ho
YA Hat ails this
old world? What
are the causes of the
ailments? What can
be done about it?
These were the ques-
tions asked and in
various ways an-
swered by scores of the
leading men in finance
and Industry from
43 nations, assembled
in Washington for the
sessions of the Inter.
national Chamber of
Commerce. Silas H. Strawn of Chi-
cago, newly elected president of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States, formally opened the meeting
and then Georges Theunis, former
Belgian premier and retiring presi-
dent of the international body, took
the chair.
The first
of President Hoover
delegates, and the
seized the occasion
hard wallop at war
He said he believed the certain way
to restore prosperity was to lighten
the burden of national defense which
is now costing the pations more than
$5,000,000.000 a year and keeping near-
ly 5,000,000 men actively under arms.
He urged the business men of the
five continents to mobilize their in-
fluence upon their respective govern-
ments to join in the reduction of
armament at the international con-
ference to be held next year under
the auspices of the League of Nations.
“Of all proposals for the economic
rehabilitation of the world,” said Mr.
Hoover, “1 know of none which
pares In necessity or importance with
the successful result of that confer-
ence.”
M. Theunis submitted a long an
exhaustive report on world conditions,
in the course of he said: “I
am personally convinced that the com-
mercial p> and the customs tariff
in force In of the countries of
the world constitute one of the funda-
mental causes of our actual economic
troubles. A liberal customs policy
might be expected to lead to better
business conditions.”
He thus showed he was in accord
with certain prominent members of
the United States Chamber of Com-
merce who at their meeting In At-
lantic City called for a tariff revision
downward.
Melvin A. Traylor, prominent Chi-
cago banker, electrified his hearers by
a scorching attack on commercial
leaders and government executives of
America. “Ambition, cupidity and
greed have dictated policies, and trou-
ble has been the result,” he declared.
“It is when in a worid of
plenty pov.
erty and when, i nation that boasts
fF i iches, 3, AO or more per-
sons Hin work should be un-
able to find employment. It is a chal-
to the world and especially to
an business and political lead-
Sitas H.
Strawn
wns the speech
welcoming the
Chief Executive
to take another
and armaments.
address
com-
which
most
Traylor's attack began with
a criticism of manufacturers who took
advantage of technological and man-
agement Improvements to swell their
output to a point far in excess of the
possibilities of consumption. And he
was equally severe In his character
ization of the methods of bankers and
of traders on the floors of the stock
and grain exchanges. He urged that
floor trading and small margin sac
counts be forbidden.
N R. STRAWN when he addressed
+ the delegates to the International
meeting invited them all to Chicago
for the “jubilee™ celebration of May
10 to 20, and he recelved assurance
that many of them would attend. The
midwest metropolis had made most
elaborate preparations for this affair,
the program including festivals in the
brightly decorated “loop” district, big
parades, dedication of the replica of
Fort Dearborn, firs* of the Century of
Progress exposition buildings, and, to
wind up with, the elaborate war game
of the air force of the army.
REVAILING de
pression has not
affected the Boy
Scouts of American,
The national council
celebrated at a two
day meeting In Mem-
phis the close of the
twenty-first year of the
organ.zation and an
nounced it had been
the best and most
eventful of all. Presi
dent Walter W. Head
of Chicago presided at
all the sessions and on the last day
Mortimer Schiff, New York banker,
was elected president for 1031,
At n banquet concluding the first
day's session Dan Beard, veteran In-
dian fighter and chief commissioner
of Boy Scouts, presented the silver
buffalo, highest honor in the gift of
the organization, to an English peer
and six Americans. Those honored
were Lord Hampton, chief commis
sioner of British Boy Scouts; Griffith
Ogden Ellis! editor of The American
Boy magazine; Lewis Gawtry, New
Lord
Hampton
York banker; George W. Olmstead,
Pennsylvania public utilities execu-
tive; Victor F. Ridder, New York
newspaper publisher; Robert P. Snif-
fen, Yonkers, N. Y., merchandising ex-
pert, and Mell R. Wilkinson, Atlanta
(Ga.) merchant and manufacturer, Ci-
tations praised them for distinguished
service to scouting,
Lord Hampton, long prominent in
English Boy Scout work, served with
distinction in the World war. He was
awarded the Silver Cross for life sav.
ing In 1010 and the following year re-
celved the award of the Silver Wolf,
the British Scolit decoration for dis-
tinguished service to boys.
