EIN 1-—Launching and christening broadcaster in the New Del, a boat States at Wilmington, race. 2—United pt eS - a ' rrr) both Watson Berteaux at will be James E. of Camp participant and of Indiana, who Oujda, NEWS REVIEW OF British Nation Contending With Paralyzing General Strike of Unions. By EDWARD W. PICKARD REAT BRITAIN entered on of the most critical periods her recent history last week. the mine owners and reach no settlement of thelr disputes and the government would continue the mine subsidy, of the nation had struck. bad enough, but the union ptiy the miners be suppo: strike of about ers to hegin at Prime Minister the constitutional challenged, not proceed order one of lecause miners could not longer general ordered that by CONRIress pre ted a general inion 5,000 (Xx) 1 ht Monday. midnig rights had been asserted negotiations could undil the had been withe general irawn Issued a proclamation of state emer- gency under which Baldwin powered to rule by decrees and which made Kir William Mitchell postmaster general, tator of not der compulsory mi dustrial was Thomson, the economic die the country. law does tut permit the prime minister to or tary service or in conscription, but every other step to the situation by the govergment workers by front, At the strike ers call meet taken Wis volunteer thousands came to and the : ’ appointed time the general went into effect, the first work- el out being those in transport, Including and d¢ printing press; and heavy cher groups; building trades except those at work on hos pitals and electricity and gas, Including power only the ines workers di obey the services railways, cks ; including metal hemical housing : Of chemical call, Sanitary and were not Interrupted. the United Kingdom paralyzed, and in various parts of London and other cities and towns there was bloody rioting. Naturally the situation was most serious in Lon- and the government's efforts to meet it were concentrated there, though troops and warships were moved to strategic points elsewhere. Organized labor in America, France, Belgium and other countries showed sympathy for the miners’ strike but rather refrained from approval of the general strike. Soviet Russia, ever, «did not hesitate to show its de- light at the plight of Great Britain. health All over business WAS don government had forbidden the export of foodstuffs to England. The French miners took steps to prevent the ship- ment of French coal nel. As the days went on the situation gradually improved, according to the statements In the government's newspaper, This was notably true of railway transporta- tion of the food supply and the light and power services, Prime Minister Baldwin house of commons that “the general strike threatens the existence of the ordered government and comes nearer to a proclamation of civil war than we have known for hundreds of years.” This would appear to be true: but the assertion of labor leaders and across the chan- of organized labor would equally true, because almost all the workers are of British nationality and at heart loyal to their country, At this writing there are rumors afloat In London that some sort of a rompromise will soon be reached. It Is difficult to understand how this can he, since the government cannot and will not recede from its position that the strike must be called off before negotiations can be reopened, and the trades union congress still has plenty of funds and claims that the workers’ response to the strike call exceeded all expectations, in Great Britain RANCE felt the effect of the Brit. ish strike when the frane began to tumble, reaching on Thursday the new low mark of 82.14 to the dollar. Fi sance Miolster Perel, who gglied a conference of bankers, sald he thought the franc's fall of francs by the to bolster up the i French glutted shipping lines to the debt settlement with the States was considered to { utory to the crash of the fri the opposition groups in ment were preparing for an attack was due to the sale British pound sterling arkets government The produce m also of England In because the crippling he ¢ on arrangement signed in Washington by | Ambassador Berenger, In the United the settlement will group headed by Borah, souri and Pat Harrison of Mississi] States senate, also, has asked the a public hearing terms and defe agreed u nded se N MONDAY, fo in the J the ! ent Federa 1 when of the eastern « impeachm English inols was summoned for resentatives Vice President Dawes senator wi in his seat. TI lefendant ne Lt iN, general and charges when Willis +» trial made a denial of all the lar him. was On Wednesday, resumed 1, Senator postpone tl mainly esheets senators I up for re-ele he anes in better humor if took up as Judges that 1 Ing tha Guring the heat soon will envelop bitter being Despite tion the