NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Democrats and Radicals of Senate Defeat Hoover on Flexible Tariff. By EDWARD W. PICKARD HIRTEEN Republican senators, nearly all classed as “radicals,” united with the Democrats last week to administer a decisive defeat to President Hoover in the tariff bill battle. By a vote of 47 to 42 the sen- ate adopted the Simmons amendment to the measure taking away from the President the power to make changes in the duties under the so-called flex- ible tariff provision which has been In effect for seven years. Mr. Hoover had urged that this feature of the bill be retained, but the majority of the senators decided that it represents a delegation of the taxing power by congress to the executive and might lead to further usurpation of the pow- ers of the legislative branch of the government. Anyhow, that was their story and they stuck to it, although unbiased observers thought their ac- tion had more of a political basis, The President's position in the matter had the approval of nearly all the big farm organizations, but the radical Republicans, most of whom claim to represent agricultural states, disre- garded this fact and took advantage of the opportunity to hit Mr. Hoover. The Democrats are not at all sure of keeping a solid front on the rate schedules, so they made this showing on an administrative feature, only four of their members voting against the Simmons amendment. Under the amendment adopted, the President would be required to trans- mit promptly tariff commission re- ports to congress. adding his own rec- ommendation if desired. Sole author- ity to make changes in duties would be vested in congress. To prevent the opening up of other tariff matters con- gress would be prevented from con- sidering any amendments to bills em- bodying tariff commission recom mendations which were not germane to the particular item. Senator John- son sald the tariff would be “infinitely more flexible” under the amendment than under the present law. Of course the house may reject the amendment. NE hundred and seventy-five con- viets in the Colorado state peni- tentiary at Canon City mutinied, mur- dered half a dozen guards and barri- caded themselves In one of the cell houses, defying the warden's forces and a detachment of National Guards- men. The convicts had few guns but plenty of ammunition, and before they were conquered it was found necessary to use machine guns, dynamite and finally a .75-millimeter fleld piece from the rifle range at Golden. During the flerce battle Warden F. E. Crawford himself was badly wounded. The mutineers, who were led by one Dan- ny Danlels, demanded unrestricted freedom, threatening the death of guards they had captured if this were refused. The state forces would not listen to any such proposals, The warden’s men were reinforced not only by the militia but also by police from Denver and other cities and hundreds of armed citizens, ILLIAM B. SHEARER, the “ob- server” for American ship build. ing concerns at the Geneva naval con- ference of 1927, was a voluble and sensational witness before the senate committee that is Investigating prop- agandist activities, and after hearing him the committee adjourned its ses sions untill the visit of Prime Minister MacDonald Is concluded. This prob- ably was wise, for Shearer had brought Into the record and handed to the commlitee a document which would be internationally startling If it were genuine, This purports to be a letter addressed to David Lloyd George and was sald to be “reeking with hos- tility to the United States.” Shearer attributed it to Sir William Wiseman, whom be called the chief British spy fn the United States during the war and who Is now with Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of New York, le sald it was Lven him by a Mr, Summers of Los Angeles, who recelved It from a Mr. Wheeler, who got it from Ben Me- Lenden, who extracted it from the files of the British consulate In New York during the war; and that he showed it to navy officers and to the then Senator Reed of Missourl, and it played an important part In shap- ing the naval policy of the senate, Sir William Wiseman denounces the document as a “clumsy, absurd forgery.” W. 8. Summers of Los An- geles says he knows Shearer but knows nothing of the letter. IL. B. Wheeler, formerly a federal secret service operative, says he never knew Shearer; and A. C. Merrill, a Navy department expert, has given an opin- fon that the document is spurious. All of which did not seem to abash Shearer. Several well-known news- paper correspondents who were at the Geneva conference and whose names were dragged into his story by Shearer, have declared that gentie- man's statements to be lies. RIG. GEN, F. P. CROZIER of Eng- land, right hand man of Lord tobert Cecil In disarmament efforts, sent ta Ambassador Dawes a letter stating that in 1927 a man calling hinmelf “Sherman™ offered him large sums of money to cease his advocacy of a reduction of the British army and navy, and that in the newspaper portraits of Shearer he recognized likenesses of that man. Shearer de. nies having approached General Cro zler, saying he had not been in Eng land since 1018 and never heard of the general. When the committee resumes its hearings it will eal] Sir William Wise- man, Former Secretary of State Kel and names come up in the inquiry. Under a reso- lation introduced by Senator Cara- way the senate, through its judiciary commiltee, also will start an investi gation of all lobbles operating in con- gress, logge