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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Remarkable Report on the Prohibition Problem Made by the Wickcrsham Commission J. A. Farrell Says Prosperity Is Coming Back. Bv EDWARD W. PICKARD March and men who Insist on going go-ing there in search of employment are advised by the United State employment service to he prepared to take care of themselves for at least four months. REPRESENTATIVE FISH'S house committee ou Communist Commu-nist activities hag reported, recommending rec-ommending strengthening the laws widen would enable the authorities to curb those activities In the United States. The ltussiun Soviet press heaps ridicule on the report, declaring It is Impudent and insolent in-solent and that It indicates .the "fright or the bourgeoisie" that the Soviet republic will succeed In Its industrialization plan. Soviet officials announce that Itussla is about to resume the dumping of grain on the world markets, her supply largely exceeding ex-ceeding the needs of the Russian people. vt ' ' i IAk.'WW. m -ai NEITHER drys nor wets can derive any wholehearted whole-hearted satisfaction satisfac-tion from the report re-port of the Wlck-ersham Wlck-ersham law enforcement en-forcement commission, commis-sion, which was handed to President Presi-dent Hoover and by him transmitted to congress. Nor Is It conceivable iiiiiiiipipiii ii n, 1. 1. PACIFISTS and advocates of ndequuts national defense came together to-gether In Washington Washing-ton In the sixth national conference confer-ence on the cause and cure of war. The big meet iu was attended by more than 600 delegates del-egates from 44 lure. nd was years this effort has been centered In the American Ited Cross, created cre-ated by the people themselves to act in Just such emergencies." OBSTRUCTIONIST tactics In the senate deluyed the Interior department bill, to which had been appended the $25,000,000 appropriation appropria-tion for the Ited Cross for food but the measure was passed. The senate also bad further relief plans. The agriculture committee approved a sieasure to donate 20, 000,000 bushels of farm board wheat to feed the hungry, the cost of the grain to be credited to the hoard's revolving fund; and the appropriation committee added to a pending deficiency bill $20,000,-000 $20,000,-000 for Immediate public improvements. improve-ments. Wet member of the house engaged en-gaged In a filibuster ngnlnst prohibition pro-hibition enforcement appropriations, appropria-tions, attacking especially funds for employment of Informers, for purchase of liquor evidence and for tapping the telephone wires of suspected law violators. ELI1IU HOOT appeared before the senate foreign relations committee and eloquently defended the protocols for American adherence adher-ence to the World court which he negotiated. His arguments were forcible and his replies to ques tlons seemed udequate, but his ad dress did not appear to have much effect on Senators ftorah, Moses and Johnson, members of the committee com-mittee and opponents of adherence even with the senate's reservations. Admiral Mark held under the nus-Brletol nus-Brletol pices ot II national nation-al women's organizations whose nini In thl? respect Is to complete the demobilization of what they cull "the war muchine." One of the speakers on the program was Uear Admiral Mark Bristol, chairman chair-man of the executive committee of the navy general board; and his arguments for defense were ably seconded by Admiral William V. Pratt, chief of naval operations, and Edward P. Warner, former assistant as-sistant secretary of the navy In charge of aeronautics. Among the pacifist speii kers were Miss June Addams of the International League for Peace and Freedom, and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Cutt. DISPATCHES from Gevena say that the central opium board of the League of Nations was compelled, com-pelled, by objections from representatives repre-sentatives of France and Yugoslavia, Yugo-slavia, to delete from Its report cuusilc criticism of the "abnormal" narcotics consumption In Japan and Frame, rhe Inference being that drugs supposedly for medical purposes had escaped from regular channels and been made available to the Illicit (tope dealers. The expurgated ex-purgated report read to the league council merely mentioned "certain countries," but nt the asiae time unfolded to the council the fact that seizures of opium Illicitly transported were now In tons where heretofore they had been In ounces. The league commission to study -Hrlnnd's United States of Europe scheme decided, lifter a warm debate, de-bate, to Invite Russia, Turkey and Iceland to participate In the discussions dis-cussions of rhe economic phases of tbe plan when It Is taken up agaia probably next May. The Invitation to the Soviet