i (CC OrERATION be- 4s tween President Hoover and the sen- ate, never notable for its warmth, was prac- tically obliterated by the dispute over the appointments to the power board. When the senate the Chief Executive to res turn to it his nomina- tions of George Otis Smith, Marcel Gar saud and Claude L. Draper so that it might rescind its confirmation of those names, Mr. Hoover with understan i able indignation curtly refused, de claring that he “cannot admit the pow- er of the senate to encroach upon the executive functions by removal of a duly appointed executive officer under the guise his nomination.” The President was fortified in his action by an opinion of Attorney Gen- eral Mittchell, and he gave out a pub- lic statement explaining his course and intimated that ion of the senate was actuated by “a hope of symbolizing me as the defender of the power interests if I refuse to sacrilice three outstanding public servants.” He said there was no Issue for or against the power companies involved. Senators who are in the administration thereupon rose in their wrath and scathingly denounced Mr. Hoover, and the body, by a vote of 368 to 23, ordered the clerk to re store the names of the three power commissioners to the executive calen- dar, which placed the senate on record as holding that no power commission exists. Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana served notice that he would seek to tle up the salaries of the com: missioners in annual independent offices appropriation bill, Intimating that if necessary a filibuster would be conducted against the While the action of the senate was In order under its rules. it was un- precedented and does not seem to have met with general public approval Bince the commissioners had been duly sworn in and the attorney general has ruled that the appointments were con- stitutionally made, President Hoover was on solid legal ground in rejecting the senate’s demand and indeed that was the least he could do under the circumstances. In this case the rules of the senate are In conflict with the law and the Constitution. Whether or not Mr. Hoover was wise in im- pugning the motives of the senate is open to question. ——— asked 8en. Wheeler of reconsideration of the act opposition to the neasure. INCE the destruction of grain operators is held by the fed eral farm board to be no part of its function, Chairman legge has virtual ly warned them to be ready for the July 1 settlements. He discloses that the board not only holds huge contracts for future delivery but is fast gaining control of the cash wheat sup- ply. Legge said the grain stabilization corporation is holding about 75.000. 000 bushels of cash whent, and about 55.000,000 bushels of futures contract wheat which must be delivered Ue tween now and next July 1. He admitted that on July 1. when the new crop begins coming in, he ex- pects the board to be holding “vir tually all of the national earry-over.” Buch a position with any futures con- tracts outstanding would place the hoard In a position to wipe out short- speculators who happened to be due to deliver wheat to the board. A sim. liar condition existed several months “go, and at that time the board spared the short sellers by extending the de Hvery date. private also ITH the warm approval of Pres. ident Hoover, an ap peal for funds for the relief of sufferers In the drought.stricken districts of the United States has been is sued by John Barton Payne, head of the Red Cross. It Is the hope of Mr. Payne that $10,000,000 will J be contributed by the ** B. generous citizens of the country. says the demands for help in the drought areas are Increasing. Not only food, clothing and fuel for human beings are needed, but also feed for the live stock. In his letter to Mr. Payne the Pres fdent reviewed briefly the drought re. lef work of the Red Cross since last fall, when $5,000,000 was set aside for the purpose and appeals for further funds were postponed until it should be possible to measure the volume of requirements. He continued: “The problem has now developed more than the available funds and Is not wholly one of food, clothing, and other personal care among farmers, who have suffered from the drought, There Is also difficulty in the smaller rural and industrial towns as a dou ble reaction from the drought and de pression. 1 understand that these towns are unable to organize effective. ly to meet their problems as are the municipalities, Payne He “The arrangement made by Secre tary Hyde and yourself by which a representative of local Red Cross chapters will sit upon the local com mittees created by the Department of Agriculture for administration of the crop relief will assure that every one truly deserving will be looked after with care and without waste, “l1 am confident that you mand the never failing generous in stincts of our toward those who are less fortunate.” Investigation of conditions In kansas shows that Senator Caraway was not exaggerating much when he told of the needs of thé farmers of his state in his argument for the sen ate amendment to the $45,000,000 drought relief appropriation, The sen- ate wanted to add $15,000,000 for loans for food, but the house rejected the amendment, will com. people Ar Senator Robinson