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NEWS REVIEW OF |
CURRENT EVENTS
Waterways Seems to Be One
of Livest Issues Before
American People.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
ATERWAYS be
the
" 4
Sees to One o
fore the
has eeen
tions of importance of the subject
of the popular Interest.
Possibly of first importance was See
retary of Commerce
livest issues of the day be
American The
weral striking des
people, Week
nt wonmstira
Hoover's addres
nd
wonders
at Chicago outlining an inl
way system that would
for the Middle West
for the whole nation
years, he predic ted, the Mississippi «YS
tem would be
water
work
and there
Within five
from Chiea-
Pitts
functioning
and
‘on
go to New Orie
burgh to
the President are ag
from
ans
Kansas i Zress
essary approj
Secretar Hoover
Great Lakes-St. Law:
even more
he said,
of the
stabil
fron
than they were seven vears
are
I ovty
ion oO
are 1 two to
Hower |
3 ARO. Ne
thing less than one-sixth of the fall
attributed to
ut Chicago and the rest to
Whatever the
me
the diversion of
cycle, cause, the
he said. lay in the constru
control works
“Our United
we
edy,
of
falls
tell |
Niagara
States engineers
and the best
that
the
us have engineer |
they
world
of
corps in the
store the
talling the
they fill up.”
“They tell us
the gigantic flow it is a
we will
vagaries of climate and
vagaries of emotion.”
level
outflow
Mr
that
Hat
at Niagara
Hoover expl
proportionately to
ained
small job. By
have equalized the
stabilized the
s0 doing
TTORNEYS
- dozen
GENERAIT
Great Lakes
of war,
solicitor general of the
argued for fo
entation to
preme
of half a
a for
mer secretary former
: Ntates
r hours in
United
pres
court
Chicago's right
gan water for
i Wrposes
Arrayed
ouri.
Mr. Baker's i
court was, in brief. that War de
partment not to per-
mit the diversion of lake water for any |
purpose——that such authority was |
vested alone In eongress.
Mr. Beck pointed that Ripe
lieltor general he had upheld the right |
of former Secretary of War Weeks to!
issue the diversion permit of March 5, |
1925, and that he had represented the
government in earlier litigation which
resulted in a decision affirming the |
War department's right to issue sich |
permits,
contention before the
the
was authorized
out as
ETTERS written by Secretary of
<4 War Davis and Secretary of the |
Navy Wilbur praising the military ad. |
vantages of the proposed all-American |
canal between Lake Ontario and the |
Hudson river stirred up two flurries in |
Washington,
“You can't criticize the secretary of
war before this board,” sald Brig. Gen,
Edgar Jadwin to Representative John
B. Sosnowskl (Rep., Mich.), at the wa-
terways hearing in the Munitions
bullding. Of course a red-hot row
started, with telk of free speech, the
rights of congress, ete. Finally the
contestants, and even General Jadwin
agreed that opponents should be heard
later on the military phases of the all
American project. Thus ended the
first flurry.
The congressman from Detrolt came
10 the waterways hearing to fight New
York's all-American canal project on
3-—Talking te London by radio.
the ground that the taxpayers of Mich
igun were opposed to it,
HE second flurry was
by the in the Davis let
ter that “from the military standpoint
it Is essential that waterways connect
mg the Great Lakes with the
seaboard he
American territory.”
(Rep, Wis),
Ohio), Former
and C1
wrenee
statement
within
Senator Lenroot
Willis (Rep.
wernor Harding of
P. Cral the
Tidewater
White Hm
that Davi
shall entirely
Senator
LH
arles
Nt
hur
They charged
f to
neers who
oct, Into recom
om the
ine War
In
St. Law:
Vis
ry
give the
a fair deal
h]
C.
of
leading OC
LORNE CAMPBEI
engineer,
Great Ls
store the levels
prow de for Chicag
1] develop immen
He would
basin
Abany
Cire power
natural
ng the
large
tmntaric
uble feet a minute—tw' es
diversion from Lake Michig:
he delivered into
t «
the N
through a shor anal
that lakessand
and the would
America
project
and Canada, as
Lakes
(reat region
water-diversion problem
Harbor and river dred
both governments and by |
would be saved through +
1
nke
tored water
ols Ontario woul
iid g enae
water power at the Nipigon
i and
a market for the pulp-wood forest in
the basin of the pew lake. The cargo
ity of lake carriers would be re
Increased w
waterway
Capac
stored flow would
aid both
Lakes St,
ater
projes ts.
