Cail l “ies A unt Falls, Wash, 8-—-John Mack NEWS REVIEW OF | CURRENT EVENTS Madden Shows Mr. Coolidge How Federal Taxes Can Be Cut in 1928. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ONGRESSMAN MARTIN B. MAD- DEN of Chicago, chalrman of the house appropriations committee, gath- | ered a portfollo full of facts and | ures and spent an evening with Presi dent Coolidge last week. The result may bring joy to the American tax- payer, for Mr. Madden lald before the President a plan whereby federal taxes in 1028 can be further reduced. This would sult Mr. Cool nicely and he has taken the der consideration. may from Treasury Mellon, Mr. Madden cal the the President to an sm of Income on one of his ] ment of interest by ler ug idge proposition u Objection Secretary to come attention of sheets nations on war debts,” a year at this time ment, which is steadily augmenting, is being devoted by Secretary Mellon to the retirement of Liberty bonds Mr. Mellon is doing this arbitraril without the express direction of stat ute, ‘he law merely the payments on principal of the debts shall be devoted to retirement of our now year, Mr. Madden pointed out that the £150.000,000 of war debt interest could ‘his interest pay- prescribes that war debt. The payments on principal aggregate about $50,000,000 be used under the law to pay current government instead of + 1 used expenses of ti to retire I he government bonds. f would erty 80 raise that amount of could reduce With the forel taxes to the interest revenue $11 Pro Lid b + it might axation in 1¥.5S SUOOO0 (0) or S400, cheerful Presiden maintaiz fate Hole § Ligely and sents gain the Harding seats sit of senate states in house Coolidge landslide. In the he looks for a Republican majorit 25 thie 2h, compared with exclusive of jority of 35, Mcan insur districts n« leans as doubtful, and lists 25 cratic districts which the Republic Mr. Wood is between ub gents. He classes about w represented Repub- Demo Ans have a chance of winning. tl 16 ' HE says contest this year the and adds: perity.” Naturally, the Democrats not agree with these statements and fore casts, In this can their major count against the tration is subserviency to Wall street and big business, and they charge the administration has lain down on en- forcement of the Sherman anti-trust act, They will take what advantage they can from the primary campaign expenditure revelations, the dissatis- faction of the Middle West farmers, alleged governmental extravagance, and the prohibition issue, and they be- eve this advantage will be great. “You can't beat do algn Coolidge adminis. —— ERTAIN gspects of tural situation were reported to Mr. Coolidge by L. J. Taber, master of the National Grange, who had just completed a tour of all but five states. He sald the farmers of the country ure stronger for prohibition than ever, and that while they had their cider and grape juice, these were usually nonintoxicating, and the agricultur- ists “are quitting intoxicating liquor, like most other folks.” Mr. Taber told the President that the Grange is advocating four steps to Improve the agricultural situation: the agricul A better organization of the farmers, | so that they can speak and act with development of better handling of i unanimity ; co-opera- tive marketing, a regional and seasons to make the tariff effective ulture surpluses, and measures for agri these economic and po erences, the Preside: Platts wis a sixty Sixtes: at commander entertalned P. Hughes, he was Col. J. ca "ne 1 a H ico np. settlement of Mex- episcopate PE for an early the religious controversy The tie encouragement waned again. found lt the ntl if 1G Hl the att le of President Calles, and voted 1 ig on the struggle on the lines already In +} has the support of the i taten the destruct! revoked. Vatican President hope that a si proposition to the church.” that y from the no confidence Calles' deci S11 will and Later the news Mexico no Pres!dent ever make cere, t, . Just Wer snt's an noie con Inws, 8, y rivals an recently battles, for poli marked getting and ernment at Peking bloody ationg * nations RON issue $25.000000 In don * which poses bond “domestic purposes, ww war expenses, the United It ob expenditures sent a note of protest. these military priority, remain in arrears the and Develop appended to the protest, including Hukang rallway, Continental Commercial bank, Pacifie ment, Riggs National, Munsey Trust, and a long list of American tions supplying rallway equipment, ete, corpora I ERLIN correspondents report that the difficulties In the way of Ger many's entry into the League of Na- tions and a tinal recognition of the pence pacts of Locarno are removed through a compromise; that Spain and Poland have indicated a willingness to ageept semi-permanent seats in the league's council for three or perhaps five years. Berlin is now so certain of membership in the league and a permanent seat In the council that the government has selected its rep- resentutives on the different commit- tees of the league. The other part of Spuin's price for yielding her claim to a permanent seat-—possession of Tangler--is stil unsettled. Last week Madrid sent to France a note expressing the desire that the International distriet of Tan. gler be added to the Spanish zone In Morocco, and saying that if this were found unfeasible, Spain would ask the League of Nations to give her a wan date over the district. It Paris that France's be an