THE CENTRE
rescue of the Antinoe's crew, 2
from United States.
wreath sent by the president of Cuba.
NEWS REVIEW OF |
CURRENT EVENTS
Congress Fairly Liberal in
Appropriations for the
National Defense.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
{jens congress changes its mind,
the army and navy, and especial
ly the alr services, are to be well pro-
vided for in the appropriation meas-
ures. Last week the passed
the naval supply bill carrying in round
figures $£321.000,000, this total includ- |
ing $26,000,000 for aircraft and naval
aviation. The same day the War de-
partment appropriation bill went
through the house. This measure car-
ries $3390,500,000, of which $15,256,000
is to be expended for aviation. Inci-
dentally, this house bill provides for a
lamp sum appropriation of $50,000,000
for rivers and harbors work.
These two measures are intended to
carry the army and navy only
through the next fiscal year which be
gins July 1, but the house committee
on naval affalrs recommended the
adoption of a five-year naval aireraft
building program which calls for the |
construction of 1,000 new planes at a
cost of $85,000,000. Administration
leaders were confident this would be |
passed during this session. Rear Ad- |
miral Moffatt’s plan called for the ex- |
penditure of 250.000.0000 In
years, but the more conservative pro- |
gram was all the committee cared to |
recommend in view of President
Coolidge’s position on economy
The committee proposes the
struction of 235 airplanes at a cost of
$12.285000 in the fiscal year 1027
addition to 78 planes at a cost of $3. |
800,000 under other legislation. In |
addition the committee proposes the |
construction two rigid
costing $8,000,000 to be begun prior |
to July 1, 1927, and an experimental
metal-clad airship costing $300,000,
The pending naval appropriation |
bill contemplates the expenditure of |
net more than $0,000,000 on new alr
craft In the fiscal year 1027, Under |
the program recommended the re-
quirement for 1927 would be between
£13.000000 and $20,000,000, Repre- |
sentative French, in charge of naval |
appropriations, sald that the addition |
al amount of from $4000000 to $11,
000,000 would not be appropriated for
1927 unless the budget bureau should
recommend It. This puts the realiza- |
tion of the naval aireraft construction
program up to the Executive.
senate
five |
con- |
in
of alrships |
GENERAL
LICK'S investigation, ordered by
Becretary of War Davis, disclosed
that two officers of the army air serv- |
fce had been guilty of “objectionable
activities in attempting to Influence
alr service legisiation.” Ma). Henry
H. Arnold, #iformation officer in the |
office of Major General Patrick, chief
of the alr service, was declared the
more culpable and in addition to being
reprimanded he will be transferred by
General Patrick to a station less
pleasant than Washington. Ma), Her
bert A. Dargue, chief of the war plans
division of the service, escapes with |
a reprimand. The severer discipline |
is Imposed on Major Arnold because
he has been long conspicuous in the
propaganda for a separate alr service,
He is described by many officers as
having been “the eyes of Colonel |
Mitchell” in the air service during
the months which intervened between
Mitchell's removal from the post of
assistant chief of air service and the
close of his court-martial.
The intimations that the Inquiry
would Involve General Patrick were
shown to be unfounded when he was
permitted to assist In it and to an
nounce its findings.
NSPECTOR HELM
WO of the army's most eminent
aviators, both of them members of
the round-the-world flight, have an-
nounced that they are about to resign
from the army In order to attempt to
fly over the North pole this summer,
They are Licut, Leigh Wade and Lieut,
E. H. Ogden, and they will be first
and second in command of the expe
dition, respectively. They and their
associates are backed by a group of
alumnl of several big
and will fire Douglas
equipped with 220 horse power motors.
They plan to start f Seattle
to establish
Barrow,
Cobham,
use planes
rom June
S and their main base at
Point
Alan
just
iritisl
accomplished the
from London to Cape
Africa, being the first
plane Starting November
in his route
of Egypt, the swamps
central Africa
South Africa.
feat of ying
Town, South
i
to do n
one
passed over t}
and f of
Orests
karoo of
and the great
Much tl
of the way he
and Le had many e%-
pecially over Victoria
his engine stopped.
C
bill,
were
NArrow escapes,
Falls,
ONFEREES of the house na
ate devoted the week
but the results of
uncertain, Messrs,
of the house
determination
tax knocked out
They said there was
adoption of a conference
ad sen
to the tax
i
their labors
i
Green and
firm 0
the
senate
Garner
their
tate
were
retain oR
by the
no chance
report
to
pro
tax, and that the house wonld
yield on this point.
Federal Judge Hand In
their
deportation
toosevelt for
he fled to avoid
Thousands of workers went hack into
125 produocin
tl
nd +1 o
the pits, and the bd
panies planned
little
to spread
net so that would go
body
a
rather than
all te
maximum output
about the end of the
After the contract In
Workers nerators
pres:
was the
and
signed John
the
contract eve
had been
of
greatest
union,
up
involy
and a
of organized |
aggregating a bil
half dollars in five years,
the history
ing wages
64 O ALLAY popular anxiety”
as a “precautionary
Premier Pa of
arrest
and
ng
and
alos (ireece
the deportation of former
ter and ten
sald
P
Kondilis
dictator
Interior
The
of the
officers
not
serious, ut. If it did,
el
used
veal anything d
exemplary punishment would
All
for sport. have been ordered delivered
for sport, ha 1
he met
firearms, except those
gifts 1s unconstitutional when {it
applied to not
The
on
donations made
govern
t}
e Su
preme court the decision
Uncle Sam will have to return
millions paid
the treasury.
