied tary Hughes was considering resign- ln » Tlu. Arynn y lles,|„ni r,|(I lhe Lan- iug from tho cabinet as a result of gunges of Europe Come From Asia?” differences arising between him and a lecture published by Princeton, the White House during the arms The Indo-European race, which flour- negotiations. Ished almost 5,000 years ago, is the What is to be done about the far <toun* r of a" ,,le Pr**«’n‘ of , ___ , , _ . .. Europe, save the Hungarians, Greeks, eastern problems now becomes the „ . , _ , ’ „ ’ , , Romans, Anglo-Saxons and other Ger- big unanswered question of the con mnna CeIts thos„ pe,,pIe nre ,le. ference. Japan and China are dead- gcendnnts o f the one-time race, which locked In their efforts at a separate professor Render believes lived In that settlement of the Shantung contro- section o f Europe between the Itultlc versy and, as a consequence, all the and Rlack seas, or modern Poland and other fur eastern discussions are at Lithuania. a standstill. It was indicated that a j Comparison of Languages, meeting of the far eastern committee Living l**fore recorded history. In would be held this week, at which * hnt ls oft,>n f u r r e d to ns cave mnn times, tills ancient people from whom China would attempt to transfer the are descended all o f the modern Eur Shantung negotiations into the full opean races left us little with which conference. we might learn of their culture nnd Venus Held Uninhabited. Swarthmore, Pa.— Investigations by E. St. John, director of the Wilson observatory, California, and Seth R. Nicholson, his assistant, indicate that the planet Venus supports no life, they asserted In papers read before the American Astronomical society in con- vention at the Sprout observatory, Swathmore college. Both declared they had discovered no oxygen or water on Venus and therefore the presence of even animal life was pre cluded. The council of the society de cided to hold its next meeting at Yerkes observatory, Williams Bay, Wis., the week following next Labor day. Poles Out of Position. Swarthmore, Pa.— W alter D. Lam bert, mathematician of the United States coast and geodetic survey de scribes calculations made at a num ber of observatories showing a slight motion of the earth's poles. The north spent more than $ 100 . 000.000 for toys Radical Trio Quit Riga. pole has dipped slightly to the south, and games during the year Just end R ig a — After a week's Imprisonment, the observations over a period of years Ing. The National City bank of New during which time they were not per indicate, he said, hut the movement York quoted that the factory value I mitted to communicate with outsiders. has never taken the pole more than of toys manufactured here more than Emma Goldman, Alexander llerkman 60 feet out of its position. trebled when the war cut us oft from and Alexander Shapiro, deportees Germany, formerly the chief source of! from America, who recently came out 117 Farm Leans Granted. toy import*. In 1919 the value of toy* of soviet Russia, started a second time made here was $ 46 . 000,000 against j Washington. R C.— Approval of 117 Tuesday for Reval, Fstbonla. The $ 14 , 000.000 In 1914 Imports of toy*! advances for agriculture and livestock fell from $ 9 , 000,000 In the year before radicals intend to go on to Stockholm. purpose, aggregating $3,699.000. was the war to $ 1 , 000,000 In 1918 . In 1920 I New York Hit By Cold. < Import* of toy* rose to $ 6 . 000 . 000 . and cor por ation. T h e lOBM d is ’ ributc 1 !■ this year to $ 10 , 000 . 000 , more than Utica. N. Y.—Temperatures ranging eluded: Montana. $155.000; Oregon. the value In any year before the war. from 15 to 27 degrees below zero were $37.000; Washington, $49.000; Wyo- Capital engaged in the Industry here reported Monday. They were from mlng. $105.000; California. $424,000; advanced ^roin $10,000,000 In 1914 to central and northern sections of the North Dakota, $294.000; South Dakota, $25.000.000 in 1919 state. i $268.000. dally life. All that we have Is a meth od o f comparative language study by which we find their own language, and hence much nbout their civilization. Philologists have discovered that the lnngtiages of a quarter o f a billion peo- pie ln Asia and most o f the Inhahl- tnnts o f Europe, North and South Amertcn nnd other regions of the varth colonized by Europeans are fun- dunientally alike. That I*. Latin. Ger man. Russlnn anil Greek are at the bottom o f same, having all descended f ron, the same parent language. Pro- feasor Render says: "Language Is the best evidence o f community, of life and culture, and we can at least as sume that at some time and in some more or lea* definite territory there dwelt a people, or group o f peoples racially pure or racially mixed, who lived to a large extent a common life, and who spoke a tongue which was the common ancestor of the languages now spoken by the majority of the rtvtllred people* o f the earth. “ With the beginnings of the science of comparative philology early ln the Nineteenth century came the knowl edge that Sanscrit was the oldest of the Indo-European language*— If not the mother o f them all. at least their Town Elected Six Mayors. Each Serving Two Months Political leaden of Praaaborg. a city o f »O.OUO. In 1 xectioslo vakia, found that party feuds would make It Impossible to elect a mayor or burgomaster. They got together and agreed the city shall have sis burgo masters. «H ie to he elected by each party, each mayor to hold office for two months, succeed ing one another. All parties are now satisfied. Given 24 Hours to Meditate and Pray Syracuse, N. Y.