- nmin iM cts vos rari F -View G- NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS President's Law Enforce- ment Commission Begins Its Great Investigation, By EDWARD W. PICKARD RESIDENT HOOVER'S con sion on law enforcement has been appointed and is begin momentous task of failures The membershi proc Presider for body Its “el sham, Rtates during the Taft administre ‘he others Frank J. sistant state's attorney of William 8. Kenyon of Jowa, United Judge; Newton D States ; Baker of Cleveland, secretary of war under Wilson : the Harvard law school: William A. Grubb of Alabama, United States dis- trict judge; Paul J. McCormick of California, United States district Judge; Kenneth R. Mackintosh of Beattle, former chief justice of the Washington state Supreme court: Monte M. Lemann, president of the Louisiana Bar assoclation: Henry W. Anderson of Richmond Va. United Etates member of Mexican claims com- mission, and Miss Ada L. Comstock, president of Radcliffe college, Boston. Miss Com- one of these is an emi- nent lawyer, and three of them, Loesch, Baker and Pound, have had gpecial experience in crime investiza- tion. The one woman on the commis gion is also the sole representative of the laity, and some regret has been expressed that there Is no one to share with her this great Not one of the members has been ac tively identifled with the wets or the drys, although Judge Kenyon is generally regarded as the champion of the prohibitionists. Three of commissioners, Baker, Grubb Lemann, are Democrats. have met with alrman Is attorney general of the Uni George are Loesch, circuit Roscoe Pound, dean of With the exception of siock, every responsibility. either and Though the scope of the commis- ited to Inquiry into enforcement of the prohibition laws, this phase of the nvestigation Is looked upon as the most important and It Is certain to be the most Mmteresting to the people of America. Already the dry and wet organizations are marshaling thelr forces and preparing to present be- fore the commission all the facts and arguments at thelr command. Mr. Hoover Invited the members of the commission to eat luncheon at the White House and listen to his outline of the scope and purposes of thelr in. quiry. —— AILROADS of the country won a great victory when the Supreme court of the United States handed down Its decision In the famous St. Louis & O'Fallon raliroad case which on behalf of that obscure little coal road had been fought through all the courts. The Immediate object was to have set aside an order Issued by the Interstate commerce commission call- ing for a refund of a part of its earn- Ings, coming under what Is known as the recapture clause of the transpor- tation act, permitting railroads to re- tain one-half of thelr earnings In ex- cess of 0 per cent, and requiring them to pay over to the government the other half, Reversing a lower court decision and annulling the order, the Supreme court declded that the interstate com- merce commission must revise Its whole method of valuing rallroads to reach a basis for rate making. Years of work by the commission must be done over again In full or In part. Present values and the cost of re- placements must be considered by the commission In setting the basis of railroad compensation, the court ruled. This replaces the 1019 valuation now used by the commission. Justices Brandeis, Holmes and Stone dls- sented, At first it was belleved this decision would bring about higher passenger and freight rates, but later this was denied. The immediate effect on the New York Stock exchange was star- tling. Prices of rail stock soared with a rush of buying orders, but the ad. vances were cut in half by liquidation In Industrial stocks. FORMER SENATOR IRVINE LIL. LENROOT'S appointment to a fed confirmed by the senate despite the determined of a number of radicals, Soon thereafter a newspaper pub- lished what purported to be the roll call by which executive session, eral judgeship was finally opposition this action was taken in and thls stirred up a row that has resulted in the barring of ne service ws reporters floor of the senate. This } rules committee 1 nate with ¢ unnamed ee who 1} Vice Pr that ave been while news searded tha ris accorded the pri entury or more,” the rule the persons entitled to admission » rigidly enforced In the future, J olLrowiNaG Colonel Lindbergh's flight In his amphibian plane to North Haven, Maine, carrying his flancee, Anne Morrow : her mother and two sisters, the news developed that the youngest of the girls, Constance, tad recelved extortion letters threat. ening her life if 850,000 were not paid to the writer. Constance got two of these notes ai Miiton academy, West- wood, Mass, where she Is a sopho- more. Attempts to catch the extor- tioner by a decoy package failed, and at this writing his or her identity has not been discovered. For several days the Morrow family, heavily guard- ed by special edd thelr North Haven estate, and then Colonel Lindbergh took all to New York in his plane. officers, remained on them financial district York were theoretically devastated by bombs dropped by the army's huge Keystone bomber which made a non- stop flight of 600 miles from the head- the at