The Washington Conference adopts: the Five-Power Naval Treaty limiting capital ships; the Five-Power Treaty against the use of poison gas and against submarines practicing commercial warfare; agreements on post offices and railroads and radio stations in China and to stop foreign powers establishing spheres of influence or monopolies in China and for Japan to return Shantung to Chinese control – when it feels like it. US Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes calls the conference “perhaps the greatest forward step ever taken to establish the reign of peace”. So yay for the reign of peace, I guess.
Journalist Georgia Hopley is appointed the first woman prohibition agent. She ran the Harding campaign’s outreach to women in Ohio. She’ll be working on publicity rather than going on raids (she is in her sixties).
James Joyce’s Ulysses, some of which was previously serialized, is published for the first time in book form. Also, happy 40th birthday, Mr. Joyce!
William Jennings Bryan has been touring Kentucky, pushing a move in the Legislature to ban the teaching of evolution in KY schools, including the University of KY.
Evidently the showing of comedies to the Death Row prisoners in Sing Sing the night before an execution has become a tradition. In this case, it’s “Robinson’s Trousseau,” with Lee Moran, projected on a sheet that the prisoners had to view diagonally, through the bars of their cells. “Warden Lawes and other officials of the prison emphasized that the pictures were not given to humor the condemned prisoners. They were shown, it was explained, to take their minds off the execution Thursday night.”
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