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Tjß >E# »'jHf® v "?2&>- ',s M^lJ H Hf /»1 H H T\ n | ■ ■Ji / Bj I) ■Vfl ■ iimM |#' v /, ft W H I . , 1- ~ St- ?* Uden ® flgure of Diana being lowered from the tower of Madison Square garden. New York, before demolition of the building. 2.—Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews Inspecting men of coast guard preliminary to starting big operations against the rum fleet. 31— The "Cydoa," largest air-cooled air p ane engine In world. Installed In navy bombing and torpedo plane. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS France Arms Traffic Conference She Must Have Security Pact. By EDWARD W. PICKARD P*RANCE Is overlooking no oppor " tunlty to assure the w*id that she cannot be expected to adhere to any International peace and disarmament agreements until she receives guaran tee of the security of her boundaries and those of Poland and the nations of the little entente. She continues to distrust Germany and Insists that until the other great powers promise s protection for her and her allies, she .must remain fully armed and must keep on manufacturing armament for herself and for the smaller nations that look to her for their safety from German aggression. Paul Boneour, powerful Socialist party leader, said all this and more very frankly to the international con ference on the control of arms traffic In Geneva, giving warning that It was doomed to failure unless the demands of France were heeded. He threatened his colleagues with another world war if they persisted in overlooking this security problem, and said France In tended to revive the discredited Gen eva protocol at the September meet- ing of the League of ° Nations assem bly; but he offered to discuss any adequate substitute for that pact that might be offered. As for a convention for the eontrol of traffic In arms, M. Boncour said this would be worthies® and unjust unless It were confirmed Immediately by a convention regulating private production, "because production 1s the originating point and traffic is merely the result." This is contrary to the view expressed by Congressman Theo dore E. Burton, head of the American delegation, who Insists foreign ship ments of munitions, not the private manufacture, is the important thing. Mr. Burton on Thursday offered a scheme dealing with the traffic In poi sonous gases. Both Brazil and Uruguay advocate « rule under the proposed convention that no nation may sell arms to s rebel party until a half of the nations signing the treaty, Including a certaty number of the great powers, recognize the government of a revolutionary party. This Is opposed by the Amer ican delegation because in most rev olutions in the western hemisphere the bands of the United States would be tied, while awaiting the recogni tion of a revolutionary party by nu merous European powers. This is looked on as a serious menace to the Monroe doctrine. Carton de Wlart of Belgium was elected president of the conference. ONE of the most significant events of the week was the first public address of Ambassador Houghton la London. Undoubtedly speaking for President Coolldge's administration, he tactfully but pointedly admonished the nations of Europe that unless they abandoned warlike ambitions and de structive methods and policies the American people would cease to aid in European reconstruction. He did not name any nation, but It was generally accepted that his warning was direct ed especially at France, and every where except In France the speech was warmly commended. Telling his hearers that Americans looked on the aftermath of the war In Europe sympathetically and with an intense desire to help, Mr. Sough to* continued: "But we. too, are a practical people. When we lent our savings to make It possible for the peoples of central En rope to get work It was because we knew that only In this way could En rope as a whole be made to function economically. Wbec we lent of oar savings to rebuild markets that had boen destroyed It waa because we knew that In no other way could they be enjoyed again. "That was a necessary beginning It waa common sense. If we-went at the Job with a certain moral earaestneaa. Jet that go to oar credit. It is natural for as to assume that those who have suffered so much from the war shobld seek a settlement which as far as humanly possible should be free of the conditions leading directly to war. To that end and In that spirit we have helped. "But we have never forgotten that there was a limit beyond which we could not go. The fuli measure of American helpfulness can be obtained only when the American people are as sured that the time for destructive methods and policies has passed and the time for peaceful upbuilding has come. They are asking themselves if that time, as a fact, has come. And that question they cannot today an swer. An answer must be given to them. It must come from the peoples of Europe, who alone can make deci sions. "If the answer 1s peace, then yon may be sure that America will help to her generous utmost Bui if, God forbid, that answer will continue con fused and doubtful, then I fear those helpful processes