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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
G. O. P. Men in Legion Plan
to Boom Pershing for
President of U. S.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
OLITICAL leaders in Washington
P have learned that there is a full-
fledged movement within the American
Legion to promote the nomination of
General Pershing for the Presidency
by the Republican party. The general
is to go to France on the Leviathan
as the guest of the Legion, and It is
said that influential members of the
organization who are also influential
Republicans will be aboard with him
and will take the opportunity to ar-
range the details of the plan. Then,
at the Legion's convention in Paris, the
boom is to be sprung as the climax of
a series of demonstrations. It will
be easy to keep the former commander
of the A. E. F. in limelight
there, and the will be brought
back to the all
oped, plans of its
promoters,
Ever Pershing re-
turned from France after the war he
has been intermittently boomed for the
Presidency. In 1919 a movement for
his nomination in the 1920 convention
was started, but it failed to develop
sufficient momentum to place him ac-
tively in field in the
tion contest. His name figured occa-
sionally in the discussions during the
convention, which finally selected War-
ren G. Harding.
If General Persaing should become a
gerious contender for the nomination
next year he would be the oldest can-
field. He will be sixty-
ars of September 13.
Frank O. Lowden will be sixty-seven
next January. Charles E. Hughes was
sixty-five last April, while
Dawes is sixty-two and
Hoover fifty-three,
Vice President Dawes and Secretary
floover are still leaving their booms
in the hands of their friends, both hav-
ing =aid they were not the
nomination. Mr. Lowden, on the other
hand. is out in the open as a con-
tender and has appointed as his pre-
convention manager Fred Starek, for-
mer director of the war finance cor-
poration. Just before President Cool-
fdge left Yellowstone park he was
vigited by a party of Wyoming edi
tors, nearly all of whom told him they
and their communities favored the
nomination of Hoover because he
helped frame the Coolidge policies, Is
a good administrator and, they be-
lieved, would safely carry on the pres
ent national prosperity.
Reports have been current in official
circles in the summer capital in Rapid
City*that Secretary Hoover will offer
his resignation to President Coolidge
within the next few months and devote
his winning
Campaign committees for Hoover are
ready to spring into existence in many
states and headquarters will be opened
in Washington and directed by
present secretary, George Ackerson.
EMOCRATIC leaders
D there is a prospect
piates, especially in South, will
send uninstructed delegations to the
Democratic national convention for
the purpose of avoiding, so far as pos
gible, the bitter factional strife that
characterized the convention of 1024,
Some of the backers of William G. Me
Adoo in that contest are among
those responsible for the uninstructed
delegation policy. Their original
thought was to bLring about harmony
by agreeing in confurcuce at conven.
tion thoe upon the nomination of some
one other than either McAdoo or Gov,
Al Smith of New York,
the over
boom
United
States devel-
gecording to the
since General
the preconven-
didate in the
seven fe on
Charles G.
Herbert
seeking
energies to delegates,
his
that
many
hear
that
the
Ane among the President's call
ers after his return to the Black
Hills was Senator Wesley Jones of
Washington, He is chairman of the
genate merchant marine committee,
and after his talk with the Chief Ex-
ecutive he declared himself in favor
of keeping the American merchant
marine afloat and insisted that if it
were necessary to accomplish this the
government would continue to operate
the fleet and would provide funds for
replacement. He sald he agreed with
the President's view that the govern-
ment should get out of the business,
but did not think the United States
should get off the seas. “It appears
now," the senator, “that
unkess we continue to operate the ships
that is what will happen. Other plans
of placing the American shipping on
a parity with foreign shipping by a
subsidy such as exists in most coun-
tries have failed to enlist the support
It appears that we can
do nothing through a subsidy to help
to me sald
of congress,
private concerns engaged in shipping.
Therefore, the situation is plain to me
the government must continue to
erate the ships and vast must
be expended to keep our fleet abreast
of competition.”
