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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
palace by the guard, which was com-
armed war hero.
This action by the assembly com-
leted the victory of the Poincare cab-
and both the assembly and the
were adjourned.
inet
parliament
Ohio Democrats Name Pom- |
erene, Wet, to Oppose
Senator Willis, Dry.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
HIO'S primaries were the most In-
teresting and fmportant of
held last week, for t
one of the chief battlegrounds
November election, an
of competent poll
fate of on
a determining
cratic presider
Atlee Pomerene
Ohlo Democrats
the state
e of
States ser
Is Sen:
easily won a renomination
one of the chief supporte
tion in the senate and it is
the Ohlo drys will
But there is I
hat the Democrats
Vie Donalie;
he
-
a compiic
heir entire tick
mirers, who are many
can beat Senator
a good chance
nomination,
doubt t
a compromise cs
+3 }
Lila He
some such
wan
business
with
"rr iv
run-oil
raised
and has
80 the fight Is o1
HREE Clrcu
en banc at
stitutional the l prim
tion laws the ground that
representation In county convention
and consequently in state and judicial
conventions, Is I under
existing laws.
the Supreme court in October on ap-
peal, and If the decision 1s sustained
the entire system of making party
nominations in Illinois will be wiped
out and the old party delegate con-
vention system wiil automatically re-
turn. Senator Deneen and others be-
lieve the neminations made last April
will be unaffected because the Novem-
ber election will over before the
Supreme court acts on the appeal.
on equal
possible
be
OR the first time since 1884 the
national assembly of France, con
sisting of the deputies and senators
sitting In Versaflles, was convoked
last week for the purpose of Incor-
porating In the constitution Premier
Polncare’s plans for saving the re-
public from financial disaster. Dy a
vote of 671 to 144 the assembly wrote
Into the constitution a law creating a
sinking fund for the redemption of the
floating debt which will be autono-
mous and will be provided from fixed
definite sources with a sure
Such dignity as might be expected of
the occasion was destroyed by the 144
recaleitrants, mostly
tremists. They fought the measure In
every way, sang the “Carmagnole,”
shouted and hooted, and one of their
number, known as an agent of Mos
¢ow, had to be removed frow the
Income,
Socialist
accords with the United
Great Britain, and
of parliament
them will do nothing until
September. The chalrman of
commissions says the
cannot
form.
at
purpose
of the debt
States and
named
to study
one
Mellon-
agreement possibly
present
salled
y
sryect
especial
enger
ratifled in its
vassador Ierrick
for
once
the
Coolidge
H
BORA
{ tar}
Ida
S ENAT( R
States toward
But from
¥ vi y¥
iat give the con
ttle,
Acambaro,
ders aris
contro
1
ana
religious laws
versy led to other
further
in various places,
The government has started Its cam-
for the nationalization of all
churches and church property, and its
secret agents are turning up many pri-
vate chapels that are belng used for
public worship, contrary to the spirit
of the law. Mayor Arturo Saracho of
Mexico City, in the first copcession of
any kind made to Catholics since the
religious conflict began, has decreed
that the committees placed in charge
of Catholle churches In the capital
may be composed of five Catholles and
five municipally appointed citizens for
each church. Hitherto the committee.
men have been municipal appointees,
Under the new plan the Catholle com-
mitteemen are to have charge of the
management of each church, but the
municipal committees will assume re-
spongibllity for the property. It ls
believed this action of the mayor may
somewhat appease the Catholles,
Archbishop Mora y del Rio gave a
long Interview to the correspondent of
the Chicago Dally News, ngain deny-
Ing the charges of President Culles
agalnst the church but really saying
nothing new. The minister of the In
terfor held the primate had thus vio
lated the In the constitution
prohibiting clergymen from criticizing
the laws or government of Mexico,
and sald the matter had been “cited
to the attorney general for Investiga-
tion.” Bo there Is a chance that the
venérable primate may be arrested
and tried.
A self-constituted “good will mission
executions, he
instances of violence
clause
| from the United States,” numbering
thirty-two Americans,
| Protestant clergymen from the Middle
West, has
including ten
concluded
| its findings In this resolution:
“We belleve that a program of edn-
reform is
of Mexico
necessary
We
administration Is
cation and soclal
| for the rehabilitation
Calles
great program of
reform and that all
the welfare of Mexico
| In {ts essential underta
| Declaring the
,
i=
were
believe the
engaged In a social
in
co-operate
truly Interested
1
asures
nd property,
Slumbus asked President Cox
tates, and
story
IPLOMATIC
Jugo-Slavia
governments
the
ti oa
societies
Macedon!
THD FORR
Suppress
ERMANY
persons were (njur
idge sent a cablegram
tion to
The
pressing
President
German government stl
allles for reduction «
{ thelr garrisons in Rhineland, an
it 1s sald the German ambakdador to
Paris been conferring with M
Briand and has received the promise
of further withdrawals in the near
future.
1
i
the f
1
the
has
N A conference with Director of the
Budget Lord at White Pine camp,
President Coolidge cut the depart-
mental estimates of expenditures for
the fiscal year 1028 by about $100.
