The Rocky News (Rocky, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1921 Page: 3 of 8
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Reily and the Porto Ricans
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E. Mont Reily, the new governor
of Porto Rico, doesn’t seem to have
hit it off particularly well with the
Porto Ricans. Anyway, when the
Tnnamo arrived in New York the oth-
er day with Governor Reily aboard,
she was on fire. Previous to the ship
leaving San Juan Governor Reily re-
ceived threatening letters from Porto
Ricans. The officers were confident
the fire had been started by Porto
Ricans. There was a hostile crowd
of Porto Ricans outside the pier in
New York waiting to hoot the gov-
ernor. A police patrol was on hand.
Also, Senor Felix Cordova Davila,
resident commissioner from Porto
Rico, was instructed to ask President
Harding to remove Governor Reily
at once. Among specific charges
against Governor Reily enumerated in
the message to Senor Davila were the
following:
He publicly declared himself lead-
er of the insular Republican party and the “friend of the Socialist party.”
Annulled the “moral power” of Judges by announcing they would be re-
moved if a decision was rendered “considered by the governor unjust.”
Pardoned criminals “to please Socialist leaders,” and these criminals im-
mediately committed new crimes.
Hirohito Is Regent of Japan
The appointment of Crown Prince
Hirohito as regent of the empire, is
Rkely to be of tremendous Importance
to Japan, especially in view of his
recent trip to Europe. He is the first
crown prince of Japan in all the cen-
turies to go abroad and he learned
a lot on his travels. The Japanese
people welcomed his return with tu-
multuous applause—and the police
didn’t even try to stop the applause,
notwithstanding the fact that noise
and reverence do not go together in
Japan. Moreover, Hirohito has ac-
tually made public speeches since his
return.
In fact, Japanese officials wrho
were with him on ills travels found
him so democratic thnt it took their
breaths away. He moved in crowds
whenever he could. He learned bridge
and taught it to his friends; took up
golf, tennis and billiards. He even
likes Occidental opera music.
The last api>eurance in public of Emperor Yoshihito was in April, 1920.
Then his manner gave proof of his rapidly falling mentality. The crown
prince was bom April 29, 1901, and hla name is Hirohito, Mlchlno-Mlyot
The new regent and Count Chinda, who wns educated at D«ePauw univer-
sity, are believed to be liberal and peaceful Influences in Japun.
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House Bill 9,157 a “Horrible Example”
TY7 ASHINGTON.—'That part of of-
\p/ ficial Washington which Is
working for the reorganization
of the executive departments is point-
ing to house bill 9157 as a “horrible
example” of present conditions. It was
introduced by Representative Gordon
Lee of Georgia and was referred to
the committee on agriculture. It au-
thorizes the President, upon recom-
mendation of the secretary of agricul-
ture, to establish a national park in a
national forest reservation in the Blue
Ridge and Cohutta mountains of
Georgia, created in 1911 under the
Weeks act. There are provisions for
leasing land for hotels, summer re-
sorts, cottages and homes. The park
is to be subject to rules promulgated
by the secretary of agriculture, who Is
charged with the duty of executing the
act.
To the outsider this bill seems harm
less, but to the insider it is all wrong
Under the usual procedure national
purk bills go to the public lands com-
mittee. A national park is created by
act of congress, not by presidential
proclamation. National parks are in
charge of the secretary of the interior,
who is ex officio head of the national
park service, a bureau created for the
specific purpose of managing the na-
tional parks. National parks contain
no summer resorts, cottages and
homes; public service utilities only are
recognized.
Of course, these departures from the
usual did not just happen. The Agri-
cultural department has long been
campaigning to have the national park
service transferred to it from the In-
terior department, *and is now devel-
oping the national forests—created
for lumber and gruzing—as recreation-
al competitors of the national parks.
Now that a reorganization of the de-
partments may result in transferring
the forest service to the Interior de-
partment, house bill 9157 has an evi-
dent purpose.
Where Government Employees Do Resign
“Better Elements” in Defeat
^T*HE old saying regarding govern-
I ment employees that few die
and none resign does not apply
to the patent office. The force of ex-
aminers in this important bureau num-
bers 430. In 32 months 231 of them
resigned. In n little over u year one-
quurter of the entire force went out.
They became very tired working for
Uncle Sam for $1,500 to $2,700 a year,
when they could go with corporations
thnt would pay them two or three
times as much, or could begin the prac-
tice of patent law.
If an application for a patent Is
filed today, the inventor will be lucky
if he secures its first consideration a
year from now. There are nearly G0,-
000 applications on file In the patent
office and these must all be taken up
and considered in their order. No
wonder that the patent office Is over-
whelmed with eomplnlnts from manu-
facturers representing every section.
The patent office, as Commissioner
Robertson says in his annual report,
is retarding industry instead of provid-
ing new avenues for employment.