Lawrence and Great Lakes
Gulf. Altogether, Mr. Campbell thi
the benefits would be so large that the
coun well affors
to pay the cost of
sort of pro rata basis
B*e GEN. SMEDLEY D
United States marine
rges of drunkenness
ng officer
Williams of t} San
he
But
lego b
the
(General took
ler
an 19 11
from
»iphia, r
Butler's
given at
Coronado In General
action foll
Colonel W
illiams*
Butler's
honor Cocktalls, it is said, were
served at the dinner, which was at
marine corps and their wives,
held later at a hotel In Coronado, all
those at the dinner having
Several affidavits accompanied
charges, General Butler and
other officers declared in the affidavits
Colonel Williams was placed under
regiment of marines, to
which command he reverted when Gen-
eral Butler relieved him as commander
of the marine base recently. Presum.
ably the Navy department In Wash.
ington will order a court martial,
HE first telephone was patented by
Alexander Graham Bell at Wash
ington, March 7, 1876. Sunday, the
fiftieth anniversary of the “sclentifie
toy,” New York and London chatted
for four hors by radio telephone
across the Atlantie——about current
news, weather, prohibition and short
skirts,
The demonstration was staged for
engineers and newspaper men by the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company, the Radio Corporation of
America and the British general post
office, The American talk was broad.
cast from Rocky Point, 1. 1. across
3,800 miles of ocean to Broughton,
General Pershing. 2—Allegheny
—— ————————————— a.
The British volees were
2,066) from Rugby to
The wave length was
Only one conversation
the line
niles
5,770 meters
be conducted on Kime
versation,
While the American and British com-
p the treaty
the Wur of 1812 the
Secret expendl
to end
iritish sent a lon
of
108
wisedly Invineible w hoe purposs
3 . ’
New Ord } {te IL
been declared and onto
whole
Andrew
defeated the
Mississippi valley
Jackson ne
Brit
igning of the
Atlantic nble was
nely
ter the =
F COIMes
Atlantie,
enlargen
ed
Hurst
geout of ance, Sig. Belotti
id M, Sa Japan
The comm
1d
and
given a
to ho
its meet x where it
committee also Is empowered
World
the United
deemed advil
to the
ask an advisory
council to ask the
advisory opinion on
court for
an
Rinteg'
sabhie. or
may recommend
council that it opinion
i
WiE
tH}
PRESIDENT COOL
proc mtion pr ©
It was until
Protection week and its progran
in charge of the
with
was
United States forest
special emphasis
At a meeting In
was changed
on pro-
the
name
American
Frank O. Lowden. former
man of a directing committee of repre
from over a hundred organi.
Mrs
the
DD. Sher
General
Frank G
National Lum!
Il ’
ARs
John president
of Women's
lent of
Federation
clubs:
association ; Will
Walton ls
States forester:
Izanl
United
{
I
'ratt, president of the American
D.
For
OFS
estry association
Local
ing programs with
commitiees are now pre par
which they hope to
people to the
of the forestry situation
the American
HE senate #oncluded a contro-
verey which had been continued in
executive session on several
days by approving, 48 to 20, the nomi-
nation of Charles W, Hunt of Iowa as
a member of the federal trade com-
mission. Mr. Hunt had been serving
expiration of his original term
year, He has been considered
“dirt farmer” member of the commis.
sion, having been named by President
last
dock term,
President, was reported. Dr.