ERE Is something for cer
tain active opponents of the dry
law to ponder upon. The District of
Columbia Court of Appeals, In an opin-
fon which takes away from Robert de
Francis of Washington the citizen.
ship granted him in 1027, holds that
a violator of the prohibition act can-
not Le attached to the principles of
the Censtitution and Is not a person
of good moral character.
The decision reversed the action
the District of Columbia
court which had denled a petition by
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
seeking to set Francls' natural-
fzation,
Hs conviction on
the charge of ne-
cepting a bribe having
been upheld by
District of Columbia
court of appeals, Al-
bert B. Fall says he
has decided not to
carry the case to the
Supreme court of the
United States The
former secretary of
the interior, it seems,
must serve the
prison to which he was
S100, 006),
else
of
Supreme
aside
the
A. B. Fall
one
year term In
sentenced, and pay
unless
with a pardon—which
his friends.
Fail, interviewed at his ranch In
New Mexico, said his attitude toward
a Presidential pardon was rather pas-
sive. “1 am an man,” a
am not guilty of the crime of which
I was accused. 1 had fought until
I am worn out and considerations for
my family impel me to carry the fight
no further™
He sald he had no money
which to pay the fine and explained
he had ownership of the ranch
on which he lives when a8 mortgage
was foreclosed several years ago.
OTHERS and
M children and
their welfare were the
topics of especial con-
sideration during the
week throughout the
nation, To promote
better maternity care
for the women of the
United States was the
object of a big meet-
ing in the Park Lane
hotel, New York city,
the arrangements for
which were In the
charge of Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt.
Prominent physicians and health of-
ficers as well as many well known
women were among the attendants,
the latter Including Mrs Herbert
Hoover, Mrs, John Sloane, Mrs. Au-
gust Belmont, Mrs. E. Marshall Field,
Mrs. Jeremiah Milband, Mrs. Samuel
Schiffer, Mrs. Robert I. Gerry, Mrs
John R. Drexel, Miss Mabel Choate,
and Miss Frances Perkins, New York
state industrial commissioner,
a fine of
Hoover intervenes
is the hope of
"resident
old he said,
with
lost
Mrs. Kermit
Roosevelt
ULITZER prize awards for liter
ary excellence in 1030 have been
announced, and there are few If any
surprises in the list. The malin awards
are: Best novel, Mrs. Margaret Ayer
Barnes, for “Years of Grace”; best
book dealing with the history of the
United States, Prof. Bernadotte E.
Schmitt of University of Chicago, for
“The Coming of the War”; best play,
Susan Glaspell, for “Alison's House";
best American Dblography, Henry
James, for “Charles W. Eliot”; best
volume of verse, Robert Frost, for
“Collected Poems”; best plece of re-
portorial work, A. B. Macdonald of
the Kansas City Star; best example of
foreign correspondence, H. R. Knicker-
bocker of the Philadelphia Ledger;
best editorial, C. 8. Ryckman of the
Fremont (Neb.) Tribune; best car
toon, Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore
Sun, A gold medal was awarded the
Constitution of Atlanta, Ga, for meri.
torious public service In exposing
municipal graft, Several young men
were given traveling scholarships in
Journalism,
(Gronee FISHER BAKER of New
York, reputed to be the richest
American banker and the third richest
man in the country, who died of pneu.
monia at the age of ninety-one, was
buried Tuesday in Tuxedo Park, N. Y.,
where he resided. Many persons promi.
nent in finance and in life generally
were present at the funeral. |
Because Mr, Baker died In a period
of price depression, the United States
and the state of New York will re-
celve in inheritance taxes far less of
his amassed wealth than would have
been the case had he passed awny
wo years ngo., His estate is esti
mated at something like £500,000,000,
RENCH opposition to the proposed
Austro-German customs accord
seems to be effective at least to the
extent of keeping the little entente
out of line. The forelgn ministers of
that entente have stated that all ques.
