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At this writing the prospect is dark, for all except the soviet Russians, who appear to have maneuvered themselves into just the position they wanted. Proved by Tchitcherin and his colleagues to give a quick answer to the proposals of the Russians, the allies drew up terms which Lloyd George declared embodied the maximum that would be granted Russia and the minimum that would be demanded from her. Summarized, these were: Russia recognizes her prewar debt. The war debt will be recognized, but reduced. Russia must restore foreign property or indemnify the owners for damage or confiscation. Russia will be expected to take such judicial and other measures as will attract foreigners to Russia for business purposes. France had yielded to the British on the matter of absolute restoration of confiscated property, at the insistence of Lloyd George, but forced an amendment forbidding property in Russia to be allocated to other persons than the former owners. To this Lloyd George appended this rider: “If exploitation of property can only be carried out by its incorporation in a general group, the preceding arrangements will not apply.” France then signed, but Belgium absolutely refused to approve the proposition. Barthou hurried to Paris and Premier Poincaré told him some things that had not come out at Genoa. Thereupon the French cabinet agreed unanimously to support Belgium and withdrew the assent to the proposals offered to Russia. This alone was enough to strain international relations, but the Paris press added to it by its explanation of the dispute over the property clause. It made the flat charge that the soviets were negotiating to transfer to English and Germans oil field property that belongs to Frenchmen and Belgians, and that Lloyd George added the above mentioned rider to further that scheme. It did not seem probable, anyhow, that the Russians would accept the terms offered them. They were especially displeased with the fact that recognition of the soviet government was not included, and they did not like the article concerning foreign property restoration. There were other features that did not suit them, and they got into communication with Moscow, with the intimation that their answer might not be ready for some time. The second plenary session of the conference was held Wednesday and a finance report was submitted containing 19 articles in the nature of recommendations without definite commitments. The main ones were: Return of stability of currency. A meeting in the near future of big central banks. Re-establishment of the gold basis. Balancing budgets. Sir Lamington Worthington Evans, chairman of the finance committee, admitted that the proposals could not be carried out without the cooperation of the United States. Tchitcherin declared little could be accomplished by the finance commission because the deficit in living costs. Department of Labor Figures Show Reduction in Prices Paid for Necessaries of Life. Washington.—The average cost of living in the United States decreased 42 per cent in the period from December, 1921, to March, 1922, and 22.9 per cent from June, 1920, to last March, the bureau of labor announced. The level of prices in March, however, was 66.9 per cent higher than in 1918, subject of reparations was excluded, and then detailed a number of the proposals which he said Russia would not accept. It is quite apparent that what the Soviet government wishes is not a general agreement with Europe, but separate treaties with the powers, such as she already has with Germany. It probably could do this with Great Britain and Italy and the neutral nations, and probably with some other powers, and France and Belgium would be left in an uncomfortable position. And Russia will be able to lay on France the blame for the failure of the Genoa conference. Soviet Russia’s defiant attitude toward the world was demonstrated in the May day doings at Moscow. Leon Trotsky, minister of war, reviewed 100,000 most excellently equipped and drilled soldiers, and in an address declared that Russia “will resist until her last drop of blood is shed any attempts of the capitalistic governments to enslave her.” France consented to sign the non-aggression pact proposed by Lloyd George on three conditions: That every European nation signed; that Russia agreed to recognize all her existing boundaries for ten years, and that France surrendered none of her rights to take action to enforce the Versailles treaty. The Russians rejected the second of these and the Germans the third. DESPITE the hard working propagandists, the American administration shows no signs of willingness to take part at present in all these European negotiations. Its position concerning Russia was made clear by Secretary of State Hughes in his reply to a delegation of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom which asked him to advocate the immediate recognition of the soviet regime. Mr. Hughes told the women that recognition is in the control of those who dominate the affairs of Russia, and would be accorded only to a government competent to discharge