CENTRE married. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Relief For Unemployment Is Receiving Attention of the Entire Nation. fy EDWARD W. PICKARD BELIEF for the unemployment sit- uation continued to be one of the chief topics of interest in the United States, being a close second to pol itics and, for the great mass of the people, of vastly.greater personal im- portance than the impending elections. The federal government's part in the efforts to solve the problem at present consists in the work of a cab- inet committee appointed by President Hoover and the selection of Col. Ar- thur Woods, former police commis sioner of New York, to direct these efforts. After his arrival in Washing- ton and a with Mr. Hoo ver, Colonel Woods said: “The principal part of our work Is co-operating with local organizations. The best that we can do is to let va- rious places know what others are do- ing as a guide for their own efforts.” State and municipal governments and ionumerable local organizations are developing their many plans to meet the situation, and the generosity of thousands of individual citizens is notable and heartening. Wisely, none of the schemes put forward tend to “pauperize” the unfortunate men and women who are out of employment, Everywhere the effort is to find work for them so they may retain their self- respect and live decently through the period of depression. Toward this end the federal government will give jobs to the maximum number on pub- lic works, Including buildings, flood control operations and regular river and harbor work, and wherever pos- sible, red tape will be cut to facilitate employment of more men. At the first meeting of the cabinet committee, which is headed by Secre- tary of Commerce Lamont, President Hoover said he estimated the number of unemployed in the country at 3,500,- 000, basing this on census bureau fig- ures as corrected by the ald of unem- ployment index figures of the Depart- ment of Labor. The Democratic na- tional committee has estimated the number as between five and six mil- lions. According to the President's presentation of the situation there are always as many as 1,000,000 unem- ployed in normal times representing persons shifting from one job to an- other and for other reasons out of work. The 3,500,000 unemployed does not designate that many families, ac- cording to the explanation of the Pres- ident, who pointed out to his commit. tee that census calculations show an average of one and three-quarters bread winners per family in the United States. conference EPRESENTATIVES of the major industries of America met In their seventh conference at the University of Chicago and listened to eight lead- ers who, while not concealing the bad- ness of present conditions, in the main forecast great Improvement in the future. The general summary speeches indicated that: 1. Americans are consuming more goods than are being made for re- placement at present, 2. That price levels on many impor. tant commodities are at or near the lowest they can reach. 3. That governmental Interference in business has in general been ecar- ried to an unwise extent and that as little more of it as possible should be offered. 4. That some approach to economic stability should be advocated as & sub- stitution for the alternations of de- pression and prosperity, difficult as the solution may prove to be, L. J. Taber, master of the National Grange, was one of the least cheerful. He asserted that the farmer's plight could become no worse, as he was “already on the floor,” with his plant depreciated twenty billion dollars since the war and his income only 8 per cent above that of 1913, while his of the All the farmer want- a square deal. per cent higher, ed, he sald, was V HEN congress in the next session 'Y takes up the matter of naval ap- propriations It 'will receive recom mendations from President Hoover based on the new building program that has just been completed by the navy general board and which would bring about tonnage parity with Great Britain probably by 1024. The details of the program have not been made public but its general features are known, ship replacements In 10937, orderly re placement of destroyers and subma- rines, expedition of 8-inch gun cruiser and alrcraft carrier construction until the treaty limits are reached, and somewhat delayed construction of the new G-inch gun cruisers. The destroyers are to be larger, and the final recommendations probably will call for 92 destroyers of 1.050 tons and six destroyer leaders of 1.850 tons each. Submarines will be smaller, probably ranging around 1,200 tons, compared with: 1.500 tons for those now bullding and the V-4, 2.080 tons, recently completed, The board S8-Inch gun cruisers construction mitted by the treaty. It is under stood te sug delaying the 6GInch gun tonnage until a for a hybrid cruiser with hangar deck can be prepared. Estimates of the cost bringing the fleet up to treaty limits In every category have run as high as £1,000. 