R ESPONS MIBILITY
for the existing
economic depression
in the United States
should be Inid to
frozen confidence
rather than to frozen
assets, according to
I'resident Hoover
who addressed the In-
diuna Republican Edi-
torial "association and
guests in Indian-
apolis. The Chief Ex-
ecutive expressed his
its
President
Hoover
hopes and
perity which
the nation’s
by
for renewed pros.
wrought out of
tural resources
renewed '
plans
he
great ng
courage;
and he vig defended the course
of his administration in the
and ceas for recovery.
After
year pi
he called an American pian,
“We plan {
increase in populdtion In the
We for
new homes,
of
with
orously
: crisis
denounce
the Russian five-
Hoover proposed what
Said he:
re of 20.000 (KK)
next 0
Years. them 4.
000.000
sands
tiful
waterways;
leal horse
new pari
3
ches
eded i: ard
lied in ac
Vhite ac-
iif of the
the Ohio G
Sidential
id. . for the
remodeled tomb of
Mr. Hoover wa
Emmerson
nain speech at
if Presi.
idle West
sl The
i CAUSE ad
leaders
clections
Hinois replaced
a Demo
Democrats to
Republicans
Democratic governor
fo congress
and Indiana
ressmen
he Republican man-
presidential tour
would ¢ effect In bringing these
gtates kK in he fold, and there
wns al ition that it would
help in Mr. Hoover's pros-
pects fo r renomination and
tion, Fhat he is a candidate Is no
Jonger in doubt, if it ever was, The
recent conf of young Repub-
Heans in Washington, under the guld-
ance of Senator Fess, national Re
n chairman, made that certain,
ted a
six
of Republi
Democrat
Rep an cong
80 the ex
pro
nect
moting
re-elees
erence
put liea
N A letter to lead-
erg of American in-
dustry and organized
labor the National
Civie federation takes
the first step in set-
ting up a ten year
plan of systemizing
production, eliminat-
ing unemployment
and Integrating the
industrial and eco-
nomic structure of the
nation. The letter was J. W. Gerard
signed by James W. Gerard, former
ambassador to Germany and now the
chairman of the federation's commis-
sion on industrial inquiry. It is based
on a proposal made by Matthew Woll,
vice president of the American Feder.
ation of Labor, and urges the calling
of a national congress to discuss and
formulate a program of industrial re-
adjustment and create permanent ma-
chinery for this purpose,
Mr. Gerard's letter was addressed
to nll leading manufacturers In the
country. officials of the American Fed-
eration of Labor and heads of all
international :nlons. The letter de
clares that Mr. Well's proposal for
a great congress of industry has
received the indorsement of the na
tional eivie federation and expresses
the rendiness of the federation to
summon such a congress “if it ean
have reasonable assurance that th
response will be such as to make
success probable.” Manufacturers and
labor leaders were asked to state
thelr opinion and that of thelr organ.
i
izations on the proposal and to advise
whether they would participate in a
preliminary meeting that might be
held before the formal calling of the
CONZIress, *
“What Is is to draw to-
gether a great conclave of delegates,
not a mere collection of Individuals
without representative character,”
Mr. Gerard's letter declared,
Fo the purpose of
other nations to help in the dis-
armament movement by telling all
about their military strength, the Usit-
ed States, through Secretary Stimson,
has made public its report on that
matter to the League of Nations, The
document shows land, naval and
alr armam of the country, giving
her of men, warships
intained for military
The total number
also given,
desired
encoura;
ging
the
nts
though
vis not aske
ie od to
160 to the na
: over
his visits to
capital cities
be revealed
t the United States
er its
ons
8 to alt
parat
war debts
this may be t
Willian
itement the othe
He governme
ion as si
und there
t the Whi
Hoover
down
assured
ample reductions
ents,
nid
the government Is
led on
has been
very
and
abroad
no crisis has
f nature that would
for any etion by this country
bis. If such a crisis
he said, It vious
ment would
whether a ter
question
situat
ion
added that
call
on
should
this
tila
giqger
was ob
have to
nporary change was
Official opinion in Wash-
ington was that Mr. Castld®s
ment ned to help Chance
Bruening of Germany
that him.
govern CON.
necessary,
state.