which are now tn mo tion must inevitably cease." IF THE Atlantic coast rum-running fleet is not routed and dispersed It will not be the fkult of Assistant Sec retary of the Treasury Andrews, in charge of the treasury's activities In enforcing prohibition. Under his di rection the naval and aerial resources of the coast guard of the New York area are being used to effect a block ade against the liquor smugglers. More than sixty coast guard boats, manned by 406 men and fully armed, are patrolling the sea and are as sisted by thirteen seaplanes which are ifiapping and photographing the posi tion of the carriers of contraband and scouting for shore boats. In reserve are many more boats, swift converted submarine chasers. Every vessel of the rum fleet Is closely watched by one or more coast guard boats so that It is virtually Impossible for shore boats to obtain and land any liquor. The blockade extends "from Con necticut to New Jersey and its every move is directed from shore by radio. AFTER defeating the Spanish in Morocco, the Riff tribesmen pro ceeded to invade the French part of that country with the Idea of driving out the French. But they are up against the doughty General Lyautey and his experienced troops and al ready have been defeated In several sanguinary battles. General Columbat met the Rlffians north of Fes and drove them back, but he reports that they were well organised and well armed and showed themselves able tacticians, withdrawing In good order despite heavy losses. The French gov ernment says lis troops will not cross the Spanish border in pursuit of Ab del-Krim's followers unless specifically permitted to do so by Spain and Eng land. Italy wants a finger in this pie and has notified France that It de sires to share In the operations and in probable 'spoils, but France and Spain declare no outsider Is wasted. CHARGES of refcent manipulation of wheat In the Chicago market for speculative purposes are being In vestigated by the Department of Agri culture and Benator Capper of Kan sas ssys a report Is to be expected soon. The Chicago Board of Trade also received charges that there was a corner in M4y corn and rye and It requested all having complaints re garding market manipulation to pre sent them to the directors May 12. A complaint has been made that the Grain Marketing company, a farmer's concern, should not be allowed to trade In provision futures, as It Is supposed to be doing business for the fanners and they are not supposed to be In terested In provision trading. This was to be taken up with other mat ters. DIRECTOR of the Budget Lord has just completed ■ tour of the cow try listing one month. In which be has told many thousands of tax pay ers about the President's economy program. He has now began work on the next budget. In which there' will be a substsntlal reduction. Mr. Cooi- Idge hopes this cot will be aa gnat aa $800,000,000, making the total ss tlmstes to be submitted to the next congress about . HMJOOJOOO.OOO. The treasury. It Is predicted, will abow a Mrplaa of abeot SIOOUOOO,OOO Car the current year. The total volume of tax receipts may be cut by 12 per cent, the method of doing this to be decided by congress. Secretary Mel lon wants surtaxes reduced and rates on estate taxes lowered or eliminated. IN RECOGNITION of the growing importance of aviation in warfare and, possibly, in the belief that It will check the movement for a separate air force. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur has announced that hereafter aviation is to be a major course of study in the Naval academy at Annapolis and that every graduate must qualify as a flyer within two years after gradua tion. ALL communists In Bulgaria have been outlawed by the govern ment and their organisations are being exterminated. The Macedonian revo lutionary organization, whose chief. Alexandroff, was assassinated last September on orders from Moscow be cause he would not bolshevlze it. Is giving the government great assist ance, providing largfe bands of fighting men where they are most needed. This secret force numbers. It Is said, about 100,000. The communists, who are being hunted like rats, are fight ing back desperately. Several wit nesses In the trial of those accused of the Sofia cathedral bomb outrage have testified that the Third Interna tionale at Moscow was responsible for the affair, but Zlnovleff has reiterated his denial of this. THE dirigible Los Angeles made a speedy and altogether successful flight from Lakehurst to Mayaguez, Porto Rico, where she found the moor ing ship Patoka. From there the big airship flew to the Virgin Islands. PROMINENT women from many lands met last week In Washing ton for the quinquennial session of the International Council of Women. Lady Aberdeen, the president, was In the chair and Secretary of Commerce Hoover delivered the welcoming ad dress on behalf of the government. The dlsariaament resolution presented to the convention called for "general disarmament as the Ideal to be aimed at, preceded by a gradual and general reduction of armaments under effec tive control to be agreed upon by the respective governments and the League of Nations." SOCIALISTS