Senator Jones told the
that in his opinion it would be wise to
call a special session of the senate in
October for the consideration of the
of Senator-elect Smith of Illi-
and Senator-elect Vare of Penn
He =aid the pressure of
made this advisable
not get
Op
sums
President
Cases
nois
sylvania.
business
zislation should
funds Investig:
committee, while in
attend the funeral of J.
mour, issued a call for a
that committee in Chicago on Septem-
ber 7 to take up the matter of destruc-
tion of the Pennsylvania ballots, He
said there had been no developments
that called for further consideration of
the case of Smith by the committee.
the senate campaign
Chicago to
Ar-
meeting of
tion
Ogden
TT astcEANIC flights, succa>s.
ful and otherwise, are beconing
natters of almost daily occurrence.
W. 8 Brock and E. F. Schlee In
plane Pride of Detroit made a
flight from Harbor Grace,
land, to Croydon, the London airport,
and then their journey to
Munich, to Belgrade and to
tinople in their projected flight around
world in what they hope will be
record-breaking time. Another pair
of flyers started from London, Ont, for
London, England, but were turned
back by bad weather, Charles A.
Levine, tired of walting for Drouhin,
his French pilot, jumped into his Co
lumbia plane at Paris and flew alone
to Croydon where he just barely man-
aged to make a safe landing. The Brit.
ish alrmen were astonished by his
nervy performance. Levine selected
Capt. W. C. Hinchcliffe, an English
war ace, to pilot the Columbia back to
America but afterward said he might
change his mind and fly eastward.
The spectacular flight of the week
was that of Capt. Leslie Hamilton and
Col. ¥. F. Minchin of England, with
Princess Lowenstein Wertheimer as
passenger, from Upavon, England.
across the Atlantic to Ottawa, Canada.
The princess, who financed fhe
flight, is sixty-one years old and has
been a licensed pilot for thirteen years,
ssually flying under her maiden name,
Lady Anne Saville, Minchin and Ham-
ilton are old-timers at the flying game,
the
fine
Newfound-
continued
Constan-
the
ENEWED hope that Paul Redfern,
who disappeared in his flight from
Georgia to Brazil, might be found
came with the report that a plane was
sgoen two days after his start, over the
delta of the Orinoco river in Vene.
zuela. It was said to be moving south-
easterly, and later another report from
a government telegraph operator at
Ciudad Bolivar said a plane had been
sighted flying over the village of Mac-
arieto, It was believed Redfern might
have landed safely snd was making
his way out to civilization.
ESPERATE fighting In China took
place between the northern troops
of Marshal Sun Chuang-fang and the
armies of the south which were trying
to keep possession of Shanghal
Though the northerners were reported
to have met with a severe defeat in
a four days’ battle along the Yangtse,
later advices said they were hanging
on and steadily pushing men across
the river. The southerners apparently
had abandoned Nanking and withdrawn
to prepared positions south of that
city. Chinese cruisers in the river at
first fought against the northern
troops that were crossing, but after
ward held aloof, probably having been
bought off i,;; Marshal Sun,
The Tweniy-sixth Nationalist army is
in and about Shanghai, under the com-
mand of Gen. Chou Feng-chi, but its
loyalty to the Nationalists was ques
tioned. This matter worried the for-
elgners there, for the men of that
army were supposed to be anti-foreign
as well as communistic,
A SSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE
TREASURY LOWMAN Intends
to stop the smuggling of liquor from
Canada if It and has
been conferring with members of the
royal Canadian commission with that
in view. The United
ing a supplementary agreement under
can be done,
States Is seek
which Canada will attempt to prevent
liquor shipments to the United States
instead of limiting its activity to mere
ly giving notice that
have been declared
other hand, wants the United States to
such shipments
Canada, on the
do its utmost to stop smuggling of in
dustrial alcohol to Canada, for the
reason that
cutting
such shipments seri-
the dominion
are
ously into rev
enues,
Mr. Lowm said the border patrol
westward from Buffalo,
Detroit river
from XX) to
including the
area. would be increasel
$00 men, and that it might
enlarge the
Lakes
prohibition bureau instead of the
be necessary to
Coast
The
Cus
the
yyy 1 Tt 1 . ¢
guara fleet on the Great
toms service Is now handling
tiquor smuggling prevention work.