—Tw o girls, arrested for shop-lifting, were sentenced to “ 24 hours o f medi tation and prayer” by Police Court Justice Shove. “ Spend 24 hours In medita tion and prayer," said the Judge. “ Search your conscience and bare your faults before your eyes. Then let me know you nre sorry— not that you were caught, but because you stole.” elder sister. Philologists concluded that the home of the Hindus must al so have been the home of the Indo- Europeans, nnd tills common home they visualized on the hunks of In dia’s most sacred stream, the Ganges. The study of the Veda soon showed, I however, that the Vedlc people did not I know the Gangea, bet lived in north- • £ west India ; so the primitive home of ! the Indo-Europeans was moved once more, this time into the Iranian re which would approximate the dura tion of tlie Indo-European period, so gion east of tlie Caspian sen.” Professor Render goes on to show far as It Is known. There is probably how philidogians nnd theologians met no other part of Indo-European terri on a common ground for different rea tory for which there Is so much evi sons and decided tlint the location was dence against autochthonous, non-In southwestern Asia. He presents the do-European predecessors.” arguments In support of this hypo thesis and shows liow most of them have been disproved and presents the method whereby modern philologists have arrived at this new conclusion. Saves Little Girl From Death in Sea During Violent Storm on the Honey Bee Is Factor. Atlantic. On account of the fact that almost every Indo-European language shares New York.—Tliyras, u shaggy police with Its cognates a common word for honey, or for un intoxicating drink dog from Poland, is a hero, ncclaitned made from honey, it is made clear that by the sixteen passengers of the steam the primitive home of the Indo-Kur- ship Gdansk, which docked in Brook o|>eans must liavo been a land where lyn recently after huiTeting its way the honey bee uhounded. But not one across the Atlantic through storms of the Asiatic sites that have been that more than once threatened to car seriously considered by modem philol ry youthful members of tlie ship's com ogists ns ttie possible home of these pany over tlie rail and into the sea. peoples, falls within the bee belt. In Capt. A. II. Peterson, who wild It Europe, on the other hand, the bee was the roughest voyage of his life Is Indigenous almost everywhere. time as a skipper, told tlie story o f By continuing this process of com Tliyras' exploit In saving Zeata Za- parative philology and by the processes horowski, youngest daughter o f u fam of elimination tlie conclusion above ily o f five children on their way from mentioned is reached. “ We liave left, Danzig to Join relatives lu the United finally,” says Professor Render, “ the States. great plain of central Hiid southeast “ Zeata dropped her doll over the ern Eurojie, which embraces roughly rail and it caught on a nail on the side the present Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine of the ship,” he said. “ A heavy sea and Russia south und west of the Vol was running, but Zeata, who is seven ga. Almost every condition Is satis years old, started to clltnb after the fied by the conception o f the Indo- doll. Just as she was going over the Europeans ns Inhabiting some part of side up dashed Tliyras, who seized her this plain ns inte ns 3.0U0 or 2,o00 B. dress and liung on. The girl screamed C. Geographically this central Euro and the purser run up and dragged pean plain lies In the very heart of them both to safety. After tliut Thyras Indo-European territory as we now- and his two companions, T o lf and know It.” Nellie, were musters at arms and In support of his theory Professor practically took care qf the children. Bender states ln the closing paragraph of his lecture: “ Nor can we ignore Mad Bull Has Fit. the notable fact that right here we find the Lithuanian, which has preserved Poplar Bluffs, Mo.— William Daniels into modem living speech more of the admits that lie Is as much opposed to Indo-European past tiian any other Hereford bulls as Ireland is to John language on earth. Not a scintilla of ny's "bull." And William is In favor evidence, historic or linguistic, has of “ fita.” Because an angered Here been produced to Indicate that the ford threw a fit Daniel's two small Lithuanians have ever stirred from sons are alive. The two hoys, ten tnd their present dwelling place since they twelve, were attacked by an irate” separated from the other Indo-Euro With the youths lying on the ground^ pean speaking peoples. the Infuriated animal wns preparing “ Indeed, It has Iieen made very prob to gore them to death when lie sud able on tlie grounds of linguistics, denly was seized with a fit. Frothing natural science nnd history that the at the mouth the hull was slain by a Lithuanian stock 1ms dwelt ln Its pres veterinary surgeon, who declared the ent location for at least 5.000 years. animal had hydrophobia. POLICE DOG IS SHIP'S HERO LOVE OF MOTHER STAYS JUSTICE Woman Assumes Blame for Son’s he had grown up." she told the court. Shortcomings to Save Him From I, not he. am to blame. I should pay Sixty-Day Sentence. the penalty. Let him go home with Detroit, Mich.— A mother agreed to me and 111 keep hitn there, try to cure go on a year's probation and to suffer him. and report regularly In his stead. the penalty to report personally regu If I fail to do so you ran give me the sentence you were about to Impose ou larly that her son might not serve a him." tkV.lay sentence ln the Detroit house of 1 Judge Faust accepted the offer. correction. She Is Mrs. Charles II. Slating, wife Kills Big Bear. of a prominent Flint (Mich.) banker. | She was given the “ sentence” when Saranac Lake. N. Y.—Charles Riv- • in Ke<-order's court, to ask leniency for In the Black Rn-ok aectlon had a her son. Charles Reynold*, twenty-six. J thrilling experience when he killed the Reynolds was about to be sentenced largest bear on record in that section for the third time In two years for i of tlie Adirondack* since the days o f larceny. III* latest offer -e wns the 1 the pioneers. When creeping ¡u,ng a downtown store. He was found guilty, or suddenly came upon the I .ear. He hut sentence was deferred until the j dhl not seriously Injure the beast with court could confirm reports that Roy- a hasty shot and was instantly charged n. Id* was a drug addict. ! by it. In attempting to get a better Mr*. S ting, accompanied by Rey- shooting position,the hunter fell from n*>hts' stepfather, tearfully took the the ledge and dropped hi* rifle. The filmile for Keytiolda )1 v..luuteered l*ear scrambled down the ledge and lhe penalty. was atmoat upon his foe, when Riv “ I spoiled him as a child and after ers recovered his rifle.