of Germany made charges of irregularity and fraud in the election of Von Hlndenberg as president and formally asked that the election be declared void. Neverthe less the arrangements far the Inaugu ration of the field marshal on May 12 went right ahead. There was spec ulation as to the attitude the allied governments would adopt Von Hln denburg is still listed as a war culprit, so those governments would hsve to "forget" \hat fact or else decline to congratulate him, which would be con sidered an Insult by Germany. LEON TROTZKT, who used to be the soviet war minister and was deposed and sent to Transcaucasia, has been recalled to Moscow on his promise to obey the dictates of the Bolshevist party, and probably will bo given the post of commissar of foreign trade, vacated by Krassln on his ap polntment ss ambassador to France. His arrival In Moscow was virtually Ignored by the people and be will have bard work to recover his Influence and popularity. Zlnovleff, it was an nounced. would take a long vacation In the Caucasus—probably because of his failure to produce the promised revolutions In other lauds. WT. VAN ORMAN, piloting the • Goodyear 111, won the nation al elimination balloon race and will represent the United States la tbe in ternational contest Starting from 8t Joseph, Mo., his balloon traveled about OO miles, coming down at Reform, Ala. CHARGING criminal conspiracy to violate the atate antitrust laws, the atate of Mississippi baa filed salt against the ford Motor company for fIZOQO,OOO penalties. All Ford deal ers hi the auto and the bankb« In stitutions with which they do buet naae an made co-defendants. The salt la based on contracts between the r an company and the dsalstn. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, y. 0. Restriction of Immigration Nothing Less Than a Revolutionary Change Br PRESIDENT COOLIDGE, Address to D. A. IJ. IN THE last few years we have entered on a new policy toward immi gration. It is still rather experimental, bat with every appearance of being likely to secure permanent acceptance. Restriction of immigra ' tion is nothing less than a revolutionary change from the older days, when we boasted that this country offered refuge and opportunity, libertj and security, to all who desired them. The policy of restriction seemed necessary, in view of the certainty that unprecedented numbers would flow to us from Europe following the war; more than we could be sure of assimilating, more than the European countries could well spare. Had there been no limitations, the number of newcomers among us in the last four years would probably have been several million, greater. If we had been called upon to receive and place such a number it may well be doubted whether they would have found their condition here much better than it was in Europe. Certainly, our problem of helping adjust them to the new conditions and the hard competition of suoh a situation, .WQuld have been far more difficult. Competent official authorities have estimated that 8,000,000 frould have oome in each of these four years, or over three times as many as did actually come. We may well doubt whether that would have been to the advantage of either them or the country. . The welfare of all the people will be promoted by a truly national life. In these last few years we have all realized aa never before the need to bring about the spiritual unification of this great people. A hundred and ten million people, living together, may or may not constitute in the full sense a nation of a hundred and ten million. The war brought apprecia tion of this truth. We achieved our independence a century and a half ago. We confirmed our political union sixty years ago. We have all the time been struggling toward spiritual and moral unity. To gain and perfect it, we need just such interest* and activities as these to which the Daughters of the American Revolution are so sincerely devoted. "So I Implore You Not to Join With the Women By ADMIRAL B. A. FISKE, Address to New England Women. Virtually every normal man and woman abhors the very idea of war. But merely because we abhor war it no reason why we should not wish to be prepared, in case war should come. During the last fifty years, and especially during the last fire years, • large number of people, mostly women, have united* themselves in peace societies of various kinds. Their avowed object is to promote the cause of peace. This object, of course, is laudable; but the means by which they ara endeavoring to promote peace are far from practical, because they start from the false premise that preparing for war tends to cause war. Their main effect is to obstruct all efforts toward preparedness. Therefore, their main effort is to imperil the national security. f Nevertheless, the cause of preparedness has a very large popular sup port, mainly from men with healthy nerves who have read history care fully, and are fatniliar with the main facts of human nature. These men realize that wars always have existed, and that, as civilization has devel oped, the alternations of war and peace have followed each other with about the sanie degree of frequency, from age to