~ TS LT NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Hopeful Signs in Business and Industry Indicate Re- turning Prosperity. ETURNING prosperity is heralded in hopeful signs seen in various Hnes of business and industry in the United States. Reduetion in redis- count rates by Federal Reserve banks and cheaper call money have given great vitality to the stock market, Money fs cheaper today than it has been in five years. In New York the official call rte dropped to 2 per cent at 114 per cent. The United States employment serv- Ice In Washington reports that busi- ness and Industry are consolidating the progress made In January for an expected upturn in employment during the spring months. The automobile Industry has made a sharp swing In production, registering largest output of passenger cars and trucks October. Other indus- tries such as electric equipment, air. plane, silk and rayon show Increasing activity with a full complement of workers, gince Jected throughout the country, by public utility companies, will fur. nish employment to an army of work- ers, the report states, ORLDWIDE demonstrations have Wie tween established atheistic commission of Bishop William T, Manning Protestant Episcopal diocese York recently participated with other clergymen in a prayerful protest against Russia's anti-religious policy at services held at the cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York city. Pope Plus, before a congregation of 50,000 in St. Peter's In Rome, led Catholics of thesworld In Intercessory services against religious perseention in Soviet Nlussia. In Chicago, New York, London and many other cities, Catholics participated in similar services, Anti-religious demonstrations econ- tinue in various parts of Russia and plans have been completed by#® the Society of Militant Atheists for the opening of an "anti-God congress.” Germany and Czechoslovakia report attacks by communists on churches in some parts of those countries, and the Russia, of the religign nt—— HH" that a way has been found to break the Franco-Itallan dead- lock over naval parity, whieh threat- ened the very life of the five-power naval conference in London, was seen in remarks made by Aristide Briand, French foreign minister, after a pri- vate talk with Premier MacDonald. M. Briand said: “Always when things seem at thelr worst one finds a way out. That is true now, We have been talking about means to bring the conference to a successful conclusion and we are going to apply these means as quickly as possible” In refusing to discuss detalls, the French leader continued : “lI am in the habit of chattering too much, and then I'am reproached for it afterwards, We have been tak- ing our bearings and experts have been making the observations pre. cise.” The smile on Premier MacDonald's face as he left M. Briand gave further assurance that the situation had taken a new turn and that optimistic events were in the air, However, this optimism Is not shared by the other powers and a suggestion to adjourn the conference until June, to meet at Geneva concurrently with the League of Nations preparatory disarmament commission has been offered. Ox of the tense situation that con. fronts grain producers of the country comes un Important announce ment from the Parmers National Grain corporation, the grain co-opern- tive of the federal farm board, In # making public the result of their sur- vey on congested grain storage facili- ties in the United States, they an- nounced their intention of purchasing and building additional elevators throughout the gram producing area, by means of loans to co-operative as sociations. “In less than three months the movement of the new wheat crop will begin in the Southwest.” sald the cor- poration’s officers. “There Is great need for facilities In that area. Some new construction is required and some of the existing houses need enlarging. Some houses now owned by others must be acquired by co-operatives, Some sub-terminal warehouses should be built.” The harvest Is farther away in the spring wheat area, the report said, but the problem is “in some respects sim- ilar, and hardly less pressing.” REAT BRITAIN is mourning the passing of one of its most inent public men. The death of Earl Balfour removes from the scene one of the great Victorian statesmen. He was the last surviving minister of Queen Victoria, but so keen was his intellect and so persistent his youth that until his final retirement a year em- as a modern statesman. The end came peacefully to statesman, who was in his eighty. see. ond year. He had been distressingly ill for a long time with laryngitis. From the entered parila. ment In 1874 until the closing years of his life he figured as an important British