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1 Doctors from all the veterans' hospitals gathered In Washington for a conference. 2—Maiden Dearborn, first of
the fleet or airplanes which Henry Ford has put Into operation between Chicago and Detroit for use of his company.
3—Parade In New York's Chinatown to honor the memory of Dr. Sun Tat Sen. first President of Chinese republic.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Painleve and Caillaux May
Pull France Through Her
> Financial Crisis.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
FRANCE Is struggling through the
governmental crisis precipitated by
her financial troubles, but the out
come Is still shrouded In doubt Paul
Painleve accepted President Dou
mergue's Invitation to form a ministry
after Aristide Brland had tried and
abandoned the attempt because the So
cialist party voted against participa
tion in the cabinet be was trying to
constitute. The Socialists, however,
agreed to support Palnleve's govern
ment, but first the National bloc .car
ried through its plan to dl-orce the
bill to Increase monetary circulation
from the 10 per cent capital levy in
De Monzle's financial measure. After
a warm debate the chamber decided
It was competent to receive a fiscal
scheme from a resigned cabinet and
passed the bill to Increase the paper
money circulation of the Bank of
France from 41,000,000,000 francs to
45,000,000,000 francs. The senate
quickly followed suit The rest of
the financial scheme Is at this writ
ing still op in the air.
Though Painleve is premier, It ap
pears likely the dominating figure In
the new government will be Joseph
Caillaux, who. during the war, was
exiled as a traitor and to whom am
nesty was only recently extended.
This former premier and admitted
financial genius was called on by Pain
leve to take the post of iplnister of
finance and accepted. He has declared
bis opposition to a capital levy, but
what scheme be will offer Is not yet
knotrn. It was believed In Paris that
the left wing groups were prepared to
make Caillaux dictator In case the
right wing and the Nationalists at
tempted to pface in power the reac
tionaries who overthrew the Herriot
government.
GERMAN Socialists were consider
ably relieved by the developments
In Paris, for It bad feared that if the
supporters of Polncare regained power
there would be a revival of the "policy
of violence" that would greatly help
the candidacy of Field Marshal von
Hlndenburg for the presidency. On
the other hand the French are await*
fag with anxiety the result of the Ger
man election. The old soldier's fol
lowers, however. Indignantly deny that
bis election woufd mean war with
France within a few years. They as
sert that peace Is an Important point
la bis program, and, furthermore, that
if elected he would take the oath of
the Weimar constitution, a clause In
which provides that war can be de
dared and peace signed only through
special law. The German monarch
ists say they are willing to stand the
republic a few more years, meaning
until 1827, when Prince Wll helm
reaches the age of twenty-one years.
Violent campaign talk is rife In Ger
many. Von Hlndenburg's most ardent
supporters declare Germany "will see
something terrible" if be is not elected,
and they are said to be ready to start
a "putsch" at a moment's notice The
Communists, for their part, openly
say tbat if Von Hlndenburg wins they
will start an armed uprising. So In
either event there may be lively doings.
MORE than 150 American war ships
snd auxiliary craft of all kinds
earned oat from San Francisco
through the Golden Gats Wednesday
on the way to attempt the "capture"
of the Hawaiian Islands. At that out
post of the nation an army garrison
of l&OOO men with air squadrons and
20 submarines made ready to defend
the Islands
Tbe attacking force, known as the
Bhis Fleet, wai an Imposing sight
as it started wsrtward. First was a
flock of mine sweepers to dear op
any mines tbe defenders, knowa as
tbe Black forces, might have placed.
Next were M destroyers tbat spesad
oat widely sad aiade a lane of safety.
They were followed by 11 battleships
and 8 light cruisers, and then casoe
ttw leaser craft. Including anbam rises,
fuel and supply ships and the airplane
carrier Langley, on which were about
30 planes.
When the Blue fleet, commanded by
Admiral Robison, nears the Islands It
will be attacked by airplanes and sub
marines sent out by Admiral McDon
ald and General Lewis, commanders
of the Black forces, and If these fall
the troops there will try to prevent a
landing. The umpires of the mimic
struggle, headed by Admiral Coontz
and Major General Mines, are on the
cruiser Seattle and wlll watcb every
move. It Is up to them to decide
whether any battleships are construc
tively sunk or crippled by the defend
ing planes, so the maneuvers may go
far to determine whether the claims
of Col. William Mitchell are right or
wrong. The conditions of the contest
are about such as would obtain were
the Hawaiian islands attacked by Ja
pan when the American fleet was lo
the Atlantic and the Panama canal
crippled.
