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1—Scene In Houston, Texas, where vast damage was done by flood waters of the Buffalo bayou. 2—Ramsay
MacDonald, Labor! te, who became prime minister of Great Britain. 3—Express cruiser Mouette in which Colonel
and Mrs. Lindbergh spent their honeymoon.
NEWS MEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Progress of the Farm Relief
Measure—MacDonald Now
British Prime Minister.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
IN Off known us the agricultural
marketing act, the farm relief bill
came out of conference last week and
was then accepted by both the house
and senate. It was scheduled to be in
the hands of President Hoover for
signature about June 12. Prom the
bill as modified the export debenture
plan was omitted, all the conferees ex¬
cept Senators Norris of Nebraska and
Smith of South Carolina voting for
this course. On other features the
measure represents a compromise be¬
tween the senate and house Dills, the
essential points of the latter being re¬
tained. Provision is made for a farm
board composed of the secretary of the
treasury and eight members appointed
by the President at salaries of $12,000.
The President will designhte the chair¬
man of this board. Commodity ndvis
Hy count ils are. to be set up to advise
the board on methods of dealing with
crop surpluses.
Commodity stabilization corpora¬
tions, all the stock of which is owned
by co-operatives, are authorized to buy,
store, and market surplus commodi¬
ties. The stabilization corporations will
be able to obtain loans from a $500,
000,000 revolving fund at the dis¬
posal of the farm board. Only such
part of I Ins fund as congress appro¬
priates will be immediately available.
The board may make loans for the
handling of crop surpluses and also
for the purchase of warehouses and
other physical market facilities and
may make, advances to co-operatives
for various purposes, including loans
for insurance against price decline.
The board may fix the terms of the
loans, the interest rate being limited
to an amount approximating the rate
on outstanding government securities.
President Hoover let it be known
that the administration would ask con¬
gress to appropriate, before recessing,
as much as $100,000,000 from the half
billion fund authorized, with a view
to having it available for handling
the wheat surplus. Department of
agriculture experts said this immedi¬
ate appropriation should be $200,000.
000, for they believed more than half
that sum would be needed for wheat
alone, the price of which has fallen
very low. This does not mean neces¬
sarily that the entire amount will be
loaned to the wheat stabilization cor¬
poration to be set up by co-operatives
with the approval of the farm board,
gome of the supporters of the Hoover
stabiliz fa?m reljgf etkm pl^mbiQevl corpo ration that as much Bn
as 25,000,000 or 50,000,000 bushels of
wheat it will have a tremendoe*
on learner, prdflfletl f! is~”known
tflat the corporation can borrow un¬
limited additional funds from the farm
board. *sV’
SENATOR SMOOT, chairman of the
w senate finance committee, an¬
nounced the make-irp of the four
groups of subcommittees which will
consider various schedules of the tariff
bill. They are to hold hearings simul¬
taneously, beginning .Time 13. The free
list and administrative provisions will
be handled by the full committee.
Paris industrial newspapers urge the
French parliament to find some means
of erecting retaliatory tariff barriers
against United States products. In¬
deed, throughout most of Europe there
is deep resentment against the pro¬
posed American tariff measure. The
presidents of the European chambers
of commerce in a report stated that
the policy of the United States is in¬
comprehensible “if one considers its
financial requirements,” for this coun¬
try is not only Europe’s creditor but
also is the holder of the greater part
of the world's gold ; and if American
ports are closed to European merchan¬
dise the debtor countries are cut off
from their only means of raising money
to settle their debts.
PRESIDENT HOOVER in a message
I to congress asked that the senate
and house appoint a select committee
to study the matter of concentrating
and reorganizing the bureaus charged
with enforcement of the dry laws in
co-operation with his special commis¬
sion on law T enforcement. At the same
time the Treasury department an¬
nounced the opening of a new drive
to stop liquor smuggling in the Detroit
area.
V PASSAGE of the census accomplished and reap
portionment bill was
in the house, but only alter Hie ma¬
jority leaders had freed the measure
from negro disfranchisement and alien
exclusion amendments that threatened
to bring about ils defeat. The final
vote was 272 to 105.
✓"'t HUMAN reparations are now up
'-J* to the governments of the allied
nations and Germany, for the commis¬
sion of experts lias concluded its great
task with tlie adoption of the Young
plan, the main features of which were
given in these columns a week ago.
Seventeen weeks of nerve wracking
discussion thus came to an end, and
while it could not be said every one
was satisfied, all at least were re¬
lieved.
“Well, are you glad It is over?”
some one asked Dr. Hjulmar Schacht,
the chief German delegate.