politics, He uncle, Lord Salisbury, as leader of the Conservative party. and gerved as premier from 1902 to 1005, time he factor in ceeded his S——— ENSORSHIP by federal courts literature was almost adopted by the senate, and included in the tariff bill, after two days of spirited discussion, In which charges of Intolerance, ciations of the principle of censorshin and pleas for the protection of the morals of young America rang through the senate chamber. The amendment to the tariff bill, as adopted, provides that questionable literature may be treasonable unanimously in a federal court and adverse de. cisions appealed. RIMO DE RIVERA rests in a sol- dier's grave, honored by the high- est tributes a nation can bestow. The body of the man who ruled Spain as dictator for six years and then went into exile, was placed beside the body of his wife in San Isidro cemetery In Madrid. Premier Berenguer and foremost dignitaries of the country, including King Alfonso, participated in the funeral, The man, who in 1923 seized, and for six years held in his soldier's hand, the destinies of 20000,000 Spaniards and the ancient dynasty, came to his end suddenly and alone in a hotel room in Paris, a virtual exile. He had lived there quietly for the month that elapsed since he took the hint from his successor that his presence In Spain might be dangerous and would complicate the task of a transition government and crossed the frontier into France, De Rivera was in his gixty-first year, NCOME tax receipts from the March 15 collections as shown by the treasury totaled $314.2000558, exceed ing by more than £40,000000 collec. tions for the same date last year. This sum was the total for the month of March as shown In the treasury statement for March 18. RESIDENT HOOVER has an. nounced his purpose of complet. Ing the housecleaning which he com. menced a year ago In the southern patronage situation, the recent report of a senate commit. tee, Mr. Hoover pointed out that the incidents dealt with were not recent and that all federal officials known to have engaged in improper practices had either resighed or been removed, “Under instructions to the various departments of the government,” sald the President, “a system has been es. tablished by which these reprehensible practices have been absolutely stopped and the system of purchase and sale of appointments, so far as it existed, has been ended” LTHOUGH two and a half billion dollars will be spent for streets and highways throughout the eountry in 1080, the economic loss from gestion and accidents due to inade- quate planning In metropolitan areas will equal this amount, IP'resident Charles M. Hayes of the Chicago Mo- tor club declared at a trafic experts of the Amefican Auto- mobile association in Washington, Con. RESIDENT ORTIZ RUBIO, In the course of an Informal (nterview with the press in Mexico City, nounced that President Hoover had ac cepted his personal Invitation to visit Mexico City during his Presiden ¥. President Rubio did not reveal the date of the proposed visit. He is snx- lous for the American return visit to the last year, The Mexican chief also that the government had committee of international the chief holders of Mexico's foreign debt, to meet with representatives of the Mexican government in Mexico or New York to attempt to reach 8 more understanding the an- his United States announced invited a bankers, definite on debt tiement which the Mexican ment could and would live up to. agreement, he said, would the owners of factories and ern- An Eovx business I ANDIT hordes In Kiangsi provinces 2,000 men, women and children in the Fuan district. Reports reaching Shanghal sald the wholesale sinyings tain, General Chuteh, still occupying the distriet. further massacres, American, He is reported British the Yangtre river. SECRETARY WILBUR has appealed \J to all evangelical bodies In the United States to Join in the drive to eliminate illiteracy. The “shocking facts" of illiteracy are being called to the attention of in order that plans can be made at the annual meetings this spring for sponsored by the government, Mr. Wilbur said that the 1920 census reported 4.031.000 persons ten years of age and over unable to write In any language. WING to exteusive activities ot communists in the Phillippines, Gen. C, E. Nathorst, chief of the con. stabulary, has made a request to Gov. ernor General Davis that proletarian congresses be denied the use of the mails throughout the Islands. The hoycott of American goods, spread of communist doctrines among the ignorant masses of the islands and the active participation of communists in the recent school strike at Manila were among the activities which caused the request to be made. ROHIBITION has become