Falrfield, Ohio. Next day the companied by a smaller biplane from which It was successfully refueled while in flight. NE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY- SIX clergymen, educators and leaders of religious thought In Great Britain and American have {ssued what Is entitled “A British-American Message to the Churches and to All People of Good WIL” It is an ap- peal for better understanding between the American and British peoples, and expresses the hope that all war may soon be abolished. The signers pledge themselves to accept In spirit and in fact the words of the Kellogg treaty: to “discountenance any and all ex. pressions or acts which contemplate as possible the use of any but pacific means for the setilement of disputes or conflicts; and to do our utmost to rally all men and women of good will to unite with us fn this same deter. mination.” WHILE the senate and house con- ferees continued in deadlock over the export debenture scheme In the isenate's farm rellef measure, the Re- publican members of the house tried to fix up their tariff bill so It would jbe assured of passage. There was a lot of log rolling and varfous trades were engineered. It was sald dulles would be placed on hides, leather and shoes and.those on a number of farm products increased. Every effort was being made by the leaders to prevent f vote on the floor of the house on amendments for a reduction in the proposed duty on sugar or for the restoration of cement, brick, shingles and Ilnmber to the free list. The Michigan automobile industry together with other Industries using alcohol, such as manufacturers of drugs and paints, were reported to have tri umphed over Illinois and Towa corn growers who have been seeking a duty on blackstrap molasses high enough to stimulate the use of corn In the man. ufacture of alcohol, In the matter of the farm relief measure, the house conferees wore In- sistent that there be no vote in the house on the debenture plan, while the senators argued earnestly that such a vote would make easier thelr task In persuading the senate to ne- cept the bill with that feature omitted. ECENT of of International disclosures the ties the papers, made Insects Revel in During Extremely Hot Weather. Midsummer heat “hag a decidedly cooling effect on one thing at least enthusiasm on the part of the amateur Conversely, the tem the ardor Interested In gardener. ns | perature | of the bugs flowers. Worst Garden Insects. of the worst lnusect { of the garden are thelr utmost fust at the time when the gardener wants to take a rest,” says Victor H ies, florticulturist at Ohlo State “As the nd vances the real gnmidener must become vigilant and instead of The blister the tar plant bug and the red spider | the most vigorous enemies | of plants during July and August, | The blister beetle, a hard I long, shelled Insect about half an Ine before work RO which are mounts, does enemies “Some doing extension university. £enson more active legs 20.” beetle, nished fire among black, eats uy the plants and escapes poison can get in it tarnished active the average on him. The particul be controlled by one on | newer spray material i um as the actiy not ut, with the « Another are to be braska to deliver in the long address In which he latlon to prevent newspapers by pu senate a acquisition utilities expansion The Hoover federal the cerns and to curb the such corporations. Nebraskan President Lenroot on the I geored oportunity to sel i nit) trust,” the existenc been declaris ly pleaded g for years publi h with guates press, “4 lleved by the old Taena-Ariea formally announced in The agreement reached was that pro- posed by President Hoover, seitlement of dispute, which Alfalfa Seed Injured if Mixed With Sweet Clover There Is no ivy hy w» and Arica to Chile, the only port of call for steamers on the Tacna-Ariea coastline, ed to Chile, but Peru Is rights of a free port there. agreed to erect a rallroad custom house, and a whart for the use of Peru, to pay Perg 80.000 0600, Bolivia, which had hoped outlet to the sea through the Arica, nlone 1s dissatisfied with settlement, station, a at Arica i an of for r » wort full Civii verge of another great Gen. Chiang Kal tionallst government, and Gen. Feng Yu-hslang, the “Christian general™ have reached the parting of the ways and at last reports were about ready for armed operations against each other. At present the trouble is cen- tered about Canton. Just what it is all about Is difficult to understand at this distance, but Feng asserts his government Is and warns foreign consuls lending him assistance, “MNegal™ — R. ALBERT VOEGLER, secretary of the German Federation of In- dustries, has resigned from the Ger man committee of the conference of reparations experts and departed from Paris, which led to fears that the econ. ference would be a complete fallure. In any event It seemed certain the be greatly prolonged. Germany had accepted the American compromise plan with certain conditions, and the allied nations had practically accepted these conditions, but with reserva. tions. The Germans Indicated four of the reservations of the allies were al most totally Inacceptable and that they would yield no further, and