its international relations and demonstrating a disposition to discharge them. He added that there are no legal obstacles to trade with Russia. THAT France fully expects Germany to default on the reparations is indicated by a statement in Sketch of London, which says it has learned from a reliable French source that preparations are being made for immediate mobilization of the 1918 class of reserves, numbering about 150,000. Mr. Lloyd George gave up his plan for a meeting of the nations signatory to the Versailles treaty in Genoa to take up the matter of enforcing the German payments, but still hopes it may be held elsewhere. The French insist that no such meeting be held with after May 31. DURING most of last week the predicted battle between gens. Wu Pei-Fu and Chang Tsao-Lin raged in the vicinity of Peking. Judging from the dispatches, Wu was having the best of the conflict. The casualties were rather heavy. On Wednesday, President Hu made another effort to stop the hostilities, calling to the attention of the rival commanders the fact that the foreign diplomats had protested three times against the fighting and had warned of serious consequences to China should foreigners suffer from the hostilities. Almost all the plans regarding China made at the Washington conference have been suspended because of the warfare. The Chinese press is almost a unit in declaring the fighting, asserting that it is only harmful to the country, whichever side wins. Early in the week, General Chang issued a statement that General Wu had been killed by artillery fire. This has not been confirmed. Sun Yat Sen, head of the South China government at Canton, asserted he had combined with General Chang and would soon start for northern China. Sun’s own government was weakened by the defection of Gen. Chen Chiung-Min, who resigned the governorship of Kwantung. A S FOR the other current war, that between the Irish factions, it ran along as merrily as a Donnybrook fair until midweek. Then De Valera himself asked the Dail Eireann to take steps to stop it. Accordingly, a truce of four cities cited, Atlanta, Ga., reported the largest decline since June, 1920, with 22.4 percent, and Birmingham since December, 1921, with 4.5 percent. Atlanta’s decline since the latter date was 4.1 percent. and Birmingham’s drop since the middle of 1920 was 21.8 per cent. Philadelphia's cost of living decreased 21.2 per cent in the 21-month period and 8.5 per cent in the three month period, while the statistics for San Francisco and Oakland showed declines of 19.6 per cent and 8.7 per cent of four days was declared and a peace committee of five members of each faction was named. It is hoped the opposing sections of the Irish army will be able to find a basis for unification. Before this, the Free Staters had stormed and captured Ormonds castle, the last stronghold of the irreguilaries in Kilkenny; the police barracks in Mullingar, occupied by irregulars, had been blown up, and there were numerous bloody encounters elsewhere. The situation on the Ulster border was reported as again becoming serious. WHEN the fifth Pan-American conference is held next March in Santiago, Chile, it may become another conference on limitation of armament. Acting on instructions from his government, the Chilean ambassador to Washington has suggested to the Pan-American union that the question of reducing military expenses of the American republics be placed upon the agenda. IN THE United States, the most interesting event of the week was the defeat of Senator Harry S. New for renomination in the Indiana Republican primaries by former Senator Albert J. Beveridge. Since New was running on the record of the national administration, his failure was looked on as something of a blow to that administration and the “regulars” in the senate were frankly disappointed. Senator McCormick, chairman of the Republican senatorial committee, however, said the committee had taken no part in the contest and would support the nominee energetically. Mr. Beveridge served twelve years in the senate and was a leader in the Progressive party movement. He made his campaign on such planks as demands for the repeal of the Adamson law, repeal or amendment of the Sherman law, adoption of a sales tax and the promotion of greater efficiency and wiser economy in government. Samuel Ralston, former governor of Indiana, easily won the Democratic nomination, and in him Beveridge will find a strong contender for the senate seat. It may be that modification of the Volstead act will become a prominent issue of the campaign. SAMUEL GOMPERS was in the public eye and the public ear to a considerable extent last week. In a May day manifesto, the venerable head of the American Federation of Labor made a vigorous attack on Bolshevism, declaring that American recognition of the Russian soviets would constitute a "needless and base betrayal of civilization." He denounced the Bolshevik propaganda in this country and asserted that he had ample proof to substantiate the charges that “Red” millions have been sent to America for propaganda purposes and that “W. Z. Foster, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red