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4 THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weeklv SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months • • • . SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail—Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 Wk.l Mo. 3 Mos. 6 Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday..... 20c 90c $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .90 1.75 3.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors, with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral commission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The pnly traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, Charles H. Woodliff, J. M. Patten, Dan Hall, Jr., W. L. Walton, M. H. Bevil and John Mac- Jennings. We will be responsible for money paid to the above named traveling representatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The label used for addressing your paper shows the time vour subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old as well as yotfr new address. If on a route, please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back num bers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this Department to THE TRI-WEEKLY JOUBNAL, Atlanta, Ga. Individual Enterprise. THAT is a peculiarly seasonable truth which Mr. Lloyd George emphasized when he said, touching the grave economic problems of England’s war after math: “Individual enterprise must remain the supreme active power in the production of wealth and well being.’’ This is a traditional and dominant idea of what we call Anglo-Saxon institutions. For a long age it has been one of the prime principles of our American democracy. To leave the individual as large a measure of free initi-tive and reward as is consistent with common security and common rights was the aim of this republic’s builders and has been the most fertile force in its ma terial development. But in these latter years a contrary cur i-ent has set in. Special perplexities and wrongs having risen, there has been in divers quarters an impatient demand to grappl® them, not with the old energies and old integrities of our political life, but by expedients which tend' to make less and less of individual rights, and consequently of individual responsibility and originative ness. We do not mean the emergency de vices resorted to in the stress of war; those, in the main, were imperatively needed, and the extraordinary reins of power which went with them were cheerfully granted by a pa triotic people. The objectionable thing is that in times free from war pressure so much dependence should be placed upon govern ~~ men tai contfTvances —regulations and rules imposed from without —rather than upon that “organized self-control” which is the essence of democracy and of social prog ress. As in most proverbs, there is but half a truth in the Jeffersonian saying that they are the best governed people ..’ho are ths least governed. But it is the very half unto which we shall do well to take heed in days when the temptation is all too strong to shift individual responsibilities and to un dervalue individual freedom as a power for progress. There is scarcely a sphere of present-day life in which this idea cannot be profitably reasserted. Mr. Lloyd George affirmed it and enforced it at a crucial moment in Eng land’s economic history, with the result that difficulties which otherwise might easily have waxed overwhelming are being steadily mastered. It was at the height of a class de mand for the socialization of certain great in dustries—a demand which, had it been yielded to, would eventually have taken in all indus tries and, perhaps, all business—that the clear-headed Prime Minister declared: “In dividual enterprise must remain the supreme active power in the production of wealth and well being.” Standing steadfast to that principle the English Government and the English people are shouldering burdens of taxation which, upon a less productive basis of economic effort, vould be insupportable. Mt ell has it been-said that “the willingness of these few score millions to tax them selves in billions, and their ability to pay their taxes without default on their debts, or the adoption of follies and heresies in search of escape from them, is proof that the German idea is defeated, as well as Germany, alike for England and for all countries with her character.” Not by making the state either a despotic or paternalistic power to which all else is subordinated, but by leaving the originative and highly human elements of life as free as common sense allows, will the best exer tions of men be encouraged and their best impulses be practiced and strengthened. This is anything but an enticing short cut to the solutions for which we grow so impa tient on this befuddling planet; but it is an honest, dependable highway to real pros perity and real progress. The History oj Bill Yopp, A WONDERFULLY heart-moving as well as informing record is set down in -r a recentl Y published little booklet, Bill Yopp, ‘Ten-Cent’ Bill,” which is being sold, at a nominal price, under the auspices of the Confederate Soldiers’ Home at Atlanta, the proceeds being shared by that Institution and the hero of the “strange, eventful his tory.’’ Thanks to the discerning eye and graphic pen of Mr. R. de T. Lawrence, presi dent of the Home’s Board of Trustees, there are preserved in this narrative an'environment and a personality that will become more and more deeply prized as our living tokens of the Old South fall away. Bill Yopp was born in a cabin on a Laurens county plantation when the oldest grandsires of today were mere striplings. When seven years old he became the attendant and virtual companion of his young master. Through a happy boy hood the two fished and hunted together, and in all the perils of the War Between the States their relationship continued unbroken. The plantation darkey accompanied the young Confederate soldier on the grim marches and -*4 fields of the Virginia battle ground, to eke out their oft-times meager ra the whole regiment’s laughter and good-will, ministering to his master when THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. the latter was severely wounded, and at the close of the war returning to the Yopp estate, as faithful as at the beginning. But Bill’s adventures were in no wise ended. In 1870, times being particularly hard on the farm, he secured a place as bellboy at the Brown House in Macon, then a hostelry in high favor for political hob-nobbing. There he made the acquaintance of the State’s lead ing public monos the day, nearly all of whom became his friends. Through a sudden turn of fortune he was taken to New York City, and then to California. Returning to the East he got into the graces of certain lovers of the Old South who sent him on an extended trip to Europe. Some years later he pro cured a place on a navy collier and sailed around the world. Next he found the way to a veritable elysium as porter on the pri vate car of the president of the Delaware and Hudson railway. At last, gray with years, Bill came back to the old plantation, to find Captain Yopp ready to depart for the Con federate Soldiers’ Home. Thencefoward this fidus Achates was a frequent visitor at the Home, and many were the presents he brought not only to his “mas ter” but to the other veterans. The Captain has crossed over the river, but Bill still visits his old Confederate comrades and is a thou sand times welcome. In the sketch pepared by President Lawrence, of the Home’s trus tees, the events and relationships we have touched upon are developed with singular charm and truth of stroke. As a picture of the old-time South and of an old-time darkey who has had adventures the like of which Ulysses himself never knew, the story will be valued the country over, both for its edu cational worth and its rare human interest. Georgia Productiveness SOME idea of Georgia’s present produc tive power may be gathered from the fact that the value of her princi pal harvests last year amounted to six hun dred and thirteen million dollars, a great portion of which was derived from food stuffs. Seventy million bushels of corn worth one hundred and eleven million, eight hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars, thirteen million bushels of sweet potatoes at more than a dollar a bushel, upwards of one and a half million bushels of Irish potatoes at more than two dollars a bushel, five mil lion bushels of peanuts at two dollars and forty-six cents a bushel, and five hundred thousand gallons of sorghum at something over a dollar a gallon, serve to illustrate the diversity and abundance of the State’s food growing resources. To these representative crops add five million head of live stock worth in the neighborhood of a quarter of a billion dollars, and it is plain that in this Commonwealth we have one of the earth’s richest horns of plenty. But while Georgia now ranks fourth among the States in agricultural production, her de velopment is still in its preparatory stages. Improved methods of farming have come but recently into anything like general practice. It is hardly above a decade since diversi fication appealed to more than a small mi nority of planters and the counsels of agri cultural science found extensive favor. It is hardly more than five years since the flow of Georgia millions to far off markets for the purchase of foodstuffs began to ebb and the independence made possible by the break ing of cotton’s tyranny set in. Well may we look forward with high hearts to the time when these newly inaugurated forces of development and progress come fully into effect. It will be a day of pro ductiveness beside which present bounties will look lean. The natural treasure is here in marvelous plenty; it remains only for en ergy and skill to bring it duly forth. Census Surprises IF the census figures announced so far may be taken as indicating the gen eral drift, the country’s population has been growing either at a different rate or in a different direction from that com monly taken for granted. Consider the four hundred twenty-eight cities whose canvasses have been completed. In