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Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1924, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

AMERICA’S TASK. PARIS. Nov. 7. Mr Myron T. Herrick, the United States Ambassador to France, delivered an important speech to-day at the dedication at the Ferine do Xavnrine ol a monument to the men who were killed while lighting in Champagne lie said: The situation in Europe this month concerns America as profoundly as did the eonditi-uis of affairs from 191-1-1917 Our task w ill, he turned largely towards the settlement of Europe's affairs. It calls for the exercise or. our part of the same common sense and business judgment ns that which decided our Coveniment in 1917. If we were to stand aloof from what many call "this European mess” when it is apparent that the balance cannot he redressed without our help, then why did we go into the war in 1917 r Were we mistaken then!-' Were the Ciivenimeni and the people wrong in their almost unanimous decision to act '? I answer No!

And no such disgraceful verdict upon this case will ever he rendered hv the American people. We have put our hands to the plough, and we are willing to run the furrow through, for we now know that if ih" present nrohlem is mu solved and justly and quickly solved—then surelv Americans will have fought in the war in vain. 11l 1917 after three years of deliberation of what we believed to lie- our best interests, moral indignation forced us into Europe’s war: in 192 J, after an equal term of waiting, ihe-e same forces are calling ils to-day into redresMiig the balance of Europe. Because of the things we fought for, I."(-all-,* <,l' tbe tilings W" hone for, liceaii.se of the tilings our men died for, whether we like it or not, nor lot is now east in with file other nations to a very considerable extent,. This whole question rises far and away above the clamour and strife of partisan polities, and whosoever seeks lo use it. for political advantage sullies the niemorv of Ihe dead we have come here to honour.

FICI ITT \ C THE DRUG HABIT. .MONTREAL, Nov. 7. .Mr-. Wallace Reid, widow of the film star, is et.iuliie!ing a campaign against the drug hahil. irom which her husband died. >!i■■ has invoked the aid ol Montreal women lo cure 2.1HM1.1111P people on the Ameri'-au continent who. she said, are ill from talcing drugs. Most drug victims were anxious to be cored, she -aid. "You can cure them wiili'-oinmon sense, not by hounding them." Tim average age of drug addin s had dropped from the eaily thirties to Die early twenties. Four secondary schools in four Stales found addicts among the pupils hist year. KU .KEEN M Fit HER. NEW YORK. Nov. 7. Atlanta. Georgia, the headquarters of Kit Klux Klan. was thrown into great commotion last night by the murder of Mr William S. Coburn, the chief atiorney fer the "Emperor,” Mr Simmons, who three days ago applied to the courts for the appointment of a receiver to superintend the finances of the "Ininerial Palace," which, he alleged. were being iiialadiniiiistered by the "Imperial Wizard.” -Mr Evans. After tbe failure ol tlii- action Mr Coburn yesterday petitioned Die courts I'm- an injunction restraining Mr Evans from organising a women’s branch ol Kti Klux Klan. and the hearing was fixed for November In Soon after Mr Coburn returned to bk oflg". Ml Philip E. _V. editor of the knight Hawk, the official organ of Die "Imperial Palace," visited him. Alter a brief alien-alien the editor, it i' alleged, whipped out a revolver and tired live shots at the lawyer, who was seated at his desk. The shooting was witnessed by Airs Al. 1. Holbrook, a typist, and Airs Oscar lleynian. a client of the. dead man.