others whose Snir ERMANY lost its foremost states. man last week when Dr, a heart atlack following a stroke of paralysis. He had been In poor health for months but recently lad so far re. covered ns to he able to take part In the reparations conference at The Hague and the session of the League of Nations assembly In Geneva. Doe tor Stresemann, who was born In Ber. lin in 1878, was president of the Ger. man People’s party, a member of the reichstag and was several times chan- cellor of both the empire and the re- public. It was he who put into effect the policy of reconciliation with Ger many's former foes and who brought his country into the League of Na- tions. He was looked upon as the backbone of the present Mueller eab- Inet and Berlin politicians doubted whether the coalition government could be held together without him, HAF tropleal hurricane that swept westward from the West Indies, after killing some twenty persons and doing great damage in the Bahamas, struck Florida with devastating force, tearing Its way upward from Key West to Pensacola and then veering over to the Atlantic coast region and dissipating itself In furious rain storms, The Floridians, being fore- warned, had taken all possible precan. tions, but the property losses were considerable though the deaths were few. The rains in the Carolinas and Georgin added to the already serious flood situation there, the Savannah and other rivers having risen to stages unequaled In many years. All the way up to New England the storm crippled land and water transporta- tion and wire service. AMSAY MAC DONALD must have been gratified with the reception accorded him by the officials and peo- ple of the United States. The prime minister's ship, the Berengaria, was escorted into New York harbor Friday Trenton, and at quarantine he and his party were taken in hand by Mayor Walker's welcoming committee and landed at Battery Point. There they were met by Secretary of State Stim gon and British Ambassador Sir BEame Howard and then a procession was formed to the city hall, where Mr. MacDonald was granted the freedom of the city. Soon thereafter the party took train for Washington, where the prime minister and his daughter Ishibel went first to the British embassy. On Saturday Mr. MacDonald became the guest of President Hoover at the White House and the conversations on Anglo-British relations and naval reduction, the purpose of the visit, be. gan. The social program arranged In the National Capital included func. tions at which Ishbel was the central figure. While the prime minister was on the high seas, Arthur Henderson, min- ister for foreign affalrs, and Valerian Dovgalevsky, Soviet ambassador to France, got together and signed an agreement for full resumption of dip- lomatic relations between Great Drit- ain and Russia, including an exchange of ambassadors, and for the settlement of questions outstanding between the two governments. This agreement Is subject to the approval of parliament. UESTIONING of the members of the federal farm board was con- tinued by the senate committee on ag- riculture and the board was subjected to further criticism for not using huge sums of money to force up the prices of this season's wheat crop. Samuel R. McKelvie, of Nebraska, the wheat member of the board, had a sharp clash with Senator Brookhart on the question of whether or not the board was authorized to fix prices, the lowa solon insisting it was, Mr. McKelvie said that the board members hope that the new grain mar- keting corporation which is in process of organization at Chicago, will be ready to operate In such a manner as to stabilize wheat prices next year. It was the opinion of the board, he said, that it was not feasible to commence stabilization operations this year. In Chleago Willlam H. Settle, chalrman of the organization committee, sald the grain marketing corporation would be completed within a week. At the call of the farm board the wool growers of the nation held a meeting in Chicago to discuss plans for a similar central marketing and financing agency for thelr industry. HE American Legion, session in Louisville, held greatest parade In its history and then got down to business adopting a lot of resolutions most of which concerned the care of disabled vet- ernns and like matters. Woodlawn post of Chicago won first place in the drill team competition and Electric post of Milwaukee won the band con. test. Boston and Los Angeles sought next year's convention and It was awarded to the Massachusetts city on the first ballot, 0. L. Bodenhamer of El Dorado, Ark., was elected commander unanimously, He was a school teacher who enlisted as a private In 1017 and was dis charged two years later as a major, Mrs. Donald Macrea of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was chosen national president of the American Legion auxiliary, EADERS In the prohibition cause to the number of a score met in Washington and organized the “co- operative committee for prohibition enforcement” which is Intended to co- ordinate the activities of the country's numerous dry organizations The headquarters will be in Washington and the chairman Is Patrick H. Calla. han of Louisville. The committee proposes to lay a scientific ground. work for a campaign of education as to the benefits of prohibition. President Hoover appointed John R. McNab of San Francisco as head of a special body which will study and formulate changes in federal ad- ministration and judicial machinery. In announcing the appointment the President sald the recommendations