tions concerning the accord must find
the countries of the little entente firm.
ly united in their attitude, and what
that attitude will be is Indicated by
the fact that the Rumanian govern-
ment has Informed Berlin that it does
not wish to negotiate with Germany
at this time. M. Briand is being warm-
ly supported by Czechoslovakia,
CHINA has virtual-
ly abrogated the
extraterritoriality
treaties, with for-
eign powers, the ab-
rogation to take effect
January 1 next, Chi-
nesc jurisdiction over
legal cases Involving
foreigners resident in
China is to be estab-
lished, but special
courts for such cases
will be created in cer-
fain areas, including
Shanghal, Tlentsin, Mukden and Can-
ton. The mandate to this effect was
promulgated by President Chinng Kai-
shek's government after negotiations
with Sir Miles Lampson, British min-
ister, for abolition of extraterritorial-
ity had broken down, Foreign consuls
ired that
in the action excuse
Chiang
Kal.shek
communists
for at-
tacks on foreigners in the interior, and
ber of protecting warships at
us ports was increased,
President C Kai-shek Is
ing his troubles with rebels In Canton
and with some members of own
Nationalist party. The former are led
th they and
declare
presi.
hiang
hian g
hav-
his
by Chen Chi-tang, and bo
the conservative Nationalists
that resign the
dency, asserting that he is trying to
i dictator, T proy-
1 Kwangsi de-
independence,
Chiang must
make
inces of Kwangtu
clared their
PRESIDENT DOUMERGUE opened
I
1
‘rance’s International col
ar
a
onial ex.
Tues-
expected that the big
attract throngs of visitors
the end of Octoher.
colonies,
Italy, Belgium
Holland, and Por
Native life of
Africa, and
en reproduced even
import ng 304 na-
position ICENNe| Do on
day, and it Is
show will
until it closes at
In addition
the United
Brazil, Denmark,
tugal are represented.
Indo-China, equatorial
Madagascar has |
to the of
tives,
The
by a
to all French
States,
extent 1
nit
copy
3
nome,
ates Is represented
Washington's Mount
pavilions for
Alaskan, and
&3
Vernon and by
Hawalian, Porto Rican,
*hilippine exhibits
prreioENT CARMONA of Portugal
is comps vely happy now, for
the rather in Mad
island has by
er command of
ster of mar
bombarded
serious revolt
been
forces 1
suppressed the
govern
Magalheas Correia, ne,
The fed t the
rebels at Funchal iand, sea and
alr until they up the fight, the
leaders taking refuge In the British le
gation, were not ex-
cessive, hut the normal life of Madeira
had been greatly disturbed for weeks
and the government in Lisbon was
really worried for a time,
MPCRE than once Mustapha Kemal
i Pasha has refused to let the
Turks make him President for life,
but they are doing It In effect any-
way. The other day they elected him
for his third term of four years, that
action being taken by the national as
sembly In extraordinary session at
Angora, and the vote was unanimous,
Ismet Pasha and the cabinet resigned
pro forma and the premier and other
ministers were promptly reappointed.
ro0
mye
The casualties
Jarans foremost
aviator, young
Seiji Yoshihara, start.
ed his solo flight from
Tokyo to Washington,
D. C., under the aus-
pices of the Tokyo
newspaper Hochl
Shimbun, His route
for the long and peril
ous journey was laid
out to the northern is.
lands of Japan, thence
Wiong the Kuriles to
Fetropaviovsk, Kamchatka, with two
intermediate landings; from there
across the Bering sea and along the
Aleutian Islands and the Alaskan
shore, with stops, to Seward, and then
down to Vancouver and Seattle. At the
latter city he will change his sea pon.
toons for landing gear and proceed to
San Francisco, after which he hopes
to fly to the National Capital to deliver
to President Hoover a message of
good will from Japan. Yoshihara's
plane is a light all-metal Junkers with
open cockpit and no radio,
The huge Germah seaplane DO.X,
which started for South America
months ago and was laid up by a fire,
is on its way again and at last ac.
counts had reached Bolama, Portu-
guese Guinea,
Yoshihara
ULL recognition has been extended
by the United States to the dual
kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd and its
dependencies on the Arabian penin.
sula. After years of warfare, the en
tire kingdom is pow ruled by Ibn Saud.