these the popula tion increase for the 1900-1910 period was twenty-eight and four-tenths per cent. But for the decade covered in the present report, it appears as only twenty-one and nine tenths per cent. On this basis the nation’s total will be around one hundred and six million instead of one hundred and ten mil lion, as popularly expected. According to the census of 1910 the con tinental United States numbered ninety-one million, nine hundred and seventy-two thou sand, two hundred and sixty-six inhabitants. The official estimate for 1918 was one hun dred and five million, two hundred and fifty three thousand, three hundred. It was on the assumption that this rate of increase had obtained and* would continue that the predic tion of a minimum of one hundred and ten million for 1920 was ventured. How is the apparent falling off to be ex plained? Partly, perhaps, by a decline in immigration during the decade, particularly in the war years; between three and four million individuals thus can be accounted for. It may turn out, however, that the aggregate gain is much larger than returns from these four hundred and twenty-eight cities indicate. “War conditions and espe cially war industries,” the Sun and New York Herald points out, “made unprece dented shifts in the population.” It is thus possible that the expected num bers are here, but differently distributed. The most pleasing surprise, though one hardly to be hoped for, would show the urban shortage balanced by a rural gain. EDITORIAL ECHOES According to a special dispatch from Wash ington, the government’s campaign to reduce the cost of living is about to end. The gov ernment’s fight on high prices has been much like the historic episode of marching an army up the hill and marching it down again. The inarch of the army made no impression upon the enemy, and the government’s march against high prices certainly has made no im pression on the cost of living. While this government campaign has been on. prices of food and all other necessary commodities have continued to mount to new high levels. We have had, from time to time, reports tending to show lower wholesale prices, but the prices t consumers have advanced with unabated enthusiacm. The campaign is to be brought to an end, it is said, because of a lack of funds and to avoid a charge of extravagance. It might well be brought to an end as an experi ment that has failed. It undoubtedly has cost a lot of money. The fact is that the government undertook to do something it was not capable of per forming. The government had got into the habit of wielding war powers and it had an idea that possibly the mere threat of govern ment control would send the cost of living downward. Os course, explanations for the failure of the campaign are forthcoming. The Democrats blame it on the Republicans who refuse to carry out President Wilson’s legisla tive program. The Republicans term it an impractical Democratic effort. But, what ever be the merits in these explanations, it has been demonstrated that in a time of peace, under existing laws, there is no government method to control arbitrarily the cost of liv ing. Government edicts and departmental threats cannot of themselves change the eco nomic conditions responsible for prices. What is required is a world engaged in production, and until the world becomes so engaged, there will be no real check on high prices. St. Louis Star (Ind.) STUDY THE TRUANT By H. Addington Bruce TRUANCY is not the simple, easily solved problem that most people seem to think it. It is by no means always —if it is ever —a sign of “innate depravity” on the part of the boy or girl who per sists in evading attendance at school. Sometimes it is a symptom of mental de fect, perhaps extensive or perhaps only slight, and readily compensated if correct training methods are adopted early. In such a case it is not depravity, but self preservation, that underlies the truancy. Be cause the mind is too weak to cope with the tasks of the schoolroom, the child stays away from the school in order to husband his fee ble resources. Or it may be timidity that prompts to tru ancy. If an abnormally sensitive child —that is, a neurotic child —becomes for any reason un popular with teacher or playmates, if that child is ridiculed and “picked on,” truancy may be adopted as the easier way out of a distressing situation. Then, too, truancy may simply be indica tive of the unfitness of the school for the particular needs of the child who plays tru ant. Many children, for example, are of a me chanical rather than intellectual trend. They learn through their fingers more easily than through their eyes, and manual study is ac cordingly more congenial to them than book study. If such children are obliged to study books exclusively or predominantly, school may soon become so hateful to them that they will risk any penalty for non-attendance. It is not “depravity” that impels them to do this. They are acting in self-defense as truly as the weak-minded truants or the abnormal ly sensitive- Truancy, again, may be nothing more than a manifestation of the