ISCOUNT CECIL, chancellor of
Yi duchy of Lancaster, created a
sensation by resigning from the Brit
ish cabinet, giving as his chief reason
the attitude of the cabinet toward the
United States in the recent futile
naval disarmament conference. He
also let it be known that he expressly
opposes the tyranny of the big powers
over the affairs of the League of Na-
tions, In the procedure of which he
has been a dominating factor,
“1 have because of the
handling of the disarmament question
the failure
Lord Cecil
told the correspondents. “I was not in
sympathy with the instructions 1 re.
ceived from the British cabinet and 1
believe an agreement could have been
reached without any sacrifice of the
British interests”
Lord Cecil's withdrawal from the
League of Nations, and the resigna-
tion of M. de Jouvenal, the French
delegate, believed In Geneva to
open the way to Foreign Minister
Stresemann of Germany to become the
dominating figure in the league. It
was said he would have the solid sup-
port of the smaller nations and the
war-time neutrals if he would honestly
stand by the covenant regarding dis-
armament.
resigned
generally, culminating In
of the naval conference”
were
HICAGO'S moving pleture theaters,
350 or more in number, were shut
up tight last week by their owners be-
cause of disputes with the Motion Pic-
ture Operators’ union. A few inde-
pendent houses nndertook to operate,
but film distributors cut off their sup-
ply of pictures. Both sides were ap-
parently determined to make it a fight
to a finish, and there were prospects
that the strike and lockout might be
extended to othe: territory. It was
estimated that the theaters were los.
ing $225,000 daily, and that 25,000 em-
ployees were out of work. Attorneys
for the union applied to the Federal
courts for an injunction against the
film distributors to force them to de-
liver films to the independent theaters,
CHOES of the Sacco-Vanzettl case
are heard daily, in the form of
riotous demonstrations, quarrels among
the radicals over the defense fund, and
threats against the American Legion
by French communists, The General
a great majority of French unionized
labor, gave way to the radical element
and voted afier a stormy meeting not
to participate in the national holiday
activitiés in connection with the Le
gion on September 10.
O-CALLED “ease and desist” orders
charging them with frand and de
ception in the promotion of Texas oll
stock schemes have been Igsued against
Shepherd & Co, a Chicago stock bro-
kerage firm, and eight similar com-
panies, all of Texas, by the federal
trade commission. - The orders are the
first results of an Investigation into
“blue sky” securities undertaken sev.
eral months ago by the commission,
®
DF. Barry
T
By ELMO SCOTT WAISON
MERICAN INDIAN
new
is to
ject of a poetry
ducted by |
kota igazine,
of Aberdeen has
the best
to Ix
se emhe
Cot
‘asque
poetry n
offered a
40-line poem OA
the truly
table Sioux
of the fact
derstood and
great an
of the
that he
maligned.”
Dakotas
been
Mr
has
has declared.
There are mu
who will confirm
iny students of history
Mr. Herried's
So far history's verdict on Sit-
esl
mate,
ting Bull has been handed down main.
a troublemaker, irreconcilable to
fate imposed upon his race by
white men under the pame of
zation. If ever the red man is called
upon to hand down a verdict, he will
probably find In the fact that Siting
ull was irreconcilable a kind of ra-
cial patriotism that ad
mired, misguided though it have
been.
It is doubtful if the name of
other Indian is so well known to
average American as is the name of
this warrior and tribal leader of the
Hunkpapa Teton division of the great
Rioux or Dakota confederacy. And a
corollary to that statement is that it
is also doubtful if there have ever
been told about any other Indian so
many wild tales, and if there has ever
been included in them so much sheer
bunk as have been told and written
about Tatanka Yotanka (Tatanka-—
Buffalo Bull; Yotanka-—Sitting). Here
are a few of the cholce bits of mis.
information that have at one time or
another hen given out as fact, and
ag such have been accepted by some
so-called historians:
the
the
clivili
can only be
may
any
the
Bull was a half-breed,
giving a good education
*anadian priests. returned
and “went back to the
1) Sitting
and after red
from Freneh«(
to his people
blanket" :
(2) Sitting Bull was a graduate of
West Point, who gradually drifted
back Into savage life. He had rious
solid acquirements, could speak French
like a Parisian, was a close student
of Napoleon's campaigns, ete, ete
(3) Sitting Bull was a Mason, knew
the Masonic ritual and lodge work as
well as the emblems and on at least
two occasions saved the lives of white
men, captured by his warriors, because
they wore Masonie emblems
(4) Bitting Bull was commander In
ehief of all the Indians at the Battle
of the Little Big Horn where Custer
—
aarm
ier
lend
rpoee hy oon
ve saw that all
From the most
vis foimer » »
of information
absurdities of 1!