THERE has arisen In Honolulu ■
a most Interesting case of army
trial and punishment. Privates Crouch
and Trumbull were convicted by court
martial of attempting to organize a
branch of the Communist party In vio
lation of the territorial law of Ha
waii against secret societies, and also
of speaking contemptuously of the
President and the flag. Crouch was
sentenced to 40 years' Imprisonment
and Trumbull to 26 years. The ex
treme severity of the sentences led
the War department to call for an ex
planation and General Lewis, com
manding, forwarded a summary of the
testimony. Prom this it appears the
cnJprlta had plotted to foment revolu
tionary movements among both the
garrison and the civil population and
that Crouch at least had planned this
before be enlisted. It is believed in
Washington that the sentences will be
greatly reduced.
SENATOR BURTON K. WHEELER
of Montana went on trial at Great
Falls, before Federal Judge Frank Diet
rich and a Jury, on charges of accept
ing s fee for prosecuting claims of s
client before the Department of tbl
Interior after ha bad been elected to
the senate. The outcome of this case
mesns everything to Wheeler, for if
he Is convicted be Is by Isw forever
byred from holding public office, (n
addition be may be Imprisoned for two
years or fined (10,000, or both.
Benator Thomas J. Walsh, who went
to Great Fslls In connection with the
Wheeler trial, said tbat as soon as
congress convenes he would press for
an Investigation of the Midwest Refin
ing company's leases In tbe Salt creek
fields of Wyoming. These fields, which
were under Jurisdiction and control of
the Interior department, are much
more productive than Teapot Dome
ALANSON a HOUGHTON, oar
new ambassador to Great Britain,
sailed from New York to assume his
duties In London. He had little to ssy
for publication before leaving; content
ing himself with the statement tbat
he was aware of tbe Importance of bis,
new post snd realised "the necessity
of maintaining friendly relations be
tween the English-speaking peoples."
An assignment bas Just been given
Miss Lucille Atcberson of Columbus,
Ohio, tbe first womaa to qualify as a
member of the foreign service of the
Department of State. She bas been
appointed third secretary of tbe lega
tion at Berne, Switzerland. Edward
Caffery, consul at Bucharest, baa been
msde consul general at Havana, aad
George Messersmtth has been ap
pointed consul general at Antwerp.
COMMERCIAL airplane service be
tween Chicago and Detroit was In
augurated by the Fopd interests, but
tbe planes for tbe pressat are carry
lag only freight between Ford plants.
Announcement Is made tbat tbe Gen
eral Airways System, lac.. Is soon to
begin opera tiag aa aerial pessengsr
and freight ssrvlce between Boston.
New York, Chicago. Minneapolis aad
St. PauL
KING BOKIS of Bulgaria had ■
do** call from d(Mk at tba
of Communlatj last week. Whila no
toring la tba country be waa am
baabed and find opoa aad two Ml
la tba car wttb him war* killed. Tba
blag and ocb«a Jamped oat aad r*
turned tba lire, bat tba aaaaaalM m-
caped. One ballet carried away part
of Boris' mustache. About the same
time General Geojfhleff, a leader In
the movement that overthrew the
Stamboullsky government la 1923, was
killed In Sofia. While a great crowd
was watching his funeral procession
an Infernal machine exploded In front
of the Sveta Bodllla cathedral, killing
some twenty. Injuring many others in
cluding Premier Zankoff and wrecking
the cathedral. Reports from Sofia
said that communist bands were In
armed conflict with troops In various
localities. All this Is taken to be a
part of the announced campaign for
the establishment of a soviet republic
In Bulgaria. Moscow Is said to be sup
plying funds and plans. »
THE revolt of the Kurds has entirely
collapsed and the Turks have cap
tured Sheik Said, the rebel leader, and
his suite while they were fleeing to
Persia. Said was to be tried at Dlar
bekr and It was a certainty that be
would be executed. *■
Now the Turkish government Is
worried by the murderous raids of
the Nestorian tribesmen of the Mosul
vilayet in Turkish territory. The
authorities say these tribes are acting
under British Influence, and they have
called more troops to the colors, feel
ing that the situation 1s .alarming.
BY A decision In two cases brought
by a packing company of Topeka
against the Kansas industrial rela
tions court, the United States Supreme
court has held unconstitutional tbat
part of the Kansas Industrial court
act which provided for compulsory ar
bitration of labor disputes. It also
held that state commissions or indus
trial courts have no right to fix the
hours of labor in packing bouses or
other Industries.