craving for excitement and adventure possessed by every healthy child. If the school work is made oppres sively dull—as it too often is—the ultra-ad venturous may rebel by resort to truancy. But they should not on this account be deemed “depraved.” Finally, truancy is occasionally an out growth—as serious delinquency is now known to be at times—of profound moral and emotional conflicts in the depths of the truant’s mind. Suppose a child has acquired a bad habit —one that creates mixed sentiments of fear and shame. And until he or she is in a tur moil of apprehension. Then a condition of hysterical—well-nigh irrational—restlessness may result. Concen tration, clear thinking, being impossible, school becomes a place of torture and flight from school the natural thing. Every truant boy or girl, to put the case concisely, presents an individual problem to be solved only by patient, intensive study. And to deal with truancy by the hit-or miss method of compulsory attendance may mean nothing less than to insure for the truant the misery of a needlessly ineffective life. (Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News papers.) WHY TORNADOES? By Dr. Frank Crane Why a tornado? The west some days ago was visited by one of those terrific wind-storms that come in the spring to this region. In the vicinity of Chicago over a hundred lives were lost, many people were mutilated and millions of dollars’ worth of property destroyed. Why? Useless as it may appear, the mind of man persists in probing for some rational purpose in the universe. When the young mother is snatched bv death from her husband and children and the vicious harridan lives on; when the Ti tanic is engulfed with its load of meaning ful lives; when the faithful, hard-working man is smitten with cancer, and the wastrel continues m blooming health; when the cat ■ stops the song of the happy thrush, and the treacherous Lothario breaks the life of the innocent girl; when pests raven, and volcanoes burn, and earthquakes shatter, and nations war—why is it all? This is the oldest question of the race, the question first thrown to heaven by Eve when she sat, with eyes of horror, there with the head of murdered Abel in her lap. And it is answered, so far as an answer is possible, in the oldest book in the world the Book of Job. There you find the eternal situation and dramatis personae. Strange and fearful af fliction came to an upright man. His wife, with her “Curse God and die!” represented the impatient reaction of the childish mind, the petulant conclusion of pessimism, that God is indifferent. The Three Friends, “Job’s Comforters,” were the fathers of all them that think in uniform. Theirs was the cheap and easy ex planation: “This woe has come upon you because you sinned.” In spite of its utter absurdity, in spite of the fact that the righteous, kind and lov ing suffer vastly more than the selfish and vicious, the majority of mankind still follow the view of the three smug Comforters. It was Job himself that had the vision. He glimpsed the solution. It was, that the moral thing in the universe is Man. Events are not just. Nature is piti less, “red in tooth and claw.” The world’s Neros live in golden houses; the world’s Christs are “men of sorrows and acquainted with grief.” And Man has faith, he believes in the eventual justice, he insists that the Creator is good, not because this is proved by events, but because it is contradicted by events. Morality in man is his eternal protest. His faith is the eternal triumph of his moral nature. His highest spiritual peak is not the ban quet table, it is Calvary. He is moral, not when he says, “I believe, because all is well, and I am prosperous.” He is moral only when he cries, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him!” Not in the sun nor the sea, not in the laws of Nature, nor the train of events, but in the soul of man, and there alone, is the undying fire. (Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane.) QUIPS AND QUIDITIES The motor car driven by a determined-look ing woman had knockea a man down, without, however, injuring him much. She did not try to get away. Not she! Instead, she stopped the car, descended to the solid earth and faced him manfully, or rather womanfully. “I’m sorry it happened,” she said, grudgingly, “but it was all your fault. You must have been walking carelessly. I ;.m an experienced driver. I’ve been driving a car for seven years.” “Well,” replied her victim airily. “I’m not a novice myteU. I’ve been walking for fifty seven years' ” Over a glass of grape juice the comedian was telling of his hard lot to a friend. “It’s not a bit of good,” he finished. “I shall leave the stage.” His friend, in his inmost thoughts, agreed with him but for the sake of politeness ex postulated. “Oh, don’t do that!” he cried. “If you leave the stage you will be missed.” “It’s about time, too!” snapped the actor angrily. “I’m pretty sick of being hit!” CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST According to a statement, from Washington, it is said that the Amer ican navy as a healthy, aggressive