Sunday, August 24, 1919

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound

The humid August air thickens with the smell of scorched metal and fresh newsprint as boys hawk headlines about the Senate’s Shantung vote and the looming shadow of The Red Scare. Through my viewfinder, I catch a shopkeeper’s son sitting on a stoop, obsessively stacking his set of Lincoln Logs into a miniature fortress while "I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles" drifts tinnily from a neighbor's window. Dust kicks up from the street as a motorcar backfires, startling a socialite in a silt-dusted linen suit who looks absolutely lousy with heat. I click the shutter just as she glares at a nearby welding crew, the hiss of their torches competing with the chatter of a city teetering between a fragile peace and a restless future.

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The Headlines

SENATE COMMITTEE VOTES, 9 TO 8, TO AMEND THE TREATY, RETURNING SHANTUNG DIRECT TO CHINA, NOT JAPAN; MEXICAN TROOPS REPORT CAPTURE OF EIGHT BANDITS; DENOUNCE MAJORITY ACTION Democrats Say It Is an Attempt to Defeat the Treaty. BUT PREDICT ITS FAILURE Express Confidence That the Senate as a Whole Will Not Indorse It. SEE PERIL OF ISOLATION If Treaty Is Recommitted, They Say, America Must Make a Separate Peace. McCumber Votes With the Democrats. Predict Recommitting of the Treaty. Grave Situation," Says Swanson. Demand for Other Treaties.

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