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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
President Hoover Tries to
Speed Up Senate—French
Crisis Delays Parley.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
RESIDENT HOOVER returned to
Washington from his Florida trip
with the conviction that congress, es-
pecially the senate, must be prodded
into speedier action if business wera
not to suffer seriously. So he invited
leading Republicans of both houses to
breakfast at the White House and
asked them what could be done to
expedite the work on the tariff bill
so that other Important measures
could be passed. The replies he re-
ceived were not encouraging. Sena-
tor Watson, floor
house, was the opinion
tariff measure might
March 10, but
Representative
leader of the upper
that the
passed by
far from certain
Tilson and others from
the lower thought the
would get through the remaining
propriation bills within the next three
or four weeks and then would take
three-day recesses while the senate
was catching up. Mr. Tilson hoped
congress might adjourn about June 1,
but admitted that little legislation
would be enacted unless the senate
speeded up.
Mr. Hoover was especially concerned
about the slowing down of business
recovery due to uncertainty regarding
the tariff, and also because delay in
passing pending appropriation bills
might necessitate the laying off of
from 10,000 to 20000 men employed
on public works construction. The leg-
islative program of the Wickersham
law enforcement commission was not
mentioned, indicating that this is not
of such pressing concern to the Presi
dent as the tariff bill and appropria-
tion bills affecting public works. The
Republican senate leaders informed
the President that the coalition of
Democrats and radical Républicans
was in complete control of the tariff
situation,
of
be
wns
house house
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HIS breakfast aroused the ire of
the Democrats in both houses and
they spent hours In attacking Mr.
Hoover. Senator Pat Harrison sought
to blame the Republicans for delay in
disposing of the tariff bill and asked
Senator Watson if the President had
promised to sign the measure if f(t
reached him in its present form as
amended by the coalition; which ques-
tion, Watson declared, was silly. Rep-
resentative Byrns of Tennessee, chair-
man of the Democratic congressional
campaign committee, asserted that the
President having claimed responsi-
bility for prosperity for the Repub.
liean party, must bear the blame for
unsatisfactory conditions. He denled
the announcements of administration
spokesmen, including Secretary of La-
bor Davis, that business is on the up
grade,
Garner of Texas, minority leader of
the house, issued a statement saying:
“The titular party leader in the White
House is lacking in either courage or
capacity to lead, and the consequent
bewilderment of congressional leader.
ship Is a reflection of the deepening
disappointment of the American peo-
ple In the promised and expected
major part the President was to play
in shaping national affairs to the bet-
ter ends of national needs.”
ARION DEVRIES, former mem-
ber of the house and former
member of the court of customs ap-
peals, admitted to the senate lobby
committee he Is a contingent fee lob-
byist, and confronted the committee
with excerpts from an opinion from
the United States Supreme court up-
holding the right of an attorney to rep.
resent clients for or against legisia-
tion on such a basis,
Devries declared he already has re.
ceived a total of approximathly £50,
000 from clients interested in tarift
legislation and expects an additional
$25,000 if certain provisions or rates
sought by his clients are Included in
the pending tariff bill when it becomes
law, ,
WO more days were given to the
wets in the hearing on dry law
modification measures before the house
Judiciary committee, and they
full advantage of thelr opportunity.
A recess was then taken until the fol.
lowing week, when the drys were
to heard, Representative Linthi-
cum of Maryland, generalissimo of the
foes of prohibition, made the
ing statement and then followed
imposing list of witnesses. These
cluded Capt. W. H. Stayton, ¢
man of the board of the
Against the Prohibition
Henry B. Joy, Detroit millionaire and
former head of the Packard Motor
company ; Dr. Samuel Harden Church,
Pittsburgh, Carnegie in-
Dr. Charles Morris, New York
health officer; Col. Grayson M. P, Mur-
phy, New York director of Bethlehem
Benedict
Cleveland, fo 'r assistant secretary
of war: Dr. L. W. W ns, New |
York, head of the New York Academy |
Ralph M. Shaw, at- |
took
be
open
an
in.
ion
Amendment ;
Assocs
president of
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stitute;
Steel company ; Crowell,
irt of lowa announced
senate ju
ary com
two Pe n lir i
ing Investig:
forcement meth
the fight to the
is corruption
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or
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in the prohibition forces,
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floor.
senate
said he, "we've got to know it and to |
know to blame for it."
