1—Mrs. Herbert Hoover visiting the school on the Rap Man which was huilt by her and the President for the chil¬
dren near their summer camp. 2—Beautiful building of the British embassy now completed on Massachusetts avenue,
Washington. 3—Part of the £14,000,000 steel express highway which is being built on the west side of New York city.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENTEVENTS
SouiJbem Italy Devastated
by Quake—Thousands
Killed or Injured.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
OOUTHKKN Italy was rocked and
tom by the worst earthquake in
that region since the terrible disaster
that destroyed Messina in 1908. Defi¬
nite figures on the loss of life may
not be known for many days. At this
writing it Is known that 2.013 persons
were killed and twice as many in¬
jured. Communications in the stricken
area broke down and airplanes were
being used for relief and exploration
work.
The provinces of Puglia, Campania
and Basilicata sustained the worst of
the temblor, but ft was feit as far
north as Abruzzi and Molise. The
quake, which started at 1:15 in the
morning, centered around the old vol¬
cano Mount Vultura. and the city of
Melfi. Just north of that cone, was
destroyed, as were also tiie near-by
towns of I-aeedonla, Aquilonia, Bisac
eia and Ariano. Many other cities
and villages were partly razed, and
famous palaces and churches were
mined. Even Rome and Naples were
badly shaken, and several persons
were killed in the latter city.
Premier Mussolini promptly took
command of the situation and rescue
and relief measures were put into
effect quickly throughout the devas¬
tated region, the Red Cross and the
array with hosts of physicians and
nurses, being hurried to the scene.
I’ope Pius ordered that aid he sent to
places in urgent need and a relief
fund held in readiness by the Vatican.
Though southern Italy was thronged
with tourists, it was believed there
were no casualties among the Ameri
cans there.
Two days after the earthquake a
tornado swept over the Venice district,
tilling n dozen persons and causing
heavy damage over a stretch of 25
miles.
iLJ /''•ERMANY also had its disaster,
vastly less in magnitude but
shocking enough. During the cele¬
bration in Coblenz of the evacuation
of the Rhineland, in which President
von Hindenburg was the centra! fig¬
ure. a pontoon bridge across the
Moselle collapsed and about 80 men.
women and children were precipitated
Into the river. Many of them were
tilled by the falling timbers and many
others drowned. The bodies of 38
were recovered and it was feared
more might be found by divers. The
celebrations, which had been going
on gaily for several days, were brought
to an end by the calamity.
/"VVER In England there was an air
v/ plane disaster made notable by
the prominence of the victims. A
Jnnkers air lineryen route from France
to Croydon blew up near Gravesend
and its six occupants were killed.
They were the marquis of Duffer in
and Ava ; Viscountess Ednam. a noted
beauty and close friend of the prince
of Wales: Sir Edward Ward; Mrs.
Henrik Loefller, well known society
woman; I-leot Col. George L. P. Hen¬
derson, the pilot, who was rated as
one of England's best flyers, and
Charles Shearing, second pilot.
rpllAT London naval treaty is now
1 in effect so far as American action
got*s. The senate by a vote of 58 to 9.
ratified the pact and next day Presi
£ '"t Hoover signed it with the gold
pen used by the American delegates
»o the conference to sign the treaty
In London. The document was then
rent to London, where parliament was
engaged in giving the pact its ap¬
prox al.
in a formal statement President
Hoover said; “It is a matter of sat¬
isfaction that this great accomplish¬
ment in international relations has
at all steps been given unite! support
©f both our political parties.
“With the ratification by the other
governments the treaty will translate
an emotion deep in the hearts of mil¬
lions of men and women into a prac¬
tical fact of government and Inter
national relations. It will renew
again the faith of the world in the
moral forces of good will and patient
negotiation as against the blind forces
of suspicion and competitive arma¬
ment. It will secure the full defense
of the United States. It will mark a
further long step toward lifting the
burdens of militarism from the backs
of mankind and to speed the march
forward of world peace. It will lay
the foundations upon which further
constructive reduction in world arms
may be accomplished in the future.