000,000, but the administration has In. dicated it believes a considerably smaller outlay sufficient. \ JiTH startling suddenness ; government of Brazil under the attacks of the revolution. ists. President Washington Luis re signed, he and Vice President Vianna and all members of the cabinet were put under arrest, and control was as. sumed by a military junta headed by Gen, Leite de Castro, This upset was brought about di rectly by the military authorities In Rio de Janeiro, the capital, when they turned against the government. In. fantry and machine gun battalions first left their barracks and took up positions along the streets from which they swept the thoroughfares with buliets, keeping every one within doors. Some hours later President Luis was persuaded to give up by Cardinal Sebastio Leme and high of- ficials of the federal government, There was some fighting in the sub- urbs and several newspaper offices and shops were set afire, but through- out most of the city the triumph of the revolution was received most joy. ously, There were similar scenes in Bahia, Sao Paulo and other centers, the Liberals everywhere gaining full control. It was believed the junta would hold power until new elections are held and another president chosen. One of the main purposes of the revo. lutionists was to prevent President. elect Prestes taking office In Novem- ber. HOUGH the civil war in China has coliapsed, the Communist bandits continue te give the Nanking govern- ment immense trouble. They are op- erating In large bands amounting to armies, chiefly In Fukien, Kilangsi, Hunan, Hupeh, and Honan provinces One of their recent exploits was the capture of sixteen priests and nuns at the Catholic mission in Kilanfu. They released one of the prisoners, Bishop Migniani, to carry to Chang- sha a letter from Peng Te-Hul, chief of the bandits, demanding $10,000,000 Mexican as ransom for the others. When the Reds raided the mission they killed about two thousand per. sons, including three priests. recommends the full rerest suitable design of the collapsed IONISTS the world over are up In arms against the new statement of British policy In Palestine issued by Lord Passfield, minister of col. onles. Wimt they object to especially is the practical closure of the Holy Land to further Jewish immigration on the ground that little land Is left for settlement. This, the Zionists us- gert, Is a repudiation of the Balfour declaration of 1017 under which a Jewish national home in Palestine was guaranteed. The new policy also pro- vides for maintenance of a consider to tion of the sinst riots, guard ag 1020 tine possible repeti. and for estab indicated in the 1022 statement of policy, to consist of a high com missioner in Palestine and 22 members, of whom 10 will be officially appointed members and 12 unofficially elected members, Dr. Chaim Weizmann promptly re- signed as president of the world Zion- ist organization to emphasize his oppo- sition to the policy, and intimated that its inauguration it might to transfer the seat of from london to the lines because of be necessary Zionist activity United States Following Doctor Welzmann's ample, Lord Melchett resigned as chairman of the Jewish agency for Palestine and the Zionist organization, in London, and Felix M. Warburg in New York resigned as chairman of the administrative committee of the Jewish agency. Both denounced the Britighy declaration as a treacherous and of Jews, In Jerusalem the Jews were greatly dis- tressed, and even the Arabs were dis ex- cruel betrayal the will of the new ish mandatory rule. get the best in the Brit policy and New Zealand who traveled all the way the little South Pacifie island of Niuafou to observe the total eclipse of the sun last week report that they were entirely successful in obtaining photographs of the phenom. enon, the weather being excelient for their purposes. One peculiar and so far unexplained thing was that during the eclipse all radios in Samoa and Honolulu were put out of commission, preventing the sending of communi cations, to APT. GEN. VALERIANO WEYLER, Spain's foremost military come mander and former minister of war, died In Madrid at the age of ninety- two years, Thirty-three years ago he earned the name of the “Butcher” by his ruthless campaign to suppress the Cuban revolutionists, and his course at that time had a great deal to do with the intervention of the United States and the war with Spain. Others who passed away included Sherman LL. Whipple, noted attorney of Boston; Congressman Otis Wingo of Arkansas: Col. Ben. H. Cheever, a hero of Indian campaigns and veteran of half a dozen wars; and Frank AL Wilmot of Pittsburgh, secretary and manager of the Carnegie hero fund commission, Ke BORIS of Bulgaria and Prin- cess Glovanna of Italy were mar. ried in the basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. The ceremony was extremely simple and the church was not dee orated, this being In accordance with the wishes of the bride and her royal father. The women participating wore high-necked gowns and no jewels and the men were In evening dress, Meme bers of the diplomatic corps were not invited. The wedding procession was headed by King Victor Emmanuel! and Princess Glovanna, Next came Queen Helene of Italy and Former King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, father of Boris, Then came Crown Prince Humbert of Italy with King Boris and the royal princes and princesses of Italy and Bulgaria. The unpretentious religious ceremony was celebrated by Father Antonlo Risso, custodian of St. Francis convent. After the wedding Doris and his bride went to Ancona where they boarded u steamship