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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Developments in Mexican
Situation—Lively Do-
ings in Geneva.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
AMES A. FLAHERTY, supreme
J knight of the Knights of Columbus,
accompanied by the members of
supreme council, called on
Coolidge at White Pine camp and dis
pelled the popular Idea that Nis order
asks that the United States intervene
in the Mexican religious controversy
It does not even ask the lifting of the
embargo on arms shipments to Mex!
co, he declared. Instead, It
only the exercise of whatever good of.
fices the Unlted States can extend
under international law to ameliorate
conditions In the neighboring republie
He placed much blame on the policies
of the last three American administra-
tions, and Mr. Coolidge, who has pur
sued a policy of “hands off” In the
quarrel between Cailes and the church
was gald to have listened “kindly and
patiently” to what the delegation had
to say.
desires
Down In Mexico City the congress
has assembled and It Is expected that
the religious situation will be taken up
very soon. The President's message
dealt with it at some Jength., There
was sald to be a good chance that
congress, although made up of over 80
per -cent of government men,
olics which may remove some of the
objections of the church.
olle League for Religious Defense,
however, Is not dissatisfied with
Ing that the economic boycott is so
successful that It has practically
paralyzed the econcmlie life of the na-
tion. Says he:
“Commerce In Mexico, necording to
statements by the chamber of com-
merce itself, has fallen off 50 per cent
since the opening of the economic boy-
cott, and Industrial organizations are
complaining of a large
tion because of lack of consumers.
overproduc.
terribly.
have
sacrifices
themselves
abstinence,
lages
Lherole
subjected
of In
no beans are eaten this month,
the civie government In these places
is on the verge of bankruptey.
“This is only the beginning. As
time goes on the lines will be drawn
tighter. The final effect of the bhoy-
cott will be to force capital to face
the situation and take means of meet
ing It. It either must further the ends
olle legislation.”
E MORE wares than one the world
court cut quite a figure In
week's news, In Geneva the
ence of representatives of 37 nations
began discussion of the admission of
the United States with the reserva.
tions made by the senate. The {rst
three reservations were quickly ne-
cepted, but opposition developed to
the fourth, which would prevent the
League of Nations from amending the
court stututes without America’s per.
mission. Sir George Foster of Cana
da led the opposition and was warmly
seconded by Markoviteh of Jugo-
Slavin. The debate grew rather hot
but South Amerlenn delegates inter:
vened to smooth things over Final
action on the fourth reservation was
postponed and discussion of the fifth
was begun. This provides that the
world court shall not, without the
consent of the United States, enter-
taln any request for an advisory opin-
lon touching nny dispute or question
In which the United States has or
claims an Interest. The bellef pre.
valled In Geneva that the basls of this
reservation is a desire on the part of
the United States to prevent any at-
tempt by the counell of the League of
Nations seek advisory opinions
either on Immigration problems or
questions affecting the Monroo doce
trine and Latin America. It was
fo
thought likely the reservation
turned over to a commission
study and advice,
hY EANWHILE California was hold-
+ Ing a primary election In which
the world court was prominent. Sena-
tor Shortridge, pro-court, was run-
ning for renomination by the Repub-
ieans and was opposed by Robert M,
Clarke, backed by Senator Johnson
and other antl-court leaders. At this
writing Incomplete returns Indicate
Shortridge was victorious by a
plurality. Lineberger,
for
be
hind. Lieut, Gov, CC. C
ported by
W. Richardson and
candidates for the
nomination,
man Florence P. Kahn,
cidedly wet, was renominated,
were leading In several
congressional districts,
the four
other tepublican
Congress
who
wets other
and De Rivera would try to
sabotage the meeting of the league,
VERRIDING the veto of Governor
General Wood, the Philippine
of representatives passed
bill providing for a
In the Islands on the question of in-
dependence,
the
senate plebiscite
The measure Is now
to President Coolidge, who will have
six months In which to act after it
reaches him, He will have reports
from both Governor General Wood
and Col. Carmi Thompson, his per-
sonal Investigntor there, to help him
minke up his mind. In Washington It
up
AYAL, chief of the Azores islands,
was hit by a disastrous earth-
in the town of Horta and that
followed by a tidal wave that
William (:ibbhs MeAdoo,
[sador Dockweller, whom
of complicity In a Tammany Hall plot
to capture Californian democracy. But
Carl Alexander Johnson, San
iry, also bearing the McAdoo Indorse
ment,
n the gubernatorial
was leading
he
race,
probably not
persons were
more
killed, the
jured number several hundred
material losses were Immense. For-
tunately the temblor came In the day
score of in-
out of doors,
severest
the Island
quake
were
was the ever experi-
lidates of trafficking with Tammany.
J ENATORS TRAMMELL of Florida
and Gooding of Idaho, both of
the world court,
withdrawal of the ratification. Mr,
Trammell sald he would offer a reso
lution for such action when the sen.
ute meets In December. The defec
tion of these two would not materially
the situation, and at the sum
®ae President Coolidge does
ticipate a victory by
forces. It may be mentioned that Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, speaking
not an-
the world court, though supporting the
administration in all
Coolidge
respects,
i M A” FERGUSON lost her chance
. to governor of Texas for
another term when she was defeated
be
two to one
whose
by nearly The attorney
generals nomination by
Democrats is equivalent election,
sald the klan was not an issue and
Jim Ferguson had found It impossible
to make It one.