We should by this act of willingness
to join with others in limiting arma¬
ment have dismissed from the mind of
the world any notion that the United
States entertains ideas of aggression,
imperial power, or exploitation of for¬
eign nations.”
Immediately after the ratification
by the senate, the President asked for
the names of those who voted In op¬
position. These were Bingham of
Connecticut, Hale of Maine, Johnson
of California, Moses of New Hamp¬
shire, Oddle of Nevada, Pine of
Oklahoma and Robinson of Indiana,
all Republicans; and McKellnr of
Tennessee and Walsh of Massachu¬
setts, Democrats.
rMVB senators from wheat states—
F Capper, Alien, McMaster, Howell
and Pine—called on Chairman Legge
of the federal form board in Washing¬
ton and again urged that the board
adopt Capper’s plan and buy a lot
more wheat in the effort to boost the
price. Once more Mr. Legge refused,
declaring the scheme would be at best
only a temporary expedient and In
the long run would make the wheat
problem worse. lie declared the
hoard, which has 60,000,000 bushels
on its hands, would not purchase any
more at this time and would sell none
until the price advanced.
“What we want.” said Mr. Legge,
"is something permanent. Stabiliza¬
tion will work admirably on sea¬
sonal surpluses, but It cannot be used
on an accumulative surplus. We have
had an accumulative surplus in wheat
for four years. Stabilization will not
cure It. 1 don't say stabilization is
a failure, hot it won’t work at the
present time. To follow Senator Cate
per’s plan would only encourage the
farmers In Kansas to raise more
wheat and make a had situation
worse."
In Kansas the wheat problem is
having powerful effect in the guberna
torial primary campaign. Governor
Reed, who attacks the farm board
plan for reduction of wheat acreage.
Is up for renomlnation by the Repub
llcans and is opposed by . Frank
Haucke of Council Grove, a farmer,
who upholds Legge’s plan.
pv KTROIT, which has won an un
enviable reputation as a vice
center in recent years, has begun to
clean house. Charles Bowles, who
was serving his second term as mayor,
was ousted from office last week in a
special recall election, the majority
against him being 30,956. When
Bowles took office last year he ap¬
pointed as public works commissioner
one Joseph Gillespie who had been
forced out as police commissioner in
1916, when vice conditions in Detroit
were especially bad. Under Bowies,
the newspapers declared, gambling
houses and speakeasies began running
wide open and Police Commissioner
Harold Emmons was said to be afraid
to close them. Finally, while Mayor
Bowles was attending the Kentucky
derby. Emmons did raid some places,
and the mayor thereupon ousted him.
Under the law a new election to fill
the mayor’s place must be held within
30 days of the filing of the certified
returns of the recall election. Under
the law Bowies is automatically a
candidate for re-election and any
otiier candidates may go on the ballot
by presenting nominating petitions
signed by 14.000 voters.
Only a few hours after the Detroit
voters had put Bowies out of office.
Gerald Buckley, a radio announcer
who had been delivering addresses
describing vice conditions In Detroit
and criticizing the mayor's adminis¬
tration. was shot to death in the lob¬
by of a hotel by three men who es¬
caped. This was the eleventh gang
murder in the city in nineteen days.
Governor Green ordered the state po¬
lice to investigate the crime inde^
pendently and said he would call out
state troops, if necessary, to stop the
assassinations. There were points of
similarity between the murder of
Buckiey and that of Jake Lingle, the
CLEVELAND COURIER.
Chicago reporter. It was asserted
Buckiey had been the intimate friend
of underworld characters, and the
Detroit police said they bad in their
possession an affidavit purporting to
show that he had been extorting
money from bootleggers.
DETER A. BOGDANOV, the Russian
* who heads the board of directors
of the Atntorg Trading corporation,
which is the official buying agency for
the Soviet government in the United
States, Is much peeved. Grover
Whalen, Matthew Well and others
toid the congressional committee in¬
vestigating Communist activities that
Amtorg has been using its powers for
propaganda against our government.