a dom- inating issue in the nation within the last few months, according to a survey made by the United Press, Recent developments show that about 100 bills have been introduced on the subject ih congress: 12 states have prohibition legislation either in. troduced, or about to be Introduced: 11 recent polls have been taken inquir. ing prohibition sentiment and some still are under way: hearings have been started on several national meas. ures; both wet and dry forces are tightening their lines for concerted drives either toward legislation or toward election of congressmen or state officials this fall, A TWENTY-FOUR hour strike was declared In Cubd as a protest against unemployment. The affair passed off without serious disturbance, The police charged that the strike was in compliance with orders from the third internationale In Moscow. It was estimated that 200000 workmen walked out. Public utility plants and ralironds were about the only indus tries not affected, 1@, 1930, Western Newspaper Union.) Chance to Make Small Home Thing of Beauty A sense of the wordless poetry and soundless music of the small home is dawning on the consciousness of the American people, Such, at least, Is the lmpression of Becretary Wilbur after examining the reports of the better-homes movement for the past year. But the Improve ment still hds far to go, as Is shown by the most cursory examination of the prevalent types of small house architecture In American cities and towns, Much of the architectural ugliness Is due to the perverted tastes of the past two or three generations, the Washington Star comments. The pres- ent generation may be Indicted justly for Its conscienceless destruction of natural beauty in bullding operations, but it certainly cannot be blamed for such monstrosities as the “three-deck- er” of New England cities or the hox- like structures of southern and west ern towns, The small home 18 the lyric of areh- {tecture-——a megdium through which the artist can express almost the whole of human emotions and reach He He ean put the Intangible substance of lullables, Movement on Foot for American cities still are “0 cent ugly.” according to chairman of the city and reg- Architects which fean Institute of architecture and efficient civie plan- Washington, although now a city of standing beautiful city of the nation, which tells of the campaign. Motion- high schools, colleges mpalgn, “The seriousness of the architectural in America ing.” says Mr. Cheney. “In some it is even decreasing.” Development Takes Time man who undertakes to de an industrial subdivision must not look for his reward to come over. The % elon be considered to have made phenom enally rapid strides If it reaches a ments have required more than twenty Years to reach their maturity. it must be accessible to a. railroad must be accessible to main highways, to power lines, gas mains and tele phone trunk lines, and it must be ae ceskible to a growing community which can furnish ample and labor supply. Owning and Renting No doubt many conservatives and far-sighted persons, men and women, have asked themselves whether it pays to own a home, but have never made any real serious effort to find out if they could. There is only one way of looking at this matter in the right light : those that don't own their homes ust pay rent and the rent must in. variably be paid promptly. A person having good health and a fair pros. pect of steady employment, ass@mes ho more responsibility of risk in buy- ing and paying for a home than in paying rent.—Philadelphia Ledger. te ——— “Parts of God's Estate” There is a qistinet Joy In owning » piece of land unlike that which you have In money, in house, in books, in pictures, or anything else which men have devised. Personal property brings you Into society with men. But land is a part of God's estate in the globe; and when a parcel of ground Is deeded to you, and you walk over it, and call it your own, it seems ns if you had come Into partnership with the original proprietor of the earth.— Henry Ward Beecher. Sparkle of the City The successes of a féw in the cltles dazzle the youth of the country, but it should not be overlooked that where a few nchieve wealth and places of prominence, millions and millions plod along with a bare living and many scarcely are able to make that— Houston Post-Dispatch, Modernizing Reclaims Values Many thousands of our old homes stretching from coast to ‘coast, that are obsolete ard out-of-date, inside and outside, will take on new life and beauty within the year, Moderniza tion will bring about this great rec lamation, FIRST AUTOMOBILE BUILT IN AMERICA in Ameriea—through the Milwaukee public museum. The car is miss” motor and a wick carburetor, after removing