of this group would be submitted to congress for the more effective en forcement of the laws under the Eighteenth amendment, RITZ VON OPEL of Germany, wealthy automobile builder and race driver, made the first flight in a plane propelled by rockets as was the car he recently tried out. ie flew for about six miles at terrific speed and then, the rockets being used, came down in a crash that wrecked the plane though he escaped unin. Jured. Coste and Bellonte, the French pilots who started from [Puris east ward on an endurance flight, were believed, toward the end of the week, to have landed Iu some remote 81 berina forest, (@ 1929, Wostern Newsoaner Inland in annual | WHY WE BEHAVE LIKE HUMAN BEINGS By GEORGE DORSEY, Ph. D., LL.D. What Makes Ciants and Dwarfs. ( N THE day we are horn we have used up only 2 per cent of our allotted growth power. We ean grow 08 per cent more If we nre spare We double our welght the first months; a calf does It In fifty days: a dog, in eight. We increase our weight 200 per cent in the first year, less than 30 In the second, only 5 in the fifth, Increase in welght then plcks up again nnd continues until the tenth yesr, to drop back from the eleventh to the thirteenth, From the fourteenth to the seventeenth, puberty years, it in creases again, to 12 per cent. That is our last spurt. It drops to 4 per cent during the eighteenth year; to 1 per cent during the twenty-second. Stature also increases by spurts By the time the infant can walk, It has grown from twenty to thirty-four inches: thereafter, until puberty, It grows between two and three inches a year, The thirteenth Is the rapid grow ing year for girls, the sixteenth for boys, Between fourteen and sixteen the boy Increases his stature eight inches, attain their full sometimes by eigh ut both or four #ix Girls usually twenty, hoys by 1 continue venty-dive, growth three years longer, The new-born's brain is already one- fifth the destined welght, ten ounces ; by the second year two-fifths, or aus large as an adult anthropoid ape’'s. Full brain weight comes hefore twenty-five; after that it loses weight, rapidly in old age. The two elements In growth are weight and height, Welght often con- about knows no limit. Stature is determined nlmost the skeleton, Only skin bones of the feet: vertebrae are thin pads of car a matter of growth of skull. bodies of vertebrae, and especially of bones, the Bones grow from centers of ossifica- tion. Centers for the principal bones the ends, or not until skeleton begins to assume its perma nent fo The epiphyses, appear puberty, when number of ossification different the arms 1 he legs have at shaft The is stiftl in bones nnd the three: one In and one at each epiphysis hum erus at fifteen years three than at birth. By maturity, the heads In general, facial and skull-dome are formed from membrane bones; the other bones begin Jone-forming cells multi “skin” in cartilage. crease in length ends when the cartil- In the mature skele- be no further growth or in length of arms. If is delayed, gigantic stature results: {f the process is reversed, dwarfs. Only the articulating or joint surfaces of mature bones are covered by cartilage, Bones increase in girth by additions of bone cells from the surrounding membrane, Long bones are hollow. To preserve their relative proportion of bone wall to cavity, bone cells on the inside are destroyed as fast as cells are added to the outside, Thus the cavity grows with the bone, the form and strength of the bones are pre served. This process keeps up until inte in life. With old age the bones become thin and delicate, Complicated changes take place in acquiring the upright gait. A chick can run from its shell; a baby cannot even straighten its legs. They bend In at the knees and are drawn up at the hips, and are only 60 per cent of head-trunk length. By maturity they will be over 100 per cent. As the walk. ing days approach, the legs grow fast, Knee and hip Joints change; the legs can now be straightened out, The soles of the feet no longer turn in. The baby at birth can clap its feet almost as easily as its hands The spine also changes. It is not golid, but consists of twenty-four ver tebrae with pads of cartilage between. At birth a large percentage of the col. umn is cartilage. Powerful muscles develop to hold the spine erect: oth. ers, acting on the ribs as levers, to balance the trunk and spine, Standing Is a complex act involv. ing nearly all our big muscles. When we stand “at attention,” powerful liga: ments in the hip Joint hold the body. This relieves the muscles from strain, but locks the knee joint, We stand easier If the knees are slightly bent and the knee-caps loose. The feet muscles must bind the many small bones together to give support and from the instep or arch. A man ean stand up asleep, but not If muscles of feet or of legs are “asleep.” (© by George A. Dorsey.) His Occupation Nogey Old Gent—\What are you do ing, niy little man? Fishing? Disgusted Boy—Naw! Drowadin’ fshwormae” Not many years ago horses ran terror from this horseless carriage. speeder was made In 1900, has six FOR PARKING ILLS Paved Areas Must Be Built to Bring Full Motoring Utility. (By .. E Duffy) Whether going or coming or not go ing at all, the automobile occupies a certain amount of space. Oddly, the motorist frequently experiences the Somehow or other parking spaces alwuys seen to or else two curt words on 8 ignboard compel him to move on, Sedans mre no longer buggies and inadequate. Purking In clty and town is no small problem, and unfortunately