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NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
United States Contends at
Geneva for Real Reduc-
tion of Armaments.
By EDWARD WwW. PICKARD
IRECT and genuine reduction of
land and sea armament was pro-
posed by the United States In the ses-
sions of the preparatory disarmament
commission In Geneva, the spokesman
for this country being Ambassador
Hugh Gibson. He was replying to
Lord Robert Cecil's speech ady ng
limitation through budgetary curtall-
ment, and sald the United States could
not accept this plan for two reasons:
First, because it Is inoperative and
cannot efficiently and accurately re-
strict the maintenance of war ma-
terial ;
Second, because the congress at
Washington probably would refuse to
ratify any such agreement, which, he
sald, Infringes on its rights to make
appropriations for national defense.
The British want the budgetary sys-
tem applied to land forces but not
to navies, and they are supported hy
France, the little entente and some
other nations. The American demand
fs backed up by Germany, Japan,
Russia, Scandinavia, [Holland and
Canada. Maxim Litvinov, Moscow's
representative, insisted that a direct
system of limitation of arms alone will
give results. He went further and in-
sisted on a dual method of imitation
with the publication of complete
tables of war material, and a gradu-
ated decrease In military budgetary
expenditures,
N. Bato of Japan declared that the
direct method of limiting fighting
forces was too difficult to apply and
was Impossible to Impose on all na-
tions. He sald: “I think that Japan's
view Is that we should be content to
limit soldters and not attempt to limit
material by any method.”
Rene Massigli of France complained
that Mr. Gibson was too severe against
the budgetary system, but admitted
that some countries’ military budgets
do not reveal the exact amounts spent.
He also voiced apprehension over sub-
sidized arsenals,
The French delegation then pro-
posed that a committee of experts be
named to examine both systems and
report to the governments to give
them time to make up their minds be-
fore the disarmament conference ls
held.
ocatl
RESIDENT HOOVER in an Armls.
tice day address urged his listeners
to work continuously for peace with
the same zeal with which America’s
war dead waged war, but he sald the
time has not yet come when the United
States can rest its defense solely upon
the Kellogg pact and other peace ma-
chinery, and he also made it clear
that the United States intends to keep
free of political pacts that would bind
it to the use of force to maintain
pence.
“The purpose of our government”
the President sald In addressing an
audience of 3,000 delegates attending
the Good Will congress of the World
Alliance for Friendship Through the
Churches, “is to co-operate with others
to use our friendly offices and, short of
any Implication of the use of force, to
use every friendly effort and all good
will to maintain the peace of the
world.”
General Pershing, Secretary of State
Stimson and Secretary of War Hurley
all made Armistice day talks In Wash-
ington, and all of them pleaded for
adequate preparedness for national de-
fense, ©
Secretary Hurley sald that In event
of another war “each farm and fac
tory, each mill and mine, wiil be re
quired to perform its duty to the ecoun-
try in support of the soldier who faces
the enemy at the front. Never again
shall one citizen be required to give
his life in defense of his country while
another Is permitted to make unusual
profit at his country’s expense.”
OW American ageiculture ean be
helped to establish itself on a
firm economic basis was the main
tople before the National Grange at
Its sixty-fourth annual convention In
Rochester, N. Y. To this end six suz-
gestions were put forward by National
Master Louis J. Taber, these being :
1. Stabilization of values.
2. A higher price level
commodities,
8. More justly distributed system of
taxation.
4. Extension
loan system,
5. Readjustment of
freight rate structure.
6. Restriction of Immigration
conservation of patural resources.
Critlcizing the speculation In graln
on the Chicago Board of Trade, Mr.
Taber sald:
“As long
for farm
of tlie federal farm
the natlon's
and
as this present system re
mains with its violent price manipula
tions It is obvious that must
be a method of protection by hedging
for the safeguarding of the buyer and
processor, but when hedging and short
selling take the form
and gambling in the necessities of life,
the public 1s Injured.
“Unfortunately for the American
farmer, our present marketing strue-
ture operates with no concern as to
the price he receives. It is 'a sad
commentary on our present boasted
wheat marketing program, that during
the recent period of agriculture's
greatest depression, and the grain
grower’s consequent distress, the (hl.
cago Board of Trade erected a $12.
