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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Land Controversy With
United States.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
IRST fruits of the efforts of Am-
bassador Dwight Marrow in Mexico
and the “good will” flight of Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh to the capital of
that republic are seen in the action of
the Mexican house of deputies in the
ell land controversy which has been
the main barrier to entirely friendly
relations between the two countries
Urged on by President Calles, the
house passed a bill wiping out the pro
vision requiring owners of oil lands
acquired prior to May 1, 1017, to ex
change their fee simple titles for con
cession terminating im fifty years
This provision was a part of the law
carrying into effect the eonstitution of
1917 nationalizing Mexican natural re
sources. The retroactive application
of this and other provisions te Amer
fcan properties acquired before the
pew constitution went into effect was
objected to by the American govern
ment a9 confiscatory. Beveral months
azo the Mexican Supreme court held
the provision uncenstitutional, but un-
der Mexican law a law is not nulil-
fied until the Supreme court has held
it invalid in five decisions, President
Calles did not wait for the five de
cisions before yielding te the conten
tions of the Ameriean State depart
ment. Although news dispatches from
Mexico City attribute the action of
Calles to the friendlier relations es
tablished by Morrow and Lindbergh,
there is ample ground for the belief
that the Mexican President was forced
to take the gtep by the virtual state of
bankruptcy of the Mexican govern
ment.
That the American government also
is In a conciliatory mood was evi
dsnced by its intention to relax the
embargo on export of war munitions
and military equipment to Mexico.
The first instance of this relaxation
was the permission given by the State
department for the purchase by the
Mexican government of the Ford alr-
plane In which Mrs. Lindbergh flew to
Mexico City.
a
iC VLONEL LINDBERGH terminated
his Mexican visit Wednesday,
when he hopped off for a tour of Cen-
tral America. Escorted by seven
Mexican planes, the Spirit of St. Louis
took the alr early in the morning,
skimmed past the great volcanoes
Popocatapet]! and Ixtaccihuatl, and was
on its way to Gautemala City, the first
scheduled stop, 675 miles away. About
seven hours later he was being most
enthusinstically welcomed by the
Guatemalans, His tour will take
him to Panama, where great doings
are planned, and thence he will fly
back by way of Honduras and Pro
greso to Havana, Cuba.
Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh bade her
son farewell as he left Mexico City,
and a few minutes later she and her
companions from Detroit started on
their flight back to Michigan. They
headed for Tampico and were accom
panied by two Mexican army planes,
T THIS] writing hope for the am-
phibian monoplane Dawn has dwin-
dled almost to the vanishing point, and
1t is believed Mrs. Frances Grayson and
her companions, Oskar Omdal, Brice
Goldeborough and Fred Koehler, have
perished. Starting from Roosevelt
field, New York, for Harbor Grace,
Newfoundland, on what was intended
to be the first leg of a flight to Croy-
don, England, the Dawn Immediately
ran into rough weather and, save for a
fragmentary SOS call picked up Sun.
day by the Canadian wireless station
on Sable island, has not been heard
from. At that time the plane was
long overdue at Harbor Grace. On
Monday a cable operator on the op-
posite side of Trinity bay from Har.
bor Grace picked up part of a call
which It was surmised might be from
the Dawn, and it was thought pos
sible the Grayson party might be
down in some isolated spot not far
away. Meanwhile a number of Ameri
can destroyers, the dirigible Los An.
geles and all vessels in the region
sought diligently for traces of the
missing plane, examing waters and the
search, however, wag continued.
H EARST'S wonderful Mexican docu
ments were still further disered
ited when Frank Y. McLaughlin, a
civil engineer of Mexico City, ap
peared voluntarily before the senate
investigating committee and declared
that Miguel Avila, who procured the
papers, was “a motorious purveyor of
documents.” McLaughlin, who said be
knew nothing ef the papers published
in the Hearst papers purporting to
show creation of a $1,215,000 fund for
four United States senators, told the
committee that Avila had peddied
“twenty or thirty werthless docu
ments” to him, including ene purport
ing to have come from the American
embassy
This latter, McLaughlin said, was
brought te him by Avila in Mexico
City. McLaughlin then was vice presi
dent of the El Sol Petroleum company,
which has a contraet with the Mexi.
can government. It consisted of a sin-
gle typewritten sheet of American em
bassy stationery offering te disclose
for $10,000 with $1000 down what
transpired between Secretary Kellogg
and Ambassador Sheflield upon the en-
voy's visit to Washington, Although
the paper was uasigned, McLaughlin
related that Avila told him Arthur
Bliss Lane, then first secretary of the
American embassy, was outside the
bullding In an automobile and would
furnish the Information. McLaughlin
said he did not believe Avila's story
and told him so. That Lane had any
part in such a scheme was denied on
behalf of the State department, al
though the department itself declined
to dignify the story with a formal
denial.