Hor
in the troubles
was desig
beget
MES ANNA ADAMS GORDON,
4 former president of the Nation-
al Woman's Christian Temperance
Union and of the World W. C. T. U.,
died in Castile, N. Y., at the age of
seventy-eight years. She was a close
friend of the late Frances E. Willard,
helped her organize the W. C. T, U.
and for many years was her secre
tary. She was one of the best known
of temperance leaders of this gener
ation,
RANKLIN D.
loosevelt’s presi
dential boom was giv
en a decided boost in
Massachusetts by the
luncheon given by
Col, Edward M. House
at his summer cottage
near Manchester-by-
the-Sea. The gover
nor of New York was
the guest of honor
and among those
present were the most
influential Democrats
ie leaders of the Bay state. Little was
said about politics during the lunch-
eon, but the feeling was general that
the affair* was of considerable po-
litical significance, and friends of Mr,
Roosevelt are of the opinion that the
Massachusetts delegation In nest
year's national convention will be in
line for his nomination, Just before
the party rose from the table Colonel
House offered a toast to the governor
as the man on whom the eyes of the
nation are focused.
It will be remembered that Colonel
House recently announced that he was
Col. E. M,
House
corresponding with tes nding Democrats |
with a view to promoting Roosevelt's
presidential prospects. Among the
guests at the luncheon was Henry
Morgenthau, like House a close friend
of Woodrow Wilson, and It Is believed
he has associated himself with House
in this movement with the sanction
of Roosevelt, although the governor
has not yet declared himself a candi.
date for the presidential nomination,
L CAPONE, the world's most no-
torfous gangster, will fiave to
spend some years in Leavenworth
penitentiary. lefore Federal Judge
Wilkerson in Chicago he pleaded guil-
ty to indictments for evasions of In-
come tax payments and for conspir-
acy to violate the prohibition iaw. He
wilt be sentenced on June 30, prob-
ubly to from two to four years in
prison, Sixty-eight members of €a-
pone's gang also are under Indictment
for the liquor law conspiracy. Ca-
pores rule as king of gangland is
ended.
UAN
Perez,
mand
JAUTISTA
obeying a
by the
congress of Venezuela,
resigned fron the
presidency of that re-
publie,
for some
nl and
Eestions
of
irs
step
de made
r
after
writter
of
CONEress
wd
Vicente
Gomez
i
i which
Are de Triomg
solemn ceremony,
me at the tor
ier. This rite was
ving, for M. Doumer lost
in the war,
received the
Pierre Laval
1d urgently requested
his office. The latter
red for the
acceptance an unchanged
Foreign Minister
re
of 1}
especially me
four
Presiden
resignation
and his cabine
Laval to retain
consented and
# unknown so
of hig five sons
Doumer
of Premier
offs presi
mine
Bri
Gent's
istry, Inciuding
and.
N EARLY 500 persons,
ao
women and children, perished
when a French excursion steamer cap-
gized near St. Nazaire during a storm.
Only eight of those aboard the vessel
were saved.
The submarine Nautilus,
Sir Hubert Wilking' under-ice polar
expedition, was disabled In mid-At-
lantic by the breaking down of her
engines, and was taken In tow by the
American warship Wyoming.
most of them
carrying
ARDINAL SEGURA, the exiled
primate, slipped back into Spain
the other day but was promptly appre
hended and ushered out again across
the French border. His presence in
Spain threatened a recurrence of the
attacks on church institutions, for
the radicals were enraged by the news
of his return. The Vatican protested
his expulsion,
NE more member of the federal
farm board-—the third within a
months—~has resigned from that
body. He is Samuel R. McKelvle, the
wheat member of the board. and he
said that as his term had just ended
presidential acceptance of his resig
nation was not necessary, [is sticees
sor has not yet been announced. Mr.
McKelvie, who took part In the re
cent grain conference in London, will
retire to his large live stock ranch
in Nebraska,
N ETTA DUCHATEAU of Belgiom
i wis selected as “Miss Universe”
at the International beauty pageant
in Galveston, Texas, She Is seventeen
years old and has lopg, dark hair.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
WAS the Vou
ot §
ra
dying ma
sound
cannon
window,
law, bent
the unspoken Inquiry
minded him that
July, the fiftieth anni
ican Independence
he sald, “it is a goo
About o'clock
he spoke again, ‘Thomas Jefferson
gurvives” he sald, but the word
was indistinctly and imperfectly ut.
tered. After that he spoke no more.
He could not know that at the very
moment when he was saving “The mas
Jefferson surviveg,” the sage of Mont}
cello was breathing his last in far off
Virginia.
