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1—Largest Old Glory carried by soldiers and martu^s to ca Rtol in Washington for annual flag service. 2—
Seaplane on which three Swedish aviators started flight from. Stockholm to New York, being forced to land in Ice¬
land. 3—Air view of the Broadmoor hotel, Colorado Springs, where President Hoover's oil conservation congress
convened.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Ramsay MacDonald Coming
to Washington for World
Peace Conference.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
T> aV AMSAY MACDONALD, new prime
minister of Groat Britain, is
planning to come to the United States
to confer with President Hoover,
In regard to naval armament re¬
duction and enforcing the Kellogg
pact outlawing war by joint action of
the English speaking peoples. In
Washington the news of this plan was
well received, and it was learned at
the White House that Mr. Hoover
would be glad to meet Mr. MacDonald
and discuss with h’im questions of mu
tural interest to- their two countries.
American Ambassador Dawes, on his
way to England, was apprised of this
development by radio and almost im¬
mediately after his arrival in London
he went to Scotland for a conference
with the prime minister who was tak¬
ing a ten days’ vacation at his home
in Lossiemouth. Mr. Dawes was ex¬
pected to deliver to Mr. MacDonald an
invitation to visit Washington and
hold there a conference with Presi¬
dent Hoover and Prime Minister Mac¬
kenzie King of Canada. The best
guess in London was that the trip
would be made about the end of July
after the session of parliament ad¬
journs.
According to London corespond¬
ents, Mr. MacDonald said: "If Presi¬
dent Hoover invites me to Washing¬
ton 1 am going to answer ‘I will go.’
1 shall hope to settle this question of
Anglo-American relations once and
for all.’’ It was asserted he hopes to
carry the discussion much further
than naval subjects. He believes the
world is entering on an era of great
industrial and financial combines
whose boundaries will cut across all
national frontiers, and lie is desirous
of a discussion on economic co-opera¬
tion and avoidance of cut-throat com¬
petition in foreign markets. Mr. Mac¬
Donald, as a Socialist, welcomes the
welding of industry into trusts and
B ces no objection to the spread of
trusts in the international field under
proper governmental control.
tUST when it appeared that the
J farm relief hill as doctored up by
the house and senate conferees and
approved by the President had clear
sailing, the senate messed things all
up by rejecting the conference report
by a vote of 43 to 40 because the ex¬
port debenture feature had been elim¬
inated. in this step the Democrats
were joined by 13 Republicans, all
listed as radicals except Couzens of
Michigan. The debenture advocates
not only stood by their scheme, but
they were especially determined to
force the house to go on record on
this feature of the measure.
President Hoover immediately called
leaders of the house and senate to
the White House and a program was
agreed upon. JThls was^ to.send the
bill back ^conference as the senate
asked, and to have the conferees
agree on their original report, after
which it was expected the house
would reject the debenture plan by a
comfortable margin and accept the
conference report. There appeared to
be no doubt that the senate also would
adopt the report of the conference
after the house had rejected the de¬
benture by a vote of 2,i0 to 113.
The most interesting feature of the
affair was the outspoken threat of
Senator Brookhart of Iowa that a
third or “progressive” party would
enter into the congressional campaign
next year and the Presidential cam¬
paign of 1932 if the debenture wer£.
notjncluded in either the farm bill or
the'new tariff bill. He asserted the
President rather tiian the senate was
to blame for delays in obtaining farm
legislation. the
Tariff iiearings were begun by
senate finance committee, and Senator
Wesley Jones told the senate this
work should be speeded up with a view
to completing the enactment of the
legislation early in the fall, and there¬
fore congress should recess for only
a brief time. But Senator Watson,
majority leader, expressed tlie belief
that the tariff bill could not he finally
acted upon until just before the reg¬
ular December session.
OIGNATERE of the Young plan for
German reparations payments by
the seven interested nations is having
speedy result in the way of settling
other post-war problems. The coun¬
cil of tlie League of Nations met in
Madrid, and tlie Germans carried out
their plan of bringing before it tiie
matter of early evacuation of the
Rhineland. Aristide Briand, French
foreign minister, proposed that an in¬
ternational conference lie held this
summer for tlie handling of nil out¬
standing questions left ovijr from the
war, and this was agreed to by Dr.
Gustav Stresemann, German minister
of foreign affairs. Prime Minister
MacDonald of Great Britain already
had intimated that he was willing to
participate in such a meeting. It was
generally believed that the conference
would be held in July, probably in
London or The Hague.