who is
ped up |
naval par. |
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RANCE'S eal
the proceedings of the
ley In London for the tir
the entire French delegation withdrew,
id not take part in
until a
formed,
et crisis stop
announcing iL wo
further new gov-
ernment had been Che down.
fall of Premier Tardieu and his
istry, which was due to Its defeat on
an jmportant tax measure, might con
ceivably have a marked effect on the
course of the negotiations in the par
ley. If the French Socialists and rad
icals, who are committed to reduction
of armaments,
in the new government, the demands
of Premier Tardieu for a fleet of
000 tons might be greatly sealed down
80 that the figures could be
Italy, and would not force the British
to Hoover-MacDonal
bargain of summer, In this lie
really the only hope that the confer.
ence can at a pact providing
for actual reduction of naval arma.
ments, Otherwise, all it can be ex
pected. to evolve will be a treaty for
limitation, with possibly the mutual
security pact asked by France, It is
hardly to be expected that the United
States would enter into such a se
curity treaty since that would Involve
entanglement in European affairs. In-
deed, Senator Robinson told the Amer.
lean correspondents the United States
wouldn't Join in any pact requiring it
to employ armed forces to enforce
“obligations assumed with other na-
tions.” The American delegation had
approved this statement In advance,
Dino Grandi gave out the formal
statement of Italy's naval policy and
requirements on Wednesday, Besides
reiterating the demand for parity with
any other continental power<mean-
ing France—he upheld the thesia that
naval needs are not absolute, as France
claims, but are relative, and declared
that no level of tonnage Is too low
providing other countries reduce pro.
portionately,
discussions
min-
consented to take
part
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SovET Russia's war on God Is
causing a lot of excitement In
many parts of the world and Chris
tian organizations, and Individoals
are urging “intervention” though It
Is difficult to see by what right any
other nation could Interfere with what
80 far is wholly a domestic issue in
Russia, The campaign is being car-
ried on vigorously by the Militant
Godless league with apparently the
full support of the Soviet government,
and countless churches In many cities
and towns have been closed as places
of worship and converted to other
uses, The league bitterly resents the
protests in other countries and defies
and villifies Pope Plus who issued an
encyclical against “persecutions of
Christians In Russia.” Sergius, who
was set up as the metropolitan of the
Orthodox Russian church to succeed
the late Patriarch Tikhon, and who
snys he represents “some tens of mil
Hons of faithful,” is entirely subservi-
ent to the Soviet government, and in
an Interview given to forelgn corre.
spondents he asserted he and his ee
collaborators were
the
church and Christians in
the
lox
clesiastical
of
satisfied with position
Russia,
of
that his state-
was the
church and
the Soviet
unchristian and
The tone of
comment’ on
The
sald pope enemy
Ortho
ments against Union w
unjust,
the Soviet
the
press
matter is violent
Leningrad
prom
and defis branch
of the
atheism will
until “the ge
the whole world will conve
can into a museum and
the
Scarecrow
ises that
ented to
of
» Vatl-
row of
near a
Siberian
lands wlless workmen
RR BCHIed
oman poy siand
of 1
shaman masvrment
fictions
as errors
and disser
during thousands
fare cn religion
ism.
priests
is a
iv the Soviet Union,
Bolshevism 1s facing the
period
asserts
in it
protect
ganda ame
foreign cour
sabotage,
and that t
1 terrorism,
tries,
sfrikes, anc
attacks against the Red home lan
be made
paper,
ineffective, accor
licts
ism will
events
attempt
EARS that Commander Bsrd
his expedition would be compelle
remain for
Antarctic were when
by radio from “Little
his heads that the
City of New York, had made its way
into the Bay of Whales sheathed
and that the exp a few
hours later sailed for hom The Clty
of New York had been 44 days on the
way from Dunedin, New Zealand
wits greatly delayed In
vast ice pad
’
was blown far out of
to more months in
dispelled Hows
Amerie
relief ship,
came
riers,
fee
searct
leads through the
its course,
UMBERTO
to
for the Italian
public the
EN.
i Rd
ionger
NOBILE 1s
considered a
no
be
government has made
record of the investigation
the disastrous flight of di
Italia In the Arctic
and It brands Nobile's conduet
terly indefensible. Captains Mariano
and Zappl are given a clean slate by
the Investigating commission.
into the
rigible
HE body of Earl Borland,
panion of Carl Ben Elelson, noted
Arctic fiyer, has been found near the
wreckage of their plane which crashed
of North Cape.
searchers also found the body of Eifel
IREPARATIONS for further war
fare were reported In China, where
the Nationalist government was con-
fronted by another revolutionary:
movement, largely In Honan provinee.