It embraces an area of about 700,000
square miles with a population of lean
than 5,000,000,
(@ 1981, Western Newspaper Union)
Thrilling Adventures in the
Arctic Related by the
Ottawa.-——Arctic erime and Arctic he-
roism, battles for life and native in-
sistence upon death, tales of the polar
bear, the wolf, walrus and seal-—all
are sketched in most matter-of-fact
and unsatisfactory fashion, leaving to
the Imagination most of the amazing
detalls, in the annual report to the Ca-
nadian government of Commissioner
Cortlandt Starnes, head of the storied
and fabled Royal Canadian Mounted
Police, says George Smith In the Chi-
cago Tribune,
Except for summarizations by the
commissioner, the narratives are whol-
ly made up of brief excerpts from the
reports of mounted police officers, con-
stables, corporals and sergeants, who,
with dog and sled, motor boat and na-
tive nyak, on river and lake and ice
and snow, cover their thousand-miie
beats, and alone, sometimes
with a helper, police the great white
wastes of Arctic North America.
An Extraordinary Case,
Sergt. E. G. who,
nled by an Eskimo, made
patrol from Cambridge bay to Bernard
harbor and return between February
6 and May 1, 1028, reports what his
commissioner chief tersely presents as
mostly
lnker, accompa-
his winter
an “extraordinary case.” Sergeant Ba
ker describes it thus:
“lI saw an r
wh
man named No Feet, so-called
he has no feet, has a wife whe
ly deaf and dumb.
“The story goes that
lost In a storm
froze his feet,
he nearly died
inte tin;
&
at deplorable case a
BOIme years
Before he wus rescued
of starvation, so, find-
ing that his feet were useless 10 walk
ded to make the nest best
them off and
on, be ded
use of them, so cut use]
“a
NO I eel
16st
ong
1
i
« He
and 1 und
have ordered
him
A Tailored Eskimo.
To get the proper reaction f
very next mentioned Arctic «
ghould have read
the scores
primitiveness,
“We passed two seal camps |
Bathurst ae Ta
found the natives all well. At one of
these camps a8 Drosp
with two wives, on
PT: | 14 vy & Pr as
“ana Wilmot Bia =, 15
ive
us attired in a tweed
intest London s
match, It 1
incongruous to see an
like a tallor's n
from head
overcos:
certn
dressed
H. G. Nichol
920.30 at Baker
Corp.
ter of 1
policed area and, be
lake,
ause it
rather extensive report on tl
inhabitants, Despite his very favor-
able report as to the apparent superi-
ority and comparative cleanliness of
these Baker island natives, the cor.
poral has to report:
“I am of the opinion that natives,
more especially the Inlanders, spend a
considerable time during the rough
weather gambling. Apparently it is
more or less common event for a man
to gamble his wife or daughters, apart
from foxes, rifles, etc. One case on
the settlement came to my notice dur-
ing the winter.
Loses at Draw Poker,
“Native Soodyyalluk, a former
Utkuhikhalingmiut (tribe name) now
employed by the Dominion explorers,
had lost, by ecard playing, to native
Ishootmata of the Kilainelmiut (anoth-
er tribe) his tent, rifle, ammunition,
one dog, deersking, snowknife, in fact
all his worldly possessions; upon mak-
ing Inquiries, Ishootmata produced a
pack of cards, and I discovered that
the game played was draw poker. 1
%
the
na-
and
It was at this
more serious
had these articles returned to
former owner, and informed all
tives that gambling was wrong
would therefore cease,
inquiry I heard of the
gambling inland.”
“I am unaware whether polygamy
or polyandry exists among any of the
various tribes. Neither occurs amongst
the Klainelmiut, though 1 am almost
sure polygamy is practiced amongst
the inlanders., The exchanging of wives
is a more or less common occurrence,
the women apparently have no voice In
the matter whatever, but merely obey
the husband.”
