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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Dissensions in the Pan-
American Conference—
Political Gossip.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
NTERNATIONAL discord was rife
in the Pan-American conference at
Havana during the week, and It be-
came increasingly evident that plans
for the adoption of a convention put-
ting the Pan-American union on a re-
organized permanent basis could not
be put inte effect yet. They were
blocked mainly by the attitude of
Hounorio Pueyrredon of Argentina.
who still insisted that the convention
must contaln a declaration against
trade barriers in the form of high
tariffs and who declared he would not
sign a convention without that fea.
ture. His government, however, in-
structed him to sign the convention
with reservations, whereupon he re
signed both as head of the Argentine
and as ambassador to the United
States. The modus vivendi then adopt-
ed by the conference for the govern
ment of the Pan-American union until
the governments shall ratify the new
convention provides for continuance
of the resolutions in effect with a few
modifications.
Then, in a plenary session of the
conference, the matter of Im
regulation came up, and three resolu-
tions, all aimed at the policy of the
United States, were adopted, To each
proposition, as it was adopted, Ambas-
sador Fletcher, a member of the Unit-
ed States delegation, made the reser
United States regards
purely domestic
vation that the
Immigration a ques-
thereon exclusive.
United States
tion and legislation
ly the function of the
CONgZTress,
One of the resolutions provided that
any American republic may restrict
immigration from a non-American ggn
tinent. Immigration Into the United
States from the other American re-
publies and from Canada and the
West Indies is unrestricted, bat
the Coolidge administration favors
ihe extension of our restrictive policy
to countries in the hemi-
sphere and the question is to be con-
sidered by congress at this session.
The convention for regulation of
commercial aviation among American
countries, favored by the United
States delegation, was adopted. But
the Americans lost a point the day be-
fore when the committee on public In-
ternational law adopted a rule of war
that would operate to prevent any
American republic from arming mer-
chant ships against submarines. The
fight for this resolution was led by
Doctor Podesta of Argentina and the
vote was 11 to 4. It is not likely
that the United States will accept it.
The same committee, on motion of
the Mexican delegate, asked that the
Pan-American union convene a com-
mission of experts to consider plant
quarantines, Mexico especially ob-
jects to United States regulations that
bar Importation of Mexican fruits and
plants Infected with insect pests. Am-
hassador Fletcher gave notice that the
United States would not consent to
arbitration of plant disease quaran-
tines,
now
western
Fascist Italy contemplated with sat-
isfaction the dissensions in the Ha-
vana conference and looked on the
meeting as a virtual failure. The
opinion of the Roman press was that
the major Latin-American nations, In
order to escape from the hegemony
of the United States, should seek co-
operation with Spain and Italy,
“which represent Latin civilization In
the world.”
ERBERT HOOVER, secretary of
commerce, Is now formally in the
race for the Republican Presidential
nomination, for he has consented to
the use of his name in the Ole pri
maries against Senator Willis. Under
the Ohio law a can¥idate must give
consent to the use of his name. and
Mr. Hoover went that far. and then
stopped for the present, Fe decided
not to take the stump anywhere dur
ing the preconvention campaign and
to remain in the cabinet: and he
asked that expenditure of money In
his behalf be “strictly limited and
rigidly accounted for.”
Willis' supporters in Ohio at first
affected to be unalarmed by the
Hoover asserting that it was
brought sbout by a “group of state
politicians without prestige”
would be without avail, But
complacency was disturbed when Mau
rice Maschke, committeeman
from Ohlo, favorite son
and announced he would
secretary of commerce, believing him
the strongest man the Republicans
could select. Senator Willis was
astonished and accused Maschke of
having repudiated promises of sup
pert. The Hooverites predicted that
Hoover would win from 16 to 24 of
the state's 51 delegates to the cenven-
tion. In a letter to Maschke Renator
Willis more than Intimated that the
wets prefer the nomination of Hoover.
“The chief newspaper supporters of
Mr. Hoover openly state in their ed!
torials and news columns that they
are supporting Mr. Hoover for the
nomination on the Republican ticket
and failing in that, they will give
their support to Gov, Al Smith,” the
letter said. “This makes their pur
pose and attitude In the matter very
clear. I cannot believe that you and
your organization sympathize with
such a viewpoint.”