In a case from San Francisco the
Supreme court ruled that when labor
strikes or lockouts do not result In
material restraint of Interstate com
merce, tbe federal government Is
powerless to Intervene.
Two Important tax decisions were
banded down by tbe Supreme court.
Tbe first was that states have the
right to prescribe in their Inheritance
tax laws the method of determining
the market value of property trans
ferred, and to provide that no de
duction shall be made from this value
In computing tbe state tax for any In
heritance or estate tax paid to the
federal government. The second de
cision held that any gain In valne must
be taken into account on taxes under
the 1918 revenue act upon securities
purchased before March l, 1918, and
sold In 1919.
WITH impressive ceremony, a
handsome memorial gate. In
honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard
Perry, was unveiled and dedicated at
Port of Spain, Trinidad, where the
hero of the Battle of Lake Erie died
In 1819. The American cruiser Mem
phis wss there for tbe proceedings
and military and dvic organizations
too)r part. Tbe gate Is at the entrance
of the cemetery where Perry's body
lay nntll It was removed to tbe United
States in 1826. and is tbe gift of Amer
ican residents of Trinidad.
DEATH took two famous men last
week. One wss El wood Hsynes
of Kokomo, InL. credited with being
the Inventor of America's first soto
moblle. This "horseless buggy" be
drove In Kokomo In ISM. at tbe re
markable speed of eight miles aa
hour.
John Singer Sargent. American
member of the British Royal Academy
and recognised as one of tbe greatest
of contemporary portrait pa latere, was
found desd la bed In bis home st Chel
sea. England. Born In Florence. Italy,
In 18&0, be won tbe highest honors tbat
can be accorded an artist snd num
bered among his sitters many of tbe
world's 'most eminent men aad beau
tiful women.
D our national sport.
D opened Its season most auspicious
ly with all tbe teams of tbe Nstioaal
and American leagues in action. Tbe
: attendance surpassed tbat of opealag
day last year, tbat at tbe Natioaal
league games being 108,000 snd at tbe
American. 12*000. Tbe one thing
wroag in tbe picture was tbe abasacs
of Babe Roth from the lineup of tbe
Mew Test Yankees. He was sick abed.
NORTH (MINI
LOSSES BT FIRE
INCREASE ATTRIBUTE DO BY COM
MISSIONER TO RURAt
RISKS.
Raleigh.
Figures made public by the state in
surance department show a total lire
loss in North Carolina during March ot
$905,277, with values at risk $4,893.-
397. Insurance on the property at
risk was $4,557,970. The number ot
fires was 266. Fire damage in the
state during March, 1924, was $406,360,
with property at risk worth $2i717.639
and insurance for $1,786,291. Fires in
March. 1924, totaled 204.
Commissioner Wade attributed the
Increase in losses to rural industrial
fires, which totaled $628,740 last
month, while the entire loss in towns
and cities, embracing 236 fires was
only $276,537. Of the 30 rural fires,
with such an Immense damage, Com
-nlssioner Wade pointed out. the values
at risk were $875,400, with $640,000
insurance. "On the other hand, he
added, "with 236 fires in cities and
towns, with values over $4,000,000 and
Insurance over $3,000,000, the loss to
taled only $276,537. The loss, from 21
fires totaled $765,435. leaving tor the
remaining 245 fires a total loss of
$139,842.
Principal losses for the month in
cluded the following r .
Cotton mill in Johnston county,
$244,000; lumber plant in Halifax
county, near Hollleter, $150,000; lum
ber plant near Littleton, In Halifax
county, |130.000; flour mill and dwell
ing in Forsyth county, $33,000; dwel
ling in Stokes county $20,000; fertilis
er plant in New Bern, $24,500; dwel
ling and contents at Greenville, $17,-
500; school dormitory at Oxford, $13.-
500; dwelling and teacherage at Red
Springs, $18,200; dwelling at Osstonla,
$20,000; church at Greenville, $12,000;
Quarts compaay at Charlotte. $15,285;
business bullglng at Wtneton-Salem,
$13,000; store and contents at Randle
man, $12,000.
Shingle roots and defective flues
caused 102 March fires, the causes of
61 were unknown and IS were at
tribute# to carelessness. Four were
reported as of incendiary origin and
seven from overhot stoves snd fur
naces.
There were 160 dwellings burned in
North Carolina in March. IS industrial
plants. 11 unstored automobiles or
trucks, 9 garages, 7 stores, 6 churches,
5 business buildings and 4 lumber
plants and schools.