age. They have also realized that of all the ill effects of war, the worst effects have come to those who were unprepared for the war. For this reason, they say that if wars are bound to come, it is better to be pre pared than unprepared. Restrictions on Newspapers in Publishing What • Is Public News? Bjr SENATOR J. A. REED, Argument Before Supreme Court The question is this: "Is there any power vested in congress to plscs restrictions on newspapers in publishing what is public news?" I say 'there is none. Otherwise the Revolution was a failure and the adoption of the Con stitution was a solemn farce. They still have a law in England forbidding the publishing of the proceedings of parliament, but that law is as dead as the blue laws of Connecticut, as dead as Julius Caesar. The censorship of the press was expelled from this country with the expulsion of George 111. With him went all his prerogatives. We contend that the freedom of the citizen is inseparable from free dom of conscience, of speech, of the press, and the'right of peaceable sssemblsge. These are, in fact, but variations of one great natural right, inherent in man and inseparable from liberty. He who cannot think is but a beast. He who thinks and is forbidden to speak, is but a slave. If he be permitted to speak, then he must speak to somebody, hence the right of sssemblage and discussion. The right to write and to print is but sn extension of the right of speech, for it is only one other means of communicating ideas by words, ft is impossible to form any concept of liberty that does not embrace these great natural rights. Whole Trend of Our American Life Is Toward Emotional Excitement Br PROP. If. V. O'SHEA, University of Wisconsin The whole trend of American life is toward emotional excitement and »elf-indulgence. We need greatly to develop self-restraint in the young, so ihst they can resist the appeal that is everywhere being made to self indulgence. The home has been almost completely merged with the general sodal body and is losing its distinctive character. The agencies in the city designated to help people to while away their time have been constantly increasing out of ail proportion to the size of the cities. The Camp Firs Girls' program furnishes a most valuable offset to the tendencies in present-dsy life. There is evidence that women and girls intend to adopt men's vices, drinking and smoking, in the belief that this is the best way to get the most out of life. Should this aim be followed, the whole spirit and char acter of American life will be injured thereby. Women enjoy a status here tbst is not accorded women in other lands. Our men defer to them and pay them tribute because of their personal attractiveness and accomplish ments. It would be a simple thing for women to change all this by adopting a program seeking to secure mere physical sensations rather tbaa intellectual attainments and alluring personal charm. Pacifists Who Are—" THINKS CASWELL IS AN EMEHGENCY TREASURER LACY FAVORS AID 80 TJjLAT PREBCNT INMATES CAN BE KEPT. Raleigh. State Treasurer B. R. Lacy authoris ed a statement to the effect that aa a member of the €ouncll ot State he favors .an appropriation from the emergency fund to the end that the Caswell Training School may keep all ot lta present Inmates. The 1923 General Assembly appro priated $500,000 for permanent Im provements at the Institution for the feebleminded, which has received a total of 9944,000 tor that purpose. The oapaclty of the plant has been more than doubled and the institution now has room for 500 Inmates. However, the 1925 General Assem bly appropriated actually leaa for maintenance than was provided jfor the maintenance of the smaller plant, the sum being reduced 9146,000 to $145,00 with a budget cut of seven per cent in prospect. According to Dr. C. Banks McNairy, the superintendent, there are 2.200 requests for admittance on file and a total of 8,000 feebleminded ill the State. However, it now seeini neces sary that the institution tarn back some of lta 370 inmates, although It Js 130 below Its capacity. In anticipation of enlarged appro priation some 30 or 40 Inmates were added at about the time of the meet ing of the General Assembly, bat it now seems that all of them will have to be turned away, although they have become legal wards of the State. How ever, definite plans will nqt be made until the new board of directors of the institution meeu on May 14. Under the plan favored by Treas urer Lacy, additions lfunds would be made available under the $250,000 an nual emergency fund appropriated by the General Assembly under the Inf lowing terms: * "To provide for the calling out of the National Guard, emergency pubHc printing, epidemics, special counsel and other extraordinary expenditures which cannot be forecasted, Including investigation of freight rates, to be expended upon written approval of the Governor and the Council of State." The Council ot 'State Is composed of the Secretary ot Bute, the Treas urer, the Auditor, and the Superin tendent ot Public Instruction, with the Attorney General as legal advisor. With other demanda upon the em- Irgency fund it la considered unlike r that the Governor and Council ot State will declare and emergency In Caswell Training School caae, and It la considered even more improbbale that any. action will be taken on the matter of loans by the Highway Com mission to the counties, which John Bprunt Hill, Highway Commission for the Fourth District, haa announced he will carry before that body. Mr. Hill la of the opinion that the solvency of the State is threatened by prospective loans to counties which he considers tar in excess of any sum that may be reasonably anticipated from Immediately forthcoming bond lsaues. Ha cites as a sUr example the proposal of Halifax county to loan the State $1,500,000. According to the Commissioner an additional $100,000.