Managers of the Hoover boom plan
to enter nine or ten of the seventeen
primary states, Their
the Initial Hoover
convention run
move,
and
thelr
national
deserted the
support the
estimates of
strength In the
from 325 to 375. and
be far ahead of Frank O. Lowden,
whose vote on the first ballot has been
The con
1.080 delegates
the noming
predicted at 250 or more.
vention will have
545 will be necessary for
tion,
long
for a
Democratic
* increased by the news
bany that Gov. Al 8S
that the platform ce
calling for
y mui fd
i g
ng i iii
oe *3 1 1:1 ronle
act. This is repl;
statement of McAdoo that no wet will
or can be the Demos
for the Presidency,
stead
ratic candidate
and at least [it
shows he has the courage of his con
victions. Recent canvasses have
is said, that at the start
the South will be
15t Smith, the
shown, it
the convention
most solid
tion being p is
has been supposed that a lot of
ern delegates would shift to the gov.
ernor if there were to be no wet plank
in the platform,
The dry Democrats at present sre
apparently concentrating their
on an attempt to bring about the nom
ination of Edwin T. Meredith of lowa
He 1s a dry and favors rather radical
legislation for farm relief.
efforts
to, revealed no especial sentiment
here for Senator Reed of Missouri,
his managers assert they have re-
ceived many assurances of support for
him In those states as well as in the
West. Mr. Reed began his active eam-
paign Saturday when he started for
Dallas, Texas, on a speaking tour
that will take him to the Pacific coast.
MY members of congress, both
i wets and drys, have long sought
to avold going on record on the pro-
hibition question in any form, but the
other day they were all forced out
Into the open. Representative Lin-
thicum of Maryland, leader of the
wets in the house, moved to recommit
the treasury and post office appropri
ation bill and add the following sec.
ion:
“That no money herein appropri
ated for the enforcement of the na-
tional prohibition act shall be used In
the preparation or issue of any per
mit for the removal or use of any
industrial alcohol known to be dena-
tured by any deadly, poisonous drug.”
The motion was rejected by a vote
of 281 to Gl. Though outnumbered
by more than four to one. the wets
seemed pleased ns varions members
representing wet distriers ware foreed
ta make good on thelr Anti Saloon
lengue pledges
UBLIC utilities of the United
States are to be investigated. but
not by a senate committee as Senn.
tor Walsh of Montana desired. Sena
tor George of Georgin and many oth-
ers opposed the Walsh plan and radl
cals of both parties supported It.
Finally the Mentana senator's resolu.
tion was amended to provide that the
federal trade commission should be
directed to make the investigation and
in this form It was adopted.
The Inquiry is to apply to utility
corporations doing an interstate busi
also will affect
ness, and corpora-
tions holding the stocks of two or
utilities operating in dif-
states The directs
the comm the pert.
nent facts
curities of
extent
their stockholders figure in the situa-
and any legisiation
should be enacted by congress to cor-
also ag-
more public
ferent resolution
ission to go into
in connection with the se.
utility corporations, the
to which holding companies or
tion, whether
The resolution
thorizes the commission to quire
into the extent to which utifity cor
porations or their officers seek by the
expenditure of money to control elec
tions of President, vice president, or
United States senators, or to Influence
public opinion.
rect abuses,
pm relief legislation is agnin be
fore the senate, for its agricultural
committee has reported favorably on
the revised McNary-Haugen bill. As
altered, the measure meets many of
the objections of President
to the original bill, but it still carries
the equalization fee provision. An al
identical bill, introduced by
lepresentative Haugen, was still be
ing discussed by the agricul-
but it was hoped by
that it would be
and acted on by the
Coolidge
most
house
tural committee :
the senate
reported
leaders
hose
became necessary for the
senate to take a vole, The house
committee heard last week the
proposition of B. FP
new
Yoakum that the
ned over to
work
organizations
the statute of limitations
The
produced a lot of evidence sus
fore
against the cha
had
taining the bribery charge, but the de
fendant
prosecution
wis saved by the technicality.
an good-will tor
rom Havans St. Louls
From time he left
December 13 he had
190.31
Secretary
by fiying
without stop
Washington on
flown 9.300
hours and without mishap
miles in
of War Davis hag expressed the hope
that the colonel will now give up all
and dangerous flying, but the
he would resume his work in that line
Capt. Joseph F. Donnellan, who
started frome Chicago to fly to Chile,
abandoned his trip at Havana because
the fogs made it too perilous for a
single-motored plane.