The following places were practi
cally fire-free in March. Kinston,
Albemarle, Monroe, Concord. Hick
ory, Waynesville, Louisville, Aberdeen,
Littleton, Selma. Elm City, Kerners
ville, Pinehurst, Zebulon. Bonlee, Pine
top, Granite Falls, JefTerson, Hunters
vllls, Mlddleesex and Fairmont.
Can Consign Perlshsbls Produce.
Commissioner of Agriculture W. A
Graham announced that periahable
farm products can still be consigned
In C.O.D. shipments. This policy is
said to mean a great deal to fruit and
vegebtale growers In North Carolina.
A movement was launched within
the ranis of the Southern Freight As
sociation to prevent the acceptance of
fruits and- vegetables when consigned
"Order Notify** from to and between
points in Southsrn territory bat the
movement has been abandoned.
When notified by Commissioner
Brown .of Georgia, that such a change
was being considered. Commissioner
Graham Immediately brought pressure
to bear on the Southern Freight Asso
ciation to retain the present status for
perlshsbls products.
Commissioner Graham' said in his
telegram to the association:
"Such action would havs a ten
dency to place producers and pro
ducers' organisations \jnore at the
mercy of ruthless speculators and dis
honest commission merchants. The
'order notify' plan makes it poewtble
for producers and producers' oragnlsa
tions to have a voice in the matter oI
damage, stc."
Appoints Equalizing Board.
Governor A. W. McLean through his
secretary. Charles H Rngiind. an
nounced the personnel of the Equalis
ing Fund Commission, which was giv
en sweeping powers by the 19SS Gen
eral Assembly In a matter vitally af
fecting the counties of the State.
The commission Is composed of Dr.
E. C Brooks, president of the North
Carolina State College; Chas. A.
Webb, AsheviUe; W. C. Fetmeter,
Newton; Mrs. W. J. Jones, Sal sen burg
and E. D. Brosdhust. Oreensboro.
The last Legislature Increased the
equalising fund from $1,266,000 to 9L
f00.000 annually and provided that ap
proximately 91JM.000 of the amount
should be distributed to 67 of the 19*
oountiee In the Bute.
Governor Paroles Two. **
Governor A. W. McLean paroled
two prisoners for the remslnder of
their terms, paroled another for thirty
days, granted one reprieve snd declin
ed six petitions. All of the set lons
were taken on the recommendations
of H. Hoyte Sink. Commissioner ot
Fardona «
Parolee were granted to Will 8.
Williams, of Rockingham County, who
has served Ave and one-half months of
n nine month sentence on the roads,
and to Fleßhsi Womhle, of Bewaa
Connty. - •
"To Talk Tommyrot and to Throw* Fewer
J Monkey Wrenches"
/ By WILUAM M. JARDINE. U. 8. Secretary of Agriculture.
THE sound farmer tjusmes# man does not seek legislation to fix
prices or to-regulate details. He knows that legislation cannot
annul economic laws. The only legislation he wants is legislation,
that will assist him in getting reasonable credit on sound security;
that will help him build up machinery for marketing his products suc
cessfully; that will put him on a par-.with other business men. In the land
lies most of the farmer's capital and it is on his land that he must make
a fair interest return. With land at its present price the farmer cannot
make money by using the methods and getting the returns of 1900.
Ought production to be curtailed instead of being increased? Loose
talk. Even if the curtailing of agricultural production were practicable,
it would not get us anywhere. The acreage of certain crops should be ad
justed from time to time—now increased, now cut down.
There are farmers in Kansas raising ten bushels of wheat more to the
acre than their neighbors because they plow early and deep and use the
best seed. Some farmers go in for quality. They are getting a premium
of 25 oents a bushel on their wheat because of its higWprotein content.
They aR feeding animals that will mature in the shortest possible time
and furnish the most desirable cuts of meat.
There are now 5,000 co-operative grain marketing associations in the
United States and about the same number of co-operative live stock ship
ping associations. If applied in the right way, co-operation can make of
American farming • big voluntarily unified, permanently and dependably
profitable business, in a way that no paternalistic legislation could pos
sibly do.
What we all need to do is to talk less tommyrot and throw fewer
monkey wrenches into other people's machinery. We want to stop trying
to line up one group against other groups. We want to work together.
Americans should be co-operating, not quarreling with each other over
the interests of this group or that
How Many Bad Boys Does It Take to Make
One Good Boy? One, if—
By DR. HENRY NEUMANN, Brooklyn Ethical Culture Society.
