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1—Unveiling memorial bust of Mark Twain at Mono Lake in the high Sierras of California. 2—Some of the
1,300 Boy Scouts at the international jamboree iii England cheering for the prince of Wales. 3 The huge motor
ship Britannic recently launched in Great Britain for the Atlantic passenger service.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Progress of Negotiations at
The Hague—Start of Zep¬
pelin for Tokyo.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
INTERNATIONAL I negotiations at
The Hague during the week reached
a point that virtually assured early
evacuation of the Rhineland by the
allies, and made it fairly certain that
Great Britain would have its way iti
ttie matter of the distribution of Ger¬
man reparations. Philip Snowden’s ex¬
traordinarily undiplomatic, not to sny
insulting, language in characterizing
the arguments of M. Cheron. French
finance minister, as “ridiculous" and
“grotesque” threatened at first to dis¬
rupt the proceedings. Snowden apol¬
ogized, though lie and his government
stood firm In their position that the
reparations division In the Young plan
could not be accepted. Thereupon the
representatives of France, Belgium,
Italy and Japan began to figure out
methods of satisfying the English,
realizing some sacrifices must be made
in order that the entire Young plan
should not be scrapped. They agreed,
however, to stand together and not to
make separate bargains or compro¬
mises with the British. Mr. Snowden
indicated he would accept an increase
of $9,520,000 per annum in the British
sham and the four powers named got
together $4,700,000 of this, but Italy
refused to make further contribution
and Snowden repeated his ultimatum.
It seemed likely the Young plan inso¬
far as Germany is concerned would be
accepted and that the allies would
postpone the distribution of the rep¬
arations among themselves until aft¬
er the meeting of the League of Na¬
tions assembly late in September.
Meanwhile the English may be In¬
duced to abate something of their
demands, think the French.
Thomas W. Lamont, the American
banker who helped devise the Young
plan, admitted in London that he had
been asked to go to The Hague to aid
in the financial deliberations, but said
he had decided it was wiser for him
to stay away.
rjAVING made the return trip from
i 1 Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen in
fast time and without any difficulties,
the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin
was refueled and continued on its
projected flight around the world. It
carried Cl persons, 20 of whom were
passengers, and was equipped with
rifles and emergency food supplies in
case of a forced landing. The next
stopping place was to be Tokyo, and
this second leg of the trip was con¬
sidered to be the most perilous for
the huge airship. The route laid out
would take it across Russia, Siberia,
the Sea of Okhotsk and Saghalien.
Doctor Eekener, commander of the
Graf Zeppelin, has been granted a pat¬
ent on a rigid dirigible with separate
gas cells, like the one he is flying
around the earth, by the United States
patent office. The patent, applied for
in 1922, has been assigned to the
Friedrichshafen Zeppelin company.
JL/ T GUIS BLERIOT, the French pilot
who made the first flight across
the English channel, has perfected de¬
signs for a new type of airplane that
can lie automatically converted into
a lifeboat in case of a forced landing
at sea, and he says that it will carry
passengers between Baris and New
York in 24 hours.
Future traffic between the conti¬
nents will be carried on in neither Zep¬
pelins nor hydroplanes, but in large
land planes, according to the French¬
man, who is at present collaborating
with the Armstrong company of the
United States for the establishment of
a regular air line between Gotham
and Paris. The Armstrong concern
already has begun the construction of
a series of ocean airports stretching
across the Atlantic, concerning which
much has been printed heretofore.
SECRETARY OF STATE STIMSON
^ announces that President Hoover
is highly pleased with the progress
made in negotiations between the
United States and Great Britain on
the question of naval armament re¬
duction. Washington officials are
hopeful it wlli be possible to hold a
five-power naval conference for the
discussion of cruiser and auxiliary
ship tonnages reduction late this year
or early in 1930.
This Statement was given out fol¬
lowing a breakfast given by President
Hoover for the purpose of acquaint¬
ing members of the naval general
hoard with the progress of the con¬
versations at London and to afford an
opportunity for a round-table discus¬
sion of all phases of the problem.
Mr. Stimson said that the President
and the State department expected the
fullest co-operation front the Navy de¬
partment experts in the campaign for
naval reduction, and that the navy ex¬
perts' views would lie given careful
consideration. lie denied that any
rift has developed between the navy
general board and the civilians on the
question of Just how far this country
should go in reducing its navy.
