1 ? People in old-time frontier garb and covered wagons taking part in the journey over the Oregon Trail In
celebration of the Covered Wagon centennial. 2 ? Gen. John .1. Pershing being given tiio honorary degree of "Doc
tor of Military Science" by Chancellor Brown of the New York university. 3 ? Ten-niillion-dollar light cruiser, Chi
cago, launched at Mare Island navy yard, California.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Legge Says Export Deben
ture Would Bring on a
Foreign Embargo.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
PRESIDENT HOOVER'S opposition
to the export debenture plan as
a means of solving the wheat problem,
now Incorporated in the pending tarifT
bill, has received the support cf
Chairman Alexander Legge ot the fed
eral farm board. In a radio address
broadcast by the National Farmers'
union, Mr. Legge predicted the adop
tion of this plan would have dire re
sult*.
"Some persons think a way should
be found so that the world market
price would apply only to the surplus
production and have the tariff effec
tive on the wheat sold at home," Mr.
Legge declured. "To my mind this is
impractical."
"At the present time you see the sit
uation of France paying a bounty of
20 cents a bushel on the export of cer
tain grades of wheat, of which they
have an excess supply, and (Ireat Brit
ain taking measures to retaliate. A
few weeks ago, in parliament, Lloyd
George made the statement that if
the United States tried to ship wheat
to England at a price lower than
domestic price levels he would not be
satislied with a duty, but that the
remedy should be an embargo prohib
iting the importation of any wheat
from this country.
"All of the consuming eouutrfos of
the world are watching us closely. I
nm satisfied that they would take
prompt measures to retaliate in the
event exporting was done on a basis
which they believe would be unfair
to their growers, just as we do in
this country under such circnm
sta nces."
Defending the board s setup of cen
tral marketing associations, Mr. Legge
stressed the point that these "are not
government agencies, as some critics
who cry 'Socialism' would have the
country believe, but, instead, are the
Instrumentalities of the producers,
who grow crops, to market these crops
to their best advantage."
William G. Kellogg has resigned as
genera! manager of the Farmers* Na
tional Grain corporation and vice
president of the Grain Stabilization
corporation, both of which are spon
sored by the federal farm board.
Mr. Legge says he believes the farm
board is meeting with success In its
wheat acreage reduction program. In
formation received by the board is that
in the West and Northwest the farm
leaders and farmers themselves are in
dorsing the plan.
SPEAKING to some six thousand
Haughters of the American Revolu
tion gathered in Washington for their
thirty-ninth continental congress. Pres
ident Hoover earnestly argued in be
half of American entry into the World
court and said he had no doubt that
the United States would soon find a
way for such action, lie declared
American adherence would not consti
tute an "entangling alliance'* andjthat
It had been recommended "by every
one of our Presidents and every one
of our secretaries of state living since
its Inception."
The Daughters, who as a body have
evidenced their opposition to Ameri
can participation in the World court,
duly applauded Mr. Hoover. He was
more warmly cheered when he advo
cated national defense forces strong
enough to prevent invasion of Ameri
can Bhores, when he pledged that dur
ing hi? administration the United
States would refrain from entangle
ments in European diplomacy, and
when he praised the results of the
London naval conference.
Two days later the Daughters
adopted reports demanding the main
tenance of suflicient military and naval
equipment to meet any emergency
that may face the United States in the
future, and opposing the scrapping of
American ships until the major pow
ers sign a limitation treaty. They
evinced dislike for the three-power
agreement concluded in I^ondon by
the United States, Great Britain and
Japan.
WHILE many of the delegates to
the London conference were scat
tering for the Easter holidays, the
drafting committee was hustling to
complete the proposed treaty in time
for the five nations to approve and
sign it at a plenary session set for
April 22. The chief difficulty that
arose in connection with the three
power agreement was the wording of
an "escape" clause allowing any one
of the three powers which have agreed
on a limitation In all categories of
ships to exceed the fixed limits in case
any outside power builds so as to be
come dangerous. This was satisfac
torily adjusted.
To meet demands of the Japanese,
Secretary of State Stimson and Sen
ator Heed entered into a "gentlemen's
agreement" with lleijiro Wakatsuki,
head of the Japanese delegation, and
Admiral Takarabe that the United
States would not build during the
life of this treaty the additional ton
nage of light cruisers to which It is
entitled if it should decide not a build
the last three of the IS heavy cruisers
allowed by the pact. Consequently,
until the next arms conference, Japan
is allowed 74 per cent of America's
aggregate tonnage in cruisers, destroy
ers and submarines.