This Mr. Bogdanov strenuousty denies,
and he says unless the charges are
“thoroughly investigated and found
baseless,” the continuance of Soviet
American trade "will be an almost
impossible task.” This was under¬
stood as a plain threat that govern¬
mental Interference with Amtorg will
be resented to the tune of more than
$100,000,000 a year—the amount of
Russian imports from America the
company controls, and can withdraw.
The committee obtained from Bog¬
danov admissions that the Amtorg. a
million dollar concern incorporated in
New York state, is owned by the
Soviet bank of foreign trade, which in
turn is controlled by the Soviet gov¬
ernment, and that high Communist
officials have been sent here to head
It, and only two naturalized Russians
are among Its directors. Amtorg has
been extended credit of $80,000,000 by
hanks in this country.
pLAUDIUS ring with HUSTON, President after Hoover, confer
an
nounced that he would resign as chair¬
man of the Republican national com¬
mittee on August 7. This greatly re¬
lieved the leaders of the party, who
had insisted on Mr. Huston’s retire¬
ment because of revelations made be¬
fore the senate lobby committee.
T~\ FMOCRATS of Iowa in state eon
ventiotJ adopted a plank in their
platform calling for "a reasonable
definition" of what constitutes Intox¬
icating liquor and advocating a na¬
tion-wide referendum on prohibition.
The reason for this stand, the resolu¬
tion says, ts the “nation-wide scandal”
brought about by dry law enforcement
methods. In this way the Democrats
accepted the challenge of the Repub¬
lican state convention, which voted
down a resolution urging modification
of the prohibition law.
D TOTING by the Egyptian Wafd
‘' ists was renewed last week in
Cairo and Port Said, and there were
a number of deaths in the battles with
the police and troops. Up to date the
British had not intervened.
Mjram Pasha. Egyptian finance
minister, declared before the inter¬
parliamentary congress in session in
London that In Egypt today a strog
gie is going on between brutal au
tocracy and democracy, and that in
nooent blood is being shed. For the
fourth time in five years, he said, the
Egyptian parliament has been sus¬
pended and the people goaded beyond
endurance.
l.ENN H. CURTISS, ft flistln
nJ guished pioneer in aviation, died
suddenly in a Buffalo hospital at the
age of fifty-two years. He was oper
ated on recently for appendicitis and
was thought to he well on the road to
recovery. Mr. Curtiss was one of the
foremost aviation experimenters and
was ranked next to the Wright broth
ers. He retired from active business
shortly after the World war, retain
ing directorships in several companies
that hear his name.
Another well-known American who
passed away was James Eads How,
“millionaire hobo.” who during his life
had spent a large fortune in trying to
help the hoboes, denying himself even
sufficient foot! and clothing and other
necessities of life. He died in a hos
pital at Staunton. Va.
Harry S. Biaek. chairman of the
United States Realty and improve¬
ment corporation and known as the
moving spirit in the modern growth
of New York city and the construction
of many of its greatest buildings,
committed suicide by shooting at his
country home at Lioyd Harbor. Lons
Tsiand. He had been In poor health
for a long time.
<S. U10. Wastern Newsoaoer L'n.oa.*
Improved Uniform International
SundaySchool Lesson T
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o*r of Faculty. Moody Bible Institute
of Cfa ica«o. >
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Lesson for August 3
NAOMI AND RUTH: A STUDY IN
RACIAL RELATIONSHIPS
LESSON TEXT—The Book at Ruth
GOLDEN TEXT—And hath made of
one blood all nations of men tor to
dwell on all the face of the earth
PRIMARY TOPIC-—Ruth a Helpful
Daughter.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Naomis Falthful
aees Leads Ruth to God
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP¬
IC—Our Neighbors of Other Races.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP¬
IC—The Way to World Brotherhood.
I. How Naomi and Ruth Were
Brought Together (1:1-15).
On account of famine in Bethlehem i
of Judah. Naomi with her husband and
two sons sojourned in the land of
Moab. After the death of her hus
band, her two sons married Moabitlsh
women. After a time her sons died j
also. After the death of her sons,
Naomi resolved to return to her home
land, having heard that the Lord had j
visited his people in giving them
bread. They went to Moab to escape
trouble but only got into more. This
is always the case when God’s people
go into the worid to escape difficul¬
ties. It was not until Naomi was thus
chastised that she resolved to return.