of Arkansas tried a new plan, offering an amendment to the Interior department appropriation bill providing for a federal donation of £25,000,000 to the Red Cross for relief in city and rural districts. POLOGY and rep the national é aration from Republican committee de. manded by Smith, Presidential candidate in 1028, for permitting its executive tobert H. leas, to circulate SUO(XK} cop ies of the “Al 8 h Raskobh Idea of fap piness” circular In Ne and other siates during the last fall. On the eircul was a pleture of a barroom. Mr. Smith made ind letter which Senator Wagner of York introduced the Nye antorial committee, He de clafed a quotation attributed to him was false, and said: “1 have S00.000 fire Alfred E. Democratic director, Al Smith braska campaign cular his dem: in a New before sen campaign am entitled to of a statement, showing that I was falsely quoted, dis tributed just as widely as the original cartoon was and to the same organiza: tions." copies Senator Nye told the committee that charges of perjury would be filed at Lincoln, Neb, against George W. Nor ris, the grocer of Broken Bow, sought to run against Senator George W. Norris In the last primary In Ne braska. who EVERAL hundred delegates, ly from Mississippi valley states, attended a waterway and flood control conference In promoted by Mayor Willlam Hale Thompson. The men from Louisiana were especially active In the meeting and presented a platform calling for more money for flood control, more rapid expenditure of the funds now available, and radi. cal changes in the Jadwin plan for a reservoir system, with a board of dis tinguished civil engineers replacing the War department engineers In charge of construction, If necessary. Mayor Thompson was lauded as “the most effective friend the Mississippi valley ever has had,” and several del. egates bitterly denounced Col. Robert Isham Randolph, president of the Chi cago Association of Commerce, who in a New Orleans speech had called the conference a ballyhoo and political rally for Thompson, Chicago R. John Grier Hibben has an nounced that he will retire from the presi dency of Princeton university at the end of the academic year in 1032, There is much discussion as to who will succeed him, but the board of trustees has not yet taken up the question. Most prominently men. R. A. Fosdick tioned for the place Is Raymond A. Fosdick, an eminent New York law. yer who graduated from Princeton with the class of 1905. He is now one of the trustees. Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, a member of the class of 1000, is aldo suggested. He, too, is on the board of trustees. Doctor Hibben was elected presi. dent of the university January 11, 1912, and Inaugurated the following May 12. He succeeded Woodrow Wil- son, who resigned in 1910 upon his election as governor of New Jersey. Only three of Princeton's fourteen presidents served terms longer than the 20 years of Doctor Hibben. They were John Witherspoon, the sixth president, who served from 1768 to 1799; James Carnohan, the ninth, from 1823 to 1854; and James MecCosh, the eleventh, from 1808 to 1888, F THE Democratic party wants an- other wet candidate for the Presi dency in 1032, Albert C. Ritchie is ready for the job. Such was the Im. plication in his address when he was inaugurated for the fourth time ns governor of Maryland. Dealing with national rather than state issues, he attacked prohibition, criticized the part played by the Hoover administra. tion In the economic situation and de- elured his opposition to governmental interference with business. QEHOUS opposition by the senate AZ to President Hoover's six nominees for membership on the tariff bourd de- veloped in the case of only one, and during the week all of them were con- firmed. They are Henry P. Fletcher, Thomas WV. Page, John Lee Coulter, Alfred P. Dennis, Edgar B. Brossard and Lincoln Dixon, Robinson of Arkansas and Walsh of Montana attacked ‘rossard, who Is from Utah, because of his alleged part in advocating a high tariff on sugar in 1924 when he was ar econo- mist in the employ of the old tariff commission. But the radical Republi cans falled to support the Democrats and some of them made speeches In favor of Brossard: and the Utah man was confirmed by a vote of 45 to 36. NDER the aus pices of the In- ternational Chamber of Commerce a great world business confer. ence will open In Washington May 4 and continue six days. jusiness men from 40 counfries will attend and will try to deter- mine the causes of the present interna- national trade depres. sion. This subject will be taken ap promptly at the first plenary session, which will be presided over by Georges Theunis, former premler of Delgiu and president of the International chamber. 