the aliles stated that thelr limit had been reached. OREIGN ministers of the little en- tente held a conference In Belgrade In which, according to official an- nouncement, a complete accord was reached on all questions, A treaty of arbitration was signed and the other treaties among the nations were pro longed. The nations all entered pro- test against any reduction of repara- tions amounts, EATHS of the week Included those of Earl Roseberry, veteran statesman and former prime minister of Great Britain: Eliza Hensler, nine ty-three, the American-born morga- natic wife of Ferdinand of Saxe Coburg, king consort of Portugal half 8 century ago; and Rebecen Ewing Watterson, widow of Henry Watter. son, the famous Kentucky Journalist, THE society of the League of Na. tions at The Hague has awarded Grotius medals to Frank B. Kellogg, rmer secretary of state, and Sir Krie mmond. The Grotlus medal was instituted in 1025, to be granted each year thereafter to ten persons for work dove lo the promotion of pesca iterated by clover, soe Not Advisable to Burn Off Sweet Clover Land 6 good plan to burn off 1 of trash which will the Eve grass fs worth too mu burned off any xi iN in soil, hue Of is enough ao afford a good ha may RODE over a field lover growth does not usu. fine trash t rbhor hineh bugs there be cation for burning « rd good enough wh bugs to live over win red top, sometimes Burning over timothy itl blue grass look this i= does be one only an goo appear ance, can the new grass starting than when old growth is not burned off. likely fo because better 0000000 000000000 g Farm Notes Meadow fescue ig a perennial grass with habits of growth much timothy. - * * Sudan hay is low in protein. but has about the same feeding value as prairie hay. * ® . There are only two safe bulls—the one confined io a “safety first” bull pen, and the dead bull. » - . Among the most desirable varieties of the red currants are the Fay or Fay Prolific. the Perfection and Pomona, - . » A reason why the soy bean Is grow. Ing in popularity is because it is easy to seed, cultivate, harvest and thresh, * » . Incope is the name of a new variety of cabbage which is claimed to be highly resistant to the disease, cab bage yellows. - * . Farmers who use a large number of electrically-driven devices on thelr farms report that they save the cost of meny days of hired labor. . Tree planting on idle land and woodlot thinning of second-growth timber go hand in hand. Both prac tices nid In the development of the greatest possible Income and satisfac. tion from that part of the furm on which they are applied and which now la yielding little or no Income 0 On Any MEAD <= Bicycle J whether you buy from your Local Dealer or from us direct, Saves|0%fos25% On Your Bicycle Prices From 21% Up Get full particulars by mail today. 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' — Mead Se fanpny -—— Only Two Species of Flowers in Antarctic regions support « Vv ay " i it Is not unt e sun irg in a few ATH of io ‘ Fg with cliff fac unligh only a month or The ground thaws to a d several inch a few cles i then Is saturate d water. Mosses ore than fifty species He the veget the exception chens EX HOR d e—{8 f “8 On even —— el St. Monarch’s Logie Olave, had an aga an whe wus T1 with one clumsy foet ve id them ti foot He stated that he was sure t! none uglier, 80 sure slumbers, Ol: geen the ugliest in al was the king that fesged himself ready to n 7 tock } without more ado the 3 the ether fox “There, O King.” is every bit as uglier, for one toe i “You are wrong” “The first foot has five ugly it and this has only four. quest orarin out toes The on first Her Place in the Sun She lay torso. Her beantiful vacant eves stared calmly at you; even yet the flawless waves stuck to her golden hair. Her facial beauty was ruined; her lovely cheeks had slid down Into her neck. and there they were In chunks. Bot &till the light was in her eyes: she'd met her destruction bravely, and new er squinted once . , . “We'll need a new doemmy,” said the hairdresser, looking at the show win dow the storm bad blown in lifeless, a mere shattered Tiniest Church Found England's tiniest. church has been found at Culbone. It Is euly 30 feet long and 12 feet wide. There is no pulpit because of insufficient space. In the church parich are only 30 people and the village has only two houses, #0 that at times the congregation is almost nil Business Reverse The wayfarer was making an appeal for charity from a well-dressed gentle man. “Well,” said the other, “1 seem to remember you. Didn't you have a lit tie business of some sort ence upon » time? Don't tell me you've taken up begging ¥" “Yes, 1 have, sir,” returned the oth- er. “I've got no other way to get along since I lost me business.” “But how did you come to lose ity “My business was a one-hand laune dry,” sald the mournful! soul, an’ one day my wife just up an’ left me” A Handicap : “But surely,” said the haughty pas senger, “if 1 pay the fare for my dog he will he treated the same as other passengers and be allowed te occupy a seat?” “Of course, madam,” the guard re plied politely, “provided he does nod put his feet on JL."
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