ERBERT HENRY ASQUITH,
earl of Oxford and Asquith,
greatest leader of the Liberal party
since Gladstone, died at his country
home on the Thames near Oxford
after an iliness of two years. He was
prime minister during the stormy
years from 1008 to 1016, directing the
course of the empire in the first
years of the war, after which he re
signed to let Lloyd George, a more
vigorous man, take the helm. In re
cent years he and Lloyd George had
disagreed seriously and this almost
split the Liberal party, but in Oc
tober, 1026, Asquith retired from the
party leadership. Prominent men of
all parties paid tribute to the earl's
great qualities when his death was
announced, and parliament adjourned
for a day. Burial was offered in
Westminster Abbey but was declined
hy the family becanse‘of the known
wishes of Earl Asquith,
Lee O'Nell Browne, a veteran mem
ber of the Hiinois. legislature and
widely known lawyer, het tragic
death at his home in Ottawa when he
fell from an embankment into the Fos
river and was drowned,
die Foy. old-time comedian whe
was known throughout the country,
died suddenly in Kansas City during
what he had sald was his farewell
tour of stages on which he had ap
peared during more than half a con
tury. He was seventyAhree yours old
and his real name was Edwin Fits
gerald.
two
Seed Potatoes
Grown in Ohio
State Association Certifies |
6,336 Bushels for Spring
Planting.
Seed potas produced in Ohlo |
last year, by sixteen growers in
twelve counties, certified |
by the Ohio Certified Potato |
Growers’ association, for planting this |!
year. The growers whose seed pota-
tees have been approved by the as.
sociation have a total of 6.336 bush
els available, The have
passed rigid inspections in the
fleld and one in the hin
Use Separate Fields.
Additional restrictions looking to-
ward the production of high quality
seed are being taken this year by the
association, Fields in which
potatoes are grown must be separated
from fields In which {
tatoes are grown, by at
feet, In order to protect
spreading of virus diseases
insect migration, The
which certified seed Is grown must
be approved after a test made in the
greenhouses “of the horticulture de
partment of Ohle State
Abnormality of vield or nn
been
Seed
have
potatoes
two
goed
noncertified po
least 100
against the
through
stock from
university.
ire in the
certified may disqualify It,
Plant Late in Season.
Growers of which are to
be certified as seed are urged by the
officinls of the plant
their ROA -
son, In order to shorten the inenbation
seed
potatoes
nssociation to
seed potatoes late in the
stort |
short
northern
period for disease germs. The
growing season and
incubation period of the
grown potatoes
sponsible for the
disease,
consequent
is believed to be re
those |
their de
freedom of
potatoes from and
sirabliity as seed.
Lists of growers of certified
and the varieties and amounts which
they have “avillable, mre dis
tributed by the association through
the office of E. B. Tussing of Ohlo
State university, secretary-treasurer
of the organization,
goed,
being
Now Is Time to Strike
Weeds can be
vantage in the
cleaning grain
fanning mille
the correct speed and having the
properly
back-aching work killing
fought to
dead of
and leg
good ad
i
winter by
Ime
seed by
the use of operated nt’
right
equipment adjusted. Some
weeds under |
next summer can be
fanning weed seeds this
rom the grain and clover and
pinnts d
“If the mill Is not doing satisfactory
send a
I~ B. B
nery expert of the Univer.
if Minnesota. “They will tell
trouble with the
SHert,
i
maciiine and
¢ farmer
i through the
ults he
oper intens
chaffy ker.
is aft
18 done
nuni
Lice or
7 of 8 geod ¢
farm seeds is
2
understood bs progr
esive
farmers
Sowing Sweet Clover
When it gets warm in April or some
ne in May, take some kind of a
screen, a sand screen would do, and
and put
through the |
best, Sack up
four or five bushels of this sweet elo
go to a sweet clover patch
the sweet clover dirt
gereen . sandy soil is
ten or twelve |
dirt by
across the
this
other rod
Sow hand. Sow
field, In
Dogs
and other also in
as well as rnin carry the |
inoculation over the whole field,
animnls,
sects will
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A good double disking will put pen |
stubble land in fine shape for oats and |
vetch,
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Several
hundred thousand miles of |
hogight fence Ig one of the
needs,
greatest
-. . *
After the first few cuttings of rhu
barb stems, many gardeners neglect
this crop until the following spring
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A small bed of Egyptian or winter |
onions planted either In the spring or
better in the fall will
after year,
produce sear
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Do not fail to take good eare of your
rhubarb plants all season, as well us |
in the spring when you are making |
nee of the tender stems for sauces
and pies,
. - .
Put the garden on new soil this
Year. The garden spot on many
farms is the garden spot for a life
time, Diseases get firmly rooted, soil
becomes depleted change ocension
ally.
CL
A hundred pounds of nitrate of soda
to the acre averaged giving ten bush.
els more wheat to seven farmers in
Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee, Thelr
yields averaged 2805 bushels to the
acre without the oitrate, and 338
bushels with it
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