“Who would be glad over (lie pros¬
pect of paying $487,000,(XX) in the next
thirty-seven years and then not he
through?" lie snapped hack.
The Belgian representatives at a
creditors’ meeting in Paris announced
that they would accept the German
offer for settlement of the Belgian
claims for compensation of Hie Belgian
worthless German marks unloaded in
Belgium during the war. Tills seltle
ment is to lie negotiated directly be¬
tween Germany and Belgium and must
be completed before (lie Young plan
goes into effect next September 1.
In Berlin it is thought that a polit'■
cal conference will lie called in July
to sanction the report of (lie experts
and to take up the question of evacua¬
tion of tlie Rhineland.
President Hoover and Secretary of
State Stimson cabled their congratula¬
tions to Messrs. Young, Morgan, Per¬
kins and Laniont, the Americans on
the experts’ commission who really
brought about the settlement.
n AMSAY MACDONALD, chief of
the Labor parly, is now prime
minister of Great Britain and iiis cab¬
inet lias been sworn in. Stanley Bald¬
win handed in his resignation Tues¬
day and the king immediately sum¬
moned MacDonald to form a new gov¬
ernment. He submitted I lie names of
the principal members of his cabinet
and they w’ere approved by his maj¬
esty, who sat up in bed and chatted
and joked with the new prime min¬
ister for a hour, for they are very
good friends.
It was reported in London that
Lloyd George was willing to give the
1 .aliorites ^ he supp ort of his Liberal
station, sucli ns
'schemes, mlu
(foposeu. -J lie question of the
lfig industry may t'reseM fi'jficulii&l
in which Urn Lnbof^ej aboTThe T.iTf
erals cannot agree; The biggest mat¬
ter on which they are agreed is un¬
employment relief. The schemes of
both parties Include large appropria¬
tions for building of new houses, slum
clearance, drainage of land and rec¬
lamation, construction of new roads,
electrification and reorganization of
the railways, and afforestation on a
wide scale. In foreign affairs the Lib¬
erals an 1 Laborites are in complete
accord.
'T'Hit EE months in jail are not
-I enough for the punishment of
Harry F. Sinclair, the oil magnate.
The Supreme Court of the United
States last week unanimously upheld
the decision of the District of Colum¬
bia Supreme court which sentenced
Sinclair to serve six months in jail
for hiring detectives to shadow the
jury in the first Fali-Sinolair criminal
conspiracy trial almost two years ago.
Henry Mason Day, vice president of
the Sinclair Exploration company and
Sinclair’s personal representative in
the shadowing of the jury, must serve
a jail sentence of four months. Wil¬
liam J. Burns, head of the detective
agency which supplied the detectives,
was sentenced to serve 15 days at the
same time Sinclair and Day were
sentenced by Justice Frederick L. Sid
dons. The Supreme court reversed
the Burns sentence, hut permilted a
CLEVELAND COURIER
fine of $ 1,000, imposed on his son, W.
Sherman Burns, secretary of the de¬
tective agency, to stund.
Cj /CHARLES G. DAWES, our new nm
bassuilor to the Court of St.
Janies, sailed for England after a
final conference with President Hoover
and Secretary Stimson. On June 28
General Dawes is to receive the de¬
gree of doctor of civil law from Ox¬
ford university.
c OLONEL ( AND MRS. LINDBERGH
finally were found, not by re¬
porters lull liv a steamer captain who
discovered Hie moneymooners aboard
Lindy's express cruiser Mouette when
lie helped moor the craft at a pier at
Block Island. The Mouette was pur¬
chased by the colonei just before ids
wedding, and he and ids bride boarded
it at a lonely spot on the Long Island
shore. Tuesday the little craft put
to sea again, apparently headed for
the Maine coast, and again IJndy
dodged the press and camera men by
going around Cape Cod instead of
through 1 lie canal. Newspaper re¬
ports said n piece of canvas was
draped over the stern of the Mouette,
hiding Us name, arid const guards in
Boston declared tho colonel for this
reason was incurring the danger of
being fired on by their patrol boats.
vv ML 10 the Bhriners were gather¬
ing in Los Angeles for their an¬
nual meeting and joy lest, the Supreme
court in Washington handed down an
opinion that gives the negro organiza¬
tion known as the Ancient Egyptian
Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic
(shrine the right to continue the use
of ils name and insignia. White
shri.ners in Texas had objected to the
activities of the negro organization
and to its insignia. They non in the
lower courts. Justice Van Devanter
in delivering the opinion, to which no
dissent was announced, said the white
shriners by their failure to object
within a reasonable time had lost
their right to act.