fighting machine has been sadly crip pled since the signin of the armis tice, and, accordin to testimony of the most competent authorities, it is bordering on a state of degenera tion that is causing the gravest alarm in all ranks. And the secret of this condition is found in the fact that the fleet is so short of men, both officers and crews, that if it were confronted with any sudden emergency, the de partment itself doubts if it could be met without peril. Neither the At lantic nor the Pacific fleet could be made ready for battle for weeks. Back of this shortage of men is the fact that the government is not giving the men of the navy—or the army either, for that matter—a liv ing wage. Resignaions at an alarm ing rate are being received from the commissioned personnel, and hundreds of those of the enlisted per sonnel are deserting, while the re enlistment of those whose preiods of service are expiring is almost im possible of accomplishment. It is declared that desertions alone amount to something like 10,000 a year. Meanltime many of the finest ships of the navy are unable to go into commission or to stay in active serv ice because of inadequate crews. Some of these great vessels are tied up for indefinite periods, and the de partment is wondering where the men are to come from to man the ships soon to be delivered by the builders. Thousands of New York families, some of the 73,114 registered as “homeless” by the tenement house department, are expected to live in tents furnished by the United States army until the present housing dearth is remedied, according to men interested in the building trade in New York state. The new national phonetic system, by which the Chinese language has been reduced from “up in the thou sands” to thirty-nine foundamental symbols or sounds is proving an ef fective weapon in the hands of mis sionaries and teachers in reducing illiteracy. “It is easy now for the il literate Chinese to learn to read his own language,” writes a missionary in Susung, Anhwei. 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A committee is promoting the system. It is not of “foreign,” but of Chinese origin, and is gaining adherents. It has gov ernmental sanction. Persecution of priests and nuns in Mexico may be considered at an end, inasmuch as there are no more wholesale tortures or public atroci ties, but in the capital of the state of Jalisco the small children, the or phans and the aged are being made to pay the price in the State Asylum of Orphans and the aged. More than 400 children under the age of sixteen are forbidden to learn even the simplest form of religion, and the instructors are forced to cut the principles of Christianity from the class work and textbooks, accord ing to information received here. Two deaths occurred recently, ir> Brooklyn. N. Y., from eating canned spinach, Frank Heck and his wife had a meal in a restaurant near their home. The following day Mrs. Heck was taken violently ill and died later. Her husband survived her only a few hours. “How little is known about Co rea,” Rev. J. A. Duncan is quoted as saying. Mr. Duncan, has been a missionary in that country for ten years. He remarked that Corea was still a progressive nation. I saw re cently some reference to the fact that Corea used iron-clads against the Japanese as early as 1597, and that he Coreans were the first to use cast metal type. Nothing has beer, said about it, and perhaps it is not generally known, that the Coreans discovered gunpowder in 200 B. C., fourteen centuries before the Ger man monk, who is ordinarily cred ited with the discovery, gave out his formula. The astronomers of Silla, one of the ancient provinces of Co rea, thought out the operations of the planetary system and its work ings to such an extent that they were able to predict eclipses with cer tainty centuries before present day scientists gave credit for these dis coveries, and it was this same peo ple that gave the world the mag netic needle and the mariner’s com pass. Forest C. Pendleton, department of justice agent in New Orleans, at the head of a squad of department operators, raided a hall in which a meeting of 200 members of the local Yardmen’s association was being held. Six of the leaders were ar rested on federal warants charging them with interfering with the Unit ed States mails. According to information received from El Paso, Tex., the Mexican gov ernment has formally protested and requested an explanation from the United States for the invasion of Mexican territory by American war ships, it was announced recently at the Mexican consulate. The Mexican authorities ,it was said, charge that the submarine H-l and four other submarines entered Magdalena bay, in Lower California, without permis sion, and that after anchoring sail ors went ashore and pitched tents. Monuments to mark the various headquarters of the Union army in the battle of Gettysburg are to be erected within the next few weeks under the direction of the national park commission. The design is the creation of Colonel E. B. Cope, en gineer of the commission. A granite base will be