Bora the house
-» steps toward
stitution that
President
take
of
reverses
several
of dollars already into
and senate took
amending
the Inauguration «
and vice
place In
March 4
the
Con
gO vf
president
January in-
th
would
stead on and so
after its election instead of thirteen
months as Is the case now
The by a
Norris' resolution
senate, vote of
meet
and
on
Monday in January that inaug-
in, January. Blease of South Caro
voted in the
The house committee on
of President and
reported a resolution pro
negative,
election
favorably
the Executive be
24. Both
to Insure
that
on January
means
4 and
urated
inaug
the calm,
evidently
Though country seems
Pangalos fears a counter
revolution,
government
ALLEY
has just ordered the closing of all
schools and asylums in the
country that are conducted by the Ro
{
foreign
Some ign
man Catholics nations
peeved by this measure,
about it
wt distressing result
throwing out
of thousands of little
had
closed
but probably can do nothing
At present the mu
of the order Is
the streets
the on
dren who other home
those
no
now Also the
facilities of the ie
republ
diminished,
the gOv
both
at least temporarily
sumably ernment will take
steps fo meet these conditions
JoRANCES demand that Poland,
Spain and Brazil be given perma-
nent in the League of
coancil wher Germany admitted is
still worrying ti
for
seats Nations
is
other
fear that
her application
e league mem
hers, there i=
Germany
withdraw for
terms. France asserts she
didate receives a majority of the elec-
toral votes
ATHER unusual
States was the
the little Highland
near Bingham,
The settlement,
in the United
Boy mining
Utah, Inst
by an avalanche of snow and about
seventy persons perished, Fires start.
ed in the crushed frame buildings and
many of the victims were horribly
The ide began two miles
from the camp and more than a mile
above sea level,
1.1. the row about the countess of
Catheart resolves Itself into this:
The titled English woman when ex-
amined at Ellis Island admitted that
earl of Craven, leaving her husband in
England, and thus admitted “moral
turpitude” as it Is considered in the
American immigration law. Secretary
of Labor Davis therefore finds it nec
to order her exclusion from
this country, sustaining the ruling of
the Ellis island Immigration officials,
He says this course is mandatory un-
der the law and that he has no dis-
cretion. Furthermore, he asserts the
countess is not the first person ex-
cluded for the same reason. The Na-
tional Woman's party, and other
groups of women who have been and
are protesting against the barring of
Lady Cathcart, are moved not so much
by sympathy for her as by the fact
that the earl of Craven already had
been admitted to the United States
and they insist on equality of the
goxes, The earl, to avold possible de
portation, has fled to Canada.
ETTLEMENT of
having been ratified by the miners
and the fiveyear contract being
glgned, mining was resumed Thursday
throughout the anthracite
i
i
{
be freed from
and
hetier
(France) will
duty of supporting Poland
will be able cultivate
relations with Germany,
go she
to
——— PH INS 5
sehr,
«2 Re
ito
al
ERA ¥
pro A.
AA EG wt
of IS. bovernment:
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
ID you know
that the Con
titestt ¢
slitution ol
thiz land of th
s #
home of the
amenan
men of the liner President
rather embarrassed by the
that has been made over their
of the of the Antinoe
in New
The big guns of Fort Jay fired
the air was full of planes
girectn were crowded with
as the city officials
greeted the heroes, Next day congress
voted them the thanks of the nation
Modest Captain Fried says: “I'm aw-
fully grateful, but it was just part of
our jobs. And, anyway, you can't say
much for the men who actually
manned the boats, They did it—not LL
But they, too, feel they only did what
was expected of them.”
NE of the attacks on Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon by his po
litical enemies, which also was an at
tack on the Department of Justice,
has fallen through. Mr, Sargent's de.
partment reports that after full inves.
tigation it hes reached the conclusion
that contempt proceedings against the
Aluminum Company of America--in
which Mr, Mellon is heavily interested
~cannot by any possibility be success.
fully mainiained,
USTICE STAFFORD of the District
of Columbia Supreme court has sus-
tained the validity of the conspiracy
indictments against Albert B. Fall,
Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Do
heny In the oil-lea*e scandals. This
action of the court, unless a special
hearing Is gruited, means that the de.
fendonts will have to stand trial un-
der the criminal Indictments which
charge them with compiraey to de
fraud the government of the United
States by trickery, deceit and bribery,
OTABLE deaths of the week in
clude those of Henry Holt, New
York publisher, and Archhishop J. F.