Pf. MORGAN has been elected
* chairman of the board of the
United States Steel corporation to suc
ceed the late Elbert H. Gary. James
A. Farrell continues as president and
chief executive, and Myron C. Taylor
as chairman of the finance committee
will supervise the concern’s fiscal poli-
cles. The three thus form a trium-
virate to direct the affairs of the great
corporation. Mr. Morgan will perform
no executive duties but will be re
sponsible in a general way for the cor
poration’s operations. Mr. Farrell will
be the chief executive officer.
Closely related to the steel corpora-
tion was the announcement in New
York that Harold Stanley, president
of the Guaranty company of New
York, will become a partner in J. P.
Morgan & Co., succeeding Dwight W.
Morrow, recently appointed United
States ambassador to Mexico, Mr.
Stanley, who is only forty-iwo years
old, has been president of the Guar.
anty company since December, 1021,
He also is vice president of the
Guaranty Trust company.
—
HIRTY-NINE exceptions, disput.
ing the findings of Charles Evans
Hughes, who, as special master for the
United States Supreme court, ppheld
Chicago's right to divert Lake Michi-
gan water for sanitary purposes, have
been filed In the court by William W,
Potter, attorney general of Michigan.
Michigan, and five other Ianke states
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohlo, Penn-
sylvania and New York-were ordered
by the court to file their exceptions
to the Hughes report before January
8, and Michigan was the first to
comply,
The Michigan exceptions attack prac
tically every major conclusion of fact
and law recommended in his report by
Master Hughes and reassert the com.
mon contention of all the complaining
states that neither the War depart.
ment nor congress has power to an
thorize a diversion of water from one
watershed to another,
Ss
UNDREDS of savants from all
parts of the country gathered in
Nashville, Tenn,, for the eighty-fourth
annual convention of the American As
sociation for the Advancement of
Science, and It was noted that, out of
courtesy to thelr hosts, the word “evo
lution” was entirely absent from their
program. The convention officials ex
plained also that they sought to
demonstrate to the people of the state
that while evolution may be a funda-
mental hypothesis in biology, It is only
one of the Important subjects invest
gated in the broad fleld of science.
Dr. 1. H. Balley of Ithaca, retiring
president, was absent because of fll
ness and his place on the program was
given to Dr. Sylvanus G.
anthropologist of the Carnegie Insti
tution. He told of the Institution's in-
vestigation of the remarkable civiliza
tion developed by the Mayas, 2,000
yedrs age jo. what Is. now Guatemala
and Mexico.
Dr. Clarence C. Little, president of
the University of Michigan, iaid before
the association a program for pushing
out the boundaries of man's knowl
edge of man. Citing the fact
there is a growing insistence “that
the supply of defectives should be
controlled and diminished by prevent.
ing their reproduction,” he emphasized
the importance of turning from in
sects to mammals, such as cats, dogs,
rabbits, mice, and rats, in the labora.
tory phase of experimental genetics
that
o
———
HE aecessity of imunediate le
tion empowering the War depart
ment te build up the nation’s depleted
munitions reserve by placing “educa-
tional orders” with private concerns Is
stressed by Secretary of War Davis In
letters received by the chalrman of the
senate and house committees on mili
tary affairs,
The war secretary points out that
fallure of this government to place
munitions orders with privite con
corns since the war has resulted
the disappearance of the munition
industry with the single exception of
certain kinds of ammunition. He
to give annual orders to private con
cerns not only for ammunition, but for
pilot models of the newly developed
artillery and infantry weapons recent
ly demonstrated at the army proving
ground at Aberdeen,
. Sm
A 1 OTWITHSTANDING
iN Davis’ compinint, President Coal
idge believes the American army and
time.
toward appropriations for the armed
gervices were liberal and In keeping
with the nation’s needs. In this con-
estimates for the next fiscal year carry
approximately $100,000,000 more for
national defense purposes than was
carried In the budgets of two or three
years ago. Congress also has been
generous with appropriations, the Pres
ident belleves. In view of the Presi.
dent's expressed attitude, there is ap
parently little hope that he will ask
Tor the appointment of a
study the munitions situation,
—
ALIFORNIANS® exhibited unex
pected restraint when William Ed
ward Hickman wes taken from Oregon
back to Los Angeles to be tried for
one of the most revolting crimes of
recent years. The young man had con.
fessed that he was guilty of the kid
paping and brutal murder of little
Marian Parker, callously giving all the
terrible details of his crimes. The law
officers were fearful that attempts
would be made to lynch him-—and per
haps there would have been found
few to blame the men of Los Angeles
had they given Hickman such sum
mary Justice. However, the slayer
was safely lodged in jail, and his trial
wns delayed only for the arrival of
counsel engaged by his mother.” Op
the train from Oregon Hickman made
two futile attempts at suicide.