internationale, owned by Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed “a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities.” A few days later Mr. Gompers was one of the principal speakers at a mass meeting called by the New York branch of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, and in his address said that “labor must make the fight now, and we will never stop fighting until the rights of the people have been restored to them.” Continuing, he said: “I and the federation I represent are in favor of beer and light wines and against any attempt to enforce sumptuary laws aimed at personal liberty. Temperance was the rule of the great mass of organized labor, but the prohibitionists and the so-called Anti-Saloon Leaguers have done more to undermine the morality and temperance of the workingman than any other agency I know. I have traveled all over the United States before prohibition, including its so-called dry territories, and today as I pass through these sections I have found more drunkenness than ever before.” THE senate finance committee has adopted McCumber’s soldiers’ bonus plan, with the bank loan provision. Smoot still clings to the 20-year endowment life insurance plan. In Philadelphia, the bureau set forth, the average of living costs in March was 68.2 percent higher than in December, 194, while in San Francisco and Oakland the level was 57.5 percent higher than at the end of 1914. March prices at Atlanta were calculated 13.8 percent higher than in December, 1917. and at Birmingham, 11 percent higher. South Africa produces about $200,000,000 of gold annually. EAGLE RIVER REVIEW, EAGLE RIVER, WIS. Fairy Tale "HE FISH-HAWKS" "Well," said Mr. Fish-hawk, "there is no mistake about it. Spring is the time of the year when one thinks about building a new home. "It is the time of the year when I feel like building at any rate, and you feel the same way, do you not, my dear?" "Ah, yes," said Mrs. Fish-hawk, "in the spring my thoughts turn to a fine home in an old tree. "I do not care for new trees. I like old trees, dead trees, as I am fond of old things." "I'm not old," said Mr. Fish-hawk, "and yet you say you care for me." "I do not merely say I care for you," said Mrs. Fish-hawk. "You know perfectly well I do care for you. I think you're the finest fish-hawk I have ever seen." "I suppose that was why you were willing to be my mate," said Mr. Fish-hawk. "Well, that did help," laughed Mrs. Fish-hawk. "Of course," she continued after a time, "you must not think I mean I like all old things for I don't. But I like an old tree for my home just as you do. And yet you like me and I am not old." "True," said Mr. Fish-hawk, "I am not old." True,” said Mr. Fish-hawk, “but it was the way you spoke at first that alarmed me for a moment. It was when you said that you liked old things. And I thought to myself that I wasn't old. “I wondered if you wished you had picked out an older and a wiser Mr. Fish-hawk for your mate.” “Ah, no,” said Mrs. Fish-hawk, “I want a nice young mate like myself.” Then we can work together and play together and make mistakes together, “I don’t want one who is so much wiser than I am that he couldn’t make a mistake.” “Like an Old Tree.” Any mistakes at all and I’d always be afraid that he thought I was so young and foolish. “No, no, Mr. Fish-hawk, do not worry. You suit me to perfection.” “Ah, I am so glad, so glad indeed,” said Mr. Fish-hawk. “Now we must be getting on with the building,” said Mrs. Fish-hawk. “I think this is an extremely nice place, here by the good old ocean,” she added. “An excellent place for our home,” said Mr. Fish-hawk. “Now I do hope no one annoys us or frightens us,” said Mrs. Fish-hawk. “I certainly hope not,” agreed Mr. Fish-hawk, “but we will be all right. I think the day has gone by when creatures thought it smart to hurt birds. “Well, I must not chatter so much but I must gather some sticks.” So Mr. and Mrs. Fish-hawk gathered a great many little sticks for their nest home and some people watched them. It made Mr. and Mrs. Fish-hawk a little nervous to be watched and they squealed and fretted and talked. excitedly. But after a time they realized that the people were merely interested in their building and wouldn't hurt them for anything. "I am so glad," said Mr. Fishhawk, "that I can do my own building. I'd hate to give the job to anyone else." For example, I've heard that people get some one else to do their building— even get some one else to plan the way their houses should be. "Yes, and I've heard that they sometimes get others to say what should be inside," said Mrs. Fish-hawk. "It is much nicer to do things for oneself as the birds do. "Our home is really our home. We've built it and it is as we wish it to be, and it is in the place where we want it to be. "It is our own home, our truly own home. We may be able to build easily but it seems to me that whether I could do it easily or with difficulty I'd always want a beak in my own little nest. "I suppose people would say they'd want a 'hand' in the work but I say beak because I'm a bird of course." "And a very fine bird too," said Mr. Fish-hawk admiringly. That's the Truth. "Oh, mamma!" exclaimed little Gertrude, "I can spell 'nothing,' and that's a big word, isn't it?" "A pretty big word for a little maid of your age," replied her mother. "How do you spell 'nothing'?" "Z. X. M." "Why, darling, that isn't right." "Yes, it is," said Gertrude emphatically. "I said to grandma, 'What?" Does Z. X. M. spell? and she said ‘nothing.’ ”—Edinburgh Scotsman. A Puzzle in Punctuation. A funny old man told this to me, I fell in a snowdrift in June, said he, I went to a ball game out in the sea I saw a jellyfish float up in a tree, I found some gum in a cup of tea; I stirred some milk with a big brass key, I opened my door on my bended knee, I beg your pardon for this,” said he, “But ’tis true when told as it ought to be. 'Tis a puzzle in punctuation, you see.” Daddy’s Evening, Huntington Citizen Could Neither Sleep Nor Eat With Any Satisfaction Before He Got Tanlac. “Before taking Tanlac I had not Been a well day in six years,” said W. R. Peoples, 328 22nd St., Hunting ton, W, Va. “It seemed like I had lost my health for good. I could neither sleep nor eat with satisfaction. I was badly run down, nervous, had no appetite and had to force down every mouthful I ate. Even then my food soured. I would fill up with gas until I had intense pains in my stomach and chest. Headache almost drove me mad, rheumatism in my arms, shoulder and hips kept me in pain all the time, and I had to force myself to work. “Tanlac went right after my troubles. On four bottles I gained ten pounds and the rheumatism and stomach trouble soon left me. My wife has given a statement about the good Tan lac did her, and I am glad to add my endorsement of this wonderful medicine. Tanlac is sold by all good druggists. Stop Hiccoughs. “There is, I believe, only one specific for hiccoughs,” says an eminent physician, “and that is a small dose of vinegar, sweetened with as much sugar as it will absorb. I have used this remedy when the annoyance has passed almost into the dangerous stage, and never knew a case which one dose would not relieve and two cure.” Thousands of women have kidney and bladder trouble and never suspect it. Women’s complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or bladder disease. If the kidneys are not in a healthy condition, they may cause the other organs to become diseased. Pain in the back, headache, loss of ambition, nervousness, are often times symptoms of kidney trouble. Don’t delay starting treatment. Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, a physician’s prescription, obtained at any drug store, may be just the remedy needed to overcome such conditions. Get a medium or large size bottle immediately from any drug store. However, if you wish first to test this great preparation, send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N.Y., for a sample bottle. When writing, be sure and mention this paper.—Advertisement. Changing Color Scheme. “Father, are all Bolshevists red?” “No, my boy; some of them are pretty blue.”—Der Brummer (Berlin). ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE DOES IT When shoes pinch or corns and bunions, get a package of ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. The antiseptic powder to be shaken into the shoes. It takes the sting out of corns and bunions, gives instant relief to Smarting, Aching, Swollen feet. 1,500,000 pounds of powder for the feet were used by our Army and Navy during the war.—Advertisement. ALL THESE PROVOKE SMILES Various Kinds of Ladies Who Excite the Risibilities of the Writer in Humorous Publication. Ladies make me laugh—ladies who dress like Kewpie dolls; ladies who are always arranging slumming parties; ladies who arrive at the theater during the middle of the first act and practically stop the performance; ladies who tell fortunes; ladies who spend 12 hours a day in restaurants; ladies who organize welfare leagues and are forever talking about them; ladies who know all about relativity; ladies who embroider their bridge playing with telephone calls, gossip and risque stories; ladies who are habitually one hour and twenty minutes late for all appointments; ladies who are habitually one hour and twenty minutes late for all appointments; ladies who are shocked at anything they don’t understand; ladies from Columbus, O., who, having spent nine months in Paris, completely forget their native tongue; ladies who have never been understood; ladies who don’t know when a romance ends; ladies who are continually dwelling on the fact that they are ladies. From Life. Expansive Love. Ethel—Oh, Richard, when we are married I don’t think I could live in a little flat. Fiance—You don’t love me when you say that, Ethel. Ethel—Oh, yes, I do; but not on such a small scale. Your New Home should be made artistic, sanitary and livable. These walls should be fashioned in the latest, up-to-the-minute nature color tints. Each room should reflect your own individuality and the treatment. Throughout being a complete perfect harmony in colors. The walls of the old home, whether mansion or cottage, can be made just as attractive, just as