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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.
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