It had been supposed that the coun¬
cil at this Madrid session would take
up the vexatious question of national
minorities, but Stresemann insisted it
should ho referred to the World Court
at The Hague. This was strongly op¬
posed by Briand and tlie representa¬
tives of the secession states, and a
compromise was reached by which tlie
matter was held over for tlie Septem¬
ber session of the I.oague assembly.
French Socialists in convention at
Nancy declared in favor of tlie Young
reparations plan, evacuation of tlie
Rhineland and immediate ratification
of the Mellon-Beranger accord for Hie
payment of the French debt to the
United States. Certain of the United
States senators led by Howell of Ne¬
braska have attacked tlie Young plan
as “another move by the allies and
tiie international hankers” to cancel
not only tlie war debts but also the in¬
terest on the allied obligations to
America. Administration leaders and
State department officials asserted
nettling in the Young settlement would
affect tlie war debts owed tlie United
States. J. I’. Morgan, one of tiie
American experts, declared on arrival
in New York that (lie bank for inter¬
national settlements, to be established
under tiie Young plan, would be tiie
greatest instrument for the preserva¬
tion of world peace jet devised.
"*iea**
PRESIDENT HOOVER, because lie
U used to be secretary of commerce,
was especially interested in the cere¬
mony of laying the cornerstone of tiie
magnificent new Department of Com¬
merce building. Surrounded by many
other high government officials, he
wielded tlie trowel that was used by
President Washington in laying the
cornerstone of Hie Capitol 130 years
ago, and in his address lie said tlie
event marked the emergence of tlie
Commerce department into full ma¬
turity and service. The building will
be the largest single public structure
in Washington and in its actual floor
space will be the largest office build¬
ing in tlie world. It is to be tiie
most important structure in the gov¬
ernment’s 3115,000,000 program for
public buildings in the city of Wash¬
ington.
XT EARLY every day the quick
iN shooting enforcers of prohibition
furnish more ammunition for the foes
of Volsteadism. Last week they killed
an apparently innocent citizen at In¬
ternational Fails, Minn., and a young
man at Detroit whose companions ad¬
mit he and they had been trying to
run a boatload of liquor from Can¬
ada. Drys in congress took tlie op¬
portunity to denounce the activities
of prohibition officers and Representa¬
tive Clancy of Michigan demanded an
investigation of the Detroit ease, but
after a trip to that city he said tlie
shooting .was justified. Representa¬
tive Florence Kahn of California in¬
troduced a bill in tlie house directing
the treasury to pay 323,000 to the
dependents of every person “wanton¬
ly or negligently killed by any pro¬
hibition officer not acting in self de¬
fense.” Other congressmen urged
that the treasury forbid tlie use of
firearms by dry agents, but Seymour
I.owman, assistant secretary of the
treasury in charge of all prohibition
enforcement agencies, said this couid
not be done. He declared that agents
CLEVELAND COURIER
had been cautioned for more than a
year against reckless use of firearms,
and that lie did not see what more
could he done to prevent killings
without crippling enforcement.
Two officers of Hopkinsville, Ky.,
who were convicted for killing a man
in a prohibition raid were denied a
new trial by Federal Judge Dawson
in Louisville. In Silver City, N. M.,
a dry agent induced a bootlegger to
soil him liquor and the latter was shot
by other agents as he was making the
delivery. Angered by tlie dry raid
at liipon. Win., during the celebra¬
tion of tlie Republican parly's sev¬
enty-fifth birthday, Assemblyman I.n
morenux of Ashland county introduced
a resolution asking the federal gov¬
ernment to desist from attempting to
enforce the Eighteenth amendment in
tiie Badger state. About tlie same
time dry agents raided the favorite
drug store of Wisconsin's wet legisla¬
tors in Madison.
Mr. I.owman lias ordered lieuvy re¬
inforcements for tiie dry enforcers
of tlie Detroit area, in Hie way of
both men and boats. In response to
this the big rum runners of the
Great Lakes met in Ecorse and laid
plans to operate in unison. They
adopted a shuttle system whereby
traffic will lie diverted to Lake Erie
or Lake Huron when t he enforcers
are concentrated on the Detroit river,
and they also have devised an elab¬
orate intelligence system and began
buying larger and better bouts.
These are just a few of the wet and
dry developments that take up vast
space in tlie columns of Hie metro¬
politan dailies.