When the time came for her to go. 1
Ruth and Orpah accompanied her for
a distance.
It. Ruth's Noble Choice (1:16-18).
Greatly as Naomi loved her daugh
ters-in law, she would not have them
go into this matter blindly. She wished their j
them to know the seriousness of
action.
1. No chance for them to marry j
again (v. II).
Naomi toid them that she had no
more sons for whom they could wait, i
In that day for a woman to he un¬
married was the greatest disgrace.
Society differed then from now. No
avenues were open by which women
could earn their living.
2. Heathen gods must be renounced
(v. 15).
Idolatrous worship could not he car¬
ried on in tiie land where God’s peo¬
ple dwelt. This was delicately touched ;
upon when Orpah went hack. She went
back when it was plain that there was
no chance for her to get a husband.
After Orpah’s return Naomi put an ad
ditional test upon Rath, that of equal givint j
up her religion Ruth was to j
the occasion. Her mind was fully
made up. She was willing to Accept j
as her God the One who was able to
produce In his subjects the nobility of
character she had observed in Naomi
Ruth’s determination was so definite
and unfaltering that her expressions
have come down to us in words which !
“no poetry has outrivaled and nn
pathos has exceeded, and which has
gone through centuries with the music j
which will not let them be forgot¬
ten." She was determined to share j
Naomi’s journey, her home, her lot in
life, and grave in death, whatever ot j
wherever that would be. To crown it :
all. she renounced her heathen gods j
and worshiped Jehovah, the true God.
III. Blessings Which Attended Ruth's
Choice.
1. She found the true God (1:16).
Instead of a heathen god who was
unable to help her. she had the Living
God. the God of Israel.
2. She found friends ich 2).
As she went to glean she was led to
the field of Boaz, a man of grace and
wealth. The servants of Boaz treated
her with consideration.
3. a good husband and happy home :
j | (clis. 3 and 4).
4. An honored place in the Israel¬
ite nation (4:13-17).
5. She became a link in the chain of j
the Redeemer's ancestry (4 :l8-22 cf.
Matt. 1:5).
Tiie one who fully decides for
Chrisr and gives up all for Him shall
j receive a hundredfold eternal in this life. life and j
j in the worid to come
j The story of Ruth is a (me example, i
first, of right racial relationship. The
union of Ruth with Israel was around
the true God. And, second, of dis- ;
pensational truth:
(1) The famine in the land Indi¬
cates the testing of the Jews in the
great tribulation.
(2) The going into Moab Indicates
! the sojourn of the Israelites among the
j nations. Moab
j (3) The sickness and death in j
indicates tiie chastisement of the Jews !
j j and their sorrows in the present age. ;
(4) The return to the land indi¬
j cates the gathering of Israel to their ’
j | own land. Palestine.
(5) Ruth's decision Indicates the j
| gathering of the Gentiles through tiie j
influence of tiie Jews.
(6) The marriage between Boaz and
Ruth indicates the union of the church ,
with Jesus Christ.
l
[ Adds Charm to Character
i Small kindnesses, small courtesies,
[ small considerations, habitually prac¬
i ticed in social intercourse, give a
our
greater charm to the character than
the display of great talents and ac¬
complishments.—Kelly.
Finding Happines*
God made the world to be happy in.
but all the happiness some people get
is hunting for trouble on a dark nigh*
with a dim lantern.—Herald of Cos
pel Liberty.
War Put Heavy Burden
on Women of Esthonia
Women of Esthonia are among
the busiest on earth, according to
Miss Clara Roe of New York, a re- .
cent visitor to that tiny republic.
Between her home, her job and
her public duties, the time of an edu- •
euted woman in Esthonia ~ severe¬
ly taxed, she says. Many such wom¬
en have two or three public duties, a i
job as home-maker, wife arid mother, These j
and another as wage earner.