000,000 buliding, while the producer
suffers near annihilation”
there
of speculation
EVEN national leaders of the Dem-
ocratic party offered to co-operate
with President Hoover and his ad
ministration In non-partisan efforts to
stabilize business, promote business
and otherwise Improve the national
welfare through legislation; and they
gave assurance that the Democrats,
victorious In the recent election, would
not attempt for the present to change
the tariff act passed last June.
On behalf of the administration and
the Republicans In congress, Senator
James E. Watson of Indiana. ma jority
leader In the senate, accepted and wel-
comed the ald offered by the Demo
crats, saying the country Is faced with
a situation where the only patriotic
solution lies In co-operative action.
It was learned at the White House
that I'resident Hoover will present to
congress In December a large unem-
ployment program which will Include
authorizations for new building pro}
ects that may exceed $100,000,000, He
already had announced the adminis.
tration would ask an emergency ap-
propriation. which may reach $100,
000,000, to finance an expansion of the
government's public works construc
tion program for the relief of unem-
ployment. Removal of time limitations
on projects now authorized will be
asked, as will new legislation to re-
move limitations on certain Industries
that are handicapped In thelr desires
to expand construction efforts
That promise of co-operation made
by the seven Democrate leaders was
not well taken by Senator Carter Glass
of Virginia, himself one of the most
prominent Democrats, In so far as it
affected the tariff. He asserted that
“no group of Democrats, however dis.
tinguished or discerning, should feel
obliged to pledge their party nsso-
clates In congress not severely to dis-
turb the most Infamous tariff act ever
enacted by a legislative body, lest the
doing of this might upset the ace
quisitive activities of those who are
thus licensed tc prey upon the Ameri-
can consumers.”
NDIA'S future status within the
British empire Is to be worked out,
if possible, at the long awaited “round
table conference” which opened in
London. King George himself started
the proceedings with a speech express-
ing his earnest desire that the prob-
lem be settled in the best Interests of
all his subjects, and Prime Minister
MacDonald was then made chairman.
Seated around a great oval table
were eighty-six persons Including the
princes of India, representatives of
all classes and communities of British
Indians and of the kingdom of Great
Britain, and among them were two
women delegates, the Begum Shah
Nawaz and Mrs. Subbaravan. But there
was no representative of the powerful
Nationalist Congress party which is
headed by Mahatma Gandhi, for It had
boycotted the conference. The many
millions of Nationalists demand com.
plete Independence for India, while the
other Indians, present at the round
table, all Insist on full dominion status
as a minimum. This the present Drit-
ish government {3 pledged to grant,
and the task of the conference Is to
work out the multitudinous details.
N ARSHAL CHANG, the young war
1 lord of Manchuria who by his
intervention ended the civil war Ip
confer with President Chiang Kai-shek
on a program of reconstruction. The
finance problem presents the greatest
difficulty, for the Nanking government
hopes to persuade the Manchurian fac-
tion to surrender the customs and salt
gubelle revenues which Marshal Chang
is cornering Chang also is asking
upkeep of Manchurian within
the
troops
great wall.
WH,
Ohlo
are demanding
I) Fess of
of the Il
because
Republicans
Senator Simeon
resign ns chairman
publican national committee
he sald that the party must remain
dry or face a split and be defeated in
1932. The senator declares that this
was merely his personal opinion, and
that while he will continue to do ull
he can to combat efforts by the wets
to weaken prohibition, he may be
ready to support any recommendations
made by the Wickersham commission
that would tend to make prohibition
more enforceable,
manship, but there are those who be
Heve he will soon be forced out and
that Robert 11. Lucas will succeed him
and conduct the next Presidential
compalign,
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi
dent of Columbia university, says that
if the Republican party's platform In
Eighteenth amendment “there will
come In the following Noyember the
biggest political smash-up that
taken piace in the history of any Amer.
can now living.”
As a matter of fact, the leaders of
both parties are greatly
retain their respective strengths,
The Wickersham commission, trying
to get together on a report concerning
hearings and deliberations until Thurs
day and then adjourned until Novem.
were Dr. Willlam CC. Woodward of
Chicago, legislative counsel for the
American Medical association, and Dr.