absolute refusal. was under. reply would G d'etat REECE n. In General nga hy For the ti riotis is again Greece, with General premier, E NGLAND'S mine t yet having come to government issued a niners own- ers n al (tending another 1 of the university. Ia years ques- at he wrote and tions, with Another r nt th the senale apped It seemed mobs of fought police look on “Kudy remains, NE Po cent of the batman developm most important ents in radio ca 3 mnie the successft testing of a new ice for radiocasting ition to ships at sea. weather maps The inventor, and tests were conducted by the the Charles FF. Marvin, chief of wnder William Giass- of naval Hooper, of the The | naval officers were over the device, declaring its discovery to be of inestimable value to navigators, and predicting that as they can be produced in quantity, the com- paratively simple contrivances will be quickly adopted by all radio equipped vessels, C. Francis Jenkins, presence of the weath- { ating ob of communi ford, acting chise mmuni of the navy. enthusiastic as soon FITTSBURGH had an experience often pictured in sensational crime fictlon but seldom in real life, A man, afterward found to be crazy, walked Into the Farmers’ Deposit bank and demanded $2,000 from a teller, A special officer and several bank officials gathered, when the maniac exploded a bomb he had iu a hand bag. He and the officer wera kitled, 120 were badly injured and the interior of the building was wrecked. KRISHAMURTI, the young Hine J doo hailed by the Theosophists ns the new volee of the “world teacher,” was permitted to land in New York despite some silly objections, and Mrs. Annie Desant escorted him thence te Chicago for the Theosophists’ cop seen Breas, By MILDRED JAKLON Drawing by Hay Walters ANT a fortune? have to do is to f 1 fad Or crn ment “Fads sgistently, store t rithout rhyme or rea ke mah-} J of game companies to the gon. The numt consistently trying manufacture something of that fad contagion, and its Inception deal to do with its ulti that If the right for its take up, it are is a variety o has a mate great SUCOORR 1 right people, that particular expansion, can be universalized.” “Of course, there have been a num- ber of athletic fads” pointed out the architect, who was an ardent golfer “Just think of the tremendous hold that bicycling had in the nineties and first years of this century.” “No,” admitted the girl advertising manager, “but you're taking the most outstanding fad of the athletic type. There were numberiess others preced. fing and following It which were not nearly so successful. And they were, mean, is, it rival the bicyecle-making plants, Roller skating was another form of locomo- tion which provided another oppor- aug! ug giel incl icnorea nail an | bunny hug, the wilk, even before which aT much gus the i popular with I hear inaugurate one ington is to trying the bianck bottom, of gyrations suppose the he 1 some got actions of negroes onstrating ering in the muddy floors of swamp- land. Go to it, and beat her.” “There's another set of fads™ from another source, with adolescent came “having to do When I in school, every girl with any to popularity wore a friendship bracelet, mhade up of sliver links engraven with the ini. tials of her various swaing. A friend of mine told also of the in her home town of i strings, a bedroom embellishment con. courtship was grammar pretensions me Custom ‘hoodoo’ | programs, cotillon favors, and ell man. | ner of trinkets denoting conquest.” “1 know of two more flelds wide a ABS - e—— Power From Gasoline The bureau of standards says the present-day automobile engine is ea- pable of utilizing from 20 to 30 per cent of the power In gasoline. On the average, about hhif this Is obtained and it has been estimated that the efficiency of the average motor car could be improved 30 per cent by bet- ter carburetor adjustment alone. Sven if the efficiency of the average automobile engine Is only 10 per cent, locomotive, which turns into useful work only & per cent of the chemical energy in the coal which it consumes, Steel Replaces Rope Not so many years ago all forms of rope and cable were made from vege table fiber. How little of this do you loads have to be supported! You see a thin steel cable, the size of nn lead pencil, holding tons of weight that would require an old-time rope of SOmMeone elses e { ing back ’ with samplers, which are now su of their owners, always had a The dear prized i mpeasions women |} of sewing to trunkioad of my crocheted thelr lives, ave new Kin offer clothes within an Tatting was a great time for awhile, and look all ages of women fell ting racket during the “Nes,” scoffed the makers, “but women have for sewing these They have time savers galore, but any hushand nas way knit at the for war.” would-be don’t days. the money. time sitting quietly In a chair sewing a fine seam. It's apparently a fad these days not to sew. And then, the latest fads have been, I think, more sociably diversions. Something that two or a group can do” mammoth dimensions to suspend. The suspension bridges — like the Brooklyn bridge—are almost entirely supported from steel cables. Why? Because their known strength can be figured almost to the fraction of a pound. Her Fatal Weakness “Weren't you surprised at marrying that remnant clerk?” “Not at all, Grace never could re- sist anything she found at a bargain counter.” irnce
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