for Varna, a Bul. garian port on the Black sea, whence they were to speed by train to Sofia. ADIR KHAN, hero of the war in 1019 which freed Afghanistan from British domioation, assumed the throne of his country Just one year after he was named King by the troops and tribal chiefs following the overthrow of Bacho Sachao, the ban. dit usurper. There was no corona- tion, for kings of Afghanistan do not wear crowns, and Nadir tried to make the ceremonies simple; but the scanes in Kabul are reported to have heen most colorful and the pageant decided: ly pleturesque. The city was thronged with tribesmen, soldiers, diplomatic representatives and visitors from Eu. ropean countries, and the festivities continued for four days, (8), 1930, Western Newspaper Union. ) J WORLD WAR YARNS by Lieut. Frank E. Hagan A Hoodoo That Wasn't If you are ene of hose timorous In dividuals wha believe that the number 31s a Jinx, talk to a former member of one evacuation hospital unit which there. He will tell yon that there's absolutely nothing to that superstition at ail. If there had been not one of the men who served with Evacuation Hospital No. 13 would ever have come home. ‘That number alone would have been enough to prove thelr undoing, not to mention the other ways In which 13 figured in the his tory of that outfit. Here is what Jack RR. C. Cann, a former member, now 9 Michigan newspaper man, has to say about it: “Evacuation Hoapital 13 was or- ganized by order of the War depart- ment and came Into being January 13, 1018, The first promotions were 13 privates to privates first class. We boarded ship at Newport News on the night of July 13, i918 and took I8 days and 14 nightr to cross to Brest. Thirteens ran so persistently through our history that purposely contriving to evolve new situations in which the figures ap. pesred—such as placing 13 tents in 8 row, and so forth. “In January, 1010, we went ‘on tour in Luxembourg with a company vaude ville show which we called the “Jinx Chasers. With onr drivers we had 13 in the company and showed In many outlying towns, in Berdorf, Lux. embourg, using the porch of the hotel ng # stage with the headlights of two ambulances served over company we began as spotlights” “Black Jack” Shows the Way A vote of the A, E F. to name its distinguished appearing soldier reveal a formidable eandidate in the person of Gen. Jolin J. Pershing Not “Black Jack” for { knew the manunis to cover and he af the of his soldiers 1s most would only was nn ace whnranee—he dri from cover 1 the s he A story President n «wessity dis demanded of hirist Wilson and party, and Gen the ut Marne ™ mas day haxizes stopped Hane (‘ahot of (“hristmas of intier the reintes 'ershing, “rl hey pe of Narrey, emp vil all 13 {‘harles I hston, “fallow dinner with men Twenty sixth ol thelr and officers the vision, Mrs ent the President and General "ershing, L Liggett, Admiral Monsieur and Madame the party. mer's queriers “Heaides Wilson and Hunter Cary Jus {en (sravson serand were the whe e equipment Thess Sar among inspected in rey, was ald out vo the hayloft bunks we occupied, “One of the ladies, perhaps Mrs Wilson, was curiong to know how the halves could be made Into a pup tent, Whereupon, General 'ersh- ing knelt quickly, gathered the shelter halves, rifles and tent ping of two of the men. Then he set up a pup tent in the strmmw, “When tent was erect, ‘Niack Jack’ turned away, But President Wilson touched him on the shoulder and sald: ‘As your commanding offi. shelter the ment as you found it’ “General Pershing quickly bem down, refolded the shelter halves and rearranged all the equipment In its proper place” * . =» Such Taking Ways! If some one says to you, “Why that fellow would steal a red-hot stove If you didn’t watch him!” you'd prob ahly laugh at that as a pleasant bit of exaggeration because It's abvicns that no one could ever do that, But a cap tain of the judge advocnte’s court in one sector of France Is the authority for this story: “1t happened during the recent cold spell when some of our troops were traveling from the seaboard to the in terior, They traveled In semi.open horse cars and it was cold, d—d cold! One train stopped in front of a small raliroad «tation and six soldiers with enld hands and feet jumped from the ear and entered the waiting room, “In the center of the room was » large square coal stove with red-hot sides. There was a whispered confer ence, Then one man “tood on an other's shoulders and digjointed the stovepipe. At the same time two others placed poles under the bottom of the stove, lifted it off the floor and walked out of the room with it. They placed It in the horse car, stuck the pipe out of one door and were warm for the renminder of the trip. Of course, the French authorities raised # big row about it and presented a bill for 40 francs for the stove and the cont In 11. When the commanding offi evr heard the story he ordered the pill pid without a murmur, He sald it was worth every cent of lt—for American soldiers to prove that yon eonld stenl a red-hot stove and get awny with it, “1 know of only one case to bent thant one or come anywhere near equaling it. That concerned the in fantryman who stole a hive full of noney and took the bees along with it The medical department handled one uspect of the case and the provost marshal the other. The