I pORTERS and mauls in the employ
of the Pullman company have won
their three years' struggle for higher
pay, having been given a wage In¬
crease of $5 a month and various im¬
provements in working conditions.
The agreement was reached in a con¬
ference between officials of the com¬
pany and 21 elected representatives
of the 12,000 porters and maids. The
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
was ignored by the company.
Big building operations in Chicago
were held up for several days by a
strike of the bridge and structural
iron workers, in which the architec¬
tural iron workers joined. The former
demanded a wage scale of $13 a day,
an increase of $1. This was soon
agreed to by the ,Steel Erectors’ asso¬
ciation, but the Iron league held put
T»9^ANDS * on the slopes of of Italians Ml. Vesuvius whoJJvjJ Were
tidin’ and poured ^eTwjfSerty rivers java dowri
its sides. .v damage damage wa^
immense . . ____ but die loss or lire was ias kept
to a minimum by the precautionary
steps of die authorities. Tourists
were prohibited from approaching the
danger zone.
nr hough die Vatican and the Ital¬
I ian i: government Inst week ex¬
changed ratifications of the Lateran
pact, the relations between Pius XI
and Premier Mussolini are not cor¬
dial. The duce addressed the parlia¬
ment recently ori the treaty, and the
pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gasparrl,
characterizes the dictator’s speeches
as “heretical, modernistic, ponderous¬
ly erudite hut full of errors and in¬
exact.” The letter indicates that
there may he a long period of disputes
over details and expresses the
church’s resentment of (lie fact that
the state's hills giving effect to the
Lateran treaty are not conceived fh
tlie same spirit as that pact
XTOBLE BRANDON JUDAH has re
n signed as ambassador to Cuba;
and Dr. Hubert Work has resigned
as chairman of the Republican na¬
tional committee. There were rumors
that Work thought he had been ig¬
nored by the Hoover administration,
but the correspondence between him
and the President contained no binl
of this.
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l§8u1ild1% C u g
Ideas for Revamping
Houses Marred by Time
Modernizing the home need have no
terrors for the home owner, L. T.
Henderson, secretary of the Louisville
Building Trade bureau, said in a bul¬
letin to contractors calling attention
to safeguards that must be observed.
He said:
“The owner must be assisted in
choosing a reputable contractor and a
financing agency. This should he
done before the work is begun. Re¬
gardless of the size of the job,
whether it be a small repair job, or
the making of an old house through¬
out into a new one, a sketch should
be made by a reliable architect,
which should he agreed upon by the
family desiring the improvement.
Once this sketch is made and accept¬
ed, then specifications should be
drawn, together with a legal con¬
tract. After this lias been done, two
or three reliable contractors should
be called upon and asked to bid.
“With llie financing arranged for
and definite plans and specifications
to bid on, the contractor will give the
lowest cash price that the work can
be done for.
“The owner can save considerably
more on the contract price by having
a definite program to begin with more
than nil lfis supervision fees and fi¬
nancing costs.
“By handling a job in tlds maner,
the owner is relieved of worry and
unexpected costs and, in many cases,
liens being filed on account of unpaid
bills.”
Movement for General
Roadside Beauty Grows
Roadside beautification lias become
general throughout the United States.
In Ibis new era a road becomes a
work of art. There is a “State¬
wide Beautification club” in Florida;
an association, “Friends of Our Na¬
tive Landscape,” in Wisconsin; the
"Colorado Historical society” in Colo¬
rado, and various organizations from
garden clubs to chambers of com¬
merce in Arkansas, Alabama, West
Virginia, Kentucky, North and South
Carolina, and Virginia. California
now has 000 miles of trees planted
along highways; Oklahoma is plant¬
ing highway trees steadily; Delaware
lias many of its highways landscaped;
Arkansas culls systematic beautifica¬
tion “a worth-while investment of
public funds”; Michigan planted 140,
000 pine seedlings along highways in
1028; Indiana 10,000 small evergreen
trees, and Massachusetts more than
50,000 trees planted on highways in
the past 22 years. State after state
may be cited, with mention of Mis¬
souri’:! new landscape architect for
ils roadsides, Pennsylvania’s forestry
unit, and Connecticut’s landscape di¬
vision.
State Makes Beauty Spots
In Connecticut, where rivers arid
lakes are near by, shrubbery and trees
have been removed fo open a view.
Several fine vistas which have hither¬
to been lost are now offered. The
state is doing much planting of in¬
digenous species. Dogwood and lau¬
rel, when removed to clear the view
of a distant scene, ure replanted else¬
where and small growths of natural
shrubbery in which forest fires start
easily have been transplanted to road¬
side gardens.