Esthonian women are carrying heavy
responsibiluies. Esthonia lost its
men heavily in the World war, and
in its struggle for independence wom¬
en must now help to do the work
of their nation. They also work in
tiie fields, repair roads, streets and
railroad tracks, work in brickyards,
lumber yards and in building con¬
struction and perform other labori¬
ous tasks. If they sought to use
their political power to the fullest,
tfiey could outvote the men. Every
one is public spirited, carrying two
or three jobs with pride instead of
complaint.
Foundation for Belief
Concerning Third Match
There Is a multitude of supersti¬
tions which have become thoroughly
imbedded in the race, and are ob
served seriously or humorously ac
cording to the individual tempera
menu Some people will not accept
the third light from a match because
it signifies deatii or disaster. The
origin of this superstition is more
understandable than some. In time
of war when a soldier lit a match it
revealed his whereabouts to the ene¬
my. The sniper who saw the light
lifted ids gun to bis shoulder. There
are three stages to firing: Ready
(cock the trigger), aim (gun at
shoulder) and fire. Therefore, tiie
third soldier to receive a light from
the match was the one visible when
the sniper was ready to fire. That is
how tiie third light from the match
came by its sinister significance.
Exaggeration
Ivy Lee, who visited Soviet Russia
in the Rockefeller interests, was con¬
gratulated at a luncheon in New
York, on the excellent book he has
written about his visit.
“My book at least has corrected
some exaggerations,” Mr. Lee said,
“We don't want Sovietism here, of
course, but its horrors have been ex
aggers ted.
"Russian Sovietism has been
treated like the Russian cockroach.
A traveler, you know, said of this
insect:
“ 'The Russian cockroach Is seven
Inches long. He is hairy and growls
like a dog when disturbed. He drops
from the ceiling onto the dinner ta¬
ble, and will curry off a chop, a leg
of chicken or a bottle of vodka.' ”
Airscrew Train in Germany
Trains operated by a propelier
driven engine are possible as the
result of tests made recently in Han¬
over, Germany. The engine resem¬
bled an armored car and the two
propellers were driven by motors.
The experiments were similar to
those being made in Scotland with
tiie George Bennie railplane. a cigar
shaped car guided by rails buiit on
a series of trestles and driven 120
miles an hour by aircraft propellers.
No Way of Charging
RIack—What's that old tightwad
»o sore about?
White-—He's just discovered that
he gives everybody a pain in tiie
neck and can't think of any way of
charging 'em for it.
Foil Housefly
Red and yellow lights are repellent
to the common housefly, experts at
St. Helens, England, have discovered.
Flies, it was found, will desert rooms
lighted thus.
The Label
Householder—What does this label,
“Wait and See” mean?
Jobbing Gardener—Well, I forgot
Just wot I planted there, sir.—An¬
swers.
Rare Chinese Animal
The giant panda of western China
Is the rarest of all land-going ani¬
mals. It is classed as a distant blood
relation of the raccoon.
Isn't it amusing, the variety of in¬
terruptions a man will get when he is
trying to tell a story he oughtn't to in
mixed company?
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Mexican Sentimental Song
The song known as tiie "Home,
Sweet Home” of Mexico is “La
Golondrina,” bySarradell. The trans¬
lation of this is “The Swallow.” it
j has been sung for many years, and
it is referred to as tiie “Home, Sweet
Home” of Mexico, as it is generally
| played as the concluding number of
a dance or otiier festivity,
Need No Help
You can fool some of the people
ail of the time and all of tire people
some of the time, but the rest of the
time they will make fools of them¬
selves.—Judge.
Susceptible Metal*
The bureau of standards says that
iron, nickel and cobalt are metals
j that tiie ordinary horseshoe magnets
attract.
Pet Peeve
We hate the man who says, “Yes,
you are right, in a general way, hut
this case is an exception."—Atchison
Giohe.
Until you go camping you cannot
realize that one can be comfortable
without a shave.
Loud-mouthed people are blessed
for one thing: They seldom talk be¬
hind your back.
Never hit a man when lie's got you
down