Seventy years ugo patent examiners
were paid $2,400 a year, the same sal-
ary as a congressman then received,
Frank X. Schwab (portrait here-
with), elected mayor of Buffalo, N. Y.,
is a brewer under Indictment for al-
leged violation of the federal pro-
hibition laws. He feutured his cam-
paign by a promise that he would
go to Washington in person nnd fight
for modification of the Volstead act
As everyone knows, John F. Hy-
lan, tauunany candidate, was re-elect-
ed mayor of New York by a landslide
victory.
Fred Kohler, elected mayor of
Cleveland, formerly was chief of the
police department in that city and
was dismissed by the civil service
commission on charges of conduct un-
becoming an officer. Mr. Kohler mere-
ly placed reliance on his personal pop-
ularity.
Lew Shank, who was elected
mayor of Indianapolis by a plurality
of 20,000, began life as a clog dancer
and has returned to the vuudevllle
stage at intervals. His candidacy was opposed by all of the highbrow organ-
izations in Indianapolis.
G. L. Oles, elected mayor of Youngstown, O., moved In from the country
about three months before the election. The principal planks in his platform
were: To permit spooning in the city parks, fire the police force, to abolish
street cars and substitute busses.
Naturally the press is asking the why and wherefore of election results
like these. The consensus seems to be that the self-styled “better elements.”
which are setting up class distinctions in which they constitute the minority,
should change their political methods.
Princess Mary Is Betrothed
but from 1842 to 1921 only $300 has
been added to this amount. Forty-
eight out of the 430 receive the maxi-
mum figure. There are nearly 1(H) who
get only $1,500 a year. Time nnd time
again congress has been urged to pay
these men a salnry eommensurute witli
their work, especially us the patent
office is a profit-producing concern and
the money does not come out of the
pockets of the taxpayers. Nothing
has been done. Rills have passed the
senute or the house separately and
have even reached the conference
stage, but they have never become
laws. At the present time another
bill, favornbly reported unanimously
by the committee on patents, is pend-
ing in the house.
Women Clash in “Equal Rights” Battle
A MOVEMENT Instituted by worn-
en agalnsl women—that is the es-
sence of the bill for abrogation
of all legul disabilities and discrimina-
tions against women that is being
promulgated by the Woman’s Party.
This is the attitude taken by the Na-
tional Consumers' league, of which
Miss Jane Addams and Mrs. Edward
P. Costigan of Chicago and Miss K. P.
Halleck of Louisville are vice-presi-
dents.
“Perhaps they are doing it unwit-
tingly, but they are sweeping away all
the social discriminations we have
been fighting for,” said Miss Jeanette
Rankin, formerly congressman from
Montana. Miss Rankin, was in Wash-
ington to attend the twenty-second an-
nual convention of the Consumers'
league, and she is a perfect example
of tlie contrast between the woman in
political and public life of today and
the first fighters for suffrage. She
had on a maroon suit that simply awed
with its intricate simplicity, and a hat
to mutch, witli a long sweeping feuth
er. Shades of stiff collars!
“We can’t ever make the problems
of men and women alike,” she de-
clared, "They aren't alike; and they
need separate attention. Nothing
would be better for the factories that
employ women than this bill."
Here’s the point at issue: The Wom-
an's party hus been trying to have
"blanket bill” passed by the several
states which shall place men and
women on an absolute equality as citi-
zens. Progress has been alow. So now
the Woman’s Party proposes an
amendment to the Constitution cover-
ing the same ground.
The National Consumers’ league is
one of several women's organizations
opposing the proposed Constitutional
amendment on the ground thnt through
it women will lose certain rights which
have been giveu to them as women by
several of the states—such as limita-
tion of hours of employment, prohibi-
tion or regulation of night work, regu-
lation of employment before nnd after
confinement and minimum wage scales.
IS SEASON OF COATS;
HATS FOR THE MATRON
*T- HIS is a coat season—nnd it will
I be followed by another one—for
already the coats of spring ure
under consideration. Since the one-
piece frock lias come to share favor
equally with tailored suits, no ward-
robe Is coatless—and tills season pre-
sents coats in great variety and of
wonderful smartness. Nearly nil of
them are long, but there are half-
length nnd three-quarter-length mod-
els, sponsored by greut names among
style originators.
In long couts, short coats, straight
do for her or to her. Site is there-
fore the milliner’s most exacting and
most faithful patron, discriminating
nnd appreciative, with, usually, a nice
sense of what Is suited to her style
and type.
The designers of the five hats for
matronly wearers, selected for Illus-
tration here, may well point with pride
to these achievements in their art.
There is not a hat in the group that
is commonplace and none that la
bizarre; they are brilliant and beauti-
ful—and calculated to beguile one Into
Woman in Congress Tells Funny Stories
Announcement of the betrothal of
Princess Mary, only daughter of King
George of England, to Viscount Laa-
celles has apparently been received
with Joy by the British, though the
prospective bridegroom is not by any
means “royalty.” Viscount Lascelles
(Henry George Charles Lascellea) is
the eldest son of the earl of Hare-
wood, and is thirty-nine years of age.