sanitary, through the intelligent use of a glass of water. Instead of kalsomine or wallpaper, it is absolutely necessary if you expect Alabastine results that you ask for and secure Alabastine. Avoid kalsomines under various names and insist on the package with the cross and circle printed in red. That is the only way to be sure you are getting the genuine Alabastine. Alabastine is easy to mix and apply, lasting in its results, and absolutely sanitary. Alabastine is a dry powder, put up in five-pound packages, white and beautiful tints, ready to mix and use by the addition of cold water, and with full directions. No more than the ordinary Alabastine. NOVELTY IN ONE MINUTE WITH GOVERNOR Certainly Short, but the Incident Gladdened the Heart of This Indiana Small Boy. When Governor McCray and others boarded an interurban to visit the new reformatory site at Pendleton, they found the car already well filled. The governor sat down by a small boy from Fortville and a moment later asked him to exchange seats with another member of the party so that they could continue a conversation. Shortly afterward the lad’s seatmate disclosed to the boy that It was the governor who had accompanied the boy. The incident made an impression and when the boy reached home, he boasted to his father that he had seen the governor and had spoken to him. Is that so? said his dad, skeptically, "and what did the governor say to you?" "Oh," he said, "would you just as soon sit in that seat over there, son?" —Indianapolis News. His Versatility. Sight-seeing bus stopped in front of a large church and the lecturer bawled out: "This, ladies and gents, is the church where Tony Pastor used to preach." —New York Times. The Thrifty Citizen Who Caught the Plugged Nickel MR. BROWN had swallowed his lunch and had paid his bill. Cautiously he counted his change. "Here!" he said, sharply, "Take back this plugged nickel and give me a good one." Mr. Brown walked proudly out. They couldn't fool old Brown. But old Brown had fooled himself. Brown's day was heavy and dull. He lacked "pep." There was a mid-afternoon drowsy spell when he needed to be awake—the direct and natural result of heavy, starchy breakfasts and lunches, taken on faith and without question as to value—just because the food looked and tasted like food. Thousands of shrewd business men who count their change, take their food for granted. That's what builds up the sanitarium business, and puts the tired "all-done" feeling into the mid-afternoon of a business day. Grape-Nuts—The Body Builder "There's a Reason" Made by Postum Cereal Company, Inc., Battle Creek Marks on each package. Every package of genus Alabastine has cross and circle printed in red. Better write us for hand-made color designs and special suggestions. Give us your decorative problems and let us help you work them out. Alabastine Company 1653 Grandville Ave. Grand Rapids, Mich A one-eleven cigarettes N 2 26836 ) Three Friendly = : T '!)Ge¥ Gentlemen T L\ R Vi 4 B R g R 73, { r. VIRGENA - "FIFTEEN In a new package that fits the pocket-book— At a price that fits the pocket-book— The same unmatched blend of TurkisH., VIRGINIA and BURLEY Tobaccos W, & Guaranteed by B 9 A Mwico 30 @ ][] T AVE A ks N : | N v o e. »? e o DU i A P?F NN B I TV eRN NNN ] R i ! : o NN e e e ”\\‘ I g A;-'.-'S::-‘.;‘:.;.'s"—' C R N e R R N i s elog sr o taa s i eAR L A St e Y PSS r" RS N! RAN o S R R AN S Y B 8 L '-'::':':;::;::;::;::;::::::;:-.-.i-ii;f;:-:::.. NS e P et 3l RSAS eid S S R O R e e ¥ i - S b/ S N\ iN = e : m':rf R g e 3t oY 28 Eotnyl o ]} R = o RN BN N | ey e = faitic | R ST ) SPt e o e™ A o 2 B S No time for explanations. Young Woman Simply Felt Herself the Victim of Circumstances, and Went Her Way. "I was walking along Fourteenth Street," said a young woman artist, "and I saw a woman ahead of me pushing a baby carriage. There was a baby in the carriage, and the baby was holding the string of a rubber balloon. I noticed that the balloon was unusually large, probably due to its being inflated beyond its rated capacity. Just as I passed the baby carriage, the balloon exploded. Went Pop! and disappeared. Apparently the mother was looking some other direction at the time and when she turned her head, saw the balloon was gone and I was going and she connected me with the catastrophe. “She eyed me malevolently. ‘Of all the mean tricks!’” she exclaimed, and then attempted to console the balloon less infant. Did I deny causing the balloon to burst? I did not. I was merely another victim of circumstantial evidence.”—Baltimore American. Nice Game. “New society game.” “Heh?” “Put and take for kisses.” Grape-Nuts is a scientific food whose delicious, appetizing flavor and crispness are an introduction to well-balanced nourishment—a nourishment easily and quickly assimilated, so that body, brain and nerves are well fed and kept free of the stored up poisons left by so many ill-selected foods. Served with cream or good milk, Grape-Nuts is a complete food, always ready, always a delight to the taste—and always a safe selection for the man who thinks his stomach is entitled to some of the same protection he gives to his pocket. 