Says
T EITHER drys nor
» wets can derive
any whole hearted
satisfaction from the
report of the Wicker
sham law enforcement
commission, which
was handed to Presi-
dent Hoover and by
him transmitted to
Nor is It
sonceivable that the
commission itself can
have any great pride
Wickersham ip the bulky document.
The one wholly honest member ap-
pears to be Monte Lemann of New Or-
leans, who refused to sign the ma-
jority report. The other ten attached
their names to it and gave out state-
ments showing that no one of them
agreed with its findings In their en-
tirety.
This majority report
peal of ihe Eighteenth
and, admitting that prohibition has
not been enforced or observed, recom.
mends that it be given further trial,
with an enlarged force of agents, Re-
moval of tle restrictions on the pre
scription of medicinal liquor by
fcians If the dry amend
ment is to be revised )
mission is agreed on
ology whit
t¢ deal with
sees fit. Mo 1
act 80 as to permit
and sale of light wit
opposed.
In a
revision
te or prohibit the
and sale of liquor was set forth In de
tail by Heary W. of Vir
ginia. and it was si Commis
sloners Anderson, Rensos
Pound, McCormick and Mackintosh.
Statements of the i
missioners appended to the
port showed ti
bers, six consider it
pect that prohibition can be mu
prohi Two of tlese six—former
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker
of Ohio and Prof. Monte M. Lemann
of Tulane uni
repeal of the Eighteenth amendment.
The other four of these six—Mr. An-
derson, Ada L. Comstock, president of
Radcliffe college; Frank J. Loesch of
Chicago, and Dean Roscoe Pound of
Harvard law school-—favor Imm
revision of the Eighteenth a
to confer the power of regulatio
CONSTress,
Five of the members— Chairman
George W. Wickersham, United States
Judges William 8 Kenyon, Paul J.
McCormick asd William I. Grubb, and
former Chief Justice K. M. Mackin
tos. of the Washington Supreme
court—stood out fur a fu rther trial.
Judges Kenyon, Mackintosh and Me-
Cormick said that If the further ex-
periment failed they would favor adop-
tion of the Anderson plan of nationa
regulation of liquor,
In transmitting the report to con-
gress, President Hoover sald he was
in accord with its stand against re
peal of the dry amendment, and ad-
ded: “I do, however, see serious ob-
Jections to, and therefore must not be
understood as ecommending the com-
mission's proposed revision of the
Eighteenth amendment which is sug-
gested by them for possible consider-
ation at some future time if the con-
tinued effort at enforcement should not
prove successful.”
CONEress,
a
George W.
is against re
amendment,
phys
is advised.
phrase
h would empower congress
the liquor
plan for
ress the power to
separate report the
giving cong
manufacture
Anderson
gned by
Loesch,
ndividual
general re
mem
hopeless to ex
com
at of the eleven
ide to
versity, La.—advocate
Serator John J. Blaine of Wiscon-
sin was quick to introduce a modifica-
tion amendment on the general lines
of the plan offered by Commissioner
Anderson but confining congressional
power to regulation of liquor traffic,
Like the Anderson scheme, it would
permit each state to decide whether
it desires prohibiti'n or a government.
controlled liquor supply,
TANDING by his
conviction that
the funds of the Red
Cross should be ob
tained by private
subscription, Presi
det Hoover has
named a committee of
leading citizens to
push the drive for
$10,000,000 for the re
lief of the drought
sufferers Calvin
Coolidge, his predeces-
sor, has accepted the
honorary chairmanship of this body,
and Al Smith, his opponent in
J028, is a vice president, as are
John W. Davis, Democratic candi
date for the presidency in 1024; Gen.
John J. Pershing, and Abel Davis of
Chicago. John Barton Payne, head of
the Red Cross, Is the active chairman
of the committee,
In a letter to those Invited to serve
on the committee the President
sald that “It is essential that we
should maintain the sound America
tradition and spirit of voluntary al
in such emergency and should not
undermine that spirit which has made
our Red Cross the outstanding guard.