surmounted in each in stance by a cannon. Postal employes are’ planning a final drive on congress for a raise in wage standards and “general improve ment in postal employment policies.” Representatives of the unions of postal workers now say that despite the difficulties experienced by the point commission on postal salaries they expect some action by congress before June. The advisory commit tee of employes and officials in the postal service, which has been aiding in drafting the salary classification measure, has completed its work and the report will be turned over to the congressional commission early this week. >- Japan announces that she will not withdraw from Siberia until dangers threatening her subjects in Korea and Manchuria are removed. A resolution declaring the state of war with Germany at an end tyas passed the house and is now before the senate. A dispatch from Washington states that to stimulate a market for nat ural loose • leaf tobacco has passed and sent to the senate an amendment to the 1918 revenue law, which places a tax of 7 cents a pound on the to bacco sold by retail dealers and pro vides that the loose leaf product, except when sold by growers, shall be packed in three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen and eighteen-pound lots. 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It you don’t find them the easiest, most comfortable, best wearing and satisfactory you ever wore, return them and we will refund your money. Sizes 6to 11. Wide widths. Order by Nd. Alßl7. Do it now! Be sure to give order number and state size when ordering these shoes. Leonard Morton & Co. Dept. «osß Chicago, IIL LIBERTY The only Indestructible Spark Plug that is guaranteed for the life of your carl. Insulator non-breakable —p oi nt s always the same—rust-proof—will stand any heat test When you buy LIBERTYS you will never have to buy another set j * of plugs. Any size, $1.50. Send for set today. Open territory for live dealers. AGENTS, SALESMEN, DEALERS, write us today! SERVICE SALES CO. 314 Flatiron Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. Also the only indestructible Shock Absorbers and Hub Meters for Ford Cars. How to Reduce ; I! Shoe Costs I Ocst- V"OU can reduce shoe costs by get- I I ‘ J I ting a dollar’s -worth of value— h comfort and durability—for every dollar you spend for shoes. Shield Brand Shoes give you a hun dred cents on the dollar in style, ISVT comfort and durability—they “Fit . I Best—Wear Longest’ ’. I yvG 1». ■ By buying Shield Brand Shoes, you I ■will not have to make as many shoe “ 1 purchases, thus reducing your shoe costs. Ash your dealer for Shield Brand ■ , 4 ■ < Shoes. ■ I M.C. KISER CO. . **Shield Brand Shoemakert” ■ ATLANTA. GA. 4F I 4 - - I FT II SHIELD BRAND )| BRAND SHOES ■ legislation, it was said, would be of special benefit to tobacco planters in nortnem Tennessee and southern: ■ Kentucky. > With an enrollment of 5,700, the new Goodyear Industrial university, the first of its kind, was dedicated at Akron, 0., recently. advent into the educational world' with a faculty of 117, the school’s, sixty-five classrooms being housed into a new $2,500,000 recreational hall of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber company. The classes, which are free, offer 33,000 employes courses ranging from Americanization work to post graduate studies for college men and wemen. The International General Electric company, whose headquarters are situated at Schenectady, N. Y., an nounced recently it had been award ed a $2,000,000 contract for the first electrification of a steam railroad in SouthAAmericaa —a twenty-eight mile stretch of the Paulista railway be tween Jundiahy and Campinas Brazil- Including double track and siding, the total mileage to be electrified is seventy-six. Electric operation is expected to begin in July, 1924. News received at Washington, states that John Reed, an American magazine writer, who was reported recently to have been executed in Finland, is in jail at Abo, Finland, on a charge of smuggling, according to advices from the American charge d’affaires at Helsingfors, made pub lic by the state department. Senator FrellngiAiysen of New Jersey, voicing his opposition in the senate at Washington to further re duction in the size of the army said one division of approximately 27,500 men should be stationed near Wash ington to protect the capital against any possible emergency. He recalled that an army of 2.000 captured Petrograd and insisted that there should be no z reduction in the size of the American army “when we know the forces that are working at this time in the country.” Opposition to a cut in the army be- . low 280,000 enlisted men and 18,000 officers also was expressed by Sen ator Wadsworth, of New York whose motion to strike out the provision of the army reorganization bill for a reduction annually for five years of • 2 per cent of the commissioned and 5 per cent of the enlisted personnel, was adopted, 35 to 12. A motion by Senator Reed of Mis- « sour! to reconsider because of the expense of maintaining such a large army was defeated.