T TNI.ESS all indications are wrong.
v- 7 peace between Mexico’s government
and the Roman Catholic church will
he declared in the. near future. Arch¬
bishop Ruiz of Miclioacan and Bishop
l’ascual Diaz of Tabasco held confer¬
ences with President Fortes Gil in
Chapultepec castle as tlie climax of
long negotiations, and there was
good reason to believe they arrived
at an understanding which would
need only tlie approval of the Pope.
In well informed quarters in Mexico
City it was asserted Hie basis of the
agreement was mutual consent for a
broad interpretation of the country’s
religious laws, both sides making con¬
cessions.
'T'HItEE United States district
judges sitting en banc in Chicago
found the Standard Oil Company of
Indiana and fifty-one associated con¬
cerns guilty of violating tlie Sherman
antitrust act by pooling their so
called “oil cracking” processes. The
decision which granted the govern¬
ment a permanent injunction restrain¬
ing Hie defendant companies from fur¬
ther violations of tlie law; came after
more than four years’ litigation. In
tlie original suit, filed in 1925, the
government claimed tlie defendants
conspired to restrain trade and cre¬
ate a monopoly by refusing independ¬
ent concerns tlie right to use their
Burton “cracking” process, used to
extract gasoline from crude oil. In
defense Hie Standard of Indiana held
that Hie process had been of vast
benefit to consumers and had mate¬
rially lowered the price of gasoline.
'T'llIlEE Swedish aviators started to
fly from Stockholm to New York,
hut a broken gas feed pipe forced
them to land on the coast of Ice¬
land. They got their plane to Reyk¬
javik and last week made three at¬
tempts to fly from there to Green¬
land but were driven back each time
by rough weather. The aviators,
Ahrenburg, Floden and Ljungtund,
are trying to establish a new air
trade route between Europe and
America.
AI.VESTON’S international “pag
xA eant of pulchritude” came to an
end with the awarding of the title
“Miss Universe” to Fraulein Lisl. Gold
arbeiter of Vienna, Austria, the young
governess being adjudged the most
beautiful of all the contestants. Miss
Irene Abiberg of New Y’ork was
named “Miss United States.” The af¬
fair did not come off without a small
scandal, for Theda Delrey, “Miss Tul¬
sa,” who was selected for ninth prize,
was accused of being really the
“Miss Houston” of two years ago and
therefore ineligible as a former con¬
testant.
Wise Owner Makes His
Garden Pi.rt of Home
If ,vou really use and enjoy your
garden, you must make it look as
though it were a part of your home.
If the only way you have of getting
to it is through the kitchen and the
back porch where only tlie garbage
can or ice box or cleaning bucket live,
your garden will not look Hint way.
The transition from house to garden
must be gradual and attractive, if
the house and garden are to seem like
one unit.
If it is possible to enter Hie garden
from a living-room or dining-room,
so much tlie better. In that case,
even if Hie garden is tiny, it. is well
to make a small brick platform or an
informal flagging around Hie steps.
If tlie lawn is low below tlie doorway,
a prettier effect is gained by making
a small terracing up to the steps, than
by having a long flight of steps. One
step or two down to tlie terrace will
be prettier than six steps down to a
flat lawn. On this flagstone or brick
platform you can put comfortable
porcli furniture, and perhaps a bright
awning or lawn parasol. Here you
can have a place more out-doorsy
Ilian a regular porch, and yet ns com¬
fortable. It will be dry to your feet,
and yet there will he comfortable
chairs to sit in. The older members
of any family will enjoy it more than
sitting in Hie real garden.
Model Street Incentive
to Better Conditions
In Philadelphia, according to re¬
ports. is a mile of model streets—
which means a mile of clean streets.
The idea of clearing and maintaining
this limited street area absolutely free
of litter and the hundred and one
other objects and features that mar
attractiveness was carried out a short
time ago. Bo impressive were tiie re¬
sults that now schools, women’s
groups and other organizations in
various parts of that city are out for
more model streets. Eventually, a
model city from (lie standpoint of tidi¬
ness may lie the outcome. Who
knows?
Certainly the movement is altogeth¬
er wholesome and encouraging. Tlie
idea may prove contagious. Probably
a city once clean and attractive could
be kept in that condition. How re¬
freshing it would be to have one gen¬
uine effort in that direction!—Kan¬
sas City Times.
Plea for City Beautiful
An appeal to householders to form
themselves into “Neighborhood Beau¬
tiful” groups was made recently by II.
A. Harrington, Detroit board of com¬
merce secretary.