fan of our people in time of disaster,
. . The American way of meeting
Calvin
Coolidge
Carrell
PICKARD
guch a relief problem has been through
voluntary effort and for many years
this effort has been centered in the
American Red created by the
people themselves to act in just such
emergencies,”
ISTRUCTIONIST tactics In the
O senate delayed the Interior de-
partment bill, to which had been ap-
pended the $25,000,000 appropriation
for the Red Cross for food but the
measure was passed. The senate also
had further relief plans. The agri-
culture committee approved a measure
to donate 20,000,000 bushels of farm
board wheat to feed the hungry. the
cost of the grain to be credited to
the board's revolving fund: and the
appropriation committee added to a
pending deficiency blll $20000,000 for
immediate public Improvements,
Wet members of the house engaged
in a filibuster against prohibition en
forcement appropriations, attacking
espec) ¥ funds for employment of
formers, for purchase of liquor
evidence and for tapping the telephone
wires of suspected law
Cross,
violators,
~LIHU ROOT
-+ senate foreign rel
the
iittee
appeared before
ations comn
ind eloquently defended the profocy #
for American adherence t World
court which he
nts were foreibl
LiON8 Seen
ress di it
‘tT on
£1 UIE to hay
appear 10 na
Senators Boral
’ *
nson, nembers of the
opponents if adl
inerence ¢
ate's reserva tions.
En BY SINESS
United
on the
the a of 1!
il depressio
ed before
inning of t!
nd the
ertored indy
sper ny ure
i A least, is the
"ot James A
president
prospect
J. A. Farrell
ted Nate
Steel corporatio aR expressed
an address to the Nationa! Can
and the National Whole
Grocers
ners
sale RESO
convention in Chics
recated the si
of int
of relief, and urged
things that we can.
iggestions of
er-allied war debts as a un
that we
“let us cu
the volume of undigested talk
rarely belps but always hamps
said,
ranting that unemployment is con
national in
the steel mag
siderable and tha: the
come has been reduced,
pate contended It was essential for
prosperity to maintain the purchasing
power of the working classes, adding:
“It is my deliberate judgment that a
general reduction of wages in this
country would set back the Impending
recovery by at least two years”
The agricultural situation Mr. Far
rell described as a most serious on
But, he sald, no lasting gain will be
made for agriculture by resort to
“quack nostrums and unsound eco
nomics ™
RICES of bread,
sugar and other
foodstuffs are being
investigated, on order
of the senate, by an
agricultural subcom
mittee of which Sen
ator Arthur Capper
of Kansas is chair
man, Senators Wag
ner of New York and
Brookhart of Jowa
who were the authors
of the resolution eall-
ing for the inquiry, first appeared be-
fore the committee and explained their
views and their reasons for thinking
current prices to be excessive,
Afterwards representatives of the
big bread baking companies and other
tradesmen were called in to tell the
facts as they see them and to justify,
if they could, the maiutenance of pres.
ent prices of bread in view of the low
price of wheat.
Sen. Capper
EPRESENTATIVE FISH'S house
committee on communist activities
has reported, recommending strength
ening the laws which would enable
the authorities to curb those activities
in the United States, The Russian
Soviet press heaps ridicule on the re
port, declaring It Is impudent and in.
solent and that It Indicates the “fright
of the bourgeoisie” that the Soviet re
public will succeed In its Industrial.
ization plan.
Soviet officials announce that Ras
sia is about to resume the dumping
of grain on the world markets, her
supply largely exceeding the needs of
the Russian people,
EEP away from: Las Vegas, is the
warning to joLless workers who
seek employment on the Boulder dam
project given out by Labor, the official
organ of railroad labor organizations,
The paper says:
“Despite the tact that contracts on
the $165,000,00G xovernment project
have not been awarded, Las Vegans has
been flooded with thousands of job-
less and destitute men. Hundreds of
these unfortunate job seckers were
deceived by roseate reports circulated
by unscrupulous employment agencies,
in the opinion of Francis I. Jones, gen-
eral director of the United States em-
ployment service,
“Capt. Robert M. Griflin of the Sal-
vation army at Las Vegis recently
declared that Las Vegas has the long-
est bread line in the United States,
anceording to population, More than
7.000 jobless workers were given ald
by the Salvation army in one month,
Captain Griflin reports.”