W. Cram, the colonel's physician, said
the patient was very comfortable and
there was no Immediate enuse for
alarm. For several days Colonel Cool-
Idge, Ill for several months and with
his legs paralyzed by a heart affection,
had had considerable pain, Doctor
Cram reported, and his appetite had
not been up to standard. But seda-
tives helped to remove his discomfort
and the appetite improved, President
Coolidge keeps In constant touch by
wire with his father or with the doe-
tor. It is announced he is ready to
start for the bedside of his stricken
father at Plymouth, Vt, the moment
he receives word of an alarming
change. A force of men are working
to keep the roads clear from Ludlow,
rrr oy oe
NELLIE
‘REVELL Sas
of
THEN my
\ have complimented me
ing a good heart, It is
to h the
men insist that it is
posted 8 of
quiet lest 1 shove it
One told me
from
heart,
gpeciallst was
even some enemies
hay
of a
rewrite
on
somewhat
medical
oll
warnings
off its
exclude
shock ave
wrong
to
trolley,
They
ull soris keon
doctor 10 colle
my diet because it affects the
Five days later, when a heart
called In, the first
he caffeine,
of
ahout
ordered was
Another Instance “write
own ticket”
time, While I was being given a hypo
of the heart
must have gtruck a coarse
in
Tour
aceurred the sume
adrenalin tor the
needle
stubborn
wire
sc}
sone place me
ubrasion
swelling, doctor
ordered a hot-wat
to it
"And
applied
doesn
Le
the urse, “put
bag
Elisabeth
vaudervilie
It recalls the old
used to
the
if
the
ahout colored who, when
she used meter to
test
bath, replied
de chile in
too hot an’ If he
has
ne
eIrns
an
who
wy looked
and sal
lance, Jos
tah Hatch
ctors
every
to bad
accord
me while 1 under
from
cigar smoke, never once did 1,
ing return
DOES “Where am 17
found out 1
more, I wake up
ten, then open
to say, “Wheres
made on was
ether
to statistics conscious
Now
travel
morning,
and
t&ice
to
asking,
have can
once ox ery
my
am
es on
1
But oh, what a relief to realize
it's not a dream and that it i= all true
well nearly so. And then
I wish 1 could shout from the house
tops to everyone who is afflicted that
too, will be well some day if
Just hold on te their belief In
God and thelr doctor,
Or
Atlantic City is the finest place
in the world for a fat woman to find
consolation. No matter how big she
she ls sure to find some other
women who are larger. 1 have never
seen so many big women in my life
Some of them can even cheer me up.
The hotel where I am stopping Is no
place to reduce. What | have done
to my “slender-form” since I heve
been here is plenty. 1 spend much of
the day out of doors, and at night
sleep with fhe ocean breezes on me.
What a contrast to last summer, when
I hadn't seen the sun for four years,
Do you wonder that I am grateful to
God and my friends for saving my
life and making It possible for me to
enjoy these luxuries?
(Copyrieht by the McNaught Syndiosts, tna)
ny,
is,
Longer Jumper Is
Favored in Paris
Dresses and Coats; Two-
Piece Frock Leads.
There nothing sensational an
nothing radically new revealed
in Paris, a
1 COrre
spring openings
Paris fashi i
York Herald Tribune
around which so
f { during recent
of thueit greement
s¢ of Goupy
n the twao-plece dre
Two-Piece Silk Crepe
Sports Frock for Spring
Ladin
Showing a two.piece silk crene
sports frock with pocket, and fine
plaits in the skirt. The sleeves are
wide and open to the elbow, with two |
narrow streamers at the cuffs.
Scarf and Cape Hold
Favor for Spring Mode |
Whether the scarf. which has i
become a necessary part of almost
every type of dgess, has ingpired the |
cape, or vice versa, Is not clear: but |
both are now established as the mode, |
and capes are all the rage. A cape is
the most sultable, almost a necessary,
wrap for the period gown and many
attractive styles in capes are shown
for both daytime and evening. In some
of the bandsomest models the cape
matches the gown. In the new silks,
crepes and chiffons they are beautiful,
A chiffon cape makes a subtly velling
wrap over an evening gown of any
material, Rome of the most attractive
In these ave finely plalted. Satin, flat
crepe, brocaded chiffon with the pat.
tern in velvet repousse, taffeta and the
soft «ilk of the pussy willow type, are
used in the new cape models,
now
Simple Straight Frock
as Chic Dance Costume
ey
ele
#
i hi, aoa ———_
Hip-Length Tailleur
Is Revived for Spring
4 ’
vig
New Corsets Designed to
Follow Lines of Dress
ers of dr WA ath t One
shas for Spri
ng
p
TIER 1374
nattier blue, Rodier red
and there is
haia™
& expensive and comes
ge A
in th year's kashas
inl silk Pp
ng pin check effect in
embroidered effect
slanting stripes or
“thy which res
sunila lor distinet
novelgy
ray
ig the
to ro
duce a contrast
weave or an
color in
in self
waved lines
Dragged the Ground
It takes just ax much lace to trim a
frock as it did when skirts
the ground. Many a woman
discovered that recently, since
lace Is returning to fashion along
with trimmings flowers, feathers
and embroideries. The skirts are short,
true, but they have so many
of
billows of lace are required.
Taffeta Dance Frocks
The younger girl will dance her way
through the season in charming frocks
of taffeta in flower colorings. As a
rile these have tight bodices and
wide full skirts, somewhat longer
than the skirts worn earlier In the
season.
—-—— A —————
Shetland Negligees
Extremely pretty and just the thing
for the woman who requires a dress.
ing gown of some warmth is a negil
gee made of the finest shetland shawls
edged with marabon of the same
shade and lined with china silk,