President Hoover has said that the
United States will save a billion dol
lars as a result of the three-power
pact. Others estimate the saving in
naval construction at half that amount.
Great Britain will save $300,000.00
and Japan $*J00, 000,000. Information
In Washington Is that the pacifist
groups will work for ratification of
the treaty and then will campaign
against the appropriation of funds to
keep It In operation. The pact prob
ably will not be submitted to the sen
ate until next December during the
short session.
WHEN It comes to voting on a ques
tion that may affect their chances
of re-election many of our seuators are
not very brave. Which explains the
long delay in acting on the appoint
ment of Judge John J. Parker of
North Carolina as an associate justice
of the Supreme court. The opposition
to Parker was found mainly In or
ganized labor and among the negroes,
because of two decisions handed down
by him some time ago. The senators
were much concerned and one of them
even asked President Hoover to with
draw the nomination. The President
flatly refused to do this, and finally
Senator Overman announced he would
try to get the judiciary committee to
take action on April 21. It was said
most of the Southern senators would
vote for confirmation of the appoint
ment, knowing that If Judge Parker
were rejected the vacancy would be
filled by some one from another sec
tion of the country.
The President has appointed Roland
W. Boyden to succeed Charles Evans
Hughes as American member of the
permanent court of arbitration at The
Hague.
Representative tinkham of
Massachusetts completed his
presentation of evidence and argu
ments against the Anti-Saloon league
and ecclesiastical lobbies before the
senate committee on lobbying. Tink- J
ham devoted most of his attention j
last week to Bishop James Cannon, j
Jr., of the Methodist Church, South, j
He was followed by Henry H. Cumin,
president of the Association Against
the Prohibition Amendment, who al
ready had refused to surrender that i
organization's files "except under com- j
pulsion of subpoena."
Sharply quizzed by Senators Caraway, j
Robinson and Walsh, Mr. Curran told |
in considerable detail of the opera
tions of his association, its growth
and resources, and of its plans to op
pose at the polls drys who seek elec
tion to congress. He said the associa
tion spent nothing for lobbying and
periodically filed reports of its ex
penditures and contributors as re
quired by law.
Attorney Cleneral Mitchell, appear
ing before the senate judiciary com
mittee to oppose the resolution for a
senate investigation of prohibition,
gave warning that the prison popula
tion of the country is so great today
that it is inexpedient to stimulate any
further prosecutions. He said the
federal prisoners had increased during
the last nine months by 0.277, includ
ing those confined in county, city and
state institutions, and that every fed
eral institution was overcrowded. He
attributed most of the new prisoners
to the prohibition law prosecutions.
"It makes me feel," he said, "that
we ought to get our house in order
and increase our facilities for handling
the criminal business we already have
before we start passing any more
federal statutes that make things fed-'
eral crimes that are not at present." |
pLANS were announced last week
* whereby the Itadlo Corporation of
America would acquire the radio man
ufacturing activities and facilities of
the General Electric and Westlnghouse
Electric companies, and official Wash
ington sat up and took notice. Sen
ator Dill of Washington, who has long
been interested in radio legislation,
called the attention of the senate to
the proposed combination, terming it
"a new trust monopoly." At the same
time the Department of Justice an
nounced that it was "fully advised
regarding the proposed affiliation,"
was "investigating it fully" and was
"considerably concerned about it."
FOR three days Washington was
swarming with editors, for the an
nual meeting of the American Society
of Newspaper IOditors was taking place
and members were there from all parts
of the country. President Walter M.
Harrison of the Oklahoma City Times
called the first session to order and
Norman Baxter, president of the Na
tional Press club, made an address of
welcome. The meeting closed Satur
day night with a banquet at which
President Hoover, H. Wickham Steed,
formerly of the London Times, and
Andre Geraud (Pertlnax), political
editor of the Echo de Paris, were the
speakers. As is customary in such
cases, the remarks of the President
were not made public.
REFUSING requests of both sides
for modifications, the Supreme
court of the United States announced
terms of Its final decree In the lake
levels case, following substantially the
recommendations of Chtfrles B. Hughes
as special master.
