Big Sunday Post Magazine Section Promises Lively Read
Advertisers racing to get copy in early ride in on the big Sunday Post carryall. The Magazine Section is packed with notable features from Will Rogers to Elsie Janis and Henry C. Rowland. Art of love letters and Will Hays on salacious films draw readers as Johnson’s reminiscences and other items fill ten pages. The author urges readers to place orders for tomorrow’s issue.
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Diego Tecson Leads Filipinos to Peonage Escape and Freedom
Diego Tecson, son of Poor Tad, emerges as a leader guiding Filipinos to break feudal control with homestead farming. Americans assist as land is cleared, irrigation ditches dug, fields cultivated, and learning pursued, yielding higher production and economic independence.
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Diego Tecson
Isles of Fear and the Farm Dream in the Philippines
Diego Tecson and his wife shifted from teaching to farming after saving seed money. From 1908 to 1913 their rice harvest grew from 106 hushéla to over five thousand bushels, then to 3,800 with irrigation. A land dispute arises when officials lease the same ground to outsiders, provoking field clashes as Diego and his father defend their claim.
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Di¢go Tecson
Diego
Bureau ,of Lands
Bureau of Lands
Blas.Ramos
Taos
Diego the homesteader who led a Philippine barrio
Diego Tection rose from a violent clash to become a respected unpaid community leader in the Philippines. After defending his father and land, he spent six months jailed before Americans backed his cause. He now inspires neighbors, teaches thrift, irrigation, and cooperative work, and employs hundreds on his land while fighting gambling and apathy.
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Diego
Heaven
Lfe
Butt
Diégo
Tasid
Taos
Cay
Philippines
Julio
Wickersham Sees Chance For U S to Help League
George W. Wick ersham accepts appointment by the council of the League of Nations as American member of the International Committee on Codification of International Law. He says the group will be technical advisers, not governments, and that America can cooperatively advance codification with the League and allied nations. He cites U S support for Hague era efforts and the Lima meeting with South American nations, stressing a practical, subject-by-subject approach to codification.
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Council of the
League of Nations
International Committee On Codification of International Law
George W. Wickersham
America
Rome
League
Wickereham
Lima
American Society of International Law
Horal
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Hague
Roosevelt
Elihu Root
League, of Nations
International Court
Jeagué
Army Prohibits Loan of Officers to Cities
The army bars cities from employing officers as police officials without a special act of Congress. Marine leave of absence can be presidentially granted, as Brig. Gen. Butler serves as Philadelphia public safety director, but army law disallows similar practice. War Department advised Rep. Crowther and others seeking Maj. Edward L. Dyer as Schenectady police chief.
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Congress
Marine
Gen
Butler
Philadelphia
War Department
Representative Crowther
New York
Edward L. Dyer
Schenectady
Congress urged to retain Maj Kirby as BEP director
Maj W W Kirby, head of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, faces retirement unless Congress passes a special bill to retain him. Treasury officials praised his work and favor congressional action. No successor has been named, with J J Deving, Paul B E Twyman, and Clark R Long handling duties under an advisory council led by Charles Dewey.
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Congress
Maj. W. W. Kirby
Bureau of Engraving and Printing Mondey
Charles 8. Dewey
Treasury
Maj. Kirby
Bureau
Treasury Department
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War Department
J. J. Deving
Paul BE. Twymen
Clark R. Long
Music Auditorium Favored in Congress
A joint committee approved a Pep per resolution to accept a $60,000 gift from Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge for a chamber music auditorium at the Library of Congress. Senator Pepper and Representative Luce plan quick Senate and House actions with plans by David Lynn and Herbert Putnam. The 600-seat venue in the northwest courtyard will host music and lectures amid Washington Christmas events.
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America
Joint Committee On
Library of Congress
Pepper
Elizabeth Sprague -Coolidge
New York
Pennsylvania
Senate
Luce
Massachusetts
Brary
David Lynn
Capitol
Herbert Putram
Congress
Thebrary
Vanities Drive To Loss In Poverty Strain
Fragmentary text describes a man racing vanity leads to ruin as he wrecks his new property four days after obtaining it. He ends with no car two thousand pesos in debt and borrows again to survive. The note also mentions a high infant death rate and continues in tomorrow’s issue.
Two Bills Advance District Street and Parking Plans
Senate and House leaders introduced two bills yesterday to widen First Street Northeast from G Street to Myrtle Street and to transfer the parking reservation bounded by Potomac Avenue, First and Southeast Streets from the Chief of Army Engineers to District Commissioners. Senator Ball of Delaware and Representative Reed of West Virginia presented the measures at the commissioners’ request.
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First Street
G Street
Myrtle Street
Chief of Army Engineers
Potomac Avenue
First
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Ball
Delaware
Reed
West Virginia
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Katherine Mayo
Tulley
Peoples Drug
Americane
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Army
Porto ‘Rico
Antonio R. Barcelo
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Hamilton Hotel
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Leather Goods Company
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Arthur Jordans
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