8. H. 8*rawn The pro 1 for the conference was announced by Silas HH. Strawn of Chi i American international chamber, tions cngo, chairman of the com- mittee of the In discussi he sald “The quarters the existing condi conviction Is abroad that the toward business recovery in Europe is the resumption of normal buying in the States. Until our peo ple, by renewal of purchases held in many first step United the of substantial improvement in aahitie ability the world economie the aoverinangs “Perhaps that world is markets of most ominouy the whole the dumping on large quantities raw materials, and semi-finished ucts by Soviet Russia, at than the normal costs of producti prices “The Washington conference will investigate carefully the effect a view reme- endeavor to distinction and in the present situation, with to establishing to extent dies can be sought and the first steps hastened by between cause what co-ordinating sectional endeavor.” OE of America's truly great Jews, Nathan Straus of New York, has his reward. Having ac quired a large fortune in merchandis ng. he devoted himself to aiding his fellow men and gave away many mil 8 benefac- passed on to lions, Outstanding among hi tions was his work for the conserva. tion of infant life largely through the establishment of stations pure milk could be obtained for babies by Chicago also lost a philan where the poor, thropie Jew in the death of Edwin F. Meyer, who gave large sums to de pendents of slain policeman and was an organizer of the Associated Jewish charities, N° TRACE has been found, at this A writing, of Mrs. Bers! Hart and Lieut. W. 8S. Maclaren and the plane Tradewind in which they flew from lermuda for the Azores on their way to Paria. For several days there were severe storms on the Atlantic and It wns taken for granted that the two aviators were lost, RISTIDE Briand’s plan for a union of European states is now under official consideration, for the committee appointed by the League of Na. tions to study the pro posal and draw up a scheme for putting it into effect met Friday in Geneva for its first session. Not only En- rope, but the whole M. Briand world is deeply interested and will follow the doings of the committee closely, The committee Includes thirteen foreign ministers and is presided over by M. Briand himself, Sir Eric Dram- mond, secretary general of the league, is in South America, so the chairman is assisted by J. L. M, C. Avenol, the assistant secretary, who is a French man, There are numerous opponents of the Briand scheme, and they say noth. ing ean come of it. Great Britain es. pecially eannot look on it with favor because she is both a European and a world power and such a union as Is proposed would probably work to the injury of her vast dominions, The “revisionist” states, such as Germany, Hungary and Italy, would scarcely support the plan before their bound: ary lines were changed to suit them The permanent officials of the League of Nations feel that the suggested un fon would wenken the league and ite worldwide ideals. Even in France there are many against the plan, fo Briand's political adversaries are In creasing in numbers, He himself ap parently doesn’t hope for more at thi: time than to keep the project nlive, | (@ 1931, Western Newspaper Union ) New Importance Given to City Shade Trees A writer In The American Clty calls attention to the fact “that nature Is # better artist than man when his work Is viewed from the air.” As seen from an altitude of 1,000 feet or the rounded hills, the verdure- vitllleys dotted with lakes, the frees and the contrasting folilnge of forest, orchard, und present a most satisfying picture fut the appear unce of the works of man are mostly au blemish, so long has it been the practice to think of anything upon the roof us out of sight. Thus to the eye of the traveler in the air is pre- sented, wherever towns appear, a sad array of ugly roofs, sooty chimney pots and fentureless architectural members supposed by thelr designers mutter not seen from below, presents an entirely new there Is suffi cient importance to air travel to make consider the air of every city. And those who realize the Importance which may at. tuch to the subject in the near future, point out that the present practice of beautiful shade ke of street widening, ‘ted vainly It where advanced, from the will be sim greatiy by the fact that the city full of beautiful 1580d nnd aligned as to give a mos nore tinted proves of tints of hedgerow glade, nut to because the street The problem, Already subject it worth while to View sucriliving may soon been re this alr that archi has in Germany, clousness Is well muslernize Berlin 's new alr viewpoint trees, so nu t favor ible air view.~Kansas City Times. Miniature Greenhouse Twenty five ost of a Hed In the dollurs Is that home, greenhouse nyeruge follow tutions, preeniiouse in Wom of a size ins, described inion, consists n little her strip nnd a bit of inge wn be built outside of any ve the 1 me recreation, pie greenhouse tried out grew liotrope, cyclamen, lol and a climbing stephanotis, i manting for 41 ilire attention to the attractive greenhouse, Beautifying School Lots Hundreds of our Missouri schools need vastly water-tight roofs they fase ”"n i514 . clusion of chilblain more than need bearing gusts in than they need horders. and a good coat of paint more than they velvety winter more fower need nny far of the kity of carrying the of a ried rusty less blessing pumps to le or more Ney 4 plan of beautifying school lots due Missouri rural districts, to pupils and to parents as well as as suming guardinnship over gem spots set in the midst of smiling fields are well understood by teachers, Why. indeed. should successive school lots be included among the shabbiest of run-down premises en countered in a day's ride along the splendid new highways?