government was Insisted In-sisted upon especially by Dlno (irandl of Italy and Julius Curllus of Germany. i . BUSINESS In the United States Is now on the upgrade, up-grade, the peak of the financial depression de-pression waspassed before the beginning begin-ning of the year, and the prospects for restored inilus-irlol inilus-irlol prosiierlty are good. S u c h. n t least. Is the opln- I... f .....on A w that tha coinmls- iSrt8 8lun ,t,lf CBn Wlcksrsham havfl ny Krel)t pride In the bulky document. The one wholly honest member appears to be Monte lemonn of New Orleans, Or-leans, who refused to sign the majority ma-jority report. The other ten attached at-tached their names lo It and gave out statements showing thnt no one of them agreed with Its findings find-ings In their entirety. This majority report Is against repeal of tbe Eighteenth amendment, amend-ment, and. admitting that prohibition prohibi-tion has not been enforced or observed, ob-served, recommends thnt It be given further trial, with an enlarged en-larged force of agents. Ilemoval of the restrictions on the prescription prescrip-tion of medicinal liquor by physl-ciuns physl-ciuns Is advised. If the dry amendment Is to be revised at all, the commission Is agreed on cer-' cer-' tain phraseology which would empower em-power congress to deal with the liquor t rattle as it sees fit. Modification Modi-fication of the Volstead net so as to permit the manufacture and sale of light wines and beer Is opposed. op-posed. In a separate report the plan for revision giving congress the power to regulate or prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquor was set forth In detail by Henry W. Anderson of Virginia, and It was signed by Commissioners Ander son, Kenyon, Loesch, Pound, Me Cormlck and Mackintosh. Statements of the Individual commissioners appended to the generul report showed that of the eleven members, six consider It hopeless (o expect that prohibition can be made to prohibit. Two of these six former Secretary of ; War Newton I), Baker of Ohio and Prof. Monte M. Lemunn of Tulane university, I-oiilsiiimi advocate re-- re-- peal of (lie Eighteenth amendment. The other four of these six Mr, Anderson, Ada L. Comstock, pres- Ident of RadcJIffe college; Frank 3. Loesch of Chicago, and Deun Itoscoe Pound of lliirvurd law school favor Immediate revision of the Eighteenth amendment to confer the power of regulation on congress. Five of Uie members Chairman George W. Wickersham, United States Judges William S. Kenyon, Paul J. McCormick and William I. Grubh, and former Chief Justice K. M. Mackintosh of the Washington Washing-ton Supreme court stood out for a further trial. Judges Kenyon, Mackintosh and McCormick said that If the further experiment failed they would favor adoption of the Anderson plan of national regulation of liquor. In transmitting the report to Congress, President Hoover said he was In accord with Its stand against repeal of the dry amendment, amend-ment, and added : "1 do, however, see serious objections to. and therefore must not be understood as recommending the commission's proposed revision of the Eighteenth amendment which Is suggested by them for possible consideration at some future time If the continued effort at enforcement should not prove successful." Senator John J. Blaine of Wisconsin Wis-consin was quick to introduce a modification amendment on the general lines of the plan offered by Commissioner Anderson but confining congressional power to regulation of liquor traffic. Like the Andersou scheme, it would permit per-mit euch state to decide whether It desires prohibition or a government-controlled liquor supply. J. A. Farrell Farrell, president of the United States Steel corporation as expressed ex-pressed In an address to the National Na-tional ("tinners and the National Wholesale Grocers' associations In Joint convention In Chicago. He deprecated the suggestions of revision re-vision of Inter allied war debts as a measure of relief, and urged that we do the things that we can. "Let us cut down the volume ot undigested talk that rarely helps but always hampers," be said. Granting that unemployment Is considerable and that Ihe national Income has been reduced, the steel magnate contended It wns essential for prosperity to maintain the pur chasing power of the working classes, adding: "It Is my deliberate delib-erate Judgment that ii general reduction re-duction of wages In this country would set back the Impending re covery by at least two years." The agricultural situation Mr. Farrell described as a most serious one. But, he said, no lasting gain will be made for agriculture by resort re-sort to "quack nostrums and unsound un-sound economics." RAUL VON II1N-denburg, II1N-denburg, president presi-dent of the Ger man republic, was the chief figure in the enthuslastlc celebratlon of