It appears at this writing that a
to
in South Carolina where
neither Senator E. B. Smith, Edgar A.
Brown nor N. B. Dial had a clear ma-
nomination,
the order
were standing In
EAGUE OF NATIONS delegates
were trying hard to find some way
to satisfy Spain and Poland and at the
same time admit Germany to member
ship and a permanent seat In the
council. - The commission at work on
cil decided that Spaln could not have
a permanent seat. It adopted lord
Cecil's scheme giving Spain and Po
Innd semi-permanent seats the tenure
of which Is three years, with a decla-
ration of their re-eligibility,
It seems likely, however, that Spaln
will quit the league entirely as a re
sult of the refusal of Great Britain
and France to attend a conference on
the status of Tangier. As was re-
the Tangier district be added to her
Moroceo protectorate, and the Spanish
foreign minister has sald flatly that
Spain will withdraw from the lengue
unless this is granted. In the house
of commons Sir Austen Chamberlain,
foreign minister, sald Britain was wiil-
Ing to discuss with Spain and France
the former's request for a league man.
date over Tangier, but with due re
gard for existing treaties. He
not think Geneva was a good place for
stich a discussion,
Italy is now tied up with Spain by
a new treaty of alliance which It ls
ndmitted Is a direct threat to France
In so far ns the rule of the Mediter
ranean busin 18 concerned, Buropean
diplomats were wondering If Musso
the
in
same time there were
several regions of
At about
earthquakes
MERICA has lost two more of her
best aviators through alrplane
of the navy, hero of the Hawnll flight,
fell with his plane Into shallow water
Lieut. Cyrus
K. Bettis of the army, who crashed
inte a mountain In Pennsylvania In a
fog, dled In a hospital In Washington
spinal meningitis whith devel
oped after it was thought he was on
the way to recovery.
ERIOUSR labor trouble broke out In
Manville, RR. I, where a mob of 1.-
striking textile mill workers
force of
S00
an attempt to set fire to a mill. The
used tear gas bombs, revol.
vers and riot guns and a number of
the rioters were wounded, as were
of the officers. The governor
maintain order.
In Chicago another open and closed
impends. A strike of
an skyscraper In course of constroc
tion as a starter, and the citizens’ com-
mittee to enforce the Landis award
promptly called In strikebreakers to
take the places of the union men.
Other artisans’ unions are likely to be-
come Involved. The committee an-
nounced it would support any contrac
tor In Chleago who desired to
steel on the open shop basis,
The longstanding fight
President Lewis of the United Mine
Workers and President Farrington of
ed In the suspension of the latter by
the state executive board
forced to admit that he had contract.
ed to enter the employ of a big mining
firm whenever he should quit office,
F RUDOLPH VALENTINO had any
sense of humor he must be laugh
mushy sentimentality and mawkish
emotionalism that has followed his
lamentable death. Enough here to say
that after funeral ceremonies In New
Hollywood for burial.
ERTRUDE EDERLE did not long
maintain
swimmer of the English channel. Her
feat was duplicated by Mrs, Cleming-
ton Corson of New York, the mother
of two children; and a few days later
Ernst Vierkoetter of Germany swam
across from France to England in the
record time of 12 hours and 42 min-
utes,
URING the second year of the op.
eration of the Dawes plan, just
ended, Germany met nearly 54 per
cent of Hs reparations payments hy
means of deliveries of materials, The
total payments amounted to 1,220,000,
000 gold marks (about £200.860,000),
and the deliveries In kind 650.800.000
gold marks (about £150,818,000),
WATCHING BOBBY JANES
7
MERICA is golf mad.
yond a doubt It has become
our national pastime; it is
played by more individuals
than any other game.
In 1804 there were only
about ten golf courses In
the country. Today there
valued at £1.300,000.000,
two millions of people play
royal and ancient game and they
spend annually more than £468 500.000,
Golf, a game of considerable an-
is generally Identified with
Scotland, but historians are led to be.
lleve that it is probably of Dutch
origin. The Royal and Ancient Golf
in 1774, is the parent organization
of the world, however,
Golf was undoubtedly played In co-
where players were
fined for breaking windows with golf
balls. Not until about 1880, however
the game take on new life It
was about this time that the St. An-
drews club was formed and links es
After 1000 the game
smashed Its way Into
wilh astonishing rapidity. Today the
supports 250 golf clubs. The Chicago
district has 150. In addition to these
privately owned courses there are hun.
¢reds of public links. Chicago leads
000 population, maintains two pablic
courses and three private ones
During the coming year it
pected
No place Is too small
some kind of a golf course. Gaylord,
public
averages R125.000 a year,
tenance expense is but
nually.