bees meted out some of the punishment and we stung his pay for costs.” CA 1930, Western Newspaper Unload U. c [FA From BAFESL Ar PARAS Due NON = 1 104 Bit. Te ALL SATAY WHS . TIAREORD. Poem | — "ss | Tous Le Ront * Onze Hiuax [| 2, 1£5 TRavres ———— A ———— Coon u 11] { ———— ——_— R "mew SY” —— a INA - Nea | - i — Sues, ————— > Sp - a CIVR, lovempry "RANC ASE 7 S———— EPASSERSNY A bigs SME: MPNRECUAL Focw mae It is the ruthless sword, And gone grim panoply, Lord, A moment's rest Beside the monument that we Have builded for ourselves, not thee. The years shall dull our grief—and yet, Though now the battle dust is lain, Can we forget? Can we forget? We need thee, Lord, For thine the boon that tears of pain Once shed shall not be shed again. Monthly. How Soldiers lay, November when hostilities came to an en Switzerland to the sea. Twelve ago at eleven o'clock of 1} day of the eleventh month guerre It was a wemorable stroke stopped, machine guns rifles ceased to time In four years air was from flying missiles, and was quiet on the tortured face of a war. torn land. Over here, one remembers the noise which accompanied the de- lirium of celebratior. the country ever has known. But what lingers In the mind of every man who was a member of the A. E. F. in France is the mo ment of deafening silence which pune tuated the end of the war. There could be no noise of celebra- tion to equal the roar of the war which certain members of the Amer ican expeditionary forces had been engaged in. They had been listening to the granddaddy of all noises, loud- er noises and more of them than ever had been heard in the history of the world. So it is not the noise which i= memorable to the American soldiers who were at the front twelve years ago: It is the sudden, complete ces sation of all noise. Good News Flies Fast Along the twenty-seven miles of front held by Americans, firing con- tinued literally until the eleventh hour. Word of the impending armistice had spread faster than the flu during the epidemic. None of the doughboys be- Heved it at first. They had heard the same thing before. It was just one of those rumors, Only the preceding Thursday night—the night the envoys came over from Spa-—some one had passed the word that the armistice had been signed and there had been a small flurry of excitement, lights where there should be no lights and indiscriminate firing of arms result ing in hard-voiced reprimands. But this time it was true. From the wireless station on the Eiffel tower In Paris Marshal Foch's order to cease firing at eleven o'clock had gone out into the air to the hsif-incredulous line which the Americans held from near Sedan to the Moselle, The high command had a notion of passing the wonderful order along in a military manner, to have the corps report it calmly by wire to the di visions, the divisions to the brigades, the brigades to the regiments, the reg- iments to the battalions, and so on un. til every member of every squad knew sbout it. But it did mot work out that way. The news spread by that form of wireless known to man long before Marconi was born, It started early in the morning with the first blush of dawn. It ran along a thousand mess lines of men shivering and stamping in the mud, clattering their mess gear and clamoring for chow. Truck driv. ers shouted it to one another on the roads. Dispatch riders flung the words over thelr shoulders as they kicked the stands of their motorcycles into place and turned on the gas. So over - memorable day, moment when, of eleven, the noise grew still, and crack. For the the there wildest less aba have a ha told Yankee outfit was has tie stationed so nd is how on the east of . handkerchi walch minute o of the was a conks, pped Fierce harde Action, * fell upon th WAS As Men bewildered But iooked only world had suddenly died at one another moment man in the A. BE. F. his tools of war A for a Every threw siow grin then he At that moment every one was mad. Then $5 2 Fa 0NaNE happened. down spread yelled. over his face And slightly befuddled, s another amazing ti} htls The battered, torn landscape which a minute before had been as bare as the palm of your hand, with men. They the earth, dirty, became alive crawied up out of disheveled figures, and them a good desl! sur prised to discover so many peopie in a place which had looked so deserted. Fraternizing With Foe. : The Germans came up grinning. eager to swap caps and equipment for tobacco and food. A stranger with an all-observing eye looking down upon the scene at this moment would never have been able to tell from the looks of things which side had won the war. And that night, for the first time gince the war started, there was light, illumination other than the flare of guns, the burst of shells and the taper ing beams of searchiights sweeping across the dark sky in search of hos tile airplanes. Now that the war was over the boys lit everything they could find. Screens were torn from windows and doors A new moon shone. Rockets and flares were sent up to brighten the sky. And thai night there was many a man who could not sleep. It was 80 d--n quiet, Thus ended the five hundred and eighty-fifth day of America’s partiel- pation in the war. That was twelve years ago. "Finis la guerre” TO FALLEN HEROES looked about
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