The Shansi and other forces were sald
to have mobilized and started south.
ward to attack the armies of Presi.
dent Kai-shek.
Mo Te-hul, president of the Chinese
Eastern railway, went to Mukden for
the avowed purpose of trying to pur.
chase the Russian interest in the rail
way In accordance with the terms of
the 1024 agreement. He said If he
was unable to arrange for the pur.
chase he would try to persuade Soviet
Russian to agree on the joint opera.
tion of the road on a strictly commer.
clal basis,
LEXANDER P. MOORE of Pitts.
burgh, recently appointed ambas.
sador to Poland, succumbed to tuber.
culosis of the throat and lungs at Los
Angeles, never having the chance to
serve in his post at Warsaw. Besides
being a well-known newspaper pub.
lisher, Mr. Moore had gained distine
tion in the field of diplomacy. Presi.
dent Harding made him ambassador
to Spain, and under President Cool
fdge he was ambassador to Peru, and
in both posts he wns eminently sue.
cessful. He wns a lifedong Repub
lican save that he supported Col
Theodore Roosevelt In the Bal
Moose eampalgn.
(@, 1920, Western Newspaper Union.)
Mild Winters Not
Right for Trees
Definite Amount of Severe
Weather Required for
Needed Changes.
sn———
(Prepared by the United Biates Department
of Agriculture.)
Severe winters in the North usually
mean short erops, but with peaches in
Georgia and apples southward from
Virginia, the rule works just the other
way. This is because temperate-zone
fruit trees require a definite amount
of cold weather during which certain
changes are carried on which prepare
them for growth In the spring. This
period of “rest,” which is so definitely
required for many trees and plants, is
really therefore a period of slight but
Growth Delayed In Spring.
Dr. M. B. Waite, of the United
many years ago, that our
fruits, such as the peach,
when cultivated too far south in Geor-
frequently exhibit symptoms of
growth in the spring, at.
Lee M. Hutchins, of the
has recently ob-
Dr.
department,
out that as a rule, in about one year
in five, the mild winters of Georgia do
not give peach trees the required
amount of resting period, and the re.
longed dormancy.” When this hap-
pens, peach trees in the lower portion
of the fail to bloom at thelr reg-
ular time. Finally they bloom, from
a week to several weeks late,
slate
This disturbance may interfere with
the setting of the fruit, and the ripen-
ing of the fruit may also be thrown
in other parts of the state farther
north, which tends to make an over-
crowded market,
Albany ls Limit,
Albany is given by Doctor Hutchins
as about the southern limit for the
production of our stand.
of of
win-
ard varieties peaches. South
this limit the trees during most
ters do not get enough weather
for maximum production. The
principle applies to apples in a zone
arther north,
cold
same
much fi
Corn and Peas Favored
.
as Home Garden Staples
High quality
grown In most any ga
through, say horticulturists
University of Minnesota, Starting
with Early Dow, which Is about ten
days ahead of Golden Bantam, or with
Pickaninny, a rather low growing,
bushy type, with ears near the ground,
the gardener can follow with succes-
sweet corm can be
rden the season
of
the
and have highly flavored toothsome
ears for his table until early fail
Peas, a good second for corn in the
garden, should be planted as soon as
the ground can be worked, Alaska
and Thomas Laxton are good early
varieties, Those recommended for Ia.
ter use are Little Marvel, a dwarf
which is fairly early; Gradus and
Telephone, both of which are late, and
Alderman, a tall, large podded plant
which also produces rather late In the
senson.
New Zealand spinach and chard will
minerals, vitamines and bdlk
the form of greens all
through the season, and one or the
other, or both, If there is room in the
garden, should be grown,
FARBER EBRBEEFRREFRFRRERERRRTR
Agricultural Hints
BEBE RRRRRYE BRT HTRRNRERTTRTRTR
Kill the early weeds,
* - »
A good erop caffinot be grown on an
jet a wheel hoe, so the boys can
take care of the garden,
- * *
Make the change gradually from
. » »
Clover hay Is two-and-a-half and al-
falfa three-and-a-half times as rich In
digestible protein as is timothy.
. *. .
Fathers Have Hard Lot
The family Is an Institution for the
average. It cannot easly tolerate out-
members, If, for instance,
trouble for the family.