000,000, Mr, Coolidge found that the
approprimtions requested for 1028 to-
taled $3.860,000,000, an Increase
This the President said would not do,
and he set to work with General Lord
to meet the estimates. When they had
finished they had reduced the total to
£3,270,000,000,
Government officials saw a possi
bility of further reduction of taxes in
1028, this depending mainly on the
continuation of prosperity and busi
extent to which retirement of the pub-
He debt decreases the annual interest
charge on Liberty bonds.
V Chicago, secretary of the Ameri
can Bar assoclation, has been np
pointed assistant secretary of com-
merce In charge of the development
of commercial aviation, and has been
sworn in. He Is thirty-seven years of
age, was nn aviator In the World war
and has devoted much of his attention
since then to elvil aviation.
HEN the average Amer-
lean business man, phi.
lanthropist, politician,
capitalist or what have
you, glves away £100,
XM) he not entirely
unmindful of the grav-
situation There the
in
ity of the
statement to be prepared for the press
and marked with a Monday
And the fund is generally dedl.
Oo gome v¢
in the
carved in
graved In a copper plate,
But Jeremiah
economist
is
release
date,
cuted
which
name
¥ worthy purpose
end gets the donor's
stone or lenst
showed
owledge
zing
lance, h rot 1d S100.000 by
waving
words:
Jeremiah in
the League of Nations to put Hun
on its fi feet,
accept his salary of 8
by
gary anclal refused to
1M) (NK) the
satisfactory of task
He had called upon Pri
Bethlen to :
prime minister
compietion
Minister
take his final
Mr
Hungar
And
check drawn upon
ernment for £100,000
knew betler
check was Box
Mr. Sn
only
teh
itil
compensation
work is the apprec
Rar
}
“But,” protester
ian pe
minister
iy been
POR
alter the treas
er general
Jeremiah Smith
Boston lawyer,
eral of Hungary, had won the faith,
love and devot
street and the worker in the fleld
Hungary decided to
his confidence was not misplaced and
they put their shoulder to the bowlder
tion, The entire country was emulat-
ing Mr. Smith In his economy, every
man, worian and child silently pledged
themselves to ald him In every way
to save thelr country. The shops re-
flected the progress, the fields never
were better tilled and never before
had the grain and other food crops
responded so munificently, Hungary
Before the commissioner general ar-
The newly arrived official
had at his disposal an international
“Land of Tombstones”
One Ameriedn visitor characterized
the would
small
Left to
gtatve,
itself,
for such
country
arable
the population's food require
The rest must come from the
Yet this primitive, poverty.rid.
It
Is an adage as old as the country it-
in
ar's service of
’
hie
$1
-
AT
iii
for
in June
danger the tax ra
ie burden on the people became
they the comm
| general had the fight. Even na-
ture stepped In the first year of Jere
miah Smith's administration and pro
vided the biggest crops In years.
Commissioner General Smith's sue.
in leading Hungary from the
| depths of despair and poverty
placing the nation In the sunlight of
success In reality has recreated the
| financial side of the government and
has demonstrated what can be done
the Hungaria
1% themselves, For
1025, when u
Hur wns out
tes began to fall
light
with issioner
Tana
won
Cess
He likewise has shown how successful
government Is reflected in the people.
For three years before 1024 the peo
ple, emulating the government. had
become slipshod. Not only had busi.
ness slumped, but attendance at church,
participation In sports and attendance
at amusements became almost nil
The people had given up, thelr ambi.
tion was stifled, their hopes dead. To
day the churches are filled, the thea-
ters crowded and sports events ate
truct capacity throngs.
self that “man is the warrior and
woman the worker” Man's sole duty
Is to defend the home and his family's
honor with firearms. The women age
prematurely under the ceaseless bur.
yond fifty.
Law's Slow Process
A fortune of $150,000 which has
| been lying in chancery in England for
almost a century, has Just been divid-
ed between two brothers and a sister.
NK
Es
th
te Tt “ *
ine, His & LION Lhe
URE
law There
There
vite dh
alil
were
Was n
iron
obzerved 10 1
He declined pol all i
except of official
by civie organ-
bankers and
such were passed up without excep-
| thon. His theory was that in so doing
he would avoid any insinuations that
[ he was being Influenced or any temp-
| tation to take sides.
His one diversion was golf, and the
| club at which he played wanted to
make him an “honorary member.”
| Even this he refused, paying his dues
| the same as the rest of the players.
While Mr. Smith invited criticism of
| his administration in the press, it is
| noteworthy that the editors throughout
| Hungary met every move he made In
| the spirit that be made it. Although
| accustomed to rabld denunciation of
| all opposition, the Hungarian press
| made only “suggestions” in regard to
contemplated reforms and once the
| changes were accomplished they re
fralned entirely from adverse com
ment, knowing that the commissioner
general had only Hungary's interests
ant heart,
Was one
no
tol
ited)
OTS
1 atl :
izations,
{ It was In 1830 that this money passed
into the care of chancery. Attempts
| had previously been made to recover
{ It, but it is only now that a claim has
| been established.
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Enjoyment in Old Age
We can learn from the best of the
old-age records that life may be pro.
longed and that death may. in a sense,
be cheated, by making life, while it
| laste, happy and useful. He dies
twice who permits old age to reduce
him to mental and emotional poverty,