William M. Mayer of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Both doctors were understood to have
told the commission that they felt the
present dry law provigions are ob
noxious to their profession generally
and a burdensome Interference with
the practice of reputable physicians,
G™= TASKER H. BLISS, who was
chief of staff of the United
States army during the World war,
American representative on the su
preme war council and one of the
American peace commissioners in 1018,
died In Walter Ileed hospital, Wash
ington, at the age of seventy-six years.
He was buried In Arlington with full
military honors,
Thomas Coleman du Pont, former
senator from Delaware, financier and
for years head of E. I. du Pont de
Nemours & Co, passed away at his
home In Wiimington, Del. Other
notables who died included Dr. Julla
Holmes Smith of Chicago, pioneer suf
fragist and philanthropist : John Lee
Mahin, noted advertising man; Sidney
M. Colgate, soap magnate, and F. M.
Hubbell of Des Moines, reputed to be
Towa's wealthiest citizen,
HREE landslides In rapid succes.
sion, caused by heavy rains, buried
part of Fourvieres, a densely popu.
lated Industrial suburb of Lyon,
France. Scores were buried alive and
it was thought the death list might
run as high as one hundred, Mem:
bers of rescue parties that began work
after the first landslide were among
the victims of the later ones.
REMIER Yuke Hamaguch! of Ja-
pan was mortally wounded in a
Tokyo rallway station by a young
member of a reactionary patriotie so
clety, He was shot in the abdomen.
The premier, known ns the “Lion of
Japan,” was considered a financial
genius and was popular,
165 182), Westarp Newgoaser Union.)
4
Preventable Fire Loss
Reaches Into Millions
Figures from the office of the stute
fire marshal for the last fiscal year
indieate that mogt fires are prevent |
Defective chimneys found |
to have been responsible for 522 fires, |
with a loss of $021.0900, and
hented stoves for 421 fires, with a
loss of 3506506. Two hundred and
seventy-six fires followed explosions,
with $263,417 logs. Spontaneous com.
bustion caused an loss of $£331.023 in
114 Matches, starting 132 fires,
ciunsed $84002 loss, and lightning set |
(3) fires, 200.558
There Is for a defective
chimney or for stoves and furnaces to
become ever
Knows when an explosion Is going to
occur, but careful inspection of ma-
chinery, the proper storage of chem.
Icais and inflammable materials would
lessen their number. Matches can be
placed where they wil} no harm,
and if person who lighted a
match certain that the flame
was extinguished before it was tossed |
away there would be no danger there, |
It is possible now to equip buildings
with lightning arresters, thus redue-
the danger of struck. In
the fires listed the total losses amount
to ¥2.008.2105, causing loss of produc
able, ire
aver
fires
cnusing loss,
no excuse
overheated, Nobody
do
every
mnde
ing being
insured property and other damage. ~—
Indianapolis News,
Its Increase in Size |
Plato limited the ideal city to a |
population of 10,000. There have been |
on the question |
since his day, Million-population clubs |
have not America, |
rot to |
reabouls
opinions
unknown In
mention or
been
io manizations out
fo HX O00
boost ‘er ul
Some cities have
both mark
ed to |}
nhie g
ot
they have, regardless
Many hold that the des
fr the
health
figure,
iry
of school,
standpoint |
and other |
facilities, should have a minimum pop- |
of 5000. The vital consider. |
community, om
religious,
with growth. Population is
its needs. Whatever the popula- i
or betler—a city becomes Ideal to the |
that the legitimate require
Pays to Keep Homes Modern
C. A. Sterling, of the Capitol Build.
Age, says: “It used to be our custom
We mod-
B. and L. borrowers were delinquent
facilities in the home,
these had been furnished the
to contract.™ Which proves
date,
Give the Tree Roots Room
Bize and shape of the exeavation
for the individual trees should be at
least six Inches beyond the spread of
the roots of the tree extended in thelr
natara! positions The depth of the
hole should be more than enough to
receive the roots in the same man
ner, says the American Tree associa.