Children of important
like a
was nothing.
meteor, Napoleon's son
The same fate awaited
Children of particular-
ly successful parents are discouraged,
own confllet, mainly uncon
devours them. All of them
could be happy if they did
sclous,
Goethe, In his old age, has uttered
lem: “There are people who are ex-
in every way and besides so
that everyone likes to be as
But this Is Impossible be-
are go
Take a Mozart or a Raphael,
they are.
unusual.
field and covered with building paper
or straw, Haul It this winter.
. - *
The use of high-grade seed potatoes
would Increase the returns from the
potato crop of the country by many
millions of doliars,
- » LJ
Probably the largest single item in
tractor cost Is depreciation, followed
closely by fuel cost.
is a poor Investment. .
- ® .
Superphosphate Is equally well
adapted for use on the dropping
boards of the poultry house as in the
gutters of the dairy barn.
* * »
Fence posts, unless they are of ce-
dar and oak, and cheap, should be
given a preservative treatment before
they are set in the ground,
. se
Any silage remaining in the silo ean
be kept over for next winter with lt.
tle loss by covering with roofing paper
and weighting down to expel and keep
out air,
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Tests at the various experiment sta-
tions Indicate that both wire and cloth
base glass substitutes lose at least
one-fourth of thelr efficiency in trans.
mitting the ultra violet rays when
they become dusty or dirty.
could not equal thelr models.” Be-
cause of modesty, or perhaps because
of grief over his own son, Goethe did
wt comment upon the fact that he
himself was one of those lovable and
natures who burned
near thelr
Love,” by
particularly gifted
up everything that comes
glory ~¥From of
Fritz Wittels,
“Critique
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A cheerfully
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and well illumi-
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number give a
cordial welcome.
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in a
It may be due to a
causes.
the cause.
cause—what will you do in
to suffer?
the meantime? Continue
They relieve quickly.
even when these pains are
so severe that vou think
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Where Ocean Is Bluest
Authorities on oceanography say
the South Atlantic, Indian and Pacific
oceans, It has been found that these
parts of the ocean contain very little
plankton, whose presence minimizes
the transparency of the water and
The gulf
In the open
Nearer the
With.
parallels north and
ocean the water is bluish.
in the thirtieth
itude 30 degrees it changes to deep
indigo, which continues as far as the
Antarctic circle, where it changes to
an olive green. The blue color is at-
tributed to the rays of light being un-
Vari-
ations may also be due to materials
in suspension or solution,
From Rome to Boston
The grandeur that was Rome
rested In large measure upon founda-
tions of bricks, as the traveler may
sce when he visits the baths of Die-
cletian, where the marble facing has
long since disappeared, but the brick.
work stands strong and sturdy after
the lapse of nearly twenty centuries.
The Romans practiced an ancient art
when they made bricks, yet It was
one destined to be forgotten or nearly
forgotten in Europe during the Dark
ages which followed the fall of the
Roman empire. But in the Eleventh
or Twelfth century there was a re-
vival. Again bricks were fashioned
In a manner to make them of endur
Ing character.~Boston Herald
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“Shieling of My Sornow”
Typical Highland Legend
The following legend is associated
with Aveda No Dhubhach. the sloping
ground lying to the east of Loch Drom,
on the way from Garve to Ullapool, in
the highlands of Scotland. Three young
men from Strathmore were returning
home from the low country where they
had been working all summer and
autumn. ‘They reached Loch Drom
in the evening, and as the night was
stormy, they decided to stay in a shiel-
ing that was near. One of the men
was a piper, and had his pipes with
him, and to pass the time away he
struck up a tune on the pipes, while
his two companions danced to the
music. One of the lads said it would
be fine If they had some lassies to
dance with. He had hardly spoken
when three women entered the shiel-
Ing, and Joined the dancing. The dance.
ing and playing went on for a long
time, and at last the two men sat
down on the seat, and the women
seated themselves beside them. The
piper, feeling all was not right, looked
at his two companions, and was horri-
fied to see them dead. Slipping out,
leaving his plaid with the women, he
ran for his life as fast as he could.
The women followed, and continued to
pursue the poor, exhausted piper until
dawn, when he came in sight of Fas-
grinnach, and escaped from his evil
pursuers. When the mothers of the
dead men arrived at the shieling the
pext day they bewalled their loss,
repeating the words "Aueda No Dhub-
hach"—“Shiellng of my Sorrow."
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