1G. GEN. SMEDLEY D. BUTLER
who commands the American ma
rines at Tientsin, China, got Into ac
tion the other day when the $25,000.
000 plant of the Standard Oil com
pany there was threatened with de
struction by fire. General Butler per
sonally directed the marines and
Chinese, British. French and ltallap
fire brigade In fighting the conflagra
tion and by his orders dirt barricades
were thrown up that saved the 3.000,
000-galion ofl tanks :
Farm Products
Sold by Grades
Notable Progress Was First
Achieved During Recent
Depression.
(Prepared by the United States De-
partment of Agriculture.)
Although preliminary work in the
development of national standards for
farm products has been under way for
many years, notable progress was first
achieved during the recent period of
depression when every
function of the marketing machine
wae tested with a view to the possi
ble elimination of waste. The value
of standards and the probabllity of
profit from grading have been widely
discussed by many groups. In this
connection, says Lloyd 8. Tenny, chief
of the bureau of agricultural
mics, “whether or not the producer
Coons
effort and expense involved In mak
ing such classifications depends upon
his subsequgent marketing practice
For example, a country merchant sel
when buying from
On the
of
grades
large assembler CER
as
business through regular
to recognized grading practices
the smaller the volume of buslh
operation, bow
is pow univer
In large-scale
standardization
Standards Formulated.
Among the farm products for which
huve been formulated by
the United States Department of Ag
riculiure are cotton, dalry and poul
try products, grains (corn, wheat
outs, rye, sorghums, barley, and rice),
nine kinds of hay and related prod-
ucts, live stock and
wool, and fruits, vegetables,
Inted products, incloding apples, artl
HEPATUZUS,
bage, cantaloupes,
meats, tobaccu,
and re
cab
ilow
chokes, beans, bes
CRITOIS. Cf
, citrus fruit,
dewbherries
er, celery, cf green
cucumbers,
MITICR, ep ant honey,
lettuce, onion, BES, peabuls, pears,
and
rad-
peac
peas, peppers, pineapples, plu
pruners, potatoes, sweel potatoes,
ishes, spinach,
turnips and water
Containers Standardized.
Several the containers
for fruits and
been standardized.
classifications
His
shallois, strawberries,
toma oes, melons
of styles of
have
several
than
set of standards have been prepared
vegetables
in
these more
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——
AVOR ALCOHO
AS ANTI-FREEZE
{t Is Quite Efficient and Is
Always Easily Ob-
tainable.
King Winter will not get any more
f a grip on your radiator than you al
ow him to. The severity with which
old weather taxes the efliciency of
your car depends entirely on the mens
ures you take to fortify yourself
against operating troubles,
Observance of a few simple rules
will keep your radiator in good condi
tion, regardless of low thermometer
readings, Water freezes at zero Centi-
grade, or 82 degrees
When water freezes, it expands, and
it is this expansion which eracks the
radiator and other parts of the cool
ing system, Although of the
newer cars have radiators which ean
stand a slight freeze without damage
it Is not good policy to any
precaution in cold weather,
How to Prevent Freezing.
The only way avold damage to
the through heavy
freezing is “anti-freeze’
solution. In such a solu
tion, several factors should be consid
ered. kind that will remain
liquid at the temperzture en
countered in your locality-—do not use
a solution made for use only
erately cold weather,
Try to find the el
of the
Fahrenheit
Bote
neglect
fo
cooling &
to
selecting
ystem
Use an
Choose a
lowest
in mod
nical composition
mixture you use
making sure that the mixture has an
bolling point as near as possible to
that of water, 212 degrees Fahrenheit,
Otherwise, the may
overheating of the engine on 1 moder
ately cold day.
“anti-freeze
mixture caus
Alcoholic Efficiency.
Alcohol Is probably the most com
wnly used “ant p
unquestior
1.4
ulckly, 1
alcohol for rad
easily be obiai:
Ke
tem
Ov el
rose e
fa ¥
irom
} ry ¥ ¥ wir
seat 1he engine
temperature rise
i
us for table use or canning. or by
origin or variety.
Before recommending standards ev
ery effort Is made to make them prac
tical and acceptable to the established
trade.