When asked how to deal with the problem of juvenile crime most
people at once think of the school as tlfe great Agency of salvation. But
every teacher who deals with real boys and girls knows thai it is asking a
bit too much to expect our schools, as they are at present constituted, to
be the chief agency of prevention here. As they are at present constituted,
mark you. Nobody who has first-hand contact with the problem believe*
that criminality is going to be prevented by giving children set lessons in
honeety. Adults are not saved from Wrong by that method. Why should
we expect children to be any different?
Lessons in honesty are useful, but something else is vitally necessary.
The story is told that a pastor, addressing an assembly of boys in a re
formatory, began with the foolish question: "How many bad boys does it
take to make a good one?" One of the lads promptly shouted: "One, if
you treat him right"
The right treatment is to provide chances to work off in healthy fash
ion the impulses which otherwise break into mischief.
The Deeply Ingrained Mental Reactions of
Fears and Superstitions
i "
By DR. RAY L. WILBUR, Leland Stanford University.
r
Perhaps our greatest difficulty comes from the deeply ingrained men
tal reactions of taboo, fears, prejudices and superstitions. Science and
learning have outpaced our populace.
Astronomy is accompanied by its popular imitation, astrology. Medi
cine has its great shadowland of buncombe, deceit and plausible foolishness
and chicanery. Graveyards still (till give moonlight visitors the shudders.
One great contribution to our welfare has been the removal of our
fears of the unknown. The microscope has taken the mystery out- of the
transmission of diseases, and diseases are an age-old horror of all humans.
When our young are trained to use intelligence in making decisions
instead of accepting the almost imperious dictates of fear, prejudice, emo
tion and passion, we can begin to attack such major difficulties as race
prejudice and war and to find readier solutions in public health and in
economic and political life. «
Treatment of Tonsils Should Be Decided Upon
by Competent Physician
By DR. O. T. OSBORNE, in Good Housekeeping.
One of the greatest menaces from diseased tonsilt is that they fre
quently contain gmpi that are dangerous because they destroy red blood
corpuscles, causing anemia, under certain conditions the destruction
of the blood corpuscles may be very rapid. The time when these deadly
blood-destroying germs get in their work is when the patient is combs tiiSg
soma other tfiiKftf or infection, such ss influenza, pneumonia, measles, etc.
It f" to be a fact that when one tonsil is diseased and contains
poisonous germs that it cannot kill, the other tonsil is also infected. Con
sequently, whatever treatment one tonsil is to receive must also be given to
the other.
That treatment, whether it be the drastic one of removal or merely
medical in character, should be decided upon only after careful examina
tion by a competent physician. Our tonsils were given us for a purpose:
they should not be ruthlessly sacrificed, neither should they be allowed to
remain a source of infection.
When the Woman Knows That Man Is Not
Altogether Immune to Moods
By LETTICE WAYNE, in Washington Post
And what aa enormous difference it makes to the success of the rela
tionship between a man and a woman if the man knows that the woman
appreciates that he is not altogether immune from the weakness of
"moodiness." .
It is the strength of man that be is able, as a rule, to hide hip emo
tions, to maintain a reasonable level of cheerfulness and consideration for
others. And perhaps just because be has so long accustomed himself to
control bis feelings, be finds it very delightful when'the companionship
of a woman makes it plain to him that the mask is not always effective.
It is only the unselfish woman who does not seek always to be amused
who knows when a man is "moody." Responsive silence, or gentle
sympathy, the tactful adaptation of her own mood to his, may touch •
chord in the man's heart and be the beginning of a long romance
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electrlc vacuum claanara on easy tar ma. Tea
to thirty dollars dally easily, pieaaently mad*.
Esperlence not necessary. Wi leach yo«
bow, either (all or ape re time. No Itceaee.
no delivery, no collecting. protected terri
tory. Caah In with as on the greatest sell
ing propoeltlop In Carolines today. Til*
wonderful Vacuette that doaa same work tks
highest price electric cleaner at half the
price and a commission to yon of lit ea
every sals. Become district manager wlthla
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time I aee the family wash In the hack
yard." "Oh. do they?"
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most Alabeatiiie. wfiii li
always comes in theS-pound
package with the CTOM and
circle printed in rad.
Alsbastioe is the be* wall
coating for kernee and
public buildings. Ask jrow
dealer lor color ckart or
write Mies Ruby Brandon,
the Alabastine Company*
Grand Rapids. Michigan.
Alafaastiaa is a dry pswdss is
wjuta aad hn^wxly for oaa by
Fall directions ■ m/parlisasi
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braak Sellable fas aB isl.Hnt
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