ment in the District of Columbia. 3
Statue of Dr. Crawford
NEWS REVIEW OF
out of Cologne, the
Bonn
of Moers,
Thus
French
and the Pelgians
Prusseldorff and
Alx Ia OSH O00
turned to the
Chapelle,
sovereignty of the
It wag sald in Paris that the ac
on forces would be reduced to GO .O000
Accuse Each Other of
Playing Politics.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
presiDeENy
in conversation with
ton correspondents ar
a White House
country last
his administrat
and
ously, Mr. Coolid;
y to the
3 investi
ment of Justice
ngainst Secreta
company, to
ris that the
tionable
board fr
mendatie
eral trade commi
sald these
that the
in enforcing
tacks
govern
were
No
nade
sooner
public an
f Mississip
t } express |
them. He
“matchless pe
rison o
described
i
hecome
does
White
not
House to
speect
political tinge
sneeches nn
Speed hes,
the farme
ber of coms
not made a
New York
to Chicago
win favor
politics in his
suaded some
side of the aisle t
with to Ir
the
seven
MONG
A of .the
nating from the
these:
The
the
Nations of preparations for a disarma
ment the
conference materialize, Mr.
Coolidge will return to his original
plan to convene in Washington another
conference on further of
naval armaments,
Mr. Coolidge is still
posed as ever to the
joining the League of Nations, be
lieves the country still overwhelming
ly determined to stay out, and regards
our entrance into the World court not
a step toward the league, but a
ternational
performed
respect peace
world he
one
wonders of the world
the importar
President's attity
White House
President Is disappointed
}
|
postponement by the League
conference, and if league's
does not
reduction
ag much op
dem-
entanglement,
The President condemns publicity
statements emanating from the War
and Navy departments charging de.
terioration of our national defenses,
characterizing them as misrepresenta
tions, designed to obtain larger
propriations. Mr. Coolidge regards the
condition of the army and
satisfactory.
navy as
ERMANY'S application for mem
bership in the League of Nations
probably will have reached Geneva be.
fore this is published and it is expect.
ed that Sir Eric Drummond, the sec
retary general, will convoke an ex-
traordinary session of the council at
once to act on it, The next procedure
will" be a special meeting of the as-
sembly, probably In March, to take
Germany in formally, The foreign af-
fairs committee of the reichstag by a
vote of 18 to 8 decided to apply for
membership and the presidents of all
the German states were summoned to
Berlin for a final discussion of the
form of application. Germany will be
the fifty-sixth member of the league.
Occupation of the first zone in the
Rhineland by the allies came to an
end when the last British troops
»
1
od the
of SH (HM EK)
declare:
Ook per ijurer
Hoey
officer
H
exe
ing to
Boivin, minister
told pariiam
the
Ise
institute
He said the
smuggling of silk
tion demanded
cotton goo
arettes and wit!
return cargoes of whisky, was not con
fined to the Quebec border,
tions at Toronto, Windsor
through to Vancouver
thorough probing which
ment prepared to
vative leader Arthur Meighen ex-
pressed entire accord with the pro
posal to hold a wide open public In
quiry.
tobacco Into Canada,
Condi
right
the
govern
onser
and
needed
the
was give,
NOTHER attack on the dry laws,
| from a rather unexpected source,
| came last week. Rev, Dr, James Em-
| pringham, national of the
{ Church Temperance of the
| Episcopal church, that a
i
secretary
society
announced
| poll of the 20,000 members of the so-
clety an overwhelming pre-
ponderance in favor of modification of
the Volstead act. Consequently
tor Empringham reported to a
i ing of Episcopal clergymen in New
1 York that the society as a whole was
| In favor of such modification, for
| these reasons : »
“1. Because the effect of prohibition
has been to put an end to scientific
temperance teaching.
“2. It has discouraged the consump-
| tion of wine and beer and increased
the demand for distilled liquors, which
today are mostly poisonous,
“YG. It has resulted in Increased
drinking among young people.
“4, It has brought about disrespect
for all laws,
“6, It Is class legislation,
nating in favor of the rich.
“6. In our survey found intem-
perance increased.”
The society has no official connee.
showed
Doe
meet-
diserimi-
we
!
i
i
| Episcopal clergymen are not in ac
of
abolishing capital
of
house judiclary
bill punish
discoverer sulphuric
| cord with
prohibition
JK eNTUCRY autho
hibition wf effi
rote iri
i
ting
queen
paper act
the Rn imani
the pe
an
falsifying arlia
r deceive the people
NOTHER
the
gallant rescue snpilors
on
marked
sinking
storm
The
steamer
swept Atlantie
the week yew of
Dutch Alkald was
taken off by the men of the Hamburg
American liner Westphalia mid
| ocean, the rescuers displaying great
bravery. Captain Fried and his men
of the President Roosevelt, who saved
25% men from the British
{ Antinoe, have been awarded gold. sil
ver and bronze medals by the British
the
in
and Lloyds.
porIuGAlL had another of its
ciplent revolutions the other day
under the leadership of Col. Justinlane
But the government put It
down with neatness and dispatch and
the leader and his lleutenants
arrested while they were
| to capture the barracks at Campolini
The day before two batteries of arti]
lery revolted and were
submission by the
| George,
| In Greece a communist plot to as
sassinate Premier Pangalos and other
| government leaders was uncovered by
| a raid on a Communist center.