it from the with a one-eylinder “hit and 18 miles an hour when equipped its motor, SMOOTHER ROADS Comfort and Low Vehicle Operating Costs Are Two Big Items. (By E. E. DUFFY.) lump-consuming balloon tires abeorhers do not constitu for building wavy or the modern devised Although mechanism, vehicle cosls are low operating still dependent upon the smoothness road surface thie is given by prac highway departments placement of hard REamuel yl irtment of highways, recently announced Penn- noteworthy achievement In les of “excellent” con- which per- crete rurel roads—pavements on cannot vibration, gdetect ceptible The Den: rough. a wheeled device meas the ometer™ ures all tiny ridges and vall in than 20 accumulated inches of roughs mile, Pennsylvania's grand average on the 352 miles of ne ment tested in 1020 was 105 which means that some miles were all WwW pave inches, Cuts Operating Costs. “More important than the pleasure. able sensation of riding over a smooth road is the fact that smooth road cuts operation costs for the motor ist.” asserts Mr. Eckels. “It cuts down the bounces which are trans mitted to the road in Impact, and im- pact is the chief enemy of roads, When we eliminate or lessen impact we prolong the life of the road. Ev- Cities particularly have been lax In installing smooth pavements, but even. tually recognition of the virtues of smooth roadways will not only save the municipality money but will lessen traffic congestion through the spread. ing out of the street traffic burden. Plan to Overcome Hard Starting of Automobile When an engine is hard to start, misses at low or idling speeds, the trouble may often be traced to the spark plugs, according to an engineer. Ing report which recommends that the followipg remedial procedure be em- ployed : Check spark plug gap for correct spacing. If insulator is covered with dry, black soot clean plug: check car buretor setting for being too rich: use choke sparingly. If sooting of Insula- tor is habitual, change to hotter plug. If Insulator Is covered with wet, soft carbon, clean or replace plug: check oil level for being too high or for oil dilution ; pistons and rings may need attention, ef rmm— [Motor Bus Great Factor in Education in Country Children in rural areas now enjoy educational facilities equal to those found in cities, as a result of Improved highways, and approximately 1,250,000 are now transported dally in nearly 42.000 buses, according to the National Association of Motor Bus operators, afMlated with the American Automobile association, The change has been wrought by good roads, The American Automobile associa. tion points out that in 1028 there were 15,020 schools served by motor buses, which daily cover 40,508 miles through- out the country. America today spends well over $27,200,738 for these school bus operations, (How Many Can You Answer?) Q. Are important formance? tepark plug gap sizes for good engine per- Ang, Yes! Use f lor oan eier gaug and set to ’ regs ol ve accurgiey gap é gine maker's recom @® Inspect or have the ® tion man inspect the gr 4 4 in 19207 * than 425.000, and it they S000 000 (60x), hat per cent of new car over the PHPPP0I000000000000000000 Seating Arrangement of Two-Door Sedan Helped In mq quite a bit ny two-door sedans there is of space between the front seats which can be utilized to advan- tage, as shown in the {llustration. The right-hand seat is on a steel rod so that it can be slid toward the driver's seat, This gives the oc- cupants of the rear seat more room to get out of the door, by sliding the seat to the left. Remove the pins from the front legs of the seat on which it hinges, and ream out the holes on both legs and supporting brackets to mounted Sliding Front Seat In Two-Door Sedan Makes It Easier for Occupants to Enter and Leave. receive a piece of %-inch cold-rolled steel. The right-hand bracket must be moved closer to the car wall, and the other one close to the driver's seat, while the rod must be long enough to allow maximum movement of the seat. The rearseat passengers get out be- tween seat and door without the front passenger leaving his seat-—John IL. Blaker, West Auburn, Mass, in Pop ular Mechanics Magazine, AUTOMOBILE NOTES Never lubricate front springs If the car has a tendency to “shimmy.” - - * In cleaning the radiator with a soda solution, the engine always should be run. La Treads on rear tires wear out quick. er by sudden acceleration than by sudden stopping. . = American tourists spent a total of £3,500,000,000 the past year, according to the American Automobile assoc) ation. . + 0» One of the most Important items of new car care Is keeping the water in the cooling system constantly ade quate
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