The inability of the mounties to deal
with the native tendency towards sul-
cide when old age and dependence up-
on younger tribesmen hunters creeps
on Is apparent throughout several re-
ports of suicides or slayings ordered
by the victims themselves. Inspector
A. N. Eames, in his report on the west.
ern Arctic, with pathetic
case as follows:
“A Cambridge
Mukhagaluk, was
paralysis of the spine and hips,
!
nitted suicide by han { near
deals one
named
Bay Eskimo
crippled with
who
Com-
wore
nilce
northwest Sergt. E.
river, territories
C.
luker, being a coroner, held an in-
on Mt:
wif 1
'
quiry at Caml
last. The deceased
testified
husband had
to kill himself,
tence and atta
man's
yuk,
ne (0 a stick
of the snow
the
house ;
making noose with
dimself,
A Peculiar Attitude.
“Other natives who were present in
Bnow
)
when the hanging occ.
the house ng
. Rave glalements corrobors
» wife's sto
“The ex
short of physical
idence shows that every
restraint
poor crip;
was Cif
those nected ith the case
Mukhaga
position
“pr Qoaroonn rt
ier, sergeant
to
himself, imagine it
feel
wife In
“In repo:
Baker remarks upon the peculis
attitud
iheren
“fy Prs Ye) &
comm;
¥
liar men-
opie and their
uston !
tified in cha
the woman with
was satisfied that t}
good would be a
Bathurst
f 1027.
nummer «
inforn
HAS RIGHT TO GRIN
-
PR re Pee,
This great big smile couldn't
breaking on Elinor Smith's
the nineteen-year-old flye
from her record-breal
toosevelt field, L. I,
she had
astiained J
The present official record for
showed
is 28,743, established by Ruth Nic
ance and those res sible
vestigation
! for the in
the opinion the
thilak, who was old ar
for some time, had
r h
sick
iy «
Col
( ad become desponds
mn and committed suicid
appears to
tice among
old age
on the body.
Bites Man in Fight
xy
2 1
a trust fund.
But He's No Strong Man; Demon.
strates Efficiency of Measuring
Instruments,
New York~A man of ordinary
strength can bend a steel bar five
Inches in diameter. Furthermore, he
can do it by exerting only thirty
pounds pressure, *
To be gure, he cannot bend the bar
double, Far from it; Chester T.
Crowell, who perfgrmed the feat, ex-
plains in the North American Review
that when he tried his strength he
moved the bar about five milllonths
of an inch, He recounts the bending
exercise as an instance of the re
murkable advance that has been made
In the accuracy of instruments of
measurement,
“There are now quite a large num
gervice comparable to day labor that
must be accurate, at least in some of
:
their parts, within three or four hun-
dred thousandths of an inch, a require.
ment that was unthinkable only a gen-
eration or two ago,” he says,
“And there are many hundreds of
gauges in ase in this country alone
that must be accurate within a few
millionths of an inch.”
The measurement of the bend in the
five-dinch steel bar, he explains, was
possible by the use of light rays. Such
accurate measurements are not ime
practical wanderings in science,
“Let us assume,” says Crowell, “that
that fiveinch bar of steel was des
tined for use as a shaft in some ma.
chine designed to generate power. It
must carry a heavy strain and at the
same time it must fit other parts of
the machine within certainly five ten.
thouzsandths of an inch under working
conditions,
“A variation of one fivethou-
sandth of an Inch beyond the
margin of safety wonld mean friction
and a horrible explosion. Most of the
modern types of power-generating ma-
chinery move at such unimaginable
speeds that if anything should go
wrong and friction result the metal
would become incandescent in a few
minutes, Any newspaper reader
knows that such accidents simply don't
happen nowadays, and most of us have
forgotten that once they did happen,
at least occasionally,
“The art of calibration Is now so
well advanced that an ordinary shop
work inspector would very quickly
spot an error of five hundredthon-
sandths of an inch and refuse to 0. K.
the defective part”
The human eye and the human hand
algo are developing amazing ability in
accurate measurement, Crowell says
in his North American Review article,
He tells of one factory Inspector who
detected an error of one-thousandth of
an inch in a gauge “simply by the feel
of iL"
Ambergris, valued In perfume manu-
facture, looks like dirty tallow when
it 1s found floating In the sea.