motion that carried, It Mr as a Judge In the interim, English shall rejoleing In army passed m bill for the a 1 the house expenditure of 3 IN for airplanes cubie new foot two 606 (Kx) capacity dirigibles, and a is expect. J28 airplanes ing units of the regular and 371 for Guard and units By to make avallable allocation to organized providing reserve for the the of temporary ranks in tt and correction of existing in- Justices In flying pay the bill is count- ed upon to relieve ie COTrps, conditions which air service, ORN BELT congressmen and the farm organizations that are sup relief hill served notice on the lican and wepab Democratic leaders that not the Tincher other substitute for However, the accept hill the passage now a8 a measure, any Haugen house Southern Democrats on whom they relied, are backsliding. These Southerners say the tariff features of would commit to the protective of support AMES E. WATSON, who seeks to J] succeed himself as senator from In- easily defeated Claris Adams of Indianapolis for the Rephbliean nomination, Senator Arthur Hobinson was nominated to fill out the unex pired part of the late Senator Ral- ston’s term. For the Democratic nom- ination there were six candidates, and as none of them obtained a clear ma- Jority the choice of a man to oppose Watson is left to the state Democratic convention, HE house judiciary committee re. ported its second Impeachment resolution of the session last week, recommending favorable action on a resolution seeking authority for a full investigation of Impeachment charges against Frederick A. Fenning, District of Columbia commissioner, Charges relative to activities of Mr. Fennlng in receiving fees for acting as guar- dian for insane veterans and other wards of the local courts have been plred before the bause committees on of Columbia and legislation affairs on District vel erans’ EPRESENTATIVE EDITH NOURSE ROGERS of Massachu- ade her malden speech In the for of the to include as eligible for vet World war service records do not their disabilities are result of their service in Mrs. Rogers but the bill that government any R Sells mnie house, pleading Johnson bill hospitalization passage those whose learly Indicate direct was was the army or navy. armly applauded it was shown cost to $500.000 to welved when esti f its the from Hons a yeur, varied mil i between the nd the French and Span- Morocco, Rifflans a at Oudls broke tribesmen ners which they as a preli: French iwcking columz ard the Mediterranean IE Pp ROBADBLY very f £ INiry Ens revol rtuall belligerents privilege of obtainin unitions from nent 0 The movement is led and i capture Sandoval hey have wns and control which Is They stole the bank if Nk gus whict is the of Connecticut and of Robert F. Loree of New ‘ork | president The uiser lnws American has been sent to efieldse T. VAN ORMAN IV won limination balloon race at Little Rock, Ark. ry ARD Goodyear with the the national that and will started again for the Orman landed near Peters. having made 848 last year's international ternational contest Bennett Yan Va. heat cup. burg, milea N ORGE, the great alrship In which - Amundsen and Ellsworth hope to and Yadsoe, Wednesday, flight to where it made a successful northern Norway, stopped for fuel, The date of the start from Kings Bay has not been annotinced but it probably will for Amundsen does not wish iyrd expedition to get ahead of iyrd and his party already are at Kings Bay but were delayed by a mishap to one of their Fokker planes the « EVEN long-term convicts from Chi J eago escaped from the Illinois peni- tentiary at Stateville after murder. ing a deputy warden and kidnaping a guard and a trusty. Five of them a in the village of Leonore and an ex- citing battle ensued. Three of the posse were wounded, one of the con- victs was shot full of holes and three others were caught, —— wns that of Oscar 8. Straus of New York, an eminent diplomat and the first Jew to hold a positicn in an American eabinet, He was appointed minister to Turkey by Cleveland and later wag a member of the arbitration court at The Hague. President Roose. velt made him secretary of commerce and labor, and In 1000 he returned to Turkey as ambassador. He was Pro gressive candidate for the governor ship of New York In 1011. Prince Victor Napoleon, Bonapart. ist pretender to the throne of France, died in Brussels and his little son, Louis Napoleon, became the chief of the house of Bonaparte, to “reign” under the regency of his mother, John W. Thompson of St. Louls, who was convicted with Colonel Forbes of defrauding the government. was saved from prison by death, i a Ww mp RE Ben ad LY ETIOWTY Si ARLINGTON CE vy spring of 1847 N THE only between the sia ended, there lished In the strewed flow memors young Ithaca (N Francis M. Finch “The Blue entitled i