Providing Picnic Nook»
The Connecticut highway depart¬
ment is encouraging family touring
and picnics by creating wide spaces
by the road for the parking of cars
at a safe d istanc e from the thorough¬
fare. In selecting picnic nooks the
commissioners have been gui ded by
j the natural advantages. Inhere the
treeg provide ample shade and a
spring bubbles up, the road is wid¬
ened. Several cars may be driven in¬
t£ the clmefl area a where they will
| not be a hazard to other motorists.
frightful ■wa 1 Fife Fires 1 ■ JJJJSa***'......
Waste
Tlie importance of guarding against
home fires is shown in estimates of a
large insurance company. In the last
ten years, according to this firm,
enough money has been wasted, on
the average, in fire losses to pay for
101,000 one-family houses at the cost
of construction prevailing in 1926, or
to pay for all the new residences
erected in 56 principal cities of the
United States the same year.
Correct Ideas in Painting
Large houses on smulL plots of
ground are best painted in unobtru¬
sive colors—that is to say, colors that
lend theniselvei to their immediate
surroundings. Blue-grays or gray
greens show off such houses to good
advantage without making them ap¬
pear too unwieldy for the size plot
upon which they have been erected.
Build Well for Beauty
Good and lasting construction is an
essential quality of real beauty. Shod¬
diness and beauty are hard to con¬
ceive as existing together in the same
creation, so when we build we must
think of economy, construction and
beauty in the closest relationship.
Work for Civic Leader*
Most of the improvement work of
a town is done by a dozen men whom
(he other citizens back up.—Exchange.
Good Act Credited to
Old “Dad” Mississippi
The Father of Waters, which has
figured so much in the news in the
past few years as a destructive river
ready to break over levees and flood
thousands of acres of farm land with
tremendous loss ^ in buildings, stock
and equipment, sometimes plays Santa
Claus.
He 1ms just done it to the extent of
providing 525 acres of farm land in
Louisiana, and' Mississippi, which has
been thrown open to homesteaders.
It is not often in this day and gener¬
ation that Uncle Sam lias any part of
Hie public domain to'give away to his
pioneer sons and daughters.
The particular land in question
lias been gradually developed as the
Mississippi lias slowly changed its
course near Glasscock island. Not
only lias it developed, but it lias de¬
veloped into practically level stretches
of rich heavy black loam and sandy
loam.—Washington Star.
Not Guilty
Robert, five years old, came into
the house with the seat of his play
overalls torn away. His mother had
forbidden him to climb trees, fences,
or anything else.
“Now Robert!” she scolded. “You
have been climbing again! You’ve
torn your pants while climbing!”
“No mamma, I didn’t,” said Robert.
“Robert! You certainly tore these
pants climbing somewhere.”
“Indeed and indeed I didn’t,
mamma,” pleaded Robert.
“How did you tear them then?”
“I tore ’em coming down!” sobbed
Robert.
“We All Sing, You Know”
A story Henry T. Fiuek, the music
critic, used to tell lin'd to do with the
teacher of Olive Fremetad. Happen¬
ing to be near where Fremstad’s par¬
ents lived, the teacher called on them
and spoke of their daughter’s triumph
at tlH- Metropolitan Opera house and
abroad, saying finally:
“You must be proud to have a
daughter who 1ms done so much with
her voice.”
“Well,” said (lie mother, calmly,
"we all sing, you know.”—Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Forestation Gains
Reforestation is gradually coming
Into ils own, and during the last three
years 1,055,658 acres have been added
1<> the state and community preserves.
Tlie state of Washington led in the
increase, with Pennsylvania second.
Three stales which had not had state
forests prior to 1925—Delaware/Geor¬
gia and South Carolina—have fellen
In line. The total of public-owned
forests now is in excess of 12,000,000
acres.
The Freudians
“Gut Freudian playwrights crack
iqi vice and roast virtue,” said Pub¬
lisher George Haven Putnam of New
York.
“At a. Greenwich village reception
an old-style playwright said to a new
sfyle or Freudian actress:
“‘There's old Boar, (lie critic. Poor
old Boar! lie’s as ugly as sin, Isn’t
he?’
“'Don't you mean,’said the actress,
'as ugly as virtue?’ ”
Bad Practice
“So the lady got life for shooting
her husband? Isn’t that rather se¬
vere, and unusual?”
“Yes, Imf they had to make an
example of her—it was her fourth
conviction.”
A man's most bitter enemy vs the
ex-friend who can no longer work
him.
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