- 000 la bonds would have to be added to the already authorised before the share ot Halifax would amount to the sum proposed as a loan. It Is generally conceded that the Oovernor and Council ot Btata, al though they have some discretion In | the issuance of bonds actually author ised by the General Assembly, have no Jurisdiction over contracts between the Commission and counties. First Permanent Sua Permit Given. The North Carolina Corporation Commission haa announced the grant ing of the first permanent franchise since the North Carolina bus regula tion law went Into effect on March tl, the franchise going to the Highway Motor Transit Company, which la giv en a permanent permit to operate be tween Raleigh and Wilmington, via Ooldiboro. Heretofore the commission hat Is sued only temporary certificates, and ft is announced that la many* cases permanent permits will be withheld until the lines have showa themselves to be on a payiag basis, aad that la several instances exlating temporary eervioe will be curtailed before per manent certificates are graatsd. The Highway Motor Transit Com paay, which gets the first certificate, la owaed by H. E. Bales, aa operator who came to this state from Knoxviße. Tenn., found the territory west ot Raleigh well occupied, aad establlah ed a line from Raleigh to Ooldiboro, which was later extended to Wllmlng ton, a distance by highway of a boat 150 miles. New Charters Granted. W. W. Williams Realty Corporation, Raleigh, with authorised capital SIOO.- 000 and $50,000 subscribed by W. W. Williams, Raleigh; M. M. Jones and L. N. Williams, both of Wake Forest. Ameadmeat to charter ot Sterling Cot too Mills, Fraaklintoa, changing the obejcts. to sale of cotton, yarns, silk, wool, etc., operating warehouses, deal ta real aad personal property. number ot directors from 5 to lor more, extending the period of ex lateace $0 yean mora. It Builds i Clgni ■! otrengtn Just the remedy to aid the system in throwing off catarrhal wastes, help the , functional organs, restore digestion and bring back the perfect balance. Pe-ru-na meets the need which we all feel at this season of the year. Sold Emjwh— Serious operation I avoided Nnhil k*U ilwHns ear* Elvria, Ohio, March 1:—"I fed it my doty and pleasure to thaak yon for the wonderful _ cure your Besind .. salve has wrought for my husband, fo Esi j sSn * who suffered from SKS*-1 an open sore oa the I bade of his neck for JteiSS. four years. Several doctors aaid that it was a cancer and advised lta removal, but it was ao { near the base of the brain that, we . feared an operation. I had found Resinoi Ointment ao affective for cots, burns and similar things that I induced my husband to try that. After using only two Jars of Bed- , nol, the sore entirely healed— every trace of it haa disappeared. Resinoi certainly waa a God-eend to us!" (Signed) Mrs. E. E. Ken nedy, 248 E. Bth St BOILS „ GAjjQB. Sleepy Man Driven to Make Suggestion A Hooeier traveling man had a bo te! room next to one occupied by two teachers during the teachers' conven tion. He ifras very tired and turned in early. But hardly had he closed his eyee when the two teachers came In from the evening sesaion. They discussed it, one of them particularly being endowed with a voice com monly called strident. Finally thejr finished with the sub ject and he, thinking they were through with the conversation for the night, turned over again and once more began to think of slumbering. But after a little pause the load talk ing began on another theme, namely, the bard life of a teacher. After she had discussed It from all angles she •aid.: "If I only knew where I could succeed I would leave the teaching profession. Now what could I really do as well as I can teach school T* Before the second teacher could an swer her the long-suffering man rose to the occasion. "Madam," he ahoated through the wall, "you could be an auctioneer."—lndianapolis News. Men Donee Partners More than thirty young men are earning nearly $5,000 a year by acting aa professional partners for women In faahlonable cabarets. One South American woman, desiring to display her wealth, la said to have paid mora than 8900 for one dance. 1 After proceeding through the courts for 800 years a lawsuit involving a large tract of forest isnd In Bohemia has Just reached a final settlement. Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION UuSXS) tkS'iSter 1 Sure Relief DELLANS £>4 AMD 754 MCKAGES EVERYWHERE j