“We are attempting to conduct a
city-wide spring house-cleaning,’’ said
Harrington, who is in charge of tlie
1929 clean-up and paint-up campaign.
Under tlie plan advocated by him
residents of each block would form an
organization for Hie supervision of a
thorough clean-up, not only of their
own premises, hut of adjacent alleys
and vacant lots.
“rt docs little good (o clean up oc¬
casional spots," he pointed out. “The
impressions visitors carry away are
molded by tlie general appearance of
tlie city.”
Stake Around Your Trees
Large trees or trees planted in ex¬
posed places should be staked. To
prevent chafing, protect tlie tree with
old rubber hose or with burlap, says
tlie American Tree association of
Washington which will send anyone
tree-planting suggestions for Hie ask¬
ing. A stake driven in tlie ground
along side tiie tree with n rubber or
burlap covered wire attached to tiie
tree is a good support. Until Hie tree
becomes firmly established see (o it
that the earth is closely packed about
the trunk.
Outdoor Room
Let. us think of a garden as an at¬
tractive outdoor room, rather than a
place of orderly beds, where flowers
or other plants are grown. No mat¬
ter what type of design or what type
of furnishings—If one may speak of
the elements of a garden as furnish¬
ings—a garden usually does not offer
Its full complement of enjoyment with¬
out that desirable feeling of intimacy
and privacy.
Trees and City Beautiful
Worth of trees to a city is by no
means confined to beauty, says tlie
American Tree association of Wash¬
ington, which will send you tree plant¬
ing suggestions for the asking. The
city of fine shade trees is the City
Healthful as well as the City Beau¬
tiful.
Garden Individuality
One privilege of life in tlie country
Is the possession of a garden, and pref¬
erably of a flower garden. A garden
owes any distinction it may possess
to first-hand attention, and conse¬
quently can hardly he anything but
individual. There are too few oppor¬
tunities for individuality left to us.
Worth Thinking Over
Towns that can’t afford playgrounds
'or their children must he prepared
o spend considerable money for care
>f those run over by automobiles.—
jaribaidi <Ore.) News.
No Time for Business
With the Smelt Biting
Charles Francis Adams, who re¬
signed as treasurer of Harvard uni¬
versity to become secretary of tlie
navy under Hoover, is as typical an
Adams as Samuel, John Quincy and all
tlie rest, and inherits from them a love
of tlie sea and fishing and sailing—
also their characteristic independence.
Tlie story is told how, while lie was
practicing law and was scheduled to
make a plea before the Supreme court
lie could not lx; found and finally a
deputy sheriff was gent to procure his
presence. The officer traced tlie law¬
yer to Ilingham, Mass., hired a boat
and rowed out to Hangman's island
and found Mr. Adams.
The lawyer sent him back with a
line scrawled on tlie back of an en¬
velope :
“Can't come now; tlie smelt are bit¬
ing like thunder.”—Los Angeles Times.
Me and the Goat
A photographer had canvassed Hie
neighborhood, bringing with him a
goat and wagon, and liad taken pic¬
tures of all the children who could
be persuaded to sit in tlie wagon. Lit¬
tle Jane, age three, had been snapped,
and was very enthusiastic about the
pictures that were to come.
Her Tut her teased her, saying:
“When tho pictures come, tlie goat
will bo in the wagon and you will be
hitched to tlie wagon.”
The teasing was evidently taken
seriously, for later, as Jane would
show the pictures, she would say:
"This is me and this is tlie goat.”
Couldn’t Ask More
“Will those stockings run?” asked
Hie fair customer.
“Lfcd.v,” said tlie clerk at tlie hosiery
counter, “it would be easier to get a
car with an empty gas tank and a
dead battery to run than it would he
those stockings.”
Higher Education
While about 55 per cent of high
school graduates in tlie United States
are girls, 70 per cent of the college
graduates are men.
Husbands are not' made to order—
Imt some wives seem to think they
are.
The high moral ground occupied by
the hypocrite is a bluff.
DAUGHTERS
Devoted daughter
tells what she did
, ^A/'OU find it in almost every family,
i JL. An elderly mother or father liv¬
ing with the young folks. The chil¬
dren doing all they can to make their
parents’ last years comfortable.
The Robinson home at 2330 Coral
Street, Philadelphia, when the proved no called ex¬
ception Robinson reporter had special
there. Mrs. a
health problem to solve.
“My mother, who is 80 years old,”
of she paralysis." explained, It "had a vitally partial impor¬ stroke
was
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we tried that. We find it gives satis¬
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