The death of these two me
day which they helped make famous
algo ended a most unusual friendship
and a famous correspondence. This
friendship and this correspondence is
also one of the unique and most hu-
man bits of American history. In
those stirring days of 1776 they, as
members of the Continental Congress,
were associated closely in one of the
greatest adventures of history-—that of
producing a document which would
either result In the establishment of
f new nation or, In case military force
failed to make good that document. in
their becoming unsuccessful rebels
and perhaps ending their careers on
the gallows, The choice of drafting
that document lay between them, and
Adan, In his autobiography, gives the
following reasons why Jefferson was
chosen for that work,
“Mr, Jefferson had been now about
a year a member of congress, but had
attended his duty In the house a very
small part of the time,
*It will naturally be inquired how it
happened that he was appointed on
a committee of such importance,
There were more reasons than one,
Mr, Jefferson had the reputation of a
masterly pen; he had been chosen a
delegate in Virginia in consequence
of a very handsome public paper which
he had written for the House of Bur.
gesses, which bad given him the char.
acter of a very fine writer. Another
reason was, that Mr, Richard Henry
Lee was not beloved by the most of
his colleagues from Virginia, and Mr.
Jefferson was sent up to rival and
supplant him, ‘I'his could be done only
by the pen, for Mr. Jefferson could
stand
of
which
Mrs,
over
one in the af
{ernoon
last
nn on the
JAMES /
Lay oo
by a!
Noss
i
anyone
ite.
The
ings, in
ticles of which the Declar
consist, and
else, in elocution
deha
committee had several meet
were proposed the ar
nition was to
minutes of them
The committee then appointed Mr. Jef.
ferson and me to draw them up in
form, and clothe them in proper dress,
The subcommittee met, and consid
ered the minutes, making such obser-
vations on them as then occurred,
when Mr, Jefferson desired me to take
them to my lodgings, and make the
draft. This I declined, and gave sev.
eral reasons for doing so:
“1. That he was a Virginian, and
I a Massachusettenian., 2. That he
was a southern man, and I a northern
one. 8. That I had been so obnoxious
for my early and constant zeal in pro.
moting the measure, that every draft
of mine would undergo a more severe
scrutiny and criticism in congress than
one of his composition. 4. And last.
iy, and that would be resson enough,
if there were no other, I had a great
opinion of the elegance of his pen,
and none at all of my own, 1 there
fore insisted that no hesitation should
be made on his part, He accordingly
took the minutes, and in a day or two
produced to me his draft.”
When the Revolution ended success
fully, and the Republic was estab
lished, they became political enemies
~ Adams the Federalist and Jefferson
the Republican. In the Presidential
campaign to select a successor to
Washington, Adams came out victo.
rious only to be swept aside by the
people in favor of Jefferson four yoars
later. In 1812 through the entreaty of
thelr miutual friend, Benjamin Rush
of Philadelphia, a correspondence be
gan between them in which thelr warm
muinal esteem was evident,
In this correspondence they unbur.
dened their hearts and minds to each
other,
And what an amazing correspond
which
riner x
labors
are the
y whi
receiving
ve yea
July, } Aga
pealing and
in New York city
stilled % Monroe
States
rs kiter
the eannon
they
hi ® on
the scenes of his youth
old Virginia, ar wd far
loved “Ash Lawn”
ville. It was from the
gity of Virginia ti had
marched away a young lieutenant
to win the approval of his : fellow Vir.
ginian, George Washington, on revo.
lutionary battle fields. And when at
iagt he had retired from a long and
distinguished public career as an am.
bassador to foreign lands as a mem.
ber of two President's cabinets and
finally as President himself, he had
come back to Ash Lawn to spend his
declining years, only to be forced by
debt to sell it and make his home at
last In New York city,
Fifty years later. It was the Fourth
of July, 1851. In a darkened room in
the White Honge James A. Garfield,
President of the United States, lay
stricken by the bullet of an assassin,
Two days previously on July 2 while
he was stading in the Baltimore and
Potomac railroad station, Charles J.
Guitean, a disappointed office seeker
whose diseased brain was responsible
for his terrible act, had shot down the
President. For several weeks Gar
field lingered between life and death
until it was thought best to move him
to Elberon, Long Branch, N. J. where
it was felt thal he might regain
strength more rapidly, At first the
change seemed to benefit the Presi.
dent but his strength had been so
sapped by the prolonged {liness that
the end came at last on September
in, 1881,
But July 4 has not always been a
day of deaths for Presidemts. On
July 4, 1872 there was born in a farm.
house near Plymouth, Vermont, a bay
destined for occupancy of the White
House, Calvin Coolidge was his name,
home Prince sire frot
iis of
hes
home
fottes Univer
ore : he
as