tion of Washington, which will send
anyone tree planting suggestions for
a stamp, There should be place for a
Inyer of six Inches of good loam be
fore the roots are placed in the hole,
Then, when the “topsoil” is carefully
worked among the fine roots, the tree
should be about the same depth (note
#oll mark on stem) as It was in the
nursery or woodland,
Public Playgrounds
More than 1,000 new public play
areas were opened last year for the
first time, it Is pointed out Ly the Na
tional Recreation association, In 1008
there were only 41 cities In which any
attempt was made at directed recre-
ation. There are now a total of 13.307
rones set aside for sport, The annual
expenditure for public recreation has
grown from less than $7,000,000 In
1919 to $33,500,000 in 1029,
Small Town Problems
The big problem of a small com-
munity now is to keep trade flowing
into the community, With automobiles
and good roads a smail town that
doesn’t meet the problem with new
idens will be the loser. Any small
town which shows this spirit is going
to continue to thrive as it has thrived
in the past, If it follows the old rut
and shrugs its shoulders at progress
it will decay.—~Wood County News,
Figure the Old House Right
In placing a price on a used house,
If you wish to sell It quickly, count
against your figure the use you have
had and the rent you have enjoyed,
The woman who knows, would
as soon start out without her
purse! She always carries Bayer
Aspirin.
When your head fairly throbs
from the stores and crowds,
reach for that little box. Take
two or three tablets, a swallow
of water, and resume your
shopping —in comfort. Relief
is immediate.
Most people use these won-
derful tablets for something!
But do you know how many,
many ways they can spare you
needless suffering? From ‘the
discomfort—and danger—of a
neglected cold. From serious
BAYER
Visiting Days Unknown
to Men of Coast Guard
A lonely vigil is kept by coast
guard and lighthouse
Sable point north of Ludington, Mich.
They lve In complete isolation the
Year round. Finding of coins and
of the crew Indicates that the point
was visited by explorers Three
Years ago a large canoe was un
earthed but w
crews could
bert | ird, |
guard station, found
jsh coin In the
It bo
picked up only ten miles'south of the
point where Pere Marquette died on
May 18, 1675.
SWEETEN ACID
STOMACH THIS
PLEASANT WAY
When there's distress two hours
after eating—heartburn, indigestion
Bas—suspect excess acid
The best way to correct this Is
with an alkall. Physicians prescribe
Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia.
A spoonful of Phiillips' Milk of
Magnesia In a glass of water neu.
tralizes many times its volume In
excess acid; and does it at once, To
try It Is to be through with crude
methods forever,
Be sure to get genuine Phillips’
Milk of Magnesia. All drugstores
have the generous 2%: and 50c
bottles. Full directions in package
lows
re the date
China Bars Greyhounds
Greyhounds, looked upon with fa
vor by sportsmen all over the world,
are not popular in China, according
to Canadian Pacific steamship offi.
cinls, as the Chinese government is
determined not to permit the impor
tation of racing dogs and the com.
missioner of customs at Shanghal
threatens any attempt to land the
dogs will result In severe penalties.
Has Long Usefulness
A coconut tree becomes mature at
seven years and may live to be one
hundred and fifty years oid.
consequences of a sore throat,
From those pains peculiar to
women. From the misery of
neuralgia and neuritis.
Every drugstore has genuine
Bayer Aspirin. The box says
Bayer, and every tablet bears
the Bayer cross. Tablets thus
marked do not depress the heart.
Fortune Lying Loose
i A young Pittsburgh business nan
| Is still tingling
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* experience
bank
there the other day to write a « heck
ried »
and finding on
aiking into a
the counter, right
signed ar
He t1
ni
k officials and
un-
dorsed
it in
cor-
der his nose a
| check for $£58.000,
{to the ba
| dially
thanked.
Clears
out cold
in head
or chest
A home
remedy of
tested and
tried in-
gredients,
safe, de-
pendable.
30c ot all druggists
tooth use Pike's Toothache
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“I'm surprised at you, losing your
temper at bridge !™
“My dear girl, that was all I had
left to lose."—The Humorist.
Snails Peculiarly Shaped
Arrow snails found in the ocean off
Bermuda are sharply pointed in the
shape of arrow heads.
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upset; it may be sluggish bowels.
But when little tongues are
coated and there is even a slight
suspicion of bad breath—it's time
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