little has been done tenlay by municipalities to pinces for create cars. The park found In a new facility, establishment of ‘paved swer to It is {he Build Parking Space. In Chicago, the Lincoln park board mking an effort to unscrambie 11s ng These 130 feet SOU cars, two will wide, ac At Coney Is situation rete parking 1 foot hy construct Baces long by comimnoedating land there 10 feet long hy 705 feet wide, Inrge accommodate more than A fair-sized city in Hlinols realized was not business getting share of were going do their busing. Clty business men conferred Shortly a group of old buildings was torn down and a spaciops parking piace was provided. Not content with this, the city built a new bridge across which had alwars heen » traffic barrier. Today, probably neo city of itz gize is getting more rural trade than this progressive [liinoils community, The handling of the automobile is a city problem and many municipalities have decided that the provision of parking places Is likewise something in which the city government has a deep interest. Vacant city property of low earning capacity might well be turned over to the convenience of the motoring family, which just about in cludes everyone. In some cases it may be practicable for the city to por chase land for the establishment of parking areas. Full Utility of Car. The full utility of the automobile will not have been attained until the mwotorist can stop within the near neighborhood of his destination. This i= something that most motorists are denied at present. The creation of municipally or privately owned park: ing areas naturally entails some ex- pense which, with the expense of op eration and maintenance, justifies low parking fees. One way of relieving traffic conges- tion, which harasses city governments more than any other one thing, is to get the cars off the sircets. [Paved parking areas will do that. its rural Farmers elsewhere to nls and Proper Type Spark Plug Most Important Factor To maintain efficient engine per formance in cars, buses or trucks, it is essential that the proper type spark plug be usel The same type spark plug will not meet all driving conditions and all reputable manufacturers include In their lines many different types or spark plugs to meet different operat. ing conditions. Attention to the mat. ter of the proper selection of spark plugs for particular service go a long way toward Insuring trouble-free per- formance, i ; An lustration of this point Is cited in the ense of a bus that had been operated with complete satisfaction on a level route, bu! when it was transferred to a different route where practically all of the highway was through hilly country, the engine de. veloped preignition, The difficulty was immediately corrected with the installation of spark plugs of a cooler type especially desigued to overcome preignition, New Light Code Signals Will Help Color Blind The standard recommendations for a uniform system of traflic lights ap- proved by the American engineering council alm to the color-blind driver. The suggests arrangement of traffic lights when in a vertical bank 80 that the red is on top, yellow light below It, If used, and green on the bottom, If the lights are set up in a horizontal row it recommends that the red be placed at the left, yellow in the middle and green on the right. The theory is that many traffic ac cidents can be prevented If color help code sition of the lights, rather than their color, Tire Holder Arranged on Any Running-Board The lustration shows a convenient running-ward tire bolder ean be made from a back of As shown, the arrangement is for a rim fitted with four lugs, but I1 wilt work with other nombers of lugs, if necessary. Make sure that the tire is held rigidly im place.—Popular Science Monthly. Alarm Clock Will Warn When Parking Time Up The business men of Appleton, Wis, who drive to their offices and park in front of their business places, have put one over on the city authorities who limit parking in the office district to 90 minutes, The business men have thought of a novel scheme. They set alarm clocks in their cars to ring at the end of 90 minutes. When the startling sound of the clock interrupts the calm rou tine, n mad rush is made for the curb. Into their cars the big butter and egg men hop, drive them around the block and park them in the space nest to the one they had used before. And calm again reigns for another 00 minutes. FRE A NNN HRN * AUTOMOBILE FACTS Tas EPA EFARRN HEHEHE RNUNR Ralph De Palma has been driving racing cars for the last 22 years. He has been badly hurt several times. » -» * Longer wellr and efficient operation of the driving gears of a speedometer may be had if lubricated once each week. oo» “Civilization is at the crossroads” again, according to an economist. And with cars coming at it from all direc tions, » . » Eighty-five per cent of all farms in Hiinols have automobiles, 133 per cent have two or more autos and M9 per cent have motor trucks, *. & » A black smoke issuing from the ex haust Is an indication of too rich a gasoline mixture, while a bluish smoke discloses an excess of oll passing the rings, ee The proportion of people to automo- biles In the country is now given as 66 to 1, except In the case of the fraternity house coupe, where the ra. tio still is 12 to 7. . se It isn't the prevalence of cars on the streets and highways that makes the trouble; it's the lack of preva. lence of sense behind the wheels that causes the difficulty. § .
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