PRESIDENT HOOVER is taking
* action in accord with his pre-elec¬
tion statements in which he declared
for complete co-ordination of I he
work of improving Inland waterways
for navigation, irrigation, flood con¬
trol and power development. lie an¬
nounces that his administration and
the officials of California have reached
an agreement for itie appointment of
a joint commission to determine the
policies to be pursued in such devel¬
opment in California. Another joint
commission will work out the prob¬
lems presented by the proposed con¬
struction of a bridge across San Fran¬
cisco bay.
CANE of the next steps for the sta
vJ bUization of agriculture hy the
federal farm board will be the cre¬
ation of a wool marketing agency. A
conference of representatives of pro¬
ducers’ co-operative wool marketing
associations and producer-owned ware¬
house associations will be held in Chi¬
cago some time In October,- Chairman
Alexander Legge, of the 'board, an¬
nounced. At this conference definite
jilans will be evolved for a national
co-operative wool sales agency, to in¬
clude in its membership all of the va¬
rious types of co-operatives now en¬
gaged in handling the commodity.
Julius Barnes, William M. Jardlne,
former secretary of agriculture, and
other prominent men, have begun the
formation of a big fruit and vegetable
marketing corporation, but Mr. Legge
said its plan of organization had not
yet been approved by the board. The
corporation is to have a capital of
$50,000,000, and in Its initial work
will he with 60 subsidiary co-opera¬
tives in 25 states.
'T'TTOSE persistent revolutionists in
-*■ Venezuela got hold of an old Ger¬
man steamer and to the number of 400
landed under cover of darkness and
attacked the important city of Cu
mana. The government forces defend¬
ed the place vigorously and repulsed
the attackers, though their command¬
er, Gen. Emilio Fernandez, was killed.
The casualties were heavy and the
fight lasted four hours, coming to an
end when a government airplane ap¬
peared and attacked the rebels with
machine gun fire and bombs. Presi¬
dent Gomez was not unduly alarmed
hut sent three vessels loaded with
troops to try to capture the "pirate"
steamer.
OEACE negotiations at Manc-houli be
i tween the Chinese and Russians
were broken off, according to rather
indefinite dispatches from the Orient,
and the Manchurian situation again be¬
came threatening. Tokyo reports said
there had been a skirmish on the
heights west of Manchouli and that
three Russian gunboats had landed
troops in three Chinese villages on
the Amur river. More Soviet citizens
were arrested in Manchuria and some
of them deported, and in Harbin the
Russian White Guards were believed
to be organizing an anti-Jewish po¬
grom. The Chinese government sent
word to Moscow that it would he
forced to take retaliatory measures
unless it received assurances that the
Soviet firing at Suifen would not be
repeated. The Soviet government an¬
nounced the forntation of a “far east¬
ern” army in view of the threatening
conditions on the frontier.
'"T''HE tenth anniversary of the Wei
■I mar constitution of the German
republic was celebrated with great en¬
thusiasm in Berlin, and by dint of tak-
CLEVELAND COURIER
ing extraordinary precautions and
making numerous arrests the police
suppressed the intended demonstra¬
tions of the communists and national¬
ists. In the vanguard of the huge
parade was a group of New Yorkers
and Chicagoans who carried Ihe Amer¬
ican flag.
PREMIER MUSSOLINI of Italy is
* putting into effect the Fascist pol¬
icy of splitting up estates that have
been lying untilled and turning them
over for cultivation by small farm¬
ers. The other day the feudal estates
of tlie Doria family, comprising 2,590
acres, were thus divided among peas¬
ants in a picturesque ceremony at
Roccagorga. The land was separated
into 230 parcels and the division made
by lottery. The proprietor of the es¬
tates, I’rince Filipo Doria 1'amphill,
gets partial indemnity, and the peas¬
ants are bound to improve the land
and to assist in the general work of
reclaiming the district, which is in the
Pontine marshes.
Q PAIN is not nearly so subservient
*3 to its dictator as is Italy to Mus¬
solini. This was evidenced tiy the ac¬
tion of the general labor union con¬
gress in session In Madrid in flatly
rejecting the government’s invitation
to send five representatives to the na
tional assembly and issuing a man!
festo to the Spanish people strongly
attacking the dictatorship of Gen,
I’rimo de Rivera. The new constitu¬
tion, says the manifesto, would estab
lisli “Asiatic absolutism” in Spain,
wreck ail progress and return the
country to the tyranny of ffharles V.