—S8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. of green Be a Booster When times are hard It behooves every gool citizen to be a booster for his own town. Knocking is like a run on 1 bank. After you have started it It goes like wildfire and like a snow. ball it gathers as It goes. Soot signs of depression appear, people are afraid to spend, afraid to venture, and the once good times begin to crumble and the town is down at the heel. Be a hooster, It gives courage. It 1s catching and soon your united efforts will have the old place ringing with cheer and good fellowship and hope in the future will be the keynote of good times.—Marie Blackburn, Pa. In Grit, Smoke Causes Big Loss Smoke which results from the use of bituminous or soft coal and from the improper combustion of other fuels in the heating and power plants of factories, homes and public buildings does an estimated damage of more than 500000000 a pear In the United States, according to figures made pub lie by the Fuel Resiarch Laboratories Consider Home's Entrance The entrunce should be hospitable nnd so placed as te help the harmony of the bullding—not necessarily in the exnet center of the front wall, but In hiurmony with the other features of ihe house, Swamp Area Made Useful A swamp urea of 208 acres near Minneapolis, Minn, when reclaimed «lll contain a coiaplete recreational field. with playgrounds, golf course and a S0-ucre lake W akeful We can never be sure just what makes an infant restless, but the remedy can always be the same. Good old Castoria! There's comfort in every drop of this pure vegetable reparation, and not the slightest Ppa in its frequent use. As often as Baby has a fretful spell, is feverish, or cries and can’t sleep, let Castoria soothe and quiet him. Sometimes it's a touch of colic. Other times it's constipation. Or diarrhea~—a condition that should always be checked promptly, ust keep Castoria handy, and give it promptly. Relief will follow very promptly; if it doesn’t you should call a physician, All through babyhood, Castoria should be a mother's standby; and a wise mother continues it in more liberal doses as a child grows up. Birds Worry Fruit Grower The discovery of a smal sion mina birds fornia has cern to a merce ut For gent pests, ers. to the starling reer t Fagor yellow Los Angeles MOTHERS ARE LEARNING USES OF MAGNESIA From th until bab of Magn service digestion. assures movement, Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia Is bet- ter than lime water for neutralizing cow's milk for All drugstores have Phillip of Magnesia in generous bottles. Always endorsed by physicians for 50 years. infant feeding " Milk . he and 50c insist on the genuine Locomotive's Travels A Bixt) started its tracks of the Ca road, moved down the canal, then year-old locomotis career in French Francigeo's sea to a logging railros northwest, To keep clean and healthy take Dr. Plerce’s Pleasant Pellets. They regulate liver, bowels and & dv. nach. —A Even in Wall street, temperament largely determines whether 8 man is a bull or a bear. Fortune tellers get a share of your fortune for telling it. Don’t be helpless when you suddenly get a headache. Reach in your pocket for immediate relief, If you haven't any Bayer Aspirin with you, get some at the first drugstore you come to. Take a tablet or two and be rid of the pain. Take promptly. Nothing is gained by waitin to see if the pain will leave its own accord. It may worse! Why postpone relief? There are many times when IL a Tiveretny Promoting Digestion Chuerfusness wo Tes. Lotus neither Opus, Me - Mineral Kot Nancomic Bo SATII PE ce RLY Fl —— Readily obtais store, the ge by the Chas. and the name wrapper like this: CASTORIA at any drug asily identified Castoria on the Money in Tobacco Growing From aut I 1 ¢ qertakot neglect your child’s COUGH or COLD Tye milder“ counter.irritant.” Good old Mus:=role now m: milder for babies and small ¢ pleasant to use and so rel Children's Musterole freely: area once every hour for five hours. Tha f u trea i ren thee all ones eae tment tha and nurses recogniz Musterol t viz Musterole gets action “counter-irritant’’ - ~it penetrates and s ' 1] a eae 1 os draw ut infer carculation, helps to draw out infec and pain That's why this famous mustard, helpful ingredients brings relief naturally Keep full strength Musterole on for adults and Children’s Musterole for the little tots, camphor, ment} MILD Confusing Wifle- oe New spa per very clear, are they? Hubl In what way, Wifie—It's so hard to are the politicians and the gangsters. Life. stories aren't my dear? tell which which are easier for a 0 1 to look look as It's as old as young as she feels. she is Bayer Aspirin will “save the day.” It will always ease a throbbing head. Quiet a grume bling tooth. Relieve nagging pains of neuralgia or neuritis, Check a sudden cold. Even rheumatism has lost its terrors for those who have learned to depend on these tablets, Gargle with Bayer Aspirin at the first suspicion of sore throat, and reduce the infection. Look for Bayer on the box— and the word Genuine in red. Genuine Bayer Aspirin does not depress the heart.
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