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.
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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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