brave
fuss
rescue vrew
a salute,
the
too
tenced to denth by » Russian tribunal
but was released ahd came to Amen
creasis ¥
wi
consideration ETERS
fa
telegraph
for
century railroad
inihilated
ated
ang press has
it events
The Twentieth Amendment
establish the principle
legislative responsive
popular by
aopmnIon
th the gap-—-called
the
of mes:
ing of
between oloet
thers o the
the
Those
point ont
Ciititsrirt ing
Supportin
®
that congress does not
oe
ig
the
thus
ment, until thirteen months
elected
that
been eo
after
It
heen
nappens
i
not
upon
have
infrequently
which they have
been either settled
cated by the old congress
ness of the
vents the
issues
lected
or compli
The short
often
important
second session
of
eRsIen
pre
passage moas
Congr defeated] for
without
contests
™
election yotle responsibility
are seldom decided
before the expiration of at least half
the term, with the result that the dis
trict Is misrepresented, and Uncle Sam
pays duplicate salaries
Election
Those opposing the meeting of con
gress within a short period after the
admit the force of these
points, Their opposition 1s based main- |
iy upon the theory that deliberation
Is an essential factor in good legisia- |
tion and that there is a certain |
danger in the making of laws by men.
bers fresh from the excitement of the
campaign. They also hold that in case |
a presidential election is thrown into |
the house, it is better to have the |
The “Wee Bit”
I have elsewhere quoted the pro-
found remark of the Russian artist
Bryulov on art, but 1 cannot here re-
frain from repeating it. Once when
correcting a pupil's study, Bryulov
just touched it in a few places, and
the poor study impmediately became
animated. “Why, you only touched it
a wee bit and it Is quite another
thing!" sald one of the pupils, “Art
begins where the wee bit begins” fe
cleetion
nendiment
ed by the « titutional amendmes
before i
March
CONEress
y
he
t
voile 31%
tly was not
opposition to
in the shuffle « session
dim
Hoult to sew }
why, In view of the
t of the senate vote
the
ical unanimity
it should not
had it
ment,
have passed house,
to a vote. The
the
come amend
as passed by senpte
Rection 1. The terms of
nt in
the
office
Preai-
dent and vice
this amendment
shall end at Gn on
Monday in January and the terms of
senators and representatives then In
noon the first Monday in
of the vear fn which such
ould have ended if this article
been tatified, and the terms
shall begin
shall
every
the
they
day
preside at
takes ef-
the third
the time
foot
on
terme Ww
tad not
sf their succeasnrs
Recti
then
hn 2 The congress as
year
first
shall
gembile at least once In
such n
ir
pp
tion 2 the
tativer has not chosen a
whenever the right of
upon them before the
the beginning of his
vice president for
shall act as President
house of representatives chooses
President. but if the house of
chosen a President
noon on the fourth day
March néxt following, then the vice
president shail become President dur-
ing the remainder of the term. and
the congreas shall by law provide that
in the event the vice president has
eeting shall be on
January unless
a different
da
Mor
hy law int
Re if house of
o President,
choice
time
term,
fixed
then
the
until
for
the
chosen
plied Bryulov, Indicating by these
words just what is most characteris.
tic of art. The remark is true of all
the arts, but its justice Is particularly
noticeable in the . performance of
music.—Tolstoy, In “What Is Art”
Robins Stand on Rights
The robin has lived so long in the
company of man that you will seldom
find it far from a human dwelling.
In the suburbs of towns one pair of
birds will have three or four gardens
which they look upon as their own
ci
27 SEJIIon
@&@ HMarriy we Ewirg
or
That extension or curtalime:
be effect
extension
period
metitutionalls
gh an
The
since 1876 m
amendment to the Const
yeas appear to have it
NYWaYy we than fifty
Ne
het $a chang
the date
tx have
Ten yes
o fix
of George Washington
New York-—-April
wenther
was made 1
tion
The
anguration
nt
to obtain on
factor that
much Custom
made thizx inauguration of the Presi
dent pageant which
the weather can largely make or mar
When President Coolidge was inaugn
rated March 4, 1025,
ideal and the vast crowd of spectators
packed the entire space inclosed
likely
a
in
has
has
day
discuased
is
been
an out-of-doors
the weather was
by
gressional iibrary and the senate and
office buildings. And with the
powerful amplifiers ased every word
of the President's inaugural address
wae distinctly heard by every person.
William H. Taft's inauguration day,
March 4, 1900, was a complete con
trast. It was so stormy that the cere.
monies had to be held indoors,
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts in
1808 sponsored a resolution fixing the
Inst Wednesday in April as Inaugura-
tion day. But weather bureau reports
showed that from 1873 to 1807 the
weather was little, If any better, on
the later date.
house
preserve, and If another robin at
tempts to enter their domain a fight
takes place. The stranger is often
driven away, but sometimes the new.
comer is victorious, and then the first
pair have to seek fresh grounds,
“Czar” of Latin Origin
The Slavic word czar or tsar ulti
mately represents the Latin Caesar,
but came, according tq Miklosich,
through the medium of ja Germanie
language In which the wird had the
general sense emperor, ;