So great is the demand
with the golf fan, that engineers are
taxing their Ingenuity In shaping a
the New York Times tells of opemn-
Lake Worth
Further south, at Key West, the coral
and the course recently was
A Forest Felled
In one Jersey locality the demand
felled, stumps
were pulled by machinery and trac.
tors did the rest.
Engineers are endeavoring to get
| the same effects and facilities out of
| 50 to 60 acres that hitherto have re
| quired 125 acres for 18 holes. This is
| the pext problem to be solved
Our neighbor, Canada, is now enjoy
ing its greatest golf season with well
over 100.000 players. The last issue
editorial ;
| ada but
playing golf. Many places of 1.000 In-
habitants or so have quite creditable
| nine-hole courses.” All provinces of
Canada report pew courses,
| lengthening and improvement of old
{ ones and the bullding of new club
| houses and additions to old.
Ingpector R. J. Hall of the Royal
| Arctic circle, reports the furthest
i
ilar to the
links at
resorts (Cannes, Nice, Vichy,
Pau, Le Touquet, Blarritz,
Evian, etc) are belng improved and
new ones are being bullt.
Even Germany has just evinced an
in golf. A course has just
been opened at Wallensee, and lmpor
tant championship tournaments are tr
be revived there this year. An odd
circumstance is that Alexander R. Re
vell of Chicago has been the amateur
champion of Germany for about four.
years. He won the last tourna-
in Chicago The the
Italy has taken up golf with vim
The new nine-hole course of the Stress
| world’s worst. When Inspector Hall
i children.
{ly eaused the banks of the canal to
1000. Americans
| gradually converting that filled land
into a golf course,
lyn 1s belleved to
valuable land
built on 1,000 lots worth £5000 each,
is being enlarged to 18 holes
by Peter Gannon, former amateur
champion of France, Italy and Switz
eriand. A beautiful new course ls
being bullt at Lido, Venice, and the
in the shadows of
the fantastic Dolomites, is being im
proved. The king of Italy has taken
an ‘active interest In the Acqua Santa
course of the Rome Golf club, while
the count of Turin patronizes the
Varese Golf club, near Milan Sicily
has a course at Mondello,
Spain's Interest in golf has become
#0 keen that its open chanmpion was
sent to take part In the American
Many
remember Angel de la Torre, from the
Madrid Golf club; his reports upon his
return to Spain stimulated new inter.
On the west coast of South America
every ol)-drilling camp, mine or ni
trate oficina has a golf course when-
| At Tocopiila, Chile,” there is a golf
| course without a blade of grass,
South Africa supports 200 golf
clubs, and there are over fifty in Cape
province alone. The Durban Country
Durban, Natal, has a modern
clubhouse and course and the Umko-
Cape province,
i
{
white shell, to enable players to tell
whether they are on it or not. If on
the course the ball may be teed.
as It lies, Argentina has a number of
fine courses. Important tournaments
are scheduled there for this year,
Dr. A. Mackenzie, the famous RBrit-
ish golf architect, sald recently that a
leading British golf club maker had
told him that a new market for clubs
had just opened In Sweden and Nor.
way, where Interest In golf had been
suddenly awakened.
French Courses
The golf courses of France have
been overhauled and those near Paris
have been brought up to date and
enlarged. Lately the writer received
a letter from an American In Parls
The George Golf club is in the shad
ow of the Outimqua mountains, that
rise to great heights. A unique course
is that in Tshikapa In the Belgian
where nude dusky eaddies
used as holes,
Profit for Club Members
Switzerland's 11 courses are being
added to and some of the nine-hole
links are being lengthened to 18 The
Kulm club has an elaborate clubhouse
at St. Moritz. The Montreux club
course, near Lake Geneva, Is along
mountains capped with eternal snow.
The Lucerne Golf club, the most pic.
turesque of Switzerland courses, has
been lengthened to 18 holes and an en-
tirely new course has been built
nearer to Lucerne. The Engadine and
Montana cou have been brushed
up. Several nd ones will be built
thousands of feet above sea level next
year,
Being Reduced Piecemeal
A neglected street urchin was com-
mitted to juvenile hall, where he was
given a bath and dressed In clean
clothes. Then his halr was cut short
and his finger nalls trimmed. As his
adenoids seriously interfered with his
breathing they were removed. All this
he stood without complaint, but when
a little later the matron noticed a big
unsightly wart on his hand and said:
off” a look of disgust spread over
Tommy's face. "Gee! he exclaimed.
“Don’t you let a feller keep anything
here "Boston Transcript.
Success of a Book
The success of a book with a read.
er 1s to be measured by its effect
upon the actual daily existence of the
reader. If a book excites thought;
if it stimulates the sense of beauty,
| the sense of pity, the sense of sym-
{ pathy; If It helps In any way towards
creatures , | If It awakens the
consclence and - thus directly influ.
ences personal conduct-if it accom
plishes any of these things, then it
has succeeded. Arnold Bennett, in
“Things That Have Interested Me”
Where It Does Most Good
Lecturer (specialist on child train.
ing)~In the upbringing of children
the golden rule should be applied.
Voice In Audience-=l use a plain
wooden one on mine, and it works
Just as well. —Stray Stories.