dispose dof as |
(1) Bitting Buil
Sioux. born on the
about 1834. the
the Hunkpapa
wh change
when he “my
a boy
firer kn fi ge Jump
urteen
the
he was
father
Crows and ©
the bods
return of
8 feast,
unted
of a
the parts
Eave awnsy
announced that his
right to be known by
(2) This
son
statement is too
on the face of It 10 warrant denial
for his ability to speak French, it
possible that he picked up some w
and phrases from French Candian trad-
ers an with
came into contact, but more than
the story of his linguistic abili
andoubltedly fictitious
(2) Possible but highly
Neither of the two cases are suf
ly authenticated to be accepted
ously It may have been mere coin.
that two men whose lives he
spared were Masons There is gaid to
be a simi ity between the
secre! signs of Masonry and some of
the Indiar isnguaege in uhiversal
yee among the Plaine tribes and a sim.
tiarity
ceremonies and
monials
others whom the
cidence
game of
sign
between some of the
Indi
iarities nw have
been one Of the origing of this yarn
(4) The part of Sitting Bull the
Custer battle is at best juivocal
Although his being th n of a
subchief would give him ne heredi.
tary right to leaderehin he had ricen
to prom among the Rioux as a
medicine man and a council i
he possessed “accuracy of judgment,
knowledpe of men, a student like
disposition to observe natural phenome
ena, and a deep insight
among Indians and white people
as he came Into contact with” Before
the battle he had predicted a
great victory for the Indians, and at
the opening of the fight ke retired to
the hills rome distance away and wae
there during the engagement But
there was no especial disgrace at.
Masonic
certain
These sin
one
inetice
fiuee
into
affairs
such
Custer
A
even
wate on this
McLaughlin, agen
ling Rock reservation where
Bull spent his last years has al
that phys
ical coward, and others have pointed
avs maintained he was 8
s actions at the Custer battie as
of that fact. Dr. Charles A
the noted Sioux suthor. as
the result of his investigations smong
Eastman
has recorded several in
Bull's valor in hat
i= reasonable to suppose
his own race,
cidents of Sitting
tle, and it
that Doctor Eastman could come near
er petting s truth about Sitting Ball
than any
Tatanks
some of
Dakota
in their
him down as a brave war
his youth, at a later
the most sagacious and powerful
So a final summing up of
the
proelry
VE Ti
would
rior ua
write
period
med
ever had and an
"in his In
man s
man the
icing Sou
eagle
white
malcontent ;
Indians a patriot. These
of Sitting Bull once when
questioned br an im
portunate American newspaper man
“1 am.” sald he, crossing both hands
gpon his chest, slightly nodding. and
siuiling satircally, “a man!”
embittered “caged
the
was 2
From
of view he
Years
from
the were
the
he was being
words
Man Outdoes the Birds
Factory-made wings have eclipsed
the feathered species. Lindbergh's
non-stop flight was 3.610 miles. The
distance flown by Chamberlin and
Levine 1s estimated from 3000 to
4400 miles. The longest nonstop
flights of birds have been those of
Alaskan plovers from the Aleutian is
lands te Hawall, a distance of 2.400
miles. and the annual migrations of
golden plovers from Newfoundiand
and Nova Scotia to the Leeward fs
lands and the northeastern coust of
South Americas. 8 distance of 1.500 to
2.200 miles
Educating Convicts
Nearly 100 prisoners each year dur
ing the past four years have enrolled
in courses offered to Inmates of Hock:
view penitentiary by the engineering
extension depnrtinent of Pennsylvania
State college. Ten courses were given
during the year just ended. and wt
recent final exercises of the night
school educations) classes seventy In
mates received special certificates, «
School Life
Sweet Thing—Oh, are yu really an
ofl drifter? 1 didn’t suppose a fat
man like vou could do thar Kind of
work %
Driller—The company pays me =
special bonus, lady. You sel whep
we strike oll suddenly, all | Bave to
do is stick my leg down the hole, and