In comment the dictator said: “The
dictatorship is not losing its serenity
and is continuing to he assured of sup¬
port by the larger part of public opin¬
ion. 1 will not abandon power until
I am sure of giving the country an
ample juridical base to support the
new regime.”
i -
Li /"i ONS1DERABLE fun has been
poked by the unthinking at the
proposals to reform the calendar. But
the national committee on calendar
simplification has just reported to
Secretary of State Stimson Hint there
is nation-wide interest and widespread
approval of the plan. The report,
made by Chairman George Eastman,
the camera manufacturer, is intended
for Mr. Stimson’* use In preparing a
reply to an inquiry from the league
of nations, which contemplates calling
an International calendar conference
if enough nations agree to participate.
“The inconveniences which the pres¬
ent calendar’s defects Impose,” says
the report, “have multiplied with the
progress of civilization, and conspic¬
uously so during the rapid economic
expansion of the last hundred years.
They are being felt more and more.
A defect which has grown to be a cause
of very serious inconvenience is the
splitting of weeks at the beginning
and end of months and years. The
lack of comparability between cor¬
responding divisions of the year, par¬
ticularly as to the months, is one of
the most serious Inconveniences. It
makes inaccurate and deceptive a
most important instrument used by all
the organized agencies of civilization
to measure progress and control their
activities—i. e.: statistical data.”
CTREET car Strikers of New Orleans
G and their sympathizers stormed
the city hail and beat up Acting Mayor
Wahnsley and four councilmen and
then engaged in a general fight with
the police in the course of which four
men were shot. The attack was made
while 200 union men were meeting
with the council to demand the con¬
tinuance of bus and jitney cab opera¬
tion.
E'EDERAT. Judge Morris in Wilming
ton, Dei., handed down a judgment
against the Radio Corporation of
America in a suit over patent rights.
Two of the beneficiaries are Francis
W. Dunmore, a government employee
in the bureau of standards, Washing¬
ton, D. C., and Percival D. Lowell, a
former bureau of standards employee
and at present employed by a radio
manufacturing company. The Dubil
ier Condenser corporation of New
York is the third beneficiary.
According to William Dubilier of
the condenser corporation the suit
will affect every manufacturer mak¬
ing radio sets with electric light sock¬
et attachment and will involve at
least $20,090,000 in back royalties.
Building i
More Than Commercial
There Value in Fruit Trees j
is a growing tendency to use j
fruits, especially fruit trees, for orna- j j
ment as well as utility. It is not dif
fieult to appreciate this, for their flow- ;
ers are certainly a beautiful sight in
themselves, and the fruits often make
striking effects in contrast witli tlie
foliage. Flowering shrubs and trees,
more particularly those bearing color¬
ful fruits, are always in demand. There
surely is no reason to disregard do¬
mestic fruits.
In localities where commercial
orchards exist, people come from great
distances to see the trees in bloom.
The early cloudlike masses of white
bloom on the cherries, plums and
pears, and the exquisite pink glory
of apples in full bloom are sights to
be remembered, and witlial they fill
Hie air with fragrance borne far by
Uie breezes. As the season advances,
and tiie branches bow with clustered
fruit, a great appeal is made to the
eyes as well as the palate.
Make fruit trees a part of your flow¬
er scheme. Often a large mass of
color, such as a full-blooming fruit
tree offers, is just the thing to make
a picture that will stand out in your
memory in contrast with the pictures
presented by the landscape planting
at other periods of the season.
Highway Ugliness Soon
to Be Thing of Past
Missouri gets a place in a list of
states that have made some definite
plans or actually have accomplished
something toward highway beautifica¬
tion. Enough states now have con¬
cerned themselves with this Idea to
give it a national scope. In a few of
the states hundreds of miles of trees
have been planted along the highways;
in others this or similar improvement
lias been started or is contemplated.
The planting of shrubbery, placing of
historical markers of artistic quality,
together with removal of the litter of
signs and roadside shacks, ail are on
the program of lids hopeful enterprise.
Tlie conviction seems to bo growing
that returns on the full investment in
highways cannot be realized until they
are made more inviting and restful to
the eye. As matters stand, there is
danger of excessive speeding to Set
away from the ugliness that crowds
upon the traveler in practically every
mile of his journey.—Kansas City
Times.
House and Lot Unity
Tlie keynote to a beautiful home
is unity between the house and the
lot. There can he no unity where
the house is of unusual design and
the grounds bare or improperly plant¬
ed. Proper planting involves the prop¬
er use of shrubs. There are three dis¬
tinct uses of Shrubs: For screening
unsightly objects; for making a nat¬
ural transition from the house to tlie
yard, and for accent purposes.