Common Smut of Corn Is
Most Familiar Disease
Common smut of corn is one of the
familia. and widespread of all
undoubtedly is the
destructive disease of the corn
crop that is now known if we take
Smut attacks only the
It lives through the winter in
material such as compost,
and enter its tissues through
or bruised places. They
germinate and grow rapidly and soon
formn on the surfaces of the plant the
lustrous lead-colored bolle which dark.
toose the black smut spores that car
ry over the disease in the soll for an.
If the smut bolls form in
the ear, the ear Is ruined. If they
form on another part of the plant, the
whole plant is weakened and the yield
is reduced though the ear may not be
directly injured.
Agricultural Squibs
A wise farmer knows by recorcs
what his crops cost.
* * -
A hobsled is a handy winter tool
for odd jobs around the farm,
* » -
Ktart keeping farm records this
winter when work i= slack. You may
he too busy to start next spring.
- * -
Close confinement reduces the re
sistance to disease, resulis in heavy
mortality, poor egg production, and
mall profits,
. *
The farm wagon is the most used
plece of farm equipment. When its |
toneth of 1ife Is considered it Is one |
if the cheapest.
. "0
Unless feeding beging soon after
the silo is filled considernble silage
will spell at the top from being ox.
posed to the alr,
.
Be falr to the young alfalfa. Dpn't
pugture or graze ihe fields the frst
yenr. Give them a chance to grow a
cover for a “bard winter,”
*. &
The best and tidiest way to keep
teuves while they are rotting down to
tenfold Is to dig a pit for them la
80 destro
! ctions betw
Inior nnd engine,
If you take re
there Is
no reason
paired in cold weather,
Filters require a certain amount of
service,
a car. This is well illustrated In the
case of the gasoline filter which will
inbperative and cause
up completely with water and is not
drained off. The water the
garoline In Its process
through the chamois filter.
it is easy to tell when water should
be drained from these devices for the
reason that a line can be seen to
mark the level of water at the bottom
It is always good
policy to clean the chamois filter with
gasoline whenever draining off the
water. After long periods of use, it
is advisable to insert a new chamois
filter,
blocks
of passing
Dirt Clogs Vacuum Tanks
Vacuum tanks, among the most eM
cient units of the modern automobiles,
rarely give trouble, When they do, the
cause usually is found to be dirt col
lected ant the point of gasoline outflow
It can be removed fairly easily, bu:
the motorist should be careful not to
go beyond simple cleansing. Other
wise, the delicate mechanism may be
upset, Real vacuum tank repairs
usunily are the province of the skilled
mechanie,
for Reckless Driving
A little more “living-room courtesy”
hus been suggested Edward Ver
Linden, president of a motor car cor-
poration, us a remedy for careless and
reckless driving Glaring, muttering
and shouting at drivers of other anto-
mobiles among the di
habits Linden says
drivers formed. In home
charming manners would greet a
rer, but open road every-
goes. After all, lsn't It true?
you come from a Sun-
day drive on a crowded road with the
memory of the way fellow un-
couthly “hollered” at when
had to swing out
car suddenly pulled out into
in front of you? And
“fresh” and “smart,” didn't
make you feel just a reckless’
Didn't you try to zpeed up a bit and
try to crowd him over in the road as
you went past? In the good old days
a man used to be “quick trig-
when he didn’t think the
pany was as polite toward him as It
ought to be, the trigger finger
has given place to the aceelerator
guys the Detroit Free Press,
action ’
by
fare courieous
Ver American
have one's
on tie
home
some
you you
bey tittle
he road
wis
80
little
on the
oer CO-
Now
foe,
whic
wrt
Wres
is to
ever some rude
the freedom
frequently
‘step on the gas”
person tries to
away of the op
Which
stories for the
results In
Monday paper
Put Shield Markers on
California’s Highways
California's federal gid highways
gill to be i
States shield markers
the number sy
tion adopted some
American Association
way Officials
the two
AW
are
$
with
large mot
Shield Marker,
of the the Automobi
Southern California and the California
State Automobile association, co-op-
that
ely
hich
and
tional
erating in placing £000 pew signs
will be needed
20600 miles of
federal aid Is belng extended,
which are included In the na
numbering system.
ton reso] rie
song approxin
highways on w
Locked Rear Bumper Is
Often Hard to Separate
Ever have some one back into the
car or otherwise misplace his car as
to lock a rear bumper with your front
one? Such collisions usually are so
trivial that the drivers forget how it
all happened. When bumpers lock it
is quite a problem to get them apart
without jacking up the cars or putting
forth a lot of effort. The first step Is
to remember how the bumpers got to
gether as they did. Getting them
apart, then, simply is a matter of re
versing the original process
prospective drivers how it
automobiles In operation,
Jam and explalaing to the