the sixtieth unulver sary of German unity; and the warrler seemed almost as vigorous ', It mJrSt JLwi PRICES of bread,' sugar and other oth-er foodstuffs are being investigated, on order of the senate, by an agricultural agri-cultural subcommittee subcom-mittee of which Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas Is chairman. Senators Sen-ators Wagner of New York and Brookhartof Iowa, STANDING by Ills convlctlou that the funds of the Red Cross should be obtained ob-tained by private subscription. President Pres-ident Hoover bus named a commit tee of leading citl sens to push the drive for $10,000. N 000 for the rellet I in M, ,,.,' fa. w "t I , ry us he must have been on January President Von tS, 1S71, when as Hlndenburg H lieutenant h e stood in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles Ver-sailles and heard Bismarck proclaim pro-claim Ihe federated states of Germany Ger-many nn empire. The ceremonies In Berlin, opened with a solemn assembly of all members mem-bers of the government in the relch-stng relch-stng where Chancellor Bruenlng made an appeal for mutual understanding under-standing and reeuted Bismarck's pledge that the nation would seek wealth through peace, not war. Then President von llindeiihurg attended at-tended a reunion In the Berlin SiMtrtpslnst where about 12.000 former officers and soldiers gath- i ered. ' HAVING adopted a skeletonized plan for giving India dominion status, the round table conference In London adjourned with most of the delegates satisfied. However, Hie Gandhi adherents In India are not at all pleased with the scheme and immediately began attacking H in various ways. National congress newspapers denounce It as a sys tern of camouflaged Indejiendence designed to, provide safeguards for Great Britain. BAREHEADED and wearing ordinary or-dinary street clothes. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh went to a gathering of distinguished officials and diplomats In Washington nnd received from rhe hand of Ambus sailor ("laiidel of France the cross of commander of the legion of Honor In presenting the cross. Ambus sudor Handel said the westward flight of Coste and Bellonte last Sep-lendier Sep-lendier was a success Inrgely be cm us Lindbergh had mapped the transatlantic course. It was In recognition ol this service to the two Frenchmen as well us hls'own record making flight thai the medal wns awarded, be snld. Among l hose at ine presentation were Secretary Adnms. Senator Morrow. Llndheruh's fat her-In law, i:nd Chairman Wli kershtim of the Jaw enforcement commission. I . I.H WcxterB NawoK- L!MoB.t who were the au- Sen. Capper thors of the resolution reso-lution calling for the Inquiry, first appeared before the committee nnd explained their views and their reasons for thinking current prices to be excessive. Afterwards representatives of the big bread baking companies and other tradesmen were called In to tell the facts as they see them and to Justify, If they could, the maintenance of present prices of bread In view of the low price of wheat KEEP away from Las Vegas. Is the warning to Jobless workers work-ers who seek employment on the Boulder dam project given out by Labor, the official organ of rail road labor organizations. The paper pa-per says: "Despite the fact that contracts on the $10fi.(Kl00O0 government project nave not been awarded. I.us Vegas bus been flooded with thousands. of Jobless and destitute men. Hundreds of these unfor tunnte Job seekers were' deceived by roseate reports circulated by unscrupulous un-scrupulous employment agencies. In the opinion of Francis I. Jones, general director of the United States employment service. "('apt. Honert M. Grlflln of the Salvation army at l-as Vegas re cently declared that 1-ns Vegas has the longest breiid line in the United States, according to population More than 7.000 Jobless workers were given aW by the Salvation army in one month, Cnptuin Griffin reports' The first contracts for Boulder dam will not be awarded ant II ferers. Calvin Calvin Coolidge, his pred- Cool Idea ecessor, has accepted ac-cepted the honorary chairmanship of this body, and Al Smith, his opponent op-ponent In 1928, Is a vice president, as are John W. Davis. Democratic candidate for tbe Presidency In 1024; Gen. John J. Pershing, and Abel Davis of Chicago. John Barton Bar-ton Payne, head of the Red Cross, Is the active chairman of the com mlttee. In a letter to those Invited to serve on the committee the President Presi-dent said that "It Is essential that we should maintain the sound American tradition and spirit of voluntary aid In such emergency and should not undermine that spirit which has made our Red Cross the outstanding guardian of our people In time of disaster. . . . The American way of meeting such a relief problem has been through voluntary effort and for muny |