Esteves,
were
shelled
fortress of
San
INANCE MINISTER DOUMER of
France announced that the govern
ment was ready to receive offers from
| any American syndicates for the pur
chase or lease of the operation of the
telegraph and telephone system and
the monopolies In tobacco and matches,
An American group, reported to be
| backed by the American Tobacco com
pany, recently offered approximately
£1,000,000000 for a .year monopoly
on the sale of matches and tobacto,
A syndicate has been dickering for a
long time to take over the operation
of telephones and telegraphs,
Pennsylvania
News in Brief
The Susquehanna is gorged with ice
that forms a wall 25 feet high almost
across the river at Herndon,
A movement to establish a univer
gity in Scranton launched at a
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce.
Michael MeClelland, aged forty-five,
burned } when an over-
stove to home in
Wis
Was to death
heated
jellevae
Snow
get fire his
winds
tions
ak
an-
drifts caused by high
have closed a number of road s¢
in ern Penns officials
the department highways
vivania
wes!
of
nounced
of the Central Pennsylva-
Fellows’ Orphans’
planned a fire depart
of the
Direct
Odd
Sunbury,
or
nia
East
ment among the older more
than 300 students
A $250,000 contract for
about a
relocation of
: 1 ®t ‘ha —
mile of track and the con
concrete hridges
AF
road
for the Montour Rall.
Company h been awarded
John F
Snow drifts
deep have stopped traffic on
ar
Casey Company
feet
h {eh
high-
fro r ty g
rom four y €}
ways in Hy, excep
Nations yaad se fon
g
hetween nion-
ryland state line
is
SNOW rm it i mountains
} the
Worst
resid
Agains
anniversary
12 Peterson of
of Allegheny College
Increased to $250 at
board
Penn hotel,
nesting of
Willian
the driv
enable
e just
will the
all the indebted.
mmunity and
except
Ouse
the
last official act of Judge Arthur
of Center county was to grant an ap
village of Port Matilda into a borough
holders.
sions in the central section of
nuded of their populations by the en-
croachment of busine «
the annual Army-Navy football game
27 at Soldiers’ Field
This being
year, by all rights the game
have gone to Ph'ladelphia. One of
the reasons for building the great
stadium on the sesquicentennial exhi
bition grounds was with the under
standing that the West Point-Annapo-
lis classic would be staged there.
Presenting the appearance of a
great Arctic ice field, swept by wintry
blasts, the Allegheny river is frozen
from Brandon to above Oil City, more
than 20 miles, The great gorge has
80 lengthened out that it appears
more potentially perilous than ever
when warm weather comes.
The head of Miss Anna May Diet.
rich, whose dismembered body was
found in the woods vear Media, was
discovered beneath the ties of the
Pennsylvania railroad bridge over
Naylor's creek ne: r Bywood, a suburb,
There were no murks on tlie head to
Indicate how she bad been killed.
Stadium,
should
GOOD ADVIGE ON
CARING FOR CAR
Preventive for Every Ill
That Cold Weather Brings
to Driver.
a,
that
biles
preventive for every fil
} brings
Unfortunately,
thint
care of their cars
trouble
of
mid
cold weather to automo
many owners
do not realize by taking
they
oral
Inry
mich
ine
and ox
fo i
Is caused by
» hattery for the
is bom
Hour or
cold to
for the
Lightens Battery Work.
Wwe f $ I'S »
ire of (LR |
Cracks Permit Current
I cakage in Spark Plug
Ceanked Car With Wheel
Helps in an Emergency
The real test of motoring qualifics
tions comes with the
tions. Hecently
the Scientifie
driver stalled
New York street crossing.
his starting
cranking
unexpected situa-
observes a writer in
American,
his engine
an owner
on a busy
When he
pedal the
failed to
glaorage
fol
motor
mechanism
run-down
gearch that
tart
due to a
The frantic
owed fulled to d
ligcjose a hand
erank in the tool box or under the
In di
sis hi
ing
13 rofl ¥
gust the traf f
ii ance
More careful driving elimi
and the
of 1
railroad crossings will les
motor accidents, is the opinion
Wait, forineriy of the New
York stite highways department and
an authority on highway construction,
He also believes it is now necessary
in the designing of roads to build
them wider, do away with sharp |
curves, high crowns, and use a mate. |
rial which will give a nonskid surface. |
“Skidding.” continued Mr. Wait, “is
the cause of many of the serious ac |
cidents, and while some of these ac:
cidents are caused primarily by care. |
less driving, the innocent traveler, |
who gets hit, can be protected to &
great extent if the pavement has a
low crown and a nonskid surfece.
“Highway engineers, in general,
now realize the advantages of such a
type of pavement and are now build.
ing quite extensively of reinforced
conerete. This gives them a gritty
surface on which the automobile tires |
obtain * great resistance in «kidding, |
and this material, not being affecid |
ue to
in New York.
by water lying on its surface. can be
built with a lower crown than most of
the other types of road construction.
“By the of concrete the
sity for and
inated, does
use neces
oiling is
which away with many
accidents as well as damage and de
preciation on cars.
covering elim
“When we consider,” continued Mr.
Wait, “that over 11,000 lives were lost
last year, enough to populate a small
am sure that the public in the future
will be protected by the highway en-
gineers of the country, as far as pos
kible, by the building of wider and
“At the same time it will be neces.
in providing money for the elimina.
in suburban
will not have to walk on the road
ways, and & taking measures to curb
the enreless driving”