The Chicago sanitary district, under
the terms of the decree, must complete
Its $175,000,000 sewage treatment pro
gram within nine years.
Diversion of water from Lake Mich
igan at Chicago, which now averages
7,250 cubic feet per second under a
War department permit, must be cut
to an ultimate annual average of 1,509
cubic feet per second on December 31,
1938. The diversion must be reduced
to 6,500 feet next Ju'.y 1, and to 5,000
feet on December 31, 1935.
<?. 1930. W?tim N?wap*p?r Union.)
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sickness
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Make Plans to Salvage
Tin From Ocean Depths
The tin mines of Cornwall, Eng
land, supposed to be pretty well
worked out, are to be supplemented
by dredging up the sands of the sea
off the Cornwall coast.
Through the ages the fierce waves
of the North Atlantic have been ham
mering at the rugged coasts of Corn
wall and pulverizing the nicks t?>
sand. On shore men have worked out
the alluvial deposits and tin produc
tion has decreased by half. And now
it is discovered that the sands under
the sea are full of tin. sometimes as
much as 10 per cent. So they have
constructed a tunnel out under the
waves at St. Ives and built a big
concrete funnel into which the sand
suckers discharge the sand mixed
with water to flow it down to the
concentrating mill to separate the tin.
Denver Boy
is a Winner !
Kvery mother real
izes how important
it is to teach chil
dren good habits of
conduct but many of
them fail to realize
the iuiportance of
teaching their chil
dren good bowel hab
its until the poisons from decaying
waste held too long in the system
have begun to affect the child's
health.
Watch your child and at the first
sign of constipation, give him a little
California Fig Syrup. Children love
its rich, fruity taste and it quickly
drives away those distressing ail
ments, such as headaches, bad breath,
coated tongue, biliousness, feverish
ness, fretfulness, etc. It gives them a
hearty appetite, regulates their stom
ach and bowels and gives tone and
strength to these organs so they con
tinue to act normally, of their own
accord. For over fifty years, lead
ing physicians have prescribed it for
half-sick, bilious, constipated chil
dren. More than 4 million bottles
used a year shows how mothers de
pend on it.
Mrs. C. G. Wilcox, 3855% Wolff
St, Denver, Colorado, says: "My son,
Jackie, is a prize winner for health,
nowT, but we had a lot of trouble with
him before we found his trouble was
constipation and began giving him
California Fig Syrup. It fixed him
up quick, gave him a good appetite,
made him sleep fine and he's been
gaining in weight right along since
the first few days, taking it."
To avoid inferior imitations of
California Fig Syrup, always look for
the word "California" on the carton.
Winning Argument
Yonth ? 1 say, old thing ? how on
earth did you manage to talk your
people around?
Fiancee ? Never said a word ? Just
kept slammin' the doors.? Passing
Show.
Automobiles and inovles have done
more to change the character of civ
ilization than anything that has hap
pened for 100 years.
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51 lb Watsons 60c. IT Icrh nualitv. promct
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OILS
VANISH LIKE MAQIC
Car boil, a specialist's salve,
stops pain instantly, sad
. , ripens and heals worst boil
or carbuncle often overnight. Get Carboil
todsy from druggist. Pain ends like mazic.
Bousvanish in amaxingly short ??me.
I
DONT LET WORMS
TORTURE CHILDREN
Children who have worms
have not a chance of being
healthy. Watch for the symp
toms. Gritting the teeth, pick
ing the nostrils, disordered
stomach.
Rid jour child's body of these ruin
ous parasites. Give him Frey's Ver
mifuge ? America's safe, vegetable
worm medicine for 75 years. Buy it
today. At all drug stores.
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W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. 17-1930.
Ungallant
There are some persons, nearly all
of the female sex, who suffer from a
chronic rush of words to the mouth.
? Dean In^e.
Old-fashioned people now get pho
tograph albums especially made; for
they are too useful to be snubbed
out of existence.
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Every family has occasional nr-ed of a laxative,
but it should be a family laxative. One that can't
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fails. Only a doctor knows the right ingredients.
Dr. Caldwell discovered the correct combination
years ago. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin combines
harmless herbs and pure senna. It starts muscular
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is mild. Delicious. Effective. All druggists keep
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