In carrying out the above ideas ns
are used by owners of pretentious
houses and country estates, a few sug¬
gestions will he given:
Plant in masses and not as individ¬
ual shrubs; use planting beds and
make them large enough; use care in
size and color of shrubs; plant small
shrubs in front of larger growing
shrubs. All shrubs have a natural
height and will never grow taller. As
pertaining to the average suburban
home grounds, shrubs fall into three
general heights:. Dwarf—three feet
and under; medium—three to six feet;
high—six to ten feet and up. The lat¬
ter size is rarely used for foundation
planting.—Detroit Free Press.
Noxious Weeds in City
The city commissioner of Calgary,
Canada, recently Issued a warning to
all owners of properties where noxious
weeds are allowed to flourish, that un¬
less immediate steps were taken to
wipe out this nuisance the city would
do the work and tlie rest be charged
against the property holders. Last year
the city experimented with chemicals
as weed eradicators and their efforts
are shown hy the reduced growth this
year to have met with success. The
cost of the campaign would he about
$10 td $20 per lot, the commissioner
estimated. He advised citizens who
own lots where the harmful weeds are
growing to eradicate them, otherwise
the city would have to step in.
Provide for Recreation
Tlie building up of park and play¬
ground areas bas come to be one of
the chief enterprises of American
cities. The center that can show it¬
self to be a leader in this respect is
making an excellent bid for more resi¬
dents and establishing a strong claim
upon those it already has. Ample rec¬
reation facilities are indispensable in
modern city life.
Build Upon a Rock
Tlie admonition of the ancient wise
man to build upon a rock is valuable
[ and practical advice. It is not always
j possible to follow it literally, but with
I present-day knowledge adequate foun¬
dation may be built regardless of soil
conditions.
Playground* Multiply
More than 800 communities in the
United States have established public
playgrounds.
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United States Wise in
Giving Up Old Things
When a seventy-five-year-old Maine
blacksmith recently shod a twenty
five-year-old horse in a one-hundred
year-old shop, using a vise and an an¬
vil even older, the happening was
chronicled afar in the press. A sim¬
ilar combination of what, to us, were
ancient things would not have caused
the flicker of an eyelash in Egypt or
China. There are many other places
in the world, too, where the peoples
are immune to curiosity of the kind
displayed. Not that their men or their
animals live, or continue active, long¬
er than ours, but they have been less
inclined than Americans to seek Im¬
provements in equipment, and so have
citing closer to old buildings and old
tools. Here the search is constant for
better design and better materials.
The ancient is discarded when the
new makes its added merit certain.
And that is not the least of the rea¬
sons for the start the United States
often gets in achievement.—Indianap¬
olis News.
Shrivelling
Little Betty was left in her hath
while mother answered tlie phone.Tbe
telephone conversation became long
and caused no end of worrying to the
tiny bather, for Betty had never had
experience with a prolonged stay in
water and its effect on the fingers.
Mother was startled hy a cry from
the bathroom.
“Muvver,” Betty called excitedly,
“come quick before I shwivel up Into
a grandmother!”
• Hindu Festivals
The outstanding Hindu festivals
which have a national appeal are the
Durga, ihe Lakslimi and Kail “pujas”
in northeast India and their equiva¬
lent, and the “Dewall,” in the rest of
India. The pujas and Dewali take
place In October and are celebrated
with pomp for several days. Govern¬
ment trade is all but suspended.
Business at the bazaars during tlie
few days preceding the puja Is very
active.
Sow “Adopted” Skunk
A Duroc sow became tlie mother of
ten fine Tittle porkers on the
vllle (Kan.) farm of C. F. Emerick.
Some three or four days later a babv
skunk wandered into tlie pen, appar¬
ently about lunch time for the pigs.
The baby skunk accepted (lie invita¬
tion to stay to lunch, and made Its
home in (lie pen for a month, when it
was accidentally killed by its foster
mother.
Historic Chapel
Although the present building of St.
Bartholomew’s hospital in London is
comparatively modern, the hospital pa¬
tients still use the beautiful old Nor¬
man chapel, the only part of tlie an¬
cient hospital that remains. Tt is one
of tlie earliest Norman churches in
existence, Hie work of Bishop Gun
duif, bishop of Rochester from 1077 to
1108.
Or Not at AH
She (to bridge expert)—In the same
circumstances, how would you have
played that hand?
He (Icily)—Under an assumed
name.
An elephant seems to know that
It isn’t for him to look pretty.—Cir¬
cus note.
A girl Is never seriously III until
she loses all Interest In romantic
novels.
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