Princess Mary is twenty-four. The
viscount, who was educated at Eton,
was an attache at the British em-
bassy in Rome from 19U5 to 1907 and
aide-de-camp to the governor general
of Canada from 1907 to 1911, served
with distinction in the European war.
He was three times wounded and won
the distinguished service order and
the French orolx de guerre.
Lord Lascelies's title of viscount
is one of courtesy. In the eyes of the
law he Is • ommoner, and will remain
so until the death of his father. She
fifth earl os Harewood. unless the sovereign chooses to bestow upon him a
dukedom, tv way of a wedding gift. The earldom was not created until late
in the Eighteenth century, the present earl being the fifth of the line. Vis-
count I-a* rile* la credited with being one of the richest young peers In Eng-
land. Fom years ago be Inherited an immense fortune, reputedly more than
two mllltoa pounds from a kinsman. Lord Clanricarde.
Prices* Mary la a general favorite and spiesrs to be what Americans
call “a nice girl.”
✓"I RITICAL visitors in the gallery
%, . listened intently the other day
when the only woman in con-
gress, Miss Alice Robertson of Okla-
homa. made a speech. Curiously
enough, it was in opposition to the
“maternity bill,” which the women of
the country apparently sup(H>rted.
These critical visitors also commented
on the fact that she told three funny
stories In succession at the beginning
of her remarks. Sha Vegan thus :
“Mr. Chairman, it may seem ungra-
cious to speak of a little Incident that
occurred once when a Cherokee girl—
and very few of our beautiful half-
breed Cherokee girls can talk in Chero-
kee—was suddenly called upon to
speak In her own language for the
benefit of an assembled audience. But
she quickly arose to the occasion and
repeated over and over, with different
inflections of voice and gesture, the
alphabet and counted up to 25. [Laugh
ter.J We have heard the arguments
about pigs, and they mean Just about
as much as the Uherokee alphabet and
counting up to 25. [Laughter.]
“The committee In reporting out this
bill remind me a little of the spoiled
child traveling with Its mother and
nursery governess; the mother was ab-
sorbed in a novel; young hopeful cry-
ing very petulantly; mother said to the
Conservative Interpretations of the Long Coat.
or flnrlng coats—sleeves are featured
—whatever the lines. Tills is the
dominant style note and it hns been
worked out in tnnny ways. The next
most important feature of the styles
is the use of fur with cloth in clever
new ways, so that coats present much
thnt is orlglnul and smart.
In the two coats pictured, conserva-
tive Interpretations of the long coat
api>ear—lines in both nre ample nnd
charming and the sleeves in one of
them will plense those who nre look-
ing for something new. They con-
trive to form a cape-like drapery at
the back and call attention to this in-
thnnkfulness for reaching middle-age.
The hat ut the center of the group
will find many admirers. It la of
velvet, with a narrow, graceful brim.
Ita crown lines are definite and
spirited nnd its trimming brilliant and
in keeping. One can imagine It in
purple, blue, dark brown or other
fuvored colors or In hluck.
The hat nt the upper left is of black
panne velvet and hus a soft crown and
a split brim studded with jet beads
and fringed with ostrich flues. Ita
rival ut the right employs velvet to
cover a shape with an eccentric, point-
ed brim and coque feathers over tbg
nursery governess, without looking up
from her novel, ‘Why don’t vou give
him what he wants? I’ve you he
Is too high strung to be crossed in any-!
thing.’ There was a moment's silence. 1
and then a frightened and angry
howl. Mother said. ‘Why don't you
give him what he wants?' Boor nurs-
ery governess replying. ‘I did let him
have It It was a bumblebee and it
stung him.’ [Laughter.] The house
has been given the bill that It has been
crying for; It may prove to have a
ating to It.”
Her third story was the one about
The little boy who came In all excited
and told hla mother there were more
than a million cats fighting In their
back yard—which finally turned out to
be two, making more noise than a mi*
lion.
Hats for katronly Wearers
genlous feat with handsome tassels 1
that mark their finish. A collar of
fur and deep cuffs which serve for a
muff add to the appeal of this model.
The full coat at the right contents
Itself a 1th plain, full sleeves with
crown. It has a au*h of wide elm
ribbon and 1* deveh»|>ed in black with
coque in the natural colors. The soft
hat at the lower left is a turban,
draped with beige velvet, with fancy
feather In a mmb lighter shade; -ha
handsomely embroidered cuffs, but Is
last bat again features black In hatter's
provided with a cape collar of squirrel
plush on nn intricate shape, with wring
fur and panels of embroidery at the
and head trimming.
bottom of the skirt portion.
No one knows so well as the
matron, the awesome Importance of
beta—she has learned by long and
varied experiences Jus* what they can
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