8 for Boulder dam
will not be awarded until March and
men who insist on going there in
search of employment are advised by
the United States employment service
to be prepared to take care of them:
selves for at least four months,
YACIFISTS and ad-
vocates of ade
quate national defense
came together In
Washington in he
sixth national con.
ference on the cause
and cure of war, The
big weeting was at-
tended by more than
000 delegates from 44
states, and was beld
under the auspices of
11 national women's
organizations whose
alm in this respect i8 to com-
plete the demobilization of what
they call “the One of
The first contract
ed i
Admiral Mark
Bristol
war machine™
the gpeakers on the program was Hear
Admiral Mark Bristol, chairman
of the execut nittee of
the navy general board;
ments for de
by Admiral William V,
of naval oper:
€or
ormer
ive con
1 his argu
3
were ably
Pratt,
fense seconded
itions and
assistant secretary of
¢ of ner
vere Miss
10tics,
iS SpeRKers
the International
Freedom, and
aha
LAER for
Mrs. Carrie
ISPATCHES from
the centra
je of Nations was
representativ
ia, to delete from
the
States of
er 8 warm
urkey
the discussion
hases of the plan when
again probably next
VON HIN
president
SAUL
denbarg
of the German repub
lie, was the chief fig
ure in the enthusias
tic celebration of the
xtieth anniversary
of German unity; and
the eighty three-year
old warrior seemed
almost as vigorous as
he must have been on
January 18, 1871,
when as a lieutenant
he stood in the Hall
of Mirrors at Versailles and heard
Bismarck proclaim the federated
state of Germany an empire,
The ceremonies in Berlin
with a solemn assembly of all mem
bers of the government in the reich
stag where Chazacellor Bruening made
an appeal for mutual understanding
and repeated Bismarck's pledge that
the nation would seek wealth through
peace, not war. Then President von
Hindenburg attended a reunion in the
Berlin Sportpalast where about 12x
former officers and soldiers gathered
President Von
Hindenburg
opened
AVING adopted a skeletonized
H plan for giving India dominion
status, the round table conference In
London adjourned with most of the
delegates satisfied. However, the
Gandhl adherents In India are not st
all pleased with the scheme and im
mediately began attacking it in various
ways. National congress newspapers
denounce it as a system of camon
flaged independence designed to pro
vide safeguards for Great Britain.
AREHEADED and wearing ord!
nary street clothes, Col. Charles
A. Lindhergh wen: to a gathering of
cistinguished officials and diplomats
in Washington and received from the
hands of Ambassador Claudel of
France the cross of commander of the
Legion of Honor.
In presenting the cross, Ambassn
dor Claudel said the westward flight
oi Coste and Bellonte last September
was a success largely because Lind
bergh had mapped the trans-Atlantic
course. It was in recognition of this
gervice to the two Frenchmen as wel!
ns his own record making flight thai
the medal was awarded, he sald,
Among those at the presentation
were Secretary Adams, Senator Mor
row, Lindbergh's futherdndaw, ar.
Chairman Wickersham of the law en
forcement commission,
(@® 193), Western Newspaper Union.)
{ ommuni
vv Buildi
Child Health Program
A five-year health program in the
elementary schools of Little Rock,
ness in the entire community, not only
but in the county and state
Martha ©. Allls relates In a
this work in Hygela
Magazine,
In the primary grades the health
teaching is handled by the teacher of
the grande. In the fourth, fifth and
Al the beginning of each term,
teacher und health director
Inspect und score the children for de-
fects and health habits and then they
efforts to have correc
tions made. The aim of the program
Is twofold: teaching and getting cor-
rections made, but it is intended that
the tenching shall so interest the child
that he will get corrections made,
Miss Allis points ont.
That the Little Rock program has
achieved this result is shown by the
fact that every child knows his de
fect or failing and works hard to get
rid of It. Both teachers and children
work like beavers to get as many per-
fect children as possible In each room,
The five-year report shows that 18.503
children had dental corrections: 2.5%),
tonsil and operations: 2,171,
eves corrected and 5.327. other correc
tions,
The health
ried out In sixteen
group
co-operate in
adenoid
has been car
and seven
proximate
colored chil
program
white
regching
eolored schools, g nr
ly 7.000 white and 3.06x
tren, Although there are not sax many
rorrections of defects
children
5 e
among negro
the work has been successful
ong them,
Cacy to Remodel Home
by System of Changes
ing the home does nol nec
ng the entire
have
in of remodeling or re
(thers
ng their first hy
ges most needed and
work
in remodel
nny home owners
vil
room each sear
homes
alteration
r the front
he second year
de into an extr
rd year gew floors
ret-floor rome and
ng has been
Wf improve
time many
ble to pay
out of In
ny old homes
nntil
many
ures without putting the
improved
ire favor Fr with
nmedinte expense,
Fighting City Dirt
sity of 1
thinks that
of the mod
dirtiest age
and that the time will come
sar at the Univer
nois college of medicine
eri tiie
the dust, smoke and grim
sat be a :
¥y mnkes this the
of |
when the
story
people will abhor these nui
sances, whieh he nirocities A
fair de orrence already ex
iste. It waited for the wate:
calls
gree of abl
hans not
gregation of Industries, which the pro
fessor sees as a condition of its com
ing. Bot the professor teil
the public how its objection to the un
cleanliness in cities could get it some
where without waiting for develop
ments that will be the work of gen
erations? In short, how the cities
are to curb thelr amoke nulsances in
the winter months?—Kansas City Star,
conldn’t
Vines for Every Purpose
Vines can be grown anywhere If
they are planted properly and selected
according to their natural habits and
inclinations, There are varieties for
every purpose-annunl and perennial,
hardy and tender, shade.loving and
sun-secking, evergreen and decldnone.