which since has bee Orie tified ith the das Not ward suncey M his famous “When the Routh, where wit} armer addresses, said: war wag over In the 1 ana svinbals skies more and than in ows, Confederate strewed their many pla them known of the Union of this touching the North it could have done, love and aliayed sectional and passion. Thus out of nlike to North and this beautiful custom.” poetic IPE ramentis emblems are better the practical N mothers wrth, the wid and hile f fren of the t and flowers; at dead wen out graves with the impartially, and unmarked eR women also, the un places news aver resting soldiers Ag the tribute flashed roused. as nothing national amity elee and BOTTOWS common South Came At the first at Arlington, formal exercises, Va. May 30, 1868, Logan's order to fol General G. A. R. the principal deliveredd by James A. Garfield, years later elected President United States, As yet the term morial Day, or Decoration Day, not been linked with the and his address, afterward printed In form In Cleveland, 12 the Me had observance, of “Oration of Hon. James A, Garfield, 1868, on the Occasion the Graves of Union Sol But year by year the idea spread, Memorial Day ceremonies held at Monument cemetery, Philadel. phia, May 20, 1875, under auspices of Post 2, Department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R, it was recorded that “the Annual Floral Decoration of the Graves of Our Dead Soldiers has be- i # in the fallen the Union 1ial ohial sO kind- un nf fecting =n and reservedly nign infinences and all the warmth of ern natures, the aspiration testin near magnanimity hat we yield ourselves to be ite reciprocate, with ardent South inarticulate the our for reien land.” audience and afflicted The great listened “The bloody with all its wholly business of disastrous CONSeqUences, the act of the professed the politicians Constitution, they the presence of the men of peace nullified truded They ob. Ny the into fary over imaginary the ahstract secession they issued in aggrandizement of federal To the ideal exist- ence of slavery in the territories they provoked a war which ended in the wrongs To theory of po challenged an the irre. fential encounter which preserve The crowds in Brooklyn's Academy believe thelr ears when Pryor, with commanding gesture, declared: “Meanwhile the soldiers of the na- tion, no matter where thele birth or what thelr political opinions, uniform. ly opposed themselves to every act and every word of which the alm or cause sn increase in ne wial rolled bers of those who observed Men hay And w 1 ay around. with first Americar 30, 1918, harvest of lives gat ered by the Grim the World swung to of bh Boo isa of War the observance again its ’ » full ceremonial honor and national height ax a EOFTOW grati of the decorated of the the In mans older parts not fell in war the war but, owing to the only the Spanish of who the Eraves those wintes, World of patriotic and War societies, graves reverent who influence decorated, mention died in other Revolutionary war, in 310.000 Americans were ide of ‘hoe which about a Americans on Jand and sea. It naval with France when 4.508 Americans manned warships in lasting from July 8, 1708 war In brief, one historian says, days par- ticularly set apart for ceremonies in honor of the dead are common to mankind and are well-nigh as old as history itself, This present year, and probably for many years to come, Memorial Day in every part of the United States will be rededicated to the pur- poses which hallow it. “That felier, Sawney, over in Booger Holler, say he killed 65 rattlesnakes while plowing tuther day,” at the Mount Pizgy post office stated Tobe Bagg of Sandy Mush, “Sixty-five rattlesnakes?” exclaimed somebody, “That's what he ‘lows. He had a Jug of licker at each end of the far rers, and every time he reached the end of a row he'd take a drink. By the time the licker was gone he was driving the hosses so fast they were mighty nigh running, and he'd forgot all about the snakes. But he says there were 65 of ‘em, anyhow, and probly would a-been a thousand if the team and the licker had held out.” «Kansas City Star, Ruinous Giving Let us beware lest we act as he did in the fable, who stood watch in the lighthouse, and gave to the poor in the cabins bout him the oil of the mighty lanterns that served to llumine the sen. Every soul in its sphere has chirge of a lighthouse, for which there is more or less need. The humblest mother who allows her whole life to be crushed, to be saddened, absorbed, by the less important of her motherly duties, 1s giving her ofl to the poor: and her children will suffer, the whole of thelr life, from there not having been, in the soul of thelr mother, the radiance It wight have acquired Maeteriinck.
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