Some are noted for thelr lovely blos
soms ; others for their colorful fralts
and berries. Whether you desire na
dense screen, n tall ellmber or a
ground cover, you will ind a vine that
will exactly serve your purpose. Even
apartment dwellers may know the
charm of Mother Nature's graceful!
wandering jew will thrive in window
Health Service
That national health is a dollars
and cents asset to the country and
that absence of disease In a city not
only mnkes it a more desirable place
in which to live, but also brings added
citizens and increased Industry to it,
were two of the points made In an
address on “Public Health Service: A
Sound Investment,” by Dr. Louls I
Dublin, statistician of the Metropol.
th Life, before the American Public
Health association at Fort Worth,
Texans,
Community Helps
Vigorous action by individual and
local groups should be directed to:
Cleaning objectionable things off the
roadsides, in and on the fringes of
our villages, plunning and zoning for
the protection of the roadsides: clean:
ing np and patroling roadsides In the
rurnl districts, landseaping and plant
ing nrens which may be Improved.
Are you prepared to render first
aid and quick comfort the moment
your youngster has an upset of any
sort! Could you do the right thing
—immediately—though the emer-
gency came without warning—
perhaps tonight? Castoria is a
mother's standby at such times.
There is nothing like it in emergen-
cies, and nothing better for every-
day use. For a sudden attack of
colic, or for the gentle relief of
constipation; to allay a feverish
epell, or to soothe a fretful baby
that can't sleep. This pure vege-
table preparation is always ready
to ease an ailing youngster. It is
just as harmless as the recipe on
the wrapper reads. If you see Chas.
H. Fletcher's signature, it is geniune
Castoria. It
smallest infant;
you 80,
You can tell from
the wrapper ho
how good for
continue with Castori
is grown.
Kilmainham Jail Now Tested
i Already Well
Merely Historic Relic! bet
in Irish
finally
handed over
il for
Cold in Head,
Chest or Throat?
feel easier. Repeat
once an hour fo r five Hours sen
wi
THE LNATIVE | cc
WITH HIGHEST | Erase dues
ENDORSEMEN i Mothers—Musierte Be
When
gish, weak,
and small children. Ask for Chil
dren's Musterole.
feel yourself
Take a little
Worms cause much distress to children und
esia saxiety to parents. Dr. Peery’s “Desd Shot”
ain removes the cause with a single dose. Gc,
cement. All Druggirts
ur \ Dr Peer 'S
lousness,
fT
for
stomach, gas,
t has been star oetors
0 years, Quic)
eliminative trouble
children-—an 4d babies.
digestive and
women,
Vermif
2 of Men
: of men,
At drageists or 372 Pearl Street. Kew ¥o ®
Modern Elysium
| Vell Newspapered
1% ade ¥ i- | The
Modern science 1 average daily circulati
ble for the farmer's wife to newspapers in this «
151 copies. Which mean
plus a gr mately one newspaper for ev
try Home. ery two persons-—men, women and
children, Which ought to be enough
offspring of | to keep the people posted on the
' news of the day. —Capper’s Week!
every convenience the city wi approx
joys
Proverbs are but the
wactical experienc
WARNINE
when buying Aspirin
be sure it is genuine
Bayer Aspirin
Know what you are taking to relieve that pain, cold,
headache, sore throat. Aspirin is not only effective, it is
always safe.
The tablet stamped with the Bayer cross is reliable,
always the same—brings prompt relief safely—does not
depress the heart